“Phew…comfortable!”
After drinking half a bottle of water, Gu Laosan stopped digging. He turned around and lay flat under the sand dune, looking like he was about to dry himself in the sun.
People are often like this. When facing difficulties alone, they can grit their teeth and persevere no matter how painful it is. But once they have someone to hold on to, they will not be able to exert any strength at all.
Hero Han squatted on the side with a gloomy face. He had just been scolded by a loser and was so angry that his stomach hurt. At this moment, he was holding the half bottle of water left by Gu Lang for him, but he couldn't drink it at all.
According to a certain person, a good rescue opportunity was ruined due to someone's carelessness.
Of course, it wasn't necessary for Han Daxia to call for help. Gu Lang had many people he could contact on WeChat. Chen Bai, Gu's father and mother, Wang An, etc. Anyone could call the embassy in Riyadh and call for a rescue team.
It was just that going through domestic channels and then contacting the authorities here was far less efficient and faster than the old Han who "had friends in Saudi Arabia". Who would have thought that at the critical moment, the always reliable old Han actually failed to deliver, which gave a certain salted fish the opportunity to mock him.
But after a badger threw out a bottle of water, the two were no longer so anxious. Hero Han finally had time to be angry, both at Gu Lao San and at the goddess of wisdom.
He finally realized that the smart girl had abandoned him since he entered the desert, and his IQ kept dropping. Just now he was worried that the badger couldn't take out the luggage because it was too big, but in a blink of an eye he realized that she didn't take out the whole bag, but took it out piece by piece.
Should I be angry about this? In theory, I should be happy, but Lao Han still couldn't help being angry.
"well…"
With a long sigh, Han Daxia did not drink the half bottle of water in the end. Instead, he put it aside and ran to the place where Gu Lang was just now to continue digging in the sand.
"Tsk, you're not tired at all, take a break!" Gu Lang squinted his eyes and looked at Han Daxia, muttering, "The boss is helping us get the stuff out, why are you still bothering with that? Do you think you're an excavator?"
Hearing this, Han Daxia's face immediately became long. He turned his head and said unhappily, "Don't you know what kind of temper your badger has? What do you think will happen when it comes out and sees you being lazy outside?"
"Well…"
Gu Laosan's tone froze for a moment, and then he hurriedly sat up, obviously because what Old Han said was right. But before he could make any move, another bottle of water flew over diagonally, knocking him to the ground with a "bang".
“Ouch!”
Han Daxia and Gu Lang, who had climbed up with his teeth bared, looked up and saw a badger higher up in the dune baring its teeth and swearing. The number of times the "middle claw" was raised could be described as frequent.
Just as Han Daxia said, Wang Ping worked hard to dig sand in, and it took half a day to come out to breathe. Not to mention it was dirty, it was also very hot and stuffy, just like mining. As a result, he finally dug it out, and as soon as he emerged, he saw a lazy fish lying there. And the bottle of water that took him 20 minutes to deliver was half eaten by this guy in the blink of an eye.
"You don't mind your mouth being too hot!"
Wang Ping had cursed enough, and when he saw a certain salted fish lowering his head and muttering softly about going to dig sand with Han Da Xia, he turned around and went into the sand dunes again.
Although it was uncomfortable, Wang Ping originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to dig into the sand dunes, but after he got in, he found that it was much easier than he had imagined.
As long as you use your claws to dig the sand under you, the upper sand will push you down under the action of gravity. It's just that it takes a little effort to get out, and you need to dig diagonally upwards. If you dig horizontally, you will still be digging in the same place for a year. This is why Wang Ping appears higher and higher each time.
Fortunately, the buried luggage was only a dozen meters away from the edge of the sand dune, so the most time-consuming search process was directly saved. If the storm last night had lasted for a few more hours, the sand dunes might have continued to move and exposed the camp.
But it’s not bad for now. Wang Ping estimated that if the luggage was buried in the middle of the sand dune, Gu Laosan would not be able to receive the WiFi signal at all, let alone find it.
"It seems like someone has always had good luck..."
Wang Ping recalled as he dug deeper, but then he shook his head, but the sand did not move.
"Bah! What a shitty luck! You still have to rely on me!"
After digging down for a while, the badger's claws touched something again. It subconsciously poked it with its claws, but there was nothing under its body and it fell directly down.
