Chapter 70 another dangerous situation

Today, we are finally entering the most dangerous area in the world right now. How dangerous is it?In the past two months, three groups of foreigners have been kidnapped on this road, the most recent group being five days ago.I just received another news that just yesterday, 32 policemen in the Zahedan area were killed by an Afghan drug cartel in retaliation for the arrest of a leader of the group. Get up at 5:00 am and leave at 6:00 am.Kerman is a small town, and the desert is just a few steps away. The desert here will make people alert from the topography: there are many irregular stone piers and stone platforms with a diameter of seven or eight meters on the roadside, which look like bunkers.There are also many natural stone pits, which look like trenches.

What's more serious is that on both sides about 300 meters away from the road, there are two stretches of low mountain ridges, which are simply the best terrain for ambushes.How many people can hide on the mountain ridge, once the charge can reach the ground quickly, even if there are armed forces on the road to snipe, they can still be in a favorable position by virtue of the stone platforms and stone pits. We have been traveling on such a road, and our hearts have been hanging in the air, imagining various scenarios of the kidnapping of three groups of foreigners not long ago.Are these foreigners still locked up now, at least the group kidnapped five days ago?Where will they be locked up?

At noon, I saw a large ancient castle, the whole color of sand, without a trace of other colors.The shape is ancient, the gate is narrow, and there is a moat, which shows that the ancient city is also very unsafe. There is a small town next to the ancient castle, called Beimu. When I asked, I knew that the castle was a relic of the Parthian Dynasty, and it has been more than two thousand years.But this ruin has always been inhabited, and it was abandoned two hundred years ago, and it became a place where treasure thieves dug three feet into the ground. A few of us walked through the streets after entering the ancient castle, and roughly figured out the division of ancient government offices, imperial guards, stalls and civilian residential areas.The whole city is basically centered on the government office, which radiates from layer to layer.Due to its high open location and perfect drainage system, the official government office is made of very resilient jujube wood, which is the best preserved.The civilian residential area is very crowded.In fact, there were almost no residents outside the castle in ancient times, and a castle has already included most of the population of the state.

When visiting the ancient castle in Beimu, we were told that there must be a police car protection from here to Zahedan, so we went to the local police station to apply. The application was approved without much trouble, but due to the dangerous situation and the shortage of police force, the police hoped that we could either wait in Beimu, or drive to Zahedan first, and then chase after the police car came back. Fortunately, our convoy is easier identify. We didn't know how long we would have to wait. Seeing that the sun was setting in the west, it was more dangerous to walk at night, so we chose the latter option, that is, let the police cars chase us, and set off at a risk.

We encountered a desert storm less than an hour after we left Beimu.I saw a dark sky, and the sound of sand and stones hitting the car windows and car body was like a torrential rain. The car could only drive very slowly, but did not dare to stop. The sand flow crossed the asphalt road like yellow dragons.The wind was roaring, and the sand and rocks were rushing down. It was completely invisible in the distance. Nearby, there were many flying white air currents on the sand on both sides. I don't know what it meant. The biggest worry of being in this storm is not knowing how far it will intensify.The convoy suddenly became very small, letting the pair of giant hands between heaven and earth do whatever they wanted.

The desert storm finally passed. Just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, I raised my breath again: the night is coming, but there is a mountain in front of me! The police car protecting us hadn't arrived yet, and the surrounding environment was getting more and more dangerous. We didn't dare to stop to brush off the sand from the car, so we gritted our teeth and slammed into the mountain road in this dangerous area.The partners gently instructed each other: look at the six directions with your eyes, and listen to all directions with your ears.Every turn here, I don't know what I will encounter, and every time I go uphill or downhill, I am worried.

The mountains on both sides were hideous and grotesque, and the cliffs beside the driveway were deep.There are no grass trees, no night birds, no autumn insects, everything is expressionless and silent, and the most terrifying thing in the world is this expressionless silence. Suddenly the road becomes gentle and enters a plateau.At this time, a horn sounded from behind, and a vehicle with a machine gun chased after him.This kind of car is called a small truck in China. I saw that this small truck dug a big hole under the metal shed above the cargo compartment, and protruded a human head and a machine gun. Others sat in the cockpit with guns.

After parking, they told us that they were the police, and that they had really entered a dangerous area ahead, and they came here to protect us. They didn't wear police uniforms, and they didn't show us their IDs.We couldn't verify everything, and we didn't dare to ask in detail, so we let them follow the convoy and continue to move forward.We were just flustered: why did we take the risk for half a day and only now entered the dangerous zone?Who are they?The ancients said that the eyes look at the six directions, at least half of our focus now has to be divided into the back.

After walking for a long time, the car with the machine gun behind it jumped up and asked us to stop, saying that their duty time was up, and another police car would come to change shift, and asked us to wait here with them. We looked around, and here was another hill, so dark that we couldn't see anything clearly.Captain Guo Ying thought about it, in the most dangerous area in the world, in the middle of the night, in the mountains, we were with some unknown armed men, and we were waiting with them for another group of armed men. Shout: Drive, leave quickly! Our convoy galloped away like a team of horses as soon as Hulong, and arrived at Zahedan in the middle of the night.

On November 30, 1999, departed from Kerman for Zahedan and stayed overnight at the Esleghlal Hotel