Reincarnation Train Restart [Unlimited]
Chapter 146 Lost in the Desert 03
He died on the first night in the desert, and at the moment when he saw Britney's body, except for Britney's companion Yi Rong and Cyclone, Xiaowei's spirit also collapsed again.
He immediately turned around and ran, but Feng Gu who had been following him quickly grabbed him with his eyes and hands, and pushed him down on the sand that had begun to look hot.
Xiaowei took a mouthful of sand, spat out in embarrassment and shouted: "Let go of me! I want to go back, let me go... This desert is really not a place we can enter."
"You have seen it too. If someone is dead, he will die."
In the end, he couldn't bear to cry, and the tears mixed with sand covered his face, making him look pitiful and ugly.
He begged earnestly, and it was indeed unbearable.
Jiyu can feel Xiaowei's fear. Last night, she faced the scary female ghost and was almost dragged into the quicksand and buried by him, almost dying.
It was so dangerous on the first day, one can imagine the situation after that.
Jiyu felt the pain from the wound on his leg that had already been wrapped, and couldn't help feeling regretful in his heart.
She regretted it—should not face the temptation, and felt that she could let go of the gamble, betting that if she survived successfully, not only would she get another item, but her life span would be extended even more.
However, she was wrong, she underestimated the danger of this train, and overestimated herself.
As for a gambler, nine times out of ten bets, even if she has successfully survived other high-risk trains in the past, it does not mean that she has the strength to break into this red train.
Although Shiyu could empathize with Xiaowei's fear, she couldn't say anything, and she couldn't say anything.
She couldn't withdraw, and if she wanted to survive, she had to rely on Xiaowei to lead the way to find the ruins of Gu Loulan and find Dr. Cao.
Therefore, in the face of Xiaowei's crying, everyone present was watching with cold eyes.
Feng Gu was even more cold-hearted, pressed Xiaowei's shoulder and said: "Think about Dr. Cao, you have been with him for so many years, now you say you can't save him?!"
"We haven't confirmed Dr. Cao's death yet, maybe he is waiting for us to save him right now under the ancient Loulan ruins."
"Xiaowei, get up and lead the way, find the ruins of the ancient Loulan Kingdom, find Dr. Cao and the others as soon as possible, and we will be able to leave this desert as soon as possible."
"You'd better think clearly and be honest, don't force me to take other measures." Feng Gu threatened in a low voice.
Don't blame him, Dr. Cao is too important.
Even if the desert is very dangerous, even... even if he wants to die, he still has to find the person and bring Dr. Cao or the clues related to the mine vein back.
Xiaowei finally calmed down. After Feng Gu removed the hand holding his shoulder, Xiaowei stood up slowly, wiped off the sand and tears on his face, and followed Feng Gu into the car.
Others followed suit or rode on camels.
The temperature in the desert, especially near noon, rises to an astonishingly high temperature.
Wu Xia looked at the number measured on the thermometer for a long time, and touched the sweat on his forehead. In order to save money, the air conditioner was not turned on in the car, but the windows were opened.
The sand mixed with the harsh sunlight flew into the car, and it was windy but warm, which must be enjoyable in winter.
But here, blowing hot wind is undoubtedly a kind of torture.
But after a while, another thin layer of sand accumulated on Wu Xiajiu's trousers.
He patted it down, wiped his face by the way, and turned his head to look out the window.
Not long after, according to what Feng Gu said before, the car could no longer drive in the desert after a period of time, and they all had to get out of the car and transfer to camels.
And some materials that cannot be taken have to be stored in the car.
The cars find a place to mark and leave them. After they come out of the desert, these cars are the pointers for them to leave the desert.
After driving forward for a while, the convoy stopped.
Xiaowei got out of the car to identify the direction, and he said that there was a small desert oasis ahead, and the car could be parked there by then.
And he, Dr. Cao and others had rested on the desert oasis before, and then walked westward, and after half a day, they encountered a sandstorm and the ruins of the ancient Loulan Kingdom.
"Okay." Seeing that the ancient Loulan ruins were approaching, Feng Gu was delighted, and planned to stay here for a while and rest before moving on.
The sun is too hot in the desert at this moment, if you don't enjoy the cool air, you will easily suffer from heat stroke if you keep walking.
Everyone found a shaded place to sit down and rest.
Wu Xiajiu, Shi Shangzuo and the others sat in the shadow of the car.
After drinking the water, it took Wu Xia a long time to feel that the dryness in his throat was relieved. In the desert, he really didn't want to drink water all the time.
"What happened last night?" Lu Nan couldn't help asking while sitting beside him for a rest, "Didn't Yi Rong stay with Britney all the time?"
"Why didn't he notice Britney's death, but that female ghost entered us..."
Moreover, quicksand will form where the female ghost is, harming people silently, and can also disguise, which makes people have to pay attention.
Wu Xiajiu asked: "Did you feel in a trance after hearing the crying last night?"
Fang Zi shook his head.
Tang Yunsi and Lu Nanze said a little bit, but recovered quickly.
Wu Xia thought for a long time, and said: "There should be more than one female ghost. I think the silk clothes she is wearing look like ancient clothes. Could it be related to Gu Loulan?"
"And the whole body is overexposed to the sun, does it seem like a punishment imposed by the ancients?"
The ancient criminal law was so harsh and terrifying, skinning, grooming, tiger stool, etc., there are only unexpected things, and no one can't do it, especially in the period of class rule, kings and slaves...
According to Wu Xiajiu's speculation, these female ghosts may have been slaves or maidservants during their lifetime.
"These female ghosts have IQs, their cries are deceptive, and they know how to lure people out separately."
"Even though Yi Rong stayed with Britney, they were all led away from the camp by crying last night."
"Although Britney, the ghostly Britney in disguise, said that they woke up halfway, but now I think it should be a lie."
"Maybe Yi Rong has been in hallucinations all along. After Britney was killed, the female ghost disguised herself as Britney and led Yi Rong to go elsewhere to regain her sanity..."
