Chapter 391 Food Crisis
Since the mutant pine trees appeared outside the base, the safety of the entire base has instantly increased by several levels. These mutant pine trees are really too tall. The protective wall of the base is only ten meters high, and these mutant pine trees are ninety meters higher than the protective wall!
If a group of zombies or mutant beasts attacks, before the psychics in the base can take action, as long as the zombies enter the warning distance of these mutant pine trees, these mutant pine trees will shoot out pine needles like chicken blood, pricking the zombies and mutant beasts like hedgehogs.
Not only the zombies and mutant beasts on the ground were treated the same way, but also the zombie birds and mutant birds in the sky. Once you get close to the warning distance of the mutant pine tree, you will end up being stabbed like a hedgehog.
After receiving Fang Yuxin's reply, some of the wood-type psychics began to try to contract the mutant pine trees. Unfortunately, these mutant pine trees initially received the wood-type essence sent by Fang Yuxin, and they looked down on the wood-type psychics input by these wood-type psychics and were extremely picky.
At first, although they accepted the goodwill of the wood-type mutants, they refused to agree to the contract and were quite temperamental. As a result, some people began to back out, but there were still more people who persisted. Gradually, these wood-type mutants also learned to be smart, knowing that sending timely assistance would make these mutant pine trees more favorable than adding icing on the cake. So every time a group of zombies or mutant beasts attacked, they would wait until the mutant pine trees were exhausted from using their ultimate moves, and then input wood-type abilities into them.
As time went by, these mutated pine trees gradually realized that Fang Yuxin would no longer be able to send wood-type essence to them, so the good-tempered mutated pine trees agreed to sign a contract with the wood-type mutant who they liked.
However, there are still many mutant pine trees with stubborn tempers or more cunning ones who have been holding on tightly and refusing to let go. But gradually, considering the huge contributions of these mutant pine trees, they all have a share of the crystal cores obtained in the end. However, this crystal core was not given directly to these mutant pine trees, but to the wood-type psychics who were responsible for inputting wood-type superpowers into them. It can be said that although not every mutant pine tree has a contract with the corresponding wood-type psychic, there are still wood-type psychics who continuously input wood-type superpowers into them.
This proposal was first made by Fang Yuxin. After all, these mutant pine trees have made great contributions to the protection of the base, and we cannot take their share of crystal cores. Moreover, although they will grow new pine needles in an instant after shooting out pine needles, the consumption is very large, so they must be compensated. She is a fourth-level wood-type ability user, and her words are not unreasonable, so no one else objects. Thus, a virtuous circle is gradually formed.
As time went by, more and more mutant pine trees agreed to the contract. However, the wood-type mutants in the base did not intend to take them with them, but instead let them stay outside the protective wall to guard the safety of the base. At the same time, their masters also earned a lot of crystal cores because of the mutant pine trees' frequent meritorious service.
Although Fang Yuxin's offer was quite high, just as Liu Zhenglin guessed, any wood-type psychic with some strength could afford it. The first person who successfully signed the contract was a level 3 wood-type psychic. After all, the higher the level of wood-type psychics, the more pure their powers are, and the more likely they are to be liked by the mutant pine trees. At the same time, these high-level wood-type psychics all had crystal cores, so they gave the crystal cores to Fang Yuxin after the contract was successful.
Those wood-type ability users who were of low level and did not have much savings were about to give up, but after Fang Yuxin made the compensation request, these people gradually discovered the benefits, persisted, and finally succeeded in the contract and handed over the crystal cores to Fang Yuxin.
As a result, Fang Yuxin made a fortune by selling these mutated pine trees.
As the days passed, she and Bai Ye went out several times, and finally found a lot of animals to raise in the farm without arousing suspicion from others, and developed the fishery and breeding industry of the Hope Corps. At the same time, after the food processing factories in the base were established, various instant foods that could be eaten immediately after opening the bag appeared one after another, which greatly reduced everyone's burden.
After all, fuel was limited, and many people could not even cook at home, so food became a problem. With Bai Zhengli's reform, the situation at the base gradually improved. Not only were factories, schools, hospitals, research institutes, and farms on track, but agriculture also gradually developed, harvesting a large amount of food.
As we entered late autumn, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the number of zombies and mutants outside began to decrease. No one knew where they had gone. Without their threat, the people in the base no longer had to go out on missions every day, and could take a break for a while.
Long Province is colder than other places. It starts snowing in late autumn. A large greenhouse has been built on the farm. The crops inside are blessed by the wood-type supernatural power, so there is no need to worry too much. The animals in the farm are also almost all alive and well.
After the fall, the Hope Team and other forces in the base cleaned up the city area near the base, and the entire base was expanded. Not only did everyone have more space to live in, but they also found a large number of thick quilts and cotton-padded jackets to distribute. The base was getting better and better, and it seemed like a paradise in the end times.
However, not all bases were as lucky as Hope Base. There were a total of six small bases near Hope Base, except for Peace Base, which surrendered early and followed Hope Base, the remaining five bases had grudges and refused to bow to Hope Base.
Although Bai Zhengli knew that the situation of these small bases was not ideal, he did not ask for help, so he remained silent. Until the Peace Base gradually developed with the support of the Hope Base, they still stubbornly refused to give in.
Fortunately, the temperature began to drop after the autumn, and the activities of zombies and mutant beasts were not as frequent as before. These small bases were barely preserved and were not breached by groups of zombies or mutant beasts.
These bases don't have to worry about food problems. Although the situation is much worse than that of Hope Base and Peace Base, it is slightly better than that of many other bases.
Some bases were even running out of food, and many people had to leave their original bases and migrate to other places under the threat of food shortage.
The situation at the Shangshi base where Fang Yuxin and his team had stayed was also not ideal. Shangshi was originally a city with a fairly developed economy and a high population density. So after the apocalypse, there were many zombies and survivors, but few places to live.
When Fang Yuxin and his companions left, the situation at the Shangshi base had not yet reached its worst point. After all, there was still a lot of stored food and other daily necessities, and there was no need to worry about drinking water, as it was completely provided by water-based psychics.
However, as time went by, there were hundreds of thousands of people in the commercial base, and even if there was more food, it would not be enough to feed them.
In a nice conference room, the three generals of the base and some other leaders of various forces who had a say and were quite powerful were all present. However, everyone looked very unhappy.
General Li and General Song, who were originally high-spirited, now looked very haggard. Even Qiu Hongsheng, who later successfully awakened his supernatural powers because of Yuan Jing, looked very heavy at this time. The same was true for the others present. Their situations were all very bad.
They were facing a rather serious problem at this time - there was not enough food!
The commercial city was quite developed before the end of the world, but it was not an agricultural city. Although everyone collected a lot of materials after the end of the world, they are now stretched to the limit. If it weren't for the farms in the base and the blessing of the wood-type mutants, they would have had some harvests. I'm afraid they would have run out of food long ago.
After all, General Song was the most senior and the oldest, so he asked, "What do you think? Why don't you tell us? The situation at the base is not optimistic right now. We have to think of something and we can't just sit there and