Ancient Invasion [End Times]

The [-]th day after the invasion [Second update] "I have a crazy idea."

When Lin Qian woke up, the miasma in the forest had gradually risen.

As the night faded, the dawn shone dimly on the ground, but it couldn't penetrate the miasma.

When he opened his eyes, he could see the miasma cloud in front of him under the reflection of light, and there were tiny, inexplicable substances suspended in the fog.

Lin Qian was dazed for a moment, and then remembered what happened before he passed out.

He sat up abruptly, opened his clothes and looked back, and saw that his back was covered with a green broad leaf, and vines surrounded his wound and tied them up through his chest.

"Are you awake?" Xu Ying immediately opened her eyes, looked at Lin Qian and asked, "How do you feel?"

Lin Qian pouted and asked, "My back injury...?"

"The doctor and Duan team bandaged it." Xu Ying said.

Lin Qian grinned and said, "It's quite aboriginal style."

Seeing that Lin Qian had the strength to make a joke, Xu Ying also smiled slightly: "It seems that you are recovering well, I'll inform Captain Duan and the doctor."

Lin Qian nodded in response.

He looked at his arm, there were still some bruises where the doctor had stabbed him earlier.

Lin Qian still remembered the feeling of the cold liquid penetrating into the skin, and the next second, it was as if the blood vessels were boiling. The pain could not be touched or scratched, making one want to faint immediately.

—and he did faint.

But the strange thing is that right now he doesn't feel that kind of pain at all.

Cheng Sheng came over and checked Lin Qian's condition. Obviously, the antibacterial agent had a very good neutralizing effect in Lin Qian's body, and there was no rejection reaction.

"It seems that the situation is very good." Cheng Sheng said, he smiled, "Since this is the case, it is about time for us to leave."

Lin Qian scratched his head, looked at the sky, and asked, "How long have I been in a coma?"

"More than an hour." Xu Ying replied, "Originally, you were only given half an hour. Who knew that you wouldn't be able to wake up if you shouted."

Lin Qian scratched his head embarrassingly: "Then let's leave quickly. God knows if the bird Duan Duan mentioned will stare at us."

"Shut up for me." Xu Ying slapped him.

"Lin Qian is right." Cheng Sheng couldn't help laughing when he saw it, and said, "Clean up and wake up Du Gong and the others."

"It's hard to say whether those crowned flycatchers will catch up with us. Maybe the peppermint oil has played a role, but no one knows whether they will catch up with us after the smell subsides." Duan Yi said.

The birdsong from time to time in the distance made him startled, but he also knew that it was probably just his nerves being too sensitive.

Duan Yi's lip line was tense, and after everyone was ready, he took the lead in jumping off the rock slightly above the ground to explore the situation around the road.

He raised his hand and beckoned slightly, signaling safety and letting others follow.

Duan Yi lit the torch, and used the stick he brought in to move forward while probing the situation around his feet.

Cheng Sheng flipped down the rocks lightly, and followed Lin Qian, Xu Ying, Du Nanrong and the others. It was still Zhang Jiuzhang who lit another torch and cut off his tail.

They went on and on.

The deeper you go into the miasma forest, the weirder the smell in the air, there is the smell of green grass and green plants, and there is also the smell of decay.

All kinds of smells are mixed together, making it difficult to describe clearly.

Duan Yi suddenly stopped, and suddenly raised his hand to close his fist.

Everyone at the back of the line stopped.

Cheng Sheng frowned, and immediately realized: "Smell..."

Lin Qian shook the tip of his nose twice, only to feel that the smell in the air was still as weird and unpleasant, and there was no difference.

"It's like being in a garbage dump." Du Nanrong muttered.

Duan Yi's face was not good-looking: "This sour smell... It was the same when we were besieged by those birds last time. We smelled the smell first, and then they appeared."

Lin Qian and Du Nanrong both took a deep breath.

As soon as Duan Yi finished speaking, there was a sound of flapping wings above their heads, passing over their heads abruptly, and they didn't know what it was.

Luo Xiaonan tightly clutched the corner of Cheng Sheng's clothes in fear, crying out in his voice: "Yes, what is it..."

"There's a cave over there." Duan Yi said in a deep voice. He was walking along the road while checking whether there was a suitable emergency hiding place.

He turned his feet, hurried towards the cave, and said quickly, "Let's go in and take shelter."

"Roger that!"

