Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 207 The Bird Hatches
"Mommy, Mommy, the egg is cracked! The egg is cracked! Get up quickly, the baby bird is about to hatch."

Early in the morning, just as the sky was beginning to lighten, Bai Li was fast asleep in her blankets when Qi Qi suddenly ran upstairs and burst into the bedroom, shivering from the cold.

"Mom, wake up, wake up quickly."

Jiang Minglang had already gone to the training ground. If he were there, he would definitely throw this son out.

The first trimester of pregnancy is still ongoing, and this is a time when one should avoid being startled or exposed to cold.

Because they were afraid the child would blurt it out, the Bai family didn't tell him that Qiqi was going to be the older brother for the time being.

"Mommy, Mommy"

When Bai Li opened her eyes, she saw her beloved son. His little face was white and tender, cool and soft, pressed against her pillow. His dark eyes were bright and sparkling with excitement and joy.

Seeing that his mother had opened her eyes, he hurriedly said, "Didn't you say you wanted to see the baby birds hatch? Then hurry up and get up, or we'll be late."

Bai Li really wanted to say, "If we can't make it, then we can leave," but her bed seemed to have a magical power that didn't want her to leave.

But she swallowed the words back down. First, she really wanted to see what the baby parrot looked like after it hatched. Second, she couldn't go back on her word, otherwise the example she had worked so hard to set for her son would collapse.

Ugh.
Being a mom is really tough.

Sighing inwardly, she resisted the magic of the bed, reluctantly sticking one arm out from under the covers, took the coral fleece loungewear her son thoughtfully handed her, and then sat up and quickly put it on.

"It's really cracked?"

"Of course it's true. As soon as I entered the pet room, I heard a few cracking sounds. When I squatted down by the nest, I saw that one of the eggs was covered in cracks."

Bai Li found it funny and kept making noises, as if he had actually heard it.

"Mom, the baby parrots have hatched. What kind of special abilities do you think they might have?"

"How would I know? After all, we don't even know what kind of superpowers their fathers have."

The white cockatiel has been incubating eggs since it came to their home. It does nothing but incubate eggs every day and has never moved its nest. Nobody knows whether it has any special abilities or what those abilities are.

The mother and son quickly went downstairs to the yard, where Gigi was standing in front of the pet room window, peering intently inside.

"If you want to see, go inside. What are you doing standing outside?"

They had just discovered that the bird egg was cracked. Qiqi went upstairs to call his mother, but Jiji stayed in the pet room.

Seeing him standing outside now, I was quite puzzled.

What, you think you can see even more clearly from outside?
To everyone's surprise, Gigi said with a frustrated look, "It started pecking at me as soon as you left, and Xiaofeng is the same, she won't let me in there."

"Huh?" Qiqi was taken aback for a moment, then remembered something and asked, "Were you sleeping with Xiao Ai again?"

Birds and cats are natural enemies. Even though they have mutated and become more intelligent, every time Xiao Ai comes here, Feng Bao and Bai Xuan Feng are on high alert. Their tufts of hair stand on end, and they stare at Xiao Ai with wide eyes, as if they would pounce on her if she dares to enter the pet room.

In fact, they did fight once, but it wasn't between the parrot couple and Xiao Ai. Instead, Xiao Feng called over a few crows that were perched on their wall, and they started biting Xiao Ai relentlessly.

It almost drove Xiao Ai to the brink of madness, and finally ended with it slapping a crow unconscious.

The big orange cat sat in the yard, its massive body shaking off its messy yellow fur. It stretched out a paw and tossed the unconscious crow to the door of the pet room with a thud. Then it glanced at Xiao Feng with a disdainful look, as if to say, "I don't care to fight you. Otherwise, with your measly flesh, you wouldn't even be enough to fill my teeth."

Although they stopped fighting after that, they still harbored intense hatred for each other whenever they met.

However, parrots shouldn't have a sensitive sense of smell, so they shouldn't be able to smell the cat scent on Gigi. But it's possible that a mutation has made their sense of smell more sensitive. Anyway, if Gigi sleeps with Xiao Ai the night before, Feng Bao definitely won't let him into the pet room the next day.

“Sigh,” Gigi sighed, “Is this a bird? It’s almost like a dog.”

"Wang!"

Xiao Wu called out from the side, clearly disagreeing with what he said.

Gigi wanted to sigh again. Is this still a dog? It's almost an adult.

