Chapter 52, Sphinx Worm
To Liu Bu and Luo Xinyu, the people in the barriers, rats were synonymous with filth, and it had always been a creature of the sewers in traditional concepts, representing plague, disease, bad odor, and so on.
Although Ren Xiaosu didn’t eat rats either, but that was only because he had seen rats eating rotting corpses, so it left him with a very bad impression. But to the other stragglers in the market town, their natural conception was that rats in the wilderness were food, and these rats stole food from humans and even preyed on other creatures, no different from other beasts ah.
There was a lack of supplies in the market town, and they ate termites, let alone rats. This rat was a walking piece of meat in their eyes.
Compared to the big people in the wall, the stragglers had a naturally different understanding of food, and the stragglers thought: anything that can’t be eaten without killing someone is food anyway.
Now that the pickup trucks were destroyed and the food was beaten to pieces by the private army soldiers, even if there was still something edible everyone wouldn’t dare to go against the wolves to get it ah, so for the next period of time starvation was bound to become the norm.
Ren Xiaosu is not afraid, in this wilderness starving no one can not starve him ah.
At this time, Ren Xiaosu looked at Yang Xiaoguan, before this girl pointed a gun at the driver, he thought it was the girl who wanted to save herself, until the other party even pointed at himself together he realized that the other party just needed a guide to understand the environment of the wilderness.
Or Yang Xiaoguan also realized at the first time that it is more difficult to find food in the future, and Ren Xiaosu has shown her talent in this area before, so she is going to bring someone who can find food ……
As the saying goes, there are specialties in the arts, proficient in firearms but not necessarily proficient in wilderness survival, and Ren Xiaosu happens to be proficient in wilderness survival.
Ren Xiaosu pondered and wondered what level his wilderness survival skills should be if he were to skill up.
He asked in his head, “What is my wilderness survival rating?”
“It can be rated, Master Level,” Palace replied dryly.
Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, it can really be rated ah, I didn’t expect my wilderness survival skill to be master level, so powerful ……
I don’t know why, Ren Xiaosu was getting more and more puzzled about Yang Xiaoguan’s identity, this girl as a person inside a ledge, but what she did can be described as killing and decisive, never dragging her feet.
It was still nighttime, everyone was very tired, and the wolves didn’t dare to enter the canyon, so they simply walked a few kilometers forward and stopped to rest.
The reason for stopping was because they had to discuss future countermeasures on the one hand, and on the other hand, everyone was a little afraid of what was behind the canyon, and if they could drag a little while to pass through the canyon, then they would drag a little while longer ……
“We can only go forward now,” Xu Xianchu said as he stood inside the canyon, “This canyon is called the Old Windy Mouth, it looks calm now, but you’ve all seen the power of the wind that blows, I’m not even surprised that some people have been blown out of the canyon.”
“But this canyon doesn’t seem to have any wind at night,” Liu Bu said doubtfully, “There hasn’t been much wind since the night until now. And with the cars parked side by side to block the wind, it shouldn’t be much of a problem.”
“That won’t work either, we have to get out of here before sunrise, we can rest a little now,” Xu Xian Chu denied, “And we’re already out of food, it’s imperative that we get out of the canyon to look for food, this canyon doesn’t look like it has any food in it.”
“I feel hungry when you say that,” Liu Bu muttered in a small voice.
At night, everyone gathered around the campfire, because of fear everyone didn’t have much of an appetite, but by now five or six hours had passed since dinner time, and fleeing for their lives was so physically exhausting and energizing, so everyone had a feeling of hunger.
“I should have known to get food first just now,” someone grumbled, “Even though the pickup was beaten to a pulp, at least there’s something to eat.”
“So what do we do now, there’s still almost half a month of traveling ahead, what are we going to eat and drink?” Liu Bu asked.
At this question, everyone turned their attention to Ren Xiaosu, because in their impression Ren Xiaosu was very good at wilderness survival, right, wasn’t that big fish caught by Ren Xiaosu before?
However, Ren Xiaosu pointed to the mouse at her feet, “Do you eat this?”
The others were silent, in fact, when it really came to the end of the mountain, even if it was a rat they had to eat it, this was the reality.
In fact, everyone in the caravan knew that Ren Xiaosu definitely didn’t want to help them look for food, after all, before the caravan didn’t provide Ren Xiaosu with food, not only did they isolate Ren Xiaosu, but also intentionally made fun of or gave Ren Xiaosu a hard time, and now they’re asking people to help them look for food?
Some people suddenly started to complain about Liu Bu in their hearts, what’s wrong with giving some food to Ren Xiaosu when you have so much food in your car, now it’s okay?
They didn’t think about it, although they didn’t say anything at that time, but when Liu Bu refused to provide food for Ren Xiaosu, they were all laughing.
Ren Xiaosu sneered in her heart, to each his own.
“Take a rest, at the break of dawn we’ll go straight through the canyon,” Xu Xianchu decided, “When we’re out of the canyon everyone deal with it carefully, first make sure that there’s no danger then we’ll talk about food, in a day or two everyone won’t starve.”
When there was a shortage of food in the market town, Ren Xiaosu had really seen people eating bark and roots, and after eating the bark and roots, they ate the soil and eventually died.
Ren Xiaosu knew very well what people would become in front of hunger, at this time they would not eat rats, after two days they would hate to even eat dirt.
At this moment, Yang Xiaoguan came to Ren Xiaosu’s side, handed Ren Xiaosu a dagger, Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment: “Give me?”
“Lend it to you,” Yang Xiaoguan said.
“Conditions?” Ren Xiaosu asked, these two people were both very dry, there was no such thing as love or hate in this world without a reason, Yang Xiaoguan lent Ren Xiaosu her own personal dagger, there must be a reason for it.
“Food,” Yang Xiaoguan said.
“That can’t be done by just borrowing it,” Ren Xiaosu shook her head, “It has to be given to me.”
“It can,” Yang Xiaoguan said and turned to leave.
This is to let Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, in fact, this Yang Xiaoguan itself intends to take the dagger as a quid pro quo, right, at first said to lend it to him, just left some negotiation margins only ……
Ren Xiaosu was a little bit in tears and laughter, in the future he dealt with this Yang Xiaoguan must think about it more.
He observed the dagger for a moment, and without even knowing much about knives, he could tell that this dagger was better than all the iron weapons he had previously seen in Old Wang’s grocery store.
Ren Xiaosu took the dagger back into its sheath and hid it in his sleeve, but suddenly Ren Xiaosu’s face changed drastically, he raised his head to look over the wall, and the others followed, “What’s up there?”
The words just fell, the canyon has a dense armor friction sound, Xu Xianchu take a strong flashlight toward the top of the head to shine, suddenly saw countless black tide is crawling down the cliff wall down.
This bugs have never seen, the pattern on the back armor is like a human face, the black bug’s mouthparts one by one as if it had received some orders toward the crowd below the cliff wall madly pouncing, and some even jumped directly from the heights toward Ren Xiaosu them.
Ren Xiaosu drew out his dagger and slashed the huge bugs that were pouncing on him, then yelled, “Run!”
“What is this thing?!” Liu Bu’s guts were scared out of his wits!