The convoy drove for nearly two hours in the endless desert before stopping. I looked around and felt that there was nothing special around here, and I didn't know why I had to park here.
Wen Qingshan thought the convoy encountered some situation and asked, "Why did it stop?"
After Long Yi exchanged a few words with Chen Biao on the walkie-talkie, he turned to everyone and said: "According to the positioning of the satellite positioning system, the second team's last call to the headquarters before losing contact should have been near here, so we will
Take this place as the center and start searching in all directions.”
Everyone got out of the car. Long Yi determined two search directions based on the movements of the second team before losing contact. He and Chen Biao each led a team to search separately, and several Red Dragon agents were left behind.
The team members set up camp on the spot.
Wen Qingshan and I were assigned to the team led by Long Yi. The guide of our team was Ai Shan. In addition to a few of us, there were six other members of the Red Dragon Agent Team. The leader was a member of the Red Dragon Agent Team.
The deputy captain's name was Li Guo. What we didn't expect was that Li Guo and Hai Beard were once comrades in the same army! When he learned that we and Hai Beard were good friends, he suddenly became much more enthusiastic towards us.
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Under the leadership of Ai Shan, our group walked along the established direction.
Walking in the desert during the day is really not an easy task. If I just felt the heat of the desert when I was in the car, then I really realized what it means to be scorched. The strong sunshine almost
It was almost hard to open one's eyes, and the extremely hot yellow sand made one feel uncomfortable all over. I have never felt that my legs were so heavy as they are now.
The group searched in the desert for almost an hour, but found nothing, and everyone was extremely tired. In fact, the most important thing was not that we were tired, but that we were severely dehydrated. In order to prevent accidents, Long Yi led us back
When I arrived at the camp, all the way there, I saw six military tents set up next to the seven or eight vehicles. I didn't expect that the members of the Red Dragon Special Forces moved so quickly. In such a short time, they
A camp has been set up.
The moment I walked into the tent, I felt as if I had returned from purgatory to the human world. That feeling was truly wonderful.
After we rested in the tent for a while, the team led by Chen Biao also came back, but also found nothing.
According to Wen Qingshan's analysis, they may have entered an underground cave, and the entrance to the cave may have been blocked by moving sand dunes. So if we want to find them, we must first find the entrance to the cave, but if we think about it carefully
, it is not easy to find this entrance buried under the sand. From the outside, it is almost completely invisible. You can only explore slowly.
Of course, we are not completely searching blindly. We also bring some search equipment, such as detectors that can detect caves several meters deep underground, and receivers that can search for satellite signals more than ten meters deep underground. But these instruments
Whether it will come in handy is hard to say.
Because the temperature in the desert was so high at this time that not only people could not bear it, but even the instruments were disturbed. After some discussion, everyone decided to wait until the sun was about to set before taking action. Two hours before and after the sun set, according to experienced
Batur and Aishan said that the temperature is neither too high nor too low, which is the golden time for search and rescue.
At this time, there were still almost two hours before the sun set, so everyone took advantage of this time to eat something and hide in the tent to rest for a while.
Although it's not as hot inside the tent as outside, you'll realize after a long time that it's actually very stuffy inside. In addition, the tent is set in the sand and the ground is still very hot, so there's no way to rest at all.
It is said that staying in here can reduce the rate of evaporation of water in the body.
After staying in the tent for nearly two hours, the sun was finally setting. Everyone did not dare to delay and immediately started the second round of search.
At this time, I feel much better than before. Not only is it not as hot as before, but the sunlight has become much softer. The sand no longer reflects the sunlight, and it doesn't look so dazzling.
We searched in the desert for more than an hour under the afterglow of the setting sun, but still found nothing. Seeing that the sky was getting darker, Ai Shan said that we could no longer continue the search and we had to rush back to the camp as soon as possible. Because of the desert at night
It is full of dangers. On the one hand, the climate will become very abnormal. On the other hand, people can easily lose their way. Moreover, Aishan is also
It is said that in Lop Nur, there will be a terrifying monster that appears at night. This monster is an ancient legend and is called a sand demon by the locals. The sand demon will attack various creatures and can kill a large living creature in a short time.
The animal turned into a gloomy white skeleton. However, Ai Shan couldn't tell what this monster looked like, but he was very sure of the existence of the sand demon.
After hearing what he said, everyone suddenly felt shuddering and did not dare to continue searching. They had no choice but to follow Ai Shan's advice and return to the camp.
