The white rabbit fur looked fluffy like balls of cotton, but the rabbits didn't know where they found the extra-large sacks for children. Just one bag of rabbit fur weighed thirty or forty kilograms. The fluffy fur was all tightly packed by the little rabbits and pressed down in the sack with their claws.
It is a huge project to clean, disinfect, sterilize and sew so much rabbit fur. It is not something that can be completed by one or two people in a short time.
Fortunately, there are many people in the shelter who are willing to help, so Xia Runrun does not have to wait until next spring to use the rabbit fur cat bed that she has been longing for.
However, facing this large group of survivors who were eager to help, Xia Runrun felt quite embarrassed.
She originally thought that it was because her abilities had improved that people were unwilling to accept carrots as payment and wanted to help her. Later, she found out that these people were the ones who had dug carrots with her and Yang Fan before, as well as their family and friends.
Everyone said that they just wanted to use this way to thank her for dispersing the rabbits and saving their loved ones.
Xia Runrun touched her nose a little embarrassedly. She could only blame the confidence that the crows and rabbits had given her in the past two days, which made her too arrogant.
"It's hard to dry clothes in the winter. There's a drying room behind the shelter... We can chop some firewood and bring it back. We guarantee that the cat bed will be ready within a week!" Aunt Zhao, who has superb needlework skills, was the first to pat her chest and express her opinion to Xia Ruanruan.
The others nodded in agreement. Even though the cat was over three meters tall and needed a big cat bed, they could easily sew a big cat bed with a lid for it.
How can a cat not have its own cat bed?
"Yes, yes, yes. I will draw the blueprints and design it in the next two days. I guarantee that your cat bed will be both beautiful and practical." Han Zhou was not to be outdone and raised his hand to express his opinion.
Several middle-aged women with good craftsmanship immediately gave Han Zhou disapproving looks. What's wrong with these young people these days? Why do they like to compete with others for work? Normally, these young people are not very diligent.
“Thank you, thank you…!” Surrounded by so many people enthusiastically, the little girl blinked her big eyes and expressed her gratitude solemnly.
The two baskets of carrots were so full that Xia Ruanruan exchanged them for over seventy food coupons. Looking at the people in the shelter busily sorting and cleaning rabbit fur, the little girl glanced at their reddened hands from soaking in cold water in the middle of winter, pursed her lips, and left the shelter with the egg yolk and 666.
Powerful mutant animals are almost the top existences in Xingyue City today. As long as they don't go to too dangerous places, they will generally be fine. Xia Runrun sat on the back of Egg Yolk and searched around the shelter for useful supplies, buildings, and wild vegetable picking spots.
For the time being, there is no rush to collect supplies.
This is like a traveler who has just arrived on a strange island. She needs to familiarize herself with the surrounding environment in a short period of time, understand which supplies to obtain and where to obtain them, and which supplies are more important.
The girl checked the time and agreed with Egg Yolk that they would walk east for an hour, then return the same way, gathering whatever supplies they could find along the way. It would be even better if they could find some hibernating frogs and cook them into broth as a reward.
Snowflakes are fluttering in the sky, and they have hardly stopped since yesterday morning.
The big yellow cat was moving very fast, leading the little girl eastward. Xia Runrun could clearly see that she was moving from the originally bustling commercial street to a sparsely populated direction. The number of houses along the way gradually decreased, and the number of trees began to increase. Especially these mutant trees were extremely tall, and several people could not hug them at all. Each tree was a hundred meters long, with densely packed branches and leaves intertwined.
The asphalt road that was originally paved for vehicles to pass through has already been largely destroyed by these tall trees, becoming bumpy and full of potholes.
If she didn't look carefully, Xia Runrun would have no way of realizing that the road in front of her was the national highway that once connected Xingyue City to other cities.
Instead, I felt like I had stepped into a primeval forest.
Snowflakes fell on the leaves, making a rustling sound. The green leaves were completely covered with white ice and snow. It looked like another wonderful world of ice and snow. When I moved my nose slightly, I could smell the scent of wind and snow mixed with the forest.
However, such heavy snow and wind also obscured a lot of information, making it more difficult to collect supplies.
Egg Yolk hopped a fluffy roller coaster over the branches of the house, leaving two paw prints on the snow with each leap. Xia Ruanruan sat on Egg Yolk's back, clinging tightly to the cat's long yellow fur. Fortunately, the big orange cat knew that its cub was sitting on top of it, so it tried to maintain its balance with each leap, but even so, Xia Ruanruan didn't feel much better.
The yolk felt a little regretful: if the cub hadn't been so unwilling, it would have actually wanted to hold the cub's clothes and lead the way.
After running along the asphalt road for nearly 40 minutes, Xia Runrun did not see any supplies suitable for collection except for a few mutant animals and dilapidated houses with obvious signs of searching.
"No wonder everyone in Hanzhou said I was lucky in the abandoned supermarket..." If the abandoned supermarket was not a small settlement, she would never have been able to collect so many modern supplies at one time.
