After the fog, I became a birdman

Because of Qi Jiang's two voices last night, the people in the new base were taken aback. They thought some terrifying mutant animals had come near the base. Later, someone recognized that it was Qi Jiang's roar, which made everyone less nervous.

But since everyone left Fengcheng for half a month, the snowless mountain range has been very quiet. As a mutant who can scare away mutant fish with a single voice, Qi Jiang has been recognized as the strongest in Fengcheng by everyone.

Because of this, his sudden yelling made the new base attach great importance to it, and the liaison team that had always only traveled between the coast of the canyon and the new base sent a team to the Snowless Mountains that night.

For the past half month, there have been earthquakes every three or five days, each time starting in the early morning and ending in about half to an hour.

Although the time and frequency of earthquakes has decreased, the impact on the outside world has been considerable.

Since the appearance of the plague, the liaison team can no longer go out casually, and must obey the command to go out.

It was also because they had been locked up in the base for a long time. After they came out this time, they found that the snow-free mountains were farther than before, at least 50 kilometers away, which was equivalent to half of the distance before.

They thought they would be there the next morning, but they were still on their way the next morning.

Under the scorching sun, everyone flew under the shade of a tree, and a team member behind him wiped his sweat while flying: "I heard from the people on the other side of the fleet that the expansion of the outside world is very powerful. I didn't expect it to be more exaggerated than I imagined."

"Isn't it?" The team members beside him echoed, "In the past, the fleet could go back and forth four or five times a day, but now it can only go back and forth three times at most. If it continues to expand like this, I'm afraid Fengcheng will be divided into two bases."

The leader was a mutated eagle. The captain of the eagle was also listening, and his heart was a little bit sad. When he heard the last sentence, his face darkened: "What are you talking about? Don't say what you shouldn't say, fly well!"

The team members also realized that they had said the wrong thing, shut their mouths in embarrassment, and the liaison team fell silent again.

The liaison team flew all the way to the snow-free mountain range, Captain Eagle saw a few more stone tablets at the foot of the mountain from a distance, and the bright red writing on them was very conspicuous.

[There is a master's territory, and those who do not invite to enter will be killed! 】

Seeing the murderous look in the handwriting, Captain Eagle paused in fright, and the team members behind were very nervous: "Captain, what happened?"

Everyone looked around subconsciously. They were not blind, and they also saw these extra stone tablets. Some of them had good eyesight and could read the words on them clearly, and they were taken aback.

hiss~

Captain Eagle swallowed. As a mutant who also lived alone, he knew very well how much he wanted to drive away the outsiders who entered his territory in the depths of his heart that resisted instinct.

The stronger the mutants are, the more domineering they are. Qi Jiang is so strong, maybe he will really tear people who strayed into the territory to pieces.

Before he could react, a few group flight members flew forward in a daze because they couldn't read the words. Captain Eagle was frightened by them and broke into a cold sweat: "Wait! Come back! Stop!"

Several people turned around in confusion: "Captain, what's the matter? What's the word written on the stone?"

"Land down first, don't go forward." Captain Eagle waved his hand, and flew to the ground first.

Everyone obeyed the captain's order and landed down the mountain. There were still a few teammates unknown, so: "Captain, aren't you going to consult Su and them?"

Captain Eagle said angrily: "Didn't you see such a big character?"

"I can't see it." Several teammates took it for granted.

Captain Eagle was stunned for a moment, and helplessly relayed: "There is a master's territory, and those who must be invited to enter will be killed!"

A few people thought it was a bit exaggerated, and they said innocently: "We are all human, so we should just scare outsiders, right?"

"That's right, Advisor Su and the others are so nice."

Before Captain Eagle reprimanded him, a vulture-like mutant in the team said in a deep voice, "I'm also a solitary mutant, and I'm very responsible to tell you that this is not a joke."

Nearly half of the people felt that this was too serious. Don't the solitary mutants in the base get along well with everyone?

