When Weiming City asked the plane to be arranged, it was naturally a military transport plane. It was impossible to go directly to Lop Nur from the capital, because there was no airport in that deserted place, so a few people could only take a plane to Hami. In a military airport in Hami, two off-road vehicles were already parked there.

Including the boss Yuanjie and Zhang Wen, there were five people in Fang Yi during this trip. Wei Mingcheng became the leader without permission and took Zhang Wen and Si Yuanjie into a car, while Fang Yi and Bai Chuxia followed behind in another car.

Lop Nur is west of Hami, so you can't go wrong as long as you go all the way west. At the beginning, the car was on the highway. It was April and May. There were endless grasslands along the way, and the blue sky looked refreshing.

"So beautiful." It was also the first time Bai Chuxia came to the west. She was attracted by the scenery in front of her. When she opened the car window, Bai Chuxia took out a camera and took a photo.

"It's really beautiful. I'll let Brother Wei and the others drive a little slower." Fang Yi nodded with a smile, and shouted Wei Mingcheng on the intercom in the car. The expressway here is different from that in Beijing. There are basically no cars, and even if it is parked on the side of the road, it probably won't be a problem.

"The scenery here is not very good. You will only know what the scenery is when you are in front of you." The voice of Weiming City came from the intercom. He has been to the Xinjiang region. To be precise, Weiming City has even been to Lop Nur, so Weiming City is very familiar with the terrain here.

"You follow me later and take you to see what the miracle of nature is." Wei Mingcheng slowed down a little, but obviously he was very dissatisfied with the scenery he could see now.

When the car drove about 100 kilometers, the surroundings became a little deserted. There were yellow sand everywhere. There were many buildings on both sides of the expressway that looked a little old but had been abandoned, all of which were surrounded by yellow sand.

"Brother Wei, what you are talking about is looking at the desert?"

Fang Yi chatted with Wei Mingcheng all the time, but Fang Yi had never been to the desert. The scene of yellow sand in front of him really shocked him. The yellow sand that could not be seen at first glance seemed to be connected with the sky, making people unable to tell where the sky is.

"Go and get off the highway!"

When we arrived at a highway exit, Weimingcheng turned off the expressway in a dozen directions and drove about twenty kilometers. After passing a place that looked like a toll station, Peng Bin stopped the car, and what appeared in front of Fang Yi and Bai Chuxia was a very strange building complex.

It is said to be a building complex because Fang Yi discovered that many of these landscapes covered with yellow sand have artificial traces, but they also seem to be formed naturally, because there are more obvious weathering traces on those landscapes, and even Fang Yi is a little confused.

"Brother Wei, what is this place?" Fang Yi jumped out of the car, looked back at the charging place behind, and said, "What kind of scenic spot is this? Why didn't we buy tickets just now?"

There are not many people here, but there are also some tourists, but most of their cars are stopped outside and they have to pay the fee before driving in.

"There was no charge here before, so I guess it was just recently. Of course, our car doesn't need to pay."

Wei Mingcheng curled his lips. There are only a few benefits to driving a military car. Basically, he can travel freely when he encounters charging places.

Pointing at the building complex in front, Wei Mingcheng said: "This place was originally a must-pass place on the ancient Silk Road, but for thousands of years, I didn't know what happened, so it was covered by yellow sand. The original village was moved to another place and completely deserted."

"Brother, is this a devil city?" Bai Chuxia knows more about geography than Fang Yi, but Wei Ming City can't hide Fang Yi but she can't.

"Yes, it's the Devil City. Local legends say that there are devils here, especially when night falls, you will hear the howling of ghosts and wolves. Should we stay here for a day and experience it?"

Wei Mingcheng knew that the secret realm was not open so early, so there was no need for them to go there too much in advance, so they planned to take Fang Yi and Bai Chuxia to have a good time on the way. There are many unique scenery in the Krainian region that cannot be seen elsewhere.

Seeing Wei Mingcheng talking mysteriously, Fang Yi couldn't help laughing, walked to the strange-shaped landscape, and spoke, "The howling screams of ghosts and wolves are not yet emitted from the holes by the wind blowing through these places."

In terms of landscape alone, the Devil City is indeed as its name suggests, because in front of Fang Yi, there are many landscapes that look like castles, halls, pagodas, monuments, figures, and beasts in different shapes. There are also various dazzling steep walls and cliffs in the distance, as well as colorful agate in the mixed rock gravel.

