wandering planet

Ovid still had the last grenade in his hand, and the swarm was moving very fast. Before the three reached the giant trees, they could already see the appearance of the leading ones.

The molars of Griya worker bees are powerful, but the tail needles are even more terrifying. They follow the smell of honey, and the buzzing sound of their wings vibrating is like thunder.

"Let Ovid throw down the honey!" Jiang Che called while running, "We'll get it later!"

"It's useless!" Ovid was still running in the first place, carrying a heavy box on his back, "I entered the honey storage point, and my body is full of the sweetness of honey!"

Lin Ni was in the rear, constantly changing magazines and attacking: "Don't talk! Save some energy and run!"

The three of them finally entered the forest covered with giant trees.The sound of the bee swarms suddenly became quieter. They were too bulky to pass through the dense branches and leaves, so they could only lower their height and pass between the trunks.

Due to the reduced altitude, Linney's shooting accuracy immediately improved.

But this forest also has a disadvantage: the high forest waves are surging, and the sound is so loud that they can hardly hear the wings of the worker bees.Linney could only walk backwards in order to shoot.

"Out of bullets!" Lin Ni couldn't find the magazine in his pocket, "Jiang Che! Give me the weapon!"

Jiang Che ran all the way with a laser gun in his hand. Hearing what Lin Ni said, he suddenly remembered the guns he had picked up.

He took out a handful and threw it to Linney.

After Linney took the gun, he immediately threw the original assault rifle behind his back, touched the new gun, and couldn't help laughing: "My God! And this!"

Ovid didn't understand, so: "Don't take Jiang Che's laser gun! Leave him a weapon for self-defense!"

"This is a double-barreled shotgun!" Linney said loudly, and at the same time raised the gun and pulled the trigger at the attacking worker bees.

The shotgun was fired from the muzzle, and immediately exploded in the air, blasting towards several worker bees in front.Its attack range was much larger than that of a rifle, and after a few shots, the enemy was temporarily gone in front of Linney.

The three escaped from the crisis for the time being, and ran like crazy before the next wave of worker bees arrived.

After leaving the woods, there is an open grassland, and the lifeboat parked on the flat ground can already be seen from a distance.At this time, the sky was getting dark, the wind and sand were blowing everywhere, and the tall grass and flowers swayed around them.

"Pierre!" Linney fired his gun and killed several worker bees that followed from the woods. "Pierre! Turn off the engine! Cool down!"

More swarms kept pouring out of the woods, like muddy rivers flowing between the tree trunks.

Ovid took out the grenade, and immediately threw it back after pulling out the safety.Although the anesthetics filled in the grenade are effective on arthropods, the Griya worker bees are much larger than ordinary arthropods. The drugs can only make them stunned for a short time, and the effect is not ideal at all.

After the grenade exploded, the dozen or so bees in front of the swarm began to shake, and their speed dropped suddenly—but soon new worker bees filled their positions, and the speed of the black cloud-like bee swarm did not slow down at all.

Ovid was really scared this time.Among the three, he was the only one who had seen the Griya worker bees at very close range.Their tail needles are as long as a finger, sharp and hard, indistinguishable from any deadly weapon.

"Pierre!" He couldn't help shouting after Lin Ni, "Cool down!"

They want to go back to the lifeboat, but there are too many worker bees now, they took off rashly to draw, and the bugs are very likely to be involved in the engine, so the loss outweighs the gain.

The worker bees can catch the target according to the smell. After the engine is turned off, the smell of burning fuel will gradually dissipate. They hide in the lifeboat. As long as the lifeboat remains still, the worker bees cannot find them.

Pierre and Tang Mo, who had been guarding the lifeboat, had already seen the swarm.

Pierre closed the engine and the porthole, and set the hatch to manual mode. After the three jumped up one by one, he and Tang Mo closed the door tightly together.

The lifeboat was plunged into darkness.

