Chapter 474: Encountering the Sand City Ship Again
The leeches stretched and twisted and crawled forward quickly. Just as they were about to crawl to his feet, Xia Xiaoman took out a dagger and quickly strung the two leeches together.
The leech nailed to death by the dagger was not obedient, and stretched its neck to hook Xia Xiaoman's hand. Xia Xiaoman threw the leech out of the boat with force.
"Why are these leeches not afraid of salt at all?" Sun Qing frowned.
Xia Xiaoman's face darkened. "Boil the water. Scald it with boiling water!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Qing immediately arranged for some people to boil water, and the rest of the people to patrol back and forth beside the boat. If they found any leeches climbing up the guardrail, they would immediately pick them off with a knife.
More and more leeches climbed up the guardrail. Xia Xiaoman and his team had too few people, and soon the leeches crawled onto the deck.
Maodan tried to use his claws to tear the leech in two, but was stopped by Xia Xiaoman, who was worried that the leech would attach itself to its claws and suck Maodan's blood.
Just when Xia Xiaoman and the others were forced to the door of the cabin by the leeches, the hot water was finally ready. Basin after basin of hot water was brought out and poured on the leeches, which instantly curled up due to the heat.
At the same time, Xiao Zheyu in the cockpit followed Xia Xiaoman's instructions and used the sun as a reference. He drove forward for more than two hours and finally broke through the obstacle course and arrived at an unfamiliar water area.
When we entered this unfamiliar water area, the area was obviously reduced a lot, and it seemed that these leeches did not like this area.
Xia Xiaoman and others worked together, continuously boiling hot water and pouring it down along the railing, scalding all the leeches stuck to the bottom of the boat to death.
After making sure there were no living leeches on the boat, Xia Xiaoman asked everyone to collect all the leeches that were scalded to death on the deck and pack them up. Before the natural disaster, leeches were a kind of medicinal material that could break blood and dredge menstruation. Although it was not certain whether these leeches had medicinal value, it was definitely a good idea to collect them.
While the crew were picking up the dead leeches, Xia Xiaoman used a telescope to observe the surrounding situation. He then took out a map to look at the appearance of the four mine mountaintops marked on the map.
After observing for a few minutes, Xia Xiaoman saw a hill that looked like a mine marked on the map, and asked Xiao Zheyu to drive the boat over and dock at the shore.
After the boat docked, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan off the boat first. Seeing that Maodan did not have any special reaction, she let the others get off the boat and go looking for minerals with her.
The mineral exploration process went smoothly. Xia Xiaoman and his team found a place with a shallow soil layer and found the ore by scanning with a metal detector.
After digging out the ore, Xia Xiaoman did not rush to leave. There were many vines and some grass growing on this mountain. Perhaps because of the strong ultraviolet rays, these plants were a little wilted, but a few plants grew vigorously.
Xia Xiaoman had never seen these plants before, so she asked the crew to collect one of each plant and bring it back to the underground city. Plants that can grow in such a harsh environment must be worth studying.
In order to prevent crew members from having the stings pierce through their shielding suits and enter their flesh like Zhang Can, Xia Xiaoman strictly ordered them not to touch the plants directly when picking them, but to dig out the roots with a hoe, and then use clamps or sticks to put the plants into bags.
"Aunt Yu'e! Sister Xiaoman! Look over there, those two ships are coming!" Wen Ling stood on a protruding boulder, pointing at two ships slowly approaching in the distance.
Xia Xiaoman frowned and was about to order the crew to return to the ship when he heard Xiao Zheyu's voice coming from the ship, warning the two ships not to get any closer or he would open fire.
Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope and looked at the two ships. A few days ago, she was worried about being attacked by sawfish, so she didn't have time to see where the two ships were from. Now she saw the signs of Sand City on the two ships.
No wonder these two ships appear here. They are probably here to look for mines.
The fleet from Shacheng seemed to have no heavy weapons. After being warned by Xiao Zheyu, they turned around and left in disgrace.
Xia Xiaoman looked at the direction they left and guessed that they might be going to find the other three mines, so he urged the crew to hurry up so as not to be overtaken by the people from Sand City.
After collecting the plants and returning to the boat, Xia Xiaoman asked Xiao Zheyu to quickly chase the two ships and overtake them to find the mine in advance.
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The jagged hills under the water made it difficult to chase the boats. Xia Xiaoman and his team chased them day and night, and finally found one of the boats on the second night.
Su Ran looked puzzled. "Why is that ship parked here? Where is the other ship?"
Xia Xiaoman stood in the observation room and looked at the ship through a telescope. There was no one on the other deck, the cabin was open, and there was some gray-black powder on the ground, and next to the powder there were some burn marks and a pistol that was deformed by the fire.
Xia Xiaoman looked a little solemn. Before she could think about it, Maodan's howling sound was heard in the cabin.
Xia Xiaoman climbed down from the observation room and walked to Maodan, "Maodan, what's your name?"
Maodan tilted his head back and sniffed the air, then howled twice anxiously and dug the floor hard with his claws, trying to hide under the boat.
Xia Xiaoman looked at Maodan's reaction, thinking of the scene he had just seen, and said in a deep voice: "Su Ran, go and ask the people outside to come into the cabin and close all the doors and windows of the cabin. No one can go out."
Su Ran nodded in response, then put on an oxygen mask, ran out of the cabin, and called everyone outside in.
After counting the number of people and making sure that everyone had entered the cabin, Su Ran closed all the doors and windows of the cabin, then ran back to the observation room and stood next to Xia Xiaoman to observe the situation around him.
The ship moved forward slowly. Maodan, who was in the cabin, became more and more anxious. He kept yelling at Xia Xiaoman in the observation room. Seeing that Xia Xiaoman did not come down, he circled in the cabin and found a secluded corner to lie down.
After lying there for more than ten seconds, Maodan ran to the bottom of the observation room and yelled at Xia Xiaoman, asking Xia Xiaoman to come down quickly and hide with him.
Seeing that Xia Xiaoman refused to come down, Maodan stamped his feet anxiously, and anxiously bit the stool next to him and threw it on the ground to make a noise so that Xia Xiaoman would pay attention to him.
At this moment, Xia Xiaoman and his companions passed by the small ship from Shacheng. The moment they approached the ship, a cloud of black fog flew out from the cabin of the ship.
When the black fog hit the observation room, Xia Xiaoman could see clearly that the black fog were actually tiny beetles.
When the beetles flew outside the observation room, they sprayed a black liquid onto the surface of the observation room. When the insects flew out of the observation room, the black liquid inexplicably burned, and the flames were dazzling blue flames.
Xia Xiaoman finally knew what the pair of black powders at the door of the cabin of the Shacheng ship were, and also knew why there was no one on the ship.
Most of the people on the ship were burned to death by these insects.
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