Ancient Invasion [End Times]

Eight days after the invasion · [Second update]

After traveling all the way, everyone was exhausted, so Duan Yi and Lu Qi were on duty for the first guard in the early morning, and let the others go to rest first.

Duan Yi still found some light bulbs and broken glass, wrapped them in a jacket, smashed them into slag, and sprinkled them on the outside, leaving enough distance for reaction.

They changed shifts in the middle of the night, and Duan Yi went back to lie down next to Cheng Sheng.

At some point, Cheng Sheng was woken up by Duan Yi.

"Don't fall asleep, Cheng Sheng, did you hear my voice? Cheng Sheng!"

Cheng Sheng was sound asleep, he opened his eyes suddenly, and saw Duan Yi's face dangling above his head.

"What's wrong?" He sat up and asked.

"The temperature has dropped." Duan Yi covered Cheng Sheng's body with his clothes, wrapped them layer by layer, and said with a frown, "The fire is all gone, we didn't find out in time."

Cheng Sheng woke up completely. He saw that Lu Qi, Lin Qian, and Xu Ying were also yelling to wake up the others.

"The fire is wet and can't start a fire. There is frost on the ground and snow is falling outside, probably caused by these factors." Duan Yi continued.

Their body temperature is dropping rapidly.

Cheng Sheng never expected the temperature to drop so suddenly at night.

He looked at the sleeping soldiers around him, frowning tightly.

If those soldiers who fell asleep did not wake up, the consequences would be very dangerous. Their blood circulation rate dropped to the lowest level in a lethargic state, and their metabolism slowed down.

According to survey data, most people froze to death within 10 minutes after falling asleep in a low temperature environment, and were taken away unconsciously.

"Once the temperature of the human body falls below 28 degrees Celsius, it will lose consciousness." Cheng Sheng said.

He looked at those people, and several of them had already experienced such a situation, especially since the fire was still not lit, and their body temperature could not be warmed up by rubbing alone.

Cheng Sheng raised his hand slightly, and the several fires that could not be ignited due to humidity suddenly burst into blue flames.

"Fire... it's fire, it's on fire!" Someone shouted.

Lin Qian and Xu Ying subconsciously glanced at Cheng Sheng, and then continued to rub the soldiers whose body temperature had dropped.

They moved the unconscious man to the fire.The turquoise flame is extremely hot, and just getting close to it, one can vaguely feel the cold hair on the arm being curled up by the high temperature.

Under such high temperature, those soldiers finally recovered slowly.

Duan Yi's face was extremely ugly, he looked at the soldiers who should have been guarding their posts, and shouted coldly: "Get out!"

"I'm sorry, Team Duan! We accept the punishment!" The soldiers stood up straight and shouted. They lowered their heads guiltily, regretting why they unconsciously fell asleep.

"Can punishment bring back the lives of your teammates? No sense of responsibility and discipline! Sloppy and irresponsible!" Duan Yi looked at them and scolded, "From the moment you leave the base, the lives of your teammates are tied to you. Let’s get together! If you don’t have this level of awareness, you can stop here and don’t go on with us!”

Lu Qi didn't speak, he stood beside Duan Yi, acquiescing to Duan Yi's reprimand.

"Duan team received! It will never happen again! Duan team!" the soldiers shouted.

Cheng Sheng looked at the young people silently. The temperature was low and cold in the early morning. Tiredness and coldness were the best lullaby, but these were not excuses to shirk responsibility.

If Duan Yi hadn't been keenly aware of the strangeness, at least half of them might have stayed in this night.

They rested on the spot for a while longer, and it was not until the condition of the few soldiers who had almost woken up that the situation improved for the most part that the group started to act again.

It was just dawn outside, Duan Yi and the others almost set off in time for the dawn.

When the sun came out, the temperature rose significantly. Even though the outdoor temperature was still below zero, it was much higher than the temperature in the early morning and night.It is hard to imagine that it is already so cold, and the temperature will show a sudden drop in steps at night.

