Chapter 358 357. Appetite Attractant [Two-in-One]

Bai Yu was a little surprised.

"How are you going to catch these long-tailed tits if you don't have super powers?"

Zhou Qian hesitated for a moment and said vaguely: "Just... use traps... to assist..."

Bai Yu also remembered, and now he felt more confident: "That's right! They are all birds. You have a unique method for catching pheasants, and it may also be applicable to catching long-tailed tits - but long-tailed tits are much more agile than pheasants."

Zhou Qian nodded: "So I will help set the trap, and your people will prepare the net and wait for the right moment to strike."

"No problem!" Bai Yu agreed decisively: "If it works, I can give you a basket of persimmons, and you can pick any branches you want."

"So, does the trap need to be kept secret? We will avoid it."

Everyone has their own unique methods, and she is very thoughtful.

Zhou Qian really wanted to say that it needed to be kept secret, but... cough.

At this moment he just shook his head: "Please clear a piece of open space, and prepare your supernatural net nearby. I will attract all the long-tailed tits."

Along with his voice, Bai Yu waved his hand, and all the surrounding guards who were paying attention to their words quickly took action. This tacit cooperation and high-efficiency integration made Zhou Qian feel as if he was still in the defense army...

However, the initial exploration mission was heavy, and the general defense force was responsible for the subsequent cleanup and finishing work, so he did not see his comrades this time.

In short, when everyone was staring at Zhou Qian, they saw him clenching his fists, walking in the open space, and then evenly sprinkling the rice grains in his hand.

There must be a certain amount of space, but it can't be too scattered. As for this kind of trap, he is now very skilled at using it, thanks to the sacrifices of the pheasants.

Then he returned to the team: "Just wait quietly."

Everyone waiting for him to use the mysterious trap: ??? No, that's it? Bai Yu, with the same doubts as everyone else, couldn't help but ask, "Is that it?"

Zhou Qian said "hmm" and didn't know what else to say.

As a water type, Fang Ze can only stand in the back row and watch the show. Hearing this, he couldn't help but ask: "Do you have a unique food-inducing formula?"

Then, without waiting for an answer, he sighed, "There is a company in the capital that specializes in attractants. The ingredients are particularly easy to attract mutant insects. The formula was later handed over to the research institute, and I was directly allocated a house in the safe zone of the capital. It was super cool."

He was very interested: "What about you? Do you want to exchange? Can this formula used to soak rice and mix ingredients attract all birds?"

Zhou Qian paused: "... Yeah."

Then he added: "No change."

As expected, one person's plan is often more complicated than another. He was still racking his brains to keep Xiaoyu's secret, but he didn't expect that others could explain it with just one sentence.

Anyway, that's the reason! The secret formula! Fang Ze wanted to say something, but he turned his head away in an instant, his eyes fixed on the row of long-tailed tits on the persimmon tree.

Sure enough, at this moment, some of them had already flapped their wings and were flying towards the central open space like flying squirrels.

The furry little white balls circled in the air with their long tails, and were very wary of the open space in front of them, but they couldn't resist the temptation.

After circling just two or three times, the first long-tailed tit had already landed on the ground. When it lowered its head to peck at the broken rice grain, everyone could clearly see it hopping twice on the grass.

The next moment, the second one flew over.

This seemed to start a signal, and the third, fourth, and a dozen or so others followed suit. Soon, the small open space was filled with a dense group of white balls, like a group of white-feathered chicks.

They chirped sweetly and continuously, pecking at the grass, apparently already addicted to it.

The time is now!

Bai Yu was seen standing in front, with two fingers together and bent downwards. In an instant, dense vines and metal nets suddenly rose up from all directions, and then covered the center like a big bowl in an instant!

"If they flew a little slower, we could use a dustpan."

Huaiyu commented quietly, "It's very convenient to catch sparrows this way."

Zhou Qian glanced at her and said, "Have you ever caught one? That's illegal. Sparrows were protected species before the disaster."

Huaiyu was silent for a moment, then said: "I didn't catch it, I lost my memory, I was just talking nonsense."

This was just an instinctive thought. Even if she caught him, it was just a remnant of the past. What did it have to do with her? Besides, when she said she didn't want to catch sparrows because they didn't have meat, Zhou Qian didn't say it was illegal to eat sparrows! Humph.

