There have been wars in Sundali all year round. Although it is only a small country with a population of less than 10 million, there are so many armed forces in it that you can't count them on one hand.
The reason for all this is that although this place is a desert, there is a large amount of oil buried under the yellow sand.
As the most important strategic material in the new era, where there is oil, there will eventually be riots, and other countries will find ways to arrange their own forces to get a share of the pie.
This is most obvious in the developed countries in the West. They usually consume huge amounts of oil and like to guard their golden mountains to rob, causing all kinds of panic.
In a ruins near an oasis, there are several not so dilapidated buildings. This is the residence of the Hades organization.
These people belong to the Haier Kingdom adjacent to Hong Kong. After the war in Sundari, they joined the war under the pretext of regaining their territory.
In fact, it was also for the oil fields here. After wiping out the indigenous people, they retreated openly, but secretly stayed behind, using the alias Hades to secretly extract oil.
Every other week, more than a dozen trucks will arrive, belonging to the Haier State military, with the purpose of taking away the extracted crude oil.
The roar of car engines and the noise of drilling to extract oil are the eternal main themes of this ruined oasis.
It was just getting dark, and the truck was already approaching from afar. The incandescent lamp was covered with yellow sand, illuminating the surrounding area hazy.
The door of the truck opened, and several people wearing Haier military uniforms jumped out. They had firm faces and cold-blooded eyes. At first glance, they had killed people.
"Fake, why is there no one? Where did everyone die? Have you prepared the crude oil?"
The leader, a big-nosed officer, asked three questions and roared angrily. , echoing continuously in several buildings.
But there was no response from the surroundings, the car engine had been turned off, and there was only the constant roar of the drilling rig.
“Damn things, I must hang you up and put you in the sun for three days!”
The big-nosed officer was very angry. He kicked over the oil barrel next to him and waved to his subordinates to investigate first.
The latter nodded, grabbed the submachine gun in his hand, and went in groups of five in different directions.
A few people came to the closed door, made a few gestures, and then charged in together, kicked open the door, and kept aiming their guns.
Although the outside looks dilapidated, the building is quite luxurious inside, with plush carpets on the floor, a round table with gold edges, and sober red wine.
The soldiers walked quickly and began to check the houses one by one. After completely searching the building, they returned to report.
"Report to the officer, there is no one in the room, but the weapons are there. They seem to have evaporated. There is still sober wine on the table."
"There was no fighting? Then they are Where are you going?" the big-nosed officer said through gritted teeth.
He thought that all the people pretending to be an armed organization had been eliminated, but there was no fighting at all, so how could they disappear?
"Report sir, I found them. They are all on the oil well tower, but they are dead, and..."
A few more soldiers came back to report, with frightened faces on their faces. It seemed as if he had seen something terrible.
"How did you die?"
The big-nosed officer's eyes were as big as a bull's eye. He pulled out the pistol from his waist. Under the light of the car lights, it sparkled like gold. It should be made of gold.
"They died very miserably, and their faces became wrinkled, as if all the blood had been sucked out of their bodies..." The soldiers' foreheads were dripping with sweat, and they were extremely frightened.
"How can there be such a way to die in the world? It must be other organizations playing tricks. Let me go and have a look!"
The big-nosed officer was obviously a materialist and immediately interrupted the soldier. , go in person.
The back room of these buildings is a taller building, made entirely of steel, which is a drilling tower used for oil extraction.
The big-nosed officer stepped on the barbed wire steps and quickly walked up to the tower. As soon as he came up, he saw an extremely horrifying scene.
The bearings for oil extraction are still rolling, and crude oil is constantly emerging and sliding along the pipeline into a storage tank on the side.
Under the storage box, there is a layer of white velvet, which looks like thin snow and cotton.
Dozens of corpses are being piled up inside. They were originally residents stationed here. At this time, their bodies have shrunk, their muscles have become flattened, and the outlines of their bones can be seen.
Each corpse had a frightened expression on its face, and its mouth was open wide, as if it was trying desperately to shout something before death, but could not make a sound.
The big-nosed officer shined the searchlight on his hand and immediately took two steps back. Even though he had been fighting for many years, he had never seen such a scene.
