It can only be said that Professor Jin's understanding of ancient tombs is still not even close to that of Hao Xie.
Moreover, now that Hao Xie still has the "Qi Tan" given to him by Zhang Hao, he knows more about the ancient tombs than anyone else.
Now he dares to say that he knows all the ancient tombs in the Dragon Kingdom. If Hao Xie wants to say that he is second, then no one dares to say that he is first.
It's just that Huo Xiuer didn't know that Hao Xie knew so much about the ancient tomb. At first, she heard that Hao Xie had never been to Kuiliang's tomb, so she didn't listen carefully to what Hao Xie said later.
Thinking about it now, I can only say that it is too late to regret. They have now been targeted by death worms, and what is even more terrifying is that there are more than two death worms below.
At this time, there were more and more bulging sandbags, and more than a dozen dead worms were about to appear.
If there is no other way, they can only be eaten by these death worms.
After hearing the suggestion to climb up, the members of the archaeological team began to climb up the canyon along the safety ropes.
There are two problems with just climbing up.
First, the physical strength of these archaeological teams is limited. If they want to climb up, it will take a long time, and their physical strength may not be able to keep up.
The second is...
The death worms didn't want to let them go.
Suddenly three more death worms emerged from the sandbags. After feeling the sounds and vibrations of the archaeological team members, they began to crash towards the canyon wall crazily.
Such a huge creature crashed into the wall, causing a lot of gravel to fall from the canyon wall.
Although the death worm is very large and powerful, it is not capable of crushing a mountain.
The fallen gravel is the inherently unstable rock on the cliff.
These gravels range from big to small. The small ones are no more than the size of a palm, and the large ones are as big as half a person.
At this time, rubble fell from the sky. Those who were lucky just managed to avoid it, while those who were unlucky were directly hit by the rubble.
The person who was hit felt dizzy, and his hand that was holding on to the safety rope immediately loosened his grip. The person then followed the safety rope in a free fall and fell to the ground at high speed.
For a time, the screams of the archaeological team members continued to be heard in the canyon.
"Ah!"
"No, I'm going to get hit!"
"Save me!"
"Ah... Old Man Jin, you tricked me!"
"..."
It seems unwise to climb up, but if you go down, there will be death worms watching eagerly.
At this time, an archaeological team member was hit by a stone and immediately released the safety rope.
A cry of panic.
"Ah!"
Immediately afterwards, the death worm emerged from the sand before the person landed, jumped up with all his strength, opened his bloody mouth, and just bit the archaeological team member who fell.
All the archaeological team members stared blankly at the scene in front of them, and they were all frightened.
They saw that after the death worm bit the archaeological team member, its densely packed fangs immediately closed and began to squirm. In less than three seconds, it opened its bloody mouth again, and a roar made everyone feel completely chilled.
"Roar!"
People with better eyesight can still see the remains of the archaeological team members in the gaps between the fangs of the death worm. The blood did not even stain their teeth red.
Some people even began to imagine that such a creature would probably be as unsatisfied as eating a peanut.
"What now?"
"We can't wait to die!"
"There seems to be a cave five meters below. How about we go into that cave and hide?"
"No, the cave is too low, and the monster below can climb up."
"Then what should I do? I can't go up now. I can only hang here and let others slaughter me!"
"Yes, every time these monsters collide, a lot of gravel falls down. I can't handle it at all. If this continues, sooner or later, I will be hit by rocks!"
At this time, Huo Xiuer looked at the cave below and couldn't help but look stunned. The shadow of Hao Xie suddenly appeared in her mind.
"That's right!"
"Brother Haoxie once said about the characteristics of these monsters!"
"They rely on sound and vibration to find food. Wouldn't it be fine as long as they don't make any sound or vibration?"
At this time, Huo Xiuer no longer had any doubts about what Hao Xie said.
After all, everything Haoxie said has come true, so what else is there to doubt?
So she quickly reminded loudly.
