Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Gu Tongwan had only seen the "pig-killing banquet" on TV, but he had heard that in the north or in some rural areas, a pig would be killed during festivals. In some places, it was called a "pig-killing banquet" and the dishes made with a pig were also called "pig-killing dishes."

Cai Min smiled and said, "There are still many people who settled in our camp from the north, so we have to hold this pig-killing banquet every year. In the past, when conditions were poor and supplies were scarce, everyone would find ways to collect money or form teams to hunt some game in the forest. This winter, the snow just stopped. Two days ago, the camp formed a hunting team of more than a dozen people, all of whom were strong men of level D and F. They drove into another relatively safe forest near the camp. It is said that someone there has seen a D-level mutant black boar. It seems that the team members have returned today, so they are taking advantage of this festival to hold a pig-killing banquet.

Today is the tenth day of the first lunar month. According to Cai Min, the pig-killing banquet is usually held on either New Year's Eve or the tenth day, and the hunting team is on time to return.

At this time, more and more people came to watch the fun. Although they had seen pig-killing banquets before, the festive atmosphere this year was obviously not as strong as in previous years. However, this pig-killing banquet suddenly brought up the atmosphere of the New Year. Only when everyone saw the scene of pig-killing did they have a real sense of celebrating the Spring Festival.

Three or four tents were set up for the pig-killing banquet. Many women could be seen squatting under the tents preparing various side dishes. On the other side, there were several large pots with hot water boiling in them. The pots were large enough for an adult to fit in. This showed that the black boars hunted this time should be quite large.

On the other side, there were people chopping wood, and in the last tent, a shirtless, burly man was sharpening a knife. He should be a fire-type ability user, so even in the extreme cold he could mobilize the body's fire energy to keep the body temperature high. The butcher knife in his hand looked unusual, too. The knife was half a meter long and had a sharp blade. The sound of sharpening the knife made people look forward to the scene of slaughtering pigs.

Liao Yunyun glanced at the side dishes prepared by the women under the tent. There were homemade sauerkraut, beans, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, eggs, and even a lot of vegetables, such as cabbage and chrysanthemum. The variety of vegetables here seemed to be more than that at the base and they were relatively fresh. This might be related to the camp's vigorous promotion of farmland planting.

"How many servings of food do you want to prepare? Will everyone get a share later?" Xiaoli asked curiously.

"It's not that everyone gets a share, but you pay money and you can get a bowl of prepared pig-killing dishes. According to the way it was done in previous years, it's usually pork belly stewed with sauerkraut and vermicelli, and there's also steamed pig blood, pork liver fried with peppers, and a braised platter. Last year it seemed to be 120 points per person. This year the environment is not good, and I guess the price will go up."

One hundred and twenty points is not expensive if one person can eat so many dishes. I guess they are not thinking about making money, they just want to have a New Year atmosphere.

At this time, Lan Cen pointed to another place in front and asked, "What are you doing there?"

In another tent behind the side dish area, several tall men were carrying up some things that looked like sports equipment. Among them were barbells, of all sizes. The largest one looked like it must have weighed several hundred kilograms, and the men looked like they were having a hard time carrying it.

Xu Xuesong smiled and said, "That should be a set competition. There will be fun competitions. The winner can not only eat the pig-killing dishes for free but also receive gifts."

Unexpectedly, there were gifts at the pig-killing banquet. Everyone's interest was aroused all of a sudden, especially Liao Yunyun and Xiaoli, who usually liked to participate in various activities and hugged each other excitedly.

A lively pig-killing banquet was being held in the camp, but the situation of a group of civilian hunters in the deep forest near the camp was not optimistic.

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half an hour ago.

Li Mou had been leading the team down the mountain for more than ten minutes. Everyone was wondering why Li Mou, who had originally decided to go deep into the forest to look for the "mutated ice grass", suddenly showed a look of fear after seeing the stream.

But in the final analysis, this civilian hunter team is only a C-level team, and Li Mou, as an old backbone member, has led the team out of various dangers many times. Therefore, the team members trust Li Mou very much and think that he would not immediately evacuate people for no reason. There must be something unchangeable going on.

Li Mou walked very quickly and almost slipped several times on the dead leaves covered with snow. If it weren't for the support of the team leader beside him, he would have been injured.

"Brother Li, please tell me what happened. Otherwise, I will feel uneasy following you down the mountain in a fog."

"Run first, we have to get down to the bottom of the mountain. If it gets dark, we can't go any further, so don't ask anything, just follow me!" Li Mou's jawline was tense, and the corners of his mouth were colder than usual. Li Mou would only appear in this look when the situation was extremely critical, so even if the team leader was full of doubts at this time, he could only follow his pace.

It is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down. What's more, it was already extremely hard for them to go up the mountain, so it was even more difficult to go down the mountain this time.

In addition to the fact that most of the mountain roads are rugged and winding, the most important thing is that the temperature in the mountains becomes extremely cold after dusk, dropping by more than ten degrees compared to when they first entered the mountains.

One of the team members glanced at the thermometer he carried with him, which showed that the temperature had dropped to minus fifty degrees Celsius. Even if they were wearing thick cotton clothes, they still felt the coldness cutting through the fabric and seeping into their skin.

Because they need to deal with many emergencies when entering the mountains and forests, and may even fight mutant beasts, they cannot wear clothes that are too thick like ordinary people. This will make it inconvenient for them to move. Therefore, they can only choose down jackets or slightly thinner cotton coats that are made of good thermal insulation material but lighter than cotton coats, or reduce the number of layers of clothes as much as possible. Some team members even have to stick heat packs inside their clothes, but not everyone can afford to equip themselves with heat packs. This thing is not cheap in the doomsday. The price of one piece can buy half a pound of pork, and most people can't afford it.

