Ancient Invasion [End Times]

Eight days after the invasion of No.70 [Second update] a good news

A soldier's shout caught Cheng Sheng's attention. He looked along and saw hundreds of army ants, biting each other head to tail, forming an "ant bridge", stretching unsteadily to another adjacent building. building.

Duan Yi frowned and asked, "What is that building?"

"...It's the electric room." Cheng Sheng paused.

Lin Qian was taken aback: "What did they want to do in the past? Cut off our electricity? That's useless, isn't it?"

"They're not that smart." Cheng Sheng said coldly, "The electric room is connected to the ventilation duct here, and the tentacles of the worker ants can detect and find the route. It should be that the worker ants have come back to pass the signal."

Lin Qian's scalp was numb, he didn't expect that no matter how they blocked it, these little things would always find the omissions.

Zhang Jiuzhang came over without saying a word, left a design drawing that he didn't know where to find, and said coldly: "This is the blueprint of the pipeline design. I found it in the office."

Hearing this, Cheng Sheng grabbed it and took a hasty look. He nodded and said, "Team Zhang, you should block all the connected plugs, electrical appliances, etc. as shown on this blueprint."

Zhang Hongfei responded, took the blueprint and acted immediately.

Sure enough, by the time Zhang Hongfei noticed the plugs, dozens of army ants had already been dotted around the plugs.

They haven't found their target for a while, they just gather around.

Zhang Hongfei took a deep breath, his scalp numb.

Fortunately, the doctor reminded him in time, otherwise the outside was blocked, and another crop appeared inside, and the internal and external pincers would really be unbearable.

Zhang Hongfei's team hurriedly burned the army ants that came in, and blocked the plugs and other electrical openings.

"Lin Qian and Xu Ying follow me." Duan Yi ordered.

A few of them smoked with fire to drive away the biting behavior of the army ants.

"Roger that!"

Lin Qian bundled a bunch of hay and wrapped it in a dry cloth, lit a fire and approached the window, the smoke was so thick that he had to squint himself.

He muttered, "I'd rather deal with that giant ancient centipede than confront these densely packed little things."

Xu Ying nodded.

Seeing these army ants up close, she was even more amazed at their uniformity and discipline, like a huge and rigorously trained army.

No wonder they are called army ants.

"How long can we delay?" Du Nanrong asked Cheng Sheng in a low voice.

Cheng Sheng glanced at him, paused and said, "Maybe it will be better at night."

If the army ants aren't so crazy that they don't even need to rest and set up camp, they might get a little respite.

"The army ants will rest and camp at night, just like building a bridge. They connect with each other end to end, and support each other, forming a huge, astonishing ant ball." Cheng Sheng said.

"That is the amazing spectacle of life in nature."

Worker ants huddle together in the outermost periphery, forming the first line of defense for the entire ant colony to camp and rest;

The soldier ants stand guard in the inner circle, like the most loyal sentinel;

The queen and male ants are behind and are the core of the ant colony;

And the most central part is the future hope of the ant colony, those newborn, young ants.

Du Nanrong listened, not sure whether it was necessary to curl up into a ball to rest in the ant colony outside - after all, their core queen and the young ants that needed protection most were almost set ablaze by them.

But it's not a problem.

God knows how many young ants there are in an ant egg, they can't keep such an indeterminate time bomb with them.

"Army ants have come in!" Someone suddenly yelled, and saw dozens of ants crawling on the person.

Cheng Sheng sat up straight suddenly, gripped the armrests of the wheelchair with both hands, and stared in the direction of the man: "Get him back quickly!"

"No, as soon as he leaves, the ant colony over there will be no different from losing defense!" Zhang Hongfei gritted his teeth and said, while fuming with fire, he kept patting the scattered ants that crawled on his body.

Cheng Sheng bit his lip tightly, and a small blue spark unconsciously burst out from his palm, which was grabbed by Du Nanrong.

"Doctor!" Du Nanrong looked at Cheng Sheng nervously.

Cheng Sheng took a deep breath, gathered his palms together, and said in a cold voice, "I have a sense of proportion."

Du Nanrong felt relieved when he heard the sound, he nodded, picked up a wet towel and ran over.

Zhang Jiuzhang didn't know when he ran over.

He fished out the soldier who was almost besieged by ants, and grabbed a chair at the same time, melted the metal stool on the chair into molten iron, and dripped glue on the edge of the window.

Zhang Jiuzhang didn't dare to melt too much, for fear that the glass would not be able to bear the high temperature so close and would shatter.

After he blocked a few larger gaps and holes, he changed to the traditional method of smoke, and rescued the lost corner.

Zhang Jiuzhang breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't care about the scattered army ants that climbed up his arms to bite. After he knocked them down, he glanced at the soldier who was slapping the ant colony next to him, and said in a rough voice: "A few little ants How long will it take? Hurry up!"

"Yes, yes!" The soldier hurriedly responded, enduring the pain of being bitten, and after tearing off the last few ants that pinched the skin, he immediately took back the torch.

Zhang Jiuzhang shared most of the pressure, but no one could see where the end of this confrontation was.

