After the fog, I became a birdman

Su Qing was also looking over there. As he watched, the same thoughts as Qi Jiang's came up in his heart, and his face changed slightly: "Brother Jiang, is there a fire over there?"

The fire site is still far away from them. It is estimated to be more than 1000 kilometers away on the very downstream side. The sandstorm will arrive soon, and the fire should be extinguished before it reaches this side.

But if there is one, there are two.

The temperature is rising every day, and it is difficult to guarantee that the area where they live will not suddenly spontaneously ignite and cause a fire.

The weather is so dry, a little spark can cause a raging fire, which must be guarded against.

"Let's talk to Master Han first." Qi Jiang glanced at the base where there were wooden buildings in the dim light, "Go home early tonight and find a way to bring Jin Jin back."

There is a isolation zone in the snow-free mountains, and they have also treated the vegetation on the east slope, so there is no need to worry about the fire burning to the house, but the Jinjin Cave is not safe.

If you don't take him home, Jin Jin might turn into a baked egg if there is a fire.

"I have to take Shanshan home." Su Qing felt that the Fengcheng base was not safe again.

The two of them sped up their movements to find Mr. Han, and they directly told about the fire when they entered the door. Mr. Han felt a little bit in his heart, and pushed open the window: "Fire?!"

His eyesight was not as good as Su Qing's, he didn't see any red light, and he didn't see the window on the other side, and his sense of smell couldn't smell the very faint smoky smell in the wind, but he didn't doubt Su Qing's words.

Thinking that 90.00% of the base is made of wooden houses, Mr. Han has a headache: "I see, let's arrange it."

He ran out in a hurry, Su Qing and Qi Jiang couldn't stay any longer, sniffed the air lightly, distinguished the direction of Shanshan from the messy smells, and found Shanshan who was eating in the wild.

"Mountain!"

Su Qing flew down from the sky, glanced at the half-monster beast that had been bitten a few times, took out a handkerchief and wiped Shanshan's paws clean: "The downstream is on fire, go home with Dad, come back tomorrow."

Shan Shan licked his nose, looked downstream, a little puzzled: "Meow?"

Su Qing put away the prey on the ground, took her daughter home with Qi Jiang, put Shanshan in the new cat house, and flew to the Jinjin Cave.

The golden color on the Jinjin eggshell is a little deeper than before, dazzling to the point of glaring, and the flame pattern on it is as vivid as if it is jumping.

Qi Jiang reached out to touch it again, and a golden light covered with flames jumped up from the eggshell, waving it like a small whip and hitting the reaching hand, but it was bounced back by a black scale, and the egg was hit golden. wobbly.

Qi Jiang took his hand away helplessly, gently twisted his painless fingertips and shook his head: "Continuing to move may cause his stress response. I don't know if this will be harmful to the hatch."

Su Qing also saw what happened just now, and tried to reach out by himself. This time, the golden egg still didn't hit him like last time, and even swayed affectionately under his hand.

Seeing this, he tried to lift the egg again, stretched out his hands to hug the sides of the egg, gritted his teeth and blushed before lifting the egg a little.

"No." Su Qing took a few breaths and swallowed, "I can't move it."

"How about you put your hand on it, and I'll move it to see if Jin Jin reacts?" Qi Jiang made another suggestion.

However, this method still doesn't work.

Afterwards, the two made a series of attempts, and found that only Su Qing could not let the golden egg fight back. Seeing this, Qi Jiang asked Su Qingxu to hold the egg, and he hugged Su Qing. No golden eggs.

"Why don't you let it go first?" Su Qing had no choice but to take a chance, "Jinjin is also responding to the outside world now, maybe it will hatch in two days, the situation is not that bad?"

"I'm afraid there will be a fire here when we go to Fengcheng Base." Qi Jiang frowned, feeling unsafe, "I'll try again."

"You only have scales on your neck and hands. You will inevitably touch other places when you hold it. If you get hurt, forget it." Su Qing didn't want him to get hurt.

"Well, let me try first." Qi Jiang smiled and nodded.

He stretched out his hand and tried it, and it really hurt a little when the scales didn't come out, but it only took him less than half a minute to fly home from here, so the pain was nothing.

