Ancient Invasion [End Times]

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

There are still four hundred kilometers away from the Imperial Capital.

Lu Qi came over during the day to return the electronic communication device.

His gaze was fixed on the plush creature on Cheng Sheng's lap, and Lin Qian and Xu Ying were also staring at him.

Lu Qi paused, and said, "Is this the monster that fought with the python last night?"

"I picked it up on the road." - Lin Qian.

"The kind that can become bigger or smaller." - Du Nanrong.

"Yes." -Dr.

Lu Qi: "...Actually, I saw the process of Team Duan becoming like this."

"..."

Lin Qian twitched the corner of his mouth: "Then what else do you ask?"

"I'm just curious, is this really a team? How did it become like that?" Lu Qi squatted down in surprise, looking at the little thing that was still sleeping on the doctor's lap.

He went on to say: "Some people in our team also experienced some beast-like mutations, but no one can completely transform into a wild beast like Duan team, with a body shape that is even the size of a building."

"Someone in your team has changed?" Cheng Sheng looked at Lu Qi.

Lu Qi nodded slightly: "A soldier in the team can stretch out a pair of wings from the back, about three meters long, and can fly up to a height of about five to ten meters."

Lin Qian exclaimed, "Angels like those in the West?"

"No, no, it's more like insect wings, thin, transparent, but very sharp, the kind that can cut through building structures." Lu Qi quickly waved his hand to explain.

"The soldier was once cut by a mutated insect, but because the doctor said that one day's observation time should be set aside to determine whether it is mutated, so we confiscated his gun and all things that might make him self-harm, and locked him up for a whole day "Lu Qi looked at Cheng Sheng, "We went to see him a day later, his wounds have healed by themselves, and he is no different from a healthy and normal person."

"At first, he didn't show any different appearance, until the big earthquake happened, he seemed to have sensed the crisis in advance, and suddenly spread a pair of huge wings behind his back, and flew into the air." Lu Qi said.

Cheng Sheng tapped the armrest and said, "Insects have the ability to sense disasters in advance."

"Before the earthquake, the underground rock formation will show a creeping state, and the creeping between the fault planes will generate strong friction, which in turn will generate a low-frequency sound wave that is only a few to ten times per second." Cheng Sheng explained, "The sound waves that humans can receive must reach more than 20 times per second, but some animals and insects are far more sensitive to us."

Lu Qi nodded: "No wonder he suddenly said something was wrong."

"Thanks to him, we chose a route that avoided the strongest shock, and the casualties were minimized." Lu Qi said, "But this route made us encounter the giant python that was originally in hibernation. .”

"We didn't realize it was a living thing at first. We drove all the way along the elevated highway, and for some reason, we drove on it. Now that I think about it, it may have run over the highway directly, and then died on the spot. Are you entrenched there and hibernating?"

"We set up a camp on it—at the time we thought we were driving to a flat and open place—at that time the earthquake hadn't happened yet." Lu Qi recalled, he sat down cross-legged, "at night, we suddenly found that the ' The ground' seemed to be moving."

"We thought it was an earthquake." Lu Qi took a deep breath, "But the next second, the snake's head rose high in front of us, as if it had suddenly emerged from the dark depths of the canyon. It opened its mouth, Hundreds of snake teeth were densely packed, and we were all frightened."

"It woke up under the earthquake, started moving, and we stayed on top of its body."

Lin Qian gasped: "I really don't know if it's worse for us in the center of the earthquake, or for you in that giant python."

Lu Qi shook his head: "The giant python also sensed that the earthquake was coming. It moved us to the outer edge of the earthquake circle, but it was still affected a little. Our satellite receiver was destroyed at this time."

"On it, it was difficult for us to stand firm, as if we were standing on the waves. One-third of the team members were thrown off the snake body. After the earthquake passed, the python also found us, and it attacked us , and swallowed eight of my party."

"It consumed too much, and its hibernation was interrupted. If it wasn't for the earthquake, the first thing it would do after waking up would be to eat." Cheng Sheng said, and he looked at Lu Qi, "Sorry."

"We managed to escape from it and lost some of our supplies." Lu Qi clenched his fists, "But we didn't expect that after one night, we would meet it again."

"I thought I couldn't escape, but I didn't expect to meet you." Lu Qi said, "I saw Duan Duan falling from the snake, so I rushed over. I didn't expect to see him transforming into a beast. Almost in the blink of an eye, It became that majestic giant creature."

"It was like a dream." Lu Qi added, "I was afraid that my subordinates would attack him by mistake, so I ran back to tell them to stop their fire attack. You have all seen what happened afterwards."

"If you weren't so nervous about the giant snow-white beast, I might still take what I saw as an illusion." Lu Qi scratched the back of his head and showed a naive smile.

Cheng Sheng glanced at him: "No, you won't."

