Chapter 68
Looking at the bloody holes on his hands that looked like small pits, everyone was surprisingly panicked for a moment.
“Why is there acid rain?”
"The garden outside looks fine."
The man quickly explained, "The hotel garden is fine, but the outside is starting to be corroded by acid rain!"
A brave man looked outside and took a container to collect some rainwater. Unexpectedly, the plastic container dissolved as soon as it was put out.
"My car is still outside!"
Wen Bei heard someone shouting with a hint of collapse.
He followed and looked outside.
Unlike ordinary people, he could hear the little white flowers in the yard chirping and complaining.
"This rain stinks."
"It's so annoying. I don't like this rain."
Flowers that love water don't like the rain either.
Wen Bei closed the doors and windows of the hotel again to prevent anyone from being accidentally injured by the splashing rain.
This unexpected acid rain not only frightened humans, but also threatened some pollutants with weak self-protection capabilities.
Wen Bei kept looking outside the hotel and noticed that some filthy things that were rarely seen were running around in fear. His eyesight had become very good since he took a hot spring bath, and he could clearly see some details that he had not noticed before.
A glowing green frog ran out. Its skin would fluoresce when touched by a drop of water, so the whole frog was dazzling from time to time. Its legs stretched out in a straight line, and toxins would fall out of its sac with every step.
And after the toxins were washed away by the rain, no traces were left.
It was obviously in a panic and ran under a big tree to hide from the rain, but a rabbit with gray hair like steel needles appeared from under the tree roots.
This creature has a low ability to survive and does not show terrifying combat power after being contaminated, but it cannot withstand its high reproductive capacity.
When the pollution first started, there were not so many natural enemies, so they reproduced wildly. Until now, these gray rabbits can be seen from time to time in every corner of the polluted area.
Wen Bei watched helplessly as the rabbit appeared, bit the fluorescent frog to death, and tried to eat it, but it fell to the ground due to the toxin stored in its cysts, and purple foam came out of its mouth.
Finally, the tree where they had been living moved, dragging the two bodies under the fallen leaves and mud to become fertilizer.
The appearance of acid rain makes all those filthier things even more violent.
The same goes for people. Many people stood in the hall, looking out the window with serious expressions.
The severe cold has just passed, and the appearance of acid rain gives people a bad feeling.
If the rain continues for several days, global pollution levels will rise to a new level.
Fortunately, their worries did not come true. The rain suddenly stopped near dusk.
As unexpected as it came.
Some tourists took advantage of this gap to leave, while others worried that the acid rain would suddenly continue and chose to extend their stay in the hotel.
For this purpose, Wenbei has upgraded more than a dozen beds in its hourly rooms.
...
Three days have passed since the acid rain.
Human beings went from being in panic at the beginning to being calm later. It didn't rain again during these three days and everything seemed peaceful.
The temperature began to rise continuously.
Wen Bei has taken off his long-sleeved shirt and put on a clean and refreshing short-sleeved shirt. He has been staying in the back mountain of the back garden for the past three days.
He had just spent 10,000 crystals to unlock it.
The back mountain is full of trees, but they are just ordinary trees.
In the mall, you only need to spend crystals to exchange these ordinary trees for fruit trees with one click.
You can also plant other vegetables in the open space in the back mountain with just one click.
Wenbei spent three days planning and finally succeeded in dividing the back mountain into four parts.
Three sections were used to plant fruit trees, and he chose pear, apple, and peach trees.
These three kinds of fruits were extremely common before the end of the world but became extinct after the end of the world.
After one-click conversion, the fruit trees were all covered with heavy fruits, just like the pictures in the mall.
Wen Bei used his supernatural powers to make the fruit tree droop its branches, and a peach was automatically delivered to his hand and picked.
What could be more satisfying than owning a whole mountain of fruit trees in the apocalypse where food is scarce?
Since the fruit trees are planted directly, they do not go through the growth stage and the fruits on them are very clean.
Wen Bei casually rinsed the peach fuzz with water and took a big bite.
The rich juice instantly filled the entire mouth, with an extremely sweet aroma. The delicious flesh was crushed between the lips and teeth, and at the same time moistened the beautifully shaped lips.
The whole person looks like a sweet peach.
Qiu Ting stared at his mouth: "Is it delicious?"
The man had been accompanying her for walks in the back mountain these days. Wen Bei thought he wanted to eat too, so he picked another peach and handed it to him without hesitation.
Qiu Tin held his hand and suddenly lowered his head to move closer.
For a moment, Wen Bei almost thought that he was going to bite his own mouth, and his eyes were round like a frightened little animal.
The man paused for a moment, and finally just bit the other peach in his hand.
A slightly larger tooth mark covered the original bite mark on the peach.
