Ancient Invasion [End Times]

160 Seventh day after the invasion

Du Jingshu shook the pink and flesh-colored beard-like thing on the back of his hand, and frowned with disgust.

It's like a long and thin rubber band, soaked in water and tied together, and the surrounding thin strips are still floating on the water.

Cheng Sheng noticed Du Jingshu's movements. After seeing what was on the back of the little girl's hand, he frowned slightly, and immediately grabbed Du Jingshu's wrist.

The little girl was taken aback, and looked at Cheng Sheng: "What's wrong with the doctor?"

"Where did you get it?" Cheng Sheng asked.

Du Jingshu shook his head and said, "It was stained in the water, and I saw it as soon as I stretched out my hand."

She paused for a moment, then reacted immediately, goosebumps raised her arms, and asked, holding back her nausea, "Isn't this some kind of wrapped rubber band?"

The "rubber band" ran along the back of Du Jingshu's hand, trying to drill somewhere, but couldn't find a gap.

Du Jingshu stopped to notice the movement, and his scalp exploded.

Duan Yi handed Cheng Sheng a dagger, and lifted the "rubber band" on the back of Du Jingshu's hand.

The "elastic band" has been soaked in water for a while, and it looks like it has been rehydrated and plumped up.

Du Nanrong leaned over and shone a flashlight on it.

Under the irradiance of the light, the long and coiled "elastic tube" of the beard actually has a flowing texture.

Du Nanrong swallowed, looked at Cheng Sheng: "Doctor, this is..."

A cluster of cyan flames instantly wrapped around the tangled tendons, burning nothing left in the blink of an eye.

Cheng Sheng said: "The parasites that previously parasitized some of the passengers on this cruise ship are parasitic noodle worms that are very common in the ocean."

"When we checked the cabin and found them, they had already dried up due to lack of water. We cleared all the rest areas of the cabin, but we didn't expect that there were still fish that slipped through the net." Duan Yi said coldly.

At that time, he thought that the water-deficient and shriveled parasites were dead, but he didn't expect them to have such strong vitality.

"Usually such parasites are not very harmful to the human body. They exist in the stomachs and mouths of various fish, and may even get out of the fish belly and cause the death of the fish." Cheng Sheng explained as he walked forward into the water.

"Parasitic fish are eaten by humans, and cross-infection will occur, but the exaggerated situation of those passengers will not appear in the human body." Cheng Sheng said, "This ship will become like this because there is a virus infection here. source."

"A virus-infected person who is also a carrier of the parasite appeared on this cruise ship. The virus causes the parasite to mutate."

"The mutated parasites appeared on other passengers through the cross-infection of various cup saliva in the early stage. The cross-infection of viruses and parasites led to more and more serious parasitic infections on the entire cruise ship."

"When Duan Yi and I were inspecting the cruise ship, we had already cleaned up the cabins in the rest area, but there may still be fish that slipped through the net." Cheng Sheng said.

Duan Yi said: "The third floor is the hardest-hit area, we will pass there soon, if anyone finds strange phenomena, immediately sound a warning."

Du Jingshu nodded, remembering that when they got on the boat, Captain Duan and the doctor had issued a warning that that area was designated as a restricted area that they must not approach, but they did not expect that now that area became a section of road they had to walk.

Sitting on Lin Qian's shoulder, Luo Xiaonan responded softly, "Nan Nan will also pay attention."

The little guy's face was still pale, and his wet clothes were sticking to his body. The adults felt cold, let alone a child, but right now there was no better condition.

Stepping into the cabin on the third floor, the water level drops below the waist, and the resistance to movement is much smaller.

This makes people relax their vigilance.

"The water level has dropped, does that mean we still have time? The place isn't flooded too much?" Lin Qian asked.

Duan Yi nodded slightly: "However, when the speed was originally estimated, the third floor should not be flooded."

"The slide pipeline in the Ultimate Abyss saved us a lot of time. Without that small explosion, neither here nor the fourth floor would be flooded." Cheng Sheng interfaced.

Xu Ying took a light breath: "Then how much time do we have left?"

"It doesn't make much sense to count the time." Cheng Sheng looked at Xu Ying, "Whether there will be another explosion in a certain part of the cruise ship, speeding up the sinking of the cruise ship."

Xu Ying's face became ugly, she nodded: "Understood."

"Sister Xu Ying, you are bleeding again." Du Jingshu looked at Xu Ying, opened her eyes slightly, and reminded in a low voice.

Hearing this, Xu Ying looked down and saw that the gauze on her shoulder was blushing again because of the wound.

Xu Ying tied the gauze a little tighter, waved her hands and said it was all right.

Luo Xiaonan looked at Xu Ying, leaned over slightly, put his palm lightly on Xu Ying's shoulder, and asked in a low voice, "Why is my sister's wound healing so slowly?"

