Chapter 217: Snake Ghost Town · Departure

The Jeep team was flying over the endless vast Gobi, the climate was dry, and the car was far away from the car to escape the yellow dust raised by the last car.
I was sitting in the car, looking out the window, thinking about the previous decision, and I didn't know if it was correct. At this time, I felt a little too rash. However, now boarding the thief ship, he has no face to repent.
Aning's plan told me before departure, I found that it was based on Wenjin's route, starting from Dunhuang, passing Dachaidan to the area of ​​Chaerhan Lake, leaving the road from that place, and entering the Qaidam Basin No man's land. Then the leader Dolma led the way and took the team to the place where she and the expedition team broke up.
This route is almost exactly the same as Wen Jin wrote in the notes, I was very puzzled. Where did she get the information? Obviously, she knows Tamutuo, knows to decide on Dolma, knows the route, looks like she has read the notes, but the notes are in my pocket.
The convoy replenished supplies all the way, and soon reached Dunhuang as planned. Someone told me that the route before arriving in the Qarhan area is still equivalent to the route of self-driving tour, which is relatively safe.
The landscape of Yadan on both sides of the road let me appreciate the desolation of the Gobi. This feeling of endless horizon makes people feel a strong sense of abandonment. At first, this feeling can be eased by many settlements on the roadside that are already in ruins, but after leaving Dunhuang, we drove on the Qarhan Highway and drove directly into the Gobi Desert, which was impossible to drive away. Because driving for more than ten hours in a row, and the surrounding scenery is almost the same, this feeling is suffocating. Thanks to the huge Aning team, the hustle and bustle when camping made us feel more comfortable.
I was in a car with a Caucasian. He and another Tibetan driver took turns driving. On the road, I asked him these questions to see if he could answer them.
Caucasians answered it very easily. After hearing it, I realized that I thought it was too complicated. I always thought that I should have read the notes, and then knew that Tamutuo, Dzhuma and the route were decided, but this was not the case at all. The first measure taken by Aning after receiving the videotape was to investigate the courier company that sent the courier. Through the memories of the courier company, they found the courier who sent the courier.
After the visit, I asked the courier, and the Tamu Tuo, guide, and route were all asked. The current plans are all based on the information of the master Dolma.
I was relieved after listening to it. In this way, the first half of the third part of Wen Jin ’s notes is not important. What is important is that they broke up with Dzhuoma to enter the section of Tamutuo, but unfortunately I did not Look carefully, be sure to find an opportunity to watch it again secretly.
Then, the Caucasus told me about the Tamu Tuo he knew.
The Caucasus people told me that the concept of Tamutuo was known only after Dingma Dolma was found. According to the memory of Dingma Dolma listening to Wenjin's conversation at that time, it seemed to be Wang Zanghai's last stop. As for where, Wenjin they I don't know, I just search.
However, it was decided that Dolma would have his own judgment based on his experience and experience during the journey. She found that the Tamu Tuo that Wen Jin was looking for was their legendary Western Queen Motherland. According to the locals, that should be called Tarmus, which means a ghost town in the rain. After she discovered this, she was very scared, so she pretended that she could not find a way and broke up with them.
"West Queen Motherland?" I was surprised to hear, "Isn't that something in mythology?"
"Actually not, the Western Queen Motherland really exists, and it is an ancient country with a long history. There was legend in the Yellow Emperor period. The Western Queen Mother is the queen of the country. Qinghai Lake is called" Chixue Jiamu "in Qiang, and Jiamu is the king. The meaning of the mother, we think that it is the queen ’s Yaochi, and Tarmus is the capital of the kingdom of the queen. The Western Queen represents the sacred power in the legend of the Western Regions, and the legend that he heard when he was a child, when he was a master, This city will only appear during heavy rain, and once seen, it will be taken away and become blind, so she is very scared. "
"Then do you mean that what we are looking for now is actually the ancient capital of the Western Queen Motherland?"
