Chapter 35: The Second Watch: Not Even Eating Birds

Yes, it's a hare.

What a fat hare!

Fresh pot rabbit, cold pepper rabbit, crispy date rabbit, shredded rabbit, hand-shredded rabbit, spicy rabbit head, red oil diced rabbit... Ye Yu memorized more than a dozen rabbit recipes in his mind.

"Space Tear." It had been a long time since Ye Yu had used her skills in such a chuunibyou way, but this rabbit broke her skills, and it was also destined that the rabbit could not escape after all.

One hit kills.

Let's do it

——The gray rabbit fell to the ground.

Ye Yu took two steps forward, bent down, picked up the rabbit and weighed it. It was not as heavy as she had imagined, about five pounds. It did not look solid, but its fur felt quite comfortable.

Place the bunny into the space.

Ye Yu searched the area nearby.

Thanks to her sharp eyesight, she found a rabbit hole in the weeds. She understood the principle of "a cunning rabbit has three burrows" and found several rabbit holes in the same area. These rabbit holes did not look like the nests of a single rabbit, but she did not hear any other rabbits calling.

Wild rabbits usually don't make calls. They only scream when they are frightened or facing danger. Now, even if there is a rabbit in the hole, it will stay in the hole and not move.

If you can hear it, there must be a ghost.

Ye Yu couldn't wait that long, so he decided to use the most traditional method of smoking the rabbit holes. He had several boxes of matches ready and could get firewood on the spot. He first blocked the holes that were relatively far away and then smoked one of the holes.

After waiting for a while, blocking out the noise, I finally heard some movement underground.

Ye Yu caught four rabbits at the entrances of three rabbit holes. His ears moved and he came to a place between two holes.

Two spaces are torn apart continuously.

The ground loosened and at the same time, the soil was pulled away. The hare below was slow to react for two seconds, its legs were caught, and it screamed twice in fear.

Ye Yu's first reaction when he picked up the rabbit was that it was quite heavy, heavier than the previous ones.

Then he frowned.

He lifted the hare up by its neck and touched its belly. His ominous premonition turned out to be true. It was a female rabbit, and a pregnant one at that.

If she met it in the end times, Ye Yu would definitely not let it go, but the longer she stayed in this era, the more she realized that she had been reborn, and this world was a peaceful world waiting to be developed.

Pregnant rabbits are responsible for the reproduction of a species and should not be killed. This is also the unspoken rule followed by hunters.

Ye Yu put the pregnant rabbit on the ground with a painful feeling and watched it hop away.

Okay, I'll do it next time.

After making sure that all the flames were extinguished, Ye Yu went down the mountain. Halfway down the slope, it was still early tonight, so he simply included West Mountain in the refreshed map.

There is also a stream in West Mountain, but the water flow is smaller than that in East Mountain. The same is true for the pool. There are fewer fish and shrimps in it, but there are quite a lot of loaches and even eels.

Loach and eel are both good things and taste good, provided that the earthy smell is removed.

Sure enough, it’s still lacking seasoning.

Ye Yu threw the loaches into the space. They wouldn't go bad anyway, so he could eat them when the seasoning was sufficient. Now, the ingredients needed to cook them could include a lot of fish, chicken, etc. Therefore, the eels and snails in the fields were not so popular now.

The source of the stream on the west side is lower than the east mountain.

After walking for a few more minutes, we arrived at the bamboo forest mentioned in the rhyme. It was not some precious bamboo, and this bamboo forest was probably not purely natural and wild. The ancestors of the villagers in Wangjiagou developed the wonderful uses of bamboo and propagated it from generation to generation.

Bamboo forests also produce bamboo shoots. This relatively cold-resistant green bamboo usually produces bamboo shoots in summer, which means there are no bamboo shoots now.

Bamboo rats and bamboo shoots were not seen either.

I saw a bamboo snake jumping out of a tree to attack. I wonder why this snake didn't hibernate? Maybe it's not winter yet?

The Pit Viper is one of the most famous venomous snakes. Its venom is quite strong and can kill people. In the era when there was no venomous snake serum and medical environment was lacking, the only way to survive a bite from a venomous snake was to endure it.

The same goes for Ye Yu. Mutants with special abilities have only evolved to have enhanced resistance to poisons compared to ordinary people. When the resistance exceeds the critical value, they may be poisoned to death.

In the previous life, poisonous monsters were also a cause of concern.

There is a poison-type psychic in the base. His talent is average, but with his neurotoxins and good martial arts talent, he can fight against other psychic masters on equal terms. Even high-level psychics have trouble defeating him if he tries to sneak up on them.

It's very buggy.

Ye Yu only has the second level of supernatural power now.

The Pipe Green Snake may not be able to kill her, but the Five-Step Snake may still cause her flesh to rot, which will take some time to heal. The Mountain Goby, which has the highest mortality rate in the country and a large amount of venom that can kill an elephant, may also poison her to death.

We should not take it lightly at any time.

Fortunately, the mountain snake is not as cunning as the five-step snake. It usually creates noise to scare the enemy. The adult individuals that can poison an elephant are also very large. Their vision and hearing can serve as a warning. It is not difficult to avoid or kill them.

No matter what, self-improvement is important and necessary, otherwise you will have to live in secrecy in the city, and you will not be truly invincible in the countryside.

Freedom lies within the scope of strength.

Ye Xiao tore the neck of the Green Bamboo Leaf Green Snake and threw the green body into the space together with the eels and loaches.

