Chapter Forty-Four: The Ghost Town of Bantuo Seventeen
Mustache’s words seem to make sense. It’s like a sea with a depth of 100 meters. A searchlight can only shine down to a depth of 50 meters, but it still cannot see the situation on the bottom of the sea clearly. So we have to let the light dive to a depth of 50 meters.
Only then can the seabed be completely illuminated.
Huaiqinglin is undoubtedly this lamp, but it is a fragile lamp and may be crushed under fifty meters of water.
I don’t know how the old man moved him out of the mountain, but I have a feeling of awe for this man. Huaiqinglin is not a subordinate of the old man. He can sit and command above the mandala, but he entered without hesitation
Mandala, may be trying to do all it can to prevent this operation from failing.
At this time, the desert and the entire Pantuo were surprisingly quiet. There was no wind, and the sun illuminated the sand into a golden color. After Huaiqinglin took people down, there was no movement inside the mandala. There didn't seem to be many people up there.
Worried and panicked, only Cao Shi looked nervous and kept smoking. I guessed that his people may not know how terrible the mandala is. It is said that the ignorant are fearless. If they listen to Bai Yin's own words,
It is estimated that these people sitting outside the gate of the mandala will have nails growing on their butts immediately, and they will not be able to sit still at all.
If it hadn't been for the arrival of Huaiqinglin, I would have guessed what happened next without even looking: the people who entered the mandala disappeared silently, the people above were waiting anxiously, and in the end they could only send another group of people down, and then continue
Wait...until they pull out of Pantuo.
But just because Huaiqinglin appeared in Cao Shi's team, I feel that things may have some variables. What will they encounter under the mandala? Can they go in safely and come out safely?
Cao Shi and the others were waiting anxiously, and we were also waiting anxiously. Time passed by, and about half an hour after Huaiqinglin took the people down, I heard several gunshots coming from the depths of the mandala.
come out.
Everyone became nervous all of a sudden. Cao Shi threw away the cigarette butts in his hand, stepped in front of the gate of the mandala, and looked inside desperately, but he was not an earthly person, so it was impossible to see anything.
As soon as the gunfire rang out, my heart was tightened. According to Baiyin's narration, there seemed to be a messy gunshot in the depths of the mandala, and then the people who entered encountered unforeseen changes.
The people behind Cao Shi gathered around. The guide who was taking care of the camel in the distance was also a little nervous and looked here involuntarily.
After the gunshot, the mandala became completely quiet again. Cao Shi raised his hand to calm his people. This silence lasted for more than ten minutes. At this time, Mustache suddenly lowered his voice and said to us: "Look
!The sand is moving!”
"What?" Neither Ma Dad nor I heard clearly, so we immediately asked in a low voice.
"Sand!" Mustache pointed at the sand beneath us with a finger.
The sand on the roof is not particularly thick, and you can grab it with a handful. Because the wind often blows, the sand surface is blown very flat. As soon as Mustache reminded me, I saw many tiny grains of sand that were visible to the naked eye.
It moved back and forth at an irregular speed, like a lot of little people huddled together doing a tap dance.
"What happened?" I stretched out my hand to hold down a piece of sand. A very slight vibration immediately spread to my palm, and the sand under my hand jumped up from between my fingers.
In a short period of time, the range and frequency of movement of sand grains increased dramatically, and even the body lying on the sand seemed to feel a faint vibration. At first, I suspected that my body was numb because I had been lying down for too long.
It was an illusion, but the vibration became more and more obvious, and finally everyone felt it. Even Cao Shi in the distance threw his cigarette butt and looked around.
This kind of vibration makes people feel very scared. I can't explain why the calm Pantuo would vibrate like this for no reason at all.
"Something happened!" Mustache turned to one side and said hurriedly: "The mandala seems to be collapsing!"
"Why did it suddenly collapse!?"
Before Mustache could answer, the people surrounding the mandala gate in the distance suddenly moved. Several people reached out together and pulled a guy holding a box from inside. Then Huaiqinglin also staggered out.
, but he obviously had no skills and was very weak. When he rushed out, his center of gravity was unstable and he almost fell down. Someone immediately helped him in time.
This kind of vibration has become more and more violent at this time, making Cao Shi's people very uneasy. The moment Huaiqinglin and the guy rushed out of the mandala, they gestured desperately and shouted loudly, as if urging everyone to retreat immediately. Almost.
At the same time, the frequency and amplitude of the vibrations reached their peak, and everyone around the mandala panicked, leading Huaiqinglin and running back as hard as they could.
Boom!
With a muffled sound, the entire mandala, together with an area of more than ten meters around it, collapsed completely like a toy in an instant. The huge vibration may have triggered a chain reaction and collapsed the large pit under the mandala.
Except for the guide in the distance, everyone was buried before they had time to run far.
