Chapter 39: The Aftermath
I ran with the army into the depths of the cave, and the red-eyed ant army crossed the line of fire and began to spread rapidly to the ground and enter a fighting state.
The last unlucky guy was surrounded by ants, and after a few seconds, the ant colony was all over his body, and he was exhausted, and his dead body fell to the ground. Man-eating ants don't have much nostalgia for corpses, they just tear off the most delicate flesh from the neck of the deceased and eat it, and throw away the rest of the body.
If their attack was only hunger, in order to satisfy their physiological needs, then after rolling through the line of fire, they are more about revenge and venting, and in their eyes of extreme anger, we are like lambs to the slaughter.
I'm glad I was a long-distance runner when I was in school, and I made a few big strides to the center of the crowd. As the story goes, the hungry tiger chased two people in the same direction, one of them ran away, and the other tied his shoelaces before he ran. When the two of them ran to the same position, the person who ran first asked, there are tigers chasing behind, are you still in the mood to tie your shoes? With a shoelace smile, I knew I couldn't outrun the tiger, but if I wanted to survive, I just had to outrun you.
If I put it in a normal living environment, I am definitely a good socialist young man who stresses and loves three things, giving up his seat to pregnant women, helping old ladies cross the street, teaching children to cross the road to look at traffic lights, and so on. But in this ghost place, where no one may know for 800 years after his death, I deeply realized that life is still important. I'll admit that such thoughts are a bit dirty, but rather than being bitten alive, I wish I could live a little longer, if only for a while.
"The comrades in the back must resist! ......"Before I could finish my chanting, a hand from deep within the wall pulled me in. I was terribly frightened, and I was playing like this when I was a good young man who didn't spit? I don't want to die. I hurriedly used my hands and feet to break free of the restraints. The man was extremely strong and covered my mouth, "Shh~ Don't make a sound, it's me." β
I looked up, oh my god! It turned out to be a leather bag, and I probed it into the crack again, I damn it! There's the yellow hair on the back of the bag. I was about to make a sound, when Leather Bag made a shushing expression and motioned for me not to make a sound, when I saw the ground outside, the earthy yellow ant army rushing forward like a tide.
After about ten minutes, the ant colony on the ground began to thin out. Yellow fur tugged at the corners of our coats and motioned for us to go inside, so we pressed our backs against the rock wall and rubbed deeper into the cracks.
As we got farther and farther away from the road, Bao Bao whispered to us, "I found that this ant colony relies on sound to distinguish the way, we must be lighter, but don't provoke those ancestors back." Huang Mao and I nodded obediently, so we rubbed it more harder, and we tried not to make a little noise.
At first we thought it was just a narrow crack, so we had to hide a little further in and wait for the colony to disperse before we went out. Unexpectedly, we leaned in, the more we walked the cave got bigger, the original oblique body still felt a little narrow, now I can twist the body a little right, and then go in dozens of meters, the gap becomes wider and wider, and I was surprised to find that there are traces of artificial excavation on the rock wall, which makes me surprised and at the same time has a trace of comfort. At least we're not the first people to be here, which means we're not the first to be unlucky.
Now we can walk normally, and when I look back at the direction we just walked, I can't see the end at all. We walked forward for about ten meters in a muffled voice, and when I was sure that I was absolutely safe, I sighed, "I said leather bag, isn't it a bit unrighteous for us to do this?" β
"Why not be righteous?"
"Leave them alone, a few of us are alive, but what about them?" People are like this, just thinking that they have to run away from others to survive, but when you find out that you are really alive, you immediately reveal the bodhisattva's heart.
"It's good for them to leave us, they are at least a large army, with food and pay. What do we have? Then Leather Bag looked at the two of us, "There are two mentally retarded." β
I didn't give an opinion, after all, this guy just saved me. I looked at Huang Mao, "Why did this kid come along?" β
"He ran behind me, saw me go into the cave, and followed."
Huang Mao smiled at the two of us, as if to express his gratitude. I don't reject the person Huang Mao himself, but since he made an almost 255 inference in front of the old tree, I only have three words of impression of this person - big fool.
Fortunately, this guy still has a gun in his hand, proving that he still has the value of existence. We sat down in the more spacious part of the hallway (I think that's more appropriate now).
Huang Mao took out a bottle of water from his backpack, and we took turns to drink it. Now only the items in his backpack are normal supplies, and since the bag and I lost our bags, we have only been given a flashlight, a little water and a few compressed biscuits, and don't even think about weapons and equipment.
I told Bao Bao'er that you see this rock wall seems to have been taken care of by hand, Bao Bao looked at it and nodded, saying that maybe he wanted to open up the two sides.
"Enough to eat?"
Bao Er shook her head, "Then I don't know, it doesn't look like that group of American soldiers did it." The traces are good from a long time ago, and it may be the Ming Dynasty. β
I laughed, "What? You believe the blind guess with glasses, and you believe it on the basis of an inference that no one can convince? Do you really think there is any treasure of the Ming Dynasty down here, you are too naΓ―ve, people just built the tomb there, what did they do with the troops here, why didn't they say. Maybe it was a decision made by Zhu Laoba on a whim? β
Then I looked at Huang Mao with some amusement, hoping that Huang Mao would laugh at this obsessive fool with me. Huang Mao stared blankly at the other end of the corridor, and it took a long time to come to his senses, "I believe it!" β
"Crazy, all crazy. You ......" Before I could scold, Huang Mao pointed to the end of the corridor for us to see.
Because we were sitting in a corner, Bag and I were both sitting cross-legged on the inside, and only Huang Mao was sitting outside, just in time to see the end of the hallway.
Seeing Huang Mao's expression, the two of us quickly stood up and looked. In fact, this is the last bend in this corridor, and after turning the bend and walking more than ten meters, we will reach another secret room, and we cannot see the whole picture of the secret room now. But the flashlight hit, and through the entrance of the corridor, we could still clearly see that the things in the secret room reflected dazzling light like jewels, and we couldn't open our eyes.
"Perhaps, we've really found the treasure." I whispered, stood up and walked over.