第八章：在琥珀蓄奴地寻找琥珀(9)

Every now and then one little team ahead of them broke off to begin working on one of the pointless holes, or hunting for the amber, so as they travelled farther and farther east across the sand, the army of yachts grew smaller and smaller. Until it was just the Amber-Hunters. For hours and hours they sailed. They had long left the islands and the land behind. The tide made a strange kind of sucking noise as it sank, and it seemed as if it was bubbling, bursting, and maybe it was Hiccup’s imagination playing tricks on him, but it seemed as if there really might be something DOWN there, something that was incubating, that the sands were about to give birth to something dreadful…