Two big six-wheeled Hummers were only twenty or thirty meters apart, driving one behind the other in the red desert.
Now what is being ground under the wheels is a real desert.
This kind of road requires horsepower and is easy to slip. The car can't drive fast. Both cars have six-wheel brakes, and the roar of the engine is loud.
But no matter how good the sound insulation in the car is, no matter how loud the outside noise is, it cannot be hidden from Anne's ears.
In the car in front, He Yongchang and Jin Wenlan explained all the truth about Miao Chengyun and Yun Xiuer's marriage, and their hearts were broken.
In the car behind, Anne started to broadcast live simultaneously, repeating all the words of several people.
Lin Shuo was heartbroken when he heard it: "The professional ethics of this group of people is really problematic. They are hunting, and they are talking about nonsense without talking about business. Yun Xiu'er and Miao Chengyun are fine. Why are He Yongchang and Jin Wenlan so unreliable?"
"Okay." Wei Xingshan was beaming at the moment, "Old Lin, look behind you, there are two wives sitting, and there is an Aunt Miao holding back to be a baby for your father, our car can't be serious, is it? "
"Why are you so happy, kid?" Lin Shuo rolled his eyes at Wei Xingshan, "Did you start to get carried away when you heard that Jin Wenlan was interested in you? Let me tell you, if you don't have diamonds, don't take this porcelain job." .If you want to step on two boats, you have to have the ability, you know?"
"Hey! Mistresses, listen up, these are not human words!" Wei Xingshan shouted.
"People are divided into groups of like flocks, and you two, master and apprentice, are the same thing." Anne said, "It's all messed up."
"But when Anne and I cleaned up Lin Shuo, it was on the bed." Di Lan said, "If you, Wei Xingshan, get cleaned up later, you don't know where it is."
"Oh, Dylan, why are you talking outside?" Anne complained, "Aren't you ashamed?"
Dylan stuck out his tongue, then bit Anne's ear for a while, but didn't know what to say, the two beauties laughed together.
Wei Xingshan turned his head and glanced at Lin Shuo: "Look, can you be serious?"
"Okay." Lin Shuo waved his hand, "Drive your car."
"Lin Shuo, stop!" Miao Xiaoxian suddenly shouted.
"What's wrong?"
"I feel like throwing up!"
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Driving the car to hunt, Lin Shuo had never enjoyed this kind of treatment before, and thought it was a good thing, after all, it saved effort.
But right now, it seems that everything has two sides. The effort on the feet is saved, but there are also a lot of moths.
In just one day and one night, in the car in front, Miao Chengyun had been drunk all the time and hadn't been sober for a long time. Yun Xiu'er hadn't slept for two nights, and her condition was greatly reduced.
My aunt and nephew of the Miao family were supposed to have good immediate combat power in my own car, but they vomited all the way, and their faces started to turn blue at this moment.
In their state, they really met the Dover Demon, and they didn't know who was hunting whom.
So although Lin Shuo was not idle all the time, his heart was tense, his eyes were watching all directions, his ears were listening, and his nose was still awake.
The Red Desert is well-deserved of its reputation. The sand here is slightly reddish. Once the car drives in, it seems to be in an alien planet.
The terrain was not as flat as on the Hunger Grassland, and sand dunes began to appear.
The sand dunes here are different from those in ordinary deserts, they are crescent-shaped sand ridges.
This kind of sand dune is formed because of the special wind direction here.
In the case where the two sets of wind directions intersect at an acute angle, one wing of the dune extends forward for a long time, while the other wing relatively stops moving forward, and eventually even disappears.
The extended wing develops into a sand ridge.
The height of this kind of sand ridge is about ten meters, and the length varies from hundreds of meters to several kilometers. One side has a gentle slope, and the other side is like a knife cut, almost straight up and down.
This kind of sand dune looks beautiful from a distance, but driving on it is quite tricky.
Driving and driving, once the car passed the slope, it fell head-on.
