Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.20 seven days after the invasion

Xu Ying helped to put the box of Du Nanrong's things on the truck box, and stretched out his hand to pull Du Nanrong up.

The man distanced himself somewhat awkwardly, and nodded embarrassedly at Xu Ying.

Lin Qian laughed, pointed at Xu Ying and said, "This is my sister Ying. In terms of close combat, I can hardly beat her."

Luo Xiaonan and Du Nanrong looked at Xu Ying in unison.

Xu Ying said: "Team Duan can beat it."

"Duan team is not included in the scope of comparison." Lin Qian twitched the corner of his mouth, this was a comparison between ordinary people, there was no need to bring in Duan team.

Listening to their chat, Cheng Sheng was a little interested and asked, "How good is Duan Yi?"

"Team Duan..." Lin Qian thought for a moment, then shook his head, "It's hard to say. Some reports and results of Team Duan are sealed. I only know that he went out with Team Long in the earliest days. He returned to the courtyard later. Stand by."

He glanced at Duan Yi who was driving. Duan Yi also drove a car like Junjika very smoothly.

Lin Qian said: "However, I heard from people in the team that when Team Duan went out, the mission completion rate was almost 100%. No matter how impossible the mission sounds, there is nothing he can't do. In addition, Duan Squad members of the team also had the highest mission survival rate."

"almost?"

Lin Qian nodded and lowered his voice: "I heard that it was Duan's last field mission before returning to the compound to garrison."

"It's hard to say whether the task was completed or not, and no one said it. I only know that Duan Duan suddenly appeared at the gate that day, covered in blood, and pulled a cart behind him. It's the kind of tricycle with wooden boards. They were all members of the team that went on that mission," Lin Qian said.

"All dead?" Du Nanrong couldn't help asking.

Lin Qian glanced at him and shook his head: "When you came back, you were all alive. Within two days after you came back, two died, and three survived, becoming lunatics."

Du Nanrong took a deep breath.

"No one knows what they saw to make a person with extraordinary perseverance become like this." Lin Qian said, shaking his head, "Anyway, that matter has become an unsolved case, an unsolved mystery."

As soon as he finished speaking, before he could take a few breaths, Duan Yi called their names from the cab: "Lin Qian, Xu Ying, come here, there is something wrong."

Lin Qian was taken aback, and quickly responded with a guilty conscience: "Team Duan is here!"

After he finished shouting, he raised his index finger at several people and booed: "Don't ask Duan Duan. Although it is not something that is not allowed to talk about, but... it is not a good thing either."

Du Nanrong nodded vigorously.

He really didn't expect that he would know such a private news as soon as he got in the car.

"Duan Duan, what's the matter?" Xu Ying asked, looking forward.

Duan Yi stopped the car, pointed to a street tens of meters ahead, all the shops on both sides were covered by green vegetation, he said: "See that over there? The hardware store we are going to is one of them between."

Lin Qian paused when he saw this, then retreated into the back compartment, and said to Cheng Sheng, "Doctor, we have encountered a problem."

Cheng Sheng heard that he slid the wheelchair over and looked out the window.

The green vegetation all over the street, the ground was covered with a thick layer of green leafy vegetation and rhizomes, which pierced through the concrete floor and drilled straight out.

"The green vegetation looks different from the ones in the botanical garden." Lin Qian swallowed and said.

He stared helplessly at a place tens of meters away, a plant stretched out a thick and long rhizome, and rolled towards a BYD car parked in the middle of the road. It was almost just a contraction, and he saw that the iron sheet was like thin paper. , easily rolled into a tube.

"It looks a bit familiar..." Du Nanrong also came over at some point, looking at the flamboyant green plants outside the door of his store, he murmured.

"Familiar?" Lin Qian turned to look at Du Nanrong, "You look familiar with such a big tree...?"

"I know what you mean, but it's true... I look familiar..." Du Nanrong pursed his lips.

"Where is your shop?" Duan Yi asked, he turned off the engine and picked up the equipment, "We need to walk the rest of the way."

The target of the army collection card is too big, but it is not as easy to dodge as they walk.

Du Nanrong pointed to behind the huge plant, and the four-character signboard of Nanrong Hardware was crumbling: "It's right behind it."

Lin Qian: "..."

"The doctor and Luo Xiaonan stay in the car, accompanied by Xu Ying, turn on the walkie-talkie, and drive to meet us at any time." Duan Yi counted the things he carried with him, and while giving instructions, he assembled a submachine gun.

"Got it." Xu Ying replied.

"Lin Qian and I will cover your entry into the store, and retreat immediately after getting the tools you need, understand?" Duan Yi looked at Du Nanrong.

Du Nanrong nodded.

"Very good." Duan Yi nodded, looked at Lin Qian again, and stretched out his hand to press Lin Qian's pistol arm, "Try not to shoot unless it is absolutely necessary."

"Understood, Team Duan." Lin Qian replied.

"Okay, let's go."

Cheng Sheng and Xu Ying stayed in the car, watching Duan Yi and Lin Qian walking forward with Du Nanrong in the middle. The thick branches and leaves under their feet moved a little. Shrunk back.

"This is saxifrage." Cheng Sheng pointed to a place not far away where the roots and leaves were obviously broken, but it seemed that it had started to grow rapidly as an independent plant.

"Saxifrage can reproduce by dividing leaves. Its reproductive ability is very strong and it is easy to survive." Cheng Sheng said, "Not to mention how its growth ability will change under the influence of the virus."

Xu Ying looked at the plants outside. Hearing what the doctor said, it was as if the roots and leaves could live in the soil.