"It can be said that according to the analysis of current archaeological data, especially in recent years, the existence of the Western Queen has been confirmed." The Caucasus said, "In fact, if Tamutuo is in the Qaidam Basin, it must be It ’s part of the Western Queen Motherland. This time I ’m looking for Tamutuo. In fact, I am looking for the remains of the Western Queen Motherland. What you need to know is that instead of looking for the Western Queen Motherland, it ’s what we find that automatically becomes Western Queen Kingdom, this is an archaeological expedition. "
I laughed when I heard it, Queen Mother? I remember that it wasn't a messy thing. Wang Zanghai's last envoy was the Queen Mother of the West? Does this make sense?
Thinking about it, I thought of the legend of Hou Yi seeking immortal medicine. I thought Wang Canghai would also seek medicine that time? Feeling very ridiculous, she shook her head to get rid of the idea and didn't think about it.
After I counted the equipment I got from Aning in the car, their company had special clothes, and my clothes would go to the sun in the day and they would die in the day and freeze at night, so I changed the desert clothes in the car. I was surprised when I wore it, and found that the belt of this dress even had the number 02200059.
I asked the Caucasian what the number is. He said it was the barcode number of their company. Their boss was fascinated by this number. It is said that it was also translated from a silk book of the Warring States Period.
I was very surprised. I remembered the password on the seven-star Luwang box. I said whether this number has any special meaning
Two days after, we penetrated into the depths of the Gobi. The speed of "Land Rover" was very fast. In these two days, we entered the hinterland of Qaidam.
The people of Aning are very out of sight. They camped a few times. The people who were together in Jilin and I all got along very well. The others were familiar with me. My personality is quite easy to get along with others. In this way, there is at least one benefit. I do n’t have to face the dull oil bottle all day long. And he didn't seem to want to bother me at all.
This is actually a bit abnormal, because in the previous contact, although the stuffy oil bottle is also not easy to get along with, but it does not feel so alienated this time, I always feel that he is avoiding something. On the contrary, the black glasses seemed to be very interested in me, and always came to talk to me.
After entering the Gobi, the car quickly left the road, and Doma started to lead the way. She was accompanied by her daughter-in-law and a grandson, in a car with Aning, at the front of the convoy. I don't know their situation. I only know that after the old lady started to lead the way, the place where the car was going to start was difficult to walk. It was either a gravel beach or an arid river bed in a river and gorge, and soon the team complained.
Dorma explained that to find the mountain pass she saw, she must first find a village. Their trip started in that village. Wenjin ’s horses and camels were bought in the village. The village may be deserted now, but the site should still be there, and you can find it before you can proceed to the next step.
The old lady's memory is still quite good. Sure enough, in the evening, we came to the small village called "Lancuo". There were still people living in the village. There were more than 30 people in four households.
This discovery makes us ecstatic, one is to prove the ability of the old woman, the other is that things are going well, and it is always very happy to see the place where humans gather in the Gobi for a long time. It was late at the time, and we decided to camp in the village.
It's a pity that there was an accident when entering the village. A car rolled into a wind erosion ditch. No one was okay, but the car was scrapped. At this time, we are quite far away from the nearest highway, and it is impossible to get any. Assistance. This means that another car must also stay to take care of it.
After this incident happened, Aning began to appear very worried. That night we rested by the scrapped car, and Aning told us her concerns. She was a bit worried, although equipped with first-class off-road vehicles, but the surrounding conditions are really too bad, if you can not find the mountain pass in a short period of time, these cars will definitely be scrapped here one by one, sometimes may be repaired Very small problem in the car factory, but here it will paralyze the car.
And the farther they go deep into the basin, the abandoned cars and the people accompanying them may not be rescued in time and be in danger in the Gobi.
The car and the camel horse are different. The camel will heal itself when it is injured, and the minor injury will not affect the travel. However, the car under high technology is fragile and sad when there is an accident. These are civilian cars. There is no strong military.
But this is not A Ning's mistake, because in this era, it is impossible to let this team of nearly fifty people ride camels into Qaidam. One cannot find so many camels at one time. People, plus the camel running luggage and spare camels, may require nearly a hundred peaks. Such a huge camel team is so conspicuous that it will definitely be noticed by the government.
