Aning was very surprised and asked, "Why?"

Taxi said to us: "My grandma said that the devil city in front of you is not a tourist attraction. This Yadan landform is about 87 square kilometers, very vast. It is still in the most primitive state. There are no signposts and you can walk inside at night. If you are not familiar with the environment, you will be very easy to get lost. Moreover, it is said that there are many quicksand wells here. In 1997, a team of geological expedition team disappeared. Many people were dispatched to search but couldn't find it. Later, in 1999, a strong wind broke out. Several photographers found two mummies in a sand pit while taking photos here, and the others have not yet found it."

Aning shook his head after hearing this and said, "Don't worry about this. We bring GPS. If the terrain here is so complicated, we have to go in. If we wait until dawn to find it, something might have happened."

As he said that, he ignored Tashi's advice, greeted a few people, turned on the flashlight, and planned to continue going deeper.

I think what she said makes sense. Taxi has always played an alarmist role. Now Aning naturally won’t believe everything about him. Moreover, foreigners’ behavior is people-oriented, letting those three people go without paying attention. In their hearts, they are like killing them with their own hands. These people cannot make such a decision.

Of course I have to follow, because those three people disappeared when I was with me, and more or less, I have to do my best, otherwise if there is a real accident, I will not feel at ease. And it is completely impossible to fall asleep while sitting here.

Tashi was still going to speak. At this time, the decisive master Zhuoma on the side spoke. She shook her head and told Tashi not to say anything. Then she quickly said something to Tashi in Tibetan.

Tashi immediately showed a very incomprehensible expression, but the expression of the decisive master Zhuoma was very firm. Tashi wanted to protest, but the decisive master Zhuoma scolded him, and Tashi didn't dare to continue talking. He nodded to the decisive master Zhuoma, retreated, and said to us with a depressed look: "You are lucky, my grandma asked me to take you in." As he said that, he twisted the flashlight and walked to his luggage and began to clean up his equipment.

I couldn't understand Tibetan, so I asked Aning what the old lady said. Aning also shook her head. She said it was too light and couldn't hear it. It was probably because she was collecting money and eliminating disasters for others.

I felt funny and took a look at the decisive master Zhuoma. The old woman had already returned to the tent, and it seemed that she was not worried about these things at all.

Taxi cleaned up his equipment and asked us to let go of unnecessary things, bring enough water, dry food, and a signal gun. Then he woke up a driver and told him what we were going to do, let him stay outside and prepare to respond. If he saw us making flares inside, don't come in, just call flares outside to point us in the direction. If he doesn't come out yet, wait until dawn before letting others come in to find us, and he will leave a mark along the way.

The driver agreed in a daze. The four of us rectified for a while, and then set out to the entrance of the Devil City behind us.

The place we sheltered from the Devil City is on the edge of the Devil City. After the tall rock mountain camped, there is a steep slope that extends downwards. At the end is the castle-like rock mountain I saw during a sandstorm. This should be a relatively high rock mountain in the Devil City.

Zhaxi piled an Arabian stone pile with gravel on the steep slope, marking the direction for later generations. He said that if there are any turns along the way, he would pile one. Once we see the pile of stones we piled up during the process of moving forward, we can no longer move forward, and we will start to circle around again. This is his bottom line.

We felt it made sense, so we said it was OK.

Soon we walked into the city entrance and entered the Devil City. The scene around us began to become strange. Looking up, the moonlight was full of black rocks that were prominent on the sands of the Gobi, because the light was indistinguishable. When we shone the flashlight, we could see that the weathered gullies cut by the wind on the rocks were very obvious. Under this blackness, a few places where the moonlight could shine seemed particularly pale, and this feeling was a bit like walking on the surface of the moon.

I watched all the way, imagining the contents of geological mechanics back then, and I had forgotten all of them. I only knew that the land of the Yadan Feng-eroded rock group was underage. The terrain was probably relatively low, and the rocks and mounds were exposed to the surface for not long, and they were not weathered very much, so most of the rocks and mounds were still very tall.

In this case, we can only walk between rocky mounds and cannot climb up the mounds as casually as other devil cities. However, the valleys under this landform are not flat, with high places protruding above the sand and low places covered by the Gobi. In geology, these rocks are actually considered to be the tops of underground mountains. Although it is only a dozen meters high, there are huge rock foundations a few kilometers deep under our feet. These mountains hidden under the sand and gravel are branches of the Kunlun Mountains. In theory, we are also walking on Kunlun Mountains now.

