◎Happy 138th Day: Different Treatment◎
Feeling very safe, Captain Julien leaned on the pole and sat on the edge of the raft with a weathered look on his face.
This pole was specially made by those early risers who had nothing to do. They sharpened and quenched the head of a wooden stick to strengthen it, and then nailed a long wooden nail vertically on it.
This is to prevent the fish from chewing the rope and not letting go, making it impossible to get rid of it.
If this happens, they can stick a stick through the mesh of the rope net and kill the fish directly.
It also comes with several simple fishing rods, but the hooks on these rods are made of sharp nails.
When there are not many mutant fish, they can hold up a pole inside the protective net, hook or catch the fish outside, and bring them back to feed their own cubs.
As for whether this idea can come true?
It’s hard to say, it depends on fate.
If you can't get it, only Xiaolan will have a buffet. If you can get it, the kids at home will be excited and it won't be in vain.
The people driving the boat today were Gao Liang and Zhou Fei.
Not just today, until their boat sails out of the polluted waters, they will take turns steering their small, shabby boat. During this time, they will be just like Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen before them, and they don't have to worry about anything else but driving the boat.
Seeing Captain Yu's painful expression, several people considerately did not include him in the list of rotations to drive the boat.
If the outboard motor was destroyed by Captain Yu, Jiang Muyun was afraid that he would cry out loud on the spot.
Everything was ready. Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen sealed the last gap with parachute ropes. Xiaolan excitedly circled around the broken boat. Xiaoguai, Xiaobai and Tutu howled several times. Even Dabai looked impatient.
Jiang Muyun directed the pink-feathered parrot to determine the direction again, and then drove all the cubs that were running around on the wooden platform back to the kayak and asked them to stay still.
"Remember to keep an eye on these on the way. I'm afraid they might overturn the boat if they get excited." Jiang Muyun reminded Chen Cheng.
Their little broken boat can't stand the turmoil.
Chen Cheng nodded and lay directly on Tu Tu.
The little girl was skinny, and his bald head looked twice as big as hers. When pressed by the girl, the whole dog became restrained, as if it was afraid that if it exerted too much force, it would be thrown out by the little girl.
Jiang Muyun nodded in relief, and then scolded Xiaoguai and Xiaobai, two kids whose faces were filled with the words "very smart", "You two should behave yourself, or else our whole family will end up feeding the fish in the water, understand?"
Xiaoguai and Xiaobai sat still and nodded at the same time. From their movements to their expressions, they looked like they were cast from the same mold.
Jiang Muyun thought it was over and told Xiaobai to stay away from Xiaoguai. This clever little dog had actually learned to behave like a purebred Husky.
Are you raising your own value?
Jiang Muyun set out on the road to Qi City with a heavy heart.
They set out rather late today, not starting until nearly ten in the morning, and their speed was slow on the road, so they barely arrived near Qi City when it was getting dark.
In fact, Jiang Muyun didn't need to say anything, everyone knew that they had entered the polluted waters.
Because the water has changed.
No matter how turbid the water was, it was either gray or yellow, and no matter how complicated it was, you could always tell its color.
Not like now.
The surface of the water was covered with circles of blue and purple light, and occasionally orange and red could be seen mixed in.
The entire surface of the water seemed to be covered with a layer of oil, with oil droplets scattered on the water in circles, stacked and intertwined, pushing each other. After being broken up by raindrops, they blended together again, and at the moment of blending, other colors would seep out and flash by.
It looked like a group of monsters floating on the water, devouring each other with their eyes open.
Everyone fell silent at the same time.
In fact, they often chat casually on the road.
Because it is actually very boring when traveling. There is nothing but water in front of everyone, and they won’t see any breathing creatures other than themselves for several hours. But they must concentrate and stay alert at all times. If they don’t chat with their companions, it is easy to stare blankly.
But after entering this area of water, no one has spoken for a long time.
Apart from the roar of the engine and the pitter-patter of raindrops, no other sound could be heard.
Even the little sloth in the water rarely floats to the surface to act coquettishly.
It didn't seem to like these things on the water. Abnormal fluctuations often appeared on the water surface in front of Jiang Muyun and the others, pushing away those floating objects with a strange luster so that the hull would not be contaminated with too much of these pollutants.
That was the little sloth moving underwater, clearing the way ahead for them.
There's something strange about the taste of these waters.
Not a bad smell.
Or rather, it wasn't the stench common in the apocalypse.
It was a smell that was not obvious, but pungent and eye-catching.
