After the fog, I became a birdman

Today, the water level reached the twelfth floor, and Captain Zhang also took people to install the big iron gate on the 20th floor to the 17th floor, and then mobilized everyone to check the upper floors again, trying to get rid of the remaining bug eggs All wiped out.

This was already the second day they were trapped, because everyone was concentrated in the three floors, so it was obvious that the number of mutants was much more than before, and there were new mutants every day.

The more mutated people, the more materials will be consumed, not only food, but also water and firewood.

The former is not short of water for the time being, but the water is immediately stretched. Yesterday it could last a while, but today there is really no water, especially in the house with mutants, it will be used up early.

The supply ship is gone, so they can only solve the problem by themselves. Captain Zhang mobilized everyone to go to the roof to fight bugs. Now the bugs on the fourth floor are gone, but the outer walls are still there, and the rainwater on the balcony will also be polluted. Can go to the rooftop.

But those who have mutants at home can’t leave, because there is not enough firewood, and everyone is scrambling. After this village, there is no such shop, so they also want to scramble.

Yesterday, many people threw away their furniture when they moved. This is the ready-made firewood. Today, when there is not enough firewood, some people start to chop furniture.

Everyone ran to grab the furniture. Captain Zhang was able to organize a few people, but most of them were families with no mutants at home. The water resources could still support them. I thought it would be okay to go to the rooftop, but everyone went together.

Captain Zhang also wants to hire people with materials, but the materials on the [-]th floor are not his, and he has no way to make decisions.

After only one day, Captain Zhang felt that his words were not very effective.

The most embarrassing thing is that all the supplies he brought were distributed yesterday, and now he has to solve his own food and clothing problems.

Not only his food and clothing problem, but the food and clothing problem of other soldiers in Tianbi Garden also needs to be solved. The supplies upstairs are not his, so they can only be found in the water.

Because those little soldiers didn't have fire-type beast pills on them, so Captain Zhang could only go into the water to find supplies.

The supplies in the water were also left over when everyone moved. What everyone took away was food that was easy to preserve and full. Once soaked in the remaining water, there was very little that could be eaten.

Captain Zhang and the three of them went into the water and brought up ten pieces, but none of them might be edible.

Qi Jiang secretly took the dirty clothes from the past two days out to wash them, put them in plastic bags and put them in the bag after washing them, and was going to carry them back for Su Qing to put them away secretly, and take them out to dry later.

When he went back, he saw Captain Zhang and the three of them came up from downstairs wetly, holding some biscuits in his arms, his eyes flashed: "Captain Zhang, who are you?"

"Go find something to eat." Captain Zhang smiled, "What is this?"

"I'm going down to find some firewood." Qi Jiang lied casually, and then changed the topic back, "The biscuits in the water have been soaked, even if they have outer packaging, they may not be clean. I still have a lot of supplies at home, come to my house for dinner later. .”

"It's against the rules, and you and Su Qing are both mutants, so let's keep it for yourselves." Captain Zhang shook his head and declined.

"I haven't heard this for a long time. When we moved here, Xiao Lin who helped us pull the cart said the same thing." Qi Jiang chuckled, "Don't worry about the food, and your biscuits are not enough for so many people. Right? There are five buildings in Tianbi Garden, and if you want to feed a dozen people, you may have to soak in water all day. The outer packaging of these biscuits is not clean, and it will be a loss if one of them gets sick."

He understood the reasoning with emotion, and Captain Zhang also thought of other people, and looked at the biscuits in their arms, feeling a little moved.

"You have more important things to do. If you have time, you might as well find some empty bottles, write the function of the silver scales on paper and put them in. Put a few more empty bottles in the water, maybe you will get the news out faster. Spread the word." Qi Jiang casually cited a few examples, "Or organize everyone to go to the rooftop to fight bugs, or watch people who are grabbing furniture to avoid accidents, no matter what you do, it's much better than soaking in water all day. will get sick."

