The door of the courtyard house has been welded dead

The Gobi Desert in October, or also known as the desert.

It was desolate, extremely desolate, with only the strong wind roaring and making a huge noise.

Grains of sand and dust, carried by the strong wind, swept across the Gobi Desert and then hit the ground wantonly, making this uninhabited area completely unsuitable for the survival of any carbon-based organisms.

The cracked surface looks extremely desolate under the sunlight. The vast desert and saline-alkali land are barren and have no grass growing on them, making them look particularly desolate.

With the arrival of autumn, the temperature gradually drops and the hot season has passed. The average daytime temperature is now around 10 degrees.

It was obviously cooler outside, but people who saw this scene still felt hot first.

The two rails were faintly covered with gravel, and only the gleaming tracks could be vaguely seen. As for the stones laid between the sleepers, they had long been covered by the yellow sand.

In the crack, a weed stubbornly drilled out from the gap, adding a little green to this deserted place where even birds and animals avoided it.

The weeds sway in the wind. For them, this may be the beginning of hell, but the seeds fall here with the wind and the roots take root deeply here.

Even though it started out as hell, it still survived, showing its stubborn vitality to the desolate next door.

At the end of the sight, smoke appeared again, like white smoke, but also like black smoke. The smooth track began to vibrate, and the yellow sand that fell on it was gradually shaken off to both sides with the high-frequency vibration.

The first thing that came into view was a black locomotive, followed by a green train, and further back were closed carriages and a freight platform.

It can be said that this locomotive has to do the work of several trains, transporting people and goods.

The train is running very slowly because the train driver has to keep his eyes on the track ahead to avoid being covered by the dust and sand, and he has to be ready to brake at any time.

This road is not easy to travel, but it has to be traveled every year. The train driver has become accustomed to his job and has no idea what is being pulled behind the train.

It’s not that I really don’t know, but even if I know, I have to say I don’t know~!

Following the locomotive, the eyes move backwards and one can see that the seats in the green carriage have been removed one by one, but the carriage does not look spacious at this moment.

The living chickens and ducks had their legs tied up and could only flap their wings until they had no strength to move. The live pigs were surrounded by iron fences and made anxious snoring sounds.

A live sheep was tied to the window, and kept using its horns to butt against the carriage, but the winner was still unknown.

That’s right, half of the green carriage was filled with these live poultry, a considerable number of them, and the other half was filled with baskets of eggs and green vegetables that were rare in the desert Gobi.

It turns out that the passenger carriages were used to carry goods, and what they carried were these items that are very rare here. Being able to eat these things here is no different from celebrating the Chinese New Year.

Behind the green carriage was a freight carriage with its doors closed. The doors on both sides left a fist-sized gap.

Occasionally, you can see a military green figure moving inside.

"Kuangqi, kuangqi~!"

The wheels rolled over the tracks, making a rhythmic tapping sound.

"What kind of a hellish place is this? There's not even a single person in sight?"

A head appeared in the gap. It had a crew cut and a pair of black eyes looked out from the gap in the carriage door.

But all I could see was yellow sand, or dry, cracked, and hardened sand. Not to mention people, there wasn't even a bird to be seen.

"What are you talking about, Xie Meng? What is a ghost place? As long as it is our land, it is the beautiful land of our motherland~!"

The scene in the sealed car was quite noisy. The recruits were still full of energy. It might be their first time to travel far away, so everything they saw was new to them.

On the contrary, the cadres and squad leaders who received the soldiers were already exhausted from all the goings and comings.

"Let me make way, let me make some fertilizer for our beautiful country!"

Anyway, they had already left the city and there was no countryside nearby. It was a deserted place with no one in sight. The new recruit simply untied his belt and sprayed water out through the gap in the carriage.

It is said that young people have strong energies and can pee three meters high against the wind.

A group of ignorant and fearless young people, who have finally escaped from their homes and the supervision of their parents, can be said to be acting recklessly at this time.

The squad leader who receives the soldiers is too lazy to take care of it. When they get to the place where they are and no one is helping them, someone will naturally take care of them.

"Where is this? Does anyone know?"

"There is such a place in our motherland. How come I didn't know about it? This is not my first time here. Tsk tsk, it's hard to imagine that there is such a place~!"

The young man, who had just finished peeing, looked at the monotonous yellow sand, fastened his belt, sat down on the side of the carriage, and asked, "This is called a desert. You know the desert, right? It's either in the inner M or west of the inner M. There are only these two places with deserts. Your geography is really not that good~!"

