Not long after, Anna came back from the swimming pool carrying a bucket. Inside were two freshly caught crucian carp. They were actually a little bigger than the ones from before.
As darkness fell, Lu Wuyai placed the crucian carp on the fire to roast. Flames licked the black and silvery skin of the fish, and a faint aroma of fish quickly filled the air.
"Give me something to eat." Tang Xin looked at Lu Wuyai, her bright eyes filled with memories.
Lu Wuyai smiled and handed her the crucian carp in his hand. The fish was indeed crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with an extremely delicious flavor.
Today's harvest was good; one fish for each person. There are still two crucian carp left, one big and one small, which we haven't killed yet. We'll put them in the bucket to eat tomorrow at noon.
By the pool, Lu Wuyai saw Song Xiaoyou still standing there. In the dim light, a barely perceptible blue halo surrounded her eyes.
"What are you still looking at?" Lu Wuyai asked, but his mind was blank. He didn't want to experience the feeling of exercise-related illness right now.
"It's nothing, just counting how many crucian carp are in the pond." Song Xiaoyou stared intently at the deep pool. Even in the darkness, she could clearly see the creatures inside.
Soon, everyone prepared to head back. They extinguished the campfire near the waterhole and collapsed the snow path they had dug along the way to cover their tracks.
When we returned to the cave, the original entrance was covered by heavy snow, and it started snowing again outside.
"Who knows how long this heavy snow will last?" Lu Wuyai said with a sigh.
Everyone worked together and immediately dug out the hole where it was buried, and then they went inside.
That night, even inside the cave, Lu Wuyai could still hear the howling northwest wind outside.
His keen hearing made Lu Wuyai feel like he was suffering through the entire night.
After all, hearing and sight are different and completely beyond the master's control. Lu Wuyai was extremely annoyed by this.
"Why is the ability I gained hearing?" Lu Wuyai grabbed his hair, the whistling sound in his ears seemed very close.
But in reality, no one else can hear any news from the outside world.
This feeling was particularly unfriendly to Yang Jian.
Fortunately, Lu Wuyai was too tired, and despite the surrounding noise, he gradually fell asleep without realizing it.
When Lu Wuyai woke up the next day, he could still hear the sound of the raging wind outside.
Instead, it was a cave, very quiet, without even the sound of breathing.
Lu Wuyai got up from the ground and was about to go out to find someone else when he suddenly heard a strange sound.
It's like a hard object hitting a hollow floor, gradually increasing in speed and becoming clearer.
"Who cares?" Lu Wuyai was very vigilant. Because his hearing was far better than that of ordinary people, he could always foresee many dangerous things.
He left quickly, searching for the sound and thinking about how to avoid danger when faced with it.
However, he quickly dismissed the idea. Even now, the thought still sends a growing tingling sensation of dizziness through his cerebral cortex.
Near the generator, Lu Wuyai suddenly realized what the sound was.
The fertilized eggs harvested from the chicken coop have shown signs of hatching after nearly 20 days of incubation.
During this period, the generator runs at a low speed, and the heater on one side remains on to ensure the temperature required for incubation.
After thinking for a while, Lu Wuyai left the cave and found the women who were still fishing by the pond, telling them that the fish eggs were about to hatch.
As a result, in less than a minute, there was no one else by the pool except the general and the marshal.
For a moment, the place became quiet, and occasionally some blurry swimming figures could be seen in the depths of the pool.
In the deep pool, the general raised his head, his black, beast-like eyes gleaming, much like the eyes of some kind of human.
"Woof woof woof woof."
The general barked a few times, stretched out his forelegs, and scratched at the water's surface. He might have been testing the water temperature, or he might have been afraid of something.
Then, facing the marshal, it stuck out its purplish-red tongue, snorted, and plunged into the water.
Woof woof
The marshal watched the clear seawater and his companions receding into the distance. He turned back to look towards the cave, and finally disappeared into the pool with the general.
At this moment, the long-lost silence returned to the area around the pool.
