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In the endless wilderness, a huge bolide streaked across the sky, falling with a red light and a crackling supersonic explosion, shaking the whole earth.

The bolide was deeply embedded in the surface of the earth, and the bottom part of the star was cracked, and white mucus flowed out.

It started to rain, and the rain washed away the white mucus and spread it around.

It was getting brighter and the rain stopped.

After the rain, the grassland is fresh, the grass leaves are covered with dew, insects spread their wings and dance, pikas jump, Tibetan foxes run, eagles soar...all show a thriving side.

The wild ass drank freely at the edge of the puddle and drank the water containing white mucus.

It was a jackass, with obvious male features.But as it gurgled and drank water, its abdomen visibly swelled up bit by bit.

The wild donkey didn't seem to notice it. After drinking the water, it gnawed on the turf and chased the mother donkey after gnawing on the turf.

Its belly is still expanding, so that the blood vessels are very clear, and the belly is almost transparent, like a balloon, it will burst when poked.

Zhang Xian, who was watching everything silently, thought so, when his belly exploded with a "bang", and a bloody mass fell out of his stomach, and fled away quickly.

The speed was so fast that Zhang Xian couldn't even see what it was.

The wild donkey fell to the ground and struggled continuously. It seemed that it was trying to stand up, but its belly was wide open and its heart was gone. All the struggle was nothing but muscle twitches stimulated by nerves.

Within a few minutes, brain cells died in large numbers due to lack of blood and oxygen, and muscle cells followed suit.

The wild ass was completely dead, and the companion didn't care about it.

Its body lay quietly on the green prairie after the rain. A butterfly landed on the donkey's head, but was quickly chased away by the vultures.

The vulture ate a few mouthfuls of red meat, but was chased away by a group of jackals.

When the vulture flew into the sky, it seemed that its abdomen was also a little swollen...

Zhang Xian's dream was interrupted suddenly, and Jiang Yuan didn't even have time to wake him up, so he kicked the sleeping bag a few times roughly: "Get up, follow me!"

After being roughly woken up by Jiang Yuan, Zhang Xian knew that something must have happened, and suddenly lost all sleepiness.

He quickly got out of the sleeping bag and couldn't help sneezing.

a little cold.

It's cold in the house, how much does it have to cool down outside?

Zhang Xian didn't care about deep thinking, and hurriedly grabbed his clothes to wrap himself up.He ran to chase after Jiang Yuan who had already walked some distance in the corridor.

When they came to a "spider leg", Dalin and the station master were standing in the middle of the passage, as if they were guarding something—they heard movement in that room.

Dalin reported: "We yelled a few times, but the other party didn't answer or growl. It's unclear whether it was a beast or a human."

Everything is based on the safety of our personnel, so they will not open the door recklessly.

In particular, after checking all the rooms and confirming that there are no beasts or people, there is movement in the room in the middle of the night, which is obviously not right.

"Whatever that is, alert!"

Both Dalin and Jiang Yuan's guns were loaded.

"Wait." The station master listened for a while, "Do you feel that there is the sound of flapping wings?"

--Oh?

A few people carefully took turns sticking to the door and listening carefully, as if that was really the case.

Zhang Xian desperately recalled the structure of the entire building. He believed that the movement of this room should be related to its location.because……

"Exhaust window!"

The exhaust port is connected to the outside world. Even if there is a fence to prevent wild animals from entering by mistake, if it is a small bird or rodent, it is still possible to enter.

Birds accidentally flew into the exhaust vent, but couldn't fly out, tossing around in the house... This possibility is quite high.

Zhang Xian was the last one to walk over, with Jiang Yuan's tacit approval, he put his ear to the door... He took out a cup from the next room, put it on the door, put his ear to the cup, and listened carefully.

Doing so will make the sound clearer.

Jiang Yuan muttered: "At this time, he is more like a cultural person." He almost forgot that this kid has excellent grades in cultural subjects, and he has studied both civil and martial arts.

Surprised, the webmaster also gave a thumbs up.

Unexpectedly, within five seconds of Zhang Xian standing still at the door, the door was knocked loudly.

It was hit from inside, and the force was quite strong. The door panel seemed to shake, and Zhang Xian's ears were buzzing.

At this moment, everyone's slightly relieved heart raised their throats again.

"Go... let's go..."

A faint voice floated out from the door.

What followed was an even louder banging on the door.

There was a difference between the strength of hitting the door and the strength of shouting for help. There were at least two people inside the door—it didn’t matter. Since someone was calling for help, Jiang Yuan immediately signaled the others to retreat, and yelled, “Get out of the way of the people inside.” Then a shot broke the door lock, kicked the door in and raised the gun to guard in one go.

Zhang Xian and others outside the door saw that Jiang Yuan had completed half of the standard moves, but put down his gun.

Immediately afterwards, a yellow-brown something flew out of the door and went straight to Zhang Xian!

--"puff"!

Zhang Xian swiftly wrapped that thing into the clothes he picked up, like a basketball three times its size.

It tossed and screamed.

Zhang Xian was also in a hurry, and with the hard work of both sides, he finally pulled out a yellow bird's head.

Eyes brown, cere brown, beak black, curved and hard.There is a ring of feathers around the neck, like a reversed Elizabethan ring.

"Vulture?" the station master said in surprise, "he's still a minor."

An adult vulture weighs fifteen to six kilograms and is more than one meter long. This juvenile is only seven or eight kilograms, seven to eighty centimeters.