Qi Jiang didn't mention the supplies on the [-]th floor. In fact, he and Brother Fang had more than a dozen people, and the voices were loud. If they proposed to allocate some supplies from the [-]th floor to maintain the basic life of Captain Zhang, it would be a big deal. Hope everyone agrees.

After all, Captain Zhang and the three are ordinary people, and they can't eat much. They agreed here, and they will use some methods to lobby the residents of the next few buildings, and the three meals of the other eight small soldiers can also be solved.

But Qi Jiang didn't mention it on purpose, since everyone turned a blind eye to it because of the immediate interests, then he took advantage of it.

Under Qi Jiang's persuasion, Captain Zhang followed him to see the supplies of Qi Jiang and Su Qing, and Qi Jiang also privately assured that they had some supplies in their possession. After confirming that there was enough food, Captain Zhang finally agreed with a blushing face. thing.

It's past breakfast time, and Qi Jiang couldn't light a fire now, so he brought out some clean convenience food for Captain Zhang and the others.

In addition, Qi Jiang also distributed a batch of supplies to Captain Zhang and the others. Although he said before that he asked Captain Zhang and others to come to the house for dinner, the room is small and it is inconvenient for so many people. Don't talk about it freely, and it may cause trouble, so it's better to let them cook it themselves.

There are ropes between the several buildings in Tianbi Garden, and hanging baskets are also placed on them. They were used to transport materials in the past, but now they are used for communication.

Qi Jiang also wanted to know the basic situation of the other buildings. He followed Captain Zhang when he delivered the food, and heard some news from Captain Zhang, including a lot about the shelter.

He even inquired about some information about the silver scales, which were difficult for him to ask before, but now he can ask them naturally.

Qi Jiang had been in contact with silver scales for a short time. He knew the benefits of this thing for him, and both he and Su Qing had water in their mutation directions. If they could get some, their mutation progress would be able to overtake in curves.

The progress of human mutation is generally lower than that of animals. Mutated animals can take shortcuts by holding resources similar to Foshou Mountain stones and silver scales. He and Su Qing are also the first batch of mutated humans, and the mutation time is also faster than many animals. It stands to reason that the progress Te was supposed to be faster, but now it's behind.

If you lag behind, you will be beaten, and if you lag behind, you may die.

The crater of Foshou Mountain is controlled by some shrewd mutated animals, he can't get the stones on it, and the fish in the water are relatively stupid now, so he must find a way to get some of the silver scales.

Moreover, he also wanted to know about the refuge.

This is the value hidden behind Captain Zhang and the others. For them now, this information is very precious.

For example, Qi Jiang now knows that as long as the flag is changed to red, someone will come to rescue them, or if it becomes white, someone will come to deliver supplies to them.

But this is a bit selfish and immoral, Qi Jiang can accept it, after all, people don't want to kill the world for themselves, but I guess Su Qing will feel uncomfortable in his heart, although he looks cold, but his heart is softer than many people.

If Qi Jiang really did this, the former may cause other people in the red danger zone to be unable to be rescued in time, leading to the death of dozens or even hundreds of people, and the latter may cause the death of the material team who came to deliver supplies.

This is not what Su Qing wants to see.

Zuo Zuo won't die yet, so Qi Jiang pretends not to know.

In addition, Qi Jiang also knows that the army has sent people to Fengwai Mountain, that is, the large mountain range outside Foshou Mountain to find a suitable place to settle. He also knows that the army is sending man-made ships, and that the shelter has launched several special new jobs. , I also know that the red worms on the water are the fourth generation of dark earth red worms and so on.

After delivering the meal, Qi Jiang gave Su Qing an expression that everything was done. There was nothing else to do, and there was still some time before lunch, so he also lay down on the bed and slept for a while.

While he was resting, Captain Zhang was making drift bottles, and the people in the building were still scrambling for furniture. Even several floors below were empty. It would not be an exaggeration to say that locusts had crossed the border.

Su Qing read for a while today, and then lay down on the bed to sleep after eating, and Qi Jiang also slept almost all afternoon.

The day passed like this, and night soon fell. The fire in the building was still bright. The families with all ordinary people had finished eating and were going to bed, and the families with mutants were still cooking.

