Chapter 8: Bug Panic
The yellow sand was long, the dark clouds were overwhelming, and the car did not know which direction to go.
"Parking. An Yi found a person lying on the sand, face down motionless, dressed in black and masked, it should be an Arab woman.
Having just escaped from the cannibals, the three of them did not dare to rush out of the car, An Yi let her husband and sister stay in the car, and walked towards the woman alone with a gun.
An Yi turned her over and lifted the veil, she was the woman who gave the three people a cake in the bomb shelter. After detecting a snort, An Yi fed her water and guarded her from being harmed by wild beasts.
Kaiming didn't want to stay in the car either, so he carefully moved his injured foot, got out of the car, and sat on the sand with his back to the wheels.
"You just picked up your life, why do you look sullen?" Anqi closed the car door and sat next to him, and the two looked at An Yi from a distance.
Kemin thought for a long time, and then said, "Sometimes I wonder if she really loves me?"
Angel turned her head to look at him, but didn't speak.
"Did you know?* The bullets fired are balls of steel that disintegrate when discharged, causing face-to-face injuries to people. At that time, I was entangled with the man, and An Yi did not hesitate to shoot, never thinking that the bullet would have a chance to hit me. ”
"You're thinking too much. My sister didn't know how to use firearms, and she just wanted to save you. ”
"Maybe. ”
"I'm curious, how did you come together?"
"Your sister is particularly difficult to chase. ”
Angel smiled, "I know. ”
Kaiming recalled that when he was in college, "An Yi is beautiful and has good grades, and naturally there are many admirers, and the most skinny person is me." I would go to her every day after school and bring a rose or a small gift, but she always ignored me, and it was this cold temperament that made me even more fascinated. In the past, she had a boyfriend, and for some reason they broke up, just one rainy day, I met her at the door of the library without an umbrella, and the two of them walked in the drizzle with an umbrella. ”
"So you caught my sister's emotional gap. Angel asked.
"Yes, it feels like a thief. Cumming shrugged, "I often worry that she walked with me on impulse. ”
Angel pushed him, "You are stupid, my sister will not marry someone she doesn't like on impulse." She loves you, just isn't good at expressing feelings. ”
"She married me, and she married the job at the same time. He had to think that his wife had frustrated him every time he had behaved since he got married, and that he had been on this honeymoon with unknown intentions.
Angel stared at him and said, "You're like a crying kid who can't get candy right now. ”
"Me?" said Kemin's mouth arched in an O-shape.
"Remember last night when we discussed whether or not to park, you advocated parking, but my sister disagreed, and your fragile man's pride felt insulted, so now you gagged with her and distorted her to satisfy your poor and weak heart. ”
"You say I'm careful?"
Kai Ming was about to argue with her, but she grabbed him and said, "Although my sister is a workaholic, she is very serious about her feelings and will never act hastily. ”
At this time, An Yi called them in the distance, and the Arab woman woke up, who had been separated from her husband and children while fleeing, and had fainted in the desert due to dehydration. The three of them learned from her that thirty kilometers away from here is the pyramid tourist area.
After about five minutes of westward travel, the occupants of the vehicle saw a pointed diamond-shaped corner, around a sand dune, and the whole pyramid appeared in front of them.
They got out of the car and walked into the service area, there was no one at the gate, and there was a set of security guard's clothes on the ground. An Yi rummaged through it, and the wallet keys were all there, but the person was gone.
Everyone didn't pay much attention to it, and walked into a store again, and there were piles of clothes on the floor, some men and some women.
Angel looked at the empty store and said, "Something doesn't seem right. ”
My sister pushed her and said, "Don't worry about it, let's get some necessities first and leave quickly." ”
Kaiming was left alone in the car because of a foot injury, and the pyramid made of huge stones was outside, and when you looked up from below, you could really feel its grandeur, which was completely different from what it used to look like in pictures and images.
He'd heard of the Pyramid of Khufu, was there really a mummy in it? But he didn't want to go in, and his ankle still ached.
A white dove perched on the head of the sphinx, two small round eyes looking around, flapping its wings and landing on the sand near the car.
Kemin saw it pecking at a black beetle, the size of a human hand, with a sturdy hard shell that would not run away even if it was pecked by a bird. The first time he saw such a large beetle, Kemin thought it was a novelty, and to his surprise, the beetle in turn grabbed the pigeon with six legs and kept biting its neck, and the blood immediately stained the white feathers red.
Blood dripped on the sand, and another big beetle came out of the ground and competed with its companions for the pigeons, and the movement led to more beetles, more and more in number, and they tore and devoured the pigeons, and the scene was bloody, and soon, not even a single feather remained.
A large number of hungry beetles lost their target, and one of them stretched out two tentacles, probed the moving air, and then quickly turned around and stared at the car not far away.
