Wang Qi, who had killed three mantis monsters and accidentally blinded one, had also built up a little confidence in fighting. He felt that he had about a 98.7% chance of winning a duel without being injured.
In an encounter on the street, I was barely 80% sure of dealing with it, but it was almost impossible to kill the flying mantis monster.
Therefore, Li Xiang's participation does not need to be too high. Just attracting the mantis monster's attention from a distance may create the conditions for a fatal blow for him.
Wang Qi still underestimated Li Xiang's role, because he became two people and could attack two sentries at the same time. However, in the next three consecutive days of operations, he did not encounter any situation where the three sentries looked after each other, and no insects alerted the mantis monster. There is no way to talk about it.
Also because I didn't encounter the mantis monster, the benefits were relatively average. I only found four bugs in total.
Wang Qi is also adapting to the local winter little by little, making more reasonable arrangements for food processing. He takes out the liver, fat and legs in Building 2, shaves the digestive tract to prevent corruption caused by bacterial growth, and returns the rest to the base for processing .
It doesn't matter if it doesn't play a role in watching and learning for Li Xiang. Just bear with it, time is mine, and the opportunity to increase attributes twice a day is not a joke.
After returning home and disposing of the loot, all the edible parts add up to about 45 kilograms, and you can rest for a while.
It would be nice if such income could stabilize, but it is very unlikely.
Excluding the adjustment of the time difference between building 2 and the base, only four reptiles were found in three days, and two of them were taken away together. The fighting time is almost negligible. Calculated, when you arrive at the hunting area, you can only find one every six hours of searching. In an alley that is one or two hundred meters long, it often takes two or three searches to produce results.
The radius of the stadium is between 150 meters and 300 meters. There are only about 40 such alleys and streets. Even if we don’t take into account the hunting activities of mummies and other survivors, their family has one big, one small, two and three. By the fourth wheel, the search is almost complete.
Counting the previous several solo and two-person operations, almost half of this area has not been searched.
The fat bars of the four reptiles caught this time are all in poor condition. It is basically judged that the reptiles have no ability to supplement food in winter. Even if they have some, they can only supply the reproductive machines such as the Queen of Insects. The mantis monster may not be able to share much, so It is necessary to recycle the bugs to maintain their mobility.
Taking this as a clue, it became logical to draw the conclusion that "the reptile swarm will not replenish the peripheral reconnaissance network in winter."
Speaking in human terms, Wang Qi judged that the reptiles outside the gymnasium were non-renewable resources in winter.
Two more times, or even as long as there are no results for two consecutive nights, you will have to continue to stay close to the stadium.
The closer you get, the louder the sentry alarm sound perceived in the gymnasium will be. Having seen the mummy monsters being beaten, there is reason to suspect that this will trigger a larger-scale response from the mantis monsters, such as sending out two or more at a time.
Another angle.
Recently, the sunshine duration has continued to shorten, or even accelerated, and the total sunshine duration throughout the day has been less than four hours.
No matter how slow Wang Qi was, he began to suspect that this place might be in the polar circle, and the polar night phenomenon would eventually occur.
Polar night is not only found at the North and South Poles, but also throughout the entire polar circle. It just varies in length depending on the latitude.
Wang Qi and Li Xiang are nocturnal ghosts, but they are not afraid of the extreme night. The problem is that the trend of shortening daylight hours shows that it is far from the midpoint of winter!
This not only means that the food stored at home is far from enough, but also that if there is a polar night period, the number of survivors going to catch insects will continue to increase.
The reason is that the polar night and the nearly ten days of sunshine before and after it are almost negligible, almost blocking the possibility of ordinary people without night vision ability to go out and move around. If you approach a torch, you must have the strength to deal with groups of mantis monsters, otherwise you can only Avoid this time period.
The same conclusion can be drawn from the plumpness of the prey. The sooner you start, the better. When the insects are thin enough to be dry, you can only go straight to the gym to attack the swarm of mantis monsters.
The sooner we start, the better, and there is no conflict with the fact that we have only found a few waves of survivor tracks so far. After all, hunting bugs is very risky. For the sake of your own life, you won’t do it if you have the choice.
Unlike Wang Qi, the survivors have no choice. They are local snakes. They will definitely know more about the distribution of food. They also know from whose home they can exchange handicrafts for food, dig it from the ground, dig it out of holes, even eat acorns. , there is always a safer way than fighting bugs.
Speaking of acorns, people can actually eat them. Wang Qi also thought about it and even tried it when cutting down trees, but to be honest, he really couldn't stand the bitter and dry taste. But this doesn't mean that the survivors don't eat it, maybe some people still use it as a staple food.
By the way, why don't you collect some acorns and see if the old lady can eat them?
