◎Happy 121st Day: Never lie to children◎
Jiang Muyun has always been cautious and keeps his words to himself.
She said it was something to discuss, so she must have at least a draft of the plan in mind.
Captain Yu wiped the sweat from his face and was about to ask something, but Jiang Muyun waved his hand and said, "Rest first. We won't be able to hold on any longer."
Captain Yu breathed a sigh of relief and waved to the people next to him, indicating that they should dismantle the awning as planned and create a shady area to temporarily block the sun.
The people in charge of dismantling the awning did not dare to climb up the house from the side, for fear that someone with a fierce temper would rush out and bite them. They only dared to climb onto the roof from the back of the floating house, rolled up the thick membrane cloth blocking the middle of the camp, and then pushed it hard, letting it fall into the hot sand.
Without the protection of the film, the sharp sunlight directly hit the earthworms' bodies.
As the temperature rose suddenly and the prey moved away, the earthworms piled up on the sand twisted unwillingly for a few times, and finally burrowed back into the ground.
The people guarding outside immediately dragged the cloth away, and did not dare to stop until they were nearly a hundred meters away from the camp.
There are no plants to be seen around here anymore. There are only a few trees that look half dead or alive, sticking out of the sand.
Jiang Muyun asked Xiaobai and Dabai to circle around the trees several times. After making sure there was no danger, everyone used film cloth to set up a simple shed using the tree trunks.
It’s still hot, but without the scorching sun, at least people don’t have to cover themselves up so tightly, which is a little better than being under the sun.
"Let's first check if anyone is injured, and also check how Xiaoguai and the others are doing." Captain Yu had just helped to set up the awning, and he was a little out of breath when he spoke.
No one needed Captain Yu's reminder. As soon as the awning was set up, they took off their thermal clothing and checked each other's conditions.
"fine."
"Safety."
“The animals are safe, too.”
"No wounds."
Everyone responded.
Jiang Muyun raised his foot and knocked it twice on the tree trunk beside him. After knocking off the sand on the soles of his shoes, he bent down and looked at the soles of his shoes.
As expected of the hiking boots she had spent a lot of money on, there was not a single abnormal mark on the soles.
Jiang Muyun turned his gaze to other people.
There is no need to talk about Chu Buwen. He also wore shoes that he bought himself. He didn’t recognize the brand, but the quality was definitely not bad.
Captain Yu was wearing the same kind of military boots they had seen in the Nanshan warehouse. They were just a little dirty now, but if they wiped off the layer of dust, there probably wouldn't even be a scratch on them.
Jiang Muyun looked around and finally set his sights on the warrior who was raising geese.
He was the only one wearing ordinary sneakers.
Jiang Muyun took a closer look at him while he was pouring sand into his slippers. The soles of his shoes showed signs of normal wear and tear, and there were a few obvious scratches on the edges, which seemed quite recent.
"Did you just say we can discuss this?" Captain Yu took off his sun hat to fan himself, then looked at Jiang Muyun and said, "Can I take it that you have a solution?"
Jiang Muyun withdrew his gaze, unscrewed the kettle, held the saliva in his mouth and swallowed slowly to prevent accidentally swallowing the chewing gum.
After she finished drinking the water, she slowly said, "I'm not sure yet. I'll know after I try it."
There are only a few things that earthworms are afraid of, except for strong light, salt and water, extreme cold, high temperature, strong acid and strong alkali, which are things that all living things are afraid of.
They were reluctant to use salt and water. Seeing that the group of earthworms did not scatter immediately after being directly exposed to the sun, it was estimated that the strong light had limited effect on them.
So what else are these earthworms afraid of that humans are not afraid of?
Jiang Muyun chewed gum and integrated the information he knew so far in his mind.
They had just run out of the camp, and had been walking on earthworms all the way.
But the animals like Xiaoguai who stepped out of the earthworm pile barefoot were not bitten. At most, a few hairs were pulled out, and there were no signs of being bitten on the soles of their shoes. Only a few tiny scratches were left on the edges of the pair of ordinary sneakers.
These findings confirmed Jiang Muyun's guess - even if the earthworms evolved teeth, their bite force was not strong.
Biting through human skin was certainly no problem, but could it chew through some sturdy materials, such as her military jacket and the soles of her hiking boots?
Jiang Muyun found it difficult.
Since the physical damage that the earthworms can cause to them is limited, the biggest threat left is the toxins carried by these earthworms.
They might bite them eight hundred times and still not be able to pierce their coats, but so what? As long as the eight hundred and first time scratches the oily skin, their lives will begin the countdown.