Seeing Qi Jiang nodding to accept it, Su Qing heaved a sigh of relief and flew outside to make way: "Then be careful."

"Ah."

Qi Jiang moved away all the stones at the entrance of the cave, and then hugged the golden egg with all his might and wanted to fly out.

As soon as he moved up and took a step, the golden egg in the dark cave shone with dazzling golden light, and a fire suddenly ignited from the bottom of the golden egg, and the flames burned to Qi Jiang's clothes, and the flame became bigger and hotter in less than a second The temperature made him have to let go.

Su Qing was also taken aback, subconsciously came over with a basin of water to extinguish the fire on Qi Jiang's body.

A large piece of Qi Jiang's shirt was burned off, and the smell of burnt clothes came out. Su Qing squatted down worriedly, lifted the corner of his tattered clothes to look at the skin inside, and blew on the redness on his waist and abdomen in distress. The blistered skin, took out the burn ointment, and carefully rubbed it on the wound.

"Does it hurt?" Su Qing raised her head, eyes full of tension and distress.

"I'm fine." Qi Jiang raised his hand to wipe the sweat off Su Qing's forehead, shook his head with a smile, and comforted Su Qing in turn, "It doesn't hurt."

"Don't coax me at this time." Su Qing's hands were shaking.

"It really doesn't hurt." Qi Jiang smiled again, "Don't worry, the temperature is not high, just a few small blisters, you don't know my resilience, it will be fine by tomorrow."

"It's all blisters, how can it not hurt, and the quick recovery doesn't mean it won't hurt." Su Qing retorted softly.

Qi Jiang couldn't deny these words, so he could only keep silent.

Su Qing squatted down and helped Qi Jiang apply the medicine, so lightly that Qi Jiang didn't feel his touch.

After applying the medicine, he fanned his wound with his hands to make his wound more comfortable, but when he turned his head to see the egg without the golden light, he didn't know what to do.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have let Jin Jin come out and live." Su Qing regretted.

"The posture wasn't right just now, I'll change it." Qi Jiang tied up the burnt clothes, "I'll just hold it up and take it back, you go out first, the entrance of the cave is a bit narrow."

Su Qing's heart skipped a beat: "Your injury hasn't healed yet, what if it catches fire again..."

"I have scales." Qi Jiang stretched out his hand covered with a layer of black scales, "I know it in my heart, don't worry."

"But..." Su Qing thought that Qi Jiang's hand that also touched the flame just now was indeed not hurt at all, so he nodded reassuringly, "Okay, be careful, if something is wrong, put it down quickly."

Qi Jiang still nodded with a smile as before: "Well, you go out first."

Soon, the golden egg ignited a fire again, and all attacks were deflected by the scales. Qi Jiang raised his brows, and flew back home with the golden egg high, carefully placing it on Jin Jin's original nest.

When he let go of his hand, the golden light disappeared again. Su Qing flew in from outside the door, took Qi Jiang's hand and looked at it again, then directly opened his clothes to check, and he was really relieved when he saw that there was nothing wrong.

"It's okay."

"I've said that I know what's going on." Qi Jiang pulled Su Qing's hand to his lips and kissed him, "Go and rest first, cool off at night."

Today's temperature makes it difficult for them to sleep well during the day, so they can only spend more time resting at night.

Especially Su Qing, if he doesn't get enough sleep, he will lose energy all day. When the sandstorm comes, he can't sleep, but when Qi Jiang is around, he sleeps well. Qi Jiang can only accompany him, and go with him as soon as the hour arrives Go to sleep, and wait for him to fall asleep before going to work on his own affairs.

Back in the front yard, the two took care of everything and fell asleep to the sound of the sandstorm approaching.

In the distance, the strong wind before the sandstorm quickly expanded the vast fire field, and the splashing sparks ignited the nearby grasslands and forests, and the tongues of flames devoured the nearby vegetation.

But soon, the sandstorm arrived on the battlefield, and the sky was covered with yellow sand, and the wild flames died down in an instant, leaving only some black smoke and sparks that repeatedly lit up and went out on the ground.

The sandstorm lasted for a long time, the fire site was completely covered, and the high temperature in it gradually dropped. After all, the fire was completely extinguished by the sandstorm.

