After the fog, I became a birdman

Chapter 143 The 2nd Year Rainy Season

While the people in the base were still busy killing mosquitoes and checking the mutated plants, some tiny bugs hatched from the water had quietly entered the base along the underground drainage pipes, and slowly infiltrated into the various houses. household.

Because there are still a lot of food in the space, they also came among the crowd, and they don’t need to cook to adjust their mood after seeing living people, so Su Qing and the others don’t cook now, and they will take the food from the space when the time comes. Take it out, even if you are full.

Because of this, they did not find the parasites entering the house from the drain hole in the first place.

In the afternoon, Qi Jiang made insect repellent and snake repellent powders beyond his own budget. He remembered the little white bugs he saw in the jungle before, so he sprinkled the newly made powders on the corner of the wall just in case. .

Just as he was about to go to the kitchen to continue spraying, someone knocked on the door suddenly, so he simply sprinkled some powder on the kitchen door, put away his things and went out to open the door.

As he walked, he asked, "Who?"

"We are members of the Thirteenth Detachment of the First Brigade of the Patrol Team, here to help investigate the mutated plants."

Qi Jiang opened the door, glanced at the dozen or so wood-type awakened people wearing coir raincoats outside, and stepped aside to let them in: "It's troublesome."

"No trouble." The leading detachment captain waved everyone in, "Just a few minutes, excuse me."

After finishing speaking, they scattered around to investigate. Someone found some powder with a special smell in the corner of the wall, which was still unseen powder. Some worried that it was left by mutated plants and asked: "Did the two gentlemen bring these powders?" ? Or just move in?"

"Just sprinkled on the ground to keep out moisture and insects."

I hope that the base has also experienced insect infestation, and it has its own insect repellent. After hearing Qi Jiang's answer, he didn't worry about this problem anymore.

While they were checking the living room and several other rooms, Qi Jiang opened the study door: "Susu, someone is here to check the mutant plants, come out first."

Su Qing in the room was sitting cross-legged in meditation, but because this was not his own territory, he didn't get into concentration, he just practiced his mind and practiced routinely. He opened his eyes and stood up when he heard this, and took some of the utensils they left on the table, Put away books, elixir and the like.

About seven or eight minutes later, the entire house was checked, and the patrol detachment told Qi Jiang and the others before walking non-stop to the next house.

"Why did you come home to investigate again?" Su Qing was a little puzzled. He probably sensed the smell of other mutated plants in the base, raised his eyebrows slightly, "There are only five plants missing?"

"Mutated plants also have brains. After the others of the same kind were driven away, they must have become wary. Naturally, they would not easily reveal their position." Qi Jiang smiled lightly and shook his head, "How did you check that ancient text?"

"I'm about to accept the inheritance from my family." Su Qing took out the inheritance bracelet that he got from Wu Fang at the beginning, "When I adjust to the best condition, I will probably be able to accept the inheritance tonight."

"Can't find those books outside?" Qi Jiang stood with arms folded, and pointed his arm with his index finger, "That seems to be a very ancient text."

"It should be, at least it is a text written thousands of years ago." Su Qing nodded affirmatively, and also had some guesses in his heart, "I suspect that some of the treasures of heaven and earth we have discovered today are left over from the previous practice world, but they were hidden by the Dao of Heaven. That's all."

"Your guess should be close to ten." Qi Jiang nodded lightly in agreement, "I just don't know why the spiritual energy suddenly recovered."

This Su Qing dare not guess, this is not something they can touch at this level, let's take care of themselves first.

He was still thinking about inheriting the bracelet, so he didn't chat with Qi Jiang for too long: "Then I'll go back to the study first."

"Okay, then I..."

"By the way, Brother Jiang." Su Qing suddenly remembered what happened in the mission hall, turned around and said to Qi Jiang, "It's been almost a day since I posted the mission, your medicine powder is ready, go to the mission hall to see if there is any Come back and hand in the mission."

Qi Jiang, who wanted to continue spreading the powder, nodded, "Okay, I'll go now."

"Remember to wear a raincoat and shoe covers, so you don't catch a cold." Su Qing did not forget to remind her when closing the door.

