The scorching sun was setting in the west, and the gray and red sky clearly divided the desolate land. The alternation of day and night allows the creatures belonging to the two sides to reunite briefly.
A sparrow with all its feathers gone was like a seedling breaking out of the ground, emerging from the side of the wet and smelly river.
After shaking off the mud and a small amount of rotten flesh on his body, he started running quickly.
After losing the shelter of trees and the feathers that allow them to fly, birds can only return to the earth like their ancestors. It's just that it took their ancestors hundreds of millions of years to adapt to the sky, and a few decades was far from enough for them to become familiar with the earth again.
Rather than looking for food during the short dusk, the first thing a sparrow does when it wakes up from the mud every day is to escape from here as soon as possible, otherwise...
Like the roar of a bomber, the sparrow turned its head around in panic. After finding no place to hide, it burrowed into the soil again.
Unable to firm up its position, the mud quickly split to both sides the moment the sparrow lowered its head. In less than two seconds, it covered most of the sparrow's body, but the next moment, the mud came back together again.
The huge roar, accompanied by the rapid surge of air, caused a small ripple on the surface of the mud, and then quickly flew back into the air. Also returning to the air was the panic that was locked tightly by three pairs of sharp claws. sparrow.
The rotting flesh fell to the edge of the increasingly lively river like a bomb dropped by a bomber as the sparrow struggled. Countless other birds, which were late to wake up, crowded together with insects almost the same size as themselves, desperately competing for this precious food.
The total amount of anything is constant. If others get more, you will get less.
The predator was very dissatisfied with this situation. Its iron-clamp-like jaws were slightly crossed, and the few drops of red became its last charity to the humble animals below.
In a graceful turn, the predator flies north with its dinner.
But the moment the turn was completed, a sharpened piece of dead wood quickly grew in size in the predator's countless eyes. When its slightly sluggish brain or rough nervous system analyzed that it would be penetrated if it continued like this, the wooden bar had already penetrated its not-so-sturdy body, and continued to fly out for a few meters before heading towards Fall down.
Before the wooden bar hit the ground, the predator, together with the sparrow still tightly grasped by it, fell to the feet of Sanshuang who had stopped moving.
"Today's dinner is ready." Coulomb excitedly mentioned the football-sized prey.
"What?" Qiu Yu pointed at the thing that made him feel sick just looking at it. "This fly-like thing is your dinner."
"In order to prevent unnecessary disputes when everyone acts together, the items obtained in the process are shared, so this is not my dinner, but ours all's dinner."
Coulomb's serious expression prevented Qiu Yu from seeing any hint of joking, so he cast his puzzled gaze on Jack.
"It's like this. Only by supporting each other can people who walk together have the capital to fight against homeless people and mutant animals." After saying these words, Jack suddenly realized that Qiu Yu's confusion should not be this. After thinking for a moment, He re-explained, "Although we have brought enough food, we can save a little. Besides, flies taste much better than dry bread."
After the mice came the flies... Qiu Yu's brain, which had been running as fast as a computer, crashed for a moment, "There must be many animals that can be eaten, right? Why choose these disgusting ones?"
"Is it disgusting?" Coulun looked at the two of them doubtfully, and then brought the fly up to his nose and sniffed it, as if he was facing a fragrant roast duck.
After Jack tried his best to imitate his thinking as a person who was pampered in a high-end shelter, he vaguely understood what Qiu Yu really puzzled about, "You can't just look at things by their appearance. In fact, flies taste really delicious, and flies and Like rats, they are highly resistant to radiation, so eating their meat is safer than other animals."
Jack pointed at the one that was still hanging on the fly's feet, like a sparrow corpse that had rotted for many years. "Even most mutants with super radiation resistance don't dare to eat something like this. Often one can kill you." People die.”
Qiu Yu's eyes swept back and forth between the sparrows and flies several times, and he really couldn't decide which one was less disgusting. "I mean those things that are more like food, such as pigs and cows, shouldn't be both Ugly and dangerous, right?”
Jack thought for a while, "This... depends on where it is. If it was domesticated by those large settlements or organizations, it should be like this. But if it is encountered in the wild, it requires some complicated judgment. And even if It is not straightforward to say whether an animal is edible or not. The specific parts are also different. For example, this fly's internal organs must digest highly radioactive substances, so all of them cannot be eaten. However, on the outside of the carapace, you Look at these thickest parts and these legs..."
