Chapter 142: Sandworms
What Xiao Mao said was quite serious, but I still don't know what it means. He didn't talk to me anymore, poured half a bowl of white wine, and added a lot of salt to it, so that Lao Wang and I could help and help the people on the ground and pour them into their mouths one by one.
The four of them were obviously unconscious at this point, their teeth were clenched very tightly, Lao Wang used chopsticks to pry, and the chopsticks were broken and he didn't open his mouth, and in the end he really had no choice but to pinch his nose and pour it hard.
It took a long time to pour everyone some salted liquor. As soon as the salt and wine were poured down, the four of them were considered to be fryers, lying on the ground and spitting up, all that came out was the kind of blackened water, and there was an unspeakable fishy smell, disgusting to death.
I guess these four people are about to vomit out all their bitter gall in the end, and they are considered better. We carried them all into the house, and the proprietress was still worried about whether the four of them would die in the house.
"It's okay, it's okay, they're eating bad stomachs." Xiao Mao comforted the proprietress and asked the proprietress to go back and continue sleeping, and he promised to give the proprietress a little more money when he left tomorrow.
The proprietress looked at it and wanted to ask more clearly, but was fooled away by Xiao Mao's persuasion. The proprietress muttered and left, Xiao Mao and I squatted at the door and smoked, he looked around and said, "Be careful." ”
"What the hell are those four people going on?"
"Fortunately, it was found in time, and now there is nothing to do, if it is a little later, it is difficult to say, at least it will not be solved so easily." Xiao Mao thought for a moment and said, "They have eaten sandworms." ”
"Sandworms? What is it? ”
Xiao Mao said that the sandworm is a very small insect with a very tenacious vitality, and if it is in a state of lack of water, they may enter a similar dormant state, and a sandworm is smaller than a grain of millet.
In this state, the sandworms are dry and hard, and they look dead, but as long as the temperature and humidity are right, they can come back to life at any time.
Sand worms have the property of absorbing water, and like a sponge, a sand worm may not be conspicuous, but if there are too many sand worms, they will suck up all the water in a puddle. The Gobi has little rainfall, and in the event of continuous drought, sandworms will even climb under the sand layer at a depth of twenty or thirty meters to draw water.
This insect is not poisonous, but it is similar to the effect of croton and rhubarb. Sand worms have been used for indigestion and constipation for a long time. However, the dosage should be accurately controlled, take a few sandworms, pour a little water, the sandworms will quickly absorb water, and the volume will expand at least ten times. Then sprinkle a little salt on the sandworm that is full of water, and the sandworm will exude the liquid on its own, and take this liquid to have the function of a laxative.
I immediately understood what Xiao Mao meant, those four people must have drunk a lot of sandworms, the sandworms will not only absorb part of the water in their bodies, but after a long time, the four of them will inevitably collapse from diarrhea.
Moreover, I also know why Xiao Mao is a little more careful. Zheng Wei and the four of them are definitely not stupid, it is impossible to drink unclean water, unless they are unconscious, they will drink the water with sandworms.
That is, in this case, it is 100% artificial.
If Xiao Mao and I hadn't discovered these situations today and didn't stop them, then the final result would be obvious, the car was burned, and Zheng Wei and the four of them had to be sent to rescue. The knock-on effect of this is that our team will be disbanded this time, and our movement will be thwarted.
"I'm glad I brought you here this time, otherwise it would have been really troublesome." I thought to myself, no wonder Lu Fangding specially explained, to go to Ta'er Lake to bring Xiao Mao, Xiao Mao's skills are not to say very good, but the experience is indeed very rich, with him, we can take a lot of unjust roads.
"This time the trouble is avoided, but the situation is not optimistic." Xiao Mao glanced around again and said, "I'm afraid that we will be targeted, if we are really targeted, there will definitely be trouble in the future." ”
"What then?"
"The only way is to get rid of each other." Xiao Mao thought for a while and said, "Leave me a car tomorrow, and after I come to break it, you will go first." ”
After this incident, I couldn't sleep anymore, and I talked with Xiao Mao for a long time, and I scrutinized all the unexpected situations that might occur in the middle. After an hour or so, Zheng Wei and the others slowly woke up, and Xiao Mao asked them to get some glucose water to drink.
Zheng Wei and the four people must be confused, I don't know how I got into it, and I can't explain it clearly to them, I can only say that I should be careful in the future.
Zheng Wei didn't speak, he was also an understanding person, and he knew that things would not be so simple, so the conceit in his words disappeared for the time being, and he honestly poured a stream of sugar water.
We set off at five o'clock in the morning, and now on the road, if someone is following behind, we will definitely find out. Xiao Mao drove a car alone, and was responsible for the break, keeping a distance of about one and a half kilometers from us.
We drove straight out for thirty or forty kilometers without stopping, and the sky was already completely bright, and Xiaomao drove up to follow. The speed of the car is so fast, if the person who is following it does not drive, it will definitely not be able to keep up with us.
