"Ga?..." (Is it time?...)
The little crow tilted its head and looked at Xia Ruanruan, its small red eyes full of confusion. Why did it feel that its 10 minutes seemed to be a little different from the boss's 10 minutes? As if its time was a little bit shorter?
The little girl's hands were soft and felt very comfortable when pressed on my body. Even my wings, which had been stiff from sleeping last night, felt relaxed.
"No, it's almost there." The clothes were stained with other colors, which made Xia Runrun a little at a loss for a moment, but she quickly reacted and started combing the little crow's feathers again.
She can communicate with animals, but that doesn't mean all animals love cleanliness like humans. Even among humans, there are many people who don't wash their socks for a month... She prepared herself in her heart. Although Xia Runrun still felt that something was strange, she turned around and put her confusion behind her. However, the little crow stood up embarrassedly when he saw Xia Runrun's dirty coat.
“Ga, ga, ga, ga, ga…” (Yes, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to stain your clothes… I just accidentally fell into the nectar of a black sunflower a few days ago… its nectar is black…)
The little crow stammered, feeling shy and embarrassed. He looked at Xia Ruanruan, his fluffy face full of shame and apology. He didn't know how the other party could make such an expression on his dark face.
"It's okay, the clothes will be clean after washing." The fat boy pinched the dirty hem of his clothes with his hands, and Xia Runrun touched the little crow's head nonchalantly and comforted him.
What kid doesn't get a few pieces of clothing dirty? What's one piece of clothing?!
Xia Ruanruan gave the little crow a bright smile.
Two soft dimples were revealed on the white and tender little face, and two playful little fangs were slightly raised along the arc of the corners of the mouth. The little crow felt warm and sweet in his heart, and a sweet taste as if he had eaten honey spread in his chest. The black little crow felt dizzy all over, and small fireworks bloomed above his head. This was the feeling of the warm spring breeze!
He clearly had stained her clothes, but she didn't care at all and even comforted him.
It really likes the little cub in front of it!
As if sensing the little crow's deepest thoughts, the illustrated book above the little girl's head, which was shining with a faint golden light, suddenly flashed a white light.
A white light flashed by, and the picture of the starling in the book had turned from gray to gold.
There is also a line of text that reads: [Myna (Luck Level 4): Increases the luck of residents in the construction area by 8%.]
What is strange is that next to the lit starling illustration, there is a group of crow illustrations, which also light up from gray to white.
[Crow Boss's Crow Flock (Normal Level, No Stars)]
…
“Gugugugu…”
Just when Xia Ruanruan wanted to touch the little crow's head and comfort it, telling it not to worry.
The little girl's soft belly suddenly made a gurgling sound.
From the time she woke up until now, Xia Runrun has been busy for nearly two hours, combing and massaging the feathers of a quarter of the crows in the flock. Although combing and massaging the feathers of just a few birds doesn't take much effort, her body has shrunk now, and the crows are much taller and bigger than her. If it weren't for the fact that birds have a much lower body structure and bone density than humans, the weight of these crows alone would probably knock her to the ground.
I massaged these birds for two hours straight. Although I tickled them and changed hands from time to time, most of my energy was used up. In addition, I didn't know how long I hadn't eaten, and I felt obviously hungry in my stomach.
After the earth disaster, the hearing of animals was much better than before. Not only the little crow heard the rumbling of Xia Ruanruan's stomach, but also the other big crows and the young man and woman who had been standing at the stairs and were afraid to go down.
"How about... I cook something for you?" The young girl took two shaky steps forward, facing the gazes of many crows eager to chop her head off, and slowly raised the backpack in her hand.
The backpack contained not only the supplies they had found in the abandoned supermarket, but also some food they had picked up on the roadside along the way.
"Thank you, sister."
Xia Runrun looked at the food she had dug out on the ground, turned her head, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound. Her beautiful eyes instantly curved into two small crescents.
The little girl's cheeks were chubby, white and tender, and her eyelashes were long, black and long. Her black eyes seemed to be twinkling with little stars, which instantly struck the young girl's heart. She almost stared blankly. If her boyfriend hadn't pushed her and brought her back to her senses, she might have stood there like a sculpture.
