Chapter 169: Quicksand

After buying enough drinking water in wooden barrels, enough food, and several tents in the small city, Chu Ming and the others followed O'Connor behind and walked towards the destination of this time, Hamnat, the capital of the undead, Evelyn was excited along the way, she loves archaeology, if she can really find Hamnat, an ancient city that has disappeared for thousands of years, then she will definitely be able to make a name for herself in the archaeological community, at that time, Oxford and Cambridge universities in the British Empire will send her admission invitation letters, At that time, she can get a full scholarship and go to the world's top universities like Oxford and Cambridge to study archaeology and history, and no longer have to eat sand in places like Egypt to live, the kind of life that Evelyn has been looking forward to all her life.

The camel carried Chu Ming and the others into the desert again, except for those places next to the Nile that there were some oases, most of Egypt was desert, a desert.

"Ahh I can't stand it! Jonathan, who was sitting on the back of a camel, was the first to wail, it had been three hours since Chu Ming and them entered the desert area, and the sun was hanging on everyone's heads, as if it was an oven roasting everyone, and there was a tendency to roast everyone dry, fortunately, the bottled water that Chu Ming bought was enough, otherwise, in the absence of water, the sun here could indeed kill people.

"Huh, I can't stand it? I was chased by a group of guys dressed in black and covered in tattoos for three days and three nights in the desert, and finally I escaped from them, but I was sent to prison" O'Connor said with disdain at Jonathan, in O'Connor's eyes, he looked down on Jonathan as a bit of a sissy, "Okay, O'Connor, I admit you're a man, but I don't know if the men in black you're talking about are the ones in the distance?" After Johnson finished speaking, he pointed in the direction of the sun, O'Connor hurriedly looked at the place where Jonathan was pointing, and sure enough, on top of a sand dune, a man in black on a camel stood there quietly, like a statue, and it didn't seem that he was attacking O'Connor and the others, "That's right, it's them, it's these bastards, they chased me in the desert for three days and three nights!" I won't admit it," O'Connor said, and then took out two revolvers from his waist, held them in his hands, and were ready to fight at any time, but these men in black didn't have any intention of taking the initiative to attack, just stood at a distance and quietly watched O'Connor and the others.

"I said, we are going to dig the tombs of our ancestors, not to mention what the purpose is, but it is true that we go to move the tombs of our ancestors, they are the guards of the pharaohs, they are the guardians of the pharaoh's mausoleum, it is a matter of course to observe us and expel us, it is already polite that people did not directly rush over and cut off our heads, so don't always say that people are bad people" Chu Ming said lazily to O'Connor at this time, it is true that the Pharaoh's guards protect the Pharaoh's tomb, Chu Ming is going to dig the Pharaoh's tomb now, and it is the most normal thing for the Pharaoh's guards to stop it.

"It turns out that these bastards are Pharaoh's guards, Pharaoh has lost a thousand years, and they should also go with Pharaoh, instead of guarding a group of dead people here, and I also think that the gold under the sand should not be wasted like this, let's use it, isn't it better?" O'Connor said to Chu Ming at this time, Chu Ming didn't know how to speak to a bartender like O'Connor for a while, this guy is obviously a guy with three wrong views.

"When you say it, you're just as vulgar as your people!" At this time, Evelyn retorted to O'Connor, and her tone was still deeply responsible, O'Connor opened his mouth, but didn't even refute Evelyn's words, but muttered, "Aren't you also going to dig up the graves of your ancestors?" "Mr. O'Connor, please remember, we are going to archaeology this time, archaeology, not tomb robbing, even if the tomb is full of gold, we can't touch it, only those items with deep historical value and significance, we can seal them up and get them back to the museum, we are different from tomb robbers, let those histories be buried in yellow sand, sealed in the ground, this is the regret of all archaeologists, I will not allow such a thing to happen, there is no difference between Egyptians and tomb robbers now, They are counting on digging up a few things from their ancestors to live, and letting them into the tomb of the pharaoh is the biggest damage to the pharaoh's tomb, so the pharaoh's tomb can only be entered by us, and the cultural relics on the opposite side are studied and protected! Evelyn said at this time, and her words sounded very reasonable, but if she listened carefully, she could also hear that something was wrong.

Evelyn: They entered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh and took away the burial goods from the pharaoh's tomb, even if they put it in a museum, isn't this kind of behavior considered tomb robbery? Values are such a thing, each generation is different, it is different, Chu Ming didn't go to defend anything with Evelyn, if you want to change the values of Evelyn and others, it is not so easy, it is impossible to change it overnight.

Slowly, O'Connor led everyone to move forward, but the Pharaonic guards in the distance disappeared, it seemed that they should go back to report the news of O'Connor and others, seeing that the Pharaoh's guards did not have the intention of attacking themselves, O'Connor was completely relieved, and put his revolver into his butt again, suddenly the camel under O'Connor's seat sank suddenly, O'Connor was almost thrown off the camel, but fortunately O'Connor grabbed the reins of the camel, and the camel let out a scream, On closer inspection, O'Connor's camel had half of its legs trapped in the quicksand, "Quicksand! Be careful, everyone! O'Connor shouted in horror when he saw it, the most frightening thing in the desert is not the heat and thirst, nor the rattlesnakes and poisonous scorpions that are hidden, but the quicksand that you can't notice, if you are alone, as long as you step on the quicksand, it is a certain death, a person cannot rely on his own strength to escape from the quicksand, only a little by the quicksand will be swallowed by the quicksand, until the quicksand floods your neck, you will die of suffocation, and this process may take an hour, Even for a long time, this process of death is very desperate, many people if they have a gun in their hands, they will choose to commit suicide when the quicksand is about to swallow themselves, compared to a little bit of suffocation, many people would rather choose a painful point of death.

