Apudu stamped the national seal on the customs clearance document, and because he was similar in age to Song Che, the two of them combined and simply sworn sworn brothers.
Then, after resting for a day in Gaochang, Song Che continued westward.
As we continue to deepen into the Western Region, the green grass and green water turn yellow again, walking through the desolate Gobi and entering the cruel flowing desert.
This time, Song Che decided to go to the "Wusu Country" with the largest population and the strongest power in the Western Region first. If he could stamp the Wusu Kingdom's seal on the document, other small countries would definitely follow suit when he returned along the way.
Wusu is located at the end of southern Xinjiang, thousands of miles away from Gaochang. At the speed of the caravan, it will take at least twenty days.
The next twenty days will be spent in the Gobi Desert.
"Brother-in-law, I'm tired."
Liu Xiang'er lay lazily on the hump, then changed the subject, raised her head and said with a smile:
"However, I don't regret at all that I was able to take this adventure with my brother-in-law."
Song Che is not sure that after this trip, this girl will definitely become more mature.
People always have to go through a difficult journey before they can completely lose their immaturity and enter maturity.
"By the way, now that you have come to this mobile desert, let me test your geographical knowledge - if you are lost in the boundless sea of sand, how would you find your way?" Song Che asked Liu Xiang'er and the female swordsmen.
Liu Xiang'er replied: "Isn't there Si Nan? Take it out to identify the direction."
Song Che shook his head, "The magnetic field in the desert is weird, and Si Nan can't be accurate sometimes."
Nangong Yue said: "The effect will be immediate. Put the hilt of the sword on the ground and identify the direction based on the difference in the shadow."
Lu Jingxiang added: "Why is it so complicated? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. You can tell the direction by observing its rising and setting positions."
Song Che said with a smile: "Strictly speaking, it is not accurate to use the rise and fall of the sun. Due to the existence of the red-yellow angle, the direct point of the sun will go back and forth between the south and north Tropics of Cancer, and the earth we live in is divided into In the north and south, in the northern hemisphere, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, while in the southern hemisphere the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, so the phrase 'the sun comes out in the west' is somewhat unreasonable..."
"Boss, you said something incomprehensible again. Also, isn't the place where we live a 'round sky and a square place'? How can you compare it to a ball?"
"That's right, if it were a ball, it would be an arc. Look at how flat the ground is. According to you, wouldn't that person from the southern hemisphere be standing upside down? It's really shocking!"
Of course they don't understand what gravity is.
"Well, this is more troublesome to explain. In short, I will teach you a method to accurately identify the direction when you are lost,"
Song Che pointed to the sky and said:
"That's looking at the stars in the sky at night. Everyone should know the 'Big Dipper', right? A star vein connected into a spoon. Not far away from the Big Dipper, there is the brightest one called the 'Polaris', also commonly known as 'Polaris' Ziweixing'."
"I know, I know," Liu Xiang'er raised her hand to speak, "some old magicians often say that if the purple star is dim, it means that the emperor is going to die, and they call it 'the fall of the purple star.'"
"The words of the old magic stick are not trustworthy," Song Che said with a smile: "Other stars are changing, but the North Star remains unchanged. Find it in the night sky. The direction pointed by your arms is the north. Open your thumbs vertically. , the direction your thumb points to is the west, just like me."
He used his hands to demonstrate with the female family members, and then said: "From our current location, if we go straight to the north, we can see the Tianshan Mountains, and to the west we can find the Tarim River."
All the girls painted ladles in the same way and imitated them one after another.
At this time,
The camel suddenly became restless!
They raised their heads and howled into the distance.
Song Che noticed something strange and quickly took out his telescope to look around. Outside the horizon, a turbid "wave" was rolling in. It was like a giant curtain covering the sky, covering the world in the distance.
This is……
Sandstorm!
The camel screamed more and more wildly.
"Evacuate quickly! It's a sandstorm!"
Song Che found a direction and spurred the camel to run quickly, while the others followed closely.
This completely weathered mobile desert has almost no shelter except one sand dune after another.
"Huhuhu..."
The dust in the sky was like a huge beast holding up the sky, and soon caught up with the team.
"Cover your mouth and nose with a scarf, watch the people around you, and don't lose them!" Song Che shouted at the top of his lungs, but compared to the roar of the strong wind, his voice was insignificant.
Soon, even the line of sight was disturbed, and the sand ruthlessly divided the team and swallowed everyone.
"Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law!"
"Xiang'er! Xiang'er, follow your sisters closely!"
Song Che tried hard to find it, but the sound of wind disturbed his judgment, the sandstorm made him unable to open his eyes, and the whole world was spinning.
The camel stopped running. It was half-kneeling in the sand. Song Che leaned on the camel's hump, covered his mouth and nose, and shouted:
"Everyone who is close to you, use your camel body to block the wind and sand, and be careful not to be buried!"
"Huhuhu..."
The wind became stronger and stronger, and the accumulated sand soon covered Song Che's feet. He huddled behind the hump, and now he could only pray that the dust storm would pass quickly.
I don’t know how long it took, but most of Song Che’s body was no longer buried, and the wind force obviously decreased.
I don't know how long it took, the dust storm suddenly stopped, a ray of light opened the sky, Song Che brushed the sand on his head, slowly opened his eyes, the scorching sun was in the sky, the wind was calm, except for himself who was almost buried alive, everything seemed to be gone. happened before.
Song Che quickly stood up, shook off the sand from his body, led the camel and searched with binoculars, shouting at the top of his lungs:
"Xiang'er! Yue'er! Jingxiang! Wanzhou... you heard the answer!"
"Boss...I...we are here!"
An answer came from under the dune.
Lu Jingxiang, Wan Zhou, Kui Si and the other six female relatives were quite smart and formed a circle with camels to resist the dust storm.
"Where are the others?" Song Che hurriedly chased after him and asked.
Lu Jingxiang spat out a few mouthfuls of sand and shook her head: "It was so chaotic at the time, so we who were nearby spontaneously stopped, and the others were nowhere to be found..."
"Let's look for it together!"
Work in pairs and look around.
"Xiang'er, Xiang'er..."
"Sister Yue, where are you!"
After half an hour and a five-mile search, eleven more people were found, except for Liu Xiang'er, Nangong Yue and Zi Yun.
Although this sandstorm came suddenly and moved quickly, so many people were not buried, and the three of them certainly could not, but where could they go?
Song Che was extremely anxious.
Nangong Yue and Zi Yun both have good martial arts skills and are not afraid even if they are left alone. But Liu Xiang'er, a little girl who is not experienced in the world, if she...
"Boss, don't be anxious. When the sandstorm first came, Sister Yue and Ziyun had been protecting Xiang'er. They will be fine," Lu Jingxiang comforted.
