But when I got back to the sheltered area, I couldn't help but be silent.

The storm swept through the night, and I thought this was a place of peace, but I didn't expect to come back and see a corpse lying there, yes, a corpse! All the members of the archaeological team died.

The two people who were not stuck at the ruins of the ancient castle before, their faces turned completely pale, and they only heard Xiao Mo whisper in disbelief: "How can this be?" The team member who had fallen behind rushed forward with a scream, but stopped abruptly, stunned by the tragic situation of his companions. I looked around, and I vaguely understood what was happening, and my heart was sad and painful, even though I had only been with them for dozens of days, and basically never spoke, but I still felt sad to see such a tragic situation.

Human life is really so small for this desert.

"Alive, Xiao Zhang is still alive!" Suddenly I heard my teammates shouting, Xiao Mo ran forward, and when I slowly walked to the front, I knew at a glance that this person had not lived long, his lower limbs were gone, his eyes were empty and desperate, and his lips trembled to say something. Xiao Mo leaned down to listen, and when he raised his head, the man had already lost his breath, and he caressed the other party's eyes.

Teammates asked, "What did Xiao Zhang say?" Xiao Mo squinted his eyes and looked solemn, "What a big mouse!" ”

My heart trembled, big rat?! As soon as I looked around, I guessed that they must have encountered a beast that had taken refuge in the storm, and together with the storm, some beasts hiding somewhere were also driven away, and there was a barrier here, so naturally they would rush to come, and then they met humans and started a strangulation. But I never thought it would be a rat attack, and where did the giant rat come from? Soul City! I haven't forgotten the scene of the worship of ten thousand beasts at that time, all the animals in the soul city have undergone abnormal changes, and they are several times larger than any ordinary ones. Even in that similar workshop area where I first entered the Soul City, I also encountered a huge rat in person, or ...... It was Sheng Shiyao who came in time to save me.

Another fact proves the mutation of the Soul City, after the group of giant animals got out of the magnetic field space, they were buried under the sand, and most of them would suffocate to death, but the giant rats would drill holes, and the storm drove them all up, and a tragedy happened!

The teammates finally recovered from the shock and began to cry bitterly. Xiao Mo also sat in place in a daze, his eyes dazed. Anyone would be sad, but in one night, life and death would be separated. We can only be glad that we went out to find someone, otherwise we might end up like them.

I thought about it for a moment and whispered, "Bury them." "It's impossible to take the corpses out, but you can't just expose the corpses to the wilderness. But after I finished saying this, I saw Xiao Mo looking at him angrily and asking, "Cheng Xiao, don't you have a heart?" Even if these many people are not related to you, but they are also together, you can be so indifferent! ”

Am I stunned, indifferent? He didn't know that I had experienced a situation a hundred times more tragic than this, watching my companions shattered in front of me one by one, and seeing countless ghosts and ghosts or bloody corpses crawling all over the ground, so in the face of the situation in front of me, even if I was sad, I would not be able to express it anymore. After thinking about it, I felt that it was better to explain: "I'm just ......" But before I could finish my rebuttal, the teammate next to Xiao Mo interrupted me angrily: "It's all because of you, if you didn't want to go to this desert, none of them would have died, you killed them!" ”

An arrow stepped forward and grabbed the placket of his chest, "What did you say?" ”

Xiao Mo slapped his palm and slapped the back of my hand fiercely, although I didn't let go, the back of my hand immediately turned red. The speed of his palm is really fast! I turned my eyes to look at him in surprise, only to see that the expression on his face was only Xiao Leng, "Cheng Xiao, to be honest, our team does not belong to the regular archaeological team, someone hired us at a high price, and the purpose is to protect you to walk in this desert safely." Of the entire team, only three were archaeologists, and the rest were brothers I had brought with me. ”

I didn't know how to describe the shock in my heart, and I asked in a trembling voice, "Who hired you?" "Is it Sheng Shiyao? Did he arrange for these people to accompany me on this trip to the desert? But Xiao Mo's answer disappointed me: "A man surnamed Zhuang, he said his name is Zhuang Yu, you should know him." "Yes, Zhuang Yu, how can it be Sheng Shiyao? Zhuang Yu did not lose his soul, he was conscious, with his wisdom, he was enough to guess that my next stop would be to come to this desert to find someone, and then during my stay in Jinsha Ancient Town, he found Xiao Mo's group of people to help me go to the desert. Let's just say that when I found this Xiao Mo to discuss joining the team, how could it be so easy, it turned out that everything was arranged.

