Chapter 119: Eating Rats
Dusk faded, and night fell again on the ruins. [Ran^Text^Library] []
This time, two survivors spontaneously came to Luo Qi's side and recommended themselves to Luo Qi.
Both of the survivors were female, with a very ordinary appearance and somewhat bloated figures.
The two claimed to have majored in mechanical design at the same university before.
At the time of the disaster, the two were inspecting the field in order to prepare for their thesis for graduate school.
After the disaster, the two hid in a hidden cave and were lucky to survive.
Both women were only twenty-two years old, but they both wore glasses with lenses as thick as beer bottles.
When they found Luo Qi together, they all showed an uneasy look on their faces, and every movement seemed cautious.
"So, you can design a bridge?"
Luo Qi looked at the woman standing in front of her, who was obviously much older than herself, with a look of disbelief on her face.
"Really?"
Hearing this, the two women looked even more uneasy.
They glanced at each other quite crampedly, and the fatter one of them mustered up the courage to walk in front of Luo Qi and said, "We, we have seen many bridges and know how to design them." ”
"Moreover, we studied mechanics, so we know how to design to ensure the stability of the bridge."
Hearing this, Luo Qi's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "That's good, you hurry up and design!" ”
"But we don't have enough materials, only wood, and I'll go find some nails tomorrow."
"Anyway, I'll leave the blueprint to you."
Hearing this, the two women standing in front of Luo Qi suddenly looked happy, as if they felt extremely honored because of the things they could do.
At this time, Xu Shi, who had been sitting not far from Luo Qi, also smiled and said, "Little brother." ”
"Carpentry like bridge-building, let me do it."
These days, Luo Qi has been very close to more than a hundred members of the search team, which makes Xu Shi and others, who have not joined the search team, feel as if a pimple has grown in their hearts.
At this time, Xu Shi, who found that Luo Qi wanted to build a bridge and wanted to show it, quickly interjected: "I used to do carpentry work, as long as there are drawings, I will definitely be able to build it." ”
Hearing this, Luo Qi nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay." ”
"However, there must be other people in the team who can do carpentry, and I will tell Zheng Yimao later and ask him to find some people to help."
"Xu Shi, these people who know carpentry will teach you to command."
Hearing this, Xu Shi suddenly became a little excited, and said in a somewhat eager tone: "Don't worry, leave it to me, I will definitely satisfy you." ”
Hearing this, Luo Qi nodded and stood up, went to the camp to find Zheng Yimao, and handed him the task of two women who drew drawings and found carpenters.
Then, Luo Qi jumped into a canvas tent, grabbed a quilt and covered his head, and fell asleep.
By the time he woke up, it was already dawn.
He lifted the quilt, walked out of the tent quickly, and found Zheng Yimao, who had already woken up and was directing the women to scald the only remaining cabbage for everyone's breakfast.
After taking more than 900 people to eat cabbage, Zheng Yimao gathered more than 100 members of the search team and walked out of the camp with Luo Qi.
"We need to search for supplies, and we need to fight rats."
"I'm going to have to find some tools."
Luo Qi looked at the more than 100 people who were ready behind him, and said in a hoarse voice that was not at all like what his own age should have: "Therefore, today's task is extremely heavy. ”
"The only thing to be thankful for is that we have a day."
"Unfortunately, we can't get back at noon."
"People here can only go hungry."
Luo Qi, as usual, picked up the hemp rope with one hand, and in an extraordinarily calm tone, he looked at the more than 100 people behind him, and said, "Let's go." ”
A search team of more than 100 people set off.
At noon, these people came back under the watchful eye of everyone.
Today, Luo Qi still did not hunt a large prey, not even a rabbit, but brought back more than 400 mice and more than 100 catties of rice.
To be honest, Luo Qi didn't expect that there would be so many such mice.
He just destroyed a rat's nest in a hole in the ground, and found a labyrinthine hole connected to the rat's nest.
These burrows are criss-crossed, chaotic and disorganized.
These holes are connected to countless rat nests.
Luo Qi asked more than 100 people to use fire and forced more than 400 rats into a dead corner.
In fact, there were more rats that escaped at that time.
And the rice was also seized from the rat's nest.
