box lunch

"Hello, this is your lettuce." Jiang Lin put the lettuce with roots next to it into Zhou Xiaoxiao's glass flowerpot. With a drop of purifier, the originally loose waste soil instantly turned into black soil.

Zhou Xiaoxiao looked at the lettuce and soil in her hands and was speechless with shock: "How magical."

Jiang Lin looked up and saw a girl who was a few years older than her. Due to long-term malnutrition, her condition was very similar to Jiang Lin who had been wandering outside alone before.

He had a thin body, pale lips, and rough palms that were slightly yellowed by the sand.

Jiang Lin saw the work ID on her chest, which read: Temporary worker in waste battery excavation - Zhou Xiaoxiao.

"Thank you, Director Jiang." Zhou Xiaoxiao held the lettuce carefully. She didn't expect that she could actually get a vegetable.

"I should thank you. Thank you for digging up those used batteries, which gave us these lettuces and soil." Jiang Lin looked at her with a smile.

"In the future, there will be more vegetables for you to grow together, so that everyone can eat some vegetables." The lettuce activity was originally just Jiang Lin's immature idea.

But after seeing the people who came today, Jiang Lin suddenly felt that perhaps he could deliver more easy-to-grow vegetables to every household.

Zhou Xiaoxiao was a little slow to react. She originally thought that digging up batteries was the First Base's way of purifying the environment, but she didn't expect it was also related to soil and plants.

What she did turned out to be a meaningful thing.

Zhou Xiaoxiao returned to her home holding the lettuce pot as if walking on the clouds. The neighbor lady had not come back yet. She should be digging for batteries now.

She looked at her lettuce pot with some reluctance, and carefully placed it in a place where it could get sunlight but would not be easily discovered.

I walked towards the place where the batteries were being dug. If I didn’t work today, I would go hungry.

When Zhou Xiaoxiao arrived at the workplace, the neighbor lady had already been working for two hours. Seeing Zhou Xiaoxiao coming, she greeted her warmly: "Come over here."

"How is it? Did you get your lettuce?" the aunt asked curiously. The staff around her listened attentively. They discussed for the whole morning whether this matter was true.

Zhou Xiaoxiao leaned close to the old lady's ear and said, "Really? I got a head of lettuce. It's grown well. Director Jiang cultivated it himself."

"Oh my God, you are not kidding me." The aunt's eyes widened.

"Why would I lie to you? Let's each eat one when we get home tonight." Zhou Xiaoxiao was digging the batteries out of the soil seriously. In the past, she thought this was boring and tedious, and had no meaning.

But today Jiang Lin said that it was because of these people who dug batteries that we had these vegetables and soil, and Zhou Xiaoxiao's motivation instantly increased.

The originally gray used batteries turned into green lettuces in her eyes.

"Xiaoxiao, is there really something wrong with the vegetable seeds and soil?" The worker next to her came over and looked at her hopefully.

"Really? Director Jiang has prepared a lot of things. As long as you go there, you will find everything." Zhou Xiaoxiao did not lie. From the look of Jiang Lin and the others, it was obvious that they had prepared enough things.

"She also said that she would develop more plants in the future, and lettuce is just the beginning." Zhou Xiaoxiao thought of that resolute face, and felt inexplicably proud when she talked about Jiang Lin.

"Really? Then I'll go now." The aunt flicked the soil on her hands. The soil and vegetable seeds that can be used to grow vegetables are much more attractive than digging batteries.

The workers next to them who had either eaten their current meal or had no idea where to start had put down their tools and prepared to queue up first.

The neighbor lady was also eager to try, and Zhou Xiaoxiao pulled her sleeve: "Don't worry, there are only seeds and soil now. It will be the same if you go there later."

"Oh, you are really old. Your brain is not as good as a young person like you." The aunt looked at Zhou Xiaoxiao with a smile.

In this apocalyptic world where everyone is on guard against each other and struggling to survive, a revolutionary friendship develops between the aunt and Zhou Xiaoxiao.

The time was slowly approaching noon. Maybe the group of people who actually received the gifts in the morning spread the word, so those who lined up only got free gifts without any discounts.

The line seemed to have no end in sight, and the security guards and patrolmen were trying their best to maintain order.

Fortunately, the security at the First Base was quite good, and no serious incidents had occurred. Xu Anan stood on tiptoe to peer at the endless line. "How long will it take to distribute these?"

Jiang Lin glanced at her and said, "Please help me find someone to take my place. I need to take a break." He had thought it would be an easy task, but it turned out to be so tiring.

Jiang Lin felt his hands were sore and his stomach was growling with hunger.

Xu Anan thought of a perfect candidate and ran towards the planting area: "Jiang Jianong, we need you."

Jiang Jianong sat on a rest bench in the planting area, his eyes squinted by the sunlight. He stayed in the planting area almost every day and never felt bored.

When Jiang Jianong heard Xu Anan calling him, he immediately stood up and followed her to the front.