While he was talking, Wu Xiajiu suddenly felt the blowing wind and sand increased, and the wind became stronger, and a strange whistling sound suddenly came from his ears.
Immediately, it was Xiaowei who yelled in horror—"Sandstorm, sandstorm is coming!"
Wu Xiajiu hurriedly stood up and looked into the distance.
I saw the sky in the distance suddenly darkened at some point, and the sand below was flying wildly. The dust billowed up everywhere, and it was extremely cloudy, as if a giant beast was opening its claws and roaring towards them, sweeping towards them.
Shi Shangzuo had already taken action after Feng Gu yelled "get in the car and dodge".
He took out the goggles and mask, threw them to Fang Zi and the others, and quickly put them on for Wu Xiajiu.
Immediately, the two got into the car, and the moment the car door closed, the sandstorm came, so fast that they didn't want to leave anyone with the slightest chance to prepare.
But fortunately, they had been resting next to the car or camel before, and they could escape in time after the sandstorm came.
Camels know how to deal with the extreme weather in the desert better than people. They lie down in a circle and put their heads on their front legs.
"This sandstorm came as soon as it came, didn't the sky just now be clear." Fang Zi muttered.
He almost died of heat.
His voice was muffled by the mask, and only he could hear him. After getting into the car, he couldn't help but look up and look outside, wanting to see what happened after the sandstorm came.
Wu Xiajiu was also looking out the window, the wind and sand blowing against the window made a crackling sound, and the car was shaking slightly.
But fortunately, the weight of the human body was not too intense, and some scenes that could be seen outside were soon covered by yellow sand, and nothing could be seen clearly.
"call--"
Waves of terrifying whistling sounds came in through the car windows and car door gaps, rushed into people's eardrums, and beat their hearts.
You don't need to look, you know that the sky is dark outside, the sand is flying and the rocks are flying, the wind is sweeping the sand and raging, it seems that there is nowhere to hide...
The car can't completely block the wind and sand. Fortunately, I wear windshields, otherwise the sand will get in my eyes, I can't rub it, I can only wash it with water, which is very uncomfortable.
Wu Xiajiu looked out through the double blur of the windshield and the window glass, and there seemed to be a few skinny figures faintly appearing in the roaring yellow sand.
At first he thought it was his own illusion, but he paused for a moment, then looked more closely, not only did the figures not disappear, but there were more of them.
Those "black figures" stood in the wind and sand, completely unmoved by the wind, and every time the yellow sand whistled, some dark figures moved closer to the car.
what is that?
Wu Xiajiu frowned, if the wind and sand kept coming and those black figures kept approaching the car, would it have any impact on them?
But now they can't get out of the car to stop it, the horror of nature is beyond their ability to fight.
Under Wu Xiajiu's nervous gaze, the thin black figure finally approached the car window, which could be vaguely seen clearly—it was the female ghost from last night.
The "familiar" withered face was imprinted on the glass covered with yellow sand, looking in through the car window, immediately startled Wu Xiajiu.
These female ghosts can actually appear with sandstorms during the day.
But in the next second, the yellow sand swept past again, Wu Xiajiu looked out from the windshield, and the face of the female ghost stuck to the car window disappeared again.
But not far away, those black figures are still there, still approaching with the wind and sand blowing by...
Wu Xiajiu immediately lowered his head and leaned on the seat.
Shi Shangzuo also leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Sandstorms usually last for about one to two hours, don't worry about the outside, it's not night, these female ghosts can only move in the yellow sand, they can't get into the car .”
Wu Xiajiu: "...outside, there are people among the camels."
He didn't see clearly who didn't get in the car in time, but stayed outside, hiding in the camel's encirclement, maybe Feng Gu's subordinates, or there might be passengers.
"Seek good luck." Shi Shangzuo said coldly.
They didn't expect these female ghosts to appear in the sandstorm, and they couldn't avoid the disaster in advance. Some people stayed outside and had to bear it.
Wu Xiajiu thought in his heart that the people outside were out of luck, so he lowered his body as much as possible and slowed down his breathing.
After an unknown amount of time, the wind and sand outside the car gradually decreased and stopped.
He didn't open his eyes again and raised his head until the terrifying whistling sound and the sound of sand hitting the car body disappeared.
With this movement, a layer of sand fell off the back, and there was obviously a lot of sand on the window.
Wu Xia took a long breath, took off the goggles that had been completely blurred, and glanced at his watch first. The wind and sand swept through, and almost an hour had passed.
Shi Shangzuo said at this time: "The door here cannot be opened, look at your side."
Hearing the words for a long time, Wu Xia stretched out his hand, and the car door opened.
He looked down and saw that the sand on the ground was more than a little thicker than before, and the wheels were buried in it, and when his feet stretched out, there was sand.
Wu Xiajiu and Shishang got out of the car on the left, Fang Zi, Tang Yunsi and Lu Nan also got out of the car, and soon they came to the place surrounded by camels.
When the camel saw someone approaching, it moved its body, and the person in the middle who was covered in blankets moved accordingly.
Immediately, the yellow sand blown and accumulated on the blanket slid down, and Wu Xiajiu realized that the people under the blanket seemed to be shivering all the time, obviously very frightened and frightened.
Feng Gu came over with Xiaowei, and said, "The sandstorm is over, come out."
He also thought that the people under the blanket were afraid of sandstorms.
Feng Gu's words had some effect, the person under the blanket tremblingly lifted a corner, it was one of Feng Gu's subordinates.
I saw that he seemed to be too scared to speak, his body was also very stiff, his eyes slanted to the side, but he didn't seem to dare to look, pointing with trembling fingers: "That, there..."
Feng Gu hadn't reacted yet.
But Wu Xiajiu felt something in his heart, and stepped forward to lift off the blanket next to this person.
"Ah!" Xiaowei let out a short exclamation.
Last night and the fear of encountering a sandstorm today, he couldn't help but couldn't bear it any longer. As soon as he rolled his eyes, he immediately passed out, and Ah Ye casually picked him up and pinched him.
