Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.90 five days after the invasion [Second update]

After Lin Qian's side landed safely, the saxifrage was lying on the ground, looking like he had suffered internal injuries, and he groaned.

Luo Xiaonan lay on the saxifrage at a loss, calling the saxifrage softly. The saxifrage barely shook its petals, as if it was extremely weak.

When the little guy saw it, tears fell down his face.

Lin Qian was also taken aback. He guessed that they had blocked the impact just now and were damaged.

He knelt down guiltily, touched the petals of the saxifrage, and suddenly remembered that he still had a few stone cores on his body, which were given to him by the doctor after the imperial capital encircled and suppressed the infected outside the gymnasium.

He remembered that saxifrage also liked this thing.

Lin Qian hurriedly dug out the stone cores from the inner pocket of his clothes. He pinched a small one, and as soon as he held it up to the saxifrage, it grabbed it quickly.

The rhizome pierces unimpededly into the stone core and wraps around tightly.

Crackling.

Saxifraga stretched out with joy.

--Choo Choo Choo!Ba Shi! ! !

Lin Qian blinked. He didn't expect the stone core to be so useful. It instantly revived the extremely weak saxifrage, and he was full of energy.

The saxifrage swept Lin Qian with its leaf petals—is there any more?

It's a pity that Lin Qian and the saxifrage didn't have a spiritual connection. Seeing that the saxifrage had recovered, he took back the remaining stone core.

Saxifraga tweeted regretfully.

Lin Qian put Luo Xiaonan and saxifrage together, and told Luo Xiaonan not to run around. He had to look around and if it was suitable, they would camp here tonight.

After the saxifrage absorbed the nutrients in the stone core, it cooperated very well and took root in the barren soil below, standing on the land like a loyal guardian of the little guy.

The place where Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan were located was a karst depression, a unique product of karst landforms, with a flat bottom. The springs and pools that Lin Qian used as buffers were actually sinkholes filled with water.

Some sinkholes lead underground and connect with underground rivers.Such pools are often surrounded by undercurrents, which appear to be calm on the surface, but are actually extremely dangerous.

Where there is water, there are usually wild beasts. Whether it is a medium or large wild beast or a herbivore, it is a threat to Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan.

They should try to choose a place that is relatively flat and some distance away from the water source, preferably backed by a small hill with a bunker.

By the time Lin Qian set up the camp they were going to camp tonight and lit the fire, it was already two or three hours later.

Luo Xiaonan looked at the simple shack in front of him, opened his eyes wide, and You Qi praised cooperatively: "Wow, little brother is so amazing!"

Lin Qian chuckled, feeling a sense of satisfaction and pride in raising the child: "It's okay, it's okay, I can barely make do for the night."

The food and drinking water on their bodies were fully prepared before the earthquake, and it took a long time to fix them on their bodies, trying to ensure that they would not be lost due to the earthquake.

At this moment, Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan were lying in the hut they had built, looking up at the starry night sky, warming themselves by the fire while eating a mouthful of water and biscuits.

"There is no moon today." Luo Xiaonan said, chewing on a biscuit.

Lin Qian blinked: "But today the stars are very clear. Brother, let me teach you to recognize the North Star. Seeing the current situation, it will definitely be useful in the future."

Luo Xiaonan nodded and listened obediently.

"The Polaris is almost a fixed star, so this is the best compass to tell the direction in the wild. Look, the one over there is like a spoon..." Lin Qian said in a daze.

They were watching the stars and looking for the moon here, and there was a saxifrage standing guard beside them. Compared with Duan Yi and his party who were trapped in the underground cave, the environment was really pleasant.

Duan Yi and the others walked along the underground river, and soon left the cracked ground. The light was so dim that it was difficult to distinguish.

Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng's pupil colors are changing unconsciously, and they instinctively adapt to the changing light in the cave environment. Seeing things in the dark is not difficult for the ancient biological genes in their blood.

However, this is a big trouble for others.

Xu Ying hissed, and was suddenly scratched by a bloodstain on the raised stones on the left and right rock walls, only then did he notice that they were walking on an upward slope.

Cheng Sheng lit a cluster of blue flames to act as temporary lighting, Xu Ying thanked him, and briefly treated the wound and bandaged it.

Most of the creatures in the underground caves are "blind", and some even have no eye organs at all, relying entirely on the senses of smell, hearing and touch.

If there was blood, the smell of blood might cause trouble.

Cheng Sheng simply kept the blue flame on all the time. Although the area illuminated by the fire from his fingertips was not large, it was better than nothing.

They walked along the underground river, and as they walked, the underground river became narrower and narrower. They watched it shrink from an underground river a few meters wide and capable of carrying small boats, to a narrow stream only one step wide, and finally drilled into a low In the short karst cave, he simply couldn't find it.

Du Jingshu knew that they had always relied on the flow of the underground river to find their way out. Now that the only underground river that could point the way was broken, she couldn't help but breathe a little harder, and grabbed Du Nanrong's hand and yelled softly.