Qiu Tingle let go of his hand and relaxed his brows: "It is indeed very sweet."
Wen Bei looked at his bitten peach and handed it to him with disgust, while he wanted to pick other fruits.
As soon as he approached an apple tree, Qiu Tin's ability [Pollution] diligently cut an apple and handed it to him.
In the end, the apple suffered the same fate as the peach.
Another person bit him.
Qiu Ting bit the apple flesh in his mouth with a crunching sound, and his smile was inexplicably gangster-like: "It's still very sweet."
Wen Bei couldn't stand it anymore and kicked him, and the man finally stopped.
...
The fourth part left on the back mountain is a piece of open space with the least trees found by Wenbei. It is planned to be used as a vegetable planting area.
Unlike fruit trees, vegetables cannot be planted with just one click, but require them to be cultivated for a period of time.
Wen Bei chose carrots, which the rabbit housekeeper liked, and also chose water spinach, which has a high yield and can be harvested in batches like leeks.
He bought a small robot from the mall. This robot came from a parallel world lit up by other technology trees.
It is small and round in size, with two robotic arms. One is in the shape of a small hoe for loosening the soil, and the other has four flexible fingers that can easily hold a watering can and pick food.
But it was too small and had to look up when standing in front of two humans.
The electronic screen above displayed a heart: "Thank you very much for your purchase."
It is actually a robot that is close to being scrapped. In the original world, it is already an obsolete model and no one will choose it anymore.
When being drawn into this world, even a somewhat stupid chip knows that this is something to be happy about.
Qiu Ding stared at the little piece of iron that was not even as tall as his knees: "Why did you choose him?"
It looks stupid no matter how you look at it.
[Pollution] As if it sensed its owner's disdain, it stretched out its little tail and poked the iron tube, causing it to tilt its body.
Wen Bei said confidently: "Of course it's because it's cheap."
This is absolutely true. Other high-tech planting robots are very expensive, even comparable to directly hiring an employee from another world for the hotel and signing a contract.
Only this little robot stayed alone in the discount area, and it was suddenly discounted by 34%.
More importantly, in this resource-scarce apocalypse, it relies neither on oil nor electricity, but on pure solar energy.
Just a few hours of exposure to the sun during the hottest hours of the day will provide enough power for a whole day. You can put it on standby at night and even reserve some power for cloudy days.
Wen Bei touched the little robot lovingly: "Come on, work hard, I believe in you."
He gave the little robot the power to adjust the temperature of the mountain, and also left it other seeds.
It contained seeds of eggplant, cucumber and cabbage.
The little robot seemed very happy that its new owner trusted it so much. The love heart on its screen began to beat. It carefully took the seeds and held them in its arms, as if they were everything it had.
Qiu Tinge patted its head and warned, "Change your expression."
The little robot, who was used to expressing joy with love, was stunned and replaced it with an ordinary smile.
Only then did Qiu Tinge withdraw his hand with satisfaction.
With the presence of the little robot, the work in the back mountain has become a lot easier.
Even though it was a small robot, Wen Bei still took out the contract and signed it as usual.
The little robot program was running like crazy. It didn't understand why the new owner had to sign a contract. After all, it was not a real employee. It was just an object in the mall. The moment it was bought, the program was modified to treat Wen Bei as the owner.
Although it does not understand human behavior, there is an additional program called happiness in the program.
Be happy when you are trusted.
This is its procedure.
The little robot signed its own number on the contract - A40051.
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The sun is shining brightly today, and the little robot quickly got to work. Its robotic arm can be extended.
When picking fruits, you just stand still under the tree, and a robotic arm can pick all the ripe fruits on the tree and place them in baskets.
Qiu Cheng: "What are you going to do with these fruits and vegetables?"
Fertilizers can be purchased in the mall, which can directly shorten the ripening period. In addition, the fruit trees in the back mountain are also under the control of the hotel's temperature control center, so the fruit trees in the back mountain can mature twelve times in the twelve months of the year.
The hotel has a big harvest every month.
It is not difficult for the hotel to sell all these fruits.
It is even conceivable that these fruits will be snapped up by polluters. If not controlled, some of the fruits sold outside may flow into the market at the base and be maliciously priced up, causing an apple to sell at a sky-high price.
Not everyone has the ability to leave the base, the safe zone, and the contaminated area to spend money in the hotel, but this is authentic fruit, which is more tempting than ordinary snacks sold outside.
There must be countless people in the base who are trying their best to buy it.
They even hired mercenaries to help with the purchase.
But the consequence of doing this is that these fruits will never be distributed to the poor.
Wen Bei has been to the slums of the base, where the death rate is very high, and not all of them die from starvation or disease.
They eat cheap food that is destined to face a higher risk of contamination.
They need these sweet, pollution-reducing fruits more than the rich people on the base.
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