wandering planet

Linney was out of breath, and still mustered his breath to swear a rude swear word.

At this time, a voice came from the portable communicators of everyone: "Don't worry, go back to the hillside where the lifeboat is, and the winged snake will not catch up."

Since Pierre did not close the communication with the Black Sea, Song Junxing's equipment is now connected to the lifeboat and everyone's portable communicators.He spoke in a slow, relaxed manner, and Linney could even hear him chewing some kind of nut.

"So this thing is called a winged snake?" Tang Mo asked intermittently, "You know it all?"

Song Junxing: "I know."

Tang Mo: "Then why don't you tell me?"

Song Junxing: "I forgot."

Tang Mo's hand trembled, and Wuft's machete fell to the ground.Lin Ni kept dragging her forward and ran wildly. She was not physically strong, so she had to concentrate all her attention on mobilizing her legs to keep up with Lin Ni's speed. "350 mosaics..." she yelled at Linney, "the knife..."

Jiang Che followed closely behind her, kicked up the knife and grabbed it into his hand.

Among the four, Ovid and Linney had the best physical strength. Ovid didn't need to run with anyone, he was actually the most relaxed.With the little fox on his shoulders, Ovid turned and aimed at the winged snake's belly, but gave up quickly.

The Winged Serpent was too big, and the wind from the flapping of its wings rolled up all the branches, leaves and dust on the ground, and Ovid couldn't aim at its belly.If it missed a hit, it would only make it more angry, and their situation would only become more dangerous.

The lifeboat was just ahead, and they had to climb the low hill to reach the plain where the lifeboat was.

"Why can't the Winged Snake catch up on the hillside?" He grabbed the communicator and asked Song Junxing.

Jiang Che ran in front of him, heard his voice, couldn't help turning around and urging Ovid: "Run faster!"

Ovid caught his worried eyes, and most of the sulk in his heart disappeared at once, and he couldn't help but smiled at Jiang Che.

"Because the tomb of the Snake King is under the hillside where you are." Song Junxing said slowly at the other end, "Did you find it? The closer you are to the hillside, the slower the winged snake flies. The grave of the previous generation of Snake King is buried on the hillside." Corpse, the winged snake will be afraid of this smell."

His words seemed to be true.The frequency with which the Winged Snake flaps its wings has gradually decreased.But because its body is too large, the wings that can bear this weight are also extremely wide, and the shadow it casts still hangs over the four people who are running wildly.

The lifeboat is just ahead.All four were almost exhausted.Running wildly in this kind of gravity environment consumes a lot of physical energy, and even the most energetic Ovid is about to be unable to hold on.

None of them dared to believe Song Junxing anymore. He said that the hillside was safe because of the Snake King—but who knew if he would "unintentionally" forget some crucial details?

Linney was the first to jump up the hill.He grabbed the portable communicator on his shoulder, took a deep breath, and shouted in a voice that almost tore his throat: "Go to hell!"

Song Junxing let out a scream from the other end, mixed with the sound of rolling over: "My ears!"

Lin Ni pulled Tang Mo up the hillside.Tang Mo knew that he was the weakest in physical strength, so he didn't want to be a burden to them. He couldn't lift his legs anymore, so he grabbed the stones on the slope and approached the lifeboat in a crawling posture.Lin Ni wanted to carry her, but Tang Mo refused: the weight of the two people added up, and it was very likely that Lin Ni would be crushed in an instant.

Jiang Che then climbed up the slope, his posture was the same as Tang Mo's, not pretty or standard.He lay on the slope for a while, and did not continue until he confirmed that Ovid had also climbed up smoothly.

Pierre jumped off the lifeboat, ran to Lin Ni and Tang Mo, first transferred the weight of Lin Ni to himself, and then bent down to support Tang Mo.

Tang Mo grabbed his uniform, his legs were completely limp, he just struggled to stand up and immediately knelt down again.

"Forget it... just rest like this." Lin Ni also collapsed on the ground, panting, and simply lay down, "It ran away."

