Chapter 3: Traces of the Beast

Inside the Fish Harbor Sanctuary.

The underground passages crisscross the city, and the silver-gray walls have a cold metallic sheen, making them very solid. The passage is flanked by neatly arranged square portals, apparently human dwellings. The internal power supply comes from the bio-generator set. This precious set of machines was bought from inside the hive at a high price, bartered from inside the hive, and the people of the fishport have relied on it for more than three centuries.

Hive, representing force and domination at the same time, but also represents cutting-edge technology, Hive products have amazing performance. If you want to get an item from the Hive, you just have to complete the task it gives it or meet one of its requirements. But these tasks and requirements can be said to be as difficult as the sky and outrageous.

In a secluded portal, a small magnesium lamp glows softly, filling the simple circular hut. The white walls diffracted the light, making the cottage even brighter. The roof and the vents facing the door are black, and at first glance they look like they are bottomless, which is out of step with the style of the place. Xiaoxue, a tall girl, looked at the old mirror hanging on the wall, and her jade hand quickly unbuttoned a few buttons in her power suit, and pulled the zipper open, peeling it off her body, revealing the pure white vest and bare arms inside. Then gently place it on the wood-colored closet next to the bed. The old mirror shows the beautiful face of the girl: the white skin is shiny, the gray neck-length short hair is soft and naturally scattered on the forehead, the delicate and beautiful face I see pity, and there is a deep ravine between the tall twin peaks. She seemed to be looking at herself in the mirror and looking stupid, and her beautiful eyes couldn't take her eyes off for a long time.

"Does my appearance really look exactly like my mother as my grandparents said? If that's the case, Daddy's vision is too good, hehe! After a moment, with a coquettish smile, her eyes shifted from the mirror to the big black basket on the side, and she muttered to herself with a look of resentment: "Hey, I have to keep working again!" With that, he bent down and opened a hidden drawer under the mirror, in which there were several knives of different types and shapes, of different sizes and lengths. Xiaoxue took out a curved dagger, made a delicate arc in the palm of her hand, and pinned it to her waist. Opening the door, carrying the basket and its contents on his shoulders, he walked quickly towards a brightly lit passageway.

Wash the Section, an important part of the Fish Harbor Sanctuary. Every day, most of the body tissues of various prey animals are used here to fuel the generator set, and only a small part of it becomes the food of people. The proportion of desirable portions depends on the type of prey, and not all meat in this mutated world is suitable for unmutated humans. The washing section is a dome structure, like a fish harbor shelter that has been magnified dozens of times, and it looks very open in comparison. In the center of the flat, smooth ground is a circular cavity about 3 meters in diameter, which is connected to the feed port of the bio-generator set, probably to facilitate the dispensing of fuel, and there is no protective device such as a guardrail at the opening. The light snow came too late, and only a few sparse people were working here at the moment.

Near the left no-man's land of the central hollow, Xiaoxue bent slightly, and in a clatter, she dumped two giant fish from the basket to the ground. Mutant cod, the scales are silvery white, the head is large and the mouth is square, and the mouth is sharp. It feeds on small mutant organisms in the sea, and lives on the continental shelf and shallow waters, up to several meters in length. Although it is unable to pose any threat to humans, it is incredibly fast and reflexes, making it extremely difficult to catch. Except for about 1 hour before dusk and night, they will appear near shore to hunt small mutated creatures, allowing land predators to take advantage of them, and they will not be seen at all the rest of the time. Cod has been loved by countless people in the old times for its delicious meat, less spines and more meat, and some European countries have the so-called cod complex. Even though it has now been mutated by radiation contamination, it is still superior prey, but it is an adventure to catch it, because at that time, you are facing the threat of night. Xiaoxue squatted down on her knees, pulled over one of them, which was about 1.5 meters long, took out the curved dagger from her waist, and skillfully began to operate it.

