Survival [End Times]

After locking the door, the family of three went downstairs and waited for ten minutes. People came one after another.

Yu Heng glanced at them a few times, familiar and unfamiliar... The familiar ones were Zhong Hua's family and Xu Yuman's family.

Many of them were wrapped very tightly, hiding behind their families, and said nothing.

And they were very sensitive to his sight. As soon as his sight swept over, the person lowered his head and turned sideways.

He retracted his gaze and said, "Let's go."

A group of hundreds of people slowly disappeared into the jungle under the gaze of people behind the windows, on the balcony, and on the roadside.

Several animals suddenly jumped out of the bushes and ran northward.

The people who stayed behind were surprised to find that the birds were particularly active today, and the sound of flapping wings never stopped.

Someone hesitated and said, "Look... are those birds also moving?"

"Hahaha, you think too much!"

"Yes, how is this possible!"

"Have the people who went to the lake to check the situation yesterday returned?" Zhou Yaobing asked.

"Not yet."

Zhou Yaobing frowned: "Too slow." Even if they spent the night on the road, they should have returned now.

At noon, the people who had checked the situation at the lake came back.

"The lake is really dry!"

"There are still many monsters there!"

"What monsters?"

"Mermaid! Mermaid!"

"Hiss! Really?"

"We brought two back, and one died on the road. Look--"

"Wow!"

Lifting the hair, the face revealed looked like a fish and a human.

"What is this?"

"Hehehe, I don't know, anyway, it's not a normal person."

"...What about the water? Are we going to find a new water source?"

Some people still don't like to make fun of these fish people like this, thinking that they are actually human beings... But they are more concerned about their future survival, so they didn't say much, but asked what to do next.

"Go, definitely go."

After discussing, somehow they decided to look for it in the north.

"After all, we didn't search the north last time, but we have searched the west and south." In fact, it's not impossible to go to the west and the south. As long as we go a little further, maybe we can get something.

But everyone still agreed to go to the north. Maybe those who moved north still had some influence on them.

Yu Heng and his team had a smooth journey here. After all, they took the road pointed by Cui Nan - the road that their northern team took last time to find water.

At night, they lit a fire as usual, sleeping on the trees and in the big circle formed by the fire.

Some children felt very excited in such an atmosphere, playing and fighting, like they were camping.

"Don't make noise! ​​Be quiet!"

The adults scolded, but the children didn't understand the adults' worries. Instead, they laughed and picked up torches to play.

"Everyone take care of your own children! Stop playing after dark!"

Yu Heng took back the torch and threw it back into the fire. He caught the boy who was still running around and scanned the crowd: "Whose child is this? Take him back."

A woman ran out and hugged the boy: "Why are you so fierce? They are all children--"

"You can't play with fire. If you want to play, light a fire for him yourself."

Yu Heng turned around to stir the fire and threw in yellow rattan powder. Soon the air was filled with the unique green wood fragrance of yellow rattan powder.

Yu's mother called him from above: "Come up, it's time to sleep."

"I'm coming."

The net they made with rattan core fell on the tree trunk, and a quilt was laid on it. Lying on it was like sleeping on a net bed. It was more comfortable than sleeping directly on the tree trunk, and it was safer, and there was no fear of falling at night.

Yu's mother was lying in it, and Yu's father was next to her.

Yu's mother said, "You're sleeping like this? Hang another one." Seeing her son lying on the tree trunk, she was particularly afraid that he would fall down, because there was a fire below.

"No, I'm used to sleeping like this. Mom, go to sleep quickly, call me if you need anything."

Yu Heng had already prepared himself for a rough journey, but he didn't expect to be attacked on the first night.

Since others want to go with his family, he should make it clear what he should say, so as not to hinder them.

Therefore, before staying overnight, he told others that the fire should not be stopped, which is to prevent wolves. Family members, especially children, should not be allowed to run around, and loud noises should not be made to attract aggressive animals...

These are not particularly difficult to follow. After all, after living in this environment for more than two months, people with a little sense of crisis will pay attention to it.

But in this world, you can't really rest assured just because you are cautious enough.

Danger will always come to you.

Yu Heng heard the noise first. He felt the ground shaking slightly, which meant that a large group of things were coming.

He immediately shouted to everyone: "Get up the tree!!! Something is coming!"

Many people were confused, and some even said angrily: "Why are you making so much noise? You woke up my child."

There were also people like Xu Yuman who trusted Yu Heng and were quick to act, so they didn't say anything and hurried up the tree without packing up their things.

It took only five minutes from the time Yu Heng realized something was wrong to the time the group of things approached!

In the light of the fire, it was clear that they were a group of creatures about one meter tall. Apart from their appearance, their mouths were very big and their fangs were lined up horizontally, which made them look very ferocious.

The results also showed that this was a group of fierce creatures. They rumbled past in a straight line. If there was anything blocking the way, they would bite it until the obstacle was removed.

Screams, screams and cries for help came one after another, but how could the people who had already climbed the tree dare to come down to save people?

Everyone clung to the tree trunk tightly, wishing to climb to the treetop.

In just one minute, the group of creatures ran over, leaving a lot of injured people, but fortunately no one died.

"Hurry up and clean up the bloody smell! Bandage the wounds! Burn the bloody clothes!"

Yu Heng shouted while jumping down the tree, and quickly rekindled the extinguished fire.

"Hurry up! Don't attract the wolves!"

The people who had just recovered from the shock moved like puppets.

