A hunting adventure [unlimited]

The expedition team embarked on a trip to the White Desert.

Arthur regards the glass jar containing the unknown creature as a treasure, and leans against the car window to watch it by the light, and records its biological characteristics and his own preliminary analysis.

Yu Zhen dried up her throat after hearing him say, handed over a bottle of water, and said by the way: "Show me."

Arthur looked at him warily, thinking that he was about to be killed, so he kindly lent him the glass jar and persuaded him: "Don't hate it, animals only do what they should do."

Yu Zhen took the glass jar that had been warmed by Arthur's palm and put it under the sunlight coming in through the window. She turned the jar and observed the weak creature with its tongue pulled out.

It was such a small thing that almost killed him.

It really looks like a snake, less than two fingers thick, with a body length of 45cm. Its body is covered with hard scales. It has cloudy emerald green eyes with a vertical line in the middle; above the eyes are two spiny horned scales, which looks like the dragon in the illustration. It is also very similar to the desert snake horned viper on Earth.But what is unusual is the gills on its neck. Behind the gill cavity full of blood vessels, there are two dormant transparent fins. When it is in an attacking posture, the two fins will spread out like a pair of wings.

Yu Zhen's nails tapped on the surface of the glass jar, and the thing tensed its body immediately and raised its head, and steam was sprayed from its nostrils; he tapped twice, and it bounced up its long neck and hit the transparent inner wall with its head!Showing a mouthful of sharp fangs...

Those teeth are densely arranged in a spiral, which makes people suffer from intensive phobia.Yu Zhen returned the jar to Arthur, rubbed the back of his hands, "Why do I think it looks like a lamprey..."

"You also know about lampreys." Arthur stared at his precious jar, and said excitedly, "It is indeed completely different from the desert species on Earth. Look at its respiratory organs, which are actually gills and gill slits in the pharynx It is a characteristic of fish and lower chordates, and even in frogs, the gill slits only exist during the development of tadpoles."

"I think it should be an amphibian that used to live in water. This place has obviously undergone a huge landform change. The water source that meets their ecological conditions has disappeared, so they have evolved hard scales and snake-like mobility. Surviving in the desert, but their gills have not degenerated, which means..."

Yu Zhen's eyes kept wandering, thinking that it was like listening to a lecture, so hypnotic...

He subtly felt a gaze lingering on the side of his neck, and when he paid attention again, the feeling of being peeped disappeared again.

Yu Zhen put aside the eloquent Arthur, and changed seats to sit next to He Anli.

He Anli was sitting by the window, resting her forehead with her hands. Her face was not soft enough, her nose bridge was straight and her eyebrows were sharp and sharp. She had an aggressive beauty, such as the fortitude and uncompromising character in her character, which was unforgettable. However, she loves to laugh, and the pear dimples on her cheeks add an important affinity to her smile.

She is the kind of person who shines wherever she goes.Yu Zhen thought.

"Don't look, she doesn't like your type." Reina passed by his seat and talked to him with her arm on the back of the chair, "Why don't you be my son and I'll introduce you to a girlfriend?"

Lei Na's second sentence made Yu Zhen's feeling of being seen through disappear, and he said angrily: "No need! Why don't you have a son yourself if you want a son?"

"Hmph." Reina snorted a few times, raised the silver breastplate hanging on the necklace pendant, put it on her lips for a kiss, and said with a charming wink, "I gave birth earlier, he is 4 years old this year. The house is waiting for me to go back."

Yu Zhen was at a loss for words for a while, and stammered: "Then, then you can't take advantage of me."

Lena wore fingerless gloves, pinched his chin with her left hand, shook his head vigorously, and teased him: "Eat people's mouths are soft, but people's hands are soft. You ate my snacks, should you call me mom?"

The edge of her rough fingertips rubbed against the smooth skin of Yu Zhen's mandible, seeing that he was upset by being shaken, Leina looked at his face more seriously, raised her eyebrows and said: "Oh, you were beaten? Who made the forehead injury? Mommy will teach him a lesson for you."

"Leina..." He Anli slowly opened his eyes, looking at them helplessly, "Don't play tricks on him."

Yu Zhen slapped Leina's hand away, leaving a few fingerprints on the tip of his chin. He touched the reddened spot, secretly slandering this woman not only with a rogue personality but also with great strength.

