8 Stories from the Notebook (4)
The big cow walked towards me with a black shiny thing in his hand, and my first reaction was that the big cow was carrying a steel pipe, which was about a meter long, as thick as a baby's arm, and the whole body was jet black.
Take it and hold it in your hand, this thing is cold and smooth to the touch, and it wraps around the thread one by one.
"What is this thing for?" Big Bull Road.
"First of all, you can't use this, it's too big," I said with a smile.
"Damn, you're really nasty, you have the demeanor of my generation of hooligans," Da Niu sat next to me and said with a smile.
Xiao Yue is not small after all, and after listening to the conversation between me and Da Niu, she looked disdainful.
"Two stinky rascals" got up and left.
"Where did you find it?" I asked.
"Not far behind me, there was a cut of sand buried in it," Da Niu said.
"Big Niu, you said that when you went to collect firewood with the monkey yesterday, you saw hundreds of iron skewers stuck in the sand not far from us, right?" I asked.
"I was still there yesterday, I didn't find it today, I should have been buried in the sand."
"Big Niu, tie your trouser legs, wear gloves, take a shovel and dig as deep as you can, and notify me if you find it, and call the map to go along," I said.
I wanted to go with them, but I found that my body was very weak, and after saying a few words, I felt a little labored, and I guessed that it was a normal reaction after poisoning.
Da Niu and Map left with shovels, and I called Xiao Yue back to my side.
I handed the things in my hand to Xiao Yue and said to her, "Xiao Yue, take a look, what did you find?" â
Xiao Yue took it in her hand, checked it, and knocked it again.
"Ah Yi, I don't feel the weight right, it feels like metal, but it's too light, can it be hollow inside?"
Then he looked closely under the searchlight for a while.
"Ah Yi, this thing doesn't look like it's artificially cast, it has no traces after polishing, look at this pointed end again, what does this ring pattern look like?" Xiao Yue asked rhetorically.
"Hey, hey, like what," I said with a grin.
"I hate it, you seem to be a big hooligan, I won't say anything about it again",
"Don't make trouble, don't make trouble, you say".
"Like an earthworm, a big earthworm, this pointed part is like an earthworm's mouth," Xiao Yue said.
When she said that, I found it to be quite similar.
"Look at this again, they are the same shape, but the size is different" Xiao Yue handed me the iron skewer that the monkey used to string sand pythons yesterday.
"What the monkey picked up, wiped it clean and that's it?" I asked.
"Right".
I took the two things in my hand and carefully compared, "Indeed, one big and one small, one long and one short, but the model is different, even the position of the ring thread is the same" I said.
He took out his device from his bosom and looked at the temperature in the desert, although it was close to evening, the surface temperature was still 31 degrees Celsius.
"It's so hot in the desert, you see it's still cold to the touch, and it's not scientific for metal," I said.
Xiao Yue nodded in agreement.
Yesterday when the sand python meat was roasted, it was a monkey roasting, he said that this thing is like an iron skewer, I didn't think about it so much, I thought it was a coincidence, now I think about it, I thought about it a little bit at the time, this place is windy and sandy, this thing should be buried in the soil, one by one on the surface of the sand, itself is not normal.
"Xiaoyue, I still have this thing in my tent, you can burn it with a fire."
Soon after, Xiaoyue returned, "You smell it."
Holding it in my hand, the thermal conductivity is not strong, and I put it in front of my nose and smelled it, and there was a faint fishy smell.
"Creatures?" I looked up and asked Xiaoyue.
"I study the human body, not living things, and I don't know," Xiao Yue said.
"Jiang Yi, Xiaoyue, come here," came the shout of the map over the radio.
Xiao Yue helped me to run over, the sand was very soft, and the big bull moved quickly, and at this time a half-man high sand pit had been dug out.
The big bull stood in the sand pit, and at his feet was a huge black cylinder, which was the size of an oil drum and was laid flat in the sand pit.
