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The gas lamp hanging on the beam was blown by the strong wind that poured into the dilapidated house. The light flickered, illuminating the dilapidated house. The pitch-black stone man looked like a dead person buried alive. Only his head was exposed, and the bottom was buried in the yellow sand.
When he got closer, he saw that there was a large ant lying on the rockman's eyes. It was as big as a finger joint, its body was black, and its tail was blood-red. When the light from the gas lamp flickered, it flashed with a faint light. From a distance, it looked like the rockman's eyes were shining.
Seeing that it was just an ant, Qin Shi flicked it to the ground and stepped on it. A soft crunching sound was heard as he stepped on it. What was slightly strange was that this large ant's body was much harder and more dangerous than ordinary ants.
Qin Shi looked around and saw that the shabby house was drafty. The ant had crawled in from the stone statue. Shirley Yang walked over and asked,"
"What's wrong with me?"
"Tell everyone to be careful. These ants are very dangerous.”
Qin Shi woke up Fatty, who was sleeping soundly, and asked him to keep watch. He then added some solid fuel to the fire to make it burn brighter. He turned off the gas lamp and went to sleep in his sleeping bag.
He was exhausted and fell asleep very quickly. When he woke up, it was already past nine in the morning the next day. The sandstorm outside had been blowing for the entire night and had not stopped. However, the wind was much weaker than before. This devilish sandstorm was finally coming to an end.
A large part of the ancient city ruins had sunk into the yellow sand again, and not much of it was exposed to the ground. If there were two more sandstorms like this, this nameless ancient city would probably disappear into the desert. However, even if it was completely buried by the yellow sand, it did not mean that it would be buried forever. More than half of the Taklamakan was a flowing desert. As the wind moved the desert, it was unknown how many years it would be before it could see the sun again.
Professor Chen saw that I was awake and nodded to greet me. It seemed that his body was fine. He told me that this time, he wanted to let the students practice and gain some practical experience. Although theoretical knowledge was important, field practice was also very important in archaeology. Only by seeing more on the spot and interacting more with more hands could they have an intuitive feeling. It would be much faster to combine theory.
It didn't take long for the students to reach the base of the stone statue. This was the first time Qin Shi had seen such a stone statue with giant eyes. The stone statue was dressed in Hu clothes, its arms drooping, and its body was carved with many patterns that seemed to be some kind of Tantra scripture. According to Professor Chen, these words had never been deciphered. However, with the expansion of archaeological research in recent years, experts believed that they should be some kind of symbol or code that recorded some ancient religious information. As for why these symbols were carved on the rockmen, it might have something to do with sacrifice. However, there were no relevant documents, murals, historical records, and other information. Up until now, these were only speculations.
Sa Dipeng listened to the professor's explanation and asked,"Professor, the appearance of these stone people is very different from ordinary people. I think it's possible. There was a religion that worshipped aliens in ancient times. After they saw aliens, they thought they were gods, so they created some stone people to worship. The symbols on these stone people are an alien language.”
Hao Aiguo immediately criticized him." Xiao Sa, you don't study very hard. How many times have I told you that you are a very smart child? Don't use your brain in the wrong way. How did you come up with aliens?" He had to be serious when it came to history and archaeology.”
Professor Chen was not angry. Instead, he smiled kindly."It's not a bad thing to have an imagination. It's good to have a lively mind, young man. Unity and tension, seriousness and liveliness, this was not contradictory at all. "However, archaeology and history research must follow a principle. We must boldly assume and carefully verify. Imagination had to be based on reality. Imagination without evidence was unreliable. Let's take this giant pupil stone statue as an example. The ancient people liked to judge good or bad luck through astronomical phenomena. Every night, when they looked at the starry sky, would they hope that their eyes could see further? When creating the stone statue, would he add this wish into it? This possibility was very high. Some statues were unearthed in the Sanxing Dui in Sichuan. The eyes were long and extended. Conservatively speaking, it was very likely that this was an expression of the ancient people's desire to explore.”
When I heard this, I couldn't help but sigh in admiration. Professor Chen is really good. He doesn't use big principles to pressure others. Compared to Professor Chen's realm, Hao Aiguo is much worse.
