Section 2 Reflections
Luckily, Tianhao met a juvenile fanged pig. Maybe its mother was being pressed to the ground by a strong male kind, or maybe its father was pushed off a cliff by a cheating mother...... When slitting the throat of a young fang-toothed pig with a knife, the hungry Tianhao swallowed the warm blood while quickly estimating various data about the prey in his brain.
Excluding the bones and skin, as well as the various inedible parts of the body, the remaining weight is 60 to 62 kilograms.
He ate his heart and liver raw, including his kidneys on the left and right. These offal are rich in vitamins and must be eaten fresh. Tianhao cut off a few pieces of fat and oily loins, and buried the rest in a snowdrift, making a mark on the surface that only he knew.
This winter is very cold, and the pork, which is frozen hard like a stone, will not rot at all.
The whole Panshi Village is hungry. Without the absolute right to speak, without a strong strength as a backing, just carrying a fanged pig home, I am afraid that a trace of meat residue will not fall into his mouth.
Tianshuang, who was extremely hungry, suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his throat let out an extremely happy "ho-ho" sound. She didn't care that the leather robe that was unbelted slipped off because of the violent movements, revealing her still developing but extremely thin body exposed to her brother's eyes, and her hands grabbed the piece of meat handed over by Tianhao like claws.
She clutched hard, but the piece of meat didn't move.
Tianhao's eyes revealed a fierce and cold gaze: "Don't say it, otherwise I will eat you." ”
The corners of her eyes twitched slightly, and Tianshuang felt her arms tremble. She had never seen the third brother show such a look before, which made her feel terrified, like facing a man-eating man-eating maned bear.
Shivering like a plague spread throughout his body, Tianshuang couldn't help but feel the urge to escape from this room immediately, but the pantothenic acid stomach transmitted a strong hunger signal, and his fingers touched the frozen flesh, and the familiar muscle texture instantly overwhelmed all thoughts.
"I, I won't say it......" She swallowed hard, and a flattering look appeared on her dirty face: "Brother, can you give me food?" ”
Tianhao slowly released his palm.
He watched Tianshuang hurriedly hug the piece of meat, desperately nibbling at the craziest speed. In this season of dripping ice, anything will be frozen. Although the temperature inside the cabin is a little warmer than outside, it is not enough to soften the meat pieces for a short time.
Tianshuang's teeth are not straight, especially the left canine tooth has been lost, which is directly related to her years of gnawing on bones and meat.
Removing the dark red embers from the fire and adding a few dry sticks of firewood, a bright flame soon rose and gradually turned into a blazing fire.
The frozen pieces of meat are placed on a wooden fork and slowly softened in the light of the fire. Tianhao carried a bucket of frozen seawater from the corner of the house, poked a few pieces with a dagger, and cut a few gaps in the surface of the meat, inserting the scattered sea ice into it, and the molten liquid mixed with the hot grease dripped down, making a continuous "snort" sound on the burning firewood.
There was a very fragrant smell in the air. Tianhao is not worried about the smell of barbecue reaching the outside. This is a world imprisoned by the cold, and the villagers are in a similar situation, and the firewood must be prepared in the autumn, and the most likely result is to freeze to death when they go out to cut firewood in this weather.
Looking at the oily barbecue in Tianhao's hand, Tianshuang was stunned.
This thing looks delicious, and the cold, hard frozen meat in your hand are two different concepts at all.
The aroma is the best temptation, and the saliva unconsciously flows down the corners of the mouth.
Tianhao, who was expressionless, handed over the barbecue, Tianshuang was stunned for a moment, and then stretched out his hand with joy on his face.
When his fingertips were about to touch the barbecue, Tianhao raised the piece of meat high at a very fast speed, and looked at his sister who was full of puzzlement, and he showed a devil's unique smile, which had both seduction and threat.
"Don't tell anyone."
The fear that had been suppressed poured into Tianshuang's mind again. She couldn't resist the food that was close at hand, and she never thought of the word "refuse", but the difference between habitual thinking and reality made her hesitate a little: "...... The eldest brother, and the second brother, can't you say it? ”
"Yes." Tianhao added a reassuring answer for Tianshuang: "I'll tell them." ”
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After eating the barbecue, he very carefully restored the fire pit to its original state, and threw a few blackened human bones in a prominent place.
Tianhao didn't want his secret to be discovered by the villagers.
You know, everyone in the village, maybe only you have surplus food.
Both pieces of meat went into Tianshuang's stomach. She ate contentedly, curled up in a deep sleep in the pile of hides, a smile on her thin face.
