Ancient Invasion [End Times]

The 110th day after the invasion【Two in one】Where the miasma disappeared: cracks in the ground

Cheng Sheng and his party soon came to the border.

When viewed from a distance, this place looks like a critical line of miasma that is suddenly thinning. It seems that as long as they take that step, they can pass through this hellish miasma forest.

But now, when I got closer, I looked again, and found that the place where the miasma ended up being thin was actually a not-deep depression, shaped like a long, narrow and flat funnel.

At first glance, the length seems to have no end in sight, but from a distance, it is all hidden in a deep miasma.

The depth of the funnel depression is about five or six meters, and at the bottom is a very narrow crack, less than ten centimeters wide.

It was as if the miasma had been absorbed as soon as it arrived here, leaving only a thin, ordinary mist-like layer around it.

The snow-white fur ball on Cheng Sheng's shoulders slightly exploded a circle of neck hair, and he let out a low warning roar towards the funnel-shaped depression.

"This is what the professor said... the crack in the ground where the miasma disappeared." Du Jingshu murmured.

Cheng Sheng's pupils shrunk. This is the similar place Duan Yi mentioned earlier, where the first two scientific research assistants were caught in the crack of the mountain?

"This crack is too long... You can't see the end on both sides. If you go around, who knows how far it will go?" Lin Qian pursed his lips.

Du Nanrong said softly: "Isn't that... the situation Duan Duan said before?"

Zhang Jiuzhang looked at him.

Du Nanrong pursed his lips: "No one knows how long this crack is, and walking in this miasma is much more dangerous than the virgin forest outside. If you encounter something like a garbage bird again, it will be too much for you. ?”

"This funnel-shaped ground wire is called a melting funnel in geology." Du Jingshu whispered, and she looked slightly closer, "But I have never seen what a real melting funnel looks like, but it looks like the professor's." The courseware is quite similar, but narrower."

"If it is a melting bucket, its diameter is far greater than its depth. Looking at the depth, it is estimated that the diameter is more than [-] meters." Du Jingshu said, "I don't know which end we are at, so we have to go around more. "

Zhang Jiuzhang nodded slightly: "Compared to walking a long distance without knowing how deep or far it is, how about rushing through the gap that is about ten meters wide and two stories high?"

He said, and then greeted Du Jingshu: "Little girl, come and see, is this funnel stable or not?"

Du Jingshu's face froze, and he waved his hands again and again and said, "Where can you tell by looking at this? You can only make an estimate by relying on the readings of the mountain body detection instrument, and this estimate will not be 100% accurate."

Zhang Jiuzhang gave up when he heard the words, shrugged his shoulders and asked, "What should I say? Go or rush?"

Xu Ying said, "I listened to Team Duan and the doctor."

Lin Qian echoed: "Me too."

Du Nanrong and Du Jingshu nodded even more.

Zhang Jiuzhang looked at Cheng Sheng.

Cheng Sheng paused, and said, "The major earthquake has just ended, and aftershocks will occur from time to time. Even if the magnitude of the earthquake is small, it is likely to affect this crack. It is too risky to go down."

Zhang Jiuzhang snorted, and asked, "Then how do you go?"

Cheng Sheng glanced at him and said lightly, "I hope your brain is half as developed as your muscles."

Zhang Jiuzhang: "..."

Du Nanrong beside him laughed out loud, Zhang Jiuzhang stared at him but didn't restrain himself.

Cheng Sheng pointed to the towering trees that can be seen everywhere. The diameter is about as wide as an arm's length, and the height is more than ten meters in this virgin forest.

"Chop it down and use it as a bridge to span the crack." Cheng Sheng pointed out concisely.

"I think this method should be better than finding a vine to climb up and down to teach monkeys to climb." The doctor curled his mouth, "Although I suspect, monkeys are not willing to recognize you as an apprentice."

Zhang Jiuzhang was slightly choked by Cheng Sheng's anger, and asked after a pause, "You can cut down such a thick tree?"

Cheng Sheng glanced at him: "If you can't cut down a tree, then you, the former captain of Longyan, will be in vain. No wonder you were forced to retire."

