I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 461: The drug addict disappeared and survived

Good news, Wu Tianzhen and his team found the main force.

Bad news, most of the troops were killed.

The previous swarm of insects disappeared, leaving only a camp full of corpses. Strange black shadows were dancing around the campfire, like monsters with bared fangs and claws.

The four of them spread out and carefully investigated the situation.

"here!"

The fat man yelled, and the four rushed over and saw a pretty young woman lying on the ground in front of the fat man, with her eyes closed, and it was unclear whether she was dead or alive.

"Aning..."

When he saw the woman, Wu Tianzhen had a complicated and sad expression.

Xu Bayi squatted down to check the situation and found that the woman did not have any signs of poisonous insect bites like the other corpses. He touched her left neck with his fingers.

"She's still alive."

He pried open his eyelids and shone the flashlight into his pupils. "It's not a big problem. He just fainted."

The fat man showed an incredible expression, "Tsk tsk, what the hell, isn't this woman blessed by God? Everyone in the camp died, but she is fine. Could it be that she has also eaten Qilinjie like the young man?"

Hearing that Aning was fine, Wu Tianzhen looked happy and breathed a sigh of relief.

He immediately stepped forward and volunteered to take care of it.

Xu Bayi tactfully stepped aside.

Take the two fat guys aside and continue checking the situation in the camp.

"Be careful. Look around and see if there are any clues."

Xu Bayi reminded the two.

"He values ​​women over friendship..." the fat man muttered, looked at Wu Tianzhen sadly, and continued to check with a flashlight.

Soon the three of them made a discovery.

"Holy crap! There's a ship here!"

Wang Kai suddenly exclaimed.

ferry?

The other three were confused. How could there be a boat in the desert?

Xu Bayi walked over to take a look and was surprised to see that there really was a boat.

An ancient wooden ship, one end of which is buried in the mountain and the other end is exposed outside. It is unknown how long it has been buried underground, and it has been weathered to the point that it almost has the texture of rock.

"This should be a shipwreck from an ancient river. The countries in the Western Regions once had abundant water and connected rivers, but they dried up later..."

Xu Bayi said carefully.

"what is this?"

Wang Kai suddenly noticed that there were many broken jars placed on the open space at the foot of the mountain, mixed with some black round stones, which were of quite uniform size, as if they were man-made.

He leaned over, picked up the flashlight and shone it to check, then suddenly screamed and took a few steps back.

He shouted in panic: "This, this is a human head!"

Xu Bayi and Wang Meng were shocked and went forward to check. Sure enough, those strange black round stones on the ground were human skulls.

And through the opening of the skull, you can see a trypophobia-inducing honeycomb-like structure inside, and even many grayish-white insect eggs.

Xu Bayi's scalp exploded, and he retreated several meters without hesitation, shouting: "Everyone stay away! These are the nests of those corpse beetles!"

The two fat Wangs' faces changed and they quickly retreated further, holding their weapons and flashlights tightly, ready for battle towards the restaurants.

But after being on guard for a long time, I didn't see a single insect.

The three of them looked at each other.

……

After a check, Xu Bayi and others confirmed that there was no trace of the corpse turtle king worm in the camp.

Can't find even one.

I don’t know where it flew to.

This made everyone feel relieved and no longer had to worry so much.

After checking the expedition camp, no other survivors were found except Aning.

Xu Bayi and his men found some wood, poured gasoline on it, and burned all the pottery jars with human heads used to breed the corpse turtle king worms, to prevent the remaining poisonous insects from harming the world.

He then notified the archaeological team and asked them to come and help bury the bodies and collect useful supplies in the camp.

Originally, Wu Tianzhen's team had more than 30 people and sufficient supplies. Now, together with the archaeological team, there are only a dozen people in total, which has made up for the supply gap of the archaeological team.

The dead were buried on the spot. Everyone packed up the supplies and carried the unconscious Aning back to the archaeological team's original camp to spend the night.

Xu Bayi arranged groups of three to take turns on night duty, and they set up the doors and windows of the tents, not daring to slack off at all.

However, the whole night passed peacefully, and the cloud of insects disappeared and never reappeared.

The group encountered no other danger.

The next morning, Aning woke up.

After learning that her expedition team was wiped out, this strong woman's eyes turned red, but she suppressed her sadness and did not cry.

Calmly told everyone what happened last night.

It turned out that after the expedition team was dispersed by the sandstorm, Aning and his brother brought the surviving large group to settle in the Devil City.

While resting, they searched for the lost team (mainly Wu Tianzhen and Wang Meng).

Then they discovered an ancient shipwreck near the camp. After exploring, they found that the shipwreck was related to the ancient country of Queen Mother of the West.

Only then did they move the cultural relics out of the shipwreck in order to conduct a detailed investigation and obtain more clues.

Who would have thought that those human head pottery jars were actually the culture dishes of the corpse turtle king? What was even more unexpected was that after thousands of years, the bugs inside were still alive.

Sensing the breath of a living person, thousands of corpse beetle king insects broke out of their cocoons and caught everyone off guard in an instant.

Seven or eight people were bitten in one encounter. Within a few seconds, their bodies were covered with ulcers and they died.

Aning herself was stung on the back of the neck by a corpse turtle king and passed out on the spot from the severe pain.

"and many more--"

The fat man questioned with his eyes wide open, "You said you were bitten by the Corpse Turtle King? Then how come you are still alive?"

Everyone looked at the back of Aning's neck, which was as smooth as snow, without any scars.

Aning herself was also confused, "I don't know what happened... I have no memory of what happened after I fell into a coma. I saw you guys as soon as I woke up."

Xu Bayi interrupted everyone's speculation, "We will slowly figure this out later. In short, everyone be careful, and don't touch the ancients' things without my permission!"

The students of the archaeological team nodded one after another.

After returning to the graves and paying silent tribute for a while, Aning regained his composure and found Xu Bayi.

"We will help you find the Ancient City of Jingjue, and you will help us find the City of Queen Mother of the West."

The woman forcefully proposed a deal.

The fat man was immediately unhappy, "Hey, hey, I didn't agree. Why do you make the decision for the three of us?"

Aning ignored the fat man and just stared at Xu Bayi.

Xu Bayi and Yang Xueli exchanged glances, and the latter nodded slightly.

"Okay, I agree to cooperate with you. But we have to find the Jingjue Ancient City first and get what we are looking for."

"make a deal."

The fat man poked Wu Tianzhen's arm unhappily, "No, Tianzhen, you're just going to let this woman sell us out? You've got a wife and you've forgotten your brothers, right?"

Wu Tianzhen rolled his eyes at him and said, "I have already reached a cooperation agreement with Captain Xu."

"What?! Great! You two bastards, you actually hooked up with this guy outside behind my back!"

"I don't want to bother with you. I'm going to see my brother."

"Wait! I'm going too!"