Chapter 36: A Desert Journey
The moment the oil lamp was turned on, the cabin and outside shone with seven colors.
The plane plunged headlong into a seven-colored space of light and electricity during the high-speed climb.
Time seemed to stand still, and everyone couldn't open their eyes under the dazzling light.
Amanda felt the glare diminish slightly, and she covered her eye socket with her hand, opening a gap slightly.
The scorching sun was shining straight at itself, and a huge halo of light radiated the entire sky.
Amanda quickly leaned back and turned her face to one side, but the tentacles were tiny grains of sand, slightly hot in the sunlight.
A gust of hot wind blew against the ground, and she looked around with wide eyes, and she was in the middle of an endless desert, and the sea of sand was even in the sky, and there was not a single tree.
Not far behind him, the high tail of the plane towered there, the head and front half of the plane were stuck in the desert, the two wings had been completely shattered and scattered to the ground, and billowing black smoke was rising from the tail.
Around the plane, people and luggage were left in the desert, and Amanda stood up only to find her legs weak, as if she were stepping on cotton.
She looked at people's faces one by one, looking for the others.
At this time, people woke up one after another, sat up one after another, and looked around blankly.
I saw Uncle Bourne and Professor Shen Fei sitting on the left side of the plane, and she hurriedly walked over.
Since she was standing on a raised sand dune, she rolled down from the sand dune at once because she started too quickly.
At this time, Byrne and Professor Shen Fei also saw Amanda, and saw her roll down and hurriedly pick her up.
Shen Fei suddenly found that his leg was healed, and he walked effortlessly, and when he looked down, the wound had already healed as before, and even the bandages he was bandaged were gone.
He was in a daze, and Byrne had already helped Amanda up.
Amanda asked, "Uncle Bourne, where are we?"
Bourne scratched his head and pointed in the direction of the plane:
"I think we crashed, but where? It must be not far from Tijuana, after all, we've just taken off. ”
Shen Fei had already come back to his senses at this time and said, "I think this is in the Chihuahuan Desert. ”
Amandaki said, "Chihuahua Desert?"
"Yes, the Chihuahua Desert is the largest desert in Mexico, about the size of the United Kingdom. ”
Professor Shen said: "The Chihuahua Desert is full of magic, whether it is crystal caves, dried corpses, or rare free and easy wine and cacti in the world, all of which have cast a veil of mystery over the Chihuahua Desert. ”
At this time, people had already gathered towards them, but fortunately there were no casualties in the crash, and the Mexican couple, who were shouting, also came over at this time, standing at the back of the crowd, looking at everyone in panic.
At this time, Byrne turned around and suddenly asked, "Have you seen Gonev?"
It turned out that he had just looked around everyone, and he noticed that the Arab and the Goonev were all gone.
When everyone arrived at the place where the plane crashed, Amanda and Bourne were all amazed by the sudden healing of Professor Shen Fei's leg injury, and the professor spread his hands, saying that he was also confused.
With the help of everyone, Bourne climbed onto the tail of the plane and stood on the high tail to look around, only to see the vast desert as far as the eye could see.
Suddenly, in the northeast corner, he saw a crescent-colored building in the distance, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, and looked at it again, and the building was layered like a palace, and the whole building was crescent-colored, towering in the desert.
Because of the heat rising from the scorching sun, where the desert meets the building's line of sight, the image that Bourne sees is not realistic.
He pointed in the direction of the building and told the crowd out loud about the results. Then climbed down from the tail fin.
None of the people wanted to spend time here, because they couldn't find a drop of water on the plane, and everyone's throats were already smoking.
So, led by Bourne, the people walked in the direction of the building.
The scenery along the way is so monotonous that there is not even a single cactus that is common in the desert.
Bourne and the others suddenly remembered the cactus fried peppers on the table on the night they first arrived in Mexico.
Everyone walked for more than an hour, and the fat woman couldn't hold her breath at first, because she was so fat that she had a hard time walking.
