Qi Le

Qi Ning slept for two full days, thinking that the last thing he said was "hungry", and the first thing he did was to find something to eat.

Seeing the kitten buried in the pile of snake meat, devouring it without looking up, the cat father was both relieved and worried.If this momentum continues, is it really going to develop towards an orange cat?

During these two days, Qi Le asked the squirrel to take care of the kitten, and explored the remaining cabins with the red oak and black pine.

As it turns out, good luck doesn't come all the time.

In the remaining cabins, no treasures such as crystal nuclei were found, except for scrapped instruments and damaged weapons.The cabin closest to the stern was actually filled with exotic animal meat.

It's a pity that over time, the animal meat either dried and turned black, as hard as an alloy; or it was completely rotten and turned into ashes when touched, in short, it was completely inedible.

Fortunately, the hatch was always closed tightly, and there was no strange smell overflowing, nor did it attract any scavenging beasts.

"Move them all out and send them to the border of the [-]th district. Where are there any strange beasts that like to eat this?"

The squirrels were very familiar with the distribution of exotic animals around the territory, so they went back to the cave to get the rope and net bags without Qi Le's hands, and it only took half a day to clean up the cabin.

"what is this?"

The alien meat was all removed. Qi Le walked into the evacuated cabin and saw a metal plate protruding from the wall. He looked up and down curiously, and even stretched out his claws to press it. Then he turned to look at the cabin, which was still empty. , nothing happens.

Obviously, the spaceship has been scrapped for too long, and the power cabin has completely shut down. Even the buttons to connect to certain devices have already lost their function.

"Qi Le, what are you doing?" Red Oak probed curiously.

"It's nothing."

Qi Le threw the metal plate behind him, and stepped out of the cabin.

"The energy of these crystal nuclei is becoming more and more obvious." Red Oak walked beside Qi Le, "Hei Song said that it can be detected outside the spaceship."

Because the sealed metal door was broken, the energy of the crystal nucleus began to overflow. At first it was only inside the spaceship, but now it has spread outside the spaceship.Once native species and exotic beasts approached the territory, they would definitely notice it.

"It can't go on like this."

Seeing the crystal nuclei piled up into mountains, the squirrels told the cat father that it was not safe to store them like this, and they couldn't eat them all, so they had to try to hide them.

"The bird of prey is coming back soon, and there are other beasts, and maybe there will be zombies. If the other party finds out that there are so many crystal nuclei here, they will definitely grab them and have to find a way to hide them."

Red Oak's worries were not without reason.

The crystal nuclei in the cabin piled up into mountains, which would definitely attract uninvited guests.They are not afraid of strange beasts and ordinary zombies, what is terrible is the returning native species, especially the birds of prey that prey on squirrels!

"Can the door be repaired?"

After hearing Qi Le's previous analysis and knowing the possible role of the metal door, the squirrels all looked at Father Cat in unison.

"I'll give it a try." Qi Le thought for a while, walked behind the metal door, stood up the broken board, fixed it with ant shells, closed the door, and asked with a loud voice, "How is it?"

"No." The squirrels shook their heads.

The energy has indeed become weaker, but it can still be vaguely detected.They can stop the land races, but the air ones can't.As long as you pass over the spaceship, you can immediately find out that something is wrong.

"This method is not safe."

"There is really no other way but to dig underground." Heisong suggested, "Open the hole from the side of the spaceship and dig underground, the deeper the better. Then lay the hole with metal plates, and open a passage from the edge to try to separate the entrance and exit." Seal it and make sure there is no danger before opening it."

It's not that the cat father is not confident, nor is it that the squirrels are worrying unnecessarily, but that before they have absolute strength, any accident may happen.

Of course, it is obviously safer to eat than to bury it.Judging from the current situation, it is impossible for all the squirrels in the centralized territory, plus the cat father and kitten, to finish eating the crystal nucleus within a few days, unless they want everyone to die together.

Heterogeneous crystal nuclei do have therapeutic effects, but they are not a panacea.If you eat too many crystal nuclei and absorb too much energy in a short period of time, it will explode, and it will explode beautifully.

"It's best to dig a few more spare tunnels." Red Oak added, "Store a small amount of crystal nuclei and food nearby. If they are really discovered, they can lure intruders there."

