Ancient Invasion [End Times]

The 130th and second day after the invasion [First update] "It's a sand monkey!"

Looking in the direction of Du Nanrong's finger, everyone saw the little bulge.

Duan Yi and the others retreated at the same time, and ordered a few curious people who couldn't help approaching to back down.

The second after Duan Yi's voice fell, out of the bulge were insects with teeth and claws, about the size of a palm, with a sand-gray carapace, a spindle-like body, a small and flat head, and a pair of mouthparts. Jaws like double thorns.

"It's a sand monkey!" shouted a local in the crowd.

"Great sand monkey!"

After the bulge exploded, sand monkeys jumped out of the bulge one by one.

What makes people a little creepy is that these things actually walk backwards. Groups of sand monkeys spread out around, some ran towards the crowd, and some rushed towards the beef cattle and camels. The human scalp is numb.

"Doctor! Team Duan!" Lin Qian and Xu Ying ran back with Luo Xiaonan and Du Jingshu, and they asked out of breath, "What's going on? There are such bugs everywhere!"

As soon as the words were finished, a big yellow dog let out a miserable scream, like a broken trumpet, which shocked everyone to look over.

I saw dozens of palm-sized sand monkeys crawling on the body of the big yellow dog.

The sand monkey's mouthparts were inserted into the big yellow dog's body, and the big yellow dog shriveled up little by little visible to the naked eye, and finally it seemed to be sucked dry, leaving only an empty skeleton and fur.

Du Nanrong took a deep breath: "What the hell is a sand monkey?!"

"The scientific name is antlion, the larva of antlion." Cheng Sheng said, he said quickly, "It is carnivorous, usually only two to three centimeters in size, and only catches some small insects."

"The antlion is very smart. It will dig sand pits to make a funnel-shaped trap. When the prey approaches, it will continuously dig the sand and gravel in the bomb crater to form quicksand, and the prey will be brought into the antlion's jaw by the quicksand and sucked. Cheng Sheng said, "But they rarely crawl out to attack like this."

"Smoking?" Du Nanrong's scalp was numb from the word doctor.

"After they bite their prey, they will inject digestive juices, suck the prey dry, and then throw the prey out of the bunker." Cheng Sheng explained, looking at the ant lions that fell off their bodies automatically after eating.

The antlion dug the soil under the sandpit on the spot, and got in again.

Seeing this, Chen Nan's pupils shrank severely.

"They're coming towards us! Be careful!" Someone shouted beside him, and just as he finished speaking, an antlion suddenly jumped on his face.

The man fell down screaming, and soon the second, third... more antlions rushed towards him.

Someone next to him tried to save him at first, but when he saw so many ant lions pounced on him, he ran away in fright.

Seeing this, Duan Yi and Lin Qian hurried over, chopping off the ant lion's belly and back with a knife and axe, spattering blue blood.

No antlion dared to approach Duan Yi again.

In the chaos, they managed to remove the antlion clamped on the man, and saw the man staring at a pair of bloodshot red eyes, his pupils were dilated, and blood was bleeding from his ears and nose.

He made a "ho ho" sound, stretched out his hand to Duan Yi, and tremblingly grabbed his chest: "...help me..."

Duan Yi violently tore off the man's clothes, and saw four or five ant lions get into his coat, lying on the man's chest, eating tirelessly.

When Duan Yi chopped down those ant lions, he saw that there were many finger-sized blood holes on the man's chest, and the surrounding flesh and blood were all corroded into pus and liquid-like rotten flesh, with a foul smell.

Lin Qian took one look and then looked away.

"It's hopeless." Chen Nan rushed over. He glanced at the man, took a deep breath, and swung his knife to chop off the man's head.

Du Nanrong's eyes widened slightly, and when he remembered that he should cover Luo Xiaonan's eyes, the little guy had already seen everything he should see and what he shouldn't.

