Chapter 202: Borrowing a knife to kill
Harvey didn't speak, and everyone was happy, and Vincent was very happy, and slaughtered the meat with a dagger, and some of it was roasted and eaten, and some of it was baked and kept for later use.
When the bounty team went out of the city, they actually brought some seasonings, but most of them died heroically with the No. 1 car that fell into the Ubin Bridge.
The rest is okay, but people who don't eat salt for a long time will cause weakness in their limbs and fatigue, and it is very important for them to maintain their physical strength in the wilderness.
When he went with Shu Yungui to look for fuel supplies just now, Vincent looked for a pond, which was originally intended to be used to replenish drinking water, but found that the water in the pond turned out to be salty, and he immediately realized that this might be a saltwater lake formed by seawater backflow, so he took a jar back.
At this moment, it is heated and boiled on a campfire until all the fresh water has evaporated into water vapor, leaving a thin layer of white crystals at the bottom of the tank, which is unprocessed natural coarse salt.
It was a very precious thing, and Vincent carefully scraped the salt off with a dagger, and put it in a cloth bag, half of which he used to roast meat, and half for later use.
The roast duck with salt is simply fragrant, Qi Yan also made a duck blood soup with fresh duck blood, and the three of them ate with relish around the bonfire, Shu Yungui glanced at Harvey from time to time, only to see that the man was holding his neck and his stomach was rumbling, but he didn't open his mouth to eat.
Quite a hard-mouthed guy indeed.
However, as long as he doesn't make trouble anymore and just waits quietly, Shu Yungui will not treat him harshly, and when he finishes his business in the wilderness, he will take him back to the outer city as promised.
After they finished eating, Vincent took care of Harvey and fed him some hot soup, of course, Harvey still wanted to eat meat, but he couldn't pull his head and say it directly, so he could only give Vincent a look, but I don't know if Vincent didn't understand or deliberately pretended not to understand, in short, Harvey didn't eat meat tonight.
Since there was still a long way to go tomorrow, everyone filled their stomachs and went to sleep, except for the "si-la-la" sound of the flames licking the jerky, and the constant "grunting" sound in Harvey's stomach.
He lay with his back to the campfire, because the wound on his stomach had not healed, and the pain was so bad that he couldn't even turn over, so he could only keep smelling the smell of meat coming from behind him, and his stomach, which was only filled with some soup, was soon so hungry that his chest was close to his back.
He couldn't sleep because of the unbearable hunger, and of course, he didn't want to sleep tonight.
Because he was waiting for a gift, a big gift for Shu Yungui.
It's just that this gift came a little late, Harvey stared until midnight, so sleepy that his eyelids drooped down and there was only a gap left, and the eyeballs inside had already turned up, and when he slept so much that he didn't know who was there, this gift was late.
In the dark corner where the bonfire could not shine, the rag curtain hanging from the window shook silently twice, and then a black shadow climbed up the ceiling along the curtain with great speed, it hung upside down in the air, its long body hung down, and its extremely thin limbs shook above Shu Yungui's head.
Soon, his tentacles touched Shu Yungui's hair, like a silk flower found a host, and the tentacles immediately entangled the hair, and continued to extend down, and the limbs stretched into Shu Yungui's hair, and it was about to penetrate his scalp and suck his bone marrow!
At this critical moment, Shu Yungui, who had been closing his eyes to recuperate, suddenly opened his eyes.
Even though the mysterious creature that sneaked in at night did not make any sound, as a verbal spirit mutant, Shu Yungui still heard the sound of the malignant approaching at the first time.
It is a special kind of biological wave, similar to a bioelectric signal, that can be captured by the Speech Spirits mutant.
Shu Yungui rolled on the ground, his scalp ached slightly, and a strand of hair was torn off by the limb tentacles of the malignant body, and it was being wrapped, and soon turned into a puddle of black liquid stuck to the wall, which was slowly absorbed by the malignant body.
Shu Yungui pressed his stinging scalp and looked intently at the wall.
It was a malignant mutant arthropod reptilian insect that still had its human body, but its limbs were gone, replaced by countless slender limbs.
Each limb is more than a meter long and flashes like a syringe needle
Shimmering with a metallic sheen, it resembles a thin-legged spider with a swollen body, and like a small centipede with long legs, the chaotic swinging limbs alone make people's scalp tingle.
The voice woke up Qi Yan, as a person with long-term experience in wilderness survival, he was not stupid by the scene in front of him, but immediately got up and picked up a wooden stick with fire from the bonfire and threw it towards the monster on the wall.
The spark burst out and scalded the monster's humanoid body, only to see it silently swing its limbs, quickly crawling along the corner of the wall, and disappearing into the depths of the house.
This arthropod crawls very fast, and the loss of a few legs is not life-threatening to it, and once it disappears into the darkness, it is the only one who can find it, and it is difficult for people to find it.
