The fatty hesitated. The main contradiction at hand wasn't about dwelling on the truth, but about the gunman's purpose. The fatty asked the gunman, "What do you want me and Rouyi to do?"

The gunman spread his hands, saying, "I'm just a messenger. If you don't have any more questions, please come with me. Someone wants to see you, but not here."

The fatty didn't know if the gunman's "here" referred to the ground beneath their feet or the desert.

The fatty said, "What if we refuse?"

The gunman placed his hand on his holster, making a gesture as if he were about to draw his gun at any moment, and said, "Please don't make things difficult for me."

Faced with the gunman's threat of force, the fatty and Rouyi had no choice but to comply.

Before leaving, Rouyi asked a question: "We're just leaving like this? What about the camp and the mess here? It will be discovered sooner or later."

Seeing that the conversation wasn't heading in a bad direction, the gunman said, "Someone is already taking care of it, don't worry."

The fatty suddenly thought of something and looked at the gunman. "Are you saying that the two supply soldiers..."

The gunman nodded and said, "That's right. They're my people. They'll take care of things. You just need to leave here with me."

The gunman mounted the camel that Li Feng had ridden, leisurely as if nothing had happened. He smiled and introduced himself to the fatty and Rouyi, "Let me introduce myself again. Hello, my name is An Wenshan."

An Wenshan led the fatty and Rouyi around the military control zone, riding the camels along a very strange path. The path didn't seem to be heading in the direction the fatty and Rouyi had come from, nor was it heading towards leaving the desert. The fatty glanced at the compass and then at the surroundings, feeling somewhat lost. An Wenshan told the fatty not to panic, saying that the path he was taking was fine.

An Wenshan had given people the impression of being ruthless in dealing with Li Feng, but he seemed much easier to get along with when dealing with the fatty and Rouyi.

With nothing to do on the camel, the fatty saw that Rouyi didn't seem to be in the mood to chat with him, so the fatty struck up a conversation with An Wenshan, "An Wenshan, you guys have been lurking in the Lop Nur area for so long, you should know quite a bit about Lop Nur, right?"

An Wenshan didn't play coy and said directly, "Brother Shi, just ask whatever you want. This brother of yours will tell you everything I know."

The fatty really did have a question that An Wenshan would have a headache answering.

"That giant skeleton, Li Feng said it was a fishbone, but I've never seen such a big skeleton in my life. What the hell is it?"

An Wenshan pondered for a moment, organized his words, and replied, "Actually, I don't know what kind of animal's skeleton that is. I heard that there used to be nothing there, just sand. Half a year ago, when I first came, the sand in the Lop Nur desert suddenly underwent a large-scale shift. No one knows the reason. The desert landscape changed as a result, and even the ancient cities and ruins near Lop Nur shifted. Then, that skeleton appeared, as if it had emerged from the yellow sand. Along with the skeleton, there were many gold and silver utensils and pottery jars, all very valuable antiques. This attracted Li Feng and his gang of grave robbers. Because Lop Nur was an inland lake a long time ago, called 'Haizi' by the locals, the grave robbers naturally called the skeleton 'fishbone,' but there was no source or basis for it. Perhaps the skeleton belongs to some kind of creature that once lived in Lop Nur."

From this question, the fatty brought up many other questions, such as why there was a stone coffin in that sand pit, what other discoveries were made besides the stone coffin, and what dynasty the gold, silver, and antique artifacts were from.

An Wenshan patiently provided answers, but these answers were basically perfunctory responses like, "I'm not very clear either." After all, An Wenshan's main job wasn't archaeology or grave robbing, but lurking.

During his chat with the fatty, An Wenshan revealed many details about his activities in Lop Nur.

An Wenshan said that initially, the Z organization arranged for them to be stationed in Lop Nur in advance, probably to find something. However, during their stay, they never received orders for action. The organization instructed them to operate and collect information in Lop Nur as explorers, avoiding the patrols of the stationed troops.

For the past half-year, everything had been calm. However, half a month ago, the organization suddenly notified them that a team of American and Chinese official organizations were entering Lop Nur to conduct an archaeological survey, and instructed them to be prepared to assist, providing the archaeological team with certain information they had gathered as explorers. The contacts were two Americans on the archaeological team.

The specific details of the Z organization's operation were in the hands of the two Americans on the archaeological team. An Wenshan and his team only needed to connect with the Americans on the archaeological team. However, An Wenshan waited and waited, but the people from the archaeological team never came. Later, a black sandstorm rose in the desert area. An Wenshan and his team witnessed the sand walls rising in the Gobi Desert, which was terrifying. During that time, they did not go out and remained stationed in the camp.

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About the same time a few days before discovering the fatty, the Z organization sent a message telling An Wenshan and his team that the archaeological team's operation had failed, and all members had perished in the black sandstorm, with no survivors, and instructed them to evacuate within a week.

Just as An Wenshan and his team were about to evacuate, they unexpectedly discovered the fatty and Rouyi. Because they were wearing Blackwater clothing, it caught An Wenshan's attention. Later, after contacting and confirming with the organization, they learned that the fatty and Rouyi were the people the Z organization had been looking for, which led to what happened later.

Combining An Wenshan's words and his previous experiences in the ancient city, the fatty tried to deduce the Z organization's purpose in this archaeological operation. However, the successive catastrophic weather and strange events in the desert made it impossible for the fatty to analyze.

According to An Wenshan, the black sandstorm and quicksand activity had rendered most of the information they had collected in the previous half-year useless. The terrain had changed, the ancient sites had shifted, and the geological structure under the yellow sand had undergone earth-shattering changes in a matter of days. Even the location of the fish bones had shifted significantly. Many things that had not been discovered before had also appeared, such as the black stone coffin.

For the fatty and Rouyi, the events in the desert were strange and bizarre. If the two of them hadn't been traveling together and able to confirm everything that was happening around them, they would have really had the illusion of experiencing hallucinations from heatstroke while walking in the desert.

As dusk approached, the red sun left a trace of afterglow on the desert. After experiencing sandstorms and quicksand, the fatty and Rouyi experienced an unprecedented sense of peace, even though they had fallen into the hands of the Z organization. They didn't have much resistance in their hearts, perhaps because they were too tired and wanted to give up, or perhaps because of their complete trust in the young master's "prediction."

Perhaps because it was located on the edge of Lop Nur, the desert was much quieter and calmer.