Chapter 178 The Origin of the Steel-Tooth Rabbit
When Xia Xiaoman saw the ferocious rabbit die tragically under the axe, he realized that he had misunderstood.
The people who had chased after her looked at the house behind her, then looked at the axe on the head of the murderous rabbit, and asked in confusion: "Xia Xiaoman?"
Xia Xiaoman was wrapped tightly and wearing a bandit hat, so it was difficult for people who were not familiar with her to recognize her.
"Well, you are..."
The man took off his windproof mask and said, "It's me, Gu Qinfeng. Last time I competed with you, you almost broke my dick."
I remembered that when it was extremely hot, there was a period of time when the people on patrol liked to challenge her to a duel, and Gu Qinfeng was one of them.
Gu Qinfeng was the strongest among the people competing with her. He was tall and strong. At that time, she was suppressed by Gu Qinfeng's force. In desperation, she used the trick of monkey stealing peaches...
Xia Xiaoman pulled his hat awkwardly, "Haha, it's you! Were you chasing this rabbit just now?"
Gu Qinfeng hummed, "But you killed the rabbit, so you can take it back." After that, he glanced at the house behind Xia Xiaoman, "Are you still living alone now?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "I'm used to living alone."
As soon as the words fell, the people behind Gu Qinfeng looked at each other. Xia Xiaoman pretended not to see it and asked, "These rabbits don't have much meat, why did you go to so much trouble to catch them?"
Gu Qinfeng was stunned. "Don't you know? These rabbits don't have much meat, but their fur is thick. If you make clothes out of these furs, they will be warmer than ordinary mink fur."
These ferocious rabbits must have certain abilities to be able to survive in extremely cold weather of minus 70 to 80 degrees Celsius.
They can sense snowstorms in advance and hide in snow caves before the storms come. Their thick fur is the best defense against the cold.
For the humans who are now living in the eternal night, the fur of the ferocious rabbit is the material they need most.
"The trading point accepts both rabbit skin and rabbit meat. A complete rabbit skin can be exchanged for five honeycomb coals. A complete rabbit meat can be exchanged for three honeycomb coals."
Xia Xiaoman nodded thoughtfully after hearing what Gu Qinfeng said. One rabbit can be exchanged for 8 honeycomb coals, enough for a family to burn for a day. No wonder they went to such great lengths to catch rabbits.
"Then if it's a live rabbit, how many briquettes can it be exchanged for?"
Gu Qinfeng said, "The unprocessed rabbits can only be exchanged for 7 honeycomb coals."
Xia Xiaoman frowned. "Are living rabbits more valuable than dead ones? Aren't living rabbits better? We can lock them up and raise them."
Gu Qinfeng shook his head. "These rabbits are too ferocious, and their teeth are very sharp. If you put them in an iron cage, they can bite through the iron net and escape. Besides, you can't keep two rabbits together except for mating."
"If you put rabbits together, they will kill each other."
"Officials have tried to breed these rabbits, but after many attempts they failed, so they simply gave up breeding."
Xia Xiaoman recalled the scene in which she saw a few ferocious rabbits devouring a wounded rabbit in the blink of an eye. She asked, "What kind of rabbits are these? How come there are so many of them suddenly?"
"I heard it's a new species of mutated rabbit."
"Mutation?" Xia Xiaoman frowned. "Is it because of the environment?"
Gu Qinfeng thought for a moment and said, "Rather than saying it's a mutation, it would be more appropriate to say it's an evolution."
"I heard from others that these rabbits hid underground during droughts and rarely came out except at night. When they were hungry, they ate tree roots and grass roots. Staying in the dark for a long time, coupled with changes in the geomagnetic field, caused them to evolve faster, and they adapted to life in the dark in a very short time."
"Later, perhaps because of the eternal night, these hares realized in advance that a big drop in temperature was about to occur, so they forced themselves to molt, changing their original gray short hair into white, soft long hair."
"But some people say that it is due to changes in the geomagnetic field that some wild rabbits give birth to albino rabbits. These white wild rabbits are all sick rabbits with albinism."
Without specific experiments, all statements are just guesses. It depends on whose guess is closer to the facts and whose statement can stand up to scrutiny.
Officials named these rabbits "steel-tooth rabbits". They reproduce very quickly, with a gestation period of only 20 days. They can give birth to 8 to 16 rabbits at a time.
The steel-toothed rabbits seem to be very keen on reproduction. When a female rabbit gives birth to a baby rabbit, it will emit a special smell to attract nearby male rabbits. When the male rabbit smells the smell, he will take the initiative to run to mate with the female rabbit until the female rabbit becomes pregnant again, and then the special smell will disappear.
The female rabbit has a very strong fertility capacity. Usually, after giving birth to baby rabbits, she can become pregnant again one hour later.
In addition, the growth rate of the steel-toothed rabbit is also extremely amazing. After 15 days of birth, it can separate from its mother and survive on its own. Because of this terrifying reproductive ability, they can easily catch rabbits on the street.
Xia Xiaoman was a little depressed. She had been raising rabbits at home for almost a year, but they had only given birth to more than 30 rabbits, some of which died. The steel-toothed rabbits outside were so sloppy that they could reproduce a large group. Was she not suitable for raising animals?
"We still have to go catch the steel-toothed rabbit, so I won't talk to you for now." Gu Qinfeng put on his mask and prepared to leave.
Suddenly, he thought of something and turned around and said, "I suggest you don't eat these rabbit meat. Before the extreme cold, they ate tree roots, and after the extreme cold, they ate all kinds of corpses."
Xia Xiaoman pulled the corner of her mouth and smiled: "I see, thank you for telling me."
"You're welcome. I'll catch rabbits in the community often in the future. Let me know if you need any help." After saying that, Gu Qinfeng led his men away. He didn't go far, but followed the figure of the steel-toothed rabbit nearby.
When Xia Xiaoman was building the wall, if she looked up slightly, she could see several of them chasing the steel-toothed rabbit with flashlights.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that when Gu Qinfeng and the others were catching steel-toothed rabbits, they would often look in her direction.
Natural disasters and chaotic times make people’s hearts change. Even good friends of decades may stab each other in the back when faced with a shortage of supplies.
She and Gu Qinfeng were just nodding acquaintances at most, so it was normal for him to target her. Who told her to live alone in a big villa? In the eyes of others, she was no different from a lamb to be slaughtered.
However, no one knows who is the prey and who is the hunter until the last moment.
[My dears, I'm sorry, I went to my nephew's full moon banquet today, so the update is late. There is one more article, which will be posted before 9 o'clock! ]
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