If it weren't for the fact that they hated the toxins in these earthworms, with the defensive capabilities of mutant animals like Xiaobai, these earthworms would not be able to pose any threat to them at all.
toxin.
The key lies in the toxins.
As long as there is a way to resist the toxins carried by these earthworms, these earthworms will not be an obstacle to their digging of powder.
When her thoughts reached this point, Jiang Muyun naturally thought of the two rebellious cubs in her family.
A poison king who dares to swallow mutated locusts as snacks.
There is also the next generation hatched by the Poison King, three heirs who have loved all kinds of colorful flower mushrooms since childhood.
If we judge toxicity by the lethality, the poison in these earthworms is at least eight times less than that in mutant locusts and some mutant mushrooms that are almost fatal.
Poisonous earthworms and chickens that are not afraid of poison.
It's just short of having the word "natural enemy" written on its face.
The only reason why Jiang Muyun didn't say anything definite was that she was worried that the toxicity in the earthworms had some special characteristics and was not on the same level as other toxins, which would make it difficult for her cubs to withstand it.
But you will know whether you can bear it or not if you try it.
Anyway, they set off from the West Suburb Transfer Station at 10 o'clock, so they can get here before dawn and even have time to set up camp and build floating houses. So it shouldn't be a problem for Xiaobai to take them back and forth from here to home in one night.
Their home is between Yi City and Nan City, and it is much closer to here from her home than from the transfer station.
Jiang Muyun took only ten minutes to briefly introduce the daily diet of her rebellious puppies to Captain Yu and others, and successfully made Captain Yu make up his mind.
It's just a matter of making an extra trip. Try it! You must try it!
However, before the rebellious cubs from Jiang Muyun's family arrived, they had to confirm one thing.
That is the range of activity of the group of earthworms.
There is no doubt that they have lived in the place where Xiaofen is for a long time.
Otherwise, with so many people in the nearby Dawn Base, these earthworms would have smelled the scent and crawled over long ago.
I just don't know how fast they move or how far they are willing to travel from home to hunt.
This is also a good test.
Captain Yu had someone put a few earthworms in a plastic bottle, which would be just what they needed later.
When the area that was once protected by the awning was almost completely sunburned by the sun, the group tentatively moved closer to where the supplies were.
Sure enough, the earthworms were still afraid of the hot sand.
This time, when they stood in the middle of the two rows of floating houses, the sand was completely silent, without any movement at all.
In order to prevent accidents such as sandstorms from causing the loss of supplies, they laid a rope net on the ground between the two rows of floating houses. All the supplies were piled on the rope net, which just helped them a lot at this moment.
Several soldiers cooperated with each other and used sharp engineer shovels to cut off the connection point between the rope net and the floating house floor from a distance. Then they retreated to the edge of the camp and directly pulled the rope net out, moving away the sleds and other supplies piled on the rope net in one wave.
The earthworms that originally gathered under the sleds and other supplies had to find new shelter after losing the shelter above their heads.
Only at this time did they realize that they were completely surrounded by hot yellow sand.
This group of earthworms squirmed in the sand for a while, but finally had to burrow back into the soil to seek shelter under the pressure of high temperature.
The floating house itself is flexible and can be disassembled, and the house panels are highly mobile.
They didn't dare to directly lift the floor of the floating house, but they could start from the roof and then the walls.
These dismantled house boards can be used to build four floating houses. People with weaker physical conditions can go in and hide there first. Jiang Muyun also scooped up a few basins of sand and put it in.
As for the few pieces of floor left after the walls are demolished?
For safety reasons, Captain Yu did not allow anyone to tow them away.
After all, there are no rope nets under these floors, so if you want to drag them away, you have to come into close contact with the floors.
There was probably a group of earthworms nesting under the floor, waiting for prey, and they didn't want to test whether their gloves could withstand the bite of the earthworms.
Four floating houses are enough for the time being, but this time all the floating houses need to be built on top of rope nets or membranes to make it easier for them to run away with their belongings.
After the floating house was built and a few new blocks of ice were made, the temperature in the room dropped to a range suitable for human survival, and the sand that Jiang Muyun had previously placed in the floating house also returned to a low temperature state.
Captain Yu and several key figures in the team gathered in the same room. Jiang Muyun unloaded a few boards from their simple sled and had someone build a frame that was 20 centimeters wide and 2 meters long in the floating house, and then poured the pots of sand into the frame.
"Everyone, stand over there and don't interfere with the experiment." Jiang Muyun drove everyone to the other side, and he stood opposite everyone holding a bottle of earthworms.
