Ancient Invasion [End Times]

The first day after the invasion · "What are they working on, the compound is out of control."

In the research compound of the Imperial Capital, a gentle-looking, fair-skinned and handsome man was packing all his things.

"Dr. Cheng." Someone knocked on the door, "I'll take you out."

Cheng Sheng looked at the man with the gun at the door, and the corner of his mouth raised a trace of sarcasm: "Is the research institute afraid that I will take something I shouldn't bring out? And call for an armed force to escort me away?"

The other side was expressionless and didn't say a word.

Seeing that the person at the door didn't respond at all, Cheng Sheng rolled his eyes like a robot that only listened to orders, "I've packed it up, you push me out."

"Okay, Dr. Cheng."

The man walked into the office. He was tall, with a height of 1.9 meters. His muscles were tight but not exaggerated. He was wrapped in a camouflage military uniform, showing his lines.

As soon as he walked in, the entire office seemed to become much more oppressive and cramped.

The man walked behind Cheng Sheng, holding the armrests on both sides of the wheelchair, and pushed Cheng Sheng to walk in the corridor of the compound.

From time to time on both sides of the corridor, you can meet former colleagues who have worked together, but now no one dares to say hello to Cheng Sheng.

Cheng Sheng is a cripple. Although he is the youngest Ph.D. in paleontology research in the institute, and although he has given many breakthrough and major suggestions in the field of paleontology research, he is still a cripple.

No one knew how he was disabled, as if he was born with it.

Even now, being sent home for jostling leaders at a joint summit meeting with improbable-sounding doomsday hypotheses.

Of course, it may be more ironic that those leaders do not believe in his research, but want to keep his research data and not allow him to take it away.

The man pushed Cheng Sheng out of the institute.

He lowered his eyes slightly, glanced at the doctor's smooth and graceful neck, and then moved up slightly, to see the doctor's light-colored lips, small and delicate, which would be slightly pursed habitually, almost invisible, with a bit of restraint and abstinence of allure.

"Duan Yi, are you looking at me?" Cheng Sheng said abruptly.

The man looked away without changing his face, and then said "um", but there was no unnecessary explanation.

Cheng Sheng raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and he didn't speak until Duan Yi sent him into the car, "Do you know why I was kicked out?"

"know."

"I'm never wrong." Cheng Sheng said, taking a deep look at the other party, "Come find me in a month."

"Okay." The man was still concise.

Half a month later, in a university in a city more than 1000 kilometers away from the Imperial Capital.

"Professor, professor! Do you really think that our genes contain the genes of ancient organisms?" Even though the bell rang for the end of get out of class, there were still many students surrounding Cheng Sheng.

"Will we grow the dominant traits of those ancient creatures?"

"professor!……"

Cheng Sheng had a headache from being quarreled by this group of half-grown graduate students. He pinched the center of his brows and said, "Go and read my book twice before asking me questions."

"Finish the professor!"

"...Pay attention to the details around you, and you will find the answer." Cheng Sheng paused and gave an answer.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud noise outside the window, which shocked everyone to turn their heads to look over, and saw a black and white beaked bird hit the glass head-on, its beak pierced into the window, and stuck its wings.

Cheng Sheng's eyes darkened. After a moment of silence, he added: "Using these details and the knowledge in your brain well may save your life—if your mind is not empty."

The students came back to their senses, and when they heard Cheng Sheng's words, they quickly responded, "Good professor."

Cheng Sheng has only been in the school for less than half a month, but he has already become a professor with a bad temper and a bad mouth. But he does have real information. I heard that he was originally doing research in the research compound of the Imperial Capital. This made the students curious about him.

——Even Cheng Sheng's broken leg was tinged with mystery in the eyes of the students.

"Professor, someone is looking for you." A student came over and said outside the classroom door.

"I'll push you over." A student in the classroom said.

"No need." Cheng Sheng waved his hand, pressed the button on the armrest of the wheelchair, and brought up the interface of the driving operation instrument. Like operating a mobile phone game, he slid on the instrument plane to control the movement of the wheelchair.

When he came to the door, he saw Duan Yi standing at the door, looking straight at him with a pair of dark eyes: "I'm here."

"Half a month early." Cheng Sheng raised his eyebrows, "Go to my office."

The man responded, and naturally grabbed the armrests on both sides of the back of the wheelchair with both hands, and pushed Cheng Sheng towards the office.

After they left, the students in the classroom bit their ears and commented: "Who is that? It looks so scary, like a professional killer or something."

"Professional killer... Speechless, can a professional killer come to our school like this? I think it looks like a bodyguard. Maybe our Professor Cheng is a rich man."

"I'm the only one who noticed that Professor Cheng allowed the man to push his wheelchair? Didn't he refuse?"

"Professor Cheng is so strong that he never allows anyone to help push the wheelchair. It is impossible."

"If you don't believe me, you ran out to have a look, and you didn't go far!"

"...I really do!"

"..."

In Cheng Sheng's office, Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi: "Come to me half a month in advance, tell me, what happened?"

"People in the compound started to evacuate one after another." Duan Yi said, "When several of my men were delivering a sealed object, they all disappeared, and the display on the vital sign detector became very strange."

Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi: "Your intuition?"

"What are they researching? The compound is out of control. The BSL-4 floor is blocked and no one can go in." Duan Yi said, the first half of the sentence is an intuitive conclusion, and the second half is the status quo.

Cheng Sheng's eyes turned cold: "Biosafety Level [-] laboratory... a bunch of idiots."

The doomsday hypothesis he put forward at the beginning was the ancient virus built under the recently discovered glaciers, and it is very likely that it will recover under continuous heating.

This virus spreads extremely fast and has a high fatality rate. It will invade the host's body and erode all healthy and intact cells in the host, just like a parasite.

After Cheng Sheng simulated the virus eroding the host, he immediately ordered all personnel to evacuate the laboratory, and sealed the virus in BSL-4, not allowing anyone to conduct research without his permission.

"The viruses found under the glacier are like a key inserted into a keyhole and attached to cells. They break into the respiratory tract, central nervous system... They are found in every system of the human body you can think of." Cheng Sheng said coldly.

Duan Yi frowned.

Cheng Sheng thought that he might not be able to understand, paused for a while, and changed the phrase: "In just a few days of my research on it, it has already changed. It keeps changing its shape, invading, occupying and changing other intact things. cells. A virus organism comes in, and after five hours, it turns into millions of virus cells, and all the normal cells die."

"They hunt for normal cells until they kill them all."

Cheng Sheng turned to Duan Yi, and said in a deep voice, "The speed of change of this virus is much faster than the speed at which we understand it."

"Now it's out of control." Duan Yi said.

"If those idiots ignore my restrictions and start this virus research on their own, they will get out of control sooner or later." Cheng Sheng cursed, "I originally estimated that the outbreak time would be about three months. In the following winter, the dry and cold environment is more suitable for the survival, reproduction and development of this glacier virus."

"But now that people from these research institutes are intervening, I'm afraid it will be less than a month before the outbreak." Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi, pointed upwards, and lowered his voice, "They don't allow me to mention, disclose This information, but the public needs to be prepared and given the opportunity to protect themselves."

"The public will panic." Duan Yi vetoed Cheng Sheng, "Assuming, as you said, that the outbreak of the virus is less than a month away, then the collapse caused by public panic will only take a week."

"Sooner or later, it will collapse." Cheng Sheng looked straight at Duan Yi, "No one knows what kind of changes will be brought about after the outbreak of this virus, besides death."

"But at least it shouldn't be a mutual loss between humans." Duan Yi said.

Cheng Sheng fell silent, closed his eyes after a while and snorted softly: "You, a soldier with a gun, would say such a thing, okay."

"All we can do is remind." Duan Yi said.

Cheng Sheng waved his hand, indicating that he knew and didn't want to talk about these things anymore.

"You said your subordinates are missing, what is their mission?" Cheng Sheng suddenly remembered what Duan Yi mentioned earlier.

Duan Yi was silent.

"Secret mission?" Cheng Sheng understood and looked at him mockingly.Big soldier, scoff.

"S-level martial law." Duan Yi said.

After hesitating for a few seconds, he chose to tell Cheng Sheng everything he knew: "The escort is a sealed box, code-named Pandora, and the destination is a secret research base in the Himalayas."

"Pandora's box? Who came up with the code name? That's unlucky." Cheng Sheng sneered, "All your subordinates are dead?"

"Their family is here." Duan Yi said.He came this time to comfort the families of the soldiers who died in the line of duty. "The official announcement is that they have died in the line of duty, but I know their vital signs are still there."

"You know?" Cheng Sheng remembered what Duan Yi said before, "Before you said that their vital signs were very strange, how strange?"

"Everyone's heartbeat stopped on the first day, and the official announcement of death. Then on the second day, the display on the detector suddenly resumed. Although it almost tends to a straight line, there will be strong fluctuations every few minutes. Then it goes straight again."

Duan Yi said: "In addition, the monitored body surface temperature is only more than minus 40 degrees. It is still falling."

"Everyone, without exception, is like this." Duan Yi emphasized, and he looked at Cheng Sheng.

"?" Cheng Sheng became a little interested in research, "A heartbeat that beats every few minutes? The body surface temperature has dropped to minus [-] and still dropping? Is this considered alive? Resurrected from the dead or a living dead?"

Duan Yi frowned and did not speak.

Simultaneously while they were talking, in another place far away, death was stretching out its minions to this world.

In the hinterland of a certain iceberg in the Himalayas, the sky is bright and the sun is bright, and the tip of the snow mountain in the distance rolls down from time to time. Large chunks of snowballs, a giant, slowly collapsed unconsciously.

On the white snow, only a few small black dots can be seen. If a drone captures this scene, you can see that it is a few people with livid faces and wearing snow military uniforms.

They had very slow, twisted legs, sunken chests and spurted sternums.

Maybe it was encountered in an avalanche, or maybe it fell off the place where the glacier broke.The injuries on their bodies meant that they could never be alive.

But they were still walking, all heading in a certain direction.

——It is the secret research base hidden deep in the hinterland of the snow mountain.

And behind them was a cracked sealed iron box, the glass container inside was shattered, and there was nothing inside.