C321 The Legend of Queen Loulan
C321 The Legend of Queen Loulan
When they were walking out of the airport, Tieh Tu made a call and brought everyone to a small inn called "Dream Return Lou Lan".
Although it was two in the morning, there were more than a dozen people sitting around the big bearded owner at a few tables, watching him dance and dance as he narrated the relevant legends.
Most of these people were men, but there were also three or five women wearing masks and baseball caps.
Seeing Gao Fei and the other three come in, these people glanced at them warily and then ignored them, continuing to listen to the bearded boss's story.
Gao Fei held the hand of Qin Chengcheng, who was also wearing a face mask and baseball cap, as he roughly swept a glance at these people. His gaze landed on the luggage under their feet.
Tieh Tu and Ye Xinshang sat opposite them with their bulging backpacks at their feet. They took the cigarettes from Gao Fei and turned to look at the big bearded boss.
Seeing that another four people had come in, the big bearded boss did not come over to greet them, but instead continued to display his expertise, "Everyone, this place under our feet, is already considered one of the jurisdiction of the 36 countries of the Western Regions during the Dahan Empire period. From then on, it will be 130 kilometers to the west, which is known as the world's ninth largest desert, the world's largest flowing desert, the Taklimakan Desert!"
In the language of Uyghur, the Taklimakan Desert means' a place that cannot be left '.
The entire desert is about 1000 km long in the east and 400 km wide in the north and south, covering an area of 330 thousand square kilometers. The average annual precipitation is no more than 100 mm, with a minimum of four or five millimeters; the average evaporation is as high as 25,003,400 millimetres. Here, the pyramidal dunes stand three hundred meters above the plain. A gale can blow up a sandstone wall up to three times its height. The sand dunes in the desert extend, often moving under the influence of the wind.
Therefore, people also called the Taklimakan Desert a Sea of Death, or a forbidden area for life.
Even today, when technology was advanced, no one relied on advanced modern equipment to easily enter the desert.
This was because once one entered the depths of the vast and boundless desert, all instruments would fail. Even airplanes would often mysteriously disappear into the depths of the desert.
The more mysterious and dangerous something was, the more attractive it was.
What modern society did not lack was those who were rich and could not spend their money.
Thus, almost every year, there would be a group of people driving imported Humvees worth millions, carrying equipment that could survive in the wild for months, exploring the desert in an attempt to find the legendary Lou Lan and Queen of Loulan.
However, the rich and adventurers who desired to find the legendary Queen of Loulan would often give up after going into the desert for a few days.
If someone were to grit their teeth and continue walking, no matter how well-equipped they were, it would still cause them to break down due to some strange phenomenon.
In order to find the legendary Queen of Loulan, they once brought a convoy of nine Humvees, protected by seventeen experts who retired from Special Forces, and entered the city that was surrounded by a black mountain range.
In that mysterious city, they were warmly received by the local residents, and Queen of Loulan, the beautiful fairy, personally entertained them. But on the morning of the second day, when the external support personnel, who had already lost contact with them, discovered that something was amiss, they used the special forces of the northern military region in time to discover these eighteen muddle-headed explorers on top of a sand dune in the desert.
After returning, these eighteen people didn't even have a month to live before they mysteriously died one after another.
They had all died in the early hours of the morning, with happy but strange smiles on their faces, their mouths half open, as if they were talking to someone.
Because what had happened to the coal owners was completely outside of the realm of scientific explanation, and was the complete opposite of the atheism advocated by the authorities, the authorities had kept their deaths a secret.
However, as the saying goes, paper cannot hold up a fire. The strange encounters of the coal mine's boss and the others eventually spread among the local people.
In the twenty years since then, there had not been a single rich person who had performed the same feat as the boss of the coal mine. Although everyone's lives were a bit boring, it was better to die than to live.
As for the authorities, due to religious beliefs and other reasons, they did not use large archaeological groups to investigate the matter.
