"Brother! I'm hungry! I'm so hungry! A female voice, obviously with a suppressed childish cry, slowly floated out of the dark and damp crypt, faintly but clearly into Tianxiang's ears.

There is no need to look back, Tianxiang also knows that it is his sister. While there must have been some survivors like him in the corners of the abandoned city, he and his sister were the only ones who could accommodate him and his sister in the cramped shelter for now.

"Tianrou is good! Bear with me, and in a little while, it will be dawn. When that time comes, my brother will go out and find you something to eat, okay? Tianxiang lovingly used his unclean little hand to gently touch his sister Tianrou, who was lying in the crook of his arm and sobbing softly. I couldn't help but curse the damn sun in my heart: why couldn't it come out earlier? The energy consumption in the body is always proportional to the relationship between time, and every minute you spend lying here will weaken your physical strength. Tianxiang really didn't know if his body could support it until the moment when the sun appeared again.

Seventy-eight hours and six minutes have passed since the last time the sun appeared. This is the number displayed on the timer on Tianxiang's wrist that flashes slightly with a red reading. According to this data, it will take at least 20 hours from now until the sun fully appears. Tianxiang knew very well in his heart that as long as there was sunlight, those large insects and beasts who liked to live in a dark environment would definitely have to hide back in their nests. And the remaining little insects that have been able to withstand the strong sunlight will naturally become the best targets for their own hunting.

Although, the number of bugs in this category is not large.

The last hunt, Tianxiang's harvest was not big. It can even be said that there is nothing to be gained at all. In the limited time he had, he ran to all the places in the vicinity where the bugs might be infested, but only found the short limb of a sharp-footed worm the size of a palm. Except for the sour rotten flesh in the center, which weighs more than 100 grams, and can barely be eaten, the other surrounding cuticles are so hard that even a steel drill can't pry it.

Despite this, Tianxiang carefully took out all the rotten meat and cooked it, swallowed it wildly and handed it to his sister, staring at Tianrou with a hungry ghost-like gaze as if enjoying a delicious meal, and swallowed the small piece of rotten meat with a disgusting and pungent smell into his stomach.

As for himself, he got the idea of that limb. Fire, a thing that can bring warmth to people, has also become the most useful food processor at Tianxiang's disposal. After burying in the embers of the fire for more than ten hours, Tianxiang was finally happy to find that the originally hard limb tips were now showing signs of brittleness. It's just that for the teeth, their presence is still a little too hard.

Chisel with steel, smash with a hammer, and cut with a knife。。。。。。 After a series of crazy violent activities, Tianxiang was satisfied to see that the hard limbs of this small insect had completely turned into more than a dozen small pieces. Without any further hesitation, Tianxiang couldn't wait to grab one of them with his hands and hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth. Without any chewing at all, he swallowed the scorching smell of hard object.

Meat, which has already been eaten by my sister. If you don't get something to eat, I'm afraid that by the next sunrise time, I won't have the strength to go out hunting. That would only result in the death of both people. Die together.

Therefore, although the carapace didn't taste very good, Tianxiang still forced himself to swallow all that was left. Even the powder scattered on the ground was not spared. At this time, as long as you can have a little more physical strength, it means that you have a little more certainty about your future survival. After all, on a dilapidated planet like Earth, it is extremely difficult to find a little expensive food.

But now, Tianrou's crying and the condition of his body make Tianxiang feel that he may not be able to wait for the sun to appear again.

More than half an hour ago, Tianxiang had already felt the abnormality of his body. He was shaking, an inexplicable trembling. This situation is not unfamiliar to Tianxiang, which is a sign of extreme hunger and rapid loss of physical energy. Of course, it's fairly easy to get rid of such shivers – just eat something nutritious.

However, in this crypt, which was only enough for the two siblings to live, there was nothing to call food other than water.

"I've got to go out and try my luck and get something to eat." This is the thought that has been hovering in Tianxiang's mind since half an hour ago. However, the fear of large insects and beasts is also like a heavy steel ingot, which is dead on the thirst for food.