However, Captain Eagle didn't care what they were thinking. He stood in front of the crowd and yelled up the mountain, "Consultant Su! Mr. Qi! Find a new base!"

On the top of the mountain, Su Qing and Qi Jiang were meditating. The two of them had excellent hearing. When they heard the sound, they immediately opened their eyes and looked down the mountain.

"I'll go and have a look." Qi Jiang took the mask aside and put it on, "Don't go, it's not safe."

Su Qing was a little worried: "No matter what they ask of you, don't go to the base. Also, stand far away."

"Ah."

Qi Jiang left home and flew down the mountain not long after. Looking at the exhausted liaison team down the mountain from a distance, he recognized Captain Eagle among them: "Eagle, what's the matter?"

Seeing that he was safe and sound, Captain Eagle breathed a sigh of relief, and shouted, "Mr. Qi, the base saw you yelling twice last night, and sent me to ask if you encountered any special situation here."

"It's nothing, just a mutated animal came over last night and I chased it away." Qi Jiang shook his head, and said lightly, "The mutated animal from the upstream has begun to spread downstream, you should pay attention to vigilance."

Captain Eagle's heart skipped a beat, and his expression was serious: "Thank you, Mr. Qi, I'll go back to the base to convey the situation."

Qi Jiang nodded slightly, pointed to the stone tablet below, and the warning in his tone made people shudder: "Also, please convey my family's warning, no matter who commits death, I will kill and not bury."

Captain Eagle is a little envious of Qi Jiang having his own territory, but if he is allowed to go out and live by himself, it is easy to find a territory, but difficult to keep it. He does not have the ability to leave the base.

Also because they still need to rely on the base to live, many mutants who live alone dare not move out willfully, lest they encounter danger one day, and no one even cares about running to the base.

The liaison team left quickly, and Qi Jiang went back to tell Su Qing what happened just now, and said in a less optimistic way: "It seems that their mental state is not very good, I'm afraid the plague has not been resolved yet."

"Lack of medicine and people, it's not that easy." Su Qing shook her head and sighed, "I hope I can get through it."

In the afternoon, before the sun went down, he was still conscientiously exuding his residual warmth.

Su Qing yawned and sat up, looked up at Qi Jiang who was squatting on the ground and didn't know what he was doing outside the window: "Brother Jiang, why are you up so early? What are you busy with?"

Qi Jiang raised his head and held up the stone slab he had cut in his hand with a smile on his face: "I also just got up, and the ground in front of the house is muddy, so I might as well lay floor tiles on it, it will be convenient for walking."

Hearing this, Su Qing couldn't help laughing.

Their small cliff really made the best use of everything. The inside was hollowed out to make a house, and the remaining stones could be used as a stele enclosure and as a floor.

He got up to wash and tidy up his clothes before going out, only to find that the square in front of the house had been cleaned up by Qi Jiang.

Before, they just cleared the weeds on it, but now there is no gravel, only mud.

The area five to six meters wide in front of the house was paved with stone slabs by Qi Jiang. He threw and stepped on the stone slabs, and with his strength, he could directly embed the stone slabs into the mud without using other tools at all, and there was no noise.

"How long have you been up?" Su Qing went to help him lay the floor, "Such a big square can't be cleaned in an hour or two."

It is not an easy job to get gravel and level the ground.

"Two or three hours." Qi Jiang touched his nose, rubbed a little dust on it, and stepped on the stone slab that Su Qing put down, "I can't sleep."

He is different from Su Qing. Su Qing meditates and sleeps, but he can use meditation instead of sleeping. Naturally, he can't sleep all afternoon like Su Qing.

When he couldn't sleep and got up and looked out the window, Qi Jiang felt that the small square in front of the house, or the yard, was a bit disharmonious, so he immediately tidied it up.

Su Qing put the slate down for a while, and found that Qi Jiang was faster than Qi Jiang working alone, so he returned the slate to Qi Jiang with some embarrassment.

