Ancient Invasion [End Times]

The tenth day after the invasion · "Little brother, there are a lot of bugs."

Anna looked at Cheng Sheng suspiciously, wondering where the infected people came from.

Aren't those people with flashlights ordinary people?

Luo Xiaonan stood on the side, poked his head out towards the glass window, took a quick glance and then retracted, clutching the plush bear's ears uneasily, and said in a very low voice, "There are so many people."

Anna looked down at Luo Xiaonan, then at the dozens of beams of light, how many people there are?

"Should we go there? Even if there are no infected people there, if these people go to loot supplies, there is a high possibility of conflicts and accidents." Lin Qian asked.

Xu Ying suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, and echoed: "Duan Duan, let Qianzi and I go and have a look together. It's better for us to press the field than let those people fight."

While they were talking, Cheng Sheng said suddenly, "A police car has passed by."

Lin Qian and Xu Ying heard the words, and quickly looked outside, and sure enough, three police cars with red and blue lights were driving all the way to the warehouse.

"Since the police car has passed by, there shouldn't be any need for you to go, right?" Anna asked cautiously. Speaking of selfishness, she didn't want these "bodyguards" to go out at night. If they left, she would have to be with one The remaining one stayed alone in the house.

Cheng Sheng didn't speak.

It's hard to say how much those police cars would have played in the past, but when Duan Yi, Xu Ying and Lin Qian passed by, it was probably just three small stones thrown into the lake.

Anna went on to say: "If it's true that those infected people are mobilized as the doctor said, then there must be infected people in more than one place. What if you leave and our place is besieged?"

Lin Qian frowned, Anna said it was not impossible.

He and Xu Ying looked at Duan Yi together.

Duan Yi looked out the window, was silent for two seconds and said, "Priority is given to tasks."

"Yes, Team Duan!"

Cheng Sheng looked at him, Duan Yi looked back at Cheng Sheng, and finally said nothing, Duan Yi pushed Cheng Sheng back to the bedroom.

"It's over, let's have a good rest." Lin Qian greeted him, and abducted Luo Xiaonan to lie on the sofa with him.

Xu Ying pouted her lips and said, "I'll keep watch tonight."

"Night watch? Is this necessary? Didn't Dr. Cheng set up a power grid outside his door?" Lin Qian felt that if there was anything safer in this city than the doctor's home, it might be a high-level prison that was almost completely closed.

Xu Ying didn't answer directly. She couldn't say anything. She was disturbed by Dr. Cheng's words, and she always felt that something would happen, right?

She said: "Qianzi, you have to go out with Team Duan tomorrow, so take a good rest first."

Lin Qian frowned, looked at Xu Ying, and said, "Then you will watch the first half of the night, and I will watch the second half of the night, and you will be awake by then, so that's it."

Xu Ying nodded silently, picked up the baseball bat in the corner and put it under her arm, walked straight to the door and sat down.

Luo Xiaonan was dragged by Lin Qian to lie on the sofa, lay there for more than ten minutes, and finally asked Lin Qian in a low voice: "Little brother, can you tell Nan Nan a story? Just like mother."

Lin Qian was stunned for a moment. Although he hadn't fallen asleep, it was only seven or eight o'clock in the evening, but... Tell the child a bedtime story?

Lin Qian twitched his lips and looked at Xu Ying who was sitting at the gate begging for help. The girl didn't intend to help at all, so Lin Qian took a deep breath: "Then... let me tell you a story about a good man's survival in the jungle. "

He dryly turned one of his debriefings into a bedtime story, reading it until he fell asleep.

Holding a baseball bat, Xu Ying leaned against the wall at the door, slightly curling the corners of her mouth.

In Cheng Sheng's bedroom, after Duan Yi took a shower, he and Cheng Sheng lay on the bed with their eyes closed without saying a word.

After an unknown amount of time, the voice of Lin Qian telling stories to the children outside the door fell silent. Cheng Sheng spoke abruptly, and said softly, "You alone can't change anything."

He looks at the ceiling.

Just like the original him, alone.

He was the first to issue a warning, but it was useless. Even if the outbreak was earlier this time, he didn't know if it was him who promoted it.

Without his research, without his warning, would the people in the research compound send Duan Yi's soldiers to send the virus to the research base in the Himalayas?

I'm afraid not.

But Cheng Sheng didn't regret it, his research was not wrong, his warning was not wrong, what was wrong was that those people couldn't believe it, didn't accept it, and didn't respect nature enough.

Duan Yi said "hmm", "I know."