It seemed that he had missed the time. When he cut down the big oak tree, there were not many left in the tree. In the end, the dozens of oak trees that he picked out were given to Xiao Qiang. If its trading value could have been realized earlier, vegetable, grain, and other seeds would have been obtained long ago.
You can't blame him. After all, acorns fall mainly before the temperature drops to freezing point. At that time, he was still careful to avoid making noise and avoid the reptiles. The acorn dropping area is a noise area and is most likely a food gathering area for the reptiles. , he will not take the initiative to approach.
"Think...what?" Li Xiang leaned over and asked.
Wang Qi looked at her, then turned around and took the candles he had collected, found a stick in the stove to light, then brought wooden boards and carbon strips, and explained to her while drawing.
The candles were picked up from outside, and after one was burned, they were re-twisted with the remaining paraffin and the thread removed from the fabric. The paraffin utilization rate would be slightly higher. The carbon strips were made by adjusting the proportions of the recipe when making mirror paintings earlier. They were not very easy to use and often broke.
"Do you know the polar night? It is the day when the sun does not rise." He asked, drawing dynamic diagrams of the horizon, trees (reference objects) and the sun on the drawing board.
Li Xiang nodded and counted on his fingers: "...what a beautiful day."
"Many days...", that's a bit bad.
Corrected her accent and thought about how to communicate next.
Li Xiang is young, and he was even younger last year. He cannot accurately tell time in the dark night, and the adults in his family are used to it and will not deliberately keep track of dates.
But there are still clues. At least there are many days that are not "a long, long time", maybe a week or two, and it should be no more than a month, because Li Xiang would be scared of the abnormal day in the southwest, and it would be easier for her to remember the days when the polar night passes.
Continue to draw on the drawing board. This time the protagonist is a tree. From left to right are the leaf-falling stage, dead branch stage and budding stage. The dead branch stage is drawn in three parts to show the difference in snow thickness.
Draw horizontal lines and divide them into sections: "Fall, winter, spring, our time is here now."
He said and drew two stick figures at a certain node.
When he was a student, he switched from art major to science major and entered the architecture department. He could draw people, and when he was taken by a professional teacher to experience the atmosphere of the unified examination in his second year of high school, his sketch score was quite high. However, he had no interest in drawing people at all. It was not as interesting as painting plaster. , after becoming a "bricklayer", I only drew stick figures.
Li Xiang nodded. She didn't quite understand why the lunatic's paintings were beautiful, but the people he painted didn't look like them.
Wang Qi ignored her slightly disgusted expression and drew a horizontal line under the three dead trees on the drawing board. I sharpened the carbon strip on the ground and drew two insects in the corners. The pen was not good enough, so I could barely express the characteristics of the mantis monster and the reptile.
Draw an equal sign after the bug, and change it into a small symbol after the equal sign. The triangle represents the head, the lines represent the torso, and a triangle plus three lines represents the entire bug.
Make a good symbol indication, draw the bug under the winter line and add "×?", and use dots to represent numbers.
"We have killed so many bugs since winter started." Circle the remaining parts of the winter and write the symbols and multipliers. "We will need at least this many bugs throughout the winter."
The specific number needed for the second half of winter is two praying mantises, ten bugs, or three praying mantises. Because we don’t know the exact length of winter, our accuracy is limited.
Li Xiang nodded again: "Oh."
Wang Qi turned the drawing board over and drew an aerial view of the gymnasium in the middle, about the size of a palm. From this center, it radiated out into many blocks, and filled in insect symbols and numbers in each block.
Some blocks have not been explored and are not left blank. Based on the average value of the explored parts and the distribution and preservation of the blocks observed at higher places, we consider filling up all the blocks. Li Xiang Don't bother, very well-behaved.
"This is nothing." He crossed out all the blocks with the number zero, and drew a few more stick figures below. An arrow went up and circled the pile, "The rest are monsters and survivors. I’m also looking for it. To get enough food for the winter, I can only start with the mantis monsters. It’s impossible to eat the remaining reptiles.”
"Tang Mantis is good."
"Yes, the mantis monster."
In fact, if you rush for time and set off immediately after returning, you should be able to grab a small reptile with the same meat weight as the mantis monster, and you can save one mantis monster to fight.
However, Wang Qi was not willing to do this.
He estimated that apart from him and Li Xiang, even if there was a team that could kill the mantises without damaging them, they would still be dominated by small reptiles due to their physical reserves and abilities. There was no need to compete with other survivors for food space and create a few more dead ghosts.
He had to let Li Xiang know that they must take the initiative to find the mantis to kill, instead of thinking about it after seeing the mantis.
I also need to change my mentality in order to prepare for more mantis monsters.
