Chapter 27: Little Bird, I Love You!
Before going to bed, by the light of the campfire, the two sat together and discussed the whole trip for the day, summarizing some inappropriate points, such as the habitual use of navigation and the trouble of direction recognition, which did affect the speed of their progress. They still treat everything in ancient times with the cognition from the future society, then there will only be one result waiting for the two of them, that is, failure, failure is not terrible, what is terrible is that the possible result of failure is death, for the two people who have just crossed over, this is definitely not what they are willing to accept, and if they are not willing to accept it, they can only act according to the rules of this world as soon as possible.
The habit of summarizing the situation of the day before going to bed has continued, and it has played a very good role in their entire ancient survival and development, and even saved their lives. The two of them also gave this summary form a familiar name: Sleeper Talk.
The two of them traveled a total of more than 380 kilometers that day, and the remaining fuel tank could probably run more than 800 kilometers. Today's fat man's performance was very good, Xu Qiang also specially praised it, promising to give him more land to grow chili peppers when he went back, which made the fat man who was fond of chili peppers excited, and was ready to go back and develop his chili plan.
In the end, they decided to set off on the next day's journey in the same way as they had done this afternoon towards their destination. Saying goodnight to each other, the two went to sleep in their respective tents. Xu Qiang, who was already immune to the fat man's snoring, naturally slept soundly and no longer had insomnia.
The night was deep, the air was dry, there was not a sound in the silent scorched earth heath, the thick clouds still rolling, only occasionally sprinkling a little starlight, the starry sky was deep and blinking.
The fat man who was snoring and shaking the sky couldn't see Xu Qiang's current appearance at this time, his face was flushed, his fists were clenched, and he was a little trembling. Xu Qiang returned to his home in his sleep, which was only two or three days apart, but it was more than 10,000 years in time and space, looking at everything familiar and dear people, his heart was full of sadness and melancholy.
A tear slipped quietly.
As the sky darkened, the campfire gradually went out, leaving only the reddish embers to exude the last of their heat. I don't know what season it is, if the time and space are not chaotic, it should also be May, but it is May when the spring cold is more serious. After resting for a night, the two were still a little uncomfortable with such a morning, and they wanted to nest for a while, but the strong sense of survival forced the two to wake up quickly. I looked at the time of the mechanical watch on my wrist, six o'clock in the morning.
After washing up briefly and sharing the other half of the compressed biscuits with two bottles of cold water, the two began to pack up. Last night's meeting, the two of them also decided to reduce the number of meals to two, one in the morning and one in the evening, and rest for an hour until they found their ideal destination.
The process of searching was boring, looking at the same scene as yesterday, the two people in progress felt like they were in a black and gray desert, surrounded by endless black and gray sand, and everything was silent, only the sound of the engine was constantly roaring, reminding the two of them that this world was real.
Xu Qiang mechanically manipulated the steering wheel, constantly dodging fallen tree trunks, animal corpses, or deep ditches on the way; After going up the hill for a while and going downhill for a while, I don't know how many mountains I have climbed and how many deep ravines I have crossed. From time to time, the fat man looked at the navigation to see if there was any deviation between the two points on the navigation, and told him the correct direction again after Xu Qiang dodged the obstacles. The road was bumpy, despite having a good suspension system, the two still couldn't avoid bumps, plus Xu Qiang's current body height was still different from that of normal adults, and the car was very tired.
The time was close to noon, after turning over a valley full of stones, a bad news came, the navigation system that helped Xu Qiang and the two a lot was damaged because of the constant bumps, and it could no longer be opened.
As a member of the survival freak, Xu Qiang believes in mechanical products and has a certain degree of vigilance against electronic products. Although I am very satisfied with this car, it is very helpless that this car does not have a compass, but fortunately there is a compass in the backpack glove box. After the fat man took out a compass, he adjusted his direction and continued to set off.
Trekking all the way through mountains and rivers, no, I'm sorry, there are only mountains, no water, and ditches, it can only be trekking mountains and ditches. After marching more than 50 kilometers again, the tired and exhausted two mouths were dry, their originally rosy lips were now dry and cracked, and a faint smell of blood wafted in the carriage.
In order to replenish the lack of salt and water in the body, they also pinched a little salt from the backpack and sprinkled it in the bottle, shook it twice, and a bottle of water quickly disappeared in the throat.
Luo Fatzi, who was reminiscing about the sweetness of the water and turning his head to look around, suddenly pointed to the sky in the south and said excitedly:
"Look, Brother Qiang, is that a bird?"
Xu Qiang looked in the direction of the fat man's finger, and saw a fist-sized black dot in the southern sky moving rapidly on the gray curtain, constantly tumbling up and down, and at the same time moving in the direction of Xu Qiang, and it didn't take long for the fist-sized black dot to become the size of a basketball.
"Great, Brother Qiang, we finally met other living animals, does that mean that we are also about to get out of this scorched earth formed by the fire?"
The fat man was very excited, for him, who was accustomed to seeing the same scene in the past two days, he wanted to vomit, what a big impact a moving object had on him, not to mention Xu Qiang now, he was also trembling with excitement.
"Roar~~ Hi, hello, little bird! I love you! The energetic Luo Fat Man changed his tired and decadent appearance just now, and pointed to the birds in the distance that kept jumping, jumping, and laughing in the same place, and the excitement of seeing the living creatures was incomprehensible. Even Xu Qiang, who has always been steady, was excited at the moment, and even stood on the hood, like a fat man, and kept waving to the flying bird, to express his depressed mood in the past two days.
Although they had a car as a means of transportation, they were skeptical that they would be able to get out of the area until they knew how big the area was burned, not to mention that they did not have much water and food. If they can't get out, death awaits them.
And what this kind of bird brings to the two of them is hope, the hope of survival.
Just as the two of them were overwhelmed with excitement, the unknown bird, which had become the size of a basketball, grew larger and larger in its field of vision, and its appearance became clearer and clearer.