Chapter 1107 – Desert Black Hole

“It’s so beautiful, it’s a pity! Didn’t manage to capture it.”

Far away from Zhuang Rui’s campsite tens of kilometers away, several people made the same sound, the beauty and mystery of the mirage made Professor Man and his group also look as if they were mesmerized, and their hearts were full of longing for that dreamy scene.

It was only after the mirage slowly disappeared in mid-air for ten minutes that the crowd came back to their senses as if in a dream.

“Mr. Erdan, I’m counting on you to find the ancient temple ruins today.”

After packing up his things, Nakagawa walked over to Erdan and bowed deeply, after seeing that natural wonder just now, Nakagawa developed a very strange feeling in his heart.

The beauty of a mirage was undoubtedly, but this beautiful scene appeared inside a desert that was barren and even extremely dangerous, creating a great contrast.

Nakagawa wondered if his father, who had disappeared in the desert decades ago, had also witnessed this spectacle.

The two camel caravans, separated by tens of kilometers, started at almost the same time, and the pleasant sound of camel bells resounded in the desert.

The sun rises, hot sunlight in the crowd, which makes the crowd incomparable nostalgia just mirage in the sea water, if at this time can take a bath in the sea, I think Zhongchuan will be out of a staggering price.

The time of the morning quickly passed, due to the mirage delayed almost more than an hour, near noon, Zhuang Rui and others came to the place where Zhongchuan and his party camped last night.

“Brother Zhuang, the barbecue traces here, this is where they camped yesterday.”

Peng Fei jumped down from the camel, came to the sand pit, stretched out his fingers and dipped some water into his mouth, said, “These guys are luckier than us, this underground water is directly drinkable.”

Yesterday, in order to equip the empty water bladder with some water, Peng Fei had been tossing and turning until the middle of the night, not realizing that Erdan and the others had drinking water when they dug a sand pit, which made Peng Fei’s heart very unbalanced.

Zhuang Rui saw that Mangzi did not get off the camel, but followed the camel footprints left behind in the desert, and walked forward a few dozen meters before reentering the green field here, and could not help but ask strangely, “Brother Mangzi, what’s wrong?”

“The direction they went, is the place where the accident happened back then, it’s most likely the quicksand area.” After Mangzi got down from the camel, his face, which was unzipped from the sarong, was filled with a gloomy look.

Although after spending a few days with Zhuang Rui and the others, Mangzi would no longer say anything about the devil’s forbidden zone, but the fear of that area was something that had been buried deep in his heart since he was a child.

After following Erdan and the others in circles for several days now, Zhuang Rui estimated that the Japanese didn’t have much patience left, and wasn’t too surprised that they were heading to the quicksand area today, and opened his mouth to ask Mang Zi, “From here to that quicksand area, roughly how far away does it have to be?”

Zhuang Rui had just released the aura in his eyes, but didn’t find Erdan’s camel caravan, which meant that the distance between them and himself should be at least ten kilometers or more.

Mangzi lowered his head, estimated in his heart for a while, and said, “It should still be like forty to fifty kilometers, if I’m not wrong, they should have already reached the edge of the quicksand region.”

Due to Old Liu Tou’s and the town’s old people’s warnings, the town’s tour guides have always shunned that devil’s forbidden area, that is, Mang Zi didn’t dare to go deeper, and could only tell a rough distance.

“Distance so far?”

Zhuang Rui heard froze for a moment, forty or fifty kilometers in the desert are about to walk up a day, if something really happened ahead, is to catch up also too late to rescue.

“En, everyone first eat something to rest and recuperate, we strive to arrive there before dark …… ” Mangzi understand Zhuang Rui’s meaning, he also has some regrets, if he had known this, he would have drawn the distance between the two sides closer.

Burning and cooking things are naturally by Peng Fei to be responsible for, Mangzi is holding the camels, one by one to give them water, to maintain the stamina of the camels, far more important than their own full of food.

After a short period of rest and recuperation, the people mounted the camels again and chased along the tracks left by Erdan’s camel team, Mangzi was a little anxious and kept urging the camels to trot, wanting to catch up with Erdan and the others as soon as possible.

“Brother Two Egg, Nakagawa asked you, how long until we reach the quicksand area?”

For some reason, Nakagawa sat on the camel, always feeling a bit distracted, and almost not more than ten minutes apart, he urged Yan Translator to ask about Erdan.

“Tell him to take it easy, it’s still five or six miles away!”

Erdan impatiently replied, “What did you do earlier? Two days ago, he insisted that I lead him in circles, now he knows he’s in a hurry?”

After hearing Erdan’s words, Professor Mann exerted his legs and clamped down on the camels, rushed to Erdan’s side and said, “Erdan, I think we need to adjust our team a bit, put the supplies on those two camels on one camel, then let one walk in front.”

