On the tenth year of the natural disaster, I went to farm with me

Chapter 498 Settling down
The little guy was really thirsty. When he saw the unpolluted spring water, he ignored his fear of Xia Qing as a human and rushed over to drink water.

Xia Qing looked carefully for a while and found that the red squirrel was not injured. The blood on its body was all from the evolved voles. However, the little guy was much thinner and his fur had lost its luster. The group of evolved voles may have discovered through feces or other means that the fighting power of the red squirrels in this territory had declined, so they dared to team up to steal its food.

Xia Qing waited until the red squirrel had drunk its fill before putting away the bowl and turning to clean up the food in the cave. As soon as she moved, the red squirrel was frightened and jumped more than ten meters away and hid in a big pine tree.

When the red squirrel discovered that this human had taken out tools and taken out the food he had stored, he jumped up and down in panic, cursing.

However, the red squirrel did not attack Xia Qing. Xia Qing was not afraid of its attack, because the red squirrel's claws and teeth could not break through the third-level field protective suit Xia Qing was wearing.

A lot of the food stored in the cave was destroyed by the evolved voles. Xia Qing picked out the food that was still usable and put it into the bag. He also collected the corpses of the evolved voles and carried them towards the next tree hole.

The red squirrel holding two peanuts ran into the cave, turned around, and ran out again holding the peanuts, chasing Xia Qing, jumping up and down and cursing.

Xia Qing complained, "Don't worry, I have more food than you do. I don't care about your food that has been picked by field mice."

Carrying the bag to the next tree hole, Xia Qing discovered that the food in this hole had also been destroyed by the evolved voles. The following holes were also not spared.

In other words, all the winter food that the red squirrels had stored for an entire autumn was left with only the less than ten pounds of pine nuts, chestnuts and grass seeds in the bag that Xia Qing was carrying.

No wonder the red squirrels fought fiercely with the evolved voles in the cave. If the voles ate all the food in the cave, the red squirrels would have to dig through the snow in the winter to find food. Even if they could avoid the snow springtails and natural enemies, they would lose control due to the excessive amount of toxic elements in their bodies.

This little guy can't stay in Area 3 of Hill 49 this winter.

Xia Qing carried the bag and led the weak neighbor who was cursing back to her territory. She didn't know how much food an evolved squirrel needed to eat during the three-month semi-hibernation period, but she could share the food in her storage room with it.

Without this red squirrel, Xia Qing would not have been able to discover the hot spring valley behind the No. 50 mountain bear cave. Just think of these foods as Xia Qing's payment to it for leading the way.

Xia Qing found a big tree with a tree hole in the western buffer forest, put hay in it, and poured some food for the red squirrels into it. Then he turned around and whispered to the red squirrel hiding in the big tree next to him, "This tree hole should have been your nest before, right? You can live here this winter. There are wolves in my territory, and the evolved voles and forest martens dare not come in."

The red squirrel puffed up its tail, hid behind a tree, and stared at Xia Qing with its round little eyes. As soon as she left, it immediately crawled into a tree hole to protect its food.

Xia Qing returned home and took out the hypothermia emergency blanket from the tool room.

The emergency blanket that Yang Jin wrapped her with had been torn by tree branches, but it was still enough to cut a few pieces for the little red squirrel.

Xia Qing returned to the buffer forest and heard the red squirrel busy cleaning up the house in the tree hole. Xia Qing seemed to see his own shadow in this little guy.

She climbed up the tree, stuffed the cut emergency blanket and three hickory nuts into the hole, and told the frightened red squirrel, "You can use that cloth as a blanket. It's very warm to sleep wrapped up in it. I'm giving you those three hickory nuts for free. They're green-lighted, and they're good for your health. Don't underestimate the small amount. This is the price that the most handsome human in our base would pay me for personally wrapping me with an emergency blanket."

After that, Xia Qing folded the remaining emergency blanket into a palm-sized size and nailed a windproof door curtain for the red squirrel's new home. After coming down from the tree, Xia Qing looked up and admired his masterpiece, "Big brother, second brother, what do you think? Isn't it beautiful?"

The eldest sheep squinted his eyes and chewed his cud, as if he didn't hear it.

The sick wolf grinned and laughed at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing patted the bark debris stuck on his gloves and said, "Old Second, you are right. It is very beautiful. Let's go to the greenhouse to work."

The family of three walked slowly for a few steps before Xia Qing heard the rustling sound in the tree hole again. The red squirrel was rummaging around in the emergency blanket she had stuffed in, and Xia Qing curled up the corners of her mouth.

Although it had been two days since the snowstorm, the level of toxic elements in the atmosphere was still high, so Xia Qing did not remove the Yi stones in the greenhouse and the green light wheat field. With the combined effects of the Yi stones, the greenhouse and the supplementary lights, the animals and plants in the greenhouse were all normal, and everywhere was thriving. Therefore, not only the sheep boss and the sick wolf liked to stay in the greenhouse, but Xia Qing also liked it.

She held a small hoe and squatted on the ridge of the field to loosen the soil for the seedlings and weed at the same time.

After shaking off the dirt on the roots of the weeds that had been dug out, they were divided into two parts. The ones that the sheep boss liked were thrown outside the thorn fence for the sheep boss to eat; the ones that the sheep boss didn't like were put in a small basket for the sick wolf to take to the greenhouse next door to feed the fish, chickens, and rabbits.

This job was very healing. Xia Qing relaxed both physically and mentally, telling the sheep boss and the sick wolf about the red squirrel's experience in bits and pieces.

After weeding, Xia Qing went to the greenhouse to look at the peanuts on the rainproof cloth. The peanuts were not yet dried, but the hemp skin was much drier. Xia Qing picked a few yellow ones and put them in his pocket.

If the red squirrel comes to her windowsill to drink water tomorrow, Xia Qing will reward it with a few peanuts.

After a man, a wolf and a sheep returned home in the sunset, the eldest sheep couldn't wait to climb onto his toy generator, while the sick wolf lay by the fireplace to take a rest.

After Xia Qing warmly praised Boss Yang, she took off her protective suit, added a few more pieces of firewood to the fireplace, and then started cooking dinner while listening to the radio.

The smoke from the chimney on the roof was blown all over the place by the wind, but the house was smelly and warm.

Amid the howling of the cold wind, a rustling sound came from the warm tree hole in the buffer forest. A small squirrel's head popped out from the emergency blanket curtain, looked around a few times, and then shrank back in due to the cold. Not long after, a crackling sound came from the tree hole. The red squirrel expertly bit through the hard shell of the hickory and ate all the walnut kernels inside.

After it was completely dark, Xia Qing sat at the dining table, listening to the news and eating dinner. Her table was full of green light food: green light rice, green light chili fried green light eggs, and green light snake meatball soup sprinkled with green light scallion leaves.

The snow had just passed, and in addition to the touching stories that happened during the snow, the radio also reported that the military and civilians at various bases in Huicheng were working together to actively respond to the beast tide.

It has been six days since the man-made super-evolved pathogenic microorganism disaster at Mount 50, but it still has not been selected for the base news.