Although there are caravans and adventure teams from time to time clearing some vegetation when crossing this road, as soon as it rains, those fast-growing plants will quickly cover the road again.
Of course, if it's just some weeds and vines, it doesn't matter.
But from time to time, plants with spikes or explosive fruits appear on the road.
These plants are undoubtedly the obstacles on Fang Xiaoyue's path.
For relatively common plants, Fang Xiaoyue could jump over them directly, but when encountering these plants, Fang Xiaoyue could only pull out the machete and cut out the path.
Fortunately, before leaving the gathering place of hope, he considered this kind of thing and went to the official store to buy a reinforced alloy machete. Otherwise, if he wanted to use ordinary tools to open up a path forward, the speed would be much slower.
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At the same time, while traveling on the road, you will encounter some wild animals and birds hiding in the vegetation.
For example, sparrows, jerboas, cauliflower snakes, etc.
But these days, the beasts and birds are not good at anything.
I don't know if it is related to genetic recombination. Even the docile beasts and birds before the war have become agitated and irritable after the war.
As long as Fang Xiaoyue makes a little noise, they will rush out of the bushes and tree crowns like a madman and attack Fang Xiaoyue.
Of course, although these guys affected Fang Xiaoyue's traveling speed, they also saved him time in searching for food.
However, at this speed, Fang Xiaoyue can only stay for a day at most after arriving at the volcano, and must return in a hurry. Otherwise, Wang Xiaoya will probably cry again when she returns home from school and cannot see her brother.
Fortunately, on the first night, when Fang Xiaoyue was setting up camp to rest, a strong ox came over smelling the smell of barbecue.
In the past, cattle were used to work on the land and provide skin and meat to humans.
But now scalpers are the dominant force in the wilderness.
It is 8 meters long and 4 meters tall. Its whole body is covered with a thick layer of fur that is not easy to burn. It is extremely powerful and has amazing jumping ability.
All these adjectives prove the terrifying nature of scalpers.
Fang Xiaoyue originally didn't plan to argue with the ox, so she climbed up the tree directly.
As a result, the ox didn't eat the meat, so it didn't give up at all and hit the tree directly, almost knocking Fang Xiaoyue off the tree crown.
Of course, although this scalper is said to be more powerful than Fang Xiaoyue in absolute terms, it still has many weaknesses in his eyes.
Fang Xiaoyue jumped directly on the scalper's head, grabbed the opponent's horns, and hit the bull's head violently, but it was useless. Then he changed the target and hit the scalper's nose, hitting the scalper repeatedly and screaming.
Of course, just beating is useless. Even though the scalper was beaten until his nose was almost crooked and the pain caused tears to flow, he still did not give in. Instead, he rushed towards the big trees one after another, trying to kill Fang Xiaoyue.
Killed.
In the end, Fang Xiaoyue took out a piece of barbecued vole meat from her backpack, and the anger of the scalper slowly dissipated.
However, the ox roasted Fang Xiaoyue in one meal to save the rat meat for the next few days, and the bird meat was eaten up.
Fang Xiaoyue even picked some sweet fruits from high up in the big tree and fed them to the cattle.
After all, no matter how powerful the ox is and how powerful it is, it is impossible for it to reach a fruit that grows at a height of twenty or thirty meters.
I can only pick up some rotten fruits that have fallen on the ground and eat them, but the taste of rotten fruits cannot be compared with fresh fruits.
In this way, the anger in the scalper's heart was calmed down, just like the scalper before the war, he obeyed Fang Xiaoyue's orders honestly.
With this scalper as a mount, Fang Xiaoyue's next trip became much simpler and faster.
Even if the road is covered with various plants, the ox can easily rush over it with its huge size. As for the various wild beasts active on the road, they will run away quickly when they see the aggressive ox, not daring to get even closer.
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At noon the next day, Fang Xiaoyue saw the towering volcano from a distance.
This volcano did not exist before the war.
However, due to a fierce battle, more than a dozen super earth-penetrating bombs hit here and penetrated the earth's crust, causing the mantle material under 10,000 meters to continuously rise, eventually forming this huge volcano.
