Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.20 Eight Days After the Invasion

Du Nanrong vaguely felt a sense of closeness from the saxifrage in front of him.

He hesitated for a moment, then slowly stretched out his hand, and touched the leaf petals of the saxifrage with his fingers.

Under everyone's gaze, the pale white feathery venation on the leaf petals of the saxifrage was quickly dyed to light pink.

Lin Qian opened his mouth slightly, and muttered softly, "Are you shy or angry?"

Just a second after he finished his sentence, the huge saxifrage shrank to its original normal size suddenly, like a leaking inflatable toy, under the eyes of everyone.

It dragged a cloud of mud with its rhizomes, and slowly moved to Du Nanrong's feet, knocked on the heel of Du Nanrong's sneakers, and stared helplessly—I didn't see such rich emotions—but inexplicably, Du Nanrong just felt that this saxifrage was begging him to take it in.

Du Nanrong was dumbfounded.

"It, it was so big just now..." Du Nanrong pointed at the saxifrage and made a gesture.

Before he finished speaking, the saxifrage shook its leaves, as if it had received some signal, and suddenly began to swell again. Seeing that the thickened rhizome was about to overturn the Junji card, Du Nanrong subconsciously shouted : "Don't get big! Don't get so big!"

The signs of saxifrage swelling stopped immediately.

Du Nanrong was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi in bewilderment.

Cheng Sheng slid a wheelchair and stood beside Du Nanrong, lowered his voice, and said in a warm voice like a guide: "It looks very sensitive and can sense part of your intentions. Now, try to feel its emotions and order it , make it smaller and change back to its original shape."

Du Nanrong felt like he was listening to the Arabian Nights, but he subconsciously believed what the doctor said. He cleared his throat and looked at the trembling saxifrage in front of him.

"...get smaller." Du Nanrong said, and after he finished speaking, he thought of the previous car that was rolled up like a paper tube, and quickly followed up cowardly, explaining, "Otherwise there is no place to put you."

The saxifrage shrinks its leaves, and it shrinks back as expected.

It pulled a lump of mud, like pulling a small quilt, jumped onto the truck box tremblingly, pressed against Du Nanrong, and squatted down, the messy roots squeezed into the small lump of soil Here, it looks a bit pitiful and compromised.

Du Nanrong insisted on judging from the posture of this saxifrage, "weak, helpless and pathetic".

Feeling novelty, Lin Qian stretched out a finger to touch it, but as soon as he stretched it closer, he saw the saxifrage suddenly stretched out its leaves, snapped, and slammed it up.

Lin Qian withdrew his hand abruptly, and his finger immediately became red and swollen.It hurts.

Du Nanrong was taken aback, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

The saxifrage that has been smoked is still shaking its petals, as if in a demonstration.

Lin Qian: "..." It looks harmless, but it's actually quite fierce?

Xu Ying looked at Du Nanrong with a sense of size, and asked after a few seconds: "Why does it follow you?"

"Because I bought it from the flower and bird market?" Du Nanrong rubbed the back of his head, and then told Duan Yilin Qian and the others about the set of "absorbing formaldehyde to detoxify, easy to feed" and other shopkeepers coaxing him to buy saxifrage take it out.

"It's true that detoxification is good for living, but it has nothing to do with absorbing formaldehyde." Cheng Sheng wanted to laugh a little. He looked at the tiger-headed saxifrage plant, gently stretched out his hand, and plucked the leaves twice.

Seeing the doctor stretching out his hand, Lin Qian quickly stopped, fearing that the saxifrage would attack the doctor.

——After all, the doctor has delicate skin and tender flesh, which is different from a big boss like him.

But then, he saw that saxifrage that had slapped him earlier, under the doctor's fingers, obeyed like a fake grass.

Even trembling slightly.

Is it comfortable to touch?

Lin Qian's eyes widened, dissatisfied.

Cheng Sheng smiled, seeing with satisfaction that the saxifrage was suppressed under his might, he gently squeezed the petals as if rewarding him, and withdrew his hand.

He looked at Du Nanrong and the others who were still full of doubts and surprises, and said: "Actually, in ancient times, the plants of the saxifrage family were very huge, towering to the sky, or covering the entire land. Until later, that scene The catastrophe that almost wiped out all ancient creatures came, and some creatures had to change their living conditions in order to survive."

"The integration of huge data can lead to a similar point, the smaller the creature, the easier it is to survive the disaster." Cheng Sheng said.

"They can drill into ground fissures and rock caves, relying on a smaller amount of energy loss to maintain life movement." Cheng Sheng did not explain these theories with more obscure academic viewpoints, he just simply and crudely made it easier for everyone to understand what happened what.

He went on to say: "Until that catastrophe ends naturally, the surviving creatures will come out of the cracked caves and live anew in the new era."

Pointing to the saxifrage, he said, "The appearance you saw earlier is a kind of atavistic phenomenon."

Du Nanrong was a little dazed: "Back to the ancestors?"

"The virus that invaded our world this time is an ancient virus awakened from the glacier, and the virus itself carries certain ancient activation characteristics." Cheng Sheng nodded slightly and explained, "Before, Duan Yi and I have identified the virus this time. Not only does it affect humans, it also affects animals and plants, and this saxifrage, perhaps after being infected with a virus, activated an ancient characteristic gene, resulting in a mutation."

