Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No.90 Nine Days After the Invasion · Arapaima: Scales and bones, there is no whole body after death QAQ

The undercurrent in the underground river directly engulfed a group of people and poured into the dark underwater cave.

Du Jingshu only felt a rush of water pushing her upwards.

She couldn't see the arapaima and olm, and she didn't know if she was swept into the huge sinkhole with them.

Du Jingshu was thinking wildly, only felt that the air in his lungs was constantly being compressed, less and less, his consciousness was becoming more and more chaotic, and the feeling of being completely out of control of his limbs was terrible.

The strength of the undercurrent is enough to tear the small raft apart, and those who are caught in the undercurrent will only feel the pressure coming from all directions, as if being rubbed into a can of sardines.

Duan Yi was the first to emerge from the water, outside was the clear night sky, flat grassland, and bright fire.

He didn't look much, and after roughly judging the safety of the surroundings, he took another breath and dived underwater to find Cheng Sheng.

Lin Qian was in a shallow sleep when he suddenly heard the sound of water "splashing". The movement was so loud that he immediately opened his eyes and looked at the lake that was 200 meters away from him.

His eyesight is excellent, even if the distance is a little farther, he can still see the ripples on the water clearly.

Lin Qian sat up slightly vigilantly, there was nothing on the water, if it weren't for the ripples on the lake, Lin Qian would have thought that the previous movement was his illusion.

He woke up Luo Xiaonan and Saxifraga, frowning and looking ahead.

Cheng Sheng quickly came out of the dark hole, as if he had been spit out by the current, he was swept into the center of the lake, and was immediately caught by Duan Yi.

Neither Duan Yi nor Cheng Sheng are good at water, and they surfaced quickly first.

Cheng Sheng coughed twice, stared at his legs stepping on the water in an unskilled manner, observed the surrounding situation, and asked, "Where are the others?"

"Not out yet." Duan Yi said briefly, and swam to the shore with Cheng Sheng, "You go ashore first, and I'll meet the others."

Cheng Sheng responded, and under the guidance of Duan Yi, he quickly swam to the shore.

He propped himself up and stepped onto the shore.

Lin Qian stared in a daze at the sudden change of people in the lake in front of him, and said "Fuck" in his heart, he quickly got up, picked up a dead tree branch that was on fire, and rushed over.

"Nannan and Saxifraga stay where they are!" He hurriedly left a sentence, just in time to stop the little guy and Saxifraga who were sleeping soundly and didn't know anything and instinctively followed.

"Team Duan! Doctor!" Lin Qian exclaimed happily, thrust the burning branch into the ground, and hurriedly helped, "Where are the others?"

"Still in the water." Cheng Sheng coughed and pointed to the water.

Lin Qian responded, immediately took off his clothes, and followed Duan Yi into the water.

Then Xu Ying and Zhang Jiuzhang came out of the water. They were washed away by the undercurrent, so they had to come out first to take a breath.

Xu Ying breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Cheng Sheng landed safely, and immediately reminded: "Doctor! Stay away from the shore! Fish and lizards are coming through!"

The surface of the lake was empty and wide, and when Xu Ying's voice reached Cheng Sheng, it was blurred and softened a lot.

Cheng Sheng could only vaguely hear the words "shore", "wear", and "come".

He frowned slightly, and quickly reacted to Xu Ying's panicked expression in the upper lake.

He cursed, and immediately distanced himself from the shore of the water.

Lin Qian and Duan Yi found Du Jingshu in the water. Du Jingshu's eyes were half closed, her body twitched slightly, and some bubbles kept coming out of her mouth and nose, obviously she looked like she was drowning.

Lin Qian and Duan Yi took Du Jingshu up and swam quickly to the shore.

"How is she?" Cheng Sheng saw it, and immediately helped to carry Du Jingshu ashore, and said at the same time, "Stay away from the water, they are also coming through."

Lin Qian was taken aback, they?He subconsciously looked at the lake, and saw that Du Nanrong also emerged from the water, swimming over with Xu Ying and Zhang Jiuzhang one after another.

Hearing this, Duan Yi immediately went ashore with Lin Qian, opened a safe distance of a few meters, and laid Du Jingshu down.

He bent down to listen, his face sank, and he said, "I can't hear my heartbeat anymore."

