Chapter 459: Graves and Bones

This hidden valley is the "backyard" of the two evolved bears living on the 50th mountain.

After entering the valley from the bear cave, on the left is the bear's toilet, which is piled with a large pile of bear feces. On the right is a half-meter wide animal trail, with dense weeds and trees growing on both sides of the animal trail. The trees are not tall and seem to have grown for only two or three years.

Although she can't see the green peanuts standing here, Xia Qing knows that they must grow in this valley.

She stepped on a bear footprint that was a circle larger than her winter boots and found something wrong.

This is a crack valley formed by the crack of the mountain. Even if there is soil carried into the crack by rain, there should be more gravel than soil in the valley, not more soil than gravel like now.

Here...

"Crack--"

Hearing the sound of sharp wolf claws rubbing against rocks, Xia Qing immediately looked up and found that the head wolf was standing on a fallen rock more than 100 meters away from her, with a fiery red snake as thick as a finger under his feet. Relying on excellent vision, Xia Qing saw the bump on the red snake's head at a glance.

Killer snake!

"My Queen, be careful of snake venom!" Xia Qing immediately rushed over and put the killer snake into the bag, and quickly checked the body of the alpha wolf, "My Queen, you were not bitten, were you?"

The alpha wolf shook its body, shook off Xia Qing who was scratching it everywhere, and jumped to a higher fallen rock.

Seeing it like this, Xia Qing knew that it was not bitten, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately looked for sick wolves and broken waist wolves.

Shua shua——

Hearing the noise, Xia Qing turned around and found that the broken waist wolf ran over with a fiery red killer snake in its mouth and put the snake on the stone in front of Xia Qing.

Although the tail of the snake was still moving, it was dead, and Xia Qing also put the snake into the bag.

The Evolved Bear and the giant python in the lake next to the No. 61 Mountain are allies, and the killer snake is the giant python's symbiotic beast. This is the "back garden" of the Evolved Bear, and it is normal to have killer snakes. Xia Qing put away the snake and shouted, "My Queen, Broken Waist, and Second Brother, you guys take a rest, I will explore this valley."

The protective suits of the three wolves only protected their feet and bodies, leaving their heads, legs, and necks exposed. If they were bitten by the snake, the leaves of the two small grasses in the cave of Territory No. 3 would be lost.

The sick wolf came out of the dense grass with a rabbit in its mouth, jumped onto the fallen rocks, and put it in front of the leader wolf. The leader wolf was not polite and started eating the rabbit. The broken waist wolf also took a walk and quickly got a rabbit back, lying next to the leader wolf and eating. The sick wolf squatted next to the two wolves, responsible for guarding.

Xia Qing, wearing a third-level field protective suit, walked forward with a black long knife to explore the valley.

After walking more than ten meters, Xia Qing found leeks mixed in the weeds. Without testing, Xia Qing knew that this was a green light plant just by the tender green leaves of the leeks.

Further ahead, there were several vines with purple-black leaves. Xia Qing felt that these palm-sized, triangular, egg-shaped, cracked leaves were very familiar, but she couldn't remember what kind of plant it was.

Some tender shoots emerged from the weeds ahead, and Xia Qing recognized the plant at a glance: soybeans.

Further ahead, Xia Qing found more familiar seedlings of crops. She would never mistake the leaf characteristics of this seedling, because she had planted more than two acres in her territory, which was also in the seedling stage.

However, the seedlings in this valley were different in color from those in her field. This should be red light wheat.

Xia Qing quietly looked at this wheat covering an area of ​​more than ten square meters, and a very reasonable speculation gradually took shape in her mind.

A red light rushed straight to Xia Qing's ankle. Xia Qing blocked it with the back of the knife. The snake hit the back of the knife and bounced to the small pine tree next to it, turning around and trying to run. Xia Qing directly pinched its head with his hand and stuffed it into his pocket.

The small teeth of the snakes could not even bite through her level 3 field protective suit, not to mention the hardness of the evolved python skin gloves on her hands. Therefore, these highly toxic snakes posed no threat to the fully armed Xia Qing.

After walking forward for more than 50 meters, Xia Qing finally found the target plant she was looking for: peanuts.

Because the temperature in the valley is different from that in the outside world, the peanuts here are in the late stage of maturity. No wonder the red squirrels started collecting peanuts only a dozen days ago.

Because the peanut leaves have fallen off, it is impossible to judge the quality of this piece of peanuts based on the withered peanut vines alone.

Further ahead, Xia Qing found shallots, cucumbers, eggplants, sweet potatoes, corn...

Xia Qing did not start digging, but continued to explore the valley. Fifty meters further forward, she found a hot spring pool built with cement, which directly verified Xia Qing's speculation.

No matter how smart the evolved bear is, it will not use cement to build such a standard square pool. Therefore, this valley hidden in the cracks of the mountain was once a human base.

The crustal movement in the early years of the natural disaster caused cracks in the mountain of No. 50, and a hot spring gushed out from the inside. Someone discovered this valley and used it as a base for construction.

They used explosives to widen the cracks in the mountain and formed the current valley. There are traces of blasting and chiseling on the walls on both sides of the valley.

They used the blasted gravel as a base, and then brought fertile soil from outside to spread on the gravel, and built farmland where the sun could shine.

They also used stones and cement to build hot spring pools, and then used bamboo pipes and canals to divert hot spring water to irrigate farmland.

The passage leading to the bear cave should also be dug by them, and even the big stone blocking the cave entrance was placed by them.

How did this human base become the back garden of the evolved bear?

Who built this base?

Did they voluntarily abandon this small base and go to the safe area of ​​the large base, or were they already dead?

Time passed slowly, and the sun beam shining into the valley shifted. The plants growing here were not exposed to direct sunlight for a long time, and there was no trace of supplementary lights installed on the canyon walls.

How did the people who once lived here supplement the light for the plants?

Xia Qing kicked away a long evolutionary centipede that climbed onto her protective boots, scratched the soil under the weeds with a long knife, and soon found the broken white plastic film.

Xia Qing, who was no longer a novice in farming, immediately recognized that this was the reflective film that the people who once lived here laid on the ground or stuck on the stone wall to supplement the light for crops.

After cutting off a few fat evolutionary grubs that were turned over with a knife, Xia Qing continued to move forward and came to the end of the farmland. In front of her was a valley full of gravel, and behind her was a farmland paved with soil.

Beside her were five graves with tombstones and a human skeleton.

The tombstones were made of stone. Based on the words engraved on them, Xia Qing knew that the dead body's parents, parents-in-law, husband, daughter, and son were buried here.

The five tombstones were tilted or tilted, and the graves were overgrown with grass. The woman who died last lay on her husband's grave. Her dead bones had been swallowed by the weeds, and only her pale black skull was looking at the light above the valley.