Xia Lunong did not sleep well that night.

As the night deepened, the fire crackled from time to time, and the roars of various animals and birds were heard. The calls were sad and eerie, and they drilled into his ears.

Every time the call came, the kitten's two pointed ears would tremble, his paws would twitch, and a barely audible howl would come out of his mouth.

The kitten instinctively sensed the danger and was afraid.

Xia Huoqu was awakened several times by the kitten's slight movements.

When he was awakened again, Xia Huoqu could not help but pick up the kitten and the blanket.

Yan Xinian looked up and whispered, "What's wrong?"

Xia Huoqu turned his head towards him. His face looked even whiter and more delicate in the firelight. The deep and shallow shadows made his face look more gentle.

Xia Huoqu put the kitten on his chest, then wrapped the kitten in a blanket and whispered, "Xiaonong may have felt something and is afraid."

His chest was shaking as he spoke.

The young kitten lay on his chest, as if it had finally found peace. Its eyelids and ears stopped twitching, and its paws relaxed. It rested softly on his chest, breathing steadily and falling asleep again.

Yan Xinian nodded and lay down next to Xia Huoqu again, "Go to sleep."

Xia Huoqu murmured "hmm", grasped the precious night time, and fell into a deep sleep again.

The kitten was in a warm embrace with a slight sense of oppression, and his ears were no longer filled with various strange and desolate sounds. The steady and powerful heartbeat of his brother overwhelmed everything, forming a white noise in his ears. The

pink cat's mouth curled up, and the kitten turned over, belly up, two front paws raised behind the head, and finally slept soundly.

Liao Quannan and Ba Niu kept watch in the first half of the night.

The two looked listless. In addition to being tired and sleepy, they were also in a bad mood.

Especially Ba Niu, sitting by the fire, with his long hands hanging down, like a lonely gorilla.

Liao Quannan said in a low voice: "You shouldn't challenge the authority of Captain Yan and Deputy Captain Xia."

Ba Niu looked back at the Xia brothers and Yan Xinian who were sleeping in a pile, and said in an even lower voice, "Captain Yan is now focused on the kittens. He brought the kittens out to practice for such an important operation."

The seemingly rough man showed a bit of grievance.

Liao Quannan looked at him and said, "Xiao Nong is awake, and Deputy Captain Xia's spirit is different. Our base may not be limited to such a small valley. It's a good thing that he doesn't let you continue on the front line. I'm afraid it will be another dangerous period of development."

Ba Niu sighed, put his head on his knees, and his rough hands and feet made him look more and more like a depressed monkey.

Liao Quannan and his partner started to keep watch from 8pm to 1am, and then it was Yan Xinian and the bird-beast man Luo Congqin's turn.

Yan Xinian always led by example and did the most tiring and difficult work.

After handing over, Baniu paused, stood in front of Yan Xinian, lowered his head and said softly: "I'm sorry, Captain Yan, I didn't mean to question you."

Yan Xinian patted his shoulder and said, "It won't be a bad thing for you to temporarily withdraw from the property management."

Xia Lunong had no idea what happened that night.

He slept very well in his brother's arms. When he opened his eyes the next day, he saw his brother holding him, with one leg bent at the knee, padding it with a pen and writing a diary.

The kitten stretched out in his brother's arms, with the tips of his claws exposed.

After stretching, the kitten turned over, rubbed his brother's legs, raised his emerald eyes and looked at his brother, "Meow."

Xia Huoqu stretched out his big palm, wrapped his palm around the kitten's head and squeezed it, smiling, "Morning."

"Meow." The kitten put its soft pink pad on his hand to protest his hand.

Before he finished protesting, a big hand stretched out from the side, rubbed the kitten's snow-white belly, and said with a smile, "Morning."

The kitten reflexively slapped over again, this time with a sharp claw, but the other party easily dodged it.

The other party not only dodged, but also gently held the kitten's back, stretched to his armpits, and then held his waist with his hands, picked him up, looked him in the eye, and asked with a smile: "I said I would take you for a walk last night, but I didn't take you for a walk this morning. Do you want to go for a walk this morning?"

"Meow." The kitten's tone immediately changed, and he rubbed his head against the big hand, his round eyes full of approval.

Yan Xinian smiled and stroked the cat, and said to Xia Huoqu who was concentrating on writing a diary: "Then I will take Xiao Nong out for a walk?"

Xia Huoqu waved at them without raising his head.

The sun had not yet come out, and the air was humid.

Liao Quannan was collecting firewood, Luo Congqin was boiling mutton soup, Conglan was reading, and Ba Niu was maintaining his bow and arrow gun.

Damp firewood was thrown into the fire, emitting puffs of green smoke that filled the entire repair station. The air was also filled with the subtle smell of plant essential oils.

That was the result of the bark being heated by the firewood as it burned, and the moisture and aromatic substances in the bark volatile together.

Others couldn't smell it, but Xia Lunong could smell it without any pressure.

In addition to these stronger smells, he could actually smell the unique smell of everyone, the smell of soil, and the smell of plants in the air.

Yan Xinian picked a direction at random and walked slowly while holding him.

They turned into the ruins and were soon obscured by the plants.

The road that was barely cleared yesterday was lined with plants on both sides. If someone with less skill came here, let alone searching here, it would be a blessing if he didn't sprain his ankle.

The kitten turned his round eyes and looked around.

When he turned another corner, there was suddenly a large area of ​​purple yew flowers spreading on both sides.

The yew flowers bloomed brilliantly in the morning sun, occasionally swaying in the wind.

The kitten widened his eyes and meowed softly.