Fortunately, Xiaowei was only suddenly stimulated, and woke up as soon as he pinched someone.
And Wu Xiajiu frowned as he watched the two corpses under the other blanket - Yirong and Whirlwind.
That's right, it was the two members of Britney's team, and they both died.
——The appearance of death is exactly the same as that of Britney, her body is dry, her skin is wrinkled, and the moisture from her whole body has been drained, her eyes are wide open, leaving only empty darkness.
Yi Rong was a little hard to accept because of Britney's death last night. Another point was that he didn't notice the female ghost was so close to him at that time. If the female ghost wanted to harm him, he could escape ?
Yi Rong also had some regrets about boarding this train, his companion died tragically on the first night, which made him a little mentally unstable.
Therefore, when he stopped to rest, he went to the side to stay, and Yi Rong's companion, Xuanfeng, went to comfort him. When the sandstorm came, they entered the camel's circle before they had time to run back to the car. Who would have thought that...
"Fuck, three people died." Li Mao cursed secretly.
Could it be that these three passengers are all trash? How could they be killed so easily? They dared to sign up for this red train without any strength. I really don't know whether it is naive or stupid.
It's okay to die now, and save yourself from being hindered later.
Li Mao didn't have any regrets about the deaths of the three of them, but felt that the danger in the world outside the car was more difficult to deal with than he imagined.
And Li Mao's thoughts are probably also a reflection of the hearts of other passengers.
Mi Zheng glanced at Nie Su indiscriminately, then withdrew his gaze, thinking that he must act cautiously, otherwise he would be fatally injured and had to use the opportunity to "molt his skin", which would reveal his true colors.
While using the S-level prop "Painted Leather Mask", he cannot use other props.
But fortunately, before boarding the car, Nie Su gave him a B-level prop, which was barely usable, and lasted for a few days.
The sudden death of Yi Rong and Cyclone obviously cast a shadow over the group.
Xiaowei looked even more depressed.
The wheels of the car got stuck in the yellow sand, and it was very difficult to get out. After trying, only one car came out. In the end, Feng Gu decided to abandon the car here and take the camel with him.
After a sandstorm and the deaths of two people, everything went smoothly.
Xiaowei found the desert oasis he had been to before. After resting here for a while, everyone continued to walk west.
Not long after, without Xiaowei opening his mouth, Feng Gu also saw a crudely built camp, which was the trace of Dr. Cao and others staying in order to study how to get down the deep hole blown out by the wind and sand.
But at this moment, this simple camp is empty, and a thick layer of sand has accumulated on the surface.
Wu Xiajiu followed Feng Gu and walked over, and saw clearly what the "deep hole" looked like—the whole was a downward-sloping and sunken slope, with a dark center, and sand and soil fell into it from time to time.
And a rope ladder extends down along the piling not far away.
Xiaowei said that he climbed up this rope ladder at that time, but now, there is still no one in the camp, so it can be seen that except for him, everyone else...
At this moment, Xiaowei prayed to Feng Gu with a pale face, he had already made his way there, and he really didn't want to go down anymore, so it's okay to not let him go back, let him stay on it.
Feng Gu glanced at him and agreed.
In addition to Xiaowei, several of his subordinates also stayed here to guard. If they didn't come out by then, they should send a signal to the base to find someone to rescue.
Xiaowei couldn't help being ecstatic, his heart that had been hanging was finally able to let go.
Be prepared before going down this deep cave.
Half an hour later, Feng Gu took the lead and brought his subordinate, A Ye, and the others continued down the rope ladder one after another.
Wu Xiajiu was wearing a helmet, and the searchlight on the top of his head swept down, and he could barely see that besides the yellow sand, there were stone chamber carvings and so on.
He calculated that it took about 10 minutes to climb down to the bottom.
At the end, looking around, Wu Xiajiu found that it was a small vermilion palace with a big hole in the roof, which was where they came down.
The ground is covered with yellow sand, and there are many utensils and wood carvings scattered under the yellow sand.
With a simple scan, there seems to be nothing worth noting about this palace.
On the contrary, there are murals engraved on the four walls, but they are just ordinary things such as praying for a good harvest and rain.
Xiaowei mentioned that when they went deep into the ruins of the ancient Loulan Kingdom, they encountered those resurrected mummies and weird monsters. The place they first entered was ordinary and had little research value.
Without staying too long in this smaller palace, Wu Xiajiu waited for someone to walk outside the door.
With Dr. Cao and others opening the way, they don't need to distinguish, they only need to look for the traces left before.
Not long after, they encountered a corpse at the corner of the passage. It looked exactly like their uniforms. It was the subordinate Feng Gu had sent to accompany Dr. Cao.
He lay on the ground with his eyes open, his eyes had long been dull, and he stretched out his hand, as if he still wanted to struggle to escape.
And his back was already bloody, as if being scratched and torn by something, the skin and flesh were split open, exposing the white bones, exuding a rotten smell.
Feng Gu squatted down with a heavy expression, and closed those eyes that were dying for him.
At this moment, Wu Xiajiu heard a rustling and crawling sound at the tip of his ears, it was not an illusion, the sound was coming towards them.
Wu Xia hurriedly said: "Something is coming!"
"What?" Mi Zheng asked subconsciously.
Others didn't have Wu Xiajiu's good hearing ability, they never heard that almost negligible noise, and they didn't react at the moment, or frowned or became suspicious.
Wu Xia didn't answer for a long time, turned his head and looked around, there were no other passages on the left and right, so he could only retreat, and it seemed that he had to retreat to the temple they had come down earlier.
Wu Xiajiu said quickly: "Go back, now go back."
It was too late, those things were crawling very fast, almost at the moment when Wu Xiajiu's voice fell, an obvious rustling sound came along the passage.
This time, Wu Xia didn't need to answer for a long time, and the others also knew that something in front of the passage was quickly approaching them.
