Chapter 79
Chapter 79
call out!
A blue light flashed, and a mud-brown piglet on the ground screamed, and soon fell silent.
A young man carrying a flat wooden quiver passed by in the thick grass of a person's height. The young man quickly came to the prey and pulled out the green wooden arrow expressionlessly.
The long grass in the other direction shook violently, as if some large creature was approaching, Su Qing put away the prey on the arrow, panted lightly and wiped off the blood on it, without any nervousness on his face.
A figure emerged from the dense grass, Qi Jiang brushed aside the long grass, and also held a piglet in his hand: "Susu, it's almost time, let's go."
Su Qing hummed lightly, put away the piglet in his hand, and left the long grass with Qi Jiang.
The sun was shining, and the two sat in the shade of the long grass to enjoy the shade.
In the past two days, all the red butterflies have hatched. Now wherever there is fresh water, there are densely packed red butterflies. The whole world looks like it has become a piece of red.
The temperature is rising rapidly, and the weather is getting hotter and drier. Su Qing and the others don't like flying very much now, because the sky is too hot, but there are some shelters on the ground to enjoy the cool.
Su Qing took out his lunch box and had lunch with Qi Jiang, when he raised his head, he could faintly see a small river in the distance, and he suddenly remembered something.
"Brother Jiang, have there been more mutated fish in the vicinity these two days?" He said uncertainly while eating, "I feel that there are several more breaths in the Yuhe River."
Qi Jiang picked up a piece of stewed beef and put it in the bowl, nodded slightly: "Maybe they came with the fleet."
The movement of Fengcheng's transfer is so big, and the prey has become less, so it is not surprising that a few mutated fish migrate with the prey.
However, there are mutated fish expulsion formations on board, some crocodiles and water snakes that are not afraid of fire and therefore ignore the expulsion formations are also intimidated by Qi Jiang's sword, so there is no need to worry too much about the safety of the fleet.
The most dangerous thing now is the mutated animals on land.
"We've been hunting by the sea for the past two days, and we haven't visited the upstream. Do you think the mutated animals in the upstream have started to spread downstream?" Su Qing was a little worried, "They always wanted to enter Fengcheng before, but now Humans leave the protection circle by themselves, I am afraid that they are all interested, and there should be many mutant animals who want to move their territories downstream."
Even though the fleet was always on the water, and the new base was also upstream, the mutated animals were not sure how far humans were from them, so they just stood still.
But that can't last long.
And the Snowless Mountain Range is between Fengwai Mountain and the new base. I'm afraid there will be many mutated animal territories approaching, even in the Snowless Mountain Range.
"Sooner or later, it will spread." Qi Jiang knew what Su Qing was worried about, "But our home is high enough, so nothing will happen in a while."
"I'm afraid that some ferocious beast will take a fancy to the forest near our house. If it touches it from the east, it will be in trouble." Su Qing can't worry, "Now there are so many new varieties of dead wood, and we haven't been able to find them yet. I always feel that my home is not safe enough to make new doors with suitable materials.”
Every morning when hunting, they would search the nearby forests, but they could not find any trees that were hard enough.
Qi Jiang was also afraid that he would not sleep well at night, so he thought for a moment: "Then let's find stones and build a wall in the backyard first?"
Hard enough trees are hard to find, but hard rocks can still be found, so at least the rear is safer.
Su Qing thought for a moment and then nodded: "Okay, first go back to Fengcheng to find glass for two days, and then go to see the mountains."
He promised that Shanshan would only leave for two days, and now it's been four days, if he doesn't go back, his daughter will definitely make trouble.
After finishing speaking, they continued to eat, and after they were full, they flew to Fengcheng without bringing Jinjin back.
Jinjin caught a small prey yesterday, and he is in the mood for hunting. He doesn't like cramped shelters, but prefers the open sky.
In the morning, when Su Qing asked him if he wanted to come back, he shook his head and refused, and he even sounded disgusted.
