"Chairman Qin, this is bad! Something's happened!" Zhou Xiaqing came jogging over, her jacket in disarray from her sprint. Panting, she gently patted her chest, trying to quell the surging Life Energy within.
Qin Ziwen stopped shoveling and said gently, "Don't panic. Take a moment to gather your thoughts and tell me slowly. What happened?"
Zhou Xiaqing was quite articulate, and she quickly explained the whole situation from beginning to end.
After the sandstorm, the Student Union had dispatched several teams to investigate the situation in the canyon.
Most of the teams had returned, but one remained unaccounted for.
At dusk, others went searching for the missing team and finally found the students on a hillside—they were trapped on a patch of high ground.
The high ground was surrounded by sand dunes, and hidden beneath them was more than one Desert Giant Worm.
Now they couldn't get down, and rescuers couldn't get in.