Qi Jiang, who was only going to go out with an umbrella, responded, chuckled and shook his head: "You remember to tell me, why don't you remember to take more protection when you go out by yourself?"

His voice was not loud, but Su Qing in the study heard it clearly, and immediately replied with a helpless smile: "Didn't you learn this from a certain male mother?"

Qi, male mother, Jiang touched his nose, he decided not to talk about this with Su Qing, who was not as talkative as Su Qing, and went to the entrance to put on a raincoat and shoe covers silently.

In the study room, Su Qing, who won the "quarrel", hummed happily, put the inheritance bracelet on his hand and continued to meditate.

The inheritance of the Su family over the years is mainly through books and the knowledge passed down to the present by the elders. Due to the decline of the practice world, this kind of inheritance is very incomplete, but it was enough in the past, and even in the current world, it is enough to deal with most people. Case.

Right now, it's just that Su Qing, who has established the foundation, hasn't finished reading some of the books at home that require cultivation, and he can't read any of the pages behind the golden core.

Just because ordinary inheritance is enough, Su Qing has never had a chance to use the inheritance bracelet.

Now there is a scale key with ancient characters, and he can't find the corresponding characters in the ancient books outside, so he can only hope for the inheritance bracelet.

He quickly entered the state of cultivation. When Qi Jiang went out, he was afraid that someone would come and disturb him, so he arranged a security formation near the door, so that if anyone sneaked in without eyes, Su Qing in the study could be the first time knows.

He walked quickly from the residential area to the task hall. Because it rained heavily today, there were far fewer people going out to hunt than before, so it didn't take long for them to line up in Qijiang.

After the task was released today, there were really a few people who came to hand in the task. Qi Jiang took the address given by the staff in the task hall to find the people who handed in the task one by one, and then went to the door with them to recognize the person, but unfortunately, none of these people They wanted to fish in troubled waters. Except for a man in his thirties surnamed Chen, none of the people who found out met the requirements.

There was nothing to gain, and time was wasted. By the time he finished identifying all the people, it was already a bit late.

The street lamps on the street were dimly lit, and the heavy rain covered the light from the lanterns, so that the road under our feet could only be vaguely illuminated, and many sections of the road were even completely black.

Qi Jiang sighed more than once how good it is to be able to see at night. If it was before, he would probably have to suffer so much to walk at night with a lantern, which would be extremely troublesome.

Back home, Qi Jiang put away his raincoat and umbrella, took off his shoe covers and lit the lanterns on the wall.

Although they can have night vision, due to years of instinct and habit, they usually turn on the lights at home, otherwise they always feel weird.

When he lit the lamp, he deliberately made a little noise. Su Qing, who was meditating in the study, came out when he knew he was back: "Are you back? Did you find it?"

"A few people came to hand in the task, but they all wanted to fish in troubled waters." Qi Jiang took out water to wash his hands, and sighed very speechlessly.

"Have you seen the person you saw at the gate of the base that time?"

"I haven't seen it." Qi Jiang shook his head lightly, "Let's eat first, and we'll see later."

Su Qing went to wash his hands, and then took out the food to eat with Qi Jiang. After eating, Su Qing wanted to meditate for a few more hours before going to take a bath.

As soon as he took his clothes into the bathroom, Qi Jiang, who was outside preparing to continue spreading the powder, heard Su Qing cursing in a low voice, and then heard the sound of flames burning.

Qi Jiang's heart skipped a beat, thinking something was wrong, he flew to the door of the bathroom, opened the door and went in, and asked nervously, "Susu, what's wrong?"

Su Qing signaled Qi Jiang to look at the clothes hanger, and said in a very disgusted tone, "It's bugs, it's all over the room, I just found out when I put the clothes on."

The hangers and the walls were burned, but the bugs were gone, but there was a layer of dead bugs like plant ash on the ground. Su Qing is burning the clothes he put on the hangers just now. He himself has a cleanliness habit. Of course he didn't want it to be crawled over by bugs, and it would be clean after burning it.

