In the darkness, Coulomb held Qiu Yu's arm like a hand wearing rubber gloves and walked into the tent.
Qiu Yu took out a flashlight to illuminate it, but as soon as the light of the flashlight appeared in the tent, Jack and Coulomb shouted at the same time, "Close it, close it quickly." They just shouted like this, but did not explain the reason, as if they couldn't even explain the reason.
I don’t want to waste time explaining.
"It's okay. Even if the light is twice as strong now, it won't be able to penetrate this tent."
Jack was stunned for a moment by Qiu Yu's words. He stood up and took a look outside the tent. When he saw that no light had penetrated at all, he walked in with peace of mind.
"I really don't know how you have so many good things. If these are all produced from where you come from, I'm afraid the scientists in our settlement won't have much to do." Jack lay down on the soft carpet that came with the tent.
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Qiu Yu smiled and adjusted the light beam of the flashlight to the electric light mode that illuminated the surroundings, "These are not produced, but exchanged for things. In our place, the manufacturing technology and conditions of these things are monopolized by others.
...or only what you can make can truly be considered your own."
"That's true." Coulun followed Jack's example and lay down on the carpet, "Who looks outside first?"
"Watch the night?" Qiu Yu shook his head, "It shouldn't be necessary. It's pitch dark outside, and even animals with low-light vision can't see it at all. We can't see anything when we watch outside, right?"
"The real night hasn't started yet. You'd better sleep a little longer now, otherwise you may not be able to fall asleep in the middle of the night." Jack had become accustomed to Qiu Yu's ignorance.
"Okay." Qiu Yu is a person who is very willing to accept other people's suggestions, especially in areas that he is not good at, so after saying yes, he immediately lay down and went to sleep.
"Turn off the lights and save some electricity."
Qiu Yu, "...Okay."
I don't know how long I slept, but Qiu was woken up by a sound like a howling wolf, but when I opened my eyes, the surroundings were still dark.
In Qiuyu's feelings, there seemed to be countless dangers that were not directed at him, but were extremely strong. He subconsciously touched the switch of the flashlight, but this action itself gave him a stronger sense of crisis than before.
, so Qiu Yu stopped this action and switched to another safer method.
The sense of touch is like liquid dripping onto paper, quickly spreading around.
In the tent, Coulomb was still sleeping soundly, while Jack held the gun in his hand, half out of the tent and carefully observing the front.
Qiu Yu slightly restrained the perception spreading around, and turned the main direction of the spreading perception to where Jack's line of sight was.
As the perception continues to extend forward, the world in Qiu Yu's mind is like the fog of war in the game, driven out of a clear path.
Several stones that had already been covered with cracks finally could not withstand the cold again, and broke into smaller stones bit by bit.
In the gaps between the stones, countless strange-shaped things are sleeping soundly. The small stones falling on them are completely unable to wake them up from their deep sleep, but the footsteps of some other animals can startle them in groups.
ran away.
In the soil beneath the rocks, small snake-like earthworms kept digging into the soil, swallowing up any organic matter buried in it as well as the surrounding soil. However, these small amounts of food were far from satisfying their appetites.
Appetite. As they get closer to the ground, those sleepers who are extremely sensitive to ground animals are unable to cope with these sudden subsidences, and they all become delicacies for earthworms.
There are also some animals that can obviously escape, specifically entering the body of the earthworm, and seem to use it as a comfortable mobile restaurant.
There are countless battles between these small animals within Qiuyu's perception range. Further away, the number of battles decreases sharply, but the scale becomes larger and larger.
The battle between these animals is no longer limited to claws and fangs, everything on the body is a weapon.
A creature that could not be judged to be a cat or a dog was fighting fiercely with a giant wolf that was several times larger than a mouse. Regardless of its size, strength or attack ability, the strange creature was at the bottom, but it
He refused to run away, and rushed towards the giant wolf again and again, with puffs of blood swaying in the air as if it was free of charge.
The blood loss must be accompanied by the loss of physical strength. The giant wolf finally seized the opportunity and bit off a large piece of meat from the animal. But more than ten seconds later, the giant wolf, which had proudly eaten the piece of meat, began to
He twitched, and after losing the strength to stand, he fell heavily to the ground.
