Old dog tell weird stories

Lop Nor

This story is told by an old driver who has been running long-distance vehicles in Xinjiang for most of his life.

The old driver named Baldy, almost sixty this year, the first was in Xinjiang Yecheng as a soldier, automobile soldiers. Later retired from the army, simply stay there to run transport, take the new Tibetan line, that is, the world's most difficult road, from the interior to the southern border to deliver supplies, of course, encountered many strange things.

Yecheng place belongs to the southern border.

The southern border is different from the northern border. The northern border is the mountains, rivers, Kanas, Nalati grasslands, high-nosed, broad-minded Uyghur girls, towering firm t**s, fragrant horse milk wine; the southern border, it means the majestic Karakorum Mountains, the endless Taklamakan Desert, the desert, the Gobi Desert, human bones, horror, and of course, ghosts and monsters.

Yes, ghosts and monsters.

When I was eighteen, I wanted to get a driver's license, so I invited Baldy for a drink. He got high and excitedly told me some strange stories about the time when I was breaking in the southern border.

He said, "How old was I when I was driving in the southern border? Just early twenties, right?

Counting, it was 30 or 40 years ago!

South of the border, ah, I do not know! What people, ghosts, it is impossible to distinguish!

Sometimes, you look like a human thing, but actually not a human. And sometimes, you look at the front is an evil ghost, in fact, he is a person. This kind of thing ah, really hard to say!

I hurried to him a toast: "Master Baldy, you encountered in the Southland what monsters, tell us about it! I heard that someone met an old fox in the southern border, and abducted people and cars!"

He proudly said, "Hey, this is nothing, we encountered something, more evil than this!" Once the conversation got going, he lit a cigarette and told us about some strange things that had happened in the southern border.

He said, I used to drive in the new Tibetan line, this kind of ghosts and foxes have seen a lot of things. At the beginning, there was really some fear, but then see more, it is that way, sometimes many days did not meet, but also want it.

If you say the most evil, it has to be one year, I met that what ...... is what you just said, the double fish jade pendant that something!

My brain lit up: "You mean Lopbos?

He nodded: "Yes!"

He said, one year, almost the middle of the nineties, I drove a large truck, to Yecheng to transport supplies. On the road, to pass through a large area of saline land, the saline land is not an inch of grass, as with the desert, the place is very dry, everywhere is yellow soil, yellow sand, not to mention animals, even a grass can not be seen.

Old drivers are the most annoyed by this kind of road, the road are in the sand, the outside scenery is too monotonous, people driving on the fatigue, it is easy to fall asleep with the steering wheel, and hypnosis, it is easy to get into a car accident.

In that place, once a car accident, a few days can not see a person, is certainly a death.

As a result, that day, I was driving there, I saw a man walking slowly on the road.

He was carrying an old-fashioned black leather bag, with a black-framed presbyopic glasses, wearing an old cadre outfit, the following is a pair of yellow rubber shoes, this kind of line, then already rare, looks like the Cultural Revolution era.

What is this person doing?

Does it mean that the car broke down, so people came down to ask for help?

Look around, there is no bad car nearby ah!

I grew a heart, first did not stop, pressed the horn a few times, the man heard, gave me a wave, I stopped.

Rolled down the window, I asked him: "Teacher, where are you going?"

He pointed me to the distance with his hand: "Hello, little comrade! I'm going there!"

Following his finger, I was shocked, he was going to the direction of the vast Kunlun Mountains, and the Taklamakan Desert. Not to mention there, now this road is no different from the desert, he also want to go to the end of the road, this is not to send death?

I kindly said: "Teacher, there is no road, do you want to go to the front of the county? I can pull you for a while!"

The old man thought carefully, then nodded: "Little comrade, then take me to the front, hard work for you!"

I think he spoke a bit ridiculous, look at his dress, I guess he was more or less a cadre, now retired, but still can not get rid of that cadre accent, but also quite interesting.

I was in the car, so I made small talk with him, asking him how he came here alone? Where are you going? Where are the others?

He said that his side is an exploration team, doing geological expeditions here. They have a few people in the exploration team, the back of the car broke down, he came out to look for, to see if they can find someone to tow the car out.

I saw that he was so old, so I said, they are so many people in the exploration team, how to send an old man out to find water?

He was silent for a moment, then sighed and muttered a low voice to himself.

But that sentence, I did not hear clearly.

