Chapter 1 The Lonely Traveler
"My name is Su Yuan, this is the sixth hour I have come to this place. I don't know what happened. I only know that I came here as soon as I woke up. I suspected that I had traveled through time, but I had no evidence.
The weather has always been a dim state, and I can't see the sun. I can't tell whether it is the earth, or the specific direction. Around me, there is an endless Gobi Desert, and there is no sign of the iconic reference or artificial building. There is no signal on the phone here, so I can't ask for help.
I can't judge the geographical location here from the temperature. I just feel that the temperature is a little cold, but I can't figure out what this means, or more detailed geographical coordinates. Sorry, geography has never been my strong point.
During these six hours, I didn't eat any food or drink a drop of saliva. The continuous walking made my physical energy reach its limit and the battery level of my phone was no longer sufficient. I originally wanted to keep the battery of my phone so that I could at least know how long it had passed. But for six hours, there was no hope around me. So, I decided to leave this video. The memory card could be kept for a while. In this way, if someone came to me, at least I could know what was going on.
I really want to leave more information, but the battery is not enough. After ten seconds, the phone will automatically turn off. I can only say one last thing, Dad, Mom... I love you. I'm sorry I couldn't say this in front of you. If I could go back, I would face you in person..."
Before he finished speaking, the phone screen was black. Su Yuan stared at the phone blankly for more than ten seconds, and then put down the phone weakly. He barely stood up and looked around.
He is now on a small hill. But this faint supreme point did not allow him to obtain the information he wanted. There is still an endless Gobi Desert around him. It is vast and desolate, without a trace of popularity.
Su Yuan sat weakly on the somewhat cool ground again. He hugged his shoulders with his hands and twitched quietly. Although only six hours passed, the psychological pressure that this deserted Gobi Desert was unimaginable. Su Yuan was just an ordinary person, a floppy writer who had not received any military or survival training. In this environment, physical fatigue seriously amplified the mental pressure. He was almost unable to bear it.
After more than ten minutes, Su Yuan forced himself to cheer up. He dragged his tired body and stood up again. In any case, he had not given up yet, at least he had to walk in a certain direction until he could not move.
He locked in a huge weathered rock in front of him and walked towards the other party. This was a simple way for him to prevent disorientation. Select a reference object and then move towards the other party. After arriving, he selected a reference object again in the same direction and repeated it in turn. This does not guarantee a slight difference in the direction, but at least it can maintain a roughly consistent direction.
Without his cell phone, he didn't know how long he had been walking. He just felt that the sky around him began to darken and the temperature had dropped significantly. He wrapped his thin shirt on his body and continued to move forward. It was almost dark. In this way, from time to time, it was not much different from the day and night on Earth, and he was very likely to be on Earth.
It’s not about being grateful or being frustrated. Now Su Yuan has lost this emotional fluctuation. His physical body is already mentally exhausted, which has made him a little numb.
However, the wonder of fate is that it always stimulates you from the limits of emotions. Just when Su Yuan was about to find a place and lie down and fall asleep regardless of it, he saw a figure.
Su Yuan rubbed his eyes in disbelief and looked at them again. Yes, it was a figure. Not far ahead of him, a figure with a small figure with a small figure was moving forward quickly.
"Oh..." Su Yuan yelled with his last strength without thinking. He didn't care about the severe pain of his chapped throat. He shouted and ran towards the other party.
He was surprised that he could still run at this time. The figure not far away shivered, as if he was startled by his shouting.
The other party turned around and Su Yuan saw that it was a white man in his thirties. The other party did not come up to him, but just looked at the running Su Yuan with a vigilant look.
Within a distance of less than a hundred meters, Su Yuan quickly ran to the other party, which made the other party more alert.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I'm lost, please, help me. I need food, water. Do you have any nearby villages? I need to call, please, help me."
Su Yuan went up and asked for help in Chinese. But when he saw the other party's confused expression, he woke up again.
"Okay, hello, i'm a
“orge with me. it's dark. it's not safe here. have find a place stay.”
To be honest, with Su Yuan's English proficiency of CET-4, he didn't understand the meaning of the next sentence at all. However, he still understood the beginning sentence. The other party asked him to keep up.
He followed the other person quickly, feeling that most of the fatigue on his body had disappeared. Only then did he have time to look at the somewhat sudden white man who appeared.
The other party was not tall, a little shorter than Su Yuan, who was 1.7 meters tall. The clothes on his body were a little worn, but it was obviously modern clothing. This was also the reason why Su Yuan wanted to call. He had a backpack on his body, which probably contained food. There was also a kettle on his waist.
The other party obviously noticed Su Yuan staring at the kettle, and took off the kettle from his waist very well, and handed it to Su Yuan. The kettle could hold about two liters of water. At this time, most of it was still there, which meant that there were human gathering places or supply points not far from nearby.
Holding the kettle, Su Yuan was not polite, so he raised his head and drank half a liter of water in one breath. He restrained his desire to drink and returned the kettle to the other party. He should not be too greedy. If there was a problem with the supply, this might be their last source of water.
Because of Su Yuan's English proficiency, the two sides basically did not continue the conversation. The other party just took him silently and turned around on the Gobi Desert. Before it was completely dark, he actually found a cave under a small hill. It seemed that this person had been here more than once. The cave was obviously artificially repaired, and it was obviously a resting place on the Gobi Desert.
On the inside of the cave, there was even a large amount of firewood stored in it and a small spring that kept dripping. The white man naturally placed the kettle under the dripping spring to collect the water, and then moved some firewood to start a fire.
When the other party did all this, he was familiar with it and seemed to have done it more than once. Su Yuan also went up to help. The experience of growing up in the countryside when he was a child made him familiar with these things.
The other party used an old kerosene lighter to ignite the flames. Then he kept adding firewood, and soon a large fire was formed. The cave began to become warmer, and even a little hotter.
Su Yuan felt that there was no need for the fire to grow so big. But thinking that he was not familiar with the environment here, and the night in the Gobi Desert might be unexpectedly cold, he understood what the other party did.
Chapter completed!