Chen Tingyao looked at me with a wry smile: "Yes, I and Dr. Zhao Qingshan had the same thoughts as you at that time, just when we were amazed, in that mirage, not far in front of the Arab girl, a zombie zongzi came out of the sand, and then we saw these girls who were washing clothes running for their lives...... Then the mirage was gone. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

I listened, sighed, and said, "I guess I was attacked by zongzi." "Now in such a troubled world, whether the beauty is beautiful or not, it is the same for zongzi. Chen Tingyao continued: "At that time, Dr. Zhao and I were both stunned, very anxious, and eager to help those girls. I sighed, "How can you help?" What you see is nothing more than an illusion of the refraction of light. ”

Chen Tingyao nodded: "That's what I said, but Dr. Zhao said that even if it's an illusion, it doesn't appear out of thin air, since it's the principle of light refraction, then it's easy to do, we just need to look in the opposite direction, can't we find those girls?" ”

I couldn't help but shake my head: "Is the phantom you see a positive shadow or a reflection?" Chen Tingyao said: "It's Zhengying, what's wrong?" I had no choice but to sigh: "Generally speaking, a refracted phantom is inverted, and since the phantom you see is a positive shadow, then it has been refracted by light and shadow at least twice...... This, this has no sense of direction at all. ”

When Chen Tingyao heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "If only you were there at the time, we didn't know the mystery, so we searched for the opposite direction in which the phantom appeared." Dr. Zhao Qingshan said that saving people is the most important, the Sphinx has been standing on the banks of the Nile River for thousands of years, and it can't be lost in archaeology after a while, and those girls can't be saved if they are bitten to death by zongzi. ”

I was speechless when I listened, Dr. Zhao Qingshan's generation has a much stronger human touch than those of us who are descendants. I heard Chen Tingyao crying and saying with a sad face: "At that time, I was also a little confused, and I was always thinking about the shadow of that Arab girl, and the more I thought about it, the more anxious I became, so I drove into the desert with Dr. Zhao. We drove until dark, passing through several villages, but we could not see anything in the virtual image. So we refilled the gasoline in a small village, and that night we drove by the big dumplings and continued to search. But on this road, there is not half a figure to be seen, there are no living people, zombies, dead people, and every oasis village is empty. ”

I frowned when I heard it, the same situation as the dead city, we have seen it in Mumbai, India, but the zongzi over there are just pretending to be dead in order to confuse the sea snake, after all, they are still lying on the street honestly, how can this place in Egypt be so weird, and the large villages are empty?

Chen Tingyao took a deep breath: "If one or two villages were like that, it would be fine, but after walking along the road for two days and two nights, all the small oasis villages we encountered were like this, all empty and empty. Later, we were also discouraged and were about to rush back, but the car broke down again. ”

I snorted, "Nonsense, you think desert marching is so fun?" Running thousands of miles day and night, it's strange that the car doesn't break down. Chen Tingyao also sighed and said, "No way, Dr. Zhao and I can only find a few camels in a small oasis village and ride the camels back." During the day we rested, and at night we rode our camels...... I thought I would be able to get back in a few days, but who knew that after seven or eight days of walking, I couldn't come back, and then I discussed it with Dr. Zhao and found out that we might be lost. ”

I listened, rolled my eyes angrily, and listened to him continue: "We are not familiar with the environment in the desert, and we are afraid of going around in circles in the desert endlessly, so we simply go all the way east, the Nile runs through Egypt, and as long as we go all the way east, we can always find the Nile Valley." We can't remember how many days we walked, but just yesterday evening, Dr. Zhao and I woke up to find that the big dumplings were gone. ”

Now I was surprised: "What did you say? The big dumplings are missing? Chen Tingyao cried and nodded: "Yes, everything is there, only the big zongzi is missing." We were in a hurry, so we immediately split up to search for the neighborhood, but it didn't take long for a team of horses with torches to appear on Dr. Zhao's side. At that time, I was far away, and when I saw someone, I hurriedly ran over there, but not long after I ran, I heard Dr. Zhao shouting: 'Let go of me, you bandits...... I was anxious when I heard this, and ran to him desperately, so I heard Dr. Zhao shouting over there: 'I am a person from Fortune, you can't arrest me, there are people from the headquarters, and I can't spare you.' Chen Tingyao said this, snot and tears were pouring out: "I don't dare to rush over again, Dr. Zhao's words are clearly telling me not to act rashly, if you want to rescue him, you must go back to the headquarters to find rescuers." The men of the horse team swept away our luggage and camels. Fortunately, one of the camels was frightened and ran away in the dark. I quickly found the camel and followed them from a distance, and soon reached the Nile Valley, where Dr. Zhao and I were about to rush out of the desert. ”

"And then?" I asked, "Where did they take Dr. Zhao?" Chen Tingyao shook his head and said, "When I arrived on the banks of the Nile, it was dark, and the people in the horse team quickly discovered me and sent three or four knights to arrest me. I had no choice but to flee on my camel. Their horses were swift and soon overtook me, and as I was about to be caught, suddenly a manticore came out of the sand, and we didn't even have time to blink an eye, and all our mounts, including my camels, were poisoned by the manticore......"

I hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" Manticore? What is a Manticore? Chen Tingyao smiled bitterly: "I don't know what the scorpion lion is, it was shouted by those Arabs chasing me, I only saw that the scorpion lion had earthy yellow skin, about the same size as a normal lion, with fleshy wings, and a long scorpion tail on the back buttocks." Its tail is very poisonous, and both horses and living people are concentrated by its tail spines and immediately die of poison. ”

Yes...... Manticore! As I remember, the Manticore was originally the patron saint of the Underworld, roughly equivalent to a unicorn of the Humanoids, or a Dark Knight of the Undead...... Anyway, I was so beautiful that I thought that such a strange thing would appear in the desert, so I hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

Chen Tingyao said: "Later, we people couldn't take care of so much anymore, and those robbers didn't arrest me anymore, so everyone fled separately, and finally I was lucky and escaped." I estimate that the people who arrested Dr. Zhao must have lived near Cairo, and they were so numerous that it was useless for me to go alone, so I thought about going back to the headquarters for help, which is not ...... I went all the way to the airport. ”

I listened, looked at the sky, and it was still two hours before it was dark, so I immediately decided: "Shoko, take someone to find a truck; Little sword, take out the map. Ou Xiang turned around and ran, and Jian Tianhan quickly took out a local map.

I pushed the map in front of Chen Tingyao: "Tell me, where was the last time you saw Dr. Zhao Qingshan?" Chen Tingyao roughly pointed on the map with his hand. I calculated the distance and said, "Saving people is like fighting fire, and I'll take someone to survey the environment over there in a while, find a way to find the nest of the robbers, and then send a telegram to you." You stay, lead the remaining brothers to continue to hold on, and pick up Commander Yang and Xin Hongbin to arrive safely. ”

Chen Tingyao nodded and said, "Lao Hua, you have to be very careful, this place is too ****** evil sect. I gave a sigh of gratitude, and everyone worked together to help Chen Tingyao back. After handing over the defense work, Ou Xiang also found the truck, and I left with Ou Xiang, Jian Tianhan, Wu Shuyuan, Cao Yijing, Lu Hu, Yadato, Zhao Yunying and others to climb into the big truck and drive towards the outside of the airport at a gallop.

Chen Tingyao is right, this place is indeed evil, and it is not far from going out, and we all feel that something is wrong. First of all, it is too clean here, clean is very abnormal, the villages and towns on both sides of the road are lying silently on the ground, but there is no human figure in sight. The roads and streets are clean, and there is no garbage and blood everywhere as expected. Everywhere you go, it feels as if life has suddenly disappeared from this land, and there is no trace of abruptness.

I was in a hurry, the telegraph was ticking, Jian Tianhan translated the message, handed it to me, I picked it up and looked at it, it said that Uncle Sam in the United States had sent a distress telegram again, the army of the dungeon had crossed the border between the United States and Mexico, Uncle Sam led the main force of the survivor resistance group to Texas, the southernmost part of the United States, and fought with the vanguard of the dungeon in the small town of La Modo, this time they encountered a highly mobile gargoyle squad, The Terrans lost more than thirty people, but they drove the other side back.

This "good news" worries me very much, gargoyles are a kind of bat-people with fleshy wings on their backs, they are thin, and the weapons they use are only short throwing guns, such a team cannot be a vanguard at all, it looks like it should be a reconnaissance unit. Uncle Sam led the main force and defeated the reconnaissance troops, not only is there nothing to celebrate, but he should be even more worried. If you expose your strength too early, it is easy for your opponent to seize the opportunity to design a total annihilation.

But Uncle Sam didn't seem to be worried about this, he was smug over there, saying that there was nothing to be afraid of in the dungeon, and that we humans would be able to beat them back to the earth again. He told Brother Jiu in the telegram that the United States had mobilized on all fronts, and in addition to the main force of the Southern Army, the northern states had also gathered the survivors one after another, and the results of rough statistics showed that there should be more than 40,000 survivors on the American side, and the number on the Canadian side had not yet been counted, but it was believed that there would not be less than 5,000 in the end. Personnel from all over the country are preparing on all fronts to fight the army of the dungeon. Uncle Sam also said that the time has come for the survival of all mankind and that all forces must be united, and they have sent agents to Cuba, an island nation in the Caribbean, to seek cooperation. And the European Union is back in operation, and although there are now only four countries, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, they have also assembled an armed force of thousands of people, led by the German Heider.

I read the telegram and was noncommittal, the Americans' ability to move is still remarkable, and the Europeans, although a little slower, are still quite effective. The reaction of the old imperialist country, Britain, has been unsatisfactory, but this may also be due to the lack of information about the island countries, and we do not know their situation for the time being. The same is true for the entire African continent, where there is no news, and although individual people can be reached by radio, contact is almost quickly severed, and no large-scale military organization appears.