"I'm going to cook. After dinner, it's time for us to find a new home for Jinjin."

After dinner, the sun began to set and the temperature dropped a little.

After half a month, they are all used to the current high temperature. Although they still dare not go out during the day, they can barely start working between dawn and evening.

Although the temperature is very high now, Qi Jiang still took advantage of this time to cut down the few trees that were not knocked down in the isolation zone, and Su Qing followed behind to pick up trees.

Although there are not many trees left, the forest is too big and there are many isolation zones. After accumulating more and more, they have been busy for a long time.

When they got home, both Qi Jiang and Su Qing were sweating all over. The two took a bath and let out a comfortable breath after washing all the sweat off their bodies.

Jin Jin was covered in feathers all over his body, and he couldn't stand the high temperature even more than them. He waited until the sun had completely set and the temperature dropped a little before he was willing to fly out of the backyard.

"Aoooooooooooo!"

Su Qing touched his forehead with a smile, and after feeding him dinner, he took him to the snow mountain to find a place to build a nest.

Weifeng is completely different from the main peak, because the snow has not completely melted, and under the high temperature, the mountain is still refreshing, and Jin Jin immediately fell in love with it.

The snow here is very thick, and the high temperature melts the snow to form a stream that flows into the lake and Yuhe below.

Jin Jin flew around the top of the mountain, Su Qing originally wanted to follow him, but later seeing that he didn't need himself at all, Su Qing simply went with Qi Jiang to find a clean place to store snow water.

Jin Jin finally chose a cave ten times bigger than him. The cave was very spacious and the ground was full of stone pestles, but Jin Jin liked it very much. Taking advantage of the temperature drop, he shouted at Su Qing and excitedly Fly down the forest to pick a branch for nesting.

Because Jin Jin's lair was bigger than the previous ones, it took him several days to get it right.

In the past few days, the temperature continued to rise, all the snow on the mountain melted, the heat wave dried the dead trees in the forest even more, and cracks began to appear on the ground.

During this period, all healthy people in the Canyon Coast were transferred to the new area of ​​the new base. While the new base was still adding new patients every day, the Canyon Coast had become a real sick area, and there were several patients who recovered on their own. Fengcheng provided antibodies, which gave the remaining patients some hope.

In the early morning, Su Qing and Qi Jiang came back from hunting.

When passing by a plain, a gust of hot wind blew up the weeds and soil on the ground, and a burst of sand was blown up. Because the two flew too fast, they passed through the sand and dust area at once, and were blown to dust.

"Ahem!" Su Qing stopped, coughing and wiping off the dust on his face.

The clothes on her body shook, a layer of sand fell down, and some dust floated in the air. Su Qing frowned, held her breath, and flew back a little to avoid the dust.

Qi Jiang was also in a state of embarrassment. He patted the sand and asked, "Why is it suddenly windy?"

Su Qing looked at the sudden blowing sand in the plain with some doubts, and frowned to feel the wind inside: "The weather of blowing sand is coming."

"Tomorrow too?"

Su Qing sighed slightly: "In the future, you have to pack it more tightly when you go out, but it will be even hotter."

Flying all the way around the blowing sand on the ground and flying across the plain, the two came to a lake and found that the dark soil red butterflies above were leaving the water source in groups and leaving along the wind.

Su Qing and Su Qing looked at each other, and their experience told them that the choice of animals under changing weather is a very useful reference.

"Go! Follow!" Qi Jiang immediately chose to follow.

They flew behind the dark soil red butterflies all the way, and found that the number of dark soil red butterflies gathered in front was increasing, gradually forming an invisible red silk cloth.

Su Qing noticed that they had been approaching the coastline, and was a little puzzled: "Brother Jiang, what are they doing at the beach?"

Qi Jiang also felt that Antu Hongdie's behavior was a bit abnormal, and shook his head silently: "I don't know, let's see first."