The mechanics on the team told her that they didn't need to be so unfounded. The Qaidam Basin is not too big at the speed of "Land Rover". Qaidam may be as common as the Taklimakan Desert 20 years ago. The terrifying sea of ​​death is now able to traverse half a development area casually for more than ten hours. There are a large number of exploration bases and industrial bases, so there is no need to worry so much.
However, this was immediately rejected by the grandson of Dolma. This young man named Tashi said that we trust the power of the machine too much. Although Qaidam has been conquered, the safe place is limited to the place where the radiation of the road network is obtained. It only accounts for about 2% of the entire basin. The other 98% of the area is desert, marshes, and salt caps. For those of us who are less than 50 in a dozen vehicles, for this piece of tens of millions It was trivial for the land that devoured life years ago.
He said that even if it is along the designed least dangerous tourist route, there will be people lost and accidents die every year. Do n’t say we are going to go deep into the no man ’s land now.
He also said that the people he had seen before were all travelers who traveled through the basin. These people would not stay in the basin for more than two days, and our purpose was to search in the basin. That is to say, there is no end to our journey, so going around in the Gobi is the biggest taboo of the pastors here, so Miss Ning's worries are not unreasonable, and everything should be careful.
Tashi ’s words made us fall into silence. Aning thought for a long time and asked Tashi, "What do you suggest to us?"
Tashi shook his head and said: "Since you are going to enter Qaidam, then the head of the person must definitely not be on the waistband. This has been the case since ancient times."
Zhaxi ’s statement is always a bit alarmist. Before I heard someone say, Zhaxi was very angry about my grandmother ’s promise to lead us. He thought this matter was too dangerous. Aning they used money to convince him 'S grandmother is a karma. We bring danger and sin to his grandmother. But the old lady Dharmana was very determined. The status of the grandmother in the Tibetan family was very high, and Tashi had no choice but to take care of it. So he basically didn't give us any good looks along the way, nor did he say anything good.
Even so, but there are only a few adobe dwarf villages on the Gobi, blowing the cold wind of the Gobi at night, watching the twitching campfire, and thinking about our distance from the civilized world now, I still feel a chill. .
After he finished talking, we didn't have any interest in speaking again. Several people sat in silence by the campfire for a long time, and each went into their sleeping bags to rest. We are leaving early tomorrow morning. Aning did not set up tents, but all were sleeping bags in the open air. The temperature here sometimes reached minus zero, so we all hid behind a raised ridge and warmed up near the campfire.
Lying there, I felt that many people could not sleep, surrounded by the whispers of the wind. It ’s no wonder that this may be the last place marked on the map before entering Qaidam. The veterans of this kind of activity naturally do n’t care, but a large part of the team are people invited locally. Of course they will be excited at this time. a little.
I do n’t know if I ’m a veteran or a novice. I just looked up at the sky and found that the sky here is much closer to the ground and the stars are much clearer. I am in the south, and I have n’t seen the sky and stars in a long time since I was an adult. Now seeing the shining Milky Way in the sky so clear, I couldn't help but feel sleepy.
However, the long-distance running always worked, and after a while, the sound around gradually calmed down.
Anin they arranged for a vigil. Because there are so many people, these tired activities are mainly performed by local hired people, so they will not be rotated to us. However, because it is still a village, there is no need to be too vigilant. Zhaxi also said that only large beasts may appear near Cococili. There are so few grasses here that even mice do not come. I also didn't hear the voice of the night watchman chatting, and it might be asleep. In the wind, I vaguely heard several animal calls, but I didn't pay much attention to it. We slept in the middle of the camp and were eaten, and it was not our turn.
I was thinking about things while looking at the night sky, and I did n’t know how long it was. When I was also drowsy, I was engulfed, and suddenly felt someone came to me, and I shivered, sober At first glance, it turned out to be Tashi.
I was taken aback by him. I sat up and tried to talk. He squatted down and pressed my mouth. He said softly, "Don't talk, come with me, my grandma wants to see you."