Chapter 10: Trapped

"The upwelling of insects is relatively concentrated, so don't disperse. All were divided into two groups. One group is in the front attack, and the other group is in the back to shoot the worms that have slipped through the net, just in case they break through our defenses and smash them! ”

Zhao Aiguo observed the form of the black insects surging up, and immediately commanded everyone to gather to form two echelons. At the critical moment, no one questioned the sapper shovels that were all raised.

"Hit!"

Zhao Aiguo shouted, and took the lead in slapping down a few black bugs that rushed up first. Suddenly, five or six sapper shovels took off, and with a pop, dozens of insects were killed in an instant.

The dead insects, the nymph corpse was not completely shattered, and when it rolled down the pit, it was directly bitten and devoured by the black insects that came up from behind. This also delayed Zhao Aiguo's defensive pressure to a certain extent.

The entire excavation site of the ancient Loulan site became a bloody battlefield, as more and more black insects were smashed, the fishy smell emitted by the broken insect corpses was disgusting, everyone covered their noses with their clothes with one hand, and the other slapped hard.

Five minutes later, under the continuous blows, almost more than half of the black bugs were killed. The black bugs slowly stopped surging upward. Just as everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the remaining black bugs suddenly scattered and crawled up from all sides of the pit.

After all, the number of archaeological teams is limited, and the black bugs give up attacking from a fixed direction, which is extremely smart, which makes Zhao Aiguo look at it again and again:

"What the hell is this Nima, it's just that the little snake grows horns and becomes a fine, how can a little fart insect actually know how to use Sun Tzu's art of war to break each one, is there any Tianli Wang Law here?"

Scolding and scolding, Zhao Aiguo quickly made a response. He arranged for everyone to divide into several groups, and each team of two people guarded one direction, and smashed the black bugs with all his might.

Zhao Aiguo's command was swift and reasonable, even Xu Shan and Da Niu had no objections, because they couldn't think of a better strategy than this at the moment of life and death, so they also actively participated in coordinating the overall defense.

The black bugs began to rush up from the four sides of the pit, and although they were hit head-on, some of the bugs took advantage of the long sidelines and rushed towards Professor Wang, who was staying behind.

Professor Wang was shocked, and the tragic scene of Xiao Cheng being bitten by insects is still vivid. He hurriedly held the sapper shovel with both hands and slapped the insects randomly, but after all, he was old and a cultured person, and he couldn't shoot the black insects after several shots, and he saw that a bug was about to climb on his instep.

My life is at rest! Professor Wang screamed in his heart. At this moment, a cold light flashed, and the black insect was pierced through the body by a dagger and nailed to the sand.

It was the dart sent by Xu Shan, and Professor Wang, who had escaped death, was in good spirits, and he raised his hand to accurately hit the remaining two insects.

Zhao Aiguo, who was on the side, saw the scene of darts killing insects, and secretly said in his heart, this Xu Shan is really a master, such a small insect, such a distance, and still in a state of motion, he can kill with one blow, and this level is not much better than Li Xunhuan.

Again, the black bugs were repulsed, leaving more than half of the corpses behind, and the ebb tide generally sank under the coffin. After the continuous fierce attacks, everyone was also exhausted and panting, and sat down to rest.

Xiao Li was also bitten by a bug, and now there is no medicine, so he can only bandage it simply.

"Professor, what the hell are these little things!" Zhao Aiguo asked while panting.

"As far as I know, this is supposed to be a corpse maggot, a bug that lives on dead people. These maggots specialize in emptying out the internal organs of corpses for food, and are usually concentrated in large burial grounds. ”

"Then there are always a limited number of corpses, how can they reproduce?"

"These maggots can go into a bear-like hibernation state until a new source of corpses is discovered, so they can survive for a long time."

"Hibernation? You can't sleep for a thousand years, can you? This is more than the legendary Peng Zu who slept for 800 years, this is impossible, right? Zhao Aiguo was a little stunned, this was about to subvert his worldview.

"Not really. As you saw just now, these maggots also eat their own kind. Therefore, when there is no source of corpses, they also fight each other, feeding on the weak. Coupled with the huge size of the tombs here, this may be the reason why they can reproduce. ”

"Even if they eat each other, they won't be able to last for thousands of years." Zhao Aiguo still didn't believe it.

"These black bugs appeared after Xiao Cheng pulled out the hair bun of the female corpse before, and at the beginning I found that there were some dense runes on the bun, maybe the bun was a kind of religious magic weapon, through spells or witchcraft, these corpse maggots became the guardians of the female corpse. Once the bun is removed, the dormant corpse maggots will awaken and attack the person who disturbed the female corpse. ”

"Cut! And such a mysterious spell? Wouldn't that be against the sky? ”

"Although I'm a university professor, I've been working in archaeology for a long time, and I've encountered a lot of strange things. There are indeed some things in this world that cannot be explained by science, just like this corpse maggot, which has been closed here for thousands of years, but they have come back to life, and they have eaten Xiao Cheng, hey. ”

"When you say that, it seems to be the same, otherwise why didn't you find this bullshit corpse maggot before? After Xiao Cheng secretly removed the bun from the female corpse, they popped up. Zhao Aiguo thought about it, and Professor Wang's words were very reasonable.

