Ancient Invasion [End Times]

110th Nine Days After the Invasion · "It wasn't licked away..."

One hole after another on the ground, they were all blasted by devil worms. The scene was a bit like the special effects in the game, but it couldn't be more real.

No one expected that this explosion would blow away the pile of landslides and rubble that had previously blocked the end of the corridor.

Lin Qian saw that the dust was flying all over the sky, but at least there was a path, so he immediately shouted, "Go this way!"

Lin Qian and Zhang Jiuzhang rushed in first, followed by Xu Ying and Du Nanrong.

Cheng Sheng pulled Duan Yi up, and after Duan Yi got up, he immediately dragged Cheng Sheng with his backhand and ran towards Lin Qian.

After rushing through the pile of rubble, Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi saw a group of people stuck in front of them and did not leave.

"Why stop here?" Cheng Sheng asked.

He and Duan Yi went around to the front, and saw corpses of bugs on the left and right in the blasted corridor in front of them, as well as soldiers lying on the ground with blood holes on their bodies.

The lights in that section of the corridor were almost all extinguished, only a few wall lamps stuck to the left and right walls remained, shining with trembling light, making the entire corridor look extremely gloomy.

Lin Qian let out a sharp breath and cursed secretly.

"It turns out that these corridors weren't cracked by the earthquake... they were deliberately cut off to block these bugs, right?"

- Obvious.

"If we want to go to another branch, where should we go?" Cheng Sheng asked.

Lin Qian thought for a while and said, "Go back and walk along a corridor. There is a fork in the back kitchen where Du Gong worked as a cooking partner. There is a passage for transporting fresh ingredients, which can lead to There are four divisions in the southeast, northwest, and north of the base."

Du Nanrong nodded immediately when he heard the words: "Yes, I have an impression there. Last night, Qianzi and I were wondering what the passage behind that door is for."

He went on to say: "We also walked a little way inside, it's quite safe and clean."

"The other thing is that the sign showed that the corridor in front of us leads to the south," Lin Qian recalled.

There are signposts at regular intervals.

The corridors in the base extend in all directions. If there were no road signs, everyone would have to spend more than half of their time getting lost every day.

"After passing through, there should be a small tunnel train. If it can be activated, it can go directly to the southern base." Lin Qian continued.

Hearing this, Cheng Sheng turned his head and looked behind them. The continuous small explosions had basically stopped.

——After all, Lin Qian and Duan Yi poured oil into it, and there was only so much they could rush to in a short time.

It's just that there are fires everywhere, and it's a mess.

If you want to go back, you have to step through the sea of ​​fire.

But the high temperature remaining in the explosion area was hot enough to make people's skin blister.

To walk that distance, they have to wait at least until the temperature drops.

Or the road ahead.

"Crossing the long corridor is the small tunnel train?" Du Nanrong asked Lin Qian. He glanced at the long corridor that didn't seem too long, and whispered, "It seems easier than if we go back."

Lin Qian nodded slightly, he thought so too.

The area behind him was turned into a sea of ​​flames. Such a big movement probably attracted other bugs as well.

Lin Qian said, maybe it's not as safe as the current corridor.

They were silent, when suddenly a noise with the sound of electricity came out from somewhere in the corridor, it seemed that someone was talking.

Lin Qian and the others suddenly turned to the direction of the sound, and Du Nanrong was a little excited: "Yes, are you from the base?"

Duan Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, stepped over the corpses of the insects under his feet, held guns in both hands, carefully walked through the corpses of human insects lying on the ground, and walked straight to the direction where the sound came from.

The voice was suppressed under the body of a prostrate corpse.

Duan Yi held a gun on guard with one hand, and opened the corpse with the other.

Suddenly, the facial features of the corpse were gone, as if it had been licked off by something.

Duan Yi's breathing became heavier suddenly, and he subconsciously raised his gun to aim at it.

Cheng Sheng didn't know when he came to him. He observed the wound on the corpse's face and said, "The diameter of the injured area is more than ten centimeters. The wound is not intermittent. It was caused by an attack. The wound is flat, not a bite mark. It's lick marks."

"What can lick a person's face like this?!" Du Nanrong gasped.

"Most feline tongues are covered with barbs made of keratin, which can scrape the flesh in the bone crevices. But to lick like this... I can't think of anything other than mutant cats " Cheng Sheng said.

"It must still be here." Xu Ying said in a low voice, she looked around and became vigilant.

The saxifrage jumped from Luo Xiaonan's hand to Du Nanrong's shoulder, babbling and dancing its petals—come one to hit one, come two to make a pair!Street bullies are no longer afraid!

Du Nanrong absently picked up the saxifrage twice, and asked: "Then shall we continue on this road, or go back?"

Duan Yi was tossing the walkie-talkie, the walkie-talkie was obviously crushed or broken, and there was some problem with receiving the signal, only intermittent sounds could be heard——

"Search and Rescue...", "We...", "South...",

Lin Qian looked at Duan Yi blankly: "Team Duan, what does this mean? Could it be that a search and rescue team is searching for survivors to gather at the southern base?"