"Go!" Feng Gu shouted.
The other passengers refused to be left behind and ran fast.
In the middle, Li Mao couldn't help but glanced back, then opened his eyes wide and let out a groan, and blurted out: "Where are there so many bugs?!"
Wu Xiajiu also looked back after hearing this sound.
At the end of the passage, insects of all sizes were almost crawling up, down, left, and right, layer upon layer, continuously pouring out, and these insects seemed to have excellent jumping ability, waving their limbs and hopping forward, not faster than them How much slower to run.
Seeing that he was about to be overtaken, Wu Xiajiu raised his hand and opened several wooden warehouses towards the insect swarm, and the insect swarm dispersed for a moment.
The sound of the wooden warehouse sounded, and the others came back to their senses, and opened the wooden warehouse towards the back one after another.
In this way, they retreated all the way back to the vermilion palace that they had come down before, and the wild python and the old xiao who ran in at the end hurriedly closed the door together.
The bug swarm was temporarily blocked outside.
Lu Nan wiped off the sweat from running and being startled, and said, "What kind of bug is that? I think the big ones have long arms."
This couldn't help but remind him of the Gu worm he met in Zhuangfu Village of the Republic of China.
Wu Xiajiu said: "It looks like a mole cricket."
Gesang also nodded when he heard the words, "It's indeed mole crickets, but mole crickets shouldn't appear in the desert. I know the habits of these insects. Mole crickets like to live in wet soil, and they don't run dry when they're wet."
"The desert is so dry, there shouldn't be mole crickets even in the bottom."
"However, everything is possible here, not to mention, these mole crickets seem to have mutated." Gesang sighed.
The stone door was closed, but the sound of insects crawling could still be heard outside.
Moreover, as if the swarm of mole crickets outside were hitting the door, the stone door began to shake, precarious, and sand and dust kept falling from the edge of the stone door.
Shimen couldn't hold on for long, and after realizing this, Wild Mang said: "Go up first, even if you look for someone, don't be in a hurry, otherwise we will be overwhelmed by this group of insects if Dr. Cao doesn't find it."
Nie Su glanced at him, smiled and agreed.
The wild python gave him a superficial smile.
Gesang said: "The desert is so hot that mole crickets probably won't go up there."
Feng Gu was a little hesitant, but at this moment, Shimen was hit again, and he finally agreed to go up first before speaking, after all, staying in the hall is not an option.
When climbing up the rope ladder again, Wu Xiajiu listened to the noise below. Before they reached the entrance of the cave, there was an ear-splitting "bang thud". The sound of rustling and jumping gradually increased.
Shi Shangzuo immediately said: "Climb quickly, those mole crickets will come up the rope ladder."
Once the rope ladder is covered by insects, no matter how strong the rope is, it will not be able to withstand it.
Everyone knew the seriousness of the matter, and the speed increased, and the passengers behind opened the wooden warehouse facing the bottom again.
Wu Xiajiu could clearly feel the rope ladder start to shake.
It was the sound of mole crickets jumping up one after another, and the shaking was getting bigger and bigger. Wu Xia didn't look down for a long time, let alone stop, and climbed a certain distance to reach the top.
"Ah, shit, this bug bites." At this moment, Bitter Melon, who was a little below, swung his wrist and cursed.
The one who bit him was a mole cricket the size of half a palm. When climbing up the rope ladder, it jumped onto the body of Bitter Gourd. Bitter Gourd stretched out his hand and was bitten. It hurt for a moment.
Bitter gourd was so angry that he opened a few more wooden warehouses below.
Wu Xiajiu had already crawled out of the deep hole at this time, he turned around and bent down to grab Shi Shangzuo's wrist.
Shi Shangzuo could have jumped out of the hole by himself, but it felt better to be pulled, so he held it, and then Wu Xiajiu pulled Fang Zi, Tang Yunsi and Lu Nan out.
Lao Xiao waited for the bitter gourd to finally climb up, and then chopped off the rope ladder with a knife.
The sound of the rope ladder falling on the ground of the hall could be faintly heard from the deep cave. Wu Xia listened for a while, but there was still the sound of mole crickets crawling underneath, and I'm afraid they won't leave for a while.
Fang Zi squatted on the edge of the slope of the deep cave, dragged his chin and said, "If these bugs don't go away, how should we go down? How about throwing some fireballs down to scare them away?"
Wu Xiajiu shook his head and said: "Scaring away is not a long-term solution. If we pass through the passage again, those mole cricket swarms will come back again. We can't keep going back and forth like this. We have to find a suitable way."
By the way, did Xiaowei meet these mole crickets after following Dr. Cao and others?
After thinking about it, Wu Xiajiu got up and asked.
Xiaowei came back up only when he learned that they had encountered a bug swarm below. After listening to Wu Xiajiu's words, he said, "I haven't encountered them before, but there are some monsters hiding in the dark."
"I didn't see the appearance clearly, I just saw a pair of big claws dragging away many teammates from the dark."
After that, they began to flee in panic...
Scientist Nie Su also stood aside and listened. Hearing this, his eyes widened slightly with excitement, but he quickly covered them up. He asked, "What kind of claws? Describe it."
Xiaowei thought for a while with a pale face: "It's, it's big, rough, like a beast, but, but it has five fingers..."
"Mutated animals? Or human transformation?" Nie Su murmured, reaching into his pocket, rubbing the sharp knife that was always in it.
No one knew that he always had a small knife without a sheath in his pocket, and Nie Su was not afraid of being scratched at all.
Wu Xiajiu intuited that there was something wrong with the scientist, so he took a step aside indiscriminately.
At this time Fang Zi leaned over and said, "Guard Master, Brother Zuo will modify the flamethrower, do you want to go and have a look?"
"Flame thrower?" Wu Xiajiu asked suspiciously.
Just now, Shang Zuo said that he had something to discuss with Feng Gu, and Wu Xiajiu happened to come to ask Xiaowei about something, so he didn't follow him.
