Chapter 1256: The Missing Person Calling for Help

When Zhang Zian finished packing, the sun just showed its first ray of light from the horizon, and the hot day began again. <щww.suimeng.lā

It was as if the curtain on the stage was pulled back, the darkness faded, and the surrounding scenery quickly became brighter.

He assembled the drone on the hood of the vehicle and used a remote control to fly it off.

In fact, at this time, other people also took advantage of the bright light and saw the off-road vehicle stuck in the sand through binoculars. Although they could only see one side, they all exclaimed.

The drone quickly flew over the side of the off-road vehicle, entered a hovering state, and then circled the vehicle slowly for a circle, transmitting the captured images to the remote control screen.

how could this be……

Zhang Zian was also taken aback when he saw the scorched black car body, because the car had obviously been burned.

"What's going on? This car caught fire?"

"Maybe, the weather is too hot, the sun is too strong, maybe it is spontaneous combustion at high temperature?"

"We have to be careful too, don't follow in the footsteps of this car."

Everyone talked about it and felt sorry for the car.

I used the headlights last night, and everyone noticed the blackness, but they thought it was the paintwork of the vehicle, and didn't think about the fact that the vehicle was burned.

Spontaneous combustion of vehicles is rare but not uncommon. It is not only spontaneously combusted due to high temperature exposure, but also spontaneously combusted due to aging faults in the wiring, which is often seen in the news media.

Ordinary people can't imagine the high temperature in midsummer in the depths of the Sahara Desert. Under the direct sunlight, dry wood may catch fire and spontaneous combustion. If the car is trapped in quicksand and exposed to the sun, the heat gathers inside, and spontaneous combustion is reasonable.

"No! Look carefully at the traces of the fire! This car doesn't seem to be a simple spontaneous combustion!"

Someone has a sharp eye and a careful heart, and notices something unusual.

Except for the intact outline, the front, rear, left, and right windshields were all broken—not only broken, but even with traces of melting, which showed that it was not a simple burning, because ordinary burning cannot burn to this extent. There should be fuel.

The so-called combustion aid is likely to be gasoline, because diesel is not as easy to burn as gasoline.

Strangely, judging from the charred traces and direction, the fire started not near the fuel tank, but the roof of the car, as if someone had poured oxidizer on the roof of the car and ignited it.

Therefore, judging from these details, this car did not spontaneously ignite at high temperature, but someone deliberately burned it.

In the desert, the importance of the vehicle is self-evident. Once the vehicle is damaged, the driver will face difficulties almost immediately.

Of course, no one will drive deep into such a ghost place where the birds don’t shit. Generally speaking, there will definitely be companions. Depending on the number of companions, a damaged car does not necessarily mean that it is in a dangerous situation. .

For example, Wei Kang's car broke down. Although it is a bad thing for the team, at least the supplies are preserved, and it will not cause a fatal blow to the safety and success of the trip.

But even so, why set the car on fire?

Anyway, even a car that cannot be repaired can at least serve as a shelter from the wind and sun, and burning the car consumes precious gasoline or diesel, which is incomprehensible no matter how you think about it.

Both Wei Kang and Lipett also witnessed this incredible scene. The former participated in or organized field trips more than once, and the latter has been to many strange places, but they also couldn't explain why.

"The car was burned like this. Is there... anyone else in the car?"

Someone anxiously asked this question that everyone thought of.

If there were people, or bodies, it could have been... murder.

Dead bodies were destroyed in the depths of the desert, even if the police tried to find them, they couldn't find them.

Zhang Zian fine-tuned the angle of the drone, allowing the camera to shoot inside the car from above the window.

Several people dared not look at it, for fear of seeing one or several corpses that had been burnt terribly.

Fortunately, where the camera can take pictures, there is no corpse or anything like that, only the seat that was burnt to reveal a ferocious steel skeleton, covered with thick dust everywhere.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Nabari came late because he was going to pray in the morning. At this time, he separated from the crowd, walked to Zhang Zian, stared at the screen for a while, and said with a frown, "This is asking for help."

help?

Everyone was stunned.

Nabari is well-informed, and it is not the first time he has seen similar situations in the desert, so he explained his views to everyone.

The car got stuck in the quicksand, and the driver narrowly escaped, trying to call for help from a nearby companion or a passing camel caravan in the distance.

There are only a few ways to call for help in the wild - firing signal flares, shouting or honking, using stones to form SOS, hoping that passing planes and ships will see them, but not everyone has a signal gun, everyone The range of shouting or whistle is limited, and it is affected by the wind direction. As for using stones to place SOS, this limitation is even greater.

There is another way, that is, when you see a ship or plane passing by, light the branches and bushes, and use the smoke to call for help.

In the desert with clear sky and high visibility, if there is a smoke column rising, it can be seen from a long distance, which is one of the most effective ways to call for help.

But it is difficult to find branches and bushes in the desert, let alone stones. I am afraid that this car is the only one that can be used as a rescue tool.

Hearing Nabari's words, a scene full of despair emerged in front of everyone's eyes.

One or several explorers managed to escape from the quicksand, but the vehicle was trapped and could not escape, so they could only stay where they were and wait for rescue. Maybe they finally got reinforcements, but the reinforcements didn't see them and were about to miss them, so in a hurry, they poured gasoline on the car and ignited it, turning the off-road vehicle into a blazing torch, billowing from rubber and plastic. Black smoke became their life-saving straw.

Desperate and desperate.

Are they saved in the end?

no one knows.

Lipett coughed and said, "After setting up camp last night, I checked the police records in the nearby area online, but I didn't find any relevant rescue information in the police records in the past one or two years."

No one cares.

The desert devours human life without a trace every day, and people disappear silently in the desert every day.

The owner of this car may also have become a member of the missing, and others did not even know that they disappeared in the desert.

The identity and purpose of the owner of the vehicle may only become one of the vast mysteries in the desert.

Maybe it's the death of the rabbit and the fox's sorrow, and everyone's heart is not feeling well. While regretting, there is also no lack of vigilance. I pray that my team will not follow in the footsteps of those missing people and become a new missing person.

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