I also slid down the sand slope and grabbed the black charcoal-like sand.
When I held it in my hand, I immediately felt warm and even a little hot in some places.
The sand under the black fine sand is relatively well preserved and is all golden yellow, but the surface has completely turned black, and such a large area has completely turned black.
But I was puzzled by all this.
At first glance, this area was all scorched earth, and it felt like a gray area.
"What are they going to do?"
Grandpa said with shock on his face.
Cordier's people had obviously walked for less than an hour.
There were still burnt black footprints in the distance, and the footprints were messy and continued to move in the east direction.
The air was also filled with the smell of black tar, like the smell of burning gasoline that evaporates.
Obviously such a large area is watered with gasoline.
Did they come all the way here to burn the sand with gasoline?
"Old man, did they come all this way carrying gasoline just to burn the sand?"
Captain Xie said in confusion.
"It's definitely not that simple.
Let's look around and maybe we can find some clues."
Grandpa said.
The desert in this basin looks no different from other deserts, except that the surface has turned charred black.
"I was digging a hole before, and it was understandable that I dug the ghost vines, but what does burning the sand mean?
After the burning, the people left again."
Ye Baldy rolled his head, completely confused.
There are no plants to speak of in this area.
If there are plants, they will definitely leave a black gray substance after being burned.
However, this is sand, and there are no traces of digging.
"They couldn't have burned such a large area of desert to keep warm at night," Datou said.
I just rolled my eyes at Datou and said: "Are you a pig?
The temperature at night is only more than ten degrees.
We don't need heating.
Do you think they need heating when they are moving forward?
And who is such an idiot to run like this?
Far from using gasoline for heating.”
"There is definitely something we haven't paid attention to.
Let's look carefully," Captain Xie said.
I kept turning the sand along the scorched earth.
I also held a dead branch in my hand and kept turning the sand along the scorched earth.
Then I searched around and found no suspicious signs.
There was nothing suspicious about this scorched earth, not even beneath the sand.
Just when I had gained nothing, suddenly my foot sank and it felt like I had stepped into a small pit.
I looked down, raised my foot, and found that the sand under my feet had been stepped down by my foot, revealing a deep hole as big as the mouth of a bowl.
The hole was bottomless, as if it had been drilled with some drilling tools.
Deep underground.
When I saw the discovery, I immediately peeled off the sand layer on the surface, and a dark steel pipe was exposed under the sand.
The middle of the steel pipe was hollow and turned into burnt black.
I dipped my hand into the black material on the inner wall of the steel pipe and smelled it before putting it to the tip of my nose.
There was a smell of gasoline.
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"Is this oil?"
I came to a conclusion in my mind.
"Come and take a look," I said to everyone who was still looking.
Several people came to my side one after another, looking at the dark steel pipe in the sand pit with the same surprise.
"Petroleum" Captain Xie recognized it at a glance.
I nodded and said: "It's probably oil.
What they burn is oil, not gasoline."
"There is oil down here," Ming Bao said with eyes shining.
"Maybe not a lot.
When they drilled down, there was probably a large amount of oil gush out, but only a limited amount of oil gush out," I said.
"Since oil was discovered, why did it light it again?"
Ye Tuozi said in confusion.
"Maybe it's because I'm afraid of being discovered.
Besides, there's not a lot of oil down here.
You can tell by looking at the sandy area within a mile that no more oil spewed out after the ignition."
I said.
"This pipe looks very deep, let's get it out and take a look," Ye Tuzi said.
"What are you doing with this pipe?
Obviously there is no oil at the bottom.
Could it be that Cordier came here for oil?
Otherwise, why would he carry drilling tools with him?"
I said.
These drilling pipes are connected section by section.
There is a powerful drill bit at the bottom, which drills into the ground, and then the steel pipes are connected section by section to detect the depth of the ground.
"Obviously there is oil here, but the amount of oil in the photo area is not very large.
In order not to be discovered, they burned this place.
As long as the wind and sand blow again, when this area is buried, no traces will be seen. ."
Captain Xie said.
According to some records, there are abundant underground water resources and oil and other mining resources in the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert, which are conducive to development.
It's just that it's too dangerous in the desert.
You can't even drive in, and many things are difficult to achieve.
Even if it is easy to develop, no one will brave the scorching heat to enter the hinterland of the desert to mine corpse oil.
First of all, sandstorms and mobile deserts are the biggest.
The second problem is that transportation has become a big problem.
Cars cannot work here at all and can easily get stuck in the sand.
"There is oil here that has been recorded in books for a long time.
It's not like no one has tried it.
Why does Cordier come here to look for oil?
Do you want to make a fortune in this desert of death?
You know this is a mobile desert.
Every day There are tens of thousands of acres of sand buried in the sand, how can they extract oil?"
I said in confusion.
"It is very likely that there are other purposes.
It is very likely that all they are doing is to find the direction of the Sea of Death.
The Sea of Death is a beautiful oasis full of dangers.
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Through underground detection, they can analyze the direction they are walking.
Is that correct?
Oil may not be their goal," Grandpa said.
"In other words, are they very close to the Sea of Death?"
Ye Tuzi said.
"It is very likely that it is not practical to exploit oil in the desert.
The only possibility is to detect the location through underground resources."
Grandpa continued.
"In that case, let's hurry up and follow."
Captain Xie said anxiously.
It can be seen that Captain Xie is the most anxious person here, and it is likely that Captain Hu Wan's clues have a lot to do with it.
After all, the inscription on the parchment ultimately points to the direction of the Sea of Death.
But if we really reach the Sea of Death, will the weird events that happened to the Stormtroopers happen in the past?
This is what I am worried about.
I dream for ten years and sleep tightly for ten years.
It is a bit scary to think about it.
The sky is getting colder and the temperature begins to rise slowly.
The bright sun rises slowly from the horizon at the end of the desert, dyeing the desert with a layer of white and yellow
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