I was alert because I noticed the bite marks on the bones were still fresh, which made me think that whatever gnawed the bug corpses might not have gone far, or perhaps hadn't left at all and was still nearby digesting.
But the Ancient City had already collapsed and sunk underground, so where could 'people' come from in the desert?
Suddenly, the sand around us bulged into small mounds, which then grew larger, moving toward us from four directions simultaneously.
There was something beneath the sand, there was no doubt about that. I waited until they were almost upon us before grabbing Miss Tang and leaping into the air. The things in the sand jumped up too; they were four mummies, but unlike typical ones. I noticed their clothes looked somewhat familiar, like what I'd seen back when we pulled corpses out from the Ancient City's drainage ditches.
Oh, it's the Non-human Team members!
Miss Tang was more familiar with them than I was; she gasped and shouted, 'It's them.'
