In the Tenth Year After the Natural Disaster, Follow me to Farm

Chapter 497 The red squirrel that was stolen from the house

Xia Qing, whose body was still experiencing the side effects of the Yi element stimulating liquid, walked around the big pine tree where the locator was located for a long time, but found no trace of the red squirrel coming out.

 This is very abnormal.

Squirrels usually find a place to **** and urinate within their territory, and this place is usually quite far away from the tree hole where they live. This has nothing to do with whether you care about cleanliness or hygiene, it is all about survival.

 First of all, squirrels are also territorial animals. They will use their excrement to let other species know that this place has been occupied and do not enter. If you do, you will fight.

Secondly, goshawks, owls, forest martens, snakes, etc. are all natural enemies of squirrels, and they mainly rely on vision, taste or hearing to locate the squirrel. In order to avoid natural predators, squirrels will not only avoid excreting near their burrows, but will also find ways to find things that can mask their own smell and put them on their bodies or in their burrows to avoid being found by natural predators. For example, this speed-evolving red squirrel in Area 3 will make a nest with tobacco pipes that have a strong smell, and will sprinkle snake slough debris on its fur.

 Squirrels do reduce activity and increase sleep time in winter, entering a state of semi-hibernation. But it still needs to eat and excrete, so in theory, there should be traces of red squirrel activity on the surface of the snow around the tree hole.

Unable to find it, Xia Qing simply stood under the tree and whispered to the neighbors in the cave. I lowered my voice not because I was afraid of being heard, but because I was afraid of scaring the timid neighbors in the tree hole.

“Red squirrel, are you at home? I brought you peanuts. Do you want to eat them?”

　　　"Are you freeloaders at home? Do you want to drink water?"

I shouted several times, but there was no movement in the tree hole. Xia Qing took out her cat claw shoes from her backpack and slowly climbed up for more than ten meters. When she arrived at the door of Red Squirrel's house, she called twice more, but there was still no movement.

 She turned on the flashlight and looked inside the cave. She was relieved to find that the locator was not on the mouse.

When they arrived, Xia Qing used an iron hook to dig through the red squirrel's house and found that the food in the tree hole had bottomed out. This little guy is quite edible.

The red squirrel is much wealthier than Xia Qing. Xia Qing only has one home. The red squirrel has six tree holes that can be used as nests and two stone holes specifically used to hide food in this territory. This autumn, it went out early and came back late to be busy, storing six holes of food. The red squirrel is not here, it must be in some other hole with food.

Xia Qing, whose hearing ability has not yet fully recovered, listened carefully to the sounds of various animal activities in the evolutionary forest, and then chose the place she thought was most likely. After arriving at the location, Xia Qing found that the red squirrel was still not in the hole, but the ground was littered with bitten dried fruit crumbs and the footprints left by many rats.

 The red squirrel’s home was stolen by rats!

Xia Qing immediately quickened his pace and walked towards the hole closest to here. There is a stone cave five hundred meters ahead, where the red squirrels have stored the most food this winter.

Xia Qing walked more than three hundred meters northeast through the snow, and heard the cooing and hissing sounds of red squirrels.

 Red squirrels don’t like to make noises. The reason why they are making so loud noises now may only be because hunger, fear or anger have reached a level that they cannot tolerate.

Xia Qing raised his gun and sped up, shouting loudly, "Freeloader, what happened? Freeloader—"

“Cuckoo—” the red squirrel’s hissing increased. Xia Qing, who had been fighting with it for several months, could hear its anger and eagerness. The location where the sound came from has not changed, indicating that the red squirrel may have been blocked in the hole by the mouse!

Before Xia Qing could rush over, she heard the sound of an animal moving quickly through the snow. This sound was not something a red squirrel could make.

Xia Qing immediately stopped and took aim with his gun. He soon saw an evolved forest marten with a body length of more than half a meter, charging straight towards him with bared teeth. No need to ask, his expression and movement make him look like an out-of-control animal. An evolved animal of this level is not worth wasting a bullet. Xia Qing put away her gun and drew her knife. After a few encounters, she killed the forest marten and continued to rush towards the red squirrel's burrow.

A golden eagle hovering in the air swooped down, grabbed the Lin Diao's body, flapped its wings and left quickly, snatching away Xia Qing's prey.

 “Are you freeloaders in there?” Xia Qing came to the entrance of the cave and called her neighbor in a low voice.

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 “Zhizhi, Zhizhi—”

Xia Qing was answered not only by red squirrels, but also by the arrogant cries of mice. From the cries alone, one could tell that there were at least 10 mice in the hole.

Red squirrels can run fast, but their attack power is not high. They may not be the final winner against a group of rats. What's more, this red squirrel was attacked by Green Lantern Peanuts more than half a month ago and lost a lot of blood.

 Before Xia Qing could think of how to call out the red squirrel, the little guy ran out on his own.

"Gu, quack, quack -" the red squirrel howled angrily and eagerly on the big pine tree next to Xia Qing, jumping up and down, and drops of blood fell on the dirty snow. The mouse in the hole did not come out, but Xia Qing You can hear them crunching pine nuts and chestnuts.

Even if the food in the tree hole was not Xia Qing's, she was impatient. Without saying a word, she took out a handful of hay from her backpack, lit it, threw it into the hole, and quickly blocked the entrance with a large animal skin bag.

 “Zhizhi,zhi—”

Animals are afraid of smoke and fire, and they quickly scream and flee out of other gaps in the cave. These are evolved voles, not any smaller than red squirrels. No wonder red squirrels can't beat them.

When the red squirrel saw the big vole running out, it rushed over with a flash of red light and bit the big vole's neck hard. The big vole squeaked and struggled, and two rats, one gray and one red, fought fiercely on the snow.

There were also blind evolved voles that broke into the animal skin bags. Xia Qing skillfully stepped on them with his feet and killed three of them. The red squirrel killed one and the rest escaped.

Xia Qing put away the animal skin bag, shoveled some snow and threw it into the cave to extinguish the flames, but the heavy smoke inside could not dissipate for a while, and the red squirrel jumped up and down around the cave anxiously.

Xia Qing confirmed that there was no danger, swept away a piece of snow, put the peanuts in his pocket on the ground, and called to the poor neighbor, "Don't worry. Come here first and let me see where your wound is, and then I will dig out the hole for you." food."

Seeing the peanuts on the ground, the red squirrel jumped over, grabbed the peanuts and ran away so fast that Xia Qing only saw a red light. She is now in a weak stage, her visual evolution ability is limited, and she cannot see clearly where the red squirrel is injured.

So, Xia Qing took out the water bottle in her backpack and poured the warm, pollution-free spring water into the small bowl where the red squirrel often drank water on the windowsill. "Little guy, come here and drink water."

 In the temperature of more than 20 degrees below zero, the spring water cools rapidly and will freeze in a while. The red squirrel holding the peanut no longer hesitated and immediately rushed over to drink water.

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