Seeing this, Su Qing kept some mutated meat at home just in case, and didn't necessarily ask him to come with him.
Back in Fengcheng, Su Qing and the two went shopping a few times in places where they had never found glass before as planned. They only found two pieces of glass in one afternoon, but compared with the previous harvest, it was considered good.
As night fell slowly, the two returned to the shelter to finish their meal, and then went to Shanshan after eating.
The condition of the refuge is not good, and I haven’t seen Shanshan for a few days. The beautiful kitten before now looks like something black. Su Qing, who wanted to hug her daughter, couldn’t hold it back. When Shanshan rushed over, she reached out to catch it. She, but she didn't hug her like before without looking at anything.
"Meow?" Shan Shan tilted his head in doubt.
The old father didn't have the nerve to say that he disliked his daughter, so he could only look at Qi Jiang with a dry smile and asked for help. Qi Jiang understood and grabbed Shan Shan: "Your father has something else to do, I'll take you to take a bath first."
Under Shantu's reluctant eyes, Shanshan waved lazily, squatted on Qi Jiang's hand in disgust, and was carried away by him.
Back home, Su washed his hands and hid, pretending to go to the port for a stroll.
On the way, I met several acquaintances such as head Zhou, and invited Su Qing to a meeting, mainly for the matter of mutated fish and boats entering Yuhe and red butterflies.
Su Qing, the consultant, is actually just a second job. He only got his current status when he encountered no one in the shelter. Now the shelter is full of talents, and there are many people who are more professional in rescue than him, so he is no longer needed.
However, he still went to join in the fun and attend a meeting, and only then did he know that the red butterfly is the fifth generation of the dark soil red worm, and its name is the dark soil red butterfly.
Their phosphorous powder has medicinal properties and can cure people infested by the first to fourth generation dark earth bloodworms.
The previous four generations have the function of skin parasitism. Phosphorus powder is aimed at this situation. It is not only better than disinfectant water, but also has the effect of promoting muscle growth and removing scars.
The cocoons of the dark soil red butterfly can also be ground into powder and taken internally, which can cure people who have been internally parasitized by the third generation of dark soil red worms, and has an internal bactericidal effect.
The blood and mouthparts of the Dark Soil Red Butterfly have a paralyzing effect. Although it is not as good as the scientifically produced anesthetics in the past, it is the only anesthetic they can obtain now.
In addition, the cultivation department found that the Dark Earth Red Butterfly was ahead of all mutant humans and animals in terms of level. Like the monsters mentioned in the book, they could sign contracts with humans.
In other words, the Dark Earth Red Butterfly was already a monster in the true sense, not a half-monster like a mutated animal that couldn't sign an agreement.
Su Qing was a little astonished, they all said that they turned cocoons into butterflies, but they didn't expect the dark soil red butterfly to be the first monster they discovered?
The meeting was about to end, Mr. Han scanned around and looked at Su Qing: "Consultant Su comes from a family, how much do you know about the master-servant contract?"
Su Qing came back to his senses and shook his head slightly: "I don't know much, I only know that a person can only have one demon servant at the same time. I heard that there are other influences. The records in the family books are not complete. I don't know about the others."
Grandma Zhou standing in front of the stage nodded: "When Mr. Su was there, he did mention this matter at the exchange meeting. We should be cautious about signing the contract."
As the first monster they discovered, the Dark Earth Red Butterfly was of great significance, but if they could only sign one demon servant, everyone really had no interest in the Dark Earth Red Butterfly, so everyone was not too disappointed.
After the meeting was over, Su Qing walked out of the meeting room in deep thought. Grandma Zhou put away her notebook, took her only son and walked a few steps to follow her: "Senior Su."
Hearing Grandma Zhou's voice, Su Qing was stunned for a moment, then realized that it was calling herself, turned around and nodded slightly: "What's the matter with Grandma Zhou?"
"Your address really offends the younger generation. You should call the younger generation Yihan, or the younger generation Mrs. Zhou like Mr. Su." Grandma Zhou cupped her hands in a respectful manner.