It's like a needle, which doesn't seem to have a strong presence, but it hurts when it pokes into the flesh.
Jiang Muyun felt as if a thin fishing line was drilled into her nasal cavity, following the olfactory filament through the ethmoid plate into the anterior cranial fossa, and then settled in her brain.
"Put on a mask." Captain Yu took out a pack of masks from the supply ship. Jiang Muyun took it and saw that it was KN95, a rare commodity these days.
In the apocalypse, people are dying everywhere, and corpses are everywhere. It's not surprising that epidemics break out. No one will forget to wear a mask when traveling far away.
They even brought several sets of protective clothing per person.
What we are trying to prevent is encountering an epidemic area on the road.
It’s hard to say whether this mask can filter out harmful substances in the air, but it can block odors.
Jiang Muyun felt that if he inhaled this smell for two days, even if he was not poisoned, he would be seriously ill.
On the other hand, Xiaobai and the others only sneezed a few times when they first entered the contaminated area, and then rubbed their noses and returned to their expectant look, as if they were not affected by the strange smell at all.
Jiang Muyun suddenly had an idea. When passing by a large area of pollution, he found a compressed towel, hooked it with their simple fishing rod, and stuffed it out through the gap in the rope net.
After the compressed towel was fully absorbed by the pollutants and unfolded, Jiang Muyun took it back and stuffed it into a small sealed bag for storage.
Chu Buwen took the small sealed bag. To be on the safe side, he found a large sealed bag from his bag and put the small sealed bag in it for double protection.
"Are you planning to take it to the capital?" Chu Buwen asked.
Jiang Muyun nodded.
The mutated fish that drove the survivors away were most likely fed with these things. From the mutated fish to the pollutants themselves, everything is quite strange.
It doesn't seem like they are poisonous.
But if it's not poisonous, then the woman with the rotten wound on her body yesterday has something to complain about.
The attributes are quite contradictory.
Jiang Muyun carefully maintained his balance and returned to the raft: "Since we're already here, we'll be leaving soon, so I might as well bring some extra things with me, just in case they come in handy."
Even if this obviously abnormal substance cannot be used for practical purposes, it can still be preserved as a souvenir.
I'll stick it on the back of the calendar she uses as a diary. It will be very collectible.
Captain Yu frowned and said, "So idle."
Professor Chen disagreed: "This is a good habit, how can it be idle?"
Captain Yu: "No, I'm not talking about her."
Professor Chen: “Hmm?”
Tang An from the next door said in a hoarse voice: "I can testify that I am not referring to Sister Mu Yun."
After Jiang Muyun handed the things to Chu Buwen, she reached out and took off the folding engineer shovel hanging behind her waist: "Uncle Yu really didn't make it up this time."
Because Jiang Muyun saw with his own eyes that Xiaolan's head popped out of the water, intercepted a strange-looking fish in mid-air, and swallowed it directly into his stomach.
If Xiaolan hadn't intercepted the fish, based on its jumping trajectory, it should have been able to land less than half a meter away from Captain Yu's face and then be caught by the rope net.
It was impossible to tell what species the fish was before the mutation. Now it was completely black, with fine, pointed teeth protruding outwards and wide cheeks. From the front, it looked like a triangle.
No wonder these fish were able to flutter on the shore, forcing the survivors to flee with their families.
Although there was a rope net in the way, it was really no problem for Captain Yu to shout "That was a close call" when that ugly thing hit his face.
Jiang Muyun glanced at the surrounding water in the dim light, holding the engineer shovel and said, "Get off the boat."
When they were building the wooden platform, they deliberately made it larger. The edge of the platform extended less than one meter beyond the bottom of the kayak. The gap was not spacious, but it was enough for one person to stand.
And even if the net was overwhelmed and problems occurred, they would have enough buffer space to catch the fish in mid-air when they retreated to the kayak.
Captain Yu and Tang An stood on the wooden platform on the left, while Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen stood one in front and one behind next to the two rafts on the right.
Gao Liang and Zhou Fei had been staying on the stern platform. Now that Zhou Fei was driving the boat, Gao Liang could only move around near him to prevent damaging the balance of the boat's weight.
But that's enough.
It was enough for them to use their shovels to knock down the fish that were lying on the net and biting the rope and refusing to let go.
Jiang Muyun called out, "Xiao Lan, come back."
There was a turbulence ahead, and the little lazy boy's golden head popped out from the stern.
Jiang Muyun slapped the face of a mutant fish with its pitch-black fangs bared, biting the net tightly and refusing to let go, making the fish dizzy. As soon as it let go, it fell back into the water with a plop.