"Correct!"

Qi Le and the squirrels discussed for a long time, and finally reached an agreement: dig holes and tunnels, the deeper the better!

At the beginning of the project, the progress was not smooth.It is not easy to dig a tunnel vertically, and it takes more effort to encounter rocks blocking the way.

After a day of running-in, the squirrels found the most efficient way. The chipmunks were on guard outside, the gray squirrels were responsible for planing the metal plates at the stern and removing the hard stones, and the red squirrels and black squirrels took turns digging tunnels. Pack them into animal skin bags and transport them out of the spaceship in batches.

"I'm going to find some tools."

Feeling that the speed of soil transportation was too slow, Qi Le entrusted the kitten to Red Oak, left the spaceship by himself, strolled around the territory, found a few birch trees of moderate thickness, and tested the toughness of the bark, please be a sentinel With the help of chipmunks, they gnawed and scratched, peeled off the bark, and made simple wooden barrels.

"Qi Le, what is this for?" Chipmunk asked curiously.

"This way..." Words alone are not enough to convey the image, Qi Le drew a sketch on the ground with his paws, and he could barely see that it was a simple wooden pulley.

Huali tilted her head, scratched her tail, and after hearing Qi Le's explanation, she quickly understood the inner principle.

"It really saves effort!" Chipmunk said excitedly, "I won't be on guard later, I will go find branches with you."

"That's fine." Qi Le poked the trunk of the birch tree twice, but the chipmunk had no time to stop it.

"Meow!"

The sticky sap stained the paw pads, and it hurt like fire.

Qi Le flicked his paw desperately, jumped up in pain, hurried to a small stream, soaked his paw in the stream, and the pain was slightly relieved.

After 5 minutes, the pain disappeared completely.

With lingering fear in her heart, Qi Le raised her paw and pressed the pad of the paw, for fear of leaving any sequelae.I don't know if it's a psychological factor, but he always feels that his paws are swollen than before.Raise the other paw to compare, it seems that there is no difference.

"Are you okay? Put this on." The chipmunk ran over, stopped in front of Qi Le, took out a few red bean-sized fruits from its cheeks, chewed them up and smeared them on Qi Le's paw pads, "Just put this on." gone."

The sap stained the fur, cooling the paw pads.

Qi Le's eyes widened in surprise, and the chipmunk took out another fruit, pointed to a few grasses growing under the tree, and said, "These grasses can relieve pain, we only know it after we hurt our paws."

"Thank you."

"No need." Chipmunk shook his head and explained with his tail behind his back, "This kind of tree is very strange. The bark and leaves are completely harmless, and the fruit produced can be eaten as meat, but the sap is very powerful and hurts the paws. It will hurt for a long time. Unless there is a lack of food, black pine and red oak dare not approach them."

After listening to the chipmunk's narration, Qi Le was absolutely sure that this was not a birch tree at all, it was clearly a mutated plant.

"Besides, this kind of tree is easy to catch fire." Chipmunk's tone was very serious.

"..." What kind of tree will not catch fire?

"It's not like that." Chipmunk wanted to explain, but couldn't find the right words. "In short, this kind of tree is very dangerous. It's terrible to burn, and it's even more deadly if it gets sap. The ancestors of red oak thought about removing them. , but it will grow again soon. I have no choice but to tell the cubs not to approach."

"Then these barks..." Qi Le couldn't help frowning.

Should he change the material?

What if the kitten doesn't know how bad it is, and it gets close to a bare tree trunk while playing and hurts its paw?The cat father knows that the squirrel will warn the cub, and he will warn the kitten himself, but there are always times when he can't take care of it.

"It's okay, the bark will grow back soon." Chipmunk shook his head, and led Qi Le back to the tree, and saw that the bare trunk was covered with a layer of gray, and the new bark was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then Covering the entire tree, Qi Le couldn't help feeling awe.

Knowing how powerful these mutated plants are, it is naturally impossible for Qi Le to paw at them again.According to the chipmunk's guidance, find a few common trees, break off the thick branches, and use them as materials for making pulleys.

"I'm going back."

Picking up the rope and the newly made tools, Qi Le stepped back to the spaceship.

The squirrels were working in full swing, and many earth and rocks had no time to be shipped, so they could only be piled up in the corridor of the spacecraft.

