Chapter 67: False alarm
The sand pit we dug was very large, but it was deep and shallow, and when I got to the edge of the pit, I looked down, and when I looked over, my head began to buzz.
Although the weather was cold, it was sunny and the moonlight was bright. The moonlight was shining in the sand pit, and I saw that someone was turning the sand underneath.
But this "person" makes my scalp tingle.
It took us more than two days to dig up the bodies of four of the victims from the place where the caravan was killed, one of which had the secret cylinder on it. The cylinder is the best proof that the dry corpse is the leader of this team, the Qianniu Wei Zhonglang general Wu Qian.
At this moment, this dry corpse named Wu Qiang, as if affected by some external force, shriveled arms almost the same as iron sheets, slashed in the sand, as it moved, the sand rose slightly, and fell in an instant, making a continuous rustling sound.
In the middle of the night, suddenly seeing the scene in front of you will scare people stupid. But after the surprise, I immediately calmed down, there was no doubt that the dried corpse had been dead for so many years, and if nothing was affecting it, it would definitely not move.
Move to the top!?
I thought of the things that Xiao Mao told me, what Zhongjue, Banda Jue, I am still confused in my mind now, but one thing is clear, near this sand pit, it is likely that someone is quietly lurking.
I didn't shout for a moment, but gently withdrew from the edge of the bunker and ran back to the tent, waking all four of them. In short, they all understood the situation.
"Momo, you're watching the kitten here, don't move the two of you." I let Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten stay here, there is likely to be an accident on the other side of the bunker, if the two women are in danger, we will have to do our best to save them.
Lao Wang and Xiao Mao gently slipped back to the sand pit with me, and my scalp was still numb all the way. There was no shelter around the campsite except for the slightly undulating sand, and the three of us were in such bright moonlight that most of the lurkers near the sand pit could see us.
He can see us, but we can't see him, and that's the most troublesome situation.
Rustle rustle......
When the three of us ran to the sand pit, the benevolent brother named Wu Qian was still mechanically digging the sand. Lao Wang grabbed the shovel in his hand, as if facing a great enemy.
"Is there anyone around here?" I suppressed my voice and asked Xiao Mao: "Did the person who made trouble for us in Tiger Ears come here?" ”
"This must be someone who will move away." Xiao Mao frowned and glanced around: "Otherwise, a corpse that has been dead for so long will not be troubled." ”
"Can you find a way to find out the other party?"
"It's hard to find." Xiao Mao shook his head: "The other party used this method to make trouble, which shows that he doesn't want to show his face, and he deliberately hides, and it is difficult for us to find him." ”
"And just watching?"
Xiao Mao said that we must have met people who have learned to move and seize the house, but whether it is Zhongjue or the Banda Jue from the ancient Zhangxiong, if the taker wants to occupy the captured body for a long time, the prerequisite is that the body must be intact, without external injuries or damage. Otherwise, the snatcher will have to give up the body if he lingers for a while.
In other words, whoever is influencing this dried corpse will not be very long.
"What is all this nonsense for? Just go down and smash it, pour some oil on it and set it on fire, and see what waves it can make! With a shovel, Wang wanted to jump into the sand pit and smash the dried corpses that were digging the sand.
"Brother Wang, Brother Wang!" Xiao Mao hurriedly grabbed Lao Wang: "Don't be reckless first." ”
"I didn't let you go down, and I can't go down myself?" Lao Wang shook his arm and involuntarily looked behind him. I know that he is worried about Zhang Momo, even if the sand pit is still some distance away from the tent, but Lao Wang wants to resolve the danger here, so as to avoid the sequelae that will implicate Zhang Momo.
"I didn't mean that, Brother Wang, I didn't mean that." Xiao Mao grabbed Lao Wang and explained: "I mean, this dry corpse may not do anything to us." If it really is going to deal with us, the dry corpse will not hide in the sand pit, but will appear directly on the side of our tent. ”
I think what Xiao Mao said makes sense, when he was in Tiger Ears, the unknown lurkers didn't alarm anyone in order to deal with Xiao Mao, and they went directly to Xiao Mao. And now, the corpse is making such a move in the sand pit and luring me in, which means that the lurkers probably don't really want to do anything to us.
But I don't believe that there is anything in this world for no reason, and the person who drives the corpse to do so must have his purpose.
The dried corpse in the sand pit was completely dry and hard like a piece of firewood, and its arm was shaking in the sand, and with each shake, the whole arm was clicking from the joints, and it was very suspicious that its arm would break and fall off from its body at any time.
