Chapter 986: Raising a Family

The male zombie led the group of zombies in the camp and picked up a lot of black stones back to the camp, and the fire in the camp was changed to coal burning, so that the zombies no longer needed to collect firewood from the jungle every day, which allowed them to have more time for hunting.

The fire, the cooked food, the constant supply of food, allowed the zombies in the camp to live a good life, but such days did not last long as the animals became more and more alert.

The male zombie set up a fishing net in the bushes by the lake, and then coaxed the drinking animals to make them automatically collect the net, although at first caught a lot of unlucky animals, but as time passed, the animals also noticed this trap, and the clever animals have avoided this death trap when they escape.

What's more, after the fishing net was used many times, it was torn apart by the animal and opened a lot of big holes, and the male zombie just threw the fishing net on the bushes indiscriminately, far from being carefully arranged, and the fishing nets that should have been spread out in the bushes as large as possible to block and entangle were just crumpled together.

As time goes by, fewer and fewer animals are caught in the nets.

The female zombie took the child zombie and the other female zombies to collect crops once, so that the zombie group in the camp ate all kinds of grains, but the amount was far from enough, and even the grain used to make seeds was not much.

The male zombie returned to the stone cave once, and the sheep were very safe under the care of the she-wolf and the zombie puppies, and the zombie puppies grew up very fast, and they had learned to herd the sheep with the she-wolf. In fact, the she-wolf doesn't care about the male zombies who often don't return home and wander outside, because even if there are no male zombies to provide food. It and the zombie puppies can also eat enough by hunting.

The male zombie used an empty box, loaded some of the grain in the stone cave, and brought it back to the camp, he tossed back and forth several times before he finished moving all the food, part of the grain was cooked for the zombie group, and part of the grain was used as seeds, and it was sown on the grassland where the female zombies set a fire.

The female zombie set a fire on the grassland near the lake according to the custom of the grassland near the stone cave of "her own home". This turned the fire into a veritable disaster. The plain terrain of the stone cave is relatively special, with surrounding natural stone mounds and rainwater ditches, and there are streams dividing it, so when the female zombies are burned. Wildfires burn a limited area and are self-extinguishing.

But on the steppe around the camp. All around. There is no natural danger, when the female zombie throws a burning branch into the haystack, it is suddenly out of control. It became a fire that swept through this grassland.

The fire not only burned several fishing nets placed by the male zombies in the bushes into ashes, but also spread to the periphery of the camp.

The female zombie didn't know that she had fallen into a catastrophe, and when the male zombie came back with the seeds, she snatched the seeds and sowed the seeds with the child zombies and the female zombies.

Without the cover of bushes and weeds, the hunt for male zombies is even more difficult, and the animals that come to drink water will run away vigilantly before the zombies and zombie dogs get close.

Although male zombies and zombie dogs can chase the animals without sleep until they are dragged alive and exhausted, the hunting effect is too low, and it takes a lot of time and energy to catch one or two animals.

Food is not enough, far from enough.

Male zombies now have to feed not only themselves, and their own female zombies, but a large family of zombies, but many zombies are still missing arms and legs, or child zombies, female zombies, they eat as much as young and strong zombies, but their contribution to collective hunting is far behind.

Zombies are tireless and can hunt their prey endlessly, but they also have no thoughts, no feelings, and when they are attacked by their prey, they will not dodge at all, so that they are scarred, and even worse, they often chase and chase when chasing a certain animal, and turn around to chase other animals that suddenly appear, so that they can toss and catch the prey.

That is, the family of male zombies knows how to better pursue their prey.

However, commanding the zombie group in the camp has become a problem faced by the male zombies, the baptism of sunspots, not only has an impact on the intelligent corpse commanding the zombies, but also affects the communication between the zombies, the male zombies can only command the zombie group in the camp through simple roars and gestures, as for how much they can understand, it is really genius to know.

On this day, the male zombie was hunting a group of wild sheep with the camp zombie herd, and the male zombie decided to catch the wild sheep alive, goat's milk is a good thing, and after leaving the stone cave, he hadn't drunk it for a long time.