He left the seat to Lei Na, asked her to chat with He Anli, and walked to the front row by himself.

The main driver is Ryan, his driving skills are as stable as his marksmanship, and the armored exploration vehicle drives in the desert like walking on the ground; from the arched window, the sky ahead is blue, and the white sand is like a white ocean.

Chavez was sitting in the co-pilot seat, but he was not operating. The wine bottle in his hand was more than half empty, his cheeks were flushed, and he was dozing off with his eyes closed.

Wuma, on the other hand, stood in front of the control desk and monitored the 3D imaging map sent back by the surveying instrument. The holographic projection of the surrounding landforms was updated every 5 minutes.

Or robot peace of mind.

Yu Zhen walked over and asked, "Any new discoveries?"

Wuma replied: "There are a few rocks exposed on the sandy surface in some areas 500 meters away, but they are just rocks."

Yu Zhen: "What about the vegetation and water sources?"

Wuma: "Searching."

The surveyor was in the sky 1700 meters southeast of them, and the scanned data was simultaneously drawn into a three-dimensional image and displayed in front of them; a green light spot suddenly appeared among the gray-white light particles representing sand and rock layers.

"Here." Wuma touched the ball of green light, dragged it to the center of the image to enlarge it, and the green particle light layer was also mixed with orange light particles looming, representing other substances.

In Wuma's golden eyes, the brilliance said: "It's plants... and some kind of dark minerals, very lush and long-lasting."

The green part is the covered area of ​​the plant, which closely conceals the ore below.

"It's not like an oasis, and it can't be a tree." Yu Zhen fingered the geometric body composed of green light particles, rotated it 360 degrees, and found that the seemingly irregular group of green vegetation looked like a triangular pyramid as a whole.

"Nature doesn't make rocks of this shape," he said. "We should go and see."

***

The vehicle changed its route and headed southeast, but within 10 minutes, we could see the lush green plants in the window.

Its reality is far larger than the 3D image. The lush branches, leaves and vines are intertwined and intertwined, like a green pyramid rising from the ground, standing on the dividing line between the blue sky and the pure white sand sea.

Yu Zhen got out of the car with the team, leaving Chavez, who was drunk and asleep, in the car.

The vines cannot stand upright and must grow by attaching to the side or crawling on the ground, so the shape they form is actually the shape of the stone pile below.

The rock pile is about 30 meters high, triangular on all sides, and lacks a sharp cone at the top; the green leaf vines coil around the dark rocks and grow freely to the sky, and among the green leafy branches and vines, there are step by step loose stone ladders. A platform extending towards the top of the tower.

Ryan took two sips of whiskey, wiped his mouth and said loudly: "Hello! Is anyone home?"

Lena put her left hand on her brow bone to shade, looked up at the top of the tower and said, "These leaves are not desert plants."

"That's right." Arthur looked at the clean white sand around the building and said, "The rhizomes are thin, straight and smooth, without thorns, and the leaves are delicate and full of vitality. They grow from the ground, but why do they only surround this pile of sand?" Break the stone instead of continuing to grow outward?"

He Anli took a deep breath, connected to the communicator and said: "Dune, this is He Anli, we found an ancient architectural relic suspected to be an altar in the hinterland of the white desert of the planet Ciel-t45. It has been at least 7000 years old. Building material judgments..."

"Chavez! Chavez!" She looked around for someone.

Lin Qi said, "In the car, I'll call him down."

Lin Qi went looking for someone, He Anli walked to the bottom of the building, and pushed aside a corner of the branches and vines with both hands, revealing the true face of the stepped tower with stacks of rocks; The desert is still exquisite after many years of wind and frost.

"It's so beautiful..." He Anli stroked the rough stone wall, and the intricate and fine carvings accumulated for thousands of years, she sighed sincerely, "It's amazing."

This is the remnant of a civilization left by a race with the same or higher intelligence as humans.

When everyone was still at the bottom of the tower, Wuma had already climbed the stone steps to the top alone, her platinum hair shone brightly and gorgeously under the sunlight.

Yu Zhen stood at the outermost edge, he was not interested in any of these things, he just wanted to get back to the car quickly; but in order to appear gregarious and understand the situation, he walked towards He Anli.

