How could a plane pass through an uninhabited land in the desert?
"Is it possible that he was passing by?"
"How is that possible?" Qin Fei shook his head, "Neighboring countries are at war, and this is basically a de facto no-fly zone. Even if a country sends a plane to evacuate its citizens, they are all sent back..."
Ran Jie, who had already jumped down, also said:
"It must have a special purpose. Maybe it's the same as ours - after all, once this news gets out, I'm afraid it won't be known to those few people, and it's inevitable that it will spread!"
Zhu Yu nodded and said:
"Then, we can't rush there easily. In this case, let's set off immediately and speed up to the destination!"
"good!"
"Have a good check on the car. You'll still have to rely on this thing when you get back, so don't let anything go wrong."
"clear!"
The car started up again, not very fast, but the car almost kept moving.
Stop every few hours to give the car a rest, but not for very long.
At night, I alternate between driving and resting in the car.
At the same time, they also paid attention. Fortunately, they didn't hear the sound of the plane again until dawn the next day.
"Boss, there's not enough fuel." Qin Fei said, "If you drive any further, the fuel going back will be gone."
"After driving one kilometer further, let's walk!" Zhu Yu looked at the map. There were still dozens of kilometers to go until we reached the mountain. He made a decision:
"If we really find something by then, we won't be able to carry it out on our backs. Now park the car here and hide it."
When you can really find something, you can come back and drive, or you can rent a plane to come over then! "
Ran Jie and the others didn't have any objections, so they drove for a while and parked the car under the river bank cliff.
After hiding the car, the four people started walking.
After walking a few hundred meters forward, they were surprised to find that there were more rocks in the river.
You can even hear a faint rumbling sound.
"What is this sound?" Cao Dalong couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know, underground...could it be an underground river?" Ran Jie guessed.
"It's really possible!" Zhu Yu opened his eyes and took a look. Sure enough, there was a river underground, more than ten meters above the ground. The water was quite fast, but not wide.
"Can we say that the main reason why the river has dried up is that the water flows underground?" Cao Dalong guessed as he walked.
"Hard to say."
After a few people walked for a while, the rumbling sound disappeared.
Zhu Yu opened his eyes again and found that the underground river was still there, but the surface of the river had become wider and the water flow had slowed down.
Looking at the map and walking forward, we will reach the mountain in two hours.
"There is water ahead!" Ran Jie, who was walking in front, suddenly greeted in a low voice, "There is water in the river!"
Several people rushed over quickly carrying backpacks.
Sure enough, there was a puddle of water here, but the water was very turbid, and there were many animal and bird footprints nearby.
Apparently, this is a water source for nearby animals.
"It seems that we may be able to eat fresh game!" Cao Dalong said with a smile, "I didn't expect that there are so many creatures in this place where hair doesn't grow!"
Continuing to move forward, they saw sparse weeds and shrubs on both sides of the river, but they all looked dry.
The height of the river bank is also shorter, and the width is slowly narrowing. Obviously, this is considered to be the upper reaches of the river.
Zhu Yu broke off a piece of grass and found that the grass was still very resilient and seemed to be alive, but it had lost its leaves due to drought.
Once the rainy season arrives, Zhu Yu has no doubt that the grass will immediately turn green, grow leaves and bloom.
Occasionally, one or two birds can be seen flying in the bushes.
"Finally seeing a living creature makes me feel like we are the only ones in the world!" Ran Jie sighed.
"Maybe this is another oasis." Qin Fei guessed.
Keep walking forward and eat while walking.
Several people's lips were a little dry. Fortunately, after being baptized by energy, they were no longer ordinary people. Their ability to retain water in the body was stronger than ordinary people.
Suddenly, Zhu Yu shouted:
"Everyone hide! Another plane is coming!"
Several people immediately got out of the way and each found a hidden place to hide, either under a rock or by the river bank.
Not long after, a plane roared past from above.
"This plane is quite arrogant..." Cao Dalong couldn't help complaining, "You really dare to fly here... Ouch!"
Before he finished speaking, the two combat aircraft chased the passenger plane just now!
"It seems that not all planes can fly here!" Cao Dalong was a little gloating.
