After the fog, I became a birdman

Today is another day when there is no class. When Qi Jiang and the others went to the office, Mr. Han and others were having a meeting inside.

The office is sound-proof, but with the ears of Qi Jiang and the others, they can vaguely hear some "monster meat", "starve to death", and "do your best" from outside.

The two looked at each other and didn't stand at the door for too long. They turned around and went to Shantu to ask if there were any problems in the past few days. When they went to the office half an hour later, the meeting was over, except for Mr. Han, Mr. Zhou and the logistics team. There are three ministers, and there is no one else here.

There were no guards at the gate, and Tan Yilong and the others were not there either. Su Qing and Qi Jiang probably guessed that they were not free, so they planned to go home.

However, before they left, Master Han had already spotted them and stood up from behind the desk with a smile: "Consultant Qi, Consultant Su, are going to find you."

Qi Jiang and Su Qing walked in, looking at the thick stack of papers on the desk, a little puzzled.

"What's the matter?" Qi Jiang asked first.

Mr. Han first asked them to sit down, and then took a piece of paper from the drawer and looked at the two of them: "Consultant Qi, Consultant Su, we want to purchase more Communication Jade Talismans and Qi and Blood Pills, especially Qi and Blood Pills." , We will buy as much as we have.”

Su Qing took the paper and looked at it twice, then handed it to Qi Jiang.

It marked some supplies that Mr. Han wanted to buy. Fengcheng base didn't have so many animal pills, so Mr. Han wanted to exchange them with other scarce supplies.

Qi Jiang was not very interested in these, and knowing that Su Qing didn't want these supplies, he put the paper on the table, and said honestly: "Time is precious, so I won't go around with you, I want the beast pill more."

"But our base doesn't have so many animal pills." The head of the logistics department was a little distressed.

Mr. Han had already guessed it, and casually said, "Can I get credit?"

Qi Jiang and Su Qing: ...not surprised at all?

"Okay." Seeing the threat from the herd of beasts, Qi Jiang nodded helplessly, "Let's wait until you get rid of the herd of beasts."

"Or, if the survey team encounters or gets something special when they are outside, it can also be used to pay off the debt." Su Qing added next to it.

Teacher Han gave a dry laugh: "It's so easy to find these things."

So there is?

Su Qing and the others were not surprised. Since they said to use animal pills to calculate the price, the two of them didn't regret it. They went to the warehouse with the head of the logistics department to get some raw materials and left.

The atmosphere in the base is dignified, usually at night when everyone is most active, people come and go on the main road, and stalls are set up one after another in the commercial street that has begun to take shape. One glance at the bustling scene feels that this place is full of moisture. hope.

But tonight, there were not many people on the main road. Except for the employees of various departments of the base who came and went in a hurry, many residents were hiding in the cellar, nervously waiting for the expected danger to come.

When they came out, there was a woman standing under the streetlight at the gate of the base.

She was wearing tattered long-sleeved trousers, and a set of animal fur jacket and animal skin skirt. Her thin cheeks were covered with a thick layer of yellow dust mixed with sweat, and she looked very embarrassed with a disheveled face.

It was colder now, she was standing on the side of the road wearing animal skin clothes, rubbing her hands from time to time to keep warm, and looking up at the people passing by the roadside, she seemed to be waiting for someone.

Su Qing chatted with Qi Jiang about daily life in a low voice while walking, all the way to the door.

Not to mention the mental outlook, just the clothes, the difference between Su Qing and the people in the base is very obvious.

The woman spotted them not far away at a glance, her eyes lit up, and she walked over quickly with a twinkle in her eyes, and raised a friendly smile: "Xiao Su? It's you? Mom really saw it right."

Su Qing had already spread his wings and was about to fly out. When he heard the voice, it took two seconds until he took off and realized that the woman was calling him.

His eyes swept across this person, and he recognized who she was, and closed his spread wings again, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and his expression was not cold, just like looking at an old friend.

Qi Jiang also noticed this woman.

There were only a few dim street lights on the side of the road, Qi Jiang couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly, but she could clearly see her pair of willow-leaf eyes that were very similar to Su Qing's before.

"I'll wait for you over there." Qi Jiang pointed to the dark place behind the street lamp.

"Yeah." Su Qing raised her foot and walked over.

Su Qing stopped three meters away from her, watched her continue to approach and then took half a step back, raised her hand in the air to make a stop gesture, and said in a cold tone: "Ms. Wu Fanglu, you'd better stop and speak frankly." Speak."

