Chapter 17: Three Encounters (1)

After Professor Wang and his party walked in the desert for a while, he took out a broken book and looked at it, then raised his finger to sign. After the team turned in a few directions, some remnants of wood exposed outside the yellow sand gradually appeared in the desert ahead.

Half of these remnants are buried in the yellow sand, and half are protruding from the sand, covered in yellow sand, like sesame sticks, and if it weren't for Professor Wang's experience, he would definitely not recognize them as residual wood.

Professor Wang shook his head and jumped off his camel first. He came to a piece of dead wood with a sapper shovel to knock away the thick sand skin that had formed on the remnants of the wood after many years of wind and sand.

Professor Wang picked up some scraps of wood that had been removed by the sappers, put them in the palm of his hand and crushed them vigorously, then sent them to the tip of his nose to smell them, shaking his head from time to time.

Xu Shan and Han Dong also took a few students to start tapping some broken wood, learning from the professor's appearance to refer to it, but there was nothing obvious to find.

"Professor, the remnants of wood here look like they were left behind by the collapse of some ordinary buildings hundreds of years ago, and the remnants of the buildings were buried by the wind and sand. These remnants do not look like the coffins of the ancient Loulan people that were exposed after they decomposed. Xiao Li walked up to Professor Wang, took a piece of residual wood and analyzed.

"That's right, these remnants are indeed not the remains of the coffin's decay, but it is a little helpful for studying the architecture and living habits of the Guloulan people, you can simply clean it up, take some photos and bring it back to the Department of Architecture for research." Professor Wang nodded.

"Department of Architecture?" Xiao Li was a little confused when he heard this.

Professor Wang also seemed to come back to his senses a little, but he still smiled and nodded, Xiao Li was a little confused, but he still carried out the professor's words.

"Professor, be careful! There is also a belly horn snake! Xu Shan, who had been on guard, shouted, and as soon as his voice fell, a machete flew out of his hand and shot into the sand behind Professor Wang.

The sand suddenly wriggled violently, and a belly horn snake of about one meter was stabbed into the sand by a machete, knocking the yellow sand away because of the pain, and the snake's body was exposed. The two horns on the head are particularly terrifying against the triangular background.

"Margobi, since you have been wronged all the way, let you become ghosts completely!"

Han Dong glared angrily, jumped up with a loud shout, and the machete in his right hand slashed out like a meteor from top to bottom, and beheaded the head of the struggling snake in the belly horn with a snort.

The head of the snake was scattered all over the ground with the blood of the snake, and a puff of green smoke and a fishy stench burned on the sand. The students of the archaeological team saw this scene for the first time, and they were all a little shocked, this Nima snake venom is terrible.

"Xu Shan, this forced goods is different from the big snake that attacked us before. Their snake blood is far less poisonous than the previous yellow-spotted and red-spotted ventral horned snakes, and their combat effectiveness is also a few streets inferior to Nima. Han Dong kicked the snake corpse away with a kick and said with some contempt.

Xu Shan just nodded, did not speak, walked up a few steps and pulled out the machete on the ground, wiped the poisonous snake blood on the blade with a rag, and turned around to help the professor to the camel.

As the group left, the sand rolled again and arched in all directions, revealing two five-centimeter-long black-brown horns peeking out of the sand, followed by a triangular head with red spots.

The red-spotted belly horned snake stuck out its head, opened its mouth and bit the previously decapitated snake corpse, chewed and swallowed it vigorously, and devoured it all after a few minutes.

Then it bit the head of the snake, and directly bit the decapitated head with its powerful upper and lower jaws, and swallowed it like a date. Dripping black-red snake blood flowed from the mouth of the red-spotted belly-horned snake, and a trace of fishy stench wafted in the air.

A line of sand swam towards a line of camel footprints, and soon the sand was calm again.