Chapter 708, Silver and White Ocean
(I found that I didn't even know a quadratic equation anymore.) )
A loud crackling sound rang out throughout the replenishment camp, and beyond the hailstone-sounding sound, Xiao Yan could keenly hear the creaking sound of something similar to that of an insect biting. And as the hail outside grew louder, the snapping sounds began to become noticeable.
The car outside beeped and constantly siren, and you could faintly hear the screams that seemed to be made by someone, but this scream was fleeting, and then there was no other sound. Since the voice was so short, and there was no follow-up, even Xiao Yan couldn't be sure if it was really someone screaming, or if it was something else.
The air in the carriage is getting more and more stuffy, and it is nothing for an awakened person like Xiao Yan to arrive for the time being, but for Tristina, there is an obvious obstacle. Xiao Yan didn't turn on the infrared vision, but he could also feel that Tristina's breathing was accelerating, and holding Xiao Yan's hand, the temperature was quietly rising.
"It's a scarab!"
Du Ruoxi stood in the carriage and looked at the black mist-like things outside, which were bigger and more impactful than ants. During the time that the female awakened person was speaking, several shallow pits had already appeared on the top of the carriage.
Xiao Yan held Tristina in his arms, turned on the infrared sight, and looked out the window.
As Du Ruoxi said, the black smoke is a dung beetle the size of a human palm. These insects are so big that they feel like they are beyond the concept of dung beetles, and they don't look like natural products at all.
The entire camp was surrounded by these huge scarab beetles flying everywhere. They're smashing around. There was a loud banging sound everywhere on the roof of the carriage. Even the sound of these beetles rushing up can be heard on the glass of the vehicle.
The makeshift camp was built with sand protection in mind, with heavy windows that are thicker than regular station wagon glass, and a layer of gum between the glass as a buffer. Therefore, the airtightness is very good, and the impact of these scarabs is not yet able to cause a really effective blow to these glasses.
However, Xiao Yan had already seen that the lights of those off-road vehicles had been shattered by these beetles, and even the windows of the off-road vehicles looked cracked, and they could be completely shattered at any time due to new impacts.
Occasionally, one or two beetles slammed into the window of the vehicle where Xiao Yan was. There was a "thud", and then soon there was no sound, and the rustle never died down in the sound of the beetles flying around and crashing.
It was about ten minutes later, when Tristina began to use the oxygen cylinder to inhale oxygen, that the beetles left the camp and regrouped into a huge column of smoke and flew in the other direction. There appeared to be a number of carcasses on the ground, as well as a few beetles that were still alive after the violent impact, still struggling to move.
The entire camp was on the ground, in the light of the moon. It radiates a faint bronze color, which is the color of the scarab beetle's shell. In the car, it feels like you've stepped back in time to the Bronze Age.
But this calm did not last long, and the rustling sound did not leave with the departure of the scarab beetle, on the contrary, the sound began to grow louder and louder, as if the waves in the distance were slowly sweeping over.
The first thing that changed was the corpses of the beetles, which may have been an illusion at first, but soon became a reality. The ground, soaked in the bronze shells of the scarabs, was slowly turning silvery-white, like the sand of the Sahara Desert surging over to completely cover the corpses of the scarabs. Soon, those moving scarabs were also covered in such silver, and eventually became silent.
The silvery sea of sand was still spreading, defying gravity, spreading from the bottom of the vehicle to the top, eventually covering one off-road vehicle after another. When they arrived at Zuihou, even Xiao Yan's car windows were covered with these moving, silvery-white "gravel", and the cabin immediately fell into darkness again.
"Saharan silver ants, it's a little different."
Du Ruoxi whispered: "There are too many of them, such a large body size has never been reported, and the mouthparts seem to have problems." ”
Xiao Yan nodded slightly, he heard it keenly, and there seemed to be some movement in the air conditioner. He didn't think about it, the aura on his body suddenly brightened, and at that moment, even Du Ruoxi couldn't help but gasp.
I don't know when, the rubber seal of the air conditioner on the roof of the car has been bitten by these silver-white ants, and a large number of ants are pouring in from that gap. In fact, this gap has been bitten open for some time, and the inner wall of this carriage is already crawling with these huge numbers of ants.
When Xiao Yan's aura exploded, almost all the ants were slammed, and then, these dense insects began to accelerate and climb along the inner wall of the carriage, and even some ants fell directly from the ceiling and landed on the top of Xiao Yan and Du Ruoxi's heads.