Tianrou's faint sobs rang out again, and Tianxiang felt that he was about to go crazy at all. My sister is still young, she is only four years old. More than seventy hours of continuous starvation was definitely not a terrible attack that a small piece of carrion could withstand. What's more, before that she had eaten nothing at all except water for almost the same amount of time. One can imagine the frantic speed at which that piece of meat was digested in Tenro's stomach pouch. Not to mention a child, even an adult, he simply can't keep his head clear in the face of such cold hunger.

"Food! I need food! Tianxiang endured the angina pectoris that came from the empty stomach bag, and carefully wiped the dirt formed by black mud and tears in the corner of Tianrou's eyes with his hungry and trembling hands, and gently explained a few words to his sister before going out hunting.

Just over a mile away is a small square, which used to be a public place for people to hold various events in the city, and is now the best place for all kinds of insects to feed. Although the insects demand sweet plant roots much more than they grow, a large number of plants inevitably become a delicacy in their mouths during the insect's reproduction. However, even the most tender grass will once again regain its vitality from the blackened soil, relying on the few remaining roots, after all the insects have completely eaten away all the bare parts of the ground.

There are many plants near the square, and from some yellowing and rotting books, Tianxiang knows that these plants were originally used by those ancients as a means to beautify the city, as if it was called "greening".

However, these things don't mean anything to Tianxiang at all. All he knew was that where there were plants, there were herbivorous bugs. Compared to those massive, terrifyingly powerful carnivorous bugs, these creatures that live entirely on blades of grass are much cuter.

The road of more than a mile is actually not far for a normal person, but Tianxiang, who is extremely weak, walked for nearly half an hour. It's not so much about walking as it is about dragging. He had to carry two steel spears more than a meter long and a knife sharpened from strips of iron and wrapped in strips of rotten cloth at the lower end. These things don't really carry much weight, but for a person who has been suffering from malnutrition and hunger for a long time, it is undoubtedly as heavy as a mountain.

Abandon them, absolutely impossible. Without these things, even if he faced a herbivorous insect with a docile temperament, Tianxiang would not be able to kill it at all, let alone tear open the thick skin of the worm and eat the meat inside.

Luck is a rather subtle thing, and it tends to come to you at your least notice, with the most indifferent and indifferent expressions, so that you don't even notice it. Then, hiding in the shadows and laughing at you and teasing you, so that you were just able to grasp the slightest trace of the corner of his clothes, and tried to hold it with surprise, with that tired of sarcastic eyes, he laughed, and after ruthlessly snatching the corner of his clothes from your hand, he turned away from you with disdain.

It should be said that Tianxiang was lucky that he had just slipped up to the side of this cute and damn guy of Luck, and he grabbed it by the neck and trapped it firmly with a chain.

It was a ruined ruined wall on the side of the road. Bare bricks and peeling dry cement were silently scattered all around, and steel bars that bent out of the mass of masonry solidified stretched out like the disgusting legs of insects in all directions to the sky and underground. The ruins of a huge building slanted its body, lying there like an old man who could not bear the abuse of time. Only a few pieces of loose glass mingled in the dust and dirt, emitting a pitiful glimmer of light in the bits of glow.

"There's something here, yes, definitely a living thing." The hungry Tianxiang had a keen sense of sensation and vision, and just a few seconds ago, when he had just walked through the ruins, the corner of his left eye was completely unexpectedly scanned a small movement on the side of the road—a piece of broken cement, and it moved without warning. It's just such a little bit of an anomaly that doesn't look at all and immediately falls into Tianxiang's eyes.

"An inanimate object never changes its inherent place for its own reasons. If this type of thing shows signs of moving, it must be because other objects with energy have forced them to change their current condition. This is one of the rules that Tianxiang has always kept in mind when hunting.

"Grass rodents! That's right, there's definitely a grass rodent here! Tianxiang, who bent down quietly, carefully observed everything near the ruins. From the clumps of charred solid scattered around, he could easily tell it was the droppings of herbivorous bugs. And a few strange footprints that fell heavily between the dust made it effortless for him to tell that it was a grass roder. And with a pair of eyes that he had cultivated in the dark world for a long time, he could clearly see: under the concrete flakes that were lying on the ruins, several restless black and yellow insect limbs were slowly writhing back and forth. On top of these huge limbs, a round insect body that is half a human tall is supported.

