On the tenth year after the natural disaster, I went to farm with me

Xia Qing, whose body was still in the side effect period of the stimulating liquid, circled the big pine tree where the locator was located, but did not find any traces of the red squirrel coming out.

This is very abnormal.

Squirrels, as an animal, usually find a place to defecate and urinate within its territory, and this place is usually quite a distance away from the tree hole where it lives. This has nothing to do with whether you love cleanliness or hygiene, it is entirely for survival.

First of all, squirrels are also animals with territorial awareness. They will use their own excrement to let their peers know that this place has been occupied, do not enter, and enter will inevitably fight.

Secondly, goshawks, owls, martens, snakes, etc. are all natural enemies of squirrels, and they mainly rely on vision, taste or hearing to lock the position of squirrels. In order to avoid natural enemies, squirrels will not only not defecate near the cave, but also find ways to find things that can cover their own smell and put them on their bodies or in the cave to avoid being found by natural enemies. For example, the fast-evolving red squirrel in Area 3 will use tobacco with a strong smell to make a nest, and will sprinkle snake slough debris on its fur.

Squirrels do reduce their activity and increase their sleep time in winter, entering a semi-hibernation state. But they still need to eat and excrete, so in theory, there should be traces of red squirrel activity on the snow surface around the tree hole.

Unable to find it, Xia Qing simply stood under the tree and called the neighbors in the hole in a low voice. She lowered her voice not because she was afraid of being heard, but because she was afraid of scaring the timid neighbors in the tree hole.

"Red squirrel, are you home? I sent you peanuts, do you want to eat them?"

"Freeloaders, are you home? Do you want to drink water?"

After shouting a few times, there was no movement in the tree hole. Xia Qing took out the cat claw shoes from her backpack, slowly climbed up more than ten meters, came to the door of the red squirrel's home and called twice again, but there was still no movement.

She turned on the flashlight and observed the inside of the cave. After finding that the locator was not there, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Since they were here, Xia Qing used an iron hook to search the red squirrel's home and found that the food in the tree hole was almost gone. This little guy is quite gluttonous.

The red squirrel is much richer than Xia Qing. Xia Qing only has one home. The red squirrel has six tree holes that can be used as nests in this territory, and two stone caves specifically for hiding food. This autumn, it was busy going out early and returning late, and stored food in six holes. The red squirrel is not here, so it must be in other holes with food.

Xia Qing, whose hearing ability has not yet fully recovered, listened carefully to the sounds of various animals in the evolutionary forest and chose the place she thought was most likely. After arriving at the location, Xia Qing found that the red squirrel was still not in the hole, but there were gnawed dried fruit crumbs and footprints left by many mice scattered on the ground.

The red squirrel's home was stolen by mice!

Xia Qing immediately quickened her pace and walked towards the nearest hole. There is a stone cave 500 meters ahead, which is the hole where the red squirrel stored the most food this winter.

Xia Qing walked more than 300 meters northeast on the snow, and heard the cooing and hissing sounds of red squirrels.

Red squirrels don't like to make noises. Now they are shouting so loudly, it can only be because of hunger, fear or anger to the point that they can't tolerate it.

Xia Qing raised his gun and accelerated, shouting loudly, "Freeloader, what happened? Freeloader--"

"Coo--" The red squirrel's hissing sound increased, and Xia Qing, who had been scheming with it for months, heard its anger and eagerness. The location where the sound came from did not change, indicating that the red squirrel might be blocked in the hole by mice!

Before Xia Qing rushed over, he heard the sound of an animal moving quickly on the snow, which was not a sound that a red squirrel could make.

Xia Qing stopped immediately, raised his gun and aimed, and soon saw an evolved forest marten with a body length of more than half a meter, rushing straight at him with bared teeth. No need to ask, this expression and this movement, at a glance, it is an out-of-control animal.

It was not worth wasting a bullet on such an evolutionary animal. Xia Qing put away his gun and drew his sword. He killed the marten in a few encounters and continued to rush to the red squirrel's burrow.

A golden eagle hovering in the air swooped down, grabbed the marten's body, flapped its wings and left quickly, snatching Xia Qing's prey.

"Freeloader, are you in there?" Xia Qing came to the entrance of the burrow and called out to his neighbor in a low voice.

"Gugu, hiss——"

"Squeak, squeak——"

Not only the red squirrel answered Xia Qing, but also the arrogant calls of mice. Just by the calls, it can be judged that there are at least 10 mice in the cave.

The red squirrel runs fast, but its attack power is not high. It may not be the final winner against a group of mice, not to mention that this red squirrel was attacked by the green light peanut more than half a month ago and lost a lot of blood.

Before Xia Qing could think of how to call the red squirrel out, the little guy ran out by himself.

"Gu, ga, ga-ga--" The red squirrel howled angrily and anxiously on the big pine tree next to Xia Qing, jumping up and down, and drops of blood fell on the dirty snow. The mice in the hole did not come out, but Xia Qing could hear the crunching sounds of them gnawing on pine nuts and chestnuts.

Even if the food in the tree hole was not Xia Qing's, she was anxious to hear it. Without saying a word, she took out a handful of hay from her backpack, lit it, threw it into the stone cave, and quickly blocked the hole with a large animal skin bag.

"Squeak, squeak--"

Animals are afraid of smoke and fire, and soon they screamed and fled from other cracks in the stone cave. This is an evolved field mouse, which is not smaller than the red squirrel at all. No wonder the red squirrel can't beat them.

The red squirrel saw the big field mouse running out, and rushed over with a flash of red light, biting the big field mouse's neck fiercely. The big field mouse squeaked and struggled, and the two mice, one gray and one red, fought fiercely on the snow.

Some ignorant evolved field mice directly broke into the animal skin bag. Xia Qing skillfully stepped on them with her feet and killed three of them. The red squirrel killed one, and the rest escaped.

Xia Qing put away the animal skin bag, shoveled some snow and threw it into the stone cave to extinguish the flames, but the big smoke inside would not dissipate for a while, and the red squirrel jumped up and down around the stone cave in a hurry.

Xia Qing confirmed that there was no danger, cleaned up a piece of snow, put the peanuts in her pocket on the ground, and called out to the poor neighbor, "Don't worry. Come over first and let me see where your wound is, and I'll dig out food for you in the cave."

Seeing the peanuts on the ground, the red squirrel jumped over, grabbed the peanuts and ran away, so fast that Xia Qing only saw a flash of red light. She is now in a weak period, and her visual evolution ability is limited, so she can't see where the red squirrel is injured.

So, Xia Qing took out the water bottle from her backpack and poured the warm, unpolluted spring water into the small bowl that the red squirrel often drank water from on the windowsill. "Little guy, come and drink some water."

In the temperature of more than 20 degrees below zero, the spring water cooled quickly and would freeze in a while. The red squirrel holding the peanuts did not hesitate and rushed over to drink water immediately.

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