Chapter 220: Snake Ghost Town Lost

The wind here is not as domineering as before, the wind is swaying around in a curl, there must be something in front of the windshield, but where did the two guys who followed me just now, I did not go fast, so Can he fall behind, did his mother hit Feishi and fell behind?
I raised my miner's lamp to take photos, and I didn't see any shadows. I couldn't help but regret it. Just now my attention was too focused. I didn't pay too much attention to the surroundings. However, when traveling in such a violent wind, there is actually nothing to notice at all. People who hear the wind cannot hear it, and all the energy must be placed on the balance between the destination and the body in front of you.
Suddenly, I still felt a fear in a moment, but I quickly dispelled the fear. I took a break and took a few breaths before I started to move forward. At this time, I could n’t go back to find them. I have lost the sense of direction. If I go back and don't know where I will go, the best way is to go forward.
I dumped a pack of equipment. This thing is too heavy. The foreigner ’s adventure equipment is very personalized. Once I saw someone carrying an information book that was as big as his wife ’s shield, like a box and a phone book. They lazily carried them back, and ran to the light place lightly.
However, no matter how I ran, the light was still out of reach, as if I were not close at all. I was breathless and wanted to give up, but I was not reconciled. Running, the lights in front are blurred.
Just as I was about to lose consciousness and fell to the ground, suddenly, someone suddenly stopped me. I no longer have the physical strength, kneel on the ground with a pull. Looking up, through the goggles, I recognized the eyes of the two men, one was a stuffy oil bottle and the other was black glasses. His goggles were also black. These two people pulled me up urgently and dragged me in another direction.
I broke free of them, pointed to the front, and wanted to tell them there was shelter from the wind.
However, when I looked at it again, I was stunned. I didn't see anything. The light in front disappeared. There was a darkness, and even the huge outline was gone.
The oil bottle and black glasses ignored me and dragged me all the way. At this time, I saw black glasses holding a signal gun in his hand. The strength of the two people is enormous, and my weight of nearly 180 pounds is quickly lifted by them. Soon I was awake and started pedaling on the ground, indicating that I could run by myself.
They let me go, and I regret it at once. The two men ran too fast. They followed them to exhaust all their strength. I ran my teeth and ran all the way. I ran for twenty minutes with only eyes left. Run down two shadows in front. In a trance, I knew that we had rushed to the bank of the river, bypassing a mass of mounds, and then the two black shadows in front disappeared.
I yelled and waited for me, and I suddenly stumbled under my feet, fell several heels, and rolled down the slope. I struggled to get up and spit out the mud in my mouth. Looking around, there was a deep ditch under the slope, full of people inside, all shrunk in the ditch to avoid the strong wind. Seeing me fall, they all looked up at me.
We shrank at the bottom of the ditch, and sand and dust rolled over our heads. The Gobi Desert was not always flat, especially in places where rivers once flowed, and there were many branch canals that rushed out of the tide on both sides of the channel. The scars will not be very deep, but there are also two or three meters, which is enough for us to avoid the wind.
I was exhausted. Several people came and dragged me to the bottom of the ditch. It turned out that there was a big depression on the side of the bottom of the ditch, like a huge Populus euphratica tree was scraped, and the pit formed by the root fracture was washed away by the water. Only a small part can be seen. They are all shrunk in this depression. There is a smoke-free stove to heat them, and there is no wind at all.
I dragged people in. The depression was shallow and not too high. The inside was very cramped. They gave me a place and a person handed me water. Here is the dead end of the wind, which can already talk, but my ears have not yet adapted, and I can't hear what they are saying.
After drinking a few sips of water, I felt much better. After taking off my goggles, I felt damned. There are so many good places in China. Why did I come here?
However, this kind of wind should not be rare in Qaidam, this is not the most terrible wind. I watched a documentary about geological exploration in Qaidam Basin when I was in the early years. Just blow it up like a kite, and all the supplies were blown out a dozen miles away in a flash. It ’s just that I feel weird. Why did Dharma not warn us? The trade winds in the Gobi are obvious, not to mention the elderly, as long as you live here for a period of time, you can feel the law.