However, the round-up of wild sheep was not smooth, and the cooperation between the zombie herd in the camp was simply a plate of loose sand, and several zombies were attracted by the wild boar, rabbit, pheasant (actually a domestic chicken, but after escaping from the camp, they became pheasants) and other attractions, and turned around to chase other animals, as a result, there was a gap in the encirclement, allowing the wild sheep to take the opportunity to break through.

The male zombie kept yelling so that the deserted zombie could return to the hunting team.

For 7 days, it took the male zombie 7 days to take the zombie herd of the camp and block the wild sheep that had escaped nearly half of the herd in a valley, the male zombie did not allow the zombies to pounce on the wild sheep to eat the wild sheep, he roared, pushed away the greedy zombies, wrapped the horns of the wild sheep with wild vines, and brought the bleating wild sheep back to the camp.

The male zombie handed over a wild sheep that broke its leg during the escape to the female zombie, and the female zombie took the old and weak zombies in the camp to skin the wild sheep, chop it into small pieces, and throw it into the soup pot.

The soup pot is boiling, the meat is fragrant, the female zombies begin to eat, yes, share the food, originally, the zombies in the camp eat food in a crowd, but since the female zombies came to the camp, I don't know when, began to share the food, each zombie consciously gathered around the fire, the female zombies took food from the soup pot and distributed it to them one by one, and the zombies in each camp could get roughly the same amount of food.

But today, things have changed.

When the female zombie handed a lump of meat to a blonde male zombie who had participated in the hunt, her husband, the male zombie, suddenly rushed up. Yelling at the blonde zombie, he snatched the piece of meat from the blonde zombie and handed it to another male zombie who was missing an arm.

It's a punishment and a reward.

When the blonde male zombie was chasing the wild sheep, he broke away from the team many times to hunt down other small beasts, and the severed arm zombie, although not as strong as the blonde male zombie, always obeyed the male zombie's orders, and finally blocked the wild sheep in the valley. played an important role.

So. The male zombie punishes the blonde zombie for not eating, while the severed-arm zombie gets two pieces of meat.

Next, the male zombie punished and rewarded different zombies, and the zombies did not resist. And even more so dissent - they simply don't understand all this. The only thing that is known is. I'm hungrier, or I'm fuller this time, fuller than usual.

Similar punishments and rewards. It was carried out for a long time, until the crops were ripe again, and the zombies in the camp were able to obey the command of the male zombies very well, and launched a more difficult hunt, they were in order, they listened to every roar of the male zombies, attacked, retreated, encircled, and hunted, instead of swarming to pounce.

The zombies in the camp are growing, and the male zombies are also growing, with his management and command of the zombies in the camp, his sleeping memory is slowly awakening, although this awakening is extremely slow, just like the water droplets under the thick ice sheet of Antarctica, melting drop by drop, this water droplet is so insignificant compared to the ice sheet that is dozens of meters thick and hundreds of kilometers thick, but the solid ice is indeed waking up.

The crops were harvested, the grassland was burned in the early stage, the pests were killed and the grass ash was fertilized, the female zombies consciously sowed, and the female zombies led the old and weak zombies in the camp to drive away the birds and beasts in the later stage, so that the crop harvest in this period reached a historical peak.

The female zombie led the old and weak zombies to carefully pick and dig the crops in the field, and then sent them to the empty container room.

The male zombie ate the rice again, the female zombie inadvertently rubbed the rice grains with both hands, and found that the rice grains could be shelled into rice, and the female zombie still remembered the appearance of the rice, and she led the old and weak zombies to shell almost all the rice with their hands, leaving only some seeds.

Rice, rice, in fact, and half-baked rice, there is no essential difference in the zombies' strong digestion ability, but the zombies are more willing to eat rice without a teacher, and even a few female zombies try to shell the wheat, but the effect is not good, in the short term, the zombies can't eat the pasta like the burnt dough that the male zombies have eaten.

