Chapter Fifteen was very bizarre

  As long as you stick to your own beliefs, nothing is impossible.

  Since I knew that I was cursed, there has been an unshakeable conviction in my heart to support me to do things that I have never dared to do.

  Finally saw water.

  I grabbed a huge water jug and desperately poured water into my mouth like crazy, for the first time I felt that this water was such a lovely thing, at this moment, even if his mom gave me a ton of gold, I wouldn't go exchange it for the jug of water in my hand.

  "I asked the young man, how did you guys end up in this place? We drove for more than a whole day and finally found you. It's at least several hundred kilometers, right?" Yu Gang said, standing in front of me.

  "So far? Impossible!" I was startled.

  "You little scamp, you're really lucky to have escaped with your life after being swept away like that. Unlike others who were buried in the sand or died in a horrific manner, it was a whole car full of people. The scene was so terrifying that I almost threw up, I've never seen anything so disgusting." Yu Gang said with a look of horror on his face.

  "This sandstorm can sweep a person tens of kilometers away in just one second, which is also normal. We've encountered sandstorms before, after all... Ah, the Taklamakan Desert is indeed fraught with danger. We've only been out for two days and have already lost so many people..." The bespectacled old professor let out a long sigh.

  He mentioned this terrifying sandstorm and his whole body couldn't help but tremble.

  The old professor was more familiar with the rules of the desert than anyone else present, and he could show such an expression, presumably it was the first time he had seen such a severe sandstorm.

  "All five people in the Hummer that was swept away by the tornado are dead, and another seven were thrown to death directly from the air. Two people are missing, so on the surface, twelve people have died. I estimate there may be some buried as well." Huang Daxian walked over and said calmly, his face expressionless, unable to discern any thoughts in his mind.

  Huang Daxian gives me a strange feeling, on the surface he looks like a trustworthy person, but I always feel that he and Tang Guangze are hiding something from us, it turns out they don't care about those who have died.

  Then, Yu Gang pulled me aside and said seriously: "Was it Brother Xuan who saved you? What's so special about you that you're still alive? Did Brother Xuan say anything to you?"

  I listened to his words, and I was not surprised. What's the point of saying that I couldn't live on? Lin Wu Xuan just dug me out from the sand, nothing more. The rest is because I insisted on my own beliefs.

  "What the hell do you mean, you little brat?!" I shouted.

  The words had not been spoken yet, when Yu Gang suddenly stretched out his hand to cover my mouth, then with a look of urgency all over his face, he asked: "Has Brother Xuan said anything to you?"

  I hastily pushed his hand away and said angrily, "Just ask if you have something to ask, don't touch me! What can he say to me? And what's with you, blabbing about every trivial thing from childhood to adulthood?"

  Yu Yu's face slowly calmed down, and he weakly responded with a sentence before walking away.

  What's wrong?

  I feel very strange, why does this guy want to know what Lin Wu Xuan will say to me?

  Lin Wu Xuan gave me an even stranger feeling, he hardly spoke, just a pair of eyes staring tightly at the other end of the desert, with an inexplicable chill flashing in his expression.

  In fact, I didn't dare to talk too much with Lin Wu Xuan because sometimes I felt that there was a very different smell or aura on him, which made me feel scared.

  And on that whole day when we were swept away, he didn't say a few words to me, I felt like he didn't want to talk to me.

  Right after that, they checked the equipment in the car again. I was sitting on the sand resting when Tang Guangze walked towards me. I quickly got up, my face a bit tense. He looked at me and said with some complexity: "Can your body still take it?"

  I didn't know where to put my hands, I was very nervous, and stuttered out a reply: "It's okay, I just feel like I don't have much energy."

  After all, I've been severely dehydrated for two days and just started drinking water, so it'll take some time to fully recover.

  "Then let's take a rest again, and after resting, continue on our way, searching for work to stop." Tang Guangze said as he turned around and left.

  "Didn't the remaining people look for them? Aren't there still some missing persons?" I asked without thinking.

  If those people were also blown away by the wind like Lin Wu Xuan and I, and we didn't go look for them, they would definitely die in this desert.

  "It's no use looking for them, it's been so long since they've gone missing and their chances of survival are already very low. Moreover, they're quite far from our location, if we really want to go look for them, our fuel won't be enough to support us completing this journey."

  Tang Guangze shook his head and then turned around and got on the car.

  I just stared at his figure, opening my mouth, but somehow no sound came out.

  I've been holding back a bellyful of words, wanting to loudly scold Tang Guangze for not continuing the search for people. Those people might have been saved because of it. I think Tang Guangze doesn't care about those people's lives and deaths at all, and has no intention of launching a rescue operation.

