Chapter 462 Rumors

Bai Zhengli was just making small talk because he was worried that Bai Ye might go too far in front of Fang Jintang and upset him. In his opinion, he did this entirely for Bai Ye, this troublesome and stupid son! As soon as he said this, Bai Ye glared at him fiercely - why did you bring this up!

Bai Zhengli also suddenly woke up. He had just comforted Fang Yuxin last night, saying that there was no need to force the issue of food. Besides, this kind of thing would not have a good result in one night. Think about Qian Sen, who was a famous botanist, but he had not made any progress after half a year of research. Fang Yuxin spent an entire night on it, so how could he get any results?

He really brings up things that are not related to the topic!

Thinking of this, Bai Zhengli couldn't help but secretly glance at Fang Jintang, and sure enough, he saw this protective father glaring at him! He immediately smiled awkwardly, and before Fang Yuxin could answer, he comforted her, "Xinxin, your uncle just said something wrong, but it's not to put pressure on you, don't take it to heart. Take your time with this matter, don't rush."

Fang Yuxin couldn't help but be moved. Bai Zhengli was the elder after all, and what he said just now was not wrong, but he was able to apologize openly. How many people could do that to him?

Thinking back to when she had a good relationship with Qiu Yiming, even if Zhou Fanghua and Qiu Hongsheng occasionally said something wrong, as a junior she could only accept it silently. How could she care about these things with her elders?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Bai Ye, feeling that she had made the right choice.

Bai Ye originally wanted to comfort her with a few words, but suddenly he met her smiling eyes. Somehow he understood what she meant. He couldn't help feeling a little proud in his heart, and a smile gradually appeared on his face, with even the corners of his mouth raised high. Bai Zhengli secretly despised him on the side!

His son has been like an ice cube since he was young, and he has become even colder as he grows up. He has a stiff face and pretends to be expressionless all day long. Even when facing him and Shui Rou, his expression will be slightly softer, but he will not smile like an idiot like now. Thinking of the expression on Bai Ye's face when he first brought Fang Yuxin home at the Bei City base, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seems that his stupid son who makes people worry has really fallen for Fang Yuxin.

However, this daughter-in-law is a good choice! It seems that although this stupid son is a bit worrying, his vision is still what he wants!

Bai Zhengli was sighing in his heart when he heard Fang Yuxin say, "It's already successful. I got some seeds out. Let's try planting them on the farm first."

Bai Zhengli was still sighing, his daughter-in-law had a really good temper and strong abilities, then he was stunned, success... success? Could this be what he understood?

So, Bai Ye, Fang Yuxin, Bai Qianqian and Fang Jintang all saw that Bai Zhengli, who had a normal expression, suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Fang Yuxin in disbelief, stammering: "Xin...Xinxin, you...what did you just say?"

Bai Zhengli looked so embarrassing that the four of them couldn't stand it. However, Fang Yuxin and Bai Qianqian didn't say anything and pretended not to notice his gaffe. Even Fang Jintang turned his head away calmly, as if he hadn't seen anything.

Only Bai Ye didn't give him face, and looked at him with an expression of "Are you deaf?": "Xinxin just said that she has succeeded, and she has also made some seeds, which can be tried on the farm."

Bai Zhengli didn't bother to pay attention to him, and stared at Fang Yuxin. He knew Fang Yuxin wouldn't lie about this, but... this was too fast! It was only one night, and Fang Yuxin succeeded? Bai Zhengli found it hard to accept, and couldn't help but wonder, if Qian Sen and his researchers knew about it, would they die of inferiority? They stayed up all night to study for half a year and still couldn't figure it out, but Fang Yuxin finished it in just one night. Isn't this gap... a bit too big?

At this moment, Bai Zhengli looked at his "stupid son" who had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, and suddenly a worry flashed through his mind: "What if my stupid son can't keep my daughter-in-law who is too outstanding?"