Thus, in the Taklimakan Desert, the legend of the ancient Lou Lan Country with a beautiful Heavenly Immortal Queen became more and more mysterious, more and more real.
The dynasty did not send any expedition or archaeological group to the depths of the desert, but this did not mean that there were still people that coveted it. According to the owner of the inn near Ba-yin Airport, every year, there would be countless small groups (three to five people), and even single travelers who entered the desert during the spring and autumn equinox.
Among them, there was no lack of experienced Commander Mojin.
However, the owner did not know whether or not these people who entered the desert had entered the Ghost City or seen King of Loulan. He only cared about how much these people could pay and how much they could buy from him as an explorer …
Although the bearded boss often told these stories with the Mandarin language of the local people's mouths which was not very standard and in order to keep up the tense atmosphere, he often mixed some coarse words like 'Wokao, spicy' and other words. Most of them were nonsense, but Qin Chengcheng and the others still listened with great interest.
After spitting for a long time, the bearded boss picked up the cup of milk tea and gulped it down. He then looked at the cup on the table and took out a package from underneath.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Big Beard opened the bag. Inside, besides the two homemade single-barrel hunting rifles, there were a few trowels of decent quality as well as some special tools such as tornado shovels and Yin Claw.
There were even a few shriveled black donkey hooves, as well as glutinous rice and other items.
"Everyone, if we are honest and do not speak in secret, then I will speak openly."
Big Beard patted his chest and said proudly, "Brother, I know that a lot of people come to the desert just to find excitement. However, there were also people who wanted to find the legendary thirty-six ancient cities and make a small fortune while playing around. "However, you know that you can't bring all of these things along when you've traveled thousands of miles to get here. So, I've prepared these things in advance for you."
Wiping the corner of his mouth, Big Beard shouted, "Brother, I dare to use my character as a guarantee. The things I provide are the best in the entire desert periphery area, and the quality is absolutely reliable. If you need anything, you can buy it now. In addition, for everyone who takes care of your business, your brother will be able to contact the special car in the desert for free, as well as the camels that you must use in the depths of the desert. "
After the bearded man said this, he looked at the people in the room with a pair of bright and spirited eyes.
The entire room was filled with people, but no one spoke.
Big Beard was not in a hurry either, because he knew that these people were all waiting. Once the first person asked for the price, they would immediately surround them.
Sure enough, after the bearded boss had waited for two minutes, someone stood up from the corner and pointed to a soldier shovel. "Boss, how much is the shovel?"
The bearded man's eyes lit up. He picked up two shovels and slammed them against each other.
The seemingly good steel spade emitted a melodious sound.
The bearded boss raised his shovel and said, "Boss, since you are the first one who wants to take care of Brother's business, I will give you a discount, just twenty percent off. This shovel will cost you three thousand yuan!"
The person who stood up and asked for the price was none other than Gao Fei.
Although Qin Chengcheng normally worked in the ivory tower and was one of those 'living idiots' who don't know how much cabbages are worth, when Big Beard said that the folding spade would actually cost 3,000 yuan, she couldn't help but to say, "Oh my, this spade costs 3,000 yuan? Isn't this too expensive? Boss, do you think you're selling antiques? "
Big Beard chuckled, still looking at Gao Fei: "Boss, you might not know this, but among the shovels you see in the field equipment store, the most expensive one seems to be only a few hundred yuan. But how could those shovels compare with my shovels?"
Gao Fei smiled faintly and asked, "Is there any difference with your shovel?"
Big Beard's expression became serious. He touched the shovel as if he was touching his wife's seductive body: "This shovel of mine was blessed by Hu Da. "Only things that have been blessed by Hu Da will have their true function when encountering danger in the desert."
Hu Da was what the Muslims of the Northwest Territories called Allah. They also treated Hu Da as the ruler of the desert.
Just like Paimazu at sea, everyone who lived in the desert believed in Hu Da.
Gao Fei nodded, "Oh, so that's how it is. "Well, get me three of them."