Flying all the way to the seaside, the red dark soil and red butterflies occupied the entire coastline layer by layer. Su Qing and the two flew around dozens of kilometers without finding a gap, so they had to fly to a higher place. The red butterfly flew higher, and then flipped from a high place to the front of the dark soil red butterfly.

"This..." Su Qing made a puzzled voice.

Qi Jiang was holding the lantern, but he couldn't see it himself, so he could only ask, "What's wrong?"

"Did they come here to breed offspring?" Su Qing was very puzzled, a little lost interest, "It's okay, just breed offspring in the sea, the males died soon, and the females died after going to the sea to lay eggs. "

Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows, and flew towards the sea with the lantern, and flew back after watching it, wondering if his intuition was wrong: "Go back or continue watching?"

Su Qing was a little hesitant. The spawning time of the dark soil red worms was just at the beginning of the blowing sand weather. Maybe this was the best time for them to reproduce, or it might be a sign.

"Let's take a look again, so as not to miss any clues."

They stayed until the morning. When the sun came out, there were densely packed corpses of dark soil red butterflies on the surface of the sea. The corpses fluctuated with the waves, some of them were beaten to the shore, and some floated away along the waves.

There are still many dark soil red butterflies in the inland continuously moving towards the coastline. Su Qing yawned, feeling a little numb.

"Go back first." He couldn't see anything.

Qi Jiang nodded and went back with Su Qing. They also met many dark red butterflies on the way.

Because of the high temperature and blowing sand weather, some of these dark soil red butterflies rushing to the coast during the day were blown away by the blowing sand, their wings were stained with mud, their flight speed slowed down, and they gradually fell behind. Some died of dehydration on the way, and some Some encountered a water source on the road, regained their vitality after replenishing water, and followed the main force to the beach again.

The wind during the day was a bit stronger than last night. Last night it was just a small wind, and you can go around it quickly. The phenomenon of blowing sand today is even more serious than last night. At first glance, it is all grayish-yellow dust, and there is no way to go around it road place.

Su Qing and Qi Jiang had to wear glasses and masks to fly over this arid place, flying farther and farther, until they flew to the hills covered by forests before they could breathe a sigh of relief.

That is, after stopping this time, they discovered another strange phenomenon.

Near the hill, that is, at the end of the woods is a small river, and there are many mutated animals gathered by the river. Qi Jiang heard the voice and signaled Su Qing not to talk and go with him.

The two carefully came to the edge of the woods, and found that many mutated animals were drinking water, each with a bulging belly as if pregnant, and some birds and beasts flew to the surface of the water, filling the water with feathers, and some spirits The elders carried bamboo tubes and the like, and carried hollowed out tree trunks to hold water.

Even the aquatic creatures in the water were indifferent to such an easy-to-get feast, and all opened their mouths to drink water.

After seeing it clearly, Su Qing quietly left the woods with Qi Jiang. This time they flew very slowly, and they were sure that the mutated animals by the water source must be storing water.

"Brother Jiang, there are still abundant water resources, and there is no shortage of water in every area. Why are all these animals storing water?" Su Qing was worried about any major changes, such as the sudden disappearance of water overnight. matter.

Although it sounds unbelievable, it is not impossible for natural disasters to do such a coquettish operation.

"Don't be afraid." Qi Jiang pressed his hand and patted it reassuringly, "We have enough water."

Thinking of the water in the space, Su Qing felt a lot more at ease, but she was still afraid that some catastrophe that they couldn't parry would suddenly come, and there was no way to be completely at ease.

That afternoon, after they got up, Qi Jiang went to the isolation zone to weed, and Su Qing continued to store water.

When he arrived at the lake, Su Qing found that the dark soil red worms had disappeared, and the water level of the lake had dropped by a few centimeters.

"Did I store too much water?" Su Qing murmured softly, looking around the lake that occupied half of the mountain, it didn't feel like it.