After guessing that this plane might have the same purpose as them, Cao Dalong cursed these guys with the greatest malice.
Humph, you are seeking death if you compete with us for business!
The plane left and they walked forward again, but after a while they had to hide again.
The two old fighter jets flew back again.
When the plane left, they set off again.
"Captain Ran, do you think that passenger plane was shot down?" Cao Dalong asked as he walked.
"It's hard to say." Ran Jie shook his head, "We didn't hear the sound either, but we can't rule out that it was too far away."
After several twists and turns, when the sun was about to set, Zhu Yu and the others finally stayed in the river and failed to reach the intended mountainside.
Zhu Yu said:
"We will climb the mountain early tomorrow morning. Now get some food and have a good rest."
Cao Dalong has been extremely excited since he dug up the candlestick:
"Boss, there is a puddle ahead, let's go take a look?"
"I won't go." Zhu Yu thought to himself, what's so good about that puddle?
"There might be wild animals coming to drink water at night, so be careful," Ran Jie said.
Cao Dalong patted the gun he carried and said nonchalantly:
"What are you afraid of? We have this!"
Then he asked Qin Fei:
"Qin Fei, do you want to go over and take a look?"
"Okay, I'll go over and lay down some condoms to see if I can add some food for tomorrow." Qin Fei took out a piece of wire from his backpack and said, "Let's go."
The two people walked towards the puddle.
Zhu Yu and the others were preparing dinner.
Although going out is relatively simple, you still need to prepare three meals a day.
Set up the gas stove, cook porridge, cut luncheon meat, and open a few cans of fish.
After completing these preparations, take out the water and start adding water to the self-heating food.
Although it is not very tasty, it is better than compressed dry food.
That thing is very popular in Elder Yinman's village.
Of course, to be honest, whether it is nutrition or taste, it beats the cassava lake in the morning and evening.
It's just that it's hard to go from luxury to frugality. Zhu Yu and the others have self-heating food and will almost never touch compressed dry food.
When the self-heating food was almost heated, Qin Fei and the others were back.
"This puddle is much bigger than the one in front." Cao Dalong said, "There are not many footprints nearby. Qin Fei set a few traps, but he doesn't know if he can catch anything."
"We'll know tomorrow." Qin Fei said while eating.
Rest as usual at night. According to Zhu Yu, have a good rest. Tomorrow we will climb the mountain to find the location of the temple.
A night of silence.
It was bright and clear the next day. After Qin Fei and Ran Jie changed whistles, they went to the puddle.
"be safe!"
Then Zhu Yu and the others woke up and started preparing food.
After more than half an hour, things were packed and the food was cooked, but Qin Fei was still nowhere to be seen, and several people were a little panicked.
"Let's go and have a look!"
The three people ran quickly to a puddle a few hundred meters away.
Not far from the edge of the puddle, a little deer lay there helplessly.
Its hoof was trapped and couldn't break free.
There was a muddy drag trail from the deer to the waterhole.
Then there were several deep footprints on the edge of the puddle!
But there was no trace of Qin Fei!
Something was rolling in the puddle, and blood stains surfaced from time to time!
"Is there a monster under the water?" Ran Jie and Cao Dalong were anxious and prepared to jump down!
"Wait!" Zhu Yu had already opened his eyes at this time and looked down to see that the puddle was seven or eight meters deep and there was thick mud at the bottom.
What were rolling in the puddle at this time were several large catfish one or two meters long!
One of the catfish was injured and was being torn apart by two of its kind!
But there was no Qin Fei in the stomachs of these three catfish.
So, where did Qin Fei go?
"Boss, what's wrong? Isn't Qin Fei underwater?"
"The ones fighting under the water are a few big catfish." Zhu Yu pointed to the fins that appeared from the water from time to time and said: "As long as we get them out, we will know whether Qin Fei is underwater or not."
The three of them worked together and soon pulled up a few catfish - mainly because these fish were too greedy. When they saw people coming to the water's edge, they immediately abandoned their own kind and wanted to swallow people.
The stomachs of the three fishes were cut open, and Qin Fei was not there at all.