"You!" Zhang Jiuzhang jumped up suddenly, his whole body suddenly changed, and Lin Qian was so shocked that he almost thought that Zhang Jiuzhang was going to beat up the doctor.

Seeing this, the ancient creature on Cheng Sheng's shoulder arched its back in warning, bared its fangs slightly, and stared at Zhang Jiuzhang coldly.

The doctor smiled lightly, blue sparks shot out from his fingertips, and lightly fell on a pile of dead leaves beside him.

The flames spread rapidly and stopped in a circle of more than ten centimeters in size. The dead branches and leaves outside the circle were not burned at all.

Zhang Jiuzhang was slightly taken aback when he saw this, and immediately realized that Cheng Sheng's ability to control the strange blue flame became more prominent.

Cheng Sheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Go to work, the fire is ready for you."

Zhang Jiuzhang didn't say anything, just pursed his lips and started directly.

Lin Qian and Xu Ying looked at each other. The doctor was really capable. With a light sentence, he only poked people in pain, set them on fire, and threatened them with force to prevent them from having a fit.

There must be many people who miss Dr.

——Not a good kind of miss.

Zhang Jiuzhang did not know where to find a leg bone of a beast. It was thick and strong. He tied the claw knife with a dead vine and tied a cross knot on the leg bone. Using the leg bone as a handle, he made a simple axe. .

He found a big tree and tried to cut it. The scales of the arapaima were sharp and hard, and the effect was unexpectedly good.

Seeing this, Lin Qian and Xu Ying's eyes lit up, and they asked Zhang Jiuzhang where the beast's corpse was, and followed him to find it.

The two of them came back with a leg bone each, and Lin Qian brought an extra one for Du Nanrong.

The three followed Zhang Jiuzhang's example and made an axe.

Four people, you take turns to cut trees one by one, which is quite efficient.

In just over ten minutes, the big tree in front of me, which was as large as an embrace in diameter, fell down with a bang.

Big trees more than ten meters long straddle the gap, with one end and one tail just hanging on both ends of the gap with a width of more than ten meters.

Lin Qian stood up and tried it. It was a little slippery, but it was enough to pass.

He said: "I'll try to go one way first. If the other side is safe, you can wait for my signal to come over."

Xu Ying nodded, she looked at Cheng Sheng and said, "Doctor, you'll be next."

Cheng Sheng responded, looked at Lin Qian and said, "Bring the torch."

Passing through the miasma, no one knows what is on the other side of the fog.There is always peace of mind when there is fire.

Lin Qian was slightly stunned: "I've used up all the torches..."

Before he finished speaking, Cheng Sheng threw him a dead branch full of vines.

When they were chopping trees just now, Cheng Sheng, Du Jingshu and Luo Xiaonan were making these simple torches.

Luo Xiaonan said crisply: "Brother, Nan Nan also made this torch! Nan Nan is walking with my brother!"

Lin Qian's heart warmed.

Cheng Sheng lit the vines above and controlled the flames, not letting the flames burn everything up in an instant.

Holding the torch with blue flames, Lin Qian stepped onto the huge tree bridge, and there was a two-story funnel depression under his feet.

The big tree was bearing the weight, because Lin Qian's center of gravity shifted after stepping on it, and it swayed slightly from side to side.

Seeing this, Cheng Sheng took a step forward to stabilize the tree trunk.

Zhang Jiuzhang also stepped forward to hold the tree trunk steady and told Lin Qian to continue walking.

He was silent for a while, then pursed his lips and looked at Cheng Sheng, and asked, "How did you know that I was in Longyan before?"

"There is no impenetrable wall. Things spread from east to west, so naturally everyone knows a little secret about others." Cheng Sheng said.

While the two were talking, Lin Qian had already walked to the opposite side of the bridge. He waved the torch twice, and the faint blue flames danced on the opposite side of the bridge, quite like a guide from the underworld.

Zhang Jiuzhang said, "Okay, scientist, it's your turn."

Cheng Sheng glanced at him and nodded slightly. He called for Luo Xiaonan, held him lightly in his arms, and took the little guy to the tree bridge.

Luo Xiaonan lay in the doctor's arms, and when he looked up, he could see the furry animal-shaped Captain Duan.

