When he thought it was almost time, Zhao Xian let her go, patted her head, and coaxed her: "Okay, have a good sleep. You'll be home when you wake up."
Qiao Xuejun felt that her cold hands had really warmed up, and her heart also felt warm.
She nodded obediently: "I understand, go and do your thing."
After seeing Zhao Xian off, Qiao Xuejun sat beside the bed.
Although she agreed to Zhao Xian, she certainly couldn't sleep because she had to pick up the fifty ice-footed horses.
She walked to the window, drew aside the curtains, and stood there looking out.
"Host, the Ice-footed Horse will be arranged very close to the base, so don't worry."
Qiao Xuejun looked out the window and said, "System, didn't you say before that there would be rewards like building materials?"
System: "Yes, I will be able to see it once I merge it with the energy."
"Is it the building material of the survival base?"
For example, the stables for ice-footed horses do not require complex building materials. This kind of horse is particularly cold-resistant and frost-resistant. In the Yakutia region, people there use simple wood to build stables for them.
This can be built with the help of a carpenter.
So what she needed were building materials for the survival base.
There are so many people coming to the First Base now. Although the base can accommodate them, the facilities must continue to be expanded.
They salvaged a lot of supplies when they entered the city, but if the system could provide them, wouldn't that save some resources?
System: "Yes, host. It is similar to the building materials of the shelter, solid and thick, and is designed to defend against mutants."
The big ship sailed forward. They set out quite early, and after sailing for 4 hours, it was daybreak.
The weather this time is better than when we came here, and the boat is going faster.
While Qiao Xuejun was having dinner in the restaurant, she heard the third mate of the deck crew mention that at the current speed they could arrive more than an hour earlier than originally planned.
Qiao Xuejun returned to her room, and sure enough, after a while, the system prompted that the host was about to meet.
Qiao Xuejun stood up, walked out of the cabin and went directly to the top deck.
It's the highest point and has the best view.
On the way to the deck, they had to pass through a search by the patrol guards, but when they saw it was Qiao Xuejun, they let her pass and even chatted with her: "Teacher Qiao, are you going to find the captain?"
Qiao Xuejun: "Well, something happened."
After a while, she was on the top deck, where the wheelhouse was located.
She walked forward to the guardrail and looked into the distance.
"Host, it's the small hill ahead. As long as you shake the bell in your hand, the horses will listen to you. Get on board."
Now we were still some distance away from the hill, and could only see a hill, or a stretch of hillsides, covering a very large area, with dense trees that were dead and frozen. We couldn't see what was inside the forest.
If this type of base is not flooded too deeply, it is also suitable as a base as it is large enough.
She was just about to wait for the boat to get closer when suddenly, the boat slowed down, getting slower and slower and even seemed to be stopping.
Qiao Xuejun glanced at the cab. What happened?
Suddenly, a man came out from the cab. It was Zhao Yun, and Zhao Xian also came out with him.
Zhao Yun had a strange expression on his face: "What is that thing? On that island..."
Qiao Xuejun heard Zhao Yun mumbling something with a telescope in his hand.
When they came out, they immediately saw Qiao Xuejun. Zhao Yun was curious: "Hey, Teacher Qiao, why are you behind here?"
Zhao Xian also looked at her, frowning: "It's windy up here, how did you get up here?"
Qiao Xuejun walked towards them and said, "I came up to take a look. What did you see? Did you find anything?"
Zhao Yun nodded immediately and pointed: "I seem to have seen something strange on that island. I even suspect I saw it wrongly."
Qiao Xuejun paused. The island he was talking about was the small hill where Bingjiao Ma was.
Yes, there will be someone in the cockpit who will use a telescope to monitor the navigation route in real time throughout the journey. With a telescope, it is not surprising to see abnormalities from a distance.
Zhao Yun looked at the mountain with the telescope again, wondering: "Is this a new mutant fish? Could it be that it has mutated into a new form?"
He turned the telescope, as if to adjust the focus, and saw something again: "Brother, there really is something, and it doesn't look like a sea monster. It looks like... looks like..."
He suddenly opened his mouth but didn't say anything. After a long while, he said, "Maybe I'm blind."
Zhao Xian didn't bother to ask him, so he just snatched the telescope and looked over there.
Qiao Xuejun watched Zhao Xian's brows gradually furrow. He took a look, then moved the telescope away, with a look of doubt in his eyes. He picked up the telescope again and looked over, and after a while he said, "A hairy donkey?"
What hairy donkey?
Qiao Xuejun found it funny and stretched out her hand: "Let me see."
Zhao Yun nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, yes, maybe Teacher Qiao knows him. Brother, please let Teacher Qiao take a look."
Zhao Xian put the telescope in Qiao Xuejun's hand.
Qiao Xuejun took it and looked over there.
This telescope sees very clearly.
In the snow and icy woods on the mountain, a group of light brown four-hoofed creatures were walking around leisurely.
They were indeed her "rewards". They looked just like the Yakutian horses she had seen before.
They were short, not as tall as ordinary horses. They looked even shorter than humans, certainly not as tall as her.
The body is plump, and the most special thing about it is the horse hair all over its body. The horse hair is not like the mane on the horse's back, but the hair growing all over the body from head to neck.
No wonder Zhao Xian said it was a donkey with hair.
There is indeed a visible difference between them and regular horses.
Qiao Xuejun said, "It's an ice-footed horse."
Zhao Yun was surprised: "Horse?"
Qiao Xuejun nodded and continued, "Most of them live in the cold polar regions and can even survive in temperatures as low as -70 degrees Celsius. See the long hair on its body? The polar residents use this horse hair to make clothes to keep warm."
Zhao Yun: "What are you waiting for? Go get your hair shaved!" His eyes lit up again and he asked, "Can I eat the meat?"
Qiao Xuejun nodded: "Of course, their meat is high in fat, which is good for cold weather."
Zhao Yun became excited: "Then let's catch them now, keep a couple for breeding, and kill the rest for meat!"
Qiao Xuejun smiled, thinking that she was feeling suffocated because she hadn't eaten meat for too long.
Zhao Xian didn't listen to Zhao Yun's excited speech and asked Qiao Xuejun directly: "What does Teacher Qiao see?"
Qiao Xuejun looked at the excited Zhao Yun and helplessly poured cold water on him: "You can't kill him and eat him yet."
Zhao Yun was immediately stunned: "Ah? Why?"
Qiao Xuejun: "They also produce milk, which also has a high fat content."
The base is short of supplies now, so we have to live like the rural chicken farmers who used to be very careful with their budgets. The hens cannot be killed for food, because it is not cost-effective, they must be kept for laying eggs. The ice-footed horses cannot be killed for food either, they must be kept for milk.
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