Chapter 12: Retreat
Just at the last moment, an abrupt flashlight shot directly into the eyes of the Corpse Maggot King, who was about to pierce Pang Weimin with its sharp fangs, so its insect body rose slightly, revealing that its face was illuminated by a strong light, and the insect eyes instinctively closed and shook its head to avoid the strong light, which made its stabbing action suddenly pause.
Moreover, the corpse maggot's long legs seemed to have been cut by some force, and under the sting, the big legs were retracted. Pang Weimin took the opportunity to escape.
"Xu Shan, use your flying knife stunt to shoot the eyes of the blind corpse maggot king!"
Zhao Aiguo shouted, just now after he stabilized his figure, he saw Pang Weimin's dangerous situation, but he had already come to help, and when he was so anxious that he was crazy, he suddenly saw a black shadow passing by, and then an extremely strong flashlight light, which made him a little dazzling.
Now that he didn't have time to care about the black shadow, Zhao Aiguo beckoned Xu Shan to dart. After the latter heard Zhao Weiguo's shout, his body rushed forward for a short time, and the machete in his hand flew out, shooting out like a meteor.
Poof! The machete swirled in the air, and finally hit the left eye of the Corpse Maggot King, which exposed the empty door to avoid the glare, and a stream of black blood spurted out.
"Woohoo! Whew! ”
The Corpse Maggot King was pierced in the eye with a machete, and the pain became furious. It frantically swung its remaining long legs and rushed towards Xu Shan, who had injured it, who was already unarmed and in danger.
Even if the Corpse Maggot King has a mutated IQ, it is always a low-level animal, and after being injured, it will lose its low sanity and become completely beast-mad.
"Who took the lead just now, it's good, you continue to shine a flashlight on its insect eyes, corpse maggots are parasites that live in the catacombs, born afraid of light." Professor Wang, who was in the distance, saw the scene and immediately shouted loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, two bright rays of light shot directly into the corpse maggot king's one-eyed, and it roared and attacked left and right, but it could not see the enemy under the strong light, and could only set off wild sand flying in the sand.
Subsequently, Professor Wang's students also turned on their flashlights and shone on the rampaging corpse maggot king, making it even more confused, and it was no longer able to distinguish between southeast and northwest.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Pang Weimin and several other people quickly gathered together to coordinate everyone's flashlights to form a huge beam of light that illuminated the Corpse Maggot King.
"Come on, you ugly little worm! You killed Xiao Cheng! I'm going to kill you for revenge! Xiao Li saw that the corpse maggot king was messed around by them, and he became excited for a while and roared at it.
Unexpectedly, when the corpse maggot king, who was originally dazed, heard Xiao Li's words, he immediately turned around and rushed towards Xiao Li.
Xiao Li was frightened, screamed and threw away the flashlight and ran. But the Corpse Maggot King was extremely fast, and he came to the front of him in a few moments and stabbed his fangs, and when Xiao Li felt that he was about to die, he was suddenly pulled and fell, and the Corpse Maggot King's fangs grazed his thighs and pierced into the sand.
Although he didn't directly pierce his thigh, even if he scratched it, Xiao Li's thigh was already open and fleshy, and blood flowed. Xiao Li's eyes were full of pain, and he was about to scream, but his mouth was firmly covered by a pair of big hands, it was Pang Weimin.
The rest of the people also understood that the corpse maggot king was irradiated by the flashlight and could not be seen, but they could be located by sound, and everyone remained silent, just surrounding it with one eye.
No matter how angry the Corpse Maggot King is, there is nothing he can do now. After scurrying left and right for a while, and when it found that it could not detect the enemy at all, it rushed into the darkness and disappeared into the desert.
Seeing that the corpse maggot king disappeared, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Pang Weimin even sat on the sand and kicked it for a while, the battle just now was so thrilling that he almost lost his life here.
Professor Wang didn't reprimand Xiao Li, because no one knew that the Corpse Maggot King could still come up with this trick of positioning by sound, but the skin of his thigh was peeled off, and this sin was enough for him to suffer for a while.
Pang Weimin and Zhao Aiguo analyzed the matter of the first flashlight and the black shadow, it was too chaotic at that time and I didn't know who used the flashlight to shine it, and the two discussed for a long time without results, so they had to give up.
After such a toss, it was not long before the east saw the light and a new day began again. The Corpse Maggot King is an underground creature, so he won't come over to disturb them during the day.
At this time, the archaeological team was divided on what to do.
"Everyone united to defeat the Corpse Maggot King last night, let's get out of here immediately, the farther away the better." After breakfast, Professor Wang gathered the crowd.
"Professor Wang, this corpse maggot king was able to find our base camp all the way from the excavation site of the Loulan female corpse, maybe because Xiao Li alarmed it, but I think it must have some kind of location that can sense us." Pang Weimin thought about this question for a while.
"What do you mean?" Professor Wang looked at Pang Weimin's gaze thoughtfully.
"If it found us last night, it can find us tonight. I don't think you want to be slapped by it like a snack in your sleep. Pang Weimin's words made several classmates scared for a while.
"Are you saying we're going to attack it?"
"Since you said that this beast is an underground creature and is particularly afraid of light, then we have an absolute advantage during the day. It's better for us to look for its bad luck during the day today, and it would be best if we could kill it. Zhao Aiguo knows Pang Weimin best, and he took over the conversation.