Whether Lu Qi, Lin Qian or Xu Ying, they are all the same soldiers who have been trained systematically. They have their own judgment, and the results of their judgment will not be easily changed due to other factors.

"What did you come here to know?" Cheng Sheng looked at him, "After talking so much, what information do you want to exchange?"

Lu Qi paused and looked at Cheng Sheng. He didn't expect Cheng Sheng to be so straightforward.

He was silent for two seconds and asked: "Then doctor, can you tell me what happened to my subordinates and Duan team? Why are they different? Is it possible for them to mutate again and become more lethal? But dangerous creatures without human sanity?"

Lin Qian and Xu Ying were taken aback, they had never thought about this.

Cheng Sheng looked at Lu Qi: "No. Unless they have lost their minds from the beginning."

"The stimulation and induction of ancient genes is based on the threat of viruses, and the strong survival instinct stimulated the ancient genes." Cheng Sheng said to Lu Qi, he was silent for a few seconds, and said, "However, gene induction is in the human It depends on the individual whether it is before or after it is completely taken over by the virus."

Lin Qian was stunned. He had never heard the doctor mention this.

Cheng Sheng seemed to have guessed Lin Qian's thoughts. He looked at Lin Qian and Xu Ying: "Will you feel relaxed after knowing this?"

Xu Ying understood what Cheng Sheng meant. This information was of no use to them, and even felt dull.

She originally thought that genetic induction would be able to defeat the virus, as long as antibodies or elicitors were produced, maybe everything would be better, but now she learned that not all inductions can make people return to normal health.

Lu Qi seemed relieved: "Okay, thank you doctor."

"I want you to keep Duan Yi's situation a secret," Cheng Sheng said.

"When will the Duan team recover?" Lu Qi asked, "If someone in the team asks, how can I explain it?"

"They don't have permission to obtain Duan Yi's whereabouts yet." Cheng Sheng said, "You should be more familiar with this reason."

Lu Qi paused, and nodded in response.

When they packed up their things again and were about to set off again, a few soldiers didn't act immediately after receiving Lu Qi's order. They just stood there and looked at Lu Qi.

Lu Qi frowned.

One of them came out and said, "We have lost too many people along the way. Is it really necessary to continue?"

"Do you know what you're talking about!" Lu Qi shouted coldly.

"The situation in the imperial capital will only be worse than outside. I've heard that there was no one there as early as a week ago!" Another person said.

He pursed his lips tightly, "I can't see the hope of getting in. There will only be more brothers sacrificed on the road in vain, just to escort that doctor in and find a data storage that I don't know if it's still useful."

"Our task is not only to escort Dr. Cheng Sheng into the Imperial Capital, there are more people in the Imperial Capital waiting for our assistance." Lu Qi said, "These are all the information you knew before you voluntarily joined."

"But we didn't know there would be such a monster outside!" The man stared at Lu Qi viciously, "A monster that can swallow my brother in one bite, he died inexplicably!"

"...Badao, I know..." Before Lu Qi could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the other party.

"I won't follow you to the Imperial Capital to die, I quit the mission." The man said, with two silver pendant necklaces lying in his palms.

Flipping his palms, he dropped the two necklaces on the ground.

The same was true for the three people behind him, and they looked at Lu Qi.

Lu Qi was silent for a while, and he asked: "Then what about the others, who else wants to quit?"

Huge creatures that completely subverted cognition appeared one after another last night, almost breaking everyone's psychological defenses, and two more people stood up one after another.

"Okay." Lu Qi agreed, he would not force people with different intentions to stay in the team.

"Wait a minute." Cheng Sheng came out of the carriage. He sat in a wheelchair and looked at the heavily armed soldiers on the ground who were about to withdraw. "Lu Qi, give them ten days' minimum survival supplies and let them take them away."

"receive."

Cheng Sheng called Lu Qi to stop, he looked at the other party, and warned: "If I were you, I would confiscate all the guns and ammunition on them. But they are your soldiers, so the decision is up to you."

Lu Qi was stunned for a moment, he understood Cheng Sheng's meaning, in this world, having a gun means that anti-government clusters may appear.

But again, if the firepower had been confiscated, he didn't know if those seven would have survived.

He couldn't just let these seven people choose to withdraw from the mission, let these people who were born and died with them face those infected creatures by hand-to-hand combat.

Lu Qi pursed his lips and looked at Cheng Sheng: "I understand, but..."

"You have the answer. You don't need to explain it to me." Cheng Sheng said, "This is a difficult choice, and I respect any result."

Lu Qi froze for a moment, then thanked him in a low voice.

He asked his subordinates to allocate part of the food and water and distribute them.

Chen Nan, nicknamed Ba Dao, and the other six people took their things, and took a deep look at Lu Qi: "It is the most stupid to die for someone who is not worth dying for. I wish you good luck."