Chapter seven hundred and thirty-one wind and sand raging
After Liu Shangang packed up, I didn't talk anymore and continued to move towards the depths of the tomb. After walking through the stone tablet, the sand on the ground gradually became more and more. As I continued to deepen, the sand layer became thicker and thicker, and the wind around gradually became stronger.
The tomb was already dark, and the sand that was swept by the wind blocked the light beam of the flashlight, so our visible distance became very short.
The deeper I walked, the stronger the wind and the flying sand became denser. I tried my best to stabilize the center of gravity and turned to look at the people behind. The sandstorm blocked the light and vision. I could only see Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai, and the people behind were completely blocked by the wind and sand.
The wind is very strong, and the sand that is lifted is also full of force. When it hits the face, it will feel a very stuffy and painful.
Fortunately, Liu Shangang tied everyone together early in the morning, otherwise the team would definitely be separated in such an environment.
Liu Shangang waved at me hard and signaled me to continue moving forward. This time he prepared no walkie-talkie on the mask, so he could only communicate in this way.
After walking in the sand for more than an hour, the wind has maintained a relatively stable intensity. We must lower our bodies to ensure that we are not swept away by the wind.
I felt the chain on my waist being slammed by the person behind me, turned around and saw Liu Shangang crawling towards Liang Houzai on all sides.
Because the density of flying sand is too high, I can no longer see Liang Houzai clearly, so I can only see his outline vaguely. At this time, he was also lying on the ground, moving and moving. Liu Shangang felt that I did not retreat with him, and then he turned around and crawled towards Liang Houzai.
Liu Shangang and I climbed backwards, Dawei and Senior Brother Feng and others climbed forwards. Not long after, everyone gathered around Liang Houzai.
Liang Houzai then shrank his whole body to the ground and kept digging the sand on the ground with his hands. Dawei seemed to have said something, but he was wearing a mask and the wind around him was too strong, so no one could hear what he said.
After pulling away the big sand, Liang Houzai's body seemed to pause. Then I saw him inserting his arms into the sand and pulling out a stone slab from the sand layer with great effort.
To be precise, it was a stone tablet about the same size as my chest, engraved with ancient words that I couldn't understand.
Liang Houzai took out the flashlight and carefully looked at the words. Then he raised his head and through his goggles, I saw that he was looking at me with a very shocked look.
Unable to communicate in words, I spread my hands and gave Liang Houzai a questioning look.
Liang Houzai seemed to be in deep thought. After a while, he spread his hands and pointed ahead, indicating that we should continue moving forward.
I understand what he meant. He was saying that in this situation, he could not tell me what was on the stele. He should walk forward and walk through the wind and sand zone before talking.
We didn't delay any longer, quickly found our own position, lined up in a long line, and continued to move against the wind and sand.
Before he could walk far, Liang Houzai stopped again. This time, he dug out a stone slab from the sand layer. After seeing the contents on it, Liang Houzai frowned with a confused expression.
He still couldn't communicate, he still couldn't tell me what was written on the stone slab, we could only line up and continue moving forward.
The area of the wind and sand belt seems to be much larger than we imagined. We walked for a long time, but the wind and sand still did not tend to decline. During this period, Senior Brother Feng did not let everyone stop, which shows that the direction we were walking should be in the right direction.
After that, Liang Houzai discovered the third and fourth stone tablets. Every time he saw the words on the stone tablet, he looked surprised and confused. I felt strange in my heart, how did Liang Houzai know that there were stone tablets under the sand layer? We all leaned over and crawled on the sand layer. Everyone could see the ground clearly, but why was only he able to find those stone tablets?
Just as I was thinking about this, I saw smooth reflections appearing less than a foot away from me, but soon, such reflections were buried by the sand.
Is it a stone tablet?
While thinking about this, I curled up on the ground, pulled out the sand in a few seconds, and pulled out a stone tablet from the sand layer.
Liu Shangang soon came to me. When he saw the stone tablet in my hand, he frowned first, then turned to look at Liang Houzai behind him.
A few seconds later, Liang Houzai also arrived in front of me. He looked at the stone tablet in my hand, shook his head, and waved his hand at me.
This time I didn't understand Liang Houzai's meaning, so I asked him with my eyes. He pointed to the stone tablet in my hand and made another gesture of crossing his hands.
His meaning seemed to be that these stone tablets were of no use.
I didn't know if I understood it correctly, but I just put down the stone tablet and continued to move forward.
After that, I saw several stone tablets buried in the shallow sand layer, but I didn't care about it anymore, and Liang Houzai didn't stop.
I don’t know how long I have been walking, but the originally relatively stable wind suddenly became stronger. The manic flying sand reduced my visibility to about one meter. I had to crawl on the ground to barely ensure that I was not blown away by the wind. Liu Shangang crawled to me, and he half-sided and took out his cell phone.
His characteristic mobile phone can also be used normally in such an environment. I saw the screen light up and there was a text message from Senior Brother Feng: "Be careful of quicksand."
In other words, this generation should be the coverage of quicksand.
