"If the weakest carnivorous bug appears at this time, I'm afraid it will be able to drag me back to its nest and enjoy it without much difficulty, right?" Tianxiang lay weakly on the wet ground and thought to himself, not daring to relax the other steel spear in his hand. He needed to recover, a short recovery, and with a little strength, he could slowly drag this rich prey back to the crypt and have a delicious meal with Tianrou.

Luckily, there weren't any other creatures, which was a rare occurrence in a dark world without the sun. You know, as long as there is a wound on the body of any animal or human, the smell of blood gushing out of it will immediately attract those carnivorous insects who are very sensitive to the smell of blood. Of course, even if the injured are of the same species as bugs, these crazed predators will not miss an opportunity to fill their stomachs with the corpses of their own kind.

Therefore, it is absolutely not possible to stay here for too long. Only by returning to the hiding crypt as soon as possible and slowly washing away the liquid from the insect corpses with clean water can the smell of blood waft through the air. In this way, although his physical strength had not recovered much at all, Tianxiang still forced himself to climb up from the ground with difficulty with the steel spear, and slowly moved to the side of the corpse of the grass roder that had long since stopped moving.

Hungry! I'm so hungry! The cramps in the stomach and the thunderous sound in the abdomen were always like two life-seekers who didn't know how to be satisfied, reminding Tianxiang of their most urgent needs at the moment. In this regard, Tianxiang himself is helpless. If you don't have anything to eat, what can you take to satisfy you? You can't cut off your own flesh to satisfy your stomach pouch, right? Of course, eating raw worm meat is also a pretty good option. However, based on past experience, the flesh of insects that are not red blood should not be eaten raw without washing. Although the flesh of insects with other colors of blood is not the same as poisonous, the consequences of inexplicable indiscriminate eating are also quite serious. It is often the case among hunters that a very hungry person, when the prey has just fallen, can't help but swallow the blood gushing from the wound with his mouth, which eventually leads to an inexplicable death.

Tianxiang is not stupid, although he is already extremely hungry, he is not willing to exchange his life for a chance to eat immediately. What's more, there is a weak sister in the crypt waiting for her to go back. Therefore, despite the sour water churning in the stomach, the entire esophagus has been cleaned without any obstruction. Tianxiang still forced himself to suppress the crazy thought of wanting to hold the insect corpse and swallow it a lot, carefully coiled the huge insect corpse, and slowly inspected his prey.

It's just that his luck today is really good. As Tian Xiang staggered slowly to the insect corpse, laboriously lifting the cement fragments that covered it, he unexpectedly found what he needed most at the moment.

Eggs! Two fist-sized, yellow, tender grass rodent eggs.

"Eggs are delicious, supreme delicious!" This is a very classic sentimental phrase in the mouths of the survivors of the earth. According to those who were lucky enough to taste the eggs, the supreme delicacy was only comparable to the eggs of birds that were once abundant on Earth hundreds of years ago. Therefore, hunting a female worm that is laying eggs is a lucky thing that any hunter would want to get. This means that all the eggs in the stomach of the obese mother are kept for her own enjoyment. Because, the nutritional value of this thing is far beyond the meat itself. In an earth where food and power are everything, obtaining an egg means that you will not have to fight for your life against terrifying bugs for a long time.

Without time to think about it, Tianxiang swooped to the ground almost at the speed of the most agile flying insects, and hurriedly picked up two hard-won insect eggs and hurriedly stuffed them into his mouth. Ignoring the large amount of mucus on their surface, they also had a lot of dirty dirt and entered their stomach pouches. That kind of rude and crazy eating likeness, I'm afraid that even the most ferocious sickle beetle will shudder when he sees it.

As soon as the eggs were in the stomach, the stomach pouch where the acid was tumbling immediately shifted the object of its own ravage. Tianxiang was able to obtain some temporary relief from the painful hunger. The most important thing is the rapid recovery of physical fitness. He happily found that his tired body seemed to be rejuvenated as the slightly sweet egg fluid entered. Little by little, the power that had been lost for a long time returned to him.

"You can't stay here for long, you have to leave right away." Tian Xiangxuan, who had a much clearer mind, straightened up from the ground, grabbed the handle of the steel spear that was tightly inserted in the soil under the insect corpse, spun around vigorously, and pulled it out suddenly, and the sharp spearhead suddenly broke free from the tight constraints of the soil, and appeared happily in the air with almost no light.

