Chapter 13 – Unexpected Encounter – Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

“That should be enough,” I counted, no more, no less, five cactus flat jars filled.

Thirst is much worse than hunger, and after resting against a bottle tree until the sun went down, we were ready to go with our water bottles.

Climbing up the sandy slope, Xiao Xuan turned her head to look around and asked me, “Are we going west or east?”

“It’s better to go west, my gut tells me we should.”

I patted the cactus water bottle hanging on my body and said, “With these, we have enough water to drink for three or four days, but you have to take good care of it, this is our lives.”

“Xiao Xuan what are you staring at? Are you listening to me?”

As if she hadn’t heard me, her eyes stared straight ahead, and she suddenly said excitedly: ”People…! There’s someone! There’s someone there!”

“People! Where are the people!” I looked in the direction of her finger.

Only two or three dots appeared a few hundred meters in the distance, moving towards us.

What a man! Is it possible that the head of the group is looking for them?

“Hey!”

“Hey! We’re here! Over here!” I yelled and waved over there.

The guys in the distance paused for a few dozen seconds, they should have spotted us and were speeding up to get this way.

I didn’t see it until I got closer.

Not the head, these people are not our camel caravan people. The other side of two men and one woman a total of three people, they wear clothes unlike modern people, and Tibetan area some nomadic people like, two men shaved head sideburns stay pigtails, female head tied with blue cloth, left ear with a large earrings. These two men and one woman hand also carry a small basket, basket covered with cloth, can not see what is loaded inside.

Could these be the Hutts? That was my first thought.

“Hello you guys hello you guys!” I ran up two steps and gestured, “We came from the big city and got lost in the desert, we’re looking for the Hutt tribe, you’re Hutts?”

Two men and a woman looked at each other and gabbled a bunch of things, I couldn’t understand them, they weren’t speaking the local Yinchuan dialect, much less Mandarin.

After a few minutes, the girl with the big earrings pointed at me and down the sandy slope, reaching out and making a shape in mid-air in an attempt to communicate with me.

I mulled over the gesture she was gesturing and realized, “Girl you were just gesturing to a tree, right!”

“That’s right!” I pointed and gestured down the sandy slope, “There’s a big tree down there, the bottle tree! That tree can take water, are you here to take water too?”

With that, I took off my homemade cactus water bottle and handed it to her.

The girl couldn’t understand what I was saying, she took the kettle with a puzzled look on her face, dipped her finger in it and put it in her mouth to taste it.

I smiled and said, “How was it? Isn’t it quite tasty and flavorful.”

She suddenly blushed, and peer male a gibberish nonsense, and the expression is getting more and more excited, face is red.

After hearing the two men, suddenly a face of anger, went forward one left and one right grabbed my shoulders, they are strong and strong hand strength, hard to frame me down the road.

“What! What are you guys doing!”

“Get off me!”

“Where are you taking me!” By this time I had already realized that something was wrong, and Zhao Xuanxuan did the same, being dragged downhill by the girl with the earrings grabbing her arm.

When we got to the bottle tree, the guys found a wound in the bark. The wound was from a stone I had smashed with the ground.

“Plop!” One of them suddenly knelt down to the bottle tree, and his mouth kept chanting, listening to the tone of voice, and in looking at the expression on his face, I had already realized one thing at this point.

Zhao Xuanxuan and I may have gotten into trouble ……

The big bottle tree in front of me was probably planted by them!