Xu Ying couldn't help laughing. It takes a period of time for a wound like this to heal. How can it heal so quickly.

But Xu Ying thought it was the child's concern and worry, and said casually with a smile: "It's okay, I just broke free, and it's almost over."

Luo Xiaonan nodded, frowning his pale eyebrows.

The entire third-floor cabin was silent, pots and pans floating on the water, occasionally bumping into each other would make a crisp sound.

In the third-floor area listed as a restricted zone by Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng, there was not a trace of extra creatures, not even the parasites that Du Jingshu got on the back of his hand before.

As if everything had calmed down, Duan Yi and his party were the only living creatures left on the huge cruise ship.

They passed a corner, and the safety passage was blocked by various building rails because of the overturning, and the group had to make a detour to the second floor.

As soon as the passage door on the corridor on the second floor was pushed open, a large amount of seawater rushed in, and the situation of no water was unexpectedly serious.

Lin Qian's heart skipped a beat: "Why is the second floor more serious than the third?"

The flow speed of the water is also obviously different from that of the three-story cabin, and it is so turbulent that it is like a torrent rushing down from a mountain stream, and it hurts when it hits people.

"Ah, Brother Captain! Look over there! There's a hole! Water is running in from the hole!" Luo Xiaonan was riding on Lin Qian's shoulders, sitting high and looking far away, and at a glance he could see the quilt covered A hole under the iron railing.

Looking in the direction of Luo Xiaonan's finger, you can see that the water level of the sea is still halfway up the entrance of the cave, and it is not completely submerged in.

"It's the hole from the previous explosion." Cheng Sheng's eyes darkened.

The hole is about half the size of a bed, no wonder the flooding here is so serious.

"The other end is the compartment area, the cabin door is automatically sealed, the flooding situation must be much better!" Du Nanrong pointed to a sign not far away, which marked the eight accommodation areas from abcd to h. The hatch is blocked.

They took the captain's pass from the captain's cabin and were able to manually unlock all hatch areas.

Duan Yi glanced at the sign and compared it with the structural blueprint in his hand: "Let's go to Area H, which is the closest to the escape route on the first floor. If the escape route cannot be passed, the bottom of the cabin is next to it."

"receive."

Area H is on their right, separated by two area hatches.

Du Nanrong followed behind the team, and finally turned his head to look at the hole opened by the explosion.

The seawater rushing in near the entrance of the cave formed an extremely fast vortex, and the bed quilts floating nearby were all sucked into it.

Du Nanrong took a deep breath, without any doubt that after being sucked into the vortex, he might not even have the strength to struggle.

In the turbulent water, he vaguely saw several ripples rushing out of the vortex and pouring in from the hole.

Du Nanrong frowned, subconsciously wanted to get closer to the other end, and looked more carefully, but suddenly someone grabbed the collar of his back.

Du Nanrong turned his head to look, and saw Zhang Jiuzhang staring at him impatiently.

"Don't fall behind, keep up." Zhang Jiuzhang said.

Du Nanrong loosened his collar and muttered: "I know, I just feel like I saw something."

"What did you see?" Zhang Jiuzhang asked.

Du Nanrong: "...Isn't it because I didn't see clearly that you dragged me back when I wanted to take a closer look?"

Zhang Jiuzhang rolled his eyes to the sky: "Then it's up to me?"

Du Nanrong said in his heart, isn't that right?

The two chattered, you said something and I said something, and walked quickly to keep up with the large army.

"Du Gong! Hurry up! The door is closed!" Lin Qian shouted at the other end, and the group had already reached the door of the hatch.

Du Nanrong quickly responded and speeded up.

Zhang Jiuzhang followed Du Nanrong closely.

As he walked past the hatch, he turned his head and glanced thoughtfully at the water behind him.

The water level at the hole had risen by nearly a quarter, and waves lapped around the cabin.

Even the seaweed balls that surrounded the hull before were photographed into the cabin in circles.

He withdrew his gaze, frowning and striding to keep up with the team in front of him.

No one noticed that ripples followed closely behind them and followed into the hatch.

As they expected, the second floor was not completely submerged. Except for a hole that was blasted on the outside, the water level in the sealed cabin was not high, but it reached the knees of people.

As Xu Ying was walking, she suddenly let out a "huh", and suddenly covered the wound on her shoulder, as if something had been knocked into her bones, and she couldn't help but bend down in pain.

Cheng Sheng immediately called Duan Yi to stop, and walked quickly to Xu Ying's side.

Lin Qian hurriedly put Luo Xiaonan down and asked Du Jingshu to look after him. He grabbed a plastic children's chair floating on the water and asked Xu Ying to sit down.

