I didn’t know the purpose of the sheep’s head at the time. At that time, Bean Sprouts put the stone sheep’s head and the wooden carving board into his bag, searched around and found nothing else, and then we left the stone house.
Half a day passed.
Xiaoxuan picked up a branch of Populus euphratica and used it as a walking stick. She stopped and looked ahead and said, "Where is this? Look at the sand, how some are high and some are low."
"You don't understand this," Dou Sprout said, panting slightly while carrying a big bag: "The sand piles are high and low, which means that there have been sandstorms here before, forming mobile sand dunes. The weather is erratic, and we have another day or two. If you don’t get out of here, I guess I’ll have to find a place to spend the night early today.”
I nodded and asked Dou Sprout Zai how much water and food he had.
"It should be enough." Douyazai said with a smile: "The ones bought in Yinchuan have not been used up yet, Aji helped us replenish them, and there will be no problem at all if we persist for half a month."
I said yes, and walked forward to see if there was any suitable place to spend the night.
"What, Xiaoxuan, do you regret it?" I suddenly saw that Xiaoxuan was in a low mood and asked.
Xiaoxuan's face was dusty, she shook her head and whispered: "It's not that I regret it, it's just that I sometimes think about where we are going."
"Nonsense! Look at how depressed you are, of course you're going to find the leader!" Dou Sprout said loudly.
"Then...what if we can't find it? Where are we going?" Xiaoxuan ignored Dou Sprout and raised her head to ask me.
Dou Sprouts didn't speak this time, and he also looked at me.
I thought for a while, said nothing, and just carried my bag and walked forward.
I have my own ideas.
The Alxa Desert consists of three parts, the Badain Jaran Desert, the Tengger Desert and the Ulan Buh Desert. We walked from north to south for so many days, and we should have passed through the Tengger and reached the northern edge of the Badain Jaran. , let alone people here, there are not even a few birds in the sky, and I estimate that it will take a month or two to reach Ulanbuhe through Badain Jaran.
The place where Uncle Hulu took us last time was in the northern part of Badain Jaran, and our current location is in the southernmost part of Badain Jaran, with a distance of two to three hundred kilometers.
Therefore, my idea at the time was that if we couldn't find the right path in Badain Jaran, we would have to go back. The water and food we brought would definitely not be enough if we went further down. If we insisted on going to Ulanbuhe, the consequences would be a dead end.
I didn't tell Douyazai and Xiaoxuan about this idea, because I was afraid that it would damage their morale.
At night we hid behind the dunes and found a sheltered place to camp for the night. Since there weren't many things to burn around, our fire couldn't burn for long.
"Ah sneeze!"
Dou Sprout sat on the ground and sneezed, while the iron lunch box we brought was burning on the fire.
I took out my phone and looked at it, but there was no signal at all.
"It's cold. It's so damn cold. It's freezing. Let's make instant noodles. Didn't you bring a lot of bags? I want to drink some hot soup." Dou Sprout said.
"Why are there so many bags?" Xiaoxuan frowned and said, "Only a dozen bags. We still have a lot of dry buns we bought. Let's eat that one first and then talk about it after we finish."
Dou Sprout clasped his hands and rolled his eyes: "Stupid or not, you tell me whether you are stupid or not. You can't eat instant noodles and steamed buns together. Eat them soaked."
Xiaoxuan looked at me.
I waved my hand and said let’s cook it, three bags.
Xiaoxuan said "Oh" and went to look for it in her bag.
"Three bags are not enough, so cook five bags. While there is a fire, I will eat two bags by myself," Dou Sprout laughed.
After cooking the instant noodles, I put a towel on my hands to prevent them from being scalded. I picked the bean sprouts with chopsticks and blew on them.
I also picked up a chopstick and put it to my mouth, lowered my head and was about to eat.
at this time.
I saw a flickering light in the desert from a distance, one on and off, one off and one on.
Xiaoxuan also saw it, but Dou Sprout was still holding a bowl and drinking hot soup.
"What is that!"
"Look! Don't eat it!" Xiaoxuan knocked on the bowl twice.
Dou Sprout saw it this time. He pointed in the distance in surprise and said, "What is that! It's twinkling!"
