Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.90 One Day After the Invasion【4K Comments Check-In Plus Updates! 】Being surrounded is just an appetizer

Zhang Jiuzhang's flashlight has a very limited range of exposure, and it's not the kind of beacon flashlight specially used for exploration. When the light is swept away, only pairs of beast pupils refracting the light can be seen.

"We are surrounded." Xu Ying said in a low voice.

She pulled out the sheath from her waist, held the dagger horizontally in front of her chest, and moved it to Cheng Sheng's front.

Xu Ying reminded Cheng Sheng: "Doctor, don't stay too far away from us."

Cheng Sheng responded.

He looked around, frowned slightly, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, but the source of the uneasiness was not the shining eyes that surrounded them.

The source of the uneasiness lies elsewhere, but Cheng Sheng can't tell.

He couldn't explain it, but he always felt that he had missed some obvious clue, which was the key to answering the source of this uneasiness.

"These things are afraid of our fire and dare not approach." Du Nanrong said, he picked out a burning dead wood branch from the fire, took a few steps forward tentatively, and shook it left and right twice.

Under the flickering reflection of the fire, some shadows quickly passed by.

Du Nanrong paused for a moment, then heard Zhang Jiuzhang yelling at him in a low voice behind him, ordering him to come back.

"Wait a minute, I seem to see something..." Du Nanrong said, he frowned, and continued to move forward cautiously.

Zhang Jiuzhang cursed secretly, drew out a gun and followed him, and covered Du Nanrong with a flashlight.

Du Nanrong glanced at the man who was following up beside him, and said: "The body is small, but the speed is very fast. I jumped over in a flash, and I didn't see much."

"Small size, fast speed, and so many..." Zhang Jiuzhang pursed his lips, "Hyena?"

"It's much smaller than a hyena, it's really small." Du Nanrong shook his head, "It's about as big as my palm?"

Cheng Sheng paused for a moment, and a flash of lightning flashed in his mind, as if he had caught something.

At this moment, Du Nanrong and Zhang Jiuzhang were close enough—enough to see what was surrounding them.

"Frog?!" Du Nanrong cried out with a laugh.

Under the light of the fire, small frogs with greenish-brown moss were squatting on the rocks and branches, with jet-black markings on their backs, and a pair of black and cold eyes, but under the reflection of the light, they showed orange reflections.

There are so many frogs gathered here, densely packed around them, it really makes one's scalp tingle.

But it's better than packs of predators like hyena packs.

Du Nanrong lowered his arms in a relaxed manner. Fortunately, he had been worried for a long time and took every step carefully, but it turned out to be a little frog, which was really not as big as his slap.

Looking at the color again, it is unpretentious, the markings are black and shiny, and the background color is also a natural protective color of brown, which does not seem to be poisonous.

Just when Du Nanrong and Zhang Jiuzhang were relaxing, Cheng Sheng's expression changed unexpectedly, and he warned them in a low voice to back away slowly so as not to disturb the frogs in front of them.

Du Nanrong and Zhang Jiuzhang looked at each other and looked at each other. Hearing Cheng Sheng's low voice that implied warning, cold sweat broke out unconsciously behind the two of them.

The two of them backed away slowly step by step, and they didn't let out a long breath until they retreated within a safe distance.

"Isn't it just a frog? Why are you so serious?" Du Nanrong asked, he paused suddenly, and asked like a frightened bird, "Wait, it can't be that there is a huge and huge frog hiding behind them?!"

Du Nanrong hurriedly looked over, afraid that the huge frog was hiding in the night, and because of the distance, they only saw a part of it, and didn't realize what kind of giant frog they were facing.

Du Nanrong didn't wait for Cheng Sheng to give an explanation, and he imagined a horror movie.

Cheng Sheng shook his head: "No, it's the frogs themselves, they are very dangerous."

"This is the Bruno Helmet Frog. You can see that they have a long nose and a flat head, which is very special." Cheng Sheng pointed out, his voice lowered.

"When this frog was first discovered, it was in a national forest on the southeastern coast of the Pacific Ocean. It has always been recognized as a very regional frog species, but I didn't expect to encounter them here."

Lin Qian heard the words and said, "And there are quite a few of them."

Cheng Sheng nodded: "That's right, there are quite a few."

"Then it's dangerous... poisonous?" Du Nanrong asked, "I thought only brightly colored frogs were poisonous."

"It is an exception." Cheng Sheng said, speaking quickly, "Bruno's helmeted frog is 25 times more poisonous than a pit viper. According to research reports, one gram of Bruno's helmeted frog's venom is enough to kill eighty people." An adult, but his research analogy data is wrong, although the LD50 data of this frog is as high as 0.16, it is actually only a completely theoretical ideal state, when the toxin..."

"Doctor." Duan Yi interrupted Cheng Sheng.

Obviously, once Cheng Sheng's field of interest was mentioned, the doctor's words became eloquent, and he didn't realize that some of the proper nouns he mentioned, others couldn't understand at all.

