Chapter Twenty-Eight: Phalaenopsis
Early the next morning, several people got up early, packed up, and prepared to leave.
Except for Xiu Hua, Xue Ge and Zha Ling'er, who were still in the basement, the others were ready to go out to have a look, and Kou Qiong and Na Xu both pulled up the zipper of their clothes high, covering half of their faces, and also wore sunglasses to ensure that they would not be recognized even if they were seen.
Zhang Muqing took Zhang Tuanzi and Zhang Tuantuan together, but no, the two guinea pigs stuck to Zhang Muqing like children, saying that they wanted to go out together; Zhang Muqing sighed, no wonder it was not easy to raise children.
Zhang Muqing took a custom-made backpack and carried Zhang Tuanzi and Zhang Tuantuan on his back, and the two guinea pigs were not heavy.
The four of them took two guinea pigs, drove a pickup truck and a jeep, and the car's ground was very high, after all, the road surface was completely damaged, and the car's site was too low to go far.
Shao Yang and Zhang Muqing, in front; Xu Zhi and Kou Qiong are in the back.
Along the way, I met countless small animals, which seemed to regard the cracks in the asphalt road as a nest, and I was not afraid to see the car coming, hiding in the cracks and observing the vehicles of several people.
There were even some poisonous snakes spitting snakes and scorpions towards the vehicle in the cracks, and suddenly Zhang Tuanzi and Zhang Tuantuan both raised their heads and leaned on Zhang Muqing's shoulder, their little noses twitching, as if they had smelled something good.
"Daddy, there's a nice smell coming from under this cliff." Zhang Tuanzi fixed himself on Zhang Muqing's shoulder and looked at the half-open window, "This is it." ”
A few people stopped the car, Kou Qiong was a little puzzled, not understanding why they stopped, "What are you doing here?" ”
Zhang Muqing pointed to the bottom of the hillside, "There should be some mutated plants down here." ”
Zhang Tuantuan saw Zhang Muqing squatting, so he jumped off his shoulder, this height is not high, but it also scared Zhang Muqing, "Tuan Tuan, be careful!" ”
Zhang Tuantuan said that this height is trivial, "It's okay, it's not far below, let's go take a look, it smells really good." ”
Zhang Muqing discussed with the other three, and finally decided that Xu Zhi and Kou Qiong, who had the strongest combat effectiveness, would go down with Zhang Muqing, after all, there might be many strange beasts around the mutant plant.
Although there were no signs of any strange beasts on the slope off the road, it was important to be careful.
The weeds on the side of the road were very dense, and there were some thorny branches, and several people had to use knives to cut off the dense grass and trees, so that they could move forward, and the location of the alien plants was indeed not far away, only about fifty meters below the road.
After a while, a few people arrived at the location of the different plant, only to see that it was a white jade-like phalaenopsis, and this season was not the season for orchids to bloom, but now in this weather, everyone did not feel strange.
Several people carefully observed the surroundings of the phalaenopsis, waited for a few minutes, and did not find any abnormalities, nor did they see any strange beasts come out, and Kou Qiong, who reacted the fastest, just wanted to dig out the flowers; Suddenly, Zhang Tuantuan shouted vigilantly, and Zhang Muqing hurriedly stopped Kou Qiong's movements.
"Don't move yet!" Hearing Zhang Muqing's voice, Kou Qiong's hand stretched out to Phalaenopsis also hurriedly retracted, and suddenly a small turquoise snake came from the branch below Phalaenopsis, this snake is not big, but people can't underestimate it.
It looked at the hand behind Kou Qiong, as if it knew that it was holding a knife in its hand, but before Kou Qiong's hand moved, it preemptively opened its mouth and bit Kou Qiong's neck directly, Kou Qiong reacted quickly, and hit it out with his backhand, and the small snake was knocked down among the weeds and disappeared in an instant.
