Further on from the beacon tower is the real no man’s land!
In front of you are mountains of sand that rise one after another. At a glance, they look like countless pyramids of ancient Egyptian ruins.
In order to conserve energy, Ayimhan specially planned an S-shaped route for us, so that we can avoid those highlands as much as possible.
Even so, everyone can't stand it anymore.
It was approaching the afternoon, but the sun showed no sign of setting at all. Our bodies began to sweat a lot, and we couldn't help but take a sip of water almost every half hour...
Ayimhan immediately grabbed the camel and warned: "Boys and girls, drink less water. We only have enough water to last ten days. After drinking, you can only drink your own urine."
Yin Ling'er squinted at the strong sunlight and asked, "Why is it getting hotter and hotter here?"
Ayimhan said: "We haven't gone deep into the Desert of the Dead yet. The further we go, the hotter it will be. Old man, I don't want to die here either. It's you who insist on dragging me to death."
With Ayimhan's words, everyone can only restrain their physical desires and stop taking a sip of water even if their lips are chapped.
After a lot of effort, we finally crossed the first sand mountain!
What comes into view is a huge river bed that winds forward, but this river bed has long since dried up, and the bottom is full of cracks that have been dried by the scorching sun.
Those cracks were criss-crossing like spider webs, which made us worried for a while.
Ayim Khan told us: "This is called the Yanqi Sea. There was water in the ancient Western Regions. It was this sea that fed the poplar trees on both sides of the bank and saved countless caravans who were about to die of thirst in the desert. But since then Starting from my grandfather’s generation, the Yanqi Sea dried up overnight, without a drop of water, and it became a real desert of the dead.”
But now that we have seen Yanqihai, it means that we have officially arrived at the core of the Desert of the Dead!
We now rode camels and continued walking along the river bed. In the meantime, Lao Jiang got off the camel once.
When he caught up, the expression on his face was strange and gloomy, as if the situation was not good.
I asked him in a low voice what happened?
Lao Jiang opened his tightly clenched fist in front of my eyes, and in his palm was a finished cigarette butt.
"What's going on?" I immediately became alert.
Lao Jiang looked around the Western Zhou Dynasty and said in a low voice: "I believe that an old smoker's first sleep is not a Chinese cigarette, but an American Marlboro."
"Could it be?" I looked surprised.
Lao Jiang hissed at me and nodded heavily.
He wasn't sure if it was Warner, but someone must have walked ahead of us. We must be extremely vigilant on the next road!
After this incident, I didn’t bother hanging out with the young people from the Free Commune along the way. I just sat on the back of a tall camel, searching the sand with my eyes like a hawk, hoping to find some clues.
However, nothing was found!
We thought the day would go by so uneventfully, but when we walked out of the river bed, we actually saw a long black shadow lying in the sea of sand in the distance.
The black shadow was at least ten meters long, with its head pointing upward and its tail sinking into the sand.
It's like a ship stranded in the glittering desert.
Is it dazzled?
I immediately picked up the telescope and looked, and what I saw was indeed an abandoned ship.
I told the others what I had discovered, and the team suddenly became excited and everyone was talking about it.
"How can there be a boat in the desert?"
"Are you hallucinating because you are too thirsty? I just told you to take at least a few sips."
"Whose ship can be stranded in the desert? Damn it!"
Everyone was talking about it, but Xiang Wanli patted the camel and came to my side.
He took my telescope and looked into the distance carefully for a while, and then smiled confidently: "Of course there are no ships in the desert. We must have encountered the wonder of a mirage! This ship is most likely at the other end of the desert. It was stranded on the beach, but it was projected here by the mirror-smooth sky, and combined with the visual error, we mistakenly thought it was in the sand. "
The young man behind nodded repeatedly: "Teacher is indeed a walking library."
"The professor is right, it must be a mirage."
Only Lao Jiang laughed angrily: "Have you ever seen such a realistic mirage?"
This sentence stopped Xiang Wanli.
He simply took us to the sunken ship first, and the camel team followed suit.
One hoof and one sand pit, one swaying step and one step, accompanied by the rapid sound of camel bells, we soon arrived under the black shadow.
When the sunken ship actually appeared in front of us, everyone was shocked. It was indeed not a mirage, but a living ship stuck in the sand!
A real boat that you can reach out and touch!
It's just that the masts on the ship have been broken, the decks are all rotted, and even the hull is rusty.
A huge iron anchor was thrown out from the bow of the ship, sinking deeply into the sand, as if the captain was still urgently dropping the anchor at the last moment before the crash.
The hull of the boat was painted white, with a strange symbol vaguely written on it: SOS.
This seems to be a signal used by foreigners to ask for help.
Xiang Wanli hid his embarrassment and boldly guessed: "Didn't we pass by the dry Yanqi Sea before? Could this ship have been sailing on the river, but was stranded here because of a storm? As the years change, , the river bed dried up completely, and it was buried.”
All the young people in the Free Commune echoed again and again: "Yes, it must be so."
I shook my head: "No, impossible!"
Everyone looked over, and without waiting for them to question, I explained: "This is obviously a foreign merchant ship, and it is definitely not more than fifty years ago from our current time. As for Yanqihai, Ayimhan didn't mean his grandfather's Did grandpa’s generation already do it?”
Xiang Wanli was also confused by me: "Then could it be that this ship fell from the sky?"