Jiang Che knelt on the floor panting.Darkness fell suddenly, and his hands and feet were cold.There was a shrimp still breathing under his palm, and with trembling hands, he picked up all the scattered enoki mushrooms and shrimps and threw them into the cloth bag: "We can't miss any... We were almost stung to death by them... ...You can't eat any of these..."

Ovid lay panting on the ground, grabbed his hand and kissed it: "Thank God!"

Jiang Che didn't shake him off.

Linney was the calmest.He went to the control console and turned on the recorders around the lifeship, but all the cameras were filled with moving insect shadows, all covered by densely packed worker bees.

Tang Mo exclaimed in surprise: "Wow!"

Linney switched the console image to data display, turned around and sat down in the pitch-black lifeboat.

No one spoke, only the dense and crackling sounds outside the lifeboat could be heard, like tiny and strong hailstones constantly hitting the hull made of alloy.

"...Lifeboat, won't it be punctured?" Someone suddenly asked in the darkness.It's Jiang Che.There was a slight tremor in his voice.

"Don't worry." Linney answered his question, "The material of the lifeboat is harder than ordinary ships. It is made of cosmic alloy similar to the material used to make our badges. It cannot be broken by ordinary temperature and blow force." .”

Jiang Che stopped talking.In the quiet lifeboat, only the faint green lights of the buttons on the console and the sound of eating and drinking can be seen.

After a short silence, Lin Ni spoke wearily: "Tang Mo, why are you eating all the time?"

Tang Mo said concisely: "Hungry."

Linney: "I'm hungry too, give me some."

"Yeah." Tang Mo groped towards Lin Ni from his position, "It's beef strips, there are two left, I'll share them with you."

Linney: "One? No. I want a pack."

Tang Mo: "This is the last pack."

There was a brief silence in the lifeboat again.

Pierre subconsciously pulled Tang Mo towards him.

"The last pack?!" Linney yelled in despair, "There are more than ten packs!"

Tang Mo crawled back to Pierre.Linney didn't want the meat strips, she and Pierre each ate one. "It's all finished." Tang Mo is very calm. She has no fighting ability, so she is in charge of logistics and management of all supplies including food on the lifeboat. "You are the one who eats the most, Lin Ni. You said you went back to your room to sleep , but didn’t fall asleep at all, and kept eating beef sticks. You ate seven packs by yourself.”

Linney: "...how do you know I'm not asleep?"

Tang Mo: "You don't turn off the lights. And you took a lot of food before entering the room. You obviously haven't rested for a long time, and all the food was eaten when you came out."

Linney: "You are horrible...I want to eat meat right now!"

Tang Mo: "There are still a few packets of dried pork, do you want it?"

The two chatted back and forth for a long time, when Ovid's voice suddenly appeared.

"Wait, we're out of meat?"

Tang Mo still spoke concisely: "Only pork jerky remains."

"Then what to do!" Ovid was about to collapse, "I'm hungry too! Do I have to eat biscuits and bread for the next month?"

Lin Ni suddenly remembered something: "Ovid, before we left Faust, didn't you bring two boxes of supplies up?"

Pierre interjected: "The contents are inedible—no, they are edible, but not satisfying."

Linney: "Why?"

Pierre: "Those two boxes are not supplies from the lifeboat, they are from the kitchen."

Although every civilian ship has a place dedicated to storing excess supplies for the lifeboat, almost every civilian ship will use this lifeship supply compartment to store various ingredients and seasonings in the kitchen.Passengers on a civilian ship need to eat, and the amount they consume is also an important part of the economic source of a civilian ship.Instead of making space for extra lifeboat supplies, stock up on ingredients just in case you need them.

This was the first time for Linney to board the lifeboat of a civilian ship, and it was also the first time he knew that there were people who did this.

"There are no ingredients in it?" Because of despair, he felt more and more hungry, "How many fruits are there?"