The architecture of the northern barbarians is very distinctive, regardless of beauty and artistic sense, everything is from a practical point of view. Between the two halves of the hollow wall is filled with white velvet grass, which is found all over the mountains in the summer and matures in the fall, peeling off the yellowing of the plant shell and collecting the soft grass core inside, plus soft animal hair and dead grass, which is equivalent to installing a thermal insulation layer in the mezzanine of the wooden house.
It's dark.
There is no entertainment of any kind.
A few pieces of wood were added to the fire, and the dark room was brightly lit, and it swayed, casting a silent figure on the walls.
Raising his hand, he touched the rough skin on his face. Sixteen-year-old Tianhao is in the development stage, although there is no mirror, he still relies on the slow touch of his hands, feeling his thin cheeks, slightly protruding, but not very large cheekbones. The high arch of the eyebrows and the high bridge of the nose are in line with the human aesthetic standards of that era. The Adam's apple is sliding when swallowing, the hard teeth indicate that calcium is well absorbed, and the tongue is judging the taste of food according to basic taste standards.
This body does not belong to me.
But now, he's me.
I'm dead in the age of civilization. The war has destroyed everything, and there are very few survivors in the base. In the last days, the last warriors were sealed by technological means, including Tianhao, only memories, and genes remained.
The training pod is the last fragment of his memories of the civilized era. It is a white oval shape, fifteen centimeters in length, except for gene activating factors, which are filled with a nutrient solution that sustains the survival of the cells.
The base was destroyed by a volcanic eruption, and the possibility of such a catastrophe had been considered when the gene bank was built. As many as tens of thousands of training pods were activated, and they were ejected into the air like white cannonballs, slowly landing with the help of automatic rotors.
After that, Tianhao fell into a long memory gap until he woke up again.
He felt like a slime from a fairy tale...... No, I was a slime back then. Soft, sticky, a mass of mud stuck to the inner wall of the broken culture chamber. If you have to use something as a contrast, rotten eggs that are spoiled and smelly and grayish-black but maintain enough humidity, this is more appropriate.
God knows what happened during the time that the training pod was smashed over. Earthquake? Or a tsunami? In short, it appears on the surface and is badly damaged. Instinctive consciousness clearly told him that the parasite must be found within twenty-four hours, or he would die.
Tian Hao is the name that belongs to this boy. He happened to come over at that time, saw the broken cultivation pod, bent down to pick it up, and then ...... I became him.
For the first time, he felt that choice was so important. Before the boy appeared, two steel-beaked chickens walked past the training pod, and a fierce dog came. Even though there were only four hours and twenty-two minutes left before the deadline, he resisted the urge to live and forced himself to wait.
I got into his body. Some penetrate through the surface of the skin, and some penetrate directly into the nostrils, and the fusion time between the parasite and the host is twenty-three minutes and forty-seven seconds. For best results, the fusion time must be forty-eight hours. But Tianhao has calculated that this is the time limit that the host can bear.
In cold conditions, it is very dangerous to remain still for long periods of time. If this continues, the host will freeze to death.
The sequelae of insufficient fusion time are revealed when the host's body begins to move. Tianhao looked very embarrassed in front of the young fang-toothed pig, and he was in a hurry, missing twice in a row, and the saber did not hit the target accurately. But fortunately, the third attack killed the pig.
It is impossible for either a steel-beaked chicken or a ferocious dog to achieve this level of compatibility with its host in such a short period of time.
After all, we are all human beings.
Although my age can be his great-great-great-great...... Grandfather.
How many years have passed since I decided to enter the training pod?
Hundreds of years?
Or thousands of years?
This is a question that is difficult to find the right answer. Tianhao only knew that although the training cabin was equipped with a multi-armed mechanical foot, it could not have the ability to move long distances like other vehicles. Most of the stored energy is supplied to the matter inside the cabin, and its maximum range of movement does not exceed fifty kilometers at most.
The location where the base was built is in the temperate zone. Historical data suggests that no previous year has seen temperatures drop to this extent.
There is another problem: Tianhao, the host he parasitizes, is not far from the sea by reading his brain memories.
The location of the base should be inland.
The first and most urgent issue to be addressed is nutrition.
In Tianhao's mind, in the mind that originally belonged to the host, the word "food" occupied the most thinking component. Not only him, but everyone in the village rarely felt really fed. Although there are many animals in the nearby mountains and forests, they are difficult to catch, and among them are fierce and bloodthirsty beasts.
He currently needs to eat small, multiple times, rather than eating all at once, as the legendary gluttony does.