The Luobul River flows through the Fufeng Mountains, which cling to the edge of the mountains and stretch eastward. On the riverside not far from the mountains, there is a small city, which is built along the river, so it was named Yijiang, and later renamed Yijiang.

Yijiang City was originally the first stop of the route planned by Ding Xiu and them after leaving the basin, but because of the addition of silver coins, everyone had to re-plan the route and adjust the direction of travel to be farther north.

In this way, Sangzhi Town, located in Jiangbei, has become the first choice.

As its name suggests, almost everyone in the town planted mulberry and silkworms in the early years, and the silk weaving industry was quite developed, and it was a famous silk production area in the Luobo River Basin. When the war broke out, the foundation of sericulture was destroyed, and the survivors were unwilling to leave their homeland, so they reopened the land full of devastation, planted improved varieties of ryegrass, and began to raise a kind of meat and bird, the cassowary.

This bird belongs to the large flightless crane ostrich family Cassowara family, the appearance is very similar to ostriches and emus, its meat is relatively compact, and the feathers are also very versatile, plus more resistant to disease than ordinary poultry, after the war has been promoted in many places, and has the potential to replace traditional poultry.

With a high crest and a blue neck, the cassowary is tall and can run as fast as some beasts of prey.

Cassowaries feed on plants such as ryegrass and prefer to come out early in the morning or late in the evening. They have a peculiar habit of being very curious about things that glow. Sometimes, when they see the ashes of charcoal fires discarded by humans, these birds will come up and peck at them, and even swallow a few pieces of extinguished charcoal into the gizzard to help grind the indigestible food.

Ding Xiu's car had already entered the Guzhangyuan hilly area, and it was not far from Sangzhi Town in the hinterland of the hills.

"Ding Xiu, what's that?" Song Xijun saw a sign appear in front of the front of the car.

Ding Xiu drove the car to a close stop and looked at it, and saw a few words written on the sign.

"Cassowary Farm?!"

"What's a cassowary?" It was the first time Ding Xiu had seen this name.

"It seems to be a large bird ......" Song Xijun faintly had some impressions, she thought about it, and suddenly clapped her hands and said: "By the way, it is a kind of ostrich-like thing, my father intended to introduce this animal into Jiaping City for large-scale breeding, but unfortunately it was not successful." ”

"Why didn't it work out?" Ding Xiu was a little curious.

"Maybe it's not adaptable." Song Xijun said: "Cassowaries have been bred in many areas in the south, but the west has not been promoted, and then my father tried and came to the conclusion that the climate factors, in addition, the food that the cassowary eats in the west can not be grown." ”

"I see." When he heard that it was a bred animal, he was relieved.

After telling Gu Beimo and Shen You about the situation, Ding Xiu and the others continued on the road. In a short time, the road has come to an end.

Sangzhi Town is more like a super-large farm, this is what Ding Xiu felt when he saw it at first sight, in fact, Sangzhi Town is composed of dozens of farms, all of which are concentrated in the hinterland of the Guzhangyuan hilly area, and belong to the residents of the town.

At the end of the road is a vast field overgrown with ryegrass, which had been planted by the townspeople to feed the firebirds on the farm.

The fields were overgrown with weeds, and Ding Xiu looked through the window of the car, and there was no figure nearby.

"Strange!" He muttered quietly.

The car came to the path in the field, and the wheels ran over the dirt on the ground and headed for the houses in the distance. This movement startled the ryegrass bugs, which "buzzed" and flew freely in the fields.

After the vehicle left, the insects fell back into the grass and continued to crawl on the white bones underneath.

Most of the houses on the farm are concentrated on the east side of the farmland, and Ding Xiu drove the car over and parked in front of a wooden house.

Getting out of the car, Ding Xiu still couldn't see a figure, he shouted in the direction of the wooden house, "Is there anyone?" ”

A head with a high crown poked out of the rye straw and chirped a few times.

"What is this? Cassowary? Gu Beimo looked at it and was stunned.

"Yes, it's a cassowary." Song Xijun looked at the animal that was slowly walking towards this side.

The firebird was very tall, and when it stood up in the ryegrass, everyone was taken aback.

Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo were the highest elevations in the team, but the cassowary was even taller than them. It was large and covered in thick black feathers just below its neck, and its two earthy brown feet were thick and powerful, and it looked like it was struggling to support the ground.

"Wow!" Shen You exclaimed, and learned from its appearance and "chirped" a few times.

"Chirp." The cassowary responded.

"You're all talking? What does it say? Song Xijun looked at the childlike Shen You and couldn't help but wonder.

"I don't understand it either, learn how to scream." Shen You smiled and began to rub his fingers, ready to release pheromones.

The cassowary ran to it and looked at Ding Xiu and the others, it tilted its head, not afraid of these unfamiliar faces at all.

"Look stupid and cute." Song Xijun stretched out his hand to touch its blue neck.

