Chapter 61: Water
This time there is grilled fish, and there is a water source next to it, at least I am not afraid of starvation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After eating, Mirage also showed his hand, using two trees, branches, and weeds to build a simple shed. It's very basic, but at least there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain. Otherwise, sleeping under a tree means that a caterpillar will not fall from the tree, or a lump of bird droppings will fall.
I went to find some clean hay and fallen leaves to spread under the shed, and spread a layer of sheets on top, and the living environment improved a lot.
After finishing it, Mirage took Huang Weiguo to the waterfall to investigate and see if there was a cave or other hiding place near the waterfall. And He Ningyan and Dick were next to the shed, each with their own work.
Ho Ningyan collects firewood for the evening fire, while Dick makes some fences to defend against wild beasts.
"It's like Robinson Crusoe. Dick set up a shelf of branches according to Wong Wai-kuk's drawings on the ground, and put some sharpened branches on the shelf, facing the outside.
"Just hide for another twelve days. He Ningyan still feels quite hopeful about this. This is in the deep mountains and old forests, it takes a day to go out, and those mutants, even if they have a means of transportation, it will take a certain amount of time to come here.
Huang Weiguo and Mirage returned, saying that they had found nothing, except for the footprints of some small wild animals, which was almost untouched. Fishing began, and it was already getting dark.
Huang Weiguo and Illusion looked at the water carefully, although there were some water insects or something in the water, there were no leeches or anything like that, so everyone was at the water's edge, wiped their faces with water, and scrubbed their bodies a little. After wiping, I felt quite good, and I didn't take a shower or scrub for fifteen days, and the whole person felt like I was wrapped in thick old dirt.
Sitting by the campfire, there is a simple shed behind it, the fish are sizzling in the fire, and there is cold boiled water in the canned luncheon meat, and the water here is a little sweet to drink, with a bit of grass and earthy taste, and in general, it is not bad.
"Will the mutants chase here?" Dick was still worried. I saw the mutant sitting on a four-legged walking machine, facing Huang Weiguo and Dick, and almost ate the two of them.
Huang Weiguo thought for a while: "Probably not, the mountain road is rugged, the ground is still very slippery, the ground was relatively dry before, and here, if you are not careful, you will slip." ”
Then he fell to the ground and fell to pieces. He Ningyan recalled: "Their bodies are very soft, and they will be finished with a stick." ”
If you fall off a walking machine, you may fall and injure yourself. There are still a lot of humans out there, so there's no need to venture into the mountains to search.
After eating, everyone took turns on duty and rested as they did yesterday.
Two days passed, and everything was peaceful. When you are hungry, there are fish in the water, and although there are not many fish and they are not very fat, at least they are wild. Dick hated fish bones and wondered why other people were so skilled at eating fish that they could spit out.
Huang Weiguo and Illusion are still trapping around, but they have not gained much.
"I don't see any animals here. Dick dug his hole and complained.
"If you see footprints and want to eat meat, dig quickly. Illusion looked at Dick with a smile as he was already in a one-meter-deep hole.
After some mud and rocks were delivered, Dick couldn't help but ask, "How deep do you have to dig?"
"Keep going, keep digging until you can't climb up. The bigger the hole, the bigger the prey. The illusion urged Dick to keep digging.
The hole was dug two meters deep, and Dick dug it for two days, making a "well" shape of a "well" on the hole, and laying a layer of hay and fallen leaves to make it look like the ground nearby, and inserting a few branches around the trap as a sign.
Dick looked at the pit he had been fighting for two days, and he had no confidence at all: "I can't hold anything in my eyes." ”
"At least you've got something to do. Mirage smirked: "The more comfortable you live, the faster you die." ”
"What logic? I think you're deliberately fixing me. Dick was grateful that he had been deceived and was a little deceived, and his anger suddenly rose.
"Oh, don't think so, you might be able to catch a wild boar, and then there will be enough meat to eat. The words of the illusion made Dick still think that two days of labor was somewhat useful.
Night came again, and I lay in a shed with sheets underneath and thick foliage and hay underneath. The ground here is damp, the water falling from the waterfall is sometimes blown by the wind, and it feels like you are moisturizing your face every day.
