Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.80 Six Days After Invasion·“They changed from prey to active predators.”

The ancient Malu lived in the Carboniferous period [-] million years ago, and had almost no vision, but extremely sensitive senses of smell and touch.

When the climate turns cold, the ancient millipede will enter a dormant period and inhabit dark and humid places near water sources.Either hide in the forest, or get under the thin soil layer.

The ancient millipedes are not very aggressive. Although they look somewhat similar to centipedes, and are even the largest arthropods known so far, they do not have the sharp jaws of centipedes. Even if they are attacked, they usually shrink themselves into a ball Ball shape to defend against foreign enemies.

——It can be said that it is a very cowardly giant thorax.

However, Cheng Sheng observed the corpse of Gu Malu that had been split into two by Duan Yi's claws earlier, and found that its dozens of pairs of arthropods were somewhat different. The unearthed fossils that have been exposed by chance are completely inconsistent.

"Leave first, let's talk." Cheng Sheng patted the ancient creatures under him, and said thoughtfully, "These millipedes have not only awakened ancient genes, but also have other mutations."

"The reason why the ancient millipedes have a docile temperament, seldom take the initiative to attack, and mainly scavenge, is because they have no powerful means of attack, and can only rely on the defensive hard outer armor and release an unpleasant smell to drive away the enemy. .”

"However, due to the virus, the ancient millipede has mutated and catalyzed the arthropods with attack capabilities-this is likely to change the action mode of the ancient millipede hundreds of millions of years ago."

"When they realize that they can also hunt and attack, their mode of action will no longer be defensive."

"The biological instinct is to eat, and such a transformation may not take long."

Cheng Sheng spoke quickly, and he lay tightly on Duan Yi's back, wrapping his hands around the ancient creature under him.

The giant snow-white beast ran fast in the forest, and the wind blowing it caused the doctor to squint his eyes. He was especially puzzled—he was lying on Duan Yi's back like this before, and he was not knocked down by the running?

In a blink of an eye, Duan Yi joined Zhang Jiuzhang and his party. Lin Qian and Xu Ying saw the doctor sitting on the back of the giant beast and waved their hands at them.

"The doctor is awake!?" Lin Qian cheered, but then he was a little tangled up. The doctor's wheelchair was completely crushed when the cave collapsed that night, and the steel shaft was so deformed that it was completely useless.

Lin Qian scratched the back of his head and said to Cheng Sheng, "Doctor, your wheelchair was crushed and we didn't take it with you. You..."

Before he finished speaking, Cheng Sheng slid off the back of the giant snow-white beast.

He stood firmly on the dead leaves and grass, looked at Lin Qian who suddenly stopped talking in front of him, and looked at the other people who were also shocked, and slightly curled the corners of his mouth: "Fortunately, it seems that I won't need it for the time being."

"Doctor, your leg... is it alright?" Xu Ying was slightly stunned, and then asked happily.

Cheng Sheng nodded.

Strictly speaking, his legs are not "healed", it should be considered that he has finally mastered how to use these legs to stand, walk and run - just like ordinary people.

In his life more than twenty years ago, he never really figured out what was wrong with his legs.

It seems that since he can remember, these legs have been like this, which caused him to be bullied by children of the same age in the orphanage in the first few years. Even if he is well-behaved and good-looking, no one is willing to adopt him.

Until Shao Chengyang picked him up from the orphanage.

All the expert consultations did not diagnose the disease—there was no problem with the nerves in his legs, and his muscles developed and grew like ordinary people, even though he had never used them, and there was no atrophy.

Over time, Cheng Sheng tacitly accepted the fact that his legs were disabled.

Being handicapped since childhood was the main reason why Cheng Sheng was isolated when he was young. No one wants to take a child who can't walk to play games.

After being picked up by Shao Chengyang, Cheng Sheng went to a private public school. The classmates in the school were far meaner than his peers in the orphanage. He was isolated and ridiculed.

—— Cheng Sheng's character grew up in that atmosphere.

Even though his legs were disabled, he still managed to be the most outstanding among his peers, until he left the peers he had ridiculed far behind, to a place beyond the reach of those people.

The plane crash this time made Cheng Sheng fall into a coma, but at the same time, the absorbed stone core energy further stimulated the potential hidden in his body.

The energy that the human body can withstand is limited. Different gene strengths have different ceilings of energy that can be tolerated. This is something that Cheng Sheng didn't understand until he woke up this time——

Nature balances out any seemingly unbalanced evolution.

Gene strength limits the ability evolution of human beings. Even if a large number of them have awakened genes, the gene strength will limit their ability to progress.

After reaching a certain level, no matter how much energy is catalyzed, it is impossible for the body to absorb it. Forcibly catalyzing it will even cause irreversible damage to the body, and severe cases will die.

The stone core energy naturally absorbed by Cheng Sheng that night far exceeded Cheng Sheng's current body's ability to accept it.

It was originally a gradual recovery process, but it was forcibly promoted to another level, which caused the blue flames to spread out of control that night.