"Okay." Qiu Yu's stomach twitched as he heard it, "Throw away that fly. I'll let you have a really delicious meal today."
While Jack was still hesitating, Coulomb had already thrown the fly far away. He was already coveting the canned meat that Qiu Yu used to feed the mice.
Qiu Yu took out a tent on the spot for the two of them to set up, and took out a few pieces of solid fuel to prepare a hot meal for the two of them to eat normal human food.
But the matter of setting up a tent caused the two to quarrel.
Jack believes that we should dig a hole and spend the night underground in the basic way of the wild. Coulomb believes that now that there are powerful weapons, there is no need to worry about the mutated animals that appear at night.
Qiu Yu couldn't imagine what it would be like to bury himself in the mud, and without having experienced this special method of training, he would definitely be buried for one night and sleep forever. So after clearly expressing support for Coulomb, the method of setting up a tent for the night was decided.
However, his move to light a fire was opposed by both of them. Qiu Yu thought they were afraid that the smell of cooking would attract mutant animals, but this was only a secondary reason. After the two complicated explanations, Qiu Yu finally understood.
The current atmosphere has been severely damaged and has become much thinner than before, resulting in a large temperature difference between day and night. If a fire makes this area warm at night, countless thermotropic mutant animals will be attracted there, including many troublesome things that cannot be solved with guns.
Qiu Yu felt that he was enveloped in a huge feeling of powerlessness. If Comet Civilization is an opponent that can be understood as long as we have a little common ground and then think the other way around. So the current situation is that everything makes people unable to grasp the key points. They don't know which points of previous experience need to be retained, which points need to be changed, and which points must be completely discarded.
But the problem still lies with yourself. If you can have strong power, why bother so much? Just be strong all the way for everything... But now, as the ultimate evolutionary law ability indicates, in the end, use it to change Before the environment, if you want to survive, you can only desperately adapt to the environment in front of you.
People living in the apocalypse do not need to go to school to learn useless knowledge for competition between similar species, and a lot of time saved is used for practical training for survival. It can be said that people who can survive in this era, including women and children, every They are all the best survival experts.
The ability of a survival expert is not only about fighting, but also about having excellent survival skills.
The tent Qiu Yu redeemed was also a product of future technology. It could be set up just by fixing the four corners and then gently pulling from one of the corners. The accompanying instruction manual says that once you become proficient, it only takes 1 minute to do it completely. Coulomb and Jack couldn't understand the instructions, but just by looking at the structure of the tent, it took less than twenty seconds for the two of them to complete the work.
At this time, Qiu Yu was still dominated by a sense of powerlessness, slowly rummaging through the bag for today's food.
This was a dinner that made Qiu Yu even more unhappy. Because I didn’t know how long I would stay in this world, except for the high-compression nutritional capsules, I only brought the normal amount of food and water for more than a month. In addition, there were two people following me. Although they brought their own things, Qiuyu didn’t We plan to treat them differently, so we should be more economical on the premise of sharing with them.
After considering this, each of the three people was only given 200 ml of pure water and a box of chemically heated lunch boxes. Before starting, Qiu Yu also specifically stated that food should be eaten sparingly. If they didn't have enough, they could only eat what they brought.
But the result made Qiu Yu feel unspeakably depressed.
In my opinion, these things are definitely not enough for them, and in fact it should be so. However, after a burst of exclamation, the two people holding the pure water only drank a few drops, and then filled themselves with water in another burst of exclamation. bag, and then took out their water, which had absolutely nothing to do with purity, and drank it.
According to them, this kind of odorless water can be used to replace a lot of things. Drinking it by yourself is too wasteful. Being able to taste it is already quite a luxury.
When eating the box lunch with vegetables and meat, the two of them looked like aristocratic ladies who had undergone strict court etiquette training. They ate in small bites and chewed slowly. After eating half of the meal, they directly put the rice into themselves. in the bag. Qiu Yu estimated that if they hadn't known that these things couldn't be kept for too long, they would probably have been reluctant to eat even the half.
Affected by them, Qiu Yu also lost his appetite. After eating a few hastily, he carefully put the rest of the meal back into his bag.
When the sun sank below the horizon, darkness suddenly fell like Li Ningfeng's law power. There were no stars or moon in the sky, and there were no lights from the city around. The entire land seemed to be isolated from the universe and thrown into the endless abyss of darkness. No matter whether you opened or closed your eyes, there was no difference in darkness before you.
