Everyone stood there in shock for a long time, everyone was silent.
Finally Dr. Lin said: "Don't panic, everyone. Maybe Old Man Maimaiti entered the tent while we were busy and saw that Mr. Qin's condition was not improving, so he took him out. There may be something in the desert that can cure the giant spider's toxin."
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Dr. Lin's explanation is indeed far-fetched. Everyone can expose it at once, but no one refutes it. In fact, everyone knows that our current situation should be very dangerous and insecure. The endless desert, I don't know.
There are so many strange things hidden. Maybe there is murderous intention hidden in the yellow sand under our feet. It may be some kind of creature, it may be...the devil.
Night began to fall quietly, and Parhati suddenly said: "I'm going to find uncle, where are you?"
Everyone seemed to have woken up from the pervasive weirdness and panic. Minister An quickly said: "Let's divide into groups. Except for the sand dune where the giant spider appears, let's go separately in the other three directions to look for Maimai."
In addition to the old man and Qin Lin, of course, a few people must be left to guard our equipment, food and water."
So we left Taoist Master Zengfan, Zhang Li, and two experts behind. The others were divided into three groups with weapons, and they searched in three directions: east, west, and north. We agreed to search within half an hour, and then
Regardless of whether you find it or not, return to the camp immediately to avoid further unpredictable losses.
I was divided into a group with Xiaowen and Mr. Su. Mr. Su had to follow me for some reason. So the three of us went north, which is the direction we came from, and started searching.
Night has slowly enveloped the endless desert during our search. Only the wind blew in our ears, and the sudden disappearance of two people made the three of us silent along the way.
About twenty minutes later, we stood on a towering sand dune and looked far into the distance. There was no sign of the missing old man Maimaiti and Qin Lin in the vast and empty desert.
Mr. Su said breathlessly: "It's too scary! Let's go back."
I turned to him and asked, "What's so scary?"
Mr. Su said with a horrified look: "Isn't it terrible that two people disappeared for no reason? To be honest, I regret coming to the desert now. I can't wait to leave this ghost place right away."
Then he lowered his voice and said: "I think this place is very strange. I always feel that there is something evil surrounding us, spying on us. Once someone acts alone, the evil thing will take that person away."
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His gloomy words made me feel a little numb. The little clerk even shivered and scolded Mr. Su repeatedly: "You damn boy are talking alarmist here."
Mr. Su smiled bitterly and said: "Alarmist? Do you think you can find the missing old guide and Professor Qin? We are just trying our best."
I looked at the vast starry sky in the desert, and suddenly I felt like a small star in the sky. My thoughts suddenly became ethereal, and the words of the clerk and Mr. Su suddenly seemed to be separated.
I am very far away….
When the clerk pushed me and asked me what I was thinking about, I looked at my watch and said casually: "Nothing, let's go back."
The desert at night seemed to be covered with a layer of silver light, and the endless emptiness and rolling sand dunes had a special kind of beauty. On the way back, the three of us returned to silence, watching from a distance.
When I saw the lights on in our camp tent, I suddenly felt a little warm in my heart. A series of strange events in the afternoon made every member of the scientific expedition team feel uneasy and panicked, and I was no exception.
When I saw the lights, I seemed to see all the members of the scientific expedition team, and my uneasy heart immediately felt a sense of security and comfort.
We were about to arrive at the camp, but the strange thing was that we didn't see any members of the scientific expedition team. According to the time, their search teams should have been back around the same time, and at least the few people who stayed behind should be there.
However, there was no sign of human figures or voices, and my heart sank. Could it be that something strange happened again?
I said hello: "Hurry up!" The three of us quickened our pace and rushed towards the camp.
Arriving at the camp, I shouted loudly: "Taoist Master, Zhang Li!"
I saw lights on in several tents, but I shouted several times, but there was no reply. My heart suddenly sank to the bottom. Mr. Su panicked and cried: "Where are the people? The other people.
Woolen cloth?"
The little clerk seemed to be extremely frightened at this time, and just kept asking me: "Yunlong, what's going on?"
I gritted my teeth hard and said to them: "Don't panic, the three of us don't separate. Let's search tent by tent."
I held the gun and the small document in my hand tightly, and Mr. Su came to the nearest tent. I shouted again: "Who is in there?" There was still no reply. I held the gun and took a deep breath.