The Winged Snake waved its wings and wandered not far away, but never approached the hillside. It seemed very unwilling, and turned around and flew away.

Linney stared at the direction the winged snake left.He realized that he was a narrow-minded person, and he had a grudge against the Winged Snake, and he must avenge it.

Of course, what Song Junxing did can't be forgotten.

He untied the communicator, put it near his mouth, and cursed in a weak voice.

Tang Mo patted his arm, signaling him to stop.

"Poor Lin Ni." Tang Mo said, "Swearing at people is so elegant, what kind of rubbish, trash, go to hell, it's not lethal at all."

She cleared her throat: "Let me do it."

Jiang Che and Ovid finally walked back. The two supported themselves with their guns, sat down slowly, and watched Tang Mo speak in amazement.

She seemed to be speaking a language they hadn't heard, fast and oddly complex.

What Jiang Che was sure of was that Tang Mo scolded very obscenely.He heard Song Junxing exclaiming again and again on the other side: "Wow...you can still scold like this? It's amazing..."

Tang Mo himself was also surprised: "Can you understand?"

"I don't understand." Song Junxing said, "I just guessed. Did you just curse me for not having sex in the rest of my life?"

"Yes." Tang Mo looked very excited, because someone could exchange swearing techniques with her, "There are others, I will translate them for you."

Pierre covered his ears at the side: "Stop talking! Don't destroy your innocent and pure impression in my heart, Tang Mo..."

Tang Mo thought for a while, and was confused: "Am I innocent and pure? No, I'm a scumbag. I'm a scumbag who borrowed money and didn't pay it back, and ran away shamelessly."

"...Your perception of yourself is quite accurate." Ovid smiled and kicked her shoe, "I haven't said you yet, if you didn't talk nonsense, could you pull out the big snake!"

After a wild run, nothing was found.Everyone was sweating, and Ovid took off his shirt, shaking off the ants all over the floor.When he left the forest, he fell and brought back the ants on the ground.

These ants are small in size, golden in color, with thin black hairs around their waists.

Pierre recognized it: these are the carnivorous ants that Song Junxing said.

Fortunately, carnivorous ants only eat winged snakes, otherwise Ovid would be gone now.

Everyone observed the little ants in their palms, and Jiang Che watched them carefully.He was wondering if he could eat this thing, he was really, really hungry.

"Are carnivorous ants poisonous?" he asked Song Junxing.

"There is a toxin that can paralyze the winged snake." Song Junxing replied quickly, "The poisonous gland is located under its abdomen, and there is a small protrusion."

Jiang Che has already started to think about how to take care of these little things.

Song Junxing no longer used any excuses to hide his familiarity with these animals, and they didn't bother to ask them anymore. He would always tell them to beat them up first when they arrived in the Black Sea.The most important thing now is to find a way to suppress the winged snake and obtain meat.

Song Junxing communicated with them through a portable communicator, and everyone sat in a circle on the plain, listening to Song Junxing's words.Pierre, with the most energy, fumbled to set up the grill and start grilling the fish.

According to Song Junxing, the winged snake has already regarded the forest as its own hunting ground, that is to say, it is a female snake that has just laid eggs and urgently needs to supplement nutrition for itself and the soon-to-be born child.

The winged snake's nest must be on a nearby mountain, and it has to beware of carnivorous ants, and it won't be long before leaving the nest.

"Its time of leaving and returning to the nest is very regular. For example, it will definitely return to the nest one hour after leaving the nest. Although there are a large number of carnivorous ants, the tail and wings of the winged snake are very powerful, and it can flap it down at will. There are a lot of carnivorous ants." Song Junxing tried to be as simple and clear as possible, "If you want to deal with winged snakes, you must be careful about its wings and tails. Also, winged snakes are not active at night. They live on mountains for a long time. Violently, vision declines rapidly, basically night blindness."

"Then we meet the Winged Snake, wouldn't it be safer if we didn't run away?"

"No. Generally, animals with poor eyesight have very sensitive senses of hearing and smell. You are meat, and you have the smell of meat on your body, and the winged snake can smell it." Song Junxing heard the sound of pages turning, and Jiang Che Thinking of his little notebook that recorded many meals, "You can hide in the water, the water can wash away your smell, and the winged snake can't find it."

