The two of them were sitting in the car, listening to the sound of the sandstorm outside. It hit the car body with a loud bang, like a building about to collapse, and like a giant ship in a violent storm, swaying on the rough waves.
On the sea, it's just that now the sea has turned into a sea of sand.
"Why did this sandstorm come so suddenly? It came right away without any warning. I didn't find out until you told me."
Gu Zhuo still had lingering fears.
"It did come very suddenly. It was nothing at first, but suddenly it gathered into a wall of sand. As soon as I saw it, I informed you immediately. I didn't dare to delay."
Chaoying replied.
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo nodded and said:
"I know, I don't blame you for reminding me late. I just feel weird."
Chaoying glanced outside the car window. It was pitch black outside. Sand and dust gathered together. The wind picked them up and swirled them around, forming a whirlwind. It looked dark, like a real entity.
.
Staying in the middle of this sandstorm, there was a sense of desolation and desolation, as if the whole world had been swept away, leaving only a car, the two of them and a dog.
Gu Zhuo was a little agitated for no reason, as if a rope had tied countless knots in his heart, entangled together, making it uncomfortable.
Chao Ying looked at him and frowned, moved over little by little, got close to him, and began to analyze:
"Generally speaking, sandstorms are caused by strong winds, or the combined effect of momentum downward transmission and gradient deviation winds in large-scale environments. There didn't seem to be much wind outside just now, right?"
"No, I can't feel any wind anyway. If it's the kind of strong wind that can set off such a sandstorm, it's impossible for me not to feel it."
Gu Zhuo told her.
Hearing Gu Zhuo's words, Chao Ying nodded, his eyes darkening:
"Well, although this is a large-scale environment, I don't think there is any huge pressure and temperature gradient before and after the frontal zone. Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case."
"Are there other reasons for the formation of sandstorms?"
"Yes, but the others are even more unlikely. They are all related to the atmospheric circulation. This case does not seem to be caused by that."
After the two of them finished speaking, there was some silence and they stopped talking.
I don’t know when the sandstorm outside will stop.
While waiting, the phone number given by Feng Hongxi rang. Gu Zhuo impatiently took the phone and answered the call.
As soon as the call was connected, on the other end of the phone, I heard Chen Haidao's voice whistling:
"Gu Zhuo, what's going on over there?"
Being in the middle of a sandstorm may have caused a certain degree of interference to the signal. It took Gu Zhuo a lot of effort to hear what he was saying.
"What's wrong?"
He asked Chen Haidao.
"What did you say? I can't hear you clearly!"
Chen Haidao didn't hear Gu Zhuo's words clearly. He only heard a burst of electricity, and his voice was as if he had turned on electronic sound effects.
"I said, what's going on?"
Gu Zhuo had no choice but to repeat it.
This time Chen Haidao vaguely heard clearly, and he answered:
"When I was rushing towards you, I suddenly felt a strong wind. The wind was very evil. I asked someone to look at it with a telescope and said that there was a wall of sand blocking out the sky and sun on your side.
I didn’t go there, I quickly called to find out what was going on.”
"Wall of sand?"
Everyone else on the phone was stunned when they heard Chen Haidao's words.
They came back to their senses and knew that the sand wall should refer to the sandstorm.
"Well. I don't know what's going on here, but there's a sudden sandstorm. Don't come over yet."
Gu Zhuo replied on the phone.
His voice still had an electronic sound, but this time it was much better, at least people could understand what he was saying.
"Why did a sandstorm break out for no reason? Logically speaking, it shouldn't happen?"
Feng Hongxi's tone was a little strange, there must be a reason for the abnormality.
"We don't know the reason yet, so don't worry about it for now. In short, don't come here. This sandstorm is very dangerous, and you probably won't be able to withstand it."
Gu Zhuo said seriously to a few people.
After hearing this, Feng Hongxi continued to ask:
"Then did you discover anything new there?"
"Yeah. Although I didn't find the guy's body, I found their car with a dash cam on it. The dash cam is not broken yet. I saw the video before the accident. From the video, I can at least confirm that this guy was on the phone.
We're not being lied to.
"They really encountered quicksand and were trapped in it. It's just that the quicksand disappeared. I don't know what happened. I'll look for it after the sandstorm passes."
After Gu Zhuo finished speaking, the people across from him didn't say anything, so there was nothing to answer.
Finally, Feng Hongxi ended:
"Okay, then tell us if you find out."
After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone, and everyone else hung up too, leaving only Wan Sui who hadn't hung up yet.
"Do you have anything to say? Why don't you hang up?"
Gu Zhuo guessed that Wan Sui had something to tell him, so he asked her in advance.
"Look carefully. It's so weird over there. It's probably caused by the appearance of two suns, causing chaos in time and space. I guess the water is nearby."
She had been worried that Feng Hongxi had installed a listening device in the phone, so she spoke very implicitly, still calling the space cracks water, and pushing the turbulence caused by the space cracks to the two-wheeled sun.
"knew."
Gu Zhuo answered her.
Afterwards, the two hung up the phone.