The young girl coughed dryly twice and tried to retract her gaze. No wonder Sister Zhou said before that she must protect this child. She must have been struck by this fair and soft little cutie. It was a pity that at that time she was only thinking about escaping from the mouth of the corpse-eating crow and did not notice the appearance of this little girl. Otherwise... In fact, she was willing to wait downstairs.
“Gah????”
The little crow, having just come to its senses from the cub's bright smile, was almost jumping up and down in anxiety. Why was this human next to it so unethical?! It hadn't even brought back food for the cub yet! How could this person take its job away?
A group of big crows and their little crows immediately had the same idea and stared at the young girl fiercely, as if they wanted to fight with her.
Xia Runrun suppressed the crows around her who were ready to cause trouble, and tried to reason with them for two minutes, which allowed the young man and woman to come down from upstairs.
The young man almost cried for joy. He was finally relieved that he no longer had to feed the crows with human flesh.
In just a short while, the young man had realized that the little girl in front of him was obviously the one who could call the shots among the crows. These carrion crows were as obedient in front of the little girl as if they were pets raised since childhood!
I couldn't help but drool with envy, and it rolled down from the corners of my eyes.
This is fate! They encountered the same flock of carrion crows at the same time, but the results were completely different! The treatment they received was even more different!
Don’t ask, you will regret it if you ask!
Looking at the flock of crows staring at him hungrily, the young man silently took out the food from his backpack and started cooking with his girlfriend.
There are a lot of supplies in the abandoned supermarket. These are things that the predecessors did not have time to take away, as well as those that were accidentally buried under the ruins due to the madness of mutant beasts and earthquakes.
The couple found a relatively intact large stainless steel basin among the supplies, brought back a lot of dead branches and leaves from the haystack outside, and then skillfully built a fire and started cooking.
Speaking of which, this location is indeed good. There is actually a small well behind the abandoned supermarket. No wonder this place became someone else's base before.
“Gulp gulp… Gulp gulp…”
Soon, steam came out of the big basin.
The young man used the canned luncheon meat he found in the ruins and combined it with plant roots he dug out from somewhere to cook a pot of starch porridge. Although the whole pot of porridge looked quite rough and the plant roots were not very delicate, after cooking for a long time, the pot exuded a rich and fresh fragrance, and the aroma of minced meat porridge soon drifted in the supermarket.
“Gululululu——”
Now it was not just Xia Runrun, even the three people next to them started to feel hungry. After careful calculation, apart from some dry food for breakfast, the three of them did not eat anything else after walking all the way to the supermarket.
"Here, be careful, it's hot..." The young girl first served a large bowl to Xia Ruanruan, and then distributed the porridge to others.
"Thank you, sister. You eat first." She was of no help at all, yet the other party still served her rice. Xia Runrun felt a little embarrassed and pushed the bowl of porridge to the young girl first.
The soft little hand, slightly damp and warm from the bowl of porridge, suddenly touched the cold back of the young girl's hand. Looking at the sincerity on the little girl's face, the young girl's heart softened and she was filled with guilt. Even a child cared about her, an adult, but because of her momentary fear, she even wanted Sister Zhou to abandon the other party with her. It was really wrong.
Annoyance spread in her heart, and the young girl shook her head repeatedly and said, "You eat, you eat first. There's more in the basin. Sister will serve more later."
Seeing that the other party was determined, Xia Runrun looked at him twice and had to pick up the bowl of porridge.
The stewed rhizome tastes a bit like yam, but if you chew it carefully, you can still feel that the fibers inside are relatively coarse. Although it is not unpalatable, it is not very delicious either. Fortunately, the addition of canned luncheon meat adds color to the porridge, and it is still a delicious dish when Xia Ruanruan is hungry.
However, here, Xia Ruanruan had just drunk a small spoonful.
“Swish, swish, swish!——”
Several huge crow heads suddenly popped out from behind her. Each crow stretched out its neck, and all its eyes stared at Xia Runrun's small bowl, with two words written in their eyes - I want to eat!
Crows are naturally omnivorous animals. In addition to carrion, they also eat grains, insects, fruits, etc. The meat porridge stewed with unknown roots and tubers in front of them is obviously also within the food range of crows.
then……
20 minutes later.
