The fat man woke up to find himself buried halfway in the sand. After he crawled out, the first thing he did was look for Rou Yi. He remembered being with her before he lost consciousness, so she should be nearby.

But after digging through all the sand in the area, he still couldn't find her, and he began to get worried.

So, he expanded his search area, digging with both hands and feet, determined to find her alive. If the worst had happened, he wanted to find her body.

The fat man knelt on the ground, panting. He had been separated from the camel train, and now he couldn't find Rou Yi either. He felt extremely guilty, thinking that it would have been better if he and Rou Yi had slipped away before they even set out, no matter how difficult it might have been, than this situation.

He stood there, not knowing what to do, when suddenly a voice came from behind him—"Fatty!"

"Fatty...Fatty..."

He turned around and saw Rou Yi standing on a sand dune not far away, calling to him. He stood up and ran towards her excitedly.

When they met, Rou Yi burst into tears of joy: "I thought I'd never find you."

It turned out that when the black sandstorm hit, Rou Yi and the fat man had followed the camels, running in the wind and sand where visibility was less than a meter. After running for a while, Rou Yi couldn't keep up due to exhaustion. So, the fat man helped her onto a camel, letting it carry her while he continued to run behind.

Later, the wind and sand grew stronger, and the fat man's stamina gradually gave out. He finally collapsed in the rolling sand. Rou Yi couldn't see him from the camel, and didn't realize he had fallen.

The camel found a rock formation in the black sandstorm that could block the wind, and stopped there. When Rou Yi got off the camel, she discovered that the fat man was gone. But the wind and sand were too strong to search, and every time she tried to look nearby, she was forced back by the storm. To protect herself, she wrapped herself tightly in a camel hair blanket, and fell asleep without realizing it due to exhaustion.

When Rou Yi woke up, the storm had passed, leaving a vast expanse of yellow sand around her. The fat man was nowhere to be seen. So she went back the way she came, searching. After walking for a few hundred meters, she reached a sand dune, and looking into the distance, finally spotted the fat man digging in the sand.

"You came over here like this, what about the camel?" the fat man asked.

Rou Yi said, "It's okay, the camel is grazing."

The fat man followed Rou Yi to the rock formation where she had sheltered from the storm. Not far from the rock formation was a small oasis, with water and grass. The camel was leisurely grazing in the oasis.

The fat man looked at everything in front of him in surprise and couldn't help but say, "There's actually an oasis here..."

Rou Yi added, "Yeah, I was shocked by the scene when I woke up. I never thought there would be an oasis deep in the desert."

Rou Yi and the fat man went straight to the supplies on the camel in the oasis. The fat man hadn't eaten for a day and a night, and had been digging sand for more than half an hour, so he was already starving.

He first took down a water bottle and drank it down, then reached into the cloth bag for a nang bread, biting into the dry, hard bread that felt like a shoe sole.

As he chewed, he felt that the nang bread tasted different from what he had eaten in the past few days. He took a closer look at the bread he had bitten into: "Damn, this bread has meat in it."

The dry bread tasted bland, but the fat man couldn't resist his hunger and continued to eat it. He ate more than anyone else in the camel train, but he had never eaten nang bread with meat inside.

He took out a few more nang breads from the bag and broke them open, and each one had meat inside.

The fat man carefully checked the supplies and equipment on the camel and found that this camel was not one of the five from their camel train.

Rou Yi also realized that this camel was not the one she had ridden before, because this camel was bigger.

Just as they were wondering, a camel emerged from the green vegetation across the pool. Rou Yi and the fat man walked around the pool and found a total of three camels. One was from their camel train, and the other two were from somewhere else.

The camels had all kinds of scientific research equipment on them. Judging from the equipment, the two camels were probably lost from a scientific expedition team.

At this time, besides Rou Yi and the fat man, the only other people in the desert were Professor Chen and his team. When the black sandstorm hit, Professor Chen and his team may have also been separated.

Rou Yi had a bad feeling: "Could these two camels be from Professor Chen's team..."

If these two camels really belonged to Professor Chen's team, then Professor Chen and his team might be in danger.

"Since the camels are here in the oasis, maybe the people from Professor Chen's team are nearby too."

The fat man thought that Rou Yi's words made sense, so he quickly finished the bread in his hand and started searching, with the oasis as the center.

After searching for a while, the fat man actually found someone. He saw a rock from a distance that looked strange. When he got closer, he realized that it wasn't a rock, but a person's head. The person was lying on the sand, and the body below the head was buried. He had probably been struggling to breathe, so his head hadn't been buried.

The fat man shoveled the sand off the person and dragged him out. The person in the sand was a man, with typical Asian features, probably in his thirties.

The fat man checked his breath and found that he was still alive, but his physical condition was worrying due to hunger and dehydration.

"Hey, wake up." The fat man patted the person's cheek, but he didn't respond.

The fat man asked Rou Yi to bring a camel and carried him on it to the oasis. He laid the man flat on the ground, then scooped up a handful of water from the pool and splashed it on his face.

The man reacted slightly, so the fat man scooped up another handful of water and did the same. The man choked on the water and coughed.

"Hey! He's awake! He's awake!"

Rou Yi clapped excitedly.

Seeing that the man was conscious, the fat man quickly took the water bottle and fed him water. After drinking some water, the man gradually woke up.

"You...who are you?" the man said weakly, lying in the fat man's arms.

The fat man guessed that this person was a member of the archaeological team, so he explained:

"My name is Pete. We were originally the security team escorting you into Lop Nur, but your archaeological team set off early, so we didn't meet. Yesterday we encountered a black sandstorm, and the team was scattered. Anna and I ended up here and found you."