Chapter 28 Mutation
◎Just stick it on, just stick it on◎
Regardless of whether it is outrageous or not, it is impossible to verify it now. We can only wait until the military training is over and ask Xu Wen if there has been any breakthrough progress on the other two sides.
The night passed quickly, and the four people who had fallen asleep last night got up early and took over shifts with everyone else.
Qin Shu was actually in good spirits, but in order to participate in the grabbing of supplies at noon, she forced herself to fall asleep quickly.
However, Yue Shanshan and Peng Ke couldn't sleep at all, so they took turns with the four people who woke up to find dry plants or useful things to prepare for getting through the day safely.
Yue Shanshan even remembered the giant saguaro cactus that Qin Shu was thinking about. When she and Peng Ke passed by it while looking for plants, she did not forget to drag the giant saguaro back.
But Yue Shanshan really didn't know how things had developed to this point.
She happily took the giant column back, but she saw Yu Xiaoqing not only sitting in her favorite seat, but also eating her teammates' food and water!
"Why are you here!?" Yue Shanshan's face immediately fell.
Yu Xiaoqing seemed to be frightened. She shrank her neck and looked pitifully at the two athletes beside her.
The two athletes were quite carefree, and having rested the entire night, they were completely unaware of Yu Xiaoqing and the others' plan to ambush them. Upon hearing Yue Shanshan's question, they quickly replied, "Great! You know her? She said she got caught in the rain yesterday and lost her backpack. All her teammates withdrew from training, leaving her alone. Daben and I took pity on her, so we brought her back."
Yue Shanshan knew the two athletes had good intentions, so even though Yu Xiaoqing disgusted her so much she wanted to hit her with a giant saber, she still patiently explained to her two teammates, "She's fallen into this state and doesn't deserve our sympathy at all. After all, she and her teammates tried to attack us last night, saying there were only three girls here to bully. They also threatened to kick us out of military training if we didn't voluntarily hand in our supplies. So Qin Shu and Peng Ke had no choice but to send them out first. As for her—"
Yue Shanshan's eyes instantly grew colder. "Let's not talk about how her father ruined Qin Shu's family. Just think about how she recently stole my ex-boyfriend and deliberately tried to disgust me. I didn't do anything just because I'm well-mannered. What's the matter, Yu Xiaoqing? Why don't you just get out of here?"
"Senior Yue, you misunderstood. I didn't know you were here, and there was actually some misunderstanding between Qin Shu and me..."
"Come on, who is your senior? I don't remember you being from the same school as us!"
"I……"
"Go, go, go, go, go, hurry up!" The athlete who had just spoken to Yue Shanshan stood up and started to drive her away without waiting for Xiaoqing to say anything.
Another athlete, known as Daben, snatched the water that had just been handed to Yu Xiaoqing and said seriously, "You can eat my food, but this is the water that Senior Yue painstakingly distilled for us. You don't deserve to drink it!"
Yu Xiaoqing was stunned. After all, these two had treated her quite well before, and she thought they were somewhat interested in her. But now they wanted to drive her away?
Yu Xiaoqing found it unbelievable. How many years had it been since she had received such treatment?
But these two were not just talking. Not only did they drive her away, they also took the giant pillar that Yue Shanshan had found and placed it across the middle, blocking Yu Xiaoqing's way.
At this time, Peng Ke also came back. When he saw Yu Xiaoqing, he nervously opened his arms and tried to protect the tent where Yue Shanshan and Qin Shu were resting behind him: "I knew that when you said yesterday that you would also take their share, you meant to take revenge!"
Yu Xiaoqing, who had never thought about revenge and was just saying polite words, now has a headache.
No, what's going on with this group of people?
Is her brain full of brawn? Why did she say that she wanted revenge?
And it shouldn't be right to drive away Yue Shanshan, a weak and helpless girl, just because of her words, Yu Xiaoqing thought, while subconsciously touching her neck.
"!!!" With just this one action, Yu Xiaoqing's face suddenly changed. He didn't care about entangled with Yue Shanshan and the others, turned around and left quickly with his head down.
"What is she doing suddenly?" Peng Ke looked puzzled. He felt that Yu Xiaoqing's emotions were too unstable and scary.
The other athlete and Big Ben also shook their heads in confusion. After all, this man had been acting so shamelessly just a second ago, but now he suddenly turned around. They were also confused.
"Forget about her. I'm going to take a rest too." Yue Shanshan said as she yawned.
