Shen Shian found that he seemed to be lost.

Now he not only had to avoid zombies, he also had to avoid the rescue teams. He was driving further away from the urban area and without knowing it, he got lost on a remote road with many turns.

In front of him was a winding stone road with few people around. He could only see several buildings and cottages at a long distance. He didn’t know if it was because the owner has moved to the town for a long time, so the house has been unoccupied for a long time, or because of other reasons, but these buildings were mostly in ruins, as if a giant monster had destroyed them or like they had encountered a natural disaster such as a typhoon. Most of the walls and room beams had collapsed, leaving only broken walls.

There were only a handful of zombies encountered along the way, and he had not seen a living person. China is very densely populated, this is almost impossible. Looking to the sides, there was endless wilderness on both sides of the road. There was a sense of separation from the normal society.

Paper maps could not cover everything. Due to material and size restrictions, it could only show the main village road and every road above it, many remote paths would not be marked. Therefore, Shen Shian was only able to determine that he was between two townships in Province B. No other information was obtained.

Shen Xun was indifferent. After dropping off Tian Yi and his family, there were only two people left in the car, Shen Shian and Shen Xun. Anyway, they could enter the space at any time to eat and drink spicy food, which was the same as before. At this moment, he was holding a pot of water with a sweet strawberry the size of a fist, sitting on the co-driver and asked, “An An, where do we go next?”

Shen Shian thought for a moment, put the map away and started the engine, “We’ll drive forward.”

Since there was a road, he would go straight along the road. Always go north and they will eventually leave this area. It will be easy to re-enter the main road again. At that time, he would check the map to determine their specific position, and then reroute the route.

Shen Xun had no opinion at all, took another strawberry from the pot, and handed it to Shen Shian, “An An, eat.”

The off-road vehicle traveled all the way along the stone road. When suddenly a huge animal appeared in the fields. Shen Shian thought for a moment that he saw a giraffe.

However, even if the giraffe escaped from Province B’s zoo, no giraffe had pure white feet.

Without waiting for Shen Shian, the hill-like animal had rushed out of the field. Although it was huge and bulky, it was quick. In an instant, it had moved 20 meters and was now in front of the off-road vehicle. It leaned forward and stretched its neck. With its nearly two meter long, chisel shaped, and flat beak, it pecked fiercely towards the front of the car.

Shen Shian turned his steering wheel sharply, the off-road vehicle rushed out of the road to the left, and bumped into the barren grass by the road a few times. The position where it was a moment ago which was pecked had a shallow pit. The animal seemed to be provoked, and then chased the off-road vehicle. The flapping wings covered the sky and casted a huge shadow on the ground, and it quickly increased its speed.

Shen Shian was about to drive the car again, and found that there were more than one such animal, and a large group rushed out from the wilderness. The animal called their friends and invited them, as if they had scheduled a group fight. The animals rushed towards the off-road vehicle, and it was aggressive, even the ground was pecked. Sometimes one of them ran too fast and crashed into the farmhouse, or sometimes they spread their wings and swept away buildings. Whether it’s a brick wall or a mud house, it was immediately destroyed.

Shen Shian finally knew how those ruined buildings came about.

Seeing that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, and more and more attacks were falling, Shen Shian thought for a while. Before the other side completed the encirclement, he brought them and the car into the space.

Shen Xun swallowed a strawberry, looked back from the car’s window and asked, “An An, what was that?”

Shen Shian answered, “Geese.”

Goose Goose Goose, Curved neck melody, sung to the sky {n1}

Note1: A classical Chinese poem written by 骆宾王 luò bīn wáng during the Tang dynasty. https://shawnpowrie.com/chinese/chinese-poem-yong-e-singing-goose/

The child’s face lit up, “Eat.”

You can eat it, but you have to be alive to eat it. A goose was irritable and aggressive, and extremely arrogant and persevering. Once the attack target was identified, it would not give up. It would have to spill his blood until the end, and it had already targeted the car as its enemy.

What’s more, how exactly did this group of geese grow into such a dozen meter high beast.

This couldn’t be explained with normal scientific logic. Could it be said that not only humans and zombies that have mutated after the virus outbreak, but animals could mutate too?

Shen Shian has some headaches. Even a domestic goose is very difficult to handle. How could he solve this large group of mutated geese? A whole area was being used as their nest and if he wanted to pass, he must either drive carefully or take a detour. But he was currently lost, and he didn’t know where to go.

Shen Xun was filled with fighting spirit and was eager to try. He took out the Tang Sword and carried it on his back, “An An, let’s go and catch the geese.”