In a moment, the snorting sound of scraping scales was heard, and Xiaoxue was already immersed in the labor, her attention completely focused on the dagger in her hand and the cod on the ground. She used her dagger to scrape off the scales on the cod's back, and with the help of her dexterous wrist, the sharp blade of the dagger cut through the thick skin at the back of the cod's spine and penetrated deep into the mutated musculature. Xiao Xuejiao snorted and pulled the dagger back to the tail, repeating this twice, and the musculature on both sides of the cod's backbone was separated from its spine with the sour sound of the blade breaking through the flesh. Xiaoxue grabbed the backbone that had no one to rely on, pulled it hard, and threw it into the hole without looking, the dirty blood splashed, and a fishy smell permeated. Accustomed to the smell, Xiaoxue snorted, and then reached into the cod's body cavity and flipped and groped. After a while, as if she had found what she was looking for, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of her crooked mouth, and then her slender fingers clenched the thing and tugged hard! It was pulled out, and it turned out to be a giant swim bladder. This is the most precious place of the whole fish, the swim bladder is filled with clean water, does not contain any radiation, and can be drunk after a little purification. In this era, radiation-free clear water is as hard currency as weapons and ammunition. She kept moving, cutting out two long strips of snow-white crystal meat at the muscles close to the cod's backbone, which were two unmutated flesh in the body of a cod, I am afraid that there were several catties, Xiaoxue mixed it with the fish float, and put it into the black frame.

"Xiaoxue, this girl, can get these rare goods every time." A short-haired man who worked here together looked at the crystal fish in Xiaoxue's hand, put down the half-skinned steel-toothed rat in his hand, and said to a bald man directly opposite: "And you and I can only fiddle with these disgusting rats all day long, not as good as a little girl, really a man." ”

The bald man looked at him with contempt and said, "You think you have the same evolutionary physique as her?" With you like this, she won't be able to go through a round in her hands. If you have rat meat to eat, you will be satisfied, daydreaming all day long, hurry up and work! After that, he cut off a small piece of rat meat from the hind leg of the steel-toothed rat in his hand, and threw the almost whole rat directly into the central cavity of the washing room. One foot kicked at the short-haired man a basket full of gray and black steel-toothed rats.

"You think you'll be able to take one more turn in her hands?" The short-haired man was a little angry, obviously a little dissatisfied with the words of this bright man. The bald man smiled awkwardly and did not answer.

"Hmm!! Today's harvest is good, is there an uncle's share? Cher. Just as Xiaoxue threw the remaining body of the cod into the hollow, about to flip another one, a middle-aged man's voice came from behind her, like a heavy hammer hitting a drum.

Hearing this voice, Xiaoxue looked surprised. Then he got up and turned back, pretending to look at the middle-aged man in front of him in an old way and said, "Uncle Lord, Xue'er's things, if you want it, it's not impossible!" The old rules, take it! With that, a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he stretched out his blood-stained paws to the middle-aged man.

This middle-aged man is Qin Wei, the current lord of the Fish Harbor Shelter, who was once a close friend of Xiaoxue's father before his death. This man, with horizontal eyebrows and round eyes, a leopard face and a square mouth, a mouth and a beard, is more than 1.8 meters wearing an old-era military green vest and camouflage trousers, with khaki yellow anti-fleece military boots, and the whole person is in an inverted triangle shape. The muscles of the thick arms were knotted, and several hideous scars were staggered across the dark skin. He stood there like a door god.

But at this moment, from the eyes of this fierce and vicious middle-aged man, what is revealed is a love from the heart. Looking at Xiaoxue's outstretched paws, she couldn't help but recall the picture of being slaughtered by her in the past, her face showed pain, and her beard trembled and shouted: "Your uncle's little savings have long been squeezed out by your girl, where else can I give you." I don't know how to honor the old man at all, and I don't know how to send it to me when I get such a good thing, and I have to pick it up myself. Pity me Qin Wei has been unruly all my life, and in the end, I am afraid that the violent corpse wilderness will be gnawed by rats, and no one will collect the corpse! This fish is good, give me the best use of my talents" After speaking, he went straight to the cod on the ground that had not had time to deal with it, grabbed the cod's tail with his big hand, and didn't care about the little snow that was pouting and angry, but carried it away. Walking to the entrance of the washing room, he stopped in desperation, shook his head, and said to the girl behind him who was still pouting and angry: "I know that I am worried about my baby, come to me tomorrow!" ”

Hearing his words, the girl's eyebrows fluttered.

At the same time, in the clearing not far from the Fish Harbor Shelter, a hideous flying machine is circling and landing. In a gust of airflow, the hatch opened, and more than a dozen tall and strong tower-like figures jumped out of it, and at the same time they landed, stirring up dust in the sky. They wore a variety of alloy armor and held different weapons. And its face is not human! Dressed in silver armor, with its face wrapped in cyan scales, and a single horn on its head, the tower creature looked in the direction of the Fish Harbor shelter in front of it and let out a shrill roar: "Is this the settlement of that pure-blood human?" Come and have some fun, boys. ”