We originally thought that we would rest in the forest after nightfall, so everyone tried to carry thicker sleeping bags. There were people keeping watch around us when we fell asleep, and everyone slept around the fire, so we felt more comfortable when we fell asleep.

But now they were running wildly in the forest while shivering, their toes on both sides were basically frozen and they had no feeling at all. They just kept running wildly following Li Mou and the team leader. Although everyone had very good physical strength as psychics and usually performed basic physical training even when there were no missions, they still could not bear running continuously for half an hour without breathing heavily in the extremely cold weather. Even Li Mou himself was finally exhausted and sat down on the ground about five kilometers away from the foot of the mountain.

When everyone saw Li Mou fall down, they also sat down on the ground. However, the team leader who was closest to Li Mou found that Li Mou was not only breathing heavily, but his shoulders were shaking uncontrollably, like sifting bran, out of an instinctive fear.

"No, I can't, I can't stop, I have to keep running." After all, Li Mou's physical strength is not as good as that of the young people. Compared with several young men in their twenties who squatted on the ground and quickly recovered, he was actually the weakest one.

But Li Mou knew that he couldn't stay here for too long, so he forced himself to stand up with the help of the team leader and said to everyone word by word: "I will only say this once here. After all, this is a matter of life and death for everyone. It is now 5:45, and there are still a few kilometers to go down the mountain. We must go down the mountain before it gets completely dark. Anyone who falls behind will die! The specific reasons are long, and I will explain them to you after we all get down the mountain alive. If you understand, let's continue on our way."

Everyone looked at each other and saw the confusion and uneasiness in each other's eyes. However, when they saw that Li Mou, who was gasping for breath and moving a little stiffly, had stood up and turned to run down the mountain, the others could only suppress their uneasiness and confusion and followed Li Mou to continue down the mountain.

When there was only one kilometer left to the foot of the mountain, a team member who was at the end suddenly heard a strange cry coming from behind him. The cry was not shrill, but rather similar to the cry of a cuckoo. At first it came from far away, but later he realized that the sound was getting closer and closer, and it even seemed to be coming right at his scalp.

This discovery gave the team member goose bumps all over his body, so he quickened his pace and ran to the member in front and walked side by side with him.

The path they were taking down the mountain was already very narrow, but this member insisted on walking side by side with others, which made his teammates feel strange.

"Awu, why don't you walk behind me but walk side by side with me? Why don't you walk in front? It's inconvenient to squeeze in with me."

The man named Wu saw his teammate was about to give up the front position, so he quickly grabbed his arm and said, "Don't go, there seems to be something following us!"

The teammate was stunned at first, then laughed and said, "You are not hallucinating because you are too nervous. What is following you? I want to see what kind of mutant animal it is. This time we went up and down the mountain like reincarnation. I think maybe Brother Li and the captain are too sensitive. Look, we didn't encounter anything, right? Don't worry, if it is a mutant animal, we can make a fortune."

Perhaps because everyone's physical strength was gradually declining, the speed was much slower than before, and was only maintained at a speed of brisk walking.

Seeing that his teammates didn't believe him at all and wanted to look back, Wu pulled harder and his tone became stern: "You are fucking going to die, aren't you? Didn't you hear what Brother Li said before? He said there are deadly things in this mountain!"

"Brother Li has made misjudgments before when carrying out missions. He always said there might be a high-level mutant beast, but when everyone was hunting, they found out it was just an ordinary D-level beast. And this time he couldn't even say what it was. I suspect it was all his imagination. And you, you were too nervous and got infected with the illusion. Didn't you hear the sound? I just want to see what's behind it..."

As soon as the man finished speaking, he heard a strange sound accompanied by the rustling sound of leaves being shaken behind him, and it was obvious that the sound was about tens of meters away from them or even closer.

Obviously, both of them heard it this time. Awu's whole body was tense, and he didn't even dare to breathe too hard. The teammate next to him suddenly turned pale, and he subconsciously looked at Awu next to him. They understood each other tacitly, that is, to speed up their pace.

In fact, the sound was not only heard by Awu and the other two who were at the end, but also by Li Mou and the team leader who were walking in the front. The team leader was even trying to figure out what mutant animal the cry was, but found that the sound did not match any mutant animal he knew.

"Don't even think about it. This is a mutant mountain dog. It's called a canine creature, but it's actually a cat-and-dog-like monster. This monster is good at moving in the dark and is bloodthirsty. Currently, there is no official record of this mutant beast being captured alive."

"Brother Li, how do you know that the mutant beast living in this forest is the mountain guard dog?" In fact, the team leader had never heard of this kind of monster, and he became more and more curious about it.

"I have seen it. To be more precise, I saw it once in the northern forest. And that time, only I and another member of the team survived. As for the level of the mountain dogs, I am not sure, but the mountain dog I encountered at that time was a monster that even an A-level black-brown bear could easily bite off its neck. In addition, this kind of animal is very smart after it becomes intelligent. It can even set traps to catch prey and release psychic powers. Once people with low levels of psychic powers are affected by them, they are likely to get lost in the forest and end up in the hands of the mountain dogs."

"Aren't there many S-rank hunters who have entered the forest in the north? Why haven't they encountered this thing?"

"I've already said that this thing is very smart, and it's one of the few mutant animals that can enter the restricted area. Wherever the mountain dogs appear, the water sources and vegetation are particularly lush. I was wondering why the mountain is so quiet and I didn't see any other mutant animals. I'm afraid that the existence of this mountain dog has changed the environment here!"

"What about that sound just now..." the team leader asked hesitantly.

"That beast, the mountain dog, deliberately made that sound to confuse its prey. We have to get down the mountain quickly. If we're too late, none of us will be able to escape!"