The scorching sun set in the west, and the gray and red sky clearly divided the desolate land. The alternation of day and night allowed the creatures belonging to the two sides to reunite briefly.
A sparrow with all its feathers gone was like a seedling breaking out of the ground, emerging from the side of the wet and smelly river.
After shaking off the mud and a small amount of rotten flesh on his body, he started running quickly.
After losing the shelter of trees and the feathers that allow them to fly, birds can only return to the earth like their ancestors. It's just that it took their ancestors hundreds of millions of years to adapt to the sky, and a few decades is far from enough for them to become familiar with the earth again.
Rather than looking for food during the short dusk, the first thing a sparrow does when it wakes up from the mud every day is to escape from here as soon as possible, otherwise...
Like the roar of a bomber, the sparrow turned its head around in panic. After finding no place to hide, it burrowed into the soil again.
Unable to firm up its position, the mud quickly split to both sides the moment the sparrow lowered its head, covering most of the sparrow's body in less than two seconds, but the next moment, the mud came back together again.
The huge roar, accompanied by the rapid surge of airflow, caused a small ripple on the surface of the mud, and then quickly flew back into the air. Also returning to the air was the panic that was locked tightly by three pairs of sharp claws.
sparrow.
Under the struggle of the sparrows, the rotting flesh fell like a bomb dropped by a bomber to the edge of the increasingly busy river. Countless other birds that were late to wake up were crowded together with insects that were almost the same size as them.
Fighting desperately for this precious food.
The total amount of anything is constant. If others get more, you will get less.
The predator was very dissatisfied with this situation. Its iron-clamp-like jaws were slightly crisscrossed, and the few drops of red became its last charity to the humble animals below.
In a graceful turn, the predator flew north with its dinner.
But the moment it completed its turn, a sharpened piece of dead wood quickly grew larger in the predator's countless eyes. When its slightly dull brain or rough nervous system analyzed that if it continued like this, it would be destroyed.
When it penetrated, the wooden bar had penetrated through its not very strong body, and continued to fly for a few meters before falling downwards.
Before the wooden bar fell to the ground, the predator, together with the sparrow that was still tightly grasped by it, fell to the feet of the three pairs who had stopped moving.
"Today's dinner is ready." Coulomb excitedly mentioned the football-sized prey.
"What?" Qiu Yu pointed at the thing that made him feel sick just looking at it, "This fly-like thing is your dinner."
"When we all act together, in order to prevent unnecessary disputes, the items we obtain along the way are shared, so this is not my dinner, but ours all's dinner."
Coulomb's serious expression prevented Qiu Yu from seeing any hint of joking, so he cast his puzzled gaze on Jack.
"It's like this. Only by supporting each other can people who walk together have the capital to fight against homeless people and mutated animals." After saying these words, Jack suddenly realized that Qiu Yu's confusion should not be this. After thinking for a moment,
He re-explained, "Although we have brought enough food, we can save a little. Besides, flies taste much better than dry bread."
After the mice came the flies... Qiu Yu's brain, which had been running as fast as a computer, crashed for a moment, "There must be many animals that can be eaten, right? Why choose these disgusting ones?"
"Is it disgusting?" Coulomb looked at the two of them doubtfully, and then brought the fly up to his nose and sniffed it, as if he was in front of a fragrant roast duck.
After Jack tried his best to imitate his thinking as a person who was pampered in a high-end shelter, he vaguely understood what Qiu Yu really puzzled about, "You can't just look at things by their appearance. In fact, flies taste really delicious, and flies and
Like rats, they are highly resistant to radiation, so eating their meat is safer than other animals."
Jack pointed to the one that was still hanging on the fly's feet, like a sparrow corpse that had been rotting for many years. "Even most mutants with super radiation resistance would not dare to eat something like this. Often one can kill you."
People lose their lives.”
Qiu Yu's eyes swept back and forth between the sparrows and flies several times, and he really couldn't decide which one was less disgusting. "I mean those things that are more like food, such as pigs and cows, should not be both
Ugly and dangerous, right?”
Jack thought for a while, "This... depends on where it is. If it was domesticated by those large settlements or organizations, it should be like this. But if it is encountered in the wild, it requires some complicated judgment. And even if
In an animal, it is not directly said whether it can be eaten or not. The specific parts are also different. For example, this fly's internal organs must digest highly radioactive substances, so all of them cannot be eaten. But on the outside of the carapace, you
Look at these thickest parts and these legs..."
