He muttered to himself suspiciously. "What is this doing?"

"Brother Feng, do you want to wake up the others?"

"No, you go and call Khasilla, don't alarm the others, everyone is tired from traveling for the past few days, let's sleep peacefully, and you tell me to go down and light a fire on the left and right of each tent."

His men were very obedient and immediately did as he was told.

It is likely that the man's death was killed by some kind of blood-squirming animal that lived in the desert. But for so many days, except for the occasional wild camel in the desert, the remaining living creatures were vultures flying in mid-air looking for dead animals to eat. In addition, there are animals such as sand rabbits, sand foxes, and lizards in the desert. But I've never heard of an animal that specializes in sucking human blood for a living?

Besides, that thing can drain all the blood in the body of a large living person in one go, so it's not small!

Not long after, Cashuira ran over in sexy pajamas, and she saw the corpse lying on the ground from a distance, and she was also shocked.

"Blood sucked dry?" Khashura asked them.

"I was about to ask you, is there such an animal in the Taklamakan ?

"You two get out of the way." Khasira told them to step back, keeping a safe distance from the corpse. She descended, slowly searching down the small hole in the corpse's neck.

She pulled off the corpse's coat and found that a raised vein stretched under the skin as if a raised vein had extended further down the small hole to the corpse's lower abdomen. But in normal people, there will be absolutely no blood vessels in this area.

"What is this?" Chang Xiaoman asked her with a flashlight.

"If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be called a sand dragon. The sand dragon is an extremely rare blood-eating animal, hiding under thick sand during the day to maintain its body temperature, and at night it will quietly walk in the sand in search of prey. Khasilla explained.

"What? Sand Dragon? I have only heard that there is a snow dragon living in the extremely cold area of the Xing'an Mountains in the northeast, and the snow dragon is a rare medicinal material, and it is a heavenly spirit treasure in the eyes of the treasure holders, how? Is it a close relative of the Sand Disaurus? Is it also a mutated large earthworm? ”

Khashura didn't know much about the Central Plains culture, so he could only echo him: "If you don't understand it that way, it's not wrong, but this kind of thing is very aggressive, its stomach can never be filled, and the more it eats, the bigger it gets, and it can live for seventy or eighty years." ”

Xiao Man asked her again if this incident was an accident, in the middle of the night, if there was not much danger, don't announce the bad news to everyone for the time being, otherwise it will make everyone panic.

"No, I'm not done yet, when I was a child, I heard the imam say that the sand dragons live in groups. It's dangerous for us to set up camp here, and it's likely that the sand dragon's lair is right underfoot, so it's best to get out of here! She said as she pulled a sharp knife from her long hair on top of her head.

Whoosh down, the knife fell, picking open the "blood vessel" under the skin of the corpse's abdomen. Ma Chengfeng saw it clearly, only to see a red fleshy maggot as long as a human arm jumping out from under the skin of the corpse. In front of the guy's head is a prototype mouth, although there are no sharp teeth in the mouth, but there is a long, thin tongue, which is probably used to suck human plasma.

The guy's body was very soft, his body was already bulging, and after jumping out, he still stretched out his mouth and opened his mouth, and stuck out his tongue and added it to Khashura's neck. Khajura tilted her head and cut it off with a knife in her right hand.

Whoa...... The blood-red viscous liquid all flowed out of its body, and in an instant, its elastic body shrank again, and finally became the size of a human index finger.

"Let's go! Tell all of them to light torches, this thing is afraid of heat! Khasira shouted.

Ma Chengfeng didn't dare to hold it up when he saw this posture, so he quickly rang the gong, woke everyone up, and told everyone to pack up their bags and baggage, and hurry overnight to leave this ghost place.

Everyone looked frightened, and immediately lit torches and put their burdens on their hunchbacks.

"Brother Feng, ...... again Two brothers missing? ”

In the other two directions of the camp, there were two more dried corpses. Ma Chengfeng didn't expect that there was so much attention to settling down in the desert, and a little carelessness would make him break three brothers.

"Everyone, get on the camel! Let's go! "None of the people have ever seen such a terrible monster, they are all frightened, where is there a sense of direction? Wherever the camel in front of him goes, the people behind him follow, like a deserter who has lost his armor.

Fortunately, the loss was not big, and the discovery was timely enough, fortunately Khasilla understood the local environment, otherwise maybe no one would have to open their eyes tomorrow morning. Soon, the caravan escaped from this dangerous area and continued to walk towards the end of the desert in the moonlight.

Behind the caravan are Kashura and Chu Tianyue, for some reason, these two girls may have prejudices against each other, and they will never say more than half a word to each other unless it is an important matter along the way.

"Khasilla? What did you just call that blood-sucking monster? Chu Tianyue suddenly stopped her.

At this time, the two of them were already more than ten meters away from the camel caravan, and no one could hear their conversation.

"Sand Dragon? What's wrong? ”

"Hehe......" Chu Tianyue sneered. Does Cheng Feng believe this? ”

"What do you mean?" Kashura grabbed the reins and glared at her angrily.

"I'm engaged in archaeology, although I haven't been to Taklamakan in person, but my brothers and my teachers often come here to excavate the ruins of the ancient city in the Western Regions, why have I never heard them mention it?"

"There are many unknown secrets in the Western Desert, and you are archaeologists, not biologists."

Chu Tianyue pushed the wide-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose and smiled faintly. "Huh...... Is it? But as far as I know, that kind of thing should be called a Western Regions blood leech, right? This insect was thought to have been extinct until the end of the last century, when a strange disease broke out in a small European town, people were bitten by unknown poisonous mosquitoes, and the venom would instantly erode the patient's organs, and if you want to live, you must suck the poisonous blood in your body as soon as possible. It just so happened that there was a gypsy witch in that small European city, and in order to save people, the witch took out a few Western Regions blood leeches kept in bottles, and the leeches sucked the poisonous blood in the patient's body, and the doctor injected fresh blood into the patient's body, which saved thousands of people. At the time, this story made headlines! ”

"Humph! Chu Tianyue, your memory is so good! Why, do you archaeologists pay so much attention to interesting anecdotes from all over the world? Khashura asked contemptuously.

(End of chapter)