Walking forward a few steps, there were silicified wood everywhere on the ground, and plant fossils with fresh branches and leaves. Moreover, this place should have been a vast ocean in ancient times. A small stone that Fang Yi picked up casually was actually a sea-born fish fossil. Fang Yi had never seen the fish's appearance before.

"Thousands of years ago, this place might be a lively town." Bai Chuxia followed Fang Yi and said, "These broken walls and Duan Huan have been preserved, but the people who lived here before were probably gone."

"It's just a toothpick, and the years and years of existence are probably longer than human life."

After hearing Bai Chuxia's words, Fang Yi couldn't help laughing. Although human technology is very developed now, humans themselves are extremely weak. Compared with the ancient times that Fang Yi knew, the disappearance of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also caused humans to stop evolving themselves.

"How is it? Are we going to the ground?"

Wei Mingcheng said eagerly that when he came here last time, due to the tight time, he did not enter the depths of the Devil City. The entire Devil City covers an area of ​​about 400 square kilometers. According to the local tour guide, the scenery inside was even more shocking.

"I won't go, there's nothing here." Fang Yi shook his head when he heard this. He couldn't feel any spiritual energy here, but it was extremely desolate. The feeling of dead silence made Fang Yi feel very uncomfortable.

"Okay, I originally wanted to take you on an adventure." Wei Mingcheng shrugged. He didn't learn anything else when he went to Europe this time, but he learned the Westerners' shrugging posture very well.

"Brother Wei, don't be nervous. With that thing on your body, there will be no problem with this trip to the secret realm."

Fang Yi looked at Wei Mingcheng and laughed. He couldn't see anything next to him, but Fang Yi could feel that Wei Mingcheng was a little uneasy about the place he was about to go to. Instead, he had no reaction to Si Yuanjie and Bai Chuxia, who knew little about the secret realm.

"We're not nervous, we just feel that time is not that tight, so we can play all the way."

After Fang Yi was told to his mind, Wei Mingcheng also blushed rarely and quickly explained to himself: "After passing this Devil City, there is a poplar forest that can be seen, and then there will be no other landscape. You will definitely feel it is boring at that time."

"It's okay, let's go and wait early." Fang Yi waved his hand and said, "Get on the bus. If the secret realm is opened in advance, we will go in early so as to avoid having more trouble with the people behind."

For Fang Yi, as long as it has nothing to do with practice, he is not very interested now. If this Devil City was the ruins of the cultivator, Fang Yi would definitely have the intention to explore it, but Fang Yi would have no interest in the natural landscape.

Turning back to the expressway, Wei Mingcheng took Fang Yi and others to continue driving towards Lop Nur. When passing through a poplar forest, Wei Mingcheng stopped the car again, but this time it was Fang Yi who took the initiative to ask.

This land where the poplar forest grows looks very delicate geology, but when you step on it, it seems to be stepping on a cement board, which is very hard. In the words of Wei Mingcheng, this is because of the high salinity.

Fang Yi picked up a broken limb of a poplar forest. His fingers were as thick as dead branches. It was as hard as the ground, and it contained no moisture. Looking at the poplar forests in close proximity, it was really beautiful.

Some dead poplar trees, although there are no branches and leaves on them, still stand firm. Fang Yi can clearly feel a sense of vitality from the dead poplar rhizomes. Perhaps at some point, these dead poplars can grow again.

"Born and not dead for a thousand years, die but not fall for a thousand years, and immortal for a thousand years, this poplar is indeed well-known."

Fang Yi stayed in the Populus euphratica forest for a long time than he stayed in the Devil City. He also dug up a rhizome of the dead Populus euphratica forest for a long time, and finally threw the stem in the trunk of the off-road vehicle.

No one knew why Fang Yi did these actions. With Zhang Wen, an outsider, Wei Mingcheng didn't ask much. Only Fang Yi himself knew that the places where these poplar forests live actually contained a trace of extremely thin spiritual energy, and these spiritual energy was condensed into the rhizomes of poplar trees.

Just as the reason why the spiritual energy of heaven and earth disappears is no longer found, Fang Yi cannot answer why the rhizomes of poplar trees have such thin spiritual energy. Perhaps this is the reason why poplar trees can survive for thousands of years, never fall for thousands of years, and immortal for thousands of years.

"Master once said that the Xinjiang region and Tibetan areas are the most mysterious. In the future, I would like to go to Tibetan areas to see it." Fang Yi remembered some of the words said by the old Taoist priest when he was a child.

