Chapter 991: An Unusual Trail
Bill glared at Stark, the team member who was playing tricks on his sister, Stark stuck out his tongue, and Bill said to everyone in a deep voice: "The corpse eating method is nothing new on the continent now, this path seems easy, as long as you eat zombies, you can get abilities, and the power and enjoyment that comes with it." It's just that I've also heard that many people end up being attacked by biochemical viruses, and if this path is really as simple and effective as the legend says, then everyone on the continent will be a ghoul. ”
The team members nodded their heads, and the team member who was teasing Ariana said: "Bill, we are not fools, no one will be a ghoul, we just don't want to intrigue with the people on the mainland, so we live freely in the ocean on the Cape." ”
Bill nodded with satisfaction, although the Cape takes the ocean as its home, but sometimes it will hear news from some continents, although biochemical viruses are evolving, zombie intelligent corpses are evolving, but human beings are also developing weapons against biochemical viruses and zombie intelligent corpses, as well as abilities, and some methods are really effective.
Especially on the east coast of the mainland, the elite of the original country was concentrated, and many potions and weapons they developed successfully repelled the attack of zombies and intelligent corpses and established a protected area. Legend has it that in the reserve, people live a happy life before the end of the biochemical world, such rumors are a great temptation for the sailors on the Cape, after all, no one is born to like this life of wandering in the four seas.
Bill waved his hand: "Landing on the island!" ”
A dinghy lowered the boat and paddled slowly towards the island.
Ariana jumped neatly from the bow of the boat without waiting for the boat to stop on the beach. As soon as her feet stepped on the sand, she stumbled - the long life on the boat made her unfamiliar with the stability of land. Ariana slowly lay flat on the beach, feeling the solid ground under her back, although it is only a part of a small island, but the unique calmness of Mother Earth still makes Ariana moan comfortably, only the wandering wanderer, know the preciousness of Mother Earth.
Bill and his team dispersed into a search formation and walked along the beach. There was no movement along the way, except for a few seabirds. Bill was about to order his team to head into the jungle when Ariana suddenly shouted, "Wait, these nets are weird. ”
Bill watched as Ariana briskly ran to a bay, bending down and fiddling with some old broken fishing nets. I couldn't help but laugh and said, "Ariana." What's so strange about these fishing nets. This kind of garbage made by the old world can be seen everywhere. ”
Ariana shook her head slightly, picking up a fish that was still alive in the net: "This net seems to have been placed here on purpose." Take advantage of the ebb and flow of the tide to catch fish. ”
Bill and the search team laughed, "Ariana, you're so suspicious, if there were human survivors on the island, he would have fished with fishing nets, but he wouldn't just throw his nets on the beach, if it were a zombie - there is no zombie in the world who is so smart enough to catch fish with a fishing net." ”
Ariana was also a little puzzled, indeed, if the net was artificially laid, it was too rudimentary. Her eyes lit up, and she stretched out her hand and pulled out a branch stuck in the sand from the net, which seemed to be used to hold the net in place, and prevent it from drifting with the tide.
However, if it is man-made, there should be a row of branches with fixed fishing nets, what is the use of only one, is it true that this fishing net is just unintentionally washed by the waves? -- This is the reason why the male zombie has not taken care of the fishing nets in this bay since he arrived at the camp on the other half of the island, and all the branches that were originally planted were washed away by the waves, leaving only one, which was discovered by the careful Ariana.
Bill shouted from a distance, "Ariana, keep up with the group." ”
Ariana answered and hurried after her.
The Cape search team traveled all the way, there were no dangers, no zombies and no beasts, there were many small animals in the jungle, and there were groups of islands flying on the top of the trees, and the team members couldn't help but shoot with bows and crossbows, and easily hunted several animals, and everyone was in high spirits, because they hadn't eaten fresh meat for a long time.
"Water! There's water ahead! One of the strikers ran back with a happy face, Bill and Ariana hurried over, and sure enough, they saw a clear stream, and one of the team members took out a test device to test it, and quickly reported: "Fresh water, first-class drinking water." ”
The crowd cheered, and drank water by the stream, Bill was also very happy, and immediately called the old John and others who stayed on the boat through the walkie-talkie, and asked them to collect drinking water, the Cape originally had a water purification system, but the filter element had long been damaged, so it could only use the traditional way of storing water in a water tank, but the water saved for such a long voyage was easy to deteriorate, so every time you landed or found a small island, looking for clean drinking water is the first priority.
