The bonfire by the lake was burning quietly, occasionally there was a crackling sound of branches being cracked, and the figure was shaking slightly under the faint light of the fire.

"Liuzi?" A very soft call came from the right side of Xiaoliuzi.

A man quietly approached from not far away, squatted in front of Xiao Liuzi, and called Xiao Liuzi again in a low voice.

Xiao Liuzi closed his eyes and smacked his mouth twice, waved his hands like waving a fly, then turned over and turned sideways to the lakeside.

"Well, noisy..." He muttered vaguely, hugged his arms tightly and fell into a deep sleep.

When the man saw this, he was startled at first, and then saw that Xiao Liuzi didn't seem to have woken up at all, and he was relieved.

He laughed softly as if he was talking to himself, and muttered, "I really slept like hell."

He quietly reached out to Xiao Liuzi's cyst, and a few cocoons lay within easy reach.

"A five thousand star coin..." He swallowed lightly, a trace of greed flashed in his eyes.

He watched Lu Liji and Ke Ji run to the small hill and return with a full load, and nothing happened, so he quietly ran out by himself while everyone gathered around to join in the fun.

But he was timid. After walking for tens of meters, the front and back were all in darkness, and he could only see a fire in the camp from a distance, which made him dare not go further.

In the end, he didn't pick up anything, and ran back in desperation, seeing with hot eyes that Little Six had stuffed those cocoons into the bag again.

"It's not too much to share with me, anyway, you picked it up for nothing anyway." He reached into his bag while talking to himself, picked up a small cocoon, put it rare in his clothes, and put it next to his body.

This is the touch of five thousand star coins. He couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth, thinking a little flutteringly.

"What are you doing?" A low-pitched question came from behind the man, he trembled in fright, turned his head to look over, and saw Xiandan cast a wink over him.

The man shook, and whispered back: "Captain, I'm just curious to see what the cocoons picked up by the six sons look like."

Xiandan gave him a cold look: "Zhan Xiao, don't think I don't know what you're thinking, go back to sleep now!"

The man who was named nodded hastily, smiled mischievously, and left in a hurry.

Xiandan looked at the man running away with a heavy face. He had heard from his subordinates that Zhan Xiao likes to steal things. If you follow this person or that person, they are all trivial things. , not expensive, it is estimated that there is a psychological problem, not uncomfortable.

Everyone in the team didn't mind the other party's little problem, and Xiandan had never seen the other party stealing chickens and dogs under his nose, so he thought that person's little hobby was just greedy for petty things, which was far from "stealing", so he postponed it for the time being. .

But this time, Zhan Xiao bumped into him. The team must not allow such an unstable factor to exist.

He quickly decided that if they made it out of Salba alive, the man would be expelled from the merchant fleet.

People who were expelled from the Merchant Fleet due to conduct problems were even reported to the dishonesty list and announced in several major chambers of commerce to warn other chambers of commerce and some people who were about to move.

Xiandan withdrew his gaze, looked around and checked the situation around the camp, and saw that the cordon that had been set up before had not been touched, so he went back to rest in peace.

"No problem?" Shu Hua asked vaguely with eyes half-opened and half-closed.

"No problem, let's rest, there are still several hours before dawn." Xiandan replied in a low voice.

Shu Hua nodded, tilted his head and fell asleep again.

Xiandan looked at Liu Zi and Zhan Xiao, feeling a little flustered in his chest.

He frowned, thought for a while and got up again, intending to watch the night.

Shuhua was lying on the edge of Xiandan, and when he felt the movement here, he opened his eyes: "What's wrong?"

"I can't tell, I always feel uneasy. Go to sleep, I'll keep watch." Xiandan said.

Hearing this, Shu Hua sat up again and put on his coat, "Forget it, I'll be with you."

The two sat at one end of the camp and the other at the end of the camp, guarding two piles of bonfires, silently looking at the boundless desert in the distance.

The desert at night is cold and silent, as if there is no sign of life.

Shuhua and Xiandan looked at such a desert, even in a daze, it was hard to imagine those terrible encounters they encountered during the day, and the desert at this time was actually a yellow place.

Zhan Xiao didn't fall asleep either, he clutched the callus hidden on his body and couldn't help laughing silently.

He even thought that when the day dawned, he would run to the other side of the hill by himself and pick up all the cocoons. Anyway, there is nothing to be afraid of after dawn.

A cocoon is worth 5,000 star coins, I don’t know how much there is, it’s like a depression full of gold and blood diamonds, no wonder the guide said that the oasis of Salba is full of treasures, it’s true!

With such a thought in his mind, he slowly fell asleep, not noticing the movement of the cocoon that he stuffed into his bosom at all.

The cocoon, which was sleeping, woke up early due to the dry and warm body temperature, and was restless in the thick cocoon shell.

If Zhan Xiao was still awake at this moment, he could clearly see that inside the brown-white cocoon, a pair of sharp black mandibles pierced the cocoon shell, pulling it so thin that it was almost transparent.

After a few minutes, there was a slight tearing sound coming from Zhan Xiao's clothes, the movement was so light that it was almost imperceptible.

Zhan Xiao subconsciously raised his hand and scratched his chest twice, then turned over and went back to sleep.

The worm crouching under Zhan Xiao's close-fitting clothes slowly crawled out of the thick cocoon. Just seeing the black and shiny carapace and a pair of huge and sharp upper-jawed halberds, one knew that this thing was not easy to mess with.