I looked at the cylinder in the bunker, then at what I was holding, and was shocked to confirm my suspicions.
"Don't dig any deeper, big bull, dig on both sides and see what else is left at both ends of this cylinder," I said.
I held the spotlight above my head in my hand and stared at the situation below the bull.
With the sound of "bell", the shovel in the hand of the big bull made a crisp sound, which was made by metal encountering a hard object.
"Ah Yi, I dug up the bones of the animal, the skeleton can't recognize what the animal is, I'll dig down and dig to see."
"Don't," I shouted.
As soon as the two words were spoken, the huge cylinder under the feet of the big bull moved, and the big bull stumbled and fell down, lying on top of the black cylinder.
"Big bull, come out quickly".
Da Niu reacted very quickly, got up, and the map and I reached out and pulled Da He out.
"Run, run, go back to camp," I shouted to the crowd.
The sense of cooperation for many years is vividly reflected at this moment, and no one thinks about what they are running, without a trace of hesitation, and rushes towards the camp.
There was a loud bang behind him, followed by a loud buzzing sound, and for a moment, I felt a sharp pain, and the sky swirled, and then my chest tightened, and a mouthful of blood spat out.
Da Niu and the map ran in front, and Xiao Yue and I ran side by side, seeing that she was about to fall, we slowed down and turned around, and reached out to help her.
"Xiaoyue, run, don't look back".
The sand dozens of meters long behind him instantly collapsed into a deep pit, and under the deep pit was the black column, which moved at the moment.
Rolling, struggling, and writhing, the sight was like a huge black snake bound by a rope, stirring the yellow sand all over the sky.
The sand was still collapsing, and it was impossible to see how long the black column was, and the whole earth was shaking, humming, roaring, and the smell of decay quickly filled the air.
"Run, run, don't look back."
I shouted at the crowd, and finally when we ran about a hundred meters, there was a sound of metal breaking.
With a "bang", I saw a huge creature soaring into the air in the distance. The massive inertia caused it to stand still in the air for about two seconds before falling heavily. I can't think of much strength to make this giant creature leap into the air.
At this time, I finally saw the original appearance of this black creature, at least thirty meters long, thicker than an oil drum, like a snake, but certainly not a snake.
The creature resembled a giant black earthworm, with the front half of its body held high. The body is covered with huge annular threads, as if embedded in the body by metal rings, from head to tail, under the illumination of the searchlight, emitting a dazzling white light.
Every time you squirm your body, you can hear the sizzle of metal rubbing against metal.
The tail of the creature was separated, like scissors, and every time it collided and rubbed, it would make a screeching sound, and the internal organs of the creature would be displaced.
The creature's face was not grinning, but as if a huge round hole had been carved out of a hard object, and the moment the round hole closed one by one, it first spit out yellow sand and rolled, and then the creature swollen its abdomen one by one įŧŠī¸, and the position of its neck squirmed rapidly.
There was a mass of things from the bottom up, a large sunken mouth, spitting out slender things, the scene was like a rain of arrows pouring down, without a target, indiscriminately spraying into the air, the force of this jet was extremely great, the sound of breaking the air was heard, and a few even fell at our feet.
I picked one up, and in my hand, it was one of those black skewers, and the skewer-like creatures turned from hard to soft, like slender earthworms. It's a bite in my palm, it doesn't hurt, but it's a little numb.
When he let go, the black creature fell to the sand and quickly burrowed into the sand.
"Jiang Yi, you don't want to die, you're still watching there."
Xiao Yue stood at a distance from me and shouted at me.
Although the creature in the distance was huge, it could move quite slowly, not like the snake's winding crawling style, but more like the earthworm's telescopic traction that relies on the front muscles to drive the back muscles to move.
"It can't run fast, and the target shouldn't be us," I replied.
"Hurry up and run," Xiao Yue said, dragging me and running towards the camp.
