An increase in population is inevitably accompanied by an increase in food consumption. 【Fengyun Reading Network. Therefore, the source of food has naturally become a priority for the patriarch of Tianxiang.

Compared to the original group of less than two hundred people, the addition of the Liuyun woman has increased this number by one? Many. Now the number of people in the ethnic group has reached about 300. Although these women are indeed able to reconcile some of the basic contradictions in the race. But no matter what, they are human beings, and they have to eat. Tianxiang knew in his heart that although he saved them. But if there is no adequate food supply, these women will also leave the group. Maybe when they are hungry, they will even quietly cut off their heads while they are asleep, put them on the fire, and feast on them after a barbecue. The grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated by a spring! This is the best portrayal of the relationship between the giver and the beneficiary in the books of the ancients.

It's a pity that that kind of thing can only be born in ancient times. This is undoubtedly a joke among hunters who are running for the most basic right to live. Even if you once saved my life, even if you once gave me the last bite of food, even if you were the intimate lover with whom I shared the bed. As long as I'm hungry, I won't hesitate to eat you. Don't tell me any big truths, don't talk nonsense about benevolence, righteousness, morality and so on. The reality is so simple, we are friends, lovers, and even your slaves. In turn, you were my best food when you starved me.

If I want to live, I have to eat. There is no reason to talk about it when you are hungry. Of course. When I eat, I may think of your good things. But alas, you've become a roast in my stomach and a bunch of bones in front of me that can't speak.

For Liu Rui, an electronic person who has lived for a long time, Tianxiang has always felt a little incredible. He knew very well that in the hundreds of years that Liu Rui had served as the patriarch, it was absolutely impossible to guarantee that enough food would be provided to the clansmen every day. But unexpectedly it is. He wasn't gnawed to bones by his hungry men. Why? Could it be that as a cyborg, even his skin is a synthetic substance that he can't chew at all?

Liu Rui never answered this question. Every time Tianxiang asked, the old man just smiled faintly. Then I talked about it left and right.

The worm meat in the cold storage is enough to eat for a long time. But what about after that? What can we eat when all the worm meat has been eaten? Hunting is certainly necessary, but the problem is that bugs are the same as people. It takes time to produce and reproduce. In one place, it is absolutely impossible to say that you kill a bug today, and the next day another one of the same size will appear and serve you meat. I'm afraid that kind of wonderful thing can only happen in a real dream! Therefore no matter what hunting tribe stays in one place for too long. Migration is necessary to move elsewhere in search of new food sources. This is an iron law that no hunting tribe can violate. So. Whenever they find a place to live, they always try to find a way to do it. Kill all the bugs you can kill. After a thorough and savage raid, continue on to the next rich hunting ground. The reverse is true for bugs. Many insects that have tasted human flesh and never forgotten its delicious taste have gradually learned this skill of human beings. They will flow from one place to another. Eat up all the people you can and head into the new potentially inhabited place again.

Therefore, the only way to solve the problem of the source of food supply for the ethnic groups is to relocate.

At this point, both humans and worms. There is no choice but to comply. But Tianxiang didn't want to go. He knows very well how dangerous the outside world is. Compared to this safe and secluded underground base, any place to live has hidden dangers of one kind or another.

Moreover. The mysterious humanoids have apparently joined the hunt for man-eating insects.

If you don't leave, you'll starve to death. But leaving can be a whole lot of danger. Or even extermination. Tianxiang has its own way. Some thoughts have been in my mind for a long time. Now is the time to take it out and implement it. Ever since he rescued the Liuyun woman, Tianxiang has always regretted it. Not that he regretted not helping these poor women. Rather, he regretted his previous aggressive hunting of trichinellas. Just to be able to get a felt coat for the winter, he led his people to kill almost all the trichinella in the area. It takes at least a year and a half for a trichinella to hatch from an egg to adulthood, although this plant-eating insect is not very large and has a survival period of only three years. However, if you want to grow into a group, it will take at least a few hours to accumulate. Carnivorous insects, human hunters, and all sorts of inexplicable threats are the most fundamental reasons that limit the growth of the swarm. For example, the group of trichinella that has been exterminated next to the base, which has numbered more than 10,000 heads, has also been exhibited for at least six or seven years. If Tianxiang didn't kill insects in order to obtain insect hairs, just eating and killing these insects every year, the annual increase in the number of these insects could actually meet the basic food consumption of the existing ethnic population. It is useless to regret it. The chagrin in Tianxiang's heart only lasted for a short time. Because he has new problems.

