Chapter 20 Man-eating ants
On the second day, the evil poison on Baocai's body had been completely expelled, and after Wang Bajian counted the dry food and water, he told us the bad news -- we were about to run out of food and water! At this time, we were still a third of the way from Yanze. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The day of the diet officially began, we marched all the way west, crossing one sand dune after another, the evaporating sweat on our bodies needed to be replenished by water, otherwise we would dry up and die, and become human dry, but now the sky was yellow, and where there was a shadow of water, not even a camel thorn could be seen.
When the wind rises, Baocai will be nervous, and he is afraid that the sand ghost will appear again, so he is worried all the way. To be honest, I'm also worried that these monsters are disappearing so quickly that no one knows when they'll come back. In short, there are too many ways to die waiting for us in this yellow sand, and I even wondered if we would end up killing each other like the people of Yeshanmen, and then being targeted by evil sand ghosts. But looking at the back of my ancestor walking in the sand, I felt that my thoughts were too evil. Like the little Taoist priest basically rarely eats meat, let alone human flesh, although Wang Bajian and Baocai are philistines on the surface, but in fact, these two people are full of blood in their bones, and they are very righteous, and if I want to kill them, I would rather kill myself.
Because Ji Xiang died, I had no mount, and my ancestor and I took turns to change seats. When I reached a shady sand dune, I almost fell off the camel, looking at the swirling desert scene, at this moment, I was like a piece of sand, lying silently, not even thinking of moving my fingers, just wanting to sleep in the dark.
The old ancestor was also exhausted, and after I rested for a while, I was so thirsty that I crawled to the feet of the camel like a soft worm, reached into the cage, and when I felt out the skin, I also touched the purse that Lanquexi gave me. Thinking of what she said to me before leaving, my heart tugged, and I was glad that I didn't have a hot brain at the time, so I took her with me, otherwise the hardships along the way, where could the girl's family endure it.
I put the purse back in the cage, and at this time, my hand touched a cold thing, which was the small jade coffin where the silk book was originally placed. I picked up the skin bag and was about to drink water, when I suddenly thought of something, looked at the ancestor who was lying on the yellow sand, and said, "Avoid the dust bead!" Suddenly, my brain seemed to be washed by the spring rain, and I suddenly understood the reason for the disappearance of the sand ghost.
The old ancestor looked up at me, and he stood up and walked over to me. At this time, You Chi and the treasurer took the little Taoist priest and treasure to find groundwater, and we can speak without reservation.
The old ancestor took out the dust bead from the jade coffin and placed it in the dust, and the sand quickly receded...... He glanced at me and said, "Before, our brains were so muddy that we forgot that we still had this divine bead on our bodies, so we should remember it as soon as possible, so that we can suffer a lot less." ā
Wang Bajian rubbed his eyes and said, "What kind of treasure is this? Why is it so powerful! It can be worth a lot of money, right?"
The old ancestor looked at his eyes that were about to fall, and said, "Don't use your brains, this treasure is going to be taken with you, and if someone finds it, it will cause you to die!"
Wang Bajian swallowed his saliva, and said duplicitously: "Where do I dare to look at the things that seal the scoop handle, haven't I seen a baby, so ......" said, blinking his bright eyes, eager to carry the dust beads in his arms.
The old ancestor put the divine bead back into the small jade coffin and said: "Wealth must not be exposed, Xiaoliuzi, Bajian, this bead exists, you can't let others know, you know, I'm afraid it will cause conspiracy." ā
Hearing the old ancestor explain to us so solemnly, Wang Bajian and I looked at each other, and naturally knew who the other person he was talking about, but the master of the library was in the camel business, could he know the dust beads? I was puzzled, but seeing that the old ancestor and the little Taoist priest were talking to us to the point, I didn't continue to ask.
"There is a divine pearl in ancient times, which can shelter from wind and dust", since it came out of the tomb of Princess Chu, this bead has no evil light flowing, and it has restored its own characteristics. At that time, I was worried that the treasure would not be safe on me, so I gave it to the old ancestor, who was afraid that it would be placed on his body in a panic, and it was easy to be discovered by some sharp-eyed tomb robbers from the outline, so he kept hiding it in the cage. I thought that this dust bead could fix the evil nature in the sand, so when the army of sand ghosts and camels appeared at the same time, its own role saved us.
I touched the head of the little overlord (the camel of the old ancestor), although it was a bead that saved us, but if the camels had not appeared, we would not have been able to avoid the danger in time. Also, I have to thank Lan Quexi for giving me the dust beads, otherwise our group would have died in the sea of sand.
I took a sip of water, but a pitiful sip could not satisfy my dry throat at all, and after tasting a little moisture, I wanted to pour all the water into my mouth, and the dryness of my body had made me itch all over my body, and I forcibly endured my greed and put the skin back.
I didn't have the courage to stand on the top of the dunes and look at the endless stretches of yellow sand, the same view, the same despair. Because of sandstorms, the sand will flow from time to time, and over time, it will change. According to You Chi, every time he goes into the desert, he encounters different conditions, and sometimes it is difficult for him to tell where the road he took a year ago is.