The two mothers and sons have never been close since childhood, and Wu Fanglu also knew that Su Qing and her had long since lost their affection, and the status of mother could not be taken advantage of in his hands.

"Let's find a place where no one is around?" Wu Fanglu simply refused to pretend, and pointed out, "I want to talk to you about the old man."

Su Qing nodded, turned around and walked outside the base: "Come with me."

There must be fewer people outside than inside the base, but it is very dangerous.

Wu Fanglu's expression was ugly, and she dared not move her foot: "Outside, it's so dangerous outside."

"I'll give you 3 minutes." Su Qing didn't stop, walking outside step by step, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

The lights were dim, and it was impossible to see where he had gone from here. Wu Fanglu frowned tightly, and struggled in place for a full 2 ​​minutes before gritting her teeth and lighting a water bottle lantern, and ran out along the main road.

Su Qing walked more and more sideways, and Wu Fanglu's heart beat faster and faster.

When he came to a deserted place, Su Qing glanced at Qi Jiang who was following up in the darkness, then turned to look at Wu Fanglu who couldn't hide his anxiety: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Wu Fanglu turned her head carefully and looked at the darkness that seemed to be swallowing people around her. Hearing the roar of the beast in the distance, she couldn't help shaking.

Su Qing looked at her quietly for a minute, and said in a flat voice, "Speak."

Wu Fanglu regained consciousness and swallowed: "I heard that there are monsters around the base?"

Su Qing didn't nod or shake his head, but still looked at her quietly, beckoning her to continue.

"You live in the snow-free mountain range, so it must be safe there. I have something left by the old man here. He passed it on to your father. I want to bring my family to live there." Wu Fanglu said more and more Smooth, not worried that Su Qing would refuse.

Su Qing's eyes flickered slightly, and without a trace of hesitation, he lifted his foot past Wu Fanglu, and directly refused: "You stay here, there is no danger nearby in 5 minutes, you can go now if you want to go back safely."

"This is something left by your grandfather." Wu Fanglu turned her head in disbelief, and quickly followed him, very anxious, "You don't want to know what it is? You don't want it without even looking at it?"

"Let you all stay in my house, I'm in shock." Su Qing nodded his chin towards Qi Jiang, his tone was still flat, without any ups and downs, "I'm happy the most important thing."

"you……"

Qi Jiang came out of the darkness, lit a lantern while walking, and came to Su Qing: "Go home."

"Ah."

A gust of wind blew up, and the yellow sand on the ground flew, and Su Qing and the two flew into the air, and the white light in the lantern became farther and farther away.

Wu Fanglu's face changed slightly, and she subconsciously chased in the direction of the light: "Su Qing, wait, let's talk again!"

The light flew further, and the panting sounds of the nearby beasts were getting closer and closer to Wu Fanglu unconsciously. In the distance, a cry of an unknown beast sounded, and Wu Fanglu stopped in shock, breaking out in a cold sweat.

The road behind her didn't know where it led at all. Wu Fanglu took a few steps back, looking palely at the white light in the sky that was getting smaller and smaller, knowing that it would be a disaster if she didn't hurry up and go back.

Lost, she finally gave up on the calculations she had made in her heart, gritted her teeth and shouted, "I'll give you something! You can arrange a safe place for our family!"

In the sky, Su Qing put away the light hunting bow, looked at the half-monster who was shot by him in the distance, screamed and ran away, raised his lips and put away the light hunting bow again: "Brother Jiang, let's go. "

The two flew down again, Su Qing stretched out his hand: "Things."

Wu Fanglu was a little annoyed, knowing that Su Qing had plotted against her, but she had to compromise: "In my house, you should arrange a safe place for our house first."

"There is no safe place." Su Qing shook his head.

"you!"

"But I can give you a fortune, and you can hire bodyguards yourself." Su Qing was too lazy to do this dirty work.

Where did Wu Fanglu come into contact with spiritual objects?But she knew the exchange ratio between spiritual objects and points at the exchange office.

Knowing that Su Qing and the others are rich and capable, the price she shouted was multiplied by the employment fee: "Give me a hundred copies of spiritual things."

"can."

He agreed too easily, making Wu Fanglu regret not shouting more.

"Go and take out the things now, I'll wait for you for half an hour." Su Qing didn't give her a chance to regret it, and pointed in a direction, her coquettish eyes were very permeating in the light of the lantern, "Don't take less, Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to kill you."

They have no mother-child relationship.

