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Chapter 11 Hunters and Scavengers

Yanjing Town.

It is located at the foot of the mountain in the north of the Four Mountains, backed by the well salt mine, and has a simple stone wall for defense.

Because the town produces salt, the surrounding human settlements will regularly exchange supplies with Yanjing Town. Merchants from Colossus City will also come to Yanjing Town to buy salt every month, and bring high-end supplies from Colossus City.

Where there is production capacity and trade, there is food and arms.

This made Yanjing Town the largest settlement in the Four Mountains area, and changed its name from a small village to 'Town'.

The total population of the town is about 500, which is quite prosperous.

Moreover, there are quite a few guns. Predators will not easily come to Yanjing Town to fight the autumn wind. It is relatively safe.

Early in the morning, the hunters went out with shotguns and trap tools, and their target was the mutated species on the four mountains.

The harm caused by nuclear radiation is reflected in every aspect of the world.

There are few normal pre-war animals now, and new species are appearing at a rate that even the greatest biologists of mankind can't bear.

Therefore, they are collectively referred to as mutant species.

"Uncle, uncle! Can I really go hunting with you today?"

"Of course, you are 14 years old this year. You are a young man. It's time to learn real wasteland survival skills. Our old Wang family's species is born to be a good hunter! Let's go, uncle will take you to hunt one today. Blood Deer, stew bone soup for you at night, it’s great tonic! Hahaha!"

Two men in animal skin clothes led a boy less than 2 meters tall to arrange equipment at the gate of Yanjing Town.

In Yanjing Town, a 14-year-old should already be on his own.

The boy blinked his inexperienced eyes: "Uncle, can we leave some meat from the prey we hunted today? I want to eat meat."

"Don't make trouble! One catty of meat can be exchanged for three catties of beans. What kind of meat do you eat! Put the beans in bone broth and cook them, they will taste like meat, and they will taste the same."

Another man with a square face frowned and said.

“But the meat tastes delicious and delicious”

"Let's beat you again!" The man with the square face pulled his face.

"Hey hey! Brother, why are you so cruel to Xiaohao? The child has been eating beans for a month and wants to eat meat. What's the matter? Uncle makes the decision. If he catches a prey, he will cut a large piece of meat for Xiaohao to eat!"

A look of surprise appeared in Xiaohao's eyes.

"Don't spoil your child. In the wasteland, careful consideration of food is a compulsory course. If he eats a bite of meat today, he may starve all day tomorrow. Meat is eaten by the mayor and the big shots of Colossus City. My mother has been eating since childhood. Tell me, the children of poor families will be in charge of the family early”

But watching the brilliance in the child's eyes gradually disappear, the words behind the square face got stuck, and he turned his head and said in a low voice: "Only once today, next time is not an example."

"Yeah! Long live Papa! Long live Uncle!"

Xiao Hao jumped up happily.

Looking at the child's carefree face, Wang Qian showed a smile on his deliberately stern face.

In the wasteland. Hope is the most valuable thing.

He believes that in the future his child will become a better hunter than him, and he will be able to survive if he catches so many prey that he doesn't need to replace them all with beans. Maybe he can go to the city of the Colossus to be a soldier and become a townsman. .

"Father, is the blood deer powerful? What if it attacks me?"

Wang Qian put the polished shotgun into the card slot on his back, and took out a self-made crossbow from his pocket.

"Haohao, the blood deer is a less threatening mutated animal, because the hematopoietic function is very strong after the mutated, and sometimes the blood will break through the skin and ooze out, so the body is often covered with a layer of red Blood scabs are called blood deer, and we hunters can easily track them down."

"It is a rare pure herbivore among mutated animals. It has no desire to prey on us humans, so it generally does not attack actively. It will fight back when threatened. It is very fast and its horns are extremely sharp. A An adult who is hit head-on by it will lose combat effectiveness or even die on the spot."

"So, we have to hide behind the obstacle and attack it remotely. You hold this crossbow and follow the aiming method I taught you before."

Wang Qian patiently explained the knowledge to the little hunters, these are the essential survival courses for hunters.

After listening, Xiao Hao nodded, and then looked at a young man who walked in, his eyes lit up.

"Brother Feng!"

"You're back? Great!"

"My uncle said last night that you might have died outside, and I had a fight with him, so I knew you would come back alive!"

Another man, Wang Wan, was slightly embarrassed: "Xiaofeng. It took a long time to go out this time, I thought it was a harm! It's good to come back alive. When we catch the prey at night, bring your beans and come to our house to drink Bone soup!"

Wang Qian patted Cheng Shaofeng on the shoulder: "Why did you delay for so long? Did you meet that thing?"

Cheng Shaofeng shook his head: "No, I ran into a predator on the way back and narrowly escaped death."

"Predators. Deformed monsters! It's been rampant again recently. Last night, they came outside our town to yell, turned on the lights and fired a few shots before driving them away. The mayor should take someone to clear their camps." !"

"Yeah, that's right! Brother Qian, Brother Wan, are you taking Xiao Hao to hunt today?"

"Yes, it's time for him to learn to survive on his own, otherwise we might just disappear one day just like your Brother Bai and Brother Ten."

Cheng Shaofeng nodded: "Understood. By the way, Brother Qian and Brother Wan, don't sell the prey you two caught today to the town. I want to buy it, it's useful."

"You? Well, then I'll come back and drag you into the house."

Xiao Hao asked pitifully, "Then my meat."

"Leave a piece for you, little glutton!"

Wang Qian and Wang Wan took Xiaohao out of the town.

Xiao Hao's voice can still be vaguely heard.

"Dad, can I go out to pick up trash with Brother Feng? He has a lot of fun toys there."

"Scavengers? Their work is more dangerous than hunting. If only my grandfather's generation was okay a few decades ago, now the supplies from Yanjing Town to Colossus City have been rummaged over and over again by the scavengers, and there is no hair left. If you want to scavenge useful things, you can only go to the ruins of the Red City, under the eyes of those things."

"Hunting is what you should learn."

The voices of several people faded in the wind, but they still reached Cheng Shaofeng's ears.

"Scavenger. That's right, my predecessor was a scavenger, and the last item he picked up was a watch"

The last memory about his predecessor was confusing, Cheng Shaofeng vaguely remembered that he picked up a watch in a city.

Then he fell in the wild of the Four Mountains.

And the watch he looked at his wrist.

'The natural disaster nano base, why... the first sentence should be said like that? '

This question has always been in Cheng Shaofeng's mind, but he was almost dead yesterday, so he didn't investigate it further.

He asked Number Zero when he was lying down last night, and Number Zero said that it was preset by the base in advance.

Who preset it?

do not know.

Shaking his head, Cheng Shaofeng decided to do what he should do now first.

After entering Yanjing Town, he felt a slight chill in his body, just like walking from the sun into the shadows.

"It's so windy, no wonder people always tell ghost stories, but it's still quite cool in summer."

Cheng Shaofeng said hello to a few people he knew on the road, and then walked into the shed built by his predecessor.

It was empty.

The sleeping mats were swept away.

There was no accident for Cheng Shaofeng. Nowadays, it takes several days for the scavengers to go out, and home has never been a safe place.

He turned and walked into the next shed.

All his supplies are impressively placed in the corner!
　The new writing is very, very slow. Chapter 2 is only half written, and it will be posted later, probably before 1:

　　
　
(End of this chapter)