The thick smoke was blown far away by the wind, blowing along the wind to an area thousands of kilometers away, like a layer of gray cloth covering the sky.

"Cough cough!"

Su Qing who was on the bed suddenly frowned and coughed, covered his head with the quilt uncomfortably, subconsciously stretched his hand to the side, opened his eyes slightly when he didn't touch anyone, and pulled down the quilt again to find a very light layer Smoke appeared in the house.

The smoke smelled like smoke, like something was on fire.

Thinking of this, Su Qing's heart skipped a beat, and the drowsiness disappeared in an instant, and she ran out of bed in a panic, before she even had time to put on her shoes, and shouted while running outside, "Brother Jiang, is the house on fire?"

Qi Jiang, who was meditating in the study with the door open, keenly caught his voice, quickly opened his eyes, exhaled and inhaled stale air.

"Cough cough!"

Qi Jiang coughed, quickly lit the lantern and ran out, just happened to meet Su Qing who was running into the living room.

Seeing his bare feet stepping on the ground, Qi Jiang frowned, took off his shoes and ran over to hold Su Qing: "Su Su, put on your shoes first."

Su Qing couldn't care less about what kind of shoes to wear. While covering her nose and coughing, she scanned the room with her eyes and found the place where the smoke came in.

"There is a problem with the ventilation duct, go first, cough cough, go and have a look first."

"I'll go and see, it's cold on the ground, don't catch a cold." Qi Jiang held Su Qing firmly, and put the shoes at his feet, "You don't know how to fix it, so I'll do it."

As he said that, he also opened the door anxiously and walked to the middle corridor.

"Wait!" Su Qing quickly stopped him, got him a gas mask, and stuffed a wet towel just in case.

Qi Jiang walked out while putting on his mask, and when he opened the door, a puff of smoke rushed straight to the door. He was afraid that Su Qing would be choked, so he quickly closed the corridor door and walked forward in the smoke with a lantern in hand.

The vents are installed in the corridor in the middle. When they sleep, they will close the door and only open the ventilation duct, so there is only a thin layer of smoke in the house, but the corridor is full of thick smoke, which even covers the front and back yards. The clothes hanging in the corridor in the middle were all stained with a strong smoky smell.

Qi Jiang found the source of the thick smoke, which was outside.

Seeing this, he took out a roller from the corner and opened the door of the new cat house in the backyard: "Shanshan, come out and run!"

Originally, the door of the room was closed tightly, and the smoke had not yet covered the lower floors. Shanshan was small, and she has not woken up until now.

As soon as Qi Jiang opened the door, Shan Shan was choked awake, and then covered his face with a wet towel: "Look up, I want to go out."

Shan Shan was carried onto the rollers, meowing in protest, while running on the rollers in distaste, and by the way, raised her head to keep the wet towel covering her face.

The exhaust fan turned whirringly, and the thick smoke in the corridor was quickly exhausted. Qi Jiang took the lantern and opened the side door and flew outside. He flew around the snow-free mountain range in the thicker smoke, but he didn't find any fire. up.

After a while, he realized that there was a problem with the direction of the wind, and the thick smoke happened to be blowing from downstream.

Thinking of this, Qi Jiang knew where the smoke came from.

Since there wasn't a fire nearby, he breathed a sigh of relief and went home to continue exhausting the smoke.

Su Qing had already put on a mask and came out to put away his clothes. When he saw Qi Jiang coming back, he asked eagerly, "Is there a fire nearby?"

"No, the wind blows up the smoke from the downstream." Qi Jiang shook his head slightly, and then went to check the filter. He checked it just in case, but he really found the problem, "Susu, I need to replace the filter with a new one." Net, bring me some out."

"Use it so fast?" Su Qing asked in a low voice while taking out the things.

The filter was used faster than expected, Qi Jiang quickly replaced it, and then checked a few vents, and found that almost all the filters were faulty, so he had to replace them all.

With Shan Shan's efforts, after about an hour, all the smoke in the house was exhausted.

Su Qing yawned and went to wash the clothes again and return them to the original place, and then wiped the fur of the clean cat with a wet towel to wipe off the smoky smell.

"Okay, let's go to sleep." Su Qing smiled and rubbed her daughter's little face, saw her cat ears move, and couldn't help touching them twice.