"I'm sorry." Pierre whispered, "It's full of kitchen things, except for spatulas, dishes and other utensils, as well as sliced ​​ginger, garlic, oil, black and white pepper, basil, mint leaves, Butter, sugar and salt, spices I don't recognize, vacuum-packed shallots and peppers..."

"Stop talking." Linney stopped Pierre, "The more you talk, the hungrier you get."

It was quiet again in the lifeboat.

But this time the silence was a little weird: the knocking outside was gone.

After turning on the recorder, they found that the worker bees had all disappeared.Night had fallen, and it was pitch black outside the lifeboat, with the wind humming low.

"Turn on the engine!" Lin Ni was trembling with cold, "Get out of here quickly."

Pierre started the engine.

During the execution of the ship-wide inspection procedure, the lights in the lifeboat were lit up one by one.

Pierre, Linney, and Tang Mo were all crowded in the cab, and no one noticed Jiang Che and Ovid behind them.

"Okay." Jiang Che said, "You can let go."

Ovid held his hand throughout this sudden darkness.Due to fear and nervousness, fine beads of sweat appeared on Jiang Che's palms, which made the palms of the two people who were in close contact very uncomfortable.

Ovid looked worried.He let go of his hand and whispered, "You can talk to me. You won't be so afraid if you talk more."

Jiang Che let out a "hmm".

He suddenly wanted to tell Ovid that this time he was in the dark, and he was not as afraid as before.

It was so strange that even he himself couldn't figure out what was going on.But soon, he gradually understood: Linney was on Ovid's left side, Ovid was sitting on his left side, and Tang Mo was on his right side.The five of them sat in a circle.So when Tang Mo approached Lin Ni and wanted to share the beef strips with him, Jiang Che felt her warm fingers brushing against his clenched and trembling fist.

It was human body temperature, with heat and vitality.

It was completely different from when he was trapped in the freezer.

Then he heard more voices.The people around him were talking and arguing, Ovid would laugh when Linney got angry, Pierre recalled the contents of the box one by one, Tang Mo finished eating the beef strips, and opened another pack of biscuits.

There are too many voices.There were too many warm, familiar voices.

The trembling of the body gradually stopped.Then he clearly felt Ovid holding his hand, and gently exerting force.

Jiang Che remembered the meaning of Ovid's name.

"I'm fine." Jiang Che whispered.

At this moment, the console suddenly sounded a loud alarm.

"A landing gear is stuck by a foreign object." Pierre started a more detailed inspection procedure, and the results were displayed after a few minutes, "...according to the length and thickness, it should be the tail needle of the Griya worker bee. "

To remove the tail pin, you have to leave the lifeboat and go around to the rear to repair the landing gear.

But they couldn't be sure if the Griya workers were still around.It was pitch black outside, and nothing could be seen at all.

After thinking for a while, Lin Ni made a difficult decision: "Contact the garbage in the Black Sea."

They didn't know when the sunrise and sunset of the Black Sea were, but Song Junxing was obviously dug up from his sleep by them.He was shirtless, his hair was disheveled, and he was yawning.

"Do you know the habits of Griya worker bees?" Linney cut to the chase, "We are repairing the lifeboat now, but the weapons can't resist so many worker bees. All the mushroom shrimp you want are here. If we can't go to the Black Sea, you I can't eat it either."

Song Junxing scratched his eyebrows: "You are so rude, you don't even say hello, I didn't want to talk to you at first. But for my little golden mushrooms and shrimps, let me say it again: Griya worker bees don't come out at night , their eyesight has deteriorated so badly that they can't see anything moving at night."

"Are there any other aggressive animals or creatures other than worker bees?"

"No. The worker bees are the kings of Greia F." Song Junxing looked very tired, "Why do I have to say it twice before you can remember such an important thing."

Linney: "This is the first time you've said it."

Song Junxing covered his mouth with his hands, and he hadn't finished yawning: "...Didn't I tell you?"

Linney: "No!"