Now Fang Zi ran over and said that he was modifying the flamethrower, Wu Xiajiu was curious, said something, and followed Fang Zi.
He immediately turned around and ran, but Feng Gu who had been following him quickly grabbed him with his eyes and hands, and pushed him down on the sand that had begun to look hot.
Xiaowei took a mouthful of sand, spat out in embarrassment and shouted: "Let go of me! I want to go back, let me go... This desert is really not a place we can enter."
"You have seen it too. If someone is dead, he will die."
In the end, he couldn't bear to cry, and the tears mixed with sand covered his face, making him look pitiful and ugly.
He begged earnestly, and it was indeed unbearable.
Jiyu can feel Xiaowei's fear. Last night, she faced the scary female ghost and was almost dragged into the quicksand and buried by him, almost dying.
It was so dangerous on the first day, one can imagine the situation after that.
Jiyu felt the pain from the wound on his leg that had already been wrapped, and couldn't help feeling regretful in his heart.
She regretted it—should not face the temptation, and felt that she could let go of the gamble, betting that if she survived successfully, not only would she get another item, but her life span would be extended even more.
However, she was wrong, she underestimated the danger of this train, and overestimated herself.
As for a gambler, nine times out of ten bets, even if she has successfully survived other high-risk trains in the past, it does not mean that she has the strength to break into this red train.
Although Shiyu could empathize with Xiaowei's fear, she couldn't say anything, and she couldn't say anything.
She couldn't withdraw, and if she wanted to survive, she had to rely on Xiaowei to lead the way to find the ruins of Gu Loulan and find Dr. Cao.
Therefore, in the face of Xiaowei's crying, everyone present was watching with cold eyes.
Feng Gu was even more cold-hearted, pressed Xiaowei's shoulder and said: "Think about Dr. Cao, you have been with him for so many years, now you say you can't save him?!"
"We haven't confirmed Dr. Cao's death yet, maybe he is waiting for us to save him right now under the ancient Loulan ruins."
"Xiaowei, get up and lead the way, find the ruins of the ancient Loulan Kingdom, find Dr. Cao and the others as soon as possible, and we will be able to leave this desert as soon as possible."
"You'd better think clearly and be honest, don't force me to take other measures." Feng Gu threatened in a low voice.
Don't blame him, Dr. Cao is too important.
Even if the desert is very dangerous, even... even if he wants to die, he still has to find the person and bring Dr. Cao or the clues related to the mine vein back.
Xiaowei finally calmed down. After Feng Gu removed the hand holding his shoulder, Xiaowei stood up slowly, wiped off the sand and tears on his face, and followed Feng Gu into the car.
Others followed suit or rode on camels.
The temperature in the desert, especially near noon, rises to an astonishingly high temperature.
Wu Xia looked at the number measured on the thermometer for a long time, and touched the sweat on his forehead. In order to save money, the air conditioner was not turned on in the car, but the windows were opened.
The sand mixed with the harsh sunlight flew into the car, and it was windy but warm, which must be enjoyable in winter.
But here, blowing hot wind is undoubtedly a kind of torture.
But after a while, another thin layer of sand accumulated on Wu Xiajiu's trousers.
He patted it down, wiped his face by the way, and turned his head to look out the window.
Not long after, according to what Feng Gu said before, the car could no longer drive in the desert after a period of time, and they all had to get out of the car and transfer to camels.
And some materials that cannot be taken have to be stored in the car.
The cars find a place to mark and leave them. After they come out of the desert, these cars are the pointers for them to leave the desert.
After driving forward for a while, the convoy stopped.
Xiaowei got out of the car to identify the direction, and he said that there was a small desert oasis ahead, and the car could be parked there by then.
And he, Dr. Cao and others had rested on the desert oasis before, and then walked westward, and after half a day, they encountered a sandstorm and the ruins of the ancient Loulan Kingdom.
"Okay." Seeing that the ancient Loulan ruins were approaching, Feng Gu was delighted, and planned to stay here for a while and rest before moving on.
The sun is too hot in the desert at this moment, if you don't enjoy the cool air, you will easily suffer from heat stroke if you keep walking.
Everyone found a shaded place to sit down and rest.
Wu Xiajiu, Shi Shangzuo and the others sat in the shadow of the car.
After drinking the water, it took Wu Xia a long time to feel that the dryness in his throat was relieved. In the desert, he really didn't want to drink water all the time.
"What happened last night?" Lu Nan couldn't help asking while sitting beside him for a rest, "Didn't Yi Rong stay with Britney all the time?"
"Why didn't he notice Britney's death, but that female ghost entered us..."
Moreover, quicksand will form where the female ghost is, harming people silently, and can also disguise, which makes people have to pay attention.
Wu Xiajiu asked: "Did you feel in a trance after hearing the crying last night?"
Fang Zi shook his head.
Tang Yunsi and Lu Nanze said a little bit, but recovered quickly.
Wu Xia thought for a long time, and said: "There should be more than one female ghost. I think the silk clothes she is wearing look like ancient clothes. Could it be related to Gu Loulan?"
"And the whole body is overexposed to the sun, does it seem like a punishment imposed by the ancients?"
The ancient criminal law was so harsh and terrifying, skinning, grooming, tiger stool, etc., there are only unexpected things, and no one can't do it, especially in the period of class rule, kings and slaves...
According to Wu Xiajiu's speculation, these female ghosts may have been slaves or maidservants during their lifetime.
"These female ghosts have IQs, their cries are deceptive, and they know how to lure people out separately."
"Even though Yi Rong stayed with Britney, they were all led away from the camp by crying last night."
"Although Britney, the ghostly Britney in disguise, said that they woke up halfway, but now I think it should be a lie."
"Maybe Yi Rong has been in hallucinations all along. After Britney was killed, the female ghost disguised herself as Britney and led Yi Rong to go elsewhere to regain her sanity..."
While he was talking, Wu Xiajiu suddenly felt the blowing wind and sand increased, and the wind became stronger, and a strange whistling sound suddenly came from his ears.