"He was really drained of blood and died. Who did it? Is it the Viper Organization? It's so vicious!" The big-nosed officer's voice was trembling.
The soldiers in the rear were all extremely frightened, and some of their legs were trembling constantly.
“We can’t stay here any longer. Hurry up and load the crude oil in the storage tank into the car. Let’s take it away and get out of here!”
The big-nosed officer felt that something was not good, and there were only two teams around him, so he had better go back first and make plans later.
He did not give up the full tank of crude oil. He had traveled so long just for the black gold.
The soldiers were also well-trained and took action immediately. They first moved the truck outside and hooked the container with the rear tail device.
These are supporting trucks used for oil extraction. They can easily pull up the container. The whole process only takes more than two minutes.
The big-nosed officer had already sat in the truck in front and was waiting, but five minutes had passed and there was still no report.
"Damn new recruits, can't you even do this little thing? I will retire you when you go back."
The fear born in his heart made it difficult for the big-nosed officer to calm down, and he could only use rage to cover up his emotions. , got out of the car noisily.
In the back, the truck has been connected to the storage box, and the machine is humming, but no matter how hard it is, it can't be lifted.
"What's going on?"
As soon as the big-nosed officer came in, he kicked a soldier to the ground indiscriminately and asked viciously.
"Sir, we don't know what's going on. We've increased the power of the shunting truck to the maximum, but we still can't lift the storage box."
A soldier said quickly with a sad face.
"The hook above can lift three storage tanks filled with oil. I can't even lift one. Are you a loser?!"
The big-nosed officer grabbed the one The soldier's collar, pushed it away suddenly, then got into the car himself and turned the horsepower to the maximum.
The storage box still stood quietly on the iron net, motionless. The bearing of the hook exploded due to the constant heating.
Some metal fragments were ejected and were no less powerful than bullets. After falling on the storage box, they opened large holes one after another.
The thick crude oil flows out and spreads continuously on the yellow sand, and the pungent smell here becomes stronger and stronger.
“Damn it!”
The big-nosed officer gritted his teeth and smashed the steering wheel in anger, and the sound of the horn kept sounding.
“Woooooo!”
Suddenly, an extremely sharp and strange sound wandered throughout the ruins of the oasis, as if it was some kind of bird.
As soon as the big-nosed officer heard this, he immediately felt a chill on his back. He jumped out of the car with a surprised look on his face, looking for the sound and looking around.
Soon, he found the source, which was in the storage box behind the truck.
He hesitated for a while. Isn’t it filled with oil? Could it be said that he has become a spirit? How come it makes a sound?
"Peng!" The metal cover on the top of the storage box was ejected, and a huge black shadow slowly emerged from the box.
The soldiers shone their searchlights and saw a huge bloody octopus crawling out slowly, with half of its body covered in sticky crude oil and dripping continuously.
“Gudong!”
The big-nosed officer swallowed suddenly. As a resident of a desert city, he rarely eats seafood and hates octopus very much.
The one that emerged from the storage box is seven or eight meters wide. Is this still an octopus? Isn't this an evil god?
"Poof?"
The giant octopus opened its mouth and spit out a mouthful of juice, but it was not black ink, but a white mesh.
It was like a spider web that had expanded hundreds of times, covering all the people and trucks in front of it.
"Ahhh!"
The sun broke at dawn, the first ray of sunlight shone on the yellow sand, and tragic screams continued to sound.
These spider webs are sharper than steel wire. When they fall on a person, they will create wounds, and all the blood in the body will flow into them involuntarily.
The big-nosed officers and soldiers struggled to escape, but after taking two steps straight, they fell to the ground. Their muscles continued to shrink and their blood was sucked dry.
Everyone had their mouths wide open and a look of horror on their faces, exactly the same as the corpses on the drilling tower.
…………
Weilong Country is a country with extremely low economic development. If the world wants to select a poor country, it will definitely bear the brunt.
Although the economy is low, the residents here will not starve to death because it is located at 28 degrees north latitude and the annual rainfall can reach 1,500 millimeters.
Perennial high temperatures and abundant rainfall make the vegetation here extremely rich, with all kinds of exotic fruits and vegetables available.
