Chapter 16: Sand Patrol
Hearing the frightened shout of the cuckoo, Pang Weimin naturally immediately ran over, and their tents were not far away. As a result, he was still a step slower.
"What's going on?"
The first person to rush into the tent was not Pang Weimin, but Liu Xiangdong. He held a military knife in his hand, and as soon as he entered the tent, he was a little excited, a little nervous.
Pang Weimin thought that the tent was too small, so he simply stood outside to see what was going on. Professor Wang's side was also alarmed, but was persuaded back by Pang Weimin with a smile.
"There was a dark shadow floating by the tent, and I saw it. Moreover, the sound of rustling around the tent, coupled with the crying, was too scary. The cuckoo, huddled in one corner of the tent, pointed to the other corner of the tent and said nervously.
"It's okay, it should be the rumor, Liu Xiangdong, go back." Li Ping took a closer look, she didn't find anything abnormal, and of course she didn't see Pang Weimin standing outside.
"Li Ping, are you sure there is no abnormality? If you're really scared, do you want me to stay with you? Liu Xiangdong put away the dagger and looked at Li Ping's tone of concern.
"It's okay, really. The cuckoo is just a false alarm. Li Ping waved his hand, this cuckoo is so small, is this still a top student studying medicine?
"Okay, then I'll go out first, and I'll come over right away if there's something to do, unlike Pang Weimin and Zhao Aiguo, who are still snoring."
Liu Xiangdong stroked the long hair on his forehead, and his tone was very calm. This time he felt great. After comforting the cuckoo, he lifted the tent and was about to go out.
"Ah, here you go again, Liu Xiangdong, don't go!" The cuckoo's frightened voice exploded again. Liu Xiangdong was overjoyed, and immediately turned his head after the corners of his mouth rose, but the smile was fixed on his face.
At this moment, a black-brown scorpion with two large pincers came in from outside the tent. The scorpion, which was larger than a normal scorpion, looked at the frightened cuckoo in the tent and quickly crawled towards her.
Pang Weimin listened to the frightened voice of the cuckoo and did not look like a false alarm, and immediately walked a few steps to the entrance of the tent, and saw that it was a scorpion.
Although Liu Xiangdong was a little afraid, it was just a black scorpion, and he yelled to embolden himself while stabbing the scorpion with a two-foot-long dagger.
Li Ping and Du Juan both hid to the side, the tent was already small, and Liu Xiangdong blocked the door, but they couldn't get out. I had to use the flashlight next to me as a weapon, and if the scorpion approached, I would shoot it to death.
Liu Xiangdong is also a person who has participated in martial arts, and after a few temptations, he saw the opportunity to swing his knife and stabbed it down. The scorpion flashed, and although Liu Xiangdong pierced the air, he sneered and stepped on his right foot in military boots.
Before they set off, Pang Weimin and Zhao Aiguo prepared two sets of military camouflage uniforms and military boots for everyone. These sturdy and durable things are perfect for the outdoors.
"Sting!" With a bang, the scorpion dodged the dagger and was stepped on by Liu Xiangdong's boots, and immediately shattered his bones, and the slimy thing touched him.
"Little reptile, it's okay." Liu Xiangdong raised his feet and looked at it, spread his hands, and smiled very chicly.
"Thank you, Xiangdong, it scared me to death." The cuckoo clutched his small undulating chest and smiled.
"It's a trivial matter, and it's a lot of effort." Liu Xiangdong elegantly put away the military knife, and Li Ping also gave him a thumbs up, and then frowned;
"The scorpion is dead, and now the ground is dirty, how can you sleep on this?"
"Why don't you go to our tent, I'll wake up Huang Jiawei and let him come here to sleep." Boys, always take care of girls. Liu Xiangdong said very seriously.
"Forget it, I won't bother you. We'll clean it up ourselves, hey, how do you swim in the sand? ”
Li Ping waved her hand, and when she was about to clean up the corpse of the scorpion, she exclaimed in the next second, because she saw a ripple in the sand, what did it mean, this time it was her turn to scream.
The next second, the scream turned into horror. I saw a triangular head poking out of the sand, and two horns grew on it. The creature bit the scorpion's corpse in one bite, turned around and disappeared into the sand.
"Let's go! Here's the belly horn snake! ”
The three of them were stunned by this sudden scene, and when they were still stunned, Pang Weimin stepped in and pulled the three classmates out of the tent, and he turned back and stared vigilantly at the sand.
"Horned snake!" Only then did the three of them come to their senses, that thing was terrible. Why do you stay with them and follow them all the time?
At this moment, the sand in the tent tumbled, and the triangular head and horns of the ventral snake just now were exposed. Pang Weimin stared at it coldly, the two-foot dagger in his hand clenched tightly, and at the same time he was ready to dodge the snake venom.
"Weimin, this belly horn snake is too difficult to deal with, I'll call Zhao Aiguo here."
Liu Xiangdong looked at the abdominal horn snake, his legs and stomach were cramping, and he was struggling with whether to go on it again? In the end, it was decided to follow the established strategy and not make a first bird until the right time.
