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Chapter 457 The plot is messed up

Seeing that Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan refused to accept the temporary rerouting, Professor Chen became anxious. "Shirley, you are too impulsive. You have no idea how relationships work in China."

"Uncle Chen, you don't have to worry about anything. We can just continue recruiting people after we get to Xi'an." Shirley Yang was now in a difficult position, but she still said to Professor Chen stubbornly, "Xi'an has been a center of archaeology since ancient times. There are plenty of suitable talents."

"But that would be a waste of time! If we go to the Kunlun Glacier and then return to Xinjiang, if we stay in Xi'an for too long, we'll definitely miss this year's monsoon season."

"Uncle Chen, don't worry, I'll speed things up." Shirley Yang was actually very anxious, but she was just pretending to be calm. She hadn't expected Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan to be so aggressive. "Besides, Professor Hao Aiguo is in Xi'an right now. I'm sure with his help, we'll be able to find the right person quickly."

"Alas! This is the only way now."

The train soon arrived at Xi'an Railway Station. Suning and his three companions had no further contact with the archaeological team along the way, and the archaeological team did not come to provoke Suning and his three companions. However, Ye Yixin, Chu Jian and the other two were in a daze and had no idea what had happened.

Both parties got off the train at Xi'an Station, and then Suning took Yingzi, Hu Bayi and others to start a shopping and eating mode in Xi'an. After they had tried all the delicious food in the city of Xi'an, Suning and the other three boarded the train headed straight for Urumqi.

A few days of traveling in Xi'an made the relationship between the four people much more harmonious. Yingzi also saw the real world, and Hu Bayi no longer had the excessive rejection of Suning at the beginning.

When Suning, Hu Bayi and the other three arrived in Urumqi, Shirley Yang and Professor Chen, who had recruited new staff in Xi'an, also set off for the Kunlun Glacier. This shows how persistent Shirley Yang is and she will not give up easily because of some changes.

"Suning, how do we get to Lake Bosteng next? Should we hire a truck?" Hu Bayi looked at Suning with a puzzled look, because Xinjiang is so vast.

"No need! I asked someone to get me an 8*8 desert off-road RV. I just need to find a local guide." Suning explained very easily that he was going to have a different adventure this time.

"Desert RV?"

"Yes! It can carry five people and is fully equipped with all necessary appliances. It will definitely be a unique desert trip."

"Ah? I thought we just needed to ride camels, but I didn't expect you to make such a big deal!" Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan looked at Suning in shock.

"Brother Su, what is an RV?" Yingzi looked at Suning with confusion.

"The RV is like a mobile house. It has all the necessary living facilities. We won't suffer any hardship when we go to the desert." Suning looked at the suddenly well-behaved little girl lovingly.

"Suning, it seems that we are really here for a trip this time." Hu Bayi said with a helpless smile.

"Haha, if you don't enjoy the conditions, you'd be a fool."

"Suning, I have an old comrade-in-arms in Urumqi. I asked him to help me contact a local guide." Seeing that Suning was so well prepared, Hu Bayi also put in his 100% effort.

"Okay! Then let's split up."

Suning's so-called split action was to let Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan go to find a guide, while he arranged for a bionic robot to drive an imported desert RV with complete documents to the guesthouse. After handing the RV to Suning in public, the bionic robot would be considered to have completed its mission.

"Brother Su, this RV is so beautiful!" Yingzi looked at the desert RV in front of her with surprise, and did not notice when the "driver" disappeared.

"Yingzi, let me take you inside the car." Suning opened the car door with a smile and took Yingzi into the RV.

"There's a kitchen, toilet, and bathroom, as well as a bedroom. Home appliances include a refrigerator and a TV. It's definitely a luxurious trip."

"Brother Su, you really know how to enjoy life." Yingzi looked at Suning with admiration and worship.

"Haha, if we really encounter a black sandstorm and can't find a place to hide, we'll be safe in the car for the time being."

"Well, Brother Su, you are very thoughtful."

Speaking of which, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan came to Hu Bayi's old comrade and said, "Old Liu, you must help me find a good guide this time."

"Lao Hu, there are really few tour guides in Xinjiang now, and it's hard for me to find one at the moment." Lao Liu explained with a wry smile on his face.

"Old Liu, I know you have a way, so please think of a way for me!"

"Well..." Old Liu looked at Hu Bayi with an embarrassed look on his face, and he also remembered his life in the military camp. "Old Hu, I do know a businessman who deals in livestock. Everyone calls him Anliman, which means "living map of the desert" in Uyghur. No one remembers his real name anymore."

"Ah? Isn't this the most suitable guide?" Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan looked at each other in surprise.

"Well, I also heard that he did have a tour guide business, taking a group of foreign tourists on desert tours. Not long ago, he left a few foreigners in the desert and returned with camels, so he was locked up by the police."

