Two off-road vehicles came to the ruined ruins one after the other. After getting off the vehicle, I looked at the mound where the woman in red appeared just now, and then climbed up.
The surface of the mound is covered with fine sand of loess, and I looked around and found no footprints.
Was it hell just now? Or is it a desert illusion
Looking at the surrounding ravines and the vast Gobi Desert, with the charm of the "sea of death", it is really not clear what is true and what is illusion.
Looking up, there was a stone monument not far away. I got down from the mound and walked over quickly. The stele is written in Chinese and Tibetan at the same time:
The ancient city of Qiemo, the paradise peach garden watered by the Cheerchen River. Below the title, there are some specific introductions below.
I don't know when Zhang Ling stood behind me. She said: "The real Qimu Ancient City has not been found. This is just an inscription deliberately erected by the locals to develop tourism."
I looked around the broken walls and said: "Qiemo, like Loulan, disappeared mysteriously?"
Zhang Ling nodded and said: "According to historical records, there were more than 30,000 Loulan people who fled to Qiemo in order to escape the war. Later, the ancient city of Qimo disappeared, and those Loulan people also had no news. It is recorded in "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", In 644 AD, Xuanzang passed by and at the end of the day, people went to the building empty. Therefore, no one knows the specific reason for the disappearance."
"Hey, come here, there are petroglyphs." The voice of big eyes came from behind a sand dune.
Zhang Ling and I hurried over and saw Big Eyes kneeling on the ground digging a big blue-gray stone. There are some patterns on the surface of the stone. The rock paintings are carved with thick lines, and the pattern is a cave, which is also carved next to the cave. A line of ancient text that resembles a tadpole.
Zhang Ling also went up to help, and soon the flat stone was revealed, and at the bottom of the stone there was a vague image of a human figure, like an enchanting dancer dancing lightly.
The image of the dancing girl immediately reminded me of the woman in red that I saw on the mound.
"What are these words written?"
Zhang Ling took a photo of the stone with his camera, and said: "I don't know, it should be some kind of missing text. You need to find an expert to read it before you know it.
Big eyes touched the words on the stone and said: "A cave, a dancing woman, what does it mean?"
I guess
The test said: "It may be some kind of ancient ritual."
Big eyes pondered for a moment, and said, "Maybe the cave is the home of the dancer."
Zhang Ling put away the camera and said, “There are many ancient ruins like Lop Nur, let’s go and take a look nearby.”
Big eyes clapped the soil on his hands and said, "Yes. We are not here for archaeology, so there is no need to go into these things."
After walking out of the ruined walls, we drove the car and started to circle around, because we were bored with big eyes and wanted to drive for a while. Driving is a very tedious thing, and there is no collision in the desert anyway, so I have no objection.
So, after passing a hilly mountain road, we started a journey of shock. Big Eye was very excited when driving the car, our car was like riding a torrent, crashing in the middle. From a slope to the top, there is no way to see the road ahead. It rushes straight down like a cliff, losing weight instantly for several seconds.
Sometimes a few consecutive slopes make people too late to exclaim, wave after wave of excitement. I stubbornly grasped the armrest on the side of the car roof, and inevitably let my buttocks leave the seat when I leaped, and then fell heavily.
If it weren't for knowing that Big Eye can't drive, I really suspect Big Eye is an off-road racer.
In the evening, we found an oasis with swamps and meadows. There are reeds on the shore of the lake. Waterfowl on the lake are playing. From time to time, there are wild ducks, wild geese, swans and other water birds flapping the water and flying towards the sky full of glow, in the desert. Apocynum, tamarisk, populus, and camel thorns in the depths weave a pleasing picture.
Parked the car by the lake, we started to camp and set up everything, I took out the phone and found that there was a signal. I suggested that Zhang Ling send the photos taken today to archaeologists or text experts.
"Is it necessary? There are countless things like this in Lop Nur."
"What if I can find some clues from it."
Zhang Ling smiled and said, "Well then."
She imported the photos into the computer, and then began to send emails to her "friends" in Beijing. When I looked up and saw Big Eye was pulling my sleeves to catch fish by the lake, I immediately came and ran over with interest.
The water in the lake is very clear. In addition to the fish, there are shrimps and crabs in the water. After less than half an hour, Dayan and I were joking.
Ha's caught three fish and half a pot of shrimps and crabs.
Holding half a pot of shrimps and crabs with big eyes, he smiled and said: "Anzi, Lop Nur is also very fun, not as scary as you said. You see, there are the most primitive game. We will be rich in the future, every year Are you all here to have fun?"
"This is the second day. We haven't reached the hinterland of Lop Nur. You won't say that when we get to the hinterland. Then you will know what it is..." Before finishing speaking, Yu Guang suddenly saw a scarlet red line. The meat worm is burrowing out of the sand.
I immediately stunned, lowered my voice and said, "Big eyes, don't move!"
"what's happenin?"
"There is a bug behind you!"
The big-eyed smiling face immediately froze, and nervously said: "Don't scare me, this joke is not funny at all." He turned his head and looked back, jumped up in shock immediately, threw the pot on the ground and ran to my side. .
The crimson fleshy worm has completely come out of the sand. It looks like a ham, it has the thickness of an adult's arm, and it is almost half a meter long. It crawls a bit like a snake, but it is definitely not a snake. I thought it had a tail. Not a cone, but like being cut by a knife.
Its mouth and eyes are very vague. If it is not crawling forward, it is almost impossible to identify which end is the head and the other end is the tail.
The shrimp and crab in the pot were clasped on the ground, or jumped or climbed. The meat worm twisted its body and crawled towards the lively prawns and crabs. At a distance of two or three meters, the front end of the meat worm suddenly lifted up, and then I didn’t know. From the eyes or the mouth, a burst of unidentified sex was sprayed out.
**As soon as it was sprayed on the shrimp and crab, the shrimp and crab immediately encountered strong sulfuric acid and began to corrode and digest.
At the same time, the air is full of pungent and corrosive odors.
The meat worm crawled over its body, its head suddenly split the size of its palm, swallowing the corroded shrimps and crabs into its blood-red mouth...
The scene in front of me completely stunned me and Big Eye. There was only one thought in my mind: What kind of creature is this!
"What's wrong with you?" Zhang Ling in the distance stood up and asked.
Big Eye and I didn't dare to gnaw at the answer, but slowly backed away together. Although we didn't know what the carnivorous insect was in front of us, our intuition told us that it was very dangerous and we must stay away from this unknown creature.
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