Volume 1: Afterglow of the Old World Chapter 5: The Slaughter of the City by Insects
Qingcheng has never seen so many bugs.
Countless centipedes, scorpions, bed bugs, and cockroaches fell from the sky...... All of them are fat and strong, fierce and hideous. The small compound eyes can see the ultimate madness, and there is a flame of survival burning.
The insects flying in the sky are attacking each other, and those that fall to the ground are also fighting each other. The loser will directly become a feed for other insects and become their nutrients. For a moment, the shattered shells of the dead insects, with a glowing yellow slime, instantly covered the park floor like a torrential rain.
Countless insect armies pounced on the newborn trees and shrubs, and under the cleaning of the insect cloud, the pale green color that had just appeared in the city was erased in an instant, leaving only a few dry branches to shake in the wind.
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Chen Qin was still wearing formal clothes, with a pair of eight-centimeter thin heels under his feet, and he basically had to rely on Jiayu to pull, support, and hold. The cloud of insects enveloped them, and they just surrounded them among the ruins.
Jiayu didn't hit the big wooden board as soon as he came up, but took out the lighter he took from the supermarket, ripped off the T-shirt on his body, and the flames came together on his clothes, and a simple torch was lit in the middle of the insect cloud.
Jiayu said fiercely: "Uncle, I'm just playing out!" ”
The torches danced wildly, and the fragments of the fire-phobia gene in the insect's body began to work, and the dense insect encirclement spread out a little. The situation is stable for the time being. Jiayu turned around and planned to ask Chen Qin how he was, but found that Boss Chen, who was extremely cold in the past, had vomited so badly.
Jiayu thought about it, and there were countless insects: scorpions, centipedes, cockroaches, mole crickets, beetles...... Squirming together in dense form, such a scene would certainly not occur even in the most terrifying nightmares of mankind.
"It's disgusting...... Jia Yu waved the torch while pulling Chen Qin out, this doomsday, just this disgusting energy can directly scare people to death.
Soon, the swarm's demand for survival outweighed the fear of fire, and the bugs began to rush to the torches one after another. At this time, Jia Yu took out a sturdy wooden stick from behind his back and steadily began to whip the flying insects that pounced.
Boss Chen couldn't vomit, closed his eyes and clutched Jiayu's trouser belt (the T-shirt had been burned off as a torch), and was dragged forward by Jiayu. Boss Chen didn't dare to open his eyes, and in the buzzing and roaring of the insect wings, the low sound of Jiayu waving the wooden stick was still clearly recognizable, bringing her a sense of security.
Jiayu has not begun to evolve now, his body is still an ordinary waste wood otaku body, and the power of his combat skills has not even been reflected in a trace, and within 5 minutes, his body is full of insect corpses, his body is scarred, and there is a half-cut centipede on his shoulder, which is still rolling around and preparing to mouth, but his head is gone, and he is a little blind.
Most of the evolved omnivorous insects are eating plants all over the world, carnivorous insects are eating omnivorous insects, and only a small part of the insect army is besieging two people and one dog, and fortunately the insects did not pay special attention to this small refuge team, so that Jiayu can escape south with Chen Qin and Earth Dog Cola.
The park is surrounded by almost all old communities that are more than ten years old, and there are countless insects hidden under each old brick...... Jiayu saw that at least half of the insects died the moment they came out of the ground, and they exploded like small firecrackers, splashing juice everywhere.
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The evolution of the earth began with countless insects, that is, arthropods, coelenterates, mollusks, etc., with relatively simple organizational structures. They are huge in number, strong in fecundity, able to try all kinds of variations and evolution, there are many templates, and nature is looking for a new evolutionary path with a large base and a large trial and error.
Jiayu and Chen Qin, and other more than 15 billion earthlings hate the most hated insects are cockroaches, more and more cockroaches in the insect colony, and began to become the main force of the mutated and evolved insect army, Jiayu knows, because the earth's atmosphere suddenly jumped to a high oxygen content, coupled with the catalysis of the origin of tachyon particles, cockroaches have never been the size of a little finger, and now they have become the size of a small cup, and their aggression has become stronger, and some cockroaches have evolved forelimbs like crabs, and some cockroaches have evolved into bony fighting limbs with six legs. There are also a few that have evolved a back-to-back needle ...... Anyway, there are all kinds of them, and their combat effectiveness is quite good, and after the fight, Jiayu can't break the back shell of the cockroach with a stick swing.
Jiayu and Chen Qin also had a timid earth dog, fighting and retreating, and in the end, the sturdy wooden stick in Jiayu's hand was discounted alive, and in the end Jiayu could only rely on half of the wooden stick to support the left and right, becoming a defensive battle without a shield.
While escaping, Jiayu suddenly found that there was a building not far in front of him that still maintained the shape of a corpse, and a coffee shop could be vaguely seen downstairs, with two solid wooden doors that were extremely heavy. Jiayu covered his face with his arm and shouted to the boss: "Goddess, don't let go, don't let go no matter what!" ”
At this time, Jiayu didn't have time to kill the insect tide a little bit, so he could only use his fat as a shield, pushed it flat like a bulldozer, slammed open the door of the coffee shop, turned around hard, and brought Chen Qin, the earth dog that bit Chen Qin's trouser leg in, a beautiful woman, and a dog drew a beautiful arc, fell heavily in the room, and smashed a few tables before stopping.
