Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.40 Six Days After the Invasion【First Update】

"It's a snake." Cheng Sheng said.

Xu Ying suddenly got goosebumps all over her body.

The cold, sticky feeling seems to stick to the skin in the next second.

"Such a big...snake?" Lin Qian seemed unable to speak. Just imagining the difference in size in front of him made him feel chills all over.

There might be room for the four of them to lie side by side in this tunnel, which means that the snake is at least as wide as the four of them, and its length is even more difficult to predict.

"We now have an unknown creature with us in its mouth, and a giant beast like a hill, and now there is a giant python walking on the route we must pass. Is that right?" Du Nanrong asked.

"Generally speaking, a creature of such a huge size has a very strong sense of territory. It is unlikely that there will be a second creature of its size near its territory." Cheng Sheng said.

Du Nanrong looked at Cheng Sheng.

Duan Yi frowned: "I remember snakes, they live in groups."

Du Nanrong was not well. He looked at the entire tunnel. Could it be that such snakes still live in groups?

"Indeed, but at the same time, snakes are cold-blooded reptiles, relatively low-level, and will devour their own kind when they are extremely nervous or hungry." Cheng Sheng said.

"There is no trace of the second giant python of the same size crawling around here, which can prove that either it swallowed the same kind, or it is lucky that it is the only one in the snake group that shows the ancient genes."

"In this season and temperature, it should be in a state of hibernation." Cheng Sheng explained, "As I said, a creature of this size has a strong sense of territory, and it is very rare that there is a second one of the same size within its range. Creatures of size."

"One mountain cannot contain two tigers?" Lin Qian blinked.

Cheng Sheng raised his eyebrows and nodded slightly at Lin Qian: "Yes, it's just like what you said. Therefore, the mountain-like giant beast we saw earlier was probably a dormant snake, and the big earthquake , startled it."

Du Nanrong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words: "That's really... good news that's not good news."

"But what should we do next? Continue driving along this tunnel?" Xu Ying asked.

Lin Qian shuddered at this sentence, and felt terrified just hearing it.

He quickly corrected Xu Ying: "We are not driving along the tunnel, but the route we are taking coincides with a section of the tunnel."

"This road is the only one we can take. Let's go through this section first." Duan Yi said, "Then find another alternate route."

"receive."

When they returned to the car, Xu Ying continued to drive, but this time she knew that they were driving on the road where giant snakes were walking, which made her a little nervous and uncomfortable.

Seeing this, Lin Qian patted Xu Ying and said, "Let me drive."

"Okay." Xu Ying nodded slightly, without trying to refuse, she and Lin Qian switched places and looked out the window.

Cheng Sheng was thinking about the previous blue stone core, thinking that if there was a chance, he would get another one for Luo Xiaonan to "play with".

He asked Duan Yi softly: "How big is your animal shape now? Can it be bigger?"

"It's about the height of a three-story building." Duan Yi hesitated, and said, "I don't know if it can be bigger, but if it is smaller, it should be fine."

Cheng Sheng thought of the cat-like snow-white creature lying on his lap in the parking lot that day. It was very...cute, and the hair felt soft, smooth and cool to the touch.

Cheng Sheng curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and said with a low laugh, "The shrunken appearance doesn't match your image at all, it's so cute."

Duan Yi also chuckled: "You too."

The doctor's smile froze on his face.

Why bother pecking each other.

They drove for more than an hour, and the sky darkened.

Xu Ying found a nearby gas station and drove in first.

There is plenty of fuel in the gas station, probably because this place is a bit remote, although there are traces of looting, but generally speaking, it is much richer than the gas station they passed by before.

When the group got out of the car, it was still Lin Qian and Du Nanrong who went to get the fuel tank, while Duan Yi and Xu Ying went to sweep the goods.

They brought back a lot of drinking water, and Xu Ying brought back a lot of disinfectant wipes, which was praised by the doctor.

Duan Yi still took a lot of chocolate energy bars, took all he could, and it all belonged to Cheng Sheng.

Luo Xiaonan watched eagerly from the side, but his captain brother didn't seem to realize that a four or five-year-old child is also the age to be greedy for chocolate bars.

Cheng Sheng was so funny that he threw a chocolate bar to Luo Xiaonan.

The little guy cherished and carefully took it apart, and divided it into several pieces: "For the little sister, the little brother and Uncle Du."

"Is there brother Captain?" Xu Ying asked curiously.

Luo Xiaonan looked at Duan Yi, pursed his lips, and reluctantly shared another piece: "Brother Captain doesn't like chocolate."

Xu Ying almost laughed out loud, the little guy is quite vengeful?

Cheng Sheng tapped Luo Xiaonan's forehead: "Who will bring you chocolate without the captain?"

Luo Xiaonan twitched and put the largest piece of chocolate into Duan Yi's hand: "Eat it, brother captain."

Duan Yi didn't refuse, and rubbed Luo Xiaonan's head after receiving it: "Thank you."

Luo Xiaonan narrowed his eyes and smiled.

After distributing a chocolate bar, the little guy only had a fingernail-sized chocolate bar left. He put it in his mouth rarely, reluctant to chew it, and waited until his mouth melted before slowly sucking up his mouth to savor it.