"Wait a minute! Stop the car, I see people in army uniforms!" Lu Qi's delighted voice suddenly sounded from the intercom.

The convoy stopped, and several people got out of the car quickly, approaching what looked like a sporting goods store on the alert.

They entered the store, quickly checked and found that there were no infected people.

Lu Qi and the others quickly found more than [-] people in army uniforms on the ground and in the corner. They closed their eyes and stayed there motionless, ignoring Lu Qi and his shouts.

Around these people, there were three piles of bonfires that had been extinguished long ago.

Lu Qi shouted to his own people: "It's useless, stop shouting."

Looking carefully at the soldiers in uniform, the skin of each of them was abnormally bright red, and such bright red corpse spots usually appear on frozen corpses.

These people are dead.

Duan Yi walked over silently, took off the silver pendant necklaces around their necks, and put them in his pockets.

He turned to look at Lu Qi and the others: "Let's go."

No one made a sound, they returned to the car in silence, and the other people in the car knew what happened when they saw their appearance.

On the first day of entering the Imperial Capital, the Imperial Capital showed them the terrifying group of infected people, and on the first night, it told them that infecting creatures is not the only way to kill them.

"Set off."

Duan Yi returned to the car, he contacted the base, and reported the numbers on the strings of silver pendants.

Lu Weijing checked the codes with the archivists sent to the imperial capital, and verified that it was the last batch of support troops sent, a total of 24 people, all here.

Lin Qian took a deep breath, and left the entire team there without making a sound and without moving a single soldier.

"I don't know what's going on with Brother Du. Can we survive this night?" Lin Qian said with a frown. The sudden drop in temperature caught them all off guard, and they almost collapsed there unconsciously, let alone Du Nanrong.

Xu Ying pursed her lips.

"Du Nanrong is surrounded by saxifrage, and the sensitivity of plants to temperature is beyond your imagination." Cheng Sheng said, "It will help Du Nanrong survive."

Lin Qian heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and nodded, "That's good."

On Du Nanrong's side, as Cheng Sheng said, he found a temporary safe place to sleep for the night.

When he was woken up by the saxifrage in the middle of the night, Du Nanrong was still in a daze, looking at his own grass in disbelief, why did it still hurt so much?

When he realized that the fire was damp and could not be lit, his teeth were chattering with the cold, and in the end he could only rely on being tightly wrapped by layers of saxifrage, and the temperature gradually returned to the cage.

When it was daytime and the temperature rose slightly, Du Nanrong picked up an abandoned SUV on the road with the car keys still inserted in the car.

He didn't expect that the navigation function in the car could still be used. Relying on the route to avoid red congestion on the car navigation, Du Nanrong took a route with fewer people and cars.

When Du Nanrong contacted his daughter for the last time, he told her that it is best to stay in a symbolic room with a good view.

He believes that the other party must know where to hide and what is most suitable for him.

——Ever since he rescued her from the fire and raised her, he has been teaching her how to protect herself when she encounters danger and difficulties, and how to maximize the delay of her own survival time until she is rescued.

Du Nanrong clenched his fists and prayed in his heart.

Three kilometers away from the road sign in University City, Du Nanrong stopped the car and walked instead.

In what was supposed to be a thriving university town, corpses are almost everywhere now.

Every time Du Nanrong saw a girl whose clothes looked exactly like his daughter, he couldn't help being startled, and he was lucky after confirming.

The saxifrage behind him followed him step by step. The saxifrage grew to a height of about two meters. Any infected creature that tried to get close to Du Nanrong would be sucked away by the saxifrage before it could get close.

The number of infected people on the street during the day was not too many, but the infected people who smelled Du Nanrong's smell still couldn't resist the temptation and rushed out.

Du Nanrong ran wildly while looking for the target building.

When he saw a building whose glass was full of colorful glass, Du Nanrong paused, and immediately ran towards the building.

Du Nanrong tried to open the door, but found that the door was blocked with something inside, but instead of being depressed, he became ecstatic.

He ran around the building, found an open window and turned in, and closed the window casually.