A large number of insects and small water creatures appeared along with it, all of which are rare species that cannot survive in other areas.
In the afternoon, the rare sunshine shines in the rain forest, evaporating the remaining water vapor on the leaves. Here, it is cloudy almost every day, and it rains every three to five.
The sound of footsteps came from a house made of bamboo and sycamore leaves. The straw-woven door curtain was opened and a figure walked out quickly.
This is a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, with dark skin and rough face. He is 1.5 meters tall and has a strong, slightly obese body.
He looks like a primitive man, with only a grass skirt woven from leaves all over his body, but the equipment in his hands is very advanced, including two power banks, a mobile phone holder, and the latest brand-name mobile phone.
The middle-aged man walked to the straw mat covered with leaves, set up the stand, and started the live broadcast on his mobile phone.
The live broadcast platform is on the dark web, and even hacking people will not be banned.
“Welcome to all my friends, my food today must be very delicious and will open your eyes!”
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he went to the bamboo house and took out a long chopping board with seven or eight large bowls placed on it.
Putting the chopping board on the straw mat, he adjusted the angle again to ensure that the entire screen could be illuminated, and then sat down on the spot.
What is placed in the big bowl is not some delicious food, but colorful and strange insects with different shapes.
There are huge black centipedes, tree bugs the size of peanuts, tadpoles that have just grown their hind legs, and even some bees soaked in turbid wine.
And, they are all alive.
Putting this table on the table would frighten ordinary people, and if they were timid, they would probably run away.
The middle-aged man did not show any fear. He picked up the stone mortar and prepared the seasoning while waiting for the popularity of the live broadcast room to increase.
Crush garlic and millet, add sugar and lemon water, and stir with two fingers to form a special dipping sauce of Weilong Country.
Seeing that the popularity had reached normal levels, the middle-aged man laughed, reached out and grabbed a centipede as long as his middle finger, dipped it in water, and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Crunch..."
He chewed hard with his teeth, letting the yellow-brown liquid flow down the corners of his mouth to create a show effect.
Such a picture was displayed in the live broadcast room through a mobile phone, making everyone who saw it feel a little disgusted.
But few people chose to leave. Such a strong picture is very satisfying for curiosity, and can only be seen on darknet websites.
The middle-aged man swallowed the centipede that had not yet been chewed, suppressed the feeling of nausea, and began to beg for gifts.
Although people in Weilong Kingdom usually catch some insects for food, they don’t eat them raw like this. The reason for doing this is to attract popularity and make money.
Soon, a big brother in the live broadcast room bought a gift worth two thousand and asked him to drink up the mead on the side.
“Woooooooooo!”
The middle-aged man screamed twice with joy, then took the big bowl and poured the living bees inside into his mouth together with the wine.
“Gudong, Gudong!”
The Adam’s apple kept rolling, the number of bees in the bowl decreased, and people in the live broadcast room showed their thumbs up, feeling that this old man was too fierce.
Before he finished drinking, he heard a click and the big bowl fell on the stone mortar and broke into pieces.
The middle-aged man's eyes widened and he suddenly covered his neck, as if he was being strangled.
After three seconds, he fell on the straw mat, as if he had no breath.
There were crazy question marks in the live broadcast room. I don’t know if it was because I was choking or because of the program effect created by the anchor.
“Poof!”
Suddenly, a centipede the size of a fist, emitting purple light all over its body, broke open the flesh and blood from the middle-aged man's throat and squirmed out.
After exploring the path with two brush-like tentacles, the centipede climbed onto the middle-aged man’s cheek and began to eat crazily.
…………
“A giant fish monster appeared in the water city and liked to eat heads. Ten people have been killed.”
“An evil god was born in the war-torn Sundari and occupied it. Oilfield, self-evolution”
"During a live broadcast of a certain food anchor, a centipede crawled out of his stomach and gnawed away until all he was left with was his skeleton."
"..."
Zhao Qi sat in front of the computer and looked at everyone. Weird events were posted on the big website, and his brows gradually furrowed.
"What kind of things are there to eat? Can this be called a gourmet anchor?"
Li Xuanran was nibbling watermelon on the side. After seeing the so-called gourmet food in the video, he immediately became excited. Feeling like vomiting. (End of chapter)