Chapter 138: Sandstorm (1)
The desert in the early morning, the sky is vast.
The rising morning sun shines on the crystal clear heart, at the right temperature, in the pleasant camel bells, the mood is so leisurely, but also relaxed.
Thousands of miles in the sky, a thin layer of morning glow floated, as if accompanied by a gentle wind, and a lot of the cold and confusion of last night have been gone with the wind.
In the desert, this is the most beautiful time of the day, the soul and nature are integrated, everything has been released, I really hope that time can stand still at this moment.
However, beautiful things always pass in an instant, and when Chu Qing was still nostalgic for that beauty, the scorching heat of the desert came again, not a minute late.
Chu Qing and the little chubby bear bag glanced at the sky, sighed slightly, and almost the same action, silently wrapped the hood, only showing two eyes outside, riding on the hump without saying a word, and shaking with the rhythm of the camel.
After several confrontations and many days of familiarity, they have deeply experienced the ruthlessness of the desert and have become accustomed to how to adapt.
Just because they have deeply understood that your impatience, your complaining, your shouting, your roaring, there is no meaning, and the heat and cold in the desert will come silently, as scheduled, and will never fail to make an appointment.
Xiao Jiu hasn't caught up yet, and I don't know if Yuru has found him or what happened to him in the past few days. ”
These questions were still swirling in Chu Qing's mind a moment ago, but at this time, they were already like the shadow under the camel's body, and they were secretly hiding under such a scorching sun.
Chu Qing opened her eyes slightly, she felt a little drowsy, and felt unbearable heat, her only thought at the moment was that the night would come soon, although this was very unrealistic, although the cold in the middle of the night was as unbearable as this heat, but right now, she just wanted to avoid this almost suffocating heat.
The camel under him is like a wheel without consciousness and emotion, driven by its four hooves, on this desert with no end in sight and no end in sight, as if it is going straight forward, tirelessly moving forward, forward.
Many literati and writers have praised the majesty of the desert, the tranquility of the desert, and even left behind beautiful texts that have been passed down through the ages, but at this time, in such a heat wave, Chu Qing only saw the monotonous yellow, which seemed to be a scorched color, from which only expressed dead silence, brought despair, made people feel disgusted, and always wanted to escape.
As far as the eye can see, there is all yellow sand, one by one gathered together, paved into the ground, gathered into hills, piled up into sand mountains, continuous, undulating, as if the heaven and the earth were like this, as if the world under the world is eternal.
Looking at it, Chu Qing's heart was full of disgust: "These nasty sands! I really want a strong wind to blow them all away, blow them all up to the sky, and blow them into the ocean." Change this place to a world and replace it with trees and waterfalls. ”
It is said that the desert is full of vicissitudes in an instant, through the dense hood, Chu Qing looked at the rolling sand dunes, a trace of mockery flashed in his eyes, it seems that the rumors are still more false after all, or there are more exaggerated ingredients.
What a sandstorm, what a mirage, it turned out to be nothing more than a story of adults scaring children.
It turned out that in this desert, I felt the deepest, the most ruthless, and the most terrifying thing was the scorching heat and the cold of the night.
"Whoosh"
A rare cool breeze blew from behind him, softly, like a line of ice and snow melting from an iceberg, burrowing into his clothes.
Chu Qing shuddered, was it an illusion? But her eyes lowered slightly, and she saw the little chubby bear bag that was also puzzled, turning her head wrapped in a hood from side to side, trying her best to find something, and she determined this cool truth. Looking down and glancing at the camel's feet, the fine grains of sand, with the same cool breeze, raised the sand and dust more than a foot high, and flew forward for a distance before sinking, blending into the sea of sand, and returning to their original state.
"It's a pity that there is only such a hint of wind. ”
Chu Qing pursed her lips, and thought regretfully without looking back.
Who knew that just after the thought, "whoosh", another cool breeze blew, and this time it was obviously bigger and longer than the last time, and the sand particles that were blown up flew farther away.
"Is it going to change?"
Chu Qing looked up at the sky, the sun was still hot, the golden light was dazzling, and there was not a single cloud in the white sky.
"Alas"
Chu Qing sighed lightly and gave up this extravagant idea, but at the same time, there was a hint of coolness coming from the back of her neck, and this time she couldn't help but turn around and glance behind her.
I saw that the wind brought up a slight dust of sand, like a thin yellow veil, and hazy enveloped a large area of sand dunes, chasing after it.
"The wind is blowing!"
For the first time in many days, the wind blew at noon.
Chu Qing couldn't suppress her joy and smiled, congratulating herself on her luck.
