Doomsday foresight

Jiang Chen took people to the village in the north, and when he got there, he saw that the village was covered with snow. No one cleared the snow on the street and in front of the door, and everything was buried.

There was no movement at all, like a deserted village.

"Go and have a look over there first." Jiang Chen pointed to a collapsed house and said that it was the entrance of the village.

A few people walked by, Jin Ming suddenly retched, and turned around quickly, the other people didn't look very good, and stopped in their tracks.Only Jiang Chen stepped forward as if nothing happened.

"It was indeed attacked by a wild beast, a large animal, with a slap that wiped half of its neck off, it was probably a bear." Jiang Chen looked down at the corpse, "But there may be another beast coming later, a wolf or a wild boar, or maybe a bear." Other carnivores. Apparently they had enough food, so they didn't eat clean."

"Oh, Brother Jiang, don't say it. It's too disgusting." When he said this, several people were ill.

Jiang Chen shook his head, "You should get used to it, you must adapt to all of this." For the possible worse environment in the future.

After saying this, Jiang Chen walked into the house, and it turned out that these corpses were all in tatters.Obviously this is a family. They were attacked by wild beasts first, but they were not opponents at all when they wanted to resist. "It should be confirmed that it is a bear, but it is a bit strange why this bear took the initiative to attack people."

"Are you hungry? Looking for something to eat?" Ye Jinming felt much better after vomiting.

"No, there is more food in the forest, and bears don't easily come out to attack people. The bear that appeared in our village before also went to our place by accident, and then left after being driven away. Winter is not a time for them to be active. when."

Jiang Chen led a few people to continue to check the situation in the village. They found more than a dozen corpses on the road. They obviously heard the movement and came out to check the situation. There is a relatively large pack of wolves here, and the bears only attacked a few houses, and it was purposeful. But those wolves followed the bears into the village, and then slaughtered the village."

"It seems that this is the reason why the bear entered the village and attacked." Ye Mo picked up a piece of skin with a knife, "This is a young grizzly bear. With the current growth rate of animals, it must not be more than one month old. The one who attacked them was a female bear. .”

"Are those families all given bear meat?" Jiang Chen looked at the somewhat broken bear skin. It should have fallen into a trap and died. Otherwise, the villagers would never have caught such a small bear.

"It's terrible, it's revenge, it's too human." Jin Ming thought it was incredible.

"Apparently bears are more closely related than we thought."

Jiang Chen already understood how the people in this village died. Just by looking at the cub's fur, he could tell whether it was a brown bear or a female bear. To avenge his own child, it should be able to distinguish the bloody smell of the child. The family divided the bear meat, and then a pack of wolves followed it and began to pick up human corpses to eat. Then the wolf pack broke out, and they began to look for prey by themselves. The smell of humans was easy for them to distinguish, and it was still night , Many people were blocked in the house.

These wolves were obviously aroused by blood, so even though they were full afterward, the killing did not end.Knowing that there is no one alive in the village anymore.They even stayed in the village for a day or longer, because there is abundant food here, and they didn't leave until the heavy snow covered up the smell of blood and there was no more food smell.

Jiang Chen and the others stayed in the village for one night, and conducted a more detailed inspection the next day, confirming their inference again, because many traces disappeared under the heavy snow, but they still found some feces in the house. It can be seen that the wolves really stayed for a long time. They used this place as a hunting ground. Some people died of freezing, they were injured, and then died of blood loss, weather and other reasons.

Jiang Chen was very worried. The people in this village were very good at hunting, but their resistance was ineffective. These wolves were smart enough to attack the vital points directly when they saw a person. They were smart enough to attack with several people.

"This group of wolves must be killed, otherwise we will be in danger, and we will not be able to go hunting at all." Jiang Chen is very clear that this group of wolves who have eaten humans have no fear of humans in their hearts, and humans have even become part of their diet tasty.Compared with the brown bear who they wanted to revenge, it was nothing.

Jiang Chen and the others sent the corpses of the villagers into an open space in the middle of the village. To be honest, it was a bit difficult, but they couldn't watch these people leave like this. They were all frozen, and when the weather warmed up, they would attract a lot of meat Scavengers, they can't do that.

The fire engulfed them, Jiang Chen looked at the black smoke floating into the sky, and felt a little sad in his heart, for himself and for human beings, now they have also become prey.

This sadness didn't last long, Jiang Chen was just a bit sad, life was still going on, all they needed to do was to live well.

A few people gathered some food supplies in the village and put them in some better houses. Maybe the houses were not popular. It seemed that the houses in the village were dilapidated in a few days. When the spring blossoms, the traces of the village will be destroyed forest burial.

