Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 128 Hunting

Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't sleep well that night. She had nightmares every time she closed her eyes. She always dreamed of bloody and cruel scenes.

Logically speaking, she should have been accustomed to nightmares of this magnitude. After all, this was the daily life of humans in the disaster world.

But the strange thing is that there were familiar faces in the dream this time. They were in pain, sorrow, and wailing. The scene was like the director’s first-person perspective shot. The sense of immersion was strong and it felt extremely real.

Once again, I saw countless high-rise buildings collapsing and scattered wall steel frames falling from above my head. I was still standing there, unable to move or run away.

"Huh!" Zhao Xiaoxiu took a deep breath and sat up from the bed.

When Zhao Xiaoxiu opened his eyes and saw Zhao Gang's familiar stern face, he realized that he had just had a nightmare.

Zhao Gang was awakened by his daughter. He sat up, reached out his long arm, and held the frightened little girl in front of him. He pulled the quilt around her and comforted her, "It's okay, it's okay."

"Dad." Zhao Xiaoxiu leaned on her father's warm but heartless chest and soon calmed down.

It was already daybreak, and the six-thirty alarm on his cell phone rang. Zhao Gang reached out to turn it off, lowered his head and asked, "Are you getting up?"

"Yeah." Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded, and while cooperating with the tentacles to put on clothes and socks, she asked, "Dad, have Granny Meng and the others not called us yet?"

She didn't need Zhao Gang's answer, and muttered to herself: "Did they lose the phone number I gave Uncle Meng and Uncle Meng?"

Otherwise, why haven't you called each other since we broke up?
Even if you move to a new house, you should tell her the address of your new home so that she can find them.

For Zhao Xiaoxiu, the mother and son of the Meng family were people she had known even earlier than her father.

Granny Meng has watched her grow from a baby to her current adult self. During those years when her father was not around, she was able to avoid starvation to death thanks to Granny Meng's care and support, as her father irresponsibly abandoned her and disappeared for ten days or half a month.

Whenever Uncle Meng and Uncle Meng went out to scavenge, they would specially save any interesting toys they saw and bring them back for her.

In Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyes, the mother and son of the Meng family are more like family members than his biological father.

That's probably why I dream about them.

Zhao Xiaoxiu sighed, "Oh~". She believed her father. If her father said that everyone was alive, then they must be alive.

She must have been frightened by the intense gunfire she heard yesterday, which caused her to have a nightmare.

"Dad, I'm going to do morning exercise!"

After putting on her little red hat to keep warm, Zhao Xiaoxiu said something to her father, then she jumped out from the second-floor balcony with a grin and slid down the snow slide to the first floor.

"Sister Monkey!" The little girl turned her head and shouted towards the backyard.

The hardworking Monkey Sister immediately brought over the wooden stakes for practice, as well as her leather armor with dual swords.

Zhao Xiaoxiu put on the leather armor by herself. This was a gift made by her master, and she wanted to wear it all the time, hehe~
After practicing the basic chop a hundred times, Zhao Xiaoxiu recalled the sword techniques his master taught him yesterday and practiced them slowly. He looked pretty good at it.

There was no snow today, and Sheng Qingyang arrived at Territory No. 13 in high spirits in a short while. He instructed his apprentice for two hours, and told her to practice more when she had time. Then he put on his rare light backpack and left carrying a big knife.

Zhao Xiaoxiu asked: "Master, where are you going?"

Sheng Qingyang answered without even turning his head: "Go hunting!"

After two or three months of interacting with each other, the lords in Area B have more or less understood the economic strength of other lords.

She won’t talk about Lord No. 13. Zhao Gang participated in the mission to recapture Jiangcheng, and he has enough points and food.

She saw that her little apprentice could drink yogurt in the morning, which was a luxury in the city, which showed that the father and daughter were not short of points at all. According to Sheng Qingyang's observation, except for the trio of Dongfang Ling and Zhang Lijun, the other lords did not have many points and food.

If I hadn’t caught a suspended fish right after arriving, I wouldn’t have survived until the New Year.

Calculating the time, at this point, the stored food in each household has been almost consumed.

If you don’t have food, you can go to a supply station to exchange it, but if you don’t have points, you will have to leave the safe house and take risks in the mountains and forests.

Especially the two new families in Territory No. 13. Sheng Qingyang guessed that they would also take advantage of the few days when the snow stopped to venture out hunting.

Low temperatures restrain mutant plants, and most mutant animals will also react more slowly.

If we ignore the hidden dangers of heavy snow, winter hunting actually has more advantages than the other three seasons.

However, Sheng Qingyang did not set out until around ten in the morning, and it was already bright. If he was careful, he could avoid the potholes, small mutated poisonous insects and snakes, and rhizomes and vines hidden under the snow.

As Sheng Qingyang expected, when Zhao Xiaoxiu put away her knife and prepared to rest, two couples from next door came to her house together and asked Zhao Gang about the situation of the nearby mountains and forests. They planned to go into the mountains.

Mutated frogs are only isolated cases. Yesterday, Qiu Bai and Wang Xiang cleaned all the remaining empty houses and did not encounter any mutant species.

Of course, there are still quite a few small insects and hyphae that are so insignificant that even the detection light won’t light up.

But you can’t eat that!
The lords who come to the planting area all receive subsidies, but the specifications are one level lower than the first application. In addition to the seeds, there are only thirty bottles of nutrient solution, and the filter elements and other things are gone, so they have to prepare them themselves.

Thirty bottles of nutrient solution are enough for two people to sustain for half a month. In fact, Mr. and Mrs. Qiu Bai can hold on until the second heavy snow before going into the mountains again.

Unlike Jiang Ning's family of four, with so many people and limited food, they had to seize every opportunity to go into the mountains.

But people also think of danger in times of peace, and the sooner they are prepared, the more at ease they will be.

Zhao Gang had taken Zhao Xiaoxiu to the nearby isolation zone and had a general understanding of the situation, but he had never been there in person afterwards and could not say anything.

Zhao Gang told them everything he knew and reminded them, "Don't go west." Then he went busy planing wood to make lumber.

The two families thanked him, kept Zhao Gang's words in mind, and set off immediately.

I plan to ask the training soldiers for more useful information when I meet a patrol car on the road.

Zhao Xiaoxiu watched the two couples take their weapons and leave, then he looked away and tilted his head to look towards the house next door.

Grandpa Jiang took the logging tools and took Liu Miaomiao with him, and the two of them went to work in the poplar forest together.

After all, there is only a little charcoal fire, and it will still grow in winter, so firewood is very important.

The landlord was generous and was willing to give them all the branches, so Grandpa Jiang planned to cut down a few more poplar trees.

When walking past Zhao Xiaoxiu's house, Liu Miaomiao waved to Zhao Xiaoxiu regretfully, saying that she couldn't play with her today because she had to go help her grandfather.

Zhao Xiaoxiu shrugged, exhaled a puff of white air into the air, and went back to the house.

The phone on the table suddenly rang.

Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was feeling bored, was delighted and quickly picked up the phone, asking with anticipation, "Wai?"

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