Although caravans and adventure teams would clear some vegetation when crossing this road from time to time, as soon as it rained, those fast-growing plants would quickly cover the road again.
Of course, it doesn't matter if it's just some weeds and vines.
But from time to time, plants with spikes or explosive fruits appear on the road.
These plants are undoubtedly the obstacles on Fang Xiaoyue's progress.
For relatively ordinary plants, Fang Xiaoyue could jump over them directly, but when encountering these plants, Fang Xiaoyue could only pull out a machete and cut a path through them.
Fortunately, before leaving the gathering place of hope, he considered this kind of thing and went to the official store to buy a reinforced alloy machete. Otherwise, if he wanted to use ordinary tools to open up a path forward, the speed would be much slower. .
At the same time, while traveling on the road, you will encounter some wild beasts and birds hiding in the vegetation.
For example, sparrows, jerboas, cauliflower snakes, etc.
But these days, the beasts and birds are not good at all.
I don't know if it is related to genetic recombination. Even the docile beasts and birds before the war have become agitated and irritable after the war.
As long as Fang Xiaoyue makes a little noise, they will rush out of the bushes and tree crowns like a madman and attack Fang Xiaoyue.
Of course, although these guys affected Fang Xiaoyue's traveling speed, they also saved him time in searching for food.
However, at this speed, Fang Xiaoyue can only stay for a day at most after arriving at the volcano, and must return in a hurry. Otherwise, Wang Xiaoya will probably cry again when she returns home from school and cannot see her brother.
Fortunately, on the first night, when Fang Xiaoyue was setting up camp to rest, a strong ox came over smelling the smell of barbecue.
In the past, cattle were used to work on the land and provide skin and meat to humans.
But now scalpers are the dominant force in the wilderness.
The body is 8 meters long and 4 meters tall. The whole body is covered with a thick layer of fur that is not easy to burn. It is extremely powerful and has amazing jumping ability.
All these adjectives prove the horror of scalpers.
Fang Xiaoyue originally didn't plan to argue with the ox, so she climbed up the tree directly.
As a result, the ox didn't eat the meat, so it didn't give up at all and hit the tree directly, almost knocking Fang Xiaoyue off the tree crown.
Of course, although this scalper is more powerful than Fang Xiaoyue in absolute terms, it still has many weaknesses in his eyes.
Fang Xiaoyue jumped directly on the scalper's head, grabbed the opponent's horns, and hit the bull's head violently, but it was useless. Then he changed the target and hit the scalper's nose, hitting the scalper repeatedly and screaming.
Of course, just beating was useless. Even though the scalper was beaten until his nose was almost crooked and the pain caused tears to flow, he still did not give in. Instead, he rushed towards the big trees one after another, trying to kill Fang Xiaoyue. Killed.
In the end, Fang Xiaoyue took out a piece of barbecued vole meat from her backpack, and the anger of the scalper slowly dissipated.
However, the ox roasted Fang Xiaoyue in one meal to save the rat meat for the next few days, and the bird meat was eaten up.
Fang Xiaoyue even picked some sweet fruits from high up in the big tree and fed them to the cattle.
After all, no matter how powerful the ox is, no matter how strong it is, it is impossible to get fruits that grow at a height of 20 to 30 meters.
I can only pick up some rotten fruits that have fallen on the ground and eat them, but the taste of rotten fruits cannot be compared with fresh fruits.
In this way, the anger in the scalper's heart was calmed down, just like the scalper before the war, he obeyed Fang Xiaoyue's orders honestly.
With this scalper as a mount, Fang Xiaoyue's next trip became much simpler and faster.
Even if the road is covered with various plants, the ox can easily rush over with its huge size. As for the various wild beasts active on the road, they will run away quickly when they see the aggressive ox, not daring to get even closer. .
At noon the next day, Fang Xiaoyue saw the towering volcano from a distance.
The volcano did not exist before the war.
However, due to a fierce battle, more than a dozen super earth-penetrating bombs hit here and penetrated the earth's crust, causing the mantle material under 10,000 meters to continuously rise, eventually forming this huge volcano.