"Yes, Senior Yue, you should go quickly. You didn't get much rest last night." The three older boys nodded hurriedly after hearing this.
Yue Shanshan dived into the tent and glanced at Qin Shu, who was still sleeping soundly, completely unaware of the bad things happening outside. She shook her head helplessly, then lay down next to Qin Shu and even put her arms around Qin Shu, as if this would help her have a sweet dream.
I had no idea that after seeing this scene, a certain agent quietly bought quick-acting heart pills and a pacemaker online for his artist named Lu.
Qin Shu woke up almost as soon as the alarm on her watch rang. After taking a second to come back to her senses, she reached out and gently pushed away Yue Shanshan's hands and feet, who were wrapped around her like a koala. She also did not forget to give her warm blanket to Yue Shanshan and Elia, and then got up and left the tent.
But when she opened the tent, she saw two extremely spectacular "defense walls". The defense wall on the left was based on the giant column that she had been thinking about, and it was covered with all the dried plants that Peng Ke and his team had found. Because the plants in the desert mostly grow in thorny shapes in order to retain water, these dried plants that are to be used as firewood together with the giant column formed a natural defense wall.
The defensive wall on the other side was built with rocks and was almost as high as two people.
"What is this for?" Qin Shu was so shocked that she was stunned for a moment before she reacted and asked.
Peng Ke was completely overwhelmed. He pointed at Yu Xiaoqing, who was trying to come over to the giant saguaro barrier and said, "You should ask her about this. She just insisted that we stole her things. I told her about her necklace, but when she heard the bugs were gone, she went crazy. She wanted to beat people up, set fires, and even commit suicide. We're all grown men, and it's not easy for us to fight a girl, so we had to stop her like this."
Another athlete nodded in agreement, looking terrified. "You didn't see it? She just bit Ben's hand and kept scratching him. It was crazy. Ben's face was all scratched."
As if to confirm their words, Yu Xiaoqing, who was standing nearby, immediately started to speak out again upon hearing Qin Shu's voice. The previous softness and pity disappeared completely, leaving only anger and hysteria. "Qin Shu, it was you who did this! You just want revenge on me! Revenge for the bullying I did to you back then! Do you really want to destroy me!?"
After the questioning, there was a string of extremely dirty curses.
"So noisy." Qin Shu frowned when she heard that.
Afterwards, no one knew how Qin Shu did it. They just felt that she climbed and jumped easily on the rocks next to her, then climbed over the huge rock next to her and over the plant barrier they had built, and walked in front of Yu Xiaoqing.
"You, what do you want to do?"
Yu Xiaoqing, who was cursing happily across the barrier just now, felt scared at this moment, because Qin Shu's eyes were so cold that it seemed as if she was looking at a dead person.
Qin Shu did not answer, but just looked at Yu Xiaoqing for two seconds, then suddenly felt that it was a bit boring, so she directly gave him a headbutt, and the world became quiet in an instant.
After doing all this, Qin Shu's sight suddenly stopped at Yu Xiaoqing's watch. Just when everyone thought she was going to press the exit button for Yu Xiaoqing, she directly took away Yu Xiaoqing's watch, pulled out Yu Xiaoqing's shoelaces, and tied her hands and feet together.
Her abnormal behavior immediately sparked another discussion on Starnet.
[Shuang Cheng]: "What is Qin Shu trying to do? She won't allow others to quit?"
[Coriander Flavored Nutritional Supplement]: "This is too much! If someone is in danger, they won't even have a chance to ask for help."
[Ripple]: "That's right, to put it bluntly, this is harming people!"
[Frost]: "Is she seeking revenge? After all, she is the daughter of the murderer who killed her parents..."
[Ripple]: "Even this is too much. What's the difference between her and the murderer now? Besides, the murderer was the father. What does this have to do with the daughter? The daughter is innocent!"
There was a fierce quarrel on Starnet, but Qin Shu didn't know that if she had wanted to know why Yu Xiaoqing insisted on staying, so she didn't send him away immediately, then now she was thinking more about the insect egg.
She didn't know whether Xu Wen and the others realized that there was something wrong with the insect eggs. In order to prevent Yu Xiaoqing from running away after withdrawing from military training or disposing of the evidence related to the insect eggs, she could only keep Yu Xiaoqing until she completed military training and could contact Xu Wen and the others.
