Chapter 608 - Lop Nor’s Secret! (1/2)

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

In the past three days, Fang Qiu, who had asked to be treated like one of the troops, really learned a lot from these one thousand special soldiers, including how to get water from the desert, avoid the hot sun, search for food and so on.

On the morning of the third day, everyone was already exhausted from their time spent in the desert.

The three days of training were totally inhumane.

Not only did these special soldiers have to look for water and food for themselves, but they had to be vigilant at all times, waiting for training instructions that might appear at any time.

Sometimes, as soon as they found the water, they also received training instructions. They had to train before they could even take a sip of the water. When the training was done, the water was gone, so they had to dig the sand to find the underground water again.

Although they were all special soldiers who had experienced a lot of inhuman high-impact training before, the training this time was completely beyond their imagination.

It was not easy for them to get to the third day.

Everyone looked at the time. When they were ready to return, they immediately divided ten people into a team and began to pick Desert Cistanche.

Fang Qiu was supervising them from the sideline.

After these two days of training and guidance, these special forces were actually proficient in digging out Desert Cistanche.

1,000 special soldiers were divided into 100 teams to dig 100 Desert Cistanches.

The range was within 30 kilometers.

They needed to pick one out of ten Desert Cistanches in each area.

It took them only an hour to dig out all the Desert Cistanche.

In the outermost perimeter of the digging team, a ten-person squad finished picking the Desert Cistanches and was about to leave.

“Eh?” A soldier looked hesitantly in the distance.

“What’s wrong?” The captain immediately turned to ask.

“Captain, over there.” The soldier raised his hand and pointed into the distance.

“What are you looking at? If you go any further, you’ll reach Lop Nor.”

While speaking, the captain turned his head and looked in the direction the soldier pointed.

As a result, he was also stunned by what he saw.

On a sand dune in the distance, there was a milky white Jeep with two motorcycles on it.

“What’s that?” The captain squinted and took out the binoculars from his equipment bag to check.

A soldier said, “That place seems to be a historical site.”

The other soldiers nodded in agreement.

Another soldier said, “Let’s go. Although this area is deep in the desert, it is already close to Lop Nor. There are many sites there. It is normal for people to travel and have a sightseeing tour there.”

“Wait!” Just as everyone was ready to return, the captain observing through the binoculars suddenly raised his right hand and shouted.

The ten soldiers stopped immediately and lined up.

“According to my observation, there is no one within 300 meters of that vehicle. They might be tourists, but there is also a possibility that the citizens were attacked. And it’s also possible that they are a criminal gang!”

The captain raised his eyebrows and said, “Follow me.”

Then he immediately led the team and trotted all the way to the historical site in the distance.

After careful calculation, the route was about 1.5 kilometers away.

Moreover, the jeep might have stopped there a long time ago. The reason why it hadn’t been discovered at the beginning was due to the fact that an hour ago, there was a very high sand dune in front of them. Now the sand dune had been reduced to half its size. Thus, it was exposed.

Several minutes later, the team came to a spot that was less than 20 meters away from the milky white jeep.

They observed it closely.

They found that this jeep was very clean and the condition of the entire vehicle was very good. It should have been driven here not too long ago.

“Be careful and stay alert.” The captain made a gesture and then led the team to advance.

In front of them was a historical site similar to a building. Because it had been there for a long time, it had been subject to the elements, leaving only three pillars and a wall.

Looking from the front, the first floor of this site was very low, just like the foundation.

On this foundation, three pillars supported a floor, but the rooms on the second floor were in ruins, leaving only the floor.

Perhaps due to it having been buried in yellow sand before, there was a slope that looked like a wall behind the site. This was piled up from the inside and led straight to the second floor.

At this moment, the Jeep was parked on the second floor.

The squad of ten soldiers walked around the foundation and reached the back of the site.

“Stop!” Suddenly, as soon as they walked to the back of the site, the captain of the squad immediately reached out his hand to signal them to stop. He was immediately on the alert as if he had seen something.

All the others were also on their guard.

The captain waved his hand and beckoned for the ten soldiers to come forward.

All of them went forward and had a look.

At the back of this site, there was a half-meter-wide hole near the wall.

Next to the entrance of the cave, there was a red willow branch, a reed pole and a lid made of the populus euphratica which was as wide as a bowl!

“Could this be a tomb?” A soldier whispered.

“Hush!” The captain immediately signaled them to keep quiet.

At this moment, “Knock, knock, knock…”

The sound of footsteps could be heard coming from the hole.

The captain’s face changed. He immediately motioned for everyone to find a place to hide and prepare for an ambush.

After a while, a man poked his head out of the hole, looked around like a mole, climbed out and reached in to pull another person out.

“Don’t move!” At this moment, the captain immediately rushed out with his men.