Then he used the tip of his gun to open the curtain of the tent. The lights inside were on, but there was no one there.
We opened several tents in succession, but the result was the same: the lights were on and no one was there. At this time, Mr. Su exclaimed: "Look at that tent...it is moving on its own."
When the little clerk and I looked quickly, we saw the tent in the far south, closest to the burning giant spider fire scene and the large sand dune of the spider lair, and the lights in the tent were shaking non-stop. Our tents are all the best military tents.
, the coating is very thick, and you can’t see the people inside, but the shadows cast by the lights can still be seen. I know there is definitely something inside, otherwise the lights and tent inside would never shake.
I quickly said: "Go over and have a look!"
The three of us nervously walked over step by step with guns in hand. When we arrived at the tent, strangely, the tent and the lights returned to calm in an instant, but I still heard a "swishing" sound like sand flowing. Standing still
Within a few seconds of standing in front of the tent, I felt a sudden surge of heart and suddenly opened the tent with the barrel of my gun. The scene inside shocked the three of us.
The wind lantern in the tent was still hung at a corner of the tent, but a large deep pit appeared on the ground of the entire tent. Yellow sand was still sliding downwards.
The three of us looked at each other, and I didn't know what my expression was. I just saw that the faces of the little clerk and Mr. Su were green, full of panic, panic and bewilderment.
I forcefully said to myself in my heart: "Calm down, calm down..." I finally calmed down my mind, and I said to Xiaowen and Mr. Su: "You guys just stand where you are and don't move. I'll go to the tent and take a look at this deep pit."
What's going on? If something happens to me, you two will get on the camels and go back along the same path. Whether you can leave this desert depends on your luck."
After saying that, I stepped into the tent in one step. The diameter of the pit almost covered the entire ground inside the tent. My step happened to reach the edge of the pit. I could feel the moist breath carrying an indescribable strangeness.
The smell hit my face from the pit. I held my breath, suppressed my heartbeat that was about to jump out of my chest, and looked into the pit.
After taking a look, my heart calmed down a little. The pit was in the shape of a cone with a big top and a small bottom. It was dark inside. There was no other sound except the sound of yellow sand falling. The pit should be very deep.
Because the yellow sand beside the pit kept sliding down at a constant speed without any stagnation.
I hesitated, thinking, where is the place below? Should I go down? At this moment, the little clerk screamed so scared that I almost lost my legs and fell into the pit. When I looked back angrily, I just saw
I saw the little clerk facing me and pointing to the outside of the tent, his lips moving, but he could no longer speak. Mr. Su had already fallen beside him, and it looked like he had fainted from fright.
My heart skipped a beat. It seemed that there must be a very scary scene outside the tent. I quickly turned around and jumped out of the tent, standing side by side with the little clerk.
The scene outside may be the most unforgettable scene I have ever seen in my life. The fear at that moment may make me tremble when I think about it until the day I die.
I saw that all our tents, except for the tents behind Xiaowen and I, sank in an instant. It was not the yellow sand that sank them, but water! Blue water! It was me and Xiaowen.
The first thing he saw behind the sand dunes, which Qin Lin called an illusion, and which the old man Maimaiti believed was the sea that God had moved with divine power, was exactly the same. The water was rippling and boundless...
At this moment, I felt like I was going to collapse. Desert or ocean?
The water is flowing, but its flow is unusually slow, like something oily. But it is still getting closer to where I and the little clerk are standing, the only place where we can stand.
Seeing that the blue water was about to reach our feet, at this time, Mr. Su, who was lying next to me and Xiaowen, fell and his glasses happened to be touched by the water flow, and a thin stream of blue smoke rose up.
The pair of glasses melted without a trace in an instant.
My liver and gallbladder are split, and my gallbladder is broken. What is this water? If we are submerged by it, we will lose our bones. And it starts from the legs and melts upward little by little. This is simply too much.
I was so frightened. At this moment, I no longer had any thoughts or considerations. I grabbed the small document and yelled: "Let's carry Mr. Su and jump down! Jump into the pit!"
The little clerk was dragged down by me almost unconsciously. He and I both held one of Mr. Su's legs, and jumped down into the pit in the tent in despair.