Preset Ambush
With a deafening boom, sand flew everywhere. A scorpion gleaming with a cold metallic luster in the sunlight shot out and landed on the sand a few meters away.
"Sand Gold Scorpions. Mutant scorpions that like to eat metal. They won't attack humans unprovoked." Ai Jia gestured for Xu Huo and Wan Tingfang not to worry. After seeing She Ping kill several Sand Gold Scorpions, each as long as a person, he said, "There seem to be an unusual number of scorpions today. I'll check the vehicle's defenses."
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Xu Huo followed him.
Ai Jia didn't refuse his offer. He told Xu Huo to come along, then asked Wan Tingfang to stay beside Shi Youzhi and not wander off.
As the two of them circled the vehicle to inspect it, Xu Huo asked, puzzled, "Is there no way to keep the Sand Gold Scorpions away?"
"Of course there is," Ai Jia said. "Our transport vehicles have special frequency shields. People can't sense them, but once mutated animals evolve to a certain level, they'll avoid those frequencies. Still, you can't rule out the possibility that one or two particularly clever mutants might show up."
Ai Jia was still speaking when he suddenly sank into the sand, as if something had seized him and dragged him down. In an instant, only his shoulders remained above the surface!
Xu Huo, who was just two meters away, rushed over to save him, but only managed to grab his coat. The sand swallowed the spot where Ai Jia had been standing, and at the same time, more than a dozen funnel-shaped quicksand vortices appeared across the surrounding ground. Xu Huo grabbed the Strings and flipped onto the train, then warned Shi Youzhi and the others, "Ai