It is said that it is a steel spear, but in fact it is nothing more than a thick steel bar with a sharpened tip. There are a total of six such weapons in Tianxiang, two long and four short. The days of the turtle cowering in the crypt were lonely and meaningless, and if it weren't for the monotonous grinding steel bars and the company of his sister to pass the time, Tianxiang suspected that he would have become a brainless living corpse who only knew how to hunt insects to satisfy his appetite. After all, living without hope is no different from a living dead at all.

Two flipped steel spears were slung diagonally over their shoulders, the tips of which were tightly inserted into the fat body of the rodent. Compared with when he came, Tianxiang, who had recovered some of his physical strength, walked quite quickly. "Man is iron, rice is steel" is a saying from ancient books is quite accurate. In less than five minutes, Tianxiang had returned to a steel wreck not far from the crypt.

"It's a car". Every time he came back from a trip, Tianxiang would involuntarily stop in front of this strange-looking pile of steel. There were several tall iron cabinets in the crypt where he was hiding, and Tianxiang also found a lot of useful things in them. A small learning machine that works on solar energy became a favorite of him and his sister. With the simple words that his father taught before his death, Tianxiang finally understood the use of this machine that was about to be scrapped. It was precisely because of this thing that he was able to gain knowledge of certain antiquities from the well-preserved books of the ancients in the cabinet. Automobiles are one of the ones that Tianxiang is most interested in.

However, now Tianxiang has no time to take a second look at this "car" shaped like a skeleton. Tianrou was starving, the insect corpses were smelling of blood, and everything was waiting for him to hurry back to the crypt.

The rich harvest brought back by her brother made Tianrou excited, and the few intact eggs that Tianxiang touched from the stomach of the dissected grass rodent also made Tianrou, who had been suffering from hunger for a long time, smile. The psychology of children is actually very simple, in Tianrou's view, the elder brother is his protector, the brother who loves him the most, and the custodian who can provide him with warmth and food. I really don't have any reason to leave my brother. In this way, Tianrou, who was holding the tender yellow insect eggs and sucking carefully, flashed a pair of beautiful big eyes, happily watching her brother use the stagnant water in the depths of the crypt to clean the fat insect corpse, peel the skin little by little, empty the internal organs, and then carefully remove the limbs and the tender meat in the body of the insect. It was passed through a few heels of hard steel scrap and finally built on a pile of wood lit fires, and slowly roasted.

After a while, the entire crypt was filled with an exciting aroma of barbecue. Tianxiang, who was smiling with a smile on his face, also used a sharp dagger made of iron pieces to cut off a piece of white tender insect meat that was bubbling with oil and full of fragrance. Then into an open tin can at hand, took out a wisp of white salt, gently sprinkled it on the barbecue, carefully approached the mouth and blew, after making sure that the temperature was no longer hot, then handed it to Tianrou with a smile.

The brother and sister, who have not seen food for a long time, are only now able to get a chance to have a full meal. Compared with other insect meat, the taste of grass rodents is really delicious. In particular, the pieces of tender white soft meat taken out of the waist and abdomen are coated with a thick layer of fat on the surface. As soon as it is roasted on the fire, it is immediately soaked in the meat. Although the condiment only has a necessary salt, the fresh and sweet taste in it also makes the brother and sister eat very happily. Needless to say, Tianrou, who had been hungry for a few days, even Tianxiang, who had always been more restrained about the amount of food, gnawed off six worm limbs that didn't have much meat in just a few minutes. Only then did he wipe his oil-stained lips with satisfaction, and after explaining a few old-fashioned words to Tianrou, he once again picked up two hard steel spears, and drilled out of the burrow.

The sun has shown its long-lost red face, and now is the perfect time to hunt. Once you miss it, you have to wait another hundred hours. Although I have already got a fat rodent worm, such a good thing will not be delivered to the door every day after all. Only by seizing every opportunity to get more food can we ensure the needs of myself and Tianrou in the future. Therefore, such an opportunity must not be missed.

Maybe it's because good luck still follows! Today's hunt was unexpectedly good. More than an hour later, Tianxiang, who returned to the crypt again, hung five chubby aphids on his body. These things, along with that delicious grass rodent, were enough for the siblings to eat until the fourth solar day. Coupled with the fixed hunting time in between, Tianxiang believes that, at the very least, there will never be a situation like today's without any grain stockpile. There is water, there is food, and you can maintain enough physical strength. As long as there are no accidents, he will wait here until Tianrou grows up.

Hunger is humanity's own most difficult enemy to deal with, and the easiest to satisfy. Once this enemy's demands are satisfied, human desires are immediately diverted to other directions. The same is true of Tianxiang, after two consecutive solar days of equally abundant prey and an adequate food supply, his thinking also returned to the yellowed books in the iron cabinet.

