Ancient Invasion [End Times]

The 110th and fifth day after the invasion. [Second update] "Welcome back to the Tibetan base."

Zhang Jiuzhang's situation was particularly bad.

After being injected with Shao Chengyang's unknown injection, his body underwent a very significant physical improvement and mutation, and his hematopoietic metabolism was extremely fast, which greatly guaranteed Zhang Jiuzhang's injury survival rate.

That's why he can last until now.

Such an injury would have killed an ordinary person long ago, and it was impossible to wait for Cheng Sheng and the others to find it.

But even so, Zhang Jiuzhang's current situation is still not optimistic.

Inevitably, the wound was infected on a large scale, pus came out, and the high fever persisted. As the cold air surged up at night, Zhang Jiuzhang's body was hot, but he kept trembling and uttering ravings.

Zhang Jiuzhang's body did not show the enhanced mutation of ancient biological genes. All his mutations came from the injection of his mentor. Therefore, Cheng Sheng could not judge the effect of the stone core on Zhang Jiuzhang and the critical point of his tolerance.

Cheng Sheng was not sure whether Zhang Jiuzhang's current body could withstand the energy of the stone core, and he did not dare to use it rashly.

Instead, he squeezed two stone cores and stuffed them into Duan Yi's arms, hoping that Duan Yi could recover.

Cheng Sheng asked for a leaf from the saxifrage, and hastily cut off a young leaf tremblingly, rolled it up and handed it to Cheng Sheng.

Du Nanrong watched as Cheng Sheng crushed the young leaf of saxifrage and applied it to Zhang Jiuzhang's pus-out wound.

"Most plants are traditional Chinese medicine." Cheng Sheng explained while fidgeting, "Like the previous Xiao Fei Peng, external application can reduce inflammation and stop bleeding, internal use can stop diarrhea. External application of fresh saxifrage can cure festering and pus, internal use can reduce internal heat Cough and nettle."

Du Nanrong nodded, but he didn't expect that his family's Xiaocao could be literary, martial and milky.

Cheng Sheng continued, "However, in view of Zhang Jiuzhang's current situation, no one can say for sure how effective these herbs will be."

Du Nanrong responded.

He thought for a while, then changed the subject and said: "By the way, just now Qianzi came back and said that he compared our location with the location of the base, and there are about a hundred kilometers left. If we can find a scooter , then we can arrive at the base in time.”

Cheng Sheng nodded, looked at the surrounding vegetation, and said softly: "Look at the trees here, the growth spacing is very neat, leaving ample nutrients and growth space for each. These are all man-made traces, indicating that we have grown from Out of the virgin forest, this should be a protected forest."

Du Nanrong's eyes lit up when he heard the words: "We have come out!? Since it is a protected forest... there should be forest rangers and cars!"

Cheng Sheng looked at him: "We may be able to find the ranger's cabin, which should usually be at the outskirts of the forest. There should be some emergency medicines and even guns in the ranger's cabin."

"As for the ranger...hopefully he's not infected."

Du Nanrong paused upon hearing this.

After staying in this primitive old forest for so long, all he encountered were wild beasts. He almost forgot that when he walked out of this forest, he would face those infected ones.

It's really not the same.

He took a deep breath, looked at Cheng Sheng and forced a smile: "It's such a fucking depressing day, when will it be big?"

Cheng Sheng lowered his eyes, and he was silent for a long time before he spoke: "It will always end. The base must also be stepping up research and development of medicines and vaccines for treatment. Everyone is working hard to ensure their survival. It will be fine until then."

Du Nanrong responded, thinking of Lu Qi's team that he met on the road, Zhang Hongfei's guard team in the research institute, and the Longchanglin squad that rushed over from Lindu to support them later.

Everyone was trying to live for the same goal, Du Nanrong exhaled slowly, wiped his face, nodded and said: "Well, yes, it will always end."

Cheng Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't expect that Du Nanrong suddenly recovered as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. He nodded slightly at Du Nanrong, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Du Jingshu and Luo Xiaonan sat quietly around the fire, watching Zhang Jiuzhang's situation not far away.

Luo Xiaonan lowered his voice and asked, "That uncle, is he going to die?"

Du Jingshu trembled, hugged Luo Xiaonan tightly, and said in a low voice: "No, with the doctor here, I won't let him die."

