Upon hearing Sun Hang say this, everyone was taken aback and then exchanged glances.

Giant Hill is a vast desert, aside from the endless yellow sand, there are only those statue-like slumbering strange giant entities. What could have jammed the wheels?

"Under the sand... could it be..." a Hunter murmured softly.

"Don’t talk nonsense!"

"Can you sense any mimetic reactions from the strange entities below?" another Hunter nudged his companion with his elbow, "My sensing ability is rather dull..."

"Sensing my ass... we’re surrounded by strange giants, mimetic reactions are everywhere... what do you expect me to sense!"

This question is akin to two people being locked in an airtight, dark room filled with the stench of excrement. One asks the other if they can tell if the squishy stuff under their feet is poop...

Though the words are coarse, the logic is spot on.

"Could it be some creature’s bones?" a mercenary muttered quietly, "Over the years, many have perished in Giant Hill..."

"Exactly, very likely!" a Hunter wearing sand-proof goggles nodded hastily, "Dubhe Tower sent so many investigation and exploration teams to Giant Hill back then. After their total annihilation, they should have been buried under the sand. Personally, I’d say I’d be unsurprised if anything sprung up from the sand, not just bones."

While the group whispered among themselves, Sun Hang casually shaped two shovels from liquid metal and tossed them to the two people who had gotten out of the trapped vehicle.

"Dig." Sun Hang said, "Unless the sand is cleared, no one can be sure what is jamming the wheels beneath... By the way, try to keep your movements small."

The two people from the vehicle exchanged a bitter look, picked up the shovels from the ground, and began to dig.

Sun Hang silently stepped back two paces.

Not only him, but those Hunters who were just discussing what was jamming the wheels also withdrew a certain distance.

Seeing everyone retreat, the faces of the two digging the sand grew even more sour—they also understood why others moved away, and they too felt scared, but they had no choice but to dig... After all, without the vehicle, travel on this Gobi Desert would be impossible.

The two of them carefully dug through the sand, their movements as cautious as military engineers defusing enemy mines in wartime, afraid of triggering a detonator due to a careless mistake.

The sound of metal shovels scraping against sand continuously tugged at the group’s heartstrings. The Hunters were curious about what lay beneath the sand but dared not approach to look.

Someone wanted to take a drone, but was stopped by their companion—the remote signal from drones could also in some cases become a trigger to awaken the giants.

The two continued digging until their movements suddenly stopped, and their bodies froze in place.

"What’s wrong?"

"Did you hit something?"

"What is it?"

"Couldn’t be..."

The legs of the two holding shovels began to tremble lightly, and everyone subconsciously held their breath.

No one dared move, except for Sun Hang.

Sun Hang strode over and peered into the sand pit they had dug out.

He saw a finger, as thick as three normal fingers, protruding from the sand, clutching the wheel hub of the off-road vehicle firmly. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"It’s... it’s a giant..." the Hunter holding the shovel stammered.

"I’m not blind," Sun Hang nodded.

"We’re doomed, we’re doomed..." the other Hunter retreated half a step, and if it weren’t for Sun Hang’s timely movement extending two threads of mycelium to catch him, he would have already plopped down on the ground.

Sun Hang turned around and saw Ya Qiaoxi standing in the distance madly gesturing in sign language... unfortunately, Sun Hang didn’t understand sign language at all.

After exerting some mental energy to learn sign language, Sun Hang finally understood what Ya Qiaoxi meant with her gestures—"What did you dig up?"

"A giant’s finger," Sun Hang immediately replied in sign language, "The wheel hub is stuck by a giant’s finger."

Ya Qiaoxi’s expression instantly changed, while those Hunters and mercenaries who understood sign language retreated all at once, several of them quickly slipped back into their vehicles.

"Don’t panic. This fellow hasn’t woken up." Sun Hang made a few more gestures.

Ya Qiaoxi showed an expression as if she had made some kind of decision, then quickly walked over, glanced into the pit, and then lowered her voice to speak to Sun Hang and the two already nearly petrified individuals: "Don’t touch it no matter what!"

"I’m puzzled, the vehicle was normally running, it shouldn’t have gotten stuck." Sun Hang pointed at the sand pit. "Look, that finger has already hooked into the wheel hub... It feels as if when the vehicle drove over it, it suddenly extended its finger to hook the wheel hub."

"But it’s not awake." Ya Qiaoxi shook her head vigorously, "If the giant awoke, its skin wouldn’t have this stone-like color and texture."

"Regardless, at least it’s not awake now." Sun Hang said, "Maybe it just woke up, but now it’s fallen asleep again... Speaking of which, does this giant count as one of the 144 giants?"

"I’m not sure... the 144 giants are the number observed above the sand surface, these giants, even if most of their bodies are buried, will surely have part of their bodies exposed, and precisely for this reason, those who traverse Giant Hill can avoid them... I’ve never heard of a giant completely buried in the sand," Ya Qiaoxi murmured quietly.