Shan Shan goes out hunting every day, and also needs to maintain enough sleep. After rubbing Su Qing's fingers a few times, he reluctantly goes back to sleep. Su Qing also yawns and goes back to the front yard after saying good night to his daughter.

After the smoke was exhausted, Qi Jiang went to take a shower and changed his clothes. He was carrying disinfectant to kill the virus in the house. When he saw Su Qing came back, he pointed to the new pajamas he had just taken out on the bed: "Go and take a bath quickly." , I put the water on for you, and the pajamas are also on the bed."

After all, after smoking for an hour, no matter how light the smoke in the room is, there will still be a little smell, so Qi Jiang simply changed the sheets.

Su Qing only went in, wiped her body and changed her clothes, and went out after seeing that there was no smell of smoke on her body, and picked up the quilt and the changed clothes.

Qi Jiang had been waiting for him to come out. Seeing this, he quickly put down the watering can in his hand, went to fetch the sheets and clothes, and then put the watering can into Su Qing's hand: "I'm going to wash, just with those outside."

"You are still injured." Su Qing reached out to take the clothes.

"It's ready." Qi Jiang lifted up his clothes for him to check, and there was not even a trace of trace left on his tight abdominal muscles.

Su Qing's eyes wandered, and he coughed lightly: "Then I can wash it too, you go to practice."

Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows, lowered his head and kissed Su Qing's lips with a teasing smile, and shook his head solemnly after the kiss: "The water is too cold at night, so don't touch it, so as not to catch a cold."

Su Qing touched the corner of her lips, holding the watering can helplessly: "I'm not that fragile."

"You catch colds too easily. It's been a long time since you've managed to raise some meat. If you get sick, you'll lose the scale." Qi Jiang shook his head lightly, as if coaxing a child, "Okay, I'll wash these, and you give them to the family. It’s not easy to kill the poison, so if it’s troublesome, I’ll trouble you.”

Su Qing liked Qi Jiang coaxing him the most, and nodded with a smile, instead of competing with him for this job, he took the watering can to kill the virus instead.

Outside, Qi Jiang who went to the middle corridor with the sheets and clothes suddenly found that the clothes on the drying rack were dripping, obviously Su Qing had already washed them.

"I can't stay idle." Qi Jiang shook his head helplessly while sitting down to wash clothes.

After finishing their chores at home, the two went back to sleep quickly. Qi Jiang originally wanted to practice tonight, but when the smoke interrupted him, he lost interest, so he just hugged his wife and slept until the next day.

The next day, Qi Jiang was woken up by the heat as usual. When he got up, he found that there was still a layer of gray-white fog outside the window, and the visibility became very poor. He could only see a little bit of the shadow of the sun.

According to the current height of the sun, it is roughly between eight and nine in the morning.

Looking up at the thermometer on the wall, it was 30 and a half degrees. At the same time, the temperature was about half a degree higher than yesterday.

Qi Jiang is used to this kind of day when the temperature is rising every day. They are actually lucky to have found such a geomantic treasure, at least they can sleep peacefully when they come back at night.

In contrast, the people at the Fengcheng base hadn't had a good night's sleep a long time ago.

It's more than 90 degrees during the day and [-] to [-] degrees at night. Unless you are talented and the direction of mutation is just right for heat resistance, there are really few people who can sleep in such weather.

I don't know how long the dry season will last. Qi Jiang will worry about the future when he wakes up every day and sees that the thermometer value rises again, but the thick smoke that appeared today gave him a new idea, but he will have to wait until night to realize it.

Before Su Qing woke up, Qi Jiang carefully covered his stomach with the corner of the quilt that had slipped on the bed, went to wash up lightly, and then went to cook.

About an hour later, the temperature outside continued to rise, and the temperature inside the room also successfully woke up Su Qingre.

After getting up and washing, Su Qing took a piece of monster meat to feed Shan Shan, and went to see Jin Jin's condition.

I don't know if Jinjin was about to break her shell, or because of the excitement of moving last night, there was a very thin crack on the golden egg today, just as long as her little finger and her hair was thin. If it wasn't for Su Qing's good eyesight, she said Might not be able to find it yet.

