Chapter 105 The Mutated Rabbit
"What are you doing in such a hurry?" You Zhi frowned slightly and turned back to glare at Cui Pu.
Cui Pu pointed to a rabbit hole not far from the halfway point of the mountain: "Yes, there is something!"
"What is it? Isn't everything dead now? Damn it!" You Zhi became more and more irritable.
"My grandma is about to be buried, and you are yelling here, are you looking for death?"
Cui Pu wanted to cry but had no tears: "I'm really not talking nonsense, I really saw something, and I jumped over it in an instant."
You Zhi was about to scold again, but was stopped by Chen Qingqing: "Don't worry, maybe there really is something."
Chen Qingqing walked towards the rabbit hole.
You Zhi also stopped what he was doing and followed: "Do you mean there is really a rabbit in here?"
Chen Qingqing did not comment.
Although she had been to the mountains in her previous life, she seldom saw wild animals.
After the apocalypse, the beasts such as tigers, lions, and wolves were carnivorous animals. Their aggressiveness was greatly enhanced. Although other animals also mutated, they were too weak for those carnivorous animals.
Therefore, most mutated animals, except those that attack humans, choose to hide. Just
because you can't see them doesn't mean that these animals don't exist.
Chen Qingqing observed the grass near the rabbit's nest.
As the saying goes, rabbits don't eat grass near their nests, but now the surrounding grass has been eaten clean by insects, so the rabbits have to eat grass near their nests.
Chen Qingqing gave a general idea of her thoughts.
You Zhi frowned and asked, "How can you be sure that the grass around the nest was not eaten by insects?"
Chen Qingqing pointed to the new soil that was turned over and said, "Insects will not turn over grass roots. They can only reproduce by laying eggs on grass roots."
In addition to rabbits, of course there are cattle and sheep that will chew grass roots, but this rabbit hole is obviously not something that large animals can get into.
Cui Pu asked hurriedly, "Should we catch the rabbits here?"
Seeing everyone looking at him, Cui Pu scratched his head embarrassedly, "I don't know if this mutated rabbit can be eaten."
"Can you stop thinking about eating all day long!" You Zhi scolded.
"Don't think I don't know that you secretly roasted a bird last time. You are lucky that you didn't die from it!"
Cui Pu was stunned. He really thought that You Zhi didn't know.
Thinking of this, Cui Pu felt sad again. If You Zhi and the others hadn't refused to feed him, he wouldn't have been so hungry that he had to catch birds to eat.
"But Sister Qing told me that the bird is edible after removing the dirt, and it is not very toxic..." Cui Pu explained in a low voice.
The only effect it brought to Cui Pu was that his blood changed color in a short period of time. After a few hours of metabolism, the blood oozing from the wound on his arm has returned to its normal color.
"So I think rabbits can also be eaten, but they just need some processing methods..."
Chen Qingqing looked at Cui Pu with some surprise.
Cui Pu was not just greedy. His words just now were obviously thought out.
And the result of his thinking coincided with the core concept of the book "108 Cooking Methods for Mutated Animals" in Chen Qingqing's space.
When Chen Qingqing unlocks the library and gets the official version of the cooking method, there will definitely be more methods for dealing with mutant animals.
Chen Qingqing originally planned to catch only mutant chickens, but Cui Pu reminded her that maybe collecting some rabbits in advance would be a good idea for a rainy day.
"Catch them." Chen Qingqing said.
"Why do you listen to his nonsense?" You Zhi thought they were just making a fuss.
Chen Qingqing raised her eyebrows and looked at him: "Then will you catch them?"
You Zhi was silent for a few moments.
"...Catch them then."
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Chen Qingqing handed Lin Bo and Cui Pu two net bags and asked them to find other holes.
After a while, a voice came from the walkie-talkie, and they had successfully found an exit.
Lin Bo looked around with the walkie-talkie again, but did not find any other exits.
Chen Qingqing asked them to get ready, took out a smoke bomb from her bag, opened it and threw it into the hole, then covered the hole with a net bag.
Looking up, she saw You Zhi looking at her in surprise.
"Why is there everything in your bag?"
Chen Qingqing smiled mysteriously: "Are you curious?"
"..."
You Zhi closed his mouth speechlessly.
Are you kidding, how could he be curious about such a thing?
...Even if he was really curious, he wouldn't ask.
Chen Qingqing had guessed that You Zhi would have this reaction. So she was not worried at all that You Zhi would ask about her supernatural powers.
Because You Zhi simply couldn't bring himself to do it.
Not long after, there was a noise from the rabbit hole, and a dark shadow suddenly jumped out and hit the net. You Zhi quickly tightened the net, and together with Chen Qingqing, he captured the mutant rabbit.
The mutant rabbit's eyes were blood red and protruded outward, as creepy as the eyes of a zombie.
Its teeth were much sharper than those of a normal rabbit, and its claws were also extremely sharp, but its claws were just stuck in the mesh of the net bag and could not move, so there was no need to worry about scratching anyone.
Ming Peilan was about to speak to the intercom when she heard Lin Bo and the others say that they had also caught one.
They hurried over with another one. When Cui Pu saw the rabbit in Chen Qingqing's hand, he couldn't help but sigh: "This rabbit has a lot of muscles, it must be delicious! Make spicy rabbit meat, cold rabbit legs... slurp."
You Zhi rolled his eyes: "You only know how to eat."
Cui Pu laughed a few times.
Ming Peilan looked to the left and then to the right, and suddenly said: "These two seem to be a pair. Qingqing, if you don't plan to breed mutant rabbits, separate them first, so as not to have a litter of them all the time."
Everyone thought so.
This thing has a very fast reproduction ability, and the mutant rabbits are particularly aggressive. Even if they are raised from a young age, they are much more wild than normal rabbits and cannot be tamed at all.
Without knowing how to eat them, blindly breeding will bring great trouble to Chen Qingqing.
Chen Qingqing carried two rabbits and walked down the mountain. When she reached the car, the rabbits had already gnawed a hole in the net bag, and half of their heads popped out to continue gnawing the net bags around them. Chen
Qingqing immediately took out the iron cage from the space.
She brought the cage from the base specifically to catch mutant chickens, but she didn't expect to use it on the rabbits first.
Chen Qingqing packed the two rabbits separately and put them in the back of the truck. She turned around and saw a pheasant on a branch not far away staring at her.
Chen Qingqing's eyes lit up, and she silently said "Don't run, don't run" in her heart, while slowly moving towards the pheasant.
She was about to walk under the tree, and she heard a shrill rooster crowing resounding through the sky.
Then countless chirping sounds came from the forest behind, and the sound of flapping wings and rubbing leaves continued to come.
Countless mutant chickens were seen flying around in the forest like frightened birds.
Chen Qingqing was stunned.
Wait a minute... the trees behind were not eaten clean by insects?