Duan Yi's direction and speed of action suddenly changed, and the fluttering movement of the wings above their heads also changed. It seemed that the group of things became a little commotion, probably because they didn't expect Duan Yi and the others to change their route.

The sound of fluttering and flapping wings resounded one after another in the surroundings, becoming one piece.

Cheng Sheng felt his hair stand on end, and a sense of crisis suddenly hit him from behind.

"Low!" Duan Yi roared, and suddenly pressed Cheng Sheng and Luo Xiaonan who was following Cheng Sheng.

Lin Qian and the others quickly lowered their heads. Even Du Jingshu had developed an astonishing obedience and reaction ability in the past few days of living with the devil.

A pair of crowned flycatchers flapped their black wings and passed over their heads very quickly.

Duan Yi looked up, just in time to see the pair of red bird's eyes, rigidly and numbly embedded in the pitch-black head.

Duan Yi's pupils narrowed slightly, and he slashed open the bird's throat with his backhand. The force was fast and ruthless. While cutting the throat, he used his strength to throw the crowned pheasant out.

Before the female bird could make a cry, Duan Yi had already wiped her throat with a knife.

"Go!" Duan Yi shouted in a low voice.

Cheng Sheng immediately led Luo Xiaonan to the front.

The black canopy flycatchers with orange bellies swooped down from the sky, and Cheng Sheng could even hear the sound of breaking wind in his ears.

He didn't even look at it, throwing a ball of flame almost instinctively.

Cheng Sheng heard a miserable bird call behind him, the call was urgent and high-pitched.

Luo Xiaonan looked back subconsciously, and saw a mass of blue flames swinging back and forth in mid-air, piercing towards another little black bird, and then the flames climbed onto the body of the black bird, quickly spreading out and enveloping the other little black bird. .

Luo Xiaonan took a deep breath, there were seven or eight crowned pheasants hovering above their heads, and it took less than a minute to pass one to two, two to four, and they were all lit up immediately.

Taking advantage of this time, Lin Qian and the others quickly followed, and a group of people rushed into the cave in one go.

The cave is a bit deep, and I can't see what's going on inside. It's also short, requiring people to bend down to get in, and Luo Xiaonan's height is just right.

There was no sign of other large creatures living inside or outside the cave, which was good news.

Duan Yi and Zhang Jiuzhang quickly moved the stones. The entrance of the cave was low, and a few larger pieces of gravel were enough to block the hole.

Lin Qian took Zhang Jiuzhang's torch with difficulty, and held it up to illuminate the situation in the cave.

A big flower-footed spider was hanging in front of Lin Qian's eyes. Before Lin Qian could react, he saw Xu Ying stabbing the flower-footed spider's fat, round belly very quickly, and flung it away with a cold face.

Lin Qian was covered in cold sweat, and nodded to Xu Ying as a thank you.

"Poisonous?" he asked.

"Look at the feet." Xu Ying said.

The only doctor who could tell a species from a bunch of similar-looking spiders didn't see one.

Lin Qian quickly checked the inside of the cave, and took the broken stones in the cave to block the lower hole behind him that led to a deeper hole.

The flames and high temperature quickly forced out some scorpions and spiders hiding in the crevices of the rocks. With the cooperation of Xu Ying and Zhang Jiuzhang, Xun killed one and Xun killed one pair.

After Lin Qian and the others had dealt with it, they called the doctor to see what it was all about.

Cheng Sheng glanced at the corpses of those scorpion spiders, they were all poisonous.

If it were him, he would never have dared to strike with fire and a knife so directly—but it seems that there are indeed no more tools at the moment.

Cheng Sheng twitched his lips and looked at Lin Qian and the others. Those who don't know are fearless, a tiger is a real tiger.

The cave is safe for the time being, but there are so many of them crowded in this not-so-deep cave, it is really crowded, and it is difficult to make some changes in posture.

If there was a snake hidden in the cave and suddenly attacked them, it would be difficult for anyone to be in the best state to deal with it.

"Are they gone?" Du Jingshu asked in a low voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sound of "duk tuk" on the pile of stones outside the cave, as if something was hitting the stone.

Duan Yi held up the torch and shook it at the entrance of the cave, and saw that the stones they piled up at the entrance of the cave were rubbed so hard that limestone fell down.

Duan Yi's pupils shrank slightly, followed by another series of "duk tuk", and the same movement appeared in another stone.

"Is it them?!" Du Jingshu asked nervously.

The sound was like a bird's beak pecking at a stone, like a woodpecker.