"Damn it, it can't be an alien spacecraft UfO!"
It’s not that Dou Sprout is too imaginative, but it’s because in the past two years many young people in China believe in this, called UfO culture.
And CCTV’s science section on science shows this every day. Unidentified flying objects are suddenly seen everywhere, and suspected UfO spaceships have landed on the earth. Many people are interviewed. Some people say that they have been abducted by aliens and taken by aliens. The ship conducted certain experiments on itself.
"Look, it's bright again!" Xiaoxuan stood up and pointed in the distance and shouted.
I kicked the bean sprouts and said stop eating them and come over to take a look.
Douyazai immediately shook his head: "If you don't want to go, I won't go. I won't go if I beat you to death."
I said there was a UfO somewhere, it was all just to fool people. I didn’t think it looked like an alien, but it looked like someone was turning a flashlight on and off.
"Huh? It seems really true."
Then the three of us found flashlights, and I took the sheep-killing knife given by Aji and slowly walked towards the shining place in the distance.
The closer I got, the more it looked like someone was turning the flashlight on and off.
Suddenly, this beam of light moved in a direction and shone on Dou Sprout.
"Who! Who the hell is looking at me!" Dou Sprout covered his eyes with one hand and strode forward.
After running along the light source for a few minutes, Bean Sprouts stopped.
I saw a man lying on the sand in front of me. This man's eyes were squinted, and the clothes he was wearing were covered with sand. His lips were so dry that they were stuck together. He was mechanically holding a flashlight in one hand, turning it on and off. close.
Except for a few of us, we haven’t seen anyone for many days. Dou Sprout was startled and immediately ran over and asked loudly who you were.
"What did you say?" The man's lips moved, but we couldn't hear what he said clearly.
Xiaoxuan pulled me and whispered that this person might want to drink water.
"You want to drink water? Just nod your head if you want to drink water." Dou Sprout shouted loudly.
Then the man nodded slightly.
"Yazai, help him up, Xiaoxuan get him some water." I ordered with a frown.
The reason why I saved him was because I felt that this man had a smell, which people in the industry call earthy smell.
Strictly speaking, this is not an actual taste, but more like an intuition or a feeling. The tomb robbers who visit graves all year round cannot be seen by outsiders, but if you meet an insider, you can feel it at a glance. If you don’t believe it, just go and work for two years and you’ll find out.
Xiaoxuan ran over and got a bottle of water, and then Douyazai fed the man some drink.
"Can you talk?" After a few minutes, I saw that he felt a little better.
He nodded.
Who are you asking, Dou Sprouts?
The man opened his mouth and said weakly: "I...I am...a tourist and lost my way."
Douyazai said loudly: "You're not honest, are you? Where is this! A place where birds don't poop, and the tourist brigade has come here? You are going to kill yourself."
"Don't move, let me search you." Dou Sprout started immediately after saying that.
The man still wanted to struggle a few times, but Douyazai immediately came hard and touched him from top to bottom.
We found a dead mobile phone, a flashlight, a dagger, and a firecracker wrapped in a plastic bag from this person.
I was happy when I saw the fire folds wrapped in plastic bags.
If a decent person uses this thing, then a tomb robber will use it.
Huozhezi contains nitrate, sulfur, rosin, camphor and other flammable substances. It is usually sealed in wooden tubes and bamboo tubes, separated by heat insulation boards. It will be fine even if it falls into water for a short time. Huozhezi is a must-have for making fires and lighting in grave robber pits. Good product.
Dou Sprout took the fire dumplings, knelt down and said, "I'm asking you again, tell me carefully, what do you do."
"I...I'm really a tourist, lost...lost my way." After the man finished speaking, he still wanted to drink water.
"Who told you to drink it?" Dou Sprout grabbed the bottled water.
"If you don't tell the truth, let's go." I said.
Xiaoxuan said oh, and then the three of us ignored him and started walking back with the remaining water.
We left, but the man behind us might have been too dry to shout, so he just kept shining his flashlight at us.
Dou Sprout asked me in a low voice what to do.
I said leave him alone and let's go back to bed first.
"Let him sit for a night and then talk about it."