When it came to the old man, Wu Fanglu knew that he was not joking, so she didn't care to get angry, turned around and ran towards the base in the direction he gave.

When he walked away, Qi Jiang was a little puzzled: "How did grandpa's things get to her?"

Both Wu Fanglu and Father Su's husband and wife have a very bad relationship, and the two have divorced long ago to form their own families. Father Su died long ago, no matter what, it is impossible for Grandpa Su's relics to be in her hands.

"Maybe I met my father's new family." Su Qing could only think of this possibility.

Everyone lives in Fengcheng, and the place is so big. If Su Qing and the others hadn't moved to the south of the city, they would probably be assigned to a refuge with Wu Fanglu and the others. It is possible that they will encounter something.

Three minutes before half an hour, Wu Fanglu ran over panting with a small cloth bag. The candle in the water bottle lantern flickered, as if it would go out at any moment.

Behind her was a girl with a tense and confused expression. It was Wu Fanglu's eldest daughter, Quan Manman.

"Mom, where are you going?" Quan Manman hadn't seen Su Qing and the others, his voice trembled in fear, and when he came a little further, he found that there were still two people standing here.

Qi Jiang's lantern was very bright, and when Quan Manman saw Su Qing, he subconsciously stopped, his nervousness eased a lot, and he stood in the distance and looked at his mother with some doubts.

"Something." Wu Fanglu directly opened the cloth bag, took out a bracelet from it and put it in Su Qing's hand, "This is what your grandfather passed on to your father."

Seeing this familiar bracelet, Su Qing was satisfied, and finally got the backpack that Qi Jiang had prepared a long time ago: "Things, order some."

Panting for breath, Wu Fanglu opened the backpack and looked at the thumb-sized spirit crystal inside. She was very suspicious and said in a displeased tone, "These glass beads are spiritual things? You won't scare me, will you?"

Originally, she was thinking that she would not be able to get so many spirit crystals prepared for dishes even if she was given a hundred ores. Since they didn't appreciate it, Su Qing simply replaced it with spirit crystals.

Spiritual mines of different sizes and shapes piled up a hill on the ground. Wu Fanglu was short of breath, and couldn't wait to pick up a piece of spiritual mine and weigh it, her eyes gleaming.

Qi Jiang withdrew his hand, bent down and put the backpack on the ground into the Qiankun bag: "One hundred, no more, no less."

Su Qing took out the light hunting bow and shot an arrow into the sky: "There will be no danger here within an hour, you can move it yourself."

After they left, the surroundings instantly became much darker, and Quan Manman stepped forward cautiously: "Mom, why are you and brother..."

"Stupid boy, what kind of brother is he?" Wu Fanglu hugged a bunch of spirit mines, "Quick, move with mom, let's go back and ask your father and brother to come and bring these spirits home."

Quan Manman looked at the hill in front of him: "But brother said, only one hour..."

"Stupid girl, that's why you have to hurry up. This is life-saving money." Wu Fanglu shuddered when she heard the beasts roaring nearby, "Hurry up, I won't wait for you, or I won't be able to finish the move."

"Mom, it's not safe!" Quan Manman hurriedly stopped her, "I'll call my colleague to come over and move it together. We'll just pay for the hard work. We don't have any bags, so something will happen if we carry it home like this. "

Wu Fanglu, who was stunned by such a large amount of wealth, broke out in a cold sweat from her daughter's words: "Okay, go and call someone, remember to find someone reliable, I'll wait for you here."

Quan Manman was worried about her: "Mom, you should go back together, it's too unsafe for you to be outside alone."

Wu Fanglu was afraid that the spiritual mine would be stolen, so she was reluctant to leave, but she didn't believe Su Qing in her heart, even if he said that there was an hour of safe time, she still felt unsafe.

At this moment, she finally regretted not accepting the backpack directly.

On the other side, after Su Qing returned home, he played with the bracelet on his hand, looked at Qi Jiang's wrist, and hesitated.

"What's wrong?" Qi Jiang asked while taking off his coat.

"This bracelet..."

"What happened to the bracelet?"

"This bracelet records all the inheritance of my Su family." Su Qing stopped counting, wanting Qi Jiang to understand.

Qi Jiang thought he understood, and suddenly realized: "I remember you said that the inheritance in the ancient book is not complete? So you need to use a bracelet to obtain the complete inheritance of the Su family?"