Luo Xiaonan stretched out his fingers curiously, gently touched Captain Duan's fangs, and laughed: "It's so cute."

Duan Yi: "..."

Cheng Sheng chuckled.

After Cheng Sheng walked across the tree bridge, Du Jingshu followed.

The little girl was shaking her legs and was a little afraid of heights. When she looked down, she trembled even more. She couldn't help but ask, "Can my dad come with me?"

Xu Ying shook her head: "The center of gravity will shift and it's hard to control, one person at a time, or hug you like a doctor?"

Du Jingshu immediately shook his head, swallowed and said, "I'll live by myself."

Du Nanrong said that his daughter has grown up.

Xu Ying thought that Du Jingshu might be stuck in the middle of the journey because of fear.

But I didn't expect that once the little girl stepped on the tree trunk, she would not stop all the way, wishing she could trot and rush all the way.

Cheng Sheng was at the other end, and he heard Du Jingshu yelling "Scared me to death, scared me to death" all the way, and then rushed out all the way.

Cheng Sheng couldn't help being funny, caught Du Jingshu, and said calmly, "It's all right, you're out."

Du Jingshu was stunned for a moment, then recovered, a look of embarrassment flashed across his face, he nodded quickly, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Doctor."

Next is Xu Ying.

Xu Ying stepped on the tree bridge, and just halfway there, it rained suddenly from the sky. The rain crackled like hailstones, and it hurt people's skulls.

She froze for a moment, then quickened her pace and walked forward.

After walking to the end, Xu Ying immediately motioned for the next person to come over.

Zhang Jiuzhang pouted and signaled Du Nanrong to go up: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up."

Du Nanrong twitched the corner of his mouth: "I didn't want to be polite to you."

After he finished speaking, he stepped onto the bridge.

The ground where the two ends of the tree trunk touched was quickly muddy by the heavy rain.

Zhang Jiuzhang obviously felt that the friction force under his hands had decreased a lot. As Du Nanrong walked away, he had to spend more effort to fix the tree bridge.

Du Nanrong felt the shaking under his feet at the same time, and he quickly got off the bridge, shaking the torch to signal Zhang Jiuzhang to come up.

Zhang Jiuzhang took a quick look at the ground under his feet. The ground was soft and there were obvious signs of a landslide.

He took a deep breath, picked up a section of vine and quickly wrapped it around his waist twice, then grabbed it in his hand and ran towards the tree bridge.

As soon as Zhang Jiuzhang's weight stepped onto the tree bridge, he heard a creaking moan from the big tree, rolled his feet, and was immediately held tightly by Du Nanrong and Lin Qian at the other end.

"Come here!" Lin Qian shouted, "The soil is loose!"

Zhang Jiuzhang cursed: "Here we come!"

Damn it, it's raining heavily right now.

Halfway Zhang Jiuzhang walked, the tree trunk behind him suddenly fell down.

On the other side, the tree trunk at Lin Qian's side jumped upwards, almost losing its center of gravity and falling.

Duan Yi jumped off Cheng Sheng's shoulder almost at the same time, suddenly turned into a giant beast, bit the tree trunk, and dragged it back forcefully.

Both Du Nanrong's and Lin Qian's arms were severely scratched by the abruptly raised branches, leaving a deep gash.

The two of them didn't feel the pain, they were startled, and quickly called Zhang Jiuzhang's name.

The tree didn't completely collapse, but the trunk at the other end suddenly dropped a meter and stopped because of the soft soil and landslide.

Zhang Jiuzhang was hanging on the tree, holding the trunk with both hands, and his body was hanging down.

He cursed again, tried a few times and couldn't hang it back on the tree trunk, so he simply stayed in this hanging posture, moving forward with one hand and approaching.

When it rains, the water vapor and miasma in the forest are mixed together and it is difficult to distinguish them.

Lin Qian and the others could hardly see Zhang Jiuzhang's state, but everyone heard Zhang Jiuzhang's curse, and heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that there was nothing serious about him.

"Hurry up! This side won't last long!" Du Nanrong shouted.