After the upwelling of mantle material stopped, it became a place where surrounding organisms were active.
In fact, not long after Fang Xiaoyue arrived, when he lit a bonfire and prepared to cook some meat to eat, he discovered that a silver dragon hovering high in the sky was staring at him.
To be honest, it is really difficult for ordinary people to find this silver withered head.
Because its whole body is silvery white and hovering high in the sky, it naturally blends into the blue sky and white clouds.
If it weren't for Fang Xiaoyue's current extremely sharp eyesight and the silver wither had already launched a diving attack towards the ground, otherwise, even Fang Xiaoyue wouldn't be able to notice the movement high in the sky.
From the perspective of Silver Wither's dive, its target is undoubtedly the ox that is swimming leisurely, waving its little tail and eating green grass.
Fang Xiaoyue immediately warned the scalpers.
But the scalper was a little stupid, thinking that Fang Xiaoyue was going to feed it, so it immediately trotted over.
But the next moment, the huge body of Yinqiu had dived to the ground, and its two sharp claws fiercely grabbed the ox's back.
At that moment of impact, the ox's back bones were broken and it fell down wailing.
After Silver Wither used this buffer to resolve the force of the dive, it immediately continued to flap its wings, trying to grab the scalper and take off again.
It has to be said that such a hunt is extremely thrilling.
A huge silver wither instantly killed a huge ox.
But Fang Xiaoyue reacted very quickly, and immediately pulled out the alloy machete and rushed towards the silver wither.
Although Yinliu did not attack him, he hunted his own mount, so Fang Xiaoyue naturally could not let him go.
Either stay and act as a mount, or die to make amends!
A human rushed up next to him, startling the silver withered head.
However, after seeing an animal that was much smaller than himself, Yin Tui didn't care at all. He just flapped his wings towards Fang Xiaoyue and continued to work hard to take off again.
Yin Zuo's wings were extremely powerful, and he immediately flew Fang Xiaoyue more than thirty meters away.
This is not surprising. Although Fang Xiaoyue's current strength may not be much weaker than that of Yin Biao, his weight is still too light, only about 500 kilograms, while Yin Biao weighs at least more than 5,000 kilograms!
How powerful are wings that can propel prey weighing 5,000 kilograms or even heavier into the sky? It would be too easy to flap something weighing 500 kilograms away.
Seeing that Yinqiu was about to take off with the scalper, Fang Xiaoyue immediately pounced on it again.
But this time he could only catch the scalper's hind legs.
The man and the ox were simultaneously driven by the silver and took off quickly, surrounded by howling winds.
Fang Xiaoyue was also worried that Yin Tuo would throw the scalper down after discovering her. In that case, she would not be killed, but would at least be seriously injured.
No way, my current weight is too heavy, and the impact force when it hits the ground will be more than ten times greater than that of ordinary humans.
But when he climbed up along the ox and hugged one of Yin Wither's paws with both hands, he realized that Yin Wither had already flown a thousand meters into the sky.
The objects below have become very small.
However, the silver wither didn't seem to care at all as Fang Xiaoyue hugged his paws, flapped its wings like sky wings vigorously, and continued to fly upward.
Fang Xiaoyue looked at where the silver wither was flying, and it turned out to be her destination - the volcano.
As he got closer, he realized that the height of this volcano was probably no less than three thousand meters.
And halfway up the mountain, more than 1,500 meters away, there is a huge nest made of branches.
In the nest, there were several Yin Wither cubs waiting to be fed. They were stretching their heads, flapping their wings without many feathers, and shouting towards Yin Wither.
This is the nature of most baby birds. As long as there is a little disturbance near the nest, they will think that their parents have returned with food, and they will rush to shout at their parents.
Because only in this way can they eat food before other brothers and sisters.
Don't underestimate this, any baby bird will be eliminated if it is even slightly less active in this area.
Your siblings will soon grow stronger because they eat more food, and the stronger baby birds will undoubtedly get more favor and care from their parents, eat more food, and form
A vicious cycle.
Bird chicks that are getting thinner and weaker than their siblings are likely to become food for other siblings when food is insufficient.
This is particularly prominent in the wild birds.