"Well, this bracelet was originally used to prevent the interruption of the Su family's inheritance and to restart the inheritance, but the world of practice is declining. Although I, Su, belong to a family, there are several generations of people who don't practice at all, and the descendants will not need this if they start to practice again. Bracelets, just the heart method and those ancient books are enough, so this bracelet has only been a symbolic meaning in the last few hundred years." Su Qing nodded, then looked up at Qi Jiang, "Generally, it is usually for elders. Daughter-in-law kept it to show respect."

Qi Jiang finally understood, put the bracelet on his hand with a smile, hugged Su Qing and kissed: "Sir, can you help me make a scabbard tonight?"

Su Qing was blushed by him, and shyly pushed his chest to distance himself: "It's not serious, Shanshan is watching."

Shan Shan tilted his head at the door, wanting to greet his father: "Meow?"

The bracelet was relatively fragile, so Qi Jiang returned it to Su Qing after taking a shower, and asked Su Qing to put it in his own exclusive box for him to put it away.

The reason why the universe bag is not put is entirely because the universe bag may be lost, but Su Qing's space cannot be lost.

For the next two days, Qi Jiang and Su Qing would deliver the goods to Fengcheng base every day, and when they encountered Tan Yilong, they would simply ask a few words about the progress.

The army of beasts outside the Fengcheng base had been assembled and classified, but after they surrounded the Fengcheng base, they did not attack immediately. Instead, they sent troops to harass from time to time, as if they wanted to find a loophole in Fengcheng.

Under such siege and harassment, Master Han issued a notice to defend the city.

The notice is very long, basically just a few points:

1. Fengcheng base is surrounded by monsters.

2. Defending the city adopts a voluntary principle.

3. Starting today, all scarce resources in the base will be given priority to the defenders, and the amount of material purchases will be adjusted. The defenders enjoy the highest quota, and the quota for others will be reduced. During the defense period, the base will provide free living resources for the defenders.

The notice did not directly say that everyone was forced to defend the city, but the adjustment of the quota made many people know that Mr. Han's purpose was to force them to leave the cellar.

From then on, the defenders who are facing danger can eat enough every day, which is naturally very reasonable, while other people can only guarantee that they will not starve to death even if they buy the full amount.

The meaning of this notice is that Mr. Han no longer let everyone have a big pot of rice, and began to allocate most of the resources to valuable people.

Su Qing read this notice several times: "After the blessing last time, a large number of people awakened their blood, and their appetite increased accordingly. Is there so much food in the base to satisfy everyone?"

"Aren't there still monsters?"

"Eat while beating?" Su Qing imagined the scene for a while, subconsciously frowned, "I'm afraid people's hearts will be unstable."

Since ancient times, food and grass have been a major factor in stabilizing the morale of the army. If there is not enough food, the morale of the army will be shaken.

"Mr. Han was born as a leader, he must have a plan." Qi Jiang didn't believe that Mr. Han would not be prepared.

Su Qing thought, this is true.

Both he and Qi Jiang are laymen in leading troops to fight, and Master Han is an expert. He must know how to stabilize the morale of the army.

When the time came to the last day of September, the army of beasts still stood still.

The rain was about to come near the Yuhe Waterfall. After Su Qing and Qi Jiang returned from delivering the goods, they went to visit Jin Jin as usual.

A crack appeared on Jin Jin's eggshell, the size of which was about the same as last time, and his aura was more restrained than before the crack appeared.

"The shell is about to break." Qi Jiang walked around the golden egg and nodded slightly to Su Qing, "There is no other problem."

Su Qing also sensed Jin Jin's existence, and didn't feel that his breath was disturbed: "Then you can wait here, maybe he will soon..."

He stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, remembering the last time he and Qi Jiang foolishly waited for Jin Jin for a day without waiting for him to break out of his shell, and he didn't dare to say that he could wait for Jin Jin tonight.

"Go home and wait, it's better to wait over there than to suck up the dust here." Qi Jiang had no idea about waiting for Jin Jin to break his shell soon.

The fire here has long been extinguished, the temperature is much lower than before, and the air mixed with plant ash and yellow sand is dirty and cold. Even wearing a mask, I feel that all I breathe is dust.

The two of them went back to take a shower and change their clothes again, fearing that they would miss Jinjin breaking the shell again, so they didn't sleep, but were working in the study while paying attention to Jinjin's situation.

The night is getting deeper and deeper, and today's temperature is indeed much lower than before. In the past, the temperature dropped slowly at night, and the temperature dropped sharply from [-] to [-] in the morning, and the temperature rose rapidly after the sun came out.