Immediately, it was Xiaowei who yelled in horror—"Sandstorm, sandstorm is coming!"
Wu Xiajiu hurriedly stood up and looked into the distance.
I saw the sky in the distance suddenly darkened at some point, and the sand below was flying wildly. The dust billowed up everywhere, and it was extremely cloudy, as if a giant beast was opening its claws and roaring towards them, sweeping towards them.
Shi Shangzuo had already taken action after Feng Gu yelled "get in the car and dodge".
He took out the goggles and mask, threw them to Fang Zi and the others, and quickly put them on for Wu Xiajiu.
Immediately, the two got into the car, and the moment the car door closed, the sandstorm came, so fast that they didn't want to leave anyone with the slightest chance to prepare.
But fortunately, they had been resting next to the car or camel before, and they could escape in time after the sandstorm came.
Camels know how to deal with the extreme weather in the desert better than people. They lie down in a circle and put their heads on their front legs.
"This sandstorm came as soon as it came, didn't the sky just now be clear." Fang Zi muttered.
He almost died of heat.
His voice was muffled by the mask, and only he could hear him. After getting into the car, he couldn't help but look up and look outside, wanting to see what happened after the sandstorm came.
Wu Xiajiu was also looking out the window, the wind and sand blowing against the window made a crackling sound, and the car was shaking slightly.
But fortunately, the weight of the human body was not too intense, and some scenes that could be seen outside were soon covered by yellow sand, and nothing could be seen clearly.
"call--"
Waves of terrifying whistling sounds came in through the car windows and car door gaps, rushed into people's eardrums, and beat their hearts.
You don't need to look, you know that the sky is dark outside, the sand is flying and the rocks are flying, the wind is sweeping the sand and raging, it seems that there is nowhere to hide...
The car can't completely block the wind and sand. Fortunately, I wear windshields, otherwise the sand will get in my eyes, I can't rub it, I can only wash it with water, which is very uncomfortable.
Wu Xiajiu looked out through the double blur of the windshield and the window glass, and there seemed to be a few skinny figures faintly appearing in the roaring yellow sand.
At first he thought it was his own illusion, but he paused for a moment, then looked more closely, not only did the figures not disappear, but there were more of them.
Those "black figures" stood in the wind and sand, completely unmoved by the wind, and every time the yellow sand whistled, some dark figures moved closer to the car.
what is that?
Wu Xiajiu frowned, if the wind and sand kept coming and those black figures kept approaching the car, would it have any impact on them?
But now they can't get out of the car to stop it, the horror of nature is beyond their ability to fight.
Under Wu Xiajiu's nervous gaze, the thin black figure finally approached the car window, which could be vaguely seen clearly—it was the female ghost from last night.
The "familiar" withered face was imprinted on the glass covered with yellow sand, looking in through the car window, immediately startled Wu Xiajiu.
These female ghosts can actually appear with sandstorms during the day.
But in the next second, the yellow sand swept past again, Wu Xiajiu looked out from the windshield, and the face of the female ghost stuck to the car window disappeared again.
But not far away, those black figures are still there, still approaching with the wind and sand blowing by...
Wu Xiajiu immediately lowered his head and leaned on the seat.
Shi Shangzuo also leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Sandstorms usually last for about one to two hours, don't worry about the outside, it's not night, these female ghosts can only move in the yellow sand, they can't get into the car .”
Wu Xiajiu: "...outside, there are people among the camels."
He didn't see clearly who didn't get in the car in time, but stayed outside, hiding in the camel's encirclement, maybe Feng Gu's subordinates, or there might be passengers.
"Seek good luck." Shi Shangzuo said coldly.
They didn't expect these female ghosts to appear in the sandstorm, and they couldn't avoid the disaster in advance. Some people stayed outside and had to bear it.
Wu Xiajiu thought in his heart that the people outside were out of luck, so he lowered his body as much as possible and slowed down his breathing.
After an unknown amount of time, the wind and sand outside the car gradually decreased and stopped.
He didn't open his eyes again and raised his head until the terrifying whistling sound and the sound of sand hitting the car body disappeared.
With this movement, a layer of sand fell off the back, and there was obviously a lot of sand on the window.
Wu Xia took a long breath, took off the goggles that had been completely blurred, and glanced at his watch first. The wind and sand swept through, and almost an hour had passed.
Shi Shangzuo said at this time: "The door here cannot be opened, look at your side."
Hearing the words for a long time, Wu Xia stretched out his hand, and the car door opened.
He looked down and saw that the sand on the ground was more than a little thicker than before, and the wheels were buried in it, and when his feet stretched out, there was sand.
Wu Xiajiu and Shishang got out of the car on the left, Fang Zi, Tang Yunsi and Lu Nan also got out of the car, and soon they came to the place surrounded by camels.
When the camel saw someone approaching, it moved its body, and the person in the middle who was covered in blankets moved accordingly.
Immediately, the yellow sand blown and accumulated on the blanket slid down, and Wu Xiajiu realized that the people under the blanket seemed to be shivering all the time, obviously very frightened and frightened.
Feng Gu came over with Xiaowei, and said, "The sandstorm is over, come out."
He also thought that the people under the blanket were afraid of sandstorms.
Feng Gu's words had some effect, the person under the blanket tremblingly lifted a corner, it was one of Feng Gu's subordinates.
I saw that he seemed to be too scared to speak, his body was also very stiff, his eyes slanted to the side, but he didn't seem to dare to look, pointing with trembling fingers: "That, there..."
Feng Gu hadn't reacted yet.
But Wu Xiajiu felt something in his heart, and stepped forward to lift off the blanket next to this person.
"Ah!" Xiaowei let out a short exclamation.
Last night and the fear of encountering a sandstorm today, he couldn't help but couldn't bear it any longer. As soon as he rolled his eyes, he immediately passed out, and Ah Ye casually picked him up and pinched him.