In any case, the abundant harvest of crops has made the camp full of food again, and the zombies gather around the warm fire, eating a variety of nutritious crops, and then, it is to watch the male and female zombies copulate.

This is what male and female zombies must do every day, no matter the wind, rain, thunder and lightning, every night, male zombies and female zombies must do this, just like eating and drinking, it is so natural, and all the zombies in the camp just watched them toss - the zombies in the camp did not understand what the male and female zombies were doing at all.

They have learned how to hunt cooperatively, to plant and tend to crops, to mine, to maintain fires, to obey orders, and to accept rewards and punishments...... However, they couldn't understand what the male and female zombies were doing under the starry sky, they just stared blankly, watching every movement and every roar of the male and female zombies under the reflection of the firelight.

The zombie group in the camp has not hunted for a while, and the animals by the lake outside are active again, lions, tigers, leopards and other fierce beasts, wild sheep, wild boars, baboons and other small animals, all drinking water by the lake, and the fierce beasts have replaced the zombies, using the lake as bait, preying on the small actions of not being alert enough and only caring about greedily drinking water.

But some herbivores, even beasts like lions and tigers, do not dare to provoke them at will, for example, cattle.

The cattle on the volcanic island are actually a cross between bison and dairy cows, and when the elite brought the cattle to the boat, there were North American bison from zoos and high-quality Dutch cows, which escaped from the container camp and naturally mated and bred to form a new hybrid breed.

The cattle are drinking water by the lake, several calves with black and white spots on their bodies are bumping against each other with their horns that have just grown, a lioness quietly takes advantage of the cover of the grass, close to the herd, a sturdy bull suddenly rushes over, with sharp horns to the lioness crash, the lioness can't dodge, the hind limbs are hung by the horns, the skin is broken and bleeding, and quickly turns around and runs away. The bull chased after him to make sure that the lion did not dare to harass the herd again, and then returned to the lake.

The male zombie stood in the camp, watching the scenes by the lake for a long, long time.

A few days later, the male zombie suddenly appeared by the lake, standing motionless with an axe in his hand and a steel pot on his head.

The animals who came to drink water saw the male zombie and ran away, and a large area of grass was vacated by the lake where he was.

The male zombie was motionless.

At sunset and sunrise, the lake ushered in batches of animals, fierce beasts hunting, herbivores fought back and fled, scenes of life and death were staged here, the male zombie stood in place, motionless, except for the occasional movement of his eyes, he was a corpse.

The scavenging jackal ran around the male zombie and tore a piece of meat from his buttocks, but after chewing a few bites, he spit it out, and the zombie meat was unpalatable even to jackals.

The male zombie remained motionless.

The animals gradually became less wary of the male zombie, and regarded him as a tree and a stone by the lake.

There are even small animals drinking water at the feet of the male zombies, and they generously turn their defenseless backs towards the male zombies, and the male zombies can catch those small animals as long as they lean over and pounce, but the male zombies are still motionless.

Until one day, the cattle came to the lake to drink, and the drinking point they chose this time was next to the male zombie.

The huge body of the herd rubbed the male zombie past, those shaking sharp horns, it was easy to stab the male zombie to the poor, the calf flashed big eyes, followed the cow, jumped into the lake to bathe, this hot weather, bathing in the cool lake water is really a kind of enjoyment.

Strong, full-grown bulls stand guard on the shore, driving away all the beasts of prey, from jackals to lions and tigers.

The strongest bull, apparently a cow, wagged its sharp horns, protecting every member of the herd.

Only this time, the cow met a strong enemy, a group of lions.

This is a lion pack of 4 female lions, 1 male lion and several cubs, who have been eyeing the bison herd for a long time.

The lionesses were the first to attack, they formed an encirclement and began to drive the herd, driving the herd out of the lake, the cattle ran wildly, several calves pulled behind, and the male lion pounced out of a patch of grass in ambush and threw one of the calves to the ground. (To be continued......)