Millennium drunk

From the fourth day onwards, the bed of the Kashina River completely disappeared under the thick sand layer.

Without the guidance of the river bed, Lan Zui and the others looked around and felt that they were all the same, but they didn't know how Reyimu found it. They could always find a tree that hadn't been thoroughly blown by the wind and sand through one or two tenaciously growing plants of Elderberry and Populus euphratica. Buried stone pillars or half a roof, so as to find a small oasis, a sea with a little water left.

Reyimu said that this road used to be the main road for trade between the northern barbarians and the southwest. In ancient times, desertification was not so serious, and there were many small oases on this road.These stone pillars and stone tops are the ancient city built on the oasis at that time.Whenever the ancient city is built, there must be underground water flowing through it, but the water level is getting lower and lower now, and it may not be long before it will completely dry up.

A week later, the group entered the hinterland of Badain Jaran.The rush, heat, wind and sand, and the ever-changing yellow sand in the past few days exhausted the originally elated visitors.Even Rong Jiu, who was the most detached, became taciturn, leaning listlessly on the hump and rocking with the camel.

Seeing that morale was low, Reyimu cheered up everyone during the short break and said that their trip had been very smooth. The trade wind season had just passed, and there was no sandstorm along the way.Lan Zui drank water and couldn't help but smile wryly when he heard this. The trade wind period doesn't mean there is no wind. The wind in the desert seems to be endless forever. Lan Zui doesn't dare to speak now. Swallowing a mouth full of yellow sand made her always feel that there were countless grains of sand in her mouth, and she couldn't spit it out no matter how hard she spit it out.

"How long will it take?" Rong Shisan sat on the sofa and asked weakly.

Yesterday, Reimu replenished a lot of drinking water at the last oasis he could find. The burden on the camels was limited, and half of the people had to get off the camels and walk instead of resting.

Even though Reyimu adjusted his work and rest time, he traveled at night and set up camp during the day instead of walking under the scorching sun, but walking in the desert was still an extremely severe test, and everyone suffered enough in just two days.

"It's coming soon, it's only been two days." Reimu replied casually, shaking his head and sighing, climbed on his camel and climbed to the top of the highest sand dune nearby.

Lan Zui walked to the side of Rong Shisan, looked up at Reimu and Sabir who were standing on the sand dune, looked around and talked continuously, and said casually: "Do you think they are a little strange?"

"Strange? Are you saying that Reyimu didn't persuade us to go back today? Anyway, he knew he couldn't persuade us, so he didn't bother to talk about it." When Rong Jiu heard Lan Zui's words, he poked his head over to interrupt.

"Stupid boy, you're the one who came out like this and was sold and paid back." Rong Shisan scolded Rong Jiu with a smile, and turned to Lan Zui, "You feel it too?"

Bai Suhe and Jun Yihuang were far away, seeing Rong Shisan and Lan Zui's expressions were not right, she didn't know what it was, just wanted to come over, but Meng Zheng who was standing next to Rong Jiu and heard the conversation made a gesture to stop her.

"I think it's better for us to pretend we don't know anything." Mengzheng said without beginning or end.

"That's right, it's just a guess right now, we still have to rely on them to lead the way, and we're at a disadvantage." Lan Zui agreed with Meng Zheng once in a while.

"Well, you guys will give Sister Jun and Sister Bai a break later, I guess they both have noticed it too, so be more vigilant."

During the whole process, Rong Jiu was in a daze, completely unable to understand what the three people in front of him were saying.Luckily, Rong Jiu was clever, seeing Kanji coming over with a bag of jerky, he didn't ask any more questions, and immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, fully expressing what Mengzheng said about 'pretending not to know anything'.

After another two days, the atmosphere of the whole team was really dead.So it was only three o'clock in the morning, and Reyimu announced that he would enter the quicksand area tomorrow, and build a sand prevention wall early today, so that everyone can have a good rest for a day.

Everyone cheered when they heard this.According to the plan made by Reyimu, although their time for traveling and resting is half-time, but the day is hot, even if they dig a sandpit and set up a tent, they still cannot avoid the heat that is so hot that they can melt people in the sun, and they sleep in the tent. It's almost the same as roasted beggar chicken.Lack of sleep and loss of physical strength seriously tortured everyone in the team.

After wolfing down the jerky, everyone couldn't wait to get into their sleeping bags and sleep.Although Lan Zui also got into the sleeping bag, he tried his best to keep his eyes open to resist the drowsiness.According to Reyimu's arrangement, the first batch of watchmen were Xiri Ahong brothers, and the second batch was Reyimu and Rong Shisan.There is nothing wrong with this arrangement, because only Sabir and Reimu can identify the crisis in the desert in advance, and the others guarded it for nothing, but Lan Zui felt a little uneasy today.

Jun Yihuang's sleeping bag is next to Lan Zui.Jun Yihuang didn't need to sleep, so she naturally found that Lan Zui hadn't slept either, so she asked in a low voice, "Still asleep?"

Lan Zui shook her head, she was indeed sleepy.They had been on guard against Reyimu for two days, but they never found any problems.Reyimu is conscientious, identifying directions, encouraging people, and formulating travel plans. No matter how he speaks and behaves, he can be called a model among tour guides. They can't find fault at all.