The city has its own protection system, and the colleagues in the police station are the patron saints and heroes of the city. It shouldn't be him, and he can't do it.

What's more, he has a more important object of protection—whether public or private—Cheng Sheng's mastery and understanding of ancient viruses is among the top in the country and even in the world.And this virus, I am afraid that sooner or later it will turn into a global disaster.

The importance of Cheng Sheng is self-evident.

Duan Yi knew very well that he had long passed the period when he would struggle with the conflict between his sense of responsibility and reality, which only happens to recruits. He patted the back of Cheng Sheng's hand and said, "Go to sleep."

Cheng Sheng closed his eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, Cheng Sheng woke up suddenly as if he had suddenly had a nightmare.

He opened his eyes suddenly, his chest heaved violently, he was panting, and just about to turn on the bedside lamp, his hand was grabbed.

Duan Yi didn't know when he got up.

With a soft "shh", he leaned over and carried the doctor off the bed and put him on the wheelchair.

They came to the living room.

In the living room, both Lin Qian and Luo Xiaonan were already awake. Lin Qian was holding a fire ax in his hand, and Luo Xiaonan was stuffing a baseball bat as tall as others in his hand. He was trembling with nervousness and fear. His little bear was put away properly. On the sofa.

Xu Ying was standing at the door with a baseball bat in her hand. She stretched her muscles slightly, like a lioness ready to go.

Cheng Sheng heard the sound of "Zi la" and "Zi la" coming from outside the door from time to time, as if a layer of water and oil had been brushed on the barbecue plate, and the meat slices were covered, and the fat was sizzling.

He looked at Duan Yi, and Duan Yi picked up another fire ax in the corner, refused to allow Ying to change the baseball bat in her hand, and then took the baseball bat back to Cheng Sheng's side a step ahead .

Duan Yi's half of his body is in front of Cheng Sheng, which will not block Cheng Sheng's line of sight, but also ensure the maximum distance that can cover Cheng Sheng.

"As the doctor said, those infected people have all come out." Xu Ying whispered.

The movement outside the door has lasted for nearly half an hour, without any sign of abating, and the movement even became louder, as if dozens of hands were pulling at the threshold and the wall, making people creepy.

Xu Ying didn't know how long the power grid installed by Cheng Sheng could last. If it couldn't last, then once it failed, those infected people would break through the defense and charge straight at them!

Cheng Sheng's pupils narrowed slightly, and he said in a low voice: "It's really not possible, there is the last one on the roof that can be retreated..."

"If you retreat there, there is really nowhere to go." Lin Qian interrupted Cheng Sheng. After he finished speaking, he paused, looked at Cheng Sheng regretfully, and comforted, "Dr. Cheng, Don't worry, it won't get to that point, there is a team guarding it."

While they were talking, the door of the guest room, which had been closed all the time, was opened. Anna rubbed her eyes and came out, planning to go to the kitchen to pour water for a drink, but she accidentally tripped over Cheng Sheng's wheelchair and suddenly woke up.

"Eh? What do you guys do?" Anna adjusted to the dim light with only floor lamps, and saw that all the people in the room were gathered in the living room, and asked wonderingly, "Why don't you turn on the lights?"

Xu Ying took Anna's hand to press the switch.

Anna belatedly shut her mouth and became quiet.

There was only the sound of breathing between each other in the room, and then the movement of "Zi La" and "Zi La" outside the door became clear.

Fear gradually welled up in Anna's eyes, and she couldn't help taking one step back, until she suddenly knocked down the gun that Cheng Sheng had put in the corner, and the gun fell to the ground with a soft sound, as if it had broken the thread in Anna's mind. string.

Just as she was about to scream, Duan Yi walked around behind her at some point, and decisively struck the woman with a hand knife, knocking the woman unconscious.

Lin Qian breathed a sigh of relief.

All night, until the sky outside gradually turned fish-belly white, the unstoppable movement outside the door gradually diminished and finally disappeared, like the ebb and flow of the tide.

Xu Ying pinched the bridge of her nose wearily, and smiled a little slack: "Fortunately, the doctor's power grid is blocking it."

"It seemed that there were no infected people during the day, but they all came out at night." Lin Qian said.

For the "Zi La" movement in the middle of the night, at least a dozen or twenty infected people must have been outside, and Xu Ying and Duan Yi only met two or three people wandering on the street when they were out all day.

"Are these infected people afraid of light?" Lin Qian asked, looking at the doctor.

"It's not photophobia, it's temperature." Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi spoke almost at the same time.

Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi in surprise.

Duan Yi waved his hand. At most, he judged based on intuition and experience. He looked at Cheng Sheng, asking him to explain.

"Simply put, the virus they are infected with is a virus that has been frozen in the glacier for thousands of years. It is more adapted to the low temperature environment, so it is relatively active in the afternoon and night." Cheng Sheng said, "Similarly, when the cold winter comes, these viruses It will be more adaptable to the current living environment, and the difficulties faced by human beings may be upgraded to more than one level."

Lin Qian's face gradually became serious when he heard this, and he asked, "Doctor, does the compound know what you said?"

"If they read my research theory word by word, of course, they will know." Cheng Sheng said.

At the beginning, he had such a hypothesis, so he made a comparison of virus activity at different temperatures, and the results made people feel chilled.

Lin Qian was silent for two seconds, and looked at Cheng Sheng with some hope: "Doctor, there is still a month or so before winter, we have time to make a vaccine or a cure, right?"

Cheng Sheng wanted to tell him that for the vaccine to come out, it first needs antibodies, and then it needs to go through hundreds of refinements and test failures, and it will take half a year at the earliest, not to mention the tricky and rare virus this time.

Dozens of viruses placed in BSL-4 have erupted and spread more than once around the world, killing tens of thousands of people. They were later stored in laboratory freezers, and some of them even existed for ten years. For more than a year, none of them have found a vaccine so far.

But in the end Cheng Sheng just nodded and said, "There is hope."

Duan Yi checked the damage outside the door, opened the door, and there were several infected people lying motionless in the corner. Their heads were all scorched black and dry from the electric shock, and the prototypes were almost invisible.

Just in case, Duan Yi took an ax and chopped off his head.

The damage to the patch grid is good, the only disturbing thing is the condition of the walls.

"Dr. Cheng, come and take a look." Duan Yi beckoned to Cheng Sheng, and they looked at the place where the root of the wall was exposed outside the power grid, almost a small hole had been dug out, surrounded by fine and small scattered claw marks.

"It doesn't look like human traces." Lin Qian leaned over to look and said.

He compared his hand with the mark on the wall, wrinkled his nose twice, and said hesitantly, "It seems that only such a big hand can catch such a mark?"

Lin Qian put two fingers together and gestured for the width of the fingers.

Cheng Sheng took Duan Yi's baseball bat, walked along the wall, and picked up the scorched black mass in the corner.

Like black charcoal.

"What is this?" Lin Qian leaned over to look, and the lump was motionless, like a piece of burnt meat.

"Don't get too close, you don't know if you're dead or not," Cheng Sheng said.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the scorched black thing seemed to rise and fall twice.

A small osteotomy protruded from under the pitch-black hair ball, and the sharp nails curled up, and the ball suddenly jumped up, rushing straight along Cheng Sheng's stick.

Lin Qian gasped: "Doctor, be careful!"

Cheng Sheng reacted quickly, or he had already been on guard. Before Duan Yi drew out his knife and rushed up, he flicked his wrist and slammed the baseball bat against the wall.

Several times in a row, the white wall was covered with black and red blood, and the mass of blood stuck to the wall, and slowly slid down.

Xu Ying and Lin Qian were stunned.

The two of them couldn't tell that the gentle and fair man in the wheelchair had such a side.

"He should be dead by now," Cheng Sheng said.

Picking the ball with a baseball bat, it revealed the still hard and sharp bony toe under the hair ball, sharp and curved, "It looks like a mouse."

"Mice don't have such claws..." Lin Qian said subconsciously, then he stopped and looked at Duan Yi suddenly, "Quiet Duan, is this the same as the rabid dog we met that time...?"

Lin Qian didn't need an answer from Duan Yi, he had it in his heart, and he cursed in a low voice, this fucking virus is hard to guard against.

"The dense movement yesterday was probably caused by these rats, not the infected people. Duan Duan, if this continues, the walls and thresholds will probably not be able to hold up in a few days," Xu Ying said.

Cheng Sheng frowned. He thought he could last at least a month here, but now it seems that a week is barely enough.

"When I go out these few days, I always pay attention to looking for obstacles that can be repaired or blocked. No matter what, this is the most ideal shelter at present." Duan Yi said, and he pushed Cheng Sheng back into the house.

Lin Qian was the last to close the door, and suddenly heard Luo Xiaonan whisper, "Little brother, there are a lot of bugs."

Lin Qian suddenly felt a chill, and goosebumps ran out instantly.