Ancient Invasion [End Times]

No. 70 days after the invasion. 【Second update】It's foggy.

Cheng Sheng and his team approached the target quietly and quickly.

They want to enter Building B from the third-floor glass corridor in Building A.

The promenade hangs in the air ten meters above the ground and stands between the two buildings, with a span of 200 meters.Below is the field that Cheng Sheng said was about the size of a football field, where experimental animals were placed.

This corridor is the place where most of the research institute staff usually take their lunch breaks, and the light from the direct sunlight is just right, which is very pleasant.

But at this moment, the surrounding area was inexplicably foggy, and the thick fog made the entire corridor look eerie.

Xu Ying and the others couldn't see the situation under the corridor at all.

Lin Qian stood at the entrance of the long corridor. He looked towards the other end where he couldn't see the end, and asked slowly, "Doctor, is Building B the building that they didn't completely evacuate when they evacuated?"

Cheng Sheng nodded.

"So at the other end of the corridor, there must be something we need to beware of, right?" Lin Qian let out a sigh of relief and asked again.

"Perhaps what you want to know more is, will that thing just squat you in the corridor?" Cheng Sheng asked back.

Lin Qian choked, looked at Cheng Sheng, and asked eagerly, "It's not, right? Doctor?"

"Electronic access control is installed at both ends of the corridor. At most, you and that thing will look at each other through a glass bulletproof door." Cheng Sheng said.

Lin Qian was greatly relieved when he heard this.

This is the answer he wants.

"That's good." Lin Qian said.

Duan Yi walked in the front, Cheng Sheng was behind him, Lin Qian was in the back, and Xu Ying looked after Cheng Sheng's situation outside the glass on the left and right sides.

The corridor is about two meters wide, enough for two or three people to walk side by side. The floor under their feet is made of thick transparent glass. If they have a good line of sight, they can see the surrounding situation clearly.

It's a pity that the weather is not beautiful at present. Not only is the fog thick outside, but also the humidity is high, and there is sleet and sleet.

Cheng Sheng and his team walked carefully in the corridor, and the sound of their footsteps echoed throughout the corridor.

Duan Yi, who was walking in the front, stopped suddenly, raised his hand and clenched his fist, signaling the people behind him to pause.

Cheng Sheng, Lin Qian, and Xu Ying stopped suddenly.

They just stood there, so quiet that they didn't make a sound.

However, in the depths of this long corridor, there are very light sounds echoing regularly - "Du", "Du", "Du"...

It seemed that someone was walking on the corridor with a cane, and it seemed that something was pecking at the glass.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath.

Duan Yi turned to look at Cheng Sheng and the others, and made two gestures, indicating that he would go to check the situation alone, and asked Lin Qian and Xu Ying to keep an eye on his back.

However, just when Duan Yi decided to change his mode of action, the echo of "Tu Tu Tu" suddenly disappeared, as if it was an illusion.

Lin Qian's hairs stood on end, he subconsciously held his breath, and looked around vigilantly.

Duan Yi moved forward slowly while pulling out a saber and holding it in his palm.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, bowed his body halfway, and placed the saber in front of him with his right hand horizontally. He was completely ready to attack and defend at any time, like a sharp and vigorous cheetah.

Cheng Sheng and the others moved slowly behind Duan Yi.

That voice seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with them, or playing with their fear and vigilance.

In the foggy corridor, they couldn't see anything, only a white and gray fog.

The state of being able to see but losing sight makes people unconsciously fall into tension and over-vigilance.

"Tuk!"

"Tuk!"

"Tuk!"

The sound came out of nowhere again, echoing in the corridor.

But this time, the source of the sound seemed to come from behind them, even closer to them!

Duan Yi and the others turned their heads subconsciously.

They were walking in the middle of the promenade, surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness. They could neither see the end of the entrance nor the end of the exit. They could not see the village or shop behind them. They seemed to be isolated on a high suspended bridge. superior.

Xu Ying let out a sigh of relief, clenched the dagger in her hand, and slowly closed the distance between Cheng Sheng and her. She intuitively felt that danger was approaching them.

Duan Yi tightened his lips, no matter what the source of the movement was, it was playing with them consciously, as if narrowing the encirclement to determine their position.

Duan Yi quickly made a decision, he said in a low voice: "No matter what it is, we will move as soon as possible."

"Got it." Lin Qian and Xu Ying agreed.

The four people changed their previous cautiousness and moved quickly in the corridor.

Their sudden change of pattern seemed to catch the other end off guard.

The movement and rhythm of "Du" and "Du" became chaotic.

And it was because of this chaos that Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi could tell that the movement was not a single sound at all, but countless small voices gathered together, which were uniform enough.

"How many things are there..." Xu Ying's scalp was numb and her face was ugly.

The sound resounded around them, as if they were unconsciously surrounded.

Cheng Sheng's face was ugly. Below them was a place where experimental animals were kept. Such noise made him have to consider whether it was related to those creatures.

But they are in the air at a height of ten meters... Could it be birds?

Cheng Sheng quickly sifted through the options one by one in his mind, and was rejected by him one by one.

