A few days had passed since the deal with the survivors.
In the past few days, Wang Qi spent a lot of energy and time dealing with the felled oak trees in the corner park.
The oak wood has three primary branches, one thick and two thin. The thick one is about 80 centimeters in diameter and the thin one is 50 centimeters. The roundness is far less than that of the main trunk. The cross section of the thick part can almost be considered a triangle. Of course, this also reduces the difficulty of the work. , otherwise it will take a few more working hours.
Wang Qi chopped them all down, and finally the main part fell to the ground. He covered it with snow and waited for the next year or when the attributes are high enough to be transported.
The bifurcated part is longer, and can be thinned to reduce the weight by an order of magnitude. After splitting, the two 50-centimeter-thick branches are dragged back to the base and pruned, and the leaves and some insect-infested branches are put into the underground garage for fermentation. It's too thick, and it's useless even if you have a sled. Although it feels powerful enough, it doesn't have enough friction under your feet.
It was good that Li Xiang was taking care of the underground garage these days, but when Wang Qi came to put in materials, he found that something was not right.
Due to the continuous heating, most of the seepage water in the underground garage has been drained, so that the environment is not humid enough, and Xiaoqiang's activities have problems.
There is a lot of snow outside, so humidification is easy, but after a while of busy work, two or three days of firewood will be wasted.
When the Xiaoqiang people became active again, they found that the number had increased again, so tonight Li Xiang and I ate Xiaoqiang together.
This time, the treatment was more careful. After washing and dissecting, the digestive tract and smelly glands were removed, steamed, and lightly salted and pine needles added.
Surprisingly, it was okay. Xiaoqiang, which had been carefully processed, smelled like crab when steamed, and even tasted a little sweet. The only drawback is that there is still a bit of rotten mud smell that is difficult to detect. Maybe it is caused by the poor living environment?
Hey, there's no better place or better place to raise the test materials, so I'll just make do with it.
Li Xiang has been growing a bit fast recently, and there are visible changes in his height. Stable high-calorie food is partly to blame, but more of it is the stimulation brought by adding some.
This growth rate caught Wang Qi off guard. There was reason to suspect that if she added too much, she would grow into a giantess two or three meters tall.
Let’s continue to observe for a while.
Send Li Xiang back, prepare everything, and go south again to look for batteries and transformer systems.
After living at home and logging for a while, my ax hit rate has improved greatly, and my attributes have been further enhanced and adapted. I feel more prepared, and I am much more confident of killing the mantis monster head-on.
In the past few days, two more light snowfalls within five centimeters have fallen. The temperature is still dropping steadily, and the mantis monster may become weaker.
Moreover, he and Li Xiang ate too much these days and even made trades. The stock of meat dropped sharply, and Wang Qi was unwilling to wait any longer.
We were only two blocks southbound when something unusual happened on the snow.
Something came from the west and went south.
The footprints show that it was barefoot with long toes and claws on the tips. In addition to the traces of walking, there were also traces of something else dragging across the snow.
Wang Qi placed a similar walking distance and judged that it was a tail.
The mummy on the eighth floor?
I hesitated in my heart.
The obviously upright posture means it must not have been grown for eating grass.
One of the important reasons why Wang Qi dares to compete with reptiles before winter is that although the exoskeleton seems to be a strong protection, it also limits the ability to move, making the trajectory of the reptile relatively easy to predict.
This was also used against the mantis monster before.
However, due to the movement traces of the mummy monster and the reference objects of the mummy in the base, its movements may be as flexible as those of a human being. You also have to be prepared to prevent it from attacking with its tail, which makes it a lot more difficult.
He is not arrogant enough to think that there are many monsters in the world that can be killed.
Do you want to ask Li Xianglai to cooperate?
He quickly shook his head, this was a bad idea.
Li Xiang is too small and underweight. Although a small body can sink into the snow less deeply, once it sinks into certain cavities under the snow, it will be more difficult for her to move with her own weight and height. Without special training, the risk of her actions in the snow will be greater. Much more.
Although the plan is to cultivate Li Xiang into a trustworthy teammate, it is not possible now. At least they have to trust each other to a certain extent. After fully understanding the skills she has mastered and conducting some targeted training, this winter should not be too late.
