To put it bluntly, behind these sourceless waters are often some underground rivers and caves that eat people. As long as you go down there, you will never be able to settle down again.
They not only eat humans, they also eat some animals. If some animals find these ponds and go into the water to drink, they may be sucked into the underground cracks and eventually become one of the many innocent souls buried in the caves.
Countless people and animals disappear every year because they drink water in the oasis. Even now, it is still impossible to find where the bodies are. Since the people who disappeared from the oasis pools are neither dead nor dead, many local people say that these countless animals in the desert are missing. Source Oasis is the devil's eye, a slave who specializes in deceiving young people into what they want to do.
It is absolutely impossible for experienced desert hunters to go down to such a crescent oasis and pond. They will only use the containers they carry with them to drink and fetch water at the water's edge, and then leave quickly to stay here for a while. Danger may occur.
There are countless situations like this. Ordinary people can't even survive in the desert. Only desert hunters with rich field experience can avoid these dangers and even save lives.
As for the subsequent boldness, carefulness, and powerful force, it is basically the norm for hunters.
No matter where you are as a hunter, you can only be brave enough not to be afraid of dangerous situations, careful enough to detect the traces of prey, and powerful enough to protect yourself from being hurt by your prey.
In short, these desert hunters take on the job of protecting pedestrians, or they go deep into the desert to hunt sand foxes, argali sheep, bison, sand leopards, and sand tigers, and make a living by killing and hunting in exchange for money.
Gunizi is the best hunter in the area. It is rumored by the local people that he has already traveled through the deserts near Kunlun Mountain and Altun Mountain, and has explored the nearby customs, animals and plants, legends, stories, and ruins. , it is even possible to walk vertically through the desert along the Hotan River and visit the hinterland of the desert where no animal has ever set foot.
Once you enter the hinterland of the desert, it is equivalent to entering the devil's mouth. It is very difficult to come back from the hinterland. There were many hunters who threatened to conquer the hinterland of the desert. Only those who can really come back from the hinterland of the desert are Gunizi is alone.
He is already worthy of being the best desert hunter. However, any group that wants to find a guide in the northwest, if they can get the support of Guniz, they will basically be away from danger and there will no longer be any threat to their lives.
Such a person must be famous. About five or six years ago, Guniz was introduced by a lobbyist and met a group of foreigners who were preparing to go to the desert for inspection.
What these foreigners want to do is to look for the ancient Shanshan civilization that has been lost for nearly a thousand years. Gunizi was walking in the desert and had heard of the ancient Shanshan Dynasty. However, he had never seen the ruins of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, let alone knew about it. Where is the legendary royal city of the ancient Shanshan civilization now?
For this reason, he could only remind these foreigners that the ancient Shanshan civilization had been lost for more than 1,500 years. After such a long period of wind and sand attack, even if there were any ruins, they would probably have become small mounds now and nothing would exist anymore. .
These foreigners were determined to find the ancient Shanshan civilization. In order to let him make a decision as soon as possible, they promised Gunizi that they would give him 5,000 yuan when the matter was accomplished. This was a huge amount of money that ordinary coolies in the northwest might not be able to earn in their lifetime. Got this money.
If he can get this money, Gunizi can take his two children away from the desert forever and start a new life. This money may even be enough for him to hire a doctor to cure his daughter's disease.
When Gunizi heard about the amount of remuneration, he was indeed moved. The foreigners paid a 20% deposit in advance to reassure him. He was convinced that these foreigners were sincere, so he agreed to their request and left the money in At home, we took these foreigners along the Peacock River into the desert.
About half a year later, these foreigners returned to Dunhuang from outside. It was true that they returned with a full load, but there was no figure of Gunizi among these crowds.
Keli went to inquire for a long time, and these foreigners said that Gunizi suddenly asked for an additional money of 10,000 yuan in the depths of the desert. They could not come up with that much money, and Gunizi could only abandon them and leave alone. These foreigners were following The wild camels in the desert just left the desert and found their way back.
Although what these foreigners said was vivid, Keli didn't think his father was such a person. He had led people in and out of the desert so many times, and he had never left people behind halfway, even if he paid very little. After agreeing to these things, it is impossible to just leave people in the desert to die.
In a word, the Guni tribe cannot commit murder intentionally!
At that time, Keli was still a child less than fourteen years old. His argument was of course of no avail. The demands of these foreigners were very simple. Guniz abandoned them midway, which was equivalent to not completing the guide task. They wanted their advance money back. A thousand oceans, and at the same time, he has to claim another three hundred oceans for being abandoned.
It's obviously a lie, but these foreigners are so confident in what they say. They can be so arrogant because of their consulate in the northwest province. Under the atmosphere of preferential treatment of foreigners, the officials of the Northwest Political Yuan are not willing to offend foreigners.
On one side were the international inspection team and on the other were the desert hunters who didn't know whether they were alive or dead. There was almost no suspense about where they would stand.
In other words, Gunizi's disappearance completely ruined his reputation. At the same time, it also caused misery to his two children.
Therefore, under the "mediation" of the Dunhuang Political Yuan, Keli had no choice but to return a thousand oceans to the foreigners. In order to make up for the three hundred oceans they claimed, he even emptied all his savings, and finally lost the Dunhuang building. Only by selling it can you collect enough money.
These foreigners took the money and then returned to the province in a big way. As for how Keli and Nayi survived after they left, the provincial masters didn't care, and these foreign devils didn't care either.
From then on, Keli and Nayi had no one to rely on, so they had to move to Thousand Buddha Cave from Dunhuang. At least there were abandoned grottoes here to protect them from wind and rain.
From then on, Gunizi’s life and death were unknown, and he didn’t know whether he was missing or dead. Anyway, he never came back. Fortunately, Keli went into the desert with Gunizi since he was a child and learned the skills of survival and hunting in the desert. Even though Gunizi Zi disappeared, and the Kelinai brothers and sisters were able to survive by hunting in the desert.
In the past five or six years, after Keli hunted prey in the desert, he would directly take it to Dunhuang City and sell it in exchange for money to satisfy the brother and sister's three meals a day. Although it was hard work, it was still a human life, and they would not do anything. A beggar is despised by everyone.
After listening to Wang Yuanlu's narration, Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes and said, "That's not right. Back then, Stein Hein even bought scriptures from you. If their methods were so despicable, then why were you so relieved to let them leave?"
"This... when I met Steinhein, the brother and sister Keli and Nayi had not yet moved to the grotto. Besides, Gunizi's reputation was already bad at that time. Everyone thought he was the one who abandoned the expedition team. After running away, the image of those foreigners was not as bad as it is today.”
Mentioning this point, the old Taoist priest paused: "I didn't know until today what Steinhein is. Before that, he had always given us the impression of a scholar who was diligent in investigating. Who knew he was a liar."
