Chapter 018: Hard-Boiled Eggs
Finally, the two teams converged, and our third and second teams successfully met, and the next question was how to find the first team. Zhao Jinfu is most worried about the old money of the police in the first team, he has no military training, and he is afraid that he is prone to negligence when dealing with emergencies.
I gave a suggestion that the gunfire was actually a good way to guide the way, and the road signs we left behind would not be effective for a few hours, so we could go to the last glow stick and fire the gun to guide the first team.
Zhao Jinfulian said that this is a good way, and now we have forty people and dozens of guns, and no matter what danger there is, it is enough to deal with it. Without further ado, everyone packed up their gear and set off for their destination together.
As for the disappearance of footprints, I asked Zhao Jinfu to give me some more time to think about it, and when I get to my destination, I will study the soil on the ground, and I should be able to find some clues.
All the team members set off together this time, and Lao Zhao arranged for a group of ten people, opened some distance between the front and back, and marched along the light sticks on the ground. Lao Zhao personally opened the way, and I was placed in the last group.
These fighters have lived and trained together for many years, and the degree of cooperation with each other is very high, everyone lined up and echoed back and forth, and soon returned to the last position of the glow stick.
The addition of the second team replenished our supplies, so I suggested that we continue to move forward for a while, or leave a coordinate at intervals, so that the further we go, the faster we can meet with the first team.
Lao Zhao agreed, and we continued to move forward for about five or six hundred meters before stopping.
The four groups of people still maintained an effective warning distance, Zhao Jinfu looked around, and saw that there was nothing abnormal, so he took out his pistol and fired three shots in a row.
Gunfire echoed all around, breaking the dead silence once more. Zhao Jinfu is very particular about the three shots, the speed and frequency before and after the gunshots all imply a kind of summoning meaning, if a team of people is really nearby, and hear these three gunshots, they will definitely fire a gun in response.
In such an open space, the sound of gunfire can be heard far away, and we can only hope that this is the only way. But we also take into account that Lao Qian is a native of the local, maybe he is not affected by various instruments or even a compass, and with his own experience, he may lead a team in the right direction. So we were prepared to get no response.
While Zhao Jin was busy in front, I pulled out my sapper shovel and began to dig on the ground. I always thought there was something wrong with the soil in this huge pit, so I took this opportunity to study it. Several of the soldiers next to me were shining for me with tactical flashlights, and they were curious about what would lie beneath the ground.
After digging a few shovels, all I picked up was ordinary dirt, but it was very soft and nothing special. I continued to dig downward, and when I had reached a depth of about 30 centimeters, I suddenly felt as if the sapper shovel had touched something soft.
I'm sure it's not dirt, because that thing seems to be bouncy. Surprised, I put the sapper shovel aside, put on gloves and began to dig with my hands. After a few handfuls of dirt were removed, a strange milky white thing appeared in front of my eyes.
I was stunned, I didn't expect to dig up such a thing, and even the soldiers who were helping me with the flashlight on the side looked at each other, not knowing why.
I stared at the milky white thing for a long time, thinking about everything I knew, and I still couldn't guess what it was.
I had the audacity to poke my fingers at the milky white surface, soft, but tough. I stood up and stepped on it with my foot, and I could clearly feel a piece sinking under my feet. I removed my feet and crouched down to remove the dirt that had covered me, only to see that the milky white thing had clearly collapsed under my step.
I took a flashlight from a warrior and shone it on the milky white object, and this time I could see clearly that the place I had stepped on was slowly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"What the is this?" I couldn't help but cry out.
A soldier next to me saw all this and said to me, "Team Qin, this seems to be a gummy!" ”
I know what he meant by gummies, indeed! This analogy is quite apt. I beckoned a few soldiers to continue digging around the pit I had dug, and I could only see that I couldn't tell what it was, and if I dug a little more, I might be able to see the general shape of the thing.
Four or five warriors started digging with sapper shovels, and I told them, "Be careful, don't cut this thing too hard." "I have a vague feeling that this milky white thing looks like a shell, and the blade of the sapper shovel is relatively sharp, and if it is damaged, I don't know what lies underneath.
The speed of the crowd was as fast as it was short, and after a while, the soldiers dug up an egg-like thing about a meter long and half a meter wide.
I stared at it for a long time, and found that the whole thing was milky white, very similar to a peeled hard-boiled egg. I stepped on it a few more times with my foot in different places, and it was all soft.
There's a skinless "hard-boiled egg" buried in the ground, which is too.
A soldier suddenly shouted, "Team Qin, there is still here." He dug all the way out, and found that there was another identical "boiled egg" next to the "boiled egg", although the appearance was a little different, but the size was about the same.