Click, click, click!
Just then, a very obvious cracking sound came from the pet room. Qiqi's eyes widened immediately upon hearing it. He grabbed his mother's hand and exclaimed, "Listen, listen! That's the sound! The sound of an egg cracking!"

White lychee:
It really is that loud!

She was also shocked. The parrot eggs that Xiaofeng laid were so tiny, not even as big as quail eggs. They looked pink and tender, and the shells didn't look 'thick' at all.

So how did this sound come about?
Because it had become familiar with Bai Xuanfeng, it now pretended not to see them squatting by the nest. It even moved the egg with the crack to the side and stared at it intently.

This cockatiel is probably a first-time father.

For some reason, Bai Li saw a hint of curiosity in its eyes.

The clicking sound came again; it was the little cockatiel pecking at its shell from the inside out.

The egg was so small, and the little creature inside was naturally even smaller, but I don't know where it got such strength. The sound of it pecking at the shell echoed throughout the entire pet room, even attracting the attention of the old man who was going to brush his teeth and wash his face.

Fearing that the little bird would be frightened, the old man didn't come over; he just stood at the door for a while and then left.

I thought that with such loud pecking, it would be out soon, but an hour has passed and the little thing is still pecking. It pecks three times, then stops, as if it's resting. Then it starts pecking again a little while later.

Although the eggshell appears very thin, it also seems very sturdy, because every three pecks from the little creature only leave a thin crack on the surface. Adding what Qiqi had seen before, there are now only about a dozen cracks on the upper part of the shell.

It's quite strange that other places also seem to have cracks, but upon closer inspection, you can see that they are different from the small things inside. It's like a phone screen cracked inside, but the outer film is still intact.

So the cracks that appeared at the beginning seemed to be sending a signal, a signal that it was about to emerge from its shell.

Bai Li recalled whether there were any cracks on the eggs when she came to check them yesterday.

It was only then that I realized I had been so focused on Tiedan yesterday that I had forgotten to check on the eggs.

Click click click.
Even after breakfast, the little creature inside still wasn't finished, going back and forth like a lullaby, almost lulling me to sleep.

Bai Li checked the time; it had been almost three hours.

She had arranged to visit Old Master Huo with Jiang Minglang this morning, along with Base Chief Ouyang.

They should have arrived by 10 a.m.

"Let's go, it might still be pecking when we get back."

Old Sheng has already come to inform us that Base Chief Ouyang has arrived at Old Huo's residence, bringing with him a lot of things, some for Old Huo and some for his father-in-law.

The old man was very kind; he always brought gifts when he came, and they were always rare and hard-to-get items, like cigarettes.

Although his father-in-law's smoking habit wasn't severe, he couldn't quit, and he felt uncomfortable all over if he didn't smoke for a while.

Therefore, he and Zhang Shaoda and several others quit their smoking, leaving all the cigarettes for him.

Bai Li stood up from the small stool and asked, "Do you want to bring Tie Dan?"

Last night, the couple discussed Old Huo's Achilles tendon and Huo Siyun's facial scar. They weren't fresh or obvious external injuries, and they didn't know if Tiedan's unicorn would work.
In the end, the two decided to give it a try.

Even if it's for no other reason than to uphold Mr. Huo's bottom line, it's worth a try.

However, Tie Dan's healing abilities are currently only known to a small group of reliable people, and they have no intention of spreading them.

After all, this superpower is extremely rare; so far, no other person or animal has ever been known to possess it.

Tie Dan is one of a kind.

"Let's not bring them yet. We'll go over there together tonight when we're free."

The two walked out talking. Bai Li was wearing a dark blue, thick, long down jacket. She was almost three months pregnant, but her belly didn't look big at all.

Jiang Minglang glanced gently at her lower abdomen and said in a low voice, "You vomited so badly when you were pregnant with Qiqi, how come you have no reaction at all this time? Could it be a girl?"

When he spoke of the word 'daughter,' his eyes brightened and softened.

Song Xiaoxiao is a pretty girl with a sweet tongue. She's not just liked by Qiao Fei, but by all the grown men like her too.

Therefore, Jiang Minglang especially hoped that his second child would be a daughter.

It smells so sweet and soft. Just thinking about it being my daughter makes my heart flutter with joy.

"No reaction doesn't necessarily mean it's a daughter."

Bai Li also felt that this pregnancy was very comfortable. Apart from feeling sleepy every day, she had no other reactions. It was completely different from when she was pregnant with her own son, when she was vomiting uncontrollably.

However, this could also be related to her special abilities. After all, her physical structure has changed, so it's not surprising that her reaction would be different when the same thing happens again.