It crawled motionless on the spot, but slightly spread out a pair of thin transparent wings on both sides of the carapace. The cicada wings were like two tiny fingernails, and suddenly vibrated at a very fast frequency.

The audio that is inaudible to the human ear lingers out.

I don't know how long it took, but no one can see that in the low-lying land at the other end of the small sand dune, the countless living cocoons hanging on the vines began to stir, as if being blown by the wind, back and forth, left and right, and the frequency was extremely fast Shaking, as if about to be shaken off.

The male worm lying in Zhan Xiao's clothes still maintained the posture of ┭, and the pair of cicada wings that were so thin that they were almost transparent did not stop vibrating.

It wasn't until in the low-lying sand dunes on the opposite side that small insects broke out of their cocoons and sent out ┭ high-frequency wing vibrations that it gradually retracted its cicada wings.

If Lu Lij saw it at this time, he would recognize that the bug looked like a scorpion worm.

The halberd beetle has a fierce reputation. It can lift things a thousand or eight hundred times heavier than itself, and its pair of upper jaws can easily crush anything. Some people even call it Hercules, the Hercules in Greek mythology.

But the common halberd does not have such a pair of wings that can fly.

The insects in the low-lying land are like distant relatives of the beetles, except that they are not divided into males and females. Each adult beetle has a bulging abdomen like a big pocket, and there is a breeding bag in the abdomen. There are at least six or seven reptiles that are still larvae.

Once the reptile is about to form a cocoon, it will leave the cocoon and climb to a vine to wait for the cocoon. After the cocoon is formed, the cocoon is an adult with a huge mandible and wings.

At the other end of the low-lying land, there were at least a thousand cocoons hanging on the vines. After the first cocoon was torn apart by a pair of halberds, the second and third...

Thousands of cocoons were broken away one after another, and black, potbellied worms flew out of the cocoons one by one, and the cicada wings shook, forming a loud movement that could not be ignored.

Lu Lij and Ke Ji closed their eyes in their sleeping bags and got up instantly.

Xiandan dozed off with his head propped up. He was stunned for two seconds before he realized the movement. He jumped up from the rock suddenly. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Lu Liji and Ke Ji standing up and looking vigilantly at the low-lying land. direction.

With a sudden shock in his heart, he exchanged a glance with Shu Hua from a distance, and immediately called out to all the team members.

Shu Hua roared: "Everyone wake up! Get up!"

"Hurry up! Don't get confused! There is a situation!"

The people in the Merchant Fleet immediately stood up one by one, their eyes were still a little dazed, and they obviously didn't realize what happened.

"Where is where? What's the situation?!"

There was a sudden clamor in the camp, covering up the movement.

Little Six opened his eyes and shouted loudly: "Who's gone!?"

Shu Hua rushed over and gave Xiao Liu a shudder: "Bah, bah, everyone is here!"

Qin Qi rubbed his eyes, muttered and asked: "Brother Shu, what's the situation, it seems that there is nothing wrong?"

"Everyone be quiet!" Lu Lij snorted.

The commotion in the camp disappeared in an instant. After hearing Lu Liji's order, everyone subconsciously closed their mouths, and even slowed down their breathing unconsciously.

As soon as it quieted down, the movement in the low-lying land on the other side of the dune became particularly abrupt and loud.

"Om—", "Z—"

Now, everyone heard it, and there was a series of gasping sounds in the camp—

"What's that sound?!"

"I always feel like I've heard it somewhere..."

"I also feel a little familiar, it must not be a good thing...Damn it, where did I hear it!?"

Xiandan and Shuhua met at the same time┑Nie copied Lu Lij and Ke Ji, Xiandan lowered his voice and asked Lu Lij: "Mr. Lu, it sounds like it came from a place you have been to before, is it true Could it be that there is something wrong with those cocoons?"

Lu Lij frowned. He was also thinking about this issue just now, but he shook his head and said, "Impossible, the cocoons we brought back are all empty cocoons. I don't know how long Huang has been there. It makes no sense to cause them to move. .”

"Empty cocoons are medicine. If there is a problem, it should be mentioned in the "Medical Classics." Qin Qi didn't know when he approached, and explained in a low voice.

Shu Hua praised the cocoon brought back as a problem, so the other end should have responded long ago, and it is impossible to wait until now. "

Listening to the sound that seemed to be getting louder and even approaching faintly, Xiandan swallowed: "Then what's going on now? Does Mr. Lu have any ideas?"

Lu Liji pursed his lips and said to Xiandan: "Let your people pack up their things. No one can tell what's going on over there, so we can only withdraw first."

"Withdrawing may not be useful. If the source of the problem is in the team, no matter where you withdraw, you will be caught up." Ke Ji spoke abruptly, but rarely refuted Lu Liji's plan.

His eyes darkened, and he looked at Xiaoliuzi: "The cocoons we brought back must be fine, but what about the ones they brought back?"

Qin Qi was stunned for a moment, and then took a deep breath—he vaguely remembered that when Little Six showed it to them, he could still see the cocoon undulating slightly, as if something's heart was beating slightly.

At that time, he thought it was just a cocoon shell, but he was dazzled and didn't think about it.

Qin Qi's back was instantly covered with a thick layer of cold sweat.