Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.40 two days after the invasion

After Cheng Sheng sent the data scan of Lindu River to the Tibetan base, one night later, he received a communication request from Lu Weijing.

They had just finished dealing with the pig-faced bat situation, and they hadn't even left the warehouse.

Cheng Sheng connected Lu Weijing's communication request.

Lin Qian and the others set fire to the hundreds of bat corpses that attacked them.

"Dr. Cheng." After the communication request was connected, Lu Weijing's face appeared on the communication device. The deputy director still had the capable and lean appearance, but he seemed a little more tired.

She nodded slightly at Cheng Sheng and said, "Thank you very much for the data information you sent over. Geologists are already stepping up processing and analysis. If necessary, we will send people to conduct a site survey near Lindu. I will notify you as soon as possible when the results are available. you."

Cheng Sheng nodded, he thought that Lu Weijing sent this communication request not just to talk to him.

Sure enough, Lu Weijing went on to say: "On the other hand, we received a signal from the Imperial Research Institute yesterday. The frequency of the signal is a bit strange. After analysis, we think it is very likely that it was sent by your mentor, Dr. Shao Chengyang. Help signal."

Cheng Sheng was taken aback, and he clenched his palms tightly. He looked at Lu Weijing, and thanked Lu Weijing sincerely and directly.

"We have sent a support team to the Imperial Capital. They have brought supplies and military support. You may meet on the way." Lu Weijing said, she sent a string of numbers to the communicator, saying, "This is their Contact channel code and team information."

Cheng Sheng thought that Lu Weijing had almost given up on Dijing, he nodded slightly, and then clicked on the team information, the leader was a private first class named Lu Qi.

Cheng Sheng's gaze paused for a few seconds on the face of the young private first class, and then he looked at Lu Weijing. Judging from the bridge of nose, eyes and cheekbones of the first class private, it was almost the same as Lu Weijing's face. from.

Lu Weijing just looked back at Cheng Sheng calmly and calmly, and she said, "Please come back from the Imperial Capital safely, we will welcome you at the base."

"it is good."

"By the way, if you meet the Prime Minister, please send me a greeting." Lu Weijing smiled slightly, and then quickly evened the corners of her mouth.

Cheng Sheng nodded: "OK."

They hung up the communication, and Lin Qian and Duan Yi's side had almost finished cleaning up.

They took away most of the clean hay in the warehouse. These hay can play an excellent role in maintaining temperature and burning well, and will definitely come in handy in the days that are getting colder and colder in the future.

As for the wood in the warehouse, it is too heavy and bulky, and it is easier to speed up the fuel consumption when it is carried. Compared with hay, wood is far less flammable than hay, and it is not cost-effective for them.

"It would be great if the meat of those mutated animals could be eaten." Lin Qian opened a pack of compressed biscuits, chewing dryly and couldn't help feeling emotional.

They burned those pig-faced bats, and the smell in the air was actually very strange, with a slightly salty smell, mixed with the smell of burning fat.

——But to Lin Qian, who hadn't eaten meat for a long time, it was somewhat like eating smoked bacon.

Xu Ying was driving, and Du Nanrong was sitting in the passenger seat, giving Xu Yingsai a bite of biscuits and mineral water from time to time.

"Come on." Xu Ying laughed, "You can eat that thing? Who knows if you will eat that virus."

Lin Qian wrinkled his nose.

"The viruses found under the glacier are generally not resistant to high temperature." Cheng Sheng heard what they said, and said, "It was discovered in the BSL-4 laboratory before that this virus will quickly decompose in a high temperature environment above [-] degrees." die."

"So, the mutated pig-faced bat can be eaten?" Lin Qian became eager and regretful.

"The types of viruses and bacteria carried by pig-faced bats are two to three times that of most mammals." Cheng Sheng gave Lin Qian a smirk, "If you don't mind the words on the epitaph after death: Respect, brave to bat Shut up—then you might as well try."

Lin Qian: "..."

The doctor's mouth is still so unforgiving.

Xu Ying and Du Nanrong laughed unceremoniously.

"In a good mood?" Duan Yi looked at Cheng Sheng and asked with slightly curved lips.

Cheng Sheng turned his head to look at the soldier, and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"It's been a long time since I heard you hurt people by turning a corner like this." Duan Yi replied.

Cheng Sheng snorted lightly, without admitting or denying it, but everyone could tell that the doctor was in a good mood, perhaps because he had received the latest news about Dr. Shao Chengyang.

Lin Qian thought: Anyway, I am the only one suffering.

Cheng Sheng turned to Luo Xiaonan.

Earlier, because of Lu Weijing's communication request, he interrupted his original intention to ask Luo Xiaonan.

He waved at the little guy, and Luo Xiaonan trotted to Cheng Sheng's side.

"What's wrong with the doctor?" Luo Xiaonan looked up at Cheng Sheng.

"You said earlier that you saw something shiny on the head of that pig-faced bat. Have you seen it elsewhere?" Cheng Sheng asked.

Luo Xiaonan nodded and recalled with his fingers: "There are also on the heads of Mom and Dad, there are also on the heads of the doctor and the captain's brother, there are also in the stomachs of Caocao and the forest... and the head of that villain."

Duan Yi frowned.

"Some have it, some don't." Luo Xiaonan also reminded.

Cheng Sheng tapped Luo Xiaonan's head lightly: "It seems that you saw it a long time ago, why didn't you tell us?"