The knowledge of the ancients has always been what Tianxiang is most interested in. Although he had not seen most of them, Tianxiang still drew some concepts of ancient objects from the depictions in the book. In addition to the ancient monsters such as televisions or cars that can automatically project stories and carry people, the most exciting things for Tianxiang are the things called "guns".

According to the book, this kind of thing functions about the same as a bow and arrow. It's just that the kind of "bullets" they can emit are more terrifying than any arrow. But how terrible it is, Tianxiang himself is not very clear. After all, he had never seen what a "gun" looked like, nor how effective a "bullet" could be on a most terrifying sickle.

It is precisely because of this that Tianxiang is desperate for more secrets of the ancients. Unfortunately, that's all the stuff in the Crypt Chest seems to tell him.

"If you want to know more, you have to explore the bigger mysteries."

This is a quote mentioned in one of Tianxiang's favorite books. According to the book's preface, it seems to be an empty fantasy book. The protagonist is also one of Tianxiang's favorite characters. According to the content of the book, the protagonist seems to be the story of bravely fighting various monsters in a world that transcends time and space, and finally achieves a frivolous life. Although Tianxiang understands that in the linguistic structure, the meaning of the word "fantasy" is simply unrealistic. But in his opinion, this book is simply a flip board in his current life with his sister. Therefore, after the third solar day of hunting grass rodents, he decided: to go out once, to explore more secrets of the ancients in other ruins of the city.

There are more than 20 pieces of aphid jerky, and six rodent eggs that have been reluctant to eat and have slightly changed their taste. All of this is food for Tenrou. The location of the crypt is quite hidden, and the narrow entrance can only accommodate one person to crawl through. Therefore, a hard steel spear is enough to protect the young Celestial from other creatures. Years of hunting have also turned a young girl into a semi-qualified warrior. In this way, after briefly explaining a few words to his sister, Tianxiang picked up two spears, one long and one short, and after bringing a piece of air-dried aphid meat, he quietly left the crypt when the fourth solar day came.

There was something called a "map" in the iron cabinet, and Tianxiang couldn't figure out what the tiles on it filled with various colors meant. However, he can read the text and clearly understand the names of places marked on the map, and the most attractive one is the "library".

From the solar-powered learning machine, Tianxiang obtained a term that was repeatedly recited - "bomb shelter". Although he didn't really understand the meaning, he still understood one thing from the long and repeated comparisons: the crypt where he and his sister are currently living is actually a place called a "bomb shelter" by the ancients. And according to the name on that inexplicably strange "map", this place is actually not far from the "library". With a keen instinct of a hunter, Tianxiang concluded that the two locations marked on this map were most likely exactly the same as reality. In this way, when he walked out of the crypt, according to his own judgment, he walked straight towards the "library" in the direction indicated on the map.

The ruins of the reinforced concrete are everywhere along the way, and there are also many small carnivores rummaging in the shadows for something to suit their appetite. With a well-fed supply of nutrients, Tianxiang could now kill him at will, but he didn't want to. One is that I don't need much food at the moment. The second reason is that once a certain bug is killed, the gore that is too late to deal with will inevitably attract more carnivorous insects. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to get out smoothly when the time comes. It's better not to provoke them after a few strokes. In this way, Tianxiang flexibly walked quickly between the ruins. And the small carnivores didn't seem to want to hunt this creature that seemed to be much stronger than themselves, and still lazily rummaged through the ruins with their sharp mouthparts in search of what they were interested in.

"The library should be far away from you, at least more than fifty hours away." This is not a prophet that Tianxiang can not predict, but the result he obtained from that "map". Although it was not clear whether it was right or wrong to do so, Tianxiang found a seemingly safe place in a dilapidated concrete building after skipping twenty hours on the timer, wrapped up his clothes tightly, and lay down.

This timer is also one of the most useful items to find in an iron cabinet. For a long time, Tianxiang had no idea that there was still "time" in the world. He knew how to count the days of the hunt according to the time of each sun. If it weren't for his father, who taught him some ancient languages before he died, I am afraid that until now he still has no idea what the things in the iron cabinet are for, let alone relying on a solar-powered learning machine to gain new knowledge.

Rest is one of the must-do activities for hunters, and it's the best way to get physical strength outside of food. It's just that not long after Tianxiang lay down and was confused, he was suddenly awakened by a rush of running sound from his ears. It's clear that it's the footsteps of a creature that moves on its feet. Within the scope of his knowledge, the only one who can do this is human.