Chapter 18 Food Crisis
After a short rest, the three of them prepared to continue on their way.
"How? Will your injuries be able to make the road? Wang Xiaoling looked at Chen Feng and asked.
"Bear with me, I'm fine, except for a little pain in my chest and ribs, and the skin injuries are almost healed. Second grandmother, how are you? Chen Feng asked Li Cheng.
"It's okay, I took medicine last night and it's already starting to heal. Xiaoling, you help me go, let's leave this place first. Li Cheng gritted his teeth and helped Wang Xiaoling to stand up.
The three of them helped each other out of the resting place. "Now we have three paths to take. First, go back and go back to the shop we came across. But we will inevitably pass by the gathering place of small spiders, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to walk through in our current state, and we can't guarantee that the store is still there. Second, continue through the textile mill into the family area and then on to another road to the south. But we don't know if the monster that the Xiong brothers are talking about is the needle spider empress, and if there are other big guys in the family area, it's not something we can handle now. Third, go through the textile mill and turn around to the lake. Personally, I prefer this road, because it is relatively close to the city along the lake road, and we don't have anything to eat now, so far only the one-eyed toad has exploded into edible things. We have experience in dealing with that thing, and with the new equipment now, the win rate is relatively large. What do you guys think? Chen Feng said what he thought.
"You can go however you want, I'm not a big fan of thinking too far. As long as the safety factor is high, go wherever you go. Li Cheng said indifferently.
"I think the third way is okay. The most important thing for us at the moment is to protect ourselves, food, nature is the first place, no one can go far hungry. I agree. Wang Xiaoling said.
"Okay, let's go through the textile mill and we'll go to Linghu."
The three of them walked cautiously for more than half an hour, and finally passed through the textile factory. Chen Feng looked back at the dilapidated factory in the textile factory, and exhaled with palpitations.
"Brother Feng, although he said that he was going to Linghu Lake, do you know how to get there? I haven't been to this ghost place before the end of the world, let alone now, it's a ruin, how can I tell the direction? Li Cheng asked.
Chen Feng smiled. "By smell."
“?” Li Cheng looked dazed.
"Fishy smell, Linghu Lake is not far from us. We just need to find a slightly higher place and smell the fishy smell on one side. Wang Xiaoling explained.
"It's still a high-achieving student, he's right. Linghu Lake is rich in lake freshness, the so-called relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, relying on the water to draft water. The people by the Linghu Lake deal with fish and shrimp all year round, so the fishy smell of the Linghu Lake is particularly strong. In the past, environmental pollution, all kinds of factory exhaust gases, car exhaust fumes, covered this smell, only near the lake can smell fishy, now in the apocalyptic era, there is no air pollution, fishy smell can spread farther. Chen Feng explained to Li Cheng.
"I didn't smell anything." Li Cheng raised his head and wrinkled his nose.
"Go there." Chen Feng pointed to a building across the road with 4 floors left.
"I'll go, it's inconvenient for you and Brother Cheng." Wang Xiaoling volunteered.
"Then be careful."
Wang Xiaoling crossed the road and carefully climbed up the small building with only four floors left. The sky was still covered with dark clouds, and a slight breeze was blowing, Wang Xiaoling sniffed hard, but he didn't smell anything. After a few minutes, he walked down disappointed.
"Brother Feng, I didn't smell anything. What to do? Wang Xiaoling asked.
"Is there any wind up there?" Chen Feng asked.
"A little, what's wrong?" Wang Xiaoling wondered.
"The road along the lake in Linghu Lake, on the map, looks like the word 'factory'. And the Linghu Bridge is right around the corner. Chen Feng squatted on the ground and drew a simple picture with a stone for everyone to see. Although we don't know how long it took to wake up from a coma, the temperature should still be summer, and the southeast or south wind is generally blowing in summer. If you feel the wind on the roof and smell the fishy smell, that's a no-brainer. Now you only feel the wind and there is no fishy smell, which means that the wind is blowing from the south or the southeast. As long as we follow the direction of the downwind, we will definitely be able to reach Linghu. But if it's a southerly wind, with our current position, we might go to the Linghu Bridge. If it's a southeast wind, you can bypass the bridge and go straight to the lake. ”
"Niu, Brother Feng, how do you know so much?" Li Cheng asked with a look of admiration.