I let go of my grip on the teammate and asked silently, "So ...... you are"

"Sand Walker." Xiao Mo replied in a deep voice, "We are a group of special people who often wander in the desert, and we often receive some such orders, but in the past, we only drove to protect some transport convoys. This time, I didn't expect it to be so tragic. ”

Hearing him talk about the equipment, his eyes swept to their baggage scattered around the side, some of which were bitten open, and he hadn't noticed it before, only then did he realize that there were guns inside. In other words, when this group of giant rats appeared, they were killed before they even had time to open their bags and pick up their guns. This is unreasonable, no matter how bad a person's alertness is, it is impossible to wait for the rat to arrive at his side to find out, not to mention that from Xiao Mo's voice, it can be heard that they are a group of teams with experience in fierce battles in the sand, and when there is a movement, they should be aware of it.

Judging from the speed at which Xiao Mo slashed the back of my hand just now, and I couldn't dodge, he left a hand before. It seems that when all of us arrived here for shelter, his teammates must have pretended to be wilting, so that he had to protect me himself, so he called me to go with him. At that time, I wondered how I could call an outsider and the only woman in the team to go on an adventure, and the reason was here.

After that, they ignored me, dug a huge pit nearby, carried the bodies of their companions into it, and covered them with sand. Looking at this scene, I was numb from body to heart, and I had been walking all the way for dozens of days before, sighing and feeling sad, but when I knew that this group of people walked in the desert this time to protect me, the guilt was derived and flooded.

Stiffly leaning against the stone wall behind him, he stared at Xiao Mo standing in front of a stone wall, carving something on the stone with a military knife. After looking at it for a while, he realized that he was originally carving the names of those people, and there was no way to erect a monument here, so he could only engrave the names of all the deceased on the stone wall that was erected here, and regard it as their common stone monument.

Wait, Stone Wall? Suddenly, an electric light crossed my mind, and I suddenly turned around, carefully looked at the stone wall leaning on behind me, and then looked at the place where Xiao Moke carved, this seemingly irregular two-sided stone wall, about five or six meters wide and about ten meters high, like a natural barrier. I thought this was a ruin in the dark, but the stone wall was so irregular that there were no traces of man-made construction. More and more clear answers poured into the bottom of my heart, this is ...... That Bat Mountain in the Soul City, the top of the Bat King's habitat!

No wonder everyone was wiped out in an instant, because they didn't come from a distance, but out of the sand pile, and it was almost conceivable that everyone was stunned when a group of giant rats suddenly burst through the sand and appeared in sight. Before he could take out his weapon to resist, he was killed by the group of giant rats like a raging wind.

I can't fool myself anymore, the Soul City is gone, and even the cave of the Bat King is submerged under this sea of sand. What if Sheng Shiyao was in that cave? I began to dig into the sand with my hands like crazy, telling myself that it was impossible, that he would not be buried underneath.

The sand was like flowing water, digging out and sliding down, and I dug until my hands were about to break, and I only dug more than a meter deep.

Xiao Mo asked indifferently, "What are you crazy about?" He looked up blankly and was sluggish for two seconds before he hurriedly asked: "Help me dig this sand, people are buried underneath, help me dig it." He didn't move, but just asked, "Who is buried underneath?" ”

I lowered my eyes in silence, and a mocking voice was above my head: "Is it the person you are looking for?" If he had been buried under the sand, he would have died a long time ago, and you would not have been able to save him even if you cut off your hand. I shook my head, "No, he's not going to die." You don't know what's going on, but what is on the surface of the dust is actually the top of a mountain, and halfway up the mountain, there's a huge cave, and he's in there, so ......"

"So you don't think he's going to die?" Xiao Mo's eyes were more sympathetic than indifferent, and he said: "Cheng Xiao, you are very pathetic, knowing that he was submerged under this sand in that cave, and he would suffocate to death without air, but he was still paranoid and deceived himself. Halfway up the mountain, right, do you want to dig there with your bare hands? A mountain is a few tens of meters shorter, a few hundred meters high, you might as well measure that height and see if this suggestion of digging sand with bare hands is feasible. ”

The height of the mountain? I closed my eyes in pain and fell backwards, slamming into the sand, my face covered in grit. The mountain was at least a few hundred meters high, and the height from the ground to the bat cave alone was nearly a hundred meters or so. Xiao Mo directly broke the bottom line I insisted on and exposed the fact that I dare not admit that people digging sand with their bare hands may be able to dig three meters, five meters, or even ten meters and twenty meters deep, but how can they dig 100 meters deep? Flooded by layers of sand and detached from the unique magnetic field space, where is there still air circulation?

The withered belief is simply vulnerable, and I have no choice but to let despair wander through my heart.

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