69novels Chapter 142 Beast Sign
Chapter 142 Beast Sign
Xia Huoqu and the others followed Xiong Antian to the courtyard.
The truck was parked on the road outside the courtyard, and each of them went to the back of the truck to hold two bamboo tubes.
When Xiong Antian saw the bamboo tubes in their hands, he felt a little strange, but he didn't want to ask more questions.
Naturally, Xia Lunong and the others didn't intend to explain much.
Xiong Antian's small yard is quite spacious. There is an aisle in the yard. There are dense radishes planted on both sides of the aisle. The radish leaves look green and plump against the backdrop of snow.
After seeing the radish, Xia Lunong kept staring at the radish.
Xiong Antian looked at him and said: "If you like to eat radishes, I will make you some radish cakes later."
Yan Xinian smiled and said, "He is the only one?"
Xiong Antian hurriedly said: "If you like it, you have it. I think he is the youngest."
Yan Xi Nian said: "You guessed wrong, this little brother's boyfriend is the youngest."
Xiong Antian said "Oh", looked away awkwardly, stopped trying to talk to Xia Lunong, and led them upstairs sullenly.
He stopped talking, and Xia Lunong asked instead: "I feel that the variety of radishes you have is unusual?"
"Brother, did you see it?" Xiong Antian raised his tone slightly, and suppressed his excitement when his eyes swept over Kong Zhi, "Yes, this is a radish specially bred by the Black Gold Base, and one can weigh seven or eight catties."
Xia Lunong asked: "Is it convenient to pull it up and show me?"
Carrots are not expensive.
Without further ado, Xiong Antian went to the radish field and pulled out a large radish for him.
The radish was really big, in terms of length alone, it was more than 30 centimeters, and the cross section was also very thick, which could catch up with the thighs of ordinary people.
This radish doesn't look like a radish, but like a white melon.
Not only Xia Lunong, but Yan Xiannian and the others also realized what this huge carrot meant.
Yan Xiannian looked at the radish and asked, "Because your base produced many kinds of such huge vegetable grains?"
"There are not many kinds, there are only a few kinds in total - radish, wax gourd, pumpkin." Xiong Antian smiled, not hiding them, "Anyway, we only know these kinds, as for whether there are any other varieties, it is not us I can know."
Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi looked at each other.
Their base has only grown huge wheat and peanuts. The results are mediocre, and it is not known whether the properties of the seeds can be stabilized. This has to be studied after the next crop is planted.
Unexpectedly, the black gold base has already gone to the front.
Yan Xiannian asked: "It seems that the Black Gold Base has done a very good job."
Xiong Antian said: "There are actually many interesting things in the Black Gold Base. If you are interested, I can talk to you, but hey."
Yan Xiannian patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry, we know the rules, all of this is paid. Two catties of rice, chat with us for an hour without lying, if you encounter difficult questions, you can keep silent, How about it?"
Xiong Antian rubbed his stomach and said sincerely: "Then we will probably talk after dinner."
Yan Xi Nian said: "No problem, we are not in a hurry."
After Xia Lunong and the others took the bamboo tube back to the temporary house, they also removed all the movable things in the car, locked the door, and asked Xiong Antian to take care of it.
Xiong Antian agreed.
Xia Lunong and the others were inconvenient on the road. They hadn't eaten for several days, and now they finally had a place to live. They borrowed the kitchen and cooked a pot of rice solidly.
They didn't ask Xiong Antian to provide food, but only asked him to provide two big radishes.
The radish grown by Xiong Antian and the others tastes very good.
Xia Lunong tasted a small piece, and it was sweet and spicy, very juicy.
Xia Lunong grated a radish into shreds, mixed it with flour, beat two eggs, added some chili powder, and baked radish cakes in the pot to eat.
Another radish is used to cook radish dashi with the fish.
As for the radish sprouts, he chose to stir-fry them with chili and vinegar to pursue a crisp, sour and spicy taste.
As a bachelor, Xiong Antian didn't eat seriously all day long. He smelled this fragrance and couldn't help but stay on the first floor to smell it.
He walked up and down the yard, looking up at the kitchen from time to time.
After Yan Xiannian asked Xia Lunong's opinion in a low voice, he asked Xiong Antian through the window, "Do you want to have something to eat together?"
Xiong Antian was overjoyed, "Okay, then I won't be polite."
"It's easy to say." Yan Xiannian said with a smile, "But after eating our meal and chatting with us at night, you can't ask us to send supplies anymore, right?"
Xiong Antian ran over to help like a nimble bear, "That's no need, just let me have a meal, I'm sure I'll tell you everything."
Xia Lunong and the others quickly prepared the meal.
Because Xiong Antin joined them, they ate dinner in the living room downstairs.
Xiong Antian specially contributed a pot to keep the radish and fish soup rolling, so that the soup would not smell fishy when it was cold.
The food was set up, and several people sat down to eat.
Xiong Antian almost burst into tears after eating the first bite of rice.
Xia Huoqu saw him as a big man with red eyes, and silently handed him a roll of paper next to him.
Xiong Antian was reluctant to use tissue paper, so he just wiped his eyes with his sleeve, sniffed and said, "Fucking asteroid, the catastrophe is over, I haven't eaten such authentic home-cooked food for more than a year."