Luo Xiaonan nodded slightly, he gently pushed away Du Jingshu's hand, and said, "I want to go and see that uncle."

Du Jingshu swallowed, and confirmed to Luo Xiaonan: "Are you really going there? Over there... the wound will look scary, and his appearance is different from usual."

Luo Xiaonan nodded.

Seeing this, Du Jingshu stood up, took Luo Xiaonan's hand and walked over.

Hearing the movement, Du Nanrong raised his eyes to look over. His eyes were bloodshot, obviously exhausted to the extreme.

——I think so, since the plane made an emergency landing in this primeval forest, they hardly had a good night's rest along the way.The giant mutated creatures and natural disasters that came out came to them one by one like a relay race.

Seeing Du Jingshu and Luo Xiaonan approaching, he managed to pull himself together and asked in a low voice, "You guys came to see him?"

Du Jingshu gave a "hmm" and said, "Xiao Nan wants to take a look."

Luo Xiaonan walked to Zhang Jiuzhang's side, knelt down and held Zhang Jiuzhang's hand.

From the little guy's dark eyes, there was a faint blue light, which was different from Cheng Shenghuo's weird and bright color. This blue was so light and gentle that it was almost imperceptible.

Luo Xiaonan said in a low voice: "When Nan Nan is in pain, this will heal quickly."

Cheng Sheng looked at Luo Xiaonan in a little surprise, he was facing the little guy, and he could see Luo Xiaonan's abnormal state most clearly.

Du Nanrong only took it as the little guy's comfort, he rubbed Luo Xiaonan's head, and said, "Thank you Nannan."

After holding it for a while, Luo Xiaonan withdrew his hand and looked at Cheng Sheng: "Doctor, uncle is very similar to Nan Nan."

Cheng Sheng was slightly stunned, and then realized that what Luo Xiaonan said seemed to mean that they were all related to Shao Chengyang's "experiment".

Zhang Jiuzhang's wound did not show any surprising improvement, it seemed that Luo Xiaonan's abnormality just now was just abnormal.

Du Nanrong didn't even notice the momentary change in Luo Xiaonan's pupils. He patted Luo Xiaonan's head and signaled Luo Xiaonan to go to the side to rest.

Du Jingshu took Luo Xiaonan back to the side, she asked Luo Xiaonan curiously and softly: "Nannan, you said that uncle looks like you? What do you mean?"

Luo Xiaonan raised his face, looked at Du Jingshu and said, "Sister, you are very similar to us."

Du Jingshu was even more at a loss.

When Cheng Sheng heard what Luo Xiaonan said there, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and turned to Zhang Jiuzhang again.

Zhang Jiuzhang's wound was still as hideous as before, and there was no sign of improvement, but his complexion improved a lot, and his breathing gradually calmed down.

Cheng Sheng wasn't sure what Luo Xiaonan had done to Zhang Jiuzhang, but he guessed that it had something to do with some common direction of experimental variation between the two.

Luo Xiaonan's direction of change is more like an auxiliary nature of testing and improvement.

——Cheng Sheng once read the stack of experimental materials about Luo Xiaonan, which made him very puzzled: Luo Xiaonan seems to have strengthened the perception ability of the five senses, and has extraordinary keen perception and manipulation of some special energies—— This is like a special arrangement made by the mentor for the sudden change in the current era.

Luo Xiaonan was able to easily discover the stone core hidden in the mutated creature, and was able to improve the ordinary stone core into a high-level stone core - no one knew how he did it.

Cheng Sheng always thought that Shao Chengyang was the closest person to him, like a teacher, like a father, like a friend, but since the last meeting, Cheng Sheng was completely at a loss, and even felt a strange and out-of-control anxiety.

He lowered his eyes, retracted his gaze, and collected the thoughts that flew out involuntarily.

Zhang Jiuzhang's improvement may be related to Luo Xiaonan's ability.

When a person's bodily functions are on the verge of extinction, they will burst out with unimaginable survival power.

Zhang Jiuzhang's physique itself is extremely unstable because of the experimental reagents, but it has not exploded all the way.

And this time the serious injury became an incentive.

Luo Xiaonan may have sensed that the ingredients of the experimental medicine in Zhang Jiuzhang's body were changing Zhang Jiuzhang's genes and physique. He helped channel and manipulate the energy of that special experimental medicine, so as to achieve a soothing effect.