These bugs are the small white bugs they saw in the jungle before. They are different from the bugs they encountered in Fengcheng last year. They are smaller than a grain of dust. any taste.

Insects continued to crawl out of the drain, Qi Jiang frowned slightly, and went outside the living room to look.

He sprinkled the medicine powder on the foot of the wall outside, but found no insects, and found no traces on the bathroom door. Qi Jiang took the remaining medicine powder into the bathroom and sprinkled it to the drain, and soon the insects below detoured to other places. out of place.

Su Qing burned all the bug corpses in the bathroom, looked at the blackened bathroom, and lost the thought of taking a bath, so she couldn't help saying angrily: "Forget it, I won't wash it tonight, tomorrow talk later."

"Let's draw a curtain in the living room, and then we'll get all the water out." Qi Jiang coaxed him softly while pulling him out, raised his hand to make a few jets of water to wash away the black dust in the bathroom, and looked at the drain The powder was washed away by water, he sighed slightly, "Let me improve it and make it into an aromatherapy."

"Forget it, don't waste time on this, medicine powder is enough." Su Qing felt that the gain was not worth the loss, "We still have to sort out the temporary territory, and we haven't found any settlements by the sea."

Hearing this, Qi Jiang gave up.

Because there are drains in the kitchen and the bathroom, they found it troublesome, so they simply abandoned these two places, and only sprinkled the powder on the door, so that they couldn't see it.

They drew a curtain in the corner of the living room to make a temporary bathroom, and they made all the water that flowed out into a water ball, and threw it out of the window after taking a shower.

Su Qing did not sleep tonight, but meditated on the bed like Qi Jiang. He wanted to receive all the inheritance in the bracelet as soon as possible, and find out what the ancient text meant earlier.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night, it is true for Qi Jiang and Su Qing, and it is also true for Hope Base.

This time, I hope that the people at the base cannot sleep because of blood-sucking mosquitoes or mutated plants, but because of parasites.

Yes, parasites again.

In the middle of the night, an angry curse pierced through the rainy night, waking up the surrounding residents: "What the hell is this bug!"

The first person who discovered the parasite was a night patrol officer in the outer city. He didn't realize it when the insect crawled on his body, but he felt a little dizzy after a while.

With rich experience, he was keenly aware that something was wrong. He went to the street light and took a casual look. His hand turned red at some point. When he took a closer look, it wasn't his hand that turned red, but his hand. It was covered with a kind of white and red insects.

The worms themselves are translucent white, and turn red only when they are full of blood. If there are a lot of them, they are easy to spot.

"What the hell is this bug!"

His panicked and angry curses awakened many people subconsciously, and the existence of parasites was soon discovered. Many people who had slept soundly found that their skin was covered with worms, and their bodies were so disgusting that they had goose bumps. While cursing, he held an umbrella and rushed into the rain curtain and hurried to the hospital.

Just like a chain reaction, the sleeping residents woke up one after another, and soon the riot spread throughout the base.

In the room, Qi Jiang opened his eyes, walked carefully to the window and opened the curtains, and found many people running wildly outside, yelling in fear: "The people in front run fast, don't block the way!"

The scene was a bit chaotic and familiar, just like when the dark soil red worms broke out in Fengcheng last year. Everyone had a very clear idea of ​​where to go for help, and they were panicked and calm at the same time.

The blood-sucking parasites are much more obvious than when they are hungry, because there are too many of them, many people outside look like blood men at first glance, and they look very scary.

Some parasites were blown away by the wind while the host was running, and many of them continued to drill into the pores of the host. Even if the host slapped hard, they were not killed. Although they were small, their defense was stronger than those blood-sucking mosquitoes with big fists. too much.

Qi Jiang saw this scene clearly from the window, and couldn't help frowning.

"Parasites again?" Su Qing came to his side at some point, "Then it will be a disaster. There are quite a lot of these bugs."

"There is another type of parasite." Qi Jiang remembered how difficult the dark soil red worms were last year. "Now the dark soil red worms haven't hatched yet."

"I don't know." Su Qing was also not sure if the dark soil red worms by the sea had hatched or not.