"Team Qin, there are still here too!" Another warrior shouted.
In the blink of an eye, the fighters dug out three or four of these milky white "boiled eggs" in a row, and they were jagged together and buried under the soil.
At this time, Zhao Jin helped him over, obviously not getting any response. His originally somewhat depressed face suddenly saw these things under the soil, and his eyes suddenly widened.
"What is this?" He asked me wonderingly, "Why does it look so much like a hard-boiled egg?" ”
"Eggs! Egg! I pondered in my heart, suddenly woke up, and said to everyone urgently: "It's not an egg, this seems to be an egg!" ”
Everyone was startled and immediately took a few steps back, all taken aback by what I said.
"Are you sure? How can there be such a big egg? Zhao Jinfu was also a little surprised, and asked me in disbelief.
I'm just guessing, but subconsciously I think I'm right.
I lowered my voice and said to Zhao Jinfu, "Although I doubt it, this is very likely. I tried it just now, and these milky white exterior have a soft tenacity, and if you step on it, it will leave a mark, but it will quickly recover itself, which is why it doesn't take long for the footprints to disappear after we walk on them. Because the place we stepped on was automatically restored! ”
Zhao Jinfu gasped and said to me, "If this is according to what you say, is this kind of thing buried under the whole pit?" So how big is that? ”
I added: "I don't just think it's just the surface layer, I'm afraid there are many layers of this kind of thing under this layer!" ”
According to my thoughts, this mysterious round pit is simply a wormhole, and it is used to store the eggs.
This is too exaggerated, Zhao Jinfu was shocked by my statement.
He glanced around and asked me, "If this is an egg, how big does it have to be to lay it?" I don't believe there are such big bugs in this world. And you said that there are countless insect eggs underneath, so if they all hatch, it will really become a movie act, and the earth has long been occupied by insects! I don't believe it. ”
After listening to Lao Zhao's statement, I can't argue with it, he is right, if there were such a large insect, it would not have climbed out of the mountain to conquer the world long ago.
While we were discussing, there was a sudden cacophony of gunfire from the sound of dozens of guns firing at the same time, as chaotic and irregular as firecrackers, mixed with the sound of pistols.
Zhao Jinfu and I glanced at each other and shouted at the same time: "It's a team!" ”
A soldier with a better ear shouted at us, "Right in front of us!" The distance is about 1,500 meters. ”
Zhao Jinfu shouted: "The third team comes with me, Qin Jun, you take the second team to follow us, keeping a tactical distance of fifty meters." Shouting, Zhao Jinfu had already rushed out first.
The soldiers' guns are one for each person, and I have returned the 95 rifle I borrowed before to the soldier, at this time I pulled out my 92 pistol, turned on the insurance, and waited until Zhao Jinfu's team ran 50 meters, and shouted to the soldiers of the second team: "Go!" ”
The gunfire continued, we followed the sound all the way, the distance of more than 1,000 meters was only a few minutes away, we were all anxious, a few minutes of distance felt so far away.
The gunfire began to thin out from the previous mess, and I had a very bad feeling. It is estimated that Zhao Jinfu had the same idea as me, and he was eager to shoot three times at the sky. It's telling your teammates to hold on, and support is already on the way.
The gunfire in the distance continued to weaken, and halfway through the run, I felt like I was hearing only half of the gunfire I had heard before.
What really happened to the first team? They fired so many shots, and if they were attacked by that group of missing people, they wouldn't have fired so indiscriminately, and the other side was only four or five people. To be able to make them shoot so without any scruples, they must have run into big/trouble.
And what worries me even more is, why is this gunfire getting less and less?
We had run fast enough, but we couldn't catch up with the gunfire that had gone away, and when we were still a hundred or two hundred meters away from the position of the first team, we could only hear the intermittent sound of gunfire in our ears.
In my anxiety, I noticed that Zhao Jinfu, who was in front of me, suddenly stopped. I hurried forward, and the sight in front of me made my heart tighten.
Not far from us, on the ground, fell two warriors.
It was none other than the two soldiers of the previous team, lying there motionless, uncertain about their life and death, but Zhao Jinfu kept calm, asked everyone not to approach, and raised their weapons to be on high alert.
The warriors were loaded with bullets, their eyes burning with rage, and they searched everywhere for the enemy who was attacking a group. But in the more than ten seconds of alerting, silence returned to the surroundings, as if the fierce gunfight had never happened just now.
Zhao Jinfu wanted to bring someone over to check on the situation of the fallen soldier, but I grabbed him.
"You are in charge of guarding, I will take the medical guards over, if you find something wrong, you can organize an attack." I said quickly.