Chapter 002 Chapter 2 is not a nightmare
An Qing shook her head: "It's okay."
She stopped looking at the people around her and began to think about how to stop everyone from going to the jungle.
Their mission this time was to go into the dense forest to collect plant roots that could be used to make nutrient solution. However, they encountered a herd of beasts soon after they entered the dense forest.
In fact, most of the mutated wild animals live alone, and only a few mutated animals still maintain group living and collective actions.
There is only one exception, which is the estrus period.
Once mutant beasts enter the estrus period, they will start to riot and become very chaotic. Therefore, the period when mutant beasts enter the estrus period is also called the beast tide, and basically all mutant beasts gather together.
During this period, humans who entered the dense forest would die.
However, our ancestors had already spent their lives to find out the exact time of the beast tide's outbreak, which is roughly between March and May every year.
It can be advanced or postponed by a maximum of half a month.
The base laboratory has developed a danger alarm because when a mutant beast is about to go into estrus, its body will begin to secrete a hormone that can spread into the air and cause agitation in beasts of the opposite sex.
Every member of the outbound team will wear this danger alarm bracelet, which will immediately sound an alarm if it detects abnormal hormone composition in the air.
This time, the bracelets of the original owner and his group did not sound the alarm, and the fact that they encountered such a large group of strange beasts should be a beast tide.
But this is only January of this year. If it is a beast tide, why would it break out so early?
An Qing was very confused, but no one could answer her question now.
In short, no one is allowed to enter the dense forest. Once in, they will surely die.
Although she had traveled through time, An Qing still wanted to live a good life, especially when she first came here and witnessed the tragic death of the original owner among the strange beasts, which made her even more afraid.
As a person living in a peaceful era, she really didn't dare to face those terrifying beasts.
In the swaying car, An Qing looked out the window.
Outside, there was a vast expanse of yellow earth, and all I could see was bare land, without a single weed. As the vehicle continued to move forward, green appeared in front of me.
The weeds are overgrown and the trees are dense, and from a distance they look so green that they seem a little black.
The tall trees were so sturdy that An Qing felt as if she had come to a primeval forest.
The vehicle stopped a hundred meters away from the dense forest.
Captain Wang Yuan opened the car door and said, "Get out."
'Click'
'Click'
Everyone unbuckled their seatbelts, opened the box in the middle, and took out protective armor and weapons and equipment to put on.
An Qing sat in her seat without moving.
She closed her eyes and began to recall the nightmare.
She completely empathized with the original owner's experience before his death, as if she had experienced it herself. Once she recalled it, the fear was like a leech in her bones and she couldn't get rid of it.
"Xiaoqing, we're here, it's time to get off." Lin Yin quickly prepared to get off the bus, only to find that An Qing was still sitting in her seat without moving.
An Qing didn't answer. Her eyes were a little out of focus and the color on her face had drained away completely. Her body was still trembling slightly, and then it became more and more violent, and her breathing became more and more rapid.
Seeing this, Lin Yin frowned and quickly walked over to her, grabbing An Qing's trembling hand. "Xiao Qing, what's wrong?"
As soon as she touched An Qing's hand, she felt it was icy cold. An Qing was sweating so much that her hands were as cold as ice.
Lin Yin was shocked: "Xiaoqing, Xiaoqing, what's wrong with you?"
She reached out to touch An Qing's forehead, and her hand was covered in cold sweat, so An Qing's forehead was also cold.
Shi Zhu came over and asked: "What's going on?"
Upon seeing An Qing's condition, Shi Zhu's heart sank, and he hurriedly shouted outside, "Sister Ping! Xiao Qing is not right, come and check on her!"
Ping Jingxi is the doctor in the team and always carries common medicines with him.
Ping Jingxi, who was already equipped, heard the call from the car and hurriedly opened the back door and got in: "What's wrong?"