"I'm afraid it won't work, first of all, this desert is so big, where can you find it? Secondly, even if you can find it, how can you kill such a huge corpse maggot king? Professor Wang shook his head and said.
"Professor, with all due respect, the bead relics excavated in the Loulan Ruins on your body must be objects that can be sensed by the Corpse Maggot King, so I have the same thoughts as Wei Min, and it will definitely not be peaceful tonight." Zhao Aiguo firmly supported Pang Weimin.
"Although there is some truth in your words, I think it would be easier for us to travel more during the day and stay away from the corpse maggot king, so that it can no longer sense the breath of the round beads?"
"Classmate Wei Min, I have already lost a student, Da Niu and Xiao Li are also injured, I really don't want to make any more trouble." Professor Wang's attitude is very resolute.
The opinions of the two sides could not be unified, and the scene was a little cold for a while. Xu Shan, Han Dong was playing with the machete in his hand, and he didn't say anything. Da Niu and Xiao Li bandaged their thighs, and they were silent while sitting on camels.
"Well, Professor, I've come up with a way to get the best of both worlds, how about we',......, just that?"
Pang Weimin thought to himself that Professor Wang still had the final say on this archaeological team, he was the leader, and he couldn't carry out it if he didn't agree with his ideas. So he told Professor Wang his thoughts.
"That's okay, but the premise is that we must hurry up during the day, and it is the right way to stay away from this beast, and the so-called thirty-six plans are the best way."
After listening to this, Professor Wang hesitated for a moment and finally nodded. Then the whole team set out and marched deep into the desert under the leadership of Bahar.
Although a camel was eaten by the Corpse Maggot King last night, Xiao Cheng died the night before, so the number of camels was still just right, and the whole team began a rapid march under the urging of Professor Wang.
Desert, yellow sea, undulating. As the ancient poem says, the birds of a thousand hills fly away, and the traces of thousands of people disappear.
The group was a little depressed, except for Wong Ka-wai. Although the two battles made him a little worried about the safety of the trip, in a way, it satisfied his curiosity, and the beauty of the desert soon made him enjoy the journey.
Pang Weimin on the camel was a little worried. Professor Wang and his entourage did not move in the predetermined direction, and Professor Wang only cared about their excavation of cultural relics, but did not care about his own search for his father, which made him a little angry.
Pang Weimin made up his mind that after reaching the next destination, he must follow the instructions of Yin Yang Yupei to go to the place where his father disappeared.
The day passed quickly, and under the constant urging of Professor Wang, Bahar led everyone to run nearly 70 kilometers, and the camels were exhausted.
"I'm here, I'll set up camp here tonight."
When the group reached a spot surrounded by gentle sand, Bahar finally stopped and began to divide the work. Someone pitched a tent, someone prepared dinner, and everything was in order.
On a desert night, the moonlight is cold and pours down like mercury.
In the distance, a dark shadow was running fast in the moonlit night, it was so fast that it could be seen to be a multi-legged animal, and it rushed forward to bring up a cloud of sand.
"Today continues at the pace of yesterday."
Early the next morning, Professor Wang announced the departure immediately after breakfast, and without any delay, the archaeological team continued to march into the depths of the desert, and Bahar was like a flag, flying high in front of the team.
"Hey, I said patriotic, don't hang around, sit down, don't fall down." Pang Weimin watched Zhao Aiguo in front of him dozing off on the back of a camel and called out to him. Zhao Aiguo stretched his waist and yawned:
"Cut, you slept like a pig last night, but I didn't sleep all night last night, I'm really sleepy."
"Yes, I said that thing is not a corpse maggot, you don't believe it, and you are afraid of startling the snake, so you volunteered to make a detour of more than ten miles to attack it behind, hehe."
Pang Weimin laughed when he remembered what happened last night. It turned out that he, Zhao Aiguo, and Han Dong were patrolling the night, and found a black shadow galloping over, but finally found a larger desert lizard.
"Hey, I mean, how can you tell if that thing isn't the Corpse Maggot King?" Zhao Aiguo hasn't figured it out yet.
"It's so far away, but it's hard to determine in terms of size. But I found that the Corpse Maggot King and the Lizard advance in different ways, one is prostrate and the other is legging, shouting that you still don't believe it. Hey, why are you sleeping again? ”
The next day was another rapid march, during which Pang Weimin found Professor Wang.
"Professor, how far is it to the next archaeological site?"
"It's not far away, and one day it should be near. It's all part of the itinerary, and you can't rest assured that you won't be able to delay looking for your father. ”
"Professor, I'm not pouring cold water, something happened at the last Guloulan excavation site, so don't you worry about an abnormal incident at the next location?"
"Wei Min, when a soldier goes to the battlefield, he no longer cares about his life and death."
"Got it."
When the next day the rapid march was set up in camp, the group was very tired, and they had eaten dinner early and went to rest.
In the wee hours of the morning, a dark shadow suddenly appeared near the sand of the camp, moving quickly through the dust pack.
Strangely, it didn't make much noise, and if one looked closer, it was completely prostrate on the ground, like a Land Cruiser, gliding quickly over the sand with its long legs.
It slid as it slid and sniffed from time to time, then silently slammed into a sleeping tent in front of it, its long fangs flashing with a deadly chill.