Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 8 Hunting and Ascension

desert.

This is already the edge that the hub station can reach. If you take a few more steps outside, you may get lost in the vast dust.

Suddenly, an animal emerged from the ground.

This is a pika with gray fur and long ears.It sniffs the air with its nose from time to time, looking for food and water.

The little guy jumped across the gravel, occasionally stopping to nibble on some dry weeds.

With its cute little head, it still can't understand how lucky it is to be able to survive in such an environment.

call out!
A crossbow arrow shot out of the sand and penetrated its neck.

The pika kicked its legs helplessly, but could only make its body circle around the crossbow arrows, staining the sand with blood.

Lu Meng climbed up from the ground, shook off the dirt all over his body, hung the crossbow back on his waist, then picked up the pika and broke its neck, ending its pain.

The crossbow arrows were recovered by the way.

A week ago, my newly "started" crossbow often missed the ground easily, and the loss rate of crossbow arrows was still relatively high.

Now that the crossbow training has reached level 9, it will soon reach the "basic" level.

Hunting for small, alert creatures like pikas is no longer a problem.

The recovery rate of crossbow arrows has also been improved, increasing the number of times a crossbow arrow can be reused.

Rats and rabbits are good things. Their fur can be used to tan leather, and their teeth are also good jewelry materials.

The most important thing is that after mutation, this pika is quite fat, weighing about seven or eight pounds, which is comparable to meat rabbits in breeding farms.

Based on a 50% meat yield, a few kills would be enough for him and Huo Buyang's family to eat for a week.

That's right, he has now become Xiao Huo's neighbor.

Ever since Lu Meng cured Huo Buyang's mother Li Liu's leg injury two weeks ago, Huo Buyang asked Lu Meng to stay with them to live together and take care of each other.

This was originally one of Lu Meng's goals, so he agreed.

It's just that he originally thought that such a cooperation would involve him taking care of the two burdens in the wasteland, but he didn't expect that the survival ability of the orphaned and widowed mother was far beyond his imagination.

After Lu Meng agreed, Huo Buyang happily collected materials to build a new shack near his home.

Wooden boards, plastic, linoleum, nails... In less than half a day, the boy built a conical shack on the spot. A steel frame platform was cleverly set up at the bottom to isolate the cold and reptiles; a door was opened on the side. The wooden door is also equipped with a simple lock; there is even a small chimney on the top to discharge waste heat and waste gas; the surface of the entire structure is also covered with a large plastic sheet, which can be opened at any time to block sand and dust. Leave no gaps.

Limited by the materials, the shack will certainly not be too beautiful, but it will be sturdy and concealed enough.

Thinking about the residence that I had vacated before, it is no different from "using the sky as a quilt and the earth as a seat"...

So Lu Meng sternly rejected Huo Buyang's request to go to his previous residence to help him move.

Huo Buyang felt it was a pity that he could not observe and learn from Brother Lu's survival experience.

But this also shows that Brother Lu is cautious, so that he can still regard the previous home as an unknown safe house.

I just hope he doesn’t dislike his craftsmanship...

Little did he know that Lu Meng had made up his mind never to go back.

This place you came to for free looks like a home.

Thinking about it, even if Huo Buyang is only a teenager, his practical experience of living in the wasteland is not comparable to that of a modern person like Lu Meng.

What's more, Xiao Huo already has talent. According to the attribute panel, his engineer skills are estimated to have reached levels 11 to 15.

From now on, all this kind of work will be handed over to him, and those who can do more work.

As for Huo Buyang’s mother, Li Liu.

Lu Meng came back and took a good rest for a few hours to recover. He performed surgery on Li Liu at dawn.

Lu Meng simply followed the operating procedures of the medical module, removing the rotten flesh and suturing the wounds for her...

The most important thing is to use anesthetics, wound medicine and a series of medical equipment.

According to the normal process, it would take at least three months for a long-delayed wound to recover, but after Lu Meng's treatment and medication, it could be shortened to two months, which is considered Dr. Lu's wonderful rejuvenation.

But even Li Liu, a seriously injured patient waiting for recovery, did not wait foolishly for someone to take care of him.After she regained her mobility a little, she began to help them within her ability.