In the cultivation world, strength is the most important thing. Su Qing's cultivation base is higher than Mrs. Zhou's now, so he is naturally his elder.
Su Qing knew that the way of practice would definitely flourish in the future, and his higher status would only benefit him and not harm him, so he naturally did not refuse: "Then I will call you Mrs. Zhou just like my grandfather."
Yihan is Mrs. Zhou's boudoir name. After all, he is young and can't say it out loud. Mrs. Zhou can be called this by her peers, and Su Qing doesn't feel too repulsed by calling it out.
Mrs. Zhou didn't feel displeased at all, she followed Su Qing half a step behind, and asked with a smile: "Senior is walking steadily now, but is he in good health?"
Su Qing shook her head slightly: "It's better than before."
Mrs. Zhou thought to herself that this was not a good thing, but she didn't go into it. She turned around and pushed her only son up: "Senior, this is the only son of this junior. His surname is Du, his name is Duanfang, and his style name is Muzhi."
This name is a little familiar, Su Qing paused, looked at Du Duanfang a few times, saw that there was arrogance in his eyes, and lost interest, and said in a polite tone: "Gentleman Duanfang, the name is quite good."
"It's still the name given by Mr. Su back then."
Su Qing remembered this name. He heard that in the past, his grandfather seemed to be in the limelight because of some incident. Many children were brought by their parents to name him, and Du Duanfang was not the only one.
He didn't talk to him, and Mrs. Zhou glanced at the only son who was slightly dissatisfied, and hated iron for being weak in her heart.
No way, Mrs. Zhou could only compliment Su Qing a few more times, praising Su Qing for saving countless lives a while ago, with a bodhisattva heart, and praising him for his greatly increased martial arts, and so on.
After leaving the port, Su Qing immediately said goodbye to Mrs. Zhou, and did not let her continue to follow.
When he left, Mrs. Zhou glared at her only son angrily: "I usually look so eloquent, why didn't you even fart just now?"
Du Duanfang frowned, and complained dissatisfiedly: "You let me hold a sick young man younger than me? Isn't he from the Su family? Grass is growing on Mr. Su's grave, why are we holding him like this? Before And help him..."
"Shut up!" Mrs. Zhou was extremely angry, she looked around and lowered her voice, "He was already at the second level of Qi training before, and he can stand up without Mr. Su! What's more, he is now at the third level of Qi training."
Du Duanfang was taken aback: "Why, didn't it mean that he had never practiced before?"
"He has mutated now, his energy is stable, and he is no longer the sick child he was in the past." Mrs. Zhou said meaningfully, "The world has changed a long time ago, even if he is an ordinary person, we have to support him. He knows some secrets of the aristocratic family, we don't know how much effort and detours we can save."
Just like the restriction of the master-servant contract, if Elder Su hadn't mentioned it at the exchange meeting, she would not have known about it.
The aristocratic family inheritance is complete, even if casual cultivators cannot seize the aristocratic family inheritance, it does not mean that they cannot use experience, but this also requires people to be willing to speak.
Among several aristocratic families, the formation and talisman methods are respected by the Su family, and it happens to be a hot field right now. If anyone can get Su Qing's guidance, they will definitely be able to overtake in a corner and come from behind.
Du Duanfang's eyes shone brightly, and his arrogance disappeared: "Then I'll go and apologize to him?"
"Forget it, let's look for another chance later." Mrs. Zhou snorted coldly, "He is not easy to get along with, and it annoys him. The family has so many tricks, and you don't know how to deal with it. Don't get close to him without my permission. .”
"understood."
When the mother and son left the port, Mrs. Zhou was annoyed, and she also blamed her for not expecting that the disease brought by Su Qing's womb could be cured, and she could break through the third level of Qi training in a short period of time.
If she had known this, she would not have mentioned her only son.
After they left, Master Han and Mayor Gao came out from behind the wall.