The two were chatting here. In the central open space, under the overlapping large nets, a group of long-tailed tits were crying pitifully. They were rushing around in the net and couldn't fly out. Finally, they were swept into the carriage by the psychic.

"Be careful and try not to hurt them."

Bai Yu instructed, and several testers nodded quickly and began to extract their saliva first - since persimmons were included in the menu, and they were sticking to it at this time, they must have a way to eat persimmons!

Under the persimmon tree in the distance, the three stuck wood-type mutants could only stand there straight, looking at everyone numbly, hoping that everyone would come up with a solution quickly -

You know, when your hands and legs are stuck, your entire body cannot move, which sounds like you are not hurt and feel very relaxed. But in fact, after a certain period of time, your whole body and mind start to become manic, which is worse than being injured and bleeding.

While waiting for the test results, Bai Yu found Zhou Qian again and asked, "Would you like to sell the bait you prepared?"

He turned around and looked at Huaiyu standing beside him: "Xiaoyu, you have so many good things. If you had taken them out earlier, maybe I would have agreed to rent the car to you."

Huaiyu's eyes lit up: "So can you give us the car now?"

That was definitely not possible. Although the brother and sister had their own unique methods, their combat effectiveness was indeed a bit low. Giving the car to them and going their separate ways would not only be irresponsible for their safety, but also for the fixed assets of the team.

Therefore, Bai Yu continued to shake his head: "We can exchange points."

Zhou Qian shook his head: "We don't have much with us, just enough for living in the wilderness, we can't sell it for the time being."

There is no bait on these rice grains, but they have been purified by Huaiyu. The garrison has so many instruments here, what if they detect something unusual? To be on the safe side, let's skip this topic for now.

As for if someone comes back after returning from the wilderness...

Zhou Qian sighed silently in his heart: I can only take it one step at a time.

But for some reason, on this trip to the wilderness, he didn't seem to be so worried about Xiaoyu's secret being exposed. I don't know what gave him the confidence and courage, but he was obviously much more relaxed.

Bai Yu nodded, not disbelieving this excuse, but pointing to the communicator: "Contact us after the mission is over."

Huaiyu came over and said, "Sister Baiyu, can the signal of this communicator be strengthened? There is no signal after entering the wilderness."

Bai Yu thought for a moment and said, "You can save up some contribution points and redeem them for an accompanying information vehicle."

Because of the mutated biological magnetic field, currently only the main urban areas in the country have achieved normal communications, and the signal tower in the suburbs of Huacheng has only been installed for three months.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. Plants are constantly growing in the wasteland, and mutated creatures are constantly fighting and looking for new targets... Under such circumstances, it is difficult to build a signal tower.

After all, plants naturally reject metal, which they cannot take root in. Once a metal building is left, it won't take long for them to find a way to destroy it. But if new synthetic materials are used, the cost is too high and it is currently unaffordable.

Therefore, deep in the wilderness, large teams will customize separate channels and communicate using walkie-talkies, while small teams basically rely on shouting.

People like Huaiyu and Zhou Qian could only stay within a certain distance, otherwise they might get lost and separated… Thinking of this, Bai Yu couldn't help but think of the sunflowers that Huaiyu used as road signs. He blinked guiltily and then dived into the inspection vehicle.

Huaiyu sighed silently.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Come to think of it, if there were a signal tower in the wilderness, we would be able to do more things, and exploration would be easier and more convenient. Maybe we could even make use of this vast forest.

There is a sentence in "The Unreachable Lover" that describes the development path before the disaster: If you want to be rich, build roads first.

This road is not just a road, it also includes a channel for people to communicate.

However, this question was a bit too profound, so Huaiyu decided to leave it to the smart people! At this moment, she looked at the carriage and couldn't help but sigh again -

Haven't figured out a solution yet?

If they don't get rid of the persimmon tree, they won't be able to drive a new car.

If I can't drive the new car, I can't be separated from the garrison.

