The vast Huang Sha stretched endlessly, the journey seed without limit, the lone smoke of the desert stood straight, the river at sunset complete and round.
A line of ant-sized black dots slowly moved across the desert, leaving behind a trail of cal footprints...
"Bad news! We can’t go forward!" Gao Yi suddenly shouted, his voice was already high-pitched, and when he yelled like that, all thirty-plus people were startled.
Sui Yi felt the cal underneath him beco very restless as it twisted its body, continuously moving backward, but in reality, it was sinking forward... down!
"It’s quicksand!"
"Damn!"
Among the most terrifying things in the desert, quicksand and sandstorms definitely ranked at the top, both capable of wiping out a large group in the blink of an eye.
"Quick! Pull the cals!"
"My cal is sinking..."
In that instant, everyone’s agility ca into play!
Sui Yi leapt off the cal’s back, and with the force of his jump, he pulled at the cal’s rope...
With a rush, he yanked the large cal right out of the sand that had already swallowed a third of its body...
On the other side, Gong Jiu and others did the sa, their Inner Strength proving so useful here, while Zhang Wei and others who lacked Inner Strength still had exceptional abilities, quickly jumping off the cals, leaping to the firr sand behind and running backwards, pulling on the ropes with all their might...
Pull!
Twenty-four plus nine made thirty-three, and out of them, barely twenty-five could escape the danger in a short ti!
Eight others were not quick enough to react and fell into the Huang Sha, in a blink, their cals disappeared beneath them, and only the upper part of their bodies above the waist was visible...
"Ah! Save quick!"
"Save..."
The eight cried out, Brother Ma’s eyes bulged, "Fuck, you Fatty!" Gen Fengsha imdiately stepped forward and grabbed Han Gao’s hands...
One, two, three, pull!
They say the world is but a grain of sand, but millions, billions of grains can create a sinking sandpit with friction enough to completely bury a living person within a few breaths.
You couldn’t even crawl out.
Even Brother Ma couldn’t pull him out...
Until Sui Yi lent a hand on Brother Ma’s arm...
Whoosh! Han Gao’s large figure was hauled out, before he even had the chance to catch his breath and dust off the sand from his body...
"We have to leave, it’s starting to sink here too..." Gao Yi and two other guides shouted loudly.
"Quick!"
The sensation of the sand beneath their feet beginning to stir made Sui Yi and the others who had just escaped to safety shudder...
Han Gao scrambled and rolled, pulled by Brother Ma, sprinting like mad!
It turned out that even typically slow-moving cals could run fast when death lood...
As the soil under their feet softened and sank inch by inch...
After five breaths...
A group of people stood on the Huang Sha, passing with a whoosh, atop a vast mound of sand, their hearts still pounding with residual fear.
Thump, Fatty Han sat down hard on the ground, his whole body covered in cold sweat.
"Damn, I never thought that quicksand could be this terrifying in all my life..."
"I think we have different concepts of terror," Brother Ma glared at him from the corner of his eye, "Fatty Han, didn’t your science teacher ever teach you that the forces acting are mutual, maybe it’s ti you considered losing so weight?"
Han Gao scratched his head awkwardly.
"We’re down two cals, fortunate that no lives were lost," Gong Jiu glanced at his watch, goddammit! They’d only been in the desert for half a day!
Not even a full day yet!
"We’re still in good shape... they’re missing people over there!"
Brother Ma jerked his head towards Wei Feng and his group.
Two people from Wei Feng’s group were particularly unlucky, walking a bit ahead, they, along with their cals, sank into it...
But it seed like Wei Feng and his crew didn’t care much about it.
Dead people, nothing could be more normal.
—After all, those people weren’t that important to Wei Feng’s team.
"Hey, aren’t you guys the guides? How co you can’t even recognize quicksand!" Wu Gu grabbed one of the guides by the neck.
That guide’s face turned red and then pale, defending himself, "Quicksand is a natural occurrence, an act of God. We usually look to the cals for warning, but sotis we can’t avoid it. If guides could dodge all dangers, this desert would have been flattened long ago!"
That might be true, but those under Wei Feng were still a bit annoyed.
In fact, what annoyed Wu Gu and the others was that when they had first detected the quicksand, it was clear that Gao Yi was more capable...
Sui Yi and the others looked at Gao Yi with a bit more respect, and as a result, Gao Yi felt rather proud, stroked his Little Beard, and comforted the six cals, then casually said, "That’s how the desert is, the god of death can co at any ti, although each has their destiny, but having a guide like can greatly increase your chances of survival..."
"So, guide, can you tell us where we are now?" Gong Jiu asked nonchalantly. Gao Yi looked around...
Feng Sha and others felt there was nothing worth looking at; the landscape of the desert... heh, it’s all the sa wherever you walk.
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