"Hurry up, we'll be there soon!" Lin Qian couldn't help but quicken his pace as he looked at the end of the corridor that appeared in his vision.

Suddenly, Xu Ying caught a glimpse of a black shadow passing by the window from the corner of her eye. She subconsciously made a defensive movement, and Lin Qian immediately aimed at the window in shock: "What's wrong?!"

Xu Ying frowned: "I saw something..."

After she finished speaking, the series of "tuk tuk tuk" slightly messy movements sounded above their heads again, this time becoming more detailed and dense, as if there was no hidden meaning at all.

They raised their heads subconsciously, there still seemed to be nothing above their heads, it was still a thick fog, a piece of gray,

"Tuk!"

"Tuk!"

Two more beeps.

Duan Yi's pupils suddenly shrank!

On their left and right sides, a pair of slender insect feet with metallic luster appeared, as if wrapping the semicircular vault of the promenade.

"Tuk!"

"Tuk!"

The second and third pairs of insect feet landed on the left and right glass, as if the other party intended to end the game of hide-and-seek.

Lin Qian gasped, "What is this?"

Through the fog and reflective glass, they couldn't see clearly what was outside, and couldn't see the whole picture of that thing.

But as more and more insect feet landed on the glass, everyone's faces turned ashen, and there were not many creatures with this characteristic.

"Centipede? Or Malu?" Duan Yi asked Cheng Sheng

"I hope it's Malu." Cheng Sheng's face turned pale. "Malu is less aggressive, and centipede is just the opposite. But Malu's feet should be twice as many as what we see now."

"That's the centipede?" Lin Qian asked quickly, he swallowed, it didn't really matter what it was, he looked at the vaulted glass above his head, and couldn't help but ask, "The glass in the corridor can hold up the outside something?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the bulletproof glass above his head was pierced by sharp thin feet, and the glass shards scattered all over the ground.

"It seems impossible." Lin Qian said quickly.

With the crisp sound of glass breaking through, it seemed that some hidden button had been opened.

"Be careful of the top of your head!" Duan Yi threw himself on Cheng Sheng's body, and heard a series of "cracking" sounds above his head, and almost all the glass on the vault of the corridor shattered.

Cheng Sheng looked outside Duan Yi's shoulder, his pupils shrank fiercely——

I saw a huge arthropod coiled on the vault at the other end of the corridor. The slender body was jointed together. A pair of tentacles and a pair of huge dark red poisonous hooks on the head were shocking.

"Does the research institute still raise centipedes for experiments?!" Lin Qian felt his scalp tingle.

"Centipede is a very common animal medicine." Cheng Sheng just said this. They did use centipede for venom extraction and analysis, and studied the medicinal value of centipede itself.

Xu Ying stared at the behemoth in front of him, the dagger in his hand seemed useless.

"Is this an experimental mutation, or an ancient genetic mutation?!" She asked loudly.

Cheng Sheng looked at the one in front of him, no matter its size or appearance, it completely matched the description of the ancient centipede in the book.

"Ancient centipedes lived in the Carboniferous period and became extinct in the Permian period about [-] million years ago." Cheng Sheng said quickly.

"The one in front of us is completely in line with our analysis of its fossils. The distance between its left leg and the right leg in the same row is about two to three meters wide. The leg has a distinct hook shape, with a poisonous gland opening at the end of the hook, like Like our modern centipede."

"The venom gland will secrete a large amount of venom when it bites the target, and inject it under the skin along the mouth of the venom gland at the hook end, causing the target to be poisoned." Cheng Sheng reminded, "Most centipede poisons are not strong, and they will cause pain after being stung. It will be fatal."

"Got it!" Xu Ying replied loudly.

Duan Yi's two-handed beast turned into the sharp claws of ancient creatures. He became more and more accustomed to the convenience and attack methods of such partial beastization. .

Lin Qian fired at the centipede to distract it. They couldn't let the centipede get close to building B. Once it crashed into the fifth floor of building B, the BSL-4 laboratory would probably be destroyed by this big guy .

He took the time to shout and asked: "Then what about the toxicity of the one in front of us? Strong or weak?"

"You don't want to risk yourself to test its toxicity." Cheng Sheng said, he activated the laser charging, and threw a few electrified metal spikes, sticking to the centipede's belly.

However, those few metal electric stings didn't seem to have much effect, but instead stimulated it to raise the upper half of its body high.

Duan Yi almost lost his grasp, and immediately jumped a few times, quickly jumped towards the head of the centipede, and then stood firmly on the second segment of the body.

Seeing this, Cheng Sheng's eyes lit up. The centipede's nervous system is like an earthworm. It is a chain nervous system, which means that this centipede has memory ability, and also explains why it was playing and surrounding them just now—it must have passed some kind of Way to learn such moves.

In addition, and more importantly, the chain nervous system means that there are huge nerves.

The nerves of the ancient centipede in front of them are exactly like a water pipe.

He shouted: "There are huge ganglia in the back of the centipede, which can paralyze it! Each nerve corresponds to local muscle control, that is to say, it is equivalent to partial paralysis!"