These are just Cheng Sheng's guesses based on the current information.

Lin Qian and Xu Ying soon returned with "Supper", and they came back with something wrapped in broad leaves.

Du Jingshu took a closer look, and immediately his face turned pale.

Lin Qian smiled "hehe" and said, "Don't look at this thing as disgusting, but the protein of this thing is higher than that of high-quality beef. It's the first choice for supplementing energy in the wild. If you don't believe me, ask the doctor."

Hearing what Lin Qian said, Cheng Sheng twitched the corners of his mouth. He didn't need to think about what kind of "food" Lin Qian and the others had found.

Xu Ying comforted: "It's okay, I'll bake it for you before eating, it's delicious."

The little girl froze and nodded slightly stiffly.

Lin Qian held another fallen leaf and approached the doctor and Zhang Jiuzhang. He whispered, "Doctor, look what good things I brought back!"

Du Nanrong looked over curiously, and immediately showed a similar expression to his daughter's.

"This is... maggots!?" Du Nanrong's voice changed.

Lin Qian nodded: "I finally dug it out from the stomach of a dead wild deer."

Du Nanrong swallowed with nausea, but soon he realized: "You don't mean to..."

Cheng Sheng's eyes lit up, he took it from Lin Qian's hand, and gently shook it onto Zhang Jiuzhang's wound.

Those white, short, thin, fat bugs found their target one after another, and their small mouthparts immediately pecked at the carrion on Zhang Jiuzhang's wound.

"Maggots only eat carrion. When there is a lack of medical tools, they are often used for temporary treatment, and they will secrete an antibacterial peptide, which will have a good effect on the treatment of wounds." Cheng Sheng said, "Of course , which also has disadvantages, there is a certain probability of causing bacteremia.”

"But for him right now, it's worth a try." Cheng Sheng said, and he applied the washed leaves and crushed saxifrage on it again, allowing the wound to rest and heal.

"After all the carrion on the wound is eaten, the maggots will automatically fall away, don't worry."

Du Nanrong's face was still blue, he grinned and said: "When Zhang Jiuzhang wakes up, I have to tell him this, it's disgusting to him."

Lin Qian laughed: "I think he must have known that we would do this step. Using maggots to treat wounds was common in the war era. Even when we were on missions, sometimes we would deal with emergencies in this way."

"If you don't believe me, ask Xu Ying. Xu Ying also tried it. She was still awake at that time." Lin Qian said again.

Du Nanrong and Du Jingshu looked at Xu Ying in awe.

Xu Ying: "..."

Lin Qian and Xu Ying skewered the beetles they had found, and grilled them on the fire. It didn't take long before they heard the sound of the carapace being burned and cracked.

Several people ate separately, even Du Jingshu bit the bullet and ate one piece.

Duan Yi still didn't move much, resting in the doctor's arms.

A group of people fell asleep all night, woke up before dawn and hurried on their way.

Lin Qian and Du Nanrong cut two pieces of bamboo to make a stretcher for moving Zhang Jiuzhang.

Zhang Jiuzhang still has a fever, but he no longer trembles and pants shortly, and his breathing does not fluctuate. I don't know if he has adapted to the current state, which is good news.

They have now entered the protected area, which means that they will not be too far away from the road where there are people. Similarly, the risk factor in the protected area will be greatly reduced. For example, fierce beasts such as blind bears and wild jungle tigers will hardly appear in the area. within the protected area.

Cheng Sheng and his team walked for a whole morning, and just reached the edge of a small stream, planning to stop to replenish some water, when they heard a hoarse and awkward scolding voice from behind: "Don't move!"

The group froze.

I haven't heard other people's voices for a long time, and I feel a little strange when I hear them suddenly.

Cheng Sheng turned around and looked over, and saw a middle-aged man in a green uniform with a shotgun pointed at them and said.

"Don't get excited, we are not poachers, you see we don't have any guns and weapons." Cheng Sheng slowly raised his hands and said, "We strayed into the primeval forest and finally got out."

The middle-aged man looked at them suspiciously, and noticed Zhang Jiuzhang being carried, his expression changed: "What's the matter with him?"

"We encountered a landslide," Cheng Sheng said.

"Yesterday? It's your fate." The middle-aged man believed Cheng Sheng's words.