But tonight was different. Before dawn, the temperature outside dropped sharply. It dropped below ten degrees in an instant. After half an hour, it reached zero again, and it continued to drop.

The sudden drop in temperature outside also has an impact on the small cliff. Su Qing is more sensitive to temperature changes. When he felt a little cold, he subconsciously took out a thin blanket and covered him. When he could bear it, he looked up and saw the thermometer on the wall, his eyes widened in shock.

"Why is it below ten degrees all of a sudden?"

Qi Jiang also raised his head quickly, frowned and came to the window, shining a lantern outside.

There is no wind outside, but according to the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor in the past, it must be below zero now.

"It's getting colder." After Qi Jiang finished speaking, he closed the curtains and looked at Su Qing, "Is it going to change seasons?"

Su Qing frowned, a little unsure: "The sky is out of order, I can't sense it, but I hope it's a change of season."

Now it's just below zero at night. If this is not a change of season, how cold is winter?

"I'm going to burn the kang. Don't sleep on the bed tonight, let's sleep on the kang." Qi Jiang said, put down the things in his hands, went to the kitchen, removed the partition, and stuffed a few firewood into the stove to boil water.

The stove is connected with the kang, and once the baffle is removed, the kang can be heated up when cooking. Qi Jiang also made a flue under the floor, which can also increase the room temperature by the way.

Even at the coldest time before, the room temperature was only below ten degrees. Now that the night is still long, without burning a fire to increase the room temperature, when the outside temperature continues to drop, the temperature inside the room may drop below zero.

Shanshan also felt the temperature change, ran over from the backyard, and squatted at Su Qing's feet to sleep.

The backyard is far away from the front yard, and there is also a stove over there. When the fire is fired in the front and back yards together, the connected flue will warm the whole house.

Qi Jiang came back from lighting the fire in the backyard, feeling that the scene in front of him was not pleasing to the eye, and only after putting a clingy cat away from Su Qing did he loosen his brows.

"Meow!" Cheapskate!

Qi Jiang turned a deaf ear, Shan Shan had to sleep too, so he didn't have time to fight with him, but came to the living room to sleep with his cat litter in his mouth.

It was getting colder outside, and the temperature in the small cliff was also dropping, but before it dropped to zero, the kang took effect.

Feeling that the temperature was rising, Su Qing finally didn't feel that cold. He opened the curtain and looked outside, feeling that Jin Jin would break out of his shell at any moment.

"Is Jinjin awakening soon?" Su Qing wanted to go out.

He had already put on warm clothes, sweater and down jacket, gloves and earmuffs, which Qi Jiang reminded him to put on before the room was heated up.

Qi Jiang was not dressed as thickly as him, but just put on a down jacket casually. He heard that he put on a mask and a cloak to avoid soiling his clothes: "It's too cold outside, I'll go and have a look first, and I'll call you if the shell is about to break." .”

He was afraid that Su Qing would get sick from the cold wind.

Su Qing hesitated for two seconds, then nodded: "Then you..."

Rumble!

The ground shook violently, Su Qing immediately shut up, subconsciously picked up Shan Shan and Qi Jiang and flew to the corner.

The furniture in the room began to shake again, and things fell to the ground rattling and rattling. The furnishings that had just been restored a while ago were all messed up again in just one minute, and it became more and more chaotic.

Looking at the familiar scene in front of them, Su Qing and Qi Jiang looked at each other, and they both saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

Well, there was another earthquake, and we had to clean up again.

While they were still worrying about how to clean up their house, the beast herd outside Fengcheng base panicked for a while when the earthquake just started.

Before there was even greater chaos in the herd army, there were bursts of hissing in the distance, and the panicked army of beasts immediately lay down on the ground in a well-trained manner.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, bursts of screams accompanied by sound waves spread far away with coercion.

Having quickly stabilized, Su Qing and the two sitting in the corner naturally couldn't hear the sound a thousand kilometers away, but they both felt a powerful threat appearing in the direction of Yuhe Waterfall.

"It's the first step!" Su Qing's face changed slightly, and he was very sure.

Qi Jiang also sensed this breath, and his expression was also very ugly: "Oops, Mr. Han is out of play."

Nine minutes later, the earthquake stopped. When the Fengcheng base was still a little chaotic, the vanguard of the beast army took advantage of the gap and easily broke through the defense line of the Fengcheng base.

clang clang...

"Monsters enter the city! Level [-] battle preparation!"