Daomu Biji

Chapter 217: Snake Marsh Ghost City (Part 2)

The wind here is not as domineering as before. The wind is swaying around in a curl. There must be something in front of the windshield, but where did the two guys who followed me just now?I didn't go fast, so I could fall behind. Did his mother hit Feishi and fell behind?

I lifted the miner's lamp to take photos, and I didn't see any shadows. I couldn't help but regret it. Just now my attention was too focused. I didn't pay too much attention to the surroundings.However, when traveling in such a violent wind, there is actually nothing to notice at all. The wind cannot hear anything, and all the energy must be placed on the destination and the balance of the body in front of you.

Suddenly, I still felt a fear in a moment, but I quickly dispelled the fear. I took a break after a few breaths and started to move on.At this time, I can't go back and find them. I have lost my sense of direction. If I don't know where I will go back, the best way is to go forward.

I dumped a pack of equipment. This thing is too heavy. The foreigner ’s adventure equipment is very personalized. Once I saw someone carrying a photo frame the size of his wife ’s shield and a phone book. I Too lazy to give them a piggyback, and ran to the light place lightly.

However, no matter how I run without a road, the lights are still out of reach, as if I were not close at all. I was breathless and wanted to give up, but I was not reconciled.Running, the lights in front are blurred.

Just when I was about to lose consciousness and fell to the ground, suddenly, someone suddenly stopped me.I no longer have the physical strength, and they fell to the ground as soon as they were pulled.Looking up, through the goggles, I recognized the eyes of the two men, one was a stuffy oil bottle and the other was black glasses. His goggles were also black.These two people pulled me up urgently and dragged me in another direction.

I broke free of them and pointed to the front, trying to tell them where there was shelter from the wind.

However, when I looked at it again, I was stunned. I didn't see anything. The light in front disappeared. There was a darkness there, even the huge outline was gone.

The dull oil bottle and black glasses ignored me and dragged me all the way. At this time I saw black glasses holding a signal gun in his hand.The strength of the two people is enormous, and my weight of nearly 180 pounds was quickly lifted by them.Soon I was awake and started pedaling on the ground, indicating that I could run by myself.

They let me go, and I regretted it at once. The two men ran too fast. They followed them to exhaust all their strength. I ran my teeth and ran all the way. I ran for twenty minutes with only eyes left. Run down two shadows in front.In a trance, I knew that we had rushed to the bank of the river, bypassing a mass of mounds, and then the two black shadows in front disappeared.

I yelled and waited for me, and I suddenly stumbled under my feet, fell several heels, and rolled down the slope.I struggled to get up and spit out the mud in my mouth. Looking around, there was a deep ditch under the slope, full of people inside, all shrunk in the ditch to avoid the strong wind.Seeing me fall, they all looked up at me.

We shrank at the bottom of the ditch, and sand and dust rolled over our heads.The Gobi Desert is not always flat, especially in places where rivers once flowed, and there are many branch channels on both sides of the channel that rushed out during the flood season. The scars on these Gobi deserts are not very deep, but there are also two or three meters, which is enough We have avoided the wind.

I was exhausted, and a few people came and dragged me to the bottom of the ditch.It turned out that there was a big depression on the side of the bottom of the ditch, like a huge Populus euphratica tree was scraped, and the pit formed by the root fracture was washed away by water. The trunk of the Populus euphratica was already buried at the bottom of the ditch. Only a small part could be seen. They were all shrunk in this depression, lighting a smoke-free stove for heating, and there was no wind at all.

I was dragged in. The depression was shallow and not too high. It was already cramped. They gave me a place and a person handed me water.Here is the dead end of the wind, which can already talk, but my ears have not yet adapted, and I can't hear what they are saying.

After drinking a few sips of water, I felt much better. After taking off my goggles, I felt so damned. There are so many good places in China. Why did I come here?

However, this kind of wind should not be rare in Qaidam, this is not the most terrible wind. I watched a documentary about geological exploration in Qaidam Basin in my early years. At that time, the exploration team came to trade wind when setting up a tent. People were blown up like kites, and the matter was blown out a dozen miles or so in a flash.It ’s just that I feel weird. Why did Dharma not warn us?The trade winds in the Gobi are obvious, not to mention the elderly, as long as you live here for a period of time, you can feel the law.