However, I didn't have time to think about these academic issues. As soon as I entered two or three kilometers, Aning started calling on the walkie-talkie, and we shouted loudly, hoping that the three people could hear our voices and respond to us.

In the silent devil city, our voices are suddenly bounced into countless echoes, overlapping together and can spread far away. It sounds very strange from afar, as if the ghost sounds from the underworld.

I went as I shouted and walked, and after two or three hours, I went deep into the depths of the Devil City. The flashlight swept the rocks around me, my eyes were blurred, and my mouth was numb. But I didn't find any shadows of the Caucasians, and there was no echo in our shouts. I answered that we were only our own echoes and the slight whimpering sounds.

We stopped to rest, and Aning asked Taxi, according to his experience, how would it be better to find it?

Tashi shook his head: "You are the only way. We have walked about seven kilometers now. We have walked a long way along the straight line, but in fact, we have turned the direction without realizing it. Looking at the compass, we are almost walking back now. People are like ants here, and they will take the S-shaped route without realizing it. So I can only guarantee that I will take you out now. I can't provide advice for finding someone... It's okay if they don't move, but if they are also finding a way out. Then what is the probability that you will meet in the maze of 80 square kilometers?"

Aning was dissatisfied with this answer and frowned and said, "Has no one ever been lost before?"

Taxi was piled with stones, and shook his head without raising his head: "We never come in at night in this kind of place."

After saying that, he sighed, not sure what it means.

Aning looked at our expressions and encouraged us a few words to prevent us from being discouraged. But it was obviously not very effective. We smoked several cigarettes and recovered a little. Then we continued to move forward.

However, things still did not develop as we expected. I shouted and walked, and I didn’t know how long I had walked. During this period, I rested four times. Zhaxi piled up more than thirty piles of stones, but he still didn’t even see a figure. There was no response. It seemed that the silent devil city had swallowed any sound to us.

What really makes me feel terrible is that we did not see any stone piles of Tashi appear, which means we are still moving forward now, and this devil city seems to be unfathomable, and I don’t know how many distances there are in it.

Continue to move forward, we walked into a canyon made of rocks. Under a large rock, we really couldn't walk anymore, so we could only stop for the sixth time to rest.

At this time, our voices were hoarse and we could no longer shout. We gulped water. Everyone entered a state of aphasia and their minds were a little blank.

After a while of silence, the team doctor suddenly said, "Isn't there really a devil in this Devil City? Are they taken away by the Devil?"

This was abrupt and we were stunned for a moment. Tashi glared at him and told him not to talk nonsense. Tibetans are more traditional, and this kind of thing sounds uncomfortable.

"The devil is definitely not. People are definitely here too." After a while, Tashi took a sip of water and said slowly while moistening his throat, "I just don't know what the situation is now."

The few people fell silent again and each thought about their own thoughts. In fact, I know that the hope in our hearts is very small now. When we first came in, I still thought that it is very likely to find them, and at least some traces can be found. Now, there is no idea at all.

After resting for a while, Aning looked at the watch and stood up. Hear us and prepared to continue to set off. We all stood up reflexively, took a deep breath, prepared to cheer up, and continued to shout.

At this moment, several of us heard a scream from Aning's intercom. The static electricity sound was very loud and very harsh, and we couldn't hear what it was.

The surroundings were so quiet that we were so scared that we were half-hearted that we immediately looked at Aning's intercom.

Aning was also stunned. It took several seconds to react. He quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and listened carefully.

The sound rang again, the static electricity was extremely harsh, but it was obvious that it was a person calling.

"They are nearby!" we screamed. Aning almost jumped up.

With a terrain like Devil City, the walkie-talkie has almost no effect. Only within a very short distance can the signal be received. Aning wanted to receive such a signal all the way, but there was no result. Now the signal suddenly rang, and it was obvious that the other party's walkie-talkie was very close to it.

We breathed a sigh of relief in our hearts, and Aning immediately started to adjust the frequency, and the sound became clear, but we still couldn't hear what he was saying. Then she shouted at the intercom: "I am the leader, we are searching for you, where are you?"

The answer is a series of indescribable sounds, which are very serious intrusions, but the tone of voice changes, and it is obvious that the other party can hear our voices.

The frustration just now was swept away, and the team doctor shouted "yes". I also took out my walkie-talkie, patted it, and adjusted it to see if it was a problem with the machine. Soon I also called out the sound, which was also noisy.

Aning called again, and this time the voice became a little clearer. Several of us tried hard to listen, hoping to hear clearly what the other party was saying.
Chapter completed!