He flew towards the source, and found that the flow of water in several streams had been reduced by half, and then flew to the Jade River, but this time he did not find much difference, and the water was still rushing as before.

Su Qing continued to store water with some anxiety, and after the sun went down, he couldn't wait to find Qi Jiang, but he arrived before anyone came.

"Brother Jiang, let's go out and have a look!"

Qi Jiang shook the dragon horn knife, shaking off all the dirt and dust on it, he put the knife into the scabbard: "Go back to cook first, and then go out after eating."

Su Qing went back to cook patiently, and urged Qi Jiang to go out after dinner.

Qi Jiang knew that Su Qing had a sense of crisis in his heart, and he was also worried, but not as anxious as Su Qing.

In order to reassure Su Qing, he followed Su Qing to other places to see, and found that the water level in other places had also dropped a little, and the mutated animals became a little irritable while storing water.

A day passed, and there was no longer a living dark soil red butterfly nearby, and their corpses fed some mutated animals.

Today, Su Qing and the two did not go hunting anymore, but went upstream, selected a water source, and stood on the top of a distant mountain to observe secretly while it was still dark.

The water source is bustling with animals of all kinds coming and going, with different strengths.

Su Qing found that some animals had been here two or three times, and their stomachs were flat when they came, and their stomachs were bulging when they came back.

"Brother Jiang, how about the two bears?" Su Qing suddenly pointed to the two tall black bears in the fauna, "The number is small, and the den must be big enough. It will be convenient for us to retreat then."

They want to go to an animal's lair to find out. In fact, they have observed for so long, and they probably know that these animals use tools to store water, otherwise they wouldn't have to go back and forth so many times a day.

But guessing is one thing, and seeing it with your own eyes is another. What if it is storing water for other things?You have to see it to know.

After Qi Jiang agreed, he and Su Qing followed the two black bears to their dens, and after they left again, the two of them carefully burrowed into the cave.

There was a stench in the cave, Su Qing frowned slightly, and flew in cautiously.

After turning a few turns, Su Qing found that there were several large stones stacked together in the cave. The stones were hollowed out, filled with water and smelled like saliva.

Fearing that the two bears would come home suddenly, Su Qing ran out with Qi Jiang after watching it, and flew all the way to a safe place before stopping.

"So these animals are not planning to store water for the next few days, but for the longer-term future?" Su Qing felt relieved, "It seems that there may not be any sudden catastrophe. "

"Not necessarily. The water is stored for a few days. In case of a catastrophe, the water is just for emergency." Qi Jiang shook his head, "It's too early to draw conclusions."

"No matter what, drought will always come." Su Qing looked at the rushing Yuhe River in the distance, "It seems that the dark soil red butterfly may have predicted the future drought before going to the beach to breed."

Qi Jiang deeply agrees: "Mutated animals are always sharper than us humans."

Just like the heavy rain back then, and like the eruption of Foshou Mountain back then, the mutated animals withdrew early without any loss at all.

Now as long as there are new people recovering from the canyon coast, they will be sent to the new base. If there are boats passing by in the past two days, they will definitely find the abnormality of the mutated animals.

However, during this period of time, neither the new base nor the smoke column on the coast of the canyon has been broken, and several smoke columns have even been added, and it is unknown how many people died.

The people who were sent to the new base all recovered on their own, just like winning a big prize, not necessarily such Ou Huang appeared every day, so Su Qing and the others could not see boats passing by on the Yuhe River every day.

Qi Jiang and Su Qing didn't dare to get close to the new base and the coast of the canyon. After discovering this incident, they still wrote it down and waited by the river for two or three hours.

Because the time for the boats to and fro is concentrated in the period from the early morning to the rising of the sun, after the rising of the sun, they haven't seen the boat yet, so they thought they couldn't wait.

Unexpectedly, when they were about to give up and leave, Su Qing suddenly saw a familiar wooden boat coming from upstream.

