Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

Xia Lunong's family has caught ants.

He had smelled it closely and was very familiar with the smell of ants.

There are definitely ants around here, you can't go wrong.

Xia Maomao looked around with his emerald cat eyes, and poked his head here and there. After a while, he determined that the smell mainly came from a certain wind direction.

He walked over on all fours, took a few steps forward, walked to Kong Zhi's feet, looked up at him, "Meow."

Kong Zhi lowered his head, "What's wrong?"

A summer cat scratches its paws on the ground and writes: There are ants

Kong Zhi bent down and picked him up, "It's normal, there are ants everywhere now."

Xia Lunong rubbed his arm, her head was over his shoulder, her round eyes turned around, looking around.

He always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Kong Zhi stood guard on the sidelines, Xia Huoqu and Yan Xiannian looked up and down the river, and put the peanuts in baskets into the river.

The two jumped into the river and directly washed the peanuts in the basket.

The baskets are made of thin bamboo strips, through which water can pass easily.

The mud soup made by the two of them was easily carried away by the river, revealing the original light yellow color of the peanut shells.

The two of them have great strength, bending over and rubbing, they can clean a basket in a few minutes.

The rubbed peanuts were picked up together with the baskets and placed on the grass by the river bank. After the water in the baskets seeped out, they were picked back to the truck.

Washing peanuts is a labor-intensive and meticulous job, with basically no technical content.

The two of them scrubbed together, and the time passed by.

Kong Zhi stood in the sun dryly and kept watch, the tip of his nose was sweating quickly.

Being held by him, Xia Maomao felt that every inch of its fur had absorbed enough heat. The whole cat was so hot that its foot pads were about to burn.

Later, he couldn't take it any longer, so he kicked his hind legs, jumped out of his arms, and lay down in the shade of a tree next to him.

It was cool under the shade of the tree, and there was a breeze blowing. Xia Maomao's head was bit by bit, and it simply rested on its two front paws, and slowly fell asleep.

There was still a strange smell in the air. Xia Maomao fell asleep and dreamed of countless candies, cakes, and small pastries. The intoxicating sweet fragrance lingered in his nose all the time.

When he woke up, there was still a sweet smell in his nasal cavity, as if that sweet smell really existed.

This made his whole cat a little confused.

He looked up and saw that the sentry had been replaced by Yan Xinian.

He stood up from the ground, stepped out of the shade, and turned his head to look around.

Yan Xiannian heard movement from his side, took two steps forward, knelt down and scratched his chin, "Are you awake?"

"Mi." Xia Maomao raised its paw, subconsciously licked its fur, and quickly reacted, poohed, "Meow."

Yan Xianian couldn't help laughing, "It's almost finished, we'll go back after washing."

Xia Maomao probed his head and saw more than a dozen baskets of white and clean peanuts by the river, many of which were almost dried out.

If they can finish washing this morning, they will take these peanuts back and spread them out to dry, and there is still time to dry the moisture on them when the sun is at its strongest at noon.

Xia Maomao stood up and walked over to the peanut basket to check.

When we got to the river, a gust of wind with water vapor blew over, bringing the smell of the upper reaches of the river.

"Mi?" Xia Maomao tilted his head, doubts appeared in his eyes, why did he think the wind was really sweet?

Xia Huoqu just finished washing a basket of peanuts, raised his hands, and lifted the whole basket of peanuts to the shore. Seeing his brother standing on the edge of the basket, he said, "Go and play."

"Meow." Xia Maomao looked very serious on his face.

Hearing the sound, Kong Zhi tilted his head, straightened his back and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"mum."

Xia Maomao turned his head to think for a while, and wrote on the slightly muddy ground with his paws: Fengtian

"The wind has a sweet smell?" Xia Huoqu squatted down to look, "What kind of sweet smell?"

Yan Xiannian looked around and walked over, and also looked down at Xia Maomao's writing, "Is there any fruit nearby that is ripe?"

"It's August. There must be ripe wild fruits. Aren't there a lot of mangosteen nearby? I just checked, and many of them are so dark that they can be eaten."

Xia Maomao didn't think it smelled like twig, and he couldn't tell what it smelled like.

The cat raised one of its front paws and stood in the sun with its head tilted, as if lost in thought.

Xia Huoqu grabbed his front paws with a big hand, supported his back, hugged him up, and put him gently under the shade of the tree, "Okay, you take a rest first, and I will take you after washing the peanuts." Pick some wild fruits nearby."

"mum."

All right, see you later.

The sun had already risen so high, Xia Huoqu and Kong Zhi speeded up to wash the remaining peanuts, and then picked the peanuts that had been drained before into the cart.

When carrying the burden, Yan Xiannian also carried it together, only Xia Maomao squatted on the roof of the car to watch.

Soon, all the peanuts were picked, and Xia Mao Mao's meat pad squatting on the roof of the car was almost cooked. With a "mi", he jumped off the roof of the car and jumped into his brother's arms.

Xia Huoqu looked at the sky, and said to Kong Zhi and Yan Xinian: "Go back first, I will take Xiao Nong to pick some wild fruits, and I will take him back in the shape of a beast later."

Xia Huoqu's skill is very good, and there is no danger near the base, Yan Xinian said: "Okay, be careful, come back soon, let's pick the peanuts back to dry first."

Xia Huoqu waved his hand, holding Xia Maomao in one hand and a sack with a hatchet in the other, and went upstream along the river.

