Chapter Thirty-Five: The Ghost Town of the Camel Eight
This vague sense of crisis came very suddenly, and I was vaguely aware that this crisis came from behind, so I immediately involuntarily wanted to turn around and look.
But before I could turn my head, a pair of cold and skinny hands suddenly stretched out from behind and pinched my neck so tightly that it immediately made me feel breathless. I acted like a reflex.
I tried to break off the hands that sneaked up from behind, but it had no effect. Although these hands were thin, they were quite strong, and I had almost no room to break free.
These hands seemed to have no warmth at all, they were cold and stiff. They not only pinched my neck and strangled my trachea, but also controlled my head to death. I couldn't move, and I tried my best to break the hands on my neck.
In less than two seconds, I felt my whole body being dragged backwards while sitting on the sand. The friction between my body and the gravel made a rapid rustling sound, which was also mixed with my whimpering. These movements were very slight and were blown by the wind.
The sound of sand was drowned out. But at this time, the monk who was in the distance happened to turn around and immediately saw this scene.
He was also taken aback. He didn't have time to think too much and followed him in a few steps. The strength of the sneak attacker was unbelievable. Even though he was dragging me, he was faster than a person running lightly. In a matter of seconds,
, the monk couldn’t catch up.
I was so panicked that my neck was stuck and almost broke. But what was most unacceptable to me was that I couldn’t see the sneak attacker behind me at all. Sometimes, it’s okay to face a powerful enemy face to face. What I’m most afraid of is
It means that someone's life is in danger, and you can't even touch the other person's shadow. In this case, a person will have a vague feeling in his heart that his life is completely in the hands of others, and he will develop despair and even give up resistance.
All the sounds in my ears seemed to gradually disappear, and only my body was being dragged passively and quickly across the sand. These hands almost broke my neck, and soon I developed symptoms of brain hypoxia, and my eyesight turned black.
Feeling out of breath.
This feeling of lack of oxygen is very terrible. I grabbed my hands on my neck with both hands and kicked my legs back and forth vigorously.
The monk became anxious and fired a shot in the air to warn the sleeping man. Then he gritted his teeth and increased his running speed to the limit. He might be afraid of accidentally hurting me, so he didn't dare to raise his gun and shoot, so he could only chase after me desperately.
As soon as the monk tried his best, the attacker couldn't bear it. After all, dragging a person weighing more than 100 kilograms on the sand was not an easy task. Suddenly, I felt my neck loosen, and my body lay on my back in the sand due to inertia.
After recovering from the near-coma darkness, everything was filled with stars. The monk only hesitated for half a second, then gave up chasing the attacker and hurriedly knelt down to check on me.
The gunshot just now spread far away, and soon, Xiaozhu and Baiyin rushed over. I gasped for air and stretched out my hand to touch my neck. Xiaozhu asked what happened, and the monk briefly said
After talking about it, the sneak attacker was very fast, especially after leaving me behind, it was like flying on grass. By the time Mustache came over, the sneak attacker had already disappeared in the city.
"Who is he? Did you see clearly?"
The monk saw that there was nothing serious about me, so he breathed a long sigh of relief, helped me sit up, and said, "That man is very thin and runs very fast."
As soon as he said this, the others looked around, but the surrounding area was completely empty and no one could be seen.
"Go back first!"
Several people took me back to the house, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Baiyin, in particular, was even more panicked than me. He was not a very firm atheist to begin with, and he was frightened during the previous two trips to Bantu.
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"Is there a second group of people in Bantuo City?!"
This was a bad warning, and Mustache was very cautious. He gestured to Baiyin. Then, Baiyin took out several tightly wrapped packages from his luggage and opened them quickly. Inside the packages were oil-coated
Baiyin assembled the gun parts and pulled the gun bolt with a click.
This is a "Type 56" submachine gun (submachine gun is just a common name in general. In fact, this gun should be called an assault rifle, imitating the Soviet-made AK47). Some herdsmen on the grasslands hide this gun and use it to herd and hunt wolves.
Baiyin handed the gun to the monk, and then the two of them unloaded the bullets and pressed them into the magazine. This scene made people feel even more nervous. No one expected that such a big thing would be used. The monk carried a bag, which contained
After loading several magazines, he loaded the bullets directly, looking murderous.
We all know that the current situation has become complicated. It is impossible for people to live in a place like Bantuo for a long time. The sneak attacker must have arrived here before us or for a while after us. The most terrible thing is that he is in the dark and we are in the open, at any time.
You can get shot anywhere.
But what makes us unpredictable is the motive of the sneak attacker. In the situation just now, if he secretly fired a black gun, the monk and I would never be able to escape. But he just grabbed my neck and ran away for a while, and it didn't look like he was doing anything.
