Apocalyptic Flood: Sexy Beauty Neighbor's Midnight Plea for Food

Chapter 444: Chapter 198: Hot Pot Gathering, Mutated Flying Insects_2

Everyone divided up a lot of bags at the time, after all, the hotpot base can be directly used as seasoning like oil, salt, and sauce.

After finishing the hotpot, Liang Yuan also learned more about everyone’s achievements today from them.

Many people have already started digging caves, and with the help of superpower users, the speed of progress is unbelievably fast.

Almost every level has caves of varying sizes being opened.

Among them, Zhao Kai’s principle of thermal expansion and contraction is the most popular, and everyone uses it the most.

Coupled with Tang Ying’s resonance ability, opening mountain caves is naturally quick and convenient.

Starting tonight, everyone will basically be able to move into the mountain caves.

There will be no worries about possible mutant beast attacks outside.

Safety has greatly improved.

Then there are the reclamation matters. Since the mountain is all forest, there’s no flat ground. Finally, Old Ma and others proposed terraced farming.

So everyone started cutting down trees along the forest and leveling the land.

Granny Li and others have already begun busying themselves with sowing.

What can be planted in October?

Actually, there are quite a few things that can be planted.

For example, garlic, radish, cilantro, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, corn, and so on.

In fact, there are many things that can be planted.

Of course, the premise is to have seeds.

Liang Yuan has seeds here, but not many, and they were all scavenged from various corners of households.

They should be from families with elderly people who prepared to plant them in nutrient soil.

Granny Li and others borrowed a lot from Liang Yuan, planning to return them when they harvest in a few months, or let their husbands catch fish to pay off their debts.

Liang Yuan naturally had no objections, eagerly hoping they would borrow more.

So far, there are not many people in the entire camp, only about a hundred, but everything is flourishing, full of vitality.

There were more smiles on everyone’s faces.

Everyone was eating hotpot and chatting about future construction plans, everything seemed so wonderful.

However, at this moment, a distant scream instantly wiped away everyone’s smiles.

Liang Yuan quickly turned his head and walked to the bamboo house outside the cave, looking in the direction of the sound.

He saw that the sound came from the direction of the bonfire in the parking lot below, where screams were frequently heard.

But Liang Yuan did not see any trace of the enemy.

His face changed slightly, and he said, ”What’s going on?”

Zhao Kai’s expression changed as well, ”I’ll go check it out.”

However, Liang Yuan grabbed him and said, ”You evacuate the people first, I’ll go check it out.”

With that, he leaped, jumping directly from the dozen-story-high building to the cliff wall.

After several leaps, he had already jumped to the platform in the parking lot.

As soon as he approached the bonfire shelter in the parking lot, he immediately saw what was happening.

He saw a large number of terrifying fist-sized flying insects swirling in the air.

These flying insects were attacking people in swarming groups.

Liang Yuan’s pupils shrank slightly, not understanding where these mutant flying insects came from.

He hurriedly launched a Spirit Shock, violently blasting towards the densest cluster of flying insects!

Buzz!

The mental wave suddenly blasted out, instantly causing the flying insects within a thirty-meter range to tremble violently, and immediately fell to the ground with a buzzing sound, their heads exploding.

Clearing out a large area, Liang Yuan immediately shouted, ”Quick, get back into the caves!”

The bitten people screamed and scrambled to their feet, desperately running towards the bamboo house.

Liang Yuan noticed that these flying insects did not pursue those who were escaping but rather still gathered around the bonfire.

Many of the flying insects even stupidly rushed into the bonfire!

Seeing this scene, Liang Yuan suddenly had an epiphany.

”The phototaxis of flying insects!”

Before the great flood, we often saw flying insects gathering around bright places at night.

The ancients had an old saying, ”like a moth to a flame.”

This is the phototaxis of some insects.

Apparently, these mutant flying insects still retained the phototaxis instinct from before their evolution.

They were attracted by the firelight.

Understanding this, Liang Yuan quickly used his spiritual telekinesis to push the bonfire into the rain.

As the flames were extinguished by the heavy rain, the surroundings gradually plunged into darkness.

The flying insects buzzed around and, sure enough, flew around chaotically like headless flies.

However, immediately after, some of the flying insects discovered the light on the watchtower and flew towards it.

Another part of the flying insects flew towards the bamboo house.

Liang Yuan immediately turned and shouted at the approaching Zhao Kai, Yang Shenmin, and others, ”Put out the fires! Put out all the bonfires and fire pits! These flying insects are attracted to the light!”

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked and hurriedly turned around, calling out to their companions to extinguish the fire sources.

Sure enough, as the light from the bamboo house quickly disappeared, the flying insects suddenly dispersed, buzzed chaotically in the rain, and flew into the forest to take shelter from the rain.

Seeing this, Liang Yuan heaved a sigh of relief and quickly returned to the bamboo house to gather with everyone.

”Brother Liang, what are those things?”

”Mr. Liang, can’t we light fires anymore?”

Everyone started asking one after another.

Liang Yuan said in a deep voice, ”They are flying insects. I can’t tell the exact species, but they have significantly mutated.”

”Each one is about the size of a fist, and when they spread their wings, they’re almost thirty centimeters.”

”These insects had phototaxis before their evolution. Even after evolving, the phototaxis instinct remains, so it seems we should avoid lighting fires at night.”

After thinking for a moment, he added, ”Even if we light fires, we should not expose the light source to avoid attracting these insects.”

Yang Shenmin frowned and said, ”It seems that we really need a relatively enclosed environment. It looks like our plan to dig mountain caves is the right choice.”