At this moment, a large number of black bugs poured out from the bottom of all the coffins, more and more. The bugs were like a black carpet, quickly spreading to the holes.

"Hold your ground and start fighting!"

Zhao Aiguo jumped up, his expression was very solemn, it seems that Professor Wang's analysis is very correct, these coffins are not used for burial at all, but to help female corpses raise corpse maggots!

At this time, Xiao Li also remembered the chestnut-sized black bug he had seen in other coffins before, which turned out to be the guardian of the female corpse.

Syllable! Smack! Before the black maggots climbed up, they began to attack violently, and the sapper shovels slapped along the walls of the pit, and the corpses of the black maggots fell one after another and were swallowed up by the corpse maggots behind.

But people's energy is always limited, and they have been beating for a long time before, and now they are a little exhausted, and the situation is becoming more and more dangerous.

But now if you retreat, the consequences will be even more dire. Because even if they can run on the camel and run on the camel, the camel is not fast, and the stamina is estimated to be unable to outrun these deadly corpse maggots.

Zhao Aiguo was sweating like rain, and suddenly saw the torch next to him, remembering that Professor Wang had said that the torch was lit with kerosene, he instantly had an idea, and shouted at the top of his voice.

"Big cow, Bahar, do you still have kerosene?"

"Yes, wow, over there. What's wrong? ”

"Before the insects fully crawl out, we attack with fire and burn these bastards! Go and sprinkle kerosene around the hole, and then pour it all into the hole!" Fast! ”

"Okay!"

Da Niu and Bahar immediately withdrew from the defensive line, and on the top of Xu Mountain, he danced like a flower with a soft whip in one hand and a shovel in his hand, and killed many black insects.

The bull and Bahar went around in a circle, quickly poured kerosene on the edge of the pit, and trampled on a few maggots that had slipped through the net. Then throw kerosene drums and torches down the pit and the target is the ship-shaped coffin!

Rumble! Rumble! There was a bang, and the fire immediately broke out. The raging fire immediately lit the large coffin of the female corpse, and then ignited the other wooden coffins in the pit, and immediately burned into a camp, and the black insects let out a screaming sound and were engulfed in the fire.

The other bugs frantically fled upwards, only to be another ring of fire, once again scorched into hundreds of black maggot powders.

Even if there was a net, the corpse maggots who were staring at the corpses of their companions and crawled out of the fire net were immediately smashed by several people led by Zhao Aiguo, wielding sapper shovels.

In the blazing firelight, the black corpse maggots were struggling and rolling, how similar this scene was to when Xiao Cheng was attacked by them and fell to the ground!

The fire burned for more than an hour, Zhao Aiguo and they naturally did not stay here to watch, they had already ridden camels before, and under the leadership of Bahar, they set off to the base camp.

Soon after they left, a gust of wind blew, and several strange yellow shadows appeared, and then quickly shuttled around the crater, stirring up a large amount of yellow sand to fly. After a while, the fire slowly went out.

The whole pit was full of maggot corpses, but there was a large maggot hiding under the pile of corpses and was not burned to death. Judging from the pile of corpses of the corpses of the corpses, it seems that they sacrificed their lives to protect this corpse maggot!

The large corpse maggot moved its limbs and began to open its mouth to devour and bite the corpses of its own kind, chewing black corpse fluid flowing out onto a golden object. The runes on this thing flowed after absorbing the corpse fluid, followed by a burst of yellow light.

The big black corpse maggot was illuminated by the yellow light, and its body trembled.

"Wei Min, I can count myself as seeing you, buddy almost reimbursed this time!" As soon as he returned to the base camp, Zhao Aiguo, who saw Pang Weimin and other classmates, was really like seeing a close relative, and he wanted to hug him.

"Patriotism, what's the matter? You are in the rain of bullets and bullets in the martial arts and do not retreat, even if you are shot, you don't cry out in pain, how did you become like this? Pang Weimin knew Zhao Aiguo very well, and he was a little surprised by his appearance.

Zhao Aiguo sighed for a while, and then told the story of the incident in 1510, and the expressions on everyone's faces were very rich after hearing it. It's all like web novels, and while it's true, it really makes them unbelievable.

"Patriotic, is that female corpse really laughing first and then hating? How is this possible, I can't believe it. Li Ping made up what Zhao Aiguo said, shook his head and said.

"Professor Wang said that the bun is a magic weapon, so the veil must be too. The veil keeps the expression of the female corpse when it dies, and the bun keeps the female corpse incorruptible, which is amazing. ”

"It's dangerous, but it's thrilling after all, hey, if only I went with you one day, how exciting. It's a pity to miss it. Huang Jiawei shook his head and said. His words were mercilessly despised and whipped by the crowd.

The loss of a student, and the destruction of the veil and bun at his fingertips, made Professor Wang feel very bad. Therefore, the large army did not set off immediately, and it seemed that it was going to be repaired temporarily.

Pang Weimin didn't want to disturb Professor Wang at this time, let him be, anyway, finding his father was not an overnight thing. In this way, they stayed at the place of residence for one more day.

However, in the early morning of the next day, a terrifying scream suddenly erupted from the silent base camp:

"Oh no! Run, everybody! ”