Chapter 167: Poison Testing

Within a few days, Jiaping City was filled with a strong rancid smell, which attracted a large number of scavenging flies.

This mutated fly is as large as a bullfrog, ugly in shape, glow-green, and makes a noise as loud as a blower when it flies. But in fact, it's not less dangerous at all,

This mutated creature will not only stare at rotting wounds, but also suck blood, and can even absorb more than several times the volume of blood. With the delicate skin of human beings, it is impossible to resist the mouthparts of this mutated creature, of course, if only one bite is targeted, at most a few hundred milliliters of blood will be lost, but such a danger is nothing to the survivors who have been living in the jungle for nearly a month.

A group of survivors walked cautiously on the moss-covered streets, they were ragged and unkempt, almost everyone was stained with black blood, and their bodies were covered with large and small scars, some wounds had not yet fully healed, pus and blood were dripping from them, and maggots were wriggling in some places, which made people's scalp tingle.

They were holding each other in twos and threes, limping cautiously forward.

A dark-faced, lean young man walked in the front, he watched vigilantly around, and suddenly felt a slight abnormality in his arm, and without even looking at it, he slapped the fly that tried to suck blood to death, the most indispensable thing in the jungle is reaction, many times, life and death are often in an instant.

However, the action was still a little late, and the corpse of the mutant fly was splashed with blood, obviously his, the black-faced young man frowned, grabbed the corpse of the fly, and looked at it carefully, this mutant creature has no warning color, nor does it have a pungent smell, it is not like a poison, he looked ahead, this mutated fly seems to be not a few, enough for the team to eat.

The team has been out of food for a day, and the jerky stored before has been consumed, which is the food that cost three lives, if this creature can eat, then the team's food for today will be settled, and maybe it can accumulate food for a few days.

Crucially, the cost of obtaining food is almost negligible, and in the current state of the "unarmed" state of the team, it is clear that this creature is the best source of food.

Food is a big problem in the last days, don't look at mutant creatures everywhere, but powerful creatures can't be provoked, and low-level mutant creatures can survive until now and they have begun to become cunning, not running around, there are no bullets, if you want to catch one, you have to work hard, but there are so many people in the team, many of them are wounded, and occasionally catching one, it is not enough to score at all.

And not all creatures can be eaten, some things, eat will kill people, this needs to rely on human experience and judgment, and even if it is previous field knowledge, sometimes it is not easy to use, a seemingly ordinary creature, it is likely to contain highly poisonous, can only be tested one by one by human life, if you are lucky, your stomach hurts for a few days, and if you are unlucky, you can only die, and there are no less than five people in the team who died because of food poisoning.

In addition, the experience gained from the previous use of human life is not very safe, there are too many types of organisms after evolution, the entire natural world is as if a strong catalyst has been added, and all living things have entered a state of crazy competition, even if it is the same kind of creature, after the end of the world, it may develop thousands or even tens of thousands of evolutionary types, different regions, evolution is different, and can only continue to rely on people to test the poison, he hesitated for a moment, and wanted to stuff it into his mouth.

"According to the rules, I should be the one to do this time!" A man walking behind, with a pale face, gasped. Soybean-like sweat kept dripping from his forehead, his nose was covered with dense beads of sweat, one of his legs had been soaked with blood, even if the thigh had been tightly tied with a strip of cloth, but the blood still couldn't stop flowing, obviously the artery had ruptured, and a long blood trail was pulled out as he walked, such an injury, if there was no one next to him, he couldn't act alone.

Seeing the young man's hesitation, he smiled weakly: "The rules can't be broken, I know I'm almost dying, it's impossible to catch the last train, everyone is carrying me with such a burden, except for dragging everyone down, there is no point, while my blood is not exhausted now, just leave the poison test to me, I can't walk anymore, and I can do something for everyone before I die." ”

"Qian Cheng don't give up, our third battalion will never give up any of our comrades-in-arms, at least in ...... Before death came," a middle-aged man with a resolute face saw that he had already developed a will to die, walked quickly in front of Qian Cheng, and said with a painful expression.

"Battalion commander, I know my own situation, I really don't want to drag everyone down, let me stay, I can't stand it anymore." He smiled, broke free from the comrade he was holding next to him, staggered a few steps, and sat on the ground with difficulty.

"Give it to me, I can be a full ghost before I die!" He smiled calmly, along the way, he had experienced countless lives and deaths, and he had seen his comrades-in-arms fall in front of him one by one, and he might have been talking to himself just now, but in the blink of an eye, he was gone, and he had already seen death.

"Give it to him!" The battalion commander waved his hand vigorously.

The black-faced young man's lips squirmed, but in the end he still didn't speak, this kind of thing has happened many times in the team, and he has long been numb, because if he can't stand it, he has already died, or committed suicide.

Qian Cheng took the fly handed by the mutant black-faced youth, didn't look at it, divided the whole mutant fly into several mouthfuls, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it vigorously, and swallowed it with a frown.

After eating the flies, his face became even worse, sweat flowed down like a stream, his breathing became more and more rapid, and when he saw someone rushing over, he waved his hand vigorously to prevent others from approaching.

"It's not poisonous, but it's ...... You can eat it. After more than ten minutes, he didn't seem to feel anything unusual, and Qian Cheng straightened up.

Immediately, as if he had exhausted the last trace of energy, he slowly fell to the ground, and a puddle of blood had accumulated under him.

A soldier next to him pressed his pulse and shook his head with an ugly face.

The team fell silent.

………………

"Keep walking, we are only a little more than 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, and if we march normally, we will be able to arrive in one day. Even if...... Now it's only going to take three or four days. Now that I've arrived here, even if you get out, you have to roll me to the Shanghai market. The battalion commander said in a low but powerful voice.

Of course he knows that the speed can't be as fast as three or four days, this is not the road that extends in all directions before the end of the world, the dangerous jungle here, if you don't pay attention to it, you will die at any time, and it is not the body in the healthy state before, almost everyone here has injuries, old injuries and new injuries, everyone is encouraging support, one night passes, maybe you can't wake up the next day. In addition to this, food, water, and sleeping are all big problems.

In fact, as long as he can arrive in Shanghai alive with the team within half a month, he will already be happy, but the cruelty of the truth makes him understand that this is simply a fantasy, since the beast tide a few months ago, it has been completely separated from the big team, from the beginning there are more than two hundred people, to now there are only a dozen people left, some soldiers who were torn off their arms on the battlefield without frowning can't stand this tragic situation and even secretly commit suicide, the cruelty can be imagined.

The team didn't respond in the slightest, there was a thick air of death, and they just hurried away!

At this time, someone seemed to feel something unusual, and suddenly said: "Battalion commander, something is wrong here, it's too quiet!" ”

Only then did everyone react, and they quickly stopped, and along the way, they didn't see a decent mutant beast at all, it was abnormal, it was too abnormal!

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