Gu Zhuo casually threw his phone forward and said:
"Huh, these guys are really using me. Knowing that there is a situation here, they let me guard here. They said they would rush over, but I am sure that before I really find the space crack, these guys
I won’t come here, it’s too dangerous here.”
"Don't worry about them. No matter what the reason for this sandstorm is, I have a feeling that after it passes, something will definitely appear."
Chaoying patted his back and comforted him.
"You're saying that the sand will cover up some things and the dust storm will reveal them again?"
"Yes, many times, things hidden in the desert are discovered in this way. Some ancient city ruins, some cultural monuments, there are too many. After all, the yellow sand can cover up many things."
"Okay, then I hope something will really appear after the sandstorm passes. Anyway, we have to wait here."
After saying that, the two sat together and leaned on each other.
They didn't know when the sandstorm would pass. It had already turned the whole sky upside down. Gu Zhuo could only wait quietly.
...
After waiting silently for about half an hour, the sandstorm still has not passed. But visible to the naked eye, its power has become smaller.
If the original sandstorm was like an angry beast, the current sandstorm is like a beast that is almost exhausted and seems to give up the prey in front of it and leave at any time.
During this period of time, Gu Zhuo fiddled with the driving recorder.
The driving recorder was not damaged and could still be used normally after being attached to the car, but its lifespan was greatly reduced.
Gu Zhuo didn't care anyway. Once this matter was resolved, the driving recorder would be useless.
He watched the video together with Chaoying. Chaoying didn't see anything. Like him, he could only make sure that the guy wasn't lying on the phone.
"Wait, keep waiting."
Chaoying could only say helplessly.
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo was about to dismantle the driving recorder in the car, but at this moment, his entire car, starting from the bottom, shook violently.
This kind of vibration is different from the vibration caused by a sandstorm, but something is attacking the car. The feeling is very easy to distinguish.
"what!?"
After the tremor, Gu Zhuo and Chao Ying were both shocked.
You know, the weight of his Doomsday Fortress is so heavy that it can be heard from the bottom and shake the entire top of the car, which means it must be an extremely big thing.
Gu Zhuo quickly checked the degree of damage to the car. Fortunately, the car was not damaged at all, but there was only a shock.
But Gu Zhuo was still worried. He quickly looked through the surveillance camera on the car to find what it was.
The picture from the surveillance camera was dim and nothing could be seen clearly.
Even if I analyze the picture carefully, there is nothing.
"Oh shit."
Gu Zhuo cursed softly.
Then, he sat in the driver's seat, regardless of whether the dash cam had not been removed yet, he closed his eyes and connected his feelings with the fortress of doom.
He wanted to take a closer look at who the person who shook his car was.
Once he connected with the feeling of the Doomsday Fortress, Gu Zhuo suddenly felt that he had gone from the safety of the car to the outdoors full of danger.
The wind and sand swept over me, like a steel plate covered with needles, hitting me from all directions. This is what it feels like to be hit head-on by a sandstorm.
Gu Zhuo didn't pay much attention to this. He tried to feel what was attacking the car.
Amidst the whistling of the wind and sand, the whistling sound was like a shrill howl of a ghost or a wolf, filling Gu Zhuo's ears. Gu Zhuo tried hard to find the strange sound hidden in it, and now he was more serious than ever.
The enemy is in the dark and he is in the light, so we have to guard against him.
The sound of wind, sand, and dust gathering together, and the "squeaking" sound of the steel plates of the car body being blown by the wind.
All the messy sounds were mixed together.
He calmed down and listened carefully, and the time passed by minute by minute.
Finally, he caught it. Among the mingling sounds of the sand and the endless howling of the wind, there was a strange rustling movement, like a awn on the back.
It was a "rustling" friction sound, the same strange, incomprehensible friction sound as in the boss's last phone call.
It seemed to be ringing in many places, under the ground, in front of us, around us, and even in the sand walls.
Boundless and nowhere to escape, Gu Zhuo had no idea what it was.
He couldn't stand it a little bit.
He closed his eyes, frowned, and there were some beads of sweat on his forehead.
This was not a very strenuous task, but this complete fear of the unknown still made him panic a little.
He is not afraid of enemies, he is only worried about unknown things hiding in the dark.
It's often that kind of thing that poses the greatest threat to people.
The "rustling" friction sound was still ringing, when Gu Zhuo forced himself to find out where it was.
It stopped.
There was only the sound of howling wind all around.
And Gu Zhuo's own heavy breathing.
He shook his head, opened his eyes, briefly disconnected from the Fortress of Doom, and wiped the sweat from his head.
It felt great to be back in the car, no longer feeling that fatal sense of danger and loneliness.
"What happened? Did you find out what it was?"
Chaoying asked him.
Gu Zhuo shook his head:
"No, I don't know what it is. I can't find it. It seems to be hidden in various places. Just when I finally felt it, it disappeared again."
Hearing this, Chaoying also knew that this time they encountered a terrifying existence.
After taking a few breaths, Gu Zhuo closed his eyes again and was about to continue communicating with the Fortress of Doom. He wanted to try again to see if he could find anything.
