Chapter 35
Sawtooth beast.
A carnivore that is three meters tall and nearly four meters long. It doesn't run very fast, but if it is hit, it will suffer from fractures at the very least and internal injuries at the worst.
He had already prepared himself mentally when he heard the description from Luo Shen, but he was still a little surprised when he actually saw it.
After a hard fight, the giant beast fell to the ground with a dull thud, and the wounds caused by their bone knives continued to bleed.
Qi Heng pretended to be exhausted and half-knelt on the ground, gasping for breath, just like Mo Nan and the others. Several gaps appeared on the bone knife he was holding.
From the process of hunting the Sawtooth Beast just now, it can be seen that Yan and the others cooperated with each other very well. The task assigned to me as a new member is to be ready to provide support at any time.
"Qi Heng, thank you for what you did just now."
If he hadn't pulled her aside, the Sawtooth Beast would have crashed into her. Yan thanked him after stabilizing her breathing.
"No need to thank me, this is what I should do." Qi Heng stood up nonchalantly, his hand holding the bone knife hanging to his side.
Just now, in order to save Yan, the bone knife directly hit the hardest teeth of the Sawtooth Beast. Fortunately, he covered it with a layer of star power in time, otherwise the bone knife would have broken at the moment of head-on collision.
"Qi Heng, your reaction speed just now was so fast, and you were able to jump so high - it's amazing!"
"I almost thought you were going to get bit."
After pushing Yan away, he became the target of the Sawtooth Beast. In order to avoid it, he jumped several meters high and landed on the Sawtooth Beast.
Qi Heng smiled and didn't answer.
Yan and the others cooperate well. Although their strength is a little lacking, I can't find anyone better at the moment.
Generally speaking, hunting Sawtooth Beasts is not easy for them. For example, if Yan had been hit at the critical moment just now, even with the female insect's recovery ability, she would have been seriously injured.
"I thought today would be very dangerous, but I didn't expect it to be so smooth in the end, thanks to Qi Heng's timely support." Luo Shen sighed.
"That's right. Apart from a few falls, I don't even have any wounds. I'm so lucky." said another female insect named Zhou Xing.
Mo Nan moved his arm and found that there was no other problem except a little pain. He said, "I'll go find some vines to make a net."
"I'm going too..."
A sawtooth beast weighs more than 400 kilograms. It cannot be dragged back, so it can only be wrapped with a net woven from vines and carried back.
The wilderness is dangerous. After hunting, you must leave the wilderness as soon as possible. It will be difficult to walk after dark.
At this time, ten hours had passed since they entered the wilderness, and most of the time had been spent tracking the Sawtooth Beast. Now it was almost time to leave.
"I have something to do in the woods and will be back later." Qi Heng said to Yan.
Yan originally wanted to say that she wanted to go with him, but when she thought about his strength just now, she swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
"Go ahead, but don't go too far."
Zhou Xing said, "Qi Heng, can I go with you? I'm going to hunt some small animals, and if you go with me, I'll be able to keep an eye on them."
"Can."
Qi Heng and Zhou Xing walked into the forest nearby. Zhou Xing was only about 1.7 meters tall, and he looked like a teenager when walking beside him.
"Why don't you catch some small prey and bring it back?" Zhou Xing chatted with him.
"Winter is coming soon, and the weather will become very cold. We need to hunt some prey for fur to keep warm."
Qi Heng had heard about the cold winter from Yan Ning, so when he heard Zhou Xing's words, he smiled and said, "It's still early, there's no rush."
However, this plan is indeed on the agenda, after all, we will still be living on Tianyun Star for a long time.
After entering the forest, Qi Heng and Zhou Xing separated, and he walked towards the place that had been marked early in the morning.
There was a tree with red berries growing at that location. The lush canopy covered an area of two or three meters around it. Squinting, one could see that many of the fruits on the treetop had been pecked.
He also saw a bird's nest between the tree branches. The location was a bit tricky, and if it weren't for the system, it wouldn't have been so easy for him to find it.
Qi Heng stepped on the ripe and rotten fruits, climbed up the tree along the trunk in a few steps, and climbed up the tree easily.
After securing himself between the thick branches, he glanced at the five or six fist-sized bird eggs, reached out and took out a knife to cut off the relatively intact red berry bunches and put them into the bird's nest.
He planned to take the bird's nest away with him, as it could also be used as a container for fruit.
He would definitely not have done that in the past, but given his current living conditions, he had to put the idea of protecting birds aside for now. Being kind when food was limited would be cruel to himself.
Improve your life. If you can't afford fried eggs, boiled eggs are also good. You can also use fruits to supplement vitamins.
