Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.90 four days after the invasion. [First update] Grass, Materia Medica is dead.

After Du Nanrong woke up, he found that his whole body was sore, especially the burning pain in his arm.

He couldn't hold back his breath, and took a look at the bandaged wound. The coagulated blood was sticking to the cloth, and the pain made him smart, and he called Xu Ying to help him bandage it back again.

Du Nanrong now remembered what happened.

It was his bad luck when he fell into the water.

First, he didn't see clearly when he was floating up, and he touched a hidden reef, knocking him a little dazed, and then he saw a shadow on the bottom and a huge river creature swimming into his sight.

He swam quickly to the other side, avoiding the huge, catfish-like fish, only without the catfish's long whiskers.

The big fish didn't seem to have much interest in them, it just swam away without interest after turning around very quickly under them.

It's just that when he was swimming, the tail of the fish swept Du Nanrong's arm inadvertently, leaving a mark of this trip, and directly knocked him out.

Fortunately, this big fish has no interest in their group, otherwise, with the force and sharpness of scraping bloody stool, how could they react when they fell into the water for the first time.

Du Nanrong looked up and looked around, Du Jingshu threw himself into his arms and sobbed softly.

"Be careful, there is something in the water." Du Nanrong rubbed Du Jingshu's head, comforted Du Jingshu twice, then looked at the others and reminded.

Zhang Jiuzhang twitched the corner of his mouth: "We have all seen it."

"That big fish also dragged a child-sized scorpion into the water." Xu Ying added.

Du Nanrong took a deep breath, it seemed that he missed a lot when he was unconscious.

"What the hell is that fish?" Du Nanrong opened his eyes wide, and hurriedly glanced around, "There are scorpions?!"

"Arapaima." Cheng Sheng said, "Judging from the shape of its head and teeth when it emerged just now, it should be of the genus Arapaima. It is huge, elongated, slightly flattened, and has a large mouth. , no, no mandible, strong and well-developed teeth on the tongue."

"This freshwater fish is almost a living fossil, existing on this planet [-] million years ago."

Cheng Sheng recalled the size of the fish's head that he saw just now, estimated the fish's body length roughly in proportion, and said, "The body length of an ordinary adult arapaima is about two to six meters, but we The one I saw just now is at least ten meters long."

Living in such an underground river, there are almost no natural enemies. The underground river has its own ecosystem, there is no shortage of food, and there is no ultraviolet light. It is not impossible for the arapaima to grow to such a size.

However, I am afraid there is also the penetration factor of the virus.

Insects that eat rotten leaves of mutated plants lay eggs in underground rivers and are eaten by fish and shrimp. The arapaima catches fish, shrimp and insects. This is a complete biological chain. Over time, the arapaima mutates.

"Arapaima is ferocious by nature, and even preys on small crocodiles. It has great brute force. They use their tails as weapons. They can easily knock down adult males and shatter their bones, causing serious internal injuries. You must be careful with it," Cheng Sheng reminded. warned.

"We follow this underground river and follow the wind, but we must stay away from the river surface. The arapaima has a great need for breathing air, and it will surface from time to time to swallow air to breathe. We'd better avoid it to avoid accidental injury. "

"Got it." Zhang Jiuzhang and the others nodded in response.

Hearing what Cheng Sheng said, Du Nanrong touched his arm, took a light breath, and felt that his luck was not bad, but a piece of flesh was scraped off, and there was no fracture or broken arm or leg. God blessed him.

"Since Du Gong is awake, let's go." Cheng Sheng said. He looked up and looked around. The strange-shaped stalactites hung above the cave roof. The light was dim and difficult to distinguish. It seemed that there were layers. .

Cheng Sheng pursed his lips: "Let's get out of this underground cave group as soon as possible. No one knows what will happen underneath."

The creatures that have been in the crypt for a long time are basically relatively low-level simple creatures.

The simpler and lower the organism, the less likely it is to activate ancient genes, but this does not mean that they are not infected by viruses.

Some are extremely aggressive, while others haven't changed yet.However, after these low-level organisms at the bottom of the biological chain are caught and swallowed, higher-level organisms will undergo quantitative changes, qualitative changes, and infection changes.