"Then will it still infect us?" Du Nanrong was more concerned about this.

Lin Qian quickly checked to see if his fingers were bleeding.

"There is such a possibility, but so far there has been no case of infection due to plants." Cheng Sheng said, looking at Lin Qian, "Besides, you have no wounds, so the possibility of infection is very small."

Lin Qian breathed a sigh of relief.

Cheng Sheng shook the electronic address book in his hand, which is equivalent to a small handheld computer. He has been exchanging information with people in the Tibetan base, and there has been no case of being attacked by plants so far.

Plants seem to be less aggressive than animals.

"I'll ask Mr. Du to help us install our power grid later." Cheng Sheng said, "I've got all the tools, right?"

Du Nanrong nodded: "I have seen your power grid, is it going to be installed on the outside of the truck?"

"Correct."

"It's very convenient, no problem." Du Nanrong replied, "When will it be installed? Where is it more suitable? I need to drill some holes with an electric drill to fix it. I'm afraid there will be some movement. Those infected people are very sensitive to sound, I'm afraid They will come."

Du Nanrong reminded that this is the experience he gained when he went out to purchase supplies several times before.

Cheng Sheng pointed to the street full of green vegetation in front of him: "Just install it here."

He looked at the saxifrage pretending to be dead in front of him with a smile, stretched out his fingers and flicked the petals of the little thing, and said, "This is its territory, and with its sense of territory, those infected probably won't be able to enter. "

Du Nanrong was skeptical.

It was Lin Qian who nodded thoughtfully: "Indeed, when Team Duan and I covered Du Gong to go in, we didn't meet a single infected person."

Hearing this, Duan Yi started the engine and drove the truck directly into the green street.

The saxifrage leaf petals were shaking, and it dragged the dirt and moved to the door of the carriage, a little pleasantly surprised——

Chirp, chirp, chirp back to my place!

"You just pretend here. If the situation is wrong, there is still Duan team. At worst, run away immediately." Lin Qian patted Du Nanrong on the shoulder and handed him a drill gun.

"Sorry, but what you gave me was a screw gun." Du Nanrong smiled shyly at Lin Qian, stretched his arms with great effort, bypassed Lin Qian, and got the tool he needed.

Lin Qian was taken aside by Xu Ying, don't disturb Du Gong's business.

The sound of the electric drill was noisy, and there seemed to be a little movement around.

I saw the saxifrage that had been naively staying beside Du Nanrong suddenly pumped the ground with its leaflets, and grew wildly. It grew to a height of six or seven meters in one go, and directly covered the military collection card on its leaves. under the flap.

It shakes its petals—it is not allowed to be presumptuous in Lao Tzu's chassis!Smash you to death!

Du Nanrong was so frightened that he almost lost the drill gun in his hand. Duan Yi helped him up, and said lightly, "Don't panic. Speed ​​up."

"Oh yes, received, Team Duan." Du Nanrong responded quickly.

It took two or three hours, and the sun was gradually sinking below the horizon. Du Nanrong finished his work, let out a sigh of relief, and informed Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi: "Doctor, Team Duan, everything is ready."

The saxifrage also shrank back to its original normal size. It shook its petals curiously, trying to reach the iron net.

Du Nanrong quickly picked it up, thought for a while, found a branch on the spot and threw it over, and heard "Ziz" a few times, the branch was printed with scorched marks like a grid.

The saxifrage trembled—humans are really dangerous!

Du Nanrong taught the saxifrage not to be close to the power grid, and felt that he had returned to the time when he was raising a baby a few years ago.

"That's enough, let's go to the Imperial Capital!" Lin Qian jumped into the carriage and let out a sigh of relief.

I'm going back to that place that looks like the end of the world. I don't know if Dijing will be worse than before they left, or will it be better?

"Are you going to the Imperial Capital too?" Du Nanrong was pleasantly surprised.

"Yes." Lin Qian nodded, "We parted ways when we arrived in the Imperial Capital. I wish you to find your daughter."

"Thank you." Du Nanrong nodded, he didn't expect to get a ride all the way to the end this time, so he couldn't help but feel a lot more relaxed.

It was still Duan Yi who drove and headed towards the outskirts of the city surrounded by vegetation.

"By the way, you don't look like you are the age of a daughter who is going to college?" Lin Qian sat cross-legged on the floor of the carriage, chewing compressed biscuits, and asked Du Nanrong out of boredom, "Mistakes when you were young?"

Xu Ying covered Luo Xiaonan's ears next to him.

The little guy opened a pair of big, ignorant black eyes, and looked at the two big men curiously.

"No. She was rescued at the scene of the fire when I was a firefighter before. Her parents couldn't save her. They only saved this child. I felt guilty about her, so I adopted her." Du Nanrong shook his head and explained .

Hearing this, Xu Ying looked up at him, but was a little surprised.

Lin Qian nodded: "Go to the Imperial Capital this time, and save this child one more time."

Du Nanrong looked at Lin Qian, smiled, and nodded in response: "Yes, I will."