"The property management is organizing it."
An elderly man sitting on a ladder chuckled and said, "What property management is there now? It's just those security guards and that Huang guy from Building 7, trying to get everyone together to discuss how to find food."
Qin Ziwu couldn't quite understand after hearing this, "If you're hungry, just go find food. Isn't that instinct? With such a huge forest outside, how could anyone starve? It just means they're not hungry enough."
A voice came from behind, "Haha, that's right. The forest outside is vast. As long as you're willing to work, you definitely won't starve."
Qin Ziwen turned around and saw a group of travel-worn people walking into the hall from outside.
Their backpacks were bulging and packed full, they carried various modified weapons in their hands, wore hats, and were dressed completely covered up.
Everyone in this team carried very large backpacks.
They looked "fully armed."
The speaker was a bespectacled man in his early thirties from the group.
He glanced at the fish in Qin Ziwen's bucket and gave a friendly smile. The two of them walked to a quieter area.
"Little brother, are you willing to trade those fish?"
This was Qin Ziwen's first encounter with bartering, and he found it quite novel.
"What do you want to trade for?"
The man took off his backpack, unzipped it, and Qin Ziwen saw two fluffy creatures snuggled together inside.
They looked like rabbits.
"Are these... wild rabbits?"
The man nodded with a smile, "Yes, I don't need to tell you about rabbits' reproductive abilities, right? These two happen to be a male and a female, and they can survive just by eating grass. If you're willing to trade, I'll give them to you. Take them back and raise them for a while, and you'll have rabbits to eat."
Qin Ziwen shook his head, "In the long run, it's not a loss, but from what I know, rabbits take at least two to three months from pregnancy to giving birth. By the time that long passes, I would have starved to death already."
The bespectacled man explained, "It's not that long. Rabbits' cycle from mating to giving birth is generally about six weeks."
"That's still a month and a half, and I'd have to pull grass to feed them every day."
The bespectacled man looked somewhat regretful, "Alright then. I mainly really like eating fish and haven't had any for a while."
After saying this, the bespectacled man nodded politely and prepared to leave.
Qin Ziwen stopped him, "How much do your rabbits weigh?"
The bespectacled man thought for a moment, then shook his head honestly, "I haven't weighed them, but when I picked them up, each was about three to four jin, so the two together should be around seven jin."
Qin Ziwen pondered. Although the carp was heavier, rabbit meat is red meat while fish is white meat.
In terms of calories provided, rabbit meat offers more than carp meat.
Plus, he had the Beast Cage. For him, these two rabbits were actually more valuable than one fish.
After all, fish didn't seem that hard to catch either.
"Alright, I agree to the trade, but can I ask you some questions?"
The bespectacled man's eyes narrowed into slits as he happily agreed, "Of course."
"Where did you catch these rabbits?"
"Over there. Go out from the south gate, follow west all the way, about a thirty-minute walk, and you'll see a foothill grassland. There are lots of rabbits there."
The bespectacled man thought for a moment, then said, "Wild rabbits are creatures of habit. They usually tread out fixed walking paths in the grass. These movement patterns are called 'rabbit runs.' As long as you find the 'rabbit runs,' it's relatively easy to catch them by setting traps along the way."
"Rabbits like to move along natural 'boundaries,' like stone walls, shrub hedges, and forest edges. If you're looking for 'rabbit runs,' pay more attention to these areas."
"And wild rabbits are most active during early morning and dusk, which are their main times for foraging outside. But they have a very keen sense of smell. If you set traps, it's best to wear gloves to prevent your scent from being detected."
Qin Ziwen quietly memorized what the other person said.
These were details not mentioned in the trap blueprints.
He couldn't help but be curious, "What... do you do for work?"
The bespectacled man smiled, "I'm a veterinarian."
It seemed quite normal for a veterinarian to know how to catch animals.
The bespectacled man said, "My name is Wang Yun, I live in Building 1. Is this your younger brother?"
"Yes, my younger brother Qin Ziwu. I'm Qin Ziwen."
Wang Yun said, "I used to organize an outdoor hiking team and have some survival experience. We've been exploring outside these past couple days, currently focusing our exploration on the western areas."
"I can see you guys have ideas too. If you're interested later, you and your brother can come find me. I live on the eighth floor of Unit 1."
Qin Ziwen didn't completely refuse, "Alright. By the way, if you catch more animals next time, like rabbits for example, you can come find me to trade. I'm on the fifth floor of Unit 2, Building 8."
Wang Yun readily agreed, "Okay."
After Wang Yun left, Qin Ziwu scratched his head, "Brother, these people all seem to like inviting us, huh."
Qin Ziwen gave him a sidelong glance, "Because you look like someone with simple limbs and a developed brain. People like you exactly for that."
Qin Ziwu was suspicious; he always felt his brother was insulting him, "Brother, you're making fun of me, aren't you?"
"No, how could I? You're so smart."
"Damn, you absolutely are! I saw you smiling!"
The two brothers roughhoused and joked their way back home.
Of these two wild rabbits, one was white and one was gray.
The gray one was male, the white one was female.
Speaking of which, the Beast Cage was quite magical. The two rabbits that were originally trembling with fear, after being thrown into the Beast Cage, quietly squatted inside. After a while, they started hopping around leisurely inside.
Just like how a tightly sealed cellar can still have ventilation.
These buildings all seemed to have some kind of magical power.
Qin Ziwu squatted in front of the Beast Cage, "Brother, what should we feed these rabbits?"
Qin Ziwen looked at his younger brother, "What do you think rabbits eat?"
"Carrots."
Qin Ziwen was speechless, "Where would we get carrots?"
"Cabbage."
Qin Ziwen said, "You look like a cabbage to me. We still need to eat the wild vegetables at home ourselves, don't feed them to the rabbits."
"Got it."
Qin Ziwen said, "Later I'll go ask that Doctor Wang for advice. He's a veterinarian, so he definitely knows about this stuff."
Although they could just pull some wild grass to feed them, as someone raising rabbits for the first time, he was always a bit worried.
He'd heard online before that these things are quite delicate and can easily get stressed and scared to death.
He could only hope this Level 1 Beast Cage could exert a bit more of its divine power.
In the evening, after dinner, the two of them came to the middle of the residential complex courtyard.
This area was originally the playground for the complex's children, with a small fountain connected to a water pump nearby.
Now the small fountain had stopped, and no children could be seen in the playground area.
Someone had moved a table to the middle, with several security guards in white uniforms standing around it.
The periphery was packed with people, even somewhat crowded.
Qin Ziwen arrived relatively late, and he and his brother couldn't squeeze in, so the two of them simply climbed up a nearby tree.
The balconies of the surrounding buildings were all filled with people. This was probably the most concentrated gathering of residential complex residents since the transmigration.
In the crowd, someone shouted, "Where are they? What do they want to say?"
"Hurry up, if there's something to say, say it quickly!"
Amid the sea of people, Huang Tao climbed onto the table, stood up, and raised his hands so more people could see him.
Then he put the megaphone in his hand to his mouth, "Testing, testing, testing, can you hear me?"
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