Over the years, I have encountered many strange things and seen many strange creatures, which I have seen for the first time in my life.
It shouldn't have existed in this vast desert, or in this era, I suspect that this big creature is a prehistoric creature, and I don't know how to escape the catastrophe.
Looking back on the way to run, the big guy had no intention of chasing us at all, and when he had vomited the last bite of the thin creature under his feet, he fell headlong into the collapsed sand pit.
The heaven and earth were restored to peace, and these tens of thousands of thin creatures also burrowed into the sand the moment they touched the sand, and there was no trace.
The crowd ran back to the camp, and the sound waves emitted by the creature hurt us a lot, not the noise stimulus. It felt like it was because of the concussions caused by the huge frequency of the sound waves, which made my chest choke.
The map and the big bull are running fast in front, but the eardrum is a little damaged, and the sound is not particularly clear.
Xiao Yue and I were so close to this creature that my body was hurt a lot, I was shocked and spat blood, and when Xiao Yue returned to the camp, she fell directly to the ground and fainted.
The three of them hurriedly rescued Xiao Yue, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, artificial respiration, and finally Xiao Yue spit out a mouthful of blood, and her mental state was much better.
Hurriedly tidy up the things in the camp, and dare not have the slightest slackness. The huge creatures, the tiny ones that looked like sticks, didn't know if they would still show up, and I couldn't put the team in such uncertain danger, so I decided to go back
A brief message was sent to the monkey, telling him that the mission to rescue Bunbin had failed and that the four of us were already on our way back.
As for why he left, I didn't say a word, I didn't say too much, and I don't know what to say.
The equipment and materials he carried were enough for him to return to the places frequented by humans without danger.
I was a little unwilling to end the mission of rescuing Wenbin early. Brother, I can't bear to leave him in the desert, but the reality is there.
There were five of us when we came, but now one is missing, and the remaining four are in danger of an uncertain situation.
In case there is more than one creature, if a few more pop up in the process of rescuing Moonbin, I'm not sure if there will be any good luck this time.
Then there were four of us who were injured to varying degrees, and when we checked the camp, we found that the big cow and the map each had a thin creature stuck in their backs, although they did not feel anything unusual after pulling it off.
I was also bitten by the creature, the serum we carried was limited, and it didn't necessarily work, and in the case of uncertainty about their safety, since I was the leader of the group, I had to take them back.
Saving one person whose life or death is unknown and choosing to save four living people, I chose the latter. After a night's trek, at noon on the third day, when we were about to run out of water and food, we finally returned to the starting point.
Sitting in the car, I felt like I had walked through the ghost gate. The map is fine, Da Niu is fine, Xiao Yue is fine, and as for Monkey and Wenbin, I can only pray that they are okay too.
Looking back now, I am still a little afraid, if the big cow had dug a few more shovels at that time, we would have really fallen into the sand pit, and we would have had no time to run, and we would have become the nourishment of that huge creature.
Later, I discussed the relationship between the big creatures and the small creatures with the map, and came to the conclusion that the small creatures are responsible for finding the prey, killing the prey in some way, and then bringing back nutrients to the mother, that is, to supply the big creatures, and the mother body is a kind of refuge and reproduction for them.
Back in Kashgar, the four of us did a detailed examination, except for Xiao Yue, who was a little seriously injured, the other three were fine, and Xiao Yue was in the hospital for half a month.
I, Da Niu, Xiao Yue, got on the plane back to Harbin City.
I asked Xiao Yue how the group of scorpions appeared at that time, and Xiao Yue just told me lightly that the fart collapsed, of course, after returning from the Taklamakan Desert, I was with Xiao Yue.
At the end of the notebook, with a group photo of four people, I recognized Jiang Yi's mouth about Xiaoyue, Da Niu, and the map.
Just on the last line of the note, Jiang Yi wrote a few words with a pen, "Xiaoyue is crazy", followed by a few big exclamation points.
"Fatty, let's go, let's eat"