desert abyss

"Translation," I fought with my mouth up and down, and I couldn't speak well, "Ancestor, you just ask me to be a translator?"

"Be quieter."

I leaned on the seat, almost unable to stand still.Liao Xiaodan pulled out a splint from behind, on which was a file, A4 size, covered with a patent leather seal, painted "[-] Central Top Ten: Overview of Xinjiang-Tibet Autonomous Region Oil Reserves and Other Geological Resources Investigation Projects ".I saw that it was tricky, but she handed it over, so I had no choice but to take it.

"Can there be foreigners in the geological survey issued by the central government?" I whispered, "This—"

"I'll tell you when I get to my destination." Huang Kun looked around the car. "There are still two days to go. It's still dangerous."

Liao Xiaodan pulled him and waved his hand, but he stopped talking to me and looked at his watch instead.

"It's been 4 minutes. Why hasn't that little guy come back? Nothing will happen."

"What kind of project are you working on? What's going on in the Xinjiang-Tibet Autonomous Region?" I asked again, but no one stopped me.Liao Xiaodan was greeted by another person in the car calling "Miss Liao, Miss Liao".Huang Kun leaned over the window sill beside me, looked left and right outside, very impatient.

Instead, a girl stood up in the front seat and ran over joltingly.

"Senior Yang An, senior Yang An! It's finally you. Do you still recognize me?"

With a ponytail and bangs on her forehead, she looks very young.I thought about it carefully, and I seemed to have seen such a girl in college, but I really didn't know her if I knew her.

"My name is Xu Jin. I'm a sophomore this year, and I'm studying folk history. You came to teach us a general English class."

When she said that, I remembered that I had seen her in class.This little girl is very smart, although she kept talking nonsense in class, she got good grades, and I even had dinner with her once in the cafeteria.

"I know people in the team, and I came to practice during the summer vacation. I was very happy to hear that sister Liao said that you would also be an interpreter." Xu Jin pulled me kindly and asked me to sit next to her.

As soon as I saw someone I knew, I let out a sigh of relief, and at the same time began to wonder whether everything happened last night.Maybe my memory is messed up.Maybe I was originally an accompanying interpreter for this research project, and what happened last night was just a nightmare.Could it be that my upside-down work and rest at home these two days finally affected my normal life?

I touched the amulet around my neck and shook my head.When you can't figure out whether you are crazy or not, you can only assume that you are not crazy.If you don't believe in your ability to control yourself, isn't it tantamount to giving up on yourself? "I am determined, I am happy, and I am responsible for my life," I thought to myself.No matter what happens next, you can't trust anyone, stay vigilant at all times, and keep yourself safe.

I am just such a person, I will go all the way when I make a decision, and the nine cows will not be able to turn back.But this time, as soon as I left, I really went all the way to the dark.I don't know if these problems in my personality are related to the incident that happened when I was a child, or if it's just fate.Besides, when I think about it later, my ability to make such a calm decision is also inseparable from that amulet.

I was about to say a few more words to Xu Jin, when suddenly Huang Kun yelled, put down the curtain, jumped up, and ran to the front of the bus, shouting "Put it on! Get ready to drive!"

I also raised the curtain to take a look, only to see a person running past the car, with long black hair curling up behind his head.Before I saw it clearly, the figure disappeared in a flash. At the same time, the bus shook violently, and suddenly rushed out.

Everyone in the front seat woke up, and Xu Jin and I also looked up at the person who just got into the car.

It was a long-haired woman, half-covering her face with a layer of veil, and nodded softly to everyone.

She seemed to be standing unsteadily, half of her body was resting on Huang Kun's shoulder, and Huang Kun was holding her waist beside him, whispering to her.I have relatives in Nanjing, and I can hear him with a Nanjing accent at this time.Huang Kun asked the woman, "Are you hurt?" She shook her head and asked if she would like to go to the back seat to rest for a while, and she nodded.

When passing me, the woman suddenly lifted the veil, gave me a sideways look, and then covered her mouth and smiled.She is very beautiful, her curly hair is like clouds, her collar is like a grub, and she is even more charming when she smiles and looks around.Everyone loves beautiful women, I forgot my situation for a moment, and couldn't help but cast a jealous look at Huang Kun.Huang Kun looked at me in surprise, then at the woman in his arms, then lowered his head and coughed, and helped her go.