Of course, he just had a short twitch and soon calmed down. Shui Rou and Qu Qianhe had already prepared breakfast at this time. While eating breakfast, Fang Yuxin told his family about his achievements and stunned them again. Qu Qianhe was the captain of the logistics team, so this matter was finally handed over to Qu Qianhe. Fang Yuxin directly handed the seeds in his hand to her and became a hands-off boss.

The seeds naturally shocked Qian Sen and Li Qingyun, but after the initial shock, they were only filled with joy. What they were most concerned about was the food problem. As for how Fang Yuxin did it, although they were curious, they were smart enough not to ask anything.

The seeds were planted very quickly. Qu Qianhe, Bai Zhengli and Fang Jintang all attached great importance to this matter. Qian Sen and Li Qingyun even wanted to watch over the planted seeds 24 hours a day and make observation reports.

However, there was still a lot of research waiting for them in the base, and the two simply did not have the time, so in the end, they had to find several assistants to write observation reports, while they continued to stay in the institute to study other topics.

Although Fang Yuyang had been in seclusion in the Qingmu Spiritual Mansion, Fang Yuxin and Bai Ye did not stay in the Hope Base all the time. Seeing that the crops they had planted were growing better and better, the two would occasionally go out. They did not dare to go too far, and hunted zombies in Long Province and nearby provinces and cities.

With these two humanoid killing weapons, the number of zombies in Long Province and nearby provinces and cities has been decreasing. Seeing that the number of zombies is decreasing, the people in each base are becoming more and more relaxed and are beginning to expand the scope of their bases.

The food crisis is not only a problem that plagues the Hope Base, but also other bases. In order to offset the negative impact of low crop yields, the base can only expand the farm as much as possible and clear a larger area of arable land.

Even though the number of zombies is decreasing, the mutant creatures are still making people miserable. Especially the mutant birds and mutant rats, they reproduce very quickly, and every time they go out, they are densely packed. The mutant birds can rush down from the sky and wreak havoc in the base. The mutant rats can dig holes and are also very difficult to deal with.

Not all mutant creatures are suitable to become contracted beasts. Except for Fang Yuxin and others who have a way, most other psychics will either kill the mutant creatures or be killed by them when they encounter them.

As the number of zombies decreased, the supernatural beings gradually turned their attention to mutants. Fortunately, even if mutants scratched people, they didn't have to worry about turning into zombies, which made people less stressed.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and the mutant crops planted on the farm gradually yielded a good harvest. Qian Sen had high hopes for these crops that had been induced to mutate by Fang Yuxin, and he specially arranged for people to stay on duty day and night to write observation reports, just to know as much as possible about the growth status of these crops.

The final result also surprised him. He didn't know how Fang Yuxin did it, but these crops not only met his expectations, but even exceeded them! Their growth period was shorter, their vitality was stronger, and their yield was higher!

Looking at the golden and heavy rice ears in the rice fields, he couldn't believe his eyes! The golden grains were densely dotted on the rice ears, and the grains were full and growing very well! Without looking at the final weighing data, he knew that the yield of these rice per mu was definitely more than 2,000 kilograms!

This kind of situation only appeared before the end of the world. He hadn't seen it for a long time! No! These rice plants are even better than the excellent rice plants before the end of the world! The yield should be even higher!

Not only rice, but also other crops that have been harvested these days have all achieved high yields!

Just at this moment, a rumor suddenly spread in the base, saying that there was not much food left in the base and a food crisis had occurred!

Although it is not known who spread the rumor, the other party's motive is quite malicious. Not only did they claim that there was a food crisis in the Hope Base, but they also maliciously said that Bai Zhengli, the leader of the base, only cared about the superpowers. In order for the superpowers to get enough food, the ordinary people in the base have been abandoned! At that time, they can only starve to death!

Once the rumor spread, it took less than half a day for countless versions to develop and spread throughout the base. A large number of ordinary people rushed into the commercial area and directly blocked the grain store, demanding to buy grain.

