The surrounding area was huge, so the four of them split into two waves. Lei Min took Qu Xingchi down the mountain to find the river, while Lin Qingqing took Wen Ling up the mountain.
They found two bamboo-backed baskets and two straw hats among the bamboo products compiled by the forest rangers, and they carried them one by one up the mountain to look for mountain goods.
In this season, there are bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, wild vegetables and wild mushrooms on the mountains, and if you are lucky, you can even catch hares or pheasants.
There is never a shortage of food in the mountains. It is much easier to find food here than in a city full of zombies.
Lin Qingqing lived at her grandmother's house in the countryside for a while when she was a child. She still remembers the appearance of those wild vegetables. With her here, Wen Ling, a young girl in the city, also experienced the joy of picking.
Before they reached the top of the mountain, they had already found a handful of mushrooms, dug out two bamboo shoots, picked up a small handful of wild onions, and a few unnamed wild vegetables.
After the apocalypse, they hadn't talked about such green and tender fresh vegetables for a long time. They didn't expect to find a lot of them in the mountains.
"Captain, there is a rabbit"! Wen Ling excitedly pulled Lin Qingqing's clothes and whispered in her ear.
When she was thinking about how to pluck the buds from the top of the tall toon tree, she was interrupted by Wen Ling's voice of surprise.
"Where"?
"Oh, I ran away"! Wen Ling pouted regretfully.
"It doesn't matter, there will be more," Lin Qingqing comforted her.
There was nothing she could do if the rabbit didn't appear in her sight. She wasn't Qu Xingchi and couldn't catch up with the flying rabbit.
"Little Bell, don't you have a gun? If you see a rabbit again, just shoot it yourself. You can practice your marksmanship!"
"May I"?
"Of course, there is no one in the forest, so you can use rabbits to practice marksmanship. Moreover, your special power can detect prey from a distance without disturbing it. What a great opportunity"!
"If you hit it, you can get extra food for everyone." Wen Ling suddenly became happy.
She took out her pistol and skillfully installed the silencer, then pulled the bolt, released her powers, and observed the movement around her intently.
In order not to disturb Wen Ling, Lin Qingqing turned around and climbed up the tall toon tree, looking down quietly.
Time passed little by little, and the rabbit never appeared, but Wen Ling still stood motionless, as patient as a real hunter with his prey.
Suddenly a furry little head emerged from under a thick bush of grass not far away.
This was a gray rabbit. It stretched out its long ears from the hole and listened carefully, and then leaned out half of its body. He looked at it with his round eyes for a long time, and then carefully got out of the cave.
It spread its legs and started walking around, completely unaware that a hunter had already set its sights on it a hundred meters away.
When Lin Qingqing saw Wen Ling holding her breath and slowly raising her gun, she knew she had found prey, so she also slowed down her breathing and looked in the direction where Wen Ling's gun was pointed.
Sure enough, there was a gray figure faintly visible in the green grass. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it at all.
The silly rabbit first found a piece of grass and chewed it twice, and then jumped up and down in the direction of the hunter.
When its entire body was completely exposed to the sight of the two, Wen Ling fired.
Although a silencer was installed, the sound of the gunfire was still very clear in the silent woods.
The bullet landed at the rabbit's feet, making the rabbit tremble with fright. Then it ran away. Unfortunately, it was killed by a speeding ice blade before it could take two steps.
"It's a little bit worse." Wen Ling was a little dissatisfied.
This was her first time shooting a moving target, and it was indeed not as easy to hit as she had imagined. Fortunately, Lin Qingqing took care of herself in time, so the prey did not escape.
"It's just a little bit off. If you practice twice more, you'll be fine."
Lin Qingqing jumped down from the tree and patted Wen Ling's shoulder comfortingly. Guns were not easy to master, and rabbits were extremely smart and flexible. Although the little girl was very talented and had superpowers to assist her, she couldn't do it all at once.
You can hit it right from the start.
In order to let Wen Ling practice her marksmanship, Lin Qingqing took her deep into the mountains and forests.
"Captain, wait, there's something going on"! Wen Ling grabbed Lin Qingqing and whispered.
Lin Qingqing stopped and watched as Wen Ling skillfully pulled the bolt of the gun again, then held her breath and fired two consecutive shots in one direction.
"Captain, I hit it this time"! Wen Ling said excitedly after taking back the gun.
Upon hearing this, Lin Qingqing walked towards the place where Wen Ling shot, this time further away than the last time.
This time it was a khaki rabbit. It was not dead after being hit on the hind leg by Wen Ling. It was lying on the ground struggling.
Lin Qingqing stepped forward to end its life and lifted it back by its ears.
"Yes, there is progress this time. You hit the rabbit's hind legs." Lin Qingqing raised the rabbit in her hand in approval.
"Great, with these two rabbits, we can add a snack to today's lunch. I wonder if Minmin and Qu Xingchi caught any fish"!
Wen Ling put away her gun and touched her prey happily: "This rabbit is so fat!"
"Well, they are indeed quite fat." Lin Qingqing nodded a little. The two rabbits weighed more than six pounds. Together with the wild vegetables and mushrooms, they were enough to have a good meal.
Unexpectedly, Wen Ling's powers could be used so well for hunting. Lin Qingqing decided that from now on, the three of them would take turns taking her to the mountains to practice marksmanship every day.
It was getting late, so the two returned along the same route. When they arrived at the small courtyard, they discovered that Lei Min and Qu Xingchi had already returned.
I don’t know whether the fish was caught or not, but the two of them looked like two drowned rats at the moment, their bodies were all wet.
"Did you fall into the river?" Lin Qingqing looked at them curiously. What on earth were these two doing? With their skills, they probably wouldn't all fall into the water.
"No, no, how is that possible?" Lei Min quickly denied.
"I'm going to change my clothes first and we'll talk about it later." She grinned awkwardly and ran away with the excuse of changing clothes.
"What exactly is going on"? Lin Qingqing looked at Qu Xingchi.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Qu Xingchi hesitated and told the reason.
It turned out that fishing was not as simple as they thought. The two went to the river and looked for bait everywhere, but after changing several kinds of insects, the fish in the river just wouldn't take the bait.
Seeing that it was almost noon, Lei Min suddenly thought of using thunder to fry fish, so she threw a big thunder ball into the river.
"And then it became like this"! Qu Xingchi spread his hands helplessly.
Not a few fish exploded, but the two of them were soaked in the water.
The two people looked downcast and embarrassed, which was really annoying and funny.
After listening to Qu Xingchi's explanation, Lin Qingqing looked at the pitiful little palm-sized fish in the bucket and shook her head helplessly. These young people in the city are indeed not reliable at all.