The half-grown vulture tried its best to raise its neck and rub Zhang Xian's chin.

Zhang Xian's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, and he moved it a little farther away.

Even if it's underage, it's still a bird of prey, the kind that can peck through cowhide with one bite.

And if he remembers correctly, vultures are scavengers, right?

The aborigines advocate sky burial in order to obtain salvation.From a religious point of view, it is the dakini who makes a connection with the dead, and the way of connection is... to eat the body of the dead.

The vulture is the incarnation of the dakini.

The celestial burial master will break open the bones of the deceased on the celestial burial platform, divide the body of the deceased, and feed the vultures.

The more clean one eats, the more detached the dead will be.

This is a kind of funeral that looks cruel to ordinary people, but is highly respected by the aborigines.

Eating animals while alive and being eaten by animals after death is also an ecological cycle.

But from a biological point of view, vultures just follow their instincts and eat meat to fill their stomachs. It doesn't care about religious or humanistic meanings. Regardless of cruelty or mercy, holy or evil, all attributives are imposed on it by humans.

It doesn't represent anything but itself, a pure scavenger.

Zhang Xian also dislikes it from a purely biological point of view.

——The vulture inevitably smelled of rotten flesh, and it rubbed against his nose, which was just a little... irritating.

Zhang Xian immediately sneezed loudly.

"Just let it go, or check it first?" Zhang Xian asked the station master while turning his head to avoid the vulture's head.

The station master laughed loudly: "Xiaoyan, what's the matter with you today? It's related to animals. You control it, and I'll check it out. If there is no major problem, let it go."

"Okay." Zhang Xian took another sheet, trying to control the vulture.

However, if this thing is so easy to control, can it still be regarded as a raptor?Zhang Xian didn't dare to use too much strength to hurt this second-class protected animal in the country, which is a near-threatened species in the world.

Exhausted from being tormented, Zhang Xian really had no choice but to press the vulture into his arms, and stroked the vulture down the back of its neck with his palm.

The vulture paused after struggling: "...Gah?"

Don't, don't...stop, don't stop!

——That’s right, that’s how it feels!

The system is satisfied and comfortable.

Immediately, Zhang Xian felt that his bosom was no longer noisy.

He immediately resumed his efforts, like stroking a cat—in fact, it was more like stroking a rubber pipe, from the head to the neck, and stroking the vulture.

Still without a teacher, he reached into his clothes and scratched the vulture's back.

Soon, the whole vulture softened into a big piece of dough, and in his arms, it was fluffy, its wings were half spread, and its head rested on Zhang Xian's shoulder, squinting its eyes as if enjoying it.

The station master was amazed: "I've never seen a vulture that is so close to people." It's too big a vulture to dare to expose its fragile neck like this and let people stroke it.

I'm afraid it's not the reincarnation of a small sticky cake.

Mr. Vulture was in a good mood by the RUA, and he cooperated with the inspection very much. The station master pulled his wings and pinched his paws, but he didn't respond.

Those are claws that can tear cowhide and crush bones.

Although, the station master still tried his best to protect himself, fearing that the eagle master would suddenly change his face.

Zhang Xian is the same, his hands are not idle, the muscles of his whole body are actually tense, ready to throw the vulture out at any time.

Just as they were initially checking on the vulture, Jiang Yuan and Da Lin came out of the room.

In Jiang Yuan's arms was holding a... Judging by her attire, she should be an aboriginal girl.

She was small and thin, maybe eleven or twelve, but she couldn't tell.

His lips were deeply gashed, and his eyes were dull.

Jiang Yuan's coat covered her upper body, revealing a bare foot, covered with dirt.

The girl was still struggling in Jiang Yuan's arms, but Jiang Yuan was so strong that her struggle was almost useless.

Dalin poured a glass of water for the girl and brought it to the girl's mouth.

The girl stopped struggling, drank it quickly, and then...struggled again.

Her movements were obvious, pushing herself in the opposite direction of Jiang Yuan.

But because her body was really weak, Jiang Yuan didn't feel anything, and she still explained in a stuttering local dialect, "There is water and food, you eat slowly, we are good people."

The girl didn't answer, but kept repeating in fluent Mandarin: "Go, it's dangerous, go quickly."

Jiang Yuan was moved by her kindness, and comforted him: "Don't worry, it's safe here now."

He had found the girl under the grille of the exhaust window.

It is preliminarily judged that she has been hiding in the exhaust window duct at a high place, and the vulture broke in at night, broke the exhaust window, and knocked her down.

It is not known how long she hid here.

I don't know if she witnessed the beast tearing the corpse.

I don't even know if she witnessed the death of these people with her own eyes.

What is certain is that this little girl, as the only survivor of this place, will definitely provide them with clues.

It's just that the little girl's resistance is too strong now, let alone asking for clues, the two sides can't communicate calmly for the time being.

Jiang Yuan tried to reason with the little girl, but the little girl was very stubborn and said this sentence over and over again.

"Go, go quickly..." The little girl seemed to have fallen into a coma.

Seeing Jiang Yuan's expression, Zhang Xian gradually became more serious.

"It's snowing outside, it's not easy to go out, we'll tidy up the room closest to the exit and rest, if there is danger, evacuate immediately."

The author has something to say: System: Unexpectedly, Master Vulture makes his debut!

Brother Yan: ... Ugly, you smell bad.