"Well, maybe it's a professional habit, I like to draw when I'm a soldier. In the past two years, taxi software has been popular, and I have nothing to do after work, and I have been a part-time driver for a year. I often look at the navigation map, and I am more impressed. Chen Feng said. Let's go. Xiaoling, where did the wind blow? ”
Wang Xiaoling raised his hand and pointed in one direction.
"Then let's go this way." Chen Feng followed the direction of Wang Xiaoling's finger and pointed in the opposite direction.
The trio continued along the road. An hour later, a faint fishy smell wafted into the nostrils of the trio. Chen Feng and the three of them were shocked, and they were about to arrive. If you smell the fishy smell, it proves that you are not far from Linghu Lake. They quickened their pace. The three of them excitedly walked past the last dilapidated house, and a broken road appeared in front of them, and on the other side of the road was Linghu. The three of them ran forward happily, and before they had time to cheer, Chen Feng, who was running at the front, suddenly turned around and pulled Li Cheng and the two of them back sharply.
"What's wrong?" Wang Xiaoling asked suspiciously.
"There's something, I don't see what it is. Wait here, I'll take a look. Chen Feng said suspiciously. Without waiting for the two to object, Chen Feng lay on the ground and slowly crawled to the opposite side of the road. A few minutes later, Chen Feng climbed to the edge of the road, and he carefully brushed away the dead grass in front of him. I saw strange monsters appear in front of me, they are about eight meters long, with the head of a crocodile, the back armor of a turtle, six thick short legs, three fingers on the soles of the feet, webbed between the fingers, a slender tail, and sharp hard thorns at the end. There were about forty or fifty of these monsters on the entire river beach.
"I'll go, what's this?"
Chen Feng, who was carefully observing the monster, heard a soft cry in his ears, Chen Feng turned his head sideways, and it turned out that Li Cheng and Wang Xiaoling also crawled over like him. "Brother Feng, we are a team, don't always carry things by yourself." Li Cheng said softly with a smile.
Chen Feng was about to reprimand, when he heard Li Cheng say this, his heart warmed, and he lost his temper at the moment. "I don't know what this thing is. Let's see what they're doing. ”
The three of them just lay on the side of the road and observed the monsters. After a while, Wang Xiaoling seemed to have discovered something, and said softly. "Brother Feng, the white thing under that thing's belly can't be an egg, right?"
Chen Feng looked around, and sure enough, almost half of the monster's body was faintly leaking white balls. "Maybe these guys like to lay their eggs on the shore just as much as turtles. According to the habits of turtles, these things should all leave after laying eggs. Shall we wait a little longer? Chen Feng asked for the opinions of the two.
"It's still early, anyway, and if it's true, as you say, they'll leave when they're done, and we'll have dinner. Hey~" Li Cheng looked in reverie.
Wang Xiaoling nodded and did not speak. Then, like geckos, the three of them lay motionless on the cold ground, waiting for the group of monsters to leave after laying eggs. An hour passed, two hours passed. The three of them decided to stay for about 10 minutes to stay for observation, and the other two to rest, and then change every half hour. Just when Li Cheng was about to replace Wang Xiaoling again, the monster groups in front of him began to move. Wang Xiaoling put his hand on his back and shook it, which was the signal they had said before. Chen Feng and Li Cheng saw the signal and immediately crawled over.
"Look, two of them were already in the water when you came." Wang Xiaoling pointed to the side.
Chen Feng looked in the direction of his finger, not far from the riverbank, in a large pit, a pile of about four or five egg-shaped objects were placed together. There were no monsters waiting around.
"Look at that, there's movement again." Li Cheng said excitedly. In the group of monsters, two more are slowly crawling towards the lake. "Let's go, let's go. Lao Cheng, my stomach is growling. Li Cheng muttered to himself.