XXXIS. The Worm of Death

I crouched down with a flashlight and looked at the dead camel, its wound was under the neck, its blood had dried up and clumped, and all its struggles were in vain because it was tied to a tree, thus increasing the speed of its blood flow and hastening its death.

Last night we all slept so deeply that no one heard the roar of the camel in the middle of the night, I swept around the other place with a flashlight, and saw that the other three camels were just looking at me with unconcealed fear in their eyes, no one knew anything in this underground desert, and everything here was still the appearance of ancient times.

I looked at my eyes and tried to calm myself, but at the same time I was glad that the thing hadn't attacked our tent last night, and judging by the dead camel, the creature had struck it directly by the neck and killed it with a surprising speed and tore his neck apart. "Speed and strength are like leopards," I looked at the dark area, and I couldn't imagine any danger here.

Soon I woke up the fat man, but I saw that Junzi was still sleepy and walked out with black circles under his eyes, according to Wang Yang, he fell into his pit when he got up last night to dig a pit and poop, so he didn't sleep all night, "You got up at night?" I asked, a little surprised.

"yes!" Junko said with a yawn.

"And what did you notice?" I shone the light of my flashlight on the camel, and they were stupid at what they saw.

"We can't stay here anymore." The fat man walked over and looked at it for a while, and immediately said. "This thing is a complete vampire, you see it just drained the blood and didn't eat a piece of meat."

"Let's go?" I asked.

"Let's go! Grab everything we can and use the compass to locate us and continue west. The fat man continued.

"To the west? Do you want to go to Taklamakan? "I'm a little surprised, according to the fat man's idea before, he will definitely ensure that his strength returns to the base camp first, and he is pressed into the army! But something is wrong now! Why was he so sure we were going west? In fact, when we first came here, we always had a spirit of adventure, which is to explore and move forward in the unknown.

"But can you be sure that our journey is west?" I shouted, "If you're not sure, you're putting our lives on your adventure!" ”

"I trust my boss." At this time, Wang Yang, who had not spoken, spoke.

"That's right! And it just so happened that this camel died, and we could have enough dry food. Junko spoke as well, and I saw him plunge a knife with a red attachment into his pants.

At this moment, I seemed to understand what "dry food!" It's not that we can't get around, it's just the food, and the food is the problem that keeps us from moving forward. We don't know how far we have to go, so we don't know how much food we need! Then our camels may be able to make a good dry food. ”

"There are four camels, six of us, I think it should be enough." The fat man said, I didn't look at him in the dark, just listened to his voice, which seemed to have a little chill.

Half an hour later, we abandoned all our tents and left this oasis with light food and daily necessities, and re-entered the desert in this dark space. The desert here is composed of the Gobi and sand, at first we didn't know why there was such a strange scene, but as we gradually deepened, we realized that it was not that there was no sand falling on the Gobi, but that the soil layer in it would automatically arch the sand floating down from the sky to the side.

"It's creatures underground." The second monkey said, "It should be the moles of ancient times, they had very sharp claws in ancient times, and they lived under the hard soil for a long time. ”

"So there's a lot of rats in the ground?" I asked in disbelief.

"This is a world isolated from the ground, so it also has its own biological chain, the ancient mole builds its own nest underground, and the death bugs are also underground or even close to the center of the earth, so I think the ancient mole here is the food of those bugs."

"I understand, the reason why these Gobi appear is the result of the ancient mole rat polishing its claws? They pluck away the sand and exercise their paws. At the same time, it also created such a spectacle of the Gobi and the desert coexisting. The fat man said.

"yes!" The second monkey said, and at the same time shone the flashlight in the direction of the fat man and said hello, "Boss, you asked me to come this time, it's really the right one." ”

I followed the flashlight of the two monkeys to look in the direction of the fat man, but at this time I suddenly saw a tuft of camel hair at the corner of the fat man's mouth, a tuft of brown fur on the edge of the neck, I didn't care at all in the dark environment before, but after I saw it this time, I was stunned.

Bloodsucker? I suddenly remembered the camel that died at the latest, and the wound was actually very similar to being cut with a knife and then torn by hand, was it the work of a fat man? But I'm just skeptical! After all, the same person, the same thinking, things are too weird, could it be a replicant? No, it won't. Shouldn't replicants be people like me who don't have any memories?

From the desert all the way to the Gobi, I didn't realize until I saw the ancient mole running on the ground! Some things don't seem to work without asking. I increased my speed a little and ran to the fat man's fat man and asked, "Fat man, do you remember the thing you asked the ghost?" ”

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What's wrong?" At the time, I remember that you were all scared to death, or I was bold enough to ask. ”

"Then do you know after asking the ghost?" As soon as I spoke, suddenly my camel neighed and stopped.

