Chapter 29: The Great War
"A horned snake has rushed down!"
Zhao Aiguo shouted, and immediately flew up, and the machete in his hand slashed at the long worm that swam half down with the sound of the wind. Syllable! A sound of flesh and bones shattering erupted, and the belly horn snake that took the lead immediately turned into two pieces, and the snake corpse fluttered and fell to the bottom of the bunker.
The red-spotted belly horned snake on the top of the sand pit, which was more than two meters long, let out a stinging hiss after scanning the surrounding group of snakes with triangular eyes, and suddenly more belly horn snakes launched an impact on the sand pit, and they all went down along the sand pit wall without fear of death.
"Comrades, let's do it together and kill them!"
Pang Weimin shouted loudly, and took the lead in waving the two-foot military knife in his hand and slashing away. Xu Shan, Han Dong, and Zhao Aiguo just don't need to say it, follow him and start fighting.
Except for one of the other students, Professor Wang and Xiao Li, the rest of the students also joined the big formation. Professor Wang and Xiao Li were supported by the student, and they trembled and climbed onto the coffin to avoid being bitten to death by the ventral horn snake that leaked in.
At this time, a black-brown belly horned snake of more than one meter and the larger size of the snake group rushed down. Seeing this, Han Dong sneered, raised his steps to meet him, and drew an arc with the machete in his hand to cut it off on the head.
The combat power of this black-brown belly horn snake was obviously much stronger than the previous snake, and in the process of its rapid decline, it dexterously controlled the snake's body to swing, and forcibly avoided Han Dong's head-to-head attack.
Then the ventral horn snake opened its mouth, and the muscles under its jaw throbbed and spewed out a black poisonous mist heading straight for Han Dong. He had been prepared for a long time, and quickly turned sideways to avoid it, but this also gave the abdominal horn snake a chance to continue to slide.
Han Dong, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is not a vegetarian, and while dodging, the machete counterattacked back, and at the same time, the torch clenched in his left hand slammed into the snake's head. This trick really worked, and the head of the snake in the belly horn immediately twisted sideways to avoid it, but this made it impossible to continue to slip into the bunker.
The black-brown belly horned snake did not turn around and continue to attack Han Dong, but pounced on a student who was a little angry on the side. He was startled, and the sapper shovel in his hand was raised and slapped down on the snake's head.
The belly horn snake is very fierce, the snake's head swings to avoid the sapper shovel, but it ignores the consequences of the snake's body being hit by the sapper shovel, and opens its mouth to bite the student's chest that exposes the empty door, if it hits, this person will definitely die.
"Whoosh!" A cold light swept by, and Pang Weimin, who was on the side of the student, made a move. The two-foot military knife in his hand was very sharp, and he cut off the head of the snake under his oblique stab. Even so, the flying snake's head still bit the student.
Fortunately, it bit the student's backpack, and the snake's head was on the verge of death, so the blow did not cause any damage to the student. The headless snake corpse fell to the ground, and the students who escaped death were so hated that they wielded a sapper shovel and snapped a few times, cutting the snake corpse into snake flesh puree.
Perhaps seeing a large number of people of the same kind being killed by humans, two larger belly horn snakes pounced on Pang Weimin, the "snake killer", forming a flank attack on the left and the right. Moreover, a night of spraying poison, a wide open mouth to bite.
Pang Weimin has so much combat experience that he has long seen two belly horn snakes sneak attack him with the rest of his eyes. He did not retreat but advanced, and his body rushed to avoid the snake venom, but the bite of another snake mouth could not be avoided.
Since you can't avoid it, you don't need to avoid it. When the jackal came, it was naturally greeted with a shotgun, and at this time, Pang Weimin came to greet the belly horn snake with a torch, and its snake mouth bit on the torch.
The sound of the flames was scorching, and the horned snake was burned to the heart, and immediately lost the balance of the snake's body, fell directly from the sand wall, and was directly stepped on by Pang Weimin's powerful foot to crush the triangular snake's head that had been blackened by the fire.
Seeing this, the other ventral horned snake spewed venom to attack again, and at such a close distance, Pang Weimin couldn't dodge anymore. But he had a fire, and the torch was exactly in front of him, and a puff of black smoke rose from the sizzling sound.
It's dangerous! If it is half a beat slower, Pang Weimin may have to follow in Xiao Li's footsteps. Pang Weimin took advantage of the situation and smashed the extinguished torch in his hand towards the belly horn snake, and at the same time, the two-foot military knife drew a cold light and flew out with a swish.
Poof! The sharp military knife pierced the snake's body, nailing it firmly to the sand wall, and after a few struggles, the snake died.
At this time, other people were also fighting to kill snakes, and in ten minutes, they hacked to death more than 20 belly horn snakes, and the snake corpses fell all over the sand pit. Pressed by the strong momentum of the human race, the group of belly horn snakes actually suspended their attack.
The red-spotted horned snake that resembled the king of snakes held its triangular head high, and the scarlet snake stabbed back and forth, as if giving orders. Sure enough, the snakes let out a squirming sound again and began to launch a new round of attacks.
This time, the ventral horned snake really flew.