Now weeds are growing, and there are weeds and vines everywhere, many of which have thorns.

Xia Maomao saw that there was almost no way under his brother's feet, and waited to open the way with his own legs, slowly wading over, worried, "Mi."

Xia Maomao jumped on his brother's shoulder, leaving his brother free to explore the way with a wooden stick.

While walking, Xia Maomao has already seen many ants walking by the river.

These ants were not the same species as the black ants we ate last time. Their shells were yellower and their bodies were much smaller, only the size of longhorn beetles before the catastrophe.

This already scares the cat.

Especially when the ants are dispatched, they are dispatched in groups. A long string of ants is like a yellow and black line, swimming along the river, and it looks like it can pollute people's spirit.

The fur on Xia Maomao's body exploded at some point, and his whole body grew bigger out of thin air, his eyes fixed on the ants on the ground.

Whenever these ants dared to take a step beyond the thunder pool, he would definitely run up to perform the cat-mao boxing.

Ants don't take the initiative to attack people, as long as they don't walk into the ants' channel, the ants and them have a sense of not interfering with the river.

"There are raspberries here." Xia Huoqu's voice brought back Xia Mao Mao's consciousness.

He widened his eyes and looked over, only to see that there was indeed a large clump of cranberries by the river.

The thornberry vine bears yellow or red fruits, each about the size of a quail egg.

Xia Huoqu walked over slowly, observed it, pinched a fiery red raspberry with two slender fingers, put it to his mouth and took a bite.

The raspberries were sweet and sour, and the abundant juice burst in his mouth, and he couldn't help squinting his eyes.

"Mi." Xia Maomao hooked his clothes with two paws, poked his head forward, his eyes were full of curiosity.

Xia Huoqu picked another one and put it in his brother's mouth.

Xia Maomao licked it habitually, and after tasting the sweetness, he bit it into his mouth, chewed it left and right, and soon tasted the sweetness and the sourness.

The sourness and sweetness of raspberries are equally outstanding, and Xia Maomao's eyes are so sour that they narrow their eyes.

Xia Huoqu asked, "A pick?"

"Mi." Pick up.

Xia Huoqu picked a small bag of big, red or big, yellow raspberries, and then walked forward with his brother on his shoulders.

There are many bamboo forests by the river, and they dug several bamboo shoots.

When digging bamboo shoots, Xia Maomao also saw bamboo shoot insects, but not many, they were too lazy to catch them, so they didn’t catch them.

The two moved forward all the way, and Xia Huoqu also picked a lot of twigs.

Mangosteen is big and sweet, but there are many seeds inside, and the tongue will turn purple after eating.

This is already a rare fruit, and it tastes better than raspberries. Xia Maomao eats it with a happy expression on his face.

Xia Maomao ate a few, but his brother wouldn't let him eat more, "Eat so much, be careful of constipation."

"Meow?"

Xia Huo's channel: "You are still in the shape of a cat, you don't want to go to Dr. Ou for an enema because of constipation, do you?"

Xia Maomao shook the whole cat, with a frightened expression on the cat's face, its tail hung down to block its own chrysanthemum, "Mi."

A smile appeared on Xia Huoqu's face, "It's good to know the severity. Is there still a sweet smell in the air?"

Xia Maomao sniffed it carefully and nodded.

He felt that he was close to the source of that sweet smell.

Xia Huoqu continued walking with him.

After walking for a while, Xia Huoqu stared at a certain place and said, "I guess what you think is sweet."

"Meow?" Xia Maomao followed his gaze.

Not far away is a clump of wild roses, the flowers are in full bloom now, and the pink flowers protrude from the leaves, which looks like a cluster of flowers.

Xia Maomao looked at it, but it was not the flower that attracted its attention, but the few...bees on the flower?

This bee is so big, it's as big as a ping pong ball!

They didn't mutate obviously, two of them had extra wings, and five had growths around their heads.

Xia Maomao's eyes fell on their tails.

The needles on the bee's tail were still there, gleaming coldly in the sun, and were terrifyingly large.

With a "bang", Xia Maomao's hair exploded again, turning into a fluffy ball.

When he saw ants before, he already felt scary, they were so big that his teeth hurt.

Now that he saw the bees, he knew what spiritual pollution was.

Bees are so big!

How to let human beings live? !

Xia Maomao guessed that the sweet scent smelled in the wind was probably honey, but now he didn't want to find honey at all.

terrible!

Feeling his brother's fear, Xia Huoqu stretched out his hand to pat the cat's back, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, let's go and have a look first before making a decision."

"Wow."

Xia Maomao let out a small whimper in his throat, and he knew it would be scary even without looking at it.

Xia Huoqu protected the cat on his shoulder, carried a sack and leaned on a wooden stick, and continued to walk forward.

After walking for about ten minutes, they came to a huge mutated banyan tree by the river.

Xia Maomao usually doesn't leave the base very often, but he still doesn't know when there will be such a big banyan tree outside the base.

This big banyan tree is at least six or seven meters in diameter, with twisted branches, and a good part of it stretches directly into the river, squeezing the river to the side and making a bend.

Xia Maomao widened her eyes and opened her mouth.

My fellow, this tree is almost becoming a forest.

What surprised him the most was not the tree, but a huge beehive on the trunk.

This beehive is bigger than a twelve-seat round table. Countless bees nestled on it, wrapping it into a huge brown bee ball.

A sweet scent was wafting out from the bee ball, blowing in all directions with the wind.