Before falling asleep, Sister-in-law Fang held her chest and frowned: "Oh, I don't know if it's because of the crowds, but I always feel chest tightness today."

"Isn't it because of the crowds?" Sister Fang on the upper bunk sighed softly, "The place is so small, I'm going out this afternoon to relax on the upper three floors. Go down to the seventeenth floor, there are human heads all over the place, and bugs all the way down, alas."

Not only Sister Fang and Sister Fang, many people were not very emotional.

It’s just that there is no supply ship coming over for a day, and everyone’s spirit is obviously very different from before. Before, there was a little hope, and every day when the ship came, they went to line up with full energy. Now everyone stays in their positions all day long. Don't know what to do.

Now everyone doesn’t have much to do, so they just eat and sleep. Maybe a small number of people will find something to do for themselves, but most people only move around at meal time, and the whole building seems very quiet. , the overall atmosphere is also a bit sad.

Su Qing lowered his head and drank the water that Qi Jiang fed him, coughed twice, and looked at Qi Jiang who had no trace of boredom on his brow: "Brother Jiang, are you bored?"

Qi Jiang also has a restless temperament. He used to go out frequently in Hongjiayuan, and he has been running around in Tianbiyuan, rarely stopping.

Su Qing was a little worried about him.

"Are you bored?" Qi Jiang asked back.

Su Qing shook her head: "It's okay, I seldom go out before, I'm used to it."

It used to be that he used to read in the small garden on the balcony or in the living room, but now he reads on the bed. The house used to be spacious and bright, but now it is narrow and dark.

But Su Qing could bear it.

The same is true for Qi Jiang, and he is quite complacent: "It's good to take a vacation for myself."

What's more, there is still a wife by my side, the fly in the ointment is that the wife is sick.

Su Qing smiled, moved her lips and shook her head: "It's fine if you're not bored, I won't drink."

Qi Jiang saw how much water was still in the glass, raised his head and drank it by himself, put the glass away and lay down on the bed, hugging Su Qing with bent lips: "Then rest."

"Ah."

The building was soon completely bogged down, and the fire gradually extinguished.

Three more days passed after such a boring and difficult day, that is, on the 19th, everyone came together in the morning, and the first thing to see was where the water was flooded.

As Captain Zhang said, the water level has not continued to rise. It was the 15th floor yesterday, and it is still the 15th floor today.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but the lack of water also made everyone feel extremely uncomfortable. Captain Zhang also took this opportunity to once again propose to clean up the bugs on the roof, and finally got everyone's unanimous approval.

Because the wind on the roof is too strong now, people may even be blown away directly when they go out, but the mutants are well adapted to this, and they can more or less find a way to deal with it, so they can only be asked to go up and clean up.

Because not every family has people to participate, the remuneration is paid by the families who did not participate. If the supplies were placed on the [-]th floor before, then they will be paid from the [-]th floor.

Captain Zhang also arranged shifts early, one person from each family, 30 people in one round, half an hour per round.

There were many bugs in the first few rounds, so it must have been more difficult, but direct arrangements were not good, so Captain Zhang simply drew lots.

Naturally, Qi Jiang and Su Qing's family could only go up to Qi Jiang, but he was really unlucky, this time he got the first round and had to leave after 15 minutes.

Su Qing was lying on the bed, nestled under the quilt a little weakly, he still coughed occasionally, this illness would not make him unable to walk, but because of the mutation, he had been weak since three days ago, Can't even sit up by myself.

Now the spine on his back protrudes a lot, and there are nine mirror-image-distributed bone spurs on the back of his head and tailbone, or in other words, these two bone spurs are more like small wings.

With the protrusion of the spine, Qi Jiang and Su Qing have confirmed that his body is indeed giving birth to his own weapon, and this weapon is also a bow as Qi Jiang guessed.

Moreover, it is a very delicate bow.

The two ends of this bow, where the back of Su Qing's head and the tailbone are located, each have a pair of wings, which seem to be carved. The eight feathers on the back are closely connected, which looks like wings. Together, just a third of the way down the first root, so at an acute thirty degree angle.

