The turquoise-green prawns have shells that glow a faint blue.
It completely ejected from the water, lying face down on the shore, then immediately raised its head and raised its upper body.
It is two meters high.
It swung its head and looked at the people on the shore, then it roared in the direction of Qiao Xuejun, the shortest person in the crowd, with its mouth wide open, revealing its densely packed serrated teeth. Its cavity trembled, and sticky saliva flowed from its mouth.
"Find cover and protect Teacher Qiao!"
The captain of the third team, Shan Jun, was the first to react. He gave orders, made defensive preparations in an instant, pointed his assault rifle at Da Xia, and fired the first shot.
"Bang!"
Cheng Mai was closest to Qiao Xuejun, so he retreated to protect Qiao Xuejun after hearing the order.
Trouble, he thought, if Qiao Xuejun hadn't come with him, he could have gone up and fought directly. Now he had to distract himself to protect Qiao Xuejun.
If Qiao Xuejun was scared and cried, would he be responsible for calming her down?
He frowned and turned to confirm Qiao Xuejun's location.
Hey, where are the people?
He looked carefully and found that Qiao Xuejun had actually found a thick dead tree and hid behind the trunk. He had even pulled out his gun, holding it with both hands, with the barrel closed, bullets loaded, and the muzzle pointed in the direction of Daxia.
His eyes were still fixed on the prawn, and there was no fear in them.
Cheng Mai was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned around and stood in front of Qiao Xuejun, pointing the gun at Da Xia and firing.
The mutation level of this shrimp was not high. They opened fire and the shrimp fell down in a short while. It didn't even have time to escape and the battle ended quickly.
The prawn fell to the ground limply. Team Three Captain Shan Falcon gestured to his team members: "Dissect and collect."
A soldier specially carrying a body bag came forward to collect the bodies.
This weak mutant almost cannot produce blue oil, but the corpse is useful to them. If it is a non-toxic mutant, the meat can be ground into powder and eaten. If it is poisonous and cannot be eaten, it can be thrown into a biogas digester to ferment into methane and generate electricity.
The soldier next to Cheng Mai nudged him with his elbow: "Why are you daydreaming? Get to work."
Cheng Mai had been staring at Qiao Xuejun. After being reminded by his teammates, he came to his senses and whispered, "Teacher Qiao is very courageous. He was not scared at all."
The soldier was originally from the First Base. He smiled when he heard this and said, "After all, she is the one who survived the beast tide. Hundreds or even thousands of mutants besieged her. Strictly speaking, she only suffered minor injuries at the time. How could she be scared by this?"
Cheng Mai was surprised: "Beast tide?"
He remembered something and asked again, "Wasn't it the female leader of the 7th base who repelled it?"
The soldier wrinkled his nose in disdain. "What kind of thing did she fight off? It was our lord who led us to fight it off! But at that time, Teacher Qiao and the female lord were both there, and it was mainly Teacher Qiao who was fighting the mutant monsters."
Cheng Mai: "That's not what I heard. It was said that the female leader escaped from the beast tide unscathed, while Qiao Xue... Teacher Qiao had no power to fight back, was covered in wounds and nearly died. It was the female leader who exerted a lot of strength."
The soldier was even more amused: "Let me tell you one thing. When we arrived there, Teacher Qiao was standing straight with a knife in his hand, while the female leader, heh, was lying on the ground, shaking all over, and couldn't even stand up."
There is nothing to laugh at if you can't stand up. Normal people would be scared when facing such a scene. But if you can't stand up and still pretend to be cool, isn't that funny?
The soldier lowered his voice and whispered, "For this, Teacher Qiao even gave us a thank-you gift."
Cheng Mai was a little unconvinced and corrected him, "Is it for the colonel?"
The soldier looked at Cheng Mai with contempt: "Tsk, it's for us, everyone gets a share. And it's a very good gift."
As a soldier, Cheng Mai could empathize with the rescued people and felt very warmed when he heard them thank the soldiers. But he couldn't help wondering if it was because of this incident that the people in the First Base were bribed by Qiao Xuejun.
Is it because he received a gift from Qiao Xuejun that he deliberately only speaks well of Qiao Xuejun and badly of the female lord?
Just as he was thinking this, he saw Qiao Xuejun acted before him. She had put away the gun, but a knife appeared in her hand at some point.
The soldier asked Cheng Mai to look at it: "See, that's the knife that Teacher Qiao held during the beast tide."
It was a short, multi-purpose Swiss Army knife that was very convenient to carry, but it was not enough to fight giant creatures.
Soldier: “That’s why I got hurt.”
The two soldiers in charge of dismantling the prawns were very skillful. The two-meter-long prawns were turned into a pile of meat and put into body bags. Some scattered inedible parts were left on the ground.
Qiao Xuejun looked at the things on the ground and said, "Captain Shan Falcon, why don't you take these back and put them in the biogas digester?"
Shan Falcon said, "We'll see them on the road later. Shrimp are just shells, not valuable, and it's a waste of space in my pocket. I won't pick them up. It's more cost-effective to save them for other things."
Qiao Xuejun nodded, turned the handle of the knife, and squatted down: "Then wait for a while."
Wearing black leather gloves that matched her equipment, she squatted down, pulled the huge shrimp head over, and used a Swiss Army knife to pry it into the shell.
Shan Falcon asked hurriedly, "Teacher Qiao, what are you going to do? Let us do it?"
Qiao Xuejun: "No, I'll be quick. I'll just see what this shrimp eats."
The shrimp's stomach is in its head, and you can see it by opening its head.
The Swiss Army Knife was too short to fit the shrimp's hard shell. Qiao Xuejun pulled out the small crowbar from the Swiss Army Knife and pried it through the hole in the shrimp's head that was broken by the gunshot. It opened in one go.
She went straight to work and pried open the shrimp head that had been pried open.
Cheng Mai was puzzled: "What can we see from this? It's all digested in the stomach."
Qiao Xuejun: "The shrimp's stomach is different from the human stomach. It is not responsible for digestion and decomposition. If you are lucky, you can see a little bit."
Qiao Xuejun used the tip of the knife to poke around in the shrimp head, revealing the black and green contents inside.
She frowned and observed.
Shan Falcon next to him said, "Teacher Qiao, have you figured out anything? Do you want us to dissect the rest of the body?"
Qiao Xuejun reached out and grabbed the green and black mass, looked at it carefully, and replied: "It looks like there are plants. I don't know where the shrimp ate it. There are only these undigested plant fibers left."
Maybe it's a land plant, maybe it's seaweed.
Cheng Mai's face turned green when he saw Qiao Xuejun grabbing the mass of digestive matter from the shrimp's head with his bare hands.
She didn't seem to consider whether the thing was disgusting or not, and just went straight to it.
In short, he was convinced and believed that she was here to look for plants. Qiao Xuejun was really here to do business, and there was no ambiguity at all.
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