Ancient Invasion [End Times]

six days after the invasion

The next morning, Cheng Sheng and the others were woken up by the shouts outside.

"Yu Lin? Yu Lin!"

Cheng Sheng opened the car door, frowned and asked Lu Qi: "What are your team members shouting? Are they trying to attract infected creatures?"

Lu Qi explained: "One of our team members is missing."

"Disappeared?" Cheng Sheng asked back, "What do you mean disappeared? Didn't leave a trace?"

"No, we checked the surroundings. His things are all here, and there is no sign of struggling around. He seems to have disappeared out of thin air." Lu Qi said.

"Tell your people to stop shouting." Duan Yi frowned, looked around, and said, "People don't disappear for no reason, it's because you missed something."

Lu Qi nodded embarrassingly, and called to stop the teammate who was shouting.

"He slept here last night. When I woke up in the morning and saw that he was not there, I thought he was there for convenience." The man walked over and said, "But until we packed up our things and prepared to leave, I didn’t see him, and his things were still there, so I started looking for him.”

Cheng Sheng pushed the wheelchair to the place where Yu Lin's missing teammate slept all night.

The group of them slept under the city wall, only a few meters away from the ivy plants.

The soldier's sleeping bag was still neatly placed on the ground. The mouth of the sleeping bag was opened, and Cheng Sheng saw a few fine yellow-green petals inside.

He bent down to pick up the few petals and held them up in front of his eyes for comparison with the ivy on the wall behind Lu Qi.

Small yellow-green flower buds sway on the entire creeper wall.

Cheng Sheng glanced at the soldiers standing under the wall, and said, "I think you'd better stay away from that wall."

"To be precise, stay away from the ivy on the wall," he added.

Lu Qi and the others were stunned for a moment, at a loss but obediently walked to Cheng Sheng's side, and looked at the ivy in unison.

"Is there a problem with the ivy?" Lu Qi asked, "We tested it yesterday, and it is not aggressive."

"Try?" Cheng Sheng asked back.

"Yu Lin used a stick to test its attack response, but didn't get any counterattack. They are just ordinary plants." A soldier next to Lu Qi said.

No wonder.

Cheng Sheng put away the petals in his hand and looked at the person who spoke: "There are now."

The man looked at Cheng Sheng blankly: "Yes?"

"Is there a fire?" Cheng Sheng asked.

Lu Qi nodded: "Not much, what's the matter?"

"Give me some." Cheng Sheng said.

Lu Qi asked someone to take a stick to light the kindling, and handed it to Cheng Sheng.

Holding the stick, Cheng Sheng approached the whole ivy slightly.

The ivy, which had grown densely and densely, shed its branches and leaves quickly when the fire was about to come into contact with it, like a tide.

Lu Qi and the others looked at the scene in front of them and opened their mouths slightly.

"There are few plants that are not afraid of fire. Next time we will use this to test it out." Cheng Sheng glanced at Lu Qi and said.

Lu Qi choked, and nodded in response.

Cheng Sheng held up the torch, and it was on the creeper facing Yu Lin's sleeping bag, gently shaking it from side to side.

Suddenly, Cheng Sheng paused.He frowned slightly, moved the torch to the lower right, and retracted the branches and leaves as quickly as driving away a creeper.

The camouflage uniforms were gradually revealed, and were covered under the dense green vegetation, which was simply a natural "cover".

"This is!?" Lu Qi's pupils shrank.

Duan Yi took the torch from Cheng Sheng and said, "I'll do the rest."

Cheng Sheng responded, and maneuvered the wheelchair back a safe distance.

Duan Yi quickly cleared the area away, exposing the soldiers in camouflage uniforms completely.

The man was still awake and saw that their eyes were round and bloodshot.

He twisted desperately, but no sound could come out of his throat.

His mouth was strangled by the stalks, his face was flushed red, his nostrils were breathing desperately, his hands and feet were tightly tied together by the stalks, and his body was even more tightly bound.

"Yu Lin!" Someone in the team shouted.

Duan Yi and Lu Qifei quickly freed Yu Lin from the bondage of the plant stems.

The man's neck was thick and red, and his ankles and wrists were covered with bruises and purple binding marks. He knelt on the ground and kept retching, spitting out branches, leaves and petals from his mouth.

Yu Lin clutched his throat, only feeling a burning pain in his throat.

He took the water handed by his companion, took several sips, and said, "Thank you."

Lu Qi asked him, "What's going on?"

"I don't know." Yu Lin coughed, and he looked back at the ivy wall with lingering fear, and said, "I slept well last night, and suddenly felt something crawl into my sleeping bag, and I woke up .”

"Before I could see what it was, my legs and hands were tied tightly, I couldn't move, I wanted to shout, but the stuff was stuffed in my mouth, it went straight down my throat, stuffed It's so full that I can't even say a word." Yu Lin wiped his mouth.

"Those things directly hung me out and tied me into that wall. I thought I was doomed." Yu Lin luckily looked at Cheng Sheng, "I could hear your voices all the time, I heard you were looking for me... …But I couldn't make a sound, I thought I was going to miss you, thanks to the doctor."

Yu Lin said gratefully: "Thank you doctor."

Cheng Sheng waved his hand, not paying attention.

He looked at Duan Yi, and Duan Yi pushed the doctor's wheelchair knowingly, and approached the ivy according to Cheng Sheng's intention.