Similarly, I do n’t know when this wind will blow off. I often hear people on the Gobi say that this place only winds twice a year, and once every six months, once it blows, it will never end.If we don't stop for a long time, we are done.

The sullen oil bottle and the dark glasses went out again soon, and certainly went to find other people. The people here were obviously frightened, few people talked, all curled up together.I felt funny in my heart. I thought these people were like Indiana Jones. It turned out to be the same, but then I found that my feet were shaking and I couldn't stand up at all.

The person who passed me the water asked me if I was okay?Is there any place to bruise?I shook my head and said I was fine.

To be honest, I still remember the experience of a snowstorm in Changbai Mountain. It is now more comfortable than it was at that time. At least we can hide without worrying about freezing.

After pouring a little water to wash my face, my eyes were sore from the goggles.

After relaxing, I was able to observe the people in this pit. I did not see Anin.It was decided that Dolma, her daughter-in-law and Tashi were in the innermost part of the depression, and Wu Lao Si was also there. The number was not large.

There are too many people in this team. I thought, Aning, they must still be looking outside. So many people, even if they have three arms and six arms, ca n’t take care of them. Fortunately, they are not in the desert. Everyone is dead.

Three hours later, the wind slowed down a little. They started to bring a few people back from the oil bottle occasionally. Later, they couldn't handle their physical strength anymore, so they stopped going out.We all shrunk inside, faint, until the sky was really dark, it was really dark.The wind outside was like a screaming evil spirit. It was irritating at first, and later it just felt like sleeping.

I have already prepared for the night, and I was not surprised. Many people actually fell asleep.Someone went out of the wind and turned out the food in the lot of luggage piled up outside. We divided the grass and ate a little, and I fell asleep on the yellow sand.

It didn't take long to sleep. When I woke up, the wind was much lower. This is a good sign. I see most people are sleeping. Tashi sits on the sunken mouth and seems to be vigil.It ’s not stable here. It ’s not stone on top of us, it ’s dry mud and sand, so there are sands falling from time to time. When I fell asleep, I ate a mouthful of sand. , And walked to Tashi's side.

I do n’t want to talk to Tashi. Tashi is not a very good person, or he is alert to us, and I am not the kind of person who can stick a cold ass with a hot face, so his attitude is not give a damn about.I walked to his side and just wanted to take a few breaths of fresh air and go to another place to sleep.

But when I walked over, I heard a sound outside, and then saw the light of the miner's lamp outside. It seemed that someone was outside.

I was strange in my heart and asked what happened to Tashi. Tashi handed me a piece of soil smoke and said that Aning was back and the wind was low. They called someone to go out to find other people. By the way, look at the car.

I thought about the car stuck in the sand, but I also had some worries in my heart. I do n’t know if these cars can be driven if they are dug out, and I ’m more worried about the Caucasians. I do n’t know if he came back. Put on the cloak and went out, wanting to ask about the situation.

As soon as I walked outside, I was relieved. The wind outside was smaller than I thought. It seemed that the wind had passed, and there was basically no sand in the air. I pulled off the cloak and took a few breaths of Gobi. The cool air above, and then walked towards the miner's lamp.

That was the direction of the river bed. I walked down and came to them.

They were looking at a car, which was stuck obliquely in the sand, leaving only the front of the car. Aning was holding the radio and was anxiously adjusting the frequency.

I asked them, "How are you doing?"

One person shook his head and only said one sentence: "Wife ion scattered."

I was baffled, not quite understanding what he meant, so I looked at Aning.

She saw me and smiled reluctantly, so she came over and explained: "Just before, Zhuoma said, there might be wind, we must find a better shelter as soon as possible. But our cars are stuck. , A few of them must have been scrapped, and others may not be able to start, and need to be repaired. "She paused." The most troublesome thing is that four people disappeared. It may have lost their way when the wind just started. We I couldn't find it just after searching around. "

I asked a few people, Aning said that it was the Caucasian, and there are three people I am not familiar with.

