When rolled up, the position of the head and the tail are exactly in the same straight line, and the blanket forms wings on both sides of the body, which is almost the same as the body structure of the bat, and as it curls its body, you can see that the abdomen is distributed from top to bottom with many round suckers the size of fingernails, which looks similar to a wet leech.

Judging from the situation where it devoured the blood of the camel just now, once it sucks on the body of people and animals, it will die like a locust and will not let go, no matter how hard it tosses, it will not let them break away from the body and loosen their mouth, until the blanket sucks the blood of the prey in the package, and will not let the prey loose.

Knowing this, they also understood why the camel entered the blanket and was immediately rolled up by the blanket!

Just now, it was also those leech mouthparts everywhere that kept biting the camel's body, and finally completely sucked the camel dry in a moment, and at the same time, the blanket became thicker, and the naked eye could see that the body had risen a lot, which showed that these things ate by devouring flesh and blood.

Everyone was surprised, but they didn't expect that there was such a monster hidden in the quicksand, which looked like a ray in the desert.

"Is this thing a creature or a plant? Or is it a symbiont of plants and animals? ”

When Song Siyuan saw this, he didn't know what it was called, he could only judge that it was some kind of large blood-sucking leech, or some kind of fish living in the mud swamp.

"As I said earlier, some animals that disappear in the underground waterways will be eaten by some animals living in the caves, and what you just saw is the thing that smells the mud and floats out of the mud."

Keli looked at everyone, his eyebrows were obviously solemn: "So far, no one knows what they are, and the people nearby mostly call them cowhide rolls, also called ghost mats, floor rolling skins, blood-sucking blankets......"

This is a large blood-sucking mollusk that lives in sandy swamps or underground caves, and its body is spread out like a blanket, but in fact, after drinking the flesh and blood, as the body thickens, it will form a shuttle-shaped body with two pointed ends and a round middle, and after digesting the blood, it will turn into a blanket again to continue hunting.

In a sense, it's a giant blood-sucking leech that lurks in swamps or ponds, disguised as moss or aquatic weeds at the water's edge, trapping bison, tigers, foxes, camels, goats, or other animals to eat the green moss.

When they get close to the blood-sucking blanket, they immediately shake their bodies and wrap their heads around them, until the animals lose their footing and fall into the river, then they are completely enveloped, and sometimes they hide in the water to chase some animals that have already entered the water.

At this time, any animal that falls into its hands will definitely die, and most of the sandmen are most afraid of these things, and when they encounter these blankets, they must run quickly.

"Klee, you're so familiar with it, you've ever seen anything like this?"

Yue Guanchao listened carefully to Keli's words, and figured out the meaning from the meaning of his words, if he hadn't seen these things, how could he be so clear about the habits and appearance of these animals, and some of the body structures that they couldn't see clearly would be immediately clear under his introduction.

"I'm not familiar with it, Abba has seen this kind of thing in the oasis of Lop Nur before."

These things do not only exist in the desert, but also in the wasteland area very close to Dunhuang, and this kind of blood-sucking blanket has also been found.

At that time, there were still many oases around Lop Nur, and some herders would drive these cattle and sheep to the oases near Lop Nur in order to let them eat fresh grass and moss.

At that time, Guniz and nearby herders also came to the vicinity of Lop Nur, and at that time, in addition to the waters of the lake basin, there were many rivers that had been abandoned due to the diversion of the Peacock River, and these rivers were already lacking water, leaving only muddy riverbeds.

Those herdsmen are all dependent on grazing to eat, very cherished things, even the dung of cattle and sheep have to be picked up back to make compost, cold to see a one-meter-square blanket lying in the muddy river, and thought that someone threw the cowhide blanket into the mud.

The man wanted to reach down and fish it up, but the moment he got close to the blanket, his whole arm was rolled up, and he immediately felt a tingling pain coming from all over his arm, and if it weren't for his companions who noticed his strange appearance, he would definitely have fallen into the mud, and as long as it was wet, the gods would not be able to save him.

They sprinkled a lot of salt on the blood-sucking blanket to make the blood-sucking blanket relieved, and when the herdsman's arm came out, the skin was evenly distributed with wounds the size of fingernails, and even his clothes were directly bitten, some of the wounds penetrated into the muscles, some of which had penetrated the bones, and I heard that even the tendons of the arms were bitten off.

Although this herdsman's arm was saved, in the end it still left sequelae, the arm was weak and trembling, and he wanted to exert himself but had no strength to use, so he directly wasted an arm, but compared to the whole person being sucked dry, he still picked up a life from the mouth of the blood-sucking blanket.

According to the herdsmen who rescued people at that time, the longest of this blanket was only one meter, and it looked like it was not very old, probably because he forgot to escape when the river was diverted, and he lived in the river until the river dried up and became a swamp.

This blood-sucking blanket was already very dry and thin at that time, as thin as a cold sweep, it is estimated that it has not been hunted for a long time, and the body is already extremely weak, otherwise, with a curling force stronger than a snake, it can already completely crush the human bones.

After beating the bloodsucking blanket to death, they observed the bloodsucking blanket's body structure under the sun.

The whole body of this blood-sucking blanket is an irregular oval square, if strictly speaking, it is closer to the irregular diamond shape, the upper and lower corners of the diamond can be seen as the head and tail, and the snail head and snail tail are distributed, forming a midline along the head and tail, and it can be seen that the left and right organs are symmetrically distributed.

The location of this line is the real body of the blood-sucking blanket, and the predatory suckers on the abdomen are mostly concentrated near the midline, as for the two corners on the left and right of the diamond, which can be regarded as the fins or wing membranes of the blood-sucking blanket, just like the bat body, it mainly plays the role of movement, swimming, and activity, and is responsible for floating and diving in the swamp or water, swimming and tracking.

It is also these two horns that act as curls, rolling up the living creature to hold it in place, and then the suction cups on the abdomen pierce into the skin and muscles to suck blood.

After sucking blood, the abdomen will be full, until it is digested and will continue to hunt, these blood-sucking blankets have a strong vitality, and they can survive without eating flesh and blood for up to half a year, but the body will consume a lot of nutrients, and it will become thinner and thinner, and eventually form the thickness of the mat.