The cat-like and dog-like creature didn't care about the ferocious wounds on its body. It just walked to the giant wolf gracefully. It was not in a hurry to end the giant wolf's life. Instead, under the giant wolf's frightened and painful eyes, it cut from its thigh.
He started to eat it with big mouthfuls.
Under the influence of Qiu Yu's perception, the eating scene seemed to be right in front of him, and the flesh and blood that was swallowed up in bites seemed to be torn from his own body. After a few seconds of desperate persistence, the perception that spread out seemed to be played backwards.
Like a movie, everything was taken back into Qiu Yu's body in an instant. The surroundings fell into endless darkness again.
"You woke up before the fun started?"
Qiu Yu thought that he didn't make any noise at all, but Coulomb, who had just fallen asleep, spoke with a voice that showed no signs of fatigue.
Qiu Yu nodded and then remembered that the other party couldn't see his movements, "There seems to be light outside."
Jack's body propped outside tightly pressed against the surrounding tents, so the light did not come from the outside, but was "seen" by Qiu Yu in his own perception, but his "seeing" was not clear.
"I'd rather there be no light outside." Coulomb's voice sounded a little farther away than before, as if he was crawling towards Jack's position, "How about it?"
Hearing Coulomb's voice, Jack retracted his body and said, "Fortunately, the center point this time is far away from our position."
"Center point? What center point?" Qiu Yu moved to the edge of the tent relying on his memory and the voices of the two people.
"It's the central point where mutated animals look for food in a certain area at night. I was quite surprised when I first saw it. Do you want to see it?"
Jack lifted a corner of the tent. A world beyond Qiu Yu's appearance came into his eyes through this narrow gap.
Countless green lines kept jumping in the darkness and gathered together. At the center of the gathering, the first green lines to arrive twisted violently. Three, four, or even dozens of them came together to form various abstract transformations.
Only a small number of graphics can last for a long time, and most of them are based on lines. After breaking apart one by one, they quickly disappeared into the darkness.
"Those are luminous animals, and there are more than one. They use their own light to attract prey, and they also become prey of other animals because of the light. So the location where these luminous animals appear can quickly cause a big melee, just look
Who can leave after being full before being eaten?"
As Jack explained, those green lines decreased sharply. It was not that they died, but that many non-luminous animals were attracted and blocked the sight of several people after joining this hellish party.
More than ten minutes later, it took a long time before the green line could be seen, and the visual surprise turned into mixed sounds.
Although Qiu Yu couldn't tell how far away all this was from here in the dark, but judging from the feeling alone, it was at least two or three kilometers away. But the roars of animals, the whines of injuries, and the cries of dying,
The vibrations on the ground were all clearly audible, as if he were in the middle of a battlefield that was constantly killing people.
"If this...this scale happened around us, would our guns be useful?" Qiu Yu's voice was full of fear.
"That's why we need people to keep vigil." Jack no longer lowered his voice, but tried to be as loud as possible so that Qiu Yu could hear him clearly. "If we find the first animals gathering around us, we must disperse them immediately.
If dispersing them doesn't work, we will run away. As long as we leave these luminous animals in the first place, there will basically be no problem. After all, they are much more visible than us in the dark."
"Oh..." Qiu Yu quietly looked at the darkness filled with blood, and after a long time he exhaled deeply, "Isn't it possible to hunt normally? Why do these animals have to risk their lives for a meal?"
"Because they are animals used to the dark night, but they cannot get used to the absolute darkness now. Only such a fair opportunity for everyone can prevent all animals from starving to death in their respective hiding places because they cannot meet each other.
Otherwise, this will be a huge waste of food. However, this seeming fairness is based on unfairness. Weak animals are the first to cause chaos, hoping to take advantage of the conflict between powerful animals, but in
When there is food all around, powerful animals always have a tacit understanding to avoid conflicts, so those who become food are often the weak animals who try to take advantage. The result is that the powerful animals return home with a full meal, and the relatively powerful animals
They returned injured, and most of the weak animals became food. There were very few weak animals that could really get a bargain. But even so, these weak animals could only rely on this method of gambling their lives again and again.
To extend their own lives. Because this is what they have to pay before they find a way to survive under the great changes..."
Coulomb's philosophical words made Qiu Yu instinctively apply these contents to this game in an instant. The blurred vision suddenly became clear, not because of seeing things, but because of the clarity, he could see the future clearly.