Chapter 111: Catching Birds
The original marshland is nearly oval in shape, with a maximum diameter of about 20 kilometers and a minimum diameter of about 15 kilometers. The volcanic eruption buried a large area of marshland near the side of Rock Town, leaving only a shallow area of water six kilometers wide and ten kilometers long in the southeast corner. At the moment, the flamingo is in that area.
It was half past two in the morning, and Zhang Le came to the edge of the shallow water. Zhang Le didn't arrive alone, he had three companions, Snow, Jinx, and Sandy. The team is almost perfect, with the only flaw being that Sandy can't fly. However, his many extra-long tentacles are an important tool that Zhang Le needs today.
Zhang Le and Xue took Sandy's arms on the left and right, and flew into the air, quickly flying towards the habitat of the flock of flamingos. Normally, birds can't see at night. But in the process of the evolution of the global collective mutation, the eyesight of most organisms has been enhanced, including birds. Although the enhanced eyesight cannot be compared with that of the day, there is still a range of thirty or fifty meters.
Zhang Le has been observing this group of flamingos for three days, and he has already figured out the habits of flamingos, and the farthest vision of this group of flamingos at night is not more than fifty meters, and two to three o'clock in the morning is the time when flamingos sleep the deepest. When they were about sixty meters away from the flamingo, Zhang Le and Xue gently lowered Sandy.
After falling to the ground, Sandy began to transform greatly, increasing from less than two meters in height to about twenty meters tall, and his body was also covered with countless slender tentacles. The tentacles grew longer and longer, eventually reaching one hundred and twenty or thirty meters.
Seeing this, Zhang Le was a little dissatisfied, and sent a stream of white light energy into Sandy's body. Sandy let out a comfortable moan, and the tentacles grew more than thirty meters. Several people had a chill.
Then, Sandy began to fold the tentacles on top of each other, and slowly, in the shape of a giant fishing net. This was all rehearsed in advance, and it was a breeze to do, and after ten minutes or so, a huge fishing net was erected in the air.
According to the pre-made plan, Zhang Le, Xue, and Jinx flew in the other three directions, and Sandy stayed where he was.
When everything was ready, Zhang Le relayed messages to his companions through mental fluctuations and insect information hormone networks. All the flamingos were asleep, and a large net silently covered the flock of flamingos.
By the time the flamingos find themselves covered by a large net, it will be too late. The flamingo's neck and head are slender enough to easily slip through the gaps in the giant net, but its huge body is stuck.
In an emergency, the flamingo's dagger-like beak pecked at Sandy's tentacles. Although the tentacles are very tough and will not peck for a short time, Sandy has to endure great pain, and he keeps twisting his body and dancing weirdly on the side.
The rest of the matter is that Zhang Le has made a move, and Xue and Jinx are in the sky to prevent fish from slipping through the net. Zhang Le's speed is fast enough, and he can use his ice skills to walk in shallow swamps. Nylon cable ties were tied to the flamingo's spiky beak, and after losing their most powerful weapon, the clever mutated creatures all stopped resisting, their eyes fixed on the hunters who captured them.
The IQ of mutant creatures is quite high, so Zhang Le's policy towards this group of birds is still both endeavour. Now, of course, is the time to unleash its might. Flamingos are not the only creatures in the swamp, there are still many pythons and crocodiles. Zhang Le was in front of this group of flamingos, flying in the air with his wings of his mind, and after killing three giant pythons and two crocodiles at a long distance in a row with the "palm thunder", the largest bird among the flamingos struggled violently. Several people understood that it seemed that this flamingo was the leader of this flock of birds.
Zhang Le let Jinx fly over and took off the cable tie. The largest flamingo, whose beak was freed, immediately quacked, but alas, no one could understand what it was saying. But everyone understood what it meant, and it was a language that didn't need to be translated, because it was in a pleading tone.
Zhang Le thought about it, asked Sandy to put away the tentacle giant net, and regardless of whether the flamingo leader understood it or not, he pointed forward, and then took the lead and flew forward. The flamingo leader did not hesitate, and after a burst of acceleration, he also flew into the sky and followed Zhang Le. The remaining flamingos took off after the leader. Snow and Jinx followed last, setting up Sandy, who had returned to a normal human, and following suit.
During the daylight the next day, the townspeople of Rock Town and Wilderness Town spotted a spectacle where giant flamingos that had been hunting near the swamp began to wander over Rock Town. However, these flamingos did not come to attack Rock Town, but became the guardians of Rock Town, because on the front few flamingos, there were also several humans riding on them. Some of the visually mutated hunters had already recognized that the rider of the largest flamingo at the front was none other than Jaime, the god that had always been rampant in Rock Town.
Zhang Le's intention to disclose the existence of flamingos is also useful, because Zhang Le plans to leave some flamingos behind when he leaves Rock Town, which can be regarded as another gift that Zhang Le left to Rock Town.
Although unable to communicate directly in words, the flamingo leader expressed his surrender through his actions. Moreover, the flamingo's young birds and unhatched eggs were also transferred by Zhang Le to the pasture in Rock Town, which also made the flamingo completely lose the idea of escaping.
After having a deterrent, Zhang Le spent a lot of money to ask the town's chef to prepare barbecue and bread for the flamingo, which is a grace. Obviously, cooked food for humans is more in line with the appetite of flamingos. After a flock of flamingos spent two days in Rock Town, all the flamingos' favorite thing to do was wait for the meal to start. Of course, Zhang Le can't raise them for nothing, these flamingos' daily job is to hunt, and the prey they catch is enough to feed themselves, and they can be regarded as self-reliant in Rock Town.
The days passed, and the time came to the end of March 2027.
The construction of Hongshan New Town has already achieved initial results. Between Redhill Newtown and Rock Town, a ten-meter-wide avenue paved with gravel has been completed. In the outer ring of Hongshan New Town, a two-meter-and-a-half-high protective wall has also been built. The town of Rock suddenly added more than 200 square kilometers of security area, laying a solid foundation for the future development of Rock Town.
At the same time, the first batch of 1,000 stone houses has been delivered to customers, and although these new houses are only 30 square meters and a small courtyard, they are real personal assets. Having a safe abode of one's own in the last days is something that only those who have experienced the dangers of the wild can understand how precious it is. At the same time, the nursery school in Rock Town was completely completed.
In addition to commercial housing, Zhang Le has also stepped up efforts to build low-rent housing, which is a home for the poor and one of the sources of future childcare expenses in Rock Town. Anyway, there are ready-made almost free construction workers, and the cost is almost not considered.
During this time, the people of Wilderness Town were mainly construction troops, and the people of Rock Town, including those freelance hunters, all joined the ranks of cultivating wasteland. It's not that the freelance hunters don't want to go out hunting, but under Zhang Le's cleanup, within fifty kilometers around Rock Town, mutated creatures of all sizes are either killed, driven away, or tamed, which causes many freelance hunters to lose their jobs.
With Zhang Le's acquiescence, the townspeople of Wilderness Town began to live in Hongshan New Town. Hongshan New Town has an area of more than 240 square kilometers, and there is enough space to accommodate the population.
Although there is no official confirmation, Zhang Le is completely treated like a god in Rock Town. Even Mayor Theon, after seeing Zhang Le, he would pretend to raise the iron fist of the proletariat and salute Zhang Le.
When the first newborn was officially stationed in the Rock Town Nursery, Zhang Le's final task was over. On that day, two major events also occurred, Victor and Bartory, who had disappeared for a long time, returned to Rock Town, and the caterpillar also formed a cocoon.