Jiang Muyun unscrewed the bottle cap and shook all the earthworms in the bottle into the sandbox.
Jiang Muyun watched the earthworms swaying in the sand and reminded, "Timekeeper, get ready."
Afterwards, Jiang Muyun trotted over to the group, completely eliminating all distractions, and said to the soldier who was pressing his watch, "Start timing."
The earthworms had recovered from their dizzy state and successfully captured the scent of their prey. They arched their bodies and dived into the sand, rushing towards the direction of the people.
The sand was quite thin, and traces of earthworms wriggling could be seen from the outside. When the first earthworm reached the finish line, Jiang Muyun asked someone to stop the timer.
"How long did it take them?" Jiang Muyun asked.
The person in charge of timing replied, "The fastest one is 4 minutes and 36 seconds."
Jiang Muyun observed the crawling paths of these earthworms and found that they basically did not hit the wall or spin around. This should be the normal speed of these earthworms.
To be on the safe side, Jiang Muyun decided to calculate the crawling speed of the mutant earthworms at 50 centimeters per minute, or 30 meters per hour.
Nowadays, sunset is generally after 7pm, and sunrise is around 5am, for a total of ten hours.
It was planned that the group of earthworms would lose their minds after encountering their prey and would not leave themselves any time to return. They could only crawl out a maximum of 300 meters in one night.
In other words, since this group of mutated earthworms do not have werewolf blood and are not blessed by the power of moonlight, it will be safe for them to set up camp three hundred meters away.
Jiang Muyun put the earthworms back into the plastic bottle.
"Let's set up camp at this distance first. Chu Buwen and I will go back tonight and bring the chickens back home." Jiang Muyun handed the bottle to Captain Yu: "If they are not afraid of this thing, then things will be easy."
Captain Yu took the bottle, looked at the lively earthworms inside, and sighed, "I hope your chickens can scare these earthworms away."
Jiang Muyun paused and said blankly: "Scared?"
Company Commander Yu was also confused by her tone. "What else? You don't raise dozens of chickens at home, do you?"
Don't be alarmed. Do you want the chickens to eat all the earthworms? That would take forever.
This sounds less reliable than asking them to catch earthworms with their bare hands.
Jiang Muyun: "Listen to me, if we talk about reliability, scaring earthworms is the least reliable."
Captain Yu tilted his head back to drink water and stopped talking.
Jiang Muyun's family doesn't have dozens of chickens.
She went back home with Chu Buwen in the evening and brought the five adult cubs from her home, as well as eight underage cubs that they had never seen before.
Including the eight underage chickens whose diet was said to be more diverse than that of their parents and grandparents, they brought back a total of thirteen chickens.
The two leaders held their heads high and were followed by a row of well-behaved younger ones. It was obvious at a glance that the family rules were very strict in this place.
Jiang Muyun took the plastic bottle containing earthworms and waved the transparent bottle in front of the cubs. After successfully disrupting their formation, Jiang Muyun poured the earthworms in the bottle into the middle of the cubs.
Everyone held their breath involuntarily, waiting for the reaction of those legendary poisonous chickens.
As soon as the earthworms landed on the ground, several beaks of varying depths pecked at them. In the blink of an eye, the earthworms were eaten up, leaving no residue.
A few underage cubs who were slow and didn't get the snacks started chirping anxiously.
Captain Yu was surprised by the way they swallowed the food so quickly and efficiently.
After counting the number of the legendary Poison King Chicken and its relatives, Captain Yu hesitated for a moment but couldn't help but ask, "Is it really not through eating?"
Jiang Muyun was helpless: "If I rely on food, I have to run a chicken farm here to fight a long-term battle, right?"
Jiang Muyun was not prepared to extend the battle line for such a long time, but he also did not think of relying on metaphysical factors such as blood suppression between natural enemies to get things done.
She is a very kind parent and has always been good at communicating with her children.
Adhering to the principle of capturing the leader first, Jiang Muyun first reached a consensus with the two rebellious cubs she raised from eggs.
Are earthworms delicious? They're plump, tender, and juicy. From the flavor to the texture, they're a novelty you've never tasted before, right?
Jiang Muyun didn’t know what the situation was with the cubs born later in her family, but she knew that the two rebellious cubs with the oldest generation were definitely smart.
Even if it is not as smart as Dabai and Xiaobai, it is far beyond the average level of mutant animals.
So when the two rebellious boys paced back and forth in front of Jiang Muyun with arrogant looks on their faces, pretending not to care at all about the earthworms they had just swallowed, Jiang Muyun did not give up the idea of exploiting cheap labor.