At that time, the old Taoist priests often had to go out for a period of time during the year, and would come back after three or five days, and would take one or two months to return to the mountain at the longest time. It was the time when they returned to the mountain that the old Taoist priest told Fang Yi something he could not understand at the time.

According to the old Taoist priest, there may be inheritance in Tibet and Xinjiang now that the inheritance is cut off in the world, but it is too misty and difficult to find. Fang Yi heard it for no reason at that time, but now he can understand it. Master should have been to these places in order to find ancient inheritance.

That night, Fang Yi and others lived outside this poplar forest. Si Yuanjie and Zhang Wen squeezed into a car in Weiming City, while Fang Yi lived in another car with Bai Chuxia.

At night, the temperature, which was originally above 20 degrees Celsius, suddenly dropped to minus 7 or 8 degrees Celsius. If Wei Mingcheng had not had the experience of someone who had prepared several thick quilts in the car, I would have been frost-sick, except Fang Yi.

The next morning, Fang Yi did not delay any more and urged Wei Mingcheng to drive directly to the left of the map. There was no highway at this time.

Before getting off the highway, they added fuel for the last time before turning onto the national highway. The road conditions on the national highway were many times worse than before, but the driving was fine. The one sitting next to them was bumping up and down like a roller coaster.

Bai Chuxia couldn't stand the bumps, so she had already changed her position from Fang Yi. Unlike Bai Chuxia who was previously slammed, Fang Yi's butt seemed to be growing on the seat. No matter how the car was undulating, Fang Yi's body could not shake.

Now they have entered the Great Gobi Desert, and they can walk hundreds of kilometers further to enter the territory of Lop Nur, but the environment here is already very harsh. On both sides of the road, there are clusters of sea buckthorn and red willows growing on the white salt-shelled ground, which is also the only plant that Fang Yi and others can see.

After driving more than a hundred kilometers to the west, a thick dark cloud appeared above the car. As soon as the car entered the range of the dark clouds, the raindrops as big as beans suddenly crackled down, and the temperature dropped sharply by more than ten degrees.

However, in more than half an hour, the car drove out of the dark clouds. The sunshine that fell into her eyes made Fang Yi feel extremely unreal. From the reversing mirror, you could see that the raindrops were still falling on the ground just a few dozen meters behind him.

"Even if it is not the Gobi Desert, it is not very suitable for human habitation."

Fang Yi was talking to Bai Chuxia while watching the scene outside. In this environment, he was so drowsy that he was so excited that he could talk to her.

"Lop Nur is even worse than the environment here, so the whole area is no man's land." Bai Chuxia's current physique is many times better than before. If it were to come here before practicing, Bai Chuxia would have vomited out a long time ago.

When evening came, Fang Yi and others saw a beautiful sunset, and then the boundless night. From time to time, there would be a few wolf howls in the distance. In the words of Wei Mingcheng, this place is already on the edge of Lop Nur. Walking deeper into the depths, it is the real Lop Nur.

On the edge of Lop Nur, there is a town with only dozens of residents. Fortunately, there is a gas station in the town. The next day, Weimingcheng filled both cars with oil, and there were two spare fuel tanks in the car, and the oil inside had never been used.

After leaving this town, the scene along the way is really deserted. Barrenness is the biggest feature here. Apart from the sea buckthorn and some cactus you can see occasionally, this desert has no life.

Of course there is no road anymore. The cars are driving in the desert. Compared with the difficult national highway, it is even more difficult to drive in the desert.

Fortunately, the two cars arranged by Weimingcheng have been modified. Weimingcheng has experience and adjusted the tire pressure before entering the sand. However, when passing a sand dune, Bai Chuxia's car was parked on the sand dune and could not drive.

When I got off the car, I saw that half of the off-road vehicle's wheels were trapped in the sand pit. After adding the accelerator, I saw the wheels turned, but the car did not move at all. However, this situation naturally could not defeat Fang Yi and others. Even Wei Mingcheng Si Yuanjie and others could pull the car out with one hand.

I walked and stopped along the way, but the car was stuck in the sand too many times. If I drove faster, the car was easy to overturn, and if I drove slower, it was easy to sink. I only walked two or three hundred kilometers in a whole day. Weimingcheng did not let everyone live in the car this time, but instead set up a pile of fires with military fuel, and then set up several tents around.

According to Wei Mingcheng, the direction they are moving forward now is the location of the ancient city of Loulan. If they are lucky, they may encounter some expedition teams on the road. Ordinary people will never set foot here, because this is already the Sea of ​​Death - Lop Nur.
Chapter completed!