Qi Heng held the bird's nest filled with berry bunches and bird eggs in one hand, and slowly moved down with the other hand. Finally, when there were only four or five meters left, he jumped down.
Such a height was a piece of cake for him, and he landed so steadily without even a sway.
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The hunting team that brought the Sawtooth Beast back to District 49 became the focus of everyone's attention.
Qi Heng said goodbye and left the team before entering District 49, and deliberately did not walk with them to avoid being watched.
When he returned to Yan Ning's house, he had just put down the bird's nest he had brought back.
"Uncle Qi—" The bug cub flapped its wings and flew towards him, looking at the thing he put down with some curiosity: "What is this?"
“Edible.”
The little bug was speaking more and more clearly about some common phrases.
Lele's eyes lit up: "Is it delicious?"
"Um."
Qi Heng removed the leaves covering the bird's nest, took out a bunch of berries, washed them, picked one and put it in the hands of the insect cub who couldn't wait to eat it.
"Eat it."
The little bug looked at the bright red fruit. This was the first time he had seen it, so he put it in his mouth and chewed it out of curiosity.
“It’s delicious.”
Qi Heng also picked one and tasted it, commenting, "It's quite sweet."
The bug boy tilted his head and imitated him, saying, "Sweet."
He was stunned for a moment before he remembered that there was not even any sugar in this damn place. This should be the first time that the insect cub tasted the taste of "sweetness".
"I want to eat more." The bug boy stared at the berries in his hand, but had no intention of eating them.
Qi Heng sighed. What else could he say to a child?
"Don't eat too much." He picked seven or eight and placed them in a small wooden bowl. He said, "Where's your father?"
"Brother Yun."
Holding the small wooden bowl, the bug cub blurted out a word.
That’s right, otherwise they probably wouldn’t have left the insect cub alone. Judging from the situation, it should have been gone not long ago.
Qi Heng took out the bird eggs and put them into the stone pot. He then poured water into the pot and said to the insect cub, "I'll give you boiled eggs later."
Female insects prefer meat, but they cannot eat only meat.
The little bug had never seen eggs before, but as long as Uncle Qi said they were edible, they must be delicious.
In the next few days, the hunting team was busy dealing with the sawtooth beasts and no longer stopped going to the wasteland. Except for going to the stall they mentioned the day after bringing back the sawtooth beast, Qi Heng spent the rest of his time traveling through the wilderness and wasteland.
Of course, he was not alone. His partners were two other female insects from the hunting team.
The coming harsh winter season makes the entire District 49 extremely busy, and the flesh and fur of prey are particularly popular at this time. The hunting team is different from Qi Heng. They not only accept star stones but also other barter exchanges.
Unless they are entering the wilderness or hunting large wild beasts, the female insects in the hunting team will not go out in full force, but will form partnerships of two or three.
Qi Heng's partners are Luo Shen and Zhou Xing, and they set their sights on the small wild beasts in the wilderness.
Before joining them, Qi Heng thought the small wild animals they were talking about were the type of gray rabbits in the wilderness. It was not until the hunting began that he realized that the targets of his hunting were almost the same size as leopards.
On the afternoon of the fourth day after hunting the Sawtooth Beast, when Qi Heng returned with Luo Shen and the others with the prey, he noticed that the atmosphere around them was a little wrong.
When the prey was brought to Yan's stall, Qi Heng was even more surprised to see that there were only a few female insects waiting to exchange for meat.
You know, at this time of year, it wouldn't be crowded, but it shouldn't be just two or three kittens.
He asked, "Did anything happen today?"
"Why don't you see Yan?"
"Yan accompanied Lan Yihe to the trading area." Mo Nan, who was in charge of watching over the stall, answered him.
"What are you going to do?" Qi Heng remembered that they had just been to the trading area two days ago, so there was no reason to go a second time so soon.
Lan Yi is the youngest female insect in the hunting team. Because of her excellent fighting talent, he subconsciously pays more attention to her.
Well, the main reason is that there is also a little bug in the Lan family.
A female insect that had just reached adulthood and was carrying a small insect cub, her life experience was exactly the same as Yan Ning's. The only thing that was better than Yan Ning's was that Lan Yi's female father had once saved Yan, so Yan took special care of Lan Yi.
In addition, Lan Yi's strength was indeed good, so they tacitly allowed Lan Yi to join the hunting team and go into the wilderness with them.
"What else can we do at this time? I should probably cut the insect wings." Zhou Xing lowered his head to deal with the prey, and uttered a word nonchalantly.
Qi Heng: "...what do you want to cut?"