If it were someone else, they would end up being filled with energy that didn't belong to them, and they would either be seriously injured or die.

But Cheng Sheng's gene strength is a completely pure, natural and powerful ancient gene.

The threat of the ancient virus invasion only activated a small part of such genes, and the rest remained in an unactivated state, while the domineering intrusion of stone nuclear energy further stimulated the state of the genes.

Before the gene is stimulated and activated, Cheng Sheng is like a blind person whose perception has been blocked and knows nothing.

After the energy of the stone core erupted, this barrier seemed to be lifted.

How to walk and how to use abilities, like a blocked inheritance, is now displayed in Cheng Sheng's sea of ​​consciousness one by one.

Cheng Sheng is learning to digest them.

It's like picking up a skill that has been forgotten for thousands of years, strange but familiar.Mastery is only a matter of time.

Cheng Sheng stepped on the forest floor with bare feet, and the soles of his feet were covered with dry, dead leaves.

He raised his eyebrows, the touch and perception of the soles of his feet was completely novel.

Cheng Sheng couldn't help picking the pile of dead leaves with his toes twice, and the reptiles hiding under the pile of leaves retreated away as if in fear.

Lin Qian and the others looked at the doctor in a daze - the doctor is here, playing with the pile of dead leaves?

They couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and it really didn't match the doctor's usual temperament and image.

It wasn't until the eyes of Lin Qian and the others became more explicit that Cheng Sheng felt that his actions seemed a little naive.

He paused, retracted his toes, slightly pursed his lips and looked at the others, and said slowly: "Compared with a wheelchair, I think I need a pair of shoes now."

When Xu Ying came to her senses, she was taken aback. Where can I find extra shoes for the doctor?

Duan Yi arched Cheng Sheng with the top of his head, and the giant snow-white beast bent its knees and lowered its body, signaling Cheng Sheng to return to its back.

Seeing this, Lin Qian immediately said, "Yes, the doctor should continue to be carried on his back, and we'll wait until we can get the shoes."

——that is, the difference in transforming the means of transportation from a wheelchair to an ancient creature.

"By the way, doctor, although the wheelchair was broken and I couldn't save it, I took out the wheelchair chip from your wheelchair... I don't know if it will work." Lin Qian scratched the back of his head and took out a fingernail-sized piece from his pocket The chips come.

Cheng Sheng raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Lin Qian to think of this, he took the chip and put it away: "Thank you, this is worth more than the wheelchair itself."

The data in the chip is huge and complicated, including information about thousands of known viruses and bacteria. Even if Cheng Sheng has the potential evolution of the brain, it is impossible to be as accurate as the data processor.

If you lose it... there is actually a backup.

But Cheng Sheng felt that there was no need to mention it. He looked at Lin Qian and smiled, making Lin Qian very happy.

Cheng Sheng glanced at the others, and was sensitive to the fact that the atmosphere in the team was not so harmonious. There was a bit of tit-for-tat between Zhang Jiuzhang and Du Nanrong.

He raised his eyebrows and looked at Lin Qian and Xu Ying, who shook their heads slightly at the doctor.

Lin Qian made a mouthful: the cold war.

Xu Ying pouted her chin in the direction of Du Jingshu indiscriminately.

——The doctor who just woke up and completely missed the messy accident in Gu Malu said that he didn't understand anything.

Cheng Sheng twitched his lips. He was not a peacemaker by nature. Seeing that these two people didn't seem like they would make trouble, he ignored them.

He straddled the back of the ancient giant beast and said, "Although I don't know how you provoked those ancient millipedes, we'd better get out of their living range as soon as possible before these ancient milled lands react."

"It's already gone so far, shouldn't it be within the scope of life?" Du Nanrong asked.

He remembered what Zhang Jiuzhang said just now, and it was safe to get out of the range of those things.

Cheng Sheng turned his head and glanced into the distance. Those ancient horse land balls were still in place like eggs, but there seemed to be fewer of them.

Cheng Sheng narrowed his eyes suddenly, half of the body of the ancient millipede that was cut off by Duan Yi was gone, and it was unknown whether it was taken as food by his scavengers or dragged away by other unknown beasts.

He said: "For normal-sized beasts, this distance is enough, but for those ancient horselands that live in groups over there, we are still in their territory."

"The larger the body size and the larger the number of groups, the wider the range of activities." Cheng Sheng said, "This is related to the amount of food they need to obtain."

"Ancient millipedes usually eat scavengers and don't take the initiative to attack, but the ones you encountered this time have evolved arthropods that can attack." Cheng Sheng looked at Lin Qian and the others, "Those considerable ones are like sharp blades The arthropods can completely make them get rid of the bottom status in the food chain."

Cheng Sheng paused for a second, and said softly, "When they realize this, the roles of escape defense will be reversed."

Lin Qian was slightly stunned: "What do you mean? Does it mean that they might take the initiative to attack us?"

"Not exactly." Cheng Sheng shook his head, "They have changed from prey to active predators."

"And all the creatures in their territory are their targets, and we are only a part of them."