I continued: "It's not easy to find a trailer here, you have to go to Ye Cheng to get it! I think ah, or we turn back, the rest of you also pick up, first go to Ye City!"

The old man waved his hand and said categorically, "No! Just one phone call from me, the military district will send a helicopter over!"

My heart secretly happy, thinking that this person looks serious, how or a cowboy basket! Well, you can blow, blow, anyway, bragging is not taxed!

I said, "It's good to have a helicopter! Yes, your side is the exploration team, is it oil exploration?"

The old man shook his head: "Young man, you do not need to pry, we are a confidential unit, engaged in state secrets, these can not be said!"

I said, "Oh oh, so it is a confidential unit, then I understand! I used to take a military car, I heard them say, they do confidential work over there, cough, are hidden in the cuffs, afraid to mosquitoes heard."

After driving for most of the day, the car has not yet out of that desert, the old man suddenly let me stop, said he was going to arrive, arrived! Talking is very urgent, how to persuade can not.

I really had no choice, I had to put him down, the old man got off, gave me I shook hands, let me work hard, so as to serve the country in the future, and then stride towards the vast Kunlun Mountain in the distance away.

At that time, I have been running in the new Tibetan line for decades, what is along the new Tibetan line, I can say with my eyes closed, the old man went to the place, there is nothing, is the vast Gobi Desert, and then is the Kunlun Mountains, there is absolutely no road.

Back on the road for a while, thought and thought, or can not leave the old man, or it would be equivalent to his death.

I hurriedly went back to find the old man again, the Gobi Desert was empty, not even a bird, where there is no old man?

I did not feel comfortable, and followed the old man walked down the road and drove for half an hour, rampaged on the Gobi Desert, until the car was almost out of gas, but did not find him.

The old man, so missing in the vast Gobi Desert.

The more I thought about it, the more scared I was, a person in the car, hit the gas, a breath of driving to the city of leaves, where I found a bath center, soaked a bath, so in the hall to sleep all night, to get over it.

I can't help but feel: "These days the old revolution is really full of guts, in order to work, what dragon and tiger caves dare to break!"

Baldy said: "Not to mention, he is really an old revolutionary! Later, I met him again!"

I was amazed: "He hasn't come out of the Gobi Desert yet?"

Baldy shook his head: "He probably won't be able to get out in his lifetime. I once watched the news online, talking about the Xinjiang Academy of Sciences President Peng Gamu in the Lop Nor missing thing, I incidentally put together a glance, almost gave me a scare! The man I met over in Xinjiang is exactly the same as the photo of Peng Gamu!"

"Ah, it's really him?!"

Baldy said for sure: "Why not! I later searched carefully on the Internet, and it was really him! But he disappeared in 1980, I met him at that time, almost in the mid-1990s, a difference of more than ten years."

I sweat all over my body, said: "Does it mean that he has been walking over there for more than ten years, and has not yet gone to the place?"

Baldy said, "Who knows? Maybe at that time my car drove to more than ten years ago, just meet then he!"

He explained that in Tibet, this side of Xinjiang, sometimes encounter this kind of thing, you do not know whether you traveled to the past, or those things suddenly traveled to the future, anyway, sometimes there will be a crossover.

He gave an example, sometimes, the car on the road driving, will encounter a small restaurant on the roadside, the young boss and the boss's wife in that busy to, busy to, greeted very enthusiastic.

You feel good, thinking to go back to rest on this side, only to return, but found that the place is simply a ruin, where there is no small restaurant?

Things just passed, in a few years, or even decades later, you once again drove past there, but found that the small restaurant once again, or the two young bosses and the boss's wife, or the same busy, enthusiastic greeting the passing car, exactly the same as decades ago, but you have turned from a young man into a middle-aged uncle.

I also lamented, cupped my glass and said, "It seems that ah, in the future, when I get my driver's license, I really can not go to the southern border!"

Unexpectedly, the bald man grinned: "Go! You have to go!"

I was astonished: ah, why?

Baldy said: "You do not know! Now, the southern border has been developed, those things female college students like to go hiking there! You do not know, these days the girls like to play something 'poor travel', do not bring money, tired of walking there to stop the car, get on the car said no money, but can sleep with the driver."

He smashed his mouth: "or now the driver is blessed ah! Hey, how we did not catch this good thing back then!"

The old baldy is very sorry.