At the same time, everyone who rushed into the cave was both anxious and expectant.
These fertilized eggs not only gave birth to new life, but also brought tremendous changes to their life on the deserted island.
"If it really hatches, do we really need to build a chicken coop?" Tang Xin asked Lu Wuyai as usual.
Lu Wuyai thought for a while, and just as he had some ideas, his mind went blank and he almost knelt on the ground.
"Never mind, I won't ask you anymore." Tang Xin looked at Lu Wuyai, who was leaning against the wall, and didn't know what to say.
Lu Wuyai was also helpless. If this aftereffect accompanied him for the rest of his life, wouldn't he become disabled?
Humanity, incapable of thought, will ultimately degenerate.
Soon, everyone gathered around the generator, carefully lifting the blanket on the bamboo basket to reveal the neatly arranged fertilized eggs inside.
To everyone's disappointment, the eggs did not hatch into chicks, but they still looked like chicken eggs.
Beside her, Song Xiaoyou took out an egg, turned on a flashlight, and shone it inside, discovering that the shape of a chick could be clearly discerned.
"He's expected to be born within two days," Song Xiaoyou said.
At this point, Lu Wuyai closed his eyes and listened carefully for a while. As a result, because there were too many people, his ears were filled with the sounds of heartbeats and breathing.
“Let’s go a little deeper, you can listen to it again,” Su Xi said.
As a result, shortly after they arrived at the cave, they heard Lu Wuyai make a surprised sound.
"Hatching from its shell."
The people who left returned again and again, only to find a small hole in an egg in the center of the bamboo basket. As time went by, more and more cracks appeared around it.
"It will hatch today."
Lu Wuyai pointed to several eggs beside him, marked with charcoal. This was the fastest sound he had just heard.
That sound was the chick tapping its beak against the eggshell.
And so, everyone waited near the bamboo basket all day, until it got dark, with chirping sounds filling the cave.
There were nine chicks in total. They were the first to hatch and dry their feathers. They looked fluffy and were very popular with the women.
The only unhappy person was Lu Wuyai. His ears were ringing, which made him immediately leave the cave and sit by the pool to enjoy a moment of peace.
In the darkness, apart from the sound of the wind from the outside world, he could not hear any other sound for the time being.
Before he knew it, he had fallen asleep by the pool, not feeling cold at all.
At some point, he suddenly heard a dog barking, and then he opened his eyes.
"General"
"Officer."
Lu Wuyai looked at the surrounding darkness, but could not see anything and received no response.
However, he now has great confidence in his hearing and does not believe it is a hallucination or some kind of illusion caused by poor sleep.
He returned to the cave and found the women still playing with the chicks. There wasn't even a sheepdog in sight, let alone any barking dogs.
Holding a flashlight, Lu Wuyai emerged from the cave and paced back and forth on the snow. He realized he could only hear the barking of dogs near the swimming pool.
This immediately aroused his suspicion, and he went back into the puddle.
The mountains were snowbound, and a thick layer of snow covered the pond. It looked like a white lid, completely covering the swimming pool.
The beam of a flashlight illuminated the surface of the swimming pool. Beneath the deep, clear water, Lu Wuyai squinted, trying his best to see the scene clearly.
But apart from a few crucian carp, there was nothing else.
But as Lu Wuyai approached to wash his face, the barking of the dog started again, and it was even clearer.
This time, Lu Wuyai was certain that the source of the sound was actually at the bottom of the pool.
"What's going on?" Lu Wuyai covered his ears, beginning to doubt whether he had heard correctly. How could the sound of a dog be coming from underwater?
Yang Jian shone his flashlight on the water again and found that there were only a few crucian carp at first, but with a little skill, they kept emerging from the bottom of the pond.
Lu Wuyai inexplicably had an absurd thought. Could it be that all these crucian carp were driven out by barking dogs?
He reached out and touched the stream in the pond. The biting cold made him shiver, and he immediately abandoned the idea of going into the water to take a look.
"General"
"Officer."
