Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 71 Fire Ants
"What's the matter? What happened?" Everyone was awakened by my yelling just now.

"Tuobagu, did you have a nightmare?" Gu Meidi asked.

I hummed and said it was okay, then raised my wrist to check the time, and found that it was already midnight, and there was still a while before dawn.

"Sleep! Sleep! Let's sleep for a while!"

Just when I was about to lie down and continue to sleep, a camel roared suddenly from outside the tent: "Hiss——"

Lao Luo, who had been sleeping soundly, opened his eyes suddenly, turned over and got up from the ground, rushing out like an arrow.

Unexpectedly, Lao Luo's reaction was faster than all of us. It wasn't until Lao Luo rushed out of the tent that we woke up like a dream and rushed out with our guns drawn.

The two bonfires outside the tent were still burning tenaciously. Through the dim light of the fire, we saw that the leading camel, for some reason, lifted its neck to the sky and screamed. The mourning sound was very clear in the quiet night.

When the leading camel yelled, dozens of camels became restless.We have seen the frightened appearance of camels on the death road, and we are really afraid that they will go crazy at this time and knock down our tents.

We don't know what exactly stimulated the leading camel and why it made such a heart-piercing roar. We seem helpless in this situation and can only pin all our hopes on the old Luo.

Lao Luo was also unambiguous, walked quickly to the side of the leading camel, squatted down to take a closer look, suddenly pulled out a silver knife, and stabbed towards the left front leg of the camel.I looked at Lao Luo curiously, and was about to ask what he was doing, when Lao Luo suddenly turned his head and said eagerly, "Light it up!"

I heard that Lao Luo's voice was different. Although we didn't know what happened, but the experienced Lao Luo became so nervous at this time, then something bad must have happened.So we didn't dare to be negligent, and added some willows to the two bonfires, and then used the remaining willows to build two bonfires.

The flames burned vigorously, and made a crackling sound, like the rushing drums on the battlefield.

Everyone lost sleepiness, stared straight at Lao Luo's back, and became nervous for no reason.

Lao Luo quickly drove the camels to the back of the fire, then hurried over, glanced at the fire on the ground, frowned and said: "The flames are not enough, we need to add another fire!"

I said, "Do you want to chop some willows?"

Lao Luo said, "It's too late! Is there any fuel or gasoline?"

Liu Ming said: "There are still a few bottles of liquid fuel in the backpack!"

"Take it out!" Lao Luo, who had always been calm, became a little anxious at this moment.

Liu Hanhao took out two bottles of liquid fuel from his backpack. Lao Luo unscrewed the bottle caps and dumped the liquid fuel on the sand with a clatter. A wall of fire was soon erected in front of us, but the wall of fire was pitifully short.

Without saying a word, Lao Luo turned around and dismantled the tent where we slept, and then threw the tent into the fire.The fire became stronger all of a sudden, and the scorching fire waves rushed towards our faces. In this cold night, we also felt the steaming heat.

We stared blankly at Lao Luo, completely puzzled: "Lao Luo, what happened? Why...why did you burn the tent?"

Lao Luo handed over the knife in his hand: "Look at this!"

I saw a strange creature stuck in the tip of the knife. If I read correctly, this strange creature should be an ant.However, this ant is very different from the ants we usually see. This ant is blood red all over, and its body is one inch long. It can be regarded as a giant beast in the ant clan.There are sharp chelicerae growing on its front end, like two fiery red pincers, with sawtooth growing on it, if it pinches on the skin, it can tear off a piece of skin.

I shuddered and asked in a low voice, "What is this?"

Lao Luo said with a serious expression: "This is a fire ant, which grows in the hot desert sand! Don't underestimate the fire ant, it is the most ferocious animal in the desert!"

The most ferocious animal in the desert? !

Although the size of this fire ant is indeed a bit huge, I still find it hard to believe that it is the most ferocious animal in the desert.

Seeing my suspicious expression, Lao Luo pulled me to the side of the leading camel, pointed to the left foreleg of the camel and said, "Look here!"

I widened my eyes and looked carefully, and exclaimed "Ah" from the bottom of my heart.

I saw blood dripping from the left front leg of the camel, as if a piece of flesh had been forcibly gouged out by a knife, and the bones could be seen deep down. No wonder the camel made such a mournful cry just now. Anyone who suffers from such flesh and blood suffers no.Thanks to the camel's thick skin and flesh, if it fell on a human body, I guess this leg would probably be useless.

Fear is like a sharp thorn, piercing slowly from the soles of my feet, making me feel cold all over.

Lao Luo raised his head and asked me: "Now you should believe it?"

I swallowed hard and nodded numbly.