Ovid listened very seriously: "What about the Snake King?"

The wings of female winged snakes are set after sexual maturity and cannot grow.After mating and giving birth, their size will gradually increase, so female winged snakes can only give birth three times in a lifetime. After three times, the wings can no longer bear the weight of the body, they can no longer move and hunt, they can only hang Waiting to die at the nest.From birth to death, the longest life span of a female winged snake is only five to six years.

The King Snake is a very special winged snake: it refuses to reproduce, nor does it eat its mate after mating.

"The number of such winged snakes is very, very small, and there may not be one out in 100 years." Song Junxing's voice came from the portable communicator on the grass, "We don't know why the snake king refuses to give birth, but the lifespan of the snake king will be longer than ordinary snakes. The female winged snakes live for several years, and emit a special deterrent smell, and the rest of the female snakes are afraid of this smell. The male winged snakes selected by the snake king are very special in the winged snake group, and some snake kings have only one Mate with the same male winged snake until it dies."

Jiang Che ate Pierre's grilled fish, and exchanged glances with Linney and Ovid: Song Junxing just said "we".

Who is he with?Besides him, how many "who" are there?

"When the snake king is about to die, he will find a place high enough, dig a hole, and go in. It won't carry any food, refuses to be accompanied by the male-winged snake, and then seals the hole tightly in the hole, and dies like this It is inside. The male wing snake will not leave, it will keep guarding outside the cave until it is confirmed that the snake king is dead."

Tang Mo listened most seriously: "So infatuated? So we will find the body of the male-winged snake nearby?"

"No." Song Junxing said, "The male winged snake that accompanied the snake king to die will become the target of other female snakes. It will soon mate with other winged snakes and be eaten, becoming the nutrient for the new snake."

Tang Mo: "..."

Pierre comforted her: "Don't be sad, animals are like this, survival and reproduction are the most important."

Tang Mo: "I'm not sad. I'm thinking about a question."

Pierre: "What?"

Tang Mo: "The male snake after mating with the King Snake must taste good and be rich in nutrition, so other female snakes will fight hard. The King Snake is indeed the most powerful, and it can also improve the meat quality of other snakes..."

Pierre lowered his head and grilled the fish silently.He couldn't keep up with Tang Mo's train of thought.

On the other side, Linney and Ovid were thinking about what to do next.

There is enough information.

They want to obtain meat on Nini, and the forest closest to the plain where the Snake King is buried is their goal.

The winged snake should be returning to its nest now.But they didn't know the law of its leaving home and returning home, whether it was the one hour Song Junxing said, they couldn't believe it at all.

Seeing that Linney and Ovid had a lively discussion, Jiang Che stood up, picked up a small box and a cloth bag, shook them clean, and walked down the slope.

"Tang Mo, if you have nothing to do, take out a few pieces of dry bread and knead them into bread crumbs. Pierre, peel the skins of two double-edged fish and chop them into pieces. Remove the bones from the fish meat and separate them from the skins. When I come back, I will give them to you." Everyone make delicious food."

At the edge of the forest is a large grassland, and Jiang Che easily found a nest of carnivorous ants on the grassland.

The nests of carnivorous ants are like a small hill, distributed one by one on the grass.Although carnivorous ants don't eat people, that's just what Song Junxing himself said.Jiang Che took out a piece of fish that had just been picked from Ovid's grilled fish and threw it over. After observing for a while, he confirmed that the meat-eating ants were not interested in fish at all.

Jiang Che put the cloth bag on his hands, grabbed the carnivorous ants' nest, immediately tied the cloth bag tightly, and ran to the small water pool on the grass.The pool was very deep. Jiang Che put the cloth bag into the pool and floated for a while before opening it. The carnivorous ants were flooded and all floated on the surface of the water.The soil was so heavy that it fell heavily under the bag.

Jiang Che fished out the carnivorous ants and put them in a small box, poured out the remaining soil in the cloth bag, turned around and went to catch the ants again.