Su Qing hardly dared to breathe, carefully exited the room, and quickly walked to the kitchen: "Brother Jiang, Jin Jin seems to be breaking his shell."

"Really?" Qi Jiang put down the spatula, took two steps to look at the uncooked dishes, and then came back to continue frying, "Just go and accompany me, I'll cook first."

Moreover, maybe he would irritate Jin Jin in the past, so forget it.

"Why don't you go with me too, Jinjin will be happy to see you after breaking out of her shell, and won't be petty with you all the time in the future." Su Qing still wanted to repair the relationship between family members.

"Impossible." Qi Jiang shook his head amusedly, "In their eyes, I'm the vicious villain who stole their father. If I hadn't been their teacher for a while, I'm afraid I wouldn't even give me a good face. .”

Su Qing was speechless: "...Not really."

"You go." Qi Jiang continued to cook, "Don't miss the time for Jin Jin to break his shell."

Seeing that he really didn't want to go, Su Qing went back to the backyard by himself.

But until Qi Jiang cooked the meal, the crack on Jin Jin's eggshell was still only that big. Judging from Su Qing's eyesight, there was absolutely no change in the crack during this hour.

Qi Jiang walked over slowly, afraid of provoking Jin Jin, so he didn't go in directly, but peeked in from the door.

From his angle, he couldn't see the cracks on it. After a few seconds, Qi Jiang was sure that Jin Jin really had no signs of breaking the shell, so he walked in suspiciously: "Is there really a crack?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he came to Su Qing's side and found the small crack at a glance.

"Just that big?" Qi Jiang was stunned for a moment, "You stayed here for so long just now, how much bigger have you grown?"

"It hasn't changed." Su Qing even wondered if Jin Jin was moved here last night and was stimulated so that a crack was caused.

Qi Jiang also had this suspicion. He carefully approached the golden egg to carefully observe the cracks on it, feeling uncontrollably worried, stepped back a few steps and returned to Su Qing's side and whispered: "Is it last night..."

Su Qing shook her head, feeling a little uneasy, feeling that the current situation is a bit tricky: "I hope not, otherwise I will be guilty of a great crime."

He was the one who fooled Jin Jin into moving out, and Dan was the one who said he would move back. If this really delayed Jin Jin, he really didn't know how to apologize.

They waited an hour, and nothing changed in the crack.

Seeing this, Qi Jiang didn't wait any longer, and asked Su Qing to eat for fear that the food would be cold.

After eating, they waited in the house again, until the sun rose and set, and the crack still did not change at all.

The good news is that when Su Qing reached out to the golden egg like last night, the golden egg still shook affectionately under his hand, and it seemed that there should be nothing wrong.

The temperature dropped, and after a day, the thick smoke outside also disappeared, leaving only some ash floating in the wind.

Seeing that Jin Jin couldn't break through the shell for a while, Qi Jiang said, "Susu, let's do our business first."

Thinking that there is still training work to be done, Su Qing sighed and nodded: "Okay, then let's go to Fengcheng Base and stay for an hour or two. If Tan Yilong and the others have no problems, let's come back and continue guarding?"

"No, I want to go to the fire site last night to collect charcoal." Qi Jiang shook his head, meaning, "The weather in rainy season and dry season is so exaggerated. If the weather gets colder in the future, the amount of charcoal we need will also increase."

And the fire site happened to have a lot of ready-made charcoal!

Su Qing's eyes lit up, the hidden hamster attribute was successfully activated, and he subconsciously checked the stockpiled goods in the space.

He felt it should be enough.

But since there is ready-made charcoal, I feel too sorry for my golden finger if I don't take it.

Anyway, there is definitely no harm in hoarding more goods, Su Qing immediately nodded in agreement with Qi Jiang's idea, changed into out clothes, and when wearing a mask, originally wanted to wear a gas mask, but then changed to a dustproof mask when the thick smoke outside dispersed Masks and goggles.

After all, they don't have many gas masks, and the days to come are so long, so they have to save some of them.

They came to the Fengcheng base and found that the base changed again overnight.

Almost half of the wooden houses in the forbidden area were demolished, and this part of the family only built a shaded stone shed at the entrance of the cellar as an exit, and everyone lived underground.

