Chapter 626: One Less
Wu Ze didn't know what was going on now, but when he saw Lao Tie's extremely excited face, he knew that it wasn't a bad thing.
The thought in his mind turned, and at that moment, Wu Ze had already understood, these wild camels, they survive in this desert all year round, they should know where to hide from the storm, maybe Lao Tie now just wants to run with these wild camels, so he will command all the camels in the camel team to stand up.
After figuring this out, Wu Ze hurriedly gestured and asked the other members of the delegation to ride on the camels as quickly as possible, ready to follow the footsteps of those wild camels and flee for their lives.
The five wild camels obviously spotted Wu Ze's group as well, but they didn't pay attention to it and ran over a few meters away from Wu Ze and them.
The desire to survive made everyone's actions much faster, and under Wu Ze's instructions, it only took them a short time for everyone to get on the camel and get ready to go.
At the moment when the five camels ran past him, Lao Tie took the lead in urging the camels under him to chase in the direction where the five wild camels were running.
At the moment of running, Lao Tie whistled several times in a row, and commanded the camel teams carrying supplies to run together.
The other members of the expedition team also immediately urged the camels under their crotches to follow Lao Tie's footsteps closely and chase in the direction of those wild camels.
In this environment full of yellow sand, the range that these people could see was really not far, and Wu Ze could only vaguely see the yellow figures of the wild camels in front of him now.
Fortunately, there was a young wild camel in this group of wild camels, which made their overall speed slow down a lot, which gave Wu Ze's team of heavy camels the opportunity to escape with them.
At this time, even Lao Tie couldn't take care of the camel's foot strength anymore, and everyone urged the camels under their crotches to try to make them run as fast as possible, in order to catch up with the footsteps of the five wild camels in front.
The camels seemed to know the danger they were facing, and at the urging of the members of the expedition, they raised their hooves and ran forward with all their strength.
Just when these camels were foaming at the mouth and were about to be unable to support it, the terrain in front of them rose sharply, and a protruding sand mountain appeared in front of them, and the five wild camels running in front of them quickly ran towards the sand mountain, and in a blink of an eye, they disappeared behind the sand mountain.
The people in the expedition group were in a hurry, if these wild camels were allowed to run away, they would only be left waiting to be baptized by the sandstorm in this vast desert.
At this time, the sky was getting darker and darker, coupled with the yellow sand in the sky, the visibility around was getting lower and lower, and basically even the sky and the earth were about to be indistinguishable, and it was obvious that a huge sandstorm was coming.
So everyone slapped the camels under their crotches desperately, and they couldn't care about anything now, so they wanted them to run a little faster.
These camels also exerted their last strength at this moment, rushing towards the sand mountain in front of them, and when they rushed to the sand mountain, the members of the expedition group found that behind the sand mountain, there was a ruined ancient city hidden.
This ruined ancient city has existed in this great desert for I don't know how many years, most of its buildings have collapsed or been flooded by yellow sand, and the remaining rammed city walls have long since become the same color as the surrounding yellow sand.
This ancient city, which has been carved over countless years, is difficult to see from a distance that there is a hidden ruins of an ancient city because there is a sand mountain in front of it that blocks the view.
Looking at the still towering city walls in this dilapidated ancient city, everyone was overjoyed, although this ancient city was dilapidated, but the few sections of the city walls they left behind were at least three or four meters high, and in the ancient city, there were also some houses that had not completely collapsed, and this place should be able to escape this dangerous sandstorm.
At this time, they didn't bother to find out where the wild camels in front of them had gone, Lao Tie led them to the ancient city, and after a while, they found a place with three relatively intact walls, similar to a room.
In this room that has long been without a roof, there are at least three walls that can block the wind and sand, and I think this place can still hide from this impending sandstorm.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they had finally escaped death, and the members of the expedition rode their camels to the outside of this room with three walls, intending to stay in this place to escape the wind and sand.
After all the people and the camels gathered outside this room, Wu Ze's eyes swept around, and suddenly, he found that one of the camels was empty, and between the humps of this camel, he didn't see anything.
Wu Ze's heart suddenly changed, this is the person riding on the camel who fell? Or did the supplies on the camel's back have been lost? If it's just a material loss, it's not a big deal, but if it's a loss of people, it's a very fatal thing.
At this moment, Wu Ze couldn't take care of his breath, he quickly began to count the number of people.
But as soon as he counted it like this, Wu Ze's heart was cool and cool, because in this team of eleven people, he counted left and right, and only counted ten heads.
Wu Ze counted them one by one, in this team, the colorless Professor Zhang Qichen was still lying on the camel he was riding, and the pale Li Yujuan was still holding the camel's hump tightly, Luo Fatzi was there, Jiang Yan was also there, Liu Rumei was jumping off the camel with a relaxed face, Li Jiahao, Qian Wenxuan, Zeng Xuhui These guys are still there.
After all, in this team, only Zhang Qichen's assistant Xu Weidong is missing.
"Have you seen Xu Weidong?" Wu Ze shouted in a deep voice.
In this dilapidated hall, most of the wind and sand raging outside were obscured by the three towering walls, and he finally did not expect a large amount of yellow sand to be stuffed into his mouth as he spoke.
Everyone in the inspection group was stopped by Wu Ze's sudden question, they look at me, I look at you, they all looked at each other, just now everyone was only concerned about fleeing for their lives, and they didn't notice whether this Xu Weidong was in the team or not.
Everyone's hearts sank, and a huge sandstorm was about to blow outside, this Xu Weidong didn't know where to go, in this case, if he was left alone outside, the final result would definitely be very tragic.