Lao Luo said: "Fire ants have the same characteristics as ants. They are social animals, and they can never act alone. Usually, thousands of fire ants gather together to act. This fire ant should be just a wayfinding for the fire ant army. Bing, the real army of fire ants is still behind!"

"Thousands of them?" I almost dislocated my jaw in surprise. A mere fire ant is already so terrifying. If thousands of fire ants gather together, the destructive and lethal power is unimaginable. Let alone a camel, even an elephant will turn into a pile of bones in an instant.

I shook my head vigorously, not daring to imagine that horrible scene, my heart was beating wildly.

"How about we run away?" Gan Hongxin said.

"Run?" Lao Luo seemed to have heard a funny joke: "Where are you going? Can you outrun fire ants in this sand? Without the protection of flames, we have no chance of surviving." nothing!"

"Then...then what should we do?" Our faces have turned liver-colored. Could it be that we are really doomed this time?
Lao Luo moved his lips, and popped out two words: "Die!"

Carry it to death? !
This sentence is like a bucket of cold water, pouring our hearts from head to toe.

Lao Luo suddenly pointed to the sand in front of him, and said solemnly, "They are here!"

I was startled suddenly: "Army of fire ants?"

Lao Luo nodded noncommittally, his eyes fixed on the sand ten meters away.

There was a rustling sound in the dark night, and the sound became more and more dense, which made people's skin crawl.

After a while, I saw that piece of sand churning up like sea waves, and the rustling sound was endless.

Immediately afterwards, the turbulent sand waves pushed towards us layer by layer, wave after wave, as if there were some monsters lurking under the sand.

We watched this weird scene dumbfounded, and our vests were soaked in cold sweat.

Probably because of being blocked by the fire wall, the sand wave stopped in front of the fire wall.I saw dense and innumerable small holes instantly appeared on the sand, each of which was about the thickness of a thumb, making the sand in front of me look like a huge sieve.

We held our breath and stared wide-eyed at the sand holes.

The rustling sound turned into a rustling sound at this time, and thousands of fire ants came out of those sand holes, brandishing their sharp pincers, and rushed towards us aggressively.The fire ants crawled extremely fast on the sand, and thousands of fire ants gathered together in an instant, like a row of blood-red waves, rushing towards the fire wall one after another.

Crackling!Crackling!
The fire ants rushing to the front were immediately engulfed by the flames, turning into small rolling fireballs, with blue smoke rising from time to time, and a strange smell of sticky smell immediately filled the air.

Lao Luo told us that the best way to deal with fire ants is to use fire. Although the name of fire ants contains the word fire, fire is the natural nemesis of fire ants.Because there is a flammable grease in the carapace of fire ants, once it encounters a flame, the grease will burn quickly.

But those fire ants are really persistent, just like moths to the flame, knowing that they are going to die, they still swarm one after another without hesitation, the spirit of one after another is really moving.

We will soon lose our composure. Under the impact of the army of fire ants, the wall of fire in front of us is forced down. There are countless charred corpses of fire ants piled up on the ground, but there are still countless fire ants stepping on their companions. The dead body rushed forward like a brave and fearless warrior.

We were completely dumbfounded, and turned to look at Lao Luo, hoping that this expert in the desert could come up with a solution.

Lao Luo didn't speak. At this moment, he couldn't think of any effective solution.

The firewall weakened little by little, and the army of fire ants became more rampant.A red fire ant actually climbed onto my military boots, opened its large pincers, and clamped down hard. Fortunately, my military boots are relatively thick, and the fire ant's pincers did not hurt my skin when it went down.

"Bastard!" I raised my foot and shook it vigorously, the fire ant was tightly clamped, and I couldn't shake it off.I also got angry, pulled out the special warfare saber from my trouser leg, and chopped the fire ant in half.

Black blood splashed out of the fire ant's body and splashed on the back of my hand.I let out a scream immediately, the blood of the fire ant was extremely hot, and a yellow transparent blister was quickly burned on the back of my hand, which was painful and itchy, so uncomfortable that I wanted to chop my right hand Lose.

At this point, I had no fighting spirit and almost gave up my desire to survive.

"Apply medicine!" Lao Luo took out a box of ointment with a strange smell from his backpack, and threw it directly in front of me.

Looking at the densely packed blisters on the back of my hand, I didn't care about that much anymore, so I quickly took a large piece of ointment and applied it on the back of my hand. A cool feeling instantly enveloped the entire back of my hand, relieving the tingling burning sensation. pressed down.Presumably, people who walk in the desert often encounter this kind of terrible fire ants, so they carry ointment with them.

Suddenly, Wang Dongyu yelled in a rough voice: "Look! What is that?"

(End of this chapter)