Even Du Nanrong knew that even if that person lived, he would suffer in vain, but seeing Chen Nan chop off the head of a living person directly with his hand, the shock was still a bit big.

Standing beside Du Nanrong, Zhang Jiuzhang said upon seeing this, "He was bitten by the mutated bug. If he doesn't solve it, he will become one of those infected people sooner or later. This is the best."

Du Nanrong knew that what Zhang Jiuzhang said was right, he pursed his lips and nodded.

Cheng Sheng notified Chen Nan to call for fire to drive them away, and asked Chen Nan to ask if someone had brought something unusual back to the station these two days.

This kind of ant lion's movement speed is not fast, and its body is a bit bulky. If it wasn't caught off guard at the beginning, it could still handle it completely.

When Chen Nan heard the words, he immediately called someone to roll over a barrel of oil, wrapped the clothes of the infected person on the camel thorns, soaked it in oil, lit it on fire, and suddenly the surrounding area was lit up into a sea of ​​flames.

Creatures in the desert generally have the instinct to avoid high temperatures, and the ant lion is no exception. I saw the ant lions near the sea of ​​fire burrowed into the sand and gravel, leaving only a small sand pit.

Chen Nan saw that the effect was excellent, and immediately called for someone to push the line of fire away.

Then he called a few people who had left the station in the past two days to question him.

"I... I caught two sand roe deer and brought them back." Someone said.

Cheng Sheng waved his hand: "Not this one."

"I moved a cactus and planted it in front of my house...I want to ask Nuozhuoci to help me build a fence, could it be this one?" Someone asked anxiously and guiltily.

Nodroci was the young man standing on the camel's spine.

Cheng Sheng took a look and shook his head.

"Oh, by the way, didn't Asana dig several buckets of mud just to grow date palms? He said this kind of mud has the best nutrients." Someone thought of it and immediately said.

Arsana jumped up and said: "I only dug the mud back, so I didn't bring back that kind of thing!"

"Take me to have a look." Cheng Sheng said.

Asana looked at Cheng Sheng and nodded.

The little old man led Cheng Sheng to a date palm tree.

Pointing to the date palm tree that has not yet been dug up, he said with a strong accent, "This is it."

Cheng Sheng squatted down, picked up the shovel on the side and turned over the soil twice, and saw many empty shells of ants and flies mixed in the soil.

Arsana pointed to the empty shells and said, "These insect shells are good for date palm trees. We used this soil to grow trees before, and there was never any problem."

Cheng Sheng stood up and said to Chen Nan: "Clear away all the mud, and this tree also needs to be transplanted, and the bottom must be filled with fire to smoke out all the ant lions that got in."

Azunna was a little anxious: "Is it really my fault? You can do this all the time..."

"These insect shells are the carcasses of the insects eaten by the ant lion. So many insect shells are gathered here, which means that the area you shoveled is the hunting range of the ant lion." Cheng Sheng looked at the little old man.

"The digestive juices and secretions left by ant lions in the sand and gravel soil will send out odor signals, leaving wrong signals to ant lions, thinking that this is also their hunting range." He said, pointing to the ground to open "Those ant lions came here following the smell, and the smell must be eliminated, whether it is smoked or flooded."

Nobody pays for water in the desert.

Chen Nan glanced at Cheng Sheng when he heard the words, and asked suspiciously: "It's these mud... that attracted so many ant lions? The place where Asana found these muds is not too far from the station, but there has never been a case where the station was destroyed. The things they attacked."

Cheng Sheng looked at him coldly: "Then what do you mean? What are you implying?"

Chen Nan paused: "Dr. Cheng Sheng, I just want to determine the cause and prevent such accidents from happening again."

"Antlions are carnivorous insects that feed on small insects. They make traps to catch prey that are smaller than them, instead of attacking them directly as they do now. In layman's terms, humans are not on their diet, understand. Is it?" Cheng Sheng looked at him.

Chen Nan frowned.