And it is very appropriate to leave here for this reason now, and the others will not despise him too much, so they will go on their own without waiting for Pang Weimin's answer.
In fact, he didn't need to call Zhao Aiguo to have already walked out of the tent. If he can fall asleep if he is so noisy, then he is really a heartless pig. Not only him, but Professor Wang and his entourage were woken up, and they heard that there was a belly horn snake, and they were about to surround to help.
"There's a ventral snake over there, too!" Professor Wang's students also exclaimed, and the whole camp was panicked, and they lit torches one after another, lighting up the entire camp.
The camels were frightened, and Bahar shushed as he tried to calm the desert boats, and if they were scared away, it would be miserable.
"Don't panic, everyone, all together! These belly horn snakes are afraid of light! Professor Wang said, Pang Weimin, Zhao Aiguo and others began to attack.
"Margobi, do labor and management have a grudge against you? Why do you always come to harass us? ”
Han Dong was disturbed three times and twice tonight, and he didn't sleep well, so he was naturally very annoyed and rushed out with a machete in his hand.
Xu Shan, Da Niu, Pang Weimin and Zhao Aiguo all held knives, looking around for ripples on the sand, and when they saw it, they stabbed in. But this time the ventral horn snake is very strange, not rushing out of the sand like last time, but swimming in the sand.
Several people scattered, and as long as they saw the sand moving, they either used machetes or sapper shovels to chop directly. After coming down a few times, I saw blood twice. The sand was cut open and the dead snakes were all small belly-horned snakes, with horns only about one centimeter long.
This trick made Pang Weimin very puzzled, and after a stalemate for a while, these abdominal horn snake fights disappeared. But after such a toss, everyone is no longer sleepy. Who would dare to sleep, maybe he was bitten by the belly horn snake in his sleep.
These ventral horned snakes are much smaller, and they are obviously not the two-meter-long giant snakes of the past. So what does that mean? Did the Great Snake King send the little snake to patrol the mountain? Wukong is not here, it's nonsense to think about.
"You can re-strengthen the tent, go to the ruins and get some broken wood and stones and put them on the sand, and then use sand to fill the gaps between the stones, and finally lay sleeping bags on it, so that you are not afraid of the horned snake suddenly coming out."
Professor Wang thought for a moment and commanded. Pang Weimin thought to himself that the professors were still experienced, and this trick really worked. No matter how well the horned snake can drill through the sand, it can't penetrate the stones.
The four of them first helped Li Ping and Du Juan rebuild the tent, and then specially pressed the surrounding area with stones and filled it with fine sand and compacted it, and then Du Juan breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Professor Wang, why are there so many small ventral horn snakes here?" Pang Weimin is done, so he wants to know more.
"I don't know, it stands to reason that unless I encountered the snake nest of the ventral horn snake, there would not be so many small snakes. But there's no snake nest here. Professor Wang was also puzzled.
"Could it be that there is a nest of snakes under this ruin?" Zhao Aiguo exclaimed in surprise when he heard this, and the bullet jumped up, thinking that he was sleeping on dozens or hundreds of belly horn snakes, he just had goosebumps all over his body.
"It's absolutely impossible. Camels are very sensitive, and if there was a huge snake nest down here, they would not be so quiet if they were killed, and they would have already begun to struggle desperately. Professor Wang shook his head and vetoed.
"Could it be that they are looking for food? But what food do we have here? Pang Weimin wondered.
"Or maybe it's just a chance encounter. Okay, don't think about it, you can squint for a while, and tomorrow you have to go to archaeology, so let's go and rest. "Professor Wang gave the order to evict the guests.
Xu Shan, who was beside him, immediately glanced at Pang Weimin and Zhao Aiguo coldly, and the meaning was obvious. Although several of them fought against the Corpse Maggot King, his cold appearance and attitude did not change at all.
"Cut! What to drag? If you have the chance, you must learn a thing or two! ”
Zhao Aiguo was a little angry, but he had been pulled out of the tent by Pang Weimin. Pang Weimin persuaded him why bother, now everyone is still a grasshopper on a boat, let him pretend if he likes it, just let him pretend, you just don't see it.
When the sun rises over the horizon again, the beauty of the ruins is even more magnificent than what was seen yesterday at dusk, which naturally obliterates many of Wong Ka Wai's films.
"Pang Weimin, let's go around to find the ancient tomb, are you with me, or stay in the camp?" After breakfast, Professor Wang asked with a smile.
"Forget it, it's been a toss these past few nights, I'm not as good as you professionals, I'll stay in the camp and repair it." Pang Weimin shook his head without thinking about it, he didn't come to archaeology.
"I'm also scared of the Corpse Maggot King, so I won't blindly participate." Zhao Aiguo saw Professor Wang's gaze looking at him, and his head shook faster than a rattle.
Professor Wang nodded slightly, and left with the rest of the group except for Da Niu who needed to stay and recuperate, and two students. The long caravan kicked up a puff of sand and dust in the desert, and the jingling bells of the camels faded away.
I wonder if there will be a super corpse maggot king this time? Watching them gradually disappear backs, Pang Weimin shook his head with a wry smile.