A ventral horned snake rushed towards the sand pit, and then soared into the air and pounced on Xu Shan. Facing this moth-like belly horn snake, the soft whip in Xu Shan's hand shook and cut off its lazy waist.
But more belly snakes flew down, one after the other. Now the defenders are a little confused. The belly horn snake that flew down would also spew poisonous mist in the air, and Pang Weimin immediately shouted as soon as he saw that it was no longer possible to defend it:
"The ventral horned snake doesn't really fly, but it just swoops down, everyone hurry up and retreat to the coffin dense area, and then climb on the coffin, walk on the coffin, you can avoid the ventral horned snake and attack the snake that climbs up!"
Someone had already been injured by the poisonous mist, and everyone had no time to hesitate, so they abandoned the frontline battlefield and immediately retreated to the middle area. The coffins here are so dense that you can walk on top of them with one step to another.
Dozens or hundreds of belly horn snakes swam down the sand pit after humans gave up the first line of defense, and at this time, Pang Weimin climbed up to the coffin with everyone, and condescendingly attacked the belly horn snake trying to climb up with a sapper shovel.
This is easier than hitting a snake that climbs downward, and the snake climbs up much slower, and in a short time kills a few more snakes.
But the snakes are masters of climbing trees, so everyone didn't dare to be careless, and they defended and attacked each other in pairs, and for a while they started a tug-of-war with the belly horn snakes that occupied the ground of the bunker.
"Ma Gebi's, Pang Weimin, it's not a way to go on like this, we have too few people to withstand the wear. Do you have any other tricks? Han Dong hacked a few belly horn snakes to death, but more and more snakes pounced on him, a little angry.
"yes, this Nima is too hard to fight. Compared to the corpse maggot, this belly horned snake can also spray poisonous mist, which is too difficult to deal with. ”
Zhao Aiguo was a little angry, he was still like this, let alone those students, looking at the belly horn snakes all over the ground one by one, they were all shocked, scared and tired, and their faces were pale.
"We also have torches, and we try to cut down some of the coffin pieces with sapper shovels, and use the torches to light them and still go to the broken coffin, so that after the coffin is lit and the fire starts, maybe we can escape to the sand pit." Pang Weimin looked at the thousands of coffins around him, and he had an idea.
"This may be okay, everyone hurry up and do what Pang Weimin said!" Han Dong yelled at the students. So everyone began to divide the labor, some people specialized in cutting snakes, some people began to split coffins, and some people were responsible for fanning the flames.
After all, the coffins here were stored in the dry Lop Nur desert for thousands of years, which was very boring, so they were quickly ignited, and then the other coffins were ignited. Suddenly, the fire raged, and the scorching heat made the skin ache.
Sure enough, the belly horn snake was forced back by the raging fire, and left the coffin area far away and did not dare to approach. They raised their heads beside the bunkers, staring coldly at their human enemies behind the fire.
"Everyone must take turns lighting the coffin, and the others take turns to rest for a while, and then we will rush up to the sand pit and burn the beasts to death." Pang Weimin shouted.
The fire crackled and burned, but there was always a coffin farther away, the fire gradually became smaller, and the snakes, under the persecution of the yellow-spotted snake king, fearlessly attacked along the edge of the fire and around the back of the crowd.
Pang Weimin had no choice but to turn his head with Xu Shan and Han Dong to chop the abdominal horn snake that came around, while Zhao Aiguo organized others to continue to kill the snake and set it on fire.
Looking at the battlefield-like excavation site in front of him, Professor Wang's heart was like ashes. He himself is a university professor who can't afford chickens, plus the crippled Xiao Li, they face the attack of the belly horn snake, not only can he not protect himself, but also need someone to protect him.
This excavation of two ancient tomb areas, it stands to reason that any tomb can make him famous in the history of the archaeological world, but there are corpse maggots and ventral horn snakes, not only did not harvest a large number of valuable cultural relics, but also took two students.
If this continues, he will not only not be able to make a name in history, but will become a sinner in the archaeological world.
"There are too many horned snakes in the abdomen, and I can't hold it, so I have to set fire to the coffin here!" Pang Weimin roared, he had killed a few belly horn snakes, but he was also drawn by the snake's tail, and his arms were bleeding.
Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Zhao Aiguo used a machete to cut out a few burning coffin boards like crazy, and still turned them to the opposite coffin.
The other students did the same, and soon the coffin on the opposite side was also ignited, forming a circle of fire, which finally stopped the frantic attack of the snake group in the abdomen.
Sitting on the lid of the coffin in the ring of fire, everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and most of them hung a little bit of color, and at this time they could finally treat their wounds a little.
After all, there were dried corpses and snake corpses stored in the coffins here for thousands of years, and they were burned like dates by the fire, and all kinds of corpses emitted an extremely rancid mixed smell, which made people sick, but there was nothing left in their stomachs to vomit.
Half an hour passed, and the coffins around them were almost burned out, and the fire was getting smaller and smaller. Although everyone regained some strength, their mood continued to fall into a depression with the fire.
Looking at the snakes still holding their heads high outside, and the snakes staring at their group of snakes, a wave of despair swelled up in everyone's hearts.
Professor Wang looked at his students, looked at Pang Weimin, and felt bitter in his heart, could it be that this time they really want to die in this no-man's land deep in the desert?