She really wanted a daughter, but she was afraid that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. So she decided not to have too high hopes at the beginning, hoping that she might be pleasantly surprised in the end.

She held up her wrist to show him, "The red string that Xiaoxiao gave me before, I got it from the temple, it's very effective. From now on I won't take it off until I give birth, maybe my dream will come true."

Although Song Huanyan told her that the red ropes were sold by the dozen at the temple, her brother and sister-in-law bought five dozen, one dozen were kept by Xiaoxiao, and the rest were given away by the couple.

It was Chinese New Year, and people of all ages were given gifts.

They said they would treat it as a red envelope (a monetary gift) to someone.

That year, the children of the Song family and Xiaoxiao's generation all said that her brother and sister-in-law were stingy.

Bai Li thought her brother and sister-in-law were a wonderful couple, so even if the red string was bought by the dozen, she was willing to believe it once.

When the two arrived, Old Huo was probably reporting what he knew to Base Commander Ouyang, so the atmosphere in the main hall looked somewhat serious.

"Xiaobai is here too, come and sit down."

Every time she heard Commander Ouyang call her Xiaobai, Bai Li's lips would twitch involuntarily.

Xiao Bai, that name always reminded her of the kitten that Zhou Lei had raised like a treasure for almost two years, which was still only the size of an adult's palm.

"This is a new black tea that my father-in-law brewed. I'll make a pot for you two."

"No rush, let Old Master Huo finish speaking first."

After the two sat down, Old Huo continued the conversation from where they left off.

"Since they were able to capture me, they naturally captured others as well. However, some of them did so voluntarily. Because they themselves didn't have superpowers, they wanted to experiment with people or animals with superpowers to see if ordinary people without superpowers could also acquire them. For example, blood transfusions—transfusing the blood of a person with superpowers into a person without superpowers. Or making people with superpowers eat the meat of mutated animals."

Bai Li frowned slightly. She hadn't expected that those people not only studied humans but also captured mutated animals.

Her family has the most mutated animals; it seems she'll have to keep a close eye on them and prevent them from escaping.

Everything else is easy to handle, but Fengbao is the most difficult to deal with.

Although the little bird doesn't go out often, it will occasionally 'run away from home' and disappear in a flash.

Recently, perhaps because the white cockatoo is incubating its eggs, it has been staying at home obediently and hasn't flown out anymore.

So, once the baby birds hatch, shouldn't we try to get Bai Xuanfeng to stay and not leave?

“I was locked up by them for two months. For a while, I could hear the howls and screams of cats, dogs, wolves, or other animals almost every day. As for what happens after killing and eating animals, and whether ordinary people mutate, I’m not sure. But I think they don’t.”

Old Huo resisted those people's actions not only because he had his bottom line and didn't want to do it, but also because of his own principles and ideas.

This apocalypse is like a catastrophe bestowed upon humanity by heaven and earth, and the superhumans who emerge from it are there to resist this catastrophe.

Those with superpowers under the age of forty have their mutations determined by their environment and their own physical constitution. There may be some patterns, but they are not obvious, and therefore they cannot be changed by external means.

At least in his view, it was definitely irreversible.

So no matter how much those people try, it's all in vain, just wishful thinking.

"We didn't see any mutated animals when we went there. Did they move to a different location?"

Jiang Minglang was confident that he was quite meticulous in his investigation, especially since he was determined to rescue Old Master Huo, so he naturally had to investigate thoroughly before taking action.

"I think they might have moved them, or maybe eating meat wasn't effective, so they simply stopped for now. After all, the animals' intelligence is much higher than before after they mutate. They hunted animals so extensively, it's hard to guarantee that they wouldn't hold a grudge and retaliate. Once it starts, it's almost impossible to stop them, so in order to preserve their actual base, it's very likely that they moved the animals to a more secluded underground location."

As they were talking, Old Huo's right leg, whose tendons had been severed, suddenly twitched. He then subconsciously placed his hand on his right leg and winced in pain.

"Mr. Huo, your foot..."

"It's alright. Since I managed to get out of there alive, it doesn't matter if my foot can't be healed. Besides, if I can't even do anything about my own foot, then who can?"

Old Huo wasn't exaggerating; it's truly the case.

However, aside from humans, perhaps dogs could be given a try.

So when evening came and Old Huo's ankles were enveloped in a warm white light, he fell silent.
I went to get a dental implant today. The price for one tooth was auspicious: 8888.
It breaks my heart.