Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 164
164 Chapter 164 Wind and Sand

After a while, the little brother saw that I was getting better and said softly to me: "Girl, go back."

I pressed my head against him, grabbed his clothes with both hands, and said to him intermittently: "Brother...Xiaoxun is stupid and won't coax you, but there are some things I must tell you. You are real and have flesh and blood." , a particularly good and kind person, don’t always doubt that you don’t exist.

You just occasionally lose your memory and temporarily forget some things from the past. In fact, everyone forgets some things from the past. It’s just that you forget a little more. In fact... it’s not as serious as you think...

You have many connections with this world. You have me and brother Wu Xie. You are not alone. "

When I was muttering to myself, my brother kept his eyes soft and looked down at me in his arms with the corner of his mouth slightly raised. He suddenly said: "But I don't know when I will lose my memory again. I may forget What about you?"

I looked up at him with tears in my eyes and said to him: "If you don't remember me, I will definitely be sad, but whether you remember me or not, I will always guard you and be by your side. I was here before, You are here now and you will be there in the future. You will always remember things you forget. If you really can’t remember them, why don’t we just get to know each other again?

However, you can't disappear, you can't die, and you can't let me find you, otherwise I will be afraid. "

The little brother touched my face and smiled lightly and said, "Yeah, okay." Although he only answered with two words, these two words were more important than anything else.

I said to him aggrievedly: "Hold him for a while longer."

The little brother replied: "Yeah."

Early the next morning, we left this small village called "Lancuo" and the convoy set off again, continuing towards the depths of the Gobi.

At this moment, we have arrived in an uninhabited area where maps are of no use. There have been no traces of anyone coming here for decades or even centuries or even longer. There is not even a decent road. I look at everything here. They look almost the same.

The vast Gobi Desert is covered with coarse gravel, and there may be rocks or deep pits under the sand. Everything here is unknown and full of unpredictable dangers.

Dingzhu Dolma had to rely on wind-eroded rocks and river valleys to find signs of progress. Therefore, the convoy had to approach the steep slopes near those mountains and rocks.An excellent off-road vehicle like this is very cautious when driving on such a road, walking on thin ice.I collapsed on my little brother all the way, otherwise I would have been knocked apart...

The desert climate here is quite terrible. At this moment, the sky is blue and white, the sun is blazing, and the heat is unbearable.The sun was like a big fireball, and the car was like an iron oven, and everyone was being baked by the scorching sun.

The temperature here changes drastically. It is said that the annual temperature difference can reach more than 60℃, the daily temperature difference is often around 30℃, and the night temperature in summer can sometimes drop below 0℃.There are winds and sand blowing all year round, and there is drought and lack of oxygen.

The people in Aning's team were racing with great enthusiasm when they first set off, but now they were overwhelmed by the scorching fireball. They all lined up obediently. Many people seemed to be almost cooked. Every one of them was Withered.

Wu Xie was also dizzy from the sun. Looking at the billowing yellow dust outside, he felt so uncomfortable that he already had the intention of retreat...

In this environment, I can only turn on the water spirit during the day, turn on the water spirit at night, and then use the little fox tail to share the energy with my brother.

The black blind man murmured hotly: "Little disciple, you should also give some benefits to the master. Just ignore him, you are partial."

I said, "I also want to give you benefits, but I haven't figured out how to give them to you. Please wait until I think about it."

The black blind man chuckled and said, "When you think about it, your master and I will be dried in the sun. I am biased."

Later, I tried to collect some cool air and put a transparent protective net around him, and he felt comfortable.

I had nothing to do, so I thought about the message Dingzhu Dolma sent to Wenjin, saying that "it" is among you.

Wen Jin said that in the past 20 years, she has been escaping from the search for "it", "it"... If she just talked about one person, Wen Jin would say "he" or "she", so what Wen Jin said is " "It" feels like many people are called "it" together, so maybe it is an organization or a representative name for some evil force?
One or some people in "it" are in this operation, that person or those people are in the team?What did Wen Jin see that made him say "it" is among us... I have no clue...

At the same time, Wu Xie was also thinking about this "it", and even thought, is this "it" among us not a human being?He instantly realized that it was an uncomfortable assumption.

When we first entered the uninhabited area, we drove along a dry river at the bottom of the river bed.This place is full of wormwood that is half as tall as a man. It looks like there will be no water flowing through it for two or three years. If there is no more water, this river will disappear in a few years.

The Qaidam Basin was originally a place where rivers gathered. However, in recent years, the climate has changed greatly. Wind erosion here has been very strong. The annual precipitation in the Qaidam Basin has gradually decreased. Many large rivers have turned underground, and small rivers like this have It has dried up and disappeared.