I wanted to close my eyes and recuperate, but my brain would always think of thirst, and at this moment my throat was so hot and painful that it was hard to swallow my saliva, it was like a weathered wire, and it would not be long before it cracked.
After a long time, Yuchi and the others returned, and I hurriedly stood up and waited for the good news to come out of their mouths. You Chi, a local, said that he found a small Gobi where we could find groundwater under the grass and we could go there to rest at night.
Said to be the Gobi Desert, in fact, the top is also covered with a layer of soft sand, the sand here is relatively wetter than we have walked all the way, Baocai with soil method, under the rhizome of the grass to pick up a relatively clean strip of cloth, the other end of the cloth strip is connected to the skin, he said no accident, the next day there should be water in the skin, if not, when the time comes to dig directly.
Although this Gobi is extremely desolate, but after seeing the world full of yellow sand, and then looking at the green places, it is simply a paradise. And there are sparse, weathered old tree trunks, You Chi said, this used to be an ancient river channel, because these tree trunks are on the edge of the river, and when I heard this, I said, "No wonder the sand here is not so dry as far as other places are concerned." ā
When night comes, the stars in the sky hang above the curtain, so near, so bright...... We made a fire out of those old tree trunks, and our recent life has been long and tormenting......
I put my hands on my head, and the treasure leaned close to me, and whispered: "Son, accompany me to a wild pit......"
As soon as I heard this, I gave him a blank look, turned sideways, and said hoarsely: "Don't go, you have to pull me up in the wild pit!"
Bao Cai said: "There is no one in this place, it is silent, I am afraid that there will be something dangerous in the middle of the pit, and it will be too late to call for help when the time comes, and the two of them will always have a response." ā
I complained: "Lazy people have a lot of and urine, you said we haven't eaten anything recently, how can you still have a pit to go on?"
Baocai muttered and said, "I don't have good intestinal digestion, so people are thin." As he spoke, he ran in front of me again, with a monkey face tangled in one place, and said to me: "Actually, I originally wanted to find your ancestor and the half-immortal to accompany me, but you said that the status of your ancestor, and the indifferent face of the half-immortal, I am afraid that they will not be able to get out......" He raised his eyes to see my reaction, and saw that I was silent, and said: "You said that we have been treating each other with all sincerity these days, and we are closer than brothers...... You're ......"
I listened to his softness, and knew that if I didn't accompany him, he would talk in my ear endlessly, so I waved my hand and said, "Come on, don't say it, I'll let you go and let off steam, you can control yourself!
"Five minutes is five minutes!Son, you are much more interesting than the cold-blooded man of Fat Chen!" As he spoke, the monkey hurriedly lifted his pants and ran for a while, and when he saw the haystack, he went straight into it, and as soon as he squatted down, there was the sound of breathing, and the strange smell of hot baking.
I pinched my nose, he was comfortable, but I was dizzy from the smoke, so I had to move a few steps forward, lean against a low earthen wall, stick a torch in the groove of the earthen wall, and complain, "What have you always eaten, it smells so strong!"
Baocai said: "How can there be fragrant in this world, you have to go on it, and I have a taste!"
I pinched my nose tightly, and the birds in the sky flew by, with a terrible wail, which made people hairy. I put my hands around my arms and kept rubbing them, like a tricycle driver waiting for customers at the bus stop in the middle of winter, shivering.
Looking around at this time, there was a creepy cracking sound coming from the field, which was sometimes near and sometimes far away, especially in the silence.
At this time, in order to accompany Baocai to the wild pit, I am fifty meters away from the ancestors, if I encounter a hungry beast in the desert, it is really too late to call for help, this thought, the chill seeped into the skin, I urged Baocai, he exerted his strength, and said hard: "Don't ...... Don't rush...... Isn't it water to drink less......"
I said: "You have been squatting in this pit for more than ten minutes, you said that you want to give you a mobile phone, you have to squat for an hour, no matter, I can go first!"
Just as I was pretending to leave, he suddenly screamed, "Ouch!", and the whole person jumped up, I turned to look at him and said, "What's the matter?
His eyebrows were furrowed, his expression was distorted, and he said in a panic, "My ass!
I wanted to make fun of him for deserving it, but when I saw him running out, his face was full of pain, my heart tightened, and I thought to myself: "There are not many animals and plants in the desert, if you want to say things that can bite people, it can't be scorpions and poisonous snakes, this Liu Baocai can't be stung by scorpions, right?"
I took the torch and looked closer, and the thing it had killed was half the size of a fingernail, and on its head, which had not been completely killed, had a hard palate like a scimitar -- it was a giant ant!
Just as I looked closely, the ant's upper jaw suddenly struggled to push up, it quickly bit the palm of Baocai's hand, Baocai was in pain, screamed, and immediately bounced away with his other hand, scolding: "What a demon! Damn! I can see it clearly this time!" He hurriedly tightened his pants and said, "Son, master...... Finished...... We're in a place we shouldn't be in......"
I was panicked by him, but I comforted myself: "But an ant, why did he enter a place where he shouldn't be?"
Bao Cai looked up at me, frightened, like chaff, and said, "It is indeed ants, but these are invincible man-eating ants! They are herd prevores, and if they pass by in a herd, the big bison will be turned into ......bones in an instant" (to be continued). )