Chapter 31: Desert Scenery
The next road was uneventful, and when he arrived in Xiancheng, An Yi saw the rest of the members of the archaeological team, all of whom were students led by Professor Chen, Ma Bin, who was simple in appearance, Qin Xueming, who was tall, Wu Meng, who was dark and strong, and Ye Yixin, a female student.
Together with An Yi and others, a total of eight people arrived in Xinjiang, and on the way, An Yi knew that Wu Meng was a retired special soldier with rich experience in survival in the wild, and he didn't know how they pulled him in.
What surprised An Yi the most was that they had guns in their equipment, which made An Yi have deeper doubts about Chen Jie's identity: Where can ordinary people get guns? But he didn't say anything, and quietly followed the team, looking like "I'm a little transparent".
watched Wu Meng contact a comrade-in-arms who had been in the army before, and then asked his friend to find an old man who was in the livestock business as a guide.
The old man's name was "** Alamul", but his name is no longer called, and people call him "Anliman", which means living map in the desert.
Now is the best season to enter the desert, the wind and sand are small, the temperature is low, and the water consumption is only 1/4 of the spring and summer. So the old man agreed very happily, he has his own camel team, so there is no need to hire a camel team.
Camels, known as the ship of the desert, are not only an animal with carrying capacity, they have a lot of skills left from their ancient ancestors, they can avoid desert storms, quicksand and other natural threats, but also can not eat or drink under the scorching sun to carry the weight forward, wide and fat soles, the focus area is very large, will not fall into the sand lightly, old and experienced camels, will lead the owner to find the water source in the vast barren sand, at night, the alert camel can also play the role of a sentinel, in the wolves and other beasts take advantage of the dark sneak attack to prompt the ownerγ
After a few days of rest, the "Pure Yang Sword" returned to An Yi's hands again.
On that day, the old man of An Liman selected twenty camels, brought several large buckets of water, dozens of naan and other equipment and supplies, and brought a large amount of bean cake and salt.
Qin Xueming was very curious, and asked while helping him carry things: "Old man, let's eat bean cakes and salt in the desert?
An Liman laughed: "Oh, this, it's okay if you want to eat, but Hu Da thinks that these should be left for the camels to eat." β
The conversation didn't last, and after the supplies were loaded, the group set off on their way.
In An Yi's view, this team of nine people is not so much an archaeological team as an ancient camel team, with enough food to last less than a month, enough water to use for more than ten days, and edible water can be replenished in several oases and underground rivers along the way. In addition, there are several large leather pockets of yogurt soup, when you are thirsty in the desert, you can drink a sip to quench your thirst, which can withstand ten mouthfuls of water. Coupled with the various equipment and equipment of the expedition team, the weight of each camel is very large, and when marching, the personnel can only walk half the way on two legs and half the way on the camel.
He is naturally not afraid of walking comfortably, and it seems very easy to walk while cultivating, but he has prepared a lot of water and food in the space, and they are almost full, you must know that since An Yi broke through the Qi cultivation period, the space of this heavenly book has doubled, and it has reached twenty-four meters, and even with his cultivation is still growing slowly, so much food is enough for him to eat alone for a year and a half, it is enough to see that he was really hungry in the last world, but there is no time flow in this heavenly book space, and he is not afraid of food expiring and spoiling.
Walking all the way, the first section of the route of An Yi and others is from Bosten Lake to the southwest, along the Peacock River to the west for a while, until they find the ancient river channel to the south, Bosten can be translated as the meaning of standing, the origin of the name, because there are three mountains in the middle of the lake standing in the lake. In ancient times, this lake was also called the sea of fish, it is the largest freshwater swallow lake in China, the Peacock River is from here source, flowing to the depths of the Taklamakan River, when passing by the lake comfortably, looking at the vast and far-reaching blue lake water makes people dizzy, inadvertently, there is an illusion that it seems to have reached the end of heaven and earth.
In the first two days after leaving, Xu Hui and several other students were very interested, they were all very young, it was the first time in their lives to enter the desert, they felt that it was both fresh and fun, and for a while they learned the whistle of the old man An Liman commanding camels, and for a while you chased me and sang.
Although An Yi is also the first time to come to the desert, he has good qi cultivation skills, so he is not so out of shape, but he is also looking around and enjoying the desert scenery.
The initial part of the journey, according to the words of the old man of Anliman, is not a desert at all, this section of the ancient channel of the Peacock River, is the river before the diversion of the zΓ i, some sections of the riverbed is not completely dry, the surrounding sand is also very shallow, there are scattered small lakes and seas everywhere, there are occasionally a small group of red-headed gulls and red-billed pochard swimming on the water surface, along the bend of the Peacock River, there are small pieces of oasis, growing sand dates, poplars and some shrubs.
