“Lu Feng, do you know something?”
As soon as Xue Li Yang said this, Chen Jiao Yuan and the others looked at Lu Feng.
“It should be the desert army ants.”
“Desert army ants?”
Xue Li Yang was enlightened: “I heard in the US that there’s a kind of army ant in the desert. They will eat all the people and animals they encounter, very scary.”
“They eat people too?” Ye Yi Xin asked.
“Yes.”
“……”
Even Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi were shocked by the ants. This was the first time they had heard of desert army ants that eat people.
“Desert army ants always appear in groups, everyone be careful, don't be surrounded by them.” Xue Li Yang said.
“Miss Yang is right, we should all be careful.” Professor Chen said.
“After all, ants are just ants, we are humans, we can't just stand there and let them bite us, can they chase us?”
“Yeah.”
Lu Feng ignored these words.
“Let's bury these bones, it's uncomfortable to look at them.” Ye Yi Xin said.
“Xiao Sa, Chu Jian, you guys go.” Hao Ai Guo said.
“Okay.”
The two picked up shovels and started digging.
“What are you doing?”
Lu Feng's face darkened. If it weren't for the fact that this room was the only shelter from the black sandstorm, he would not have bothered: “Did you forget what I just said?”
“We're just burying the bones, to avoid exposing them to the air, everyone will be uncomfortable looking at them, we're not digging randomly.” Hao Ai Guo said.
“Just cover them with some sand.”
“It's just digging a small pit, do you have to be so tense?”
“If you attract desert army ants, will you feed them?”
“That’s just your guess, there's no evidence?”
“Do whatever you want when the black sandstorm stops, I won't interfere. Just stay put now.”
Professor Chen saw that the atmosphere was wrong, and quickly stepped in to smooth things over: “Listen to Lu Feng, we can bury them tomorrow.”
Hao Ai Guo had to cover the bones with sand for now.
Seeing this, Hu Ba Yi pulled Wang Pang Zi out to find ‘firewood’ and start a fire.
Seeing the heavy atmosphere, Xue Li Yang wanted to let Hu Ba Yi lighten the mood, so Hu Ba Yi started to tell everyone about his time as a soldier.
Everyone took turns watching at night.
The wind and sand gradually weakened in the second half of the night, and completely stopped before dawn.
After telling Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi, Lu Feng went out of the house.
Soon after, Xue Li Yang woke up.
“Where's Lu Feng?”
“He went out early in the morning.” Hu Ba Yi said.
Xue Li Yang nodded and walked out of the house, discovering that the sandstorm was gone.
Lu Feng was sitting on a sand dune dozens of meters away, as if becoming one with the desert.
At the same time.
The others woke up one after another.
An Li Man immediately ran to check on the camels.
“Ai Guo, the wind and sand have stopped, bury those bones outside.” Professor Chen said.
“Okay.”
Hao Ai Guo called Sa Di Peng and Chu Jian to gather the bones and carry them outside to bury.
Clang!
The engineering shovel hit hard rock.
“There's something!”
Sa Di Peng shouted.
“Quickly see what it is.” Hao Ai Guo said.
Sa Di Peng and Chu Jian quickly removed the top layer of sand, revealing a black stone. They dug around it, revealing half of the stone.
“It seems to be a stone statue.” Sa Di Peng said.
The stone statue was very strange, with olive-shaped eyes, disproportionately large, no crown on top of the head, only a simple hairpin, expression serene, neither sad nor happy.
“Giant-eyed statue?!”
Hao Ai Guo leaned closer, carefully examining it.
“Teacher, what is the origin of this giant-eyed statue?”
Sa Di Peng and the others had never seen one before and didn't know its origin.
“Some say it is a Mongolian deity, others say it was left behind by the ancient Turkic people, its exact origin is still unknown.”
“Let's dig it up and take a look.” Sa Di Peng said.
“Maybe we shouldn't dig it up, what if we dig up the desert army ants?” Hu Ba Yi said.
“What are you afraid of?”
Hao Ai Guo waved his hand: “The sandstorm has stopped, we can leave anytime, can the desert army ants run faster than us?”
Sa Di Peng and the three were very excited to encounter the giant-eyed statue for the first time, they all started digging, and soon the whole head was revealed.
The five of them were extremely excited, Sa Di Peng held his camera to take photos of it.
No one noticed that earth mounds were rising in various places of the house.
Hundreds or thousands of red ants emerged from the ground like fountains, each ant the size of a knuckle.
“There are ants!”
Wang Pang Zi suddenly shouted, pointing to a few meters away from the giant-eyed statue, the fiery red ants had already covered the ground: “Damn, there are so many!”
“There are some over there too!”
Ye Yi Xin pointed in a direction.
“There are some there too.”
“There are some on the beams too.”
Hu Ba Yi took a look around and found that the whole room was full of ants, earth mounds were constantly emerging, more than ten thousand of them?
“Why are there so many?”
Professor Chen nervously said.
“There are ants at the exit too.” Ye Yi Xin pointed at the exit with fear, “What do we do? What do we do now? We're surrounded.”
“Quickly, charge out!”
Hu Ba Yi charged first, Wang Pang Zi followed closely.
“Run!”
Professor Chen didn't dare to hesitate, and quickly ran outside.
Boom!!
The sand under Sa Di Peng's feet suddenly collapsed, and he fell into hundreds of thousands of desert army ants.
“Help me—!”
As soon as Sa Di Peng opened his mouth, he felt a large number of ants crawling into his mouth. Those army ants crawled into his nostrils, ears, and clothes.
He desperately slapped the army ants off his body, but there were simply too many, he couldn't shake them off at all, and was quickly wrapped up like a dumpling.
His skin was bitten off by millions of ants, peeled into millions of pieces!
“Xiao Sa!!”
Hao Ai Guo's face turned pale.
Ye Yi Xin and Chu Jian were completely stunned.
A living person, was instantly peeled by millions of ants!
“Quickly, quickly run!”
Professor Chen's voice trembled with fear.
Hao Ai Guo and the others were startled awake, they gritted their teeth and rushed out.
When they rushed out of the house, they were horrified to find that dozens of earth mounds had risen nearby, countless desert army ants crawled out and surrounded the house.
“Get out of here quickly!”
“Quickly!”
“Run!”
Hu Ba Yi, Professor Chen, and the others ran with the pain of being bitten by army ants, wishing they could grow two more legs at this moment.