"How?" Xie Chenhui asked puzzled.

"I don't know." I withdrew my gaze from the fat man and looked around, but the space was still shrouded in most darkness, and there was a tranquility where the light was involved, and this tranquility seemed to be only temporary, because soon the Gobi ground here began to tremble, and the originally cracked ground grew larger and larger before our eyes. It's as if something is lurking underground.

"It's an earthquake." At this time, Junko shouted.

"No way, how could there be an earthquake here?" The two monkeys shouted.

"Bugs! Fuck that bug again. The fat man shouted frantically at this time.

"Deathbugs?" When the two monkeys heard this, they immediately became anxious: "Hurry up and abandon the camel and run." But before he could finish speaking, we saw a dark shadow flash in the light, but it was too fast for our eyes to catch it.

At this time, the insects in the ground are frantically scurrying around us, as if the Arowana in the sea is swimming around your boat. The camel began to stir restlessly. But we can't help it, there are too many worms, the wriggling speed is incredible, the dirt brought out of the ground is churning and splashing on my body, and for a while, invisible fear spreads in everyone's heart: "Going to die?" ”

Wang Yang and the others were the first to rob, and the strong searchlight was fixed on the leather goods of the camels, because they did not have free hands to hold the lamp, but the panic of the same camels also made the light pillar of the searchlight sway on the desert Gobi in the wilderness.

"Wang Yang took your searchlight well, it shook my eyes." I shouted.

"It's a camel, what's my business."

"Then take yours." It was as if something had exploded, and I pressed everything I wanted to say down my throat.

But after that sound, everything was quiet again. But it's not like the dead silence, in fact, you can still hear the wriggling of something around you and the squeezing sound of the soil in the Gobi, but the contrast is too quiet with the previous atmosphere, but we didn't get off the camel as the two monkeys said, because we know that if something happens, you will definitely be dead end if you leave this thing, and in this place, you don't have a camel to walk, it's completely no different from looking for death. So we all rode on our camels and took out our guns and ammunition, and now the only thing we hope for is that those things are just out to eat and eat moles.

But things are not as we imagined, at this time I don't know who shouted "on top." We looked up and saw a great black shadow emerge from the cracked earth over our heads and rise in front of all of us.

"Hey, what are you thinking!" Xie Chenhui stabbed me. With that almost roaring sound. Then a sudden gust of wind blew over my head, and I stood there in a daze. A black object writhed and slowly stood up, the height of an adult, two, three, and finally half the height of a city wall.

The scales and armor are still there, and the hundred-legged ones are alive.

"What's that?" I gradually raised my head as the long worm stood up, and it was a completely black worm. The whole body is covered with dense pimples, and that face can no longer be considered a face, the eyes are so small that there are almost none, and a mouth accounts for 80% of the face! The mouth was full of barbs, and there was venom flowing down between the opening and closing. Death bugs? Or is this the legend of intestinal worms in the Mongolian Gobi Desert! "Deathbugs?"

I just looked up at it. The light from the tactical spotlight above his head reflected on his shaking body, reflecting a faint light. "It was a small layer of bronze armor, pitch black like a pearl." Its saliva fell on my side one by one, and I even heard the corrosive "squeak", my heart was beating, my lungs were beating, my whole body was beating, and my blood felt like it was about to boil and gush out of the veins, and the handle of the gun in my hand was already hot.

"It's a death bug." The second monkey shouted with fear in excitement.

With a "boom", the death worm swept away, and its tail roared with a violent air excitement.

"Ding" as if something knocked on my brain, I watched the tail sweep over, and suddenly felt that its movements were so slow, every bit rose into my eyes. This fucking crazy thing was coming at us, and I thought to myself, and immediately jumped off the camel and found out that the camel had been knocked out of the way several meters away. At the same time a puff of dust was swept up, but it was not over, and the head of the Death Worm burst out of the dust and hissed at me. The body of the insect is all black, and there are more than a hundred feet under it, and the strange head has barb-like barbed fangs. Then it actually crashed headlong into me, and I rolled on my side to dodge, and then ran wildly in the huge Gobi.

Now this Gobi is full of worms and insects, so that the ground here is already full of cracks, like miniature canyons, I ran through these places while shouting, "Find a way to lure him away!" I shouted.

But the terrifying body of the death worm, like a snake, avoided the crack in the ground and quickly chased after it. (To be continued......)