Cheng Sheng unwrapped the gauze on Xu Ying's shoulder. The fibers of the gauze stuck to the dried blood and flesh, and when it was torn off, Xu Ying frowned slightly, but did not hum.

When Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng saw the wound on Xu Ying's shoulder, their pupils shrank slightly and they looked at each other.

Du Nanrong and Zhang Jiuzhang came closer to look at it, and Du Nanrong gasped: "What the hell is this?!"

Xu Ying gritted her teeth and looked over, her face turned pale with nausea.

At the wound, a pinkish-white beard-like slender thing squirmed and squirmed in the flesh of the wound.

The skin of the wound has almost no obvious tactile sensation. It is estimated that the body fluid secreted by that thing has a certain anesthesia ability.

Duan Yi said in a deep voice, "I'll pick out the bugs first."

Xu Ying nodded with a pale face: "Good team."

Cheng Sheng glanced at Duan Yi and said in a low voice, "Part of the parasite may have penetrated deep into the wound, so be careful not to tear it when you pick it out."

Duan Yi responded, pulled out the dagger, and used Cheng Sheng's flame to roast it twice to disinfect it.

Cheng Sheng touched Xu Ying's forehead and said softly, "It will hurt, bear with it."

He stuffed the flashlight horizontally into Xu Ying's mouth to prevent Xu Ying from biting his tongue in pain when Duan Yi cut the knife.

Xu Ying looked at the doctor, nodded and smiled.

Zhang Jiuzhang and Du Nanrong held Xu Ying's body.

Duan Yi glanced at Xu Ying, and the sharp edge of the dagger lightly cut the skin near Xu Ying's wound.

The slender parasite wriggled in Xu Ying's flesh, and Du Nanrong couldn't help showing a painful expression.

Xu Ying clenched her fists violently and almost jumped up from the chair.Zhang Jiuzhang and Du Nanrong tried their best to hold her down.

Duan Yi picked out the parasite accurately. The parasite looked very thin and small, but he didn't expect that the part that penetrated it was so long, almost as long as a finger, which made people's scalp numb.

After being lifted from Xu Ying's body, the slender and wriggling worm body immediately curled up on the blade, trying to swim away quickly.

The flames engulfed the worm on the dagger and fell into the water.

Xu Ying collapsed and gasped for breath with a "hohoho", her whole body ached and she was sweating.

Cheng Sheng stepped forward to check the wound for any residual parasites.

After confirming that it was all removed, Du Jingshu took out the emergency bandaging medicine from the backpack, disinfected it and bandaged it again.

The little girl felt extremely guilty, and felt that she did not bandage Xu Ying's wound well, so that the parasites ran in.

She stayed by Xu Ying's side without saying a word, carefully supporting Xu Ying, her eyes always fixed on Xu Ying's wound.

"I'm fine." Xu Ying licked his lips and said, Du Jingshu immediately brought the water bottle to Xu Ying's mouth.

Xu Ying paused, then took a few sips from the kettle helplessly.

Du Jingshu looked at Xu Ying seriously, and said, "I can't do anything else, just use me as your crutch. You can rely on me to save some strength and make you feel more comfortable."

Xu Ying laughed.

There was no extra time for Xu Ying to recover her strength. Once the wound was bandaged, she had to keep up with the main force and move on.

Even if the cabins are sealed off one by one, the water level is still moving up little by little, and the time is imminent.

They went to the next hatch and opened it with the captain's pass.

No one expected that outside the cabin door, a wall of water crashed towards them.

Everyone was scattered by the water wall, and rolled back uncontrollably in all directions of the cabin area.

The soaring water level sent everyone to this level near the top.

Du Jingshu grabbed the corner of the table that was fixed on the floor nearby, so as not to let herself be washed away with the current.

She saw Xu Ying being rushed towards him with sharp eyes, and immediately released one hand carefully, using the table leg as a safety belt to catch half of her body, and then quickly grabbed Xu Ying.

Xu Ying didn't expect that she would be caught by Du Jingshu, she turned her head and saw the little girl blushing, most of her body was about to fall out between the table legs.

Du Jingshu held Xu Ying tightly, but she still felt that Xu Ying's arm was being loosened little by little. The strength in her hand was too weak.

"Sister Xu Ying, hurry up!" the little girl gritted her teeth and shouted.

Immediately, Xu Ying borrowed his strength, straightened his waist and abdomen, hooked the other side of the table with his instep, twisted his body and turned around beautifully, and got under the table.

The upside-down table looked like a huge plate, containing Xu Ying and Du Jingshu.

Du Jingshu breathed a sigh of relief, and hugged Xu Ying tightly.

"Where are the others?" Du Jingshu asked in a daze.

Xu Ying panted and looked around, surrounded by the muddy sea water rushing in, the others couldn't even see a shadow, and didn't know where they were washed away.