Although parasites are quite annoying, fortunately Qi Jiang made an insect repellent powder in advance, so he doesn't have to worry about being parasitized. Now that everyone is awakened, even such a small thing can kill people, so they don't care about it.

There was a crowd of people outside, Qi Jiang closed the curtains, and went back to the room with Su Qing to continue meditating.

Nearly one-third of Hope Base's population was infected with the parasite, a figure of 600 million that kept the commotion alive until the next morning.

Early in the morning, Qi Jiang left the base and went to their temporary territory. He took some time to record the data of the smooth tree selected by them. After returning, he drew the design drawing of the tree house in the living room.

Because the outside was too chaotic, Su Qing, who originally wanted to go to the mission hall in the morning, also gave up the idea, and simply stayed with Qi Jiang in the living room.

He had successfully received all the inheritances last night, and after eating in the morning, he sat on the sofa and searched for the memory of the inheritance in his mind, seemingly in a daze.

Both of them have their own things to do. Although they are both sitting on the sofa without interfering with each other, the atmosphere is not unfamiliar, but full of a kind of companionship.

On the other hand, Hope Base Hospital is urgently treating the wounds of patients infected with parasites. Last year, they also encountered dark soil bloodworms, and the insect repellent powder developed later was similar to the formula at Fengcheng Base.

But this year's parasites are not dark soil red worms. Their previous insect repellent powder is useless. I took out the remaining disinfectant, but I didn't expect it to be really effective.

Disinfectant solution is the only effective medicine at present. If there is no other way, the hospital first adopts a relatively stupid method, first scrub it with disinfectant solution, and then let the vision-awakened people help deal with these new parasites that escaped from the pores. insect.

The parasites are too small and have relatively strong defenses. Ordinary slapping can't hurt them at all. Too much force can easily cause both the patient and the insects to suffer. The hospital can only let the vision-awakened people pick out the insects first and then burn them to death. .

This is a very cumbersome job, and the efficiency is extremely low. It takes at least an hour to clean up all the new parasites on a person. There are still millions of people waiting outside, and the number of infected people is also increasing. Developing new parasites Insect repellent powder is imminent.

Fortunately, this bug won't kill people, and besides being disgusting, it will only make the host weak, so the residents are not so panicked, but they are afraid that the bug will wake up after a while, so they urge the hospital to hurry up.

In order to quickly develop a new type of anthelmintic, I hope that the base will soon send dozens of teams into the jungle to search for suitable materials and collect information related to the new type of parasite.

At the same time, the base also put up a reward mission for deworming medicine in the mission hall. The generous rewards allowed many people who had already been infected with parasites to form a team and enter the jungle.

Around noon, Qi Jiang finished drawing the rough design and was going to Dashu to get a pair of data.

He got up and packed up the design drawings on the table, went to the entrance to put on a raincoat, and when he turned his head and saw that Su Qing was still in a daze, he reminded him: "Susu, I'll go out for a while, and you should be more careful at home."

Su Qing, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly recovered: "Ah? What did you say?"

Qi Jiang shook his head with a broken smile, and repeated it patiently: "I said, I'll go out and visit the temporary territory. You should pay attention to safety at home."

There was a lot of people outside, and many people were discussing parasites with some anxiety, and many people were clamoring to form a team to find medicine in the jungle. The originally quiet residential area became like a vegetable market.

When Qi Jiang was around, Su Qing didn't care about the noise outside, and if he wasn't around, Su Qing didn't want to stay here either.

"I'll go with you too, and I can help you." Su Qing got up and took out his raincoat, and put it on while walking. "When we come back, let's go to the mission hall to have a look."

"Aren't you still looking for what that word is?" Qi Jiang asked while squatting to help Su Qing find the shoes.

"Just this pair." Su Qing casually found a pair of boots.

"We don't have much medicine powder, if the bugs run on it, it will be bad, let's change another pair." Qi Jiang took out another pair of boots that fit Su Qing's legs better, "In this way, you won't be afraid of getting bugs while walking jumped in."