Cheng Sheng paused for a moment, stopped talking, and changed his way to say: "The venom of Bruno's helmeted frog is injected through the tiny bony spurs on the skull. When they attack, the tiny bony spurs covering the venom will come from its Squirt out of your lips."

Du Nanrong took a deep breath and looked around again. The images of these frogs were suddenly much larger than slaps.

He asked in a low voice, "Are we surrounded by a group of movable poisonous arrows?"

"This kind of frog still likes to use group attacks? I thought frogs were all self-employed?" Lin Qian asked in a low voice.

Cheng Sheng frowned: "No, usually it's not like this..."

"Then what attracts them here?" Duan Yi asked, he paused, looked at the small purple-red banyan tree that attracted saxifrage, and asked, "Could it be that tree?"

Cheng Sheng heard the words and looked over, and saw that the trunk was light gray and the leaves were purple red. Looking closely, it seemed that both the trunk and the leaves were moving.

His pupils shrank slightly, and he murmured, "It's a pest."

There are countless gray and white silk moths crouching on the tree trunk. The light-colored horizontal bands on the gray and white silk moths make the tree body look like dry gray and white at first glance, which is inconspicuous.

On the leaves, it is not only the purple color caused by phosphorus deficiency.

The ficus microphylla is host to the lac insects, which are so common in such subtropical forests, their secretions become fused with the resin.

Whether it is an egg or an adult, they are all purple-red, and the shell of the egg is thin and transparent-if you don't know what it is, it is actually quite beautiful.

Cheng Sheng ignored that such a mutated banyan tree would also be infested with insects, even so serious.

Such serious pests will naturally attract frogs that feed on insects, and this place is simply their natural granary.

Luo Xiaonan murmured: "But we don't eat worms?"

"But they obviously regard us as villains who rob rations." Lin Qian swallowed, and pulled Luo Xiaonan closer to him.

Hundreds of Bruno's helmet-headed frogs began to bulge their bellies and let out a muffled frog cry.

"It sounds like a warning to me." Du Nanrong looked at Cheng Sheng for confirmation.

Cheng Sheng's face was ugly, he nodded slightly, and at the same time warned in a low voice: "Everyone stay where you are and don't move."

"Frogs capture vision dynamically and turn a blind eye to things that are still. As long as we don't move, we won't be 'seen'." He explained.

No one dared to move.

A group of people just stared at these frogs.

"Are we going to stay like this until dawn?" Lin Qian couldn't help asking softly.

"Frogs are nocturnal creatures, and they are relatively less active during the day, so they probably disperse." Cheng Sheng said after a pause.

Hope for dawn.

"At first I thought I was meeting a group of juvenile cubs again, and I was worried that there would be super-sized adult giant frogs guarding behind... Now I would rather face giant frogs than these poisonous little guys." Du Nanrong murmured muttered.

Hearing this, Cheng Sheng looked at Du Nanrong suddenly, and asked hurriedly, "What did you say? Underage cubs?"

Du Nanrong was stunned for a moment, not knowing which nerve his words hit the doctor.

But he wanted to ask more, is it appropriate to turn around now?Won't those frogs pay attention?What if the doctor is attacked?

Cheng Sheng's mind was spinning rapidly. Along the way, there were so many coincidences that could be explained by other reasons that he ignored a very dire omen.

He looked at the others suddenly: "It is very likely that there will be a major earthquake, maybe in a few hours, or in a few days, or in the next second."

Duan Yi frowned.

Cheng Sheng quickly explained: "The Bruno helmeted frogs here are all adult frogs based on their size and the development of markings on their bodies. They may gather here because of the pests on the Ficus xiaoye. However, before we entered the swamp, They have already gathered together - both Lin Qian and Xu Ying feel their presence."

"Only juvenile frogs will gather. They will gather, go to the nearest water source, and enter their normal life mode, but adult frogs will never gather without reason." Cheng Sheng spoke quickly. .

He looked at the others: "The reason for the abnormal gathering of frogs is the precursor of the earthquake."

"Frogs are very sensitive to sound waves. Before the earthquake, the underground rock formations have already shown a creeping state. On the frictional fault surface, a sound wave of only a few to ten times per second will be generated, which is far lower than what humans can hear. frequency, but for frogs, it is perceivable."

"They will flee the epicenter one after another, presenting a spectacular migration scene." Cheng Sheng said.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Bruno helmeted frogs around him suddenly started to disperse.

Cheng Sheng's pupils shrank suddenly, "For example now."

Zhang Jiuzhang frowned: "There is only this phenomenon to prove..."

"Not just this one." Cheng Sheng interrupted him.

Cheng Sheng spoke faster and faster, constantly sorting out his thoughts, trying to explain clearly, so as not to be too jumpy, and others could not keep up with his rhythm.

He took a deep breath: "The Deinosaur crocodile we encountered before did not catch up with us. At first I thought it was because of the eggs, but it was actually because our route was in the same direction as the earthquake."

"The plain we crossed was supposed to be a paradise for herbivores and small and medium-sized predators, but we didn't see anything. We were incredibly lucky."

"Thinking about it now, it has nothing to do with luck at all."

"Those animals sensed the danger of earthquakes far earlier than us!"