Jun Yihuang understood what Lan Zui was thinking, and rubbed her hair.The corner of Lan Zui's mouth couldn't help but twitched into a smile, and moved his head a little closer to Jun Yihuang's side, rubbing against her palm a few times.

The desert is cold at night, and it is almost a different world from the day.However, the sleeping bag and the anti-sand wall blocked most of the cold wind, which was indeed much more comfortable than the ubiquitous heat during the day.Even though Lan Zui didn't want to sleep in every possible way, he couldn't compete with the body's own needs, and he didn't know when to fall asleep in a daze.

It seemed that not long after closing his eyes, Lan Zui heard a shout.Lan Zui shuddered, and instantly woke up from the dream. When she turned her head, she saw that the sleeping bag next to her was empty, and Jun Yihuang was nowhere to be seen.

"Yihuang!" Lan Zui crawled out of the sleeping bag just in case the sleeping bag wasn't zipped up.

"Get up!" Jun Yihuang paid attention to Reyimu's movement all night.At first, it was normal for Xiri Ahong and the two brothers to be on duty at night. Two hours later, Sabir called Reimu up, which was also normal.Hearing Reyimu's footsteps approaching, Jun Yihuang closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, and heard him softly call Rong 13 twice.For the past few days, Rong Shisan spent most of his time walking in order to let the girls take more camel rides. He was so tired that he didn't respond to Reyimu.After that, Jun Yihuang heard Reyimu's footsteps going back alone.

All of this has been the same from beginning to end, and it has also happened the other day.There is no vegetation in the desert, and there are few animals. Unless the weather suddenly changes, it is safer than other areas.Therefore, for the person on night duty, if he can't wake up, let him go to sleep.Jun Yihuang didn't pay attention to it before, but after a while, she heard the sound of rustling, and she vaguely felt that something was wrong. When she got up, she saw that Reimu and the others had already reached halfway up the sand dune on a camel.

Jun Yihuang knew that it was impossible to stop several people by herself, so she immediately yelled, Lan Zui was most sensitive to her voice, so she rushed over immediately.

When Lan Zui saw the camels carrying people on the dune, he cursed out, put his fingers on his lips and let out a whistle, which immediately woke up the other people who were still in a daze.

Reyimu and the others also heard Lan Zui's whistling, and they were all shocked. They no longer allowed the camel to walk slowly in order to hide the sound.

Seeing that Reyimu was about to run, Lan Zui didn't wait for anyone else, and pulled a camel that was parked beside him casually, kicked his legs and flipped up, and then urged the camel to chase after him.

Jun Yihuang reacted in a timely manner, Reyimu had moved on tiptoe before, not far away, and Lan Zui rushed over for at least half a minute.Reyimu had seen Lan Zui Kung Fu before, so he panicked immediately. After saying a few words in Mork, Kanji twisted his waist and stood up from the camel, and took out an iron stick from his waist.

Lan Zui had seen Kanji’s iron sticks before, they were black, thin and long, they looked exactly like skewers for kebabs, Lan Zui always thought he was carrying them for barbecue on the road.But seeing the iron stick at this moment, Lan Zui knew it was not good, and curled up behind his hump.Unexpectedly, Kanji's goal is not Lan Zui, but Lan Zui's camel.With a flick of Kanji's wrist, an iron stick flew towards the camel's knee, one after the other, each stabbing accurately.The blue drunk camel was frightened, and charged across a section with the iron stick, and suddenly knelt on both knees and fell to the foot of the sand dune.

Lan Zui slapped Kanji to death, and he spread his body and wanted to slide down the camel's back to chase after him, but suddenly he heard Rong Shisan exclaimed from behind: "Girl, don't come down!"

Lan Zui was taken aback for a moment, then stopped and looked down carefully, cold sweat gushed out of his vest.She □The camel's slip just now was not just because the knee was pierced by Kanji's iron stick and fell limp. The camel fell to its knees in the sand in such a short period of time, and the entire knee and upper part fell into the sand. Let this camel never stand up again.

There was a buzz in Lan Zui's head, and three words emerged: quicksand pit.

The people who were pulling the camel to chase the four of Reimu saw that Lan Zui's camel was going to end, and they were all overwhelmed when they went to pull the camel.

The camel caught in the quicksand seemed to know that it was impossible to escape, and shook its body and began to struggle desperately.But the more Quicksand struggled, the faster it fell, and its last fight almost threw Lan Zui off its back.Bai Suhe and Jun Yihuang were terrified, they couldn't care less about chasing Reyimu anymore, and went back to the camp to look for ropes.

Meng Zheng took out a shotgun from their body bag and threw it to Rong Shisan.Rong Shisan took it without hesitation, and shot Reyimu and the others who hadn't run far away.

By the time Bai Suhe and Jun Yihuang held the rope and threw it to Lan Zui, the quicksand had already spread to the camel's belly.The struggling camel seemed to have resigned itself to its fate, with its neck bent and not moving.Given a rare opportunity, Lan Zui quickly tied the rope around her waist, stretched her body back and lay down on the quicksand, spread her hands and feet so that the surface of her body touched the sand surface as much as possible, and someone dragged the rope to bring her out.

After this delay, Reimu and the others had already urged the camels to go far away, leaving only large and messy camel footprints on the sand dunes in the night.A gust of wind blows, the yellow sand flutters, and the deep footprints are smoothed out a lot. After several gusts of wind, even the faint traces are completely erased, as if nothing happened.