"Qin Shu, it's almost twelve o'clock. Do you want to join us to grab supplies?" The athletes who were well prepared also nimbly jumped out from the side of the defense wall and dispersed around, ready to capture the aircraft that dropped supplies.
"No, I'll watch over them. After all, they are all sleeping."
"Okay, it's better to leave someone here."
Unexpectedly, they were really lucky this time. The aircraft actually stopped about 50 meters away from them.
"Great! Now it's convenient for us to grab supplies."
"Well, it also makes it easier for others to find our whereabouts." Qin Shu added calmly.
The brother who was just happy was stunned in an instant, and slapped his head: "Damn, it's true."
"It's okay, we have more people." As a fighting champion, Peng Ke is very confident.
"There will be more people coming to grab supplies." Another athlete on the side felt that this was not something to be optimistic about.
As the saying goes, a random punch can kill a master. No matter how many people they are or how strong they are, if they encounter a hundred or two hundred people, can they still defend this place?
"Don't worry about that for now. Let's grab the supplies first. At worst, we can move to another place then." Peng Ke was still optimistic. After saying that, he waved to Qin Shu and set off with the four athletes who had rested well last night.
Qin Shu watched their backs getting smaller and smaller, gradually turning into a small dot and gathering under the aircraft. For some reason, Qin Shu always felt a little strange and uneasy in her heart.
…
On the other side, the aircraft had no intention of moving forward and just stayed steadily in the air, waiting to drop supplies at twelve o'clock.
All the students nearby who saw the aircraft were also gathering here.
However, in just a few minutes, more than a hundred people had gathered near the aircraft, and some people were on their way.
Obviously, this battle for supplies will be a fierce one.
Peng Ke and his companions had already chosen the most advantageous position, their eyes fixed on the aircraft in the sky.
They are now in the riverbed area, where there is much less sand than other places, and there are many rocks everywhere. The terrain is not very open. To be honest, it is really easy to cause disputes if you grab supplies here.
"Ga." The strange sound made Peng Ke lower his head subconsciously.
"Ohhhh, the supplies are coming!"
However, as the excited shouts of the people around him rang out, Peng Ke had no time to see what the strange noise was, and could only follow the crowd to continue grabbing things.
Just after he left, the corpse of an ant about the size of a thumb was left on the rock where he had just stood.
The distribution of supplies was similar to the previous distribution of tents, with boxes of supplies tied under parachutes. However, the quantity distributed was much larger than when tents were distributed before, which instantly reduced the competition a lot.
Relying on their excellent physical fitness, Peng Ke and Da Ben directly grabbed the first two supply boxes, and then handed them to the fastest person in the team to take back first. The other four stayed where they were, one to see if they could grab two more supply boxes, and the other to stop those who wanted to steal their supply boxes.
…
Qin Shu was also standing on a relatively high place on the rock, looking around vigilantly. After all, when looting supplies, the guards of each camp were the weakest. The strongest people in the team were outside fighting for supplies, and those who were left were generally easier to deal with. It was possible that someone would not go to loot supplies at this time, but instead directly rob the camps.
Fortunately, Qin Shu's worries did not happen here. She saw from a distance that one of her friends was running back with a box of supplies.
The man also saw her standing on the stone at a glance and waved to Qin Shu.
Qin Shu also raised her hand and waved, but at this moment, Qin Shu suddenly noticed that the shadow behind the man had a particularly dark color, which made Qin Shu squint her eyes in surprise, wanting to take a closer look, but the shadow was fine and there was no abnormality at all.
"Did I see it wrong?" Qin Shu rubbed her eyes to make sure there was nothing unusual around that person.
"Hey, Qin Shu, what are you looking at?" Just as Qin Shu was wondering, her little friend had already run under the rock where she was.
"Ah, nothing." Qin Shu jumped down from the rocks on the side and asked worriedly, "When you were running over here just now, did you feel anything unusual behind you?"
The man shook his head in confusion after hearing this: "No, I even looked back, and there was no one behind me."
Could it be that she really saw it wrong?
Qin Shu helped take over the supply boxes and put the looted supplies into their respective tents. She still felt a little uneasy. "I'll leave the camp to you. I'll go check on Peng Ke."
"Oh, okay." Although he didn't know what happened to Qin Shu all of a sudden, the little friend still nodded in agreement.
Just as Qin Shu was about to leave, she saw a sandbag suddenly bulge out in the sand under her feet.
"Hmm? Be careful!"
