Some of these corpses are still connected with red and black flesh, and it can be seen at a glance that they are the remains of giant rats, and it is no wonder that there is such a strong smell of dead rats around, it turns out that there are such a large number of dead rat corpses here.

Long Yi frowned and said, "It seems that this is a place for monitor lizards to eat, so you'd better be careful!" ”

"We can't provoke those monsters, I think it's better to go around it in a different way!" Wenqingshan built yì road.

As soon as he finished speaking, a sound suddenly came from the pile of dead rat remains.

Everyone didn't dare to slack off, and immediately aimed their guns at the pile of corpses, and Wen Qingshan and I hurriedly pulled out the long knife and held it tightly in our hands.

After a few moments, a large monitor lizard crawled out of the pile of corpses, but the monitor lizard, apparently having just finished its meal, did not seem to be interested in us, or sensed our threat to it, and turned around and quickly crawled deeper into the cavern. Seeing this, Chen Biao raised his gun and wanted to shoot him, but Long Yi hurriedly stopped: "Captain Chen, don't shoot yet, so as not to alarm the other monitor lizards." ”

Chen Biao naturally didn't want to attract a large number of monitor lizards, so he didn't shoot after all, and watched the monitor lizards crawl away.

When the monitor lizard went away, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Long Yi planned to accept Wen Qingshan's construction and bypass it by another way, but who knew that Wen Qingshan himself changed his attention at this time, he stared at the direction where the monitor lizard disappeared just now, and said slowly: "I'm afraid we can't go around, we have to go from this road." ”

I was slightly stunned and hurriedly asked, "Boss Wen, what do you mean by this?" ”

Wen Qingshan explained: "Because I suddenly thought that monitor lizards like to live in a dark and damp environment, I am afraid that the underground river we are looking for is an ideal place for monitor lizards to survive, and the direction where the monitor lizard went just now is the direction where the underground river is located." ”

"What did you say!?" Wen Qingshan's words surprised everyone.

I couldn't help but exclaim, "Damn, you mean that the underground river is lined with monitor lizards?" ”

Wen Qingshan nodded and continued: "We have hardly encountered a monitor lizard along the way, I am afraid it is because the monitor lizards live near the river!" This means that if we were to follow the river in search of an underground lake, we would inevitably encounter monitor lizards. ”

After listening to Wen Qingshan's analysis, everyone didn't speak for a long time, and after being silent for a while, Li Guo asked, "Then what should we do now?" ”

"We now have two options, one is to follow the original plan and continue along the river to find the underground lake, and the other is to bypass the river," Wen Qingshan said. Although it seems relatively safe to avoid the river, it is only half the effort, and the time it takes is estimated to be much longer. ”

"But if you follow the river, what will you do with the monitor lizards? We can't go all the way! Ryuichi raised his doubts.

Wen Qingshan frowned and pondered for a while, then raised his head and said, "I have an idea, but I don't know if it's reliable." ”

Long Yi hurriedly said: "If Mr. Wen has any ideas, you might as well say it and listen to it!" ”

Wen Qingshan calmed down and said: "I have carefully studied the corpse of the monitor lizard before, and found that its eyes are covered with a white eye mask, plus this monitor lizard lives in an underground cave that does not see the light of day all year round, according to this, they are blind nine times out of ten, and the perception of prey should mainly rely on the sense of smell." If you look closely, you can see that monitor lizards have very long tongues, and they spit their tongues in and out from time to time, so I think they should be the same as Komodo dragons, and the tongue is both an organ of taste and smell. The tongue is spit in and out, and it can search for the body odor of the prey in the air, and then follow the body odor of the prey to trace the prey. However, because it can't see, even if it tracks its prey, it's hard to pinpoint it with its sense of smell alone, and it needs another secondary ability, and this ability, if I'm not mistaken, should be infrared heat sensing. ”

"Infrared heat sensing!?" I was a little surprised.

Wen Qingshan nodded and continued: "In fact, many snakes do not have very good eyesight, and they rely on their sense of smell and infrared heat sensing ability to capture food. With infrared heat sensing, it can detect the heat emitted from the prey, so as to lock on the prey and launch an attack. ”

Hearing Wen Qingshan say this, Long Yi seemed to understand something: "According to this, as long as we disturb the monitor lizard's olfactory system and infrared heat sensing ability, we can effectively prevent being attacked by the monitor lizard." ”

Wen Qingshan nodded: "That's right!" We first had to find a way to block the heat from our bodies, so that the monitor lizards couldn't detect ......."

Before he could finish speaking, Long Yi interrupted him and said, "It's not a problem, the protective suit we wear has a good heat insulation function, which can not only prevent fire, but also prevent detection by military-grade infrared detectors." ”

"Oh? Does this suit still have this function? Wen Qingshan was a little surprised.

