Donghuang Federation, in a forest in the north of District 9, a five-person hunting team is moving forward cautiously.
It's already May, and District 9 is geographically the southernmost part of the Donghuang Federation. Temperatures exceeding 20 degrees Celsius have long been the norm here.
But even so, the members of the five-man team still wrapped themselves up tightly to ensure safety. In order to hide their bodies in the forest full of strange beasts, they even put on another layer of clothing outside their thick clothes. Camouflage suit made of leaves.
Although the actual effect of this kind of camouflage clothing is better than nothing, for these people living in settlements outside the city, life-saving is the most important thing. As for things like comfort, it has basically nothing to do with them who just want to survive.
The so-called settlements are actually a kind of settlement that mainly exists within the Donghuang Federation, or in areas that have undergone a certain degree of development. After the population explosion in the past thirty or forty years, some cities have released some unbearable population pressure. Once outside the city, they were left to fend for themselves.
Mainly among them are ordinary people who do not have the ability to awaken.
On Blue Star today, everyone is well aware of the difficulty of living in the wild, so those who are lucky enough to survive naturally form small settlements one after another.
These settlements are not large, usually consisting of only a few dozen to a hundred or so humans.
For example, this five-person team is composed of a small number of young adults in the settlement. Half of them go out to hunt and search for supplies, while the other half stay in the camp to guard their homes.
This is not to say that settlements with larger numbers of people have never been formed. After all, everyone understands the concept that there is strength in numbers.
But the problem is that no matter how large these settlements are, if they are not protected by permanent defense measures such as city walls, they can easily become fixed "cafeterias" for alien beasts.
Finally, after several bloody lessons, I finally came up with this more appropriate number.
After all, the Donghuang Federation is still a civilized society that is gradually recovering, so even if there is no way to completely prevent this kind of thing from happening, it still helped these people win the right to trade with nearby cities, and handed over relevant matters to the governor who was stationed in the city. supervision.
After all, the place with the most supplies on Blue Star is still in the wild, so these settlements can occasionally get some things that have been missed by hunters.
Of course, it may be that they don't like those things, but at least they can exchange for some food.
It's just that the rule is that the dead are alive, not to mention that not every city's governor can receive preferential treatment from the local leader like Fang Qinghong.
Therefore, in the specific implementation process, the people in those settlements will not be deliberately squeezed at most, and can only exchange enough food from the city to maintain the minimum survival guarantee.
As for more survival supplies, it can only depend on the evil heart of the city you rely on.
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The five-person team followed the usual training formation, two in front, two in the middle, and one in the back, marching cautiously through the forest, for fear of making some noise and provoking someone they shouldn't provoke.
Fortunately, with the "support" of the city, this team will not use homemade cold weapons to fight against alien beasts. Instead, they each carry a firearm from modern civilization or alloy weapons, armor, etc. .
With these things, even if they encounter a second-level alien beast, as long as the opponent is not the type with strong defense, this team will have a certain degree of confidence in killing it.
"Brother Sun, look, there seems to be movement there."
At this time, a person in the front of the team suddenly stopped and whispered to the team leader behind him. At the same time, he also pointed his finger to the east of the team.
"Xiao Zhu, telescope."
The man known as Brother Sun didn't talk nonsense and directly ordered a team member next to him to start working. After receiving the order, the latter quickly raised the telescope on his waist and followed the instructions of the first person.
"Brother Sun, they are three gray rabbits, and they are not small." Xiao Zhu's tone seemed a little excited, but his many years of hunting experience still allowed him to instinctively suppress the loudness of his voice.
"How big is it exactly?" Sun Qiang asked in a deep voice, not as excited as Xiao Zhu.
The reason why Sun Qiang can become the leader of this team is that in addition to being a first-level awakener himself, his calm personality is also a very important reason.
"The biggest one should weigh about 17 or 18 pounds. It is estimated that even if it is not the second level, it is not far behind." Xiao Zhu said with some hindsight at this time.
Gray rabbit meat is delicious, and its leather is also an excellent material for making clothes. Even the most useless blood from ordinary alien animals is an important auxiliary material for making some low-level potions.
Basically it is the most valuable part of all the first-order beasts.
Although gray mango rabbits can now be initially bred artificially, the gap between domesticated and wild rabbits is still large because the technology is not mature enough.
Alien beasts like the Gray Mango Rabbit, like the Magic Tooth Rat, normally only have the first level of strength, and only some individuals will grow to the second level.
It's just that their ability to escape is too strong, and their sense of aura is particularly keen. Therefore, for most hunters, unless they have awakened the special ability to hide aura, or possess related types of treasures, even if they catch one There are also some losses that outweigh the gains, so these settlements are given the opportunity to pick up the debris.
Most of the settlement residents do not have the ability to awaken. If they carry ordinary weapons, their spiritual power will almost not fluctuate. Therefore, compared with those low-level hunters, they can more easily capture gray rabbits and demons. The lowest level of exotic beasts such as tooth rats.
Here, after listening to Xiao Zhu's description, Sun Qiang instantly began to calculate in his mind whether his team could kill all three gray rabbits in one go.
This process did not take too long. After all, Sun Qiang also knew that the three gray mango rabbits were almost impossible to find for them. If they did not make up their minds for too long, it would be easy to find them if they were discovered by other settlements. Conflict breaks out.
"Xiao Zhu and I are on guard." Sun Qiang calmly gave the order, "Then Da Zhuang and Er Ga will surround us from both sides. Remember to pay attention to the wind direction."
Finally, Sun Qiang turned his attention to the person who made the noise at the beginning: "Daqing, just do the same as before. Find a tree as a commanding height. Once Da Zhuang and Er Ga are in position, you can shoot."
"Okay!" Daqing responded with a smile, then looked around, and soon found the big tree he wanted, and climbed up with a rifle on his back.