After the mantle material stopped rising, it became a place where surrounding organisms were active.
In fact, not long after Fang Xiaoyue arrived, when he lit a bonfire and was about to burn some meat to eat, he discovered that a silver wraith hovering high in the sky was staring at him.
To be honest, it is really difficult for ordinary people to find this silver wither.
Because its whole body is silvery white and hovering high in the sky, it naturally blends into the blue sky and white clouds.
If it weren't for Fang Xiaoyue's current extremely sharp eyesight and the silver wither had already launched a diving attack towards the ground, otherwise, even Fang Xiaoyue would not be able to notice the movement high in the sky.
From the perspective of Silver Wither's dive, its target is undoubtedly the ox that is swimming leisurely, swinging its tail and eating green grass.
Fang Xiaoyue immediately warned the scalpers.
But the scalper was a bit stupid, thinking that Fang Xiaoyue was going to feed it, so it immediately trotted over.
But the next moment, the huge body of Yinqiu had dived to the ground, and its two sharp claws fiercely grabbed the ox's back.
The impact of that moment immediately caused the ox's back bone to break and it fell down wailing.
After using this buffer to resolve the force of the dive, Yin withered immediately continued to flap its wings, trying to grab the scalper and take off again.
It has to be said that such a hunt is extremely thrilling.
A huge silver wither instantly killed a huge ox.
But Fang Xiaoyue reacted very quickly, and immediately pulled out the alloy machete and rushed towards the silver wither.
Although Yin Biao did not attack him, he hunted his own mount, so Fang Xiaoyue naturally could not let him go.
Either stay and act as a mount, or die to make amends!
A human rushed up next to him, which still startled the silver withered head.
However, after seeing an animal that was much smaller than himself, Yin withered didn't care at all. He just flapped his wings toward Fang Xiaoyue and continued to work hard to take off again.
Yin Zuo's wings were extremely powerful, and they immediately flew Fang Xiaoyue more than thirty meters away.
This is not surprising. Although Fang Xiaoyue's current strength may not be much weaker than that of Yin Biao, his weight is still too light, only about 500 kilograms, while Yin Biao weighs at least more than 5,000 kilograms!
How powerful is the wings that can propel prey weighing 5,000 kilograms or even heavier into the sky? It would be too easy to flap a thing weighing 500 kilograms away.
Seeing that Yinqiu was about to take off with the scalper, Fang Xiaoyue immediately pounced on it again.
But this time he could only catch the scalper's hind legs.
The man and the ox were simultaneously driven by the silver and took off quickly, surrounded by howling winds.
Fang Xiaoyue was also worried that Yin Tuo would throw the scalper down after discovering her. In that case, she would not be killed, but would at least be seriously injured.
No way, my current weight is too heavy, and the impact of hitting the ground will be more than ten times greater than that of ordinary humans.
But when he climbed up along the yellow ox and hugged one of Yin Wither's paws with both hands, he realized that Yin Wither had already flown a thousand meters into the sky.
The objects below became very small.
However, the Yin withered didn't seem to care at all as Fang Xiaoyue hugged his paws, flapped its wings like sky wings vigorously, and continued to fly upward.
Fang Xiaoyue looked at where the silver wither was flying, and it turned out to be his destination - the volcano.
As he got closer, he discovered that the height of this volcano was probably no less than three thousand meters.
And on the mountainside more than 1,500 meters away, there is a huge nest made of branches.
In the nest, there were several Yin Wither cubs waiting to be fed. They were stretching their heads, flapping their wings without many feathers, and shouting towards Yin Wither.
This is the nature of most baby birds. As long as there is a little disturbance near the nest, they will think that their parents have returned with food, and they will rush to shout at their parents.
Because only in this way can they eat food before other brothers and sisters.
Don't underestimate this, any baby bird will be eliminated if it is even slightly less proactive in this regard.
Your siblings will soon grow stronger from eating more food, and the stronger baby birds will undoubtedly get more favor and attention from their parents, eat more food, and form A vicious cycle.
Bird chicks that are getting thinner and thinner than their siblings are likely to become food for other siblings when food is insufficient.
This is particularly prominent in the wild birds.