"It's an asphyxial hypoxic cardiac arrest, oxygen supply is the first priority." Cheng Sheng said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Du Nanrong also climbed up to the bank, and when he heard the words, his whole body became cold, and he ran over immediately, and saw Duan Yi quickly remove the algae and river mud sticking to Du Jingshu's mouth and nose, so as to keep her breathing unobstructed.

Du Nanrong quickly said, "I'll do it."

He leaned over for artificial respiration, followed by chest compressions five times in a row.

No one spoke, and after artificial respiration and chest compressions cycled for more than a minute, the little girl lying on the ground suddenly coughed out a mouthful of water.

Du Nanrong paused for a moment, and then his face was overjoyed, and he quickly lifted Du Jingshu's head and neck, making Du Jingshu cough up the water accumulated in his lungs.

Du Jingshu grabbed Du Nanrong's hand, coughed and said, "Fish and lizards are coming..."

Before she finished speaking, she heard a huge movement from the lake behind her, and Lin Qian subconsciously turned her head to look.

He gasped, unable to describe what kind of scene he saw.

I saw a big lizard-like guy with a white body, holding a big fish about ten meters long in his mouth, rushing out of the water, his slender white tail swayed left and right and jumped twice. out.

The big fish was thrown onto the river bank and broke a big tree. The big tree fell down with a groan, almost as long as the big fish.

The olm jumped ashore immediately, holding the big fish's thrashing body tightly with its two front paws, lowered its head and opened its mouth to bite the fish's gills, and with a flick of its head, it tore off a piece of bloody scales.

Lin Qian was almost dumbfounded.

The white lizard didn't hunt the big fish out of food considerations, it didn't even drag the big fish's body into the water, but after confirming that the big fish died, it took a careful sniff left and right, and quickly returned to the water .

Everyone looked at the scene in front of them, and no one said a word. There was no room for ordinary people to meddle in the contests and attacks between such heavyweight creatures. It would be good if they could protect themselves from being harmed.

"My God... Where did you go?" Lin Qian murmured.

He even felt that his journey was a bit more peaceful and quiet. Apart from the excitement of the forced landing, he didn't even meet a single creature along the way.

Seeing that the threat disappeared, Xu Ying breathed a sigh of relief, fell down on the shore and looked at the night sky, not wanting to say a word.

They have really experienced too much along the way.

"Underground cave, Malu, big lizard..." Zhang Jiuzhang twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at Lin Qian, "Isn't it exciting?"

Lin Qian twitched the corner of his mouth and nodded.

"It's not a lizard, it's a salamander." Cheng Sheng lay down on the lawn, tired enough, but corrected it out of professional habit.

Salamanders and lizards look alike, but lizards are completely terrestrial, while salamanders are amphibious, and salamanders have no scales, only skin.

Zhang Jiuzhang didn't care about the difference between salamanders and lizards. He pouted and looked at Lin Qian: "Look over there, ready-made fish meat, go get some back?"

Lin Qian glanced at the big fish that had died, and the place where the olm had bitten open exposed the transparent milky white flesh.

He couldn't help swallowing, and nodded: "Success."

While speaking, Du Jingshu leaned on Du Nanrong, trembling all over.

Seeing this, Du Nanrong immediately said: "Let's find a place to make a fire, everyone is soaked."

"Come with me." Lin Qian jumped up, brought a group of people back to his camp, and casually said to Du Nanrong, "By the way, your grass is here too."

Du Nanrong was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that it was saxifrage.

As soon as he arrived at the simple shack built by Lin Qian, Luo Xiaonan ran over on short legs and hugged Cheng Sheng's leg tightly.

The saxifrage also ran over with a chirp, a few petals wrapped around Du Nanrong and Du Jingshu, and almost choked the little girl who had just woken up again.

Du Nanrong touched the saxifrage happily, feeling like an old father, always feeling as if he had grown up a bit after not seeing him for a day or two.

Lin Qian and Zhang Jiuzhang were greedy for the milky white fish, not to mention the smell of such a big fish would soon attract other wild animals, making it unsafe for the camp.

Duan Yi was checking Cheng Sheng's condition, and his body temperature gradually eased while he was warming up to the fire.

The doctor's skin is tender, and this time he scratched a lot on the ground, so he can see it more clearly under the steady firelight.

There were bloodstains all over the arms, legs, and waist, which lined the fine white skin, which was particularly shocking.

Duan Yi frowned to check.

Cheng Sheng lifted off the clothes rolled up by the soldiers, and rolled them up again, it would be better to just take them off.

