Chapter 33 Ducks
The factory that Wen Jianfeng mentioned was quite far away, and it took almost two hours to reach the destination.
Xia Xiaoman didn't have much hope for the factory, as usually this kind of factory would pile up the wood on the first floor.
The flood has been going on for a month, and there is a very high possibility that the wood has been washed away. She doesn't think there is any wood left in the factory.
The reason why I came to the factory was because Wen Jianfeng said that this place was close to the countryside and the mountains. Even if there was no factory, we could still find a way to get some wood from the mountains.
Sure enough, the factory was empty and all the wood had been washed away, but the nearby mountains intercepted a lot of wood and undulated along the shore.
"Look what that is? It's white and fat, could it be a pig?" The sharp-eyed Xiao Zheyu pointed at a whitish thing in the woodpile.
Thinking of the delicious pork belly, he excitedly asked Su Ran to paddle the kayak over with him.
Sun Qing curled her lips and said, "Even if it was a pig, it looked like it was drowned. Why are you so excited?"
Xiao Zheyu retorted while paddling the kayak diligently, "Maybe I'll be lucky and come across a pig that just drowned. A pig that just drowned should still be edible."
He and Su Ran were in the same kayak. The two underage boys were full of energy and were so excited that they even ignored the soreness in their arms. They paddled to the white object in no time.
By paddling nearby wood, the full picture of the mass gradually emerged.
Xiao Zheyu's pupils contracted and the color on his face instantly faded. He wanted to make a sound, but his throat seemed to be blocked by something and no sound came out.
Seeing that he didn't move for a long time, Su Ran supported himself on his shoulders and stretched his head out to look. When he saw this, he also froze where he was.
Sun Qing, who had picked up two bundles of wood, saw them standing there motionless, thinking they were being lazy. She picked up a piece of wood and threw it at them. Before she could start scolding them, Su Ran and Xiao Zheyu immediately hugged each other and played tenor on the spot.
“Ahhh!!! Help!!”
Xia Xiaoman thought something had happened to them, so she rowed over and asked, "What happened? Did you encounter a water snake?"
The two children's eyes were red with fear. Su Ran pointed at the white thing and said tremblingly, "Dead, dead, dead, there is a dead person..."
Xia Xiaoman: “…”
"Can you two be a little more normal? We've already moved seven or eight bodies, are you still afraid of a drowned person?"
"Sister, this, this is different, it's too scary. Sister, save me, my hands are weak and I can't move." Xiao Zheyu was about to cry. He was not yet an adult, why was he allowed to see these things...
Xia Xiaoman was intrigued by him. What could be so terrifying that could scare two men like this?
Using the oars to push away the wood blocking the way ahead, a white giant with a layer of light green appeared before her.
The corpse was swollen all over, like a fat man weighing five or six hundred pounds. His lips were turned outward and his tongue was sticking out. His eyeballs were squeezed out of their sockets and were staring straight at people.
Not to mention Xiao Zheyu who had never seen the world, even Xia Xiaoman felt his scalp tingling when he saw it.
Sun Qing took a look and his expression changed drastically, "Stay away, that's the Giant View, it will explode."
Will it explode? Xia Xiaoman immediately paddled the kayak back to a safe area.
Xiao Zheyu held Erkang's hand, "Sister, sister, don't go! Save us! Don't leave us here!"
Wen Jianfeng couldn't bear it anymore and pushed their kayaks away with a paddle.
After a person dies, the putrefactive bacteria living in the body grow and multiply wildly, producing a large amount of putrefactive gas that fills the body and expands the corpse to the extreme.
If there is too much corrupt gas, the skin will not be able to withstand it and will break open and explode like a balloon.
After Sun Qing, a suspense novel enthusiast, gave them some scientific knowledge, she warned them, "So if you come across a corpse that is swollen like a giant, stay away from it. When a corpse explodes, liquid will splash everywhere. That liquid contains a lot of germs, and you might get sick if you accidentally touch it."
"Sister Qing, do we still need to stay here and pick up wood?" Xiao Zheyu now felt that the place was full of corpse water filled with bacteria.
Sun Qing glanced at him and said, "What are you afraid of? Bacteria will be diluted when dropped into water, so they won't kill you. Hurry up and pick up some wood for me. If you dare to be lazy, I'll beat you to death when I get back!"
Xiao Zheyu: “…”
This explanation is too far-fetched! Bacteria in water will only breed more bacteria, how can it be diluted?
If your fists aren’t as strong as others’, you’d better just pick up wood!
There are so many pieces of wood blocked by the mountain that you can easily pick up two or three.
"Xiao Man, did you bring your binoculars? Look at what that white thing over there is?"
Hearing Sun Qing mention the white thing, Xiao Zheyu instantly thought of the giant view just now, and silently lowered his head to pick up firewood carefully.
Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope and looked in the direction Sun Qing pointed. Several white dots were moving through the bushes on the shore.
"It looks like ducks! They are ducks, a group of white ducks. Come on, stop picking up wood, let's go catch ducks."
He put down the telescope, picked up the oars, swung his arms and paddled hard. When the other people heard that it was ducks, they also excitedly approached the group of white ducks.
The ducks that were foraging and playing in the water saw someone approaching and swam ashore and ran away.
Xia Xiaoman and the others followed them ashore, holding fishing nets used to carry supplies. They surrounded us and once the fishing nets were used, dozens of ducks were caught.
These ducks should be raised by the nearby villagers themselves, and there are obviously more than a few dozen of them. Xia Xiaoman and his companions searched the mountain and found several nests of ducks.
I was busy until after two in the afternoon, and counted the ducks I had caught. There were more than three hundred of them in total.
Generally speaking, ducks are farmed on a small scale, with 500 to 600 ducks, and on a large scale, with thousands or even tens of thousands. Xia Xiaoman thought there should be more ducks on the nearby mountains, but they were short of manpower and time, so they only found more than 300 ducks.
"How are we going to get so many ducks back?" Sun Qing asked.
Su Ran said: "These ducks can swim. Can we put ropes around their heads and lead them to swim back?"
Xia Xiaoman almost laughed out loud, what a naive child, "You thought you were walking the dog, but you put a neck leash on this duck."
"If you want to take all these ducks back, you have to kill them. Otherwise, if someone hears the ducks' quacking, it will cause unnecessary trouble."
Sun Qing nodded. "Indeed, the ducks make a loud noise. If we bring them back alive, someone might come and rob us before we even reach the 15th floor."
"But should we keep a few of them and tie their mouths to take back for breeding? Once these ducks lay eggs and hatch ducklings, we won't have to worry about having meat to eat after we leave the 15th floor."
"Don't even think about it. These are white ducks specially raised for sale. Even if they lay eggs, they are all unfertilized eggs and cannot hatch ducklings." Xia Xiaoman's words put an end to Sun Qing's breeding business.
Sun Qing sighed, "Forget it, let's just kill them all!"
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