The dark age of mankind is coming

Although the fish and shrimp in the river have mutated, they still need a certain temperature to survive.

The temperature is too low now, causing the fish to become sluggish and gather in the waters under the ice to seek warmth.

In order to attract fish into the fishing net, Zhang Ren and others also put some fish food as bait.

After everything was ready, everyone sat quietly aside and waited.

After a while, the fishing nets began to move. Everyone immediately became excited and gathered around several ice holes.

With everyone working together, the heavy fishing net was slowly pulled out of the ice cave.

When the fishing net completely left the ice hole, many large, brightly colored mutant fish and shrimps immediately appeared inside.

The size of these fish and shrimps are more than twice as large as before the apocalypse. Each one is as long as an adult's arm, which is amazing.

Seeing this scene, everyone smiled with satisfaction.

"Success!" someone shouted excitedly.

Then, they quickly scooped up the fish and shrimp from the net and put them into bags prepared in advance.

Then they put the fishing nets into the ice hole again and wait for the next harvest.

The environment in the end times is unpredictable and no one knows what will happen tomorrow.

Therefore, they must catch as much fish and shrimp as possible now in case of emergency.

So, everyone threw themselves into the work of fishing, enthusiastically pulling up the fishing nets again and again, watching the fat fish being pulled out of the water, their hearts filled with a sense of accomplishment and joy.

Just as everyone was immersed in the joy of the harvest, a sudden cry broke the quiet air. The cry came from the woods not far from the river, and the originally joyful atmosphere was instantly broken.

"It was Xiao Cheng. He said he wanted to go to the woods to relieve himself. I should have accompanied him." One person reacted and said with some regret.

They had previously stipulated that they could not act alone outside the base, and they had been here for so long, and no zombies or mutated plants or animals had appeared, so Xiao Cheng said that it was safe here and he could go by himself, so he did not follow them.

Without saying any words of blame, Zhang Ren immediately ran towards the direction where the sound came from.

The others thought an accident had happened, so they dropped their tools and followed Zhang Ren.

When they arrived at the scene, they saw a young team member pointing at a group of footprints on the ground with an excited look on his face.

When everyone saw this, the stone in their hearts finally fell to the ground.

It turned out to be just a false alarm and nothing dangerous happened.

The person who had a close relationship with Xiao Cheng and who had informed Zhang Ren that Xiao Cheng was here earlier, patted Xiao Cheng and said, "It's okay, why are you screaming? You made everyone think something happened to you!"

Xiao Cheng scratched his head in embarrassment and explained apologetically: "I'm so sorry, I really didn't mean to disturb everyone's fishing. I just suddenly discovered this."

Zhang Ren walked over and carefully examined the footprints: "These should be the footprints of a mutant animal, and it looks like it is quite large."

As a hunter, Li Yang, who was familiar with the habits of various prey, also stepped forward and carefully observed the footprints on the snow. He said, "The shape of this footprint looks like a bear's footprint."

"Haha, I didn't expect to be so lucky today. I actually ran into a big bear right after I left the base!" Xiao Cheng said excitedly when he heard this.

Before the end of the world, bears were protected animals in China. Even if someone secretly hunted and sold them, only rich people could afford them.

Now they had actually encountered it in the apocalypse. Thinking of the roasted and stewed bear paws that he had wanted to try for a long time, Xiao Cheng became even more excited. He immediately ran forward. "I'll go get it, and then ask Chef Wang to stew the bear paws for everyone."

Ever since An Ning discovered that the mutated aquatic products were edible, she immediately realized the importance of this matter and quickly sent the news to Xuanyuan Zunqi who was far away in Kyoto via telegram.

This is not the first time that An Ning has provided such important information to Kyoto. The previous pieces of key intelligence have made Kyoto pay more attention to and trust her.

In particular, Xuanyuan Zunqi, who never doubted An Ning, did not hesitate at all when he received the news from An Ning and immediately reported it to the top leaders in Kyoto.

After the Kyoto Research Institute learned the news, it immediately set up a special research team and began a comprehensive and in-depth study on whether the mutant organisms could be eaten.

After a period of research and repeated experiments, they finally determined that as long as the correct handling methods were adopted, mutant animals could also become a source of food for humans!

This amazing discovery is simply great news for the survivors of the end of the world, like a shot of adrenaline for them.

In this era of extreme material scarcity and extremely difficult living environment, being able to find new sources of food means that more people can continue to survive.

This glimmer of hope rekindled people's deep-seated desire and courage.

This exciting news quickly spread among the bases, and people were all ecstatic about it.

All major bases took action and actively organized hunting teams, preparing to hunt mutant animals on a large scale to obtain more food resources.

For a moment, the entire doomsday seemed to have ushered in new vitality and vigor.

"Xiao Cheng!" Zhang Ren called out anxiously.

Xiao Cheng is a real foodie. Once he hears the word "food", he immediately loses his mind and becomes impulsive.

At this moment, he was recklessly following the footprints and running towards the woods alone, completely disregarding the danger.

Zhang Ren saw this and quickly said to the others, "Everyone hurry up and follow, be careful!"

Everyone quickened their pace and followed Xiao Cheng closely.

Walking in the snow was very difficult, especially since no one had cleaned the base where they stepped on it, so everyone moved forward cautiously.

Every step requires extreme caution to avoid slipping or sinking into the snow.

However, as the distance shortened, their expressions became more and more solemn, because they found that the woods were unusually quiet, without the slightest movement.

This strange silence made everyone feel confused and uneasy, and they all speculated: "Did the bear escape?"

Zhang Ren and Li Yang and Zhang Hu beside him looked at each other, and an ominous premonition arose in the hearts of the three of them at the same time.

They knew that this calm often meant greater danger was waiting for them.

At this moment, a low roar suddenly came.

The sound was like a muffled thunder, which made people terrified.

Immediately afterwards, a huge black shadow rushed out and pounced towards them like a small mountain.