Fortunately, the sand ridges encountered at the beginning were not high, and it was okay to drop the car once or twice. Later, I realized that I had to drive around a little bit.
It's just that the car fell down a few times like this, and there were various detours. The car didn't go in a straight line. Miao Xueping and Miao Xiaoxian couldn't stand it anymore.
Two beautiful heads stuck out of the car window, it was sprinkled all the way.
Just vomiting like this, by the afternoon, the two of them began to show symptoms of dehydration, fell asleep in a daze, and lost their minds.
Ordinarily, since there are Miao family members in the hunting team, the Miao family members are the doctors in the team. Fortunately, everyone else is fine, and the doctor fell ill first.
Fortunately, there was Anne in this car, and the materials on the car were prepared by Miao Guangqi himself.
When hunting in the desert, dehydration is normal, so Miao Guangqi's preparations are targeted, and there is salt water in the medical kit.
Hang up saline solution for the aunt and nephew, after such a toss, the sky is getting dark again.
At the end of the day, Wei Xingshan looked at the dashboard. His group had driven more than 200 kilometers into the depths of the Red Desert, but because they had to bypass the sand ridges, the depth of their advance was only about 100 kilometers.
And here is near the place where the incident happened.
Wei Xingshan did the math, and the amount of oil in the car was exactly the same for just such a round trip.
If you go to other places to search for something, it will not work.
And just when it was about to get dark, the oil and gas pipeline in the distance disappeared.
This oil and gas pipeline is erected on the ground. At this moment, it happened to be drilled into a tall sand ridge and buried.
This sand ridge is the highest sand ridge that Wei Xingshan has seen today.
It is more than thirty meters high, just like a small mountain range.
Everyone can see the pipe going in from here, but it's not known where it comes out.
So when you drive here, even if you have reached the destination, the car can't go any further, otherwise you won't have enough fuel to go back.
The rest of the way, you have to rely on two legs.
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Yang Tuo has had a rare leisure these two days.
Di Lan followed Lin Shuo to go hunting in the Red Desert, and news soon came that the two were married.
Therefore, Academician Yang's mission to follow the Kunlun Mountains is partly completed.
With Lin Shuo's promise to take the medicine on time, the matter of the female Hades has been settled for the time being.
In fact, he came here with another task, which was to represent the official and participate in the peer alliance ceremony of Liemen. At the opening ceremony, he had to say a few words, cut ribbons and so on.
But there are still twenty days left for this matter, so Yang Tuo is fine for now.
Thinking about the fact that I haven't had a vacation for many years, Yang Tuo didn't plan to go back in the past 20 days, but called his fiancée over, and the two of them were spending their honeymoon here in advance.
Yang Tuo's fiancée is from Lanzhou, surnamed Chen, who works as a lecturer in a university, and the two are scheduled to get married in March this year.
Because of his brain disease, Yang Tuo couldn't feel romantic emotions, but he thought that there are Kunlun Mountain, Qinghai Lake, and an old house here, so Mr. Chen should like it.
It was indeed as he expected, the Su family's old houses were all ancient buildings, the environment was quiet, the food was good, and it didn't cost money to live here, Mr. Chen, who knew how to live, was very satisfied.
A few days later, the future wife is very happy, but Yang Tuo can't feel any joy.
He doesn't like or hate his fiancée, he can't understand these two emotions, he only knows that normal people live like this, and he has to do the same.
This is certainly unfair to his fiancée, so he can only try to be considerate of himself.
That night, Mr. Chen spoke, saying that Yang Tuo was a big man who was tired of being around his wife all day and was useless. He asked him to go out for a walk and socialize with normal people.
So Yang Tuo walked into the office of the International Strange Creatures Research Society in Asia, and saw three people busy inside.
Cao Yusheng, Miao Guangqi, Cao Mian.
"You came just in time." Miao Guangqi beckoned and told Yang Tuo to sit down.
"Mr. Miao." Yang Tuo naturally knew the elder of the International Society for Biological Research, "You seem to be busy?"