Fortunately, Xiaowei was only suddenly stimulated, and woke up as soon as he pinched someone.
And Wu Xiajiu frowned as he watched the two corpses under the other blanket - Yirong and Whirlwind.
That's right, it was the two members of Britney's team, and they both died.
——The appearance of death is exactly the same as that of Britney, her body is dry, her skin is wrinkled, and the moisture from her whole body has been drained, her eyes are wide open, leaving only empty darkness.
Yi Rong was a little hard to accept because of Britney's death last night. Another point was that he didn't notice the female ghost was so close to him at that time. If the female ghost wanted to harm him, he could escape ?
Yi Rong also had some regrets about boarding this train, his companion died tragically on the first night, which made him a little mentally unstable.
Therefore, when he stopped to rest, he went to the side to stay, and Yi Rong's companion, Xuanfeng, went to comfort him. When the sandstorm came, they entered the camel's circle before they had time to run back to the car. Who would have thought that...
"Fuck, three people died." Li Mao cursed secretly.
Could it be that these three passengers are all trash? How could they be killed so easily? They dared to sign up for this red train without any strength. I really don't know whether it is naive or stupid.
It's okay to die now, and save yourself from being hindered later.
Li Mao didn't have any regrets about the deaths of the three of them, but felt that the danger in the world outside the car was more difficult to deal with than he imagined.
And Li Mao's thoughts are probably also a reflection of the hearts of other passengers.
Mi Zheng glanced at Nie Su indiscriminately, then withdrew his gaze, thinking that he must act cautiously, otherwise he would be fatally injured and had to use the opportunity to "molt his skin", which would reveal his true colors.
While using the S-level prop "Painted Leather Mask", he cannot use other props.
But fortunately, before boarding the car, Nie Su gave him a B-level prop, which was barely usable, and lasted for a few days.
The sudden death of Yi Rong and Cyclone obviously cast a shadow over the group.
Xiaowei looked even more depressed.
The wheels of the car got stuck in the yellow sand, and it was very difficult to get out. After trying, only one car came out. In the end, Feng Gu decided to abandon the car here and take the camel with him.
After a sandstorm and the deaths of two people, everything went smoothly.
Xiaowei found the desert oasis he had been to before. After resting here for a while, everyone continued to walk west.
Not long after, without Xiaowei opening his mouth, Feng Gu also saw a crudely built camp, which was the trace of Dr. Cao and others staying in order to study how to get down the deep hole blown out by the wind and sand.
But at this moment, this simple camp is empty, and a thick layer of sand has accumulated on the surface.
Wu Xiajiu followed Feng Gu and walked over, and saw clearly what the "deep hole" looked like—the whole was a downward-sloping and sunken slope, with a dark center, and sand and soil fell into it from time to time.
And a rope ladder extends down along the piling not far away.
Xiaowei said that he climbed up this rope ladder at that time, but now, there is still no one in the camp, so it can be seen that except for him, everyone else...
At this moment, Xiaowei prayed to Feng Gu with a pale face, he had already made his way there, and he really didn't want to go down anymore, so it's okay to not let him go back, let him stay on it.
Feng Gu glanced at him and agreed.
In addition to Xiaowei, several of his subordinates also stayed here to guard. If they didn't come out by then, they should send a signal to the base to find someone to rescue.
Xiaowei couldn't help being ecstatic, his heart that had been hanging was finally able to let go.
Be prepared before going down this deep cave.
Half an hour later, Feng Gu took the lead and brought his subordinate, A Ye, and the others continued down the rope ladder one after another.
Wu Xiajiu was wearing a helmet, and the searchlight on the top of his head swept down, and he could barely see that besides the yellow sand, there were stone chamber carvings and so on.
He calculated that it took about 10 minutes to climb down to the bottom.
At the end, looking around, Wu Xiajiu found that it was a small vermilion palace with a big hole in the roof, which was where they came down.
The ground is covered with yellow sand, and there are many utensils and wood carvings scattered under the yellow sand.
With a simple scan, there seems to be nothing worth noting about this palace.
On the contrary, there are murals engraved on the four walls, but they are just ordinary things such as praying for a good harvest and rain.
Xiaowei mentioned that when they went deep into the ruins of the ancient Loulan Kingdom, they encountered those resurrected mummies and weird monsters. The place they first entered was ordinary and had little research value.
Without staying too long in this smaller palace, Wu Xiajiu waited for someone to walk outside the door.
With Dr. Cao and others opening the way, they don't need to distinguish, they only need to look for the traces left before.
Not long after, they encountered a corpse at the corner of the passage. It looked exactly like their uniforms. It was the subordinate Feng Gu had sent to accompany Dr. Cao.
He lay on the ground with his eyes open, his eyes had long been dull, and he stretched out his hand, as if he still wanted to struggle to escape.
And his back was already bloody, as if being scratched and torn by something, the skin and flesh were split open, exposing the white bones, exuding a rotten smell.
Feng Gu squatted down with a heavy expression, and closed those eyes that were dying for him.
At this moment, Wu Xiajiu heard a rustling and crawling sound at the tip of his ears, it was not an illusion, the sound was coming towards them.
Wu Xia hurriedly said: "Something is coming!"
"What?" Mi Zheng asked subconsciously.
Others didn't have Wu Xiajiu's good hearing ability, they never heard that almost negligible noise, and they didn't react at the moment, or frowned or became suspicious.
Wu Xia didn't answer for a long time, turned his head and looked around, there were no other passages on the left and right, so he could only retreat, and it seemed that he had to retreat to the temple they had come down earlier.
Wu Xiajiu said quickly: "Go back, now go back."
It was too late, those things were crawling very fast, almost at the moment when Wu Xiajiu's voice fell, an obvious rustling sound came along the passage.
This time, Wu Xia didn't need to answer for a long time, and the others also knew that something in front of the passage was quickly approaching them.
"Go!" Feng Gu shouted.
The other passengers refused to be left behind and ran fast.