Listening to the sound of the waterfall that kept ringing, and looking at the starry sky emerging from the canopy, He Ningyan asked, "Do you remember some things from the past? ”
It's a sad thing not to know who you are, to have no sense of belonging, not to know where your roots are.
"Don't think too much, just live. Huang Weiguo was also helpless.
At least they're all alive now, they've been mixed up for eight days, and victory is in sight in seven days. It's humid here, so you don't have to worry about catching fire, and it's hidden in the mountains, so the mutants shouldn't come. It's basically not worth it on duty, everyone's daily work is to fish, kill fish, grill fish, and after solving the stomach problem, the day passed like this. This kind of life is actually quite good, as long as you don't get sick and there is no danger, sometimes you think, it's good to live like this for the rest of your life.
It's the beginning of another day, and it's time to start getting food again. Everyone scattered around to see if there was anything to eat in the trap, and so far, not a single mouse has been caught.
He Ningyan followed Huang Weiguo to check the trap dug by Dick, and saw from afar that the grass covered the trap was gone, and the branches were also crushed, and the top was empty.
There must have been prey falling into the pit!
He Ningyan quickened his pace and walked to the edge of the pit with Huang Weiguo.
I looked at it, I was stunned, and it was actually inside... A variant.
It fell into the pit, next to a broken mobility machine, and it stood on the transportation machine, groping the four walls with its tentacles, trying to climb out of the pit.
The mutant raised his head, and when the two eyeballs met He Ningyan's eyes, He Ningyan felt as if he had arrived in another space at once...
Everything around her was distorted, as if only two eyeballs remained, and there was a force deep in the eyeballs that locked her whole person in place... By the time she woke up, the brains behind those two eyeballs had been rotted by sharpened branches.
Huang Weiguo stabbed the mutant with a spear made of twigs, and the pit was full of blood and scum.
The restrained power of his whole body disappeared at once, and He Ningyan gasped heavily. I finally knew that the power of mutants, when they controlled humans, people couldn't move at all.
"Oh, there's prey?" Looking at the other place, Mirage and Dick came over.
Illusion looked at a bunch of disgusting things at the bottom of the pit: "This one can't be eaten." ”
Dick frowned: "If you want to eat, you can eat." By the way, I dug this hole, and it's so dirty, can it still be used?"
"It's a pity it's not in Africa, otherwise you could have caught vultures. Mirage pursed his thin lips: "But you can't eat it if you catch the vulture, that bird is full of germs." ”
Seeing that the pit that he had worked so hard to dig was destroyed, he couldn't go down and fish up the corpse of the mutant and clean the pit, right? Dick got angry, picked up what he could throw next to him, and threw it into the pit: "Damn mutant, go and die." ”
"Don't do that, at least the pit you dug solves a mutant, a few more points. But the score is definitely not good, and she solved two at once. "I don't know if this is a soothing.
"Let's bury the pit together, and then discuss whether we want to leave here. Huang Weiguo's words made everyone's hearts sink.
The pit was buried, and the mutant was buried in the earth along with its machine. As for how the mutant can get here, the main thing is that its means of transportation has changed from four-legged to eight-legged. More legs, able to stretch and contract at will, are more adaptable to the twists and turns of the terrain.
"They're technologically advanced again. It makes people sweat when they hear it.
In order to survive better, they use all the things that can be used in the original human world, and the technology is developing quite rapidly.
"In two days, I won't be surprised if they come over in a flying machine." ”
It is very likely that the appearance of thinking of a bunch of internal organs and a brain, chasing all the way in a flying machine, is comparable to a sci-fi horror blockbuster.
"So are we leaving?" asked He Ningyan.
"It seems that we are not going to go now ... "Visionary stared somewhere. Where he stared, two mutants appeared, both of them sitting on eight-legged means of transportation, using their tentacles to control the switch on it, controlling and intelligently moving the eight-legged step by step towards them.
"Run!" Mirage jumped to his feet, pulling up the backpack beside him, carrying it behind him as he ran.