"It's already dug very deep." Red Oak crawled out of the tunnel and patted the dirt off its claws.Seeing that Qi Le was transporting stones in wooden barrels, he immediately came up to help.

The kittens and the little squirrels were also not idle, helping Qi Ning to stabilize the rope and doing what they could.

Most of the corridors have been cleared, and the passage has reached a depth of [-] meters.

"Stop first, there's something here!"

The gray squirrel moved a hard rock and realized something was wrong, turned around and swept away the floating dirt with its big tail, and found a large piece of hard metal plate under its feet, and immediately stopped the project.

"Don't move!" The older squirrels sounded the alarm, descending into the ground one after another to examine the newly discovered metal plates.

"This looks like a door." Qi Le followed the squirrel, observed carefully for a while, and used his claws to poke away more layers of soil. Sure enough, he saw something similar to a door lock.

"Would you like to open it and take a look?"

"better not."

For these unknown areas, squirrels are always wary.

It is true that the mole's warning is still in my ears, so I have to be more careful.If it is really an underground cave left by primitive humans, there is no guarantee that there will be something inside, so it is better not to be too curious.

"Cover the soil back and dig in another place." Heisong suggested, "There has been nothing in these years, so it is probably empty inside. As long as you don't open this door, there should be no problem."

The squirrels nodded, and Qi Le didn't object.

Although the previous hard work will be in vain, but for everyone, safety is the most important thing, just dig the tunnel again.

Soon, the second hole was dug, the metal plates were laid, and the crystal nuclei in the cabin were transported underground one after another.

Qi Le and the squirrels worked together to remove the entire hatch, cut off the surrounding corners, and cut it to a suitable size to seal the entrance of the burrow.

Just after sealing the hole and covering the stern of the spaceship with an ant shell, a sharp cry came from outside the spaceship, followed by a dull corpse roar.

The father cat and the squirrels looked at each other and responded surprisingly unanimously. They returned to the cabin as quickly as possible, making sure that the kittens and squirrels were safe and sound, and climbed up to the roof one by one.

Seeing the situation outside the spaceship, the squirrels clasped their paws and let out bursts of high-pitched calls.Qi Le's pupils dilated, he gasped, and suddenly thought of the previous nightmare.

Good and bad spirits.

The good dream woke up to nothing, but the nightmare turned into reality? !

The black corpses came out of the forest, like a flood, sweeping toward the squirrel's territory.

Leading the way were a few unusually tall, monster-like advanced zombies, each with a relatively short companion standing on their shoulders.Unlike ordinary zombies, these zombies have intact limbs, gray complexion, and no signs of corruption.

"Roar!"

Seeing the watchful chipmunks, a high-level zombie roared, and the rest of the zombies responded one after another.More zombies came out of the forest, and the team continued continuously, as if there was no end.

"Go back to the cave!"

"Hide all the cubs!"

"Qi Le, bring the cubs and come with us!"

"Go to the backup tunnel!"

"Come on!"

The squirrels squealed loudly.

There are too many zombies, and there are advanced zombies commanding the team. The situation is extremely critical, and there is no more time for them to hesitate.

"Roar!"

The leading zombie roared again, and the bracelet on his wrist radiated a red light, covering all the zombies and prey within a radius of ten meters.

"Come on!"

In order to buy time for the clansmen to hide, the chipmunks in charge of the sentry raised their tails and rushed towards the corpses one by one regardless of the danger to their lives.

In front of the huge group of corpses, the number of attackers was pitifully small.

In order to protect the homeland and the group, the chipmunks were not afraid. More than a dozen jumped up at the same time, hitting the zombies like shells, and slashed down with their sharp claws.

Ordinary zombies couldn't keep up with the chipmunk's speed, their skulls were easily pierced, and they fell to the ground one after another.The same kind around immediately swarmed up, scrambling for the broken head and black heart.

The chipmunk's attack seemed effective, but only for a moment.

The high-level zombie roared again, and a thin zombie jumped up like a black lightning bolt, grabbing the leaping chipmunk in mid-air, and piercing the victim's fur with sharp claws.

The spine was broken abruptly, and the chipmunk let out a scream, biting the zombie's wrist with the last bit of strength, and did not let go until it died.