Cheng Sheng took out another one and threw it to Luo Xiaonan.

"You eat this one yourself," Cheng Sheng said.

Luo Xiaonan nodded ignorantly, but happily put it away.

Du Nanrong was cheering on the Junji card. Looking at the scene in front of him, he said to Lin Qian with emotion: "I didn't expect the doctor to be good at taking care of children."

Lin Qian shivered. He couldn't connect the doctor with the image of raising a child.

They were refueling, and suddenly, no one expected, just in front of them obliquely in the distance, a burst of fire suddenly exploded, reflecting the night sky red.

And the hoarse shouts of the crowd: "It's coming again! It's coming again!"

The voice could be heard from far away, Lin Qian and Du Nanrong looked at each other, speeded up their hands, and jumped into the car immediately after refueling.

"We're done!" Lin Qian shouted.

"Would it be the snake we were talking about over there?" Du Nanrong asked nervously.

"There are gunshots." Duan Yi said with a dark face.

Xu Ying and Lin Qian paused when they heard the words: "...Is that our person? Is it the support team that the deputy director said?"

Domestic gun control is very strict, such a large-scale gunfire movement cannot happen among civilians, only people in the army.

"We went to support them." Duan Yi said, he looked at the others, "Any disagreement?"

"no!"

Unexpectedly, Du Nanrong also said in unison, and Duan Yi took another look at him.

Du Nanrong knew what Duan Yi was surprised about, he said: "I have also been a soldier and a firefighter. The first rule of combat: Never give up on your companions."

Duan Yi nodded slightly, Xu Ying activated the truck and drove towards the fire.

Cheng Sheng recalled the data from the previous scan of the tunnel, and quickly said: "The snake you are going to deal with is about five meters wide at its widest part. Based on this, its length may be..."

"Doctor, we saw it!" Xu Ying interrupted Cheng Sheng.

Cheng Sheng was taken aback, and quickly maneuvered the wheelchair to move to the driver's cab, and saw that they could already see the outline of the snake a few hundred meters away.

The head seems to be as big as a jigka, the snake's snout is flat, and there are large clouded leopard-like markings on the snake's body with black borders. When it raises its body slightly, it seems to be two stories high, revealing a large yellow-white belly.

Xu Ying and the others forgot to breathe for a while, staring blankly at the huge monster in front of them. They were so far away, they were already suffocated by its size, and it was hard to imagine what it would be like for those people at its feet.

"This is a python." Cheng Sheng quickly identified it, and said, "It is not poisonous, good at climbing, nocturnal creatures, usually after approaching the prey, it will quickly bite, entangle the body to death, and squish it into a long strip. Swallow it."

"It's not poisonous, so at least it's better than poisonous snakes?" Lin Qian swallowed.

Du Nanrong said: "In fact, the death rate of pythons is much higher than that of poisonous snakes. In the snake accidents we have dealt with, it is usually pythons rather than poisonous snakes."

Cheng Sheng nodded.

Lin Qian gasped.

Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the giant python, Cheng Sheng quickly said: "Snakes have poor eyesight, and it is difficult to see objects one meter away. Similarly, their dynamic vision is extremely poor, and they are almost blind to stationary objects."

"Also, snakes cannot receive sound waves from the air. However, snakes have inner ears that are sensitive to vibrations from the ground."

Lin Qian nodded: "Got it. Blind people can't see if they don't move, they can't hear the sound, but they can feel the vibration of the ground."

"Another point is that it was generally believed that only Vitiliidae snakes have buccal fossa induction heat, but I want to remind you that the lips of pythons are also equipped with heat-sensing dimples, that is to say, it can also detect heat. Use this point detection to determine the activity position of endothermic animals." Cheng Sheng warned.

Lin Qian's eyes lit up: "Then will it catch fire?"

Cheng Sheng glanced at him approvingly: "It's the same as the fire-fighting habit of the five-step snake. In fact, it's because they are sensitive to heat induction, and mistakenly regard fire as a constant temperature creature. You can start from this point."

"Also, when a snake moves, it mainly relies on the force generated by the alternating contraction and relaxation of a series of muscles attached to the spine to crawl forward. Such contraction and relaxation form a bending movement." Cheng Sheng spoke quickly, and at the same time Gestures with your hands are easy for the soldiers in front of you to understand.

He looked at Duan Yi and the others: "If there are obstacles in the middle of the movement - such as uneven ground - then such a bending movement will be greatly hindered, and its movement speed will be greatly reduced."

Duan Yi understood what Cheng Sheng meant, in short, it made the python uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

"The doctor is simply a walking encyclopedia and a combat guide." Lin Qian felt that this giant python didn't seem so difficult to deal with.

Cheng Sheng smirked, "Let's talk about it after you survive that giant python's mouth."

"Remember, if you are entangled by it, don't struggle, don't breathe hard." Cheng Sheng looked at those people seriously, "Every time you breathe, your chest cavity will be compressed even tighter."

"Then what should we do?" Xu Ying pinched the steering wheel palely.

"Find the part where it's exhausted." Cheng Sheng said, "Let your companion immediately find that part and stab it in."

"Which part?"

"Snake anus." Du Nanrong said.