"Can these stones stop them?" Du Nanrong couldn't help asking.

The sound of "Duk Tuk" became more and more intensive, and it sounded like flowers everywhere, like a drum beating against the ear, making one's scalp numb.

It is hard to imagine how many crown pheasants gathered outside.

For a while, the atmosphere in the cave was extremely oppressive.

"It stinks, I can smell it through so many stones!" Lin Qian broke the silence.

"Don't call it a Guanlin Flycatcher, just call it a Garbage Bird. It's not bad to call it a Garbage Bird just because of the sour smell that is comparable to a garbage dump." Du Nanrong also grinned, and echoed.

Zhang Jiuzhang called two cursing people to block the entrance of the stone cave together, "Don't fucking talk nonsense here."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Duan Yi who turned to knock on the mountain wall, and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Find a way."

Duan Yi kept knocking on the mountain wall, listening to the echoes coming back from the mountain, until now, it was muffled and solid.

He continued to experiment with knocking without making a sound, until there was a muffled but distinctive sound.

Duan Yi's eyes lit up: "Behind this mountain wall, is there the sound of water?"

When Zhang Jiuzhang and Lin Qian heard the words, they immediately pricked up their ears to listen carefully, but they could hardly hear anything, but Cheng Sheng heard it.

He listened to the sound of the water, judged the direction of the water flow, and looked at Duan Yi suddenly: "This mountain wall is estimated to be washed away by water all year round, and it will be much thinner than other places."

Duan Yi nodded, his hands turned into animal claws, his fists were covered with a layer of hard scales, the sharp claws cut iron like mud, and after a few claws, he saw rocks flying out of the mountain wall.

Duan Yi grabbed and pounded it a dozen times in a row, a very thin crack was created on the mountain wall, and water seeped out from it.

Lin Qian and the others were immediately ecstatic: "We can swim out by water!"

"Wait a minute." Duan Yi frowned slightly. He wiped the water droplets seeping from the mountain wall. The color of the mountain wall was darker. At first glance, he didn't see the problem of the water droplets. , this drop of water actually showed a strange black luster.

It's like a layer of oil floating on the water, shiny and shiny.

Cheng Sheng leaned over to look at it, and immediately his expression became a little subtle: "Could it be..."

"Oil." Duan Yi sniffed it under his nose and pursed his lips.

Lin Qian laughed dryly: "Can't you? Petroleum? Isn't it all mined in deep underground places? Where are we now..."

Cheng Sheng moved closer, stroked the mountain wall with his fingers, scraped off a little white crystal that was stuck on the mountain wall, rubbed it twice with his fingers, then poked out a little tip of his tongue, and licked it quickly.

Duan Yi didn't expect Cheng Sheng to do this, so he didn't have time to react, so he frowned at Cheng Sheng disapprovingly: "You... nonsense."

Cheng Sheng said, "Sure enough, these are salt crystals."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Jiuzhang asked.

"This cave, as well as the other caves on the side of this cave, or the mountain, were probably natural underground salt caves and salt fields more than ten years ago." Cheng Sheng said, his brain spinning rapidly.

"You can see that the salt crystals condensed on the mountain wall are very rich. It is definitely a salt cave. It is likely that due to geological activities, the salt cave, which was originally hundreds of meters deep underground, was shaken to a distance close to the ground. places on the surface."

"Salt caverns are places where oil is stored naturally. As far as I know, there are countries in the West that specialize in man-made underground salt caverns to store oil." Cheng Sheng said.

"The chemical composition and geological pressure of the salt can prevent oil spills, and the cost of building an underground salt cavern is much lower than keeping it in an above-ground storage tank."

"Those underground salt caverns that store petroleum crude oil are likely to have undergone geographical changes during the continuous active crustal activities in the past ten years or decades. Some salt caverns have collapsed or other reasons. Flowing along the underground river..." Cheng Sheng guessed.

Duan Yi quickly realized: "These crude oils...are artificially stored here?"

Cheng Sheng nodded.

Duan Yi paused, no wonder those geologists and accompanying assistants who entered the miasma always held a detector in their hands...

"Those people...the purpose of entering here is to find oil and crude oil." Duan Yi's eyes turned cold, no wonder they would rather take risks than try to pass through the cracks in the ground line. Can you detect the location of the oil?