The guards on the ground were torn apart one after another, and none of them survived.

Qi Le's pupils constricted, his sharp claws slashed fiercely across the ground, and he was about to rush out of the cabin in the next second.

"Don't be impulsive!" The red squirrel stopped in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "You still have cubs, you must live!"

After saying that, the red squirrel turned to its companions, and divided the adult squirrels present into two groups, one group took the young squirrels to hide in deeper tunnels, and the other group went to delay the zombies.

"Heisong, come with me!" Red Oak said loudly, "There are too many zombies, you can stop them for a while!"

The squirrels moved in an orderly manner without any panic.

The kitten leaned nervously beside Qi Le, not daring to take a step away.

Seeing the squirrels and chipmunks rushing out one after another, another batch died under the claws of the zombies, and the corpses were even eaten up on the spot, Qi Le's chest was filled with anger, his whole figure fell into the boiling water, his eyes were red.

"dad?"

"Son, be good, go underground with Hongguo, honestly hide and don't come out."

Knowing the possible end, Qi Le did not back down.As in the pine forest, he will not abandon Patonia, let alone these squirrels!

They are all his friends, his companions, and his family!

"Please help take care of him." After handing the kitten to a squirrel mother, Qi Le turned around and chased behind Red Oak and Black Pine.

"Father..." The kitten lowered its ears, its voice choked with sobs.

"Don't be afraid, I will take care of you." The female squirrel hugged the kitten, let him stay with her cub, and followed the tribe to go deeper into the tunnel.

Zombies spread all over the territory, blocking all the exits on the ground.

Although the squirrels were brave, but faced with such a huge number, they rushed to the challenge and fell into a disadvantage from the beginning.

Sending Qi Ning into the tunnel, Qi Le quickly joined the battle group.

During the melee, he found two squirrels surrounded by zombies, and was about to step forward to rescue them, but he didn't want to fall into the encirclement himself.

The zombies continued to shrink the encirclement, and the squirrels were forced to retreat, unknowingly retreating to a mutant tree.When a squirrel jumped up to attack, its tail swept to the branch behind it, and the flames shot up instantly, and exploded on the spot after a few breaths.

A terrifying air wave swept across, and Qi Le finally understood what the chipmunk meant by "on fire".

The zombie retreated instinctively, still reeling from the air waves.Two of them were hit by flaming branches. In the blink of an eye, their whole bodies were engulfed in flames and quickly turned into two piles of coke.

Seeing this scene, Qi Le's heart started beating wildly.

Whether you can succeed or not depends on this time!

Qi Le's whole body exploded, his hind paws kicked hard on the ground, his front paws popped out, and he jumped more than two meters.When falling, he grabbed the necks of the two zombies, turned over in mid-air, and kicked out the blood-stained heads, causing the other zombies to turn around.

After a successful blow, he didn't look at the situation behind him, but took advantage of his body to quickly pass through the gap between the corpses and successfully join the black squirrel.

"Black pine, light the fire!"

"what?"

"Light the fire around the territory, and light those mutated trees!"

According to normal thinking, Qi Le's suggestion is tantamount to suicide.However, seeing him pointing at the few zombies that had been burned to ashes, the squirrels gritted their teeth: "Okay, let's do this!"

They have made up their minds that they must die, as long as they can save the group, they don't care about dying with the zombies.

"Black willow, black poplar!"

The screams of the squirrels and the roars of the zombies were mixed together, and they could no longer be distinguished.

During the melee, Qi Le discovered that a high-level zombie had rushed into the territory, digging up the soil layer with its clawed hands, obviously looking for a tunnel for the squirrel to escape.

Qi Le's pupils constricted, and without a moment's hesitation, he jumped up on the spot, using the surrounding zombies as a leverage point, with a speed as fast as lightning, and instantly struck in front of the high-ranking zombie, swung out his sharp front claws, and tore off a large piece of paper on the zombie's face. flesh.

With all his strength, Father Cat almost tore off half of the zombie's face.

Enraged, the high-level zombie roared fiercely and rushed towards Qi Le viciously.

Qi Le fought back while dodging, and was almost caught by the zombies a few times, but he didn't feel scared at all.There was only one thought in his mind: to kill more zombies and buy time for Heisong!

