Chapter 24: These two shoe prints do not belong to any of us(1/2)
I looked down and found that there were indeed a pair of clear footprints, the pattern was a bit similar to square hole copper coins.
I said, "It should belong to which of us?"
Zhang Hui shook his head: "Absolutely not."
I said, "Have you seen everyone's soles?"
Zhang Hui said: "This person should be around 50 years old."
I said, "How do you know?"
Zhang Hui said: "I am a policeman, I have studied footprints."
My heart was raised again: "Tell me, let me see."
Zhang Hui squatted down and said, "As an older person, heels are deeper. You see, these footprints are. He is not tall, about 1.70 meters, which is seen from the length of the foot and the length of the step. In addition, I judged that this person is a lame man, and the prints of these shoes are deep and shallow."
Then he stood up and said, "This man somehow appeared in our camp. He wandered around for a while, and then the shoe prints disappeared."
At this time, I became half-believing and half-doubted about Zhang Hui.
He and I looked forward in the direction of the heel, searching for its origin, leaving the camp, and walking dozens of meters away, the salt crust became hard, and the shoe prints disappeared...
After we returned to the camp, I ran to Bubu's sleeping bag. She was awake and I said, "Give me your telescope."
Bubu took out the telescope from his backpack, handed it to me, and asked, "What's wrong?"
I said, "Let's talk about it later. Call everyone up."
I ran out "thump" and climbed up to the top along the ladder of the RV. I raised my telescope and slowly turned around to look around. The desert was boundless and empty.
Everyone got up.
Bai Xinxin walked out of the RV, raised her head and shouted at me, "What are you doing upstairs?"
I got out of the car and asked everyone: "Did anyone sleep at noon?"
Everyone looked at each other, no one spoke. It seemed that everyone was asleep.
I asked again: "Whose soles of your shoes are patterned with square hole copper coins?"
Wei Zao said: "I don't know what my soles look like..." While saying that, he turned over his feet to look at it.
Liu Xueer asked vigilantly: "What happened?"
I didn't want to hide it anymore and said, "Look, there are more suspicious pairs of shoe prints on the ground."
Everyone immediately looked down and in a blink of an eye, their expressions became serious. Then, a few people began to look at their soles. In fact, I didn’t know what pattern my soles were.
I said, "Stop watching, sit on the ground, I'll see."
Then, a strange scene appeared in the desert - everyone sat in a row on the ground, illuminating the soles of their shoes, and I lay on the ground, checking them together.
No pair of soles have a square hole copper coin pattern.
Finally, I took off my shoes, turned over the soles of the shoes, showed them for myself and for everyone.
Of course not mine.
It’s so strange. This is an unmanned land, who will visit our camp!
I asked everyone: "Who changed his shoes at noon?"
Raise your hand outside the sign.
I said, "Did you change it before going to bed or after waking up?"
He said: "Sleep - changed before going to bed."
I said, "Take it and take a look."
I ran back outside the door and brought another pair of hiking shoes. I looked at the soles of the shoes and saw that the patterns were very different.
I said, "There are only footprints that come over, but not footprints that leave..."
Bai Xinxin said: "What does it mean?"
I lowered my voice: "Stand far away. Wei Zao, search every car with me!"
The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Wei Zao quickly grabbed the knife from his pocket.
I said to Liu Xueer, "Lend me some more."
Liu Xueer understood what I was going to borrow. She looked at me a little unnaturally, then took out her knife from her carry-on bag and handed it to me.
First, Wei Zao and I approached Cherokee and opened the car doors from both sides at the same time.
No one.
We checked each seat and then lay down to check the chassis, and there were no hiding people.
Next, we checked Mitsubishi Pajero, Hummer, and Land Rover Defenders in the same way.
Finally, we approached the RV.
Bai Xinxin said: "Yi Wu and I were sleeping in it just now!"
I ignored him and climbed up with Wei Zao and carefully checked every corner. There were no Tibetans.
After I came down, I muttered: "It's so fucking strange..."
Wei Zao said: "What should I do now?"
I said, "Enter all the buses and leave this place!"
So, everyone urgently put away their sleeping bags, got in the car separately, and drove away one by one.
In the car, Zhang Hui and Liu Yuer didn't say anything.
I looked at the juice from the reflector. She blinked her black eyes hard at the window, as if a primary school student was stumped by a certain arithmetic problem. I knew she was thinking about those shoes.
Finally, she spoke: "Can this be it..."
I looked at her from the reflector again: "You said."
She said: "That pair of shoe prints had already existed. At noon, we happened to be stationed in that place, but we didn't notice the pair of shoe prints."
I said, "Dear, such a big no-man's land is impossible to be such a coincidence."
If it is really like Liu Yuer said, it is like a person floating on the endless sea, and he happened to meet another person floating on the sea...
Liu Jinger said: "That place is a low-lying place and is relatively gentle. We choose it as a place to rest, so others may do it."
I said, "The wind in the desert is so strong that even if he leaves his shoe prints, it will be smoothed out by the sand and soil soon. How could it be so clear!"
Liu Jinger said, "Maybe he passed by this morning."
I said, "Who dares to travel through Lop Nur alone?"
Liu Jinger said: "Maybe, his team was continuing to move forward, and he was the only one who stopped, rested for a while, and soon caught up again."
I don't speak anymore.
This pair of shoe prints is too weird and there is no reasonable explanation, so I can only succumb to this explanation.
After a while, Liu Xueer suddenly said, "Have you heard of the 'Pisces Jade Pendant' incident circulating on the Internet?"
Lop Nur, "Pisces Jade Pendant" - I felt a thunder thunder in my brain! To be honest, I was very afraid of that rumor.
I suddenly became angry and shouted at Liu Yuer: "Don't mention those rumors about catching up with me, okay?"
Liu Juer curled his lips and said nothing.
The stone pressing on my heart suddenly became bigger.
During the long journey, we saw a bunch of animals' corpses. I don't know if they were wild camels or wild horses. They were lying in the desert in a miserable manner, as if they were daydreaming.
I also saw a black sleeping bag half buried in the sand and a few plastic bottles of mineral water thrown around.
At around 5:30 pm, Wei Zao shouted on the walkie-talkie: "Yadan! I saw Yadan!"
I turned the front of the car, and sure enough, a large group of Yadan Tutai appeared in front of me!
We have been in Lop Nur for a few days, and it is always an endless salt hull land without any change. Yadan is the first different landform we encountered. Although I have seen it a few times in the video, when I actually came to it, I was still deeply shocked!
The convoy stopped.
Everyone became extremely excited, jumped out of the car, rushed over and rushed over. Juye ran in the front.
This Yadan group is arranged in a north-south direction, very regular. Each earthen platform is so majestic. From a distance, it looks like a huge maze, like a huge labyrinth.
Wei Zao, outside the name, Zhang Hui, Bu Bu and Meng Xiaoshuai all climbed up.
Bai Xinxin didn't go up.
Xu Ergo didn't go up.
Pawan sat on a hard clay block and smoked.
Yi Wu stood alone in a distance, looking up with her head.
I walked over, stopped beside her, and watched these natural products with her. I found that as long as I narrowed my eyes, then, what do you think they are, what they are...
To be continued...