"The third level of Qi training is already the person with the highest cultivation level in Fengcheng." Mayor Gao narrowed his eyes, and suddenly he became bright, "Old Han, you have to find a way to make good use of this talent, and you can't let him Become a mascot."
"Su Qing doesn't have much ambition." Teacher Han felt a little headache.
"Don't forget about the stable period proposed by Qi Jiang. When the stable period is reached, it depends on one's mind." Mayor Gao shook his head slightly, "The mutants in the shelter who have successfully absorbed energy into their bodies are much better than others. The mental method cannot be ignored, the cultivation department still lacks a person in charge, and Zhou Yihan is not suitable."
How could Mr. Han not know?
Now there are two vice-ministers in the cultivation department, one is Zhou Yihan, and the other is Huang Lao's confidant Gu Yong, so the cultivation department is divided into two factions, and no one accepts the other.
But it will be different if Su Qing joins. He comes from a family with an orthodox status, and people in the practice world will give him three points. Now he is the strongest in Fengcheng. Even if he is directly airborne, he is more justified than anyone else.
The practice world respects strength, and he will definitely be able to get the support of most people.
As Zhou Yihan said, the aristocratic family has more experience than casual cultivators. If they can get Su Qing's guidance, everyone will avoid many detours. Just because of this, many people will support Su Qing.
That's what I said, but Su Qing doesn't want to be soft and hard, and now he is fully committed to his new home, and he also clearly stated that he wants to take care of his health and doesn't want to be busy with work, and Mr. Han doesn't have anything Su Qing wants to lure. , I really don't know how to start.
"Why don't we start with Qi Jiang?" Mayor Gao asked suddenly.
"He was the one who found the new home in the Snowless Mountains, and he was the one who abducted the people." Master Han complained a bit about this, "He won't help."
Qi Jiang is just a love brain, so it's no wonder he would help them.
There is no solution to this matter for the time being, Master Han and Mayor Gao can only give up for the time being, turn around and go back to busy with their own affairs.
Su Qing returned home soon.Qi Jiang heard the sound of the door opening, hugged Shanshan, turned to look at Su Qing: "Are you back?"
"Yeah." Su Qing nodded slightly, walked over and hugged Shan Shan in her arms, while wiping her hair with a towel, she sat on the stool and told Qi Jiang about the meeting just now.
"Monster?" Qi Jiang's heart was shocked, his face was full of astonishment, "I didn't expect the first monster to be the dark soil red worm."
"The Dark Earth Red Butterfly should have entered a stable period before becoming a monster." Su Qing shook his head slightly. He had been thinking about the meeting all the way back, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.
"You mean, only those who enter the stable stage can transform from a half-monster to a monster?" Qi Jiang's eyes flashed, "Why don't we catch one when we go hunting tomorrow?"
Su Qing smiled slightly, and nodded in agreement: "You can give it a try."
While talking, Shan Shan's fur had been wiped dry, Su Qing put the towel aside, and stroked the cat very comfortably.
Shan Shan lay comfortably on his lap, and soon fell asleep. Qi Jiang carefully put Shan Shan into the cat's litter, and sat on the bed with Su Qing.
Looking at the eldest daughter who was sleeping soundly, Qi Jiang purposely lowered his voice to a very low level, which made his voice a little magnetic: "Susu, I saw the term "Shuangxiu Gongfa" in a book yesterday. Shuangxiu means that you can Are you practicing two systems?"
Su Qing felt a little itchy in his ears, and subconsciously rubbed them. After digesting Qi Jiang's words, his ears gradually turned pink, and his voice was a little uncomfortable: "No."
"what is that?"
"You'll know later." Su Qing was so ashamed that she lay down and covered herself with the quilt, "I won't practice tonight, I'll go to bed first."
Qi Jiang looked confused: "Why?"
His mind was disturbed, and of course he couldn't meditate and practice.
Su Qing shook her head and said nothing, covered her head with the quilt, closed her eyes to stop the random thoughts in her head.
