Chapter 192 Harvesting Quail
Lan Shiruo didn't plan to use these bricks and tiles for the second time. They were too troublesome to clean and not very useful.
Try not to touch anything around you, and look around. No one's coming right now because of the poison powder incident. Buying medicine is too expensive. In the apocalypse, illness is something only the rich can afford. And don't even bother looking for a healing powerhouse. They're the guests of those in power, and the average person can't even invite them, let alone afford them.
Poison powder isn't colorless and odorless. If you look closely, you can see tiny white particles floating on other objects. That's the poison powder. Lan Shiruo collected some and will return to Duan Jianghe or Professor Chi for research. Study hard and improve daily; maybe it'll be useful in the future. We can't ignore anything, no matter how insignificant it may be.
After determining the approximate location, we found a flat place, set up the villa, and waited for night.
After nightfall, everything around me became terrifying. I don’t know if it was a psychological effect.
Lan Shiruo borrowed the chameleon and told her to be careful when it comes out at night.
The girls carried night vision equipment on their backs, and five little kids followed them. Lebao had short legs, so he let Jiang Xiang carry him. The little guy's objection was in vain.
Tonight's mission is simple: catch moths, find their nests, and destroy them.
After dark, moths begin to appear. Due to evolution, they are now palm-sized, making them easy to identify and catch. Perhaps due to mutation, they gather together and rarely fly alone.
As soon as a flashlight is placed there, all the insects start to fly towards the flame like moths. The net bag can catch them all accurately. You just need to be careful not to get contaminated by powder, and everything else is easy.
I followed the route where the moths appeared, looking for their nest. After walking for nearly an hour, I found it inside a homestay.
The area surrounding the B&B was filled with dead weeds and shrubs, and the chirping of insects became unusually sharp as someone approached.
The chameleon crawled into Lan Shiruo's arms and released mist as a warning.
Lan Shiruo frowned, "Be alert, there is danger approaching."
The girls stood back to back, surrounding the five little kids in the middle, facing all around.
"Meow!" A rotten cat as fast as lightning moved through the darkness, jumped up, and pounced on Zhang Yun.
Zhang Yun instantly erected an ice wall and flung out ice spikes. The corpse cat's rotting body slammed into the ice wall with a thud, leaving behind a mass of rotting corpse stickiness. The moment it fell, it was pierced all over by the ice spikes, breaking both legs. However, this did not stop it from continuing to rush forward, targeting Yun Shuiyao next to it.
Yunshui Yao raised her foot and kicked, and her high heels immediately fell, crushing the corpse cat's head. It was a level 3 minion, and it was easy to deal with.
Indeed, strength is very important. In the past, the third level was a behemoth to them.
After putting away the crystal core, the chameleon retracted the mist, proving that there was no danger approaching for the time being. The girls continued to walk inside with the little kid.
This homestay is also just a ruin, with mutant mosquitoes buzzing around the little friend, but they don't dare to get close because of the medicine bag.
The girls searched the homestay inside and out but didn't find the moth's nest, so they had to ask Fat Rat to take action.
The ground was just as hot at night, but slightly less so than during the day. The fat rat twisted its plump body around the corners, finally settling in the backyard of the guesthouse.
"Chirp," here, here. He dug his claws into the ground twice, then became too lazy to move.
Miaomiao rubbed her fat butt in annoyance, "You're so lazy, look at this fat body, you will definitely not be able to find a female mouse in the future."
The fat mouse turned its head away and ignored its owner. She was just jealous that it was the only one favored by its parents.
The girls looked at the two funny guys with a smile, took out their shovels and started digging where the fat rat had dug.
The soil was very soft, and it took almost no effort to peel back a layer, revealing a smooth passageway beneath. The passageway was as wide as a fist, wide enough for moths to pass through. Following the passage, it was thirty or forty meters long, gradually descending. It wasn't very deep, with the deepest point only a meter above the ground. At the end, there was a large earth ball, the size of a twenty or thirty square meter room, shaped like a honeycomb, filled with countless white, unhatched eggs, thousands and thousands of them, densely packed together.
All the moths went out, none stayed behind.
Lan Shiruo separated a few moths and moth eggs for experiments, and put the rest into large plastic bags before returning to report.
In order to prevent any fish from slipping through the net, the big guys would wait near their nest, light a lamp, and wait for them to fall into the trap.
There is no space here, so we didn't get a villa, so we just got a tent and stayed there for the night.
When the fat mouse was drowsy, he suddenly became excited and ran out chirping.
It was the middle of the night, and the girls didn't want to spoil its fun. They followed it and stopped not far from its nest. The lazy mouse only dug twice in the ground and then left it to the girls.
What can girls do? Just accept their fate and dig.
This time, I dug a bit deeper, stopping only after about two or three meters. I uncovered a thick water pipe. Encouraged by Rat Brother, who couldn't ignore it, I cracked it open.
Wow, there was actually a nest of quails inside, huddled together and shivering in fear.
I don't know if it's because they've been staying underground for a long time, but they can't fly or run and are limp. There are a lot of corpses of their kind, quail eggs, and quail eggshells next to them. Some of the eggshells are broken, and some are newly laid. I don't know how many generations have gone through before this group is still alive.
One end was blocked by the bones of a senior, so the smell was not pleasant at all. At the other end, where the pipe was exposed above the ground, there was a hole, which should be the vent for the quails to breathe out.
It’s another new variety. Quail eggs are good.
If Lan Shiruo collected these quails into the space and raised them, they should be able to return to their previous peak state. They have survived for so many generations in such a harsh environment in the pipeline. It doesn't make sense that they wouldn't have any special gains after being in the space.
The mission was a good one, and the girls returned to the tent happily, waiting for dawn to return and hand in the mission.
The men on the other side, after a day of hard work in the mines, were lying on the big bunk bed, lamenting about life. Mining, they really had experienced everything in this life.
"Brother, although the management here is not strict, it seems that it is not easy to go to other mines. There are people working in shifts 24 hours a day, and it is impossible to sneak in quietly."
Ao Chengyi wasn't worried about this. He hadn't seen his young wife for a day and missed her terribly. He seemed absent-minded when he answered, "Wait until we take this place over and make them missing persons. The mine is so big that they can hide anywhere. We can slowly take it over when we find an opportunity. There are thousands of casualties here every day, so no one cares about a few missing people."
The men thought about it and realized that it made sense. Seeing that the older brother was thinking about love, they tactfully stopped disturbing him.
The next day, the girls returned to the U City Mission Hall to hand in their mission and received a mission reward of five kilograms of rice.
The girls don’t even have enough money for gas.
No matter how little the labor income is, they will never despise it. Who can blame them for being too generous? When others go on missions, especially small ones like this, they are just ham.
I returned to the small villa I rented and wanted to have a good rest, but I didn’t expect to meet an uninvited guest.
The people who thought they were there to save the girls, in their own words, only came in two people, Qiao Dong and Dong Dali, in order to save the girls' face.
Lan Shiruo looked over calmly and said, "I don't think we are in a relationship that would allow you to come over as a guest."
(End of this chapter)
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