Song Junxing narrowed his eyes: "Well, I didn't say anything about dealing with Greya worker bees. Grenades are useless, and rifles and pistols are not good. It's better to use a shotgun or a laser machine gun?"

Everyone on the lifeboat stared at the man on the screen, pursed their mouths tightly, and said nothing.

"Sorry, sorry..." Song Junxing apologized again and again, "But you guys are amazing, you got so many things. I'll be waiting for you and the little golden mushrooms, shrimps, and weeds in the Black Sea—"

Linney cut off the communication again.Staring at the screen with various data flashing, he thought for a long time.

"Turn on the rear lights, and Pierre and I go down to fix the landing gear," Linney said, "Trust that piece of crap for now."

Pierre was thinking of getting the toolbox from the back cabin, but Jiang Che and Ovid came out from the back cabin.

Ovid was carrying the toolbox that Pierre wanted, but Pierre's eyes fell on Jiang Che.

Jiang Che carried a box in his left hand, which contained several bottles and cans, all of which were the supplies that Ovid fought against at that time, and those that could not satisfy his hunger.And his right hand held a grid-shaped iron shelf, which Pierre recognized as the weapon compartment used to store weapons.

Linney was puzzled: "What are you doing?"

"Go down." Jiang Che threw the iron plate into the box in his left hand, and picked up the cloth bag containing small golden mushrooms, shrimps and aquatic plants from the ground, "Barbecue."

The two headlights on the rear side of the lifeship flicked on, illuminating a large area behind the lifeship.

Jiang Che jumped off the ship, walked to the light range with his things, put down the box, and shook the cloth bag in his hand.

Ovid followed him down and ran to the grass to bring some big stones. Linney was very happy and followed Ovid to find the stones.

"Is it okay to eat all of them?" He said to Jiang Che, "Leave none of them to that garbage in the Black Sea."

Jiang Che nodded: "OK."

He built a simple stone nest with stones, put an iron frame on the stone nest, sat on another stone, and asked Ovid and Linney for fire and firewood.

The two ran to the forest full of giant trees and found a lot of dead wood.

After splitting the firewood with a Wuft high-end machete worth 350 mosaics on the lifeboat, Linney squatted aside in distress and wiped the knife with the corner of his clothes, while Ovid put the firewood into the stone nest.

The fire was finally lit.

"Linney," Pierre yelled at the landing gear, "don't you want to fix the landing gear with me? The tail pin is too deep, the angle is wrong, and I can't get it out."

"Be strong, be independent! Keep working hard, keep working hard..." Linney waved carelessly.He put away the machete, and sat beside Jiang Che with Ovid, watching him barbecue.

Since there was fresh water on Greia F, they graciously began to use the plentiful reserves of the lifeboat.

After Tang Mo and Ovid washed the enoki mushrooms and shrimps, Jiang Che began to brush oil on the shelf.

"Are you done eating?" Tang Mo took a pair of scissors and cut off the shrimp's long beard and shrimp gun, and then handed it to Ovid to remove the sausage. "Leave some for Song Junxing?"

"I don't think it's necessary." After Ovid picked out the shrimp intestines, he followed Jiang Che's instructions and put the processed shrimp into a bowl filled with starch and cooking wine to soak.

"Such a small amount is not enough for the five of us." Lin Ni immediately vetoed her proposal. He was using a pocket knife to slice and mince the garlic, and cut the finger-sized red pepper into rings, "Jiang Che , what kind of shrimp do you want?"

Jiang Che smiled mysteriously.

He sat upright on the stone, with a tong in one hand, put garlic slices and butter slices on the small enoki mushrooms that were beginning to change color, and sprinkled the minced garlic on the iron plate with the other hand.

The left side of the iron frame is grid-like, and the right side is a complete iron plate without grid.The aroma came out one after another, and the small enoki mushrooms that were slowly changing color were placed on the grid rack, and the minced garlic on the iron plate bounced in the thin oil, giving off a deep-fried aroma.

