Catastrophe

Time has passed, and the team of the scientific research team has been galloping in the desert for four hours. As the scorching sun shines, the poisonous sunlight begins to poison the earth. Ning Zhe has already boarded the hedgehog car because he needs to observe the tracks of the wolves. This mast can be assembled, that is, a three-meter-high steel pipe is installed on the roof, and there is a platform on the top that can sit people, which is used for soldiers to climb to a higher level during the battle. on top of the vehicle, or the sentry can avoid the smoke and observe the situation in the distance.

More than ten minutes later, the fuel tank of the hedgehog car bottomed out, and the driver in the car began to take out fuel tanks from the back of another hedgehog car to refill the fuel. Ye Peng also stood under the car and looked at Ning with a displeased expression. Zhe: "Hey! You've been taking us around in the desert all morning! Did you find it?"

"You have seen how big this desert is. If you want to find the traces of the wolves, you can only explore slowly. This kind of thing can't be rushed!" Ning Zhe took off the water bag on his waist and took a sip. This morning, He and Fatty Li sold the wolf corpse and wolf skin and bought some food and drinking water, but we don't know how long this trip will be, so we must save.

"Bah! Captain Ye, this guy is a liar! If we choose to believe him, we will be taken to the ditch sooner or later!" At this time, Gao Shengrong also started to help: "I think your guess is correct , that pack of wolves must have gone east! Or let's turn back now and head east!"

"Damn it! I just said that a refugee is not worth believing!" Ye Peng stood under the scorching sun and glanced at his watch irritably at the moment: "Continue to explore for an hour, if you still don't find it, then..."

"It won't take an hour!" Ning Zhe glanced at the mast, jumped down from it, and ran towards the distance.

Ye Peng saw Ning Zhe's movements, and quickly followed with a few mercenaries. At this moment, Ning Zhe had already run out a dozen meters away, and there were several piles of black beetles scattered on a sandy surface under his feet.

"Are you sick? We came to the desert to look for wolves, not to catch bugs!" Gao Shengrong choked with a cold face.

"These two bugs are the Namib desert beetle and the dung beetle commonly known as the dung beetle. The Namib desert beetle has hydrophilic textures on its wings, which can condense water vapor from the air to drink, while the dung beetle lives on feces. The gathering of the two kinds of Kunzhong means that there is fresh feces here!" As Ning Zhe spoke, he picked up all the Namib desert beetles on the ground, ripped off their walking feet and put them in a bag, and at the same time took out his waist knife and started digging the sandy surface.

In a matter of seconds, the feces buried under the sand were dug up.

"Is this wolf shit?" Ye Peng wanted to continue hurting Ning Zhe, but when he saw that he had actually dug out the feces, he suddenly became nervous and pulled out the gun from his waist.

"That's right, it's wolf dung." Ning Zhe nodded, continued to dig up a few piles of dung very lightly, and pointed his finger in one direction: "The wolves are going in that direction!"

At this moment, Fatty Li, who came over, glanced at the surrounding desert, and then looked at the direction of Ning Zhe's fingers, feeling uncertain: "Brother Zhe, what are you saying is true or false? There is clearly nothing over there. , how can you determine the trajectories of the wolves?"

"Look at the shape of the wolf dung! Judging from the shape of these wolf dung, the thinner sides all point to that side, which means that the wolves are facing that side when they defecate." Ning Zhe stood up straight, facing Ye Peng said: "The wolves that attacked the market town before came with young wolves, and they are destined to not travel too fast, and the defecation cycle of wolves is about a day or two. If we continue to track there, we will You can continue to determine their travel direction through the wolf dung in the next place!"

"Then what are you waiting for! Hurry up!" Ye Peng is used to enjoying the fortress, and is quite uncomfortable with the harsh environment in the refugee area. He just wants to complete the task as soon as possible and stay away from this land of right and wrong.

"I'm afraid not! The acid rain is coming!" Ning Zhe stretched out his hand to feel the wind in the air: "And this rain will come very quickly!"