"coming!"

Qi Jiang turned his head and threw stones on the boats as they passed by, which could be regarded as helping them to check for omissions and make up for vacancies.

After finishing this matter, the two left the Jade River.

In the next few days, the water levels at various water sources dropped again and again, some streams and rivers stopped flowing directly, and even the water levels of some small lakes began to bottom out.

On this day, after all the tributaries of Fengwai Mountain stopped flowing, the water level of the Yuhe River finally began to drop.

Su Qing and the others would visit several important water sources every day when they returned home, and Yuhe River was the most important among them. When they found that the water level of Yuhe River had dropped, they all had a feeling that it had finally come.

The torrential rain for more than two months really cast a big shadow on Su Qing. He was a little worried: "Brother Jiang, although our house has enough water, I always feel that this time is not just a simple drought."

Qi Jiang's expression was serious. In fact, he also felt this way in his heart, but he couldn't make Su Qing afraid, so he said comfortingly: "Don't worry, we live high enough."

The two flew slowly in the dust, Su Qing sighed deeply, and thought of the mountains in the new base again: "When do you think the plague in the new base will be good?"

"It's not that simple." Qi Jiang felt very pessimistic, "Didn't we hear people on the boat say that no corresponding drug has been developed using antibodies when we passed by the river these few times?"

Now that the conditions are difficult, how can research be so easy?

"I just want to see Shanshan." Su Qing missed her daughter, "I don't know how the mountain map is. If I knew it, I wouldn't let Shanshan stay in the base that night."

"Anyway, it won't be contagious to the pets, so don't worry." Qi Jiang comforted softly.

This gave Su Qing some comfort, he smiled slightly, and when he looked up, he suddenly found a lone wolf staggering forward in the dust and sand in front of him.

The prey that came to his door was not shot in vain, so he immediately set up the arrow and drew the bow. Just when he was about to release the arrow, he suddenly felt that the wolf's posture was not quite right.

Qi Jiang was holding the lantern, because he couldn't see far away, seeing him drawing his bow excitedly, he knew there was a prey coming. Since Su Qing didn't speak, the prey shouldn't be too strong, so he didn't worry.

As a result, he waited for a while but didn't wait for Su Qing to make a move, so he was a little puzzled: "Susu, what's wrong?"

Su Qing frowned, and waited for a while. After the wolf got closer, he heard some intermittent wolf howls that seemed to be coughing while growling, and his expression changed drastically.

Qi Jiang didn't pay much attention. When Su Qing dragged him to hide in the lee, he subconsciously pricked up his ears and heard this unusual wolf howling.

They hid far away and waited until the lone wolf left, during which the lone wolf coughed continuously, Su Qing frowned tightly: "Brother Jiang, did you hear that?"

Qi Jiang's heart sank: "Maybe he was infected with the plague."

"It's not that..." Su Qing thought of Shanshan who was still in the new base, sweating anxiously, "No, I can't let Shanshan..."

Su Qing originally wanted to say that Shanshan should not be allowed to stay in the base, but Shanshan has been inside for so long, no matter whether she has symptoms or not, there is no way to confirm whether she is infected or not.

It's fine if it's not infected. What if he gets infected and he brings Shanshan out and spreads the plague?

Moreover, he did not dare to venture into the new base.

He suddenly felt that what he did was wrong.

Qi Jiang knew that he was anxious, so he held his hand tightly: "Susu, calm down, kill that wolf first, at least restrain it."

Su Qing came to his senses, thinking that this place is very close to home, and worried that he would bring the virus home, nodded his head to catch up with the lone wolf, and shot him to death with an arrow.

Thinking about what the base and the coast of the canyon did, Su Qing got a torch and asked Qi Jiang to throw it on the corpse from a distance, staring at the corpse as it burned into ashes.

The last trace of flame disappeared, Su Qing looked at the green wood arrow in place, and didn't dare to pick it up.