Chapter 19 The Black Storm
Everyone listened to Uncle Lai's words, then all together quickly retreated to the temple's main hall, after all, there is only a corpse here, while that water cellar has countless corpses ......
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, even if I came to the main hall, I can still hear many voices whispering in my ears, but I can't hear anything under the careful listening.
Here is really weird very, if it is in the usual I leaned so close to the corpse, surely I can feel their pre-mortem memories.
But here it seems that there is a kind of mysterious power that makes my ability to become very weak, and sometimes even completely disappear ......
The red-clothed bride on the temple's main hall was still sitting there as motionless as ever, and ever since hearing that middle-aged man's words, everyone had been carefully walking around her. But I have a strong interest in this corpse, because as long as I am close to her, the sadness in my heart can not be suppressed ......
The group exited the temple and the sun was still strong outside. Since there was very little water and food left on us, we couldn't be so exposed to the hot sun. So we all went back to the residence where we spent the night last night, after all, it was the closest to the city gates, so it would be convenient for us to quickly get out of the city if anything really happened.
The middle-aged man and us together out of the temple, although I have always been wary of him, but also can not leave him alone there. Ding Yi is not good eyeballs staring at him, afraid of this person in the regeneration of what changes to come.
After returning to the residence Ye Zhiqiu gave everyone some naan and water, because of the serious shortage of food and water, so now everyone can only limited supply. I look at the hand of this less than a palm-sized piece of naan bread, the heart of the bowels of the repentance of the green, think about if he died here, then I saved in the bank of the tens of thousands of dollars have not spent a penny it!
Uncle Lai saw me staring at the naan in my hand in a daze, so he advised, "Eat something, you have to maintain your strength to walk out!"
I nodded, then took a hard bite of the naan bread in my hand, in fact, this dry stuff is not that bad ......
Zhao Qiang saw that everyone didn't have much of an appetite, so he smiled and said to the guys, "Do you know what's the most authentic thing to eat with naan in Xinjiang?"
At this time the big guys no longer have this mood and he guessed the question, all shook their heads and said do not know. Zhao Qiang took a bite of naan bread and then said: "To say in Xinjiang, naan or with grilled lamb is the most delicious, take two skewers of roasted oil of lamb kebabs to this naan bread on a jerk, and then a big bite, that flavor ...... tsk, simply delicious can bite off your tongue!"
Let him so say, my mouth unconsciously out of a lot of saliva, the heart secretly think, if this time can live out, must eat a good meal of Xinjiang authentic roast lamb kebabs!
As Zhao Qiang was talking vigorously, I suddenly saw a small red packet on the tiger's mouth of his right hand, which looked like it had been bitten by a mosquito.
"Brother Zhao, what did you let bite on your right hand?"
He heard a stunned, and then looked at his right hand, and sure enough, there was a soybean-sized red bag at the tiger's mouth of his right hand, especially like being bitten by a mosquito. Zhao Qiang touched it with his hand, some itchy, other than that there is no other reaction, so he smiled and said to me, "It's okay, may be bitten by mosquitoes, a moment will go down."
After eating, Uncle Lai and we discussed the next countermeasures, and finally we decided that we could not wait so dryly, or to find water to do, this ancient city is not small, do not rule out the possibility that there are other water sources.
Although the middle-aged man repeatedly said that he had already searched all over the place, there is really no other water source, but we still want to try again. After all, if we really found a water source, then we people wouldn't have to be trapped here all the time.
In the end, Uncle Lai divided everyone into two groups and searched in both directions of the ancient city, regardless of whether they found it or not, they had to meet back here in two hours.
Zhao Qiang, Ye Zhiqiu, Luo Hai, and Liu Ziping were in one group, while the middle-aged man was in a group with the rest of us.
Before we left, we didn't forget to go out of the city to take a look, we all hoped that there would be a miracle, but the vast sea of sand, there is not even a ghost shadow, not to mention our car!
Afterwards, we searched all the way according to the planned direction, and searched every house we passed, but we didn't find a single drop of water.
This way we are relatively speechless, but I saw Uncle Lai several times to take out his cell phone to see, I know what he is looking at, from his expression I can see, he is also not sure ......
My heart is also a burst of doubt, after all, after decades, he in the end is a man or a ghost who can not say. There is also Ding Yi is also a little strange, although Uncle Lai and I just suspect that this middle-aged man has a problem, but he seems to be very sure.
At this time I inadvertently looked up at the sky, but found that the western sky from the horizon up a black line, and just now was still the blazing sun sunny day, but soon was a piece of black clouds covered up, the sky instantly changed face. Uncle Lai looked at the sky with a grave expression, as if something bad was about to happen.
"The black storm is coming!" The middle-aged man suddenly pointed loudly at the black clouds in the sky and said.
Hearing him say that I realized that the black clouds in the west were flowing incredibly fast, but upon closer inspection I realized that it wasn't any dark clouds, but, rather, it was a black sandstorm rolling in from the sky!
"A black storm? Are we safe in the old city?" I asked worriedly.
The middle-aged man glanced at his watch and said, "With the speed that we can see with the naked eye right now, it shouldn't take more than half an hour to reach here. But don't worry, the adobe houses here may not be able to withstand the ravages of the black storm, but the temple is definitely fine."
Uncle Lai agreed with him, but now that we were separated from Zhao Qiang and his group, we had to find Zhao Qiang and his group first! So we quickly rushed in the direction where their group was looking for water, hoping to find them before the black storm arrived ......
But I didn't expect several of us to find our way back along that direction all the way to the residential area near the city gate, but we couldn't find any trace of the four of them.
A bad feeling bubbled up in the bottom of my heart, maybe it was a wrong decision for us to separate and look for water ......
"What to do Uncle Lai? Where can a few of them run off to?" I said uneasily.
Uncle Lai was also in a difficult situation, he thought for a while then picked up a piece of tile from the ground and heavily scratched out a few words on the wooden table of the dwelling, "Quickly go to the temple." Then he looked up and said to the few of us, "Go, let's go to the temple first and wait for them."
When we arrived at the entrance of the temple, we only saw that half of the sky was already covered with black, and the black storm had already arrived ......