"Today's hard time is over! It's hot, and I'm going to wave goodbye. ”
She thought so in her heart, and didn't forget to say: "Bags, it's windy, we don't have to be so hot." The voice is very gentle and with a bit of joy, and anyone who listens to it will be happy.
Hearing this, the little fat bear bag grabbed Chu Qing hard with one paw, leaned out, and breathed a few hard breaths at the air behind him, as if it was also greedy for this rare coolness.
Chu Qing saw it and smiled, looked up at the sky again, and said to herself: "This wind is there, and it would be better if there was another cloud to cover the sun." ”
Chu Qing was originally a childlike fantasy, but how could she know that the words would fall.
Sudden change!
The leading camel, who was at the head of the caravan, suddenly stopped, craned his neck, and hissed with all his might, and one sound louder than the other.
Although Chu Qing had never raised camels and was not familiar with camels, she had been following the camel team for many days, and she had heard fear and despair in it, and she couldn't help but be stunned in her heart, what had happened?
The little fat bear bag was also frightened by the scream, and quickly shrank back the body that leaned out, trembling and clutching Chu Qing's dress, shaking his head from side to side to check, for fear that some terrifying monster would suddenly come out from a certain direction.
In contrast, Chu Qing was still much calmer, looking around and looking, except for the constant blowing of the wind, there was nothing unusual, but such a small wind, not to mention in the desert, even in the Central Plains, can be seen at any time.
The next moment.
The camel team was unusual, no longer maintaining a long snake formation, but under the leadership of the leading camel, desperately galloping in the same direction.
Every camel in the caravan is running and neighing in fear, echoing each other in front and back, left and right, which is obviously running for their lives!
In the panic, Chu Qing firmly held the hump, only to feel that the running speed of every camel in the camel team was definitely not slower than a carriage running wildly on the official road, and she felt the speed of the camel for the first time in her life, and of course she was frightened.
The camels under him were originally at the back of the caravoy, but now they overtook one camel after another, and gradually ran to the front, following the leading camels.
If it weren't for that scream of fear, it would have been a fun race.
Chu Qing didn't know what was going on, so she ran forward a distance of 100 zhang again, and when she looked back, she saw that some camels that looked old and frail had been left far behind, and some of them were holding on, but their mouths/lips were obviously foaming at the mouth, and their speed was gradually slowing down.
At this moment, it suddenly became clear that most of the camels who were originally in front of the camel team were actually old camels, and their physique was obviously not comparable to the young camels behind. I think the leading camels are arranged in this way in order to take care of them, but at this time all the camels do not care about all this, and do not care about the distinction between the elder and the young, as if a terrible demon was chasing after them, and ran away like crazy.
There was no danger around, and after confirming and judging it several times, Chu Qing's mind calmed down a little, and he looked back and again, but except for the faint wind breath and the blowing dust, there was still nothing unusual.
The sun was scorching in the sky, and the desert was still under our feet, and I really didn't know why these camels were so crazy.
The speed of the camels is still accelerating, their panic is still intensifying, the neighing of fear and despair comes and goes, and the wind breath behind them, which was originally thin, seems to have produced fear, speeding up, intensifying, and chasing.
The trampling of the four hooves caused a piece of sand and dust to be dragged up behind the camel caravan, like a yellow dragon spinning and flying, dragging its long body, rolling and tumbling, so lively.
And the wind, which had been weak, as if it were racing with a caravan, brought a strange howl from afar, a moment of tightness, a moment of speed, and finally a roar of rage.
The icy sandstone, the solemn sand mountains, and the white sky, looked at all this coldly, staring at it all.
There is a sense of slaughter on the desert!
In the blink of an eye, the dead silence under the high sun turned into the wind roaring and the sand flying, and the ghosts crying and howling.
The thin and gentle breath of the wind turned into a terrifying storm, a storm that roared like a beast and a thin layer of flying sand obscured the sky and the sun, turning the sky into night and the desert into hell in an instant.
The yellow sand dances with the wind, and the whole world has become a stage where the yellow sand is raging, the rolling yellow sand, the black and oppressive dark clouds, and the heaven and earth have become the final judgment!
The wind blew, and the tall sand mountain moved to flat ground in the blink of an eye.
The sand battle is strong.
The wind helps the sand energy, and the ferocity rages.
The camel trembled in the sandstorm, and its parcels were blown apart, and the baggage and supplies contained in it were scattered and fell to the ground along the way.
The caravan had been shattered by the sandstorm, and the camels that had fallen behind were swallowed up by the sandstorm and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Chu Qing felt that it was difficult to breathe at this moment, and she finally understood what the camel team was afraid of, what was it evading,
The legendary desert sandstorm has really arrived.