At night, the temperature dropped rapidly, and the cold wind blew, as if it was winter all of a sudden. No wonder there is a proverb in the desert areas of Xinjiang: "Wear a fur coat in the morning and eat watermelon around the stove in the afternoon." It's really true.
It lived up to its name. Fortunately, I had prepared a large cotton-padded jacket in the car. I found one and put it on, and I didn’t feel cold at all.
Lying in the tent, I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep no matter what. I was always thinking about Dong Xiaodan's instructions. Until midnight, I suddenly heard a shout in the dimness.
I suddenly got excited and quickly got up and rushed outside the tent. Everyone else was sleeping with their clothes on, and soon they all rushed out of the tent.
Chen Biao asked the two soldiers on guard: "What's going on?"
One of the soldiers stared straight ahead and replied in a low voice: "I seemed to have seen a person just now!"
"What! A person!?" Everyone was startled. Under the moonlight, they looked in the direction of the soldier's eyes and saw nothing except the uneven sand dunes.
"Where is anyone? You must be dazzled!" I said.
"No! I am sure I saw a person, and judging from his figure, he seems to be a child." The soldier replied firmly.
Chen Biao did not listen to his words, but turned to ask another soldier on guard: "Did you see anything?"
"I saw a black shadow, but I couldn't see what it was."
Long Yi on the side frowned and said, "Captain Chen, why don't we go over and take a look?" Chen Biao nodded, turned to the team members standing behind him and said, "You guys, bring your weapons and follow.
I’ll go over and take a look!”
Long Yi and Chen Biao led the four team members towards the direction pointed by the sentry soldiers.
Wen Qingshan, Ai Shan and I also hurriedly followed.
The group of people walked forward twenty or thirty meters cautiously, but found nothing. Long Yi said to Chen Biao: "It seems that they are indeed dazzled. The terrain in the desert is complex, and people are prone to..."
Before he finished speaking, there was suddenly a rustling sound coming from the side. Everyone immediately turned their heads and looked in the direction of the sound, and found that there seemed to be something under the sand about seven or eight meters away from us.
Moving slowly towards us.
Long Yi said in surprise: "What is this? Is it a sand snake?"
But Ai Shan's face changed slightly and he said nervously: "This is not a sand snake. Sand snakes don't move like this. Could it be... a sand demon?"
When I heard about the sand demon, I couldn't help but feel frightened. I didn't dare to be lazy and quickly pulled out the dragon's teeth from my waist.
Seeing that the thing was getting closer and closer to us, without saying a word, Chen Biao raised the automatic rifle in his hand and fired a stream of bullets towards the moving sand dunes.
The "click-click-click" sound of gunfire broke the tranquility of the desert, but the things under the sand did not stop moving forward. Instead, they seemed to accelerate forward.
Everyone was surprised when suddenly a black thing gushes out from the sand and quickly spreads around. The scene is like liquids such as oil or sewage emerging from the ground.
.Because the light was relatively dim, I didn’t see clearly what it was.
I quickly took out the flashlight to shine it, and when I took a closer look, I couldn't help but be surprised. What swarmed out from under the sand was a kind of insect. This kind of insect was completely black and about the thickness of a human finger. It was so densely packed that I hadn't seen it yet.
When he had time to see what this insect looked like clearly, he heard Wen Qingshan shouting loudly next to him: "This looks like a desert army ant! Move quickly!"
When I heard about the desert army ant, I couldn't help but be surprised. Although I had never seen it before, I had heard about the reputation of the desert army ant. It is said that the desert army ant is a ferocious super predator that has no fixed abode.
, wandering around, will treat all animals it encounters as food, and can turn a large animal into a pile of bones in a very short time. I instantly understood what the sand devil Ai Shan was talking about, I am afraid it is this desert army ant
!
Everyone did not dare to neglect and evacuated immediately. However, what we did not expect was that the black ant colony seemed to have smelled our breath and actually chased after us.
Although the speed of the ant colony is not too fast, it is difficult to catch up with us, but the key problem is that they are getting closer and closer to our camp. Chen Biao shouted at the team members who stayed in the camp while running.
: "Break camp! Hurry and break camp!"
A few of us rushed back to the camp, not caring about so much, and hurriedly packed up our things. However, in this short time, there was no time to break up the camp and leave. It seemed that we had no choice but to abandon the camp.
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