The cave ecosystem was once considered by scientists to be an ecosystem where organisms could not reproduce, but this view was overturned in the nineteenth century.

At the end of the [-]th century, when a group of scientists went deep into the underground cave for geological surveys, they were attacked by some kind of underground creature—or a group of creatures—and no one survived.

The rescue team went underground to search, but only found the remains of some of the scientist's team.

This tragedy that shocked the world revealed to the world the unknown side of the underground cave, and also overturned the previous assumption that there is no biological reproduction.

Since then, countless adventurers have fallen in love with the underground caverns.

Some people have gradually discovered some creatures living in underground caves, but the underground caves still haven't revealed its mystery to the world, and countless unknowns exist under the soil layer.

When Cheng Sheng and the others walked up, Du Nanrong realized that his saxifrage seemed to be missing, and the saxifrage didn't jump out when they fell.

Du Jingshu comforted her father, Jicao has her own natural appearance, and mutant plants are better than ordinary people like them.

Niu Hulu Ji Saxifraga, whom Du Jingshu had placed high hopes on, was mentioning Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan at the moment.

It grabbed the little purple-red banyan leaf firmly while grabbing Lin Qian, and Lin Qian grabbed Luo Xiaonan.

Luo Xiaonan hugged the plush bear in shock, his little face was pale and dull with fright, and he hadn't recovered from the fall just now.

Behind Lin Qian, a pair of seven-meter-long wingspans were fully stretched out in the huge cracks in the ground, which was extremely beautiful.

When he fell, he instinctively spread his wings to slow down the falling speed.

However, the huge wings belonging to the Argentine giant eagle are not suitable for flying. They must rely on wind and updraft to take off. At this moment, they can only barely stabilize the speed of falling.

The saxifrage stretched out its petals in time, wrapped Lin Qian around, and slowly pulled the two up.

Luo Xiaonan came back to his senses, he glanced at his feet, there was a bottomless black hole, and the huge cracks in the ground made them extremely small.

He looked up at Lin Qian, and saw Lin Qian spread out a pair of huge wings, clung to him tightly, and directly above Lin Qian was the familiar saxifrage, with several leaves shaking with force.

The land subsidence and earthquake continued, and it was as if there was a huge suction force under their feet. The ground subsidence caused them to keep sliding, which greatly increased the difficulty of saxifrage rescue.

They were saving Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan. In a blink of an eye, the watering officer and the doctor fell down again.

The saxifrage was dumbfounded, and screamed anxiously, stretching its leaflets but failed to catch Du Nanrong and the others who were falling, and was so frustrated that the leaflets of the saxifrage fell down.

At this moment, the huge purple-red banyan tree suddenly moved, and the roots sticking out deep in the soil layer were exposed because of the crack in the ground. Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan.

Lin Qian was startled, and before he could fight back, the two of them were wrapped in the roots of the banyan tree and thrown up.

Luo Xiaonan screamed.

The moment he took off into the air, Lin Qian almost instinctively took advantage of this powerful updraft to flap his wings, and he rose to an altitude of more than 30 meters in a blink of an eye.

Lin Qian took a deep breath and looked at the earth-shattering look below, only to realize that Duan Dui and the doctor's party had also disappeared.

He cursed secretly and hugged Luo Xiaonan tightly, not knowing what to do for a moment.

"Brother, I'm about to fall!" Luo Xiaonan suddenly shouted anxiously.

Lin Qian looked down when he heard the words, and saw that the saxifrage was still maintaining its huge size, spreading out its thick leaves, as if waiting to catch them.

The soil under which it took root is rapidly disintegrating.

Seeing this, Lin Qian immediately flew down.

Luo Xiaonan screamed and told Saxifraga to jump up.

Lin Qian hastily added: "Get smaller! Get smaller!"

The saxifrage changed back with a chirp, jumped onto Lin Qian's wings lightly and delicately, and stretched out its long and thin roots to grab Lin Qian.

The huge purple-red banyan tree started to move. It pulled out its sinuous and thick rhizome and moved towards the other end of the forest. Every step it moved, the soil and rocks under the rhizome rolled and overturned destructively.