Yan Xinian's tone was also full of appreciation, "Very beautiful, do you want to pick a few for your brother to take back?"

The kitten looked up at him, with an expression of watching a good show on his furry cat face.

Yan Xinian smiled, "Don't you agree?"

"Meow." The kitten couldn't help but nudge him lightly.

As they got further and further away from their base, the smell in the air became thicker and thicker.

Xia Lunong suddenly turned his head and looked in a certain direction. He seemed to smell a faint smell of grain?

"What's wrong?" Yan Xinian asked when he saw that he had suddenly become focused.

"Meow." Xia Lunong pointed to a piece of ruins with his paw, "Meow."

There is something there.

Yan Xinian carried him over.

This was a piece of ruins full of plants, and the ruins were very high.

It was someone's home before the disaster, and now only a pile of rubble is left.

The germination and growth of plants on it accelerated the weathering of the rubble. I'm afraid that in thirty or fifty years, this pile of buildings will become fertile fields again, with only shallow traces left. After

Yan Xinian looked at the pile of buildings, he put the kitten on his shoulders and said, "Stand still."

The kitten's four paws popped out and grabbed the clothes on his shoulders tightly.

Yan Xinian looked around vigilantly.

Xia Lunong meowed. The smell here was very clean, without the scent of mutant plants or animals, so there should be no danger.

Yan Xinian took out a dagger from his waist, walked into the ruins, and climbed to the top in a few steps. He first cut off some of the overgrown weeds, bushes, and long vines on top, and waited until the things below were exposed before continuing to search.

Xia Lunong stared at his movements, his eyes focused on the ruins.

He cut off a huge vine, grabbed the vine with his palm, his arm muscles stretched, and his powerful hands grasped the vine tightly, and lifted it up with force.

With a "swish", the vine was pulled up, revealing a large piece of ruins in front of him.

"Meow!" Xia Lunong's fur stood up, her cat-like pupils shrank, and her claws hooked Yan Xinian's clothes tightly.

In the exposed ruins lay a human body, or to be more precise, a skeleton, half of which was buried by the ruins.

The flesh and hair on it had long since disappeared, and the skeletonized human skeleton was facing them, with two dark eye sockets that seemed to be filled with despair.

Yan Xinian stroked the cat's back with his backhand, stood in front of the skeleton, and bowed slightly to it.

The kitten stood on his shoulder, imitated him, and bowed gently.

Both of them felt a little heavy.

After bowing, the kitten called softly, "Meow."

He stretched out his front paws and pointed in a certain direction, "Meow."

After the vines were lifted, he smelled the scent of grains more clearly.

That not-so-fresh feeling accurately located him.

Yan Xinian looked intently in the direction he pointed to. There was a large bulge there, and tools were needed to clean it.

After evaluating for a few seconds, Yan Xinian said, "Let's go back and get the hoe and bury the owner first."

Xia Lunong made a "meow" and didn't object.

They didn't walk far, and it would only take a few minutes to get back.

Yan Xinian told everyone that Xia Lunong found something in the ruins and had to clean up the ruins. The idle Ba Niu and Cong Lin took the initiative to step forward and said they would go.

Xia Huoqu came over and rubbed his brother's head, asking, "What did you find?"

"Meow." Xia Huoqu's eyes fell on his brother's pen.

His brother handed him a pen, and he held it in his mouth and wrote a crooked word on the paper: 谷

Xia Huoqu: "Is there millet in the ruins?"

Maozi nodded, holding the pen in his mouth and wrote another word: a lot

Everyone came over to take a look, and Xia Huoqu asked: "A lot of millet?"

Maozi nodded again.

Yan Xinian smiled, "That's good enough, I don't smell anything."

Even if they were searching for supplies, it would not be easy for a group of people to walk through the ruins in human form to dig up the ruins, not to mention that they had to guard against the mutant animals and plants hidden in the ruins that would suddenly attack. When searching

the ruins, most people still found nothing after spending time and effort.

This is also the reason why the ruins have been swept by the predecessors one after another, but the later generations can't stop.

Hearing that there was a lot of rice, Yan Xinian was in a good mood, "Then let's go look for it before breakfast."

Everyone nodded, with anticipation in their eyes.

The group walked to the ruins they had just visited, first dug a pit next to the ruins, buried the owner, and then dug in the direction pointed by Xia Lunong.

Baniu was the strongest in human form, and he wielded the hoe with great vigor.

He did not mean to be stingy with his strength, and dug very quickly with his hoe.

No one could match him.

"Found it." When Baniu dug up the last shovel of mud with his hoe, he made way and said to the people below.

Everyone went over to take a look and found that there was actually a stainless steel plate underground. The steel plate was not thick, just a thin layer, and it made a "kang kang" sound when knocked.

Everyone stepped back to see the whole picture.

Seeing how big the pile of rubble was, everyone thought that the collapsed beams or bricks formed a closed triangular structure in this corner, supporting the rubble above. There

might be a few bags of rice stored under the triangular structure.

However, nearly two years have passed, and this place has completely turned into a wild environment. The probability of rice germination is very high. Even if they find rice, the harvest may not be great.

No one thought that there was a huge granary hidden underneath.

For a moment, everyone was not sleepy or tired, and their eyes were full of fighting spirit.

Everyone carefully cleared all the tiles on the stainless steel and soon found that this was a huge stainless steel granary.

The granary is circular, with a diameter of at least three meters. Even if half of it is still buried in the ruins, it can be seen that its height is at least three meters.

Perhaps for the purpose of reinforcement, there is a circle of wooden frames outside the granary to support the granary steadily.

This is also the reason why the granary is intact even when the tiles fell.