As for the wood, some are piled in the shed, some are piled up on the side of the road, it seems that the house was demolished after the sandstorm, so the wood is placed neatly, everyone is moving to the cellar non-stop, and some have already been moved Yes, I don't know if it was because I moved faster or the house was demolished before the sandstorm came.

For the remaining half of the families, the cellar has not been finished yet, and there is only a place to rest under the sun, so the wooden house has not been demolished yet.

In addition, Qi Jiang and the others also found that the war pets of the base and many patrol teams were bringing back loads of charcoal from outside one after another, and many retail investors even followed to carry the charcoal.

"It seems that we are not the only ones who have thought of this." Qi Jiang suddenly smiled, quite happy to see this scene, "Is this the first time?"

"Well, the first time." Su Qing also nodded with a smile.

In the past, various natural disasters always overwhelmed everyone. No matter whether they thought about the future or not, they felt powerless. Everyone was so flustered and helpless.

But this time is the first time that everyone has faced another deterioration of the environment so calmly, and even freed up their hands to plan for the future while coping.

While flying into the base, the two observed everyone's expressions, and found that even if the house built with hard work was knocked down, everyone still had no complaints and devoted themselves to the collection of new materials. They even heard Some people are discussing how to build underground fortresses better.

The same scene also happened in the territory of mutants living alone outside the base.

Mutants who live alone don't have to live alone, they are human beings, after all, they are different from beasts, they can only tolerate family members or partners staying in their own territory.

So strictly speaking, not only one person lives in each territory.

Those who have family members in the territory are busy with family affairs. Those who live alone can report shifts and ask for leave to go home when they find time. Those who are heat-resistant can even work for a longer period of time under the scorching sun than others.

In short, everyone always has their own way. Even if the neat buildings are knocked down, the vitality and vigor of the Fengcheng base will not be reduced at all.

After Shanshan arrived at the base, he ran to look for Shantu. Su Qing couldn't help but muttered a few words about the girl, and Qi Jiang couldn't help laughing softly.

"What are you laughing at? It's what it is." Su Qing snorted softly.

Qi Jiang tried his best to hold back his laughter, and he still didn't forget to complain: "Humans and cats have different paths, what are you worried about? Mountains and mountains can't change people."

He intended to comfort Su Qing, but Su Qing's face changed slightly, and he felt even worse.

Yes, I can't change now, but if Shanshan transforms into a monster and continues to practice, it may not be impossible to change a person.

Thinking of Shantu's current situation, Su Qing was even more dissatisfied: "No, I have to find a bodyguard for Shanshan as soon as possible."

"Shanshan can protect herself now, what kind of bodyguard do you want?" Qi Jiang didn't think it was necessary, "Although she can't defeat monsters now, but when she transforms into a higher level, she can also occupy the top of the mountain and become the king of the mountain by herself, why do you need a bodyguard? "

"My family's conditions are so good, if she changes into a human in the future, so many bees, waves and butterflies, people and animals will come chasing her, there must be a bodyguard to stop her?" Su Qing felt something was wrong when he said that, his face paled. It became very ugly, "I even forgot that the group of monsters and half monsters in the wild are unscrupulous, no, this bodyguard has to be found sooner."

Qi Jiang: Become human?Is this operation so coquettish?Animals can also change...

Wait, Susu seems to have mentioned such a thing when she read the Su family's ancient books to him before.

It seems that monsters can indeed change into people.

Moreover, whether it is a monster or a half-monster, it is indeed possible to fool Shanshan, a silly cat, into lameness without their knowledge.

Thinking of this, Qi Jiang suddenly felt a little complicated.

He wanted to throw Shan Shan out of the house quickly, but when he thought about those animals in the wild who were not good-looking, unhygienic, and weak in strength abducted Shan Shan, he felt that it would be better to keep them all the time. It's just a silly cat.

"The matter of bodyguards has to be put on the agenda." Qi Jiang nodded approvingly.

It was the first time that he directly echoed Su Qing's statement that he was looking for an all-round bodyguard. The loving father Su Qing finally found a sense of sympathy, and his eyes lit up: "You think so too, don't you?"

Qi Jiang, the intermittently pseudo-loving father, nodded deeply: "Yes, we can't delay any longer."