At this time, the wind picked up again, and a large amount of sand and dust caused by the collapse was blown by the wind and spread rapidly. It covered half of Bantuo City in less than a minute, and the visibility dropped to the lowest point. We lay on the roof and could see everything.
I don’t know. But the dust was quickly blown away by the wind, and the original location of the mandala had turned into a huge sand pit. There was a bang in my head, and I stood up and was about to go down to save people. The monk grabbed me and said
:"hold on."
"If you wait any longer, you will die!"
The monk was afraid that there would be an unexpected collapse after we approached the sand pit. I couldn't bear it anymore. I didn't care whether there would be another collapse or whether there were other sneak attackers in the city. I got up and jumped directly from the roof. Maybe
It was because of my improper posture when I landed that my nosebleeded from the shock.
I wiped off the flowing nosebleed with my sleeve and ran quickly towards the huge sand pit. As soon as I got down, Xiaozhu and the others couldn't sit still and watched. They jumped off the roof one after another. The monk raised his gun and looked around vigilantly to cover us.
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The sand pit is very big, and the hollow area below has completely sunk in. Fortunately, Cao Shi and the others are in front of the main entrance of the mandala. If they were on the back, the large pit under the mandala would form a deep collapse vortex. I think
It is very difficult to save people.
The collapse of the sand pit here was not particularly deep, so I ran over in one breath, roughly identified the position where Cao Shi was before, and then dug hard. Both Ma Dad and Lao Gong rushed over to help, and their mustaches also fell.
He picked up a shovel, but instead of helping us dig, he started digging not far away, where the Huaiqing Forest fell.
In a hurry, I didn't care about so much. The place I chose was quite accurate. The sand was very loose, and there were stones and scattered iron tools in it. A few of us knew that we were saving lives, so we worked very hard. Soon, Cao
A piece of Shi's clothes was exposed. I threw away the shovel and dug it out with my hands.
There was blood oozing from his forehead. He might have hit a rock while sinking with the sand. I quickly stretched out my hand to check. He was still breathing. I felt relieved. But when I turned my eyes, I immediately became nervous again. Cao Shi's
A deep and long wound was made on his abdomen by something sharp, and his intestines almost leaked out.
"Lao Cao!" I shouted, but he didn't respond. I had never seen someone face to face with such a serious injury, and I didn't know how to treat him. Ma Dad and I carried Cao Shi out, and then I became anxious.
He begged the monk: "Save him, save him quickly!"
At this time, Mustache also dug out Huaiqinglin from the sand. The latter was also unconscious. I don’t know how badly he was injured or whether he was still alive. But I can’t care about anyone anymore. The monk listened.
I begged, raising my gun and glancing at Mustache.
"It's hard to save him." Xiao Hu hugged Huaiqing Lin and looked at Cao Shi lying on the ground and the scary wound on his abdomen: "The wound cannot be sutured. It will take a long time to leave the desert. He can't be saved."
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"I can definitely save him! I can definitely save him!" I felt that I could hardly stand. Cao Shi's face was pale and his abdomen was stained with blood. The scarlet blood was so dazzling that I crawled to the monk's side.
, dragging the skirt of his clothes and pulling towards Cao Shi with all his strength.
Mustache looked at Cao Shi again, said nothing, and carried Huaiqing Lin for treatment. The monk hesitated for half a minute, handed the gun to Ma Dad, and then quickly opened a backpack.
The monk briefly looked at Cao Shi's wound. Although I don't understand medicine, I could tell that his injury was serious. The monk seemed to have cleaned the wound with something like hydrogen peroxide, and then took out a bottle of hydrogen peroxide from his pocket.
Medicinal powder.
"This medicine is very useful in treating trauma." The monk said while busy, "But his injury is too serious."
"You bandage him, bandage him." I begged, "Then we leave right away, leave here, and send him to the hospital."
The monk glanced at me and lowered his head to treat Cao Shi's injuries. I rubbed my eyes and jumped up to lead the camel. Mustache shouted loudly behind me: "He can't survive this desert!"
"I want to save him!" I ran without looking back.
Mustache immediately left Huaiqinglin, rushed to me, held my shoulders, and said word for word: "The situation is still very complicated, don't waste your efforts, he can't survive this desert!"
"I don't care!" I suddenly threw away the hand with the mustache and yelled at him with a voice that was almost like a roar. I didn't know that I had such strength, I only felt that my eyes were red.
"You can't control a camel! If you want to save him, you have to carry him out of Tengger yourself!"
I didn't say anything, and immediately rushed to the monk's side. Cao Shi's wounds were treated. In this place, we could only receive such simple treatment. When I saw that the monk's treatment had ended, I immediately picked up Cao Shi with difficulty.
, and then walked out of the city.
"Old Cao, it's okay..." I walked step by step, tears falling from my eyes unknowingly: "You won't die here..."