Kaiming happened to meet it, and felt that something was too bad, and he didn't care about the pain in his feet, so he climbed into the cab from the back seat of the car, and started the car desperately, and the swarm of beetles rushed at him.
They surrounded the car, and Keming slammed on the gas, the wheels crushing the worm's visceral slurry.
An Yi and his party walked out of the store with food and water, and the off-road vehicle rushed to the door of the supermarket with billowing dust, and braked sharply in front of them.
Cumming pointed behind him and spoke to them with his mouth wide open, but the sound of the engine drowned out the sound, and the three women looked behind them to see a large crowd of beetles rushing towards them. They hurriedly sat down in the car, and the car moved forward quickly, but there was also a large crowd of beetles pouring out of the road ahead, densely packed.
Kaiming shifted into high gear, intending to risk rushing over, the wheels crushed the insect shells clicked, and everyone's hearts were bottomless, there were too many beetles, maybe they could not run a distance of ten meters, and they would get in through the broken glass window.
"Listen, someone's calling. An Yi said suddenly.
The voice came from the direction of the pyramid, and a man in a guard suit was waving to them at the entrance.
With a turn, the car circled the tall sphinx and rushed towards the entrance to the pyramid, where in the rearview mirror, beetles chased after each other, enveloping the lion figure.
The guard, an old man, stepped up to the car and said, "Fast forward to the pyramids." ”
As soon as they stepped into the mouth, the car was full of beetles, and the sausages left behind in the hurry became the object of their competition, and the tugging continued for a while, their teeth easily tearing open the bag and devouring the sausages in a frenzy.
Strangely, these hungry bugs, although they bared their teeth and claws at them at a distance of less than a step, never dared to enter the pyramid passage.
According to the old guard, two days ago there was a heavy rain here, and they came out of the ground overnight, eating up the people and livestock in the vicinity, and he escaped because he was on duty in the pyramids. As for why the beetle did not dare to enter the pyramid, he couldn't tell, so he could only guess that the pyramid was cursed.
The long cave goes deep into the pyramid, and the walls are hung with fluorescent lamps every five meters, so that you can clearly see the polished stone walls, and the stones are stacked almost seamlessly from one stone to another.
Knowing that the pyramids were made of more than two million 2.5-ton stones, each of which had been polished, the amount of work that would be difficult to accomplish in modern times, he could not understand why the people of that backward era would put so much effort into building the pyramids.
There are frescoes on the walls of the passage depicting social life in ancient Egypt at that time, including a picture that caught the attention of Kemin, two rows of ancient people kneeling on one knee with their hands raised above their heads, looking together at a disc-shaped object above the pyramid. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that the object looked like a flying saucer.
At the end of the passage was a 30-square-meter inner room, in which more than twenty people had gathered, all of them leaning against the foot of the wall in despair, and in the left corner there was a familiar figure, the Englishman who had escaped from the monster's tongue, and Kemin noticed him, and at the same time he also looked at Kemin.
The rescued Arab woman, who found her husband and son here, rushed over excitedly and hugged them.
With the support of An Yi and An Qi, Kai Ming dragged his injured foot to a vacant place to rest.
The old guard who brought them in walked to the center of the inner room and said to everyone: "Everyone, be quiet, due to an emergency, we are trapped in this place, please use the communication equipment on your body to contact the outside world in order to call for help." ”
Everyone took out their mobile phones and computers, but they couldn't send calls or messages, and they didn't know what was going on with Egypt's communication network.
After waiting for a day, no one came to the rescue, everyone began to face the reality that there was no water and no food in the pyramid, and they would die of hunger and thirst in two days.
When the three Kaiming entered the pyramid, they brought two bags of food and water from the supermarket, which could last for a while, but each time they ate, they would attract the gaze of countless pairs of eyes.
At first, people remained polite, swallowing only their saliva, but the hunger in their stomachs made people restless.
"Hey, are you going to watch us starve to death?" the Englishman finally couldn't hold back, and stood up to accuse the three of them.
"Bullshit, want to find food yourself, not beg from others like a beggar. Kai Ming glanced at the two bags of things beside him, "There is too little food, even if it is fully divided, it is not enough for each person." ”
"It's full of goddamn bugs out there, waiting to eat us all. ”
Kai Ming roared at him: "You are right, but the food was brought in by the three of us desperately, and no one should think about getting it for nothing." ”
The British were also on fire, "Maybe after I knock out your teeth, you'll change your mind." ”
This warning made Kaiming realize that he was left in the car, as well as the bandaged wounded right foot, and now there was only his wife and sister-in-law beside him, and he must be the one who really took the loss.
The Englishman saw that everyone was watching coldly, so he clenched his fists and faintly wanted to try.