In order to survive, they will not give up any material that can make people live, that is a waste.Jiang Chen and the others couldn't take all of them away, they only took some important things, and saved the rest first, and they would come to get them after the wolves were dealt with.

It was already the second night when I got home.They were very careful along the way, the pack of wolves didn't know when it would appear.The first thing to do when entering the village is to tell the patrol team that the hunting team is not allowed to go out.

"Is it really that serious?" Jin Xi asked after listening to Jiang Chen's narration.

Jiang Chen nodded, "It's more serious than you think. Animals have their own ability to distinguish food needs. Believe me, humans are good food for carnivorous animals, so they won't stop after they taste humans. , especially the wolves are much stronger now than before."

Jin Xi took a deep breath, from hunter to prey, this is absolutely uncomfortable, "Okay, you go take a bath, I'll make you something to eat."

"Make me a bowl of noodles, I don't really want to eat the others."

"Okay." Jin Xi patted Jiang Chen on the back.Go inside and find him a change of clothes.

There are no ready-made noodles at home, so Jinxi rolled out the noodles and cut them into strips about the width of a little finger, not too thin.Jin Xi felt that Jiang Chen would definitely not want to eat shredded pork noodles, so he directly used chopped green onion to fry the noodles, made simple noodles, and then cracked two poached eggs.

The next day Jiang Chen called the hunting team in the village and introduced the situation.

"Now there is a pack of at least fifty wolves active in the woods in the north. They attacked people in a village. If there is no accident, this pack of wolves will target humans. Our village is not far from there, so Beware of wolves attacking."

"The wolves can't cross our high wall. There's nothing to be afraid of." Ye Shuo killed wolves before, but he didn't think there was anything to be afraid of. Maybe the village was too weak.

"They are not the wolves of the past. I saw the traces of the attack. Two three-meter-high walls in their village have been crossed, which means that they are very capable of jumping. Our walls are less than five meters, and they cannot I guarantee that they will not be able to get past them, and I am worried that the brown bear will come along, which will be troublesome, you must know that the big guy is more than four meters tall." Jiang Chen felt that he was not exaggerating at all.

"Then what should we do?" Ye Ke asked.He had seen the scene and had some understanding of the ferocity of these wolves.

"Temporarily speaking, our fence is not a problem in resisting the attack of wolves. I'm afraid that there will be problems when everyone goes out to hunt, so everyone should not go out these days. Have you made the blueprint that Uncle Yao gave you last time?"

Carpenter Yao nodded, "It's done, it's a little heavy, but it works well."

"Then let's try it. If it works, make more." Jiang Chen asked Carpenter Yao to make strong crossbows. They got some crossbows from the city, but the quantity was still not enough. Last time they got a lot of books from the library, Among them is the introduction of crossbow arrows. Vik pulled out the drawings from it and simulated it with a computer. Because it is more troublesome to use steel to make, and they don't have anything to melt, they finally decided to replace some of the parts with wood.

Carpenter Yao asked his son-in-law to bring the strong crossbow at home, which was larger than the data on the blueprint, "Because of the parts, it can only be made so big and heavy, but the effect is very good, the range can reach 500 meters, and the penetration Strong, if it can penetrate the wall at a short distance of [-] meters." Carpenter Yao said as he set up the crossbow. This is a bit heavy, and he built a bracket underneath for stability. "If you move and attack, you can fix the bracket on your body. Carpenter Yao said as he took another bracket and fixed it on his body, and then placed the crossbow on it through triangular positioning. Because this one is so big, it causes the arrow to bob up and down when you shoot it, so you need a fix."

"500 meters is basically the same as the range of a special crossbow." Jiang Chen looked at the crossbow which was half the height of a person.The wood is heavy. "If it is made bigger, can it increase the range, or fix it on the wall as a defensive crossbow?"

Carpenter Yao opened his mouth, "I don't need the city defense crossbow. I want to reduce some weight. If the range reaches 200 meters, it will be enough for hunting. If I want to defend the city, I can find a repeating crossbow, which is bigger. Easy to move, but enough to defend the city, but do you think we can use such a weapon?"

"Of course, what we are facing now may be a pack of wolves, and it may not be what it will be next time. For safety, we need to strengthen our weapons and equipment. We don't have many bullets, and it won't take long."

Regardless of the crisis brought by wild animals, Jinxi told him last night that the temperature in the south may be lower than theirs. If so, they might welcome migrants here, and they still have to arm themselves for safety.