"Or, 'We are in the south, please ask the search and rescue team for support'." Cheng Sheng said.

Lin Qian paused, and had to admit that there was indeed such a possibility.

Two different conjectures lead to completely opposite conclusions.

Unfortunately, the walkie-talkie was not repaired well, no matter how hard I tried, the message I received was still a few words repeated over and over again.

Duan Yi turned on the intercom and replied: "Got it, please confirm the situation, does the southern base need support?"

"...the south...someone..."

There was still an intermittent sound from the intercom, and it seemed that it stopped abruptly before he finished speaking.

Duan Yi glanced at the walkie-talkie in his hands, it was obvious that the one in their hands had completely gone on strike.

He put aside the walkie-talkie and looked at the others: "Let's go to the south. There may be some situations and survivors there. Maybe we can figure out what happened here and where the others went."

No one objected.

Duan Yi took away all the ammunition from the corpse, and they continued to move forward.

Du Jingshu followed closely beside Du Nanrong with some fear, and couldn't help looking into the rooms on both sides of the corridor.

It was a dark room with no lights, and there were transparent glass walls on both sides of the corridor. Only the faint light from the corridor could shine into the room, but it was hard to see the situation inside.

It is such a vague and hazy vision, the appearance of what can be seen but not clearly, that makes people unable to restrain their observation and arouse undue curiosity.

The corridor was not wide, and they almost walked side by side in a row. The doctor, Luo Xiaonan, and Du Jingshu were surrounded in the middle, forming a safe protection circle.

Du Jingshu was walking on the side close to the glass, and her figure could still be reflected on the transparent and reflective glass mirror.

Du Jingshu just thought it looked even weirder.

She took a deep breath and forced herself not to look at the glass wall next to her.

But even so, she still couldn't help glancing to the side from the corner of her eye.

As he walked, Du Jingshu paused suddenly, his pupils shrank, he turned his head to look to the side, and gasped in horror.

On the glass beside her, not only her face was mirrored, but another human face was just stuck to the glass, looking at her without moving.

Duan Yi reacted very quickly and raised his gun to aim, and the infrared beam was precisely aimed at the center of the man's forehead.

"Is that an infected person?" Du Jingshu was so frightened that he almost cried, and asked with a trembling voice, and couldn't help leaning in the middle.

Cheng Sheng saw that the man was extremely quiet, he didn't move at all, he didn't go crazy like an infected person who smelled flesh and blood.

The man's face was blue, the corners of the mouth were dark, the pupils were dilated, the corneas of the eyes were cloudy, and the conjunctiva of the eyes were shrunk, showing yellow-gray triangular spots. Seeing this, Cheng Sheng shook his head slightly and said, "It's not an infected person." , but is dead."

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't expect the man to move suddenly, which made Du Jingshu jump reflexively.

"The uninfected dead can still move?!" Lin Qian pointed his gun sharply, and his voice changed a little.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a slightly huge figure approaching from behind the man.

Strangely, they hadn't even seen what was behind that figure before.

It was a gigantic lizard that stood a man's height—at least it looked like a lizard.

It reveals a pair of cold, emotionless animal pupils, and strange eyes without lids that can rotate 360 ​​degrees separately.

It kept turning its eyes, as if looking for something.

Cheng Sheng ordered everyone not to move in a low voice.

It didn't seem to see them, at first it just approached the corpse, patted the corpse's head with one paw, and aimed at itself.

It sticks out its tongue quickly.

The large lizard had a big tongue, about ten centimeters in length, and the top was like a mass of yellow pustules, which suddenly stuck to the face of the corpse, then retracted, and easily tore something off.

It opened its unwavering eyes, and left the corpse behind after finishing its "meal", and the huge figure disappeared into the dark again.

The corpse was photographed back in front of the glass mirror by the big lizard, and everyone saw that the face on the corpse had no facial features, just like the one Duan Yi discovered earlier.

"It wasn't licked away... it was glued away..." Du Nanrong murmured.

"The tongue of a lizard is usually twice the length of the body. The tongue is hollow and very elastic. There is mucus at the end of the head, which is used for hunting." Cheng Sheng was also shocked.

He murmured, "The lizard can pull prey half its own weight. Such strength and abnormally sticky mucus can indeed do such damage..."

"Where did it go? Didn't it see us?" Du Jingshu asked.

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a rustling sound above their heads, the "sizzling" sound of claws scratching the iron sheet of the ventilation duct, and the sound of heavy objects colliding, which made people's scalp numb.

Cheng Sheng looked up at the ceiling above his head, where there were ventilation ducts, and no one knew where the lizard would go.

He answered Du Jingshu's question: "Lizards, like frogs, rely on dynamic vision capture. We are motionless in front of it, and it is like air to it."

"It moves through the ventilation duct." Zhang Jiuzhang whispered.