Except for the whining sandwind, there was no other movement in my ears.

After about ten minutes, I suddenly saw a small head emerging from under the sand not far away, and the little guy looked left and right, but did not see the predator, and then ran out with the courage to run out. It was a small gerbil, and the gerbil was much larger than a close relative. They are tenacious and feed on plant roots and small insects in the desert. They usually live under sandy soil near a water source.

The little gerbil is very cute, crawling out from below like a little fluffy furball. He hadn't eaten meat since he entered this desert.

"Huh? Do you two want to open meat? He took out a hidden weapon from his body, held it in his hand, and aimed at it, just at the right distance!

"Don't fight! Wait and see, it must have come out to find water to drink! Chu Tianyue held him down and said.

The little gerbil ran in the direction of the holy spring, looking left and right, especially the top of its head, the top of the food chain in the desert is the vulture, but the vultures will not come this season, the sand wind is too strong, even the vultures are difficult to fly and hunt in this bad weather.

I don't know if the holy spring is as evil as the legend, but it can not dry up for thousands of years in this vast sea of sand, maybe it is really a gift from God. They were about 400 meters away from the holy spring, and they could clearly see the crystal pure spring water shining under the wellhead.

The little gerbil thief scurried over with a mouse's eyebrow, poked his little head and drank wildly. After drinking for about a minute, and after storing enough water in his body, he turned around and ran in the direction of the cave again.

Rustle rustle...... Rustling...... Suddenly, there was a movement under the sand, and the three of them looked closely, only to see a small sand dune slightly protruding from the yellow sand, as if some unknown creature was hidden underneath. The guy was speeding in the direction of Shengquan.

The gerbil is so perceptive that anyone can hear it, let alone it. The little one reacted very quickly, and knowing that the predator was approaching, he ran away in the direction of the cave.

Animals that can survive in this harsh environment have two brushes, and the little guy is not big, and he has short legs, but he can run in the sand, and the speed is no less than that of an athlete's 100-meter sprint. In the blink of an eye, you will be rushing to the dunes. But behind him, the guy under the sand didn't slow down at all, and he had already caught up with the gerbil's tail.

"Holy, what the hell is that?" Ma Chengfeng exclaimed.

Whoa...... The predator under the sand raised its body and bounced off the dunes. It turned out to be a big python covered in copper coin spots. The python's body is round, as thick as an adult's thigh, and the top of the head seems to have a tumor-like substance on the top of the eyes. What's even more surprising to the three of them is that this guy doesn't look like a python, but the body is not long, such a thick python usually has to be three meters long when stretched out, but this guy is only about one meter.

Its long body is extremely funny, and if it were a human, then this figure would definitely be laughed at as "short and fat".

The copper coin python jumped out from under the sand, its body swooping down like an arrow, as fast as lightning, and in the blink of an eye, it had opened its bloody mouth and bit the little gerbil in its mouth. The three people watching were dumbfounded.

It is well known that there are snakes in the desert, but the snakes in the desert area are not large, and they are all venomous snakes. A guy like this guy is definitely an outlier. It has four sharp fangs in its mouth, and everyone thought that this guy must have swallowed a gerbil directly with such a big mouth. Unexpectedly, it just bit the gerbil in its mouth, and had no intention of swallowing it.

The sharp fangs pierced into the gerbil's body, and soon, the little one's body trembled a few times, and he didn't move anymore.

The copper coin python bit it in its mouth and did not bring it under the sand, but bit it on the spot for about two minutes, and finally spit it out.

"I'm !! That's too bad, isn't it? Ma Chengfeng unconsciously drooled when he saw it. Xindao, if I had known this, I might as well fill my stomach with this little gerbil.

The gerbil's corpse lay to the ground, not a drop of blood coming out, it had been sucked dry. It is estimated that this little guy is only enough to stuff people's teeth, and after the copper coin python finished eating, he quietly got under the sand. The sandbag that had been lifted up by it had been flattened again, and it was impossible to see where it was hiding with the naked eye. What a natural ambush master.

Chang Xiaoman couldn't help but swallow when he saw the shocking scene just now.

"Oh my God...... Luck...... Luckily, we didn't go any further. It turned out that the corpses all over the ground were sucked flesh and blood by this guy and died. ”

Ma Chengfeng asked: "Sister Tianyue, you are well-informed, what kind of monster is this?" Haven't you heard of any kind of python that likes to suck blood? ”

Although Chu Tianyue was also visiting Taklamakan for the first time, his teacher, Professor Monalo, had participated in several archaeological excavations in the desert when he was young. Archaeology classes are very interesting, teachers rarely follow the content of the textbook, and almost always tell them about the archaeological excavation cases of their lives. Among them, they also shared a lot of interesting cultural stories in each region.

"This shouldn't be a python! It is supposed to be a kind of worm endemic to the Taklamakan region, called the spotted worm, which is naturally fond of ambushes and feeds on animal blood. However, it has rarely been seen in recent years, and it is on the verge of extinction, so I didn't expect to let us encounter it. ”

"Huh...... Anyway, in my eyes, snakes, pythons, and pythons are all the same, so you can say that it is not poisonous, right? Ma Chengfeng asked.

"Cockroaches are basically poisonous in males and non-toxic in females, but ...... But we were too far away to know if the gerbil was bitten to death or poisoned. ”

Chang Xiaoman said I saw clearly just now, the bones of the corpses on the edge of the holy spring are all normally dried white, and there is no color left by poisoning, and this guy is not big, it should be a mother.

"Oh, as long as it's non-toxic, it's easy to do, it seems that if we want to get water, we have to do it first!" Ma Chengfeng rubbed his hands and pulled out the Seven Star Blade.

"Don't act recklessly, I know you have great skills, but this is not the mainland, it's a desert, your light skills can't be used here at all, the spotted worm is as fast as the wind and lightning, you are not its opponent at all, although it can't swallow you, but being bitten by this guy is not a joke, right?" Chu Tianyue persuaded.

"What do you think? Xiangyun is still waiting over there for help! If you burn it again, you will fall to the root of the disease! The more Ma Chengfeng thought about it, the more anxious he became.

(End of chapter)