Qin Shu vigilantly called out to her friend who almost stepped on the sandbag, and pulled him aside. But at the moment when the man stepped back, the arched sandbag suddenly exploded like a fountain, and quicksand rolled down all around, and a dense group of ants suddenly emerged from the center.
These ants are completely different from the ants we usually see. They are the size of a thumb, with black bodies, a little blood-red on their heads, fine hairs on their bodies, and even dense carvings on their backs and tails. Just looking at them gives people goose bumps.
The ants that emerged were moving in unison towards the athlete's feet.
"Oh my god! What the hell is that?" The athlete was shocked and quickly moved his feet away, but the ants were relentless and continued to drill into his feet.
"What's under your feet?" Qin Shu was also confused by these ants, because these ants did not crawl under her feet, but kept crawling on her body. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and swept these ants to the ground with her hands.
"Nothing!" While the athlete was dodging the attacking ants, he took the time to look at the soles of his shoes. They were clean and there was nothing on them.
At this moment, countless bulges suddenly appeared on the sand in front of them, and each bulge was getting bigger and bigger.
"Get up! Everyone get up!!!" Qin Shu had a bad feeling and immediately woke up the people who were still sleeping in the tent.
"What happened?" Yue Shanshan, who had just woken up after hearing the noise, was the first to open the tent. Then she saw the sandbags bulging on the sand suddenly exploded, and a bunch of densely packed big ants rushed out of the sandbags, and many of them crawled towards her.
"Oh my God!" Yue Shanshan was really scared. She quickly grabbed the still dazed Elia and ran out.
Ji Feiran and the others in the other tent woke up after hearing the noise and were equally frightened by the dense swarm of ants: "Oh my god, what's going on!?"
Elia, who hated insects the most, yelled, "Ah, it's the desert army ants! Everyone, run out into the sun! They hate sunlight!"
Before they could act, Elia screamed and swatted the ants off Yue Shanshan's body: "Don't just stand there! These ants are poisonous and can eat people!"
As soon as the word "eat people" was uttered, everyone immediately panicked. Fortunately, despite the chaos, everyone had a good mental state. They even knew to remove the plant barrier together so that they could quickly run into the sunlight. Qin Shu even remembered to drag out the tied-up Yu Xiaoqing.
Sure enough, the ants hesitated and stayed in the shadow cast by the rock, and did not move forward.
Just when everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the ants circled around, and a small number of them suddenly dived into the sand again. But a moment later, sandbags appeared around them again. Although the number was far less than that in the shadows, there were still ants chasing them.
"Oh my God, this shouldn't be possible. Aren't they most afraid of the sun and fire? What on earth is attracting them so that they are not even afraid of the sun?" Elia looked at the rising sandbags and got goosebumps all over his body.
"Wait a minute, look at that group of ants!" Yue Shanshan pointed to the place near the right side of the fire, where the ants were the densest. And unlike other ants, they seemed to have lost their way and kept circling there.
Qin Shu relied on her courage and walked closer to take a look, but she frowned when she saw it.
Because the thing they were circling around was the plant tube that Yue Shanshan used to catch the insect eggs last night. Suddenly, Qin Shu seemed to have thought of something and stretched out her hand towards the group of ants.
At this moment, the ants that were just running around in the sand raised their heads at the same time and looked accurately in the direction where Qin Shu was extending her hand.
However, Qin Shu reacted quickly and immediately retreated from the shadow area before the ants pounced on her.
"Where did you come from today?" Qin Shu asked the athlete whose feet had been bitten by ants.
"It's over there." The athlete jumped and pointed in the direction to Qin Shu.
And that was exactly where Qin Shu had discarded the can of insect eggs last night, on a flat rock half a person's height. Normally, no one would walk on the rock, but this morning, in order to stop Yu Xiaoqing, Peng Ke and his team built two "defense walls", so they had to climb up the rocks on both sides and jump out.
I think it was because when they passed by the can just now, they smelled something very attractive to these ants, so the ants crawled under his feet.
"It's the smell of the insect eggs." Qin Shu hurriedly explained briefly to everyone.
"How do we get rid of these odors? We can't keep hiding from these ants like this, right?" The athlete felt that he was almost tired of jumping.
"Water?" Ji Feiran asked.
"But the water we have is not enough for us to drink, and it can't rain every day in the desert." Elia vetoed it.
"What should I do? These ants are endless."
Qin Shu was also a little anxious. At this moment, her eyes suddenly fell on the giant saguaro cactus that she had been thinking about before: "Maybe there is another way."
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