Today, the first root is 25 cm long, and the root is exposed, and it will probably not grow any longer.

The rest of the bow body is hollowed out, as if wrapped in delicate feathers. Now the bow body is only a layer of skin that is almost transparent from the outside world. It seems that it will break out at any time. You can even clearly see the patterns on it from the outside. , is a very graceful scimitar feather shape.

They guessed that this should be the shape of the flying feathers on Su Qing's wings in the future.

The middle, that is, the place between the first two bone spurs is the most slender, smooth and simple place, that is where the bow and arrow are held. At first glance, it is relatively narrow, but these two days seem to be in the adjustment stage , the distance is gradually increasing, and in the end it should be the most suitable distance for Su Qing.

However, although the patterns and styles of this bow look good, it is actually a dark white color, and Qi Jiang did not find the bowstring.

However, what will happen in the end, it is estimated that there will be an answer in a day or two.

Moreover, Su Qing's wings have also grown rapidly in the past two days. Now the wings are twice as big as the previous few days. Although they are still furry, they are not as round as before. They already have a very basic shape of wings. It is about 50 centimeters from the tip of the wing, and one wing is about the size of a 14-inch computer.

Therefore, his current wings can no longer be received in his clothes, and according to their experience, Su Qing's wings should soon enter the bottleneck period.

Qi Jiang's wings first enter the bottleneck period and then evolve their power substantially. In other words, when Su Qing's weapon is successfully conceived, the energy in his body will supply the growth of the second power, which is probably the result of the power in Su Qing's heart. when revealed.

Perhaps Su Qing's wings developed so slowly before because the weapon was also conceived at the same time. When the weapon was almost mature, the remaining energy poured into the wings, which led to the rapid evolution of his wings in the past two days.

Or maybe Su Qing's mutation is so special, after all, Qi Jiang has never heard of anyone whose mutation even includes weapons.

In short, these two days are the critical period for Su Qing's mutation, Qi Jiang can be said to be close to each other, for fear of being disturbed by others, but now he has to leave.

Fortunately, it was only half an hour, and Qi Jiang asked everyone to help him take care of Su Qing.

Everyone knew the severity and nodded their heads one after another.

"Brother Qi, don't worry, leave it to us, you won't let anyone come in and disturb Brother Su for half an hour." Fang Youwei assured, patted his chest.

Naturally, Qi Jiang couldn't be completely relieved, but he had asked Captain Zhang that he couldn't let others do it for him. After all, it only took half an hour to replace him. Just registering and replacing people was enough. If you have this time, it's better to hurry up and get rid of the bug. Handle clean.

Not long after, Qi Jiang went out and walked up while arranging his raincoat.

The wind was too strong, and he was afraid that bugs would be blown in through the collar of his clothes, so he wore a fully enclosed raincoat. When he came up, he found that everyone was fully armed, and many people were busy tying up their collars and cuffs.

Captain Zhang stood on the balcony and looked down. The water surface was turbulent, and the waves were as high as one or two meters. The more he looked at him, the more his heart sank.

"Captain Zhang, is there a question?" Qi Jiang came over and asked.

"In this weather, I'm afraid we won't be able to get on the boat." Captain Zhang sighed with disappointment, "Even if the shelter finds our drifting bottle, we won't be able to get through."

"Do your best and obey the destiny."

After Qi Jiang finished speaking, seeing that everyone was getting ready, he also walked over and tied ropes around his waist in order.

Soon, the roof door was opened, and gusts of whistling wind blew in, and the wind blew along the stairs to the corridor. stop.

"Quick, quick, close the door!"

"Come out first, and those behind come out first."

"Grass! A bunch of bugs! Fortunately, I got a mask!"

The people who went up breathed out their mouths. Thirty people walked for 3 minutes before they all went out. After closing the roof door, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Let's do their own thing." Qi Jiang didn't bother to organize people, so he stepped on his feet directly, and his steps seemed to be easy, as if the wind on the roof was fake.