She cut through the vines with her dagger and inspected the parts of the building buried in the sand.

"This is not its bottom, far from it." He Anli dug open the sand and recorded the buried relief pattern, "The content recorded on each layer of it is different, and it can only be known by digging underground; the vines crawl from the ground Attached to its surface, there is ample water beneath this sandy seabed."

"What is engraved here?" Yu Zhen asked, the bluestone wall was covered by dense pictograph-like symbols, and there were murals composed of countless small figures, stars and moons.

"It's a myth." He Anli pointed to a round ball with rough lines.There are three dots, one big and two small, around the sphere. She explained: “Three moons, this is Ciel-t45, the planet we came to; The mother of the new life, the god of plague in charge of death..."

Yu Zhen pursed her lips and said, "It's the same old tune."

He Anli couldn't laugh or cry at his statement.

Arthur also gathered around and participated in the discussion: "This is the ruins of the age of witches and witches. The race that built it should have perished; if there are races on this planet that have multiplied to this day, why didn't we find it during the interstellar space scanning?" Any trace of their activities, such as city-states, technology... did they go back to living the life of cavemen?"

He Anli: "I don't think so, this is not the earth after all, we can't use existing experience and logic to deduce..."

started again.

Yu Zhen lowered his head in boredom, and suddenly saw that his boots were entangled by green vines at some point, and they were climbing up his ankles silently.

He hurriedly looked at the shoes of the other two, and it was the same situation.And a few minutes ago, when he first arrived, the vines were far from growing and spreading to their feet.

"Hey, look—" Yu Zhen pulled out the knife, and cut off the leaves and vines at his feet neatly. The moment the knife fell, the green vines seemed to come to life!It twisted and swayed its stems and leaves, like a frightened snake, retracted into the depths of the dense leaves, clinging to the wall of the building.

Seeing this, He Anli swung his dagger and quickly cut off the vines entangled his feet, and retreated outward.

Only Arthur picked a leaf out of curiosity, and put it in front of his eyes; unexpectedly, the tender green leaf cut his glove, and drew a fresh bloodstain on his fingertips.

"Ahh—" he groaned.

The vines on Arthur's legs were like beasts that smelled blood, and suddenly grew and climbed wildly, probing in the air like a flexible tree snake, and the roots curled up around his injured thumb!

"You idiot!" Yu Zhen cut off the bush of vines quickly, grabbed Arthur by the collar and dragged him to the sandy ground three meters away.

Arthur fell into the sand, clutching his fingers and screaming, "Ah! Something, something got into my hand!"

Yu Zhen quickly took off Arthur's damaged gloves and rolled up the other's sleeves; on that thick, hairy arm, a winding blood vessel protruded from the surface of the skin, and the stems and leaves of the vines rushed forward and extended to the surrounding capillaries. It was taking root in Arthur's flesh and blood!

"Wuma!" Yu Zhen shouted towards the top of the tower, "Come down quickly!"

The owner of the shining blond hair looked back, and walked down the stone stairs unhurriedly.

"Ahhh!!! They're biting me! They're biting me!" Arthur rolled in pain with his right arm in the sand, screaming his liver and gallbladder.

He Anli stared at Arthur's arm in horror, took off his gloves and checked his hands.

At this time, Lin Qi helped the drunk Chavez to get out of the car; Lena and Ryan stood smoking in the distance, heard the movement here, threw their cigarette butts and drew their guns and came over, asking, "What's going on?"

He Anli shouted at them: "Don't get close to the plants! Evacuate! Everyone get back in the car immediately!"

***

Wuma is calmer than anyone else, perhaps because he is not human.

Arthur took off his coat and lay in the white sand, his face was reddened by the scorching sun, his back was sweating, and he had fallen into a stupor, his eyes were blurred, and his whole body was twitching; his entire right arm was parasitized by vines, leaves and rhizomes Sucking his flesh and blood swells and develops, stretching his skin, making it purple and gradually necrotic.

Witnessing such a terrifying scene for the first time, Yu Zhen's heart beat rapidly, and she asked, "What should I do?"

Wuma's white fingers pressed Arthur's shoulder, as if afraid of waking up the patient, she answered him softly: "I need amputation."

The author has something to say:

I changed to a new keyboard, but my hand speed has not improved, sigh.