After a few runs, the little box was full.

He seized the time to search around for some fruits, and then returned to the hillside.

Throwing the fruit to Pierre to wash, Jiang Che began to check the effect of Tang Mo and Pierre's work.

The bread crumbs are very finely rubbed and beautiful, and the skin of the double loin fish is also chopped, but the fish meat is very ugly and cut irregularly.Thinking that Pierre was still an inactive young master before, Jiang Che forgave him.

Song Junxing was right about at least one thing: the double loin fish on Virgil was indeed delicious.

Its fish skin is rich in gelatin, very fragrant and tough in the mouth, the fish is tender and smooth, and the gravy is rich, and because the fish is large, the amount of fish is also large, whether it is fried or boiled, it is delicious and can be full.

Jiang Che asked Tang Mo to join him in carefully peeling off the poisonous glands in the abdomen of the carnivorous ants to remove the paralyzing toxin.

This job is very tedious, and Pierre originally did it together, but then he felt bored and simply returned to the lifeboat to be on duty.After all the venom glands of carnivorous ants were peeled off, Jiang Che took out a relatively deep small pot and put it aside, then began to mix the minced fish skin with fish meat and ants, added some seasonings, and rubbed together to make Many small balls.

Tang Mo watched him work, swallowed involuntarily: "Do you really want to eat... ants?"

Jiang Che glanced at her with a smile: "Don't dare to eat?"

"What are you afraid of?" Tang Mo stared at Jiang Che's hand rubbing the meatballs, "We even ate small golden mushrooms with unknown ingredients, strange blue-backed crabs, and molluscs that I don't know if they are squid. this?"

Jiang Che: "But you don't seem to want to eat much."

Tang Mo: "Will it stink?"

Jiang Che: "No, it's fragrant and crispy, just like sesame seeds."

While chatting with Tang Mo, he had already made a bunch of balls.The meatballs are not big, and they are all firm fish meat and fish skin, covered with a layer of golden carnivorous ants.Jiang Che asked Tang Mo to bring over the bread crumbs, rolled the balls one by one into the bread crumbs, then picked them up immediately, and carefully put them into a small pot that had already boiled oil.

The conditions were simple and there was no stove, so he directly held the handle of the pot and put the pot on the fire where Pierre grilled fish.The two meatballs were tumbling in the boiling oil, crackling and crackling.

There wasn't much oil on the lifeboat, so Jiang Che hadn't been able to fry food ruthlessly.Seeing that they are approaching the Black Sea, and they don't know what's going on up there, so they just ignore Sanqi 21 and have a good meal first.

In the middle of the discussion between Linney and Ovid, they were distracted by the scent and moved closer.

Most of the meatballs were fried, and they were neatly arranged on the plate. Each one was golden and round, and the unfinished oil flowed into the plate, all of which were hot and fragrant.

There is nothing that is not fried well.Jiang Che was frying meatballs over there, while the other four were quietly eating with forks.

The bread crumbs were tasteless, but crisp and crumbly.And between the fragrant fish and bread crumbs, there is a layer of something crisper and crisper than bread crumbs.

The gelatinous skin of the two-ridge fish holds the fish meat tightly together, and even the carnivorous ants are tightly stuck to the meatballs.The bread crumbs are evenly coated, and besides being fragrant and fresh, the whole meatball has a rich and interesting taste, and the tenacity and crispness do not conflict with each other, and the fusion is excellent.

"Delicious!" With two balls stuffed in Tang Mo's mouth, he couldn't speak clearly, "It's so delicious! It's crispy and crispy! It's like... just like the crunchy fritters that were fried just right!"

Jiang Che could understand what she said, but the other three Maasai couldn't.

Tang Mo grew up in an area full of Asian ethnicities, Jiang Che was surprised: he really did not expect to hear the word "fried dough sticks" in the mouth of a true Maasai.

After chewing a couple of mouthfuls, Tang Mo denied his own words: "No, no, it's more like fried sesame seeds... crunchy and thin."

