Chapter 322

At about 2 a.m. on September 21, the plane landed at the airport of Bayin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, the nearest airport to the Taklimakan Desert.

As he walked out of the airport, Tietu made a phone call and took us to a small hotel called "dream back to Loulan".

Although it's two o'clock in the morning, there are more than a dozen people sitting at several tables around the bearded innkeeper, watching him dancing and telling related legends there.

Most of them were men, and there were also three or five women with masks and baseball caps on their heads.

Seeing Gao Fei's four people coming in, these people gave them a wary look in their eyes and ignored them. They continued to listen to boss bearded's story.

Gao Fei, holding the hand of Qincheng City, who is also wearing a mask and baseball cap, glances at these people. His eyes fall on their bags. Then he goes to a table in the southeast corner, wipes the dust on the stool and sits down.

Tietu and ye Xinshang sat opposite them, put their bulging backpack at their feet, took the cigarette from Gaofei, and then half turned to look at the boss bearded.

When he saw another four people coming in, boss bearded didn't come to greet him. Instead, he continued to show off his professional knowledge there: "everyone, this place under our feet is already one of the 36 countries in the western regions during the Han Empire. From then on, 130 kilometers west, it is known as the ninth largest desert in the world, Taklimakan Desert, the largest mobile desert in the world

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In Uyghur, the Taklimakan Desert means "a place where you can't get in or out.".

The desert is about 1000 kilometers long from east to west and 400 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of 330000 square kilometers. The average annual precipitation is less than 100 mm, and the lowest is only 45 mm; The average evaporation is 2500-3400 mm. Here, pyramidal dunes stand 300 meters above the plain. Strong winds can lift sand walls up to three times their height. The sand dunes in the desert are continuous and often move due to the influence of wind.

Therefore, people call the Taklimakan desert the sea of death, or the forbidden zone of life.

Even today, with the development of science and technology, no one can easily enter the desert relying on advanced modern equipment.

Because once you enter the vast and boundless desert, all instruments may fail. Even the plane often mysteriously disappears in the sky deep in the desert.

The more mysterious and dangerous things are, the more attractive they are.

The most indispensable thing in modern society is the kind of people who have too much money to spend and feel bored.

So, almost every year, such a group of people drive millions of imported Humvees with equipment that can survive in the wild for several months to explore the desert, trying to find the legendary Loulan ancient country and meet the legendary beautiful Loulan queen.

(in 1980, mu Shunying, a famous archaeologist, unearthed a female mummy near the Loulan site.

After scientific determination, the mummy has a history of about 3800 years. According to scientific determination, the woman was about 35 years old when she died. She was 1.57 meters tall before she died. She was wearing coarse wool fabric and sheepskin, and her feet were wearing thick stitched fur boots.

According to the theory of "three Court and five eyes" in the painting, nine straight lines were used to determine the position and size of the facial features. Finally, a beautiful woman was created: her hair was more than a foot long, yellowish brown, curled in a pointed felt hat, with several plumes inserted in the hat. Her skin was reddish brown and elastic, her eyes were big and deep, her nose was high and narrow, and her chin was pointed, It has distinct characteristics of European race.

After the mummy was recovered, it caused great repercussions in the relevant industry. The official called the mummy Loulan beauty, while the folk called her Loulan queen, and even asserted that there was a real Loulan queen in the city that people had not yet found!)

However, those who are eager to find the legendary Loulan queen and her once romantic explorers often give up their trip after a few days in the desert because of many difficulties.

If someone has to grit his teeth and continue to walk, no matter how well equipped he is, no matter how much food or drink he needs, he will also suffer from some strange phenomena, which will lead to mental breakdown.

According to local folklore, in the 1990s, there was a coal boss with a value of billions. In order to find the legendary Loulan queen, he once took a fleet of nine hummers, protected by 17 retired experts from the special forces, and entered the city surrounded by black mountains.

In that mysterious city, they were warmly received by the local residents, and the Loulan queen of the fairyland also personally entertained them. But the next morning, when the receptionists who had lost contact with them noticed something strange, they promptly mobilized the special forces of the northern Xinjiang Military Region to fight on a sand dune in the desert, I found these 18 confused explorers.

After coming back, these 18 people didn't live for a month, and then they died one after another.

They all died in the early hours of the morning, with happy but strange smiles on their faces, half open mouth, as if they were talking with someone with a smile.

Because the sufferings of the coal boss and others have been completely out of the scope of scientific explanation, which is completely opposite to the atheism advocated by the authorities, so the officials keep their deaths secret.