If it was in normal times, Tianxiang would definitely throw the steel spear in his hand without hesitation to pierce this grass rodent first. The meat of this thing tastes very beautiful, and compared to other insects, the edible part accounts for more than 90%. What's more, it doesn't have a hard carapace like other insects. Tianxiang still remembered that the grass rodent he had hunted a few months ago had just been thrust with a steel spear, and a stream of fishy green water suddenly flowed from its fat belly。。。。。。

Even if it was such a weak bug, Tianxiang didn't have the extra strength to kill it at this time. Although the rodent is quite soft, it is also extremely large. Once harmed, their docile temperament will immediately become quite crazy. Tianxiang had seen with his own eyes that a hunter of his age had his legs broken alive after being seriously injured by a grass rodent. The hunter himself watched as the grass rodent, which was supposed to be his prey, pounced in anger at the trap and died after being bitten off his fragile throat.

The target of Tianxiang's trip is a delicate insect called "aphid". These insects are only twenty or thirty centimeters long, and they feed on grass and are also docile and easy to hunt. The most important thing is that Tianxiang knows: in that small square, although the number of aphids is small, it has never been extinct. It was also one of the food sources for him and his sister for many days.

But today's situation is obviously different from the past, Tianxiang is not sure if he can successfully find an aphid this time. After all, this insect loves sunlight and almost never comes out to move in the dark. In contrast, the almost equally delicate but somewhat threatening rodent seems to be the best choice.

What's more, it's a weedworm in labor.

Observation is an important means of survival that Tianxiang has carefully experienced from the battles against the lives of insects. If you can accurately distinguish the type of insect and its living habits during a hunt, then there is a high probability of successful hunting. After all, sometimes knowing your opponent is definitely more useful than the sharpest steel spear.

Undoubtedly, this rodent is in labor. Tianxiang can come to a complete conclusion from the fact that it has been hiding under the concrete shards and does not hide from its arrival in the slightest.

"Kill it, it's your best prey at the moment." Such a thought quickly flashed through Tianxiang's mind. A grass rodent is much larger than an aphid, enough for myself and my sister to eat for a long time. In other words, you can have the same amount of time without going out and taking risks. What's more, bugs in childbirth, in general, are weaker than normal.

"Whoosh!" Without having time to think about it, a sharp steel spear flew out of Tianxiang's hand, flashing a beautiful flight trajectory in the fluorescence, and its head was heavily rooted in the hidden cement fragments, and the sharp part at the front end had been submerged in the middle of the ruins where the weeds and rodents weeds weeds were. After hearing only the sound of "webbing", Tianxiang saw that from the hole where the steel spear was inserted, like a fountain, a dark green fishy liquid gushed out.

This throw used up almost all the strength in Tianxiang's body, and the purpose was to nail the steel spear through the body of the weedworm and firmly nail it to the ground. He calculated that as long as this throw was successful, the mother worm in delivery would not be able to move at all, and he would only need to recover a little before he could easily step forward and cut off the most threatening head of the female worm and harvest his own prey.

The steel spear that flew out had clearly completed its mission. Tianxiang happily saw through the cracks in the cement shards that had been dropped by the impact: a chubby grass rodent mother worm was desperately twisting its body nailed to the ground by a steel spear, unable to move, and even raised its head and used its fragile herbivorous mouthparts to frantically attack the hard spear body, trying to gnaw at the inexplicable attacker. However, as a result of the fight, apart from the row of short tooth fragments on the mouthparts, the steel spear itself suffered nothing more than a thin layer of rust gnawed off. The vigorous movement accelerates the passage of the mother's life. After a few minutes, the writhing of the worm's body was not as flexible as before. The mother, covered in green liquid and dirt, also gave up her resistance to her captivator completely, and her head with a pair of large compound eyes leaned weakly to the side. Only the nerves, which have not completely lost their function, are still faithfully performing their last duties, directing the limbs of the insect body to make inexplicable movements uselessly.

Tianxiang completely collapsed to the ground after throwing the steel spear with all his might, and he didn't slow down for a long time. The fatal blow had consumed almost all of his physical strength, causing him to have to stagger, and with the huge inertia after throwing the steel spear, he fell to the ground and could not get up again.