In the middle, Li Mao couldn't help but glanced back, then opened his eyes wide and let out a groan, and blurted out: "Where are there so many bugs?!"
Wu Xiajiu also looked back after hearing this sound.
At the end of the passage, insects of all sizes were almost crawling up, down, left, and right, layer upon layer, continuously pouring out, and these insects seemed to have excellent jumping ability, waving their limbs and hopping forward, not faster than them How much slower to run.
Seeing that he was about to be overtaken, Wu Xiajiu raised his hand and opened several wooden warehouses towards the insect swarm, and the insect swarm dispersed for a moment.
The sound of the wooden warehouse sounded, and the others came back to their senses, and opened the wooden warehouse towards the back one after another.
In this way, they retreated all the way back to the vermilion palace that they had come down before, and the wild python and the old xiao who ran in at the end hurriedly closed the door together.
The bug swarm was temporarily blocked outside.
Lu Nan wiped off the sweat from running and being startled, and said, "What kind of bug is that? I think the big ones have long arms."
This couldn't help but remind him of the Gu worm he met in Zhuangfu Village of the Republic of China.
Wu Xiajiu said: "It looks like a mole cricket."
Gesang also nodded when he heard the words, "It's indeed mole crickets, but mole crickets shouldn't appear in the desert. I know the habits of these insects. Mole crickets like to live in wet soil, and they don't run dry when they're wet."
"The desert is so dry, there shouldn't be mole crickets even in the bottom."
"However, everything is possible here, not to mention, these mole crickets seem to have mutated." Gesang sighed.
The stone door was closed, but the sound of insects crawling could still be heard outside.
Moreover, as if the swarm of mole crickets outside were hitting the door, the stone door began to shake, precarious, and sand and dust kept falling from the edge of the stone door.
Shimen couldn't hold on for long, and after realizing this, Wild Mang said: "Go up first, even if you look for someone, don't be in a hurry, otherwise we will be overwhelmed by this group of insects if Dr. Cao doesn't find it."
Nie Su glanced at him, smiled and agreed.
The wild python gave him a superficial smile.
Gesang said: "The desert is so hot that mole crickets probably won't go up there."
Feng Gu was a little hesitant, but at this moment, Shimen was hit again, and he finally agreed to go up first before speaking, after all, staying in the hall is not an option.
When climbing up the rope ladder again, Wu Xiajiu listened to the noise below. Before they reached the entrance of the cave, there was an ear-splitting "bang thud". The sound of rustling and jumping gradually increased.
Shi Shangzuo immediately said: "Climb quickly, those mole crickets will come up the rope ladder."
Once the rope ladder is covered by insects, no matter how strong the rope is, it will not be able to withstand it.
Everyone knew the seriousness of the matter, and the speed increased, and the passengers behind opened the wooden warehouse facing the bottom again.
Wu Xiajiu could clearly feel the rope ladder start to shake.
It was the sound of mole crickets jumping up one after another, and the shaking was getting bigger and bigger. Wu Xia didn't look down for a long time, let alone stop, and climbed a certain distance to reach the top.
"Ah, shit, this bug bites." At this moment, Bitter Melon, who was a little below, swung his wrist and cursed.
The one who bit him was a mole cricket the size of half a palm. When climbing up the rope ladder, it jumped onto the body of Bitter Gourd. Bitter Gourd stretched out his hand and was bitten. It hurt for a moment.
Bitter gourd was so angry that he opened a few more wooden warehouses below.
Wu Xiajiu had already crawled out of the deep hole at this time, he turned around and bent down to grab Shi Shangzuo's wrist.
Shi Shangzuo could have jumped out of the hole by himself, but it felt better to be pulled, so he held it, and then Wu Xiajiu pulled Fang Zi, Tang Yunsi and Lu Nan out.
Lao Xiao waited for the bitter gourd to finally climb up, and then chopped off the rope ladder with a knife.
The sound of the rope ladder falling on the ground of the hall could be faintly heard from the deep cave. Wu Xia listened for a while, but there was still the sound of mole crickets crawling underneath, and I'm afraid they won't leave for a while.
Fang Zi squatted on the edge of the slope of the deep cave, dragged his chin and said, "If these bugs don't go away, how should we go down? How about throwing some fireballs down to scare them away?"
Wu Xiajiu shook his head and said: "Scaring away is not a long-term solution. If we pass through the passage again, those mole cricket swarms will come back again. We can't keep going back and forth like this. We have to find a suitable way."
By the way, did Xiaowei meet these mole crickets after following Dr. Cao and others?
After thinking about it, Wu Xiajiu got up and asked.
Xiaowei came back up only when he learned that they had encountered a bug swarm below. After listening to Wu Xiajiu's words, he said, "I haven't encountered them before, but there are some monsters hiding in the dark."
"I didn't see the appearance clearly, I just saw a pair of big claws dragging away many teammates from the dark."
After that, they began to flee in panic...
Scientist Nie Su also stood aside and listened. Hearing this, his eyes widened slightly with excitement, but he quickly covered them up. He asked, "What kind of claws? Describe it."
Xiaowei thought for a while with a pale face: "It's, it's big, rough, like a beast, but, but it has five fingers..."
"Mutated animals? Or human transformation?" Nie Su murmured, reaching into his pocket, rubbing the sharp knife that was always in it.
No one knew that he always had a small knife without a sheath in his pocket, and Nie Su was not afraid of being scratched at all.
Wu Xiajiu intuited that there was something wrong with the scientist, so he took a step aside indiscriminately.
At this time Fang Zi leaned over and said, "Guard Master, Brother Zuo will modify the flamethrower, do you want to go and have a look?"
"Flame thrower?" Wu Xiajiu asked suspiciously.
Just now, Shang Zuo said that he had something to discuss with Feng Gu, and Wu Xiajiu happened to come to ask Xiaowei about something, so he didn't follow him.
Now Fang Zi ran over and said that he was modifying the flamethrower, Wu Xiajiu was curious, said something, and followed Fang Zi.
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