Chapter 21: The Land of Bones

As soon as I heard it, goosebumps rose, as the saying goes: "A man can overturn a fierce snake, but he can't fight a united group of ants." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoJust as I realized this, there was a dense scratching sound from the grass pile next to me. I shuddered, and when I looked closer to the torch, there was a bunch of black ants with a somewhat reflective shell hanging on the spiky grass. And in the midst of that, there seems to be a face that is extremely hideous. The face was hidden by the grass, looming, and most of his flesh had been gnawed away, leaving only the white bones of the forest. A large number of black man-eating ants burrowed in and out of the hole in the dead man's eye, and it was terrifying to watch.

Baocai and I gasped, only to hear a slight friction sound, squirming, Baocai said: "It's not good, they are passing on information, it is estimated that more man-eating ants will come over later, let's leave this ghost place quickly." ”

I was so cruel that I wanted to burn them directly with fire, but Baocai grabbed me and said, "Son, you are crazy! This man-eating ant is the most vindictive, and if we smash its nest, they will definitely gnaw us to the scum." As he spoke, he dragged me forward, muttering, "This place is too dangerous...... I have to tell your ancestors......! I'm afraid that man-eating ants are not only what we see, if they all come out, it will really be a man blocking and killing, a Buddha blocking and killing a Buddha, and in the end we will end up like a person in the haystack!"

I didn't think that ants were so scary, but when I heard the description of Baocai and thought of those things crawling all over my body and gnawing at me with their hard palates, I couldn't help but feel a chill down my spine.

However, before he reached the Ancestor's side, he heard a terrible and unusual shout, and the Treasurer shouted wildly: "Quick, fire, burn them!"

I froze for a moment, looked at their scramblings, and realized that the place where we had set up camp had also fallen. And Wang Bajian slapped his body in a panic, screaming again and again, and the little Taoist priest saw this and dragged him to safety.

I stayed where I was, not knowing what to do now, and suddenly, the grass next to me also moved, and I and Baocai tightened our nerves, looked at each other, and then ran forward with a rolling belt.

It turned out that there was more than one nest of man-eating ants, and they crawled out of the clumps of grass like fountain water, and the number was incalculable.

"It's over...... It's over...... Baocai panicked: "This Gobi is the nest of man-eating ants, why are we so unlucky all the way, before we reach Yanze, there are dangers everywhere?"

As I was speaking, I suddenly felt a pain in my calf, and I cursed, and the pain seemed to have been pricked a few times by a thick needle. According to Baocai, if you want to be entangled by a group of ants, the skin and flesh on your body will be eaten up in an instant, this thought, I slapped the ants and shouted to the ancestors: "Quickly withdraw! These are man-eating ants, and there are a lot of them behind!"

When the old ancestor and the master heard this, they did not dare to delay, they held torches, and as soon as they burned a wave, a wave came out of the haystack, which was endless, and it was difficult to eliminate, they were in the center of the ant colony, and it was very difficult to retreat.

Seeing this, I wanted to step forward to help, but the old ancestor shouted at us: "Don't care about us, you run first, and I will follow!" As he spoke, he took out the wine bag on his waist, sprinkled some of it on the ground, and then lit a fire and burned, and suddenly the flames burst up.

My heart was slightly reassured, and now the camels not far from us were also suffering, and they had no hands to beat the ants, and they were bitten and restless. I was afraid that they would be loyal and would not leave us, and I was anxious, thinking that if they continued like this, they would be gnawed and deprived, so I waved my torch and retreated from the man-eating ants and ran towards them.

Bao Cai hurriedly urged them to leave, and told them to take refuge first, but at this moment a figure stepped on one of the camels, which turned out to be You Chi, who looked at us condescendingly, said something to us coldly in the local dialect, and disappeared into the night on the camel.

This moment came very quickly, and it was also a little inexplicable, I stared at this scene blankly, and thought, "What's the situation? You Chi just looked at us, how did he reveal a look of resentment? Also, why did he abandon us?"

Just when I was chilled by his coldness, Baocai pushed me in fear and shouted, "Son, don't care about the heartless one, look at the back!"

I turned around and saw the ants crawling rapidly under the moonlight, like a surging tide, not coming to our insteps. My heart was in my throat, and this horrific sight made people tense. Without delay, Baocai and I anxiously urged the camels. As if to understand our intentions, the remaining camels ran forward, but the one of the treasurers remained where they were, without receiving instructions from their master.

Soon the ants rushed to our feet, we had no place to stand, we stepped in a panic, and some of the ants took advantage of our feet to sink into the sand pit, quickly climbed up, and tore at my flesh fiercely. All of a sudden, the pain swept through my nerves, and I bared my teeth, wishing I could grab a musket and annihilate them all, but it was just an illusion.

There were more man-eating ants all around, and I screamed in my heart, and waved my torch to burn the swarm, but they were so small that I couldn't tell how many man-eating ants were wrapped around me.

Baocai screamed even more poignantly, he lowered his body in pain, I gritted my teeth, grabbed him, ran forward in a hurry, and said, "Hold on...... You...... If you're going to lie on your side like a caterpillar, you're going to have to be transported back to the haystack and used as food!"

