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Chapter 1228 Camp

When everyone heard the order to camp, they felt relieved. Looking back on the excitement when they first set off, it was obvious that the mood was so great that it was as if the heat almost dropped from the boiling point to the freezing point the next day.

The camping location was chosen by Nabari. Although it seems that there is no difference between camping in the desert, whether you can live comfortably and safely can tell the ability of the guide.

Nabari chose a flat sandy land on the leeward side of the tall dune as the camping site, which was the dune where Car No. 10 was trapped.

After choosing the location, everyone started to get busy.

When camping, it depends on the ability of Li Pitt and his team. They often experience humanities and natural wonders around the world... The pure energy of the universe and the experience of outdoor camping is relatively rich.

On the other hand, except for Wei Kang himself who has accumulated some experience in the field inspections repeatedly, others, including Zhang Zi'an, are rookies. They have only browsed the instructions for camping tents and have not actually operated them.

When the people in Li Pitt's team saw that Wei Kang was too efficient, they ran over to help them set up tents after they finished their work. In fact, except for their stubborn thoughts, most of these people are enthusiastic and easy to get along with. As long as they don't anger their scattered scales, everything else is easy to say.

The tents they brought were large and small, including single, double, three, and four-person tents, mainly single and double tents. As long as Zhang Zian insisted on bringing a four-person tent to take care of the elves, he insisted on bringing a four-person tent.

After a simple discussion, He He and the female detective lived in a two-person tent, built in the center of the campsite, surrounded by other people's tents.

13 off-road vehicles parked in a crescent arc shape, surrounding the tent group with tall sand dunes, leaving two passages up and down for entry and exit, respectively, as convenient paths for men and women.

Lee Pitt and Wei Kang seriously and solemnly announced the primary discipline, except for convenience, no one is allowed to leave the camp at night, and the two women must also go together when they go to convenience.

Next is to arrange the candidates for night watch. There are 15 people in the team. Except for two women who are exempt from the vigil mission, the other 13 men have to watch for two hours each, taking turns in the order of vehicles until they complete the mission and leave the desert.

The female detective complained a little, thinking that she could also participate in the vigil and there was no need to let the men take care of her, but Wei Kang told her privately that she mainly asked her to take care of He He and not let this ignorant girl cause trouble, so she reluctantly agreed.

After setting up the tent, the sun sets, and only a little afterglow remains in the west, and stars are rising in the night sky.

The temperature dropped rapidly as they turned, allowing them to experience the true meaning of the temperature difference between day and night in the desert. They were sweating all over the head of setting up a tent the moment before, and the next moment they felt the little wind was cool, making their spine cold.

The others were so cold that their spines were so cold that He He, who was most afraid of the cold, just put on a coat. But when everyone saw that Nabarri and Salim, the uncle and nephew, actually wore fur vests, were wearing fur vests, as if they were beginning to winter.

The Bedouin people lived in high-temperature and arid deserts for generations, and their adaptability to the desert was beyond ordinary people's imagination. The water source in the desert is precious. If they sweat at high temperatures like ordinary people, they may not be able to treat the desert as their home. Therefore, they have evolved to a certain extent and their bodies have adapted to the high temperature.

When Zhang Zian and the others were sweating profusely, Nabarri and Salim only had a slight sweat on their faces.

Humans are constant temperature animals and cannot adapt to high and low temperatures at the same time. When the temperature drops, the uncle and nephew will feel cold at the same time and need to keep warm.

This is probably a true portrayal of "using advances and abandoning retreats".

Logically speaking, the tent has been laid and the vigil has been arranged, so can I rest? Or is it not possible. The next task is for drivers of each vehicle to check the remaining oil in the fuel tank and the consumption of water and food, and then summarize it for Li Pitt and Wei Kang. This is also the daily task for the future.

Zhang Zi'an's tent is located closest to the sand dunes in the camp. Because it is relatively large, it is the most troublesome to build. When he finally set up the tent and counted the amount of fuel and supplies in his car, he took the statistics to Wei Kang and Li Pitt to report.

He seemed to be the last one to report, and everyone else had already reported it. There was only a blank space in the exel table displayed on the laptop in front of Wei Kang.

Wei Kang filled in the figures he read into the form. Exel automatically calculated the total fuel consumption of all vehicles based on the formula, the total fuel consumption of the total fuel and the average fuel consumption per vehicle, as well as the total amount of water and food remaining, and the estimated number of days to maintain.

Li Pitt was also present, standing behind Wei Kang. When they saw the displayed numbers, they frowned at the same time.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Zian saw that their expressions were not right, as if there were hidden worries.

Wei Kang and Li Pitt looked at each other and said for a moment: "Actually, it's nothing. The consumption of oil and water is a bit too fast, which is beyond our estimate... But don't worry, we took into account the redundancy when preparing the supplies, so there should be no problem."

For their team, water is the source of life, and oil is the driving force for progress and retreat. These two are the most important things and are more important than food.

Zhang Zian felt a little nervous when he heard this. Seeing that Wei Kang did not object, he turned around and looked at the form carefully.

When his eyes moved to the average fuel consumption column of the vehicle, he was really surprised. If the data were excluded, the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers per car was as high as 30 liters!

Large-displacement diesel off-road vehicles have large torque, strong power, strong skin and resistant to frets. Compared with gasoline cars, diesel itself is not easy to evaporate and has a smaller smell, so the cars used to enter the desert this time are all diesel cars.

Although diesel cars have many advantages, they still have an extremely high fuel consumption.

Wei Kang had already analyzed it before Zhang Zi'an came, and there were three reasons: First, they carried a large amount of supplies and equipment and increased loads, second, the road conditions were extremely poor, and third, the air conditioners were a large fuel-consuming household.

Among them, the second point is the most deadly.

When driving in the desert, the tires overcome resistance and do their work. Every moment, one-quarter of the fuel consumption is not comparable to when running on the highway, especially when climbing over sand dunes, the engine is simply eating oil.

About half of the journeys are run in the Gobi Desert today. Although the road conditions in the Gobi Desert are also very poor, they are at least much better than those in the desert, which reduces fuel consumption. In the future, driving in the desert every day, it can be foreseen that the fuel consumption will increase significantly.

The situation is obviously not as easy as Wei Kang said.
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