——After all, he looks polite and speaks very softly, not like a poacher.

He nodded slightly and said, "Come with me."

The ranger took Cheng Sheng and his party to his house. He dug out the barely opened medical emergency kit and rewrapped Zhang Jiuzhang.

As soon as he lifted the broad leaf covering the wound, he saw a dozen maggots lying on Zhang Jiuzhang's wound, and the forest ranger trembled in fright: "Is your companion dying? This... this They're all full of maggots!"

"It's okay, it's for carrion, we did it." Lin Qian explained with a dry smile, took the bandage and anti-inflammatory medicine from the old forest ranger and said, "Give it to me, I'm familiar with it, I'll bandage him Just do it."

The old ranger nodded and handed over the things in his hand.

"How long have you been here? Have you ever gone out?" Xu Ying asked.

The forest ranger poured tea for them, and took out some dry food for Xu Ying and the others.

A group of people only drank some water and did not touch dry food.

"I've been doing it for more than 30 years." said the forest ranger, shaking his head, "I went out not long ago, and the outside has changed. It's full of people eating people. It's scary. I grabbed some food and came back. dare not go out."

Xu Ying and Cheng Sheng looked at each other, she pursed her lips slightly, and continued to ask: "Then how did you get out? Do you have a car?"

"Yes, it's the small truck outside." The ranger said, pointing out the window, "But I dare not go out again. Last time I came back, just got out of the car, and saw two people lying on the pallet at the back." This man-eating man scared me to death, and he fired several shots until he hit the head."

Xu Ying immediately asked: "Then can you lend us that car? We have to go to a place where our friends are."

"You want to go out? It's scary outside, girl, and my car is not resistant to building." The forest ranger looked at Xu Ying worriedly, "Go if you want a car, I won't go out anyway. But I have to remind you, It's horrific out there."

"Thank you." Xu Ying nodded quickly. She searched her body, but there was nothing to exchange for the ranger, and she felt a little uncomfortable.

Cheng Sheng walked over and took out two metal electrified spikes from his pocket. This was a second-hand preparation he had always prepared for safety. Now that the wheelchair was thrown in the woods, there were only six or seven of them left with him.

After Cheng Sheng showed the ranger how to use it, he gave the two electrified metal spikes to the ranger: "It can be put away after it is fully charged. If it can be charged here, it can still be used."

The ranger looked at the two gadgets curiously, nodded and said, "Yes, it can be charged here. This thing is interesting, I haven't seen it before. Thank you."

Cheng Sheng waved his hand: "The car you borrowed from us is more valuable."

But the forest ranger didn't think that the car was like scrap metal to him. He had everything he needed in this small house, and he could stay there for two months without going out.

He thought, maybe in two months, everything will be fine, and their government will not allow such a terrible thing to happen and expand.

Cheng Sheng and his party took a brief rest in the ranger's cabin, and then borrowed the ranger's small truck to set off again.

Lin Qian sat in the co-pilot, looking at the map given to them by the ranger.

He pointed in a direction and said, "You're right, let's drive here. We are only 80 kilometers away from the base."

"So close?" Du Nanrong was speechless. He thought it was at least 100 kilometers away.

"Walking through the jungle saved a lot of distance on the road." Xu Ying said while driving, with a hint of excitement in her tone, "If the road conditions are good, we can reach the base in about two hours."

Lin Qian grinned: "When the time comes, let Du Gong cook us a good meal. I'll order hot pot, beer, and fish with pickled cabbage."

"Then I'll grill skewers and fried chicken and crayfish." Xu Ying said.

A group of people drove onto the road, and the pickup truck was driven to the maximum horsepower.

Even in normal times, there are not many vehicles on this road leading to Tibet, but now it can be seen even more, this road stretches smoothly to the distant horizon, which makes people feel refreshed.

The forest rangers went to the local towns, and naturally they encountered many infected people along the way, but Cheng Sheng and his party were different. The Tibetan base was established far away from residential areas, and the roads they took were not often taken by ordinary people. Yes, there might not be a thousand cars passing by this road all year round.

"Doctor, take a nap. It seems that nothing will happen along the way." Lin Qian turned to Cheng Sheng and said, "Du Gong and the little girl are also the same. If there is a situation, I will call you in advance."