"That bug is so small, it can get in no matter how tight your shoes are." Su Qing frowned remembering last night's experience, "I'll go to the woods to find some elixir later, the bug disaster is probably just beginning, let's Prepare more medicine powder."

"I just heard someone say that it seems that the hospital is using disinfectant."

"Disinfectant?!" Su Qing was shocked, his nose moved, and he could really smell a little disinfectant, and the source was the hospital, which made him even more surprised, "There is still disinfectant here remain?"

"After all, not every city is as bad as Fengcheng." Qi Jiang showed a hint of helplessness in his eyes, "Their supplies have not been buried in the ground, and it is not surprising that there are leftover medicines."

"Since the disinfectant is useful, don't worry about the insect repellent powder." Su Qing lowered his head, put on his shoes, put on his gloves and hat, "I'm done, are you okay?"

Qi Jiang was dressed a long time ago, heard Yan hummed, opened the door and walked out with Su Qing.

In the dense jungle, the heavy rain knocked down many leaves. The number of fallen leaves on the ground was much more than the previous two days, but the number was still not enough to cover the entire ground, and the path still looked a bit muddy.

Usually there are all kinds of sounds in the jungle, especially the monkeys here, who patrol the forest path every day with whining, and like to smash things when they encounter people, which is very annoying. There are crocodiles and wild boars, even large hunting groups will not go this way.

But this afternoon, the noisy jungle suddenly quieted down. Even the chirping of birds and insects could not be heard. The monsters within a radius of more than ten kilometers all silently moved away from a certain place.

On a big tree that stood out from the crowd, Qi Jiang took a ruler around the big tree to measure the data, and reported a number for Su Qing to write down after the measurement.

This big tree is more than 300 meters high, because this is just a temporary residence, Qi Jiang and the others don't want to pruning the tree too much when building the tree house, so they chose a place south of the main trunk, where The branches are relatively sparse, and you only need to cut off a few branches that are not too thick to clear the place for a tree house.

After roughly memorizing the data, Qi Jiangfei went over to compare with Su Qing: "It's a little bit different from what I measured last time. This tree has grown."

It's only been a morning since his last measurement, and some of the side branches of this tree are a little thicker. If you want to build a house here, you need to do some special treatment.

"At that time, I'll just add a magic circle, just a small problem." Su Qing took out the design drawing that Qi Jiang had just kept for him, "Which one are you going to choose?"

Qi Jiang has no demands on this: "I can do it, which style do you want?"

"Let's keep it simple." Su Qing felt that a temporary residence doesn't need to be so complicated.

Hearing this, Qi Jiang rummaged through his design drawings under the umbrella, pulled out a simple one, pointed to the big tree and pointed to Su Qing the various positions of the corresponding design drawings: "This is the kitchen, this is the bedroom, and this is the bedroom." This is the study room, this is the bathroom, and this is the living room, do you think there is anything else that needs to be changed?"

"Don't use the study room." Su Qing felt that if the study room was reduced, the other rooms would be more spacious and easier to build, "We can just practice in the bedroom, and the living room is also fine, and there won't be any guests around. "

Qi Jiang naturally listened to Su Qing. He glanced at the design drawing in his hand and found that it would take some time to modify it. Now the base is a bit noisy, so he simply flew under the tree: "Let me build a work shed first."

"I'll help you." Su Qing took out the medicine powder and the leftover disinfectant water, looked at the white parasites on the ground expressionlessly, looked at the medicine powder and then the disinfectant water, and finally tried to spray it with the disinfectant water first.

Because there was already accumulated water on the ground, the diluted disinfectant water had little effect, so Su Qing took out another bottle with a higher concentration, and finally drove these parasites away.

Although the parasites can be driven away, the effect of the disinfectant is still not as good as that of the powder. These insects have not awakened yet, and the disinfectant will not be effective after a while.

Just in case, Su Qing made sure that there were no bugs on the ground, and then sprinkled powder on the edge just in case, while Qi Jiang started to build a simple work shed on the ground with tarps and wood.

While they were working on the ground, there was a sound of footsteps outside the jungle, and Qi Jiang, who was squatting on the ground, continued to nail the wood without raising his head: "Someone is coming."