Feeding. The exclusive text version of this work may not be reproduced without permission, and excerpts for more of the latest and fastest chapters, please visit bsp; This is a special term that Tianxiang saw from the books of the ancients. His own understanding of the term is: "the act of exchanging less food for more food." "Chickens, ducks, geese, pigs...... These strange words, which sound awkward, are said to be animals that were once bred by the ancients. The purpose is to be able to raise them. Then kill and eat meat.

How similar this is to raising "meat people". Raising a "meat man" is usually to cut off his feet and completely eliminate the possibility of his escape. But according to the book, raising animals requires a kind of "enclosure". The chickensty, pigsty, and cowpen are also named for this. With this kind of thing, the animals that are bred will not run away at all. And they will happily raise their necks when they are slaughtered.

Worm circles. Is this possible? More than two kilometers from the base is a paradise that was once crawling with many trichinellates. It was made entirely of crumbs of cement. It was formed by several buildings that collided with each other after collapsing. The crevices made of bricks and rubble become the best habitat for trichinella. This place Tianxiang has come many times. It is different from the disgusting scene that is densely packed with insects before winter. The current worm nest looks like an ordinary concrete ruin. Perhaps there may be a few poor survivors left in the depths of the ruins. Either way, the swarm has lost its momentum. Remaining bugs. It will no longer be as unscrupulous as in the past, wandering around in search of food.

Raising insects treats this place as a "worm circle". It will also be used as a source of food for ethnic groups in the future. This was Tianxiang's idea. If people want to survive the winter, insects naturally have to spend the winter. For the insects that shrank low on the ground and sleep, Tianxiang didn't want to disturb them. Even though it's close to spring, there's still no insect activity. It's just that he doesn't want to waste his time now. He wanted to take his people around some of the places where the snow was already showing signs of melting. Hopefully, there will be some new Trichinella clusters.

When the weather warms up. "Kidnap" some suitable bugs and put them into their own insect enclosures to reproduce. The ancients had a very good saying: "Rabbits don't eat grass near their nests." ”

Although for the creature "rabbit". Tianxiang didn't have many intuitive concepts in his head. Although there is a specific description of this "weak animal" in the information obtained from Base 2, in Tianxiang's opinion, the "rabbit", an animal that has never met before, is just a meat ball mixed with fluff. After all, until now, Tianxiang hadn't thought much about the great responsibilities he should have as a "pathfinder". The reality is already very clear: "If you can't even fill your stomach, then what can you do to save the world?" Saving humanity?

"The poor man sitting on the side of the street begging for food fantasizes about begging for a beautiful woman worth tens of millions to be his wife." This is a joke of the ancients. It is also the greatest irony of unrealistic utopians. Therefore, Tianxiang now has only one thought and thought: to find a new source of food to eliminate possible hunger in the future. So for the ancient proverb about "rabbit". He really agreed.

Only by cultivating the resources of things at your own doorstep can you use them in case of emergency. This is the same practice as storing food in large quantities. While it may be a little difficult to obtain, the benefits are clear. At the very least, the food is fresh.

Allow bugs to breed in the vicinity of settlements and hunt reasonably. This is the most fundamental and simple concept of "not eating the grass on the edge of the nest".

The quality of the skin removed from humans is indeed quite good. It is quite soft to the touch when tanned with plant ashes. And the warmth effect is also very good. Compared to the previous shoes made of giant locust skin, there is a world of difference. Walking in the snow in such leather shoes will not feel too cold.

For several days in a row, Tianxiang and Zhan Feng each went out to search with a team. Their request was simple: as many herbivorous bug colonies as possible.

The search was extensive, centered on the base and extending to all areas within a 10-kilometer radius. However, in Tianxiang's opinion, this range is still too small. According to his vision, the search range should at least double on this basis. Because it's winter. Compared to other seasons when bugs crawl all over the ground, winters are cold but safe.

Although Tianxiang and Zhanfeng are like two hard-working groundhogs, desperately searching for various gathering places that should be infested with bugs. But time doesn't stop there, giving them special treatment. As the thick layer of snow covering the ground slowly melted, the cold smell began to dissipate. Everything is silently telling the hunters that winter is leaving. The search activity must end. At least it will never be the same again. Go out in a squad.