At the same time, Cheng Sheng pointed to the young man standing near the camel thorn, "That boy, is his name Nuozhuoci?"

Chen Nan nodded.

Cheng Sheng continued, speaking very quickly: "The gene he awakened is likely to be some kind of animal that is parasitic with plants. His ability may be related to pheromones. Under the fusion of viruses, it can stimulate the growth of plants. The mutation is also very likely to have an impact on the animals, causing the disorder of the antlion, and the attack mode has changed."

Chen Nan understood.

To put it simply, they got together by accident.

"Is it safe after the mud and the ant lions underneath are all driven away?" Chen Nan asked.

"Ant lions usually drill into the sand and gravel at a depth of five to ten centimeters. However, these ant lions are extraordinarily large, and the depth of penetration has to be doubled accordingly. I suggest that the bottom of these sand pits must be deodorized, otherwise they will It is very likely that they will come back," Cheng Sheng said.

Chen Nan responded, this is a big project, but they have a lot of people, and they have the whole daytime, so they can only do this one thing.

Chen Nan took a deep breath, it doesn't matter, they can still handle it.

"Those antlions are gone!" Someone came to inform Chen Nan, "The infected people are gone too. But our people are dead..."

Chen Nan showed joy, and interrupted the man: "That's great! I survived another night."

Cheng Sheng frowned and glanced at Chen Nan, and looked away before Chen Nan turned his head to look.

He turned to the direction outside the wall of the camel thorn, and saw Duan Yi striding towards him with blood on his body.

Duan Yi was covered in blood, and the saber in his hand was dripping with blood, which made Cheng Sheng startled.

"It's not my blood." Duan Yi whispered, soothing the doctor.

He looked at Chen Nan, his face was slightly cold, and he said in a deep voice, "Chen Nan, come with me."

Chen Nan looked at Shang Duan Yi, and for some reason, he felt a sudden shock in his heart.

As soon as Chen Nan came over, Duan Yi grabbed Chen Nan by the collar, grabbed the man and strode aside, and pressed him against the dirt wall.

With the sound of "哐", Chen Nan was stunned for a moment, and the soil on the wall fell down.

"Where did you lock up the other awakened evolutionaries?" Duan Yi asked.

Chen Nan's face changed slightly, and he asked calmly, "What evolutionary? Who evolved?"

"I heard their voices." Duan Yi looked coldly.

Chen Nan was taken aback: "How is it possible?"

Cheng Sheng's ears twitched. Hearing this, he raised his foot and was about to walk over, but was stopped by Lin Qian and Xu Ying.

"Doctor, wait a minute, let Team Duan come." Xu Ying whispered.

Lin Qian whispered to Cheng Sheng, "I was at the other end just now, and when I was fighting ant lions with those people, I heard them saying that it would be great if someone was here. I asked them who they were talking about, and those people immediately I dare not speak any more."

Xu Ying nodded, and she said, "It's the same situation here. At the end, I saw that they were still robbing the ant lion's body on the ground. It seems that this can be exchanged for something from Chen Nan."

Cheng Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard the words, and a dark light flashed in his eyes, and he understood what Chen Nan was doing almost instantly: "What can I exchange for the ant lion's body? It's for supplies. Distribution according to work."

Xu Ying reacted.

"It's a good idea." Cheng Sheng squinted his eyes slightly, met Xu Ying's puzzled gaze, raised his eyebrows and asked, "With limited supplies, do you still have to support idlers? In this way, no matter men, women or children, they will be mobilized." Development and construction, very good."

Xu Ying nodded thoughtfully.

"It's just that it depends on whether he has the ability to improve the system, otherwise it will be chaotic sooner or later." Cheng Sheng twitched his lips.

He looked at Chen Nan who was blocked by Duan Yi in the corner, and said pointedly: "In addition to the idea of ​​distribution according to work, it seems that he has hidden some other careful thoughts."

Lin Qian nodded slightly: "It's okay, there is a team around, and any secret can be forced out."