She swallowed what was in her mouth, and she didn't bother to comment on the food, and joined the ranks of grabbing food.

Ovid forked one and handed it to Jiang Che, Jiang Che ate it in one gulp, then bit Ovid's fork tightly.

"... let go." Ovid could not pull it out, and reminded him in a low voice, "You will get hurt."

Jiang Che licked the bread crumbs off the fork, feeling very proud of his cooking skills.

"Aren't you mad at me?" he asked Ovid.

Ovid picked up a freshly cooked meatball from his side, took a small breath, and ate it bit by bit, without answering Jiang Che immediately.

He was very patient, and Jiang Che was even more patient.Ovid waited for Jiang Che to continue asking, or asked in a different tone, but Jiang Che closed his mouth tightly and kept silent.

He was defeated.

"Don't be angry." Ovid ate half of the meatballs, staring at Jiang Che's gesture of picking up the meatballs, "There's nothing to be angry about."

In the steaming heat, Jiang Che's hands looked very fair, but upon closer inspection, they were hands covered with beautiful and powerful muscles on the bones.

Ovid thought of the way his hands rubbed together as he washed his hair, and the damp heat as they reached into his collar.

Jiang Che scooped up the last ball from the pan and put it in Ovid's small dish.

"The last one is also the most delicious." Jiang Che whispered, "Here you are."

Ovid hesitantly picked up the meatballs, thinking while eating, Jiang Che is... so complicated, he can't figure it out.

After a hearty meal, discuss the next steps.

Meat is a must, and the animals on Nini are very small. Jiang Che even had the idea of ​​taking a few live animals to the Black Sea to raise them.

"It doesn't matter, what we need to deal with now is the winged snake." Linney drew a big fat snake on the ground with a branch.

The Winged Serpent is able to take flight, and its wings increase its aggression and range.In order to protect themselves, they first deal with the winged snake's wings.

Among the weapons picked up on the Greia F, they found ten hunting rifles.

Instead of bullets, these hunting guns fire hunting arrows attached to ropes.The hunting arrow is about as long as an adult's upper arm, and the arrow has sharp barbs, which are difficult to pull out once they penetrate the prey's body.Ovid speculates that these hunting guns were originally used to deal with Griya worker bees: shooting hunting arrows into the abdomen of the worker bees, which can then be pulled from a high altitude to the ground and killed.

"These hunting guns are modified from net guns. Griya worker bees can fly, but humans can't, so hunting nets are useless. Our current situation is very similar to that of honey hunters, so this hunting gun is just right for us use."

The hunting gun was heavy and badly aimed, and Linney and Ovid could use it, but no one else could.The two only carried hunting guns and five or six hunting arrows on their backs, and Jiang Che was in charge of the rest of the weapons.

Once the hunting arrow stabs the winged snake, they must immediately fix the rope to a tree or stone on the ground to suppress the winged snake's flight, and then slowly solve it.

After listening to the plan, everyone remained silent.

Ovid: "Is this a bad plan?"

Jiang Che: "There are too many uncertain factors. Let's take it step by step."

According to the plan, they will first observe the timing of the winged snake leaving and returning to its nest on the lifeboat, and then approach its nest at full speed while the winged snake is returning to its nest.Since the nest is still far from the lifeboat, it may take them all night to find it.

Both Pierre and Tang Mo were forbidden to follow.The communicator was always on, and once Linney and the others sent out a distress message, Pierre immediately drove the lifeboat to pick them up.

"...The size of the winged snake can wipe out the lifeboat with one tail." Pierre was very nervous, "What should we do? And... After we figured out the rules of the winged snake's leaving and returning to its nest, after it Isn’t it all right to explore the forest and find meat when we return to the lair?”

Lin Ni put the hunting gun on his back: "No, I want revenge. I almost died on Lin Ni, I want revenge."

Ovid: "It's been a long time since I've used a shotgun, I need to practice."

Pierre looked at Jiang Che.

"Pierre." Jiang Che rubbed his little curly hair, "Don't you want to taste the meat and eggs of the winged snake?"