A large group of black crows each received a small bowl of fragrant meat porridge and ate it with a cackling sound.
There wasn't much meat porridge, so they weren't full, but the crows were very happy. The young girl gave Xia Ruanruan an awkward look and whispered, "You're not full yet, are you? Why don't Sister Zhou and I go find some grass roots? These are the old hairy grass roots. They've mutated and there's a lot of them out there, so we can find them soon. We also have a few cans of luncheon meat here. We'll cook another pot later so the crows can have enough to eat."
These days, starchy root vegetables are easy to find, but canned luncheon meat is rare. The canned luncheon meat that can be preserved today are all made from ordinary animal meat before the disaster.
There is fresh meat available.
But the three of them had no pets to help them, and in a world where a chicken could beat a grown man to a pulp, it was hard to get meat. These days, they were lucky to have insect meat twice a month.
"Sister, will this be very troublesome for you?" Xia Runrun raised her head and glanced at the girl opposite her worriedly.
Before crossing over, Xia Runrun had just become an adult and entered university not long ago. The girl in front of her looked only two or three years older than her. In peacetime, she would still be a student, but now she had to pick up weapons and fight against the mutated animals and insects in the city. Sometimes she even encountered humans who robbed her of her food. It was very hard.
Xia Runrun was a little worried. Would the other party get hurt if he went out?
This is different from the dry firewood I just went out to collect. The dry branches and firewood are on the green belt next to it, less than 30 meters away from the supermarket. However, this starch-containing rhizome obviously does not grow in the green belt next to it.
The little girl tilted her chubby face upwards, her eyes as bright as the starry sky filled with worry. The young girl's heart softened instantly, and a sense of pride surged in her heart. She immediately patted her chest and said that there would be absolutely no problem. "No trouble, just wait for me for half an hour, I'll be right back! I saw thatch roots growing in several places before I came here, so it's no use wasting time at all!"
“Quack?”
Although the crows didn't understand what the young girl was saying, they understood what Xia Ruanruan said to her. Isn't it just digging some grass roots? They can do that!
“Ga ga ga!”
The crow boss flapped his wings, looking very proud and heroic, and directly commanded his own brothers.
30 minutes later...
Xia Ruanruan not only saw the grass roots dug up by the young girl and the middle-aged woman, but also saw the crows bringing back a bunch of grapes and some other food.
The thumb-sized grapes have now become the size of apples, and they are purple and juicy, which is particularly pleasing to the eye in the sun. Xia Runrun took a look at them, suppressed her amazement, and shared the grapes with the other three people. The big grapes with honey fragrance, peeled off the purple skin, and the inside was crystal clear with tender green flesh, full of juice. A bite of it was fragrant and sweet, which was a hundred times more delicious than the organic grapes tasted in a five-star hotel in the previous life!
"Quack, quack!" (Do you like them? I'll find some for you next time! These berries are my favorite!)
Seeing Xia Ruanruan eating so sweetly, the little crow jumped around it happily, as if it had achieved its life goal.
"Thank you, you are so nice to me~!" The little girl's soft baby voice almost made the little crow so happy that it floated in the air, and the whole bird became dizzy again.
After having another lunch.
Xia Runrun stood up and planned to say goodbye to the three people in front of her. They were just casual acquaintances, and she didn't want to bother them all the time. Moreover, the most important thing was that after chatting for a few hours, Xia Runrun knew that even in the current global changes, no one could communicate with the furry animals as smoothly as she could.
Among the human group, she is still the outlier she was in her previous life.
The habit she had developed over the years made her prefer to live alone. She didn't like the strange looks she got from time to time. It made her feel like an alien.
Although she felt lonely, she wanted to find a safe place to stay alone.
Although this world has become extremely dangerous due to the rampant growth of animals and plants, and seems to be full of crises everywhere, whether it is mosquitoes and flies the size of a baby's fist, or giant mutant animals wandering around the city, they are all full of uncertain aggressiveness.
But for her, who had a glorious past life and could pet furry animals wherever she went, this was not so bad. Even though her body had shrunk inexplicably, her innate ability to communicate with small animals did not disappear.
What seemed like a crisis to others was nothing to her.