Qi Jiang gradually felt something was wrong, and wanted to lift the quilt to see Su Qing's expression again, but he was afraid of disturbing his sleep, so in the end he didn't go to practice tonight, but fell asleep with doubts.
Because she went to bed too early, Su Qing woke up before four o'clock in the morning, and couldn't fall asleep after waking up, and was afraid that Qi Jiang would be woken up when she got up, so she turned around and fell asleep on his chest.
As a result, when he moved, Qi Jiang opened his eyes and saw that Su Qing was still in his arms, breathing a sigh of relief, subconsciously hugged him even tighter, and said hoarsely, "Are you awake?"
"Did I disturb you?" Su Qing was a little annoyed.
"No, I went to bed too early last night." Qi Jiang tightened his grip again, buried him in Su Qing's hair, kissed the top of his hair, and pampered him, "Can't sleep?"
Su Qing's voice was also a bit muffled: "Well, I've had enough sleep."
Qi Jiang was also full of sleep, but he still didn't get up, he hugged Su Qing all the time and fell asleep, enjoying the joy of holding his treasure in his arms without anyone coveting it.
An hour later, when the sky was bright, Su Qing turned around and rolled out of his arms, got out of bed and washed: "It should be dawn, I'll get up and wash."
Qi Jiang resisted the urge to pull him back, and followed Su Qing with his eyes, but the room was still dark and he didn't have night vision, so he lit the candle on the bedside table and got out of bed to follow Su Qing.
While washing his face, Qi Jiang touched his chin, feeling a little prickly, took the razor from the sink and installed the blade, Su Qing saw it from the side, and naturally helped him apply the shaving foam.
Qi Jiang fell in love with the way Su Qing helped him wipe the shaving foam. After installing the blade, he couldn't wait to reach out and touch Su Qing's chin. He pressed his fingertips on it and rubbed it lightly, until it was smooth.
He couldn't help but bowed his head and kissed him lightly, the shaving foam stained Su Qing's lips and chin everywhere.
Su Qing doesn't like the smell of shaving foam, even if it doesn't smell bad.
His beard grows slower than Qi Jiang's. He just shaved it two days ago. Now that the beard is not growing, he doesn't like to get shaving foam on his face, so he pushed Qi Jiang away with some disgust and wiped it off with a towel. Rinse off and wash your face again with water.
A trace of laughter escaped from Qi Jiang's throat, his chest trembled slightly, knowing that he didn't like it, he didn't touch him anymore, turned around to shave, his lazy movements looked very sexy.
Su Qing, who doesn't like the smell of shaving foam, has been waiting by the side, looking at it with some fascination, just like before.
Qi Jiang always felt that his fascinated eyes seemed to be deliberately seducing, and this time was no exception.
After Qi Jiang quickly shaved and washed his face, he removed the razor blade and put it aside, walked two steps to the side, bowed his head and kissed Su Qing.
A few unbearable voices came from the sink, Shanshan was awakened, turned his head to look at the source of the sound, stretched his waist in the cat nest and yawned out of nowhere.
After a while, Shanshan saw that it was getting late, and walked out of the cat's nest: "Meow~"
Qi Jiang was pushed away by Su Qing, reluctantly wiped off the water stains on Su Qing's lips with a towel, turned his head and looked at Shan Shan with a dark face, fighting with her eyes in the air.
Su Qing calmed down his breathing by tidying up the sink, and when the messy breathing calmed down, he let out a breath, walked over and hugged Shanshan: "Brother Jiang, I'll send Shanshan to work."
"Well, go early and come back early, don't delay there for too long." Qi Jiang said vindictively.
Shanshan grunted a few times to express her dissatisfaction, and even rolled Qi Jiang's eyes: "Meow!"
Qi Jiang felt cold and didn't care about her.
Soon, Su Qing came back again, had breakfast with Qi Jiang and was ready to go out.
When I opened the door, a familiar figure came over from the stairs, holding a half-foot long dried fish in one hand and a candle in the other.
