Some of these corpses are still connected with red and black flesh. You can tell at a glance that they are the corpses of giant rats. It is no wonder that there is such a strong smell of dead rats around. It turns out that there are so many dead rats here.
Corpses.
Long Yi frowned and said: "It seems that this is a place for monitor lizards to dine. You'd better be careful!"
"We don't have to provoke those monsters. I think we should find another way around them!" Wen Qingshan suggested.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, a sound suddenly came from the pile of dead rat carcasses.
Everyone did not dare to neglect and immediately pointed their guns at the pile of corpses. Wen Qingshan and I also quickly pulled out our long knives and held them tightly in our hands.
After a while, a huge monitor lizard crawled out from the pile of corpses. However, the monitor lizard had obviously just finished its meal and seemed not interested in us. Or it felt threatened by us and turned around quickly.
Crawling deeper into the cave. When Chen Biao saw this, he raised his gun and was about to kill him. Long Yi quickly stopped him and said: "Captain Chen, don't shoot yet, so as not to alarm the other giant lizards."
Chen Biao naturally did not want to attract a large number of monitor lizards. After all, he did not shoot and watched the monitor lizards crawl away.
After the giant lizard went away, everyone heaved a sigh of relief. Long Yi planned to accept Wen Qingshan's suggestion and take another route to go around it. Unexpectedly, Wen Qingshan himself changed his attention at this time. He stared at the giant lizard just now.
He looked in the direction where the lizard disappeared and said slowly: "We're afraid we can't go around it, so we have to go this way."
I was slightly startled and quickly asked: "Boss Wen, what do you mean by this?"
Wen Qingshan explained: "It suddenly occurred to me that monitor lizards like to live in dark and humid environments, so I am afraid that the underground river we are looking for is an ideal place for monitor lizards to survive, and the monitor lizard just now
The direction you go in is most likely the direction of the underground river."
"What did you say!?" Wen Qingshan's words surprised everyone.
I couldn't help but be surprised: "Holy crap, you mean, the underground rivers are lined with monitor lizards?"
Wen Qingshan nodded and continued: "We have hardly encountered a monitor lizard along the way, probably because monitor lizards live near the river! And this means that if we want to go along the river
If you look for an underground lake, you are bound to encounter a monitor lizard."
After listening to Wen Qingshan's analysis, everyone was silent for a long time. After a long period of silence, Li Guocai asked: "Then what should we do now?"
Wen Qingshan said: "We now have two options. One is to continue along the river to find the underground lake according to the original plan, and the other is to bypass the river. Although bypassing the river seems safer, it is only half the result with twice the effort.
, it will probably take much longer.”
"But if we go along the river, how should we deal with those monitor lizards? We can't kill them all the way!" Long Yi 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 is reliable."
Long Yi hurriedly said: "Mr. Wen, if you have any ideas, you might as well speak up and listen!"
Wen Qingshan calmed down and said: "I carefully studied the body of the monitor lizard before and found that its eyes were covered with a layer of white eye membranes. In addition, this monitor lizard lives in underground caves that are not exposed to the sun all year round.
Judging from this, they are most likely blind, and they should mainly rely on their sense of smell to sense prey. If you look carefully, you will find that the monitor lizard's tongue is very long, and it will spit its tongue in and out from time to time, so I think,
They should be the same as Komodo
Like the monitor lizard, the tongue is both a taste and smell organ. By sticking the tongue in and out, it can search for the body odor emitted by the prey in the air, and then follow the prey's body odor to trace the prey. However, because it cannot see,
So even if the traces of prey are traced, it is difficult to accurately locate the prey by smell alone. It also requires another auxiliary ability, and this ability, if I guess correctly, should be the infrared heat sensing ability."
"Infrared heat sensor!?" I was a little surprised.
Wen Qingshan nodded and continued: "Actually, many snakes don't have very good eyesight, so they rely on their sense of smell and infrared heat sensing ability to capture food. With infrared heat sensing ability, you can detect the heat emitted from the prey's body.
Thereby locking onto the prey and launching an attack."
Listening to Wen Qingshan say this, Long Yi seemed to understand something: "According to this, as long as we disrupt the monitor lizard's olfactory system and infrared heat sensing ability, we can effectively prevent the monitor lizard from attacking."
Wen Qingshan nodded: "That's right! We must first find a way to isolate the heat emitted by the body, so that the monitor lizard cannot detect it..."
Before he could finish his words, Long Yi interrupted him and said: "This is not a problem. The protective clothing we are wearing has very good heat insulation function. It is not only fireproof, but also can prevent military-grade infrared radiation.
