In the 31st century of the eighth timeline, most settlements had a large population, so the distribution of cities on Earth was relatively sparse. The distance from one city to another was often thousands of kilometers, with a large amount of empty land and farmland in between.

Although there were quarks, people still maintained basic psychological needs for purely natural crops.

But in the 26th century of this timeline, perhaps because the original population on Earth was too large, or perhaps because people had not yet fully formed the habit of living in large cities, Chen Feng always encountered towns of varying sizes along the way.

Large cities could accommodate at least tens of millions of people, and small cities could also accommodate settlements of hundreds of thousands of people.

In addition to the wreckage of ships that he encountered along the way, these things seriously affected his speed of approaching Hanzhou. It took him six days to complete a journey that should only take half a day.

After becoming a garbage man, he unknowingly developed an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

This obsessive-compulsive disorder was the same as when he played single-player RPG games many years ago.

Whenever the game character arrived at a new map, no matter whether the house was the NPC's home or not, he had to go in and look through the boxes and smash the sauerkraut jars in the NPC's house, dreaming of picking up some hidden props. When

he saw the wreckage of a ship, he wanted to take a walk in, always hoping that there might be something well preserved inside. When he saw the town, he couldn't move, for fear that he would miss some key props.

For example, what if he found a precision gravitational wave detector that can scan the area in a corner of a city?

Although the possibility is infinitesimal, what is the difference between a person without dreams and a salted fish?

Even if the detectors he encountered were all destroyed, it is impossible that every small part inside was broken. If he dismantled the ones that looked usable, maybe he could assemble one?

He walked and stopped like this, walking and turning over, and swept at least eight cities and more than 30 ship wrecks along the way.

Unfortunately, he didn't find any of the hidden props that changed the world, but he did pick up a lot of garbage.

When the hoverbike took off, there were several tons of packed things hanging below it.

In addition, he encountered a lot of "monsters", which was annoying.

At this time, under a building in the center of a small city with a population of five million, Chen Feng was fighting with a knife against a giant elephant that had gone mad for no apparent reason.

The elephant was fifteen meters tall, with thick skin and flesh, and was even more ferocious and agile, and had no sense of pain.

It took Chen Feng nearly half an hour to slash and slash the elephant that had attacked him for no apparent reason, and gradually drain its blood, causing it to fall to the ground.

Chen Feng sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

He was also convinced.

Just now, he walked out of the building carrying large and small bags like a supermarket shopper, and when he saw the elephant from a distance, he had no intention of doing anything.

At that time, the elephant was taking a nap at the other end of the city center square.

In Chen Feng's impression, elephants are vegetarian animals, so as long as you don't deliberately do something stupid to anger them, they are usually not aggressive.

Chen Feng was not interested in elephant meat, so he turned around and was about to leave. As a result, a box of communication equipment parts fell out of the package in his hand, and the metal parts were scattered all over the ground.

When Chen Feng was about to bend down to repack, the giant elephant first blinked, then turned its head to notice him, and then climbed up, screaming and rushing towards him at a terrifying speed.

Chen Feng had no choice but to put down his things and pick up his knife to meet him, and the result was what happened now.

The fierce battle between a man and an elephant made the area a mess.

Chen Feng himself was also exhausted.

Seeing the sun setting in the distance, he decided not to leave and stayed here tonight.

He rode the hoverbike over and carefully parked it inside the building. He then put the military training sword into the self-repair and recharging device he had just put together to repair the gap. Then he took out the pots, pans, and kitchen knives.

He would not eat elephant meat because it did not taste good.

There were other goodies in the food bag he prepared, including a large bag of bullfrog legs and a few fat rabbits.

He charged the small quark meter and took out two precious peppers that he had obtained with great difficulty. The quark meter copied a few strips.

Then he took out a small bottle containing peanut oil.

It was not easy for him to get this peanut oil.

Without oil, the dishes would not be fragrant.

The end of October is the time when peanuts mature and fall to the ground, so he spent most of the day collecting a handful of wild peanuts, then carefully grinding them, and finally hoarding a few milliliters of oil, and then duplicating and duplicating again, and finally making this small bottle, at least he has oil to copy and use every time he cooks.

After a few hours, looking at two large plates of braised bullfrog legs and dried pot rabbit, Chen Feng first tasted the taste, his eyes lit up.

Then he quickly took out two vacuum bottles and put about 50 grams in them.

Chen Feng then opened the storage box of the hoverbike and carefully put the two small bottles in.

At this time, there were nine small bottles of this kind in the box, which contained Gongbao chicken, braised bullfrog legs, dry-cooked rabbit, cauliflower snake soup, roasted wolf legs, braised wild boar elbows...

These were all dishes that he had worked hard on for many days.

Every time he made something new, he would taste it, and if he was satisfied with the taste, he would save it. If he couldn't find the ingredients one day, he would be a little more extravagant and waste the energy of the snake gall battery of the quark instrument to synthesize it directly.