Yan Xi Nian asked: "Didn't eat it once? How have you been living the past two years?"
"It's nothing special. After the catastrophe, isn't there a period of chaos for several months?" Xiong Antian said. Come around here."
Yan Xinian asked: "Those people also settled nearby?"
"No. Those who can transform into orcs and have the ability to afford supplies have all entered the black gold base. The rest of the simple human beings like me, with decent skills, are on the outskirts of the black gold base."
When Xia Lunong heard this, there was a sympathy in his eyes.
Xiong Antian noticed his expression, and said in a bit of embarrassment: "The black gold base does not support idlers. It is not bad for a young man like me to make a living here. You can't make a living by yourself, or you can take refuge in someone who can support servants." The big shot, or left early."
While they were talking, several dark figures approached the door and window.
Now there are no street lights outside, and the sky is dark.
Xia Huoqu and the others immediately noticed the people outside and became alert.
Xiong Antian hurriedly explained, "This is my partner."
Xia Huo and the others were a little relieved.
When the black shadow approached the door, several people looked up in unison.
Those few people didn't seem to be special at first glance, but when they looked carefully, they found that they were different from ordinary people.
They have the features of a beast!
The young man at the head had a protruding muzzle, exactly like a cat's muzzle.
His ears were not in place, but turned into cat ears on top of his head.
Xia Lunong stared at his face.
Among the five senses of this person, there are three senses that are not human-like at all!
The only normal thing is eyebrows and eyes.
Xia Lunong's gaze was the most obvious. The man and Xia Lunong exchanged glances and smiled, "Old Xiong, where did you find such a little beauty—friend?"
When he said the last two words, he noticed that the eyes of the two people around Xia Lunong were not looking well, so he abruptly changed his words. The turning point sounded very strange.
Xiong Antian hurriedly said: "This is our guest, they will stay here tonight. I packed up the empty house for them, Mai Mai, don't go over there tonight."
"Wheat" and his group consisted of six people, four men and two women, all of whom had more or less non-human features.
They seem to be quite friendly, so there should be no malicious intentions.
Xia Lunong nodded at them.
Mai Mai smiled and asked: "Meeting is fate, is it convenient to get to know each other?"
Yan Xianian stood up and introduced himself first, "My name is Yan Xianian, and I come from a base in the southeast. The three people around me are my companions."
Mai Mai shifted her gaze to him, glanced up and down a few times, and said, "I know you. Captain Yan, I've heard of you for a long time."
Yan Xiannian showed a bit of surprise, seemingly genuinely, "You know me?"
"Your reputation is very popular. I met another collection team and I mentioned it in the chat. Everyone said that your base is very loosely controlled, everyone is equal, and everyone can have enough food. If they are willing to work, they can live On a good day, there is no need to hand in supplies."
When Mai Mai said this, there was a hint of respect in his eyes, "Surely the person next to you is Vice-Captain Xia?"
"Hello." Xia Huoqu nodded at him, "What's your name?"
Mai Mai said: "My name is Mai Dong, and the people beside me are Yan Shijiu, Wu Xinghang, Zhao Mengjian, Yuan Jianing, and Shu Meng."
Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi also greeted him.
Yan Xiannian looked at him and said, "May I ask a question?"
Mai Dong quickly realized what he was going to ask, and said with a smile: "This is the trend of the black gold base for the past six months. Everyone is trying their best to maintain the characteristics of beasts. One is to warn others, and the other is that the five senses of beasts are stronger than humans. Much, it is easier to survive in this form."
Yan Xi Nian said: "I don't know how to maintain this shape?"
"This is very simple. As long as you can transform into a beast, you can maintain this state with a little training. If you are interested, I can teach you later."
Seeing that they had just returned, Yan Xiannian asked, "Have you had dinner? If you don't mind, you can sit down and have a meal together."
"Of course I don't mind, you guys wait a moment, I'll go up and get the dried meat from my collection."
Xia Lunong didn't expect him to be so open-minded, so she took another look at him, and went upstairs with Kong Zhi to get the hot pot ingredients.
The fish sauce radish soup cooked today is just right for the bottom of the hot pot.
They re-cut the vegetables and changed to a bigger table, and eleven people sat around and had dinner.
They are very interested in each other's lives, and they don't worry about having nothing to talk about when eating hot pot.
Mai Dong boiled the meat and said, "I fantasized before that after the catastrophe is over, we can go back to the old days. Now, looking at the situation of the black gold base, we can understand that we may never go back again."
Yuan Jianing said from the side: "Not only we can't go back, but the whole human being can't go back either."
Even when she was eating meat, Yuan Jianing still kept a pair of yellow animal pupils on her face, which added a bit of terror to her thin face.
Xia Lunong said: "How is the black gold base now, can you briefly tell us about the situation inside?"
"What's wrong with this?" Mai Dong said, holding the meat in his hands, "The various forces are fighting openly and secretly, and all kinds of orcs divide the land to rule. As for ordinary people, they are either attached to the major forces and are inferior to others, or they can't even enter the black gold base. Go. It's kind of like jungle society now anyway."