Chapter 102: Poisonous Quicksand
On closer inspection, the white sphere was made up of countless cave marching ants, which intertwined and gathered together to form a huge hollow sphere with a diameter exceeding the width of a mountain stream.
Ants can lift more than 100 times their own body weight, which can be regarded as the strong men of the animal kingdom, at this time, these strong men use all their strength to connect with each other to form this ball, and the ants at the back of the ball slowly push the ball forward.
After being pushed over the edge of the mountain stream, the ball fell forward under the force of gravity. With a slight sound, one side of the ball reached the other side of the stream. But at the moment when the ball came into contact with the rocks of the mountain stream, the bodies of several termites at the bottom of the ball were torn into two pieces under the ball, and the whole ball collapsed violently, and all the ants that formed the ball fell under the mountain stream.
At the same time as this ball failed, another ball was slowly rising and forming in the colony.
At this time, Chen Ziyang was secretly watching these Eastern Dynasty soldiers on the side, wanting to see if they had any unusual behaviors, Liu Cong also recovered from rest at this time, his face was much ruddy, and he came to Chen Ziyang's side, and the two of them chatted without a match.
As more and more poisonous quicksand was pulled out, the pungent smell in the entire stone cave became stronger and stronger, even through the gas mask, he could smell a very unpleasant smell, which made Chen Ziyang have a headache. Fortunately, the cold wind blowing from the mountain stream made the pungent smell of these poisonous quicksand much lighter.
The quicksand taken out from behind the tomb door was piled up in front of the wooden door into two small sand mountains, and there was no quicksand flowing out of the hole in the tomb door.
Watching these quicksands slowly be cleared, Chen Ziyang knew that the purpose of the person who designed this mechanism had been achieved. If you make a hole from the bottom of the tomb door and bypass the tomb door, then the quicksand will flow down, not only will seal the hole, but also poison the people in the hole, and if you break the door from the front, then the quicksand will slow you down. Without completely pulling out this sand, there is simply no way to move forward.
The traditional use of quicksand as a means of preventing theft is to fill the compartment between the two layers of tomb doors, and if this is calculated, even if all the quicksand is removed, there will be a tomb door in the future.
Now everyone is hungry and thirsty, but no one dares to eat and drink, this pungent smell in the air is very harmful to the human body, before a few soldiers after eating dry food, because of this gas inhaled more when eating, even after eating not long after eating all vomited, at this time these people are lying on the side to rest with fatigue.
With their experience, everyone had to be patient, hoping that the situation inside the tomb would be better after the quicksand was cleared.
Just when Yang Lei was tired of sitting and wanted to stand up and move, as his footsteps moved, he felt as if he had stepped on something, and he also heard a very crisp sound, which seemed to be the sound of a person stepping on a beetle very hard, and then Yang Lei looked down at his feet, and he found that what he had stepped on was a huge termite.
Just when Yang Lei was stunned, thinking about why there was a termite here, a few more ants crawled to his feet, and the rustling sound that made people palpitate before rang out violently.
The cave ants' efforts again and again were not in vain, and at this time, a complete ball composed of ants was stuck on the mountain stream, and the remaining ants passed through the mountain stream steadily through this round ball, and attacked the people in the square.
The soldiers who had been resting on the ground before were instantly overwhelmed by the termites, and the ant tide once again swarmed into the crowd.
At this time, the crowd scattered throughout the square immediately ran in the direction of their backs to the ant colony. Those who didn't have time to escape, or those who ran slower, were all reduced to termites' lunch.
Chen Ziyang and the others were lucky, they ran to the hole where the tomb door was blown open, only to find that these termites seemed to be afraid of this poisonous quicksand. There was no sign of these termites near the two huge quicksand piles, so everyone hurriedly beckoned the others to run this way.
Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai took down the sapper shovels on their backs, and together with some other soldiers, they spread these tall sand piles forward, and in a short time they formed a sand wall more than half a meter high, surrounding the hole in the tomb door. Behind this sand wall, everyone was safe, and the termites stopped there. Unexpectedly, the poisonous quicksand that blocked everyone before actually saved everyone's lives again.
As more and more quicksand was pulled out from behind the tomb door, the sand walls in front of the crowd were piled higher and higher, and at the same time, the crowd kept pushing these sand walls forward, expanding their range of activities little by little.
Just after the oxygen carried by several Eastern Dynasty sappers behind the tomb gate was exhausted, these sappers came out to talk to Camp Commander Jin, and then Camp Commander Jin arranged for a few people to enter the tomb gate.
It didn't take long for another muffled sound to sound, and Chen Ziyang only felt that the ground under his feet and his head shook violently.
According to Chen Ziyang's estimate, after this sound, the second tomb door should have been opened. Sure enough, with this muffled sound, a trumpet suddenly sounded as if it came from hell.
The sound of this horn was long and long, and after listening to it for a long time, Chen Ziyang could hear that it was the air in the tomb, and the sound of blowing through the holes in the two tomb doors one after another, and he didn't know if this sound was really just a coincidence, or if it was really a sound from hell.
At the same time as the second tomb door was blown open, the termites outside were quiet again for a moment, and then slowly retreated. The movements of the termites changed from violent and aggressive to very gentle, which can be described as cautious, as if there was something in this tomb that made them very afraid.
This termite attack caused the Eastern Korean military to lose more than 20 soldiers, but fortunately, the remaining members of the expedition team were all unharmed. Just blasted open the tomb door, the military team of more than 100 people in the Eastern Dynasty was actually lost by nearly half, and the price was too great, and looking at the actions of the termites before, Chen Ziyang was also hesitant to enter this tomb.
In the end, the members of the scientific expedition team, under the urging of Camp Commander Jin, packed up their bags and walked through the dark stone cave above the tomb gate.