P.S. I'm asking for a wave of flowers. It's a little late because I'm printing the contract, but I guarantee that there won't be any less.
According to the military map, the jeep traveled through the Gobi Desert, which had no roads at all.
Brother Long was still fiddling with a sextant in his hand as he said to Qin Shi,""I think we're almost there. Your car is fine, but you won't drive it askew, right?”
As he spoke, he took out a compass and looked at it.
"You used a sextant just now. There's no mistake.”
He had driven in the desert before, so he knew some driving tricks and would not get himself trapped.
Brother Long was really well-prepared. He even brought a sextant. Back in the days when locators had not been introduced to China, with a military map, a sextant, and a compass, Guan Xingquan could know his general location.
"Brother Long, do you know about JPS?"
"The Americans 'new toy is still in the experimental stage, but I've only heard of it, not seen it. They've kept it a secret and only the military has it.”
"It would be great if we could buy one for civilian use.”
Hearing Qin Shi's words, Long Zhixi was a little disapproving."
"Although that thing is said to be convenient, its reliability is not very good. Moreover, it's too big and inconvenient to carry. It would be terrible if something went wrong in such a godforsaken place! This map, compass, and sextant are relatively trustworthy. Although their accuracy is not high, they are reliable.”
That made sense. The navigation system was not complete yet, and there was no place to buy it. It was also large and not as small as the ones after the year 2000. Even if they could get their hands on a military experimental product, they would be doomed if the receiver malfunctioned in an uninhabited area like the desert, and they did not have a compass on hand or the ability to locate in the wild!
As the two of them chatted, a lonely abandoned stone tower appeared in their field of vision on a barren slope in the distance.
"We're here."
Other than desolation, the surroundings were deathly silent! They drove the car to the side of the half-collapsed stone tower, parked the car in the shade, and got out.
It was their habit to carry a small backpack in the wild. There were basic water, food, and a compass in it.
Who knew what would happen in this godforsaken place? Perhaps a sudden sandstorm would make it impossible for you to find the jeep that was close at hand! If he didn't carry the most basic survival supplies with him, he would be at a loss!
Long Zhixi had binoculars hanging around his neck, and he was carrying a shovel. Qin Shi had a bullet belt slung over his shoulder, and he was carrying a gun.
As soon as she got out of the car, she felt that something was wrong.
"Brother Long, give me the shovel and binoculars.”
This was the problem. He was the tomb robber, and Brother Long was the bodyguard. It was obvious that something was wrong just now!
The two of them climbed up the slope where the stone tower was located and used binoculars to observe the surroundings. They were sure that there was absolutely no one nearby. Other than himself, he couldn't even see a living thing. Of course, it was hard to say if there were ghosts.
He saw many buildings that were exposed to the ground, trees that had not decayed for thousands of years, and wooden walls of the remaining houses. All that was left was the vicissitudes of the desert.
Qin Shi had also roughly determined the locations of the ruins. He took out a thick piece of white paper from his pocket and began to compare it carefully.
Qin Shi had been here before. Thirty years later, he had come here with a group of friends from the entertainment circle for a vacation and adventure, hoping to pick up some souvenirs.
He was really lucky. At that time, he didn't think of copying his old profession, and his friends didn't know that he had been a local teacher.
However, apart from a few pottery fragments and wooden pillars sticking out of the ground, there was nothing else--only a small piece of pottery was taken as a memento.
On the paper were the locations of the buildings and tombs in the ancient city of Niya in his memory. He had written them in his notebook when he was reborn.
It was better to be prepared, and it was just in time to use it.
Long Zhixi also came over to take a look, but he didn't ask too much. After all, in his eyes, Qin Shi's secrets were nothing out of the ordinary.
"En, basically there are no mistakes. It seems that my memory is not bad.”
After confirming the target's location, the two of them went down the slope and drove off. Actually, it wasn't too far. They stopped by a sandy area with many wooden pillars because the wind was starting to pick up.
He looked at his watch. It was almost nine o'clock in the afternoon. The sun would set in an hour.
"We'll set up camp here and get to work, Brother Long.”
