Chapter 1109 – Returning to the Forbidden Zone
Mangzi slapped Erdan on the shoulder and said, “Come on, what’s the point of crying? Are you still a man of the desert? Give me an account of what happened.”
There are no casualties, Mangzi is very happy, the camel is more important, but not more precious than human life, although usually some mischievous, but in Mangzi’s eyes, it is still a good young man.
“Brother Mangzi, there really are devils there!”
Erdan stopped his tears, and told the original story from beginning to end, the original bold Erdan, at this moment to those legends in the town, is no longer a trace of doubt.
“It’s not the devil, that’s just quicksand, but looking at the extent of this quicksand, it shouldn’t be small.”
Prof. Man is the only desert management expert in these two teams, is considered to be the most vocal, for this kind of feudal superstition claims, of course, to resist.
“Professor Man, is there any way to survey the extent of the quicksand?”
Zhuang Rui asked from the sidelines, in fact, the aura in his eyes was able to tell the difference between quicksand and yellow sand, but if he wanted to return to that area, he always had to have a good saying.
“Elder brother Zhuang, I think …… I think we should go back! Just find them.”
After Mangzi pacified Erdan, he looked to Zhuang Rui, he was a child who heard the old man will be that piece of the devil forbidden area, the psychological shadow than Erdan most of the time, at this moment heard Zhuang Rui still want to go to that place, can not help but be the first to express the opposition.
“Brother Mangzi, let’s listen to Professor Man’s opinion first!” Zhuang Rui said noncommittally.
“Xiao Zhuang, in fact, the quicksand is not as terrible as people think, if those two camels hadn’t struggled desperately, the quicksand would have only submerged half of their bodies at most, I think it’s rather possible to go and survey it again.”
The reason why I left there earlier, mainly because the supplies were not available, now seeing Zhuang Rui this camel, Professor Man’s mind is alive again, the desert quicksand phenomenon is rare, Professor Man also wants to study it in depth.
“No …… no, Prof. Man, there really is a devil there, the big hair and two hairs are gone, let’s not go.”
After hearing Professor Man’s words, Erdan, who had already quieted down, became uneasy again, as if there was a devil chasing him behind him, talking while leaning his body against the camel, looking around in a panicked manner.
After Zhuang Rui thought for a while, he said, “Brother Mangzi, I think …… let s vote on it! The minority obeys the majority.”
“Alright!”
Mangzi nodded, in fact, he still carried a hint of curiosity amidst his fear, and exploration could always inspire a man’s competitive spirit, especially if there was a pretty girl in the team.
“I agree.”
“I agree to go too.”
“I agree.”
The four people from the Institute of Archaeology of Beijing University, unsurprisingly, raised their hands, and together with Zhuang Rui and Prof. Man, only Erdan, Yan Translator and Mangzi were left without raising their hands.
“@$#@……” Nakagawa, who wore a veil that wrapped her face tightly, also raised her hand.
“Little …… Nakagawa said he also wants to follow you guys.”
Yan Xiaowei fulfilled his duty as an interpreter, but he didn’t call Nakagawa by name, but called out Little Japan, because Yan Xiaowei student didn’t want to go back to that place from the bottom of his heart.
“This gentleman, I think …… if you want to go, you have to let us know your identity, right?”
After Zhuang Rui heard Yan Xiaowei’s words, his eyes looked towards Nakagawa, although he knew that he was Japanese, but from the time he saw him until now, he had never been able to see his face, this request made by Zhuang Rui was not excessive.
After Yan Xiaowei translated Zhuang Rui’s words over, Nakagawa hesitated for a moment, then took off the veil on his face, bowed deeply to Zhuang Rui, and said, “I’m sorry, I apologize to all of you for the previous unpleasantness, please can you forgive me.”
Having already arrived here, Nakagawa was extremely unhappy if he was excluded from this expedition, so he put his stance very low and apologized for his earlier mistake.
“It’s you?”
“It’s you kid again, shit, what a ghost!”
After seeing Nakagawa’s appearance, Zhuang Rui and the others exclaimed out in shock, this is really not an enemy, from Xi’an to the desert, they unexpectedly ran into this little Japanese one after another.
“Really sorry, please forgive me more, my father is missing in this desert, so …… I must follow you all, to conquer this desert.”
Nakagawa is another ninety degree bent bow, his heart is even more depressed than Zhuang Rui and the others, he has long heard that there are a lot of Chinese people, but why did he encounter the same team of people three times?
“Your father disappeared here? What happened?” Zhuang Rui didn’t know about this part of the past, and he couldn’t help but freeze for a moment when he heard this.
Yan Translator, who had already heard this story earlier, immediately explained it to Zhuang Rui and the others, exaggerating the facts a lot in his words, he was trying to use this to discourage Zhuang Rui from traveling to that quicksand area.