Cheng Sheng heard the words in response, with warm fur balls in his arms, his eyes drifted to the empty wilderness passing by outside the window, and his vision gradually became blurred.

He saw them walk to the gate of the base, and Duan Yi, who was wearing a clean camouflage uniform, took out his ID card and scanned it at the door for identification.

Then the gate of the base slowly opened from both sides of the floor below, revealing a series of steps leading to the bottom.

There was a whistling sound of wind from the entrance of the dark passage.

Lin Qian turned his head to look at them. Just as he smiled and said to go down, a terrifying monster jumped out of the passage behind him. With a curl of its long tongue, it pulled Lin Qian directly into the dark passage.

Immediately afterwards, more monsters rushed out, they were unable to separate themselves, Xu Ying, Du Nanrong, Du Jingshu, Luo Xiaonan... were dragged into the passage one by one.

Duan Yi pulled him out of the area quickly, before he had time to say anything, a tongue suddenly pierced through Duan Yi's chest, and swept away his heart in front of him.

He opened his eyes wide and watched Duan Yi fall back and forth in front of him.

Cheng Sheng yelled, opened his eyes suddenly, and sat up from the back of the seat.

Lin Qian, who was sitting in front of him, was startled, and quickly turned to look at Cheng Sheng and asked, "What happened?!"

When Cheng Sheng saw Lin Qian, he quickly turned his gaze, and saw Xu Ying, Du Nanrong, and Du Jingshu sitting in place, looking at Cheng Sheng with amused faces.

"The doctor is having a nightmare, right?" Du Nanrong said with a smile.

Cheng Sheng frowned slightly and nodded slightly.

"Haha, it's okay, who hasn't had any nightmares." Lin Qian said with a hearty smile, "I wanted to wake up the doctor, but we're almost there."

Hearing this, Cheng Sheng sat up straighter. He looked out the window and saw that the mountains passing by in the distance were covered with a little white snow. They drove to a place above 2000 meters above sea level.

"The base should be right under our feet." Xu Ying said, "Now we are looking for an entrance."

"At the beginning, I said yes, it seemed to be some kind of cloud sea viewing platform." Lin Qian recalled, he pointed to a small pavilion not far away, "Sister Ying, go there and have a look."

Xu Ying also noticed it, she responded, turned the steering wheel, and went straight to the viewing platform.

A group of people got out of the car and felt a chill in the heart as soon as they got out of the car. The air on the plateau is so cool that it refreshes the spirit.

When they walked up to the viewing platform, they saw clouds and mist shrouded below, and the surrounding undulating mountains seemed to be under their feet.

Lin Qian quickly discovered a secret button, a very typical spy setting. When he opened the secret compartment, an electronic screen popped up, showing the input code.

Lin Qian entered their task code, and the electronic screen immediately displayed the words "Verified".

"And then?" Lin Qian looked around blankly, there didn't seem to be a door anywhere.

As soon as he finished speaking, four glass and crystal walls suddenly rose around the viewing platform, and the sound of mechanical gears rotating came from under his feet.

No one expected that the entire viewing platform was actually an elevator, which sank down directly!

"It's really possible." Du Nanrong blinked in surprise, gasped and pressed against the glass behind him.

The descending speed of this "elevator" is not slow, and the surroundings are completely transparent and visible. They can be seen straight through the soil six or seven meters underground, and then enter the bright building wall.

In this underground base, the lights were flickering, and they didn't stop until they went down to a depth of nearly [-] meters.

The "elevator door" opened, and the electronic sound of the system sounded overhead: "Welcome back to the Tibetan base."

A group of people stepped out of the elevator.

Lin Qian looked around and frowned slightly: "Isn't there even a guard at the gate of the base?"

"It's so strange." Xu Ying lowered her voice, pulled out the claw knife pinned to her waist, and said, "It's too quiet."

They turned a corner and saw that the end of the corridor was completely blocked by gravel, as if it had collapsed.

"I'm afraid it's the previous earthquakes... which have somewhat affected the base." Du Nanrong said upon seeing this.

For a base built underground, various factors such as crustal movement must be considered, and earthquake-resistant building materials must be used, but there must be weak links in any building, let alone such a huge and complicated underground structure.

"No matter what, let's find the medical room first," Cheng Sheng said.

As soon as he finished speaking, his pupils shrank slightly, and he seemed to see a figure flashing past the corner in front of him.