He didn't want our lives, or rather, he didn't have time to kill me.
Mustache and the monk went out to look out for themselves with guns, leaving the four of us in the house to stand ready. We stayed up until dawn, when Mustache came back and said that we could no longer stay in the house and had to move to another place.
We found another relatively tall and hidden building and climbed to the top. From here we could overlook a large area in Bantuo City. The monk lay on the roof with a gun. His movements were very skillful. It can be imagined that his marksmanship must also be very good.
Accurate. In this condescending and favorable terrain, the gun in the monk's hand can pose a huge threat to the unknown enemy.
We spent a whole day hiding and motionless like this. The whole day was quiet, the imaginary enemy did not appear, and there were no suspicious signs. After nightfall, a few people quietly climbed down from the roof and found another one.
A mud house that was mostly filled with sand.
I was just wondering if the information that Mustache got was not rigorous and fell into the hands of other people. Otherwise, how could there be a second group of people involved in Bantuo? The people who appeared in Bantuo at this time were undoubtedly related to
We have the same goal, we are trying to get that Xixia bronze medal.
The stalemate lasted for about three days. We would go to the room in the early morning every day and come down after nightfall. The situation stabilized, the raiders never appeared again, and the entire class returned to its original dead silence.
In the early morning of the fourth day when we started to hide, Xiaozhu seemed to not want to waste time with each other anymore, he wanted to fight. When it was just dawn, he asked the monk and Madai Baiyin to go to the room, and then he wanted to take him
Lao Gong and I went down to the pit.
"You are talking nonsense!" Ma Dad stopped at that time: "Master Wei has never been in the trap, why did you bring him in!"
"Brother Ma, there are regulations here, and we know it, and everything will be fine." Lao Gong tried his best to comfort Ma Dad.
In fact, I once guessed the origin of Lao Gong. There is something wrong with this person. How should I put it? He obeys the instructions of the mustache, but he does not seem to be the person with the mustache. This can be seen from some usual clues.
.But Lao Gong may now be completely on the same line as Mustache.
"I will be responsible for Wei Tian's safety." Xiaozhu stopped talking nonsense to Ma Dad. He looked at me and said, "If you don't go down, I won't force you."
After saying this, Mustache turned around and groped quietly towards the robbery hole that had been dug not far away. To be honest, I was very hesitant because I could see that even Mustache was not completely sure of the current situation.
You can control the overall situation, otherwise you won't take the risk.
I felt that there was a little bit of threat in Mustache's calm words. If I didn't follow along, maybe he wouldn't do anything extraordinary to force me, but the original promise of cooperation would probably be invalidated.
I hesitated for a few minutes, said a few words to Ma Dad, and then followed the route that Mustache had taken and climbed over there. Ma Dad called me in a low voice from behind, but I didn't look back.
Keep your head up and keep walking forward.
The three of us were about to go down into the pit, while the monk and the others were suppressing the enemy in a hidden place. Mustache quickly removed the barrier outside the cave entrance, then turned around and asked Lao Gong and I to wait while he went down to see the situation.
At that time, the drilling of the hole went smoothly, which showed that the underground was relatively safe. After a few days of breathing, there might be nothing serious down there. Mustache quickly sent a message that Lao Gong had entered the hole and asked me to follow him.
behind him.
As soon as I entered the hole, I felt very uncomfortable. The hole is very deep and long. People can only crawl a little bit with their bodies shrinking in it. In such a narrow hole, I will have the possibility of being buried alive or being buried alive at any time.
The illusion of being suffocated to death.
The whole cave is curved, so if you climb in for a while, you will lose your sense of direction. I don’t know how many turns I have made. But I know in my heart that I am crawling under the mandala that is full of the smell of death.
The concept of time completely disappeared. Finally, Lao Gong got out of the robbery hole first, and I followed him and poked my head out of the hole. I don’t know if this is the inside of the mandala, but it must be an underground space. I can’t tell the area yet.
.The mustache held an open flame, and Lao Gong turned on the flashlight. I had been drilling in the hole for so long, and when my feet stepped on the ground, I felt a little more at ease.
The three of us stood there and looked around with flashlights. As we looked, I realized that Mustache was not lying. This place did not look like the inside of a mandala, but indeed looked like a tomb.
"A Xixia tomb located under the mandala?"
I have some opinions from others about going down into the pit. I have to say that if this is really a pit, it can only be said to be a pit that defies common sense. Building a tomb under a mandala is a shocking thing.
Don't let anyone know about your actions, otherwise it will be a catastrophe for the whole family.
But if you think about it from the opposite direction, the pit under the mandala is a very safe place. No one will think that there is a gloomy ancient tomb under the mandala, and no one will have their thoughts on the mandala.