Professor Chen continued," The aliens you mentioned are not impossible. It doesn't mean that the mention of aliens is a fictional science fiction in foreign novels. In fact, the earliest records of aliens appeared in ancient notes and murals in China. As early as 7,500 years ago, in the murals of the primitive tribes of Mount Helan, the image of astronauts in spacesuits appeared. They walked out of a large disk, and the animals and residents around them fled in all directions. This was probably not something that humans could imagine with their imagination. It should be a mural that recorded major disasters and events. Similar situations are recorded in the cauldrons of the Zhou and Xia Dynasties, as well as some ancient books…"
"Professor, I think we should fill the statue back in because last night, I saw ants appear in this statue, and they were man-eating ants that could eat everything.”
When I saw the professor teaching the students, I reminded him seriously.
" It's nothing. It's just a few ants," the student who said that he was an alien immediately said. Everyone agreed.
Seeing that everyone was unmoved, he told Brother Long to carry his things and go to the exit first, just in case.
Qin Shi's paranoia was no longer a surprise. He picked up his things and walked to the exit.
At this moment, Old Man An jumped back through the hole in the roof."
"The sandstorm is about to pass. In less than half an hour, the sky will clear up. Thanks to God's blessing, the sand is about to swallow the outer city wall. If it blows for another two hours, we will be buried alive today.”
Initially, everyone was still a little worried. Although the wind had weakened, they did not know when it would stop. With Old Man An's words, they completely relaxed.
The students listened attentively to Professor Chen's lecture. I boiled a pot of tea over the fire and prepared to let everyone drink it before setting off.
The tea had just boiled when the few people surrounding the stone statue suddenly screamed in unison and jumped back. Some of them shouted,
"Ah…why are there so many ants?”
Someone shouted,
"Aiyo! There's also one here!"
Qin Shi hurried over to take a look and saw a huge bulge in the sand under the rockmen's feet. Countless ants were gushing out like a fountain. Someone had swatted them with a shovel and killed hundreds of them in one go. However, at the same time, thousands of ants emerged from the sand. It was so densely packed that it made one's scalp tighten.
At first, they thought that they had dug up the ants 'nest, but they soon realized that it was not the case. More than ten big holes appeared on the ground, and more and more ants crawled out. Each of them had a black body and a red tail. There were countless of them, like the tide of a broken dam.
"Everyone, run to the exit quickly.”
Hu Bayi shouted,
Old Man An only took a glance before he turned around and ran out. Brother Long ran out first because I arranged for him to. Fatty and the others still wanted to use the engineer shovel to pat them, but at this moment, the ants were so many that they had no way to start.
Shirley Yang was a photographer for the American National Geography magazine. She had been to many places and had a wide range of knowledge. She shouted anxiously to everyone,
"Everyone, quickly climb out from the roof. These are desert army ants. If you walk any slower, you'll be bitten into bones.”
Tens of thousands of Desert Army Ants had already filled half of the house, and more were crawling out of the ground. Not only underground, but also on the beams and walls. Professor Chen, Ye Yixin, and the others were so shocked by this terrifying situation that their legs went soft. How could they even take half a step?
Even Fatty and I were trembling, not to mention the few scholars. These Desert Army Ants were too terrifying. Perhaps the human skeleton in the house was their masterpiece. No wonder there was no flesh left.
Qin Shi stood at the exit and looked at the people around him with interest. He realized that other than Brother Long, Old Man An had escaped by himself again. This old fox ran away when he saw danger. Yesterday, he even vowed to share weal and woe with us.
Seeing that the shovels could no longer stop the tide of Desert Army Ants, Hu Bayi kicked over the fire that was brewing tea and poured out all the fuel in the semi-metal tank, forming a fire wall in the house. The ants that touched the fire wall were immediately burned, slightly slowing down the advance of the Desert Army Ants.
There were too many Desert Army Ants, and they charged at the fire wall without hesitation, trying to use their numbers to extinguish the flames. Fortunately, the solid fuel was very flammable, but it was only a matter of time before they were crushed by the ants.
Using this time, Hu Bayi and the others took all the luggage and equipment they could carry and dragged them out of the dilapidated house. The sandstorm outside was very small, and they saw hundreds of yellow goats, wild camels, sand wolves, gerbils, and lizards running around in the ruins of the ancient city.
It was not only the big house that they were in just now, but also many places where Desert Army Ants appeared. Some animals were a little slower and were immediately covered by Desert Army Ants.
The mouth of the Desert Army Ants contained a large amount of acid. Even an elephant would not be able to withstand the bite of thousands of them. Some sand wolves and yellow goats fell to the ground one after another. After the Desert Army Ants passed, all that was left were a pile of bones.
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