The injured kept groaning, and the smell of blood was very strong. Everyone helped to clean up and then pulled the others up the tree.

"Take it!" Yu Heng threw out his net bed and asked them to pull the people up.

The fire was burning, and the upward tongues of flames burned the bloody clothes and other things into ashes, and the bloodstains on the ground were also covered by the soil.

The sound of flapping wings came from far away, and Yu Heng squinted his eyes and saw a group of large birds.

Those birds circled and screamed in the sky above the forest, and two of them swooped down and fell to the ground.

"Is that a vulture?"

"A bit like it, but bigger."

Their long and sharp beaks probed the ground for a long time, and then turned their heads to the tree -

There was a constant smell of blood there.

The two shouted and rushed over, and their long and sharp beaks seemed to flash coldly in the firelight.

Bang bang! !

Two gunshots in succession, and then two sounds of objects falling to the ground.

Yu Heng stared at the sky above the tree, and waited for a while. The group of vulture-like things did not come down again, but flew away, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

He jumped down from the tree and picked up one to look at. It was nearly one meter long, and its beak was half the length of its body. He used a knife to chop it, and the blade made a clanging sound, but only left a shallow mark on the beak.

Good stuff.

Yu Heng cut off the beaks of the two big birds in a few strokes. The blood that spurted out had a strange fishy smell, which made him give up the idea of ​​roasting the birds.

He was carrying the two bodies and was about to throw them into the fire to burn them, but was stopped by someone. It turned out that someone had already climbed down the tree, and saw Yu Heng's actions and thought he was going to roast the birds, so he hurried over to ask for some.

"There are only three people in your family, so you can't finish such a big bird! Can you give me some? I haven't eaten meat for a long time!"

"Hey, there's me! Wait for me to come down!"

Yu Heng said, "I won't eat it. The blood of this bird smells bad. I personally think it's best not to eat it."

The man took the bird corpse from Yu Heng's hand and smelled it: "It's okay! You see, the meat is all good, it's definitely edible."

Yu Heng still planned to throw it away, and took the bird corpse back and threw it into the fire.

"Hey hey!! How can you be like this!"

Several people who climbed down the tree hurriedly used branches and sticks to pull out the bird corpse. Yu Heng frowned and smelled the rotten smell of burning feathers. Listening to the complaints in his ears, he turned around and sat by the fire under the tree where his parents slept with two beaks and began to clean up.

First, completely dig out the remaining meat at the end of the beak, then wash it with clean water. After thinking about it, he roasted the four pieces of beak that had been peeled open over the fire, and the beak was completely dry and very hard.

Yu Heng put away the things and looked at the fire over there. The people over there had recovered from the accident and were roasting birds with great interest. They used a long tree trunk to fix the birds and roasted them on the fire.

"Hey, turn it over, turn it over!"

"It's burnt, turn it over quickly!"

Yu's mother asked: "Then this bird can't be eaten?"

Yu Heng sat on the branch and shook his head: "If it were me, I wouldn't eat it."

But everyone has different choices. Not every family has enough food like his family, so it's normal to want to take risks or have a fluke mentality.

"What is this thing you have?"

"The bird's beak, mom, look - isn't it very sharp and strong?"

"Really! If you get pecked by this kind of bird, it will hurt so much!" You must lose a piece of meat.

Yu Heng said: "More than that, you can see the bones."

He poked the beak hard into the tree trunk next to him, and the beak was halfway in. The obstruction was very slight, and there was no fracture surface on the beak, which showed its hardness.

"Go to sleep, it's not dawn yet." Yu's mother called him, "Look, your dad has fallen asleep again."

"I'm not sleepy, mom, you go to sleep, I want to clean up these beaks again."

He turned out a long branch and fixed the beak on it. The shape of the beak was arc-shaped. After fixing it, he waved it and found it was quite handy.

Looking under the tree, there were already people eating happily over there.

Yu Heng looked at the sky and it was a little white. So he squinted, but after a short rest, there were whispers and groans in his ears. Soon the sky was completely bright.

There was still some heat left in the fire, so he lit it up again and started to heat up breakfast.

People on the tree climbed down one after another and packed up their things.

"Oh my, my stomach hurts so much!"

"Mom, I can't poop."

After getting up, there are only a few things to do, eating, drinking, pooping and urinating. Now there is no bathroom, so find a bush, sprinkle insect repellent or something, and you can squat down and start.

It's just that there are indeed more people with constipation today.

After squatting in the toilet, Yu's father came back and said that someone was defecating over there and it was really smelly. Yu's mother hit him with a chestnut.

"I'm eating breakfast. Are you disgusted?"

Father Yu scratched his head and dared not say anything.

When they were about to set off, more than ten people had diarrhea and could not walk.

After counting, they were all people who had eaten roasted bird meat in the middle of the night.

"But we are fine!"

"Yes, we ate it too, and nothing happened."

But some people who ate bird meat did not have any problems at all. Yu Heng thought that those who had diarrhea might have a poor constitution or stomach, which was why they had such a big reaction.

But he could not stay for those people. To be realistic, he was a person who benefited his family and friends, and the others did not have that kind of friendship with him.

"Let's go as usual."

In the end, one-fifth of the people stayed. In their words:

"We followed you because we believed in you! I didn't expect you to be so cold-blooded and unkind!"

"So many things happened after just one day of walking, we won't leave!"

"You are so weird, I believe you!"

Mother Yu looked at him worriedly, and he smiled: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Mother Yu patted his shoulder.