Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.80 Seven Days After the Invasion · "Did you ever feel...as if you were being stared at?"

As soon as the doctor spoke, no one questioned, Lin Qian and the others immediately stood up, tidied up, and set off again.

"Doctor, according to what you said, how far do we have to go?" Lin Qian asked, looking up at Cheng Sheng who was sitting on the back of the giant beast.

Cheng Sheng was resting with his eyes closed, but he opened them after hearing this.

He glanced at the direction they were walking, raised his hand and said, "Let's use that big tree as a mark."

The big tree that Cheng Sheng pointed to was very distinctive in the whole forest.

The trunk looks like three or four adults hugging each other, towering into the sky, much higher than other surrounding trees, the crown of the tree is like a curved umbrella, covering all the surroundings under it.

Iron stems and twigs, the dense leaves are deep purple red, which is very out of place in the emerald green broad-leaved green.

Lin Qian couldn't help thinking, there are monsters abnormally.

"The leaves are purple, which is due to the large amount of phosphorus deficiency in the trees." Cheng Sheng said, he saw what Lin Qian was thinking at a glance, and explained, "That little-leaved banyan is a mutant, and the abnormal growth caused a certain element in the plant to lack."

"The manifestations of this little-leaved banyan tree are purple-red leaves and phosphorus deficiency."

Du Nanrong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and asked, "It's just a lack of phosphorus. Then it shouldn't be harmful?"

Cheng Sheng glanced at him and asked, "In such a primeval forest?"

"Nothing is completely safe," he said.

Du Nanrong was slightly taken aback.

"Any creature has its own defense mechanism." He looked at Du Nanrong and Du Jingshu, reminding the two who obviously didn't fully realize how dangerous their situation was.

Ordinary people know the dangers of primeval forests and how deadly the poisonous insects, snakes and ants, beasts and birds dormant in the forest, but people often focus on these accompanying creatures in the forest, but ignore the threat of the forest itself.

"Even if you're lucky, this little banyan tree won't roll up and throw people away like saxifrage. The plant fluids it secretes, the sawtooth of its branches and leaves... can make uninvited guests who break into its territory suffer a lot." Cheng Sheng As he spoke, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Du Jingshu who was walking in front of him.

A slender and low shrub branch was covered with barbs, which was a natural color with the dead leaves on the ground, and it lay horizontally in front of the little girl's feet without any trace.

Fortunately, Cheng Sheng gave Du Jingshu a hand, otherwise Du Jingshu might have tripped over that barbed bush.

The fine barbs will not make the wound deep, but it is enough to make the little girl suffer a lot.

Especially in such an environment, the temperature difference between day and night is large, close to zero at night, but can reach [-] degrees during the day, and the environment is humid and sticky, which is very easy to breed bacteria and cause wound deterioration.

Du Jingshu was pulled by Cheng Sheng, and only then did he see the thing under his feet, and his back was covered with cold sweat.

She thanked the doctor in a low voice, and let out a sigh of relief.

Cheng Sheng waved his hands, looked at the two of them and said, "There is no harm in having a little reverence for nature."

Du Nanrong nodded, and inexplicably had the illusion that he had returned to the university and followed the professor's buttocks on field trips.

He turned his head to look at the girl next to him. The little girl seemed to jump out of the shadow of Gu Malu in an instant, and followed the team closely. She even urged him a few steps behind.

A group of people headed towards the big tree that Cheng Sheng said.

The air is humid and hot, and the air pressure is very low. As the time spent in this primeval forest prolongs, every bit of discomfort magnifies their exhaustion and difficulty on the road.

The only thing that is slightly better is that the mosquito bites that were everywhere seem to have disappeared.

Zhang Jiuzhang waved a fire ax to open the way at the front, followed by Duan Dabing, a big cat with a doctor on his back. Lin Qian and Xu Ying fell at the tail of the line, in case someone left behind and no one would notice.

Lin Qian pushed aside the leaves of the shrubs in front of him, and suddenly felt a little strange: "When I used to walk through the primeval forest, I was most annoyed by the insects and small flower snakes hidden in the leaves, but I didn't expect to see them rarely now. Could it be The bugs have mutated into bigger ones? Are they not hiding in the grass?"

Xu Ying squinted at him: "Why do you seem to miss those bugs?"

Lin Qian choked slightly and shook his head quickly.

Du Nanrong, who was walking in front of them, heard the conversation between Lin Qian and Xu Ying behind him, and looked back: "You mean bugs? Didn't you see it?"

He turned slightly sideways, out of sight, and pointed to the front.

The snakes and insects hurriedly swam out from where Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng walked, as if fleeing for their lives.

Variegated beetles, finger-thin krait... fled in small groups.

Lin Qian and Xu Ying were taken aback.

The two of them had never seen such a scene before, and they couldn't help looking at Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi who were walking ahead without realizing it.

When you see Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi, you will naturally see Zhang Jiuzhang.

Zhang Jiuzhang, who walked in the front, was in a more miserable situation. From time to time, he heard a crisp slap on the arm, and heard the scolding voice of the violent former captain of the Longyan army.

Lin Qian twitched the corners of his mouth. Apparently there were still bugs. Zhang Jiuzhang, who was walking in the front to open the way, would suffer, but Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng were like insect repellants for walking. No snakes or bugs were left wherever they passed.

"What special abilities do they have?" Lin Qian was speechless.

Xu Ying looked at Zhang Jiuzhang and couldn't help but say, "Zhang Jiuzhang is in front..."