Bill scooped up the water, washed his face, took a few more sips, the cool water moistened his throat, and rushed to the stream, it was worth venturing to the island.
Ariana suddenly said to Bill, "Brother, I'll go to the stream around the corner in front of me, and you can stop the boys under you." ”
Bill was stunned: "What are you going to do?" Don't get too far away from the group, the search isn't complete around here. ”
Ariana shook her hair and said straightforwardly: "I went to take a bath, I stayed on the Cape for such a long time, I even had to save water to drink, and my body was already dirty." ”
Bill knew that his sister was telling the truth, not to mention that she was a woman who was impatient to take a bath, and several of his anxious lads had already taken off their clothes and pants in public and splashed in the stream.
Bill laughed at the boys and sent a few men to defend the shore, so that Ariana could find a secluded place to bathe.
Ariana walked a little upstream, took off her clothes and bathed, the cool water of the stream making her almost groan. Before the advent of the biochemical apocalypse, Ariana had a slight cleanliness fetish, and every day when she went home, she had to soak in the warm water of the bathtub, but now on the Cape, she and a large group of men were crammed into a narrow and smelly cabin, and it was rare to take a few baths a year.
Ariana soaked in the stream, rubbing her skin vigorously, and she couldn't wait to rub the dirt on her body until her skin was red, and then she stopped. At this time, she especially misses modern toiletries, the soft fragrance does not hurt the skin, and a little rubbing is a burst of foam. It's just that nowadays even the simplest soap has become a luxury.
Ariana changed into her clothes after rinsing in the stream, and was about to walk in the direction of Bill and the others, when she suddenly stopped, and she saw that there were many fish bones on the beach next to her. She hurried a few steps, and looked closely, it was the bones of salmon, appearing in patches on the river beach, which was really strange, as if someone was drying fish here.
It is true that salmon accidentally jumped onto the beach and were sunburned, but there are too many fish bones on this beach, not to mention hundreds.
Ariana didn't know that this was another good thing done by the male zombie, he would go to the stream to fish and dry the dried fish during the salmon season, but after drying the dried fish, this guy forgot about it, and was stolen by seabirds and small beasts, leaving only a pile of fish bones.
Ariana checked a few more fish bones, found some traces of beast bites, shrugged her shoulders, this is clearly not man-made, if it is a person, how can so many fish be abandoned, how can there be traces of beast bites on the fish bones?
Ariana put aside her doubts and continued to walk with Bill and the others, and when passing through a grassland, Bill suddenly stopped: "Oh my God, what is this?" Rice! And wheat! Hell, it's corn! ”
All the people gathered around, and in this grassland, more crops were found - potatoes, sweet potatoes, and someone muttered, "Is this naturally grown?" ”
These crops do seem to grow naturally, mixed with patches of wild grass, there is no trace of artificial care, there are no irrigation facilities such as canals, rice and wheat grow indiscriminately, and there are traces of birds and beasts gnawing and pecking.
It is not a new thing for crops to be eaten by birds and beasts, carried in all directions, and spread in all directions through dung, and the crew of the Cape has also seen sporadic crops on other islands.
Ariana examined it carefully, but she couldn't see a clue - this crop has been pecked by birds and beasts since the male zombie's family left, and the male zombie was originally slash-and-burn, and this time, there is no trace of artificial planting.
Ariana picked a branch of corn, peeled off the skin and nibbled it in her mouth, the plump kernels of the raw corn burst into a thick sweet juice in her mouth, and she said with satisfaction: "These seeds are all good seeds, we can pick some and take them to the mainland for sale, and now there is an urgent need for similar good seeds on land." ”
There are the most fertile farmland on the mainland, but the vast majority of them are genetically modified crops, after cutting off the supply of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and large farming machinery because there is no diesel fuel to become a steel giant in the nest, the farmland is soon barren, and people return to the era of manpower and animal farming, and all kinds of good seeds that can be naturally retained have become a treasure that is in short supply and the price is higher than the sky.
The lads on the Cape were smiling, and they had made a fortune when they landed on the island in a storm, and they were picking the seeds with full grains, and at the same time they were eating raw corn and sweet potatoes, and they were tired of eating fish and salted meat every day on the ship, and these crops were simply a godsend.
Bill was a little wary, and he leaned next to Ariana: "Sister, I always feel that something is wrong, such a large crop, and many varieties, how can it not be like a bird that sows naturally." (To be continued......)
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