At the moment when she reached out, the cassowary also raised a foot and kicked the girl in the abdomen with lightning speed.

"Beware!" Ding Xiu threw himself at Song Xijun and blocked her with his body.

With a "whoop", the two flew out upside down and fell to the ground, and a cut appeared on Ding Xiu's back, and blood flowed out, staining the surrounding clothes red.

This change caught people off guard, who would have thought that an animal bred by a human would suddenly burst out and hurt people.

Fortunately, Ding Xiu's reaction was fast, and the moment he caught a glimpse of the firesowary raising his legs, he realized that there was danger and helped Song Xijun block this claw.

The paws of the cassourfoaries have three toes, which are not only thick and powerful, but also have sharp nails at the ends. The middle one, in particular, has a nail at the end as sharp as a dagger a few inches long.

If he kicked Song Xijun's stomach just now, Ding Xiu didn't dare to think about it. His back was aching faintly, and when he helped Song Xijun up, he narrowly avoided the trampling of the casssowarous rushing up.

"It says it's going to eat us." Shen You shouted at everyone, this is the information that the girl obtained through pheromones.

", you want to eat us, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill it." Gu Beimo was furious, this broken bird was really arrogant in his opinion, not only did he hurt people without greeting him, but he also wanted to treat his people as food.

"You two get in the car first." Ding Xiu protected Song Xijun and Shen You and hid in the car.

Gu Beimo took out his shotgun from the car and shot it at the head of the firebird, but the firebird tilted its head slightly, and the bullet only cut off the crown on its head.

"Hiss~tear~" The crown on the top of the cassowary's head turned into splinters and splashed on the ground around it, and it hissed in pain.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to raise its head, Gu Beimo pulled the trigger again, and this time he aimed at his neck.

With a "bang", the Cassowary's neck snapped like a branch, its head hung to the side, and the only piece of skin attached it to its body. Blood gushed from the broken neck and stained the ground red.

The cassquary was broken by Gu Beimo's neck with a gun, and its body still rushed forward a few steps due to inertia, and finally stumbled to the ground.

"Damn, I'm going to die right now." Gu Beimo walked over and kicked the casssowary's corpse, and when he saw that it was no longer moving, he was relieved.

"Ding Xiu, how are your injuries?" He turned his head to Ding Xiu again and asked.

"I'm fine, it's just a skin trauma." Ding Xiu looked calm, took out the medicine from the car and asked Song Xijun to help spray it on the wound. His gaze suddenly noticed behind Gu Beimo, and his face changed instantly.

"Oh my God!" Ding Xiu was not the only one who let out an exclamation, because everyone followed his gaze and saw hundreds of heads popping up in the rye grass field behind Gu Beimo.

"How can there be so many?!" Gu Beimo exclaimed.

"Get in the car, let's go to the back of the farm and find a place to hide." Ding Xiu shouted at him.

The two jumped into the car, quickly started the car, and drove towards the back of the wooden house. Behind him, countless casshouaries sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, rushing out of the fields in unison and chasing after the car.

"Ding Xiu, the corpse ......" Song Xijun noticed that there were several corpses on the ground outside the car.

"These cassopenies killed the people on the farm?!" Ding Xiu suddenly thought of a possibility.

"No matter, let's find a place to hide first." When he saw the "chaser" behind the car in the mirror, he put some speculation behind him and focused on the current crisis first.

"Ding Xiu, do you see the direction of eleven o'clock on your left, there is a warehouse there." Gu Beimo's voice came from the walkie-talkie, and Ding Xiu looked to the left, where a large warehouse was standing at the back of the wooden house.

"Okay." Ding Xiu responded.

The warehouse was made of a different material than a wooden house, and was one of the few concrete buildings on the farm. It is impossible for the wooden house to withstand the impact of the flock of firebirds, which Ding Xiu has long known in his heart.

He and Gu Beimo drove to the warehouse, and the two drove the car into the warehouse and closed the door from the inside before the cassowary flock arrived.

"Fuck, how could this be?!" Gu Beimo sat down against the door and took a few breaths.

The sound of "ping-pong" on the door was non-stop, it was a cassowary kicking the door.

"There is not a single person on this farm to see, and I suspect that the cassopenies killed the people here." Ding Xiu told his guess.

"But ......" Song Xijun was very puzzled, and said hesitantly: "Aren't they artificially raised?" Why do you kill your own owner? ”

"Who knows, animals are animals after all, and they are still fundamentally different from people." Gu Beimo pursed his lips, feeling the vibration coming from the back of the door, and felt a little angry in his heart.

"Silver coins aren't like them." Shen You corrected him.

"I'm not talking about silver coins." Gu Beimo saw that Shen You had misunderstood his words, so he explained it to her.

Then he hammered the door behind him and yelled outside.

"Give Lao Tzu a stop, and I'll clean you up right away!"