Some parent raptors will even take the initiative to kill the weaker babies after a certain period of time and use them as food to feed the stronger babies.
Silver wither is actually a typical representative of this type of wild bird.
This nest originally contained six silver wither pups.
Of course, in silver wither populations, such production situations are very rare.
As the top ferocious mammal in the post-war ruins era, the silver wither usually lays 2-3 eggs in each clutch. The first egg and the second egg will be laid more than ten days apart, which makes the first silver wither baby The hatching time will be more than ten days in the morning. When the second silver wither baby hatches, the first silver wither baby will be much larger than its younger siblings, thus grabbing more food.
In the end, the remaining silver wither pups will be squeezed out of the nest by the boss and fall off the cliff, or they will starve to death and become food.
Of course, sometimes it is not necessarily the case that the eldest bird is the only chick to leave the nest.
If the nest is attacked by some ferocious beasts or birds, the largest chicks will often become the food of the opponent.
Moreover, these ferocious beasts and ferocious birds can only hunt and kill one young bird.
This allows the remaining chicks to grow up to replace the elder ones.
Therefore, the second and third eggs were actually laid by the silver wither parent bird to prevent accidents.
Back to the subject, there used to be six chicks in this silver wither nest, but after a month of feeding, there are now only four left. The two missing chicks have turned into food for the brothers and sisters. belly.
This is not surprising. Although Silver Wither is the top raptor around the volcano, this does not mean that Silver Wither can catch suitable prey to feed its chicks every time it goes out.
You must know that there are only a few animals that are large enough. Animals such as rabbits, foxes, etc. that are too small are simply not within the scope of Yin Biao's regular diet.
Because the silver wither hovered in the sky for so long and then swooped down to kill the energy consumed, a rabbit, even a rabbit as big as a big dog, could not make up for it.
Therefore, this perfectly explains why Yin Tuo doesn't pay much attention to Fang Xiaoyue at all.
Yinzui folded his wings and threw the ox, which was bigger than an elephant, into the nest. It was smashed into the nest, and branches, feathers, and dust flew everywhere.
But the four silver withered chicks didn't care about this at all. They flapped their wings one by one and rushed over quickly, pecking at the cattle's meat.
I have to say, this was a perfect meal today.
Because it is too dangerous here, animals like cattle will not appear near the volcano at all and will hide as far away as possible.
Generally, the prey that Silver Wither can catch are animals such as black-horned goats, black-legged pheasants, mountain monkeys, etc.
However, the size of these animals is still much smaller than that of cattle, and the amount of meat produced by cattle is much larger than that of these animals.
Of course, it is difficult for the beaks of these chicks to tear open the tough cowhide and eat the meat inside, so Yinqiu keeps tearing the cow, tearing its meat into strips and feeding it to the chicks.
Fang Xiaoyue had already turned over and hid in the lair.
This silver withered nest is made up of branches as thick as thighs that are intertwined and overlapped layer by layer. There are a lot of gaps between the branches, which is just right for Fang Xiaoyue to hide here easily.
He simply ignored the movement of the silver wither chicks snatching beef. Instead, he drilled his head through the cracks in the branches and looked around.
Since his eyesight was now extremely sharp, he could see the situation around the lair clearly.
It must be said that this volcano is a treasure house.
In fact, there are so many plants and animals that depend on this volcano for their survival.
Not to mention other places, the mountain wall within a few hundred meters of the fifteen hundred meters alone can be called a semi-independent small world.
The mountain walls full of gaps are covered with various tall gymnosperms. These gymnosperms are giant trees that are seventy, eighty or even hundreds of meters high.
These gymnosperms are also covered with various shrubs, vines and various ferns.
Together, they form a small world on the mountain where various animals can survive and are rich in products.
Silver Wither's nest is built on the canopy of a blue tree that is more than 100 meters high.
In the gap between the vegetation not far away, Fang Xiaoyue saw several giant pythons more than thirty meters long entangled together, and several large monkeys were trembling fearfully along the tree crown and escaping towards the distant vegetation. .
Two human-sized beetles were snatching a bright red fruit under a big tree.