Pierre, who had given up on repairing the landing gear, also ran over.But he is an inactive young master who can't do anything, so he just picked up the box Jiang Che used to catch shrimps before, and fanned the fire.

Jiang Che swept the fried minced garlic aside with a small shovel, thinking what a coincidence, luckily the air pressure on the Griya F was sufficient, otherwise there would be no cooking at all.

The other four circled around the stone nest, endured the smoke and fire, and stared at Jiang Che's hand.

Jiang Che took out a palm-sized packet of seasoning from the box.

Linney: "What's this?"

Tang Mo exclaimed in surprise: "Salt and pepper!"

"Yes, this is salt and pepper used in the kitchen." Jiang Che was also a little surprised, "Have you eaten it?"

"I secretly ate the salt and pepper potatoes they made in the kitchen." Tang Mo understood, "So you want to make salt and pepper shrimp."

The prawns wrapped in thin starch were placed one by one on the oily iron plate, and with a sound of stabbing, the shrimp shells that touched the iron plate immediately began to change color.

Jiang Che is very patient. This is different from a wok, so you have to wait until the shrimp is slowly cooked.The starch is soaked in hot oil and quickly turns golden, sticking tightly to the shells of the prawns.Jiang Che turned the shrimp over so that the undiscolored side was heated evenly.

The aroma has started to come out from the hot oil and fried shrimp.Tang Mo and Pierre took a deep breath, and sighed together: "It smells so good!"

While smelling the aroma of fried shrimp, Linney and Ovid couldn't help picking up the small enoki mushrooms covered with garlic slices and butter slices and putting them into their mouths.

This is the first time the two of them have eaten this kind of mushroom. It is smooth, tough and crispy in the mouth. Because it is mixed with butter and garlic slices, the pure plant aroma has changed, and it suddenly becomes complicated in the tongue.

Twenty small enoki mushrooms were placed on the iron frame at one time, and the two of them were so speechless after eating that they repeatedly called Tang Mo and Pierre to come and get them.Ovid picked up a small golden mushroom and stuffed it into Jiang Che's mouth.Jiang Che: "Isn't it just mushrooms...huh?"

The taste is not quite the same as that of Tricholoma. It has a richer and sweeter taste, and the degree of crispness is obviously more obvious than that of Tricholoma.

He swallowed back the half of the words he hadn't spoken, chewed the enoki mushroom in his mouth, and asked Ovid for another one.

The small enoki mushrooms are too easy to bake, and several people put them on the iron rack immediately after eating.

Pierre couldn't forget the roasted enoki mushrooms with black pepper that he had eaten, and searched for black pepper powder in the box.

Ovid carefully divided the enoki mushrooms into two parts, and told the others: "This side is Jiang Che's, we eat the other side."

Lin Ni studied the stalks of enoki mushrooms: "Mushrooms are so delicious, so you should be able to eat this too, right? Pierre, have you ever eaten the stalks of enoki mushrooms?"

Even Tang Mo never mentioned the words "Leave a little for Song Junxing".Holding a small fork, she focused her attention on the small enoki mushrooms, turning them over and brushing them with oil enthusiastically and diligently, so as to bake them into the best golden color. "Put them all up!" She boldly forked a small golden mushroom and put it in her mouth, "Eat them all!"

All the prawns on Jiang Che's side have been deep-fried.He unwrapped the package, sprinkled the salt and pepper on the prawns, and turned them carefully a few times, until the steaming aroma came out.The four people who were staring at the little enoki mushrooms all turned their heads to look at the fried red and yellow prawns.Once the pepper and salt are added, the smell of this simple barbecue stall suddenly becomes completely different: the aroma is hot and spicy, salty and refreshing.

Jiang Che also poured down the minced garlic and chili rings that Lin Ni had cut.

Once the hot oil is baked, all the seasonings seem to come alive, salty, spicy, numb, all kinds of them are drilled into people's noses.

Jiang Che took a plate, took out the shrimp one by one, and handed them: "Eat."