Some parent raptors will even take the initiative to kill the weaker babies after a certain period of time and use them as food to feed the stronger babies.
The Silver Wither is actually a typical representative of this type of ferocious bird.
This nest originally contained six silverblight pups.
Of course, in silver wither populations, such production situations are very rare.
As the top ferocious mammal in the post-war ruins era, the silver wither usually lays 2-3 eggs in each clutch. The first egg and the second egg will be laid more than ten days apart, which makes the first silver wither baby
The hatching time will be more than ten days in the morning. When the second silver wither baby hatches, the first silver wither baby will be much larger than its younger siblings, thus grabbing more food.
In the end, the remaining silver wither pups will be squeezed out of the nest by the boss and fall off the cliff, or they will starve to death and become food.
Of course, sometimes, it is not necessarily the case that the eldest bird is the only chick to leave the nest.
If the nest is attacked by some ferocious beasts or birds, the largest chicks will often become the food of the opponent.
Moreover, these ferocious beasts and fowls will only hunt and kill one young bird.
This allows the remaining chicks to grow up to replace the elder ones.
Therefore, the second and third eggs were actually laid by the silver wither parent bird to prevent accidents.
Back to the subject, there used to be six chicks in this silver wither nest, but after a month of feeding, there are only four left. The two missing chicks have turned into food for the brothers and sisters.
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This is not surprising. Although the Silver Wither is the top raptor around the volcano, this does not mean that the Silver Wither can catch suitable prey to feed its chicks every time it goes out.
You must know that there are always only a few animals that are large enough. Animals such as rabbits, foxes, etc. that are too small are simply not within the scope of Silver Wither's regular diet.
Because the silver wither hovers in the sky for so long and then swoops down to kill the energy consumed, a rabbit, even a rabbit as big as a big dog, cannot make up for it.
Therefore, this perfectly explains why Yin Tuo doesn't pay much attention to Fang Xiaoyue at all.
Yinzuo folded his wings and threw the ox, which was bigger than an elephant, into the nest. It smashed into the nest, causing branches, feathers, and dust to fly everywhere.
But the four silver withered chicks didn't care about this at all. They flapped their wings one by one and rushed over quickly, pecking at the cattle's meat.
I have to say, this was a perfect meal today.
Because it is too dangerous here, animals like cattle will not appear near the volcano at all and will hide as far away as possible.
Generally, the prey that Silver Wither can catch are animals such as black-horned goats, black-legged pheasants, mountain monkeys, etc.
However, the size of these animals is still much smaller than that of cattle, and the amount of meat produced by cattle is larger than that of these animals.
Of course, it is difficult for the beaks of these chicks to tear open the tough cowhide and eat the meat inside, so Yinqiu keeps tearing the cow, tearing its meat into strips and feeding it to the chicks.
Fang Xiaoyue had already turned over and hid in the nest.
This silver withered nest is made up of branches as thick as thighs that are intertwined and overlapped layer by layer. There are a lot of gaps between the branches, which is just right for Fang Xiaoyue to hide here easily.
He simply didn't pay attention to the movements of the silver wither chicks snatching the beef. Instead, he drilled his head out of the gap in the branches and looked around.
Since his eyesight was now extremely sharp, he could see clearly the situation around the lair.
It must be said that this volcano can be called a treasure house.
In fact, there are too many animals and plants that depend on this volcano for survival.
Not to mention other places, the mountain walls within a few hundred meters above and below 1,500 meters can be called a semi-independent small world.
The mountain walls full of gaps are covered with various tall gymnosperms. These gymnosperms are giant trees that are seventy or eighty meters or even hundreds of meters high.
These gymnosperms are also covered with various shrubs, vines and various ferns.
They are combined together to form a small world on the mountain where various animals can survive and are rich in products.
Silver Wither's nest is built on the crown of a blue tree that is more than 100 meters high.
In a gap in the vegetation not far away, Fang Xiaoyue saw several giant pythons more than thirty meters long entangled together, and several large monkeys escaping fearfully along the tree crown towards the distant vegetation.
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Two human-sized beetles were snatching a bright red fruit under a big tree.