Ancient Invasion [End Times]

One Hundred and Three Days After the Invasion·【Part [-]】The details are astonishing, as if he once entered the miasma

Miasma is not entirely produced by the accumulation of decaying plants and animal corpses in the forest, but it is indeed a very important reason.

Miasma is divided into cold miasma, hot miasma, dumb miasma, phantom miasma... Different types of miasma have different effects on the human body. Some of them just cause headaches and brain fever, while others kill people.

Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng came down from the rock, and told the others about the problems they were encountering right now.

Du Nanrong asked: "This miasma sounds... the distribution area is not too large, why don't we bypass it?"

"The distance of one or two kilometers refers to the distance we go straight through the miasma area." Cheng Sheng looked at Du Nanrong.

Du Nanrong choked slightly, the straight-line distance of one or two kilometers...it was a bit different from what he had imagined.

Cheng Sheng continued, "The entire miasma area is like a long and narrow belt, lying across the forest. To bypass it, we will have to walk for at least five to six days and return to the depths of the forest .”

Zhang Jiuzhang frowned, it was impossible for them to return to the depths of the forest.

"We didn't have guns, the fire ax was lost, and you couldn't go very far in the depths of the forest," he said.

"So you can only go through it?" Du Nanrong asked with a frown.

Du Jingshu said anxiously: "But... when the miasma concentration in the mountains is high, the visibility is only a few meters. Being in it, you don't even know what happened to the people around you."

——This is what Du Jingshu learned in class. She only heard a few cases from the teacher in class, but those few cases alone were enough to make the little girl very vigilant about the existence of the mountain miasma.

Cheng Sheng nodded: "You are right."

"Our research on the miasma is not thorough." He said in a deep voice, "In the miasma, no one knows what they will encounter."

"As far as I know, just a few years ago, a team of geologists went into the mountains to study the miasma."

"Their equipment is top-notch in the country. I even heard that the higher-ups specially equipped them with an armed security team to escort them, but in the end, none of the geologists in that team came out alive, and they were all engulfed in the miasma."

"No one knows what they encountered and what happened, and no one dares to take the risk of sending a team in to support the rescue."

"The bodies of those people were left in the miasma in the mountains, and no one could find them."

Cheng Sheng said in a deep voice, he heard Shao Chengyang mention this matter.

The mentor was very obsessed with that accident, and told him more than once that there must be some existences in those miasmas that they had never discovered before-miasmas are the best protective film for those biological populations.

Cheng Sheng's understanding of miasma was not much better than ordinary people, but he did not agree with the conjecture said by his mentor, because the other party could not produce any substantive evidence and data to support this conjecture.

Or, at least Shao Chengyang didn't share those data with Cheng Sheng.

What Cheng Sheng knew was that the common miasma itself—especially the miasma that causes human disease—is mostly caused by the damp heat and depression in the forests in the southwest.

A large number of mosquitoes with Plasmodium falciparum flew in groups, which looked like a cloud of black smoke from a distance.

Some of the streams in the miasma are red in color, and most of them are the excrement and saliva of some poisonous insects, snakes and frogs, scattered among them, and the smell is extremely stench.

According to the ancient book "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Nanman Biography", "The water and soil in Nanzhou are warm and hot, and there is miasma, and the death rate is four or five." Since ancient times, people have been taboo to avoid the miasma in the mountains.

When the miasma dissipates occasionally, when the temperature drops and the sun shines brightly, piercing through the fog in the forest, the miasma will be weakened or even dissipated.

But this kind of situation is rare, and it is not as regular as sunrise and sunset.

"Duan Duan, how do you think we should go?" Xu Ying asked.

Everyone looked at Duan Yi, waiting for Duan Yi to make a decision.

Only then did Du Nanrong realize that Duan Yi hadn't sent a single word since just now.

"The doctor and I have seen the range of the miasma before. As the doctor said, we can't get around it. It is too long, almost spanning half the length of the forest." Duan Yi said.

"And we can't guarantee whether we can really bypass it even when we get to the other end." He pursed his lips and his eyes darkened.

"It's very likely that it sank into the low places between the canyons and didn't really disappear or disperse."

"Suppose, when we hoped that we could get around it at the end, we found that we couldn't get around it at all." Duan Yi's voice was low, which made people feel uneasy, "and all the supplies on the body were exhausted on the way , and at the same time, we are deep in the deepest part of the forest."

He looked at everyone: "We will have to enter the miasma in the worst state, which is the most deadly."

Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi, and had to say that what Duan Yi said was very likely to happen.

Not to mention their current crude equipment, just entering the depths of the primeval forest safely is an unlikely luxury.

Du Jingshu whispered: "What the captain said is very common in our geology. The instructor said that miasma is a sinking substance. Canyons and streams are the best locations for miasma to cling to."

"The instructor also said that if you judge the ground line where the miasma disappeared rashly, you may be caught by the mountain. Because the cracks in the ground line where the miasma disappeared are very unstable and may close at any time." Du Jingshu said.