From Cheng Sheng's point of view, the ivy's attack on Yu Lin seemed to be a plant's revenge - Yu Lin stabbed the ivy with a wooden stick, but was tied up by the ivy in the dead of night that night.

"Revenge?" Lu Qi felt a little unbelievable, "Are you talking about plants?"

Cheng Sheng glanced at him and said, "Retaliation is not limited to animals and humans."

"The revenge behavior of plants does not only exist after the virus invades, it is not uncommon in nature."

He gave an example casually: "For example, on the African island of Madagascar, there is a tree called the snake tree by the locals."

"It is like a huge jackfruit tree, about three meters high, with branches like snakes. Once someone touches the branch, it will be considered a hostile act, and it will be entangled by it soon. It will peel off its skin in some cases, and will have life in severe cases. Yu."

After he finished speaking, he paused, looked up at the plant, and a thought flashed in his mind.

He said to Duan Yi: "Where is the fire? Look around."

Duan Yi glanced at Cheng Sheng and vaguely guessed what Cheng Sheng was thinking. He took the torch and scanned around the wall one by one as if probing.

Soon, Duan Yi made a new discovery.

——In the creeper, there is more than one Yu Lin bound by the stems.

Infected people with teeth and claws, small mutated animals... They were tied up almost exactly the same, and they were not even dead. After seeing Lu Qi and his party, they struggled even more with their teeth and claws.

Seeing this, Lu Qi and Duan Yi killed all the infected creatures one by one.

Yu Lin swallowed, the only thing he was thankful for was that he didn't stay in the same place with those things.

"It will attack every creature that tries to attack it, which explains why among so many people sleeping around here, it kidnaps Yu Lin alone." Lu Qi said thoughtfully, and he looked at Cheng Sheng , "We threatened it with fire... Did it also include us in the attack list?"

"At least you know it's afraid of fire." Cheng Sheng glanced at him, "Call your people, we should set off."

Lu Qi responded, listening to the doctor, they are already on the attack list.

After several conversations with Cheng Sheng, Lu Qi could roughly understand Cheng Sheng's way of speaking.

He ordered his subordinates to make good use of the last spark and prepare to enter the imperial capital.

Lu Qi glanced at Duan Yi, full of admiration—to be able to fully understand the doctor's way of speaking when he turned a corner, and not to be ridiculed by the doctor, or to be able to endure the doctor's ridicule, he really deserves to be a Duan team.

Cheng Sheng received Lu Qi's glance accurately.

Lu Qi hurriedly looked away from Shang Chengsheng's gaze.

The doctor twitched his lips, glanced at the soldier beside him, and smiled: "Duan Yi, why do I feel that Lu Qi's look contains admiration and sympathy for you? The task by my side is so worthy of admiration and sympathy? "

Duan Yi laughed softly.

He leaned over and carried the doctor into the carriage with the wheelchair, and said in a low voice, "You know this best."

The doctor snorted.

The process of entering the Imperial Capital was much easier than Cheng Sheng imagined.

These creepers are much easier to talk to than the ginkgo forest in Lindu.

On each army collection card, there is a burning torch tied to the left and right windows, just like this, it is enough to make the creepers around them flinch in fear.

They passed the towering walls on either side.

This place is no stranger to anyone in their car. Before the virus invaded, all of them had stood guard here, or they had to go in and out.

But now, when they looked at their eyes, they felt a completely unfamiliar shock.

Just like what Lin Qian said earlier, the entire imperial capital is like a dead city.

Both sides of the street were full of wandering infected people, and corpses fell on the ground one after another.

No one would tidy up these corpses. They just lay on the ground for an unknown how long. Some were covered with infected people gnawing on their stomachs, while others were full of magpies and flies.

Infected and scavengers share it all.

The convoy passed by and immediately attracted the attention of those creatures. They put down their prey and ran towards the convoy clumsily and quickly.

The convoy moved forward at full speed, even if they couldn't get rid of the infected, they wouldn't be able to overtake them.

Everyone was silent. They looked at the group of infected people running towards them ferociously in the rearview mirror, holding the guns in their hands tightly.

They couldn't think about whether their families were among the bodies on the street.

Just a flash of this thought is enough to make people retch with nausea and pain.

Not long after they entered the imperial capital, the sky darkened and it started to rain.

The fine rain hit the front windshield, and the wipers of several cars were damaged due to the previous attack by the monkey group, so they had to bite the bullet and move forward with bad eyesight.

When it rains, the temperature drops faster.

Seeing Xu Ying shivering slightly from the cold, Luo Xiaonan sat down quickly, held Xu Ying's hand, and looked at her worriedly.

"Is sister okay?" Luo Xiaonan asked.

The little guy's hands were surprisingly warm.

Xu Ying shook her head: "I'm fine."

Cheng Sheng heated a pot of water with a flame and distributed it to everyone. He frowned and looked at the temperature display on the dashboard. The temperature inside the car had dropped below zero.

The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the torrential rain washed the road surface, as if it could wash away the dirt.

Cheng Sheng looked out of the window, and at the lower part of the sewer ditch on the road, there was a situation where the rainwater was too late to be dredged.

Blood pooled in the ditch, it was shocking to watch.

He looked away, pursing his lips slightly.