Seeing that no one came to open the door, the people at the door were in despair. The man who had threatened them earlier kicked the door frantically, cursing under his breath.
"Brother Chen, stop yelling. Maybe there's no one even here. Let's hurry up and find another place!"
Brother Chen turned his head and spat out a mouthful of spit, not knowing whose face it landed on.
"You motherfucker, what do you know? I've been observing this place for days and I'm sure there's someone living there. In fact, this family has some connections with those damn leaders at the base."
I saw them eating together last time; they definitely had plenty of food and drinks.
"We came out here today to plunder, didn't we? These damn birds ruined my plans. Damn it, I'll shoot them all down and roast them for dinner!"
After the man finished speaking, he started kicking the door again, the banging sounds were particularly jarring. As expected, such a loud noise attracted a flock of birds that would attack others. Some of the birds flew towards the group like madmen and began to peck at them frantically.
The men, whose eyes had been pecked out, clutched their bloodied and mangled eyes and screamed in agony. The birds became even more excited and continued to chase after the group, pecking at them all over.
The group was covered in blood craters, and after running only a few steps, they all collapsed on the ground, pecked to pieces by the strange bird.
For more than three hours, until there were no living people left on the ground of the base, the flock of strange birds once again flew in the sky at a moderate height, making strange "ah ah ah" noises as they surveyed the entire base. Only after confirming that there was really no prey outside did they all fly away in a long, mournful chorus.
More than half an hour after the strange bird left, several fully armed teams came out of the base, wearing hard helmets and thick stab-proof vests, to clean up the ground.
The mangled corpses that had been brutally murdered outside the base were all transported to the base's fertilizer incinerator, where they were all burned to ashes in a single fire.
The strange bird arrives every afternoon, hovering over the base as if it were a fixed mealtime, and no one knows exactly where it flies from.
At first, a few fearless individuals dared to linger outside, clinging to the hope that they wouldn't be so unlucky. The end result for these people was that they quietly lay in the incinerator and turned into a pile of ashes.
For a period of time afterward, the flock of birds did not see a single living person for three days in a row. They became increasingly agitated and even began to actively attack houses.
Humans are smart, and these birds aren't stupid either. The flock of birds explored for several days and finally found the relatively fragile glass window. Then, a group of birds surrounded the glass and pecked at it.
Because they were so close, people could see these mutated birds directly, and their appearance was truly unsettling.
For the birds, their hard work paid off. Day and night, they pecked and pecked until they finally broke through one glass window after another, and the food that was right in front of them could no longer escape.
But for the people in the base, this time nothing could stop these strange birds. More and more windows were breached, and the strange birds were trapped in the broken and splintered windows, flapping their wings desperately.
With its mouth wide open, it's ready to peck people, even if it leaves its own body covered in blood and gore, it will still peck to death the tiny human in front of it.
Their large size might be an advantage for these birds on the outside, but it has become a disadvantage for these strange birds stuck in the window.
They could only stretch their long necks and make loud noises with their big mouths, but they couldn't squeeze in at all.
So people spontaneously began to fight back, using whatever they had on hand. They would risk danger to drive away each bird that came in, and kill any that refused to leave.
The bird that is killed will be dragged out by its companions and eaten clean, and then a new bird will take its place and continue to squawk.
The back-and-forth battles, more than a dozen times, exhausted the players, not the strange bird that always had substitutes.
So it was during this period that more and more people were pecked and killed by the strange bird because they were powerless to fight back, and the casualty rate doubled compared to when they first fought back.
Even with the best protection, the guards sent out from the base could not escape being breached by those strange birds. They would peck through helmets and eat eyes first, and if they couldn't peck the body, they would swoop down, grab people with their sharp and powerful claws, fly high, and then throw them down.
Because these mutated birds were so strangely intelligent, everyone in the base, from ordinary people to base leaders and guards, began to feel overwhelmed. Wave after wave of people sent out suffered heavy casualties, and the people in the base were harassed by the birds every day.
Jiang Li and his group's courtyard was also attacked, but fortunately, they all had guns, so it wasn't too difficult to deal with. It's just that they came every afternoon for a while, which was a bit annoying.
Because of the strange bird's constant harassment in the afternoon, all production activities at the base were moved to between 5 a.m. and 4 p.m., and everyone knows that output dropped sharply.
The people at the base were suffering terribly from the strange birds every day. Before they could get rid of these annoying birds, a large group of strangely shaped centipedes that were difficult to deal with arrived.
That morning, the base was unusually quiet when suddenly a strange sound rang out, like something rubbing against the ground.
As they drew closer, the sound grew louder and louder. When people finally saw the source of the sound, goosebumps rose all over their bodies as they stared in horror at the centipede struggling to crawl in front of them.
This centipede is about the size of a seven or eight-year-old child's forearm. It is jet black and has long, mottled, brownish-red legs on its limbs.
Its blood-red eyes stared intently at its prey behind the glass, baring its fangs.
"Ugh, these things are disgusting."
Fu Xiaxia looked at the centipedes scattered all over the ground outside and felt terrible.
"I really don't want to see these things. The previous insect plague already disgusted me, but these have really broadened my horizons."
Seeing these things reminded Fang Qingxun of the previous insect plague, and for a moment he really didn't know which was more disgusting.
"It's really not a pleasant feeling."
Shi Yuan also spoke up.
In fact, not to mention Fu Xiaxia, even Gu Jin and the others felt uncomfortable when they saw these centipedes.
Jiang Li had come into contact with many invertebrates, but these centipedes were the most disgusting creatures she had ever seen in her two lives. Moreover, these centipedes might be highly contagious or even highly venomous. Even if these centipedes couldn't get in for the time being, they still needed to take precautions.
Jiang Li, Gu Jin, and the others put on long-sleeved clothes and trousers, and took out sealing strips and sealant from their spatial storage to start sealing the gaps in the doors and windows.
The group wasn't exactly lucky; the glass window of their second-floor room had been shattered by the strange bird, and before the damage was even finished, these centipedes were causing trouble again.
It took the group of people nearly an hour to finish fixing all the gaps in the two-story building, and even the holes that had been left in the villa in the kitchen were sealed up tightly.
After dealing with these gaps, the job isn't finished. We also need to seal up all the windows in the second-floor rooms. We're afraid that if there's even one gap, a bird might not be able to get in, but a centipede might. So the best solution is to seal them up completely.
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