Long nodded: "When this protective suit was originally designed, it took into account the needs of the night combat environment, and it had to be ensured that even if the enemy was equipped with an infrared thermal detector, it would not be detected. ”

Listening to what Long Yi said, Wen Qingshan couldn't help but smile and said, "Hehe, that's great, I'm still thinking about how to isolate the heat emitted from my body!" I didn't expect this suit to have this function. ”

I looked down at the protective suit on my body, but I couldn't believe it: "In other words, as long as we wear this protective suit, even if we pass between the monitor lizards, we won't be attacked by them?" ”

Wen Qingshan waved his hand and said, "No! We also have to find ways to hide the body odor that comes out of our bodies. ”

Long Yi hurriedly asked, "What is Mr. Wen going to do?" ”

Wen Qingshan pondered for a moment and said, "I think we can apply something with a pungent smell on our body to disturb the monitor lizard's olfactory system. ”

"But now, where can I find something with a pungent smell?" Ryuichi frowned.

Wen Qingshan smiled slightly and said, "I just brought some things, maybe it's useful." ”

"Oh? What is it? Long Yi hurriedly asked.

"Realgar powder!"

"Ahh Mr. Wen, you still have this thing with you!? Long Yi couldn't believe it, even I was taken aback, and asked puzzledly: "Boss Wen, why are you bringing this thing?" ”

Wen Qingshan said with a smile: "Hehe, when I came, I checked the information about Lop Nur on the Internet, and I accidentally saw a traveler who had come to Lop Nur and said that snakes in the Lop Nur area are very poisonous and very aggressive, so it is best to prepare realgar powder to prevent snakes and insects from approaching." So I prepared a pack. ”

Listening to what Wen Qingshan said, Long Yi couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that a traveler's Jian Yì could actually come in handy at a critical time. ”

Wen Qingshan smiled and continued, "Since these monitor lizards have similar habits to snakes, they may also be afraid of the smell of male yellow. So, we can try it by applying realgar powder to the body. With that, he opened his backpack and took out a large bag of realgar powder.

Looking at the big bag of realgar powder, I couldn't help but be more and more surprised: "Boss Wen, why do you bring so much realgar powder!?" ”

"Hehe, I just have such a bag at home, so I brought it all, don't be too much."

"Bring a lot of just right!" Long Yi immediately turned his head and said to everyone: "Don't be stunned, everyone, hurry up and work, and sprinkle realgar powder on your body!" ”

Everyone immediately stepped forward, each grabbed two handfuls of realgar powder, sprinkled on the protective clothing, and in an instant, a pungent realgar smell filled the surroundings.

As soon as Qiē was ready, Long Yi took a deep breath, raised his hand and waved: "Let's go!" ”

The group walked in the direction where the monitor lizard had crawled.

Although it seems that I have made sufficient preparations, I always feel a little uncertain in my heart, after all, everything is just Wen Qingshan's guess, if he guesses wrong, then we will be in big trouble. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and I turned my head to look at the others, all of them with solemn expressions, as if they were even more nervous than me.

We bypassed the pile of giant rat corpses, and walked not far further, Long Yi suddenly stopped, and everyone hurriedly stopped, and looked ahead, only to find that there were several monitor lizards lying on their stomachs about ten meters away in front of us. Each monitor lizard is several meters long and looks like a crocodile.

The special combat team members immediately raised their guns and aimed them at the monitor lizard, and Long Yi hurriedly stopped: "Everyone calm down, don't shoot!" ”

Li Guo asked in a low voice, "If we just walk over like this, what if the monitor lizard attacks us?" ”

"Well, I'll go over and try it first, and you cover me!" After Wen Qingshan finished speaking, he clenched his long knife and slowly walked towards the monitor lizards.

Seeing Wen Qingshan getting closer and closer to those monitor lizards, one of my hearts seemed to hang in my throat, and the others were also very nervous, Chen Biao assigned the task to let the special combat team members each aim at a monitor lizard, and if something was wrong, they would immediately shoot those monitor lizards to death.

However, just as Wen Qingshan walked about two or three meters away from those monitor lizards, those monitor lizards immediately turned around and crawled deeper into the cave.

Seeing this, Long Yi said in surprise: "It seems that our method has worked, those monitor lizards really can't stand the smell of realgar." ”

Chen Biao put down the carbon alloy submachine gun in his hand, waved his hand, and whispered: "Go!" Let's get there! ”

The group continued to move forward, did not go far, and sure enough, they saw an underground river, the surface of this underground river is about four or five meters wide, and the water flow is relatively gentle, as Wen Qingshan expected, on both sides of the river, there are countless monitor lizards, looking around, people feel shocked.