Give up going south and change direction?
It seems feasible, but if you think about it carefully, it is ineffective.
The reptiles have crawled back to their nests little by little during the day when the temperature is higher. Even if there are still some that are completely frozen outside, the search can only rely on luck. It may take several days and half a month to find them. One.
The appearance of the mummy monster is probably to replace the ecological niche vacated by the reptiles returning to their nests. Its footprints here mean that it may appear in the original range of the reptiles' activities.
Why don't you just go home and come back when your attributes are higher?
When Wang Qi added points to himself, there were too many items. He would eat the remaining meat for a few days without being able to double his attributes. If he still couldn't do it by then, he would be dead.
Unwilling to wait until the end of the road before thinking of a solution, he made up his mind to continue traveling south after completing his ideological struggle.
It's great to die again. Anyway, you can make money by wearing it for more than a month.
Having said that, after Midnight's left hand lit up, he took this opportunity to add [Cell Splitting Limit] again. Now there are seven points in total, hoping that it will have some effect when he is injured.
Following the movement of the footprints, I soon discovered that the target of the mummy monster was also the reptile nest.
What is the relationship between these two?
I've never seen a mummy monster before. Why are you here to suck the reptiles when they're all frozen?
If mummy monsters enter the city only in winter, can we judge that the monster cannot deal with a few reptiles in a non-winter environment, so it does not dare to come?
In this way, even if they meet face to face, it seems that there is no chance of winning.
Of course, Wang Qi knew that before they actually met, the above were just random thoughts and could not be used as a basis for action. If you fall into a situation where you must fight, you should try your best to find a favorable terrain to attack.
It's two streets away from the stadium.
There should be scattered reptile scouts distributed at this distance. The footprints of the mummy monsters no longer just stop and go, but begin to enter and exit surrounding buildings.
After checking the two footprints, Wang Qi became a little nervous.
The traces of entry and exit are clear and non-repetitive, which means that the mummy monster acted decisively and even made active choices - it has a high level of intelligence.
Soon, he found reptile fragments in a store somewhere, with only the front legs left.
I picked one up and took a look. The section was frozen.
He was not a professional and could not estimate the time of the crime based on a simple scene. At least he knew that there was still a certain distance between him and the mummy monster.
This place is less than 500 meters away from the gymnasium that is suspected of being a reptile nest, including the street corner. If the mummy monster does not have the ability to break into the nest and kill all the reptiles, the remaining range of activities will not be too large, and the mantis monster may be attracted at any time.
Whether to follow up and try to make a profit or to change a route and keep a distance from the stadium to search for supplies and reptile scouts became a question.
Without much hesitation, he was not so determined just to see a few footprints. He wanted to at least find out what the combat and mobility capabilities of the mummy were.
Return to the road and walk a little further, drop the sled before the corner and move lightly.
Before he could turn around, a sense of crisis suddenly arose.
Without hesitation, he jumped up with a secret skill, rolled in a circle on the snow, and stepped into the nearest door.
A clothing store that has no clothes, display cabinets and hangers may be of some help in the battle, which is better than nothing.
We were still surveying the scene when a figure jumped out from outside the door. We didn't have time to care about him and headed away from the direction we came from.
It's really a mummy monster. The blade-like bone on the elbow protrudes too conspicuously, and at this time, a section of the bone blade on the right arm is broken.
Based on the snowdrifts and facades on the street, it can be seen that it is 2.5 meters tall or even a little taller, its tail is nearly two meters long, and its head and tail are nearly four meters long in total. It is much larger than the mummy at the base.
The brightness of the moonlight today is not bad, and I can barely tell that the skin of a living person is brown-gray... It is similar to the color of cement bricks where a small amount of mud is applied and then wiped casually but not wiped clean. However, the color recognition under moonlight is a bit unreliable, and there may be color difference.
There was no time for him to observe, and a huge sound of flapping wings appeared outside the door.
The prediction was completely accurate. The ones chasing the mummy monster were the mantis monsters that emerged from the reptile pile, and there were two of them!
The lagging mantis monster even spotted Wang Qi and landed outside the door and turned to look at him.
Wang Qi did not move, but held the steel-handled fire ax tightly with an expressionless expression.