"Ah? Then where is he being held now?"

"What a coincidence! He's in a town near Lake Bosten. You can find him by going to the local police station."

"Old Liu, thank you. I'll treat you to a drink now that we're back from the desert." Hu Bayi hugged his old comrade in surprise.

"Okay! It's a deal." Old Liu smiled and high-fived Hu Bayi, then said with some concern, "But you have to think carefully. Do you really want to use this low-quality Anliman?"

"Well, we'll keep an eye on this Anliman."

"Alright! Since you've made up your mind, I won't say anything."

After getting the news from the guide, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan returned to the guesthouse, and were attracted by an incredibly beautiful RV. Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan looked at each other in surprise, and they both had some guesses in their minds at this time.

"Suning, is this the RV you asked someone to bring back?" Hu Bayi couldn't help but look at Suning in surprise.

"Yes! Beautiful, isn't it?"

"Well, beautiful! The guide issue is resolved as well."

"Oh? Where?"

"There's a local businessman named Anliman, but he's not a very good person. We need to pay more attention to him and find a way to find him." Hu Bayi carefully explained the details of Anliman.

"It's okay! We can let Fatty and Yingzi keep an eye on him. Besides, we have a car, so we are not afraid that he will leave us in the desert." Suning is still very confident in his own strength.

"Huh? Suning, you're not going to let him bring the camel?"

"The camel is so slow, there's no way it can catch up with our car. We might as well not let him lead the camel."

"Well, that's fine too."

Suning, Hu Bayi and three others drove an off-road RV straight to the small town of Bosteng Lake. They enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Xinjiang along the way, and everyone felt relaxed and happy.

"Suning, this car is really comfortable to sit in. I wish I could drive it too." Wang Kaixuan touched here and looked there, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

"Haha, from now on, I will teach you how to drive, so that the three of us and Lao Hu can take turns driving."

"Okay! I must study hard." After the four arrived at Lake Bosteng, they contacted the local leaders and donated a large sum of money for local road and bridge construction. Suning knew that he did not have a letter of introduction from the archaeological team, and the local people would not assist him, so he could only rely on spending money to get the locals to cooperate with him.

With Suning's lavish spending, the locals welcomed Suning and his group very much, and tried their best to meet Suning's requests. First, they continued to temporarily detain all of Anliman's camels, and then arranged for Anliman to take Suning and the other four into the desert. After everyone returned safely, they promised to return the camels to Anliman immediately.

Anliman was actually the one who was most against cars, but for the sake of his own group of camels, Anliman had no choice but to agree to all their requests, stepped onto the RV of Suning and others, and led Suning and the other four on a journey to find the ancient city of Jingjue.

Just when the five people were about to set off, they were suddenly shocked by a major news. Shirley Yang and Professor Chen's archaeological team had encountered an accident again. In addition to the death of a soldier, a team leader hired in Xi'an also died.

"Lao Hu, Fatty, take a look at this news."

"Huh?" Hu Bayi took the newspaper with a puzzled look on his face, then lowered his head to read it. Even Wang Kaixuan next to him came over curiously.

"Holy crap! Two people died?" Wang Kaixuan cursed in shock, then looked at Hu Bayi in horror, "Old Hu, if we went to the Kunlun Glacier, would we be the ones to die?"

Hu Bayi's heart was filled with a wry smile and relief at this moment. He then turned to look at Su Ning in front of him and said, "Suning, you saved my life and Fatty's life this time."

"Old Hu, you choose your own path. The most I can do is give you some advice."

"No matter what, Suning, we all thank you." Wang Kaixuan next to him also looked at Suning with gratitude.

"Alright! Let's stop thanking each other and start our own adventure!"

After the four of them reached a consensus, under the leadership of Anliman, they started from Lake Bosteng and headed deep into the desert along the ancient Peacock River. This was almost the same route that the archaeological team in the original drama had taken.

"Oh! I still like to ride my camel. It feels really uncomfortable sitting in this car." Anliman said with a worried look on his face.

"Uncle Anliman, who told you to leave the foreign tourists in the desert and come back with your camels?"

"Oh! That's not the case! They just don't want me anymore!" Anliman's mouth was full of the smell of mutton skewers when he got angry.

"Uncle Anliman, I'm not a policeman, don't explain anything to me." Looking at the somewhat impatient Anliman, Suning said disapprovingly, "As long as we return from the Black Desert this time, your camel will be back with you, and you will get a large reward."

"Hmph! If it weren't for my camel, I wouldn't have endured this suffering!" Anliman lay there comfortably, but complained insincerely.

"Uncle Anliman, you can definitely be more open-minded and just treat it as a journey."

"My understanding of the desert is like returning home. Why bother traveling?" An Liman retorted disapprovingly.

