Chapter 1252: Ladder

Many times, when people brush shoulders with death, they realize how fragile life is.

It took only a few seconds for Wei Kang to go from driving smoothly to falling into the quicksand by accident. In addition, it took only a minute or two to get out of the car window, climb on the roof of the car, and be dragged out of the quicksand by the traction rope. The circle returned to the sun again, his whole body was shaking like the second child of Wu next door, and beads of sweat were falling down.

The other people who stayed on standby vaguely guessed from the intermittent radio that something happened to them, so they drove over to rescue immediately without thinking about anything else.

Seeing the convoy approaching from far to near, Nabari hurriedly told them to stop for fear that another car would fall into the quicksand.

Wei Kang narrowly escaped death, took a few breaths, pushed Zhang Zian's hand away to support him, struggled and turned and pointed at his car, "I'm fine! Go to the rescue!"

In the blink of an eye, the car was almost half buried in the sand, like another SUV that was half buried in the sand.

However, it may be due to the relatively large size of the car and the closed door, the speed of sinking into the sand has slowed down. The car half-sinked in the sand has a strange aesthetic feeling, like a static slow motion, a cube of sugar thrown into coffee. moment.

The latecomers had already understood the situation at the scene. Although they did not witness the dangerous scene with their own eyes, it was chilling to think about it—the desert opened its huge mouth, trying to swallow people and cars into its stomach.

Several students ran over to help Wei Kang up.

Salim swallowed his saliva with difficulty, how familiar this scene is! It's like a rip current hidden under the calm sea surface, quietly stretching out its claws, trying to drag people into the bottomless darkness.

Oceans and deserts are, in a way, really similar!

More than a dozen bright headlights converged on the trapped car body.

The value of the car itself is very high, and what is more important is the materials and scientific research equipment in the car. Once lost, it will have an immeasurable impact on this operation.

If you want to pull the car out of the quicksand, you have to send someone there to hang the towing rope on the trailer hitch at the rear of the car, but no one knows how big the quicksand is, and approaching it rashly is very dangerous. Now the flow of quicksand has slowed down, but once there is a disturbance, no one can guarantee whether it will sink again.

In any case, a decision had to be made quickly, and once the body was mostly buried in the sand, it would be impossible to pull it out, unless a crane was brought in.

When everyone was at a loss, Zhang Zian's eyes fell on the luggage rack on the roof of the car.

The luggage rack of each car is bundled with tents, uninflated moisture-proof pads, white cloth, aluminum alloy brackets and other sundries. Direct sunlight can cool the interior of the car.

He pulled out the retractable aluminum alloy bracket from the roof of his car, and said succinctly: "Take a ladder and pass through the air."

The others froze for a moment, and immediately understood.

The aluminum alloy brackets they carry have strong expandability. In theory, if necessary, they can be extended infinitely through the adapter bayonet. Of course, it is impossible to be so ideal in actual operation.

However, in order to reduce its own weight, the bracket is hollow and is used to build a ceiling. Whether it can bear the weight of a large living person... no one is sure.

Let's work together to connect the four sets of brackets together to form a long enough H-shaped ladder. One end of the ladder is placed on the roof of the nearest off-road vehicle, supported by a few strong people, and the other end crosses the quicksand carefully. Landed on the roof of Wei Kang's off-road vehicle.

The ladder is set up, the question is who will get there?

This matter is quite dangerous. Are the supplies and equipment in the car worth the risk?

"I'll go."

Everyone saw that it was Salem who volunteered.

This teenage Bedouin young man is still a half-grown child in everyone's eyes, but the look on his face is obviously more mature than his peers in big cities.

"I'm the lightest in weight and good in hand, let me try." He puffed up his chest and said.

If the female detective and He He are excluded, he is indeed the lightest man in the team.

Along the way, Salim learned a lot from Nabari's words and deeds, and most importantly, he realized his ignorance-before he thought he knew the desert well as a Bedouin, now he understands his previous ignorance. How arrogant and ignorant I am.

This young man in the restlessness of adolescence is growing rapidly under severe tempering.

Some people thought it was inappropriate. After all, he was still a half-grown child, and he couldn't let the child take such a big risk, but Nabari patted him on the shoulder and said simply: "Be careful."

Salim shook off his coat, spit on the palm of his hand, and clung to the bracket neatly like a monkey, embracing the long aluminum alloy pole with his hands and feet, and his body hung below.

Zhang Zian fastened the leash through his belt as a safety device, as long as he was not too lucky, even if he accidentally fell from the support, he would not lose his life.

Everything was ready, Salim alternated hands and feet, and crawled along the bracket to the other end.

Since half of Weikang's off-road vehicle had sunk into the quicksand, its height was relatively low, while the off-road vehicle on this side was higher, Salim didn't have to struggle too much when crawling.

His movement range is very small, and his crawling speed is also very slow. The cross-section of the support pole is circular, and it is not very stable when it is placed between the roofs. It will cause lateral sliding or up and down vibration, which is more dangerous.

Everyone stared at his movements with trepidation, without panting, worried that he would miss and fall into the quicksand, and He He even turned his head away and didn't dare to look.

When he climbed to the center of the crossbar, the long hollow aluminum alloy pole was pulled by his weight, and it was obviously pressed out of the arc, and the swing became more and more obvious, but the toughness of the metal was still there, and it did not fall apart immediately.

Salem sped up his movements a little, trying to pass through the violently swinging central position as quickly as possible.

When he finally reached the other end of the ladder, turned over and grabbed the luggage rack on the roof and climbed up to the roof, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The front of the car fell into the quicksand first, and the posture of the whole car was head down and tail up, with the rear of the car tilted up.

Salim lay prone on the rear of the roof, grabbed the luggage rack with one hand to fix his body, untied the tow rope on the belt with the other hand, swung it a few times, and finally hooked the noose to the tow hook.

Following his series of movements, the quicksand around him seemed to be liquefied again, flowing slowly like running water.

At this time, he had to go back first before others could tow the car, because no one was sure whether he could successfully tow the car out, or whether it would cause the disturbance of quicksand and completely sink the car.

The way back is equivalent to climbing a slope. In addition to being more laborious, it also loses the protection of the safety rope.