He held down Duan Yi's hand, a little funny, others are almost dead, his scratches are nothing.

He said: "Let's go too. Let Du Gong and his daughter rest here, and Xu Ying will accompany them."

Xu Ying nodded: "Got it."

Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi, looked at Duan Yi's slightly disapproving eyes, raised his eyebrows slightly, raised his voice, and asked again: "Are you okay?"

Duan Yi: "...OK."

Du Nanrong was funny, it was obvious that Duan Yi was reluctant but compromised.

Cheng Sheng stood up, slapped off the blades of grass standing on his body, and said, "Arapaima is very useful. The scales are extremely hard and tough, and can be sharpened into claw knives. The local aborigines often do this, and this one is even more so now. With the trend of evolution, I believe the scales must be sharper and more useful."

"Your cold weapons are basically scrapped, so let's use some natural materials for self-defense." He said, also considering this, he planned to go there again with Duan Yi himself.

Xu Ying has always been good at using close-up attacks, and it would be a big loss for her to scrap cold weapons. She never thought that she could use the scales of the arapaima fish as cold weapons, and she became interested after hearing this.

Cheng Sheng said, "Don't worry, we will find good materials and bring them back."

Xu Ying nodded: "Thank you, Doctor."

Cheng Sheng waved his hands, then set off with Duan Yi and joined Lin Qian and Zhang Jiuzhang.

Lin Qian and Zhang Jiuzhang were cutting fish meat. An adult arapaima of normal size can produce [-] kilograms of fish meat, let alone this one in front of you.

What Lin Qian regretted most was that he couldn't take all the fish meat away. The biggest headache was that he didn't know how to deal with such a large piece of fish carcasses. It wouldn't take long for it to attract all kinds of scavengers around it.

At this time, Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi also arrived.

Cheng Sheng observed the arapaima in front of him at close range, and found that its tail was glowing red, very shiny and beautiful.

"This season is the breeding season of the arapaima...our fish is a male." Cheng Sheng said, he turned his gaze to the calm lake and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Among the arapaima population, The males take care of the eggs and juveniles, and their tails turn red until the juveniles grow up and have a certain level of self-preservation..."

"Its tail turned red." Lin Qian blinked, took a breath and looked at Cheng Sheng, "This means that there is a brood of such fish hatching?!"

"It must be in the hatching period, but no one knows how many fish will survive and grow to such a size in the end." Cheng Sheng said, "Before the juvenile fish grow up, there are countless natural enemies that feed on them, so it will naturally balance Don't worry about these."

Lin Qian nodded slightly.

Cheng Sheng withdrew his gaze, looked at Duan Yi, and asked, "How is it? Can these scales be peeled off?"

Duan Yi picked up a palm-sized fish scale from the ground, which was bitten off by the newt earlier, and he handed it to Cheng Sheng.

"Ling? Are you here for Lin?" Lin Qian was curious.

When Cheng Sheng took the fish scale, he saw that the scale was divided into two layers. The outermost layer was hard scutes with metallic luster, and the inner layer was elastic collagen fibers.

"The scales of the arapaima are so strong that even piranhas can't bite through them." Cheng Sheng said, holding the scales and showing them to several people, "Look here, there are tiny wrinkles on the surface of the scales. This makes the scales more malleable and less prone to cracking, while the collagen fibers in the inner layer differentiate bite force and attack force."

Cheng Sheng explained, "Most of our cold weapons were scrapped in the underground cave, and the guns were also flooded. If we want to continue going, we must prepare new suitable weapons for you."

"Zhang Jiuzhang, see if you can deform it. This arapaima has a tendency to evolve and mutate. Its scales are somewhat different from ordinary arapaima, and they seem to have some metal content." Cheng Sheng speculated.

Zhang Jiuzhang took it and tried to transform it into the shape of a knife, but after only a little distortion, it could no longer change.

He shook his head and frowned: "This is the only way to go."

Cheng Sheng took it over and looked at it, and saw that the scales, which were the size of a palm, had been twisted into curved pieces. The degree of deformation was not large, which should be due to the influence of the metal content.

He nodded slightly: "Take it back first. Take as many scales as you can, and leave the rest to me."

"receive."

A group of people returned with a full load.

Before leaving, Cheng Sheng stood in front of the huge fish, with his thin figure facing the lake behind him, the starlight fell, and a cluster of fire lit up at his fingertips, with a light flick, the bewitching blue flame "boomed" for a moment , covering the entire body of the fish.