Similarly, I don't know when the wind will blow away. I often hear people on the Gobi say that this kind of place only winds twice a year, each time for half a year. If we don't stop for a long time, we are done.
The stuffy oil bottle and the black glasses soon went out again, and certainly went to find other people. The people here were obviously frightened. Not many people spoke, all curled up together. I felt funny in my heart. I thought these people were like Indiana Jones. It turned out to be the same. But then I found that my feet were shaking and I couldn't stand up at all.
The person who handed me water asked me if I was okay? Is there any place to bruise? I shook my head and said I was fine.
To be honest, I still remember the experience of a snowstorm in Changbai Mountain. It is now more comfortable than at that time. At least we can hide without worrying about freezing.
Poured a little water to wash his face, his eyes hurt the goggles, and this time gradually relieved.
After relaxing, I was able to observe the people in this pit, I did not see Aning. There are three people named Dolma, his daughter-in-law and Tashi. In the innermost part of the depression, Wu Lao Si is also present. The number is small. It seems that most of the people are still outside, and there is no Caucasian.
There are too many people in this team, I thought, Aning, they must still be looking out. So many people, even if they have three arms and six arms, they ca n’t take care of them. Fortunately, they are not in the desert. Otherwise, I ’m afraid we These people are dead.
Three hours later, the wind slowed down a little. They initially brought a few people back from the squirting oil bottle. Later, they were unable to withstand their physical strength, so they stopped going out. We all shrunk inside, faint, until the sky was really dark, it was really dark. The wind outside was like a screaming evil spirit, which was irritating at first, and later it felt like sleeping.
I have already prepared for the night, and I was not surprised. Many people actually fell asleep. Someone went out of the wind and turned out the food in the lot of luggage piled up outside. We divided the food and ate a little bit, and I fell asleep on the yellow sand.
Didn't sleep long. When I woke up, the wind was much lower. This is a good sign. I saw most people are sleeping. Tashi sits on the hollow mouth and seems to be vigil. It ’s not stable here. It ’s either stone or dry mud and sand on top of our heads, so there are sands falling from above from time to time. When I fell asleep, I ate a mouthful of sand and felt very uncomfortable. When he came out, he walked to Tashi's side.
I do n’t want to talk to Tashi. Tashi is not a very good person, or he is alert to us, and I am not the kind of person who can stick a cold with a hot face, so his attitude is not give a about. I walked to his side and just wanted to take a few breaths of fresh air and go to another place to sleep.
But when I walked over, I heard a sound outside, and then saw the light of the miner's lamp outside, it seemed that someone was outside.
I felt strange in my heart and asked what happened to Tashi? Zhaxi handed me a piece of soil smoke and said that Aning was back and the wind was low. They called someone to go out to find others, and by the way, they looked at the car.
I thought about the car stuck in the sand, but I also had some worries in my heart. I do n’t know if these cars can be driven if they are dug out, and I ’m more worried about the Caucasians. I do n’t know if he came back. Put on the cloak and went out, wanting to ask about the situation.
As soon as I walked outside, I was relieved. The wind outside was smaller than I thought. It seemed that the wind had passed, and there was basically no sand in the air. I pulled off the cloak and took a few breaths to the Gobi. The cool air above, and then walked towards the miner's lamp.
That was the direction of the river bed. I walked down and came to them.
They were looking at a car, which was stuck obliquely in the sand, leaving only the front of the car. Aning was holding the radio and was anxiously adjusting the frequency.
I asked them, "How are you doing?"
Shook his head alone, only said: "Wife ion scattered."
I was inexplicable and didn't quite understand what he meant, so I looked at Aning.
She saw me and smiled reluctantly, so she came over and explained, "Just before, Zhuoma said, there might be wind, we must find a better shelter as soon as possible. But our cars are stuck. , A few of them must be scrapped, and others may not be able to move, and need to be repaired. "She paused." The most troublesome thing is that four people disappeared. It may have lost their way when the wind just started. We I could n’t find it just after searching around. "
I asked which people, Aning said that it was the Caucasian, and there are three people I am not familiar with.