Cheng Sheng also guessed it, and he recalled: "A few years ago, there was a magnitude [-] earthquake, and the epicenter was here. I'm afraid it was that big earthquake that made the people above worry about the storage situation here... But no one thought , After more than ten years and decades of changes, such a terrible miasma has formed here."

"Then what do we do now? These stones are almost unstoppable!" Zhang Jiuzhang shouted.

Cheng Sheng pursed his lips, listening to the crazy bird pecking outside.

Seeing that a small gap was pecked out of a stone, light came in, and they, through that gap, could see the gap outside.

The swarming black bird heads and crests gathered densely outside the cave, and the pair of red bird eyes looked like rigid wooden figures, which made people feel chills.

Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi and Lin Qian, and said in a low voice, "I have a crazy idea."

"Come on, there's nothing crazier than these trash birds outside." Lin Qian gritted his teeth against the stone that was about to be pecked open, and said with a grin, obviously trying to make Du Nanrong's trash talk an alias for those crowned pheasants.

"I need your help," Cheng Sheng said.

After hearing the doctor's plan, Lin Qian's eyes froze for a few seconds, and he looked at Cheng Sheng: "...that's crazy, but count me in."

He said, moving out the stones blocking the entrance of the cave one by one, and urged: "Xiao Nan, Du Jingshu, Du Gong, go in quickly and drill in! The deeper the better! As long as you don't fall down and get out !"

Without further ado, Du Nanrong took the lead in getting in: "You follow me."

"En." Du Jingshu nodded, looked at the deep and narrow hole, took a deep breath, closed her eyes and went in.

Seeing that Luo Xiaonan's figure had also disappeared at the entrance of the cave, Cheng Sheng started to bury the entrance of the cave again with Lin Qian and the others.

He took a deep breath and looked at the others: "Protect your eyes and vital parts. Count down to three!"

"three."

"two."

"one."

Zhang Jiuzhang spat on his hand, and Lin Qian and they slammed into the stone at the entrance of the cave.

The two ran out rolling and scrambling, holding torches in each hand, pushing away the Guanlin Flycatcher who wanted to rush up, and Cheng Sheng followed closely.

At the same time, Duan Yi slammed down with several claws, breaking open the mountain wall with some small cracks, and at the same time rushed out quickly with the help of the huge momentum of the water.

Lin Qian spread his huge wings behind him, and aimed at the place where the water rushed out, he flapped his wings vigorously and quickly.

The speed of the Argentine giant eagle can reach 113 kilometers per hour. Under such a wind speed, the wind force is extremely terrifying. I saw the water flow wrapped in crude oil rushing out in front of me, being swept up by the wind and hitting the sky directly.

Cheng Sheng's pupils narrowed slightly, and he looked up into the sky.

A group of huge blue flames "boomed" into the sky, and under the added force of the water wrapped in crude oil, it spread rapidly and ignited a terrible explosion at the same time.

Several people on the ground were swept to the ground by the heat wave.

Zhang Jiuzhang was facing the terrible heat wave, squinting his eyes to look at the sky, and saw the blue flames overwhelming the sky, like black clouds pressing down on the city, just above their heads.

Cheng Sheng broke out in a cold sweat, bit his lower lip, and under the pressure of the flames, he forcibly controlled the flames so they didn't fall like meteors.

Looking up at the scene in front of him, Lin Qian was so shocked that his hair curled up—maybe it was roasted by the high temperature—he murmured in a low voice: "This is a great move..."

Almost all the crowned flycatchers circling in the sky were swept away by the sudden burst of blue flames, and there was nothing left without even the screams of the birds.

All the combustible substances in the air were quickly engulfed by the flames and swallowed up. The blue flames disappeared as abruptly as they appeared.

Cheng Sheng's face was as white as a freshly painted wall, and the release of the flames didn't consume him too much - the water droplets and crude oil that swept up tripled the power.

But controlling the flames from falling and affecting them almost broke Cheng Sheng's maximum ability threshold.

Cheng Sheng felt the exhaustion of his body being hollowed out, he subconsciously looked at Duan Yi, cursed secretly, and before he had time to say anything, he fell into the darkness.

Lin Qian was startled, and immediately saw Duan Yi rushing up, and caught the doctor before he fell to the ground.

In the next second, the doctor's figure changed, and the clothes on his body suddenly became looser.

The clothes fell to the ground lightly, and a blue bird almost the size of an adult medium-sized dog chirped and was held in Duan Yi's hands.

Lin Qian: "..."

——and a little naive.

——But it would affect the doctor's image too much.