"These rats are almost fine."
handed over the task of cleaning up the rats to Zheng Yimao, and Luo Qi sat with Li Yuangang and others like a shopkeeper.
He told Li Yuangang and the others about today's hunting experience, and sighed while saying, "All of them are ghosts, ghosts." ”
"Those rat nests, wandering around underground, are simply an underground kingdom."
"If it weren't for my hearing and ability to see six ways, I would have people block all the rat holes in advance and dig them up."
"I'm afraid, we won't even be able to catch a single mouse."
Hearing this, Li Yuangang and the others also showed a look of surprise on their faces.
Wu Jin and Zhang Chunjun, who were stunned, frowned tightly together.
Wu Jin pondered for a while, then turned his head to look at Zhang Chunjun again, and then said to Luo Qi: "Xiao Luo." ”
"I've heard before that there is a kind of swarm rat in the world that likes to burrow very much."
"But that rat is not the rat you brought back today."
"Those rats shouldn't have such abilities."
"The only possibility."
Wu Jin gritted his teeth and said with a somewhat uneasy face: "It's these rats, they have mutated." ”
Hearing this, Luo Qi pursed her lips slightly, remembering her experience in the last few days, she couldn't help frowning, and her face became extremely solemn.
He was silent for a moment, and then said, "Yes, many animals are indeed very different from before the disaster. ”
"In fact, they have become stronger and more dangerous than they were before the disaster."
"However, such a change should not be too obvious."
Luo Qi smiled a little self-deprecatingly and said, "At least." ”
"None of them have evolved wisdom yet."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent.
In the midst of the heaviness of everyone, Zhang Chunjun suddenly sighed lightly and said, "Xiao Luo." ”
"What's the use of thinking about it now?"
"Hey, hey."
Luo Qiyan laughed twice and said, "That's right." ”
"Whatever these beasts can evolve into, at least for now, they're just a meal on our plate."
Hearing this, everyone laughed.
More than 400 rats, stripped of their fur and guts, were put on a clean, skinned branch and set up on dozens of bonfires.
Luo Qi is right, rat meat is much better than wild boar meat in terms of meat quality and tenderness.
The number of more than 400 also allowed more than 900 survivors to have a good meal.
Li Fatzi, who swallowed at least half of a roasted mouse, was very satisfied.
He used a thin wooden stick to pick between his teeth and said, "I didn't expect it." ”
"This rat tastes like a rabbit."
"Besides, it's still a fat rabbit."
Next to Li Fatzi, Luo Qi gnawed on the leg bone of a mouse, looked at Xu Shi who was biting a mouse's head with a comfortable face, and said, "I said, how is the bridge built?" ”
"Hmm."
Xu Shi spit out the rat head that couldn't be chewed in his mouth to the ground, and hurriedly said to Luo Qi: "Little brother." ”
"The blueprints have been drawn and we have already started construction."
"However, nails and tools are a little lacking at this time."
Hearing this, Luo Qi nodded and said, "That's good." ”
"Nails and tools, I'll figure it out."
Hearing this, Xu Shi looked happy and said, "If there are enough tools." ”
"Then tomorrow at the latest, we will be able to use the wooden bridge we have built to pass through the cracks."
Hearing this, Luo Qi curled the corners of her mouth slightly and said, "That's really good." ”
After all the more than 900 survivors had lunch, Luo Qi set off again with more than 100 members of the search team.
Food was temporarily guaranteed, and Luo Qi led the people to focus on the scope of the search on the ruins that might have courtyards.
Because of the huge crater, all the surrounding courtyards were buried in the aftermath of the impact.
Luo Qi led the people to search for a long time, and only then did they find a thing that was exposed on the surface and shaped like a triangle.
Luo Qi stared at that thing for a long time before he looked at Zheng Yimao and said with a puzzled face: "This, it's a water tower, right?" ”
Hearing this, Zheng Yimao nodded with a sneer, squatted down again, and observed carefully for a while before saying, "It seems to be." ”
Hearing this, Luo Qi pursed her mouth slightly, raised her foot and stepped on the ground under her feet, and could only let out a heavy sigh helplessly.
"Alas!"
"You guys, stay away from me."
"It's better to hide on another hill."