"Yes." Cao Yusheng said, "We are doing some analysis on the location of the incident in the Red Desert. Yang Tuo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, can come along with you."
"Okay." Yang Tuo was not polite, but sat down and asked, "Where is the progress?"
"It's strange that we couldn't find the exact location of the incident, whether it was satellite photos or reconnaissance planes," Cao Yusheng introduced. "It is said that there is no cover in the desert, and everything can be seen at a glance. But this time You can't see anything strange from the sky, people go in and disappear, what's going on?"
"Then Mr. Miao and Patriarch Cao, do you have any ideas?" Yang Tuo asked again.
"Under the ground." Miao Guangqi turned the computer screen over to Yang Tuo, pointed at it and said, "Look, this place has formed a huge sand ridge in recent years, and the size must be quite high. It is more than 30 meters long, and the length is more than 100 kilometers.
The oil and gas pipeline from Russia to Iran, here, is buried tightly.
Nowhere else, if there are ridges of sand burying pipes, are there as many as here.
Therefore, we estimate that the location of the incident is likely to be here. "
"There should be no doubts about being underground, but what is the motive for committing the crime?" Cao Yusheng said, "The Dover demon has been here for so many years, and it was recorded in the Tang Dynasty that this is the first underground creature.
According to historical records, it is not active on the surface itself, and there have been only a few predation records on the surface for thousands of years.
So it's on the surface, it's an accident. Since it is an accident, there must be a reason.
What is the reason
In addition, since it is a subterranean creature, where is its lair and what is its structure? This information is very important. "
"Speaking of the subsurface structure, it's not that there are no clues at all." Yang Tuo said, "From the theory of continental plate drift, Central Asia used to be an ocean.
The Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea there were part of the ancient Mediterranean Sea. After they became land, they were also relatively densely structured saline-alkali lands. The land was not fertile and there was little rain. Farming was very difficult and they could only graze.
With such geographical features, it is unlikely that there will be huge caves underground.
Therefore, for the underground structure, we can consider more humanistic factors.
The impact of human activities on the environment is very large.
Although the land in the Red Desert was not fertile, it was not so barren. It is now a desert, mainly due to overgrazing.
Some people have a city. Are there ancient city ruins or something buried underground? "
"That's right, there is a bridge between Eurasia and human activities have always been very frequent." Miao Guangqi said, "The Dover demon in the Taklimakan was also in the ruins of an ancient city underground when it was discovered."
Cao Yusheng said: "But since ancient times, the land of the Red Desert has been the Changing King Banner at the head of the city. It was mainly occupied by nomadic peoples, and there is no writing left. The historical records in China and the West have always been vague, and they even communicate with each other. Contradictions. If you want to know what's buried in the ground, you have to guess."
"Anyway, it can't be after the Tang Dynasty." Miao Guangqi said, "Since there are records of the Dover Demon appearing from the ground in the Tang Dynasty, it means that its lair must have been formed before the Tang Dynasty."
"The Huns?" Cao Yusheng said, "After the Northern Huns were driven away by the Han Dynasty, they did recuperate here for more than a hundred years. These cities were not found."
"Eight or nine is inseparable from ten." Miao Guangqi nodded, "At present, mainstream historians believe that the Xiongnu stayed near the Red Desert for more than a hundred years. The second yellow peril. The Europeans were driven by the Huns to run around, known as the Great Migration of Nations in history, and finally crushed the Western Roman Empire."
"If it's the site of the Xiongnu, it's better to have blueprints." Yang Tuo said, "I have to give Lin Shuo and the others a copy of the architectural drawings of the Huns' royal city. Even if the cities are different, since they belong to the same ethnic group, the general structure is similar to that of the city." The style should be about the same, at least you can refer to it, so as not to get dark under the ground."
"I'll arrange it now." Miao Guangqi stood up and took out the mobile phone in his arms, "Take the airdrop, I hope I can catch up."
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