  "Kid, you still don't understand the doctor's temper, let alone find those people, I reckon they've long been a pile of dry corpses." The speaker was Dahei in camouflage uniform, his eyes fixed tightly on the other end of the desert, his face somewhat sorrowful.

  "We didn't even try, how would we know if we could find anyone alive?" I said with tears in my eyes, thinking that if it were me who was abandoned, what would I think?

  Dahai's face suddenly changed, and he said coldly: "Try? Do you know how many people were involved in this event, how much material was used, and how many relationships were mobilized to allow it to take place? If we give up the entire event for those few people, who knows how many more will die. The doctor never planned to go rescue them, you two are lucky enough to have been blown onto the road we passed by, otherwise, you would also have died in this desert."

  Hearing this, I stiffened all over, my whole body turned icy cold, feeling like I had really fallen into an irreversible conspiracy, and my brain went dead on the spot.

  They didn't plan on saving anyone.

  That is our good fortune.

  If I had followed Lin Wu Xuan at that time and strayed a little, then we would have died in the desert too.

  I would rather believe they came to rescue me than coincidentally being blown by the wind onto their path.

  The truth of this matter is like a sharp knife, cutting my flesh, one cut at a time.

  This feeling is worse than when I was severely dehydrated in the desert, that kind of hidden-in-the-bones feeling, compared to physical pain, it's nothing.

  We all rested in place for more than half an hour, then got back on the bus. The bus drove for almost another hour before stopping at a shaded area.

  Da Hei got off the bus, holding a loudspeaker and shouting at the top of his lungs: "Take a half-hour break, then set off immediately..."

  There were only two of us left in the car, me and Yu Gang. The others had all gotten out to stretch their legs. Yu Gang was leaning against the car door, his eyes fixed intently on something outside. I saw this and felt a bit curious, so I asked: "What are you looking at?"

  "Hush..." Yu Gang whispered softly, then continued looking outside.

  I was even more surprised, so I went over and followed his line of sight to see who he was staring at. It turned out to be Huang Daxian. Just as I was about to ask him something, I heard him say in a low voice: "I've always suspected that the doctor doesn't care about our lives or deaths. This morning, I just found out that it's true."

  "The doctor invited us to participate in this activity, but he didn't tell us the purpose of it and kept everything secret. He's always been with Huang Daxian."

  "Isn't the purpose of this activity to find the lost civilization?" I was startled, and my mind immediately thought of what Dahei said, using connections to get this activity done.

  According to normal logic, everyone participating in this activity should make everything clear. Both I and Yu Gang feel that Tang Guangze is hiding something from us, and also from everyone else.

  "Chen Yuesong, let me remind you, on this journey of ours, we can be abandoned at any time and place. If it weren't for your good luck, you'd have been a dried-up corpse by now. I knew I shouldn't have come in the first place, now there's no turning back."

  I didn't say anything either, I don't want to say anything about this matter, no matter how bad the feeling is, it can't be said to others. I just looked at Huang Daxian stretching out his hand and pointing to a distant place, with an unpleasant expression. The big black beside him nodded slightly in fear, and finally dispersed.

  If Tang Guangze really didn't follow what I just said to achieve our ultimate goal, it's because he was on guard against us. Not long ago, I was just the owner of an antique shop, and my business wasn't doing well either. The store was sold, and I didn't expect that overnight, so many things would happen.

  From today on, I found out that Tang Guangze doesn't care about our lives or deaths at all. Suddenly, I feel like I've lost the conviction to hold on.

  He indulged in wild fancies for a while, and before he knew it, half an hour had slipped away. Da Hei blew the horn to summon everyone again, and they set off once more.

  This time we paid special attention to the route of our journey, and it seemed that the direction we were heading was following Huang Daxian's instructions. Wherever Huang Daxian pointed, the car would head in that direction.

  I racked my brains to recall the first time I saw Tang Guangze, he asked me for help, so he threw the bronze sword in my store and said that it was returned to its rightful owner.

  At that time I didn't even carefully listen to what this sentence meant?

  Two years ago, I took over this antique shop from someone else because the boss was immigrating abroad at that time and finally transferred the antique shop to me.

  Isn't this bronze sword sold by that boss?

  That boss is Tang Guangze's friend.

  At this point, I thought of the moving blood characters in the bedroom, the terrifying scene, and the old beggar who came to the door to ask for death, as well as Tang Guangze's appearance.

  Is all of this really a curse?

  Was it already planned by them?

  Bang!

  Suddenly the car we were sitting in slammed on the brakes, and the driver exclaimed with a look of shock:

  "What... what... what is that thing?"