At this time, Ayimhan was panting and climbing up the hill. He joked with everyone who had never seen the world in the tone of an experienced person: "What's the matter? There are so many incredible things in the desert. There once was a man who called himself 'Heaven'." Travelers' guides like to explore the deserts in the northwest most. A group of people can always go in intact and get out safely. "
"That young man is quite capable, but he underestimates nature too much. He thinks that since he is a Skywalker, he is not afraid of anything. The first time he led people into the Desert of the Dead..."
"Not long after entering, the entire team lost their signal and never returned."
"However, the very next year, Skywalker's body appeared in the Qilian Mountains. Some of the other people in the team were floating in the sea, and some were turned into mummies in the Alxa Desert. In short, they were all dead. Several of them The individual’s body is not complete, with arms and legs missing.”
Since then, even fewer people have dared to venture into the Desert of the Undead.
"The Qilian Mountains, the sea, and the Alxa Desert are more than a hundred miles away from here. How did the corpses get to those places? And each person is in the same place. This is incredible."
The more we thought about it, the weirder it seemed. Ayimhan shook the yellow sand in his boots with satisfaction: "You are just young and have little experience. When you are my age, you will know that everything is possible."
"Think about it, rivers can dry up and turn into sand, and mountains can be flattened and turn into water. What else is impossible?"
I suddenly thought of a word, vicissitudes of life.
The power of nature is always beyond our imagination. Was this ship brought by a sandstorm? Or something else?
The group of young people from the Free Commune were very interested in the ship. While listening to the stories, they stepped forward to watch.
I saw that Yueyue had also passed away, so I could only stay near her.
After all, I have fished out several of Diao Ye's treasures to support my family. It would be against the moral principles of the world to cross the river and demolish the bridge.
Yueyue didn't appreciate it, and suddenly turned around and said: "Pervert, stay away from me, especially your hand!"
Her eyes were fierce, warning me not to move.
However, at this moment, I suddenly pointed my eyes and shouted: "Be careful!"
"Don't try to lie to me." Yueyue had no idea what was going on at this time. She crossed her arms and sneered at me: "You want to take advantage again, don't you?"
I didn't even bother to explain to her. Seeing how urgent the situation was, I pushed Yueyue to the ground. At the same time, an extremely fast long object sprang out from the abandoned iron boat and headed towards the direction where Yueyue had just been standing.
If it weren't for my quick eyesight and quick hands, I'm afraid Yueyue would have been hit on the neck!
Oh my god, that's actually an earth-yellow snake!
Seeing the snake turning its head in mid-air and trying to bite me, I almost without thinking reached out my right hand and grabbed its body.
Hit the snake seven inches!
And I accurately pinched it within seven inches!
At this moment, the snake was twisting and turning on its own. Not to mention that although this thing lived in the desert, its body was scratchy and greasy. Especially the shiny black scales and the yellow patterns, which make people's hearts tingle.
"Little one, I still can't cure you?"
I increased the strength on my hand and threatened the snake not to move. I saw it kept spitting out scarlet poison from its mouth and struggled hard in my hand. A shiny black tail swung around, making a whistle-like sound of "hoo" and "hoo".
When Yueyue got up from the ground, she originally wanted to get angry at me, but she didn't realize until she saw what I was holding that I saved her life.
"Then, what is that?" She said with pale face.
I was also put in a dilemma by this snake, so I called out to Lao Jiang: "Master, why is there such a thing in the desert?"
The moment Lao Jiang saw the thing in my hand clearly, he couldn't help but shrink his eyes: "Little bastard, throw it away quickly, that's a poisonous snake."
"Venomous snake?"
"Did you see its tail? This is a rattlesnake. If you are bitten, even the King of Heaven will not be able to save you!"
I was so frightened that my legs almost went weak, and my soul almost left my body. You must know that this is a rattlesnake. Even if Mr. Diao gave me a mountain of gold, I would not care about his daughter.
Life is much more important than money!
The more I thought about it, the more hairy I felt, so I could only hurriedly wrap the snake in a full circle and throw it out.
It turned out that the throw was in the direction of Lao Jiang...
When Lao Jiang saw the rattlesnake running towards him, with both fangs open, it was too late to even scold me. He put on a defensive posture, caught the snake, and instantly held seven inches of it.
Lao Jiang broke out in a cold sweat: "Little bastard, why did you leave it to me?"
When he opened his mouth to scold me, I had already slipped away. Lao Jiang couldn't help but look back at the others, but as soon as they met his gaze, Xiang Wanli and others all stepped back, for fear that the snake would be passed to him.
Lao Jiang was about to cry, but turned to look at He Lanxue: "Ximei, I'd better leave it to you to handle it!"
This rattlesnake was thrown out by Lao Jiang impatiently, just like playing a drum to spread flowers.
"Promising!" He Lanxue's cold voice sounded in the wind and sand.
She put one hand on the camel's back, jumped out with her sword in hand, and sprinted out of the air.
By the time it fell, the Yehuo Sword had already struck out a cold sword light!
The rattlesnake was cut into two pieces before it even got close to her. The snake head, which had lost its body, wanted to attack He Lanxue, but was nailed by a sword, which made people feel goosebumps.
In order to prevent other rattlesnakes nearby, we were careful in all our subsequent actions.
But if you don’t know this, you will be shocked when you see it!
Turning to the other side of the boat, I was shocked to find several small transparent holes in the boat, which seemed to have been shot by bullets.
What happened? There was actually a gunfight here?
I looked left and right, and sure enough I found a dead man at the bottom of the boat!