After she finished speaking, she noticed that Duan Yi suddenly looked over, his eyes were extremely cold.

Du Jingshu shrank her shoulders involuntarily, and asked in a low voice, "Did I talk too much? I'm sorry..."

Du Nanrong frowned and stood in front of Du Jingshu, looking at Duan Yi: "What's wrong, Team Duan?"

Cheng Sheng held Duan Yi's palm and pinched it slightly, before he came back to his senses, he looked away, and said lightly: "It's nothing."

He asked Du Jingshu: "Is this what your mentor said? Your mentor is very familiar with miasma?"

Du Jingshu shook his head: "These were mentioned when our doctoral supervisor came to give lectures. Although the knowledge points are a bit out of the way, for professional scholars, they can be regarded as basic common sense content."

"Basic common sense content?" Duan Yi looked coldly at the direction of Miasma directly in front of them, and tightened his fists.

Du Jingshu nodded and didn't say anything more. She looked at Duan Yi suspiciously, as if the captain's reaction was a bit strange.

Zhang Jiuzhang looked at Duan Yi thoughtfully, he pursed his lips, and vaguely guessed something.

Cheng Sheng frowned, and let Duan Yi hold his hand. He tightened his strength, and held Duan Yi gently and comfortingly.

Duan Yi was silent for a long time, as if he was recalling something through the forest barrier in front of him, it took him a long time before he looked back into the distance.

"Let's go in." Duan Yi said.

"But before you enter the miasma, you must do one thing." Duan Yi looked at them, "Use mud to cover your whole body. This is a very practical technique I learned from the natives."

"The gas in the miasma will not kill you quickly, nor will it make you deaf, blind, or crazy, but the creatures in the miasma that attack you can do it." Duan Yi continued.

"Sealing your body with a layer of soil can effectively prevent most mosquitoes from biting you," Duan Yi said.

"In addition, everyone needs to find a stick that is about the same height as themselves." Duan Yi said, "When you are in the miasma, you can't rely too much on your eyes, except that the visual range of your eyes is very small. For no other than limited reason, your eyes are in the miasma, and are likely to be delusional."

"Most of the hallucinations come from the bites of snakes and insects in the miasma forest and the inhalation of plant pollen."

"That's why you need to use the sticks in your hands to detect the surrounding environment within at least one meter, whether you can walk, whether there are obstacles, everyone uses themselves as the center to detect the surrounding situation, and report to teammates in time."

"The water in the miasma is undrinkable, and most of the creatures in it are poisonous and cannot be eaten."

"In the miasma, the humidity is hot and high, like being in a huge steamer, which will accelerate the consumption of our physical energy, so we must pass through the miasma as soon as possible within a day."

"The longer you stay inside, the more dangerous it is."

"When the temperature cools down at night, the miasma will be weakened a lot, and the time period from one to three in the afternoon is when the miasma is the most dense and dangerous."

"We will enter the miasma forest tonight. Before that, we have another day to prepare." Duan Yi looked at everyone, and for the first time he said so many warnings before leaving.

Lin Qian and Xu Ying were slightly surprised. The details of Duan Yi's exhortations were astonishing, as if they had entered a miasma.

The two of them nodded: "Got it."

"There is a pool in front." Lin Qian said, "We can go to the edge of the pool and get some wet mud back."

Cheng Sheng nodded in agreement, looked at Duan Yi, and asked in a low voice, "Are you going there with us?"

Duan Yi responded.

Cheng Sheng wanted to ask Duan Yi several times if he had been in the miasma and if something had happened, but he couldn't ask.

Duan Yi's expression and eyes made him feel that if he asked, it would be like tearing open a scabbed wound again.

Du Nanrong, Lin Qian and the others quickly arrived at the pool, followed by Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng.

The water in the pool is deep and emerald green, and there are many algae floating on the water surface. At first glance, it is hard to see what is under the water.

Du Nanrong threw a few stones into the water, but no bubbles appeared, and there were no unnecessary ripples on the water surface, indicating that there were no living things under the water.

He confidently scooped up a handful of wet mud with Lin Qian, and called Du Jingshu and Luo Xiaonan to come over and wipe it on first.

Just when Du Nanrong was about to go down to scoop up another handful, Duan Yi grabbed him by the back of his collar and pulled him back hard.

Du Nanrong was in pain from being pulled, and saw Duan Yi with a cold face, sticking out a slender dead branch, hanging on the water.

A mouth popped out of the water in an instant, and with a click, it bit the dead branch in two.

Duan Yi let go, and two dead branches fell into the water.

In the next second, more than a dozen piranhas rushed out of the water, opened and closed their mouths quickly, and heard the sound of "click, click, click". In the blink of an eye, the dead branches were chewed into fine pieces .

Du Nanrong looked at the scene in front of him with lingering fear, if Duan Yi hadn't pulled him, he would have fallen into the water.