Especially in this kind of desert, every step you take, you not only step on it, but you also have to pull your foot out of the sand with some effort.
The fat woman sat on the ground, panting heavily, and cried out loudly from this Byrne:
"How long are you going to go?" I said, have you seen clearly?
Byrne said, "I see it so clearly, how can I be dazzled?"
Since the fat woman was cleaned up by everyone on the plane, she didn't dare to be too public, and complained:
"It's been so long, why haven't you arrived yet?"
Byrne also muttered in his heart, he visually saw that the building was only four or five kilometers away, and after walking for so long, why couldn't he even see a ghost now?
But he still pointed to the front and said to everyone: "It shouldn't be too far, let's go over this sand dune and take a look." ”
When everyone heard this, they continued to walk towards the sand dunes, but the fat woman's husband did not support his mother-in-law and walked with everyone.
Seeing this, the fat woman was furious, and suddenly jumped up from the ground, and chased after her with a curse.
Everyone climbed to the top of the sand dune, but they were stunned by the sight of a large ship parked on the other side of the dune.
The ship had grown so deep that only the keel remained, and it looked like it had been buried in the dunes, but the wind had moved the dunes, so it was exposed again.
What a strange picture of a large ship towering in the middle of the desert.
And above the big ship stood a mast.
Bourne climbed up the mast and looked towards the northeast corner, only to see that in the steaming heat, the crescent-colored building still stood in front of it, about four or five kilometers by the eye.
Byrne didn't dare to say anything more this time, but beckoned like everyone, and several stout men climbed up the mast.
The crowd looked in the direction Bourne was pointing, and saw a building standing on top of each other.
The fat woman's husband also climbed up this time, and when he saw this, he slipped down the mast and said to the fat woman:
"What I saw with my own eyes this time, I can't fake it, it's like a palace, not far ahead. ”
The crowd hesitated, and they got up and walked forward.
After only walking for more than half an hour, they were all thirsty.
At this time, I suddenly heard a gust of wind, as if it was the sound of passing through a cave, turned the sand dunes, and saw a crystal cave.
There were at least a hundred giant stone pillars scattered around the cave, the largest of which was as tall as six adult men.
The wind blew into the crystal cave and whined, and I don't know the depth of the geometry?
Byrne entered the cave first, and the rock walls were damp and covered with clusters of crystals as sharp as razor blades.
Bourne was about to go into the depths, but was pulled by Professor Shen Fei behind him.
It turned out that the crystals were formed in groundwater containing calcium sulfate. Due to the magma underneath, under the constant heating of the magma, the groundwater containing calcium sulfate gradually penetrated the entire cave from millions of years ago.
Over hundreds of thousands of years, the underground magma slowly cooled, and the minerals began to precipitate from the water, and gradually the tiny crystals formed by the minerals became larger and larger, forming the crystals we see today.
Professor Shen has studied natural phenomena all his life, and is naturally a person who knows goods, he grabbed Bourne and said:
"The crystal looked like a giant icicle, giving the illusion that the temperature inside the cave might be very low. However, in fact, the temperature in the cave is as high as forty or fifty degrees, and the humidity is more than 90%. ”
Bourne was startled when he heard it, and sure enough, he felt cool just now, and wanted to go inside to find out, if it wasn't for the professor to pull him in time, even if the forty or fifty degrees of high temperature didn't kill him, at least he would have to shed his skin?
Hey, it's terrible to be uneducated!"
At this time, Professor Shen said to everyone: "This crystal is formed from groundwater, which is warm and thirst-quenching, you might as well give it a try!"
With that, Professor Shen suddenly hugged a large crystal in front of him and held it up, and everyone followed suit when they saw this.
This crystal really gives birth to the mouth, and relieves the heat and cough.
Everyone took it for more than ten minutes, and then they were reluctant to let go.
The fat woman's husband was greedy and wanted to take the crystal with him, so he pulled out a dagger and slashed at the crystal.
Seeing this, Shen Fei shouted: "Not good!"