At this time, Zhu Yu did not stop Cao Dalong from going into the water to look for Qin Fei.
Originally, the puddle was only twenty or thirty meters in diameter. I searched all over it for half an hour, but found nothing.
Zhu Yu's heavenly eyes looked down, but he couldn't see through the deep mud.
Where will Qin Fei go?
He and Ran Jie searched around for a long time, but also couldn't find Qin Fei's shadow.
Now my claws are numb!
"What should I do now?" Cao Dalong cried sadly, "If only I didn't suggest going to the puddle last night! This kind of thing wouldn't have happened!"
"Let's wait and search nearby." Zhu Yu said, "Don't rush to find the treasure now."
These words cheered up Ran Jie and Cao Dalong!
"Yes, yes, look again!"
"Look around again, wait, maybe he will show up on his own sometime!"
Having said that, everyone actually knows that this is a fluke.
Sure enough, the search scope was expanded, and the three people went into the water to search twice one by one, but still couldn't find it.
One day passed, and the three of them stood by the tent without saying a word.
When he was about to go to bed, Ran Jie suddenly said:
"We won't be looking here tomorrow. Let's go up..."
Cao Dalong grabbed Ran Jie's collar and said angrily:
"Captain Ran, this is not like you! Qin Fei has been with us through life and death, and you just give up like this... The boss said, keep looking! Don't be in a hurry to find the treasure!"
"I found it, where can I find it? Where can he go in half an hour?" Ran Jie pushed him away and asked:
"Can you run ten kilometers? Is there any place to hide people around here? We have also seen that the largest wild animals are a few wild dogs that are so thin that they almost lose their appearance. Can you move Qin Fei?"
"Then where do you think Qin Fei went?" Cao Dalong was choked and his tone weakened.
Ran Jie looked at Zhu Yu.
"It's very possible..." Zhu Yu thought for a while and expressed his guess: "It's very likely that he got stuck in the mud while fighting that big catfish..."
"Impossible! I've gone through the mud several times..." Cao Dalong said hurriedly.
"What I mean is," Zhu Yu shook his head and said, "It fell into the underground river!"
There is nothing in the mud, but Zhu Yu can see it.
Then there is only one possibility, which is to enter an underground river deeper than mud.
"That……"
Cao Dalong was also in trouble.
It would be better if it was still in the water. Now it has entered the underground river. How to find it?
"So, we either have to find the source of the underground river, or we have to find tools to dig into the underground river..."
"Then let's continue going up!" When Cao Dalong said this, he looked at Zhu Yu.
Among the three people, Zhu Yu is the boss, and only his words matter.
"Okay, just keep going up!"
Zhu Yu's obsession with the treasure really didn't care more about Qin Fei's life.
Cao Dalong looked at Ran Jie as if he had won a victory:
"See, the boss still has some humanity!"
"You idiot! Are you confused, what did I say at the beginning?" Ran Jie was angry, "Didn't I just say keep going up?"
Cao Dalong recalled what Ran Jie said, and it was really like this.
His face immediately turned red!
If you dare, just be a fool!
The three people immediately packed their bags and continued walking up the river.
Zhu Yu took the time to look at the map and found that the current location of the mountain was to the left of the river where he was.
However, as I kept walking forward, I still couldn't find a passage into the underground river.
A puddle will appear from time to time, but there is no water outlet connecting to the underground river.
What surprised Zhu Yu was that after walking two kilometers, the river suddenly turned and turned toward the mountain!
Could it be...
Zhu Yu had a bold guess in his mind!
"careful!"
As soon as Cao Dalong, who was hurriedly walking in front, took a step forward, Zhu Yu immediately reminded, "Back off! Back off!"
Cao Dalong has always been kind, especially to Zhu Yu's words. He took two steps back and then asked:
"Boss, what's going on?"
"Quicksand!" Zhu Yu pointed to the area in front and said solemnly.
"Quicksand?" Cao Dalong looked in front of him, and it seemed that it was no different from the sand under his feet.
"Look, the hoof prints over there." Zhu Yu pointed to the distance, "They disappeared when they got here."
