Chapter 497 The red squirrel was stolen from home
Xia Qing, who was still in the side effect period of Yi Elemental Stimulation Fluid, circled around the big pine tree where the locator was located for a long time, but no traces of the red squirrel coming out to move.
This is very abnormal.
Animals such as squirrels usually find a place to **** and pee within their territory, and this place is usually quite a long distance from the tree hole where it lives. This has nothing to do with whether you love cleanliness or not, and it doesn’t matter if you talk about hygiene. It’s entirely for survival.
First of all, squirrels are also territorial animals. They will use their own excrement to let their fellows know that this place has been occupied and do not enter. They will fight to enter.
Secondly, goshawks, owls, martens, snakes, etc. are all natural enemies of squirrels, and they mainly rely on vision, taste or hearing to lock the position of squirrels. In order to avoid natural enemies, squirrels not only do not excrete near caves, but also find ways to find something that can cover up their own odor and put it in their body or caves to avoid being found by natural enemies. For example, the red squirrel in the third zone will use tobacco with a strong smell to make a nest, and will sprinkle snakes and shed debris on the fur.
Squirrels will indeed reduce their activity and increase their sleep time in winter, and enter a semi-hibernation state. But it still needs to eat and excrete, so theoretically, there should be traces of activity on the surface of the snow-killing wound around the tree hole.
Unable to find it, Xia Qing simply stood under the tree and whispered to the neighbors in the cave. Lowering your voice is not because you are afraid of being heard, but because you are afraid of scaring your timid neighbors in the tree hole.
"Red Squirrel, are you at home? I''ve sent you peanuts, do you want to eat them?"
"Do you eat something for free? Don''t you drink water at home?"
After shouting a few times, there was no movement in the tree hole. Xia Qing took out the cat''s claw shoes from her backpack, slowly climbed up for more than ten meters, and called out twice at the door of the Red Squirrel''s house, but there was still no movement.
She turned on the flashlight and observed the inside of the cave. She breathed a sigh of relief after she found that the locator was not there.
As soon as he came, Xia Qing used an iron hook to flip the red squirrel''s house and found that the food in the tree hole had already reached the bottom. This little guy is quite edible.
Red squirrels are much richer than Xia Qing. Xia Qing only has one home. Red squirrels have six tree holes that can be used as nests in this territory and two stone caves specially used to hide food. This fall, it was busy going out early and coming home late, storing six holes of food. The red squirrel is not here, it must be in other holes with food.
Xia Qing, whose hearing ability has not yet fully recovered, listened carefully to the sounds of various animal activities in the Evolution Forest and chose the place she thought was the most likely. After arriving at the location, Xia Qing found that the red squirrel was still not in the hole, but the ground was scattered with chewed dried fruit debris and footprints left by many mice.
The red squirrel''s home was stolen by a mouse!
Xia Qing immediately accelerated his pace and walked towards the nearest hole here. There is a stone cave five hundred meters ahead, which is the cave where the red squirrel stores the most food this winter.
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The red squirrel doesn''t like to make sounds. Now it''s just because it''s hunger, fear or anger that it can''t tolerate.
Xia Qing raised his gun and accelerated, shouting loudly, "What happened if you eat for free? Eat the food for free-to-"
"Gugu—" The red squirrel''s screams increased. Xia Qing, who had been intriguing with it for several months, heard its anger and anxiousness. The location where the sound was heard did not change, which means that the red squirrel might have been blocked in the hole by the mouse!
Before Xia Qing could rush over, he heard the sound of an animal moving quickly in the snow. This sound was not something that a red squirrel could make.
Xia Qing immediately stopped, raised his gun and aimed, and soon saw an evolutionary marten with an evolving forest length of more than half a meter, rushing straight towards him with his teeth bared. Needless to ask, this expression and movement are obvious as an out-of-control animal. Animals of this level of evolution are not worth wasting a bullet. Xia Qing pulled away his gun and pulled out his sword. After a few encounters, he destroyed the marten and continued to rush to the red squirrel''s hole.
A golden eagle hovering in the air swooped down, grabbed Lin Diao''s body, flapped its wings and left quickly, snatching Xia Qing''s prey.
"Is it in there for free?" Xia Qing came to the entrance of the cave and whispered to his neighbor.
“Gugu, hiss—”
“Squeak, squeak—”
The answer to Xia Qing is not only the red squirrel, but also the arrogant screams of rats. Just by calling, you can tell that there are at least 10 rats in the hole.
The red squirrel runs fast, but its attack power is not high. It may not be the final winner when facing the mouse group. What''s more, the red squirrel was attacked by the green light peanuts more than half a month ago and lost a lot of blood.
Before Xia Qing could think of how to shout out the red squirrel, the little guy ran out by himself.
"Gu, ga, gaga-" The red squirrel howled angrily and anxiously on the big pine tree beside Xia Qing, jumping up and down, and the blood fell on the dirty snow. The mice in the cave did not come out, but Xia Qing could hear the clacking sound of them biting the pine nuts and chestnuts.
Even if the food in the tree hole was not Xia Qing''s, she was anxious. Without saying a word, she took out a handful of hay from her backpack and lit it, threw it into the stone cave, and then quickly blocked the hole with a large animal skin bag.
"Squeak, squeak-"
All animals were afraid of smoke and fire, and soon screamed and fled out through other gaps in the cave. This is an evolutionary voles, which are not small at all than a red squirrel. No wonder even a red squirrel can''t beat them.
The red squirrel saw the big field mouse running out, and a red light rushed over and bit the big field mouse''s neck hard. The big field mouse squeaked and struggled, and the two gray and red rats fought fiercely on the snow.
There were also some evolutionary voles who were blindly open and broke into the animal skin bag. Xia Qing skillfully stepped on it with her feet and killed three. The red squirrel killed one, and the rest escaped.
Xia Qing put away the animal skin bag, shoveled some snow and threw it into the cave to put out the flames, but the big smoke inside could not dissipate for a while, and the red squirrel was so anxious that he jumped around the cave.
Xia Qing confirmed that there was no danger, cleaned up a piece of snow, put the peanuts in her pocket on the ground, and greeted her poor neighbor, "Don''t be anxious. Come here first and let me see where your wound is, and I''ll dig the food in the hole for you."
Seeing the peanuts on the ground, the red squirrel jumped over and grabbed the peanuts and ran away. The speed was so fast that Xia Qing saw a red light. She is now in a weak period, her visual evolution ability is limited, and she cannot see where the red squirrel is injured.
So, Xia Qing took out the water bottle from his backpack and poured the warm, pollution-free spring water into the small bowl where the red squirrel often drank water on the windowsill, "Little guy, come here to drink water."
In the temperature of more than minus twenty degrees Celsius, the spring water cools rapidly and will freeze in a while. The red squirrel holding the peanuts no longer hesitated and rushed over to drink water immediately.
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