Urban Witcher

"Holy shit, you haven't succeeded yet, you're just so serious about sex and despise friends. If you succeed in the future, then you won't even know me!"

Cao Yu looked at Sibao with some surprise, and said, "Master...has a girlfriend?"

"What you said, I'm not ugly and shameless. I have a girlfriend. Is it surprising?" Sibao said as he stroked his bald head, suddenly felt good, and smiled embarrassedly at Cao Yu .

Ye Shaoyang took the lead and said: "Don't be surprised, this is a monk Hua. He can do anything by eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and playing with women."

Sibao stepped on him immediately, and just about to explain, Cao Yu complimented him: "The master is also a man of temperament, playing in the world, admiring him."

The car stopped at the entrance of a hotel. When they got out of the car, Ye Shaoyang and Sibao saw a military truck parked by the side of the road. The cargo box was wrapped tightly with canvas, and the license plate was from the capital city.

"Mr. Cao, don't we want to take this car?" Ye Shaoyang asked.

"This is a supply vehicle, it belongs to us. Someone will drive to the base later. Let's go in that vehicle."

Following the direction Cao Yu pointed, the two saw another off-road vehicle parked at the other end of the hotel.

"Where is the base?" Ye Shaoyang asked.

"I'll explain to you two slowly on the way," Cao Yu smiled, "Do you want to rest here for a while before setting off?"

Both of them said no, they just went to the hotel to use the toilet, and then got into the car.

Cao Yu sat in the front, and Ye Shaoyang sat in the back. After getting in the car and waiting for a while, the driver did not come. Ye Shaoyang said, "Where is the driver?"

"Pack up your things in the room, and he will be there soon. By the way, the driver is from the Naxi nationality. When you see him, just call him the master. Don't call him the driver, because in their place, the driver drives the truck, and the master carries people. Call him the driver." The driver will feel disrespected, and it's their custom not to change pants in the car."

Ye Shaoyang nodded, but Sibao asked, "There are also Naxi people in the Western Regions?"

Cao Yudao: "He is not from the Western Regions, but from southern Yunnan. His parents belonged to the Production Corps of the Western Regions. He stayed here. Later, the young man worked in the salt mine here. Now that the salt mine collapsed, he became a driver. Because the road is familiar, so We asked him to be our guide."

Sibao asked about the salt mine again, and Cao Yu explained that Luopo used to be a saltwater lake. After it dried up, a salt crust formed on the ground, and there were rich potassium salts in the ground, so some salt mines were opened in the fringe areas, but as the environment gradually deteriorated , these salt mines were closed.

Just as he was talking, a dark man in his twenties opened the car door, got into the driver's seat, smiled at the three of them, and drove without saying anything.

Ye Shaoyang looked over, and saw that this young man was wearing work clothes, and his appearance was no different from that of Han people, except that his hair was longer, and he looked good, he was a simple and honest person.

On the way, Cao Yu told Ye Shaoyang and the two that the so-called "base" was a small town in the Gobi Desert called Kulunke, which belonged to RQ County where Luopo was located. It was originally a barren land in the desert. In the 1900s, there was an upsurge in the investigation of Luopo, not only by officials, but also by folk archaeologists and explorers, as well as some foreign visitors. When entering Luopo from the east, they had to pass through Kurenko.

Over time, this place has grown to a certain scale, and some people have started business there, transporting supplies from the interior and selling them to those who enter Luopo for expeditions or investigations, mainly food and clothing, and some expedition equipment, including rescue service.

The remaining members of the expedition team for this operation, those beasts, have already gathered at the "base", waiting for the two of them.

All the way to the west, after leaving the Yumen Pass, the scenery became more and more desolate, and the buildings and villages became less and less. Ye Shaoyang only found out after asking that this was considered to be entering the Gobi.

The Gobi Desert... Ye Shaoyang looked at the frontier scenery, and couldn't help but be filled with emotion.

Sibao said: "That's not right, isn't it sung in the song 'Gobi sandy beaches turn into fertile fields'? It hasn't turned into fertile fields here either, isn't it still a desert?"

Cao Yu said with a smile: "The song only talks about turning into fertile fields, but it doesn't say that the entire Gobi Desert has turned into fertile fields."

The car drove for an unknown amount of time at the edge of the desert. At first Ye Shaoyang and Sibao were interested in looking at the scenery, but later they were so tired that they fell asleep in a daze under the bumps of the car.

When he woke up, the sun had already set, Ye Shaoyang looked into the distance, there were some Uyghur villages before, but now there is nothing, only the wilderness, some abandoned buildings, some dead and dry trees, still standing on the parched earth.

Cao Yu took out compressed biscuits and beef jerky to fill their stomachs, and drove for several hours. When it was dark, he completely entered the desert, and the surroundings were completely dark. When he finally saw a bright light, Cao Yu told them that the road ahead That's the base.

When they got out of the car, Ye Shaoyang and Sibao were exhausted and hurt everywhere. They walked slowly around and observed, and found that the so-called base was about the size of a village, smaller than ordinary villages, with only two rows of crude According to Cao Yu, this building was left by the former potash mine, and was later occupied by nearby villagers, who used it as a store to sell some things.

On the leeward open space behind a sand dune, many tents were set up in different colors and styles, and they did not look like a group of people. There are many cars parked nearby, all off-road.

When Ye Shaoyang and Sibao came to the row of building stalls, they saw that the vendors were all dressed as Uighurs, and most of them sold expedition equipment such as kettles and shovels, as well as some food.

There is really a need to buy and sell, both of them are a little emotional, they did not expect that there are traders in this wild place.

Cao Yu's assistant bought them some naan for them to try. This is a kind of Uighur food, similar to steamed buns, and then they are invited to enter the largest tent. An incandescent lamp is hung in the tent, and a knee-high square table is directly below it. Some blankets and bags are placed around it. .

"Mr. Ye, Master Four Treasures, the conditions here are a bit rough, don't be disgusted, please sit down for a while, I have already sent someone to invite experts from the expedition team, and we will meet and have a meal together later."

Ye Shaoyang pointed to the incandescent lamp above his head and said, "Where does the electricity come from?"

"Generator, gasoline to generate electricity."

Cao Yu talked about the situation of the base again. The three of them were chatting when the curtain of the tent was opened, and several people came in one after another. They were invited by Cao Yu to sit down, and then introduced the two sides.

People probably didn’t come, only a few representatives came. Ye Shaoyang took a rough look, there were four people in total, three men and one woman, and there were more than 30 women. The men with him were about the same age, and both of them looked polite. Wearing thick myopia glasses, he looks like a teacher.

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