At this moment, the bats that have not eaten are like skinny and hungry bats. One of the bats has sucked blood from somewhere, and its belly is obviously much fuller. You can see that there are thin suckers on its claws. It is also for this reason that they can be firmly attached to people's faces.
The heads of these bats are different from those of mice. Their eyes are red and round, their ears are slightly pointed and furry, and their mouths protrude forward, just like the upper and lower jaws of a wolf. There are no fangs protruding from the lips on both sides.
After opening the mouth, it can be seen that a fine row of sharp teeth has formed in the mouth, and an opening similar to a pipe appears on the top of the tongue. Judging from the blood stains on the teeth, it is probably sucking brain plasma from the organs under the tongue.
The screams are a bit close to the whimpers of rats and puppies. The smell of claws and wings is so strong that people will lose strength after smelling it.
This shows that before they suck people's brains, they will make people fall into a state of drowsiness or unable to move. Yue Guanchao shined the flashlight on the bat. It closed its eyes instantly, as if it was stimulated by something, and screamed excitedly. Most of the time, its eyes have adapted. In a dark situation, it is impossible to face the strong light directly.
"Is this the black bag? Legend has it that black bags are servants of the devil. They are the evil spirits of the dead. If they are covered by him, their souls will be taken away."
At that time, Xu Xiake had only heard of a creature like the Black Bag, but had never actually seen it. Seeing such a big bat, he could only think of a terrifying creature like the Black Bag.
Keli grabbed the wings of the bat and took a closer look at the flashlight: "Based on the current situation, it is indeed a creature like the black bag."
"Are they really sucking brains? Taoist Xu said these things were transformed by the devil using the souls of dead people?"
Yue Erpao looked at the bats in front of him, they were no different from those small bats.
Keli nodded: "The black bag is indeed cruel and strange, but it is not transformed by some evil spirit as the people say. No matter how cunning and sinister it is, it cannot escape the category of living things. In this situation where it directly sucks brain plasma, most of them It’s the season of reproduction.”
"You mean, they're here to have babies?"
Yue Guanchao heard the meaning of his words.
Keli nodded and continued to introduce the habits of these black bags: "Indeed, black bags are a kind of giant bat that lives at night. They are afraid of heat and bright light, and their eyesight has completely degraded. They usually rely on their calls to locate and identify objects. In daily life, they mainly live In lakes, forests or deep deserts far away from human settlements, people make a living by preying on small animals such as desert bugs, sand mice, and sand snakes. In order to replenish water, they sometimes eat some sand dates and sea buckthorn in the desert. Fruits, berries, etc., and do not actively attack humans or animals.”
From June to August every year, they will take advantage of the warmer climate, abundant water, and more oases to reproduce. The male is responsible for protecting the bat nest, and the female is responsible for finding food to feed the cubs. If the black bag looks for food on its own, it can be eaten. One gerbil is enough, and with the addition of nursing cubs, the prey they hunt every day becomes even more.
The desert land is barren and the products are not abundant. If you are looking for animals such as sand mice and sand snakes, you will only waste a lot of time. In the process, the female bat is easily injured and the cubs are easily starved to death.
In order to save energy as much as possible, they will use the scent on their wings to anesthetize some livestock to suck their brains to obtain highly nutritious food.
Generally speaking, these bats do not suck human brains to find a scapegoat, but to feed their offspring and save energy at the same time. From this point of view, whether they are humans or livestock such as cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs, they It is the prey of bats.
Keli looked at the stars on the horizon and said, "I think it's already late at night, so we'll look after each other and take turns to stay awake until daytime. The eyes of these black bags can't adapt to the bright light, so they often hide during the day." Deep in the jungle or in some caves, we are safe at this time."
With Keli's explanation, they were not in the mood to sleep deeply anymore, so they simply took a short rest in the tent and waited for the red sun to rise the next day, finally surviving a dangerous night.
"Look there."
Following Yue Erpao's eyes, everyone looked at the low shrubs under the wind-eroded platform. The bison argali that lived in them staggered around and fell into pieces.
They walked close to these fallen objects and looked carefully. The bodies were complete and covered with fur. If they were attacked by desert wolves, the bodies would not be complete. The only wound on their bodies was the jagged round hole on the front of their foreheads. , shaped like being hit in the head by a bullet, with blood staining the hair nearby.
Yue Guanchao leaned down and knocked on the skulls of these animals, and the sound of the hollow drums inside was already very clear: "Looking at the type of wounds and the condition of the empty heads, they were probably made from the black cloth bags last night. Judging from the degree of rigor mortis and death, it has already been One night, probably after they finished sucking these animals, they discovered our tent, and then they chased after them and continued sucking their brains."
After this scene, they just felt extremely lucky. If they had slept a little harder last night, they might have had their brains sucked dry in their sleep just like the animals in front of them.
While it was still early in the day, they took advantage of the fact that the weather was not too hot and continued on their way. They rested several times along the way and finally arrived at Milan Ze in the afternoon.
Compared with Lop Nur, Milanze has been a lake that has been dead for nearly a thousand years. As mentioned earlier, as early as the late Tang and Song Dynasties, Milanze had dried up due to the diversion of the Kongque River. Over the past thousands of years, a lake has formed on the Milanze Lake Basin. Thick salt-alkali hard shell, the overall shape is like a layered and complex ear.
These salt crusts of different ages are like the annual rings of trees, gradually shrinking along the huge outline, and finally outline countless lines of different shades, shaping the extremely special topography in the boundless desert. If someone flies to an altitude of 10,000 meters, , you can use God's perspective to see a huge and strange ear appearing on the desolate and vast desert.
The Ear of the Desert covers an area of thousands of hectares. From a human scale, it is already infinite in length and width. Only the uncanny workmanship of nature can create such a thousand-year wonder of vicissitudes of life!
There is a saying that it is better to look at the mountains than to think about them. At this moment, everyone is standing by the Milanze Lake Basin. Although they have a general idea of the lake basin, when they are close to the actual scene, they can still feel the vastness, desolation and simplicity of the true appearance of the lake basin. .
On top of this progressive auricle salt crust, you can see sandy hills with a height of tens of meters. These hills have been eroded by wind and sand for thousands of years, and have been weathered to the point of losing their sharp edges. As far as the eye can see, they are as round as a chess piece. The hills and plateaus are shaped like stars in the sky, distributed in the red and yellow earth-colored lake basins!
Occasionally, long strips of soil appeared, which were remnants of irrigation channels from the past. Some salt-alkali flats have not completely dried up, forming swamps in the lake basin, just like puddles and small ponds in the lake, reflecting the bright light.
If you look carefully, you can see at a glance that there are more obvious ruins of the town on the huge sand mountain in the center of the lake basin. Judging from the length of the remaining city walls, you can also see that this is a very large city.