I heard that we will reach the end of the river in three days. Beyond that, there is a small desert. I heard that devils live there, and there is no pasture for cattle and sheep. Even ordinary herders will not enter it.

Dingzhu Zhuoma said that by going around the desert, it was the Yanshan Pass where she and Wen Jin's team separated. There was a large piece of strange stone there, like a huge city gate, so it was easy to find.Further inside, there is the place where desert, sea, and salt marshes meet. These things eat each other. The landscape changes day by day, and even the most experienced guides dare not enter.Aning and the others brought GPS, but Tashi kept reminding them that the machine would break and not to rely too much on those things.

After two days of driving along the river, strong winds arose in the Gobi desert, and the sky was filled with yellow sand and rocks dancing wildly. The distance between our convoys had to be increased to more than 100 meters.

The whole sky was dark and gray, the visibility was almost zero, and the speed of the car dropped to the slowest. After driving like this for half a day against the wind and sand, the car and the driver reached the limit at the same time.

There was chaos between heaven and earth, flying sand and rocks were everywhere, the wind was roaring, nothing could be seen or heard, and radio contact could not be made.

Our car stopped, and the driver turned around, facing the wind to prevent sand and dust from entering the engine, and waited for the strong wind to pass.

The strong wind howled, roaring like a monster, making a "hoo~hoo~" sound, and the flying gravel hit the car, making a "dang-dang" sound.The car windows were also rattled by sand.

The car seemed to be shaking due to the wind. Outside the window, thick dust surged, and it was dark outside.

I said to him: "Brother, I'm scared." He held my hand tightly and looked serious.

The black blind man turned around and said with a very serious expression: "This situation is not good."

They both looked out the window, but they couldn't see clearly, but they had a very bad premonition, so they started to rummage through their luggage and found a cloak and goggles. The younger brother helped me put them on first, and then he started too. While getting ready, he also took out a miner's lamp and handed one to me.

The black blind man said: "It looks like something is going to happen, so be careful."

Ten minutes later, the wind suddenly picked up again, and it felt like the whole car was shaking, as if it was about to fly.

The black blind man took a look and sighed and said: "It's probably the limit. Let's get ready. Girl, you have to catch him later, otherwise he will be blown away by the wind and there will be nowhere to find you."

The little brother said to me: "Hold on to me soon, don't be afraid."

After they turned on the miner's lamp, the little brother hung the miner's lamp on my arm, leaving my two hands free.

The black blind man said: "The door is open." The two of them took a deep breath and opened the car door forcefully. In an instant, a cloud of sand and dust rushed in. The wind was blowing outside, and the wind was amazing. The two of them braved the wind and sand, I pressed my feet against the car door and hid behind my brother before barely standing near the car door.

They glanced at their feet, then lowered their heads and got out. As soon as the little brother landed, he quickly reached out to grab me and dragged me out of the car. I held on to the little brother's clothes tightly with both hands, and he also He kept pulling me tightly.

The surroundings were filled with the sound of wind and the friction of dust in the wind. This sound was not very loud, but it drowned out all other sounds.

We hunched over to prevent being blown down by the wind. They used a miner's lamp to illuminate the surroundings and found that the car was stuck in the sand under the river bed. It was not stuck now, but the car was still sinking slowly. Although I didn't I know about the Gobi, but it is correct that the subsidence of the sand is generally quicksand. I know that I must get out of here as soon as possible.

I was relatively close to the car. After I stood on the ground, I felt a force pulling my feet down. Both the little brother and the black blind man discovered this problem. The black blind man grabbed my other arm with the lamp hanging on it. , each of them grabbed one side and dragged me away, away from the edge of the car.

I didn’t know where they were going, so I kept being dragged by them. They were walking so fast that my feet barely touched the ground.

As they walked, they looked for shelter from the wind, and finally found a deep ditch at the foot of a slope, which seemed to be two or three meters deep. They took me down.

When we went down to the bottom of the ditch, the sand and dust rolled over our heads. We saw a large depression on one side of the bottom of the ditch, like a giant poplar tree that was knocked down and the roots were broken. The pit was formed after water washed away. The trunk of Populus euphratica has been buried at the bottom of the ditch, and only a small part can be seen.

The little brother and the black blind man asked me to huddle in this depression and stay still. There is no wind here at all, and it seems to be a good shelter from the wind.

The black blind man lit a smokeless stove and handed it over to keep warm.

The little brother said to me: "Let's go find other people. You stay here and wait for me to come back."

I nodded and said to him, "Well, I'll wait until you come back." I sat obediently by the stove.Watching them get out of the ditch and go outside to save people.

After a period of time, the little brother and the blind man kept sending people over, and soon the depression was filled with people. Many of them were huddled up. They must have been frightened and have not yet recovered. But I watched for a long time, and in the crowd, But Wu Xie was not found.

(End of this chapter)