The animals in the city will not attack her, but will provide her with various kinds of help.
Although she felt sad about leaving her parents, she had to live well after all. Xia Runrun lowered her eyes, suppressed the loss in her heart, and cheered up again.
Even though she didn’t know what to do in the future, she could find a safe place to live and pack up for the time being. Life would always go on...yeah, yeah???!!!!!!
"Pah!——"
Just when she was thinking that the world would be easy for her, Xia Ruanruan stumbled the next second and was tripped by the long legs of her jeans. She fell heavily to the ground, face down! She landed hard on her face!
The little girl felt a stinging pain on her cheeks and nose, and her eyes immediately filled with tears. If Xia Ruanruan hadn't reminded her that she was an adult all the time, she would have almost been unable to hold back the tears that wanted to flow out of her eyes.
Children's skin is tender and delicate, and a fall would hurt much more than usual. In addition, the ground of the abandoned supermarket was full of gravel, wood chips, etc., and the fall hit her nose. The tender and chubby little nose immediately became red and swollen. Tears welled up in the little girl's eyes unconsciously, and her eyes were red like a little rabbit.
The three of them felt as if the sky was falling and the earth was collapsing.
This kid is so pitiful! He actually fell down! Everyone screamed in their hearts.
"Ga ga ga!" (Are you okay? Are you okay?! Does your nose hurt? Does your cheek hurt?! Do you want me to find some herbs for you?)
"Haha! Hahaha!" (Don't cry, baby. Daddy has grapes here! And candy too! I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you all! Don't cry, baby!)
"Ah! Ga!..." (Don't be afraid, baby, mommy will blow for you!)
"Are you okay? Did you fall somewhere? Let me take a look!"
"Move aside, I have safflower oil in my bag. I'm going to apply it on her now."
The young man, squeezed from the front to the back by his girlfriend and the crows, silently watched the chaotic scene before him, his mind filled with only one question: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I being squeezed out while holding the medicinal wine?! Can't these people see Wang Daoyi in my hand?! He even wanted to help the boss, let the boss teach him how to abduct (crossed out)... No, how to get the pet's attention!
To be honest, he wants to become a disciple!
…
However, at this moment, on the other side, in a corner of a pile of ruins about 800 meters away from the abandoned supermarket.
A kitten, completely snow-white, was lying in a corner, dying. There were many scattered stones on its body, as if it was about to die. Only the slight rise and fall of its abdomen showed that it was still alive.
Three tall adult men with backpacks on their backs and weapons in their hands were walking towards this side from the entrance of an alley.
"Damn it! I haven't found anything good these past two days! I haven't even had a piece of rat meat. I've been chewing on grass roots and tree bark every day. This life is simply not a life for a human being!" The leading man cursed.
He walked at the front, sticking close to the wall, keeping his eyes peeled for any mutant animals that might suddenly appear.
"It's all the fault of that giant cat. Why did it go crazy for no reason? It actually rushed into our territory and wreaked havoc. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had so many casualties! There were a total of thirty people in our stronghold, but now there are only three of us left!" Another man gritted his teeth, his face ferocious, and bit the ground hard.
They hated the giant cat that wreaked havoc in their camp seven days ago. If it weren't for that mutant cat, how could there be only a few left in their settlement of so many people?
I wonder how many people died in this mutant cat attack?
"These damn mutant animals! They should all be blown to death with bombs!"
"Shh! Keep your voice down. These animals are very smart now. They lived with humans for a long time and can understand some human language... If the animals who can only understand hear us, we will be in trouble." The leading man glanced at the person who spoke, his brows cold.
"What are you afraid of, Boss?! We have three guns, can't we kill them?! They're just a few beasts!"
As the three of them were talking, they soon arrived at the rubble.
This pile of ruins was once a common trading point between their stronghold and four other strongholds. They hoped to find some useful things here.
Nowadays, factories in ordinary cities have long stopped production, and many daily necessities and salt have almost become consumables. This disaster came suddenly, and they were almost unable to bring out the supplies originally stored in the stronghold, so they could only search everywhere.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, the leading man narrowed his eyes and subconsciously took two quick steps forward. "Look over there, is there a cat lying there?"
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