"No, uncle, I just want to buy two swords for temporary use. I don't have any other intention." Pei Mengqing explained quickly.
The store manager looked at him, then turned to the back of the store with a dissatisfied expression and took two swords without the "Sword Forging Li" mark.
In the end, Pei Mengqing spent 8 silver coins to buy two new swords and made do for the past four days.
It is more convenient to have weapons. After Pei Mengqing bought the sword, he called Juju and Xiaori, and they went out of the city.
They plan to search for wild boars in the surrounding forests. Then they can get some green vegetables and cook a lot of delicious meals.
When Pei Mengqing flew out of the city wall, she could still see the zombies at her feet standing motionless on the edge of the wall, like guards outside Tianhe County.
It's just that when there is movement around them, they will show their crazy desire for raw meat and blood, baring their teeth and claws.
"I don't know when these things will be cleared away. It's actually quite disgusting to keep them on the edge of the city." Pei Mengqing complained.
Juju and Xiaori didn't say anything. According to their thoughts, they must have purified all these things.
But Pei Mengqing complained and said what they said.
When they reached the forest where the "hairline" was more than ten meters back, Pei Mengqing suddenly remembered something:
"You two cat brothers, do you still remember those people who voluntarily stayed in the forest and did not want to return to the city?"
Xiaori recalled: "You mean, those people who think that they and others can live better in the forest and are unwilling to return to Tianhe County to take unknown risks, right?"
Ju Ju answered by the way: "They seem to have abandoned their own families, and they don't know how they are living now."
"It's better to look for it."
Pei Mengqing's words moved Juju and Xiaori. The three of them were very curious about how the small society formed by these people would operate after leaving the large human gathering place, and what the situation would be like now. .
They shuttled through the forest, enjoying the joy of hunting itself, following the traces of wild boars, and looking around from time to time to see if there was any gathering point.
Mainly because it had been a long time since the last time I met that group of people, and there were no roads in the woods. Everything looked similar, so it was difficult to distinguish the specific location, let alone where the group of people lived and built houses. .
"This footprint must be that of a wild boar, right? I really want to eat the twice-cooked pork that Lao Pei mentioned."
Juju lowered his head, looked at the footprints in front of him, and asked.
"I guess so." Pei Mengqing nodded, her tone very sure.
Xiaori was very curious: "How can you be so sure?"
Pei Mengqing said: "We have tracked the tracks of more than a dozen animals such as brown bears, squirrels, grouse, snowshoe hares, elk, etc. According to the elimination method, it should be a wild boar."
Xiaori: "... Damn, what you said makes sense, and I can't even refute it."
"Let's go." Pei Mengqing nodded, and two orange cats jumped on his shoulders.
One person and two cats walked deep into the forest through the thick snow, and unknowingly walked towards danger.
Pei Mengqing walked for a while and finally found that the "wild boar"'s footprints had changed, but the change looked like a fight.
At the end of the footprints, there is a messy clearing. The snow has also melted, and the surrounding pine branches are scattered on the ground.
"Could it be that someone hunted in advance and caught our final wild boar? Maybe it's the gathering place for those people."
Pei Mengqing looked closer and saw that in addition to the "wild boar" footprints, there were also human shoe prints on the ground. They were messy and there was blood on the ground.
The heat of the blood had just dissipated and was not completely frozen in the snow. It seemed that the hunter in front had just captured the wild boar.
The forest is dense, and the leaves are thick like layers of parasols.
In this deep mountain and old forest, it is difficult for sunlight to shine in. Only scattered beams of light can penetrate the gaps between the branches and leaves of trees and fall on the snow where few creatures have set foot.
Ahead was a gathering point. Pei Mengqing glanced at it and could see about thirty cabins.
The wooden houses come in different styles and sizes.
Some have a rough appearance and look very simple at first glance, while others have carefully covered the gaps between the wooden boards with pine needles, and even engraved the owner's name on a wooden plaque and hung it at the door.
There are more than thirty cabins in the forest, and there is no regular distribution. Only the paths made by people walking back and forth on the snow can clearly connect these cabins.
It looks like a miniature village at least.
But why is this village so quiet? Could it be that they all went out hunting and wouldn't come back until noon or evening?
Pei Mengqing approached the village with such questions.
At this time, Juju, who was standing on his shoulder, suddenly said: "Have you ever felt that the light around you seems to have dimmed?"
Xiaori said: "It seems that there is such a thing, but is it unreasonable?"
"It's really unreasonable. I feel like there's something secretly watching us from the shadows."
There is a reason why Pei Mengqing and the others feel it is unreasonable.
In a location covered by normal forest, due to the clusters of trees, spreading branches, and complex branches and leaves, large areas of sunlight are often blocked.
In the settlement here, people cut down all the trees around this area to build houses.
And with the use of trees as fuel, the surrounding trees are still being cut down, and there are no branches and leaves to cover the top of the head.
Pei Mengqing raised her head and saw no dark clouds, but couldn't find any sunshine.
"Is that east?" As a modern young man from the earth, he does not distinguish the directions of southeast, northwest and northwest for basic operations. He only knows the front, back, left and right...
"Yes, in the morning, the sun rises from the east and gradually reaches the sky. Logically speaking, you should be able to see the sun." Xiaori replied.
"Look, there are clothes scattered on the ground over there."
Juju jumped off Pei Mengqing's shoulders and trotted to a snowy field.
In front of a wooden house, a complete set of clothes - hat, cotton coat, cotton pants and cotton shoes - were completely laid out on the snow.
This situation is like a person wearing thick clothes suddenly disappearing from the place, leaving only this piece of clothing in place.
No matter how you look at it, it feels weird.
"Could it be some kind of sacrificial ceremony?"
Pei Mengqing had already walked into this settlement, following along the way, dragging the traces of the prey, thinking that since the wild boar blood had not frozen yet, she should be able to see the hunter who killed the wild boar in the village.
You can't just run away and continue hunting somewhere else after hunting a wild boar, right?