The soil under their feet is also sinking more and more. The soil at the edge of the funnel depression is even more unstable. After being washed away by the heavy rain in the forest, no one knows how long it can last.

Not long after Du Nanrong finished shouting, he heard a low and loud "bang" sound from nowhere.

Several people looked at each other in dismay, and Du Jingshu suddenly realized: "The mountain...is a landslide!"

As soon as she finished shouting, she felt that the soil under her feet seemed to have her own consciousness, and it began to flow forward. The speed was not fast, and she couldn't even feel it if she didn't feel it carefully.

But it was clearly a sign of a landslide.

Du Nanrong gritted his teeth and said, "You guys find a place with shelter to hide first!"

"I'll stay and help Du Gong, Xu Ying, take the doctor and them away!" Lin Qian shouted.

Xu Ying gritted her teeth and responded.

Cheng Sheng's face was extremely ugly. He wiped away the rain in front of him, looked around, quickly locked on a target, and shouted: "Duan Yi! Lin Qian! Du Gong! Over there!"

In the direction Cheng Sheng was pointing at, there were several tall trees that had fallen staggered, and the trees were pressing each other to form a solid tripod shape.

Lin Qian immediately reacted: "Got it!"

Cheng Sheng and the others quickly ran to the bottom of the triangle. The big tree fell because the soil under the roots moved, and the trunk itself did not rot.

Cheng Sheng quickly recognized that the area in front of them was the Banna black sandalwood forest, belonging to the Dalbergia genus of the Fabaceae family. The trees of this genus were very strong and suitable for them to hide in.

No matter how fast they ran, they couldn't run past the speed of the landslide. They could only pray that the damage caused by the landslide would not be too extensive.

On the other side of Zhang Jiuzhang, Du Nanrong and Duan Yi couldn't control the tree trunk slipping down, seeing Zhang Jiuzhang's figure appearing in front of them, with only three or four meters away, Du Nanrong's veins popped up, and he shouted: "Hurry up! "

Duan Yi tensed his muscles. He was bigger and heavier, and the soil under his feet could hardly support his weight, not to mention that there were Du Nanrong and Lin Qian behind him.

With a low growl, he rolled his tail and swept Lin Qian and Du Nanrong away.

Lin Qian and Du Nanrong rolled on the spot, both stunned for a moment, and immediately realized: "Team Duan!"

I saw the ancient behemoth stepping on the crumbling tree trunk, using its mouth to grab Zhang Jiuzhang who was still a few meters away.

The tree bridge crashed into the hollow.

Lin Qian and Du Nanrong looked at the place where they were standing just now in shock. If Duan Yi didn't sweep them away, they would all have to fall down.

Duan Yi's foot fell into the muddy slope of the mountain, it was difficult to find a grip, and he kept falling.

Seeing this, Zhang Jiuzhang immediately tied the previously prepared vine into a wild beast knot, and looped the other end on one of Duan Yi's animal claws, and threw it up without hope, trying to trap some rocks to fix the two of them.

Du Nanrong and Lin Qian ran back quickly, and saw a strange vine thrown on the ground, falling into the funnel little by little, they rushed over to grab it, and looked down, and saw a snow-white ancient giant beast Trapped on a slope with a vine attached to one of the monster's claws.

Du Nanrong and Lin Qian immediately pulled back.

Duan Yi soon felt a pulling force, and with the help of the pulling force, he jumped up suddenly.

Before the joy on the faces of Du Nanrong and Lin Qian faded, they heard louder and duller roars from behind.

"Run!"

I don't know who yelled, the three people and one beast galloped in the rainstorm, and quickly rushed to the tripod that Cheng Sheng had found before, and hid in it.

Cheng Sheng looked at the huge beast, and a bad premonition vaguely surfaced in his heart. He reluctantly said, "Duan Yi, jump on my shoulder when you get smaller. Hurry up, I don't think your claws are dirty."

Duan Yi let out a low growl, looked up and looked not far away, and saw the rocks wrapped in mud, coming in a terrifying momentum like the Yellow River.

He looked down at Cheng Sheng, and put his body directly over the heads of Cheng Sheng and the others.

For a moment, a shadow enveloped the top of the head, and the next second, a deafening roar came from above the head.