On the back road, we walked very carefully, lest someone follow us. I walked for another two days, and I was safe. I've secretly observed it more than once, and it's true that no one is following me. I think that if the tracker can still follow in that situation, then the other party must not be a man, but a god.
At noon that day, we stopped for dinner, and now we have entered no man's land, eating camping food. Xiao Mao took out a road map and pointed it to me, the straight-line distance from here to Ta'er Lake is about 60 kilometers, plus the road, it is actually about 100 kilometers.
"Let's split up." Zhang Momo said: "According to what we said, let the four of them be in front, and there will be timely feedback when there is news." ”
Lao Wang ran to tell Zheng Wei and them, Zheng Wei suffered a loss last time, and he has been much more low-key in the past few days. However, the four of them were very professional, and they were very conscientious after receiving the money, and they didn't say a word of nonsense, promising to go to the front when they were on the road again.
Zheng Wei's car and our car are still about one and a half kilometers away, this time Xiao Mao got the walkie-talkie, the signal coverage distance is about two kilometers, as long as the team remains within the effective range of the walkie-talkie, you can keep in touch at any time.
In this way we went separately and walked almost thirty kilometers into the evening.
"There's a little village up ahead." Xiao Mao stretched out his finger and said, "It has been abandoned for many years, and some houses have not collapsed, so you can stay in them for one night." ”
This place is not far from Ta'er Lake, and when there is water in Ta'er Lake, there are some surface water systems around it, and where there is water, there will be people. The small village that Xiao Mao said has been extinct for at least a hundred years, and the last time he came to Ta'er Lake with the team, he had stayed at the old site of the village for one night.
Lao Wang took the walkie-talkie and contacted Zheng Wei and asked them to stop and wait for us at the old site of the village.
Soon, we saw the old ruins of the village, which was very small, and most of the buildings were buried by the sand, leaving only the rammed earth and timber houses still standing tenaciously.
We picked a few dilapidated houses that looked fairly intact, put down our backpacks when we went in, and sat down one by one. I was thinking that if I walked for another day tomorrow, I should go to the edge of Ta'er Lake, and now I should go and talk to Zheng Wei and them, according to Zhang Momo's meaning, Zheng Wei will be responsible for a series of actions in the future, if there is water in Ta'er Lake, then Zheng Wei's people will also have to go into the water.
I wanted to talk to Zheng Wei, but Xiao Mao held me. He said that it is best not to tell the other person about his plan until he arrives at his destination.
I listened to Xiao Mao's advice and sat down again. Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten built a stove with clods of soil not far away, and set up a pot, and they liked to mix all kinds of canned food together and cook it, which was as rotten as borscht. Lao Wang stuck to Zhang Momo tightly and helped over there. But Lao Wang didn't pay attention to hygiene and was driven back by Ning Kitten.
"What are you two talking about?" Lao Wang took out a deck of poker cards from his pocket: "Fight for a while." ”
"If you don't fight, you don't settle your accounts, what's the point of fighting."
"Am I that kind of person? If you don't fight, it's almost time to eat anyway. "Lao Wang sat next to the two of us, took a cigarette from my cigarette case, entered middle age, everyone else was trying to quit smoking, Lao Wang was good, and began to learn to smoke, but he never bought cigarettes, only went with others.
Watching Lao Wang clumsily swallow the smoke with a cigarette in his mouth, I suddenly felt that he was a little pitiful. Because in my mind, from time to time, I will remember the two CDs I have watched, with a human face on the back, which is definitely not a good thing, if I can't find a way to resolve it, Lao Wang will suffer that inhuman torture sooner or later.
"Lao Wang, do you have any ideals?"
"What?" Lao Wang's eyes couldn't be opened by the smoke, and he quickly took the cigarette out of his mouth: "Ideal? ”
"You don't understand? It's whether you have a purpose in life. ”
"Who doesn't have it, there must be." Lao Wang was happy all of a sudden, tilted his head slightly, and looked longing: "At my age, to be honest, I'm not too young, it's time to start a family." What do you two think, how is Zhang Momo? ”
"That's good."
"I think so too, I thought, when it's okay and I'm really free, can I talk to her properly?" Lao Wang frowned again as he spoke, snorted his cigarette roll, and said, "However, I always ask her out, but she always doesn't come out alone with me." ”
"Brother Wang, be patient, good things are grinding." Xiao Mao said with a smile: "Since ancient times, beauties love heroes, you should behave more and be sincere, so that people can see your actions and your heart." ”
"Mao'er, what you said said to my heart." Lao Wang was happy again, if he didn't have ears to stop him, his mouth would be grinning to the back of his head: "I just thought, when can I behave?" For example, this house collapsed suddenly, I was quick-sighted, regardless of the danger, desperately rushed over, and saved Momo, she saw that I didn't even want my life for her, is that ......"
"Can you say something auspicious?" I watched Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten come over with the pot, and hurriedly told Lao Wang to shut up.