Outside the dune, as soon as the badger disappeared, Gu Laosan stopped, turned around and leaned against the dune, and continued to dig. Seeing Han Daxia turning his head to look at him in confusion, he rolled his eyes and said, "Just pretend, are you really digging? Remember to keep an eye on the time, the boss will come out soon, remind me!"
"Damn...you're so smart!"
Han Daxia didn't know what to say, so he stopped digging. It wasn't until nearly 20 minutes later that he started digging again. But the strange thing was that the badger stayed in there for a particularly long time this time. The two of them dug for nearly 10 minutes and it still hadn't come out.
"Boss? Boss, where are you? If you hear me, just answer me!"
Gu Lang began to worry, and pulled Han Da Xia all the way up the sand dune, constantly digging the sand under their feet to look for the badger.
However, after another half an hour, the two men were almost exhausted from digging, but the badger still did not appear.
Gu Lang's legs went limp and he fell to his knees on the sand, his eyes turning red: "Boss...you...Ah! Shit~" Before that salted fish could cry out, Wang Ping poked him in the leg with his claw, startling him so much that he jumped up.
Wang Ping pushed away the sand in front of him and crawled out. He shook his head to shake off the sand on his fur, then raised his eyes and glared at the confused Gu Laosan.
"What the hell are you doing outside? Why didn't I stab you to death?"
Seeing that the badger was fine, Gu Lang breathed a sigh of relief. After all the ups and downs in his mood, he no longer had any strength left. He sat down and complained, "Boss, why did you take so long this time?"
But then, he and Han Daxia discovered that the badger seemed to come out empty-handed this time.
"Didn't you find the thing?" asked Hero Han, frowning.
"How can I not find it if I come here?"
Wang Ping tilted his head and glared at Old Han. He then fumbled in the sand and pulled out a steel cable with ground nails. He turned around and handed it to the two men.
"This is… "
After a moment of confusion, Han Da Xia realized what was happening. He hurried forward to take it and said in surprise, "You tied all the luggage on it? Smart! So smart! Boss, you are really the smartest person I have ever seen... Uh..."
Before Han Da Xia could finish his words, he saw a badger shrug his shoulders in a very funny way, turn around and slide down the sand, heading straight for the bottle of water that had just been thrown out, apparently not intending to help anymore.
As for the luggage, Wang Ping had indeed tied it all to the steel cable, but not all of it.
When they were digging down just now, they accidentally found Han Daxia's tent last night. Wang Ping then thought that he could remove the steel cables outside and use them as ropes.
However, being trapped in the sand was really uncomfortable. Wang Ping only used the steel cables to thread the backpacks he found based on his memory of their approximate locations, and then hurriedly climbed out. Halfway through, he found that the steel cables were not long enough, so he dug back and removed a few more cables, which wasted a lot of time.
Seeing the two men shouting slogans, standing on the sand dune and pulling the steel cable out, and occasionally slipping on the sand slope, Wang Ping was washing his claws below and sneered: "Little guys, do you think I don't know you two are slacking off outside? Go ahead and pull it slowly!"
Even though the sand is very soft and you can sink into it once you step on it, the resistance to pulling you out is much greater than you might imagine.
When both of them were completely exhausted and lay dead under the sand dunes, Han Daxia slapped his head, cursed himself for being so stupid, and quickly stood up and ran to the camel that was watching the fun nearby.
This time, the steel cable was tied to the camel's saddle, and with the camel's strength, the object under the sand was finally pulled out.
Gu Lang didn't even bother to look at it, he just turned around and lay motionless on the sand, but Han Da Xia ignored the same fatigue and bent down to check what he had pulled out.
There were only two and a half backpacks. The reason why it was half a backpack was because the backpack at the end of the steel cable had been torn open, and most of the things inside had been scattered. The pile of things that fell out, especially the map that was as crumpled as toilet paper, looked very familiar.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it's God's will!" Wang Ping's face was full of gloating. This time he didn't have to worry about someone discovering that the map had been tampered with.
The remaining two backpacks were intact, one for Gu Lao San's equipment and wallet, and one for water and snacks. As for the backpacks containing fodder, clothes and food for the two, they were still buried in the sand. Similarly, the campfire stand and the camping pot were not brought out.
"How about asking the eldest brother to help you look for it again?" Gu Laosan said with drooping eyelids, not seriously at all.
"Forget it, those are not important!"
Han Daxia opened the side of the rag-like backpack and took out a waterproof bag from the interlayer. He stuffed it into his arms before the badger could see clearly, then stood up and said, "Don't waste time. Let's speed up and get to Kabash to rest as soon as possible!"