Chapter 3 A bowl of broth
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Cars, dilapidated tents, and even a walled dwelling with planks and rags, plus a few improvised wooden fences outside, would be a gathering place, and depending on the situation, there would be no more than twenty people here.
Seeing this, Wu Ming secretly shook his head, if there were more than twenty stinging mice, or six or seven insect people attacking, this small gathering place could be completely wiped out.
It is not even easy to describe it as small, Wu Ming felt that this was just a miniature gathering place, and there was almost no defense.
At the moment, there are only two or three children playing in the gathering place, and a few women are picking and washing some unknown tree roots dug up from the wild, which can be eaten even if boiled.
The infiltration of the vitality has affected not only humans and living beings, but also plants, and it is said that many plants have mutated to a greater or lesser extent. Just like this tree root, it was not edible before, but now it is like a sweet potato with some hardness, although it tastes a little hard and bitter, but at least it can be eaten.
And the four prickly mice, it is obvious that they can add food to this gathering place, and soon Wu Ming found a very helpless thing, perhaps because he is a fresh face, but at the moment he is being chased by several children and looked curiously. These children are not big, the oldest is only five or six years old, and the youngest is three or four years old, which is the time of naivety and romance.
For them, disasters and nothing are the most important thing, they do not see the sorrow and fear of adults in their eyes, only innocence.
Those women were still friendly, in addition to a few women, there were three or two young adults, only one of them was holding a pistol, and the others were just holding long knives and axes, and when they saw Guo Yuqiang, they hurried over to help. Soon, the four stinging mice were skinned and dehaired, entrailed, washed and chopped into pieces of meat and set aside.
Guo Yuqiang told Wu Ming that in addition to the current people, some people have also gone out hunting, and they should be able to come back before dark.
Sure enough, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, six or seven men came back from the wilderness, young men in their twenties and old men in their fifties, each holding some prey, but the harvest was very mediocre.
Obviously, these are all members of this small gathering place, Guo Yuqiang first communicated with them, and then called Wu Ming over at dinner.
Wu Ming didn't have anything to do with this, he didn't plan to stay here longer, it was good to be able to find out Li Xia's news, if he couldn't find out, Wu Ming also planned to continue to search. The only difference is that it's at least a little more comfortable to sleep here than to be alone in the wild.
Sure enough, as soon as Wu Ming asked, no one knew the whereabouts of the people who escaped from Yucheng, and Wu Ming's heart couldn't help but sink.
At this time, an old man who was about fifty years old and his face was already full of wrinkles said: "Young man, it doesn't matter if we don't know, there are many small gathering places like us nearby, and there is a larger gathering place more than ten miles away, where there are many people and walls, maybe the person you are looking for is there." Alas, we also planned to save enough money to enter that big gathering place earlier, but it's like buying a house, we couldn't afford it before the disaster, but we didn't expect that after the disaster came, we couldn't afford to buy the qualifications to live in the safe big gathering place, and we would suffer a lifetime of sin! ”
As the old man spoke, he scolded him.
Wu Ming could see that although this old man was old, he should have worked hard for half his life, so his body was extremely tough, and he also had the most potential for awakening among the more than 20 people, and the amount of vitality in his body had reached eighteen units, and at this rate, he would be able to awaken in a month or two at most.
The old man's words made Wu Ming smile faintly, and Wu Ming also knew that maybe there would be no news next time, but at least there was hope.
The others also seemed to see that this young man named Wu Ming was not very talkative, and they all chatted without a word, and soon the women brought over a large pot of broth mixed with the edible roots and the meat of the prickly rat, and everyone immediately licked their tongues and filled a bowl each.
Because they knew that three of the rats were killed by Wu Ming, they gave Wu Ming a bowl of the largest.
Looking at the steaming and aromatic broth, Wu Ming also swallowed and foamed.
He is not short of food, and there are many delicious bread cards, but no matter how delicious the bread is, after eating it for almost three months, Wu Ming also feels a little disgusting. So seeing this bowl of broth, Wu Ming also moved his index fingers.
Of course, the prickly rats are omnivores, they may eat human flesh, but they also eat grains, plant roots, plus no one in this world at the moment will not care about anything, so just eat, as for whether these rats have eaten human flesh This idea is automatically filtered.
Wu Ming is the same.
In order to survive in the last life, Wu Ming can be said to have eaten everything except human flesh, and now although the situation is much better, he is not a picky eater, and Wu Ming has not seen a picky eater in the last days.
Soon, a bowl of steaming broth was eaten by him, I have to say that the women here are very skilled, they are all good at running a family, they even found some other mutated plants to use as condiments in a short period of time, for Wu Ming, this bowl is like mutton soup, of course, it would be better if you could put some white and soft noodles into it.
The others were also one person and one bowl, Wu Ming noticed that this pot was boiling at most half a prickly rat meat, and the rest of the meat was wrapped, and then Wu Ming knew that in the larger gathering place, there would be a special place to buy this kind of rat meat, which could be exchanged for some other biological materials, and of course, the most important bullets.
Now, the importance of guns and bullets to people is self-evident, Guo Yuqiang and his more than 20 people have a total of four guns, including a pistol and a shotgun, it can be said that without these four guns, they would not have the ability to survive in this environment. Even encountering a tingly hairy mouse or two could kill them all.
Seeing that Wu Ming finished eating, an enthusiastic eldest sister gave Wu Ming another bowl.
Wu Ming could see clearly, it was a bowl of zuihou in the pot, everyone else was a bowl per person, and the children's bowl was even smaller, which was obviously taking care of himself.
Several children had already drunk the broth in the bowl, and even the bottom of the bowl was licked clean, and at the moment, they were all staring at the bowl of porridge in Wu Ming's hand with wide eyes and some envy, and kept licking their mouths.
If it was before the disaster, they would have been food, clothing and happiness at their age, but now they have to suffer from hunger every day.
Wu Ming knew that kind of taste, which could be said to be a kind of torment.
After thinking about it, Wu Ming beckoned several children, including Guo Hao, to come over, and then divided the bowl of meat porridge in his hand with them.
The children were naturally excited, and a little girl who was only four or five years old said, "Uncle Xiexie! ”
After speaking, hurry up like a baby and take back a little meat porridge in the bowl.
Wu Ming didn't know that his behavior made Guo Yuqiang have a great impression of him, at this time, Guo Yuqiang came over and said: "Wu Ming, tomorrow we plan to go to a nearby gathering place to change some things, you also go together, there are many people there, maybe we can find out the news of your friends and them!" ”