Chu Buwen was sitting at the back of the boat. When he saw Xiaolan return to the stern, he warned, "Xiaolan, drive the fish away from the stern. Don't let them pile up here."
Their outboard motors are already heavily loaded; if they drag two more fish into them, they'll probably be scrapped on the spot.
The little lazy boat is so long that it might be difficult for it to guard the entire ship, but it is no problem if it just guards the stern.
Little Lazy, who hadn't had a full meal for who knows how long, felt like he was in heaven at this moment.
It is a golden python, a giant python that is almost thirty meters long.
It used to always look thin and skinny, and its intimidation seemed not as great as those giant pythons such as anacondas that had not mutated and were only half its length before the apocalypse. That was because it had not had a full meal since the apocalypse.
It has been able to survive until now thanks to its tenacious vitality.
It’s not that it really has a small appetite and doesn’t like to eat.
For the first time, Xiaolan showed a ferocious appearance in front of everyone. His huge bloody mouth opened nearly 180 degrees, and with just one flip, he swallowed most of the fish gathered at the stern of the boat.
After eating dozens of mutant fish, Little Lazy's body shape did not change at all.
It stuck out its long snake tongue and circled around the stern as if it was somewhat dissatisfied.
Chu Buwen soothed him, "It's okay to circle around and hunt, but you have to make sure to protect the stern, okay?"
Without Chu Buwen's permission, Xiao Lan immediately dived into the water, swam quickly around the boat under the water, and then returned to the stern before the school of fish gathered again, holding a still struggling mutant fish in his mouth, and stuck his head out to look at everyone as if asking for credit.
Jiang Muyun extended his pointed wooden stick and pierced a mutant fish that had forced itself into a gap in the rope net and was gnawing at the wood planks at the bottom of the boat. He turned to Xiaolan and said, "Very good, protect the stern. You can drive as you please today."
Before Jiang Muyun could finish his words, he felt the ship shake under his feet.
Jiang Muyun was caught off guard and lost his balance, almost falling directly onto the rope net.
"What happened?" Captain Yu on the other side asked in surprise.
Jiang Muyun's eyes were cold, and the tip of the wooden stick in his hand pierced directly into the fish's mouth through the gap.
Jiang Muyun pried open the gaps between the mutant fish's sharp and dense teeth, and then as Jiang Muyun swung the wooden stick in his hand, the mutant fish fell unwillingly into the water, and the boat shook slightly again.
Just as she turned around to speak, the mutant fish biting the rope net was somehow bitten by its own kind.
The aroma of blood and flesh spread in the water, and the fish became excited instantly.
Layer upon layer of mutant fish pounced over, their dark and rugged bodies twisted and piled up into a ball. The blue and purple oily sheen on the fish became increasingly dazzling in the darkening sky. The sudden increase in weight caused the boat to shake uncontrollably.
Fortunately, the connection point between the school of fish and the boat was only that one fish.
However, when Jiang Muyun picked up the fish and threw it into the water, the fish did not scatter. Instead, they rolled up and down on the water surface, eating their injured ones directly, and then continued to move towards the location of their prey.
Jiang Muyun used an engineering shovel to knock down several mutant fish in succession. The big white cat in her pocket suddenly poked its head out and meowed excitedly several times.
Jiang Muyun had to free his hands to stuff Dabai back into his pocket: "Stop shouting, now is not the time to catch fish. If you make a fuss again, it won't be you who eats the fish, but the fish will eat us."
As Jiang Muyun spoke, he used another stick to pick up a group of fish that had gathered together and were biting their own kind and throwing them into the water.
At the same time, Chu Buwen, who was not far from her, also knocked down the fish school several times. Even the little lazy boy who came over to flutter around from time to time could not reduce the number of mutant fish on this side.
In other words, the lazy one eats a lot, but more mutant fish rush over.
"Sister, look over there." Chen Cheng, who had taken over the guard duty after everyone got off the boat and had been observing the surroundings with a telescope, hurriedly grabbed the corner of Jiang Muyun's clothes.
Jiang Muyun looked in the direction of Chen Cheng's finger. The water in the distance was surging and heaving irregularly. A strange and ominous metallic halo was wriggling and approaching inch by inch in the dark mass.
Jiang Muyun said in disbelief: "What does this mean?"
The survivors a few days ago were able to escape freely on their small rafts, but why is it like a zombie siege here?
You treat people differently when you eat them, right?
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