Lin Qian climbed up to a height of tens of meters in the air again, condescendingly looking down at the path that the huge purple red banyan tree had traveled, and seeing the terrible collapsed scene around him, he couldn't help but gasped.

Luo Xiaonan looked up at Lin Qian: "Brother... where did the doctor go?"

"...My brother doesn't know either." Lin Qian was at a loss. He looked at the huge dark cracks in the ground, covering the place where they were before.Presumably Duan Duan and the doctor and his party fell into the crack just like them.

However, Lin Qian didn't think anything would happen to Duan Dui and his team. They had an encyclopedia like a doctor, and the configuration was much better than a child and a grass on his side.

He flapped his wings and stopped in mid-air, thought for a while and said, "We still follow the agreed destination direction, Duan team will definitely do the same."

Luo Xiaonan nodded half-knowingly, hugged Lin Qian and the stuffed bear tightly, and whispered, "Can my brother hold Nannan? Is Nannan heavy? Don't drop Nannan."

Lin Qian laughed.

He flew in mid-air, clearly feeling the strength of the pair of wings behind him, it seemed that they would never tremble, and could take him directly above the clouds.

Argentine eagles can fly at speeds of up to 67 miles per hour, and with almost no obstacles in the air, they are far more efficient than they are on the road.

Lin Qian hugged Luo Xiaonan, with saxifrage on his back, and flew in the direction of the previously planned road.

However, at the same time, he thought of a serious question - how should he land?

The huge size of the Argentine giant eagle limits the take-off and landing of this species, but their gliding ability is a well-deserved overlord of the sky.

He took a deep breath, the boat went straight to the bridge, and flew to the front of the mountain on its own way.

No, there is a "speed bump" ahead.

After the earthquake lasted for more than ten minutes, it subsided completely, leaving only the horrible scene all over the ground.

Lin Qian looked at the scene after the earthquake in front of him. The terrain was undulating like a small hill, and many shallow streams on the surface miraculously converged in one place because of the earthquake.

Looking down from a high altitude, springs and pools are scattered not far away, and under the cover of the surrounding green peaks, it shows a magnificent and rare water scene and mountain scenery.

This natural wonder is a miracle of nature, but Lin Qian was not in the mood to appreciate it right now. He took a deep breath, hugged Luo Xiaonan and whispered, "We are about to land."

The saxifrage trembled on Lin Qian's back, as if affected by Lin Qian's nervousness, it shook its petals uneasily.

Lin Qian spotted the landing line, and used the section where the stream flowed as a buffer zone, and the springs and pools that were connected together were his ideal landing spots.

If you're lucky, it's a soft landing on the water.

He took a deep breath and glides down.

He kept tapping on the surface of the flowing stream, slowing down his gliding speed, and finally rushed all the way to the spring pool, trying to land in the pool water, but unexpectedly, the speed was still unbelievably fast, and he crossed the wide spring pool water in a blink of an eye.

Lin Qian gasped and pulled up suddenly, almost hitting his legs on the rocks, breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Hold……"

The saxifrage leaf petals shook, as if empathizing with it, as if it had learned a tone word.

Lin Qian glides to the second spring pool, doing the same.

Then came the third, fourth, until all the springs and pools dived together, the speed of gliding was slowed down by most.

But there is no spring pool in front of me, only hard grass and grass.

Lin Qian gritted his teeth and turned over abruptly, with his back to the ground and hugged Luo Xiaonan tightly, intending to resist the impact with his back.

When he was training, there was a trick called grabbing the back. When he fell, he used his shoulders to roll over. The bent back and legs were cushioned, which could effectively slow down the impact of landing.

Just when Lin Qian was about to hit the ground, he babbled and jumped off the saxifrage on his back, and it grew wildly in the blink of an eye, wrapping Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan tightly, and after a few rolls, a huge cushion slipped out on the soil layer The imprint finally stopped.

The saxifrage slowly let go of its leaves, and threw Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan who were wrapped in it out.

It shakes the rhizomes and leaf petals - the grass, and the herb is dead.