Xu Jin bumped me with her elbow, interrupting my train of thought.She asked me if I had done my homework before coming here, and what kind of translation work was it.I don't know how to answer, I can only laugh in circles.I want to tell her that my house was robbed last night.Those people were looking for something, and wanted to kidnap me to somewhere, after that Huang Kun and Liao Xiaodan came, killed 8 people, robbed me of something, and wanted to kidnap me to somewhere.But they are still polite to me, this XX project is very serious, and I met an acquaintance here, I can't figure out the situation after going back and forth, and I hope she can give me some advice.

Of course I couldn't say that.Fortunately, Xu Jin didn't ask further.She took out a mobile phone to listen to the music, I looked at it with bright eyes, and asked her if she could lend me a call, and she readily agreed.

With trembling hands, I picked up the phone and called my parents first.I am an only child, my grandparents have passed away, and my grandparents live in other places, so I am very close to my parents.When something goes wrong, the first thing I think about is to contact my parents.

The signal was full. I dialed the home phone and stuck it to my ear, and was immediately deafened by a harsh crackling sound.

I hung up the phone abruptly.Xu Jin looked at me curiously.

"Who are you calling?"

I couldn't hide it even after thinking about it, so I told my parents.

Xu Jin frowned.

"Didn't you listen to the lecture before getting in the car? The mobile phone issued here can only be used to contact people in the team. It is a state secret project, how can it be possible to contact outsiders casually?"

I mean state secret project?Don’t mention it, I’m a primitive person. Just now I was in the cave with other primitive people to grab the female primitive person in the cave next door, and suddenly I was brought to the 21st century, and everyone around me was shouting that socialism is good. I couldn't react for a while.

Xu Jin listened to music with headphones on her mobile phone, and fell asleep next to me after a while.I huddled in my seat and looked left and right, and started crying as I watched.

As I said before, I don't like to cry.Since I can remember, the number of times I have cried can be counted on one hand.But this time it really broke down too badly.Afterwards, I encountered many more dangerous situations and suffered many greater blows, and the shock in my heart was not as strong as this time.I didn't shed tears that day in the car, but trembled violently.The world was spinning in front of me, and I could only hold the front seat, with my mouth wide open, sobbing in my throat, my internal organs were mixed together with each stroke, and there was only one thought in my head, which was to give up thinking.

But subconsciously I also knew that giving up would mean a mental breakdown.

By the time I recovered, it was already seven o'clock in the morning.Exhausted, I didn't have time to sort out the cause and effect of the matter, so I fell asleep beside Xu Jin.

This tandem mental blow caused me to fail to figure out where the bus was at that time.I only know that we have been on the road for two whole days, eating, drinking, and messing up in the car.However, later I calculated the time and thought that I should have arrived somewhere in Qinghai.The drinking water and fast food on the bus are sufficient, but the toilets are in poor condition.

There were a dozen Germans and a dozen Russians each in the car, all sitting in the front seat, looking at each other disliked.Liao Xiaodan can speak German without an accent, and she seems to have brought all the Germans with her.Huang Kun could speak a little bit of Russian, he led the Russian team, and they mainly communicated in English.These foreigners often came to see me very curiously, but I kept pretending to sleep.In my daze, I only heard a few words they said, "underground", "ominous", "safe", and "white dragon".

The bus stopped three times in two days, all in the early morning or midnight, and each time did not exceed 5 minutes.That beautiful woman would get out of the car and go out every time, while Huang Kun and Liao Xiaodan would be busy at the front and rear doors of the car, and no one could get off except that woman.

The first night they closed the curtains on the car windows one by one so we couldn't look out.

It was pouring rain outside the last time we parked.The foreigners were whispering and restless, but the woman got out of the car anyway.As soon as she got off, the storm outside subsided a little, and then the bus suddenly shook violently several times, and there was a loud noise from the window, as if someone was tapping on the window.Someone in the front seat screamed, and someone else said a prayer aloud.Liao Xiaodan ordered everyone to sit in their seats and not make a sound.She turned off all the lights in the car, and stood at the front of the car to discuss with Huang Kun in a low voice.Huang Kun looked at his watch.When the car stopped for 4 minutes, he patted Liao Xiaodan and got out of the car.I don't know why, but when the bus opened the door, people outside couldn't hear the sound of rain outside, and when the door was closed, the rain sounded again.