"Go to the cave down there. I can find a way to avoid the pursuit of these monsters!" Professor Jin looked at Huo Xiu'er with suspicion. Even though he was hanging on the safety rope and there was the threat of death worms below, he couldn't help but ask. .
"Is there any way you can avoid them?" he questioned.
"The cave is less than five meters above the ground, but these monsters are nearly ten meters long. Wouldn't you be seeking death if you go in there?" Other archaeological team members also looked at Huo Xiuer, their previous joking attitude gone, and they turned to her for help.
"Miss Huo, do you really have any idea? We can't go up or down now. If you have any idea, we will go down with you!"
"Yes, Miss Huo, I really regret not listening to your warning! If I had known there was such a thing here, I wouldn't have come!"
"It's too late to say anything now, let's listen to Miss Huo's approach!"
"Yeah, I feel like I can't hold it any longer!"
Huo Xiuer glanced at the death worm below and frowned.
"These death worms rely on sound and vibration to feed," she explains.
"We slide down slowly. As long as we don't move too much, we shouldn't be discovered."
"When we get to the cave, we'll think of a solution."
"This monster is huge and the cave is small. I think it will be difficult for it to attack us!"
Professor Jin looked puzzled, "But when we get to the cave, aren't we blocked at the door by these death worms?"
"It's impossible to think about it again!"
Huo Xiuer looked at Professor Jin displeased, rolled her eyes at him, and said.
"This is the only way I can do it, it's up to you to believe it or not."
The archaeological team members looked at each other, and then someone spoke up.
"Hanging here is just waiting to die. Being in a cave with death worms blocking the door is waiting to die. It's better to hide in the cave and save some energy. We can't last long like this!"
"Yes, Miss Huo and I went to hide in the cave to save our lives first. The rest will be left to God!"
"No, it's left to Miss Huo!" "I'll go with Miss Huo too!"
"I'll go too!"
"Miss Huo, we leave our lives to you this time. You can't trick us like Professor Jin did!"
"Miss Huo said before that there are monsters here, and now it has come true. They shouldn't trick us!"
The archaeological team members didn't think much about it. They couldn't go up anyway. Going down would mean death. Hanging here would mean waiting for death. It would be better to hide in a cave and save energy!
Huo Xiuer nodded and reminded again.
"Don't move or make a sound. Use gestures to communicate."
"These monsters can't see us, let's fool them first, and then slide down slowly!"
"Remember, don't make any noise or shake too much, otherwise more than one person may die when you fall!"
Hearing Huo Xiuer's reminder, everyone shut their mouths, extended an OK gesture to her, and then hung on the safety rope quietly.
Even those who were physically weak gritted their teeth and persisted.
As expected, within two minutes after the archaeological team stood still, all the debris from the mountain fell into the sand.
The death worm did not crash into the mountain again.
After another three minutes, the death worms began to crawl on the sand, seemingly looking for food.
Finally, after another fifteen minutes, the death worms gradually crawled back into the sand.
Slowly, the canyon returned to its original appearance, just like what they had seen at the beginning, full of expectation and hope.
Seeing that all the death worms had crawled back into the sand, Huo Xiuer gave everyone an OK gesture.
Upon seeing this, the archaeological team members nodded, and then began to slowly slide down the safety rope.
Everyone moved carefully, only sliding down three to five centimeters each time, and the muscles all over the body were tense. I persisted like this for about half an hour, and I even felt that my arm was no longer my own.
At this time, the archaeological team was still five meters away from the cave.
They have also officially entered the attack range of the death worm.
Huo Xiuer looked back at the archaeological team members and made a gesture to indicate that everyone should be more careful.
After everyone saw Huo Xiuer's gesture, they nodded.
Immediately afterwards, Huo Xiuer continued to slide downward.
Slowly, a team member climbed into the cave.
Then two, three...
In the end, almost everyone entered the cave, except Professor Jin who was still hanging on the safety rope.
At this time, because of Huo Xiuer's reminder, the archaeological team members were worried but did not dare to ask.