He was somewhat incredulous and wondered if he had misheard.
Zhou Xing thought he didn't hear clearly, so he repeated, "Cut the insect wings."
"That is to say, the wings of the insect cub must be cut off before it sheds its camouflage. Only in this way can it obtain an identity certificate and live in District 49." Luo Shen said as he pulled the small iron plate on his wrist that represented his identity.
"Brother Qi, don't you know?"
Mo Nan suddenly remembered something and said, "I remember Qi Heng, you also have a little bug cub at home, right? Didn't your brother tell you about this?"
Because Qi Heng and Yan Ning lived together, and Yan Ning called him brother and he didn't deny it, so Mo Nan and the others all assumed that Yan Ning was his younger brother.
Qi Heng's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and he had a bad feeling.
"I have something to do. I need to leave first." Was he crazy or were Mo Nan and the others crazy? Clipping insect wings? You must be kidding.
But when he thought about it, he realized that he had never seen a female insect spreading its wings in all the time he had been here. He had never seen it even when he was hunting with Luo Shen and the others, and Luo Shen and the others had never asked him any questions about this.
His heart sank.
If this is true, then the forces behind the imprisonment of the Tianjia Zerg on Tianyun Star are going too far...'They' have already restricted and locked the Tianjia Zerg on Tianyun Star, and there is no need to commit such abusive acts.
Qi Heng originally wanted to go back to Yan Ning's house, but he turned around as soon as he raised his foot.
Wait, if we really want to cut insect wings, Yan Ning is definitely not at home now.
Trading area.
Central area.
It was the first time that Qi Heng saw so many female insect cubs with insect wings. They were held in the arms of adult female insects, with their heads buried in the female insects' chests. The only thing that could be seen were the pairs of insect wings of different colors and shapes on their backs.
Each pair has a special beauty, and the cubs look pure and tender.
After the system scanned and analyzed the insect wings, it quickly determined which branch of the advanced Zerg these cubs belonged to. The list displayed by A1 included many branches of Zerg that Qi Heng was familiar with.
As Qi Heng shuttled through the team, his eyes were searching among the long line of female insects, looking for Yan Ning's trace.
It was neither moral nor logical for him to want Yan Ning to bring the insect cub to have its wings trimmed.
Qi Heng couldn't help but curse in his heart, thinking, what the hell is there to cut insect wings.
Even if there are no other impacts, if the insect's wings are really cut, the little cub that flies all day long will cry to death.
What's more, the impact of cutting off the insect wings is far greater than imagined... Listening to the faint crying coming from a distance, Qi Heng's mind emerged with the previous conversation with A1.
[A1: What harm will cutting off the wings do to the female insect?]
[According to data analysis, female insects whose wings were clipped during infancy cannot evolve again. Their lifespan is shortened to one-tenth of their original lifespan, and they enter aging prematurely...]
Secondary evolution is too much of a burden for current female insects. It’s not a bad thing to not have it, but shortening lifespan so much is definitely not acceptable.
The average lifespan of higher-level Zerg is three hundred years, but in fact, as they cultivate star power and mental power, they have the opportunity to transform and evolve their life level again, thus gaining a longer life.
One in ten, which means that female insects do not live beyond the age of thirty.
No wonder, I haven't seen any old female insects in the month since I came here. I thought it was because of the poor living conditions that the old female insects could not survive, but now it seems that the real reason is that the female insects cannot even wait to "get old" and will enter the senescence stage and then die quickly.
Thinking of this, Qi Heng's face became even gloomier.
Yan Le's little bug cub is different to Qi Heng. He rescued it personally, delivered the baby himself, and took care of it for so long. The feelings he put into it are not fake.
Everyone has their own relatives and strangers. If it were any other female insect cub today, he might not be so angry.
But now, whenever Qi Heng thought that the female insect cub with its wings cut off was the one he raised, and that it would come to him to hug the cute little guy, he couldn't help but get angry.
This was the first time he was so angry after traveling through time. Part of the uncontrollable anger in his heart was because of Yan Le, and some of it came from the dominant part of his soul.
——When he heard the words 'clipping insect wings', the rage that surged from the bottom of his heart almost made him lose his mind.
At this moment, these two angers kept intertwining in his chest, making him feel heavy in the heart and clench his fists.
Should I do something, not only for Yan Le, but also for them...
This thought made Qi Heng's eyes shine with a hint of sharpness. He took a big step forward, wanting to see what was in the direction where the crying came from.
After a while, he saw a house at the end of the team, and the crying sound he had just heard came from there.
Just when Qi Heng was about to take a few more steps forward, a familiar voice suddenly appeared beside him.
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