The Caucasians were with me when they disappeared, so I gave them directions and asked if they had been there.Aning nodded and said that they had found them nearby. These people must have gone further than she thought.

I sighed and comforted her so that she should not worry.These people all have GPS, and the wind is so strong, they must not go far. There is still wind, and the vision is not very clear. It is convenient to find it when it is dawn.

She bit her lower lip and nodded, but her expression did not change, which made me feel a little bad.I am also not familiar with Gobi, at this time I do not know what will happen, so I shut up.

We forcibly opened the door of the car, took out the equipment inside, and then they had to find the next one. I had to follow.

At this time, I found that the car was caught in the river bed. It didn't seem to be the quicksand often mentioned in the novel, but at the bottom of the river bed, the ground was crushed, and the car was completely sunk, and there was no roof.Someone told me that the salt crust was crushed. There are a lot of salt crusts in many places under the Gobi. Here is the river bed. When there was water before, the situation at the bottom of the river was very complicated, with a lot of sediments and drought. Later, when the salt crust crystallized, a lot of gaps were left, so some places of this kind of riverbed are actually like dry cheese, without pressure, we stopped in the wrong place.

I wondered: "But we walked on the river bed all the way, and nothing happened."

The man said: "That's because the channel we walked on has been dry for a long time, but now the channel under our feet has dried for up to half a year. Didn't you find that there are almost no grass and shrubs here?"

I looked around in surprise, as it was, the surrounding area was bare and the shuttle was not long.

The man said to me: "We must be heading towards the upper stream of this river now. The end of this river must be a high mountain. If the river does not change the way, there will definitely be an ancient city or ruins near this river. This shows that the old Tibetan lady did not lead the way blindly. I had long thought this old lady was a liar. "

I looked at the upper part of the river channel he pointed to, on the flat Gobi, it seemed something.Thinking of the huge black shadow I saw in the wind, I always felt it was not my illusion.

That night, we found all the cars and then collected all the luggage.At dawn, other people woke up one after another, and Aning began to organize their busy work, repairing cars, looking for people.

I and other people who were looking for a car for a few nights ate something, went to the sleeping bag to make up, I was very tired, and I slept into the sunset as soon as I slept.

After waking up, the wind had completely stopped and the dust was gone. The efficiency of the people was very high. Several vehicles were repaired and ready to go. All kinds of materials were redistributed and reloading.

Aning didn't sleep all day and night, listening to the radio all the time, the oil bottle and the black glasses were not there. When asked, the two were still looking for the four missing persons outside.

I heard that it was not very good. It has been a day, and the four people haven't found it yet, don't they have GPS?Is it really as Tashi said, this thing does not work in the Gobi?

I took the dry food out of the bag and ate it to Aning while I was eating. I asked for specifics.

Aning frowned, her dark circles appeared, and she felt haggard. Asking her, she had no intention of answering me. The walkie-talkie had always been in conversations with people outside. It used English.

I asked her if I wanted to go out and look for it too. She shook her head and said no. She had already gone out in three groups. They were all looking for the third time. I did not find it useful. Let me tidy up. A devil city was found twenty kilometers in front. Waiting for us to set off there to rest, there will be wind at night.

I saw her looks burnt, and I didn't want to bother her, so I went to see another group of people repairing the car and helping hand over tools.

After watching it for more than half an hour, Tashi came back from the river bed in the distance, and it was going to wind again to us. The horizon in front of the sand line had already risen. We had to go quickly, otherwise the car would be repaired in vain.

We prepared immediately, and soon prepared things, because there were fewer cars, and the cars that were not repaired were left behind. I and a few Tibetans drove a car and set off towards the setting sun.

It took about twenty minutes to drive on the vast Gobi. The shadow of the Yadan landform appeared in front of the sunset. Stone mountains rose flat. The voice of Zhaxi came from the intercom and guided us to adjust the direction. A huge "castle" appeared in the field of vision.

That's where Tashi chose to shelter from the wind. When we drove straight through, when we looked closer, we found that it was a boulder-like rocky mountain, and behind it was a gradually dense large-scale Yadan landform, like the fortification behind the castle.