"Now that you're here, sit down quickly. Just drop a drop of purifier into each flowerpot, and then bury three or four seeds." Jiang Jianong watched the planting of vegetables in the planting area every day and soon got the hang of it.

Even much faster than Jiang Lin.

Jiang Lin breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll go in and rest for a while. I'm exhausted."

The lunch that was brought to the table was a little cold. It consisted of two eggs, bread covered with seafood sauce, and a bowl of corn soup.

The bread was new, so it was very tiring to chew. Jiang Lin's cheeks ached every time she chewed it. She sighed, not knowing when she would be able to eat some delicious rice again.

Not long after, Xu Anan also came in. She collapsed on the sofa next to Jiang Lin: "I'm so tired, much more tired than I thought."

Xu Anan: "By the way, I also want a lettuce pet."

Jiang Lin was amused by her adjective. She took out a potted plant that had been prepared for her in advance: "Yours, Sheng Wei, Tang Xiaoyan, and Wen Yan's are all here."

Jiang Lin handed the lettuce to Xu Anan. No matter how many times she had come into contact with plants, green things always made people love them.

Xu Anan took the potted plants and looked at them from left to right: "I don't know if we can distribute them all today. It feels like everyone in the entire base is here." There were many experimenters helping outside. They planted the seeds first, and then handed them to Jiang Jianong to distribute to the people who came to pick them up.

"That should be possible. I need to think of an easier way. I want to hold it more often in the future." Jiang Lin chewed bread while thinking about the future.

The activity lasted until this evening, and everyone in the laboratory was rotating, but they were still exhausted.

The base commander seemed to have guessed that they would be very tired today, so he asked Wen Yan to bring a bunch of delicious food to reward everyone. Jiang Lin was among the steaming rice.

She received a heavy lunch box, which Wen Yan secretly stuffed into her ear: "I made it myself." Wen Yan whispered in her ear.

The hot breath made Jiang Lin's ears itchy. Wen Yan felt his cheeks getting a little hot after he said this, but his wheat-colored skin didn't seem to be noticeable.

Jiang Lin remembered the meal Wen Yan had cooked before and accepted it without hesitation. Wen Yan’s cooking was really delicious.

The lunch box was opened, revealing fried chicken fillet, seaweed crumbs, and braised prawns. Jiang Lin touched something soft with her chopsticks, and she picked it up to take a look.

It turned out to be white rice. She swallowed involuntarily and looked at Wen Yan in shock: "Where did you get it from? You didn't pick it secretly from the fields, did you?"

Wen Yan's expression was somewhat speechless. "Minister Cui said that the rice is almost grown. This is the first batch for the trial. If there are no problems, the cafeteria will gradually supply rice in the future."

Jiang Lin had already stuffed a big mouthful of rice into his mouth. The seaweed crumbs and chicken fillet mixed with the rice created a very delicious taste. Jiang Lin was so happy that his eyes narrowed.

It was so delicious that she gobbled up everything in the lunch box.

On the other side, Zhou Xiaoxiao and her neighbor aunt finished work after earning enough points for today's meals. Zhou Xiaoxiao accompanied the aunt to the research institute to get lettuce seeds and purified soil.

The two were exhausted when they got home. Zhou Xiaoxiao mysteriously brought the neighbor aunt to her house. On the floor in the corner, a green lettuce was quietly bathed in dim light.

Although I was mentally prepared, the neighbor lady was still surprised when she saw the lettuce.

Zhou Xiaoxiao carefully tore off the two outer leaves, handed one to the neighbor aunt, and took a bite first.

The fresh taste of lettuce instantly filled her mouth. Zhou Xiaoxiao and the neighbor aunt sat directly on the ground, savoring the fresh vegetables that they had not eaten for who knows how long in the dim light.

"I feel that life is getting better and better. Maybe one day, the end of the world will really come to an end." The aunt sighed and said that she would never be able to eat such food a few years ago.

Not to mention that everyone has soil and seeds to grow things.

Zhou Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement. They didn't know the specific situation of the end of the world, but they could keenly perceive the changes around them.

The first base has almost returned to normal life, and the southern base occupied by Shenmu is also operating in an orderly manner under the arrangement of Chen Guanghai.

Under the moonlight, Chen Guanghai was adjusting a new type of weapon, a pistol, which was from the batch of weapons they had robbed from the first base.

He opened the scope and aimed the red dot directly at Li Qi who was walking with Qu Mo outside the window.

His fingers kept stroking the place where the gun was fired. Li Qi looked up thoughtfully and saw the black muzzle of a gun by the window in the distance.

She sneered, and a high-speed water column broke through the window, splashing glass fragments and water all over Chen Guanghai's face.

"Damn it." Chen Guanghai wiped his face, which was slightly scratched by the broken glass.

He fired a few shots at Li Qi as a warning.

Shenmu: "That's enough, both of you, if you really have time, go and carry out the mission for me. I need more land purification liquid."

“Whoever can pass it to me first will have more power.”