Chapter 711 The Desert in the Basin

On the endless wasteland, the long yellow sand flows slowly along the distant horizon with the sound of howling wind. Indistinctly visible, apart from a few bare sand dunes, are slowly moving oil wells. At a glance, not to mention human habitation, not even the breath of living things can be seen.

On the road almost covered by yellow sand, two desert-colored military jeeps galloped towards the other end of the road one after the other.

This is the center of the Jungar Basin, where Gurbantunggut, the second largest desert in Huaguo, is located.

At the same time, it is also a forbidden zone of life.

Looking at the billowing yellow sand in the distance, Wang Peng narrowed his eyes and said in a good mood.

"the weather is nice today."

Lu Zhou: "...you call this a good one?"

"After all, there is no sandstorm, which is pretty good." Wang Peng, who was holding the steering wheel, grinned, and said with a smile to Lu Zhou, who was sitting in the back row, "Do you know what Gurban Tungut means?"

He didn't know much about humanities, so Lu Zhou knew he couldn't answer, so he simply asked.

"What's the meaning?"

Wang Peng: "In Mongolian, it is a place where wild boars come and go."

Glancing out of the car window, Lu Zhou said speechlessly, "...Why didn't I see the wild boar?"

Not to mention wild boars, I didn't even see a single pig hair.

In this area, apart from the camel's thorns like balls of wool, there are dead branches standing randomly.

Wang Peng: "So, it's all a long, long time ago."

Lu Zhou: "You really know a lot."

Wang Peng smiled and said, "I also heard from others."

Sitting in the back row like Lu Zhou, Director Li, whose face was tightly wrapped with a face towel and sunglasses, coughed dryly and asked, "How long will it be?"

Looking at the car navigation, Wang Peng replied: "The navigation shows that there are still ten kilometers left, and we will be there soon."

Director Li finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there were only ten kilometers left.

Along the way, his old bones almost fell apart.

Taking the train from Shangjing to Urumqi, Lu Zhou spent a whole day on the road, and from Urumqi to here, he lost more than half a day.

To be honest, Lu Zhou has never taken a place as far west as his motherland. If he didn't have important business, he wouldn't mind playing here for two more days before going back. But now is obviously not the time to play, there is still a very important research result waiting for him to confirm.

The jeep with four people was borrowed from the local army in Urumqi. Wang Peng sat in the driver's seat, Dr. Yan sat in the co-pilot seat, and Lu Zhou and Director Li sat in the back row. people.

In the jeep that cleared the way ahead were soldiers from the 150th Regiment. On the one hand, they were leading the way, and on the other hand, they were clearing the way and escorting them in the car behind.

Although this area is located in the hinterland of the Western Regions, it cannot be said to be absolutely safe.

Not only was there a 95 rifle beside Wang Peng, but even Yan Yan was equipped with a pistol.

In fact, Lu Zhou originally wanted to borrow a pistol for fun. Although he was not very interested in weapons, he couldn't hold back his curiosity about new things.

However, Wang Peng refused to say anything, insisting that someone who has never used a gun is more dangerous with a gun than without a gun. At most, he just agreed to lend him the weapon for fun when he is away from the crowd.

...

The ten-kilometer drive came to an end soon.

After the group got off the road, they drove on the Gobi Desert for a while, and soon arrived at a temporary camp.

Following the jeep ahead to a checkpoint, Wang Peng lowered the window of the jeep, took out the ID from his arms and handed it out.

After the soldiers with live ammunition came forward to check their documents and the people in the vehicle, they gave a neat military salute, and then gestured towards the checkpoint. The barrier bar was quickly raised to let the jeep pass.

On the way to the center of the camp, Lu Zhou glanced at the soldiers patrolling past the car window, and said with a little surprise.

"Are the security measures here so strict?"

"It has to be strict," Wang Peng followed behind the jeep in front, and drove the car to the parking spot, and turned off the engine skillfully, "The launch of Jinling attracted the attention of the whole world to us, you The thing dropped from low orbit can hide from the eyes of ordinary people, but not from satellites and radar. How much do you think the price of that thing has been sold on the black market?"

"How many?"

"Two hundred million."

"Two hundred million?!"

Hearing this number, Lu Zhou couldn't help but secretly stunned.

holding grass...

As for this?

Want to buy and tell me!

Going to the black market to let others make money is nothing but wool.

Of course, Wang Peng didn't know what Lu Zhou was thinking, but he saw the surprised expression on his face when he got out of the car, so he smiled and added: "And it's still US dollars."

"That's right," looking at the four people standing next to the jeep, a man in military uniform came over and interjected with a grin, "It was probably yesterday that we caught a group of tourists pretending to be tourists. Outlaws approaching this area."

Lu Zhou glanced at him unexpectedly: "Is there really someone who can touch this place?"

"Heh, guess what we found from their van?" The man in military uniform smiled, and made a simple gesture with his fingers, "Two RPG-7s, the firepower is not small."

Out of professional habits, Yan Yan subconsciously asked: "Did you hurt anyone?"

"That's not true," the man waved his hand, turned his gaze to Wang Peng, opened his arms and said with a smile, "Long time no see, Brother Wang! How's your life going after you've been out of the army for so many years?"

After hugging his old comrade-in-arms, Wang Peng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "It's okay, everyone has grown white! You've done well in the past four years, and you've become a battalion commander."

Not very interested in the pleasantries between the two of them, Lu Zhou looked around for a while, and got straight to the point: "Where's that thing?"

"It's in the middle of the camp, let me take you there." Patting Wang Peng on the shoulder and letting go, Battalion Commander Li turned to look at Lu Zhou, smiled and stretched out his right hand, "Introduction, Li Gaoliang, 150 Regiment 4 Ying, you can call me Gao Liang or Lao Li."

Lu Zhou held Battalion Commander Li's outstretched hand and shook it: "Lu Zhou, just call me Professor Lu."

"I know, on New Year's Day, the regiment organizes to watch the news broadcast, and I only saw you on TV a few days ago." Li Battalion Commander Li said with a smile, "How is it, is space fun?"

"It's quite interesting."

This Battalion Commander Li is also a very interesting person. It may be because he has been in the army for a long time. He has no airs, and he is more familiar. Walking and chatting along the way, the group quickly arrived at the center of the barracks.

In the center of the entire camp is a circle of sand dunes pulled up by the cordon, and on the slope on the west side of the dune stands a square-shaped "iron coffin" about 2 meters 5 in height.

Next to the iron coffin, four parachutes of different sizes can be seen lying there quietly, although the local troops kept the original appearance of the place as much as possible and did not move its position. But in order to prevent sandstorms from blowing it away, some heavy objects were placed on it for fixing.

After seeing this oddly shaped gadget, Wang Peng was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously said.

"This is……"

Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"Lightning...escape pod. Remember what I told you about skydiving from a thousand kilometers above the sky? You can just wear this thing."