In addition to this accident, a badger was also found that came out at night to forage for food.

Then, apart from mosquitoes, there are the most birds, which can be heard from the chirping sounds at night.

Ye Yu took a general walk around Xishan and Xishan, and had no intention of going to Nanshan, which she was most looking forward to.

This is where our adventure ends tonight.

But he didn't go back to the educated youth center right away. Since he was out, it would be wrong not to have a midnight snack.

Ye Yu came to the edge of the stream and built a very simple stove.

Light a fire.

Ye Yu did not roast the prey he got tonight. He roasted the exotic beasts first. Although these exotic beasts tasted a bit bad, they were still meat after all, and meat with extremely high nutritional value. It would be a waste not to eat them.

So he first dealt with the mutant sheep, which was about a quarter of its size, and then put it on the fire.

After a while, the aroma of meat wafted out. The mutant sheep began to sizzle and ooze oil. The aroma was ten times richer than normal barbecue, and it made you drool just by smelling it.

It is in stark contrast to its indescribable taste.

Ye Yu is not afraid that these mutant sheep will affect the ecological environment, or cause local animals to mutate, causing world peace to end prematurely and the end of the world to come.

As I said before, the future apocalypse is not a zombie apocalypse, and biological mutations are not caused by some terrifying virus infection. Although there are indeed many messy viruses in the future, natural or man-made, these are really not the main cause of viruses.

Scientists at the base have conducted research for decades and discovered that both natural disasters and mutant creatures on the blue planet are related to changes in the sun.

Similar to but different from photosynthesis.

Scientists speculate that this should be attributed to the regular and variable movement of solar photons, which occurs every tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands or millions of years and will cause unpredictable changes, evolution or extinction to the blue planet.

If one wants to have a superpower or a superpower creature nowadays, unless the sun moves ahead of time or consumes the energy in the beast pill, it will not be able to support genetic mutation at all.

Ye Yu's beast pills are not enough for his own use, and can only be used to refine the bottle neck or upgrade it. Of course, he will not give it to other creatures.

Moreover, it is extremely painful for ordinary people to become superpowers. Without having to survive for so long in the apocalypse, people simply cannot understand why they have to endure such pain that is several degrees more painful than giving birth, and they are more likely to explode and die.

As long as the beast pill is not lost, even if the animals in this world eat the mutant beasts, at most they will undergo extremely minor individual mutations, like ordinary people or ordinary animals in the future apocalypse.

This mutation does not involve the optimization of genetic gene segments and will not be passed on to offspring, so it will not be transmitted from organism to organism, from organism to human, or from human to human.

"I'm talking about you!" Ye Yu was a little amused and a little impressed.

A grey sparrow actually flew down from the tree to join in the fun while eating such unpalatable alien meat.

Just because of the smell of meat?

It is true that birds die for food!

It took a mouthful of it with its beak, and it almost fell into the fire next door.

Well, if it falls into the fire, it will be a perfect midnight snack for tonight.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!!!" The little sparrow couldn't even fly. It fell beside the fire and vomited in pain. It vomited out all the leftover fruit it had eaten yesterday.

"puff--"

It was for this reason that Ye Yu spared its life. Firstly, its meat was too little, and secondly, there was no other living creature that could eat the exotic beast meat with him.

He reached out and poked the sparrow that was pretending to be dead: "Come on, repeat after me, even birds won't eat the meat of foreign beasts."

"Chirp, chirp." The sparrow's small eyes seemed to be mocking, as if accusing someone of being cruel and ruthless.

It’s true that even birds don’t eat it, so people have to eat it.

The mutant sheep was finally roasted. Ye Yu cut a leg of the lamb with a blade and took a bite with an expressionless face. It tasted sour, astringent, fishy and bitter. He finally understood what the smell was like, that is, the smell of rotten eggs and candles mixed together, or the smell of a rag that had been used to wipe vomit?

It tastes absolutely terrible.

Compared to the taste of this mutant beast, sweet potatoes and soybeans are extremely delicious, and even the leaves of the grass and trees on the ground can be called delicacies of the world.

Ye Yu continued to eat it all with an expressionless face. It was wise to eat the meat at this time because she was feeling a little nauseous now. If time went on, she would probably not be able to eat it anymore, which would be a real waste.

People who have lived through the last days have an obsession with food and hate people who waste food the most.

"Chirp, chirp." The little sparrow finally came over slowly, flapped its wings, and turned its eyes to see the barbecue in front of it.

He jumped up again.

"Chirp, chirp!" This time he didn't move his beak at first, but walked around the barbecue for a while, and couldn't help it at all.

“Chichi!”

His eyes rolled back and he fainted on the spot.

"Huh?"

While Ye Yu was enjoying himself, he also felt that this kid seemed a little smarter. Was it natural or because of the exotic beast? Is it really so easy to encounter a highly gifted animal?

If it was the latter, after three hundred years, it would probably be a mutant beast that could spit fire or water.

But now it is absolutely impossible. A normal bird's lifespan cannot survive the abnormal movement of solar photons.

"Should I kill it?" The little guy was quite interesting. Should I wait until it accompanied me to eat all the mutants before killing it?

The sparrow swears:

...Can people do it?

Ye Yu flicked its little head, ate the mutant sheep, put out the fire, cleaned up the scene briefly, and carried the little guy by his hind legs down the mountain.

Let’s observe and discuss later.