Chapter 7: The Frightened Camel
Zhang Siyuan's face was pale and out of breath, he covered his heart and said breathlessly: "Why didn't you use this kind of trick earlier, let your grandfather and I jump up and down in vain, and I was scared for a long time." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Hu San grabbed him and said angrily: "Do you think it was caught lying upright on the ground with his hands tied?" This dead bug is jumping from side to side like a mad worm, and it's ready to kiss you with its teeth! You're saying it so simply, why didn't you kill it at the time? ”
Zhang Siyuan smiled and waved his hand, stepped aside and kicked the giant insect coldly, seeing that it didn't even move, he muttered to himself: "It looks like it's dead." How can there be such strange insects in the desert? It looks like a beetle magnified countless times. ”
The head of the giant worm resembles a hedgehog, filled with daggers and darts. It had no chance of resurrection, and was lifeless on the ground, its half-open mouth filled with yellow sand, and black, foul-smelling blood poured out from under its body, polluting a large area of sand.
Katsuko sat on the camel and stared, her eyes blank, her body still trembling. When I saw that his soul was not possessed and his face was as earth-colored, I thought to myself that this is the common disease of young people, who usually cry and shout that they want to take risks, but when they encounter danger and almost die, their thoughts of retreat are fiercer than anyone else. I grabbed the camel and held out a hand to him, half jokingly and half unkindly, and said, "You just rode on a camel and ran around in the desert, how do you look more tired than those of us who rely on our feet?" Don't be in a daze, come down and drink saliva. ”
His lips moved as if to contradict me, and he trembled and took my hand and climbed down from the camel, almost falling on his heels. Seeing his pale face, I patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's just a dessert before the meal, and the real horror is yet to come." If you feel scared, you can quit now and go back, and then you won't have a chance. Take a step back, anyway, the cost of being a guide is also paid to your sister, and you don't lose at all. ”
His face turned red like a sunset, and he secretly glanced at the giant insect, and paused in place for a while before he said, "I won't turn around and leave...... How could there be such a monster in the desert, and why had I never heard of it! ”
Zhang Siyuan answered while checking something: "There are many monsters you haven't heard of, have you heard of the iron man who follows you in the primeval forest?" Have you ever seen a giant python that is three stories tall? Not only have I seen and heard of them, but I have also beaten them to the ground. ”
Wang Zhen dismantled the stage and said: "Don't brag, I think they beat you to the ground, so you can't keep it." ”
I was about to continue to destroy Zhang Siyuan's glorious image, when I suddenly caught a glimpse of Uncle Lu sitting alone on the side, leaning on the luggage with a melancholy look. Somehow, I suddenly remembered that he not only didn't talk much, but also didn't have any facial expressions along the way, and my heart chuckled, and I hurriedly walked over and leaned down and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
He shook his head, hesitated for a moment and smiled bitterly: "Somehow, as soon as I entered the desert, I felt that I had no strength, and I didn't bother to speak, I just wanted to lie on the sand and rest until it was dark." ”
I just thought that he was physically exhausted and frightened too much, so I didn't care much, and comforted casually: "Maybe the spirit is too nervous, you eat something to replenish your energy first, and I will carry the heavy things for you." ”
The most fortunate thing was that after the chaos, we found that we had lost nothing, even the large bag of dry food was intact and not broken at all. Packing my bags and just as I was about to leave, Katsuko suddenly stopped, walked over to the giant worm, and stomped on its head, almost splashing black pus and blood on my feet.
I jumped a few steps away and asked puzzledly: "How much hatred do you have, everyone is so miserable, and there is still a dead corpse?" ”
Katsuko glared at the corpse of the giant insect viciously, took a deep breath and turned his head: "I just messed up just now, I promise that next time I will not desert, you can't underestimate me again." ”
I said in my heart that this child is probably in puberty, and what he wants to save face is not ordinary, and he nodded: "Okay, as long as you can help us, your image in my heart will become a little taller." ”
The camel was so frightened by the giant insect that no matter how much we tried to drive it away or curse it, it always insisted on retreating and would not take a single step. Hu San sighed helplessly: "I didn't expect that the strongest camel looked like it was an embroidered pillow." It's good now, you can't drive it away, you can't fight it, what should I do? ”
Katsuko clinged to its ear, whispering and stroking and patting its neck and back, but it remained indifferent, still twisting its head backwards stubbornly. Wang Zhen became annoyed, and with great effort from the ground to half the corpse of the giant worm, he pushed Katsuko away and stood behind the camel and gently tugged at its tail.
