Modern Onmyoji

Chapter 250 Entering the Desert
"You are the consultant this time." William said, stretching out his hand, with a polite smile on his face, "Don't worry, I will definitely guarantee your safety this time. But correspondingly, I hope you don't mess around. .Otherwise, I can't guarantee your—ah!"

When I hold my hand, I can feel a huge force coming from William's hand.Most people can't bear this kind of grip, but it's a pity that it's me. I secretly lucked the Five Flavors Real Fire, and an even more unimaginable force acted on his hand, and I saw his face immediately turned ugly, "That's natural. , My task is also to ensure the safety of the entire team. I hope that the team leader William will not mess around, otherwise I can't guarantee the safety of everyone."

William's face turned from blue to purple, and he finally pulled out his hand.He looked at me in disbelief, "It seems that you are still a practicing family. This is the best, the desert is not a place where waste can be tolerated." After speaking, William left resentfully.

"Oh me, master, you are too powerful!" Bruce shouted excitedly when he saw that William was deflated by me, "This William often slaps the consultants with the team. I have worked with him once before. , That guy almost broke my hand when he came up! Unexpectedly, he ran away from you, Master!"

"Don't call me Master!" I said with a blank look at him, "I can't even compare with him in hand strength, and you still want to be my apprentice. This alone is not qualified!"

"Ah, no, Master! I will work hard!"

Then we boarded the plane.Large transport planes are naturally not as comfortable as commercial airliners, but they are also much better than military transport planes.Of course, we did not fly directly to the Sahara Desert.

As a restricted area for life, the Sahara Desert has more than hot and dry weather. Similar to the strange phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle, the electromagnetic waves will be greatly disturbed in an indeterminate time period.Flying in modern aircraft, which rely on electronic navigation, is also dangerous.The plane just sent us to the border of the Sahara Desert, and then turned into the northern Sahara Desert by steam in the Mediterranean region.

When the plane flew over the sky, looking down, the earth was red and yellow.The expanse of sand and the distant sky became everything, and as far as the eye could see, there was only the endless vastness of nature.Only when human beings truly face nature will they feel their own insignificance.In recent years, countless people have attempted to cross the Sahara Desert.He claims to have conquered nature without shame, but he does not know that he has been conquered by the magnificence of nature at the moment of inspirational crossing.Only when you are conquered will you have that proud feeling after crossing.Just imagine, instead of saying that humans conquered the desert, it is better to say that the desert allowed or passed through humans.

"The Sahara Desert was formed about 250 million years ago. It is the second largest desert in the world after Antarctica. It is the largest sandy desert in the world. It is located in northern Africa and has very harsh climate conditions. It is one of the most inhospitable places on earth for living things One. Its total area can accommodate the entire continental United States." At this moment, Bruce showed the professionalism of a desert expert, and the data came at his fingertips, "Sahara is a transliteration of Arabic, which originated from the local nomadic Tuareg In human language, the original meaning is the Great Desert. To be honest, I haven’t really gone deep here. I really don’t know how that Cadiz did it.”

"Cades, what route did you take the last time you crossed the Sahara Desert?" I suddenly thought of this, and turned to ask.

"Um, the last time I crossed the Raibyanai Desert, the Aubari Desert, and the Great Eastern Desert of Algeria." Caddis said here, scratching his head a little embarrassedly, I don't know where his embarrassment is, Bruce Immediately explained with sarcasm, "The Sahara Desert is just a general term. It is actually composed of the Libyan Desert, the Rabyana Desert, the Aubari Desert, the Eastern and Western Deserts of Algeria, the Shesh Desert, and the Juf Desert. , Awana Desert, Birma Desert and other large desert areas. This kid just took a few shortcuts."

"Well, it seems that you are all half-baked." I couldn't help but say, after getting off the plane, the others began to prepare equipment, and the team leader William called me into the hood to study the wiring problem.