Among the thirty people, not all of them are struggling. Those who have strength in the direction of mutation will stand firm as they gain weight and will not be easily blown away by the wind.

There are also some speed variations. Although walking is more difficult, they can find a more suitable angle to avoid the wind.

According to Qi Jiang's observation and inquiry, there are speed variations that simply improve the body, and there are also speed variations that change the direction of the wind. The former is good at speed, and the latter has both speed and flexibility. He and Su Qing are the latter.

At the same time, the latter is also more relaxed in the face of such windy weather. For example, he can work without changing his face. Although the others can show their abilities, they are not so relaxed, and some people even dare not move.

Of course, everyone is not so embarrassed. Everyone's mutation direction has its own characteristics, especially those who show signs of animalization.

Therefore, Qi Jiang would not be complacent about it.

After 10 minutes of work, the results were mediocre, but some bugs were also cleaned up. Thirty people stood on the stairs, and when the roof door opened, they walked out cursing like they did before.

After Qi Jiang came down, he checked the raincoat on his body for bugs before taking it off with confidence.

Because he stepped on bugs, he had a strange stench on his body. He hadn't touched bugs for several days. Qi Jiang frowned in discomfort, but soon found that the smell was different from before.

For this reason, he purposely leaned close to the raincoat and sniffed it, and just as he moved his nose away, he heard a disgusted "Ay reckless" from the side.

He glanced at the other party, then went downstairs expressionlessly and went home.

The raincoat stinks, and I can't take it back. It will be gone in less than half an hour outside, so I can only take it to the balcony to dry.

Hanging with other clothes, other people will definitely have opinions. Qi Jiang was hanging on the railing in the corner, and half of the clothes fell on the ground. He kicked the clothes further inside at will before going back.

Fang Youwei had already gone up, Qi Jiang came back and said hello to Brother Fang and the others, then washed his hands and went back to sit by the bed.

Sensing him coming back, Su Qing opened her eyes and curled the corners of her lips: "Back?"

"Well, how do you feel?" Qi Jiang nodded, and touched his cold cheek with some distress, "Does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Su Qing shook her head slightly, "What's the smell on your body? It's a bit fishy."

"It's the smell of dead bugs, it's not the same as before."

Yes, it's not the same. The smell was stench before, but now it's fishy.

"The bugs have evolved?" Su Qing coughed lightly, "Are you okay?"

"It shouldn't have evolved. I didn't find anything unusual when I went up. Maybe there are other things we haven't found." Qi Jiang smiled, "You don't have to worry."

Su Qing hummed, and said again: "The wind outside seems to be getting stronger again, and I feel that the spiritual energy is a little condensed, is it going to change?"

"Change the sky?" Qi Jiang was puzzled, "Why did you say that all of a sudden?"

Su Qing shook his head, not too sure: "It's just a sudden thought, I'm more sensitive to weather changes, but if it changes again today..."

He had a bad premonition, so he didn't dare to say anything.

Qi Jiang didn't know what condensed spiritual energy was, and Su Qing wasn't in a good spirit, so he didn't follow up and asked, "Then I'll see if there is any change in the sky outside at noon."

"Well, if there are changes, we must make plans early."

After saying a few words, Su Qing felt a slight pain in her spine again, frowned, and then she didn't have the strength to speak, afraid that Qi Jiang would worry, so she simply closed her eyes: "I'm a little sleepy."

"Then go to sleep." Qi Jiang tucked in the quilt for him.

Because the wind was too strong, the progress of cleaning up the bugs was mediocre, and all the bugs were not cleaned up in one day.

After feeding Su Qing with dinner, Qi Jiang went to the balcony to look out when it was still bright, thinking about the changing sky that Su Qing said, but the dark clouds were still so dark that he couldn't see anything.

If you really care about it, it is darker than yesterday, but the dark clouds in the sky are getting darker every day, and the rain is getting heavier every day.

"Uh……"

A familiar groan and groan in the room pulled his thoughts back, and Qi Jiang ran back into the room in three steps at a time.