Bao Cai ran out of breath and said, "They have been hungry for an unknown amount of time in this place where birds don't, and now they ...... Now I see so many of our living ...... Living creatures will surely hunt us, and we are destined to not escape their clutches. As he spoke, he glanced back, his feet softened, and if I hadn't held him in time, he would probably have fallen to his knees. He turned around and said with a crying voice, "Mom...... , this ...... Of these tens of thousands, I have never seen such a large battle of ant legions. Finished...... Will I, Liu Baocai, turn into a pile of white bones gnawed off by insects?

I saw that he was so frightened that he almost hung his hands to death, endured the pain in his body, dragged him forward, and said, "Don't talk nonsense!

I was out of breath when I ran, and the two of us faltered, observing the situation behind me as we ran, and only to see that the ants were like a tidal wave bursting the embankment, almost covering the sand layer I saw. I looked at Bao Cai, and I felt unspeakable despair, as long as a small team of them caught up with us and dragged us down, we would definitely be doomed.

Baocai looked at this scene, suddenly thought of something, grabbed my wrist, and said, "Miao...... Miaojia anthelmintic drug ...... The barbarian girl made it herself...... Give it a try!"

After being reminded by the treasure, I remembered that I still had a secret weapon on my body. This secret weapon is wrapped in leaves, and it looks like a glass ball, and I don't know how Blue Magpie Creek can make them so round. I took it and threw it at the approaching colony, and the waves dispersed with the anthelmintic medicine. We have a safe foothold, like the circle drawn by Sun Wukong to Tang Seng. Bao Cai and I were overjoyed when we saw the effect, and immediately threw a few more around us.

At this time, the army of man-eating ants has appeared in front of us, and in the face of such a spectacular insect flow, I am extremely nervous, and I forcibly swallow a mouthful of saliva, and I don't know if those few insect repellent herbs can withstand such a large number of man-eating ants. This is a desperate end, not a solution, but fortunately, after feeling the smell of medicine, the man-eating ants took a detour, but watching them crawl densely on the yellow sand, black and pressed, my scalp was numb, and my hands and feet were weak......

At this moment, I suddenly heard a disturbance behind me, and the camel of the Kushi was covered with a dense layer of black-red man-eating ants, which wriggled and gnawed on it, and the picture was terrible......

If it weren't for the insect repellent medicine given to us by Lanquexi, what happened to the camel would be our tragic end now. This is definitely a sensory impact, looking at the shocking scene, my back is sweating coldly, my heart is very tight, I really can't stand it, I want to use medicine to save the camel, Baocai grabbed me and said: "Son, half of the skin has been eaten up, you have to save it, this camel basically won't live long, it's better to save some resources!"

As he spoke, the Kushi's camel fell to its knees in pain and buried its head in the yellow sand, and Baocai sighed and said, "Poor thing, it knows that it is about to die, so it surrenders...... Alas...... While this man-eating ant is all gathered on it, let's go quickly, I experimented on the Blue Girl's herbs last time, and it won't last long!"

I nodded, and although I couldn't bear it, I still held the torch and ran towards the little Taoist. Along the way, the soft sand stumbled, for fear of falling, facing the ground, was taken advantage of by man-eating ants.

Wang Bajian also crawled a few ants on his face, he patted in panic, blood flowed out of his face, and it was also shocking to watch. The man-eating ant was very ferocious, and bit a big dimple out of his face, and when he saw us coming, he asked us with a sad face: "Son, Brother Liu, am I disfigured?"

I comforted him and said, "Xiaokou, it won't be long before it will be fine, so let's withdraw first." ”

We retreated, the man-eating ants approached step by step, I put my hand into the cloth bag around my waist, ready to dig out the herbs, but my heart was "popping", it turned out that the herbs were lost by me, I was shocked, thinking that this is over, in the face of the man-eating ants surging towards us, Rao is a little Taoist master is bold, but also helpless.

He shouted, "Run to the heights!" and as he spoke, he threw the torch in the ant colony, and everyone took advantage of the opportunity to run for their lives. The Old Ancestor and the Treasurer circled the side path and converged on us, and behind them, the haystack was suddenly lifted up like a beer lid that had been pried open. How many ants do you have to be able to lift the grass that has taken root in the desert? I was horrified.

At the lower end of the Gobi Desert, the dense sound of rustling is like the sound of the wind blowing leaves, grabbing people's hearts. We fled the Gobi under the cold moon, climbing higher and higher, shoveling a lot of sand with our heels, so that the ants that were chasing closely behind us were covered by the sand waves, but there were also those who broke out of the quicksand and climbed on top of us. I panicked and flapped, and the old ancestor and the treasurer rushed over, grabbed us and said, "Run!"

Listening to their eager tone, I realized that something was wrong, and when I looked to the side, the ant colony chasing the ancestor had crawled from the side, and on my left side, there was also a large wave of ants, and I scolded angrily: "Nima! Sure enough, he has an IQ! Outflanking us in three ways, this is not going to swallow us up!"

Just as we got up to leave, the little Taoist priest stood motionless on the top of the sand dunes, looked at the Gobi, and muttered, "It turns out that the existence of these ants is not accidental......" (To be continued. )