After this bend of the river, we will really enter the desert, the Peacock River will be diverted to the southeast, and there will be Loulan, Lop Nur, and Tanya, and we will travel southwest and enter the "Black Desert", and the old man Anliman said that the black desert is Huda (Allah, Allah) Created by punishing greedy infidels, countless cities and treasures are buried in the desert, but no one can bring them out of the black desert, even if you only take a gold coin, you will get lost in the black desert, buried in the wind and sand, and never think of it again.
This is a large mobile desert, the wind blows the sand dunes, the terrain is the same day by day, there is no feature, the ancient river channel has long disappeared, thanks to Anliman, those are buried by the yellow sand most of the half, only half of the roof of the ancient castle, houses, towers, by the wind into a slope, and the ground is at an angle of 30 degrees, a few small plants in the desert (plant name) , can't escape the eyes of the old man of Anliman, these things are connected, and they form a line, which tells people that the ancient river channel of the Peacock River once passed here, and at the end of this disappearing ancient river channel is the exquisite ancient city abandoned by Hu Da in the legend.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, who would believe that there are trees in the desert, each tree is a vigorous flying dragon, all the branches are crooked to the east, as if this dragon is running in the desert, in such a harsh environment, after thousands of years, it has long since died, and the trunk is blown by the wind and sand to the ground, but it still does not fall.
At night, everyone buried the carbon in the sand, and people slept on the sand, and it was still cold when they first lay down, and they woke up in the morning with frost on their eyebrows, but their backs were full of sweat.
The first rays of the morning sun rose from the eastern horizon, reflecting the clouds on the horizon, and the sand dunes in the desert were shrouded in a layer of glow, and the dry poplars and rippled yellow sand were reflected in golden red, thick colors, forming a magnificent picture between heaven and earth.
After walking a short distance, snow began to fall in the sky, and the snowflakes were very large, falling on the golden sand, and before they could melt, they were covered with another layer, and slowly they covered the sand dunes with a white quilt. As the sun shines, some places begin to melt, and from a distance, there are occasional spots of yellow sand dunes in the white expanse, and the golden sand, white snow blanket and the clear blue sky are contrasted.
When everyone saw this kind of scenery, they couldn't help but be refreshed, and the student Zhongye Yixin was like a poet, and exclaimed: "The desert is simply beautiful, extremely quiet, completely another world, without any strife, without any falsehood, so that people can let down their guard and restore the most natural and relaxed state." Oh my God, you see it's a double rainbow!" she exclaimed, took out her camera, and pressed the shutter repeatedly, hoping to preserve the beautiful scenery.
An Yi followed his gaze, and sure enough, he saw two rainbows hanging high in the sky, which were beautiful, and even he had a hint of intoxication in his heart.
At this moment, the corner of An Yi's eyes suddenly appeared An Liman old man staring at the rising sun in the east, and a trace of uneasiness faintly appeared on his face, An Yi walked over and asked: "Old man, what's wrong? Is it about to change the sky?" The proverb that Chaoxia does not go out, and the sunset travels thousands of miles, presumably every Chinese knows that the fiery red clouds this morning are not a good light.
An Liman nodded, and only after a long time did he speak: "Yes, the clouds in the sky are bleeding, Hu Dama, probably angry, this desert, it's going to be windy again." β
An Yi smiled: "This old Hu family has a really bad temper, and he gets angry at every turn. β
The old man was so angry that he blew up his goatee: "Why is Hu Da Ma's surname Hu? It's going to be very windy in the Black Desert tonight, so we can't delay and move forward. β
This is the sixth day that the archaeological team has come out, the fourth day of entering the Black Desert, in front of which are the ruins of the ancient city of the West Night, according to the old Khan of Anliman, this time the storm will be very big, and the sand wall will not be able to stop it, if they do not rush to the ruins of the West Night City, they will be buried alive in the desert.
There is still more than half a day's journey from the ruins of the ancient city of the West Night, but I am afraid that if something happens on the way, it will be really troublesome.
An Yi jumped on the back of the camel and wanted to beckon everyone to go quickly, but saw An Liman old man slowly and leisurely, got down from the camel, took out a blanket, spread it on the yellow sand unhurriedly, knelt on it, his eyes were slightly closed, his expression was pious, he stretched out his hands to the sky, and then covered his face again, and read aloud: "Allahhuh." β
He was praying to Allah, doing his homework every morning.
Seeing that he was so calm and relaxed, An Yi thought that he was not too strict about saying that there would be a big storm at night, and then thought that it was not the wind season, so there should not be too much storm, so he relaxed and went to watch the beautiful scenery of the desert with the rest of the people.
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