Although Li Liu can't do heavy work yet, he can cook well.

It's like giving an ordinary person a sweet potato under limited conditions. If he can roast it over fire, it would be great.

And experienced people may be able to make sweet potato pancakes, sweet potato puree, dried sweet potatoes...

Li Liu was even more exaggerated. Even the simplest cactus became flavorful after her treatment.

Lu Meng could also cook in his previous life, but that was only if he had a natural gas stove, pots and pans, various spices, fresh ingredients...

In the wasteland after the collapse of modern industry, if you want to survive, you can't take care of your appetite.You have to eat Guanyin soil, cactus, willow leaves...everything.

Most of the time, we can only rely on hunger to season the food and perseverance to finish the meal.

The performance of mother and son made Lu Meng sigh with emotion.

No matter how small, everyone who can survive in this world is a tough life.

There is wisdom worth learning from him.

Now, as one of them, Lu Meng must continue to work hard if he wants to survive.

"Open the properties panel."

[Name: Lu Beiyou (Lu Meng)

Race: Human (Scorched Earth Sons)

Basic attributes: Perception 11…

Ranged skills: Crossbow 9 (entry)
Life Skills: Medical 6 (Introductory)…

Satiety: 180/300 (normal)
Health: normal

Permissions: D
Effective module: experience bonus (3 times)]

Lu Meng looked at the attribute panel to sort out his thoughts.

The most significant change on the attribute panel is [Effective Module: Experience Bonus (3x)]

In fact, he had already chosen the module the moment the achievement was completed.

The moment the module took effect, there was no obvious change in his physical attributes, but he felt that his thinking became clearer and the potential contained in his body was being accumulated and ready to be unleashed.

This is a change in potential.

The efficiency of acquiring proficiency is 3 times. As long as there is a correct path and deliberate practice, skills within level 10 are still very useful.

After curing Li Liu, Lu Meng's medical skill reached level 6.

Now, even without relying on the medical module, Lu Meng can accurately diagnose some basic minor injuries and illnesses.

But a good woman can't make a meal without rice. Without medicine, Lu Meng can't be treated. She can only give some health advice.

The medical module should be able to treat serious injuries two more times.

This is a life-saving measure and should not be used lightly.

Although he also received a lot of care from Huo Buyang's mother and son, Lu Meng was not a freeloader.

He retrieved various seasonings that he had found in the ruins these days, such as salt and other necessities.Different from the salt that ordinary scavengers eat, what Lu Meng brought was even snow-white refined salt that had been processed once.

This made everyone overjoyed. In terms of value alone, this was even more precious than food.

……

Lu Meng carried the pika and dug out a pit along the markings he had made along the way. Buried in the pit was the body of another pika with arrow wounds, but the blood had dried.

In order to prevent the target from smelling the smell of blood, naturally the previous prey cannot be carried with him.

After getting started with the crossbow, he began to try to hunt at the edge of the hub to expand his food sources.

Compared with buying food from the market, if you can get the prey in person, not only will you not have to be exploited by the merchants in the market, but the ingredients will also be fresher.

Hunting is not that simple. Lu Meng's ability to avoid losing his way in the sandstorm is already much better than other scavengers.

At first, he could only rely on his memory to find the approximate location where the pikas were.

It takes a little bit of luck to find the pika.

It may not be possible to shoot.

As the number of hunts increased, his perception attributes and crossbow skills were steadily improving, becoming more and more like a seasoned hunter.

Not only can the arrows be missed, but at least the business can be opened every day.

It is not uncommon to harvest two pikas at one time, as we did today.

Lu Meng decided to give it up as soon as possible. The pika and rabbit were not the only relatively gentle herbivores in the wild.

It would be dangerous if the prey's blood attracted the bone dogs.

Bone dogs often appear in groups, and their ferocity is even greater than that of wolves in the past.

And even if it's just a lone bone dog, it's still not something Lu Meng can handle now.

He turned around and prepared to return to the hub station with the day's harvest, but saw a figure in the distance looming in the wind and sand.

(End of this chapter)