I don't know who it was, but he answered the question as if to show off, but he didn't know exactly where this was.

"Well, you have a high level of education. We don't teach geography in junior high school. So you have to tell me where this is?"

"Okay, don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. You'll know the answer when we get there~!"

The old squad leader naturally had no good temper towards this kind of new recruit who was trying to get to the bottom of things. It was hard to say whether the new recruits assigned here were lucky or unlucky.

I have been here for so many years that I have become accustomed to the dry climate. Just like the weeds by the railway tracks, I have taken root.

There are many people like him. They have been here for many years and they don’t know how many years they will stay here. What they often talk about is confidentiality.

No matter which unit they belong to or where they serve, from the moment these new recruits are assigned here, the same symbol is painted on their bodies to keep it secret.

The endless Gobi Desert has seen the arrival of new people today, and there are quite a few of them, as can be seen from the several sealed tank cars.

As for the flatbed at the back of the tank car, there were objects covered with green canvas. The yellow sand hit the oil canvas, making a rustling sound.

A grain of yellow sand rolled along the wrinkles on the oil canvas and onto the wooden flat plate. The stoppers made of triangular wooden blocks blocked the front and rear of the iron tracks.

Inside the canvas, it was pitch black, and one could tell it was a large object, but something had happened to the long-nosed gun barrel, and the front had cracked, making it look like a scrapped tank.

It wasn't even painted, and it was unknown whether it was an experimental vehicle or one of the vehicles that had exploded during training. It hadn't been repaired either, and at this moment, it followed the train and entered the desert silently.

This is just the first one. On the flatbed, there are oil canvas coverings and various objects. They all have one characteristic: they are big.

Not only wooden backstops, but also black steel cables stretched out from under the canvas and fixed to the hooks on the side of the flatbed train.

Passenger carriages are used to carry goods, freight carriages are used to carry people, but the more normal flatbed "carriages" are used to carry all kinds of large items, such as scrapped weapons and equipment. The best destination for these things should be a repair shop or a boiler.

No matter how you look at this train, it seems a little strange. But there are relatively few trains on this line, so no matter how strange the train is, it won't be strange when it arrives here.

As time passed, the speed of the train gradually slowed down, and not far in front of the locomotive, a station that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time appeared.

The station is obviously relatively new, but it is unbearable to look at. The bricks are riddled with holes due to erosion by wind and sand, and look extremely shabby. The black letters on the cement sign of the station have long been extremely mottled due to the erosion of wind and sand.

"Taildun Station~!"

The train then slowly stopped here until the wheels locked, making a harsh sound.

"After you get off the bus, don't look around or talk to each other. Stand in line. Do you understand?"

"Understood~!"

Inside the carriage, the new recruits were extremely excited to learn that they had finally arrived. The life in the sealed carriage was too boring, and after enduring so many days, they were now extremely impatient.

Even if I guessed that the place I came to was not easy, as long as I could get off the bus, it would not be easy anymore.

"Wow~!"

After a while, staff in railway uniforms opened the door of the sealed car. The new recruits came out and saw the scene at the station. Their hearts sank immediately.

When I thought about having to stay in this hellhole for three years, I couldn't help but want to back out.

"At ease, stand at attention, turn right, start~go!"

No matter whether it was the officer or the squad leader who was receiving the soldiers, they seemed unwilling to stay here any longer. In a short while, they boarded the military vehicles that had been waiting for them.

The military vehicle went away, and the new recruits sitting in the back of the carriage looked at the train carrying them. They were overwhelmed with emotions. There was clearly a passenger carriage in front of them, but who were the people sitting in it that made them stay in the sealed carriage for so many days?

After the recruits left, the train did not continue to move. The driver at the front of the train fell asleep and the curtains were drawn on the windows at the front of the train.

The empty tank car was not closed after transporting the new recruits. Instead, it was used again. Oil drums filled with clean and clear water were sent into the tank car through the open warehouse door of the station.

Until several sealed boxcar carriages were filled with more food than the previous ones. As the items were loaded, the driver opened the curtains again.

After continuing to move forward for a distance, the train began to gradually accelerate and headed southwest, towards its destination, the center of the desert.

The gravel was swept away by the wind, and soon, all traces of its presence were completely covered by the yellow sand, and the station was once again deserted. (End of this chapter)