“So the person who hired our town back then was your father.”
After Mangzi heard what happened, he looked at Nakagawa with a somewhat unfavorable gaze, this town is just a little bit bigger, many families are related to each other, and among the people who died in the desert back then, there was one of Mangzi’s cousins.
“I’m really sorry, I will make compensation for the people who were killed in the crash back then, I also hope you can forgive.”
After hearing Yan Xiaowei’s translation, Nakagawa bowed to Mangzi again, with a very sincere attitude, which prevented Mangzi from having an attack.
When Zhuang Rui saw the way Nakagawa was bowing around and apologizing, he couldn’t help but frown and looked at Yan Translation, saying, “Ask, what did his father come to China for back then.”
Yan Xiaowei nodded, he could see that Zhuang Rui was the person leading this team, and after exchanging some words with Nakagawa, he said to Zhuang Rui, “He said that his father was an explorer, and that back then, he was trying to travel across this desert to reach the North Gobi Beach, but he didn’t realize that he would be wrecked here.”
“Explorer?”
Zhuang Rui smiled playfully, he projected the time, when the old Zhongchuan came to China, it should be that the two countries had just established diplomatic relations, the civil society had just come and gone, and he couldn’t wait to come to this bird’s nest location, could it be just for the sake of exploration?
“Okay! Let him follow! But I also hope that he can keep his promise and give the descendants of the people who were killed in the town back then some compensation when he returns.”
Zhuang Rui nodded and agreed to Nakagawa’s request, he would like to see, this Japanese who had a “fate” with himself and others, what exactly was the reason for the father and son to come to this desert alone for two generations?
“Thank you, thank you, I will definitely give compensation to those who were killed with my father back then.”
Nakagawa bowed his body again, his eyes glittered with joy, he was afraid of being excluded by Zhuang Rui and the others, then this trip to China would be fruitless.
Seeing this situation, Erdan and Yan Translator could only helplessly follow the crowd to that devil forbidden area again, after resting for a while, the group turned their heads and followed the camel footprints from earlier to where they came from.
“This is the place, Xiao Zhuang, the camels can’t go down there, because once the camels fall into the quicksand, they will keep struggling.”
More than two hours later, the group reappeared on that sand dune, looking at the silent sand surface more than a hundred meters ahead, Erdan and the others’ faces were filled with the unknown and fear.
“Okay, Professor Man, it’s getting late now, let’s just eat something and set up our tents first!”
Zhuang Rui was holding the binoculars, he could clearly see the footprints of the two camels that had traveled earlier and the place that had been engulfed by the quicksand, he could now imagine the feelings of Erdan and the others who had watched the camels suffer from extinction.
After seeing the dead desert in front of him with his own eyes, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but be cautious, he was trying to find some time in the evening to use his aura to survey it first, if there was really no route to cross over through the quicksand area, then he could only give up on this trip to the ruins of the ancient temple.
“Alright! We’ll survey this area of quicksand again early tomorrow morning, hopefully the footprint won’t be too large.”
Prof. Man nodded, quicksand was originally caused by underground water, according to Prof. Man’s deduction, perhaps it was after this oasis was eroded by wind and sand back then, and the underground water source did not dry up, which led to the formation of the quicksand area in just a few decades.
At night the crowd no longer light a fire to cook, each person ate some dried meat, after the sky has been dark, the crowd set up a tent on their own rest, today’s day for the two eggs this side of the people, can be considered a thrill.
Through the reflection of the moonlight in the sand, you can see the crescent-shaped chain of dunes, rare ridge sand, honeycomb-shaped continuous dunes, but also the sharp edge of the wind cut the desert flowers, desert and moonlight into one color, can be said to be the nature has made a beautiful picture scroll.
Lonely cold moonlight like water pouring on the surface of the desert, giving people a kind of dreamlike feeling, Zhuang Rui quietly drilled out of the tent, looking at this rare scenery, for a moment actually forgot his original intention.
Taking a deep breath, Zhuang Rui firmly imprinted this beautiful scenery into his mind, then closed his eyes, and after a long time, the aura in his eyes poured out, sweeping along the surface of the sand under his feet towards that area of quicksand.
“It’s really different.”
After Zhuang Rui released his aura about one or two hundred meters, he clearly felt that the sand grains in the desert in front of him were very different from where he was.
The yellow sand underneath Zhuang Rui’s feet was delicate and dry, while the sand ahead of him that had entered the quicksand area contained a trace of water aura, and although it was very weak, Zhuang Rui could still distinguish it.
“One hundred meters ……”
“Five hundred meters ……”
“One thousand meters ……”
Slowly expanding the range of the aura, Zhuang Rui’s forehead couldn’t help but wrinkle slightly, the range of the aura had now reached one kilometer, but it hadn’t yet stepped out of the range covered by the quicksand.