The three of them were back to back, looking around vigilantly, and suddenly Zhang Tuantuan, who was squatting at Zhang Muqing's feet, jumped into the grass, Zhang Muqing's conditional reaction was to catch Tuan Tuan, but he found that he couldn't catch up with his speed, but fortunately, Zhang Tuantuan didn't go far, and stopped two meters away.
Seeing this, Zhang Muqing hurriedly lifted the weeds and walked over, while Zhang Tuantuan was holding down the little green snake with one paw; Zhang Muqing took out a dagger, pierced the head of the little snake with one knife, and then cut off the snake's head with another knife.
Seeing that the snake was dead, Zhang Tuantuan removed his claws from the snake, Zhang Tuantuan looked at Zhang Tuanzi lying on Zhang Muqing's shoulder with some pride, and Zhang Tuanzi's stiff body that was frightened by the snake finally recovered.
If there is anything that Zhang Tuantuan hates the most, it is, of course, snakes; And Zhang Tuanzi was most afraid of snakes, after all, the snake before almost killed him. It's just that the speed of this snake is not slow, and it will be caught by Zhang Tuantuan!
Several people dug out the flowers, and returned to the car, Zhang Tuanzi and Zhang Tuantuan lay on the side of the flowers, and suddenly Zhang Tuanzi got up and bit down on a flower, swallowed it in a few bites, and motioned Zhang Muqing to eat together.
"Is this flower of any use?" Zhang Muqing watched as the two rats ate a Phalaenopsis flower, this Phalaenopsis is not big, and now there are only three flowers left.
"Hmm... I don't know, I just think it's good for me. Zhang Tuanzi didn't eat it anymore after eating one.
"Is this flower useful for your evolved animals, or is it useful for people?"
"It's supposed to... Evolutionaries are useful, whether animals or humans. Zhang Tuanzi thought for a moment and said with some uncertainty.
"So... Whether it is a foreign beast or an animal or a human that has evolved now, it can be counted as a class of evolutionaries; Alien beasts are alien beasts because they are so bizarre that they are artificially created; There is a virus in the body of the alien beast, but the alien beast has evolved and can already resist this virus, but Si Ping is just an ordinary person and can only be controlled by this virus... So from this point of view, I am also an evolutionary, and I can also be immune to this virus..."Zhang Muqing muttered to himself, figuring out the key to it.
Zhang Tuanzi and Zhang Tuantuan didn't understand very well, and they knew that Zhang Muqing wasn't asking them, so they didn't care.
Zhang Muqing didn't know why he had evolved, was it because of the rain that day? But Shaoyang was also drenched in rain.
"Shaoyang, after the red rain that day, is there anything abnormal in your body?"
"Nothing out of the ordinary." Although Shao Yang was driving seriously, he also heard Zhang Muqing's words, but there was really no abnormality in his body.
"It seems that animals have basically evolved, and plants have evolved a lot, but humans seem to have evolved very little." Zhang Muqing chuckled, feeling that he was also a blessing in disguise, and the rain seemed to be the welfare of animals and plants?!
A few people drove for three hours again, and finally arrived at the factory, which was somewhat remote; There are not many people nearby, and there is no one at the door, except for an uncle in his fifties in the guard's room.
The door to the guard's room was locked, and the uncle was sleeping with his chin propped up on his hands; Zhang Muqing and the others got out of the car and knocked on the glass window of the guard's room, and the uncle was also awakened by the sound.
"Uncle, we want to buy some solar panels, do you still have them?" Zhang Muqing was holding the ball in his arms, lying on his shoulder, and the smile on his face was extremely gentle, the uncle did not have any doubts after seeing Zhang Muqing, and directly opened the glass door.
"Yes, yes. Where did you come from? It's not a good road, is it? The uncle took a few people into the factory and came to the warehouse.