Du Nanrong comforted in a low voice: "Even if there is no underground river, we can still rely on the direction of the wind to find the exit. As long as there is convection in the air, there must be an exit."

Du Jingshu nodded, feeling a little hopeful again.

At this juncture, the most likely cause of death is not the depletion of food and drinking water, but the desperation of the mind.

When Du Nanrong was still a firefighter, he took over an outdoor search task. They were looking for a group of donkey friends lost in the mountains.

When they found the group, there were no survivors.

Those people's equipment is still very complete, food and drinking water have enough food and water for at least two days, and there are no wounds attacked by wild beasts on their bodies.

Only in the deep mountains around where they were found, many repeated footprints were seen. Obviously these people got lost in this area.

In the end, when Du Nanrong and the others reviewed the game, they came to the conclusion that these people gave up their will to survive out of desperation.

A seemingly insignificant little thought can sometimes explode with surprisingly powerful power.

After Cheng Sheng and his party walked for a while, they stopped temporarily to rest and replenish food and water.

When traveling in such a depressing underground cave, you need to bend down to drill the hole from time to time, or climb a section, and your physical strength is exhausted quickly.

Cheng Sheng looked around with the fire light on, and was a little surprised to find that they seemed to have entered another layer of caves without knowing it, and the whole shape was different from before.

Du Jingshu's panic seemed to have eased a little. She heard what Cheng Sheng said, and she also looked up and looked around, and was pleasantly surprised to find that they had indeed gone up one floor.

"This has something to do with the formation of the cave." Du Jingshu tentatively explained, and when Cheng Sheng looked over, he was a little timid.

It wasn't until Cheng Sheng nodded slightly to him, motioning for her to continue, that Du Jingshu pursed his lips and brought out the knowledge in the book.

"Karst caves are formed by the dissolution and erosion of groundwater along the layers, fracture surfaces and cleavage surfaces of soluble rock formations," she explained.

Du Jingshu gestured and said: "The rise and fall of the earth's crust will cause the rise and fall of the groundwater level, resulting in many layers of caves. For example, the Shihua Cave in the Imperial Capital has six layers, and the Qixingyan in Zhaoqing has three layers. very common here.”

"The higher we go, the closer we are to the surface." Du Jingshu said, his eyes lit up slightly, and added, "The closer we are to the exit."

Du Jingshu never thought that the unpopular major she specialized in in college could be useful.

Cheng Sheng nodded slightly when he heard the words. He was already very surprised that Du Jingshu was able to analyze these things, but he would not ask the little girl if she could find an exit for them.

After all, professional explorers and geologists have nowhere to go in such a cave, let alone a college student who is only taking a major.

Duan Yi suddenly withdrew his fist, his face darkened, and motioned for all of them to keep silent.

Seeing this, the group subconsciously tensed their nerves, and their breathing slowed down a lot.

When the surroundings are quiet, the originally inconspicuous small sounds are amplified, especially because of the special structure of the cave, almost all sounds are amplified.

There was an irregular rustling sound, which seemed to be approaching them.

With a "tick" sound, the sound of water droplets falling on the rock wall startled the group of people, and they suddenly looked at the source of the sound, but it was Du Jingshu.

The little girl stared blankly at the others, almost lamenting in her heart, how could she be tricked again?

However, there was no sign of living things around Du Jingshu, and no one knew where the sound of dripping water came from.

Until there is another sound.

Du Jingshu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, extremely uneasy.

Cheng Sheng moved the flames behind Du Jingshu, and saw blood on the rock wall behind the little girl.

Cheng Sheng's pupils shrank slightly, and he walked behind Du Jingshu.

On Du Jingshu's back, the clothes were scratched, and two deep bloodstains dripped down continuously, soaking the clothes.

Seeing this, Xu Ying took a deep breath, and quickly tore off the cloth to wrap it up.

Because of the light, no one noticed that Du Jingshu was injured before.

As for Du Jingshu herself, she was naturally pain-free. Even when she was bitten by an infected person at first, she was reminded by her classmates before she discovered it. This time it was the same.

She stared blankly at the blood-stained rock wall behind her: "Is it mine?"

Du Nanrong quickly checked Du Jingshu's condition, the blood loss didn't seem to be serious, if he didn't know that he was injured, there was hardly any blood loss.

After Xu Ying bandaged Du Jingshu, she comforted softly: "It's okay, after bandaging, there will be no scars."

Du Jingshu laughed when she heard this, looked at Xu Ying and said, "I'm not worried about this. I'm just afraid... Will I come here dripping blood all the way? Will it attract something...?"

Duan Yi and Zhang Jiuzhang were tense all the time. They held their breath because of the approaching movement.

But at this moment, what is even more disturbing is that the movement disappeared.

Cheng Sheng was observing the blood on the stone wall. The blood dripped on the stone wall, and it strangely congealed into a jelly, a bit like... pudding.

"What is the doctor looking at?" Du Nanrong asked in a low voice.

Cheng Sheng glanced at him, shook his head and said, "It's nothing."

He couldn't tell Du Nanrong that such gelatinous blood is usually the state of blood in the blood vessels of dead people.