Chapter 181 Birds Circling in the Sky
Gu Qinfeng and his companions didn't know how long they would be detained for forced labor. She needed to build the wall as soon as possible before they were released.
Xia Xiaoman shortened his rest time, got up at 6 o'clock in the morning to eat, fed the livestock at 6:30, and started shoveling snow, boiling snow water and freezing ice bricks.
At around 7 o'clock, although the ice bricks have not yet completely frozen into ice, there is already a thick layer of ice on the outside. As long as you are careful not to disturb the ice layer, you can take the ice bricks down and stack them on the wall.
I have a snack at around 10 o'clock. I have to eat it because I will be too hungry to work. I have lunch at 12 o'clock, take a break for an hour and continue working. I have another snack at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and then I have dinner at 6 o'clock in the evening.
After dinner, I took a half-hour break and then continued to build the wall until 9:30 p.m. At 9:30 p.m., I stopped working, had a midnight snack, and went to bed at 10:20 p.m.
After a few days, Xia Xiaoman felt that his biceps had become much stronger. It was a bit difficult for him to kill a cow with one punch, but he had no problem killing an adult hound.
After working overtime for more than half a month, the wall was finally built. Just like the previous one, there was still no door. If you want to go out, you need to jump over the wall. Although it is a bit troublesome, it is safer than leaving a door.
Over the past half month, more and more steel-toothed rabbits have entered the yard. The speed at which humans catch them is not as fast as their reproduction.
These guys have very sharp teeth. In addition to eating frozen corpses, they can also eat tree roots and grass roots underground. When they are extremely hungry, they will actively attack their own kind, or other creatures, such as humans.
The steel-toothed rabbits are rampant, but for the sake of their fur, the government does not stop them from breeding, but simply encourages people to catch more steel-toothed rabbits.
After all, it was not just Fu City that was trapped in the eternal night of extreme cold. The entire Xia Kingdom had entered an extremely cold world. The government needed a large amount of furs to exchange for supplies from other regions to improve the lives of the citizens of Fu City.
According to the information collected by Fucheng, in addition to their city, there are traces of steel-toothed rabbits in seven or eight surrounding cities. Perhaps because they are located in the south, the temperature does not drop as fast as in the north, so the steel-toothed rabbits have a chance to breathe and evolve into a body suitable for survival in extreme cold.
In the past half month, Xia Xiaoman saw many people catching steel-toothed rabbits. Perhaps because steel-toothed rabbits can be exchanged for a lot of supplies, most people who came out to catch steel-toothed rabbits saw that she was alone and did not have any improper thoughts.
However, there were still a few foolish people lingering around her house. When they saw her pull out her pistol, they ran away faster than the Steel-Toothed Rabbits.
After building a fence and clearing out the steel-toothed rabbits hiding in the yard, Xia Xiaoman set traps throughout the yard. Anyone who dared to break in would be pierced by the iron nails hidden under the snow and turned into a hedgehog.
The safety issue was resolved, and Xia Xiaoman relaxed at home for two days. He slept when he was full, played when he woke up, and when he was tired of playing, he found some snacks and ate them slowly while sitting on the kang.
With nothing to do, she took out the steel-toothed rabbit corpses she had collected during this period and dealt with them.
The last time Xia Xiaoman went to see Fu Baiwei, he saw someone fixing the leather on a wooden board and slowly scraping off the grease on the leather with a knife. After scraping it clean, he threw it into water with wood ash to soak.
She didn't know how to tan leather, so she tried to make one according to other people's method.
When processing the leather, Xia Xiaoman discovered that the leather of the steel-toothed rabbit was different from ordinary leather. The surface of the steel-toothed rabbit was a bit of hard hair that was a little prickly, the middle layer was fine and soft long hair, and close to the skin surface was a thick layer of short fluff.
The hard and long hair can block the invasion of wind and snow, while the thick and short fluff keeps you warm.
Xia Xiaoman scraped the rabbit skin clean of grease and soaked it in water with plant ash. She didn't know how long to soak it, so she planned to soak it for three to five days to see if there were any changes before taking the next step.
Suddenly, there was a snap, and something seemed to hit the wall.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, took out his pistol, walked to the second-floor balcony, and shone a strong light around. After observing it, he found nothing wrong.
Just as she was about to turn around, a sharp and piercing sound like metal friction suddenly came from the sky.
She subconsciously shone a strong flash towards the sky, and saw several large birds circling in the air. After a while, one of the birds swooped to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, the bird caught a steel-toothed rabbit in its mouth.
The big bird flew high into the sky with the rabbit in its mouth. Suddenly, it opened its sharp beak, and the rabbit fell uncontrollably and hit the ground with a thud and died.
The surrounding steel-toothed rabbits smelled the blood and wanted to rush forward to cut up the dead rabbit. However, before they rushed to the dead rabbit, the big bird had already taken the dead rabbit into its mouth again, and in a few seconds, the steel-toothed rabbit was swallowed by the big bird.
Xia Xiaoman was stunned. It was unbelievable that there were flying animals in the temperature of minus 70 or 80 degrees Celsius.
Before she could react, she saw two or three big birds chasing and pecking at several humans. The people screamed in pain and fled to nearby buildings with their hands protecting their heads.
Xia Xiaoman couldn't help laughing as she watched the funny way those people ran away. Before she could even stop laughing, a big bird spotted Xia Xiaoman, swooped down, and hit her head.
Xia Xiaoman raised her hand and fired reflexively, but the bird was so fast that before she could pull the trigger, it had already flown in front of her.
The big bird grabbed Xia Xiaoman's hand and tried to lift her into the air. Its sharp claws penetrated through her clothes and sank into her arm. Xia Xiaoman frowned in pain, and with her other hand, she took out a big knife from space and chopped it towards the big bird.
This big bird was very smart. When it saw the knife was about to chop down on it, it immediately loosened its claws and flew into the sky.
You want to run away after she got hurt? That's a nice thought!
Xia Xiaoman's eyes turned cold, and he raised his injured hand and fired three shots at the bird. The bird dodged two shots, but failed to dodge the last one. After being shot, it fell crookedly.
Seeing the big bird fall outside the fence and be eaten up by the steel-toothed rabbit in a short while, Xia Xiaoman cursed in his heart that he was unlucky. He was injured and wasted three bullets, but in the end he didn't even get to eat a bite of bird meat.
Seeing that this big bird was not easy to deal with, Xia Xiaoman retreated back into the house and closed the doors and windows to prevent the big bird from breaking in.
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