Qi Yan hurriedly stepped forward, stared at the place where the malignant disappeared, and asked vigilantly, "What is that?"
"Worm."
Although this creature from the ancient earth was carried in the biological gene bank when humans immigrated, for some reason, the Hope Star Field did not revive this creature, so Shu Yungui only saw the appearance of this creature in the biological illustrated encyclopedia that his family bought when he was a child.
At that time, he was too young, and he only thought that this kind of monster looked ugly, and he refused to look at it again after looking at it, but he didn't expect to really encounter it in his lifetime.
And now that I think about it, if the body of the worm is very terrifying, then the malignant body with a human trunk and the limbs of the worm is to the extent that you will faint at a glance.
I don't know if this thing is the aborigines of the ninth star or resurrected by the first generation of immigrants, Shu Yungui glanced at Qi Yan, Qi Yan didn't understand why he looked at himself, and said blankly: "The worm I saw in the wild doesn't seem to look like this."
"I've become an orc, so it's different."
He couldn't explain to Qi Yan the knowledge related to the malignant transformation of human beings, and even if he did, Qi Yan might not be able to understand it, so he followed the statement of the ninth star and called the worm malignant mutant an orc.
As soon as he heard that an orc had broken in, Qi Yan's muscles tensed all over his body, and he immediately woke up Vincent and asked him to sit by the bonfire and beware of the orc's sneak attack.
"I remember checking inside and out before entering this dwelling, all the crevices were blocked, why could the orcs still come in?"
Shu Yungui looked at Qi Yan again, this was already a clear question, but Qi Yan did not answer positively, but said, "Could it be that there is something that is not stuffed? Leaving a gap for the orcs to exploit?"
"Really?"
Shu Yungui picked up the wooden stick that was still burning, and approached Qi Yan step by step, Shu Yungui was taller than him, in the battle of eyes, Qi Yanxin was defeated, looked down and looked left and right, and said, "I'll check it again......
Vincent didn't understand why there was a sudden-for-tat confrontation between the two of them, he didn't dare to make a sound, seeing Qi Yan's face flush for a while, so he quietly walked up, pretended to help check, and asked in a low voice.
"What's going on? I think he's a little angry."
Qi Yan didn't dare to look back at all, he moved to the window, and saw that the gap he left for Harvey was indeed squeezed open a little, and the night wind leaked in, blowing the curtains "whoosh".
"Oh, how can there be a crack here?"
Vincent scratched his head in confusion and said, "I remember I closed the window, huh?"
Qi Yan didn't make a sound, and gently closed the window, leaving Vincent still standing by the window and thinking about it, and went to another place to check.
In fact, when Harvey asked him to open the window, he understood the man's thoughts, although Qi Yan didn't talk much, but he was thoughtful, and he could see the life and death between Harvey and Shu Yungui.
But he didn't want to get involved, because everyone who understood that Shu Yungui was the only one who could help them return to the outer city safely, and it was a very unwise decision to turn his face with him at this time.
But Qi Yan had to consider that in the future, Shu Yungui would be able to bring them back to the outer city safely, but he could not guarantee their future lives, as long as Harvey was alive, he was the only person in the outer city, and if he wanted to make a living in the outer city, he had to rely on Harvey.
Unless Harvey is dead.
It's not that Qi Yan doesn't understand this
After all, Harvey is his own life-saver, and he has the grace of knowing things, how many homeless people in the field sneak into the outer city every year, and they basically become food for the orcs in the Colosseum, and they can survive, have food, shelter, and work, which is a great kindness.
Therefore, Qi Yan couldn't do anything to Harvey, so he threw out the knife that Harvey handed him, handing over all life and death to that gap.
If the orcs kill Shu Yungui, it is the will of heaven that will kill him here, and if he can fight for his benefactor until the last moment, he can be regarded as worthy of the word "loyalty".
If the orcs kill Harvey, it means that the heavens will not kill him, and since the will of heaven is like this, why can't he live? Maybe it's not entirely impossible to return to the outer city and rely on his ability to capture orcs to replace Harvey and run the Colosseum again.
But compared to Harvey, Shu Yungui is smarter, and if he knows that he has such a mind in his heart, he is likely to turn his face.
At this time, it is more important to clear up the relationship and protect oneself.
Avoiding everyone's gaze, he slowly moved towards the corner, at first glance he was bending down to carefully inspect the wall, but in fact he wanted to pluck himself out of the ensuing scuffle and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
After all, Qi Yan was born in the military, and he was upright all his life, and he had an uneasy conscience when he made these plans, but in the face of life and death, conscience didn't seem to be so important.
He squatted down in the corner of the wall and poked the wall with a wooden stick, and Yu Guang saw Shu Yungui holding a flashlight into the room, and he didn't want to expose his intentions, the stone hanging in his heart fell slightly, and Gu Zichang sighed.
At that moment, the top of his head suddenly moved, as if a hand was pulling at his hair.