In this case, wouldn't Dazai, Erzai, Dapang, and Ketaro be choked up? She sighed secretly, while in the car next to her, the testing team had successfully extracted saliva and analyzed the ingredients:

"The saliva of these northern long-tailed tits contains a unique ingredient that can easily dissolve the sticky pulp of persimmons... The machine is currently doing a simulated ratio. If it can be solved, it should be possible to successfully approach the target."

"Yeah." Bai Yu was also quite excited: "Hold on tight."

When facing a large plant like a persimmon tree, we really don't want to attack it forcefully, otherwise, if its roots start to move vigorously, the entire area will be hit by a small earthquake.

If other mountains and forests collapse as a result, the chain reaction will make their subsequent cleanup, exploration and reconstruction even more difficult.

These are all interconnected. At this moment, she was silently looking outside at where Wu Yue was, and her belief became stronger.

——Perhaps during this exploration of the wilderness, General Wu should have realized that she was not the weak girl who worshipped him as he imagined? Bai Yu sneered in his heart: How unconfident was General Wu in his first half of his life, so that he was so keen on imagining every woman who approached him as weak and dependent on him?

What about his so-called ex-girlfriend?

Could it be that she was also in this weak and dependent state? Otherwise, why would he be so obsessed with her, and still pretend to be deeply in love with her after several years?

Huaiyu rubbed his nose outside the car and suddenly felt like sneezing.

But soon, her eyes were attracted by the bright red persimmons again: "Brother Zhou Qian, if these persimmons can't be eaten, can we boil them into glue? Next summer we can use them to catch cicadas, fry them, sprinkle some salt and pepper powder on them, it must be very fragrant and delicious!"

Zhou Qian: "...It's not convenient now, don't keep talking about food."

"Oh," Huaiyu agreed: That's why we said we should separate quickly! However, at this moment, Fangze came over: "Why not? Eat more and talk!"

He said longingly, "I don't know why. Obviously, most of the mutant creatures nowadays are unpalatable, but whenever you two discuss it, it's as if we've really returned to the time before the disaster... The fried cicadas at that time were still crispy and fragrant..."

Huaiyu sympathized: "So? Have you tried it again in the summer? Is it really that bad?"

Fang Ze sighed: "Two years ago, there was a mutant cicada in Yuncheng. It was more than ten meters long. It could suck the life out of a tree in just a few days if it clung to the trunk."

"The mutation is also very serious. Once it starts barking, everyone within a two-mile radius will become manic. Even our professional noise-isolating earplugs can't stop it."

He recalled the past, obviously in great pain: "Later, the research team came up with a method to let the water-based supernatural power create a water mask on our faces, exposing our mouths and noses, and at the same time, the inside was almost vacuumed..."

This way the fight would not obstruct the vision and could also isolate the sound as much as possible, thus shooting down the mutant cicada.

Fang Ze’s stories were always very interesting and Huai Yu listened with great interest, so he took out another handful of melon seeds and gave them to him.

Now that he knew where the seeds came from, he was more careful when he cracked them, but he was even more interested in telling stories:

"Let me tell you, some people at that time suggested leaving the cicada in the wilderness and letting them kill each other. Don't you think it can drain a tree in a few days? Isn't it easier and more troublesome than fighting us?"

"Yeah, why didn't you do it?"

Huaiyu is quite qualified as the supporting actor.

"Hmph!" Fang Ze slapped his thigh. "Don't underestimate this cicada's powerful skills. It's quite troublesome. But it is a cicada that bullies the weak and fears the strong. It won't touch any mutant trees with a little bit of ability. It just sucks the ordinary trees crazily - what's the use of this?! It makes the resources we can use less, and it also deliberately destroys farmland. There is no other way but to deal with it."

Wow! Huaiyu's eyes sparkled as she listened to these stories. She felt that these stories were much more exciting than her three books of spiritual food! She also had a story about "Zhou Qian fighting a mutant macaque", but that story took place in Sanqing Palace. She couldn't tell the story of how she could travel through Sanqing Mountain unimpeded, so she had to hold it back.

well.

Sometimes it's really lonely when I have so much gossip to tell to no one.

The next moment, Bai Yu was seen striding down from the inspection vehicle in front of him, looking excited: "We have found a way. The corresponding solvent is being synthesized and it is expected to be equipped in 15 minutes."

"gather!"

Here it comes! Update 1+2, do you prefer to post them together?