Lin Yin took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from An Qing's forehead, but it was no use. The handkerchief was wet, and more cold sweat oozed from An Qing's forehead.
"Sister Ping, I don't know what's wrong with Xiaoqing. Please take a look at her." Lin Yin said anxiously.
Ping Jingxi had already walked quickly to An Qing's side, and Lin Yin made way for her.
Ping Jingxi lowered the back of the chair An Qing was sitting on so that she could lie down. Then he opened An Qing's eyelids and took a look. An Qing's pupils were constricted and trembling constantly at a very fast speed.
She then checked other parts of An Yiqing's body and took her temperature.
Ping Jingxi sat next to An Qing, placed her hand on his knee, and placed his fingers on An Qing's pulse. "Xiao Qing, can you still speak?"
An Qing lay there, staring at the roof of the car, her lips moving but no words coming out.
Lin Yin concentrated and held his breath, looking at Ping Jingxi's expression from time to time, and then looked at An Qing worriedly.
Captain Wang Yuan also came up and looked at An Qing with a frown, worry in his eyes.
Everyone was very quiet, waiting for Ping Jingxi's test results, but everyone's face looked bad, and they were very worried about An Qing's condition.
An Qing's condition was not good and she probably wouldn't be able to continue the mission for a while. So they could only let her stay in the car to rest while they went to collect plant roots.
In this mission, their team was assigned to collect peaches.
The ground peach is a plant that hides underground. It is shaped like a peach heart, hence the name ground peach. It is one of the most important plants in the nutrient solution.
But ground peaches are difficult to find because they are usually located deep underground and only emerge from the ground between five and eight in the morning to absorb sunlight.
It was not yet fully light at five o'clock, and the dense forest was still in a very dangerous situation.
Therefore, they actually only have one and a half hours from 6:30 to 8:00 to collect peaches, and time is very tight.
Ping Jingxi took a long time to feel Xiaoqing's pulse, and Jiang Yuan couldn't help asking, "Sister Ping, what happened to Xiaoqing?"
Ping Jingxi's brows were furrowed. She didn't say anything, but just changed her hand to feel An Qing's pulse.
Seeing this, the captain's expression became serious.
He and Ping Jingxi have been teammates for many years and he knows very well that her treatment skills are definitely among the best in the entire base. Under normal circumstances, she shouldn't have been waiting for so long without any results.
For a moment, Wang Yuan's heart was lifted up.
The hearts of the people around were also in turmoil.
In this dangerous era, people rarely establish close relationships with each other, and teammates are the most important and closest people to them.
At this moment, everyone's heart tightened, and their eyes fell on An Qing, whose face was pale and cold sweat was constantly breaking out.
An Qing was still trembling all over, her lips had lost their color, and large beads of cold sweat were breaking out, soaking her clothes and her hair.
"How is it?" Wang Yuan saw that Ping Jingxi had withdrawn his hand but still didn't say anything. Finally, he couldn't hold back his anger and asked directly.
Ping Jingxi frowned, feeling a bit embarrassed. After a while, he finally spoke, "It shouldn't be a big deal. I think I was just scared..."
After saying this, Ping Jingxi himself began to suspect that he had made a mistake in the inspection.
Scared? What could have scared Xiaoqing so much?
But she had just checked carefully and found that An Qing was really fine, she just had a series of physical reactions due to fear.
"How is that possible?" Lin Yin widened his eyes and blurted out subconsciously.
After realizing what was happening, Lin Yin hurriedly said, "Sister Ping, I'm not doubting you, but why would Xiaoqing be so scared?"
Yes, this is not Xiaoqing’s first mission. Not to mention, even when she was on a mission for the first time, she wasn’t scared like this, right?
An Qing has been in their team for four years. After four years of getting along with each other, they still know Xiao Qing very well.
There's no way I'd be scared like this.
Even Wang Yuan couldn't help but say, "Jingxi, why don't you check it again?"