The detector detected it.”
"Oh? This protective suit also has such a function?" Wen Qingshan was a little surprised.
Long nodded: "When we originally designed this protective suit, we took into account the needs of the night combat environment and ensured that even if the enemy is equipped with an infrared thermal sensor detector, it will not be discovered."
After hearing what Long Yi said, Wen Qingshan couldn't help but smile and said: "Haha, that's great. I was just thinking about how to isolate the heat emitted by the body! I didn't expect this protective suit to have such a function."
I looked down at the protective clothing on my body, but I couldn't believe it: "In other words, as long as we wear this protective clothing, we will not be attacked by them even if we pass between the giant lizards?"
But Wen Qingshan waved his hand and said, "No! We still have to find a way to cover up the body odor emitted by our bodies."
Long Yi quickly asked: "What does Mr. Wen plan to do?"
Wen Qingshan pondered for a moment and said: "I think we can apply something with a pungent smell on our bodies to disrupt the monitor lizard's olfactory system."
"But now, where can I find something with a pungent smell?" Long Yi frowned.
Wen Qingshan smiled slightly and said, "I happened to bring something with me that might be useful."
"Oh? What is it?" Long Yi asked hurriedly.
"Realgar powder!"
"Ah! Mr. Wen, you still carry this thing with you!?" Long Yi couldn't believe it. Even I was surprised and asked in confusion: "Boss Wen, why are you bringing this thing with you?"
Wen Qingshan smiled and said: "Haha, when I came here, I checked the information about Lop Nur online, and accidentally saw a travel friend who had been to Lop Nur said that the snakes in Lop Nur are very poisonous and extremely aggressive, so it is best to
Prepare realgar powder to prevent snakes and insects from approaching. So I prepared a pack."
After listening to what Wen Qingshan said, Long Yi couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that a fellow traveler's advice would come in handy at a critical moment."
Wen Qingshan smiled and continued: "Since these monitor lizards have similar habits to snakes, they may also be afraid of the smell of realgar. Therefore, we can try applying realgar powder on our bodies." After saying this, he opened the door.
backpack, and took out a large bag of realgar powder from it.
Looking at the big bag of realgar powder, I couldn't help but be even more surprised: "Boss Wen, why do you bring so much realgar powder!?"
"Haha, I happen to have a bag like this at home, so I brought them all. Don't take too much."
"It's just right to bring more!" Long Yi immediately turned to everyone and said: "Don't be stunned, everyone, hurry up and sprinkle realgar powder on your body!"
Everyone immediately stepped forward, each grabbed two handfuls of realgar powder and sprinkled it on the protective clothing. In an instant, a pungent realgar smell filled the air.
Everything was ready, Long Yi took a deep breath, raised his hand and waved: "Let's go!"
The group of people walked in the direction where the giant lizard crawled just now.
Although it seems that we have made enough preparations, I always feel a little unsure. After all, everything is just Wen Qingshan's guess. If he guesses wrong, we will be in big trouble. Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little nervous
, I turned my head and glanced at the others. They all had solemn expressions and seemed to be more nervous than me.
We bypassed the pile of giant rat carcasses and walked not far forward. Long Yi suddenly stopped. Everyone also stopped quickly and looked forward. Only then did they realize that there was about ten people in front of us.
A few meters away, there were several monitor lizards lying down. Each monitor lizard was several meters long and looked like a crocodile.
All the special forces members immediately raised their guns and aimed at the giant lizard. Long Yi quickly stopped him and said: "Everyone, please calm down and don't shoot!"
Li Guo asked in a low voice: "If we just walk over like this, what if the giant lizard attacks us?"
"Let's do this, I'll go over and try first, you guys cover me!" After Wen Qingshan finished speaking, he gripped the long knife and walked slowly towards the giant lizards.
Seeing Wen Qingshan getting closer and closer to those monitor lizards, my heart seemed to be in my throat. Others were also very nervous. Chen Biao assigned tasks to the special operations team members every day.
A person aims at a monitor lizard, and if something goes wrong, he immediately shoots those monitor lizards to death.
However, when Wen Qingshan walked about two or three meters away from the giant lizards, the giant lizards immediately turned around and crawled deeper into the cave.
Seeing this, Long Yi said in surprise: "It seems that our method 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: "Let's go! Let's go there!"
The group of people continued to move forward, and they did not go far when they saw an underground river. The surface of this underground river was about four or five meters wide, and the water flow was relatively gentle. Just as Wen Qingshan expected, on both sides of the river, people lying on their backs
There are countless monitor lizards, which are shocking to look at.