Across the water, Lu Wuyai shouted a few times and finally saw two black dogs emerge from a corner of the pool, each carrying two silver carp in its mouth.
Stroking the cold bodies of the general and marshal, Lu Wuyai was a little worried about their health.
Two silver carp, each weighing over three kilograms, were thrown onto the snow. After bobbing a few times, they finally settled down.
"I didn't expect there to be silver carp in the pond besides crucian carp." Lu Wuyai was secretly surprised. He really didn't know what surprises awaited them at the bottom of this pond.
At this moment, Lu Wuyai realized that at least half an hour had passed between when he arrived at the pool and when the general and the others appeared.
How can a dog survive in a world full of water for half an hour?
The only possible conclusion is that there is another dimension in this pool.
Yang Jian lay by the pool, continuing to shine his flashlight on the water. After a long time, he turned off the light and returned to the world inside the cave with his two sheepdogs and two silver carp.
Right now, it's still snowing heavily outside. It seems the snow and wind won't stop after the New Year.
During the day, Lu Wuyai stood on the rocky hill, gazing at the beach. He noticed that the seawater seemed to be frozen, and the current had slowed down considerably.
Back in the cave, Lu Wuyai could still hear the crowing of chickens. The incessant crying was giving Yang Jian a real headache.
That night, he had to move and sleep in a passageway far from the cave, stuffing cotton in his ears to make him feel better.
The next day, Lu Wuyai woke up unusually late. When he opened his eyes, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.
Listening carefully, the crowing of chickens was still coming from the direction of the burrow, and it was even more frequent than yesterday. It seemed that after a night of incubation, many eggs had hatched from the chicks.
Soon after, Tang Xin came over and told Lu Wuyai that they were going to build a chicken coop near the rocky mountain, right next to the pond.
"Aren't you afraid they'll freeze to death in this kind of weather?" Lu Wuyai asked suspiciously.
“Okay,” Tang Xin said. “We need to keep the chicken coop warm, so we’ll put a generator inside.”
“There’s no need for a generator in the cave.” Lu Wuyai’s eyes widened as he thought to himself, “The radiance of motherhood is truly magnificent.” It was for the sake of these chicks that Su Xi and the others were able to actively resist the onslaught of winter.
“What else can we do?” Su Xi rolled her eyes. “The cave will be uninhabitable tonight.”
It was only then that Yang Jian realized that, no matter what, a chicken is still a chicken, and it needs to defecate and urinate every day. Just thinking about the excrement flowing into the hole was enough to make him crave it.
So by noon, everyone opened the holes in the ground and ran back and forth dozens of times. They piled up the materials needed to build the chicken coop by the pool, ready to start building the new chicken coop.
To improve concealment and security, Su Xi and others discussed it several times and finally decided to build a mosaic chicken coop, which is to dig a hole in the rocky mountain.
As a competent tool, Yang Jian's job was to obey orders and follow commands.
However, the mountain is full of rocks. It's not easy to dig a hole in such a place now.
At the pond, besides the other people moving stones, Song Xiaoyou also held a fishing rod and continued fishing towards the pond.
It is worth mentioning that yesterday's discovery likely led to the general and marshal disappearing from the pool in full view of everyone for the second time today.
If Lu Wuyai hadn't been explaining, the other women would have cried themselves to death on the shore long ago.
The excavation work on the rocky hill is still ongoing. It's worth mentioning that Lu Wuyai and his team unexpectedly discovered some previously lost materials.
This unexpected surprise made everyone very happy.
But it must be said that there are too many stones in the hill.
For two hours, Yang Jian and the others carried an unknown number of stones. They were generally about the size of a human head, but extremely heavy. Lu Wuyai even suspected that the stones were filled with iron.
I was busy until dusk. Ten meters from the swimming pool, there was a stone pit. There was no soil, just stones everywhere.
"Do you want to continue?" Lu Wuyai stood at the bottom of the pit. The pit was now two meters deep, and because the excavation area had not been controlled before, the outer edge of the pit was about the size of a basketball court.