Speaking of which device does Senior Brother Feng use to send text messages? He is now underground, and the environment is like this, and it is impossible for ordinary mobile phones to receive signals.
After a moment, Liu Shangang's mobile phone screen flashed again, and Senior Brother Feng sent a new message: "The direction is right, there is a way out ahead."
I patted Liu Shangang on the shoulder and signaled him to be careful. Then I pressed my body and continued to crawl forward.
I have no experience in performing tasks in the desert, nor do I know how to avoid quicksand. I can only be as careful as possible. Every time I make an action, I have to try whether the sand layer in front of me is stable enough.
I don’t know what kind of sand layer is stable, I can only judge by the intuition formed by practicing small arithmetics.
As we climbed, the wind direction changed unknowingly. At first we were heading against the wind, but now it has become a good wind.
After the wind power changed, we became a little more relaxed when we moved forward, but for some reason, I began to feel nervous and always felt that something was going to happen.
After the wind direction changed, I crawled about a hundred meters again. At this moment, I felt the chain on my waist suddenly pull back.
At first I thought it was Liu Shangang who was squeezing it, but soon I realized something was wrong. When Liu Shangang locked it, he exerted force one after another, but the backward force continued.
I thought it was not good. Liu Shangang was probably swept away by the wind, so I immediately looked back and looked, but the wind and sand were too strong and I couldn't see Liu Shangang at all.
The pulling force on the steel cable was still continuing. Just as I was about to climb to Liu Shangang's side to see the situation, the force suddenly became stronger and actually dragged my body to slide for a long distance.
My heart tightened. Liu Shangang didn't have such strength, and something else was pulling the cable.
At this time, the pulling force suddenly increased again, and I was dragged to the ground and slid. I took out the green steel sword and inserted it into the sand layer, trying to stabilize my body, but the sand was too soft and could not fix the sword body.
Hula, Hula-
While my body was sliding on the ground, a sound similar to sand flowing came from a distance. Even in such a strong wind, the sound was still very clear.
I immediately realized that it was quicksand! We encountered quicksand!
But what is the pulling force from the chain?
While I was pulled back, I adjusted my center of gravity, my legs slowly knelt up, and my upper body was slightly raised. The pulling force was backward, and the huge wind was blowing forward. The two forces repelled each other. With the wind, I quickly exerted force and stood up directly from the ground, then spread my body to increase the wind-receiving area of my body.
The wind was very strong, and my sliding speed immediately slowed down. I turned around, grabbed the chain, and pulled myself in front of Liu Shangang little by little.
When I could see him, he was about to stand up from the ground, so he took a hand, grabbed his arm and pulled it hard, allowing him to stand up smoothly. Like me, after Liu Shangang stood up, he quickly spread his body, and I grabbed his belt with one hand.
We stood side by side, taking advantage of the wind to compete with the pull from behind. At the beginning, Liu Shangang and I were still moved and slowly slid on the sand. After adjusting our posture several times, we finally stood still.
Liu Shangang glanced at me and raised his chin in the direction where Liang Houzai was.
I nodded and signaled him to move closer to Liang Houzai.
Liu Shangang didn't say anything nonsense, immediately pulled the iron chain and moved closer to Liang Houzai little by little.
At that time, Liu Shangang and I both ignored one problem, that is, his weight and muscle density are far less than mine. Although the wind here is strong, it does not make my body float. Because I am heavy and muscle density is also high, it is like an iron mass that can withstand the floating wind. But Liu Shangang couldn't do it. His body was too light. He just took a few steps, but he was pulled into the air by the wind because he didn't control the center of gravity.
Fortunately, I grabbed his belt and he had just flew up, so I quickly used a thousand-pound pendant and pulled him back to the ground.
When I pulled him back, in order to prevent myself from being blown by the wind, I could only tighten my body and reduce the wind-receiving surface. But because the wind-receiving surface suddenly decreased, the force involved seemed to suddenly become excited. In just one moment, Liu Shangang and I were dragged back to the ground and dragged us to slide quickly on the ground.
Liu Shangang fell on me, and the chains he tied to his waist were immediately mixed with me and the chains on my waist. It was almost impossible for us to stand up like we did just now.
The pulling force seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. We kept accelerating as we slide on the ground, and the acceleration was getting faster and faster.
The wind and sand rushed towards us in the direction of sliding, and I could clearly hear the sound of sand hitting the goggles. My face and goggles seemed to be shattered under the blows of these wild sand.
At the same time, the sound of quicksand just now became clearer and clearer. Liu Shangang and I tried to untie the chains that were entangled, but in such wind and sand, we could hardly see anything clearly, and the rapid movement made it impossible for us to accurately grasp the two chains.
During the sliding process, I felt like we had deviated from our previous direction, and that huge traction was taking us into the center of the dark area.
In the gap where the wind and sand were raging, I saw Liu Shangang reaching his hand on his belt, as if he was about to touch the rope hook hanging on it.
I immediately understood what Liu Shangang wanted to do. While I could still see his hand, I grabbed his wrist.
Chapter completed!