The angry zombie chased after Qi Le, and was led to a mutant tree unknowingly.

"Qi Le, get out of the way!"

When the voice of the black pine came, Qi Le didn't have time to think, and completely followed the guidance of instinct, stepping on the top of the zombie's head with his hind paws, avoiding the sharp claws waving from mid-air, and flew out suddenly.

"Roar!"

The attack failed again, and the zombie roared angrily, and slammed into the mutant tree because of the lack of momentum.The thick tree trunk was constantly shaken by him, as if it was about to break in the next second.

Before the roar fell, a string of sparks suddenly shot up beside the tree.

boom!

The crown of the tree turned into a huge torch, which kept making violent explosions.The nearby zombies, without exception, were all splashed by the explosion fragments, screaming and dying in the sea of ​​flames.

Because the crowd of corpses is too dense, if one zombie is ignited by fire, it will soon ignite the second, third or even more.

Ordinary zombies struggled in the flames, turning into fly ash one after another.Unable to extinguish the flames, the advanced zombies pulled off the burning arm on the spot, ignoring the black blood spurting from the wound, and roared loudly at Qi Le.

Qi Le paused.

How can you still do this?

Pull your arms, right?

Tap your head and see what you do!

Bite on a broken branch, Qi Le jumped up and stabbed the branch hard into the back of the zombie's neck.Heisong understood his intention, and flew up immediately, sweeping his big tail, the top of the zombie's head caught fire immediately, and soon there was a loud explosion.

Looking at the fallen zombies, Qi Le spat out the sawdust left in his mouth twice, ignoring the numbness of his tongue, and glanced at the group of corpses, especially the advanced zombies in the team.

If you have the ability, you all pull your heads off!

If you really pull it off, I will obey you!

"Meow!"

The cat dad bit another branch, jumped at the targeted zombie, and started a new round of "grafting" operations.

The mutated trees around the territory were ignited one after another. The fire was raging. Not to mention the tall trees and grass, even the hard stones were broken by the high temperature.

The hot wind swept past, and the wall of fire was more than three meters high, cutting off the group of corpses.

All the zombies that rushed into the territory were surrounded by fire, with nowhere to hide, and turned into black ash one after another.Even the strongest advanced zombies are helpless in this situation.

Some advanced zombies grabbed ordinary zombies and tried to use them to "fill" a path.However, no matter how much you throw, it will be turned into fly ash in the blink of an eye, and the expected "road" has never appeared.

Seeing this situation, some high-level zombies came up with the idea of ​​companions.

A small man stood on the shoulder of his companion, and while the latter was not paying attention, he pierced his skull with one claw, then tore open his chest cavity at the fastest speed, took out the heart, and swallowed the bloodshot crystal nucleus.

"Roar!"

The little zombie let out an angry roar, threw his companion's corpse forcefully, then jumped up from the ground, borrowing his strength in mid-air, he actually crossed the fire wall.

It's a pity that just after he escaped from danger, he was surrounded by several other high-level zombies.

Obviously, the little man's actions violated the "taboo". Facing the angry and screaming companions, the final fate could only be torn to pieces on the spot.

High-level zombies suddenly "fight among themselves", and ordinary zombies are not prepared.

The group of corpses lost command, the group of dragons had no leader, their actions became chaotic, and they died one by one under the paws of squirrels and cats.Really unable to kill them, the cat father cooperated with the squirrels, or bumped or kicked them, and sent them all into the fire.

The fire was getting bigger and bigger, the temperature of the ground kept rising, the beards of Qi Le and the squirrels were scorched, and the hair on their bodies was also in danger.I really didn't dare to stay for a long time, so I found the nearest tunnel entrance and quickly hid underground.

On the ground, the fire spread throughout the entire territory, even Qi Le's spaceship was not spared.

The zombies trapped in the flames couldn't find a way out, and turned into ashes one by one.

Outside the fire scene, the high-level zombies were victorious, scrambling for the crystal nuclei dug out.Ordinary zombies did not dare to get close to the fire wall, and instinctively avoided to the distance.

At this moment, there was a loud eagle cry in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the vigorous figure broke through the clouds, spread its powerful wings, and cast a huge shadow down.

The birds of prey that left their territory due to the hunting season have finally returned.