"We don't have detailed coordinates. The most core documents were destroyed by Hitler when he attacked Berlin." William said, taking out a dozen of various documents, "These are the clues we found from the documents. Basically, I got such a route." As he spoke, he drew a red line on a large map, and drew a circle in the middle. "The location of the buried gold is probably here. We need to find the specific location by ourselves."

"However, the sand sea here is composed of complex and regular dunes of large and small sizes, with complex and diverse shapes, including tall fixed dunes, lower mobile dunes, and large areas of fixed and semi-fixed dunes. The main distribution of fixed dunes is In the south, it is close to the grasslands and the Atlantic coast. From Libya to the west to the west of Algeria is the quicksand area. The mobile sand dunes move continuously along the wind. In the Sahara Desert, a record of 9 meters of mobile sand dunes has been observed in a year. "Bruce continued. , "The flow of sand dunes will cause the road signs to get lost. It is difficult for us to guarantee not to deviate."

"I can solve this problem." I said suddenly at this time, "I have also read the information these days, and one of the key points above caught my attention. According to the description in the information, there is a river with a large flow in the place where the gold is buried .”

"It's useless. There are rivers in the desert, but they may move faster than sand dunes. The amount of precipitation is different. Those original rivers may only have a lifespan of a few months. They will disappear soon. Not to mention It’s been decades.” Caddis said immediately.

"The river may disappear, but since there is a river, it is definitely not just a depression. In the desert, only the underground river can form the upper river." I said, "The upper river may disappear due to evaporation, but the underground river Won't."

"That's right! Haha, Boy Chen, you really have a solution." William couldn't help clapping his hands and said after hearing this.

"To put it simply, how can you tell the direction of the underground river?" Caddis said angrily, "We can't dig a hole to see the flow of the underground river after taking two steps. We will have no way to move."

"So you are not professional." I said helplessly, "Fortunately, you are still a desert expert. There are many plants in the desert, and the water for these plants comes from the ground. By observing the growth of the plants on the surface, you can see The flow direction of the underground river came out." They were speechless after what I said.Now that the route has been confirmed, we are ready to go and set off immediately.The first day was not bad, and it was also my first time in the desert, and my indescribable surprise was like the first time I came to the South China Sea.Of course, the next day was like going to the South China Sea—tired of watching.However, after several expeditions, I already know that any stimulation and other things are nonsense, and safety comes first.Being able to keep this boredom is the best result.

But on the third day, the accident happened.It was dark for a while.Bruce immediately said that a big sandstorm was about to appear.But it shouldn't be very deadly, and our equipment should be enough to resist it.I don't know how he deduced that the sandstorm was not big.However, I did some calculations with my hand, and found out that this sandstorm is amazingly powerful.I was still worried about pulling out the radio because we were a big convoy with William at the front and me in the middle.Communication is by radio only. "William? There will be a large sandstorm in a while. Shall we wait here. It's dangerous to go on in such weather."

"It doesn't matter, this little sandstorm is nothing." William's disdainful voice came, "When I was in Iraq, I saw sandstorms several times larger than this. Our cars are all military standards, no problem." With that said, the convoy did not stop for a while and continued to move forward.I didn't think much about it, although I figured out the danger.But you won't avoid it if you stand still, so it's better to face it directly.Just notify the whole team by radio, and they are all on alert.

William didn't take my caution seriously, but it might be because the previous confrontation was a disadvantage, so he didn't say much at this time.Gradually, the blockade became bigger and bigger, and the visibility began to decrease.But you can still see the road ahead.However, my ears moved slightly, and I immediately noticed something strange mixed with the wind.It turned out to be like the sound of wings flickering. It is hard to imagine that in such a sandstorm, any creature that relies on wings can still fly.

But the sound has been around, not close.I didn't say it for the time being, but just listened to these voices more attentively.Carefully looking for the source of the sound, gradually, I was surprised to find that these sounds came from below!That's right, the bottom of the car is a vacuum zone, where the wind and sand can indeed be avoided to the greatest extent!I shuddered at the thought of something attached to us all the time.

(End of this chapter)