Tomb Raider Forbidden Area 51 District 0039 Bullet Ant 2

  Although the bullets could hold out for a while, I was firing too fiercely. Just as I was getting into the swing of it, the loud gunfire suddenly stopped and was replaced by the dull thud of empty shells.

  I'm out of ammo!

  There was a gun in my backpack, but just as I went to draw a new one, the ant had already jumped up and flew towards us. At this point, if we didn't resist, all we could do was wait for death.

  The thin monkey's expression twisted slightly, saying: "Stop stalling, go in and hide first."

  At this time, the thin monkey had already moved the iron door a little bit, just enough for one to squeeze in. The thin monkey was the first to flash inside.

  At this point, I rushed towards the bald head and shouted, "Hurry up!"

  As soon as I slipped in, I immediately pushed the gap of the iron gate open a bit. Just then, a black figure suddenly darted out from beside and pounced on me. The situation was too urgent, whether it was drawing a gun or drawing a dagger, everything was too late.

  At this critical moment, the iron gate in front of me was suddenly closed, and for a moment it blocked the ants that wanted to fly in.

  "Hurry up and lock the door!" the bald man yelled urgently.

  I came to my senses, only to think that I was a fool. At the critical moment, I was actually scared stiff. Upon hearing this, I immediately followed and pushed against the iron door. By then, the bald man had already inserted the iron bolt, and we hid behind the iron door.

  At this moment, there was a knock at the door from outside.

  Bang! Bang!

  However, this iron gate, although old and worn out, was still solid. The thought of breaking it open seemed like a fantasy to me. I calmed down and sat on the ground with a thud, panting heavily. The situation earlier had been too urgent, and my flashlight had fallen to the ground as well. The light source was suddenly dimmed, and in the darkness, all I could see clearly was the outline of the humanoid figure's head.

  I'm really not used to the darkness, so after catching my breath, I immediately picked up the flashlight.

  It wasn't until then that I discovered behind the iron gate was a fairly large stone chamber, or rather, a brick room. The surrounding walls, including the top, were all built with relatively old bricks, and the color had also turned black. I estimated that they were still made from the local black soil in Guizhou Province, which wasn't of very good quality, but was more than sufficient for isolating the earth underground.

  "Damn it, that ant is fierce, it can actually dodge bullets." Baldy cursed, extremely angry.

  "That's Bullet Ant." The little skinny monkey looked around and blurted out a sentence.

  Bullet Ant?

  I subconsciously reached out and touched my scalp, fortunately I wasn't bitten, otherwise, damn it, I would have been tortured to death.

  When it comes to truly poisonous insects, ants are the first. Ants are descendants of wasps, although most ants have lost their wings during the long evolutionary process. There is a giant ant species about 3 cm in length called bullet ants that secrete a toxin and feed on other insects and even small frogs. Due to feeding habits and other reasons, these ants living in the primeval forest always forage alone. Their stings are not fatal to humans but can cause great pain.

  If you are stung by a bullet ant, you won't die, but you will never forget it. The bullet ant gets its name from the fact that its sting gives people a pain similar to being shot with a bullet. This is considered the most painful sting in the world. In the Schmidt Pain Index, the bullet ant is described as "causing a wave of burning, cramping and forgetting everything else, this torture can last for 24 hours without any decrease."

  Bullet ants are distributed in the Amazon basin, but there is no such ant in China. However, we have seen the existence of bullet ants with our own eyes, and their body shape is twice as large as described on TV.

  Is the food here too rich, growing so big?

  "Xiao Jiu Ye, give me the painkiller." The bald man was panting softly and rolling around on the ground, his entire face contorted.

  "Painkiller?" I thought I had misheard and asked in surprise.

  Right after that, the bald man stopped rolling around and slowly raised one hand to pull up his pant leg, revealing a large piece of flesh that was swollen and bruised. I exclaimed: "Were you bitten?" I remembered hearing the bald man's ear-piercing scream when we were in the cave, it turned out he had been bitten.