The previous incident of quicksand engulfing the town’s inhabitants had happened more than 30 years ago, and no one knew if the quicksand area had expanded again, and in the spirit of thinking for the sake of the little lives, Professor Man offered his suggestion.

Although separated by the gauze that covers the wind and sand, can also hear the caution in Professor Man’s words, Erdan thought for a moment and nodded his head to agree, for this forbidden land of death that has been rumored in the town for decades, his heart is still a little drummed.

After rearranging the camel team, a camel with no supplies on its back walked at the front, and behind it, more than thirty meters away, was the second camel with drinking water and other supplies on its back.

As for Erdan and the others, the distance was even farther, hanging behind the two camels for seventy to eighty meters, and Erdan used a whistle to control the direction of the two camels in front of him as they moved forward.

“Well, Erdan, look ahead, I feel something is wrong!”

Having just come down from a small dune more than twenty meters high, Professor Man suddenly called a halt to the camels and took out a high powered telescope to observe the desert in front of him.

“Teacher Man, what’s wrong? This sand is very common!”

Erdan didn’t know why Prof. Man stopped, this place was still five or six miles away from the legendary Devil’s Forbidden Zone, and there was only a relatively large flat sandy area in front of him, which was also very normal in the desert.

Because the dry sand is soft and not sticky, so a gust of wind, can make the desert look completely different, the terrain has become strange and unusual, there are up to dozens of meters of sand dunes, there is also a look hundreds of meters of slow land, all the irrational interpretation of the terrain, in the desert can exist.

Professor Man shook his head and said, “I feel something is not right, this sandy area is almost one kilometer in extent, I think we’d better walk slower!”

Although the desert in front of him also had the kind of gullies blown out by the wind, but that kind of dead silence that seemed different from what he had seen in front of him made Prof. Man’s heart have a kind of indescribable feeling, and his heartbeat seemed to be much faster than usual.

Prof. Man saw the two camels that were beating the head, in the case of not getting instructions from Erdan, still walking towards that piece of sand that made Prof. Man feel a little weird, he quickly said to Erdan, “Quickly, call the camels, it is noon, let’s have a meal and then survey this side of the sand.”

“It’s nothing, right? Teacher Man you are hungry just say it directly.”

Erdan muttered out of his mouth, he had been a tour guide in the desert for six or seven years now, and had seen a lot of landforms like this, but when he saw Prof. Man insisted, Erdan still stretched out his thumb and forefinger and hooked them together, and stretched them into his mouth and whistled loudly.

The two camels that were moving forward heard the whistle and did not react for a moment, the one in front turned its head around, but its body was still pushed forward a few steps by inertia.

“Alright, let’s go down a bit and eat against the dunes!”

Erdan turned around and said to Prof. Man, only he was shocked to find that the gauze on Prof. Man’s face had been removed by him at some point, revealing that the old face was as twisted as if he had seen a ghost.

“Gollum, gollum ……”

At the same time, Erdan’s ears rang with the sound of the camel’s urgent call, in general, camels usually do not call, only in the breeding season male camels will call when they demonstrate with each other.

And the way camels call is also very unique, first of all, they will spit the vocal cords out of their throats, and then inflate them to make a low purring sound, and then swallow the vocal cords back when they are done calling.

But Erdan could hear that the camel spat out its vocal cords and didn’t seem to be swallowing them back in the gurgling sound that seemed to be filled with despair.

Erdan’s brain nerves reacted slower than his ear nerves, and when he looked back, he found that the camel at the front, with a body as tall as two meters, had half of its body plunged into the sand.

The camel did not understand the principle of quicksand, after this foot stepped in the air, it was struggling desperately, but the more it struggled, the faster the body plunged into, the flat surface of the sand seemed like a black hole, pulling the camel’s body closer to the bottomless black abyss.

Just this short few seconds of Erdan turning back, more than two meters tall camel, there is only one head left exposed on the sand surface, the voice from the throat is miserable, startled Erdan and others under the seat of the camel also stirred up.

“Ermao …… don’t run, don’t run, turn back, come back!”

Erdan let out whistling sounds from his mouth one after another, and had just pacified these camels he was sitting on, when he realized that the second camel that was walking in front of him had plunged headlong into the area of quicksand in a panic, struggling desperately.

“Da Mao, Er Mao.”

Erdan grabbed the binoculars in the hands of Professor Man, looking at the camel whose head slowly sank into the quicksand, tears could not stop flowing, for people living at the edge of the desert, the camel …… is their best brother.

Two eggs can clearly see, big hair in the yellow sand swallowed, the corner of the eye out of the turbid teardrops, which makes two eggs heart like a knife, is his carelessness, making two good partners buried in the desert.