Jiang Muyun's eyes were kind and coaxing: "Do you like them? Do you want to eat them again in the future? Do you know how to eat them whenever you want in the future?"
The rebellious boy paused, then stopped two meters in front of Jiang Muyun with dignity, naturally raised his head and looked at Jiang Muyun.
Jiang Muyun smiled and waved a plastic bottle in front of them. Inside was a few fresh earthworms that Company Commander Yu and his men had just caught. "You two take your cubs and dig the rations out of the ground. I'll find a way to preserve them for you so you can always have them in the future. How about that?"
Jiang Muyun was afraid that the two cubs didn't understand what he was saying, so he broke off two dry branches and buried the earthworms back in the sand in front of the two rebellious cubs.
Before they ran far away, Jiang Muyun quickly clamped the earthworms with a dry branch, took them out and put them back into the bottle. After waiting for a while, he poured the earthworms in the bottle in front of the two of them and gave the two cubs a special meal.
The two rebellious cubs tilted their heads and thought for a while, then led a group of younger ones behind them and walked out the door leisurely.
Captain Yu and others were completely confused.
Is this considered a success or not?
Jiang Muyun just asked them to wait a moment.
A few minutes later, the dozen or so children from Jiang Muyun's family came back with a bunch of earthworms in their mouths.
Captain Yu, who had never raised mutant animals before, was baffled. "How could this be possible? They could understand this? Could egg-laying animals have such high IQs?"
Before Jiang Muyun could say anything, the goose farmer was already unhappy: "What's wrong with being an egg-laying animal? With all the biological evolution going on now, can't we just let others overtake us? My geese are pretty smart too."
Jiang Muyun responded, "That's right, listen to what you are saying. Our children can't stand hearing this!"
Jiang Muyun said this without delaying the work at hand.
She quickly picked up all the earthworms brought back by her cubs with a branch and stuffed them into the bottle, then solemnly screwed the bottle cap on.
Jiang Muyun held up the bottle and said to the two rebellious cubs in the lead, "Look, I've saved it all for you. I never lie to children. If you bring the food back, I'll definitely save it for you. You can eat it whenever you want."
The two rebellious cubs nodded with satisfaction, turned around and took their younger generations to continue looking for food reserves for themselves.
The drought outside has lasted for too long, and the animals and plants in the mountains are having a hard time. They haven't been able to find such delicious food for a long time.
Seeing this, Captain Yu frowned and said, "No way, where can we find so many bottles to store earthworms?"
Jiang Muyun looked at his watch. It was a little after four o'clock and dawn was about to begin.
"Who said we need to put it in bottles? Before daybreak, quickly build a few large frames outside with branches and cover them with thermal blankets. Square or round, whatever, just give them a little height so the earthworms can't easily crawl out." Jiang Muyun urged, "Remember to put the thermal blankets inside with the shiny side facing up."
The bright side of the thermal blanket, which is fireproof but not scalding-proof, faces direct sunlight, and underneath is sand with a small specific heat capacity. You can imagine how high the surface temperature of the bright side of the thermal blanket must be.
Is this all teppanyaki has to offer?
Captain Yu was stunned: "What are you preparing for?"
Jiang Muyun said calmly, "Roast the dried earthworms. A few fresh ones will suffice. We can't really keep so many live earthworms."
Captain Yu's expression was indescribable: "Didn't you say you never lie to children?"
Jiang Muyun said confidently, "Haven't I been negotiating with the two leaders the entire time? Do you know how old they are?"
Jiang Muyun thought for a moment after saying this: "Forget about today. Starting tomorrow, I'll try to keep them active during the day and inactive at night. This way, catching them and drying them immediately is less risky and faster. Those two old ones are very smart. If we leave them alone for too long, they'll easily discover the problem."
She also demonstrated her care for her elderly chickens with practical actions: "Don't forget to dismantle a few floating houses. Before the temperature rises, build a floorless insulated shed for the chickens at the edge of the earthworms' range. Put a few boxes in the shed for them to keep their earthworms. Just have someone replace the boxes every once in a while."
While protecting the employees, you can also catch earthworms by relying on the humans who move around there from time to time due to the low temperature. It’s a win-win situation.
She had seen how efficient her cubs were in catching food when there was an influx of vegetable worms.
At this moment, the number of foraging troops has more than doubled, and their efficiency is not limited by the food intake of predators. Jiang Muyun doesn't believe that the number and reproduction speed of this group of earthworms can be more terrifying than that of cabbage worms.
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