System: "Host, it's the Zhang family."
The Zhang family is one hundred meters away from Qiao Xuejun and has always been within the system's monitoring range.
Qiao Xuejun frowned. Zhang family? The only one left in the Zhang family was the aunt. The father and son of the Zhang family had been taken away and had not been released yet.
That aunt is spying on her?
However, maybe she was just on guard. After all, the Zhang family had just experienced an attack by people infected with mad cow disease, so it was reasonable for them to be alert to changes in the surroundings.
But Qiao Xuejun didn't return to the shelter immediately. She stood up, walked to the door, pushed the table next to her over, and blocked the door. In this way, even if someone wanted to sneak in, they would be discovered because of the noise. Qiao Xuejun knew that the system could give early warning, but she just felt that it would be safer this way.
When he returned to the underground shelter, Qiao Xuejun put down his equipment and counted it. Ropes, daggers, folding canes... nothing was missing. Slingshots, steel balls... eh?
Qiao Xuejun counted the steel beads again.
When she went out, she brought a small bag with 20 coins. But now she counted only 19.
One was lost... But when she used the slingshot to attack the mad cow disease infected person, she clearly picked up all the steel balls on the ground. Did she miss one?
Thinking that the steel ball might be on the body of the mad cow disease patient, Qiao Xuejun's forehead broke out in a cold sweat. The community said that someone would go find the mad cow disease patient, and if the steel ball was found on him... it would be troublesome.
It was also because I was too panicked at the time. After picking them all up, I only looked at the ground and did not check the body of the mad cow disease patient, so I missed one.
For a moment, Qiao Xuejun thought of going out to retrieve the steel ball, but gave up before she could think about it. It was too dangerous to go out now, and the steel ball might not be on the mad cow patient. Moreover, even if it was on the mad cow patient, if someone found it, it might not be able to link it to her.
Maybe the steel ball was lost on the road, or it just rolled into some gap between stones.
There was no point in thinking so much, so Qiao Xuejun stood up and put the equipment back on the shelf one by one.
After it was over, her tense nerves began to relax.
She sat in front of the shelf, lowered her head and could smell the sweat on her body, as well as the dry smell of grass and soil that she had rubbed against in the wild.
I want to take a shower.
System: "Host, do you want to boil water?"
Qiao Xuejun hesitated for a moment and said, "I won't burn it anymore."
The kitchen in the shelter can use electricity, so she brought a kettle down, but she always felt it was not worth it to start the fuel generator just to boil a pot of water. However, the kitchen in the shelter also has an old-fashioned stove that only needs to burn wood or coal.
Qiao Xuejun did not stockpile firewood and coal.
Maybe I can go out again tomorrow and pick up some firewood. The firewood has been dried to be very crisp and will definitely be easy to burn.
Qiao Xuejun walked towards the planting area. The soft water pipe she brought in from outside was right next to the land. She was just going to take a shower.
"The water temperature should not be low now." Qiao Xuejun guessed.
She opened the valve on the water pipe, and there was a gurgling sound in the empty pipe, and clear water flowed out.
Sure enough, after a day of sun exposure, the water was warm, not cold.
Qiao Xuejun breathed a sigh of relief and started to wash up.
Feeling much better after taking a shower, Qiao Xuejun returned to the bedroom and lay on the bed.
I originally thought that I would fall asleep quickly because I was so tired today, but after closing my eyes for a while, Qiao Xuejun's brain nerves were still very active.
"System." Qiao Xuejun shouted.
The system quickly responded: "What's wrong with the host?"
"I plan to go to the mountain to collect some firewood tomorrow and store it."
System: "This is great, host. Wood can be used to make many tools. Host, do you want to go to the mountain? The mountain we went to that day."
Qiao Xuejun: "Yes, that place is the closest, or do you have any other suggestions?"
The system unfolded the map and marked a point: "A small hill in the north, surrounded by high mountains on all sides, and there are many underground caves, so the impact of high temperatures is relatively low. The database tells me that there may be animals living on that mountain, and there is a chance to hunt them."
Qiao Xuejun looked at the map and asked, "Can you analyze it again?"
When we first started building the shelter, we asked for his advice and he said he didn’t know where would be a good place.
The system was a little embarrassed and explained: "I have this function, but it takes time to load the local data."
Hunting and animal meat can provide the fat and protein needed by the human body.
Qiao Xuejun didn't lack food. When she went to the supermarket to buy rice, she also bought some canned meat. Canned meat has a long shelf life. But the price is not cheap, so she bought enough for a year, and she had to eat sparingly to barely make up for it.
But a year later, it was completely out of stock.
Hunting can solve this problem very well. She can take the animals back to the shelter to raise them, and once they are out of the cages, she will no longer have to worry about meat.
Qiao Xuejun thought about it. Hunting is also a technical job. She has never done it. They studied agriculture, and animal husbandry is also a professional knowledge area. She has raised pigs and cattle, but she really knows nothing about hunting.
She had a bow and arrow, but she couldn't use it skillfully. She couldn't even hit a target accurately, let alone hunt animals that could jump and run.
However, if there are some small animals like turtledoves, pheasants or rabbits, they can be captured with traps without bows and arrows.
Not only do traps need to be made to catch small animals, but her little house also needs some traps for self-protection.
It has been decided that we should go to the mountains to collect wood.
Having made up her mind, Qiao Xuejun started to count her equipment after getting up the next day. To cut down trees, she would definitely need an axe, which she had. She also had the woven bag that she had used to store potatoes, which was very sturdy. She could take two bags to the mountain to load wood.
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