  His head was hurting so much that his face was twisted, and he nodded with difficulty: "That kind of pain is the most intense, it has lasted for more than half an hour, I always feel like someone is hitting me heavily with a baseball bat, that pain is piercing to the bone marrow, unbearable."

  Hearing this, I was relieved that I hadn't been bitten and pitied the bald man, immediately rummaging through my backpack to find some painkillers to throw at him.

  When Baldy swallowed the painkiller, Little Skinny Monkey had already turned back and said, "This should be a stone room piled up by workers to escape."

  I looked around suspiciously, staring at the surroundings for a while, except for these black soil that had been burned out, there was nothing else, and it seemed that no stone chamber for escape could be found either.

  Never mind what this place is for now, it's just good to be safe and sound anyway.

  The thin monkey moved the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand and pointed to a distant corner, saying mysteriously: "There are several white bones there, it looks like they were starved to death."

  "Starved to death?" At this time, the bald man's expression slightly eased, pointing out the problem: "If it was used for escape, how could they starve to death? I think 80% of these people committed some kind of serious crime and were locked up here."

  There is also this possibility, I think what Baldy said makes more sense.

  The result was not even waiting for me to speak, suddenly, my eyes glanced at a figure, the figure flashed by in the darkness. I was stunned, and my mouth, which had opened halfway to speak, could no longer close.

  The place where that figure flashed by was exactly the position pointed out by Xiao Shou Hou, who said there were several corpses. I saw it clearly and unmistakably, it was definitely a human figure.

  But... but this place, apart from us three people, how could there possibly be anyone else?

  The little monkey saw that my mouth was twitching, and he looked at me with his eyes to ask what was wrong. I finally came back to myself, feeling numb all over my head, and pointed to the location, saying: "There's someone inside."

  Baldy was taken aback, looking at where I pointed, after a while, he said: "You're not mistaken?"

  I recalled the scene just now and felt a chill run down my spine. "Absolutely didn't see it wrong, but...but..."

  I swallowed hard and said, "Whether it's human or not, I'm not sure."

  The thin monkey let out a sigh, patted my arm, and his eyes gradually cooled down, completely gone was the previous awkwardness. He said, "Let's go take a look."

  The thin monkey led the way, walking ahead of us and leading us towards that corner.

  As soon as we walked into that corner, I felt the smell of the sewer getting heavier and heavier. What I saw in front of me made my stomach turn upside down. In this not-so-large corner, there were corpses piled up all over the place, lying horizontally and vertically.

  The thin monkey kicked open a corpse with one foot and turned back to me, saying, "There's a hole here."

  After finishing speaking, we several people holding tools moved those corpses one by one until a small earth hole was exposed.

  The ancients were not only clever, but also good at playing tricks. The piled-up corpses actually blocked the hole, which was a blatant use of people's fear psychology.

  After we crawled into the pit, the space became larger and larger, and the smell in the air was like a sewer, which should be the stench of rotting corpses. As soon as I came out of the pit, it was a stone room, and this stone room was almost filled with corpses, from the shape, it seemed to have been deliberately placed here. They died under very strange circumstances, with over 200 people stacked layer upon layer, emitting a foul odor that was difficult to smell due to the lack of rotting, so it smelled like a sewer.

  From the way they were piled up, it was clear that they had been deliberately placed here. Their dead bodies were twisted and contorted, some with their mouths wide open, their tongues shriveled into a small black lump, their dark mouths seeming to be searching for something to eat.

  The stone room was sealed off and had an iron door that faced directly outwards. However, the iron door was locked from the outside, and it was locked very tightly.

  Here, apart from dead people, there's nothing else. Then that figure I saw just now...

  Is it a ghost in the tomb? They died here, their spirits lingering, will they all emerge at once?

  It's really crowded there.

  I want to cry but can't, I want to laugh and only manage a dry smile, the sound that comes out is like a cracked gong.

  "There are so many corpses here, it's too terrifying." Xiao Shou Hou let out a sigh of relief and said with lingering fear.