They all knew that reaching Myranze was only the first step, and that getting to the city safely was the most important thing, and that Keli shook the bell, and all the camels stopped in place.

He paused for a moment, looked at the crowd and explained: "When we leave, we should be a little farther away from these tidal flat ponds, and the reason why it has not been dry for so long, I have already said yesterday, and I will lead the camel to take the first step later, and you can follow the route I took." ”

"Don't be scared, Mirandze has been dry for a thousand years, and the longer the edges dry up, the thicker the salt crust will be, and when we get to the middle of the salt crust, the silt will start to appear underneath, and then we have to be careful."

After that, Keli had already picked up his camel and shook the camel bell to take a step ahead, and after he had walked half a meter, everyone followed the pace one after another, walking in the salt crust wasteland.

Walking all the way, the salt crust of the lake basin is no different from the land, the only difference is that the salt crust under the feet is very thick and hard at the same time, the texture is close to the cement floor, some prominent salt platforms are very sharp, at the same time, there are many cracks on the surface because of drying, between these lines, there are finer cracks and particles, and the cracks are all saline-alkali particles.

As they walked, they passed by many sand dunes and salt flats, and when they reached the center of the lake basin, the soil was already soft, as if it had been frozen all winter and gradually softened, and although there was no water under their feet, they could feel soft, and even the hooves of camels began to sink into the mud.

The closer you get to the periphery of Mirlan City, the more you can feel the land softening and wetting, and when you reach the largest sand mountain in the center, the salt crust hard ground in front of everyone has disappeared, and swamps covering yellow sand have begun to appear.

The salt crust is full of sand mountains, they lack water and then eroded by feng shui, constantly corroding a large amount of sand and soil to fill the salt crust, the swamp is full of flowing mud and silt, these swamps are covered by yellow sand, although it looks like a flat land, when you really walk into it, you can find that it is captured by the silt under the yellow sand, and it is difficult to pull out the legs and feet.

What's even more amazing is that as the quicksand land is disturbed, the originally calm underground river also falls into the water at this moment to form a whirlpool, making the silt carry a large amount of sediment and continue to flow along the periphery of the oasis, which looks like a raging and flowing sand river.

"Could it be that this is the quicksand river?"

Wang Yuanzhen liked the story of Xuanzang's westward journey the most, seeing the yellow sand flowing like water, they only felt that what they saw was the quicksand river in the story painting.

Song Siyuan squatted down, picked up the saline-alkali soil block on the side and smashed it in, and as the saline-alkali block sank into the quicksand, it immediately formed a whirlpool in place.

She nodded at everyone and nodded: "Judging from the state, this is indeed a quicksand river, but it is not water, but in a state of slurry and sand, and no object can be detached from the pressure environment created by the mud, and can only be swept into it by quicksand." ”

As they were talking, a camel in front of them had already seen the hard shell under their feet shatter when they stepped on it, but between breaths, they saw the camel's front hooves stepping downward, and half of its body fell directly into the quicksand.

"Moo~~"

The camel fell into the quicksand and became very panicked, fluttering its body to climb ashore from the quicksand, constantly roaring in panic, looking at people's eyes, with a trace of tears of prayer.

This quicksand is like the mud in the swamp, as the contact area between the body and the mud increases, a suction force will be formed between the body and the mud, and it is difficult to get out, and even, the more you flutter, the more you can increase the contact area between the mud and the body until the body is swallowed.

At this time, he had already seen half of the camel sink in, and Keli regarded the animal as a companion, and took out the hemp rope around his waist and threw it over, but the whirlpool flowed very fast, and when he threw the rope noose over, the camel had already changed its position under the flank of quicksand.

In this way, the camel's body has only its head left, whether it is a human or an animal, as long as the body is trapped in quicksand for more than a third, it is difficult to be pulled out under the pressure of the mud, which also means that the camel's chance of survival is very slim.

At this moment, Klee thought about the current situation, and had already recognized the situation, raised his shotgun and pulled the trigger, and shot the camel's head.

At the very least, it will allow him to die a happy death, so that he will not be choked to death by quicksand and silt!

In an instant, the camel's head was blurred with flesh and blood, and the blood soaked into the mud along the quicksand, and in the quicksand, it instantly stained the sand around the camel red.

Perhaps the smell of blood spread too far away, and in the many whirlpools of sand, something was clearly flying up and down, like a jellyfish swimming on the surface of the sea, sometimes exposing the surface of the water and sometimes hiding under the quicksand, and looking at its swimming path, it was obvious that it was coming towards a dead camel.

Keli looked at the swimming arc in the quicksand, and his face became serious: "Let's keep retreating, something is coming here." ”

They led the rest of the camels and retreated back to the harder salt crust, until the salt crust under their feet had regained its cement hardness and was no longer soft, and then they stopped a little.

This place is dozens of meters away from the quicksand river, even so, they can see the arc of the quicksand waves approaching the camel, and then, something like a blanket suddenly flew out of the quicksand, directly rolled the camel up, and in a very short time, quickly wrapped the camel, as if wrapped like a shroud until only the head remained.

After about a stick of incense, the sturdy camel withered, and even the flesh began to become loose, and the blanket became full, and the camel was even more emaciated like dry bones.

When the blanket loosened the camel, the dry camel lost its weight and was instantly swallowed up by quicksand, and the blood around it was gradually diluted in the flow of mud and returned to its normal color.

"Strange, a blanket can eat a camel?"

Stretching out through the blanket, they began to take a closer look at the blanket.

The area of this blanket is not small, it is about the same size as the roof, the length and width are about three or four meters, the shape is oval or irregular rectangle, and the thickness is close to that of ordinary cowhide blankets.

The whole body is covered with fine fluff that resembles cowhide hair, and it looks like a blanket made of hair strands, and the hair on the back is slightly greenish, and at first glance, it seems to be a fluffy green moss on the rocks by the river, slowly floating with the quicksand in the swamp.

When you roll up, you can see the head hidden under the blanket, its head is similar to a snail's head, and the gray-black and white head is full of patterns, and when it expands and shrinks, it can change the shape of the head.

But no matter how it changes, two snail tentacles shaped like horns and a slimy mouth are always secreting mucus, which makes the head always wet, looking slightly liquid and crystalline, from the eyebrow bone to the back of the head, there is a cascading sarcoma similar to a cockscomb from the eyebrow bone to the back of the head.

Its eyes are round and sleek, with vertical pupils resembling cocoons, incomparably resembling the eyes of a lizard or a snake, and a slender tail with an arm length swimming behind the blanket, which is very similar to the tail of a snake, the tail is particularly sharp, and a lot of fine hairs can be seen covering the tail.