Xiao Yan turned his head to look at Tristina, only to find that the female designer had fallen into a trance, and her pupils were a little dilated. On her arm, there were clearly several bite marks, and blood was constantly flowing from the wound, as if it was never-ending. On the ground, Tristina's blood had accumulated into small lakes, and in the lakes, the corpses of several ants were reflecting a silvery white light.
"They're bloodsuckers!"
Du Ruoxi whispered, because the surface defense of her and Xiao Yan was far beyond that of ordinary humans, these ants that had quietly infiltrated just now could not cause damage to Xiao Yan and them, and finally turned all their attacks to the defenseless Tristina.
Xiao Yan no longer hesitated, the aura under his feet flashed slightly, and all the ants in the entire carriage turned into fine flames in the blink of an eye, disappearing from this shijie. Afterwards, Xiao Yan handed Tristina to Du Ruoxi, as well as a bottle of antidote, and whispered, "I'll go and take a look in those people's cars." ”
Du Ruoxi nodded slightly, stretched out his hand and scratched on the female designer's arm, and as the skin and flesh bloomed, an obvious black line had appeared on the surface of the bone of Tristina's upper arm.
"Psychedelic toxins, antithrombotic toxins, and this, paralyzing toxins."
Du Ruoxi motioned for Xiao Yan to take a look, and said in a low voice: "These toxins attack too quickly, and they may immediately lose their ability to resist as soon as they react." Hurry up, I don't know how many people will survive. ”
Xiao Yan nodded, turned around and went out, under his feet, the aura continued to shine, and those silver waves finally turned into clusters of flames around him.
The so-called prophecy, Du Ruoxi's judgment was not wrong, when Xiao Yan walked around the entire camp, the only one who survived in the end was the black man who pushed them into this carriage just now. But even this black man now looks like he's on the verge of death. High fever, dilated pupils, general spasms, and without dissecting the body, you can clearly see countless black lines converging from various wounds to the heart of this black man.
"The screams we just heard should have been made by these people."
Xiao Yan said as he spoke, and a level 2 antidote had been prepared in his hand, which was dropped on the black man's chest.
With abundant gene points and the commitment of the Asian Management Committee, he was able to gather almost all of his ability scrolls during the Chinese New Year. After upgrading the ability to prepare biotoxins to level 2, Xiao Yan also gained the ability to prepare antidotes.
For toxins below grade 2, the effect of this antidote is very obvious. Even the compound toxin reaction, such as Trictina just now, has improved and entered a lethargic state, and the wound from the silver ant bite has healed.
It's just that this black man has obviously been poisoned too deeply, even if it is an antidote, it can only relieve him from his current fainting state, and death is already an inevitable end for this black man.
After a moment of silence, the black man opened his eyes, and after seeing Xiao Yan and the moon above his head, he let out a long breath and asked something in a low voice. This debilitating and vague question could not be understood by Xiao Yan at all, and it could not be answered. However, the black man apparently had his own answer, and he tried to look around, and then said to Xiao Yan, "Watch out for the devil. ”
"What?"
The black man did not continue to answer Xiao Yan's question, he found the approximate location of Mecca according to the moon and the stars, and then forcefully stood up of his weak body, bowed, and sat on his knees, and there he began to grunt something, and as his voice grew quieter, at last his head fell sharply, and he died.
Xiao Yan turned his head to look at the entire camp, and the silver waves on the ground had disappeared without a trace, along with the bronze scarabs under the waves, which had also become fragmented. Only those cars, the makeshift camp, at this time seemed to have been swept by the wind and sand of history, and became rusty.
In those makeshift rooms, all the secular humans had died, their blood had been completely drained, and even the water seemed to have evaporated, maintaining the posture of zuihou before being bitten, turning into dried corpses of different shapes.
As for the camels that were supposed to be used for tomorrow's ride, the same fate is now.
To make matters worse, the communications equipment had been damaged by the silver ants, making it impossible to make any contact with the base camp.
The moonlight fell from the sky, and the young awakened looked at this wilderness, there was no wind, no insects and birds, this empty desert was extremely quiet, and the mountains in the distance were like black shadows quietly watching in this direction, as if they were smiling, and seemed to be waiting for something.
"It's not an accident," Xiao Yan said suddenly, "We seem to have come to an incredible place. (To be continued......)