Caucasians were with me when they disappeared, so I gave them directions and asked if they had been there. Aning nodded and said that they had found them nearby. These people must have gone further than she thought.
I sighed, comforted her a few words, let her not worry. These people all have GPS, and the wind is so strong, they must not go far. There is still wind, and the vision is not very clear. It is convenient to find it when it is dawn.
She bit her lower lip and nodded, but her expression did not change, which made me feel a bit bad. I am also not familiar with Gobi, at this time I do not know what will happen, so I shut up.
We forcibly opened the doors of the two cars, took out the equipment inside, and then they had to find the next one. I had to follow.
At this time, I found that the car was caught in the river bed. It seems that it is not the quicksand often mentioned in the novel, but the bottom of the river bed, the ground is crushed, and the car is sinking into the whole, and there is no roof. Someone told me that the salt crust was crushed. There are a lot of salt crusts in many places under the Gobi. Here is the river bed. When there was water before, the situation at the bottom of the river was very complicated, with a lot of sediments and drought. Later, when the salt crust crystallized, a lot of gaps were left, so some parts of this river bed were actually like dry cheese, without pressure, we stopped at the wrong place.
I wondered: "But we walked on the river bed all the way, and nothing happened."
The human said: "That's because the river channel we walked on has been dry for a long time, but now the river channel under our feet has been dried for up to half a year. Didn't you find that there are almost no grass and bushes here?
I looked around in surprise, as it was, the surroundings were bare and the shuttle was not long.
The man said to me: "We must be heading towards the upper stream of this river now. The end of this river must be a high mountain. If the river does not change the way, there will definitely be an ancient city or ruins near this river. This shows that the old Tibetan lady did not lead the way blindly. I had long thought this old lady was a liar. "
I looked at the upper part of the river channel he pointed to, on the flat Gobi, it seemed like something. Thinking of the huge black shadow I saw in the wind, I always felt it was not my illusion.
That night, we found all the cars and then collected the luggage. At dawn, other people woke up one after another, and Aning began to organize their work, repairing cars, looking for people.
Me and a few other people who were looking for a car at night ate something, went to their sleeping bags to make up, and were very tired. They slept into the sunset when they slept.
After waking up, the wind had completely stopped and the dust was gone. The batch of people was very efficient. Several vehicles were repaired, ready to go, and all kinds of materials were redistributed. The vehicles were being reloaded.
A Ning didn't sleep all day and night, listening to the radio non-stop, neither the oil bottle nor the black glasses were there. When asked, the two were still looking for the four missing persons.
I heard that it was not very good. It has been a day. The four people have not yet found it. Isn't there a GPS? Is it really as Tashi said, this thing does not work in the Gobi?
I took the dry food out of my bag and ate it to Aning while I was eating. I asked the specific situation.
Aning's brows were closed, and dark circles appeared, feeling very haggard. Asking her, she didn't have any thoughts to answer me. The walkie-talkie has always been in a conversation to find someone outside. It is in English.
I asked her if I wanted to go out and look for it too. She shook her head and said no. She had already gone out in three groups. They were all looking for the third time. I did not find it useful. Let me tidy up. A devil city was found twenty kilometers in front. Waiting for us to leave for rest, there was still wind at night.
I saw that she was burnt, and I didn't want to bother her, so I went to see another group of people repairing the car and helping hand over the tools.
After watching it for more than half an hour, Tashi came back from the river bed in the distance, and it was going to wind again to us. The horizon in front of the sand line had risen. We have to go fast, otherwise the car will be repaired in vain.
We prepared right away, and soon we prepared things, because there were fewer cars, and the cars that were not repaired were dragged behind. I and a few Tibetans set up a car and set off towards the setting sun.
It took about twenty minutes to drive on the vast Gobi. The shadow of the Yadan landform appeared in front of the sunset. Stone mountains rose flat. The voice of Zhaxi came from the intercom and guided us to adjust the direction. A huge "castle" appeared in the field of vision.