Professor Jin looked at everyone with a bitter look on his face, and then said in a very soft voice: "No! My arms are stiff and I can't move!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several sandbags suddenly appeared on the sand again.
Everyone's eyes widened at this moment, looking at the bulging sandbags in the sand, and then looking at Professor Jin in horror.
Professor Jin...are you trying to lure the death worm here?
They saw the sandbags in the sand swelled up again, constantly squirming back and forth in the sand, as if they were hiding their positions and then delivering a fatal blow to the prey.
It's just that it's so big that it's hard not to see it.
All the archaeological team members were startled, and then stared at Professor Jin.
Professor Jin immediately shut up and looked down with a horrified expression, his face turned pale with fright.
Fortunately, Professor Jin made no more noise and continued to hang on the safety rope. In less than two minutes, the sandbag dented again.
It looks like the death worm is gone.
After a while, Professor Jin breathed a sigh of relief, then gritted his teeth and moved his arms. Suddenly, an extremely swollen and painful feeling swept through his body, so painful that he even wanted to scream.
But Professor Jin still held back. He just opened his mouth and closed his eyes, breathing heavily, enduring the severe pain from the stiffness of his arms. After feeling some blood return to his arm for a while, he began to continue sliding downward.
But Professor Jin felt even more unbearable pain in his arm that had returned to blood.
So when he was about to reach the cave, Professor Jin directly threw up the rope, threw himself into the cave, and then made a dull sound.
"Bang!"
Although the sound of Professor Jin landing was not very clear, after all, he weighed more than 100 pounds and was carrying archaeological tools on his back.
So when it landed, a series of sounds came from the tools in the backpack.
The archaeological team members didn't care much at this time and hurriedly pulled Professor Jin towards the cave.
After just walking three or four steps, the death worms in the sand suddenly sprang out again, with huge fangs blocking the entrance of the cave. The fishy smell made several people feel nauseated.
The archaeological team members covered their noses, and Huo Xiuer hurriedly gestured to everyone to calm down.
So the archaeological team members immediately kept their bodies still and quietly looked at the death worms blocking the entrance of the cave.
This was the first time they had seen the death worms so closely. The one in front of them happened to be the one that ate their team members, and everyone saw that there was a human stump in the monster's mouth, and the stump was still covered with the clothes of their archaeological team.
Not long after the few people became quiet, the Death Worm turned around and left after it could no longer sense them.
Seeing the death worm leave, the archaeological team members finally breathed a sigh of relief. They looked at Professor Jin with sullen expressions, feeling a little angry in their hearts. This Professor Jin is really good at deceiving people. They were almost dragged down by this guy and had to be buried with him.
Huo Xiuer saw that the cave was relatively deep, so she pointed inside and started to walk toward it quietly.
Although the cave is not very big, the road seems to be very long.
None of them were in the mood to explore right now. They just picked a location that was a long way from the entrance of the cave and then sat down to rest.
Professor Jin rubbed his arm and couldn't help but sigh: "Hey... what should we do next? Do we have to wait here to die?"
Several archaeological team members couldn't help but take a deep look at Professor Jin, but no one spoke.
Huo Xiuer glanced at the entrance of the cave at this time and found that talking here would no longer attract the attention of the death worm, so she said: "Everyone, let's get some rest first. You must have been very tired from the process of coming down just now. After you have rested, we can Think about how to get out.”
Several people nodded, and then looked at Huo Xiuer together.
After what happened just now, Huo Xiuer has become the leader of this team.
After all, without her, all of them would have been eaten by death worms just now.
"Thanks to Miss Huo this time. If it weren't for you, I would have been torn to pieces by the monster."
"Yeah, it's really strange. Why is there sand here? Could it be that someone deliberately brought sand here to raise these bugs?"
"It's impossible. This place is extremely hot. It feels like the temperature in the desert. It should be caused by the special environment."
"Fortunately, Miss Huo knows how to deal with that monster, otherwise we might all have to deal with it here today!"
"Miss Huo, thank you so much." (End of Chapter)