As he spoke, he opened the back door and started moving things.
Qin Shi designed the Hong Kong company's trial production of the two quick-open single-person tents.
He knocked down the tent lights with a hammer and tied a corner of the tent to the jeep's bumper with a rope. In case a strong wind blew it away!
He placed the sleeping bag in the tent and threw a bottle of water inside. They didn't have much awareness of protecting the ruins of the ancient city, so they prepared the wood to start a fire at night.
On the way here, knowing that they were going to set up camp in the wild, Long Zhixi had asked if they needed some wood, but Qin Shi had said no,
"That place is not lively at all. There's just a lot of sand and wood. It's been dry for more than a thousand years.”
Seeing Brother Long walking towards the east, he quickly shouted,
"I don't want the wood there. That big piece of land is a graveyard. There are dried corpses below.”
When Brother Long heard this, he immediately turned around and looked at the distance between his camp and the cemetery that Zhang Nan mentioned. It was at most 40 meters.
"You can set up camp next to the cemetery!”
Qin Shi was just about to go to the car to get a bucket of water, intending to boil some hot water later to wash his face and wipe his body when he heard this.
"Why, are you panicking?"
"What a joke. I've seen too many dead people. I've even slept in a pile of dead people. Why would I be afraid of this?”
Before the cow finished blowing, a gust of wind blew and felt a little chilly. The sun was about to set, and the temperature would soon drop. Because of the alternating hot and cold, there would be a little wind.
Seeing Brother Long shudder, Qin Shi burst into laughter!
Of course, Comrade Old Long was not afraid. He was just agitated by the cold wind. However, a sudden gust of wind in such an environment would probably scare a timid person.
Brother Long went to the other side and moved a pile of wood, big and small. He quickly set up three racks and hung the pot with iron wire to boil water.
As the weather was still warm, the two of them washed their faces and wiped their bodies. They even washed their feet with the used water.
The saying that water in the desert was more expensive than oil was absolutely true. The few metal barrels in the jeep could still run seven or eight hundred kilometers, so they did not go to refuel in the afternoon.
However, although they had prepared a lot of water, a few barrels more than gasoline, it was definitely not enough for a good bath.
Save as much as you can. It's already an extreme luxury to be able to clean your personal hygiene like this!
The sky darkened and the temperature dropped quickly. The two of them boiled a pot of water and took out the pancake to roast over the fire. They also added a can of lunch and each of them had a green cucumber with the bamboo shoot and dried vegetable soup.
He didn't dare to throw the canned food away. He had to take it away.
It seemed easy to start a fire, but the wood did not seem to be able to withstand fire. The small ones burned away in a short while.
"It's been too long. There's no nutrition."
Qin Shi teased. He had no choice but to prepare more.
"Actually, we should set up camp in the ruins we passed by just now. That way, not only would we be protected from the wind, but we would also be hidden.”
"Big brother, we're here to do grave robbing, alright? This place is as far as the eye can see. As long as someone comes, how are we going to return to the ruins? He could only drive away. He really couldn't kill them, right?”
Qin Shi thought that Brother Long had not thought it through and thought that it was the time when he was fighting in the army.
However, what he said next made him speechless.
"Killing a few people is nothing. As long as it doesn't endanger national security, any dangerous factors that threaten our safety must be dealt with!
Didn't you say that archeologists and grave diggers aren't much different from us?”
Qin Shixian told Brother Long an interesting rumor:
A certain person who was addicted to digging up the emperor's tomb reported to the higher-ups, hoping to dig up a few more tombs. In the end, the prime minister wrote in the official document that he was not interested in digging up tombs!
He didn't know if this was true or not, but it was a fact that the bones of the emperors and empresses in the tomb that had been dug up earlier had been randomly thrown away by the grave diggers.
Brother Long remembered this very clearly. Therefore, whenever he mentioned digging, he would draw inferences and treat himself as a righteous man.
"We're also protecting the country's cultural relics from leaking out. Moreover, if we don't dig, there will naturally be others who will dig.”
The reason was sufficient, and the brainwashing was obviously very successful.
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