"Because brothers can't open their heads, and they can't cut them open." Luo Xiaonan nodded, "But the bat can be opened. Nan Nan likes shiny things, and Nan Nan wants it."

After he finished speaking, he blinked and pointed to the crude badge on his chest, which was a light-emitting gadget that Du Nanrong made for the little guy on a temporary basis.

Lin Qian twitched the corners of his mouth. He didn't know why, but he felt that Nan Nan's words would always unexpectedly have a scary effect, like horror nursery rhymes, childish and innocent, but also creepy.

The saxifrage on Du Nanrong's shoulder trembled, it jumped off Du Nanrong's shoulder, broke off a leaf and rolled it up for Luo Xiaonan—leaves for you, don't cut the grass.

Luo Xiaonan blinked, took the beautiful leaf, and thanked in a childlike voice: "Thank you, hasty."

Lin Qian: "..."

This grass, really dog ​​legs?

Cheng Sheng put the stone core taken out of the head of the pig-faced bat in the isolation bag, and when Luo Xiaonan said he wanted it, he narrowed his eyes slightly and handed it to Luo Xiaonan thoughtfully.

"You want this?"

Luo Xiaonan nodded happily: "Is the doctor going to give it to me?"

Cheng Sheng said "hmm".

Luo Xiaonan took it carefully, and looked at the transparent stone core through the transparent isolation bag. The dirt has been cleaned up, showing a transparent but textured crystal.

It's really nice.

Cheng Sheng called this kind of stone "stone core" for short, which is about the size of an amygdala.

The amygdala in the brain concentrates most of the human emotion, memory and learning ability.

And this stone crystal discovered from the human brain—and now it is not only the human brain—is like a product of the immune system, which concentrates antibodies against viruses and also contains pheromones that stimulate ancient genes.

Cheng Sheng simply gave it a name to make it easier to identify.

"What is this, doctor?" Luo Xiaonan leaned under the tip of his nose and asked.

"Stone core."

Luo Xiaonan nodded, looking at the stone crystal under the tip of his nose: "So your name is Stone Core."

"It's warm." He held the stone core in his palm through the isolation bag, blinked, and waved to Lin Qian again, wishing to share something good, "Little brother, come and touch it."

Lin Qian respectfully thanked the stone core dug out from the bat's head, and said with a dry smile, "Nan Nan can play by himself."

Luo Xiaonan obediently responded, and took the bag and stone core to the side to tinker.

Cheng Sheng kept observing Luo Xiaonan, so focused that Lin Qian felt a little strange.

Lin Qian approached Duan Yi, and whispered to Duan Yi's ears: "Captain Duan, what is the doctor looking at? Why does it seem like he is staring at some experimental product?"

Duan Yi glanced at him: "You are in good spirits? Then it seems that Xu Ying can rest for the next section of the road, and you drive."

"..."

Lin Qian ran to the corner and sat down.

Duan Yi walked up to Cheng Sheng and asked in a low voice, "You seem to be paying attention to that child."

"Indeed, he's a bit unusual." Cheng Sheng nodded slightly, but didn't say anything more.

Duan Yi looked at Cheng Sheng, he knew Cheng Sheng, if he was not [-]% sure, Cheng Sheng would not easily say redundant assumptions and reasoning.

"We will go on a highway later." Duan Yi changed the subject and said, "The base has sent the ground information and situation from the latest satellite. After we get on the highway, our travel route can be reduced by at least one-third."

"That's good." Cheng Sheng nodded, still looking at Luo Xiaonan.

Luo Xiaonan suddenly said "Hey" and ran back to Cheng Sheng's side: "Doctor, the stone nucleus has changed."

The stone core in the isolation bag became smaller, but the color turned into a light blue.

Both Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi were taken aback.

Duan Yi looked at Cheng Sheng: "Can this color change?"

Cheng Sheng: "...you ask me? Can I change the answer for you right away?"

Lin Qian moved his ears, huh?Duan Duan was also attacked by the doctor?balanced.

Duan Yi touched the tip of his nose.

Cheng Sheng looked at Luo Xiaonan: "Let me here first, I'll take a look, and I'll give you a new shiny next time."

Luo Xiaonan nodded, watching helplessly as the toy was confiscated by the doctor, but he didn't make a fuss.

Cheng Sheng thought about the stone core in front of him, what does the shape change mean?

He vaguely felt that the stone core was in his palm, and the color seemed to have dimmed a bit, as if it had been absorbed, but it didn't turn into powder like the previous stone cores.

Cheng Sheng frowned, but before he could do anything, he heard Xu Ying and Du Nanrong in the cab calling them.

He put the isolation bag back into the isolation compartment in the armrest, and slid the wheelchair to the cab.

They had already got on the highway, and the target distance pointing board that quickly passed by in front of them showed that they were still 1020 kilometers away from the Imperial Capital.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian asked.

Du Nanrong pointed to a place far ahead, and asked, "Should there be a hill there? It doesn't appear on the satellite map?"

Lin Qian was stunned, looked down at the map, and then at the front of his eyes, frowning: "There shouldn't be any... Could it be the crustal movement that the doctor said before, a mountain raised?"

"When plates collide, ridges will rise at the growth boundary, and deep grooves may appear at the death boundary." Cheng Sheng said, and he clicked on the satellite map, "But no matter what, there will be a display here."

Lin Qian stared ahead, his pupils shrank slightly: "No, that's not a mountain, it's moving."