That's where Tashi chose to shelter from the wind. When we drove straight on, when we looked closely, we found that it was a boulder-like rocky mountain, and behind it was a gradually dense large-scale Yadan landform, like the fortification behind the castle.
Devil City, also known as Fengcheng, is a peculiar terrain where large rocks are carved out by strong winds. There are a large number of strangely shaped rocks in a large area, which can be imagined as various strange things, and when the wind blows over these rocks. Because of the distribution, the sound of ghost crying wolf will be made, so it is called the devil city. On the Gobi, such landforms are very common. I have visited in Xinjiang before and I am not curious this time.
We were outside the "castle", a flat rocky mountain stopped at the bottom, Tashi jumped down and shouted, we all came down and started camping, two hours later, it really started to wind, and it was a wind and sand covering the sky. , It was n’t until midnight that it slowly got smaller like yesterday.
The wind was too strong, and there were so many people crying and howling in the devil city. No one could sleep. When the wind was small, they gradually fell asleep one by one. The two vigils who slept during the day, both of them were very interested in Devil City. Seeing that Tashi and I were not sleeping, they went outside to take pictures. Tashi let them be careful not to walk in, it is easy to get lost.
I fell asleep during the day and I was very energetic. Aning was thinking about the search method for tomorrow. He still held the intercom in his hand. It seemed that he could not rest without finding those few people.
I used to persuade her to sleep for a while, but I didn't say a few words. Suddenly someone yelled at the distant Gobi: "Team doctor! Team doctor!"
Anin ’s team doctor is a fat man, and he did n’t sleep reading, he woke up when we heard it, and we looked over there, and we heard there shouting,
Come on! Find Ah K!

Ak is one of the four people who disappeared. We all jumped up when we heard it, and ran over in two and three steps. At first sight, it was the two people who patted the Devil City and waved at us on a mound. , Rushed over and saw that there was a big pit on the mound, and there was a person lying at the bottom of the pit, it was that Ah K.
The team doctor ran panting, jumped down, touched it, and yelled, "I'm still alive."
Several people rushed down to lift people, and the team doctor yelled them to carry him to the tent.
There was chaos at the scene. Tashi picked up the man and ran back. I squeezed it aside, looked at the pit, and looked at the direction we came from. My heart said, oh my god, how could this person fall here, This is more than 20 kilometers away from where we parked yesterday, and the direction was still headwind. He came under the wind?
Went back to the team doctor's tent and watched the team doctor rescue. Soon the A-K was rescued. The team doctor relaxed and said that he fainted because of fatigue. The team doctor gave him a shot, and soon he woke up.
When he woke up, we asked him what was going on. He said he did n’t know what was going on. He walked all the way and walked, and he saw a shadow in front of him. I ended up walking and walking, and I did n’t know how long I walked, so I fell into the pit. As he said, he asked, "Hey, did that old Gao and the other two come back?"
Old Gao is a Caucasian, and as soon as I heard him talk about the shadow, I was agitated and wanted to ask him for details. But when Aning heard him ask Lao Gao, he immediately asked him why he had asked him if he had seen them.
Said: "They were right in front of me at that time. How did I call them? They didn't look back. I thought they would go against the wind. They couldn't hear it. Then I fell into a dizzy.
A Ning was surprised and said, "You mean you saw them before falling out?"
Ah K nodded, Aning turned his head and said to me: "Have you heard? The old K is found outside the Devil City, and in front is the Devil City. So, they went into the city! No wonder we find and find Not at all. "
She had a look in her eyes at once. She clapped her hands and let us go out. We walked out of the team doctor's tent. As soon as we negotiated, Aning insisted on going to the Devil City to search immediately.
These people don't know what happened. The headwind walked for more than 20 kilometers. Old K fell into a coma outside. The people inside may also be exhausted. We must find them immediately, so that we can be at ease.
I was in good spirits and nodded. We immediately assigned the team, and many people fell asleep. They did not wake them up. It was the team doctor and me. They prepared three people to go in for a look. The others waited two hours before waking up and following up.
After we finished, we immediately started to prepare. Just picked up the bag, Zhaxi came over and stopped us, saying, "Wait a minute, my grandma said, you can't go in."