Looking at each other, several people looked a little solemn and quickly ran over to check.
"Is this a bird?" Tang Jing poked the corpse on the ground with a stick he picked up and asked uncertainly.
"It looks a bit like a Crested Bee Eagle, but it looks bigger than a large raptor like a golden eagle. It weighs 7 or 8 kilograms by visual inspection. It's really strange. The color is also wrong." Tang's father was a little surprised. , kept commenting.
Tang Ran's face was heavy. She seemed to have seen this kind of bird, which was a mutated crested bee-hawk. But it must have been more than a year later in the previous life. How could it appear here?
A gust of cool wind blew, and all three of them shivered. Tang Ran, who felt the coolness, became increasingly ugly.
Tang Jing rubbed his hands and said, "Let's go back quickly. It's getting colder and colder recently. I didn't wear a down jacket when I came out. I'm shivering now that the heat has passed."
Listening to Tang Jing's words, Tang's father nodded in agreement: "It's cold. Go back and put on your clothes quickly to avoid catching a cold."
The two of them were walking side by side, but when they turned around, they found that Tang Ran was still standing there, with a solemn look on his face, mumbling something, not knowing what he was talking about.
"Sister, are you helping this little bird to be saved? How about I build a monument for it?" Tang Jing scratched his head and said with some uncertainty.
Tang's father could see something was wrong at a glance, "Why is it so obvious?"
Tang Ran took a deep breath and looked straight at Tang's father: "Dad, the temperature today is only two degrees."
Father Tang nodded: "Yes, the temperature has dropped significantly recently." After saying that, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
The temperature has dropped so drastically. In the past, the temperature in C City during the coldest winter was 3 to 6 degrees. It is only mid-December, and even if it is affected by the volcano, the temperature will not drop so fast.
"If the temperature continues to drop, our cold protection materials will not be enough." Tang Ran took a breath and turned to point to the corpse on the ground, "This should be the mutation of the Crested Bee Eagle, but the last life of this mutated animal was one year after the apocalypse. Only then was he discovered.”
Speaking of this, even the slow Tang Jing seemed to understand something, and his face became a little ugly.
After thinking about it, Father Tang made a decision: "The special training will be suspended for these two days, and we will go out to purchase cold protection materials. We need to protect against extreme cold, not ordinary ones."
The three of them reached an agreement, and Tang Ran added: "I don't know if these mutated beasts appeared in advance or if no one discovered them in the previous life, but it's not good news. Tang Jing and I are going to purchase supplies. Dad, you have the means, try to do as much self-defense as possible." weapons."
Father Tang pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement: "When the higher-ups sent people here a while ago, my father donated the company. Do you two have any money left? I'll give it to you."
Both siblings shook their heads and refused, saying they had money in their pockets.
The procurement work is in full swing, and they are all packed and sent to Zhou Xiaoya's house across the street. Please ask her to help collect them temporarily.
In this regard, Zhou Xiaoya didn't say much. It was just a piece of cake to collect a few couriers. But when she received them, she realized that basically every courier was higher than her, which tortured her enough.
By the time they finished stocking up on supplies, it was already the 16th. Father Tang went out to find a way to buy self-defense weapons, but he still hadn't come back. Tang Ran couldn't help but feel worried.
Looking at the calendar, Tang Ran felt irritable for no reason and decided to move back to Yayuan (the original name of the community) when her father came back. This was very different from her previous plan, but she couldn't ignore her uneasiness and could only take precautions against it. Not yet.
When he returned to Yayuan, he couldn't practice fighting so wantonly. Thinking of his unscrupulous wild ways, Tang Ran felt helpless. There was nothing he could do if he was anxious. Then he grabbed Tang Jing, who was playing on his mobile phone, and went to "fight" each other outside the house. .
With Father Tang's return, the family of four finally quietly returned home in the early morning of the 21st.
Yayuan has two households on one floor. They live on the 33rd floor of the top floor. Under Tang Ran's special cover-up and explanation, people in the community thought that the household on the top floor had moved away long ago and no one lives there now.
Of course, Aunt Wang's contribution was indispensable. Everyone thought that the Tang siblings were successful, and their parents went to a neighboring city to enjoy their fortunes.
At home, Tang's father and Tang's mother were rubbing their hands and warming themselves by the fire. Seeing the two siblings holding the two Tang knives admiringly, their tense hearts were comforted.
"It's been getting colder and colder in the past two days. It was minus three degrees last night. It was really cold when I came back in the middle of the night." Mother Tang said with emotion, "Should our company and material donation procedures have been completed?"
"Yes." Father Tang hugged Mother Tang, with a smile on his face: "With more than five million contribution points, the country will not treat us badly."
"What's the use of this contribution point?" Tang Jing asked doubtfully.
Tang Ran took the black and red Tang Dao in Tang Jing's hand and replied: "We should establish a base later, and the contribution points will be circulating currency. In addition, there is another one. I will tell you then."
Tang Jing nodded, and then found that his weapon was gone, and he immediately jumped to grab it back.
Seeing the two of them quarreling, Tang's father smiled, but the smile disappeared instantly when he saw the peaceful sleeping face of his wife in his arms.
Tang's father lowered his voice and shouted: "Have you finished today's physical training? If you are making trouble here, double it for me! Now go for a run." With that, he picked up Tang's mother and walked into the bedroom.
Tang Jing curled his lips in dissatisfaction and complained in a low voice, "I know I miss my wife." After saying that, he followed Tang Ran and ran.
There was too much noise in the fighting training. Even though Tang Ran vaguely felt that he had made a breakthrough in the past two days, he could only put it down temporarily and focus on strengthening his physical fitness.
By the time the siblings finished training and took a shower, it was already completely dark. Father Tang lit a small lamp in the living room and looked at the map quietly.
Tang Ran looked at the time. It was four thirty-six in the afternoon. "Is it completely dark at this time?" He walked towards the window and raised the corner of the curtain.
I saw that the sky was completely shrouded in darkness, every house turned on the lights, neon lights flashed on the road, and the people passing by seemed to be full of busyness.
It was obviously a peaceful and lively scene, but Tang Ran became more and more anxious as she looked at it, as if her whole body was shrouded in thick volcanic ash in the clouds.
Suppressing the anxiety in his heart, Tang Ran took out his cell phone and sent a message to Zhou Xiaoya, asking her to go home quickly.
At this moment, a series of car horns, harsh brakes, and deafening crashes and explosions erupted outside the window.
Tang Ran hurriedly opened some more curtains, and what he saw was not the tragic car accident he had imagined, but a blood-red world.
A crescent blood moon appeared in the sky, and the dark red light spread directly through the dense volcanic ash to the earth, just like blood spilled on people's faces.
Most of the people seemed to be inspired by their animalistic nature, howling in pain, then lying on the ground and twisting, their dark red faces gradually turning black.
Seeing this scene, Tang Ran's fingers couldn't help but tremble slightly, "The end of the world is coming."
