Chapter 201

Chapter 201

"That should be enough," I counted, no more, no less, five cactus flat pots filled in total.

Being thirsty is much more uncomfortable than being hungry. We rested against the bottle tree until the sun went down. We took our water bottles and prepared to set off.

After climbing up the sandy slope, Xiaoxuan turned around and looked around and asked me, "Are we going west or east?"

"Let's go west. My intuition tells me we should go west."

I patted the cactus water bottle hanging on my body and said, "With these, we will have enough water for two to three or four days, but we have to be careful. This is our life."

"Xiaoxuan, why are you in such a daze? Are you listening to me?"

She didn't seem to hear me. She looked straight ahead with her eyes blankly, and suddenly said excitedly: "People...! Someone! There is someone there!"

"Human! Where is there!" I looked in the direction of her finger.

I saw two or three small dots appearing a few hundred meters away, moving towards us.

What a person! Could it be that they came here to find the head?

"Hello!"

"Hey! We are here! Here!" I yelled and waved over there.

The people in the distance paused for dozens of seconds. They must have noticed us and were speeding towards us.

Only when I got closer did I see it clearly.

Not the leader, and these people are not from our camel team. There were three people on the other side, two men and one woman. The clothes they wore did not look like modern people, but looked a bit like some nomadic people in Tibetan areas. The two men had shaved heads and pigtails on their temples, and the woman had a blue tie on her head. Cloth strips and a large earring on his left ear. The two men and one woman were also carrying small baskets in their hands. The baskets were covered with cloth, so you couldn't see what was inside.

Are these the Hute people? This was my first thought.

"Hello, hello!" I ran forward and gestured, "We came from a big city and got lost in the desert. We are looking for the Hutte tribe. Are you Hutte people?"

The two men and one woman looked at each other and babbled a lot. I couldn't understand what they were saying. What they spoke was not the local Yinchuan dialect, let alone Mandarin.

After a few minutes, the girl with big earrings pointed at me, then pointed down the sandy slope, stretched out her hand to make a shape in the air, trying to communicate with me.

I thought about her gestures and suddenly realized: "Girl, what you just gestured was a tree!"

"That's right!" I pointed to the bottom of the sandy slope and gestured: "There is a big tree underneath, the bottle tree! That tree can draw water. Are you here to draw water too?"

After that, I took off the homemade cactus kettle and handed it to her.

The girl didn't understand what I was saying. She took the kettle with a puzzled face, dipped her fingers in it and put it in her mouth to taste.

I smiled and said: "How is it? It tastes good, has a nice aroma."

Her face suddenly changed, and she started talking nonsense to the male companion. Her expression became more and more excited, and her face turned red.

After hearing this, the two men suddenly stepped forward with angry faces and grabbed my shoulders from left to right. They were strong and strong in their hands and forced me to go down.

"What are you doing! What are you doing!"

"let me go!"

"Where are you taking me!" By this time I had realized something was wrong, and so was Zhao Xuanxuan. The girl with the earring grabbed her arm and dragged her downhill.

When they arrived at the bottle tree, the men discovered wounds on the bark. I hit the wound with a stone on the ground.

"Pfft!" One of them suddenly knelt down in front of the bottle tree and kept mumbling words. Listening to the tone and looking at the expression on his face, I realized something at this time.

Zhao Xuanxuan and I may have gotten into trouble...

The big bottle tree in front of you was probably planted by them!