Cao Dalong followed the direction Zhu Yu pointed and found Dandan's hoof prints as expected.
Is it possible that the soil here is too hard and there are no hoof prints left?
As soon as he had such an idea to refute, Cao Dalong rejected it.
Everyone knows that the boss has good eyesight. It is obviously impossible to say that he is wrong!
Ran Jie, who was next to him, remained calm and moved a big stone from a short distance away, and threw it towards the area.
Half of the stone's own weight sank into the sand.
Cao Dalong was also shocked when he found that the sand that he thought was hard was so soft. Sure enough!
so far so good!
The three people had no choice but to make a big turn and go up to the river bank, intending to go around it.
At this time, two wild dogs in the distance drove a deer to their previous location.
Surrounded by wild dogs, the deer had no way to avoid it. It entered the position of the stone, and then its thin legs sank in.
When the wild dog saw it, he was overjoyed and pounced on it to bite him. Then the three animals got stuck together!
By the time the wild dog whines, it's already too late!
They struggle desperately, even in quicksand, and the harder they struggle, the deeper they sink!
After a while, all three animals disappeared!
This made Cao Dalong secretly call it a fluke!
The river turned to the edge of a low mountain.
Zhu Yu discovered on the bank of the river that the mountain was only about ten meters high and was in the shape of a cross, with a vertex in the middle and four branches extending in four directions.
The correct one is the word "十".
And the mountain is not very big, only forty to fifty meters, and it feels like a big rock rising out of the outside.
Zhu Yu just glanced at it and stopped paying attention - he was more worried about Qin Fei at the moment.
The ancient river course passes a few hundred meters away from the short mountain and has several turns.
Zhu Yu and the others passed the quicksand area and walked a few hundred meters further. They felt that the river was normal, so they continued walking through the river.
By now, the river had become even narrower, only thirty to forty meters long, and the banks on both sides were only two or three meters high. According to Zhu Yu's opinion, it was almost at the source.
However, until the evening, I still couldn't find a place to enter the underground river.
Both Ran Jie and Cao Dalong were in very low moods.
Not in the mood to cook, a few people ate the self-heating food and hurriedly cleaned up.
"Boss, do you think Qin Fei... is still alive?"
Cao Dalong's voice was a little trembling. I don't know if this question is to get some encouragement from Zhu Yu, or if it is a sincere academic question.
"Should be alive." Zhu Yu thought for a while and said, "If there is an underground river, I guess there should be air as well.
This section of the underground river has actually become wider, and the water is not in a hurry... I'm just guessing, so I think it's not difficult to survive, but it's mainly difficult to find an exit.
But don't worry too much. Qin Fei is your comrade-in-arms and also my good brother. Let's come out together, and we all hope to go back together. So, let’s focus on finding Qin Fei first – we’ll talk about the treasure later. "
"Boss—" Cao Dalong felt better after hearing Zhu Yu's words. He seemed to really think that Zhu Yu's words were reasonable:
"Boss, what I'm saying is that from now on, whether we find Qin Fei or not, I, Cao Dalong, will sell my life to you!"
Zhu Yu waved his hands hurriedly:
"It's obvious what I said. If I fell into the river, I think you would definitely give up everything else and aim to find me first.
We are going through life and death together. This is not a test, it is really what we should do. You can make more money, but if your brother is gone, then it’s really gone. Besides, we are not short of money, right? "
Cao Dalong nodded.
In fact, he was not sure about Zhu Yu's question. If Zhu Yu falls into the underground river, how long can he keep searching?
He believed that Ran Jie would persist in looking for it, but what about him? Where is Qin Fei?
But from this moment on, no matter whether what Zhu Yu said now was to attract people's attention or to win over people's hearts, he really decided to sacrifice his life for Zhu Yu!
He said this not once, but now he feels it more deeply than before!
That night, the three of them said nothing. They knew that it was best to recharge their batteries and lay the foundation for the next search.
Suddenly, there was a rumble in the air again.
"Plane! It's the same plane!"
Ran Jie spoke first, but Zhu Yu and Cao Dalong also heard it.
Zhu Yu looked up and saw that the plane made a small circle in front of the river, as if it had dropped something!