"We came from Chongyu City, not far ahead, and there was a power outage recently, so we thought about buying some solar panels, after all, it is inconvenient to have no power at home. This road is really difficult to walk, but fortunately, I borrowed two cars to get here. Zhang Muqing smiled, but said a city in the opposite direction of Qingshan.
"Yes, but there is no sun on this day recently, and the light is too weak, so the solar panels can only provide a little bit of electricity." The uncle opened the door of the warehouse, and there were not a few solar panels piled up here, "This is all our inventory, and if this traffic is not restored, we will not be able to produce it anymore......"
The implication is that this price must be more expensive than the usual ones, Zhang Muqing nodded, expressing understanding, and bought the truck's solar panels at three times the price on weekdays.
"Is Uncle from this neighborhood?" Zhang Muqing and Shao Yang worked together to lift the sun panel onto the truck, and asked the uncle on the side.
"Well, that's where I live." The uncle bit a cigarette in his mouth and put the solar panels with his hands and feet.
"Is there anything to eat at home? We can spend money to buy it, but lately the food in the city has become less and less, and basically we can't buy it. Zhang Muqing touched his nose with his fingertips.
"Yes, I have potatoes and sweet potatoes at home, as well as bacon and some vegetable seeds. In this weather, as long as you take those vegetable seeds back and sprinkle them, it won't be long before they grow. ”
"Okay, uncle, you can give us a little bit of these, the problem of money is easy to say." The money can still be used now, but it will not be necessary in the future, so let's use it while it can be used now.
When the solar panels were installed, they drove to the uncle's house, which was behind the factory and a few minutes by car.
This is a small two-story building, it looks like it has just been built, but a courtyard wall has been collapsed by a growing persimmon tree, and there are many large and small insects climbing on the collapsed courtyard wall, and there are some centipedes, poisonous insects and other things under the bricks.
"Uncle, didn't the government notify everyone to move together? This side is not far from Qingshan, and it is a single family, which is a bit dangerous. Zhang Muqing saw that the two guinea pigs were not abnormal, so he got out of the car with confidence.
"Hey, I took a look, it was not comfortable at all, my wife and I were reluctant to have things at home, and I thought that this small building was also newly built, and it was quite sturdy, even if there were really any strange beasts, it could be stopped." Uncle resisted a bag of potatoes and sweet potatoes out.
Behind him was an aunt in her forties, carrying some vegetable seeds, and after putting the things away, she turned back to get the two pieces of bacon in the kitchen.
"Don't mind, my family doesn't like to talk." The uncle took the money given by Zhang Muqing and smiled and helped them move their things into the car.
"It's okay, I see that the wall of the uncle is broken, let's make up for it as soon as possible, and I heard from my friends, don't look at those bugs, don't be bitten, it's easy to get infected." Zhang Muqing pointed to the insects flying around in the air, but these insects did not get close to Zhang Muqing, but they were just flying near Shao Hua and them, but unfortunately a few people were dressed tightly, and they easily did not let these insects get close.
"Well, I'm also thinking about making some money." The uncle put the money in his bag, "But I have time today, so I will rebuild the wall of this courtyard first." ”
"Well, then uncle, we'll go back first." Zhang Muqing and the others got into the car and turned around and left.
After driving for a while, Zhang Tuantuan suddenly called out of the car twice, "Dad, there are two little milk dogs over there." ”
"There's no one around here, so why are there dogs?" Zhang Muqing motioned for Shaoyang to stop, got down by himself, and approached the grass on the side, two little black milk dogs were humming in the grass, and there was a foul smell from the grass, it turned out to be the mother of these two little guys.
The two little milk dogs looked at Zhang Muqing with some vigilance, but unfortunately their teeth did not grow together, so they were directly hugged by Zhang Muqing.
After carrying the puppy into the car, the group went home smoothly.
What a few people didn't know was that just after they returned, where the Phalaenopsis was originally located, two two-meter-long cyan snakes were surrounding the body of the little snake, as if they were mourning for their dead child.