"Don't force yourself too much. Even if that thing is very strong, we don't know what it is yet. But its attack just now failed to hurt us. We are still very confident that we can deal with it."
"Don't worry, I won't force myself. I just took a breath and calmed down. Now that I've calmed down, I will definitely be able to find out what it is."
Seeing how determined he was, Chaoying sighed softly:
"Okay, don't force it. If something goes wrong for a while, remember to disconnect the phone."
"good."
After Gu Zhuo answered, he continued to contact the Doomsday Fortress again.
He returned to the vast world again, being blown hard by the wind and sand.
Compared with the discomfort last time, Gu Zhuo was obviously much better this time.
He began to try to continue to feel the strange sound just now and find where it came from.
He had a feeling that the thing might have come from the ground, no, the sandy bottom.
It's something hidden in the desert, and it must be under this pile of sand.
Just as he was thinking this, in the noisy, chaotic sandstorm that made it impossible to calm down, he heard it again.
“Swish, swish, swish”
A constant grinding sound.
“Swish, swish, swish”
It kept ringing.
Like a knife being sharpened, Gu Zhuo felt that the knife was about to chop off the top of his head.
He looked for where the knife was.
Suddenly, he felt it. The sound was indeed coming from the bottom of the sand!
Moreover, listening to the sound of friction getting closer and closer, Gu Zhuo had a strong premonition that it was going to attack them again!
He quickly took control of the Doomsday Fortress, grabbed the ground with two mechanical arms, and drove forward quickly for a certain distance, and as expected, the thing poked out a section of its body from under the sand and fiercely attacked the bottom of the car.
However, it hit nothing.
In just half a second, it retracted a section of its body under the sand.
Gu Zhuo only came in time to see part of it clearly.
It was a huge, thick black figure, it moved very fast and looked very big in size. It was not a small thing.
It is estimated that the section just protruding from the sandy bottom is as long as his entire Doomsday Fortress.
But the appearance of the thing was very obvious, and Gu Zhuo could recognize what kind of creature it was at a glance.
He quickly regained consciousness, opened his eyes wide, and almost shouted to Chaoying:
"I know what that is!"
"What is it?"
Chaoying asked him anxiously.
"It's a bug!"
Hearing this, Chaoying was stunned:
"insect?"
"Yes, you are right. The last thing the man called on the phone was a bug, and the one that just attacked our car, I saw a part of its body. It looked like that, except for a bug, it couldn't be any other creature!
"And it's a huge sandworm! I just saw a section of its body, which is almost as long as the entire length of my car."
Hearing Gu Zhuo say this, Chao Xiang suddenly thought of something:
"Tell me, could that sandworm be the cause of the sandstorm!?"
Chaoying seemed to have figured something out and continued:
"This huge sandworm was stirring under the sand, and it quickly attacked us, causing a sandstorm. And the disappearing quicksand was probably caused by its turning under the desert.
"The man fell into the quicksand and died, but in the last chaotic space, he was eaten by this sandworm. The sound of bones crunching that we heard was the sandworm chewing his bones.
It is precisely for this reason that the man died completely and stopped calling us."
What Chaoying said was reasonable, and Gu Zhuo couldn't think of a better explanation than this.
Moreover, he also knew that some huge worms would have giant teeth in their mouths.
These giant teeth can help them easily bite off some things, such as steel or human bones.
These images not only exist in movies and novels, but there are also such strange creatures in reality.
It was just the first time Gu Zhuo had seen sandworms, and it was also the first time he had heard of them.
No one knows where this sandworm came from, let alone how it survives. It may be a species that was created after a mutation, or it may come from somewhere else, who knows.
But there is only one thing Gu Zhuo can be sure of, and that is that the person who comes here is not evil.
"Ignore it for now, prepare to fight. I feel that the sandworm is coming for us. It is an organized attack, and it is hiding somewhere we can't see."
Gu Zhuo said, putting his hands on the bridge, always vigilant.
Both of them were worried, not knowing when the next attack would come.
It might be the next moment, the next second.
However, I wonder if it was because of Gu Zhuo's control of the car to move forward that the sandworm became wary and suspicious of this big black guy.
After waiting for a long time, the next attack never came.
Not only that, about twenty minutes passed. Within these twenty minutes, the sandstorm gradually subsided and finally stopped.
The dim yellow sand wall collapsed, and the curtain that blocked the sky finally came to an end.
Gu Zhuo saw that they were back under the sun again, and the dazzling white light made him feel a little uncomfortable.
He couldn't believe that the sandworm would let them go so easily.
After all, looking at its size, Gu Zhuo might really have a headache if he really fought with all his life against him.
At this time, the sandstorm passed, and Gu Zhuo waited there for a while.
After confirming that there was nothing unusual, he breathed a small sigh of relief.
He looked out of the car window and was surprised to find that, as Chaoying said, the fierce sandstorm blew out a lot of things.
In front of him, on the sandy ground, in addition to the completely damaged off-road vehicle, there were more than a dozen corpses with white bones exposed, and some flesh and blood stuck to the bones.
It can be seen that these corpses must have been dead not long ago, and they are probably the people Gu Zhuo is looking for.