Imperial Treasure
Chapter 367 - 256: Quicksand and Bone

Chapter 367: Chapter 256: Quicksand and Bone

An endless sea of yellow sands, an endless journey, the desert’s lone smoke rises straight, the long river’s sunset round.

A procession like ants, mere black dots in the desert, moves slowly on, leaving behind a trail of camel footprints...

"No good! We can’t go ahead," Gao Yi suddenly shouted. His voice was already high-pitched, and such a loud yell startled all thirty-odd people.

Sui Yi felt the camel beneath him grow very restless, twisting its body, continuously backing up—but in fact, it was moving forward... and sinking!

"It’s quicksand!"

"Damn!"

The most terrifying things in the desert are undoubtedly quicksand and sandstorms, either of which can annihilate a large group in the blink of an eye.

"Quick! Pull the camels!"

"My camel is stuck..."

In that instant, each person’s agility came into play!

Sui Yi leapt from the camel’s back, then with the momentum of his leap, he yanked on the camel’s rope...

With a rustle, he directly pulled the enormous camel out of the sand flow that had swallowed up one-third of its body...

On the other side, Gong Jiu and the others did the same; their Inner Strength was incredibly useful here. As for people like Zhang Wei who didn’t have Inner Strength, they had remarkable reflexes, swiftly jumping off the camels’ backs to the firmer sand behind and running backward while dragging the ropes...

Pull!

Twenty-four members plus nine, making thirty-three in total, and only about twenty-five managed to escape the danger in a short amount of time!

Eight others, due to slower reactions, got stuck in the yellow sands, their camels’ whereabouts lost in the blink of an eye, their bodies exposed only from the waist up...

"Ah! Help me quick!"

"Save..."

These eight people cried out desperately. Brother Ma glared, "Shit, you fatty!" Gen Fengsha immediately stepped forward, grabbing Han Gao’s hands...

One, two, three, pull!

They say that nothing is smaller in this world than a grain of sand, but the friction of millions, billions of grains forming a sinking sand pit can bury a living person completely in just a few breaths.

You couldn’t even crawl out.

Even the combined effort of Brother Ma and another person wasn’t enough...

Not until Sui Yi gave a hand on Brother Ma’s arm...

With a rustle! Han Gao’s massive body was hauled out, and there was no time to catch his breath or dust off the sand from his body...

"Let’s go! This area’s about to sink too..." Gao Yi yelled loudly along with the other two guides.

"Quick!"

The sensation of the sand shifting beneath their feet made Sui Yi and the others who had just escaped death tremble with fear...

Han Gao, dragged between scrambling and rolling by Brother Ma and another, ran like mad!

It turned out that even the usually sluggish camels could run fast when faced with mortal danger...

As the ground beneath their feet softened and sank inch by inch...

Five breaths later...

A group of people stood, hearts pounding, on a vast mound of sand that the wind whistled over.

With a thump, Fatty Han sat down on the ground, covered in cold sweat.

"Damn, I never thought quicksand could be so terrifying in my life..."

"I think our ideas of terror differ," Brother Ma, looking at him askance, said: "Fatty Han, remember what the science teacher said, forces act in pairs. Isn’t it time you considered losing some weight?"

Han Gao scratched his head sheepishly.

"We’re down two camels, but thankfully no one was lost," Gong Jiu checked his watch, damn it! They had only been in the desert for half a day!

And the day wasn’t even over yet!

"We’re still the lucky ones... They’re missing people!"

Brother Ma gestured with his mouth towards Wei Feng and his people.

Two people from Wei Feng’s side were particularly unlucky, being somewhat ahead, both they and their camels got stuck in the quicksand...

However, it seemed Wei Feng and his group didn’t care much about that incident.

Death was, after all, nothing unusual.

—Especially since those people didn’t seem very important to Wei Feng’s team.

"Hey, aren’t you guys the guides? How come you can’t even recognize quicksand!" Wu Gu grabbed one guide by the neck.

The guide went from blushing to pale as he defended himself: "Quicksand is the will of nature; we usually rely on the camels’ warnings, but sometimes we just can’t move out of the way in time. If guides could avoid all dangers, this desert would have been flattened long ago!"

Though he said this, the people under Wei Feng were still somewhat annoyed.

The truth was, Wu Gu and the others were irked because when the quicksand was first detected, it was clear that Gao Yi was more capable...

Sui Yi and the others viewed Gao Yi more favorably for it, which made Gao Yi quite pleased with himself. He smoothed his Little Beard, pacified the six camels, and said in a self-assured manner, "The desert is like this; the god of death can arrive at any time. Although fate plays its role, having a guide like me can greatly increase your chances of survival..."

"So, guide, can you tell us where we are now?" Gong Jiu asked nonchalantly. Gao Yi began to look around...

Feng Sha and the others didn’t find this very interesting; the scenery of the desert... well, it’s the same everywhere.