"Brother Chen? Why are you free now?" Qi Jiang opened the door again, Su Qing went in to light a candle, and whispered to Qi Jiang, "It's dark outside, let Brother Chen come in and sit."
"I heard that you were back last night. I knew you were going out early, so I wanted to come here earlier. Fortunately, I made it." Brother Chen smiled embarrassedly, but there was a trace of sadness between his brows than before.
Su Qing lit all the candles in the house, and their room became brighter, Brother Chen and Qi Jiang came in together, put the dried fish on the table, without beating around the bush: "I came this time to ask you something. "
The dried fish he brought is an important gift now, Qi Jiang knew it was not a trivial matter: "What is it?"
"I heard that you often go out to look for things, can you help me find some anti-fetal medicine?" Brother Chen sighed slightly, both happy and worried, "Your sister Fang is pregnant, and now you have a little reaction, if you see any snacks, Especially the sour ones, can you bring some back for me?"
"This is a good thing." Su Qing smiled.
Qi Jiang also nodded with a smile on the side: "Take this dried fish back to make up for Sister Fang. We will bring it back for you when we meet."
"Hey, I brought them all, and I still have them at home." Brother Chen didn't have the face to take them back, "I know you are generous, but you can't help for nothing, so it's settled."
That being the case, Qi Jiang was not polite to him.
New life is always so gratifying, Su Qing asked a little puzzled: "Why do you still use anti-fetal medicine?"
"Your sister Fang accidentally fell a week ago, and her stomach was not feeling well. She went to see a doctor and found out she was pregnant." Brother Chen became more and more worried, "Maybe she was injured when she was rowing here before, and now The fetus is unstable, and I have taken anti-fetal drugs several times, and my family's points are almost used up, so I really have no choice but to come to you for help."
The child accompanied them from Tianbi Garden to the refuge, and the journey was so difficult that they went well, and he must really want to come to the world.
He didn't say that doctors tended to abort them because neither he nor his wife wanted to give up, nor did the children's siblings.
Qi Jiang patted Brother Chen on the shoulder: "This matter is on us, you go back to accompany Sister Fang first, and Su Qing and I will go out to find medicine for you today."
"Then I'll be here to thank you all." Brother Chen nodded with a smile, "I still have something to do at home, so I'll go back first."
He hurried home, Su Qing and Qi Jiang looked at each other, put away the dried fish, and left the house.
Before the sun came out, Su Qingfei was in the air: "All the medicines from the hospital have been taken away. There must be no anti-abortion drugs. Let's go to the pharmacies and clinics to try our luck. Maybe some of them have not been taken away."
Because of this incident, they didn't even go hunting, but spent the whole day helping Brother Chen find things.
Brother Chen said that his family's points are almost the same, and pregnant women need to supplement their nutrition. Qi Jiang and Su Qing took a bag and brought some food they found on the road.
Whether it is the area where the group of survivors who have been trapped for a long time is currently being transferred, or the area where all people were evacuated before the thunderstorm, there is not much food left. The shelter has been raided.
Because of this, Su Qing and the others did not find much food in any place, but the accumulation of small amounts made up for a lot, and finally filled two bags, and they also found some diapers and milk powder that children can use.
It's easy to find food and medicine, but it's hard to find anti-natal drugs.
Among the people who came to the refuge with them, Qi Jiang and Su Qing valued Brother Chen the most, so they naturally helped him whenever they could, especially now it was for a new life, so even if it was a little trouble, they would enjoying the moment.
In the end, they found the birth control pills in the pharmacy that was soaked in water, and picked up some clean, unopened bottles that were sealed better and took them away.
Because the birth control pills were too hard to find, it was past eleven o'clock in the evening when they returned to the shelter.
At this moment, the bergamot volcano seemed to tremble slightly, and the magma inside surged violently.
There are also some mutated animals guarding the few soil crystals near the crater. At this moment, they seem to have sensed something and ran up and down in terror.
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