Devil City, also known as Fengcheng, is a peculiar terrain where large rocks are carved out by strong winds. There are a large number of strangely shaped rocks in a large area, which can be imagined as various strange things, and when the wind blows over these rocks, Because of the distribution, the sound of ghosts crying and wolfing is made, so it is called the devil city.On the Gobi, such landforms are very common.I have visited in Xinjiang before and I am not curious this time.

We stopped outside the "castle", a rocky mountain with a flat bottom stopped, Zhaxi jumped down and shouted, we all came down and started camping, two hours later, it really started to wind, and it was a wind and sand covering the sky again. , Until the middle of the night, I slowly became like yesterday.

The wind was too high, and there were so many people crying and howling in the Devil City. No one could sleep. When the wind was small, they gradually fell asleep one by one.The two vigils who slept during the day, both of them were very interested in Devil City. Seeing that Tashi and I were not sleeping, they went outside to take pictures.Tashi let them be careful not to walk in, it is easy to get lost.

I fell asleep during the day and was very energetic. Aning was thinking about the search method for tomorrow. He still held the walkie-talkie in his hand. It seemed that if he could not find those people, Aning would not rest.

I used to persuade her to sleep for a while without saying a few words. Suddenly someone yelled at the distant Gobi: "Team doctor! Team doctor!"

Aning ’s team doctor was a fat man, and he did n’t sleep in a book. He woke up as soon as he heard it. We also looked over there, and we heard there shouting: “Come over! Find Ah K!”

Ak is one of the four missing people. When we heard all of them jumped up, we ran over in three steps and two steps. At first sight, we saw those two people who patted the Devil City and waved at us on a mound. , Rushed over and saw that there was a big pit on the mound, and there was a person lying at the bottom of the pit, it was that Ah K.

The team doctor ran panting, jumped down, touched it, and yelled, "I'm still alive."

Several people rushed down to pick up people, and the team doctor yelled them to carry him into the tent.

There was chaos at the scene. Tashi picked up the man and ran back. I squeezed it aside, looked at the pit, and looked at the direction we came from. My heart said, oh my god, how could this person fall here This is more than 20 kilometers from where we parked yesterday, and the direction was still headwind.He came under the wind?

Back in the team doctor's tent, watching the team doctor rescue, and soon the old K was rescued. The team doctor was relieved and said that he fainted just because of fatigue.The team doctor gave him a shot, and soon he woke up.

When he woke up, we asked him what was going on. He said he did n’t know what was going on. He walked all the way and walked, and he saw a shadow in front of him. I ended up walking and walking, and I did n’t know how long I walked, so I fell into the pit.As he said, he asked, "Hey, did that old Gao and the other two come back?"

Lao Gao is a Caucasian, and as soon as I heard him talk about the shadow, there was a spirit in my heart, and I wanted to ask him for details.But when Aning heard him ask Lao Gao, he immediately asked him why he had asked him if he had seen them.

He said: "They were right in front of me at that time. Why didn't I call them? They didn't look back. I thought they were walking against the wind. They couldn't hear it. Then I fell into a dizzy. Why, they didn't come back?"

Aning said in surprise: "You mean you saw them before falling out?"

Ah K nodded, Aning turned his head and said to me: "Have you heard? The old K is found outside the Devil City, and in front is the Devil City. So, they went into the city! No wonder how we find it Not at all. "

She had a look in her eyes, and immediately clapped her hands to let us go out. We walked out of the team doctor's tent. As soon as we negotiated, Aning insisted that he immediately enter the Devil City to search.

These people didn't know what was going on. They walked for more than 20 kilometers against the wind. Old K fell out and the people inside were exhausted. They must be found immediately so that we can feel at ease.

I was very spirited and nodded.We immediately assigned the team, and many people fell asleep. They did not wake them up. It was the team doctor and me. They prepared three people to go in for a look. The others waited two hours before waking up and following up.

After we finished speaking, we immediately started to prepare, just picked up the bag, Tashi on the side came over, stopped us, said: "Wait a minute, my grandma said, you can't go in." (To be continued, if you want to know the future How to, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)