Shen Shian stared at him for a while without enthusiasm. Perceiving that the flock of geese outside the space had spread out a little, with a thought, they reappeared.

The flock of geese fell into a moment of chaos because of the suddenly disappearing target, they were flapping their wings and puffing around, exhaling fiercely. Then, the target appeared again.

After leaving the shelter of the off-road vehicle, the hugeness of the mutant goose was more shocking. Each one was as high as a three floored building, with a large body and a thick neck. The orange mark on its forehead was like a light on a lighthouse. When the geese saw them, they flapped their wings, bringing a gust of wind. Then they straightened their necks and screamed.

Shen Xun licked his mouth and pulled out a sword that was taller than himself and greeted them with “Ah ah ahh.”{n2} so much meat, don’t run away.

Note2: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Shen Shian didn’t stop him, he mostly dodged the geese attack and focused on Shen Xun. Until he saw Shen Xun was slammed by the wings under the siege of the geese, and that the huge triangular webbed feet of the white goose was about to step on him, then he used his spiritual powers and rushed to the child. The child was fished out from under the goose’s feet, and then they re-entered the space.

“How,” Shen Shian bowed down, looking down at the depressed looking child, “Caught a few?”

Shen Xun spit out the grass in his mouth and his dark green eyes ignited a raging war. He raised his sword and jumped down, “An An let me go out again An An.”

Shen Shian reached out and patted his head, he helped to remove the grass and dirt from Shen Xun’s head, “Okay, be quiet. The flock of geese can be solved, but we need to be strategic.”

Using brute force was not impossible, but it was too troublesome and if it was accidentally killed, how to store such a large mutant goose was also a problem. It’s better to be smart.

Shen Shian thought for a while and found three packs of grass seeds from the seed area on the second floor of the bamboo building, measuring an area of ​​15 square meters on the black soil, he sprinkled the grass seeds and poured the spring water again. About an hour later, a piece of grassland expanded 666 times from the original fifteen square meters and equivalent to one and a half football fields. The grass was over a foot tall, and each was plump and juicy. When he first went out, he counted the geese. There were thirteen mutant geese in total. Such a large pasture should be enough for them.

He took the child out of the space again and they returned to the field by the road, “You go and flock the geese to me”

The child ran away with the sword in a gust of wind. Within two minutes, a large group of menacing mutant geese ran behind his butt. He didn’t know what he did. The anger of this group of geese was ten times more than the last time. They pecked and splashed dirt everywhere. It was as if they wanted to swallow the child.

Shen Shian found the right time and shouted, “Run to me” to Shen Xun.

While catching the child, he reached out and touched two geese that were the nearest to them.

The two geese disappeared at the same time.

Shen Shian held the child beside the black soil, and the mutant geese were sent to the grassland under the control of his consciousness. Once they entered the space, he could control and move them using his consciousness. Currently only this dog was an exception.

Shen Shian was not in a hurry to collect the other geese, because he needed to determine whether one of the mutant geese sent to the pasture could run out by itself.

There was a space fold on the black land, which was a fact that he discovered not long after he got this space. Normally, the plants planted on the black soil would grow into a new subspace as it grows. This subspace was also a part of the main space and thus was also under his control.

Because Shen Xun could freely go in and out of these subspaces to pick strawberries fruits, Shen Shian was not sure whether this “free access to subspaces” permission was valid for all living things, or whether there was a sensing function similar to the spring eye in the subspace and that it could sense if he actively invited them to enter and willingly allowed the other party to enter and exit freely.

The mutant geese rammed at them, but as if there was an invisible barrier, it could not get past the subspace. They tried for a long time and eventually ran back to the pasture.

Shen Shian was relieved because they needed his permission.

Looking down, he and Shen Xun looked at each other before saying, “Let’s go, there are twelve dumb geese outside.”

The next action to catch the geese went smoothly. As long as Shen Shian was not attacked by the geese, he would touch them and they were sent to the space. The only problem was that the mutant goose was too large, and every time he sent two or three, Shen Shian would stop and slow down.

Waiting until only the last one was left, the mutant goose rushed for two steps in the direction of Shen Shian. It finally found out that something was wrong, and then started to run backwards.

Shen Xun could not wait, he rubbed his fists, and shouted, “An An, leave that one to me.”

After he said that, he chased after the goose with his sword. After a while, Shen Shian found him, there was a huge white goose on the ground with its two feet tilted. The Tang Sword was dripping with blood, and Shen Xun’s eyes glowed with excitement, “An An, how about eating goose at night?”

Shen Shian looked at the goose weighing at least one to two tons and had a headache. How do you pluck the feathers?