Chapter 253: The Ancient Kingdom of Yelang (38)
The red glow was like the glow of iron being burned red.
The black long box then closed, and Qin Yue trampled on the burning tree trunk with his foot.
"It was its venom that killed the camel. ”
Qin Yue's voice sounded, and at this moment, we all ran to Qin Yue's side.
"It, what is it?" asked Drogo to Qin Yue with a look of horror.
"I don't know, it's a plant that grows in the sand. ”
Although Qin Yue's answer is very unconvincing, is there a more convincing statement at this moment?
"So what are we going to do now? This thing is so powerful, it can turn my camel into a skeleton at once, how can we guard against it. Drogo's question was to the point.
Hearing Drogo's question, Qin Yue asked Drogo rhetorically, "Then what? Aren't we standing here now?"
Without waiting for Zhuo Ge to speak, Qin Yue continued: "Although I don't know the reason, but we can still stand here, which can prove that this kind of thing is not a plant that attacks indiscriminately, keep walking, everyone pay more attention to your steps." ”
"And!"
After Qin Yue said this to Zhuo Ge, he walked straight towards her Thousand Machine Box.
Walking in front of the Thousand Machine Box, Qin Yue pulled out a black box from it again.
With this black box in hand, Qin Yue walked among us.
The black box opened, and inside was a row of things I had never seen before.
It was a black wrought iron, but it was shaped like a horseshoe.
"There are nine pairs of cold iron feet here, and now we're all going to bring them on the soles of our shoes. ”
The soles of the iron feet?
Curious, I reached out and touched the nine pairs of feet in the black box.
Cold! Cold!
The moment my fingers touched the soles of Cold Iron's feet, they immediately retracted.
"Old man Drogo, I'll give you three pairs, how you divide them yourself. ”
At the same time that Qin Yue's words fell, we all understood what Qin Yue meant.
Nine pairs of cold iron feet, seven men, seven camels.
Drogo could only choose one of the seven camels.
Each of us began to wear cold iron soles on our feet under Qin Yue's guidance.
Drogo hesitated for a long time before making his choice.
In addition to himself, he chose the first camel.
When he chose the first camel, he had no choice but to give up the other six camels.
It's a cruel choice, but there's no way around it.
Wearing this kind of cold iron under our feet means that at least we don't have to worry about our feet anymore.
No matter how strong the sand beneath the ground is, it can't penetrate the iron.
Continuing on the road, we ended our day at the foot of a large sand dune.
When you come here, someone has to keep vigil.
Under everyone's discussion, Gu Yicheng and Uncle Cheng stayed in the first half of the night, and Qin Yue and I stayed in the second half of the night.
For everyone's safety, I almost completely checked this sand dune with a Luoyang shovel, and only after making sure that there was no problem with this sand dune, I let everyone rest.
There is no such thing as a night or night in this desert, because the sky here is unchanging.
I didn't dare to sleep deeply, and when it was three o'clock in the morning, I got up from the dunes.
After Qin Yue heard the sound of me getting up, he also stood up with me.
We replaced Gu Yicheng and Uncle Cheng.
Looking up at the dim sky, Qin Yue was the same as me.
After we withdrew our gaze from the sky, Qin Yue gestured to me.
I followed behind Qin Yue, and Qin Yue didn't stop until he was already some distance away from them.
I knew that Qin Yue had something to say to me, so I didn't speak.
"Actually, I didn't tell the truth in the afternoon. Qin Yue looked into my eyes and said the first sentence to me.
"It wasn't the venom that killed the camel, it was something else. ”
After hearing Qin Yue's words, although I was already prepared, I was still shocked by Qin Yue's words.
"The cave before was very deep, and I think that cave must be a lair of those things, and there should be more than one such lair in this desert. ”
"And what did you burn to death with that red thing before?"
"It was a sandy plant I hadn't seen before, but it wasn't the culprit. ”
"Then why didn't they attack us after killing that camel?" I asked Qin Yue the key to the problem.
"I don't know, I don't understand this either. Qin Yue shook his head at me.
"Wait until dawn to go full speed, how far these camels can go, you may think I'm cold-blooded, but I care more about human life than these camels. ”
I was silent when I heard Qin Yue's words, and I was silent because what Qin Yue said was not wrong.
The moment Drogo led the eight camels into the desert, perhaps he already had this realization.
It was dawn here, and when Qin Yue and I came back again, Drogo and the others had already gotten up.
Looking at the tired faces of each of them, I knew that no one could really fall asleep in such a situation.
And when Drogo went to lead the camel, we all heard Drogo crying.
Broken!
Hearing Drogo's cries, we all ran towards him.
All seven camels died, except for the first one.
The way they die is not camel flesh and bones, but more terrifying than camel flesh and bones.
Six camels resting on their knees, their lower bellies hollowed out.
He didn't make any sound when he died, and this way of dying was too weird and terrifying.
Gou Tang couldn't help but start retching, and the faces of each of us were also pale and scary.
When the hell was it? None of us even noticed.
Six camels died almost silently, so what about us? Will we die like these six camels without anyone noticing?
The six camels died in the same way, their lower abdomen hollowed out, and there was not a single sound in between.
How the hell do these things that kill them do it?
Drogo took the camel by the hand, pulled it out of the six camels, and then held the camel's head tightly to prevent it from looking.
"Boss, what should we do now?" asked Hesheridina, looking at Qin Yue.
At this moment, we all looked at Qin Yue.
Qin Yue was silent, walking towards the six dead camels in silence.
I grabbed Qin Yue's arm.
"We have to find out the cause of their death. ”
Qin Yue looked at me and said to me in an unquestionable tone.
"Uncle Cheng, silver needle. ”
I let go of Qin Yue, Uncle Cheng walked to Qin Yue's side, and the two of them walked towards the six dead camels together.
I gritted my teeth, and I also strode to catch up with Qin Yue.
Uncle Cheng inserted a silver needle into the carcass of a camel, and after pulling it out, the silver needle immediately turned black.
The carcasses of six camels were poisonous.
"Miss, look here!"
Uncle Cheng's voice suddenly sounded in my ears.
Qin Yue and I looked at the place where Uncle Cheng pointed out, but saw that in addition to the hollowing out of the lower abdomen, the camel also had small holes like pinholes.
Looking at these small holes, Uncle Cheng said to us: "This should be left by those things, it looks a bit like the scorpion tail flowing." ”
Scorpion tail?
Hearing Uncle Cheng's answer, my intuition told me that Uncle Cheng should be right.
"It must have been done by two social animals, one poisoned them with the poison on their bodies, and the other used them as food. ”
Listening to Qin Yue's analysis, I was thinking about another question.
The question is why they didn't attack us, but chose to attack the seven camels.
What is there that I'm missing?
I pulled my memories back before I entered the twilight desert.
My mind was reminiscing, and in the midst of crazy memories, I felt as if I had suddenly grasped a clue that we had overlooked, but was very important.
This clue, intuitionally, has a direct connection to these things not attacking us.
What is it exactly?
The fishy smell coming from the six camels made me take a few steps back.
In the middle of retreat, I suddenly raised my eyes.
The moment I raised my eyes, I rushed forward again, grabbed Qin Yue and Uncle Cheng's arms, regardless of the confusion in their eyes, I was pulling the two of them back, and in the retreat, I shouted to everyone: "Retreat, retreat, retreat to a windy place." ”