Ping Jingxi was somewhat helpless. "I've checked several times, and it's true that he was frightened."
As she spoke, she stretched out her hands and pressed and kneaded several acupuncture points on An Qing's body. Slowly, An Qing's pale complexion gradually improved.
Although he had not fully recovered, his body was not shaking as violently as before, and his complexion looked slightly better.
Now Ping Jingxi was even more certain that he was really scared.
For a moment, no one knew what to say. But, nothing had happened in the car just now? Why would they be so scared?
Is this a nightmare?
Ping Jingxi opened a tube of nutrient solution and helped An Qing feed it to her.
After being massaged on the acupoints for a while and drinking a bottle of nutrient solution, An Qing felt much better and stopped sweating.
"Xiaoqing, did you have a nightmare just now?" Ping Jingxi also suspected that An Qing was frightened by a nightmare. Although he felt that Xiaoqing would not be frightened by a nightmare, nothing had happened before, and she suddenly became like this. No matter how he thought about it, it must be a nightmare.
An Qing pursed her still pale lips, leaned in Ping Jingxi's arms and relaxed, no longer thinking about the scene before the original owner's death.
My rapidly beating heart felt a little better after I comforted myself.
An Qing then shook her head and said, "No, it's not a nightmare."
"It's not a nightmare? Then why are you so scared?" Lin Yin wondered.
An Qing pursed her lips. The fear she felt in the dream was very real. Her voice trembled as she spoke, "That wasn't a dream. It was real. The beast tide is about to erupt."
Beast tide?
Ping Jingxi suspected that he had heard it wrong. What beast tide?
Lin Yin next to him was also confused and subconsciously glanced at the captain beside him.
Wang Yuan was also a little puzzled. "Beast tide?"
An Qing nodded, her expression solemn. "Yes, not long after we entered the dense forest, the beast tide broke out, and then, and then..."
Her voice began to tremble again, as if she was recalling the tragic scene when they encountered the beast tide.
Shi Zhu frowned, "Isn't this just a dream? Xiaoqing, are you confused? There's still at least another month before the beast tide breaks out."
An Qing shook her head vigorously, very anxiously: "No, no! That really wasn't a dream, believe me!"
She opened her eyes wide, fear made her pupils tremble, she was extremely frightened and uneasy, and her breathing became rapid again.
Ping Jingxi hurriedly grabbed her hand and comforted her: "Don't get excited, Xiaoqing, speak slowly."
As she spoke, she reached out and pressed on several of An Qing's acupuncture points and kneaded them.
An Qing calmed down a bit and looked at the captain seriously. "Captain, I'm serious. The beast tide broke out prematurely. We can't go into the dense forest."
Wang Yuan frowned. He could see that An Qing was serious and had no intention of joking with him.
But how is this possible? The beast tide breaks out every year between March and May. This period is the mating season for the exotic beasts. The exotic beasts will become very manic and like to act in groups, which is why it is called the beast tide.
The dense forests during this period will become particularly dangerous, and humans who enter the dense forests will die.
And it’s only January now, how could a beast tide possibly break out?
Not to mention, the detection bracelets on their wrists didn't respond at all.
Wang Yuan put his hand on An Qing's head and rubbed it gently. "Okay, I guess you've been under a lot of pressure recently, so you had a nightmare. Relax. Don't go into the jungle this time. Rest well in the car and leave the task to us."
An Qing was stunned and her eyes widened.
Obviously, no one would believe what she said just because of a few words. After all, she could not provide any convincing evidence, and the team would not return to the base just because of a dream she had.
An Qing's lips trembled.
She has the memories of the original owner, so naturally she can drive the car of this world. In fact, the driving method is not much different.
If she stayed in the car, she wouldn't be affected when the beast tide broke out, and she would be able to give a reasonable explanation to the base after returning to it.
All in all, she will not die and her life can be saved.
However, those who entered the dense forest were 100% certain to die.
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