Everyone immediately followed the escape, hurriedly put the backpack on their backs, regardless of the slippery ground on the ground, even if they fell, they got up again and continued to run for their lives.
"Squeak squeak... Behind it was the sound of metal joints grinding against the eight mechanical legs as they walked, as if they were getting closer and closer.
Damn mutants, they can't go fast, but they're still riding in a pretty fast car.
There was a small stream in front of me blocking the way, and the illusion ran straight into the water, this stream was not deep, it was flowing from the waterfall. Everyone also jumped in with one and ran to the opposite side.
But the illusion in front of him suddenly stopped running, and turned around and stopped everyone.
He Ningyan turned his head and saw two mutants, sitting in the car, watching them from the shore, not entering the water. As if they chase after them, they will definitely catch up with them. But why don't you go into the water, do you say...
So everyone poured water on the two mutants almost at the same time, and the mutants drove the scooter back several steps back.
"Do you want to go over? I'm afraid it's a trap. Huang Weiguo asked Fantasy in a soft voice.
"That's not easy. Illusion rushed over and splashed his hand desperately at the mutant. But he was still a little wary, and he was three meters away from the mutant.
The mutant continued to retreat, then reversed course and was gone!
It's a bit of a surprise, uh, are mutants afraid of water?
Everyone went to the other side and found some branches to build a bonfire to dry their clothes. Take off your coat and hold it in your hands, wearing only close-fitting clothes.
"They were really afraid of water?" asked Dick.
"I don't know, you know, a lot of things in the world contain water, including human blood. Huang Weiguo replied.
There is a lot of water in human blood, but the mutants gnaw on human flesh, and the blood splashes everywhere, and they don't dodge.
"It's possible that they're only afraid of water. He Ningyan thought for a while and asked, "Is there a way to confirm it?"
"How can you prove it? Take a jar and rush to the mutants and splash them with water?" Dick exhaled into the sky, "Forget it, I don't want to die." ”
He Ningyan didn't say anything anymore, it really sounded fantastical.
At this time, the illusion stood up and put on the half-wet clothes that had not yet been baked: "Go!"
"Where to go?" Huang Weiguo was a little surprised.
"Let's check it out. Mirage picked up his backpack and walked across the river.
Inside the pit, Dick, who was digging the pit, complained vigorously: "Since you want to pick it up, what are you burying it just now?" ”
"Hurry up and dig it, dig it quickly. If you slow down, there might be other mutations. The illusion scared Dick.
"Then why don't you come down to help, and I'll dig it alone, or am I a professional digger?" complained Dick, who crouched down in the pit and filled it with a small shovel into a basket made of rattan and soft branches, and when it was full, the man on it took it and handed it to him, and continued digging.
"You can only stay in this pit, and besides, you're fast. Huang Weiguo said with a smile: "Don't worry, if we die in the future, we won't let you dig a pit, so make good use of your advantages here, don't waste it." ”
"I don't care, next time you dig, I won't dig. Dick seemed to have dug up something, and pierced a dark red softness, and he immediately turned his head and snorted.
Mirage hurriedly said, "Come up." ”
When Dick got up, Illusion jumped down, picked up a branch, and tossed the soft flesh, and used the branch to dig through the dirt and dig deeper to see the rest of the thing.
At last he stood up, supported his hands on both sides, and borrowed the strength of his arms to go up the pit.
"How's it going?" asked Huang Weiguo nervously.
Mirage clapped his hands: "They have a shell on the outside, like a transparent layer, like glass, to protect the organs from water loss. But if these things are afraid of water, they may not be able to support their inner shells. After all, the internal organs are very soft, and people are supported by bones, so what do they have?"
This brought to mind the rock sugar gourd, and later developed the strawberry rock sugar gourd. Some strawberries are soft and soft, and when they are coated with sugar, they become crystal clear and seem to be very hard.
"So what now?" He Ningyan thought.
"What else can you do, go to the place where there is the most water. Dick was happy, and finally had a way to save his life.
"No!" Mirage laughed, "Do you want to get a high score?"
Dick cried out, "I don't want to die!" (to be continued.) )