Jiayu didn't have time to shush the cold and ask for warmth, took pity on the fragrance and cherished the jade, pressed against the wooden door, and slowly closed the door.
There was darkness in the café. There was not a glimmer of light, only the gasps of three creatures.
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Jiayu felt the sweat stay like a waterfall, and his right arm, which had been wielding a wooden stick, was swollen. He gritted his teeth and pulled out a lighter in his trouser pocket, and the fire lit up in the darkness.
Chen Qin saw what was in front of him clearly, and let out a scream, there were several dry bones on the ground, the flesh on the corpse was gnawed clean by countless insects, and there was a centipede drilling around in the skeleton's pitch-black eye sockets, Chen Qin was stunned, and looked at the skeleton's pitch-black eyes and didn't dare to move.
Jiayu kicked the skeleton away, pulled up Chen Qin on the ground, and hugged her trembling body hard, and the earth dog also came to his side, humming and chirping to express his fear.
Chen Qin didn't feel that Jiayu's abrupt move was an offense, and this time became the safest moment in her life.
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After a long time, Chen Qin settled down a little.
Jiayu touched Chen Qin's head, he really didn't have the strength to speak.
After lighting the tablecloth in the café, Jiayu began to treat the wounds on his body.
The trouser legs of the jeans are full of small holes, and the skin of the body is full of dense wounds, after cleaning up the fragments and mucus of the thick layer of insect corpses covered on the body, you can see the large and small wounds torn by the insects, and the wounds are also inlaid with a lot of teeth and mouthparts.
Chen Qin carefully cleaned Jiayu's wounds, Jiayu was still frowning and thinking of a way to save his life, while picking, Chen Qin sobbed silently.
Jiayu heard Chen Qin's crying and thought, "The goddess will still cry?" Hurriedly comforted the boss: "Boss, don't look at the wounds, there are a lot of wounds, but they don't hurt the muscles and bones, the harm is not strong, and it's not a big deal." We have to find some green outfits first, blue outfits to arm ourselves, just rely on my meat to block monsters, rely on whiteboard equipment to kill monsters, it's too tiring......"
Chen Qin "......"
After resting for a while, the two of them took advantage of the light of the torches to touch the back kitchen, Jiayu probed his brain and carefully entered the kitchen, and found that it was quite clean, it seemed that the chefs knew about the earthquake, so they ran out, and they died in the hall somehow, and in just a few minutes, it became insect rations.
Jiayu first found a narrow cutter with a good steel mouth in the kitchen, and then found a cleaver that specializes in breaking bones, and the weapon equipped is finally no longer a whiteboard stick, and it has upgraded to a dual-wielding berserk in one step, holding two short weapons......
The weapon is there, the armor has to be made, Jiayu has compared the pan, soup pot, wok, baking tray and other kitchen equipment, and finally felt that Chen Qin was equipped with a lighter weight baking tray, poked two holes with the tip of the knife, and then used the wire to make the two baking trays into a cuirass, so to say that Chen Qin was equipped, Jiayu thought to himself boss, you are much more important than me, I have 100 catties here, that's it, you have to have three long and two short, the future gods will definitely have to transfer back, tear me alive.
As the main defensive warrior, Jiayu made a set of classic defensive suits for himself, first put on the chef's apron, which was quite thick, and firmly fixed two cauldrons with iron wire, fixed them one after the other, and turned out two frying pans, and found a way to tie them to his arms, becoming an output defense double warrior......
The earth dog is also very important, and the morale of the base in the future depends on him, but to tie it to the pot, it does not agree, so it has to tie two stainless steel biscuit trays to its body, which is considered defense +1. Jia Yu was a little jealous in his heart, let me come back to protect you two gods, the masters are really playing......
After working for a long time, he finally armed a few people, and by the way, he picked a small backpack of ham and bread as emergency food, and Jiayu carried it under the iron pot.
The weight of this heavy armor is not light, Jiayu stood up hard, felt that his legs and stomach were a little weak, took a deep breath, moved his limbs, adapted to the weight of this equipment, and prepared to go.
When they came out of the kitchen, they found that the fire in the hall had been extinguished.
Jiayu hung the bread knife on the small hook on his waist, held the cleaver in one hand and the torch in the other, and walked cautiously to the hall. Chen Qin didn't dare to stay away, and followed Jiayu's steps step by step.
About to enter the hall, Jiayu turned around and whispered to Chen Qin: "Don't look up, bow your head and follow me!" Chen Qin hurriedly lowered his head and walked forward silently.
Under the faint light of the torches, the ceiling, walls, and bonsai by the corridor of the coffee house room were densely packed with insects, and when the light became brighter, they retreated slightly into the distance, and the insects somehow returned to this room. Jiayu later thought that it was the flame's fault, and that the light of the fire made most of the phototaxis insects very fanatical.
The bugs in the room are much scarier than outside.
In the dark shadows of the café, countless insects were about to move, and the ceiling seemed to have life, squirming slightly.
The shadows of insects in all directions in the room began to rush towards the two people holding torches and a soil dog, and the black and oppressive insect images in the whole room were a torrent that pressed down, so the three creatures rushed outside against the flying insects in the sky.
The streets were still full of big, alienated insects, and in less than half an hour, the green of the whole city was gone, and the gray-white of the cement walls was re-revealed, and occasionally some of the red and gray-white brick walls under the cement could be seen, like exposed muscles under the skin. The whole city is dying.