Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 437 The Wolves
When Bilier woke up, he found that he was in an endless stretch of yellow sand, and Xue An was still lying on the surrounding sand, and not far from Xue An, there was a body that had already started to twitch. Smelly corpse.

Bilil couldn't help being shocked when he saw it, because that corpse was the three idiots who had disappeared.

How is this going?

Could it be that the sand wolves killed him?But why didn't the sand wolves eat him?
No, the really strange thing is, what kind of place is this, and why am I still alive?Thinking of this, he hurriedly went to see Xue An next to him: "Brother Xue, brother Xue, how are you?" The strange thing is that Xue An didn't die either. After a while, Xue An woke up, and the two of them stared at the dead body of the third idiot in a daze .

Xue An was quite sad at the time, so he basically had no ability to think, but Bilier, who was young, had the courage to recover first, and said: "We can't see the grassland from here, we must have been taken to the depths of Tengger by the wolves." gone."

Only then did Xue An speak, and his voice was hoarse: "Why did they bring us here?" The wind and sand blew up on the desert, and at a glance, there were only stretches of sand dunes, and there was no greenery in sight. Under the wisdom, the analysis said: "Wolves have the habit of storing prey, but it usually occurs in winter. They hunt in large quantities at the junction of autumn and winter, and use the cold weather to store prey to survive the winter."

Xue An said, "But it's not spring now."

Bilier also expressed his incomprehension, he supported Xue An, and said, "Brother Xue, let's go back quickly while the wolves are away and it's not dark." Xue An looked at the strong young man in front of him, and probably felt that he was alone. Adults shouldn't let a child be taken care of like this, so they cheered up, and the two dragged the body of the fool back.Children who grow up in the grasslands and deserts have a way of identifying the way, and they will never get lost in the desert.

But within a few steps, yellow sand wolves sprang out from the sand dune ahead, forming an arc-shaped encirclement line at the end of the dune.

Xue An and Bilier stopped in their tracks, looked at each other, and immediately backed away. In desperation, the body of the third idiot also fell to the ground, but there was no way to get it up again.The two were unarmed, and they retreated step by step, but the pack of wolves approached them step by step. The leader was an old wolf with yellow and white fur. Such wolves often possess extremely high intelligence.Beside the old wolf was a robust adult wolf with reddish hair tip. It was the pioneer wolf who attacked them last night.

At this moment, the vanguard wolf's eyes were normal light yellow, and they couldn't see the weird green eyeballs from last night at all.

At this time, following the wolf howl from the head wolf, the surrounding pack of wolves immediately accelerated, and Bilil and Xue An ran away.Fortunately, the previous distance was relatively large, and the people of that era had good physical strength and fast speed, so they were not overtaken by the wolves for a while.

But no matter how fast a person runs, he cannot outrun a wolf after all. After a few strokes, the gap between the two sides becomes smaller and smaller, and they are about to be discovered. The buildings that come out are half-hidden and half-revealed in the yellow sand, with broken ridges and broken walls.

Since the two of them were running to the heights of the sand dunes, they simply closed their eyes and rolled down directly, and they rolled directly into the broken ridge and broken wall.The wolves chased them all the way down, and the two of them went deep into the ruins in a hurry. Because of the shelter, they were much safer for a while.

Billier thought to himself, we are surrounded by so many wolves, it is impossible to get out by our own strength, the only way is to delay time and wait for rescue.There is a tradition of taming falcons in the grassland where Billyer lives. He whistled at the hawks, and the hawks circling in the sky rushed back to report.

The two climbed to the top along a high yellow wall. The wolves were not good at climbing, so they were safe for the time being.A group of sand wolves were watching under the earthen wall, making creepy howls from time to time.Xue An and Bilil leaned close to each other, and because the earthen wall was narrow, they didn't dare to move around, fearing that they might fall down.

Looking around at the broken ridges and broken walls protruding from the yellow sand, Xue An asked Bilier what kind of place this is, and whether someone lived there before.Bilil shook his head and said that he didn't know, this place already belonged to the deep place of Tengger, the herdsmen would basically not go to the desert without incident, at most they would be active in the border area between the yellow sand and the grassland, so there would be Some signs of human activities, Billyer also found it very strange.

Xue An thought for a while, and analyzed: "There is no water source or oasis around here, so it is not suitable for people to live in. I guess this should be a ruins of ancient civilization. Of course, I didn't think so much at the time. The two just tried to keep themselves safe. .