"Let's take a look and see." Xiao Mao glanced around again, he may also have a premonition in his heart, tiger ears once, sandstorm once, two dangers, all of them are aimed at him, he is not very down-to-earth.
Xiao Mao is watching, I am also watching, I am a little puzzled, this desert terrain is so flat, if there are really hidden people, where will people hide? Are they all hidden under the sand?
I tried to keep myself calm, but what happened in the first two operations was always a shadow on my mind.
"Dude, I heard that when you were alive, what kind of lieutenant general was you? Don't think I don't understand anything, General Zhonglang, he's a pretty big official, right? Lao Wang took a shovel, squatted on the edge of the sand pit, grabbed a piece of rotten wood, and threw it down: "You died in the line of duty here, and the wife and children at home are estimated to have no less land, are you still not satisfied?" If it weren't for the fact that we were tired and wanted to dig you out alive, and you were still holding your head down, and we didn't ask you for any benefits, wouldn't you be honest? ”
"Don't be verbose." I patted Lao Wang gently: "Let's walk along the bunker." ”
I've always felt awkward, this lurker, like a thorn, deep in the flesh. This thorn may not be fatal for a while, but it will always be a disaster to let it stay on the body. I don't believe at all that there are invisible people, and lurkers must be nearby.
Lao Wang and I walked slowly along the sand pit towards the front, and as we walked, we were engrossed in observing. It is estimated that it is more than ten meters away, and this is still the area where the caravan is submerged, and there must be dead camels and caravan people buried under the sand, but we have too few people and not enough time, so it is estimated that we cannot excavate.
Sou!!!
At that moment, I suddenly saw something whizzing through the sand about three or four meters away in front of me.
"Lao Wang!" I shouted, pulled out my feet and chased forward, and the old king followed with a shovel.
There must be something underneath the sand, bulging up a small bag. This small sandbag moved forward quickly, and Lao Wang and I chased it in the direction of the sandbag's movement. Lao Wang's mouth couldn't be idle at any time, and now he is still complaining, he said that he picked up a gun in Dan at that time, I had to let him throw it away, if he kept that gun, it would not be a problem at all now, and he shot in the sand, and any demons and monsters had to show up.
I didn't have time to talk nonsense about Lao Wang, and I chased after what was walking under the sand. I was holding a knife in my hand, which was useless at this time, Lao Wang's rare cleverness was once, his feet kicked, and he suddenly exerted his strength, and while his body rushed forward, the shovel in his hand was also shot out.
Syllable!!!
The shovel was just right, and it hit the thing under the sand impartially, and the bulging sandbag immediately fell back. Lao Wang took the shovel and turned it over in the sand, and suddenly, a dark shadow was turned out from under the sand.
"What's this?"
When I saw this swarthy shadow, my first feeling was that I wanted to throw up.
It was a dead rat that was very large, at least twice the size of the average rat. The rats have long since died, giving off a sick-inducing stench.
Lao Wang reburied the dead rat, which was a false alarm, but it made me feel a sense of crisis even more. That lurker has been borrowing such means to make us panic, what the hell does he want to do?
Lao Wang and I hurriedly walked back, and when we walked back, Xiao Mao waved his hand at us by the sand pit and said, "The corpse is not moving." ”
The corpse lay flat where the sand had just been scraped, motionless. Just like Xiao Mao said, borrowing such a corpse to move to the house can't be too long.
The corpse did not move, the rustling in the sand pit also stopped completely, and there was silence all around, and there was no more unusual sound. The three of us stood on the edge of the bunker and looked at each other.
It's that simple? Could it be that the lurkers are doing all this trick to disrupt us and make us sleep well?
I don't believe it.
I picked a spot, jumped into the bunker, and slowly approached the still, dry corpse. The corpse was completely restored to its original state, and I wrapped a noose around one of its legs and dragged it out.
Underneath the dried corpse was a small pit that had just been dug out. The small pit was dug out close to the carcass of the camel, because the camel was so big, we only dug up the dried carcass, and the camel remained in place.
There is no doubt that this small pit was dug out by the dry corpse just now.
I gently picked it twice with a shovel in this small pit, and suddenly two cylinders were revealed in the sand.
In this way, my heart was clear, and the lurkers drove this dried corpse to dig out the cylinders in the sand. When we were digging the sand pit, there were inevitably omissions, and two cylinders that were pressed under the camel carcass were unearthed.