On the highway, Zhong Rui was driving, Chen Wei and Duan Pingyu were sitting in the back row, silent, while Qi Yun was chatting with a man in his thirties next to him.
The man's name was Zhan Hongbo, he was Wei Xueming's doctoral student. He wore black glasses, had a scholarly appearance, and spoke very politely.
As Wei Xueming had said, Zhan Hongbo indeed had a deep understanding of the culture of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions and told Qi Yun a lot about the history of the Ancient Loulan along the way.
At six in the afternoon, after ten hours of long-distance travel, the group finally arrived at Ruqiang County Town.
As the largest county in China, its area was as large as two Zhejiang Provinces, but the population was only a few tens of thousand, so much so that the empty streets were devoid of people.
Qi Yun's group met with Mamati at a repair shop in the town, where he was making final preparations for several vehicles.