However, just as the so-called paper can't hold fire, the strange experience of coal boss and others finally spread among the local people.

In the 20 years since then, no rich man has ever done the feat of a coal boss: although everyone is bored, it's better to live than to die. There's no need to pay for her life in order to see the real face of Loulan queen.

And the government, because of religious beliefs and other reasons, did not use large archaeological groups to investigate the matter.

As a result, in the Taklimakan Desert, the ancient Loulan Kingdom still exists, in which there is a legend of the goddess of beauty, which is more and more mysterious and more true.

The state does not send expeditions or archaeological groups to the depths of the Taklimakan Desert, but this does not mean that there are still people who covet Loulan among the people. According to the owners of hotels near the Bayin airport, countless small groups (35 people) or even single travelers enter the desert every year during the spring and autumn equinox.

Among them, there is no lack of experienced "touch gold" Xiaowei (professional tomb robbers).

However, the owner of the hotel doesn't know whether these people who enter the desert have ever been to the ghost town, met Loulan king, and finally come back alive. He only cares about how high the price these people can charge, and buys from him such adventure equipment as engineering shovels and self-defense hunting guns

Although boss bearded said that the Putonghua with local accent was not standard, and in order to set off the tense atmosphere, he often mixed some rude words such as "wocao, spicy eight characters" and so on, most of them were nonsense, but the people present, including Qincheng City, still listened with relish.

After half a day, the boss with big beard took a few mouthfuls of milk tea, put the cup on the table, and then took out a bundle from below.

Under everyone's attention, bearded opened the burden: in addition to two self-made single barreled shotguns, there are also several engineering shovels of fairly good quality, as well as the necessary tools for tomb raiding, such as whirlwind shovels and Yin claws.

There are even a few shriveled black donkey hooves (in the eyes of Mo Jin Xiaowei, black donkey hooves are specially used to restrain zombies), and glutinous rice (glutinous rice is used to deal with corpse fraud) and other things.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if we don't talk in secret, brother, I'll say it openly."

Big beard patted his chest and said gallantly, "brother, many people come to the desert to play just for a thrill. But some people want to play at the same time, hoping to find the legendary ancient city of 36 countries and make a small fortune. However, as my brother knows, I'm afraid you can't take all these things with you when your bosses come here from a long distance. So, my brother carefully prepared these things for your bosses in advance. "

After wiping the corners of his mouth, he yelled: "brother, I dare to take my character as a guarantee. These things I provide are the best in the whole desert fringe area. The quality is absolutely reliable and the price is reasonable. If you need anything, you can pay for it now. In addition, for all the people who take care of brother's business, brother can also contact you for free with the special car that goes into the desert and the camel that must be used in the deep desert. "

With these words, bearded looked at a room full of people.

A room full of people, but no one spoke.

Bearded didn't worry, because he knew very well that these people were waiting for the first person to ask for the price, and they would gather around immediately.

Sure enough, after waiting for two minutes, someone stood up from the corner, pointed to an engineer shovel and said, "boss, how much is that shovel?"

The boss with big beard's eyes lit up, picked up two shovels and collided with each other.

It seems that the shovel with good rigidity makes a pleasant and clear sound.

With a generous face, the boss with a big beard held up his shovel and said, "that boss, since you are the first one who wants to take care of your brother's business, of course your brother will give you a 20% discount. This shovel will cost you 3000 yuan!"

It's Gao Fei who stands up and asks the price.

Although Qincheng city usually works in an ivory tower and belongs to the kind of "life idiot" who doesn't know how much a kilo of cabbage costs, when big beard said that the folding shovel actually costs 3000 yuan, he still couldn't help saying, "Oh, just like this, a shovel costs 3000 yuan? It's too expensive, isn't it? Boss, do you think you are selling antiques? "

Big beard, with a smile, still looked at Gao Fei: "this landlady, you don't know. The most expensive shovels you usually see in the field appliance store seem to be only a few hundred yuan, but how can those shovels compare with mine?"

Gao Fei asked with a faint smile“ What's the difference with your shovel? "

Bearded looked serious. Touching the shovel was like touching his wife's attractive body: "I have been blessed by Hu da. Only the things blessed by Hu Da will play a real role when they are in danger in the desert. "

Hu Da is the name given to Allah by the Communist Party of Northwest China. Hu Da is also regarded as the ruler of the desert.

Just like the worship of Mazu at sea, those who live in the desert believe in Hu da.

Goofy nodded: "Oh, so it is. Well, you can get me three of these shovels. "