Du Nanrong interrupted Xu Ying, and grinned: "Leave him alone, he likes to lead the way and let him take him. He looks down on this and that all day long, let's see what he can do."

Xu Ying laughed.

Lin Qian laughed at Du Nanrong: "You and he quarreled with two elementary school students, and you still hold grudges."

Du Nanrong twitched at the corner of his mouth and smirked.

Suddenly, Zhang Jiuzhang, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped. He raised his arms suddenly, clenched his hands into fists, and signaled everyone to be alert and stop.

The snow-white ancient behemoth stood half a meter in front of Zhang Jiuzhang, narrowing its ice-blue eyes slightly, with its front paws blocking Zhang Jiuzhang's feet.

In front of them is still thick litter, just like any other place.

Zhang Jiuzhang broke off a branch at hand, and threw it forward vigorously.

I saw that branch submerged in the pile of dead leaves in an instant, and most of the exposed part was still slowly sinking, but the sinking range was very small, and it took a careful look to see it.

Cheng Sheng's face darkened slightly: "Swamp."

Zhang Jiuzhang said "Yes", this kind of peat moss swamp is the most hidden and dangerous. In the primeval forest area, the dead branches and leaves are piled up under the forest, the plants decompose slowly, and the peat accumulates, forming a terrible swamp under the pile of fallen leaves. .

Usually, creatures that step into a swamp will not realize that the ground under their feet is a swamp at the first time, until they walk to the softer center, they will feel a huge adhesion and pull under their feet, as if a hand is reaching for it. It's like pulling and pulling.

And by then it was too late.

Explorers often say that the bottom of the swamp is connected to hell, and countless animal carcasses are buried below, but they can't even see their shadows.

The long branch that Zhang Jiuzhang inserted stopped before sinking for a long time. Most of it was stuck in the swamp, and it seemed to have come to an end.

Zhang Jiuzhang pointed to the corpse of a wild beast not far away. It was already covered with bones, and only half of it was exposed. He whispered, "Let's bypass it."

The surface of this kind of swamp looks shallow, but the natural precipitation in the virgin forest makes the formation of silt very deep. Usually, there is a deep peat layer hidden under the swamp. Once trapped, it is difficult to escape.

Not to mention the swamp creatures living in it, no one would want to have their heels swept by something cold and scaly when they crossed the swamp.

Zhang Jiuzhang grabbed a thick branch of suitable length as a path-finding stick to distinguish the edge of the swamp.

"Don't step on your feet, walk on my shoe prints." Zhang Jiuzhang turned his head and warned, emphatically warning Du Nanrong and Du Jingshu.

Du Nanrong didn't say anything this time, he thought for a while, called Zhang Jiuzhang to stop, found a ball of parachute rope from his backpack, and threw it to him.

——The parachute rope was taken away by Du Nanrong when he took the plane before. This kind of parachute rope has a strong load-bearing capacity and is a very useful tool for survival in the wild. Du Nanrong opened it when he saw the parachute Notice.

If it weren't for the limited capacity of the backpack, he even wanted to take the parachute with him—it would be fine to use it as a moisture-proof cloth for sleeping.

Zhang Jiuzhang glanced at Du Nanrong a little unexpectedly. He knew what Du Nanrong meant when he saw the umbrella rope. He immediately tied a strong knot around his waist, and the other end of the rope was in Du Nanrong's hand.

If Zhang Jiuzhang accidentally overturned his car and stepped into the swamp, Du Nanrong could pull him out immediately.

Zhang Jiuzhang knotted the rope, which is equivalent to a continuous set of locks, distributed it to others, and motioned them to put it on.

He reminded one more sentence: "If any of you accidentally step into the swamp, don't struggle, lie flat as much as possible, expand the contact area between the body and the swamp, slow down the speed of sinking, just like swimming, slide slowly to the shore, as long as Grab the rope and we'll pull out straight away."

Du Jingshu nodded. She studied geological surveys and was more aware of the dangers of the swamp, so her nerves tensed up, and she even subconsciously relaxed her breathing.

After Zhang Jiuzhang confirmed everyone's situation, he took the lead and walked in the front.

After they left that area, no one looked back, so no one saw it. The long branch inserted under the swamp suddenly sank and was swallowed up so that they could not be seen.

The pile of dead leaves where the branches were originally inserted, after a few shakes, returned to calm again, as if nothing had happened.

They circled a very large area, half the size of a football field.

Du Nanrong let out a sigh of relief, such a swamp area, if it gets stuck in it by mistake, who can swim out?

Not to mention those swamp hunters waiting for an opportunity, I am afraid that when they stepped into the edge of the swamp, they would have been noticed, just waiting for them to throw themselves into the net.

They walked to the vicinity of the white bone corpse of the beast they saw earlier, and Cheng Sheng observed the occlusal fracture of the corpse at close range.

"This kind of bite force and attack diameter area..." Cheng Sheng's pupils narrowed slightly, and he murmured, "It seems that there is a big guy living here."

"Sister Ying, do you feel...as if you're being stared at?" Lin Qian asked Xu Ying in a low voice.

Xu Ying pursed her lips and looked at Lin Qian: "You feel it too?"

A cold, creepy look.

And what makes Xu Ying feel the most fearful and uneasy is not the sense of danger that this gaze gives her, but that this feeling is forced from all directions, not just one.

Zhang Jiuzhang looked around and immediately said, "Let's go!"