I am very satisfied with the careful search of Tianxiang for a month. Although it did not meet its own requirements in terms of specific scope. But in terms of the current results, it is quite rich.

There is a bare grove to the south of the base. Although the cold forces them to take off their green coats, the trees still produce fresh green shoots as soon as spring warms. It doesn't take long for the thriving stems to form a dense shade. This kind of place will always be a paradise for aphids.

To the north of the base is a mountain-like ruin of ancient buildings that have collapsed and been stacked on top of each other. Tianxiang used his senses to detect that there were at least thousands of oil cockroaches sleeping under those scattered cement blocks. This bug lives by eating garbage. A lot of things that seem inexplicable are delicacies in their mouths. It is especially inconceivable that when they are extremely hungry, these guys with two huge black carapace wings can actually eat even the dry and hard feces after excretion. Although the habits of this insect are disgusting, every hunter has to admit that the white tender flesh hidden under the shell of the oil cockroach is quite tender.

The small river that meanders through the city makes Tianxiang feel infinitely happy. People want to drink water, and insects want to drink water. As a result, there are almost all areas on both sides of the river bank that show signs of insect activity. Even the river water has an unexpected source of food.

Fish.

According to the ancients. Fish is an extremely tasty animal. This animal that lives in the water is quite abundant. In ancient history, it was also used as the main food of the ancients.

Such a good thing. Of course, there is no reason to let it go.

It's just that the shape of the fish is obviously quite different from the pattern that Tianxiang saw in ancient books. Have you ever seen a fish with four legs?

Strictly speaking, it shouldn't be a foot, at most it can be regarded as a webbed pulled by four muscles sticking out of the body.

However, judging from its body structure, it already has the rudimentary shape of a foot. Although it looks weird, it doesn't affect the flavor of the fish itself. Ye Zhanfeng's little pair made two and came back to make soup. Before it was fully cooked, it was already sold out by everyone.

Even the bones of fish that pierce people. It was also stuffed into the mouth of a few young people as a snack and chewed on it.

It's delicious, it's just that it's much more dangerous than insects to catch fish. It's a small river, but it's deep, and those delicious fish won't be waiting for you to catch them. They have sharp teeth and are much more agile than humans in swimming in water. The scariest thing is that these fish generally live in groups, and as soon as any strange animal appears, they will swarm and gnaw your fleshy body into a skeleton with only a jaw that can move freely.

The fish that Warwind got was purely accidental. He was the unintended prey of this accident in a frozen puddle. Although it is difficult to catch, it is a new food resource anyway.

As for the trichinella that Tianxiang was most concerned about, they also appeared in several large ruins. Although the population is far less numerous than the ones that have been hunted before, it can add up to a considerable number of three or four thousand individuals. It is believed that as long as this base is "raised" for a period of time, the number of pounds can be doubled.

The ability of insects to reproduce is definitely far greater than that of any living thing on earth. The warm breath was approaching, and the thick layers of white snow began to reveal themselves, and they had been hiding the black earth for a whole winter. The transparent dripping ice picks hanging from the roof of the ruins no longer seem to be able to bear the weight of their bodies, slowly melting and crumbling on the other, and a little eager to complete the final result of their complete submersion in the dirt as soon as possible.

Spring is coming. The young patriarch seemed quite busy during this time. He's going to get all the work he has at hand while the weather hasn't fully warmed up. After all, raising bugs is something that hunters have never thought of at all.

The ruins, which are fairly close to the base, have been chosen as the location of the "Worm Circle". All you seem to have to do is just throw the captured Trichinella into it. All that remains is to sit with the mouth wide open and wait to eat the meat.

In fact, it's far from that simple. It's already quite difficult to capture. The fact that a trichinella that is close to the length of an arm is a vegetarian does not mean that it cannot bite. Killing bugs is easy to do with a gun. But it's undoubtedly more difficult to catch it without any harm than it is for you to take on a worm with your bare hands.

The problem is that only live bugs can be raised.

Tian had been worried about this for a long time, and Zhan Feng and Liu Rui had no way to do it. After all, they had never considered this kind of thing before. A chance chance pointed out an unexpected way out for Tianxiang.