Chapter 182 Sky Bandits
The bird was more than half a meter tall. If it spread its wings, it could almost cover her entire body. Its claws were also frighteningly sharp.
Xia Xiaoman returned to the first floor, took off her coat and rolled up her sleeves. Her arms were covered with blood. She cursed softly and took out iodine to disinfect.
The big birds not only attack the steel-toothed rabbits, but also humans. Many people who go out to catch steel-toothed rabbits are forced back into the sewers by these big birds.
This situation is a good thing for Xia Xiaoman.
With the big bird around, no one dared to go out. If no one went out, she wouldn't have to worry about anyone coming after her.
Xia Xiaoman took advantage of the fact that no one was disturbing her, heated up the pan, and planned to cook some food to put in the space. This would save her from having to cook every day like she did some time ago when she was so busy.
The weather was cold, so she prepared food with hot soup, such as noodle soup, rice noodle soup, dumplings, or hot porridge with various kinds of noodles, buns, and fried dough sticks.
The fried dough sticks were not made by her, but were frozen semi-finished products she had bought from the supermarket. They did not need to be thawed, she just had to open them and throw them into the oil pan and fry them twice.
While frying the dough sticks, she also made some sugar cakes to fry together. Sugar cakes are easy to make. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with water to make dough. After it has risen for a while, a small dough is cut out and coated with a little brown sugar or peanut sesame sugar. Then it is thrown into the oil pan and fried until it is swollen.
While looking for ingredients, Xia Xiaoman saw the new type of potatoes that she had left in the corner for a long time, so she took out two and put them in the stove to bake.
Wait until the fried dough sticks and sugar cakes are done, and the potatoes are baked.
Xia Xiaoman blew away the ash on the surface of the potato and took a bite while it was still hot. It had no taste, similar to ordinary potatoes, but the texture was completely different.
Although ordinary potatoes are dry, they are not completely devoid of moisture. This new type of potato is almost as dry as flour without water, and it also contains a lot of crude fiber. After eating a bite, you need to pick your teeth for half a day, and the gaps between your teeth are full of fiber.
Xia Xiaoman ate one of them and threw the remaining one into space, planning to take it out and eat it when there was nothing else to eat.
After resting for a while, the oil in the pot was almost cold, so Xia Xiaoman took out the oil barrel and prepared to fill it with oil.
At this moment, a horn sounded outside. The sound was a little far away, so Xia Xiaoman couldn't hear it clearly, so he ran to the second floor window, opened it a little, and listened.
"Attention, residents! Attention, residents! Recently, many large birds have attacked humans. According to the observation of zoologist Professor Dong, these large birds are all skuas."
"Skuas are mainly black and gray in color. They are ferocious, greedy and very vengeful. They like to attack all kinds of birds of prey and are very vengeful."
"If you want to go out and catch steel-toothed rabbits, please be sure to turn off the lights. If you shine a light on a skua, it will be mistaken for provoking it and be besieged by the skuas..."
"Turn off the lights, the skuas will be less hostile to humans, and residents can go out and catch steel-toothed rabbits as usual..."
When Xia Xiaoman heard the word "skua", he knew why these big birds were so ferocious.
The skua has several famous nicknames: sky robber, flying gangster, and bird hyena. Just by hearing these nicknames, you know that the skua is not a good thing.
The reason why the skua is called skua is because it is lazy and gluttonous, and likes to steal other people's food. Even its own nests are stolen from other birds.
In the animal kingdom, no animal likes skua.
Xia Xiaoman knew about skuas when she was working part-time selling televisions in college and she would watch Animal World on TV when she had nothing else to do.
Skua live in polar regions, so they are not afraid of the cold. Their biggest hobby is to steal penguin eggs and catch penguin chicks.
However, the skuas shown on TV are diurnal animals and are not this big. Perhaps these skuas in the sky have also evolved like the steel-toothed rabbits!
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The inability to turn on the lights causes great trouble to those who catch steel-toothed rabbits.
The eternal night in the extreme cold was not like an ordinary night with a sky full of stars and a moon like a silver disk. The sky was covered with thick clouds, and not a single light could penetrate.
Without lights, people with poor eyesight walking out of the house are like being blind and can't see anything.
But this did not pose a problem for them, as Steel-tooth Rabbits were sensitive to the smell of blood. They only needed to catch one Steel-tooth Rabbit and use it as a trap to attract countless Steel-tooth Rabbits for them to capture.
Life disrupted by the skuas is back on track.
On the other side, Xia Xiaoman took out a fishing net and made a trap in the yard.
She was almost fed up with eating canned meat every day for so many days. Finally, another creature appeared, a large bird, and she had to get two of them, one for barbecue and one for soup.
This is a protected animal. In the past, you would have to use a sewing machine for decades to catch one. Now she can make whatever she wants. Why not just get a few and stockpile them? Isn't that a waste?
After tying up the fishing net and preparing to get the rope at the other end, I suddenly heard a crisp "snap" sound from the edge of the wall.
Xia Xiaoman turned around subconsciously and saw a white thing twisting wildly in the corner.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, carefully avoided the trap and walked to the corner of the wall, and found that the steel-toothed rabbit had bitten a hole in the corner of the wall at some point.
Is the food in her house so delicious? She would find a way to get in even through a wall of ice.
After getting an ice brick to block the hole, Xia Xiaoman continued to set the trap. When the trap was set, she turned on the strong light and waved at the skuas in the sky.
These skuas catch steel-toothed rabbits in front of her house every day. Not long after she turned on the light, a skua swooped down.
The moment the skua swooped down, Xia Xiaoman thought of something. Before she could think about it, the skua had already rushed in front of her. Xia Xiaoman immediately pulled the rope, and the next second, the skua was caught and killed by a large fishing net.
Xia Xiaoman did not hesitate, took out his crossbow and shot two arrows at the skua. The skua screamed and fluttered unwillingly, and Xia Xiaoman suspected several times that the skua was going to tear the fishing net.
After waiting for a long time, the skua finally died. Xia Xiaoman immediately threw the skua and the fishing net into the space to prevent them from being eaten by the steel-toothed rabbit until not even a bone was left.
After collecting the skuas, Xia Xiaoman did not rush to catch the second one, but took out a stepladder and placed it next to the wall. She climbed up the wall using the steps, took a small flashlight with relatively weak light, turned it on, and shone it around the wall.
After taking a round of photos, Xia Xiaoman's blood pressure soared instantly.
"Is it that wicked bastard who splashed blood on my wall? Come out and fight me in a one-on-one duel, and don't do anything behind my back!"
Damn it, she was wondering why all the nearby skuas were running to her doorstep to catch steel-toothed rabbits.
The ice wall was covered in blood, and the steel-toothed rabbits all came running over when they smelled the scent. But the skuas stayed near her home and wouldn't leave.
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