The wolves are very patient hunters. They guard around the ruins and stare at the two people sitting straddling the high wall. This feeling is very bad.

Xue An and Bilier hid on it until night, when the wolves couldn't bear it any longer and began to get restless. In fact, Xue An's body became very tired after a day and a night before the water was exhausted. , limp all over, almost crumbling in the darkness.

After persisting all night, the wolves finally gave up the next day, first scattered, and finally disappeared without a trace.Wolves are very intelligent animals, and they use many tactics when hunting, such as ambushes and lures.Mongolians know wolves well. Seeing the wolves leaving, Bilier stopped Xue An who was about to go down. The two of them squatted on the wall and waited for more than two hours. The smoke made it difficult to open one's eyes. Only then did the two of them relax their nerves after making sure that Lang Qun was not hiding around, and suddenly fell down from the side and fell into the yellow sand.

The two of them were already thirsty, and their bodies without energy replenished were as soft as boiled noodles. With such physical strength, they couldn't walk back at all. Even at this moment, when the two stood up, their legs were weak and trembling.There is no way to go, and the wind and sand are so strong that people can't open their eyes, and the person who blows is shaking. In desperation, the two had no choice but to find a leeward corner and hide, waiting for 'Haizi' to lead them come to the rescue.

Haizi is Xue An's name for the big eagle domesticated by Bilier. Among the eagles, Haidongqing is the most precious. Haidongqing means "Xiongkulu" in the Sushen language, which means the highest and fastest flying bird in the world. , has the meaning of "God of Eagles". According to legend, only one "Haitongqing" comes out of [-] eagles. It Haizi.

After all, Bilier was young, so when he was safe, he shrank aside, and when he closed his eyes, he fell unconscious.

Xue An was worried that there would be danger, so even though he was exhausted, he didn't dare to fall asleep, and kept pinching his eyelids to make them open.The wind outside was getting stronger and stronger, and there was a whirring sound in the darkness. Xue An felt that his ears were ringing. At this moment, another unique sound was suddenly mixed with the whistling wind. .

brush... brush... brush...

Xue An felt that something was wrong, so he braced his body to stand up, and squinted his eyes to look out in the darkness.It is night now, and there is no light source, the only thing that can be borrowed is the hazy moonlight.Under the moonlight, Xue An suddenly discovered that the originally huge sand dune next to the ruins was rising rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming taller, like a huge mountain in the darkness.And this mountain, like a sea wave being pushed, is moving towards the ruins of the body!
At that moment, Bilier himself seemed to feel the threat brought by that force, so he woke up suddenly. Before he could see what was going on, Xue An carried his whole body on his shoulders Run out, very fast.

It stands to reason that Xue An did not have such physical strength at that time, but maybe this is the explosion of human potential at a critical moment, at that moment Xue An ran faster than ever.At that time, Billyer, who was still very weak and had just opened his eyes, was in a state of confusion about everything around him.

Immediately afterwards, Bilil suddenly felt that he was thrown high, and after drawing a long parabola in the air, he fell heavily on the sand.This fall was enough, and the person passed out directly. The last bit of consciousness before fainting was to see a huge black shadow, a black shadow made of yellow sand.

When Billil woke up, it was the next morning. The surrounding undulating sand dunes had completely disappeared after last night's strong wind and sand, and it was flat as far as the eye could see. cover.

Xue An was gone.

Bilier recalled the situation last night, and immediately realized that when the sand dune shot towards the ruins, he was thrown out by Xue An vigorously.

Looking at the desert in front of him, Bilil felt extremely uncomfortable. His weak body made him unable to move, so he could only cry on the ground.He thought, Xue An must have been buried by the yellow sand, and he might not live long.Even after thinking about it, Bilier couldn't understand what happened last night.

It was only later that Xue An told him about the situation at that time, but no one could explain why the sand dunes suddenly bulged.

Of course, Xue An did not die. Within a few hours, Bilier heard a howl of eagles, and it was his Hai Dongqing who came, and in the distance, there were people who came to rescue him.Under the search and rescue of everyone, Xue An was also found, but the strange thing was that he was far away from the place where the incident happened, that is, the location of the ruins at that time. I will never go there to find it.

Fortunately, there was no loss of personnel or property, so this incident was soon revealed, but Bilil will always remember that when the huge black shadow of the sand dune came over him, he was thrown high by that person .

(End of this chapter)