She listened to the doctor continue to describe the characteristics of the plant, which corresponded one-to-one with the giant tree in front of her, but all the characteristics had to be enlarged countless times——

The original version of saxifrage has slender whip stolons, densely covered with curly long glandular hairs, leaves are nearly heart-shaped, the apex is either blunt or acute, while the base is nearly round or heart-shaped, and the leaves are pale white pinnate sequence.

The mother plant of saxifrage in front of me is about the size of a storefront.

The branches are thick and long, about as wide as an adult's waist.

The curly long hair on the top is nearly white, it looks like crochet needles, and it is not soft.

The leaves are about the size of a small bench.

The pinnate veins on the leaves are more like blue veins protruding from the muscles, which is particularly ferocious.

……

Xu Ying looked at Cheng Sheng, wondering why the doctor seemed a little excited.

Immediately afterwards, she heard Cheng Sheng continue to say: "The whole herb of saxifrage can be used as medicine, and it is a very common and basic detoxification herb. Venomous insect stings, traumatic bleeding, cold and lung fever... when there is a shortage of medical supplies, it is very effective. big."

Xu Ying was a little surprised, he really couldn't see the effect of this big guy with his teeth and claws in front of him.

But looking at it like this, it doesn't look like it can be brought back by picking up a leaf.

"Team Duan and the others went in smoothly." Xu Ying looked at the situation outside and was a little happy. The giant saxifrage didn't seem to block them from attacking them.

Cheng Sheng nodded.

He didn't feel any active aggressiveness from this saxifrage plant, and even the behavior of rolling up the private car like just now, he also vaguely felt that it was a possessive desire similar to "cleaning the door". as its own property.

Cheng Sheng felt a little inconceivable for the humanized emotion of this plant.

Also feeling incredible is Du Nanrong.

Under the cover of Duan Yi and Lin Qian, he quickly ran into the store.

His keys didn't work, and the storefront windows were shattered, and they went in through the opening.

When he saw a potted plant that was originally placed on the cashier counter shattered to pieces, he suddenly realized where the familiarity came from.

The huge flamboyant plant outside seems to be a small potted plant he bought casually before?

The shopkeeper at the flower and bird market told him that it can detoxify and absorb formaldehyde, which is very good for life.As soon as he opened the shop, he bought it because he thought it could absorb formaldehyde. When he was bored, he also removed moss and so on.

Du Nanrong swallowed, looked past the broken clay pot and didn't say much. After quickly finding all the things he needed, he took a small cart and packed them in one go.

"Find everything, you can go." Du Nanrong said.

"Okay, let's retreat."

Du Nanrong followed closely behind Duan Yi and Lin Qian, walking carefully step by step.

He saw that there was a lot of space in the trolley, so when he retreated, he conveniently stuffed all the things on the shelf next to it, regardless of whether it was useful or not.

"Wait a minute, Captain Duan, look at that plant, is it following us?" Lin Qian whispered suddenly.

Duan Yi glanced back and frowned.

"This...it's actually a potted plant I raised before...just a small grass...I didn't expect it to become like this." Du Nanrong heard what Lin Qian said, and looked back, although he didn't see any signs of keeping up , but still explained, a little sorry, "I have caused trouble for everyone."

"Why are you apologizing? It's not you who made it grow so big." Lin Qian said, "But it's really following us...is it cunning??"

After Lin Qian spoke, his voice suddenly rose, and his tone changed.

He looked at the huge grass in disbelief, and seemed to try to hide himself in other storefronts after noticing the way they looked back frequently.

Lin Qian heard a loud bang of glass shattering, and another store's glass shattered.

His expression cracked, and he vaguely understood why Du Nanrong's store looked like it had been robbed, even though nothing was lost.

Duan Yi looked at Du Nanrong thoughtfully, Duan Yi was shocked by Duan Yi's look, and immediately waved his hands blankly and innocently: "I don't know anything."

"Go ahead and ignore it for the time being." Duan Yi said, "Lin Qian and I walked on the left and right sides, and Du Nanrong walked in the middle to create distance."

"Received the team." Lin Qian immediately ran to the street on the right, keeping a distance of three or four meters from Du Nanrong.

Although Du Nanrong didn't know why, he followed Duan Yi's order and obediently ran in the middle.

They ran all the way back to the collection card. Duan Yi glanced behind him. The huge saxifrage that had been hidden in the shop on the far right street ran out quietly again, and followed behind Du Nanrong, keeping a close distance. .

Seeing Duan Yi looking back, the two leaves on the grass trembled twice, and he squatted on the spot, pretending to be the same as the big green tree next to him.

Duan Yi narrowed his eyes and said nothing.

When the three of them got into the car, Duan Yi glanced at the rearview mirror, and the saxifrage tree followed as expected.

"Duan Que, it's following!" Xu Ying took a light breath.

Cheng Sheng looked over and saw the big saxifrage approaching them cautiously, with its emerald green and thick leaves stretching towards them, looking eager to get closer.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, the saxifrage in front of him hardly sent any communication signals, so he couldn't communicate and control anything, but what he was sure of was that this big tree had no intention of attacking them.

Duan Yi looked at Du Nanrong: "It followed you."

Du Nanrong was stunned, and pointed to himself: "Follow me?"

He looked at the saxifrage tree and opened his mouth slightly.

While speaking, the saxifrage plant had moved in front of them, and it still kept a few meters of space with great restraint, but its huge branches, leaves and rhizomes still seemed to block out the sun, making their military truck shrouded in shadow.

The saxifrage tremblingly stretched out a leaf towards Du Nanrong.

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