"Okay." Qiu Yu's stomach twitched as he heard it, "Throw away that fly. I'll let you have a really delicious meal today."
While Jack was still hesitating, Coulomb had already thrown the fly far away. He was already coveting the canned meat that Qiu Yu used to feed the mice.
Qiu Yu took out a tent on the spot for the two of them to set up, and also took out a few pieces of solid fuel to make a hot meal for the two of them to eat normal human food.
But the matter of setting up a tent caused the two to quarrel.
Jack believed that one should dig a hole underground and spend the night in the same way as in the wild. Coulomb believed that now that there were powerful weapons, there was no need to worry about the mutated animals that appeared at night.
Qiu Yu couldn't imagine what it would be like to bury himself in the mud, and without having experienced this special method of training, he would definitely be buried for one night and sleep forever. So after clearly expressing his support for Coulomb,
The method of setting up tents for the night was decided.
However, his action of lighting a fire was opposed by both of them. Qiu Yu thought that they were afraid that the smell of cooking would attract mutant animals, but this was only a secondary reason. After the two complicated explanations, Qiu Yu understood
come over.
The current atmosphere has been severely damaged and has become much thinner than before, resulting in a large temperature difference between day and night. If fire makes this area warm at night, countless thermotropic mutant animals will be attracted there,
There are many troublesome things that cannot be solved with guns.
Qiu Yu felt that he was enveloped by a huge feeling of powerlessness. If the Comet Civilization is an opponent that can be understood as long as they have a little connection and then think the opposite way, then the current situation is that everything is impossible to grasp.
Focusing on the key points, I don’t know which points of previous experience need to be retained, which points need to be changed, and which points must be completely discarded.
But the problem still lies with myself. If I can have strong power, I don't have to worry about so much. I just need to be strong all the way for everything... But now, as the ultimate evolution of the law ability indicates, in the end, I use it to change
Before the environment, the only way to survive was to desperately adapt to the environment in front of you.
People living in the apocalypse do not need to go to school to learn useless knowledge for competition between similar people, and a lot of time saved is used for practical training for survival. It can be said that people who can survive in this era, including women and children, every
They are all the best survival experts.
The ability of a survival expert is not only about fighting, but also about having excellent survival skills.
The tent Qiuyu redeemed is also a product of future technology. You only need to fix the four corners and then pull it gently from one corner to set it up. The accompanying instruction manual says that once you are familiar with it, it can be completely set up in just one minute.
Coulomb and Jack couldn't understand the instructions, but just by looking at the structure of the tent, it took less than twenty seconds for the two of them to complete the work.
At this time, Qiu Yu was still dominated by a sense of powerlessness, slowly rummaging through the bag for today's food.
This was a dinner that made Qiu Yu even more unhappy. Because he didn’t know how long he would stay in this world, except for the high-compressed nutritional capsules, he only brought the normal amount of food and water for more than a month, plus there are still two people traveling with him.
Individuals, although they bring their own things, Qiu Yu does not intend to treat them differently, so he must be more economical on the premise of sharing with them.
After considering this, each of the three people was only given 200 ml of pure water and a box of chemically heated lunch boxes. Before starting, Qiu Yu also specifically stated that the food should be eaten sparingly. If they didn't have enough, they could only eat what they brought.
But the result made Qiu Yu feel unspeakably depressed.
In my opinion, these things are definitely not enough for them, and in fact it should be so. However, after a burst of exclamation, the two people holding the pure water only drank a few drops, and then filled themselves with water in another burst of exclamation.
bag, and then took out their water, which had absolutely nothing to do with purity, and drank it.
According to them, this kind of water with no peculiar smell can be used to replace a lot of things. Drinking it by yourself is too wasteful. Being able to taste it is already quite a luxury.
When eating the box lunch with vegetables and meat, the two of them looked like aristocratic ladies who had undergone strict court etiquette training. They ate in small bites and chewed slowly. After eating half of the meal, they directly put the rice into themselves.
Qiu Yu estimated that if they hadn't known that these things couldn't be kept for too long, they probably wouldn't have even eaten the half.
Affected by them, Qiu Yu also lost his appetite. After eating a few hastily, he carefully put the rest of the meal back into his bag.
When the sun sank below the horizon, darkness descended suddenly like Li Ningfeng's lawful power. No stars or moon could be seen in the sky, and there were no lights from the city around. The entire land seemed to be isolated from the universe and thrown into the sky.
The endless abyss of darkness, no matter whether you open or close your eyes, there is no difference in darkness before you.