Chapter 1228: Camping

Hearing the order to set up camp, everyone felt relieved. Looking back on the excitement when we first set off, it was obviously less than half a day, but the mood gap was as big as the next day, and the heat dropped from boiling point to freezing point.

The camping site is chosen by Nabari. Although it seems that there is no difference in where to camp in the desert, but whether you can live comfortably and safely, you can see the ability of the guide.

Nabari chose a flat sandy land on the leeward side of a tall sand dune as the camping site, which is the sand dune where car No. 10 was trapped.

After the location was selected, everyone started to get busy.

Camping still depends on the ability of Li Pitt and his team. They often go to humanities and natural wonders around the world to experience... the pure energy of the universe, and they have rich camping experience in the wild.

On the other hand, on the scientific expedition team, except for Wei Kang himself who has accumulated some experience through field trips, the others, including Zhang Zian, are rookies who have only skimmed through the manuals of camping tents and have never actually operated them.

The members of Li Pitt's team saw that Wei Kang's efficiency was too low, and ran over to help them set up tents after finishing their work. In fact, most of these people were enthusiastic and easy to get along with except for their ideas. As long as they don't offend their Ni Lin, other things are easy to talk about.

The tents they brought were different in size, including single, double, triple, and four-person tents. Most of them were single-person and double-person tents. Only Zhang Zian insisted on bringing a four-person tent in order to take care of the elves.

After a brief discussion, He He and the female detective shared a two-person tent, which was built in the center of the campsite and surrounded by other people's tents.

13 off-road vehicles are parked in a crescent arc, and the tall sand dunes surround the tent group on the left and right, leaving two passages, one up and one down, for access, which are convenient paths for men and women respectively. .

Li Pitt and Wei Kang solemnly and solemnly announced the first discipline—except for convenience, no one is allowed to leave the camp at night, and the two women must go together when they go for convenience.

The next step is to arrange the candidates for the night watch. There are 15 people in the team. Except for the two women who are exempted from the night watch task, the other 13 men will each have to watch the night for two hours.

The female detective complained slightly, thinking that she could also participate in the night watch, and there was no need for men to take care of her, but Wei Kang told her in private that the main reason was to ask her to take care of He He on her behalf, so that this ignorant girl would not cause trouble. Only then did he reluctantly agree.

After setting up the tents, the sun also set, leaving only a little afterglow in the west, and the sky full of stars rose in the night sky.

The temperature dropped rapidly, allowing them to realize the true meaning of the temperature difference between day and night in the desert. One moment they were sweating to set up a tent, but the next moment they felt the cool breeze blowing on their backs.

The others were as cold as their backs, and He He, who was most afraid of the cold, just put on a coat, but everyone saw that Nabari and Salim, the uncle and nephew, were actually wearing fur vests, as if they were entering winter.

The Bedouin have lived in the hot and dry desert for generations, and their ability to adapt to the desert is beyond ordinary people's imagination. The water in the desert is precious. If they sweat frequently in the high temperature like ordinary people, they may not be able to regard the desert as their home. So, they've evolved to some degree, physically adapted to the heat.

When Zhang Zian and the others were sweating profusely, Nabari and Salim's faces were only sweating slightly.

Humans are warm-blooded animals, and it is impossible to adapt to high and low temperatures at the same time. When the temperature drops, both uncle and nephew will feel cold at the same time and need to keep warm.

This is probably the true portrayal of "use it or lose it".

It stands to reason that the tents have been set up and the vigil has been arranged, so we can rest, right? Still not working, the next task is for the drivers of each vehicle to check the remaining fuel in the fuel tank and the consumption of water and food, and then summarize it to Li Pete and Wei Kang. This will also be a daily task in the future.

Zhang Zian's tent is located in the camp closest to the sand dunes.

Because it is relatively large, it is also the most troublesome to set up. When he finally set up the tent and counted the fuel and supplies in his car, he took the statistics to report to Wei Kang and Li Pete.

He seemed to be the last one to report, and everyone else had already finished their reports. In the excel sheet displayed on the laptop in front of Wei Kang, only the row of car No. 4 was left blank.

Wei Kang filled in the numbers he read out in the form, and Excel automatically calculated the total fuel consumption of all vehicles, the total fuel remaining, the average fuel consumption of each vehicle, and the remaining water and food according to the formula. There is an estimated number of days to last.

Li Pitt was also there, standing just behind Wei Kang, and the two of them frowned at the same time when they saw the displayed numbers.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that their expressions were not right, Zhang Zian seemed worried.

Wei Kang and Li Pete looked at each other, thought for a moment and said: "Actually, it's nothing. The consumption of oil and water is a bit too fast, which is beyond our estimate... But don't worry, we have taken the redundancy into account when preparing supplies. ,should be no problem."

For their team, water is the source of life, and oil is the driving force for advancing and retreating. These two are the most important things, even more important than food.

Zhang Zian's heart trembled when he heard the words, and seeing that Wei Kang had no objection, he leaned over and looked at the form carefully.

When his eyes moved to the column of the average fuel consumption of the vehicle, he was really surprised. If the possibility of data errors were excluded, the average fuel consumption of each vehicle was as high as 30 liters per 100 kilometers!

Large-displacement diesel off-road vehicles have high torque, strong power, and durable leather. Compared with gasoline vehicles, they are more fuel-efficient. Diesel itself is less volatile and has less smell, so the vehicles used in the desert this time are all diesel vehicles.

Despite the many advantages of diesel vehicles, there is still an unusually high fuel consumption.

Wei Kang had already analyzed it before Zhang Zian came. There were three reasons: first, they carried a lot of supplies and equipment, which increased the load; second, the road conditions were extremely bad;

Among them, the second point is the deadliest.

When driving in the desert, the tires overcome the resistance to do work, and a quarter of them are stuck in the sand every moment. The fuel consumption cannot be compared with that when running on the highway, especially when crossing the sand dunes, the engine is simply eating oil. .

Today, about half of the distance is run in the Gobi. Although the road conditions in the Gobi are also very bad, it is at least much better than the desert, which reduces the fuel consumption. After driving in the desert every day, it is foreseeable that the fuel consumption will be reduced. Increased substantially.

The situation is obviously not as easy as Wei Kang said.