The base does not have much food in stock, so from the beginning, food was limited in supply and everyone was limited in purchase. This was done to ensure that no one would maliciously hoard food, so that everyone would have food to eat and the base could last longer.

However, after such rumors spread, those ordinary people who were in a state of panic were no longer willing to obey the "food purchase restriction order". If there had not been a powerful psychic guarding the grain store, who had used his supernatural powers to shock those ordinary people from the beginning, I'm afraid the entire grain store would have been looted!

Fang Yuxin arrived at the grain store very quickly. When she arrived, the streets in the commercial district were almost blocked by ordinary people, and were densely packed with people. Not only that, these people were furious and even planned to fight violently.

She saw that these people were in a bad mood, so she quickly took out her bamboo flute and played a Qingxin Mantra. The Qingxin Mantra is to calm people down and make them sober, so after the flute sounded, those angry people gradually calmed down.

Then, they subconsciously raised their heads and looked at Fang Yuxin standing on the roof of the grain store. They had naturally seen Fang Yuxin's abilities a long time ago. Apart from other things, she brought back a large number of mutant pine trees and planted them outside the protective wall of the base, adding a layer of protection to the base. Also, when the year was coming to an end, she brought back thousands of mutant beasts. These things had already spread throughout the base, and not only the superpowers knew about it, but even ordinary people knew about it!

These people worship, admire, and respect Fang Yuxin, and they are also more or less jealous of her. However, with the effective propaganda of Bai Zhengli and Fang Jintang, more people in the base regard Fang Yuxin as an "idol" or "goddess". Seeing her appear at this time, and even using the flute to calm them down, everyone can't help but feel a little dependent and expectant about her.

Although these ordinary people don’t know whether those rumors are true or not, most of them think that “it is better to believe it than not”. After all, once the rumors are true, they will most likely face death!

The price was too high! They couldn't afford it and didn't dare to gamble! At this moment, they looked at Fang Yuxin expectantly, hoping that she could give them a satisfactory answer.

Someone couldn't help but muster up the courage to ask loudly: "Ms. Fang, please tell us the truth, is there a food crisis in the base?"

Others followed suit: "Yes, please tell us!"

Fang Yuxin listened to the noisy voices below, raised his hand and made a "quiet" gesture, then said loudly: "Don't worry, I hope the base will never encounter a food crisis!"

The voice was not actually loud, but it was clearly imprinted in everyone's mind. Coupled with her calm and steady voice, they calmed down unconsciously and couldn't help but believe it.

At this moment, the communicator's notification sound suddenly rang. However, not all ordinary people have enough crystal cores to buy communicators for themselves. Only a few of these people can own communicators.

However, although they did not have a communicator, there was a large screen on the wall of the grain store, which could receive signals like a communicator and was usually used to broadcast some battle scenes or the speeches of the leaders. In short, it was installed for better propaganda and to stabilize the people's hearts.

In order to save power, it is usually not turned on, but when the communicator sounded, the store manager turned on the big screen himself. Then, Bai Zhengli's figure instantly appeared on the screen. The background seemed to be a meeting room. Bai Zhengli looked solemn, and the picture was obviously taken on purpose.

He said: "I have heard the rumors in the base, and I know that many people are worried about the truth of the rumors and the food crisis, but I want to tell you solemnly that those rumors are false! The so-called food crisis does not exist!"

Although he said this, it was clear that just this alone could not dispel everyone's concerns. While many people were whispering anxiously, Bai Zhengli continued to speak, saying, "I know that many people will not believe me, so here, I have a very important news to tell you! But before announcing this news, I think you can watch some videos first."

When he said this, the scene instantly switched and turned into a place that Fang Yuxin was very familiar with - the farm!

Everyone was excited watching the scenes on the screen! Many people even widened their eyes subconsciously, fearing that they had seen it wrong!

(End of this chapter)