In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed.
Jiang Chen and Fatty were replaced by the others and went back to their sleeping bags to rest.
After returning to his sleeping bag, Jiang Chen deliberately looked in the direction of the giant eye statue. After seeing nothing unusual, he was relieved.
Although he wasn't afraid of these Desert Army Ants, the others weren't.
At this moment, the sky outside was already completely dark.
The sound of the wind was still as loud as before, like the wails of countless demons. From time to time, the sound of sand falling onto the roof could be heard.
In this extreme weather, Jiang Chen gradually fell asleep.
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The next morning.
Just as Jiang Chen predicted last night, this terrifying black sandstorm gradually subsided early this morning.
Although there was still a sandstorm, it was much smaller and did not affect everyone's journey.
"That's great! It seems like this sandstorm is really coming to an end!”
"Leader Jiang is really amazing. He said it would end today and it will end today!”
"Yeah, I feel like Brother Jiang is a prophet!”
Everyone looked at the bright sky outside the exit and revealed happy expressions.
Therefore, Jiang Chen was successfully woken up by the cheers.
He had wanted to sleep for a while more, but when he heard that the black sandstorm had stopped, he immediately woke up.
"Eh, Brother Jiang, you're awake?" Ye Yixin walked over with the water bottle and handed it to Jiang Chen.""Brother Jiang, you said last night that the sandstorm would stop, and it really stopped today. It's really amazing. How did you do it? Could it be... Do you really know how to predict?"
"Yes…" Jiang Chen opened the bottle and drank some water. He said slowly,""Didn't I say it before? I'm proficient in Heavenly Star Feng Shui and the Eight Trigrams. It's just a prediction of a sandstorm.”
Everyone was speechless.
He was only deducing a sandstorm…That's all?
Look, is this human language?
Although it was hard to believe Jiang Chen's words, now that the black sandstorm really stopped, they had to believe it!
Even Lin Ze, who always liked to argue with Jiang Chen, didn't stand up and question anything this time.
"Alright, since the sandstorm has subsided, let's hurry up and pack up our supplies and continue on our way.”Jiang Chen stood up and was about to ask Old Hu and Fatty to move the supplies outside.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of something from the corner of his eye.
Jiang Chen turned his head and his face darkened.""What's going on? Didn't I say that you're not allowed to dig up the stone statue again?”
Stone statues?
Everyone was stunned and quickly looked to the side.
In the corner not far away, the sand pit that they had just buried last night had actually sunk in again. Even the giant pupil stone statue inside was exposed.
"Captain Jiang, we didn't touch it!”
"Yes, Comrade Xiaojiang, we just woke up not long ago!”
"Brother Jiang, we didn't dig this pit!”
Seeing Jiang Chen's gloomy face, everyone quickly began to explain, afraid that Jiang Chen would be angry because of this.
"Not you?" Jiang Chen frowned. If it wasn't the archeological team, then who was it?
At this moment, Xue Li Yang suddenly pointed at the stone statue and said,"No! Look at that stone statue!"
"It... It seemed a little different from yesterday!”
Different?
Hearing this, everyone looked at the stone statue again.
Everyone was shocked.
He saw that the original iconic stone pupils on the head of the giant pupil stone statue had disappeared at some point, leaving only two pitch-black holes!
"What's going on? Where are the eyes of the stone statue?”
"Could it have been stolen in the middle of the night?!”
"Nonsense, this is the desert. Where did the thief come from?”
"That's right. Moreover, we were clearly taking turns to keep watch last night. If something really happened, we would definitely have noticed it…"
Listening to the discussion, Jiang Chen had a bad feeling.
As the saying goes, there must be a reason for something abnormal!
If he stayed in this wooden house any longer, something might happen.
Jiang Chen said," Let's not worry about this. Fatty, Old Hu, and the others, hurry up and move the supplies out of the house. We need to leave this place as soon as possible.”
"Good!"
Hearing this, everyone quickly tidied up the supplies on the ground.
"Eh? That was…" Lin Ze was halfway through cleaning up when he suddenly felt something flash past him.
He quickly raised his head and looked over. He saw that there seemed to be something squirming in the pitch-black eye hole of the giant pupil stone statue.
"What is this…" Seeing this, Lin Ze subconsciously walked forward.
He had just taken a few steps forward and had yet to take a closer look.
Whoosh!
An ant the size of a pinky suddenly jumped out of the eye hole of the stone statue and landed on the back of Lin Ze's hand.
"Eh, why are there such big ants?”After Lin Ze finished speaking, he felt a little itchy and subconsciously reached out to slap the ant to death.
However, at the next moment.
His expression suddenly became terrified.
This was because there were many ants of the same size as before crawling out of the stone statue's eye hole in front of him.
At this moment, he finally reacted.
These ants…
Wasn't it the desert army ant that Jiang Chen mentioned last night?!
"F * ck! It's desert army ants!" Lin Ze shouted in horror.
However, when he came back to his senses and finally thought of running away, his surroundings were already surrounded by dense desert army ants.
Lin Ze gritted his teeth and was about to rush out. However, as soon as he stepped on the ground, countless Desert Army Ants immediately pounced on him and burrowed into his pants at an extremely fast speed.
In less than a minute, Lin Ze's right calf had been gnawed clean by the ants, not even a bit of flesh was left.
"Ah!" Lin Ze could not withstand the pain and immediately let out a miserable cry.
"Professor, Big Brother…Save me!"
Bang!
Lin Ze, who had lost the support of his right leg, fell to the ground. The intense pain from his body made him wish he was dead.
Hearing Lin Ze's scream.
Everyone instantly turned around.
When they saw Lin Ze's current situation and the dense desert army ants, everyone was shocked.
"Little Ze!" Lin Hong's eyes were about to pop out and he was about to rush towards Lin Ze, who was in the middle of the ant colony.
However, just as he took a few steps, he heard a clang.
A scorching and bright wall of fire instantly burned in front of them.
Lin Hong stopped in his tracks after being blocked by the wall of fire.
He turned around and looked at Jiang Chen.""Leader Jiang, what are you doing?”
"My brother is still there. I have to save him!!”
"Yes, Comrade Xiaojiang, we have to hurry and save them!”Professor Chen said anxiously.
However, Jiang Chen remained unmoved and continued coldly,""He's already hopeless. What we need to do now is to retreat before the Desert Army Ants 'attention is on us!”
Save people? With Lin Ze's current condition, it was obvious that he was hopeless.
Not to mention that more and more Desert Army Ants had gathered around him.
Even if Professor Chen and Lin Hong rushed over, they would at most add two dishes to the ant colony!
Therefore, the most important thing now was not to save them, but to protect themselves!
"What are you all standing there for? Fatty Hu, pull him out!"
"Everyone else, take as many resources as you can and run!”
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