Panting heavily, Du Nanrong looked around the building. The spiral staircase is located in the center of the lobby, leading directly to the five-meter-high second floor.

He slowly stepped up the stairs, and there was a slight "creaking" sound from the old-fashioned spiral staircase.

Du Nanrong paused subconsciously, and then continued to walk up.

He noticed a slight movement of light and shadow in a room on the second floor.

Du Nanrong walked over quickly and opened the room abruptly.

"Don't come here!" screamed the people in the room, throwing everything they could get at the door.

Du Nanrong hurriedly hid aside and walked in until there was nothing to lose in the room: "Calm down! I'm not an infected person."

"Which school are you from?" he asked.

"Students from Imperial University? Majoring in business English?!" Du Nanrong was very pleasantly surprised, "Then do you know Du Jingshu?"

The student who was asked had a hesitant and strange expression on his face. He looked at Du Nanrong and said, "Are you Du Jingshu's father?"

Du Nanrong nodded.

"Du Jingshu has been mentioning you, saying that you will come to rescue her." The boy said, he pursed his lips, hesitating a bit.

Du Nanrong's heart sank little by little.

"Where is she?" he asked.

"In the room at the end of the corridor." The boy said, he paused, "Her situation is a bit special."

"She was bitten by an infected person, but we met a professor who gave Du Jingshu an injection for something. She didn't become an infected person like that, but the professor said it was only temporary."

Du Nanrong immediately ran to the deepest part of the corridor. He stopped in front of the only door, his big hand holding the handle trembled slightly, and then he twisted it open forcefully.

A girl was lying in a corner, covered with a thin coat and blanket. She hid her whole body under the coat and blanket. When she saw someone coming in, she subconsciously avoided seeing her.

Seeing a familiar face, Du Nanrong took a breath, and for a moment he couldn't believe that he really found his daughter just like that.

He didn't move for a while, and the girl looked up slowly with some doubts, and then trembled slightly: "...Dad?"

Du Nanrong came back to his senses, he strode over, bent down and hugged the girl tightly, and gently patted her hair: "It's okay, I'm here."

Du Jingshu clutched Du Nanrong's clothes and sobbed.Du Nanrong noticed that there was a row of teeth marks on her forearm, and the wound was purple and black, but it didn't get worse, as if it had been stopped.

He let Du Jingshu cry in his arms.

After Du Jingshu calmed down, Du Nanrong asked softly: "What else did the professor who gave you the injection say?"

"dad?"

"Your classmate told me the general situation." Du Nanrong said.

He reassured: "It's okay. Dad now knows a friend who is very familiar with this virus. We have a way to overcome it. Tell me, what did the professor say after giving you an injection?"

Du Jingshu recalled a little bit: "Professor Shao said that this injection may provide some relief, but it is only temporary. What information does he need to obtain in order to make a real antibody vaccine."

"He said, maybe I will become a completely different person, neither an infected person nor an ordinary human being..." Du Jingshu looked at Du Nanrong with some anxiety.

When Du Nanrong heard this surname, he was a little familiar. This surname is rare, but he happened to hear one from Dr. Cheng before.

He asked, "Do you know that professor? What's his name?"

"He is a visiting professor invited by our university to give lectures on theology and religion. His name is Shao Chengyang." Du Jingshu said.

Du Nanrong's pupils shrank.

the name!He remembers!

It was rare for him to see Dr. Cheng Sheng's mood swings. The rare time was when the base told the doctor that his mentor, Dr. Shao Chengyang, had sent a signal and was still alive.

——That was the first time he saw the excited look of the always calm and calm doctor, and he also remembered the name by the way.

Du Nanrong stood up suddenly: "Let's go. Dad knows someone, and he will definitely find a way!"

At the other end, Cheng Sheng and his convoy drove into the federal custody area where the external storage equipment was placed.

The steel gates at the gate blocked them out, and the steel gates on both sides slowly opened until Cheng Sheng passed the ID scan.

The normal operation of the gate of the guarding area gave everyone a glimmer of hope, and gave birth to an illusion as if they had returned to the normal world.