"As for the trees and weeds all over the mountains and the city... As long as everyone is willing, the shelter will definitely have enough firewood to burn..." Xia Ruanruan murmured subconsciously, "No wonder the shelter has a long-term supply of hot water. All we need is a voucher."
"Let's go to the woods and see if there's anything we can bring back..."
Xia Runrun patted the big cat's back and asked it to take her into the forest in the suburbs. 666 flew high in the sky dutifully, paying attention to the surrounding situation.
After entering the woods, there are more and more tall trees, which are staggered and interwoven into a dense and fine net, and the snow on the ground is obviously becoming less and less.
Even on the ground, you can see traces of the original green. Some of the tall weeds have been dyed golden red, but most of them are lush green.
The virus caused mutations in plants and animals, and these mutations led to changes in the city's temperature...
But whether in the past or now, the plants here have adapted well and show no signs of withering or dying. They are also unlike authentic northern plants that lose all their leaves when the season comes, leaving only bare trunks to endure the baptism of wind and snow.
"Quack, quack, quack!" (Soft, soft! There's an orange tree up ahead!)
666, flying high in the sky, immediately spotted the orange tree with golden fruits. December and January in winter are the season for eating oranges. Although Xingyue City is not a major orange-producing city, people here have the habit of growing oranges, loquats and persimmons. Sometimes these three plants can be seen in the community gardens.
"Let's go! Let's go up and take a look!"
Xia Runrun's eyes lit up and she immediately greeted Egg Yolk.
"Meow~!" Egg Yolk shook his ears, flicked his tail, and ran and jumped two times faster. In just a moment, he arrived under the orange tree.
This orange tree is very tall. Although it is not as tall as the magnolia trees and camphor trees in the city, this orange tree is at least seventy or eighty meters high. The green branches and leaves are so lush that the top of the tree cannot be seen at all. However, the bunches of golden red oranges are like bright lanterns, as big as the watermelons I saw in my previous life!
7, 8 or even 10 kilograms each! They look delicious.
If you can't find any frogs, it's not bad to find some oranges.
Ruanruan immediately asked 666 to help peck the oranges down from the tree.
"Ga ga ga!" 666 chirped happily, aimed at a big red orange on the tree and pecked at it!
"Crack!—Snap!—"
The tangerine stem was pecked off in an instant, and the fruit fell to the soft ground. Xia Runrun took a few steps forward with her short legs and stuffed the big tangerine into the sack that had been prepared long ago.
"Crack!—Snap!—"
“Crack!! —Snap! —”
…
After a series of actions of picking and collecting fruits, the two large sacks that the little girl brought with her were soon filled to the brim. Just when Xia Ruanruan picked up the last orange and was about to break it open to taste the mutated fruit, suddenly a series of rustling sounds were heard around her. These sounds became louder and louder from far away. Egg Yolk immediately pricked up his ears and looked alert, and his tail swung back and forth in annoyance.
“!!!”
Xia Ruanruan was startled. Hearing the noise, she thought it was a swarm of mutant snakes. She quickly stood up, not even caring about the oranges on the ground. She ran to Egg Yolk and tried to climb onto the big cat's back. As long as the mountains remain, there's no shortage of firewood. Anyway, the orange trees are here, and the snakes won't eat...eat...eat...???
Xia Ruanruan had just grabbed the tip of the big orange cat's bent tail. Her eyes had already seen the animal making the rustling sound, and her ears were even more sharp in catching the other party's words.
"Squeak! Squeak!!" (Oranges, our oranges! Wow! The bad guys are here to steal the oranges, beat them!)
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" (The bird and cat are so mean that they even steal our food!)
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" (Put down the food in your hands and we'll spare your lives. Even though we're small, we're not to be trifled with!)
Suddenly, a large group of hundreds of oversized squirrels with fluffy tails, weighing about seven or eight kilograms, suddenly jumped down from the surrounding trees, squeaking and making threatening grunts in their throats, trying to drive Xia Runrun and the other three out of the food tree they had chosen.
The leading squirrel has a tuft of red soft hair on its head. It looks the most majestic and its call is the loudest and fiercest. Every time it calls, the other squirrels behind it respond loudly, and for a while the squeaking sounds in the woods fill the sky.
Xia Ruanruan: "..."
Xia Runrun looked at the squirrels in front of her, who were standing with their hands on their hips and barking, pretending to be fierce. She wondered if it would look particularly strange if she touched them a few times at this time?
But……
Facing a large group of furry little squirrels, especially those covered with long, soft hair all over their bodies, she really couldn't get nervous!
“Cough cough cough…”
Xia Ruanruan took two steps forward and coughed twice deliberately, originally just wanting most of the squirrels to focus their attention on herself.
However, Xia Ruanruan never expected...
She just coughed twice, and a large group of little squirrels seemed like dolls that had suddenly pressed the pause button. They tilted their necks and looked at her blankly.
Here, here, why is there a baby squirrel here that looks so cute?
Crash——
The red brick illustration moved automatically without any wind, and the shadows of a group of gray squirrels were directly printed on it. The large group of squirrels occupied three full pages of the illustration.
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