As the sun rose higher and higher, the temperature also began to rise. It felt like we were walking on an oven at any time, and it was so hot that we couldn't muster any energy.
In less than two hours, Gu Laosan drank three bottles of water, and a badger also drank one bottle. At this time, he leaned on the cushion with his head drooping, and his small body exuded a decadent atmosphere.
The camel's broad paws stepped on a patch of fine sand. The upper layer of sand slowly fell off, revealing a piece of gray skin. As the sun shone on it, it suddenly moved, drilled deeper, and hid again.
Hero Han was sitting on the camel, swinging his upper body, holding a small knife in his hand, and draining blood from his swollen fingers.
As the poisonous blood and pus flowed out, someone's face seemed to feel much better. He shivered and sighed, then applied medicine again and wrapped his finger tightly with gauze.
After crossing another sand slope, we saw a small oasis not far ahead.
However, although its scientific name is Oasis, judging from the scene before us, it is more accurate to call it "Huangzhou".
Large pieces of weathered rocks were exposed, and the area within a radius of less than 100 meters was covered with sparse weeds. Next to a dry depression, there were two dead tamarisks, whose branches had long been blown off by the wind, leaving only the bare trunks swaying slightly in the wind.
I’m afraid that it won’t be long before this oasis disappears in the desert, with all traces covered by the yellow sand.
When the team came closer, Gu Lang jumped off the camel, sat down on the ground covered with sand, gravel and cracked soil, and groaned that he would not move no matter what.
Han Daxia glanced at the time on his watch. He had walked for nearly 4 hours since he started at 6 o'clock in the morning, and had walked about 50 kilometers. However, because he had deviated from the route in the middle, the straight-line distance was shorter, so he was afraid that he had not walked very far at all.
He frowned and glanced at the sky, while subconsciously licking his cracked lips. This time, he rarely refuted the salted fish, but nodded and said, "Then let's camp here first, and then set off in the afternoon when the sun is not so strong."
After getting off the camels, he saw that Gu Lao San was lying on a shady rock, with no intention of helping him at all. Han Daxia shook his head helplessly, led the three camels to the tamarisk tree and tied them up. Then he unloaded the luggage and took out a handful of hay to feed the camels.
Wang Ping just lay on the cushion on the camel without moving. At least there was a curtain over his head, as he was afraid it would be even hotter outside.
After feeding the camel, Hero Han turned around, walked up to Gu Lang, and pulled him up.
"Get up and set up the tent first. By noon, the shade will be gone!"
“Ah…” Gu Laosan stood up with a grunt, squinting his eyes and following behind Hero Han, looking weak and lazy all over.
Wang Ping was dozing off and wanted to take a nap. However, before he could fall asleep, he felt the urge to urinate. A badger tossed and turned on the cushion, but finally climbed up with a sigh, jumped off the camel, and walked behind a rock.
After walking a few steps, a breeze carrying the summer air blew by, and the badger's little nose twitched, with a look of confusion on its furry face.
Why does this wind smell fishy
I walked on the hot dirt and came to a rock half a person high. I glanced at the direction of the camel and saw that it was in the blind spot of the camera. I let go of its tail and let it curl up behind me. I spread my legs and let water flow towards the rock.
As the badger's furry face stretched comfortably, a small stream of water poured over some withered yellow grass under the rock.
"Oh, you look so malnourished. Come here, I'll give you some fertilizer..."
Wang Ping noticed the weeds under the rock, and he moved his short legs to water the weeds evenly. However, as he moved, he smelled the faint fishy smell again. It seemed that the closer he got to the rock, the more obvious the smell was.
The small stream of water gradually disappeared. A badger shivered, looked down at the puddle under his feet, then turned to the other side, put his little nose close to the surface of the rock, and sniffed lightly.
This time, Wang Ping was sure that the fishy smell came from these rocks.
“Why does this stone smell fishy?”
A badger scratched his head, confused.
Subconsciously, he looked back at the two people who were busy in the open space nearby, and then looked back at the height of the rock in front of him. The badger's face changed, and he suddenly made a "Pooh" sound with his little mouth.
Cursing himself for being so idle, Wang Ping turned around and walked back.
But when the wind blew again, he felt that the smell was not right, and it was not the same type as the fishy smell of some liquid. So after taking a few steps, he stopped again and walked towards another taller rock.
Coming closer, a badger squinted at the huge rock covered with cracks and weeds, and sniffed the surface. He smelled the same fishy smell, and even moved his ears slightly, and heard a slight noise, as if something was rubbing against the cracks in the rock.
Following the sound, Wang Ping circled the rocks and came to a wide crack, stretched out his claws and pulled out a loose stone. Then the sound suddenly disappeared for a moment, and deep in the crack, a section of a snake with yellow-brown stripes appeared in the eyes of a badger.
As the sunlight shone through the cracks, the snake's body twitched rapidly and swam into the shadows.
"Fuck... Sorry to bother you!"
The badger's little arm trembled, and he quickly pushed the stone back, turned around, took a few steps back, and started running.
Before Han Daxia and Gu Lang had even finished leveling the ground, they saw a badger running towards them madly with its tail in the air and all four paws on the ground, grabbing Gu Laosan's trouser leg and pulling it towards the camel.
"Hurry up, hurry up! Damn it, there are snakes under all the rocks here, it's too scary, no, it's the badgers!"
"What's wrong?"
Han Daxia and Gu Lang were puzzled and didn't understand why the badger was in such a hurry to leave after just arriving.
Gu Laosan was pulled by a badger and took a few steps forward. Suddenly, a bell rang in the arms of Han Daxia beside him. Someone's face changed. He took out a satellite phone, looked at the display, and ran to the place where the camel was tied to answer the call.
"Ah... Is it such a coincidence..."
Wang Ping's little face drooped, his lips pursed, and he sighed in his heart, struggling over whether to take Gu Lao San away first, or to eavesdrop first.
"Forget it, business is more important...right"
Thinking that under the scorching sun, the snakes under the rocks might not want to come out, so the badger loosened Gu Lang's trouser leg, sighed softly, and ran towards Han Daxia under the puzzled gaze of Gu Lao San.
A certain salted fish shrugged, thinking that this guy wanted to get something again. Seeing that he ran to find Hero Han, he turned around and continued his work.
On this side, Han Daxia picked up the phone and frowned after hearing only two sentences.
It wasn't that there was something wrong with the data he sent back, or that he had really found any sensitive people. On the contrary, the identities of everyone in Gu Lang's address book could withstand the check. There was no problem with other information such as call records, photos, etc.
The only person who had contacted him in the past few days, according to the information provided by his colleagues, was fine. Instead, the other party had a brother who was a mercenary in the WAP security team and was currently lying in the hospital in a vegetative state.
If Gu Laosan really had a problem, he would not have been able to avoid such a person who wanted to cut the poacher into pieces, let alone actively approach him. All signs showed that a certain salted fish was really just a salted fish.
"Why!"
Han Daxia sighed and began to regret bringing a salted fish here rashly. He was afraid that he would shoot himself in the foot this time. He subconsciously looked in the direction of Gu Laosan, but when he turned his head, he was facing a confused badger face.
Wang Ping was clinging to the tamarisk tree trunk next to him, about as tall as a person, his mind a mess at the moment.
"The one holding a piece of grass, the vegetative person, is he talking about me?"