"Get out of here!" At this time, Chu Ming also found that everyone here had actually entered the quicksand area, and the camel's hooves had been slowly swallowed up by the quicksand, but the quicksand in O'Connor's place was particularly powerful, so everyone didn't notice that they had actually entered the range of quicksand, Chu Ming hurriedly drove his camels to retreat after speaking, and the camels pulled out their hooves from the quicksand, fortunately, there were very few parts of these camels that fell into the quicksand, otherwise, if these camels wanted to leave the quicksand, It's also a very difficult thing, Chu Ming, Louise, Evelyn and Jonathan all drove their camels out of the quicksand, only O'Connor's camel fell deeper and deeper, and it seemed that it couldn't be saved, unless Chu Ming made a move, but Chu Ming looked at Evelyn and O'Connor and decided to forget it, exposing his strength in front of the male and female protagonists who were over time and space is not necessarily a good thing, not to mention anything else, O'Connor will definitely be jealous of Chu Ming, and Evelyn will also doubt Chu Ming's identity, in that case, It's too bad for Chu Ming.

O'Connor threw everything out of his camel, and then jumped off the camel himself, as if it were a frog, his body was attached to the sand, and then crawled out of the range of quicksand little by little, if O'Connor landed on both feet, the quicksand would swallow O'Connor's little by little, as long as the calves were all eaten by the quicksand, it would be difficult to pull it out.

"Whew, there is really a crisis everywhere in the desert!" O'Connor stood up and said, watching his camel scream as it was devoured little by little, O'Connor muttered, "Phew! Yes! A sudden gunshot rang out, so frightened O'Connor is screaming, and then hurriedly took out his revolver, and looked back to see that it was Chu Ming holding a smoking revolver at himself, O'Connor only noticed at this time that there was a rattlesnake with a broken head at his feet, O'Connor didn't notice that a rattlesnake was stepped on by himself just now, if Chu Ming didn't shoot, this rattlesnake would bite O'Connor's foot hard, there is no antivenom in this era, If you are bitten by a venomous snake like a rattlesnake, you will basically die.

"You're right, there are indeed crises everywhere in the desert" Chu Ming put away his revolver and said to O'Connor, "Thank you" O'Connor saluted Chu Ming and said, Chu Ming approached to save his life just now, and finally Chu Ming took the initiative to squeeze on a camel with Louise, and gave his camel to O'Connor, letting O'Connor continue to lead the way, but unfortunately the camel is not a horse, there are two huge humps on the back of the camel, and it is very uncomfortable for two people to sit on a camel, But there is no way, you can't let Chu Ming go to a camel with Jonathan, right? Chu Ming would kill Jonathan, if Chu Ming and Evelyn were given a camel, then Chu Ming would be happy, but would Louise be happy?

Finally, when the sun was at its strongest, O'Connor led everyone to the back of a sand dune to avoid the sun's rays, Jonathan opened the bucket of water and drank it, and after drinking, he poured some on his body, wetting all his clothes to make himself cooler, Evelyn and O'Connor were also sweating profusely, only Chu Ming and Louise were safe and sound, Chu Ming was because of his own strength, and Louise was because of the meditation charm that Chu Ming attached to her.

"Bastard, save some use, we have this water, who knows how much time we need to stay here, the camels don't need to drink water for the time being, but tomorrow we will have to share this water with the camels, if you dare to waste it like this, I will tie you up and throw you into the desert and dry you!" O'Connor looked at Jonathan who was bathing directly with drinking water and said angrily, this time it also scared Jonathan, so that Jonathan no longer dared to waste water like this, in fact, for Chu Ming, how much water you want, it's really not good, go back to the real world and load a few water trucks into Lao Yin's space.

"Take a break, to rush under such a sun is to find death!" O'Connor drank some water after speaking, opened his clothes, lay down in the shade and began to take a nap, Chu Ming naturally has no opinion on this, Chu Ming has no experience of desert survival, naturally he has to obey experienced people, the moisture on Johnson's clothes was quickly evaporated, the burning sensation hit again, Johnson Nathan wanted to get wet again, but after glancing at O'Connor, he still held back, and after drinking some water, he also found a place to sleep.

Evelyn was secretly unbuttoned by the heat and fanned her body, which was seen by O'Connor, who was pretending to sleep, and O'Connor began to peek at Evelyn constantly, saying that Evelyn's appearance in Victoria's Secret last night was really beautiful, so that O'Connor couldn't forget it at all.

"Well, can I ask where you got the clothes you wore last night? How come I've never seen one before? It doesn't matter if it's in Egypt or Europe, I haven't seen it," O'Connor peeked at for a long time, but didn't see anything, so he simply stopped pretending to be asleep, and plucked up the courage to ask Evelyn.