Su Qing's face was paler than before, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, his brows were furrowed, his eyes were closed tightly, he held the quilt tightly and bowed up, the veins on the side of his neck seemed to burst out.

Something in his body was about to break out, Su Qing spread his wings and flew up, Qi Jiang's eyelids twitched, and he hugged him quickly so that he didn't hit the bed.

Brother Fang, who was lying in a daze on the opposite side, was a little frightened: "What's wrong?"

Qi Jiang was not in the mood to listen to what others were saying, so he picked up Su Qing's clothes and saw that the bow in his body was about to break through the skin and come out, subconsciously stretched out his hand, but didn't dare to touch it, and immediately stopped in mid-air.

He didn't know if cutting Su Qing's skin would affect his mutation.

"Susu..."

The wind and rain outside seemed to be getting worse, Su Qing felt a sharp pain in his back, the pain made him open his eyes, he held Qi Jiang's hand tightly, and panted a few times: "Medicine, box, medicine..."

Qi Jiang took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket, poured one into Su Qing's mouth, and just put it in, it fell out. He thought he didn't put it in, so he fed another one, and it fell on the quilt again.

"Susu, your mouth..." You Feng...

Qi Jiang suddenly remembered something, and looked back at the people who were too nervous to speak out: "Brother Fang, you go out first."

Brother Fang and the others quickly agreed, walked out quickly, and took the door to the door by the way.

"Susu, you have wind in your mouth, so you can't feed it in." Qi Jiang was a little flustered, but still calm, "How is your heart?"

Su Qing couldn't hear him speak, he could only hear his heart beating fast, the pain was so painful that it was almost bursting, but it was covered with a gentle coolness, so he wouldn't let him die no matter what.

His back was soaked in blood, and a bone longbow full of blood was struggling to expel from his body, and Su Qing's face became paler, no matter how Qi Jiang called, he didn't respond.

At first, Qi Jiang thought it was because he was mutated, so his body automatically rejected foreign substances and could not take medicine, but now he was scared to pick up the medicine again and kept feeding him, but he couldn't feed him no matter what.

"Susu..."

"Crack!"

The strong wind whipped up the waves, and the things conceived by the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have matured, and a flash of lightning pierced the sky.

Qi Jiang sensitively felt that the aura in the air suddenly became active, and the concentration was also increasing rapidly. Su Qing's rapid breathing suddenly relaxed, and the white bone bow in his body rushed out with a bang.

The white bone bow, which was originally only about [-] centimeters, quickly stretched and became bigger. At the same time, it sucked all the blood on Su Qing's back. The bow body was quickly dyed a golden red color, and a golden red bowstring seemed to be faintly visible with flames.

"Ho!"

As if returning to reality, Su Qing heard the sound from the outside world again, and suddenly fell to the ground, falling into darkness in the next second, only hearing a panicked voice: "Susu!"

Qi Jiang breathed a sigh of relief after hugging him, and looked down at his wound worriedly, but saw a blue-green light that healed the wound quickly, and Su Qing's heart also lit up with the same color light.

"Wood spirit energy?" Qi Jiang was puzzled, "How could Susu have wood spirit energy?"

Isn't he the root of the three spirits of water, fire and wind?Where did the wood aura come from?

Qi Jiang carefully stretched out his hand to touch Su Qing's heart, a green light suddenly shot at the top of his head, Qi Jiang suddenly felt a little cold on his scalp.

He, won't be... bald...

Suddenly there was a dull pain in his head. Qi Jiang stretched out his hand to touch it, and felt a cool touch on his fingertips. A tiny electric current pulled his flashlight away subconsciously, and it took a second to react.

He seemed to have really bald patches on his head.

No, no, he seems to be growing horns.

"Is that green light?" Qi Jiang murmured, looking at the light that quickly disappeared in Su Qing's arms in surprise, his heart skipped a beat, "You won't run to my side, will you?"

What about Susu?

Rumble!

The Thunder Snake was raging across the land, Qi Jiang held Su Qing in his arms, and looked out the window, which seemed to confirm what Su Qing said.

It's going to change.