The camel wagged its tail and became impatient, and turned its head to run in the direction in which it had come, but it was also confronted by a huge worm with a bloody mouth. It was so startled that it hissed, and Wang Zhen took the opportunity to carry the corpse of the giant insect and approached it. The poor camel was so frightened that he spun around in place, and was so completely disorganized that he almost fell to the ground. Still unrelenting, he grabbed its body and approached the panicked camel little by little, while chanting: "If you don't want to move on, I'll let this thing gnaw your ass......"
The camel neighed, stumbled away, and galloped wildly towards the desert. My heart sank violently, and I tried to stop it, but in a blink of an eye, it had run away. Hu San suddenly jumped up, chased it with all his might, seized the opportunity for it to catch its breath and jumped on its back with a difficult movement, and shouted: "See you in front in a while!" ”
I looked at its dust-swept back and looked at Wang Linshuo, Wang Zhen wiped the dirty blood on his hands and smiled embarrassedly: "I didn't have wisdom in a hurry, I had a bad idea." I just wanted to use it to scare the camel and make it move, but I didn't expect it to be so afraid of this monster that it couldn't stop as soon as it took a step. ”
I blamed him, but I was too embarrassed to say it. Wang Linshuo took out his GPS and stared at it carefully for a while, and suddenly said happily: "It has stopped, Hu San is now about two kilometers away from us." It's not too far, let's go over and find him. ”
Wang Zhen took the heaviest bag on his shoulders first, slapped Zhang Siyuan who was muttering and shouted, "Why are you thinking about being lazy all day long!" We're going to have to get over anyway, and you don't blame me anymore. No matter how bad my brain is, it's better than you, who goes out without a brain. ”
I took the opportunity to squeeze him and said, "No wonder you have a lump of meat on your stomach, it turns out that you always want to be lazy." I'm telling you, even if you want to ride a camel to rest, it won't be your turn, next time it's my turn, you go while you cool down. ”
At this time, it was noon, and a fire like a fire disk of the sun hung high overhead, sparing no effort to spread its enthusiasm to us who did not want to accept it. I felt like my whole body was roasted by fire, the heat was constantly coming out of my pores, and I was sweating, and I didn't feel the slightest coolness despite the wind blowing. If it's just hot, but my stomach screams out of time, and the hunger clenches my stomach and deprives me of strength, which makes me suddenly want to find a place to sit down, and I suddenly understand why Zhang Siyuan's desire to be lazy is so strong.
Seeing that he had been walking for almost half an hour but still hadn't seen Hu San and the camel, Uncle Lu muttered suspiciously, took out his GPS to take a look, suddenly stopped his steps, and shouted in a raised voice: "Stop, we've walked through!" ”
I was very puzzled, paused and said: "I only saw the vast yellow sand along the way, and there was no half a figure in my eyes, how could I just walk by?" ”
Uncle Lu's face was very ugly, he suddenly took out my GPS from my pocket, stared at it carefully, sweat dripping down his forehead. He frowned, looked back, and said tentatively, "The GPS shows that he is behind us...... Maybe he got around at some point, and we'll go back and see. ”
I felt a little furious in my heart, and felt that his explanation was a bit far-fetched, and walked slowly with the GPS and followed the route it marked, looking up and around from time to time, but I didn't even see a single figure. Seeing that we were getting closer and closer to Hu San's location, my cold sweat came down involuntarily, my back was hairy, and my voice trembled a little when I raised my head: "Could it be that the GPS is broken?" ”
Wang Linshuo frowned, clutched the GPS in his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "I hope that's the case too...... But it's not bad for everyone, it's not bad for everyone. Maybe he just dropped something here, and we're going to look for it. ”
When my position was attached to the little red dot representing Hu San, I took a deep breath and told myself to calm down and bury my head in the yellow sand. But no matter how deep we insert our fingers or how many grains of sand we dig out, our fingertips will always touch the coarse grains of sand.
The sweat on my head dripped into the desert, and I felt like I was panicking, and I forgot about hunger and exhaustion at once. I eagerly stood up and put my hands on the pergola to look into the distance, but I could never see any human beings but us.