Comparatively speaking, the most disappointing thing is Russia, the ice and snow are bitterly cold, and the rice dumplings in the bitter cold land of the extreme north are extremely fierce, and the largest survivor base in Russia is currently less than 200 people, and there are not as many people as the branch base of the branch of the branch of Fuldo.

I closed my eyes and made a rough estimate of the Americans' ability to resist, and felt that there was no problem for them to resist for two or three years, because the United States has looted the world's wealth in the past 100 years, and its comprehensive national strength is unmatched, and its military strength accounts for more than half of the world's total. In addition, the popularity of helicopters and small civil aircraft on their side is very high, and it is very easy to gather survivors quickly.

I secretly calculated that even if we send troops to the American continent now, it will only increase our strength by one or two times, and it is difficult to say whether this armed force can defeat the army of the dungeon. Even if we win, we will fight all our belongings and die countless people. At that time, our Chinese nation is likely to collapse, and if we fail to defeat the underground city, our end will be complete destruction. In the unlikely event that we perish, who will stop the remnants of the dungeons from sweeping across Asia, Europe and Africa?

In such a situation, if you kill me, I will not agree to send troops to save the Americans. I think the most important thing for us to do now is to give up the American continent and exchange space for time, as long as the Americans can hold out for two or three years...... No, it won't take two or three years, even if they can only hold out for a year, then our side can calmly integrate the manpower and material resources of the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, and then the army of the bloody dungeon will have a considerable degree of certainty.

After thinking about this, I just sighed slightly, and Brother Jiu forwarded this message to me, presumably he was also more optimistic about the battle situation. I buried that worry deep in my heart, tore the telegram into pieces, and scattered them out of the speeding truck, letting the notes drift in the wind.

Before dark, we finally arrived at the location that Chen Tingyao had mentioned, a small oasis outside Cairo with a small Arab village inside. There is a spring in the village and several palm trees grow. Unfortunately, we arrived a little late, and the wind and sand smoothed out the traces of the horses' hooves, and we could not discern the direction of the horses' advance. Everyone looked through a few more houses, and there was nothing empty inside, except for the furniture and daily necessities, there was nothing unusual.

Jian Tianhan looked at the sky and said, "Lao Hua, we can't chase anymore, the sun is about to set, and once the zongzi appear, we will be in danger." I nodded and said, "Let's drive the truck into the desert outside the village, this small village is too weird, there are no live and dead zongzi, how can there be such an evil thing?" We can't stay here overnight. ”

So we started the truck and finally drove our truck two or three kilometers outside the village before the sun set. I looked at my watch and said, "In two or three hours, Commander Yang and they should be there." Everyone, hurry up and grab something to eat. ”

The night gradually darkened, Ou Xiang's eyes were sharp, pointed to the distance and said, "Old flower, look, there seems to be a light over there." "We all turned our heads to look, and sure enough, at the end of the endless desert, there was a faint bright spot. The darker the day, the more obvious that bright spot became.

Now everyone is happy, this is a desert area, the power supply situation is different from our country, many places are independent diesel generator power. In this case, the importance of labor comes into play, as the diesel generator will soon stop working after leaving the care. Most of the electricity that can still be used in China is provided by hydropower stations, and even if there are no workers to take care of them, the power generation system will continue to operate under the control of electric energy. As for other forms of power generation, they are basically unreliable. Domestic thermal power stations have long ceased to operate, and although wind power plants are still there, they can only provide auxiliary functions, and in case there is no wind, wind power plants can only rest. As for nuclear power plants, don't think about it, nuclear power plants will automatically shut down without worker maintenance.

Since there are lights in the desert, then it means that there are people over there. We immediately started the car and drove towards the light, and after more than an hour of running in one go, we finally came to a castle.

It was the first time for all of us to see such a magnificent medieval castle in Europe, with walls more than ten meters high, and we could only see a few tall minarets in the castle when we stood on the periphery. Everyone was dumbfounded, and Jian Tianhan muttered, "This...... What kind of place is this? ”

I suddenly remembered something, and I lost my voice and said, "This seems to be Saladin's Castle, which is famous in the Western world." "During the 10th century, during the reign of the Fatimids in Egypt, the country was powerful and extensive, including the Arabian Peninsula and part of Asia Minor, which influenced the eastward expansion of Christianity by the papacy, and even the pilgrimage of Christians to the holy city of Jerusalem was difficult. The Pope convened a synod to encourage Christians to rise up to exterminate the East ****** reclaim the "Holy Land" of Jerusalem. From the following year onwards, the pope launched a total of eight crusading "holy wars" in 200 years. Egypt was occupied by the Crusaders, Saladin was ordered to march into Egypt, repelled the Crusaders, preserved Cairo, established the Ayyubid Dynasty, appointed himself the first "Sultan", built Saladin's castle and moved the royal palace into it. (To be continued.) )