Living alone was hard enough, and he couldn't hold on if he didn't make more delicious food to satisfy his appetite.

After eating and drinking, picking his teeth and rinsing his mouth, Chen Feng packed up the pots and pans and went back to the building to set up the special camping tent he had found in a certain town.

The tent was set up in the entrance hall of this building.

After a rat snake bit him hard on the lips while he was sleeping a few nights ago, he felt that he had to make a safe room for himself when he slept.

Thinking of that shameless rat snake, Chen Feng was also angry.

Fortunately, he has a recovery factor, otherwise he would be disfigured.

If the snake soup hadn't tasted good, he would still be unable to calm down.

Mosquito bites and insect harassment also made him miserable.

He even did an experiment. If he put a bowl of fresh wild boar blood on the ground alone, the mosquitoes would happily gather to taste it.

But as long as other people appeared next to the wild boar blood, all the mosquitoes would immediately abandon the wild boar blood, and the bombers would usually only come to his face.

Now this high-quality outdoor tent with bulletproof protection level is really a lifesaver.

Then he lay in the tent, with his hands behind his head as needles, staring at the night light on the top of the tent, and his mind began to fall into deep thought again.

After a long sweeping search, he was able to determine that the equipment in towns and urban buildings had a much lower rate of damage than ships.

The forces that destroyed humanity seemed to place more emphasis on destroying ships with aerospace capabilities, and were not so concerned about the things in buildings, only destroying certain fixed core components.

In addition, the energy batteries in town buildings were damaged in a variety of ways, no longer simply being blown up directly, but also pierced, torn, corroded, and so on.

This shows that in the war, human ships should have first confronted the enemy, then been defeated, and then suffered a devastating blow.

As for the enemy's actions in town buildings, they tended to clean up the battlefield after the war.

There was another important piece of information.

The animals seemed to have an inexplicable strong hostility towards him.

As long as these animals noticed him, they would show a strong tendency to attack.

Even gentle herbivores or carnivores that were not hungry.

For example, he once encountered a second male tiger that had just finished a meal of a cow.

Normally, although a hungry male tiger is fierce, it is not very interested in smaller humans who do not have a few pounds of meat on their bodies. As a result, as soon as Chen Feng approached, the male tiger that was lazily basking in the sun roared and pounced on him.

The result was that Chen Feng's collection had another tiger tail.

In addition to tiger tails, he also collected more snake gallbladders, wolf teeth, rabbit ear cartilage, bullfrog tongues, peanut roots, and the newly acquired ivory.

In the 21st century, these collections would probably keep him in jail for decades without blinking an eye.

Now he is collecting these things not to make them a glorious history of his own glorious hunter.

No one in the world can be his cup-filling prop, no matter how many prey collections he has, there is no chance to fill a cup.

These different components taken from different animals have a common feature, you can clearly find the positive and negative poles on them, and they can discharge electricity.

This is amazing, as if all animals in the world have become the same kind as the electric eel.

Peanut roots can also work, which means that plants are not immune, but the voltage is too low and cannot be used to supply energy.

He discovered more and more abnormal phenomena.

Every new piece of evidence told him that there was something fishy about these things.

But he had no analytical detection equipment, so he could only use the quark meter to scan and try to copy. As a result, the quark meter was burned. Fortunately, he found a few spare high-voltage capacitors and barely repaired them. He decided not to commit suicide again.

Yes, now after many BOOMs on the wall, he can barely distinguish different high-voltage capacitors.

At this time, Chen Feng was holding a wolf fang in his hand.

The wolf fang was icy cold in his hand, and it felt like metal, emitting a shimmering light.

If he pinched the root and tip of the tooth with his fingers at the same time, he would be electrocuted. He didn't know how the body structure of those giant wolves could steadily and slowly draw the electrical energy from the wolf fangs.

Putting down the wolf tooth, he took out another piece of cauliflower snake gall, and put it to his mouth from time to time, but after hesitating for a while, he did not dare to swallow it, and put it back into the box obediently.

It was not that he was reluctant to part with this small piece of cauliflower snake gall, but he was not sure whether his body structure could withstand the electricity inside.

This time he has not found the truth yet, so he must not electrocute himself before he succeeds.

Looking at his handmade mechanical watch, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and Chen Feng took out his notebook and writing pen.

"November 5, 3019 AD, the tenth day.

I am puzzled by more and more things.

Today I killed an elephant, and I am ashamed.

It is clear that animals in this world are strangely hostile to humans.

I can feel that I am getting closer to the truth.

In addition, I made braised bullfrog legs and dry pot rabbit today, and they tasted great.

In a sense, I have become socially Death.

It's not that I am isolated by society, nor am I autistic. It's that society died before me.

It's quite special to be the representative of human society by myself.

I really want to have someone to talk to. I

have never tasted this kind of loneliness.

I even think that those classmates who mocked me when I was in school have become lovable. "

Chen Feng coughed lightly, closed his notebook, turned off the night light, and went to sleep.