Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 72 Poison Quicksand

Upon closer inspection, this white ball turned out to be formed by the agglomeration of countless cave army ants. These army ants intertwined with each other and gathered together to form a huge hollow ball with a diameter exceeding the width of the mountain stream.

Ants can lift weights more than 100 times their own body weight, and they can be regarded as strong men in the animal kingdom. At this time, these strong men exhausted their whole body strength to connect with each other to form this ball. The ants slowly pushed the ball forward.

After being pushed over the edge of the mountain stream, the ball fell forward under the force of gravity.With a slight sound, one side of the ball touched the other side of the mountain stream.But at the moment when the ball came into contact with the rocks in the mountain stream, the bodies of the termites at the bottom of the ball were torn into two pieces under the impact of the ball, and the whole ball collapsed suddenly, forming a circle. All the ants in the ball fell under the mountain stream.

At the same time that this ball failed, another ball was slowly rising and forming in the ant colony.

At this time, Chen Ziyang was secretly watching these Eastern Dynasty soldiers, wanting to see if they had any unusual actions. Liu Cong also recovered from a rest at this time, his face became much rosier, and he came to Chen Ziyang's room. Beside them, two people were chatting nonchalantly.

As more and more poisonous quicksands were pulled out, the pungent smell in the entire cave became stronger and stronger. Even through a gas mask, one could still smell a very unpleasant smell. It made Chen Ziyang a headache.Fortunately, the cold wind blowing from the mountain stream made the pungent smell from the poisonous quicksand a lot lighter.

The quicksand pulled out from behind the tomb door piled up in front of the wooden door to form two small sand mountains, and there was no quicksand flowing out of the hole on the tomb door. Several Eastern Dynasty engineers connected oxygen cylinders to the gas masks, Picking up the engineering shovel and drilling to the tomb door, he continued to shovel the sand out.

Seeing the quicksand being slowly cleared away, Chen Ziyang knew that the purpose of the person who designed this mechanism had been achieved.It is really effective to use quicksand to pile behind the tomb door as an anti-theft method. If you make a robbery hole from the bottom of the tomb door to bypass the tomb door, then the quicksand will flow down, which will not only seal the robbery hole, but also Poison the people in the robbery cave, and if the tomb door is destroyed from the front, then it will be like this, and the quicksand will slow down your progress.Without taking out the sand completely, there is no way to move forward.

The traditional method of using quicksand as an anti-theft method is to pile up quicksand in the compartment between the two-story tomb doors. If the calculation goes on like this, even if all the quicksands are cleaned up, there will still be another tomb door in the future.

Now everyone is hungry and thirsty, but no one dares to eat or drink. The pungent smell in the air is very harmful to the human body. Before several soldiers ate dry food, because the gas was mixed with food They inhaled a little more, and vomited it all out shortly after eating. At this time, these people were lying on the side resting exhausted.

With their lessons learned, everyone had no choice but to endure, hoping that the situation in the tomb would be better after the quicksand was cleared.

Just when Yang Lei was tired from sitting and wanted to stand up and move around, as his footsteps moved, he felt as if he had stepped on something and heard a very crisp sound, which seemed to be There was the sound of a person crushing a beetle very hard, and then Yang Lei looked down at his feet, and he found that what he crushed was actually a huge termite.

Just when Yang Lei was stunned, wondering why there was a termite here, a few more ants crawled to his feet, and the rustling sound that made people palpitate before rang loudly again.

The efforts of the cave ants were not in vain. At this time, a complete ball of ants got stuck on the mountain stream. The remaining ants passed through the ball steadily and went straight to The people in the square attacked.

The few soldiers who were resting on the ground before were overwhelmed by termites in an instant, and the ants swarm once again flocked to everyone.

At this time, the crowd scattered throughout the square immediately ran towards the direction with their backs facing the ant colony.Those who have no time to escape, or those who run slowly, all become lunch for the termites.

Chen Ziyang and others were lucky. They ran to the hole where the tomb door was blown open, but found that the termites seemed to be afraid of this poisonous quicksand.Near the two huge quicksand piles, there was no trace of these termites at all, so everyone hurriedly called other people to run here.

Yang Lei and Shan Shishuai took off the engineering shovels on their backs, and together with some other soldiers, spread these tall sand piles forward, and after a while, they formed a half-meter-high pile of sand. A wall of sand surrounds the hole in the door of this tomb.Everyone is safe behind this sand wall, and the termites stopped here.Unexpectedly, the poisonous quicksand that blocked everyone before saved their lives.

As more and more quicksand was pulled out from behind the tomb gate, the sand wall in front of the crowd piled up higher and higher. At the same time, everyone kept pushing the sand wall forward, expanding their activities little by little. scope.

Just after the oxygen carried by the Eastern Dynasty engineers behind the tomb gate ran out, these engineers came out and chatted with Commander Jin, and then Commander Jin arranged for a few more people to enter behind the tomb gate .

Not long after, there was another muffled sound, and Chen Ziyang felt the ground under his feet and his head shake violently.

According to Chen Ziyang's estimate, after the sound, the second tomb door should have been opened.Sure enough, after the muffled sound, a horn sounded like a horn from hell.

The sound of the horn was long and distant. After listening to it for a long time, Chen Ziyang realized that it was the air in the tomb, blowing through the holes in the two tomb doors one after another. It really is a voice from hell.

At the same time as the second tomb door was blown open, the termites outside became quiet again for an instant, and then they retreated slowly.The movements of the termites changed from violent and aggressive before to very gentle, which can be described as cautious, as if there was something in the tomb that frightened them very much.

This termite attack caused the Eastern Dynasty military to lose more than 20 soldiers, but fortunately, the remaining members of the scientific expedition team were all safe and sound.Just after the tomb door was blasted, nearly half of the Eastern Dynasty military team of more than 100 people was lost. This price is too high, and looking at the actions of the termites before, Chen Ziyang is also hesitating whether to enter this tomb middle.

Finally, under the urging of Battalion Commander Jin, the members of the scientific expedition team packed up and walked through the dark stone cave above the tomb gate.

(End of this chapter)