Everyone held their breath and concentrated, not daring to move.Suddenly the car shook again, this time the carriage shook so badly that it almost slanted over, pushing Xu Jin onto me.Xu Jin grabbed my hand violently. I thought she was afraid, but she drew something in my hand, and then leaned over to my ear: "There is a snake in the middle of the line; the Lord is falsely surprised, and the prison is a disaster. It's all fake , fake, don’t be afraid.”

"What?" I asked.

"Gossip." She smiled slightly, "Elective folklore."

When the 5 minutes arrived, the car door was slammed, but this time it was Huang Kun who came into the car with the woman in his arms.Both of them were covered with blood, which was filled with light red by the rain.As soon as they boarded the bus, the bus jerked off, and the rear window slammed loudly, as if something had hit it.Then there was only the sound of the torrential rain rushing around.

I heard Huang Kun gently yelling at the woman in the back seat.

"Why are your hands so cold? Where's your jade?... What are you doing for him? He wants you to join in the fun?"

There was only a muffled laugh from the backseat.I was tempted to look back, but held back.Xu Jin was still holding my hand.I gradually felt warmer, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The car has been driving west or north, the colder it gets, and some people have altitude sickness.

Two days later, the bus finally arrived at its destination in the evening.Liao Xiaodan held a little bee and told everyone to queue up to get off.The sunset light outside is just right, shining in through the curtain thinly.Everyone except me cheered and packed up the things in the car.

After getting out of the car, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but I was dumbfounded.

The place we went to was very similar to the base where the university's military training and agricultural association went.The car was parked in front of a two-story gray building, which looked like the office of a military training base.A red banner was also put down on the building, which read "Welcome the members of the National Expedition Team, and welcome the leaders of the Expedition Team to inspect."

What is different from the military training base is that this site is actually opened in a valley.Behind us, where the bus came in, was the entrance sealed off by two huge iron gates with no signage and plain green paint.There is a high wall built around the site, with wire and electric grids, a bit like Jurassic Park.Although the wall is high, it cannot block Yuan Dai behind.There are still some traces of people on the mountain, such as electric wires and gray buildings that look like signal transmission towers, and there seems to be a temple.

A row of low bungalows extended westward behind the office, and someone took us there to arrange accommodation.Outside the dormitory is a huge playground. Going west, in addition to seeing more buildings, you can actually see grass fields, sand fields, mountains, ditches, towering rock climbing equipment, etc., and drive straight into the mountains. Not to the head.

Liao Xiaodan took me, who was almost petrified, and sent me to a room.There are loudspeakers playing music outside, and there is a sweet female voice telling everyone to gather at six o'clock and have a bonfire dinner.

The dormitory is a double room, and my name is pasted on the door of my dormitory, and there is another person's name next to it, "Li Zhen".Li Zhen didn't know where it was.I wandered alone in a room that was so plainly furnished that it was no different from a high school military training dormitory.I have no clothes, no luggage, only a file that Liao Xiaodan gave me.

The file consists of five pages, all of which are technical information about geological surveys in Xinjiang and Tibet. There is not even a map, and I can't understand anything.The only worthwhile thing is that there is a roster at the end, and the number of people written in it is much more than the number of people in the bus, which shows that there are other teams.I was quite surprised that there was the name of that little junior sister in the roster.

I opened the door and watched the sky outside gradually darken.I realized that I could only stay here because there were mountains outside, and I couldn't run anywhere if I wanted to.When I was worrying, a two-person bonfire really sprang up on the playground.Xu Jin came to me and asked me to have dinner together.

We followed the crowd and sat down by a bonfire. There were dots of light above our heads, and the fire was dotted with dots, which was quite beautiful.Huang Kun came over and sat down next to us, asked a few innocuous words, and then said that he would introduce someone to us.At this time, a long-haired figure walked over with the light behind her back. I thought it might be that girl, and I was secretly happy, but suddenly realized that if it was really that girl, she was really scary tall.The figure came to sit next to me, turned his head, and I gasped suddenly.

This is indeed the person who got on and off the bus five times along the way, but that person turned out to be a man.

The man gave me the same sideways glance, this time with mockery in his eyes.He touched a cigarette, struck a match on the concrete floor, lit it, put it in his mouth, and stretched out his hand.

"My name is Li Zhen. What's your name?"

I hurriedly wiped my hands on my pants and shook them with him.

"No title, no title. It's Yang An."

Li Zhen said "Hey".

"You bastard, you're actually a man." He sighed at me.

I froze.Xu Jin was already rolling around laughing.

"He's spending you," Huang Kun said with a smile in his eyes, "You don't have much experience with women, do you really not see it?"