Duan Yi suddenly asked Cheng Sheng: "Is the glass here ordinary glass or tempered glass?"

Cheng Sheng was stunned, frowned and nodded, "Ordinary glass."

There are more and more ant colonies lying on the glass outside the window, making people have to worry whether this small piece of glass can bear such a weight.

Cheng Sheng quickly realized what Duan Yi was worried about, and he looked out the window.

The window sills creaked eeriely.

"If this place can't hold it anymore..." Du Nanrong murmured in a low voice.

Lin Qian quickly interrupted him: "I won't be able to stand it."

Du Nanrong didn't speak any more, he looked out the window, but couldn't see any hope.

The only fortunate thing is that there is enough hay stored here to ensure that they have enough fuel for the fire.

Here, the passage of time seems to lose much sense of reality, and the night really begins to fall.

All were expecting what the Dr. called "ant balls," which meant they could breathe a sigh of relief.

But it didn't.

They are like tireless.

The desperation and numbness that slowly rose gradually flooded the building.

How many army ants are there out there?several thousand?tens of thousands? 10,000+?

Any single organism is not worth mentioning in front of these army ants, and their only advantage is that they are still human.

Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi looked at each other in the dim light, and they both knew each other's plan.

In the worst case, those army ants broke through the blockade of this building.

If this step is really reached, Duan Yi will completely transform into a beast, and use the huge body of the ancient giant beast to block the attack of those marching ants, while Cheng Sheng will try to control the flames and try to ensure that those mischievous flames will not jump on them. Or in other buildings.

Anyway, this is the worst solution.

Cheng Sheng didn't want to use that flame near BSL-4, it was too risky.

Suddenly, a cluster of flames seemed to be an illusion, appearing suddenly from the gap seen by the ant colony outside the window, and then disappeared suddenly.

Zhang Hongfei was refreshed, and he suddenly looked out the window: "Is there someone outside?!"

Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi looked over suddenly.

Everyone held their breath and waited for a few seconds. Just when Zhang Hongfei thought it was his own illusion, another flash of fire flashed outside the window.

Zhang Hongfei became excited: "It's true!"

As the flames shot out twice in succession, more and more tongues of flame seemed to surround them from all directions, and the army ants started to retreat from the windows in shock.

Cheng Sheng and the others were finally able to see the situation outside the window clearly——

A team of more than 20 people, each with a pistol on his body and a bucket of portable jet fuel on his back, they lined up, spraying flames while approaching them.

The flames blazed outside the window, reflecting the orange-red light on everyone's faces.

Lin Qian's eyes widened in surprise: "That's Long Team?!"

Long Changlin came over with a support team, and the fire oil surrounded the marching ants into a circle. Under the powerful fire attack, those marching ants were almost defeated.

Lin Qian saw them gather together strangely, holding each other head to tail, and watched helplessly as a formic ball was built in front of his eyes.

The formic ball rolled out of the fire circle.

The bodies of the outermost worker ants were scorched black and curled up by the fire, and there was a sound of "sizzling".

However, the outer periphery of the formic ball did not collapse due to the licking of the tongue of fire, just like the strongest city wall.

The worker ants are tightly attached to each other. After the corpses in the outermost circle rolled, the ant colonies in the second circle were still closely connected. They tried to escape the fire in this way.

Lin Qian was dumbfounded and even got goosebumps.

He vaguely understood what the doctor said before, saying that this is the miracle of life.

When this scene appeared in front of his eyes, the self-sacrifice and discipline of the ant colony were shocking. Lin Qian even forgot that a second ago, they were still devastated by these ant colonies.

Long Changlin and the others quickly took their weapons, entered the building from the outside, and joined Duan Yi and his party.

He glanced at Duan Yi and the others, none of them were missing, standing in front of him properly.

He gave a hearty laugh, strode over and hugged Duan Yi: "Boy Duan!"

Lin Qian and Xu Ying ran over: "Team Long!"

"Why is Team Long here?" Lin Qian excitedly rushed up to give Long Changlin a bear hug, and then asked, "I thought you were in Lindu?"

Long Changlin brought exciting good news. He looked at the others: "Rin has been calmed down, and most residents are staying at home according to our requirements, so the number of infected people has not seen a significant jump in growth."

Long Changlin grinned and continued: "Now the police superintendent system in Lindu can basically cope with the virus situation in the city, and the occasional small cluster of infected people is not a problem."

Cheng Sheng was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Long Changlin happily, and quickly asked, "The number of infections is under control? What about the daily new cases? How many survivors are there in the city?"

Long Changlin was taken aback by the question. He scratched the back of his head and said, "There is no way to confirm this at the moment. The medical system has only recovered the most basic, and the statistics have not recovered yet..."

"It's okay, it's okay, this is great news, it's great..." Cheng Sheng held the armrest of the wheelchair tightly and murmured joyfully.

He never expected that Rin could be controlled by the army in just two months.

He vastly underestimated the power they possessed, and the solidarity a populace could achieve.

Cheng Sheng let out a deep breath.

Although there is still a long way to go before the normal life they want, they may even have to face wasteland-like cities, mutated animals and plants and infected people hiding in the corners in the next few years...

But the tempo of this invasion is in their hands.