From above, it looks like a giant meteorite crater.
On the rocky hill, several women looked at each other in bewilderment. The current situation had exceeded their initial expectations of what the chicken coop would look like.
Lu Wuyai shook his head. No one would have imagined that there would still be stones two meters deep beneath the rocky hill, without a trace of soil.
As darkness fell, Lu Wuyai reluctantly dug a clearing below and then covered it with all the thorns and weeds from the cave. These things were originally meant for starting a fire, but now they were being used to keep the chickens warm.
Lu Wuyai placed the thermometer in the stone pit again and found that the temperature here was still 12 degrees Celsius, much warmer than in the cave.
Keep in mind that it's already dark, and the temperature inside the cave is barely 5 degrees Celsius, while it's below freezing outside.
“There’s no need to turn on the generator,” Yang Jian said, adding that the temperature is fine for the chickens.
However, the hole was dug too big. If the snow on top collapsed, the chicks would die.
So, in the darkness, they began to make a wooden plank to cover the large pit.
There was plenty of firewood in the cave, mostly neatly chopped pieces of wood. Song Xiaoyou and the others had collected a lot of nails when they came out of the container last time, and now they could use them.
"Be careful," Yang Jian told the women, warning them not to get pricked by the rusty parts while handling the nails. Getting tetanus from it would be a serious matter.
Hearing this, Su Xi couldn't help but say, "You'd better take care of yourself first and not think so much."
Lu Wuyai wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was standing in a two-meter-deep stone pit. Even with a flashlight, there was still darkness around him.
Soon, the wooden plank was almost finished. Lu Wuyai took the chicken from Tang Xin and carefully placed it under the stone pit.
As soon as they entered the pit, the more than twenty pheasants scattered and fled. In the blink of an eye, they were all gone.
As they left, the women threw the dug-up roots into the stone pit, wondering if the chicks would eat them.
“Leave the general and the bailiffs in the chicken coop,” Yang Jian said.
There are two sheepdogs here, so even if the wolves discover this place, the people inside the cave can react immediately.
On the way back, it was already dark outside, and everyone was too tired to talk. The heavy breathing made Lu Wuyai feel somewhat depressed.
"I'm going to check on the snow, you all go back first," Lu Wuyai said to the other women.
"It's getting dark, what are you going to do?" Tang Xin grabbed Lu Wuyai's hand and pushed him directly into the cave.
At 10 p.m., Yang Jian found it hard to fall asleep, listening to the breathing sounds from the other cubicles.
After tossing and turning, he got up, grabbed a flashlight and night vision goggles, and left the cave.
As dusk fell, Lu Wuyai stood amidst the swirling snowflakes.
At this point, he was able to capture some scattered images through night vision goggles.
Two lone wild deer, one large and one small, stopped on the opposite gentle slope. They walked weakly and soon disappeared into the blizzard.
Lu Wuyai looked around. He didn't know why, but he felt uneasy all night.
"Could it be a chicken coop?"
Thinking of this, he went to the newly built chicken coop and found that nothing unusual had happened. Two black dogs lay motionless on the ground, guarding the chicks in the coop.
Listening to the sounds coming from the chicken coop, there was nothing unusual, so Lu Wuyai chose to leave and return to the cave to rest.
In the small cubicle, Lu Wuyai lay down again, and could still hear the woman's breathing and heartbeat.
Now, Lu Wuyai can tell which woman is the other person by the length and speed of her breathing. This feeling is both strange and absurd.
Lu Wuyai never expected that everyone's breathing is completely different, just like everyone's fingerprints, or even more complex than fingerprints.
Fingerprints may still be copied, but breathing, at least in Yang Jian's view, is extremely difficult.
"When will this aftereffect end?" Lu Wuyai sighed with emotion, and just as he was about to cover his ears, he suddenly heard a muffled thunderous sound.
"It's thundering."
Lu Wuyai initially thought it was thunder, but the continuous noise clearly told him that things were not so simple.
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