I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 457 Everyone's Thoughts Attacked in the Middle of the Night

Faced with Wu Tianzhen's request, Xu Bayi looked embarrassed.

"Comrade Xiao Wu, to be honest, our archaeological team has other tasks to do, so I'm afraid we can't spare any manpower to help you find someone. Also, for some reason, after entering the desert, there was no signal on the phone... How about this?"

"You guys follow us first, and then contact your leader after we return?"

"If we're lucky, maybe we won't have to wait for the return trip and we can run into them on the way."

Wu Tianzhen and Fatty took a look and found that Xu Bayi's team was indeed limited in manpower, with less than twenty people.

The equipment was also relatively backward, with no satellite phones, distress flares or the like.

After discussing it for a while, they had to say, "Okay. I'll have to trouble you then. I hope you don't mind us eating and drinking for free."

"It's okay. We still have enough supplies. Two more people won't be a big deal."

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, what are you archaeological team doing in the Black Desert?"

Xu Bayi asked curiously.

Wu Tianzhen and the fat man looked at each other and did not answer immediately.

Seeing that the two were worried, Xu Bayi smiled and said, "It's okay if you can't talk about it. I just thought that maybe we have the same goal and we can communicate with each other."

Wu Tianzhen looked embarrassed, as if he had made up his mind, and said frankly: "To be honest with you, Captain Xu, we came here to find the legendary ancient country of Queen Mother of the West."

"Queen Mother of the West? That's a legend from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Do you have any clues?"

Professor Chen, who was standing nearby, heard the conversation and came over with interest.

The ancient country of Queen Mother of the West aroused the interest of this professor of archaeology.

Wu Tianzhen touched the back of his head and said, "A little bit, not much. We are not completely sure, but we just want to give it a try."

"By the way, Professor Chen, why did you come to the Black Desert..."

Professor Chen laughed and said generously: "We are here to look for the ruins of the ancient city of Jingjue."

"Jingjue Ancient City? I remember it was one of the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty. It is said that the ruler of Jingjue Kingdom was a queen who possessed divine power..."

"That's right. Xiao Wu knows a lot. You went to college, right? What major did you graduate from?"

"Actually, I am also an archaeologist, and I graduated with a master's degree from the School of Archaeology at Shonan University..."

"Oh. Dean Pan Yunbo of your Xiangnan University School of Archaeology is my good brother..."

"Yes. Dean Pan is my mentor..."

Fatty Wang scratched his head beside him.

No, how did you two get chatting?

The fat man, who had no say, had to run to the side and fiddle with the campfire out of boredom, when he suddenly smelled the aroma of wine.

When he looked up, he saw another Fatty Wang secretly sucking on a small gas bottle.

The fat man immediately came over and put his arm on the other's shoulder.

Arm in arm, he lowered his voice, and said seriously, "Fat brother, you have such a good thing but you don't want to share it. You can't eat it all by yourself..."

"Hush. Don't let Old Xu know. I'll just give you a treat..."

"Hey, Fatty, you are this!"

The fat man gave a thumbs up.

Then the two fat guys hid in the corner and cooked their own food.

Yang Xueli gave Xu Bayi a look, and the two of them quietly went out.

After confirming that there was no one around, Yang Xueli whispered to Xu Bayi, "These two don't look like archaeologists."

Xu Bayi nodded.

"I know. They should be traveling with the three of us."

"So you're still keeping them here?"

"I don't think they are bad guys. Besides, it's easier to avoid an open attack than to defend against a hidden one. It's safer to keep them under your nose. Don't worry, I know what's going on."

"Okay. Just keep it in mind."

The sky became completely dark and it was late at night. Everyone spread out their bedding and went to sleep.

The fat man volunteered to join the night watch.

He and Tianzhen felt embarrassed to eat and drink other people's food for free, so they decided to take the initiative to help with the work.

In fact, the fat man is also worried.

He also realized that half of the people in this so-called archaeological team were actually his colleagues.

Especially the three of Xu Bayi, they looked experienced veterans.

The fat man didn't want someone to touch his neck when the two of them were sleeping soundly in the middle of the night.

Although, Xu Bayi and the others don't seem to have any hostility for the time being.

But we should always be on guard against others.

Fatty and his cousin Wang Kai were on duty until midnight when they suddenly felt the urge to urinate.

"Fat brother, you watch first, I'm going to relieve myself."

"Go, go, go, run away, don't smoke me."

"know."

The fat man strolled around, inspected the camp, and confirmed that Wu Tianzhen was safe.

He went around to the back of the big house where everyone was resting and urinated at the base of the wall.

"Huh... feel good."

After shuddering and shaking a few times, the fat man zipped up his pants and walked back.

Suddenly there was a click and I felt something under my feet.

It looks like a branch.

He quickly shone the flashlight on it and found that it was a black insect that had been stepped on by him.

It looks like an ant... The fat man shook his head.

How could there be ants in this desert? And they are so big.

It should be some kind of insect that looks like an ant.

The fat man ignored it without paying any attention.

Walked back to the campfire.

He didn't notice at all that in the dim light, the wet sand where he had just urinated began to bulge upwards, as if something was breaking out of the ground.

……

"what!"

The two fat Wangs were bragging and chatting by the campfire, boasting about their "glorious deeds" of traveling around the country.

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching scream rang out in the darkness.

The two men jumped up suddenly.

problem occurs!

The two fat men grabbed the engineering shovels at the same time and rushed into the big house where everyone was resting.

As soon as I entered, I saw that the big house was in chaos.

Everyone jumped up and slapped themselves wildly, screaming as if they were attacked by something.

"Go! Get out of here now!"

Xu Bayi picked up the engineer shovel and rushed forward, slapping the ground wildly to block the black water flowing on the ground.

When the fat man saw it, his scalp suddenly went numb.

That wasn't black water at all, it was clearly a large group of big black ants.

It was exactly the same kind he had just stepped on to death outside.

They kept emerging from the ground and frantically attacked everyone in the room.

“It’s available here too!”

"There's some here too!"

“So many ants!”

"Run, forget about the luggage!"

Xu Bayi and others anxiously shouted for everyone to evacuate.

Everyone had no choice but to slap the ants that were crawling on their bodies a few times, and ran out while enduring the severe pain.

"Ahhh! Help, help me!"

An unlucky male student was so frightened that he tripped over his left foot and fell to the ground, immediately covered with ants.

He rolled over on the ground screaming and couldn't get up.

Xu Bayi, who was about to run away, looked around, gritted his teeth, snatched the wine jug from Wang Kai's waist, and rushed back.

"Xu Bayi!"

Yang Xueli exclaimed.

Xu Bayi held a blanket in his right hand and a bottle of wine in his right hand, and poured wine on the blanket while running.

He rushed to the edge of the ant tide, picked up a lighter and ignited the blanket stained with strong liquor. Suddenly, a ball of fire ignited on the blanket.

Xu Bayi waved the burning blanket as if he was waving a fan made of flames. Under the pressure of flames and high temperature, he actually cleared a passage for the ant tide.