Wang Kaixuan, who had been listening to the conversation between Suning and Anliman, felt a little overwhelmed. He looked at Hu Bayi beside him and whispered, "Old Hu, Suning is really too good-tempered to tolerate this old man."

"Fatty, you don't understand!" Hu Bayi, who had figured everything out by now, began to sympathize with Su Ning. "Suning is always so patient with capable people."

"Brother Su, the desert is so beautiful. I want to go down and take a look." Yingzi looked at the beautiful scenery of the desert along the way, and suddenly looked at Su Ning with an intoxicated look.

"Okay! When the sun isn't so strong, we'll stop and look around, then have our first picnic since entering the desert."

"Brother Su, that's great." Yingzi couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.

"Yingzi, the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is. You'd better be careful." Looking at Yingzi's surprised face, Suning couldn't help but remind her.

"I understand, Brother Su." Yingzi said in a rare and obedient manner, "I will always listen to your and Brother Hu's instructions."

"Well, this pistol is for you. Keep it for your self-defense."

"Ah? A pistol?" Yingzi took the Glock 17 handed to her by Suning with surprise.

Seeing Suning handing Yingzi a pistol, Anliman next to him couldn't help but shudder all over. He looked at Suning and the other three with some fear, feeling that this trip might be really dangerous. However, he didn't have his cute camel now, and he couldn't get rid of the control of the four people for a while.

"Suning, do you have our guns?" Wang Kaixuan immediately came to Suning and asked.

"Yes! Two AK47s."

"Ah? Where? Where?" Wang Kaixuan shouted excitedly.

"It's in the luggage. I'll give it to you when we go down for the picnic later."

When the group saw that the sun outside was not so strong, they stopped the RV and started their first desert picnic. All four of them felt refreshed.

When Suning brought out the fresh mutton and fresh vegetables and fruits, Anliman, the living map in the desert, was also shocked. "Where did you get the fresh fruits and mutton?"

“There’s a refrigerator in the car, so it’s convenient to bring some fresh food.”

"Yeah! You mainlanders really know how to enjoy life."

At this time, the archaeological team that had just returned from the Kunlun Glacier was as wilted as eggplants hit by frost. Everyone was in a state of exhaustion. Although Shirley Yang paid a large sum of money to understand the matter, the fear and decadence in everyone's hearts could not be eliminated.

"Professor, how could you let Hu Bayi go so easily?" Hao Aiguo had been navigating the situation in Xi'an. He was puzzled by Shirley Yang and Professor Yang's decision to send Su Ning and Hu Bayi away. "If he had been here this time, we wouldn't have suffered such a devastating loss."

"We don't want to be patriotic, either." Professor Chen was actually quite helpless. This was probably why farting without money was silent. "But Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan refused to agree to change the route to the Kunlun Glacier, and we didn't have any good solutions."

Hao Aiguo knew that all the problems were to blame on Shirley Yang in front of him, but at this moment Shirley Yang was just sitting there holding the notebook she found under the Kunlun Glacier, studying intently.

"Professor Chen, Professor Hao, now that our archaeological team has this notebook, we can retrace Mr. Walter's steps." Shirley Yang had long blocked out all external things, her mind full of thoughts about her Jingjue Ancient City.

"Shirley, we have lost one of our team leaders, and the other team leaders are all scared out of their wits. We must quickly find a new team leader." Professor Chen looked at the obsessed Shirley Yang with a wry smile.

"Professor, we'll be in Urumqi soon. Once there, we'll rest and look for an experienced guide." Shirley Yang, seemingly forever worrying, began making her own arrangements. "Even if we don't have the Heavenly Star Feng Shui technique, with Mr. Walter's notebook, we'll definitely be able to find the Jingjue Ancient City."

"Okay! Now this is the only way for our archaeological team."

Professor Chen was regretting his decision at this moment. If he had not driven Suning away, perhaps he could have allowed Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan to stay. Even if they were unwilling to go to the Kunlun Glacier, he could still take their archaeological team to the Western Regions to look for the ancient city of Jingjue.

"Shirley, the jade pendant on Wang Kaixuan is also very important. We forgot about it at first." Professor Chen suddenly reminded Shirley Yang.

"Professor, I think the jade pendant on Fatty Wang can only be considered to be related to the Ghost Cave Clan, but it doesn't mean that the jade pendant is that important."

"Oh! I hope so!"

Shirley Yang also wanted to buy Wang Kaixuan's jade pendant at first, but Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan both valued the jade pendant too much and refused to sell it to him.

At that time, Shirley Yang was afraid of raising the price too high, worried that Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan would be greedy, so she just used 20,000 US dollars to keep Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan hanging for the time being. Unexpectedly, Suning's sudden appearance changed all of Shirley Yang's plans. Now Shirley Yang hates Suning in her heart.

(End of this chapter)