"What are you kidding? Before we left the fortress today, we deliberately looked at the satellite cloud map. There is no rain here at all!" Ye Peng looked up at the cloudless sky and didn't believe Ning Zhe's words at all.

"I don't know what cloud map you are talking about, but the rain is coming soon, and we still have at most half an hour to prepare! If you want to hurry, I won't stop you, but I will definitely not follow!" Ning Zhe It was only now that I realized that the so-called weather forecast in the fortress was not 100% accurate.

"Captain Ye, don't believe him, these refugees know shit! Since the cloud map doesn't show rain, what can he understand! I think he's fighting against you!" Gao Shengrong seized every opportunity to provoke Ye Peng is disgusted with Ning Zhe.

Ye Peng glanced at Gao Shengrong and instructed the soldiers beside him, "Go down and set up camp immediately!"

"Yes!" The soldier agreed, and immediately began to call his companions to get busy.

The reason why Ye Peng wanted to camp was not because he believed in Ning Zhe so much, but because he didn't dare to gamble.

On this wasteland, acid rain and sandstorms carrying various germs are also cold-blooded killers that cannot be underestimated compared to the ferocious beasts that choose to devour people.

Nowadays, the sulfuric acid content in the air has increased several times. An acid rain that can bring plagues and infectious diseases, and even burn the skin, is a feast for harvesting life.

Fifteen minutes later, the convoy stopped under a huge sand dune, and at the same time, the strong wind began to call, the sky was churning with clouds, and even the air became dark.

Ye Peng had set rules before that Ning Zhe and his group could not camp with the scientific expedition team. Seeing that the fortresses had set up tents and covered the vehicles with tarpaulins, Ning Zhe also began to lead Fatty Li and Tu Shi. , Ren Jiao began to dig the sand pit, and at the same time spread out the sheet cloth that can resist acid and alkali and waterproof, and then used wooden sticks as supporting beams to prepare a simple rain-proof cave.

The acid rain was coming, the air pressure over the desert began to drop, and a strong smell of sulfide appeared in the wind.

"Whoosh-"

A gust of wind swept past, orange-yellow clouds surging, and ball lightning flashing with faint green light kept falling. Following the ups and downs of the airflow, it flew around in the air near the ground, and finally hit a rock or sand dune and exploded with a bang.

Gradually, not only the clouds, but everything between the sky and the earth turned orange, the wind and sand were raging, and the visibility dropped suddenly.

"Crash!"

The pouring rain fell from the sky and fell on the simple tent of Ning Zhe and others.

"Boom!"

Ning Zhe opened his backpack and took out the corpse of a Namib desert beetle. After tearing off the carapace on his back, he put it in his mouth and started chewing.

"Brother Ning, are you hungry? I have something to eat here!" Tu Shi saw that Ning Zhe was eating insects, so he generously took his backpack.

"We don't know how long we'll be walking in the desert. We need to save resources if we can. This beetle is a natural filter. 40% of its body is water, which not only increases satiety, but also helps Quench your thirst, I caught hundreds of them before, you can take them if you want to eat them." Ning Zhe declined Tu Shi's kindness, grabbed a handful of beetles and handed them to Fatty Li. Everything is basically food.

What Ning Zhe didn't expect was that Ren Jiao, who had already taken off the water sac, after listening to what he said, also reached out and picked up two beetles and threw them in his mouth without any discomfort. nature.

At this moment, Ning Zhe suddenly felt that he underestimated this woman.

Twenty meters away, Xie Guangkun stood in the tent, followed the tent made of plastic sheeting, glanced at Ning Zhe's simple rain shelter, turned to Ye Peng and said, "This rain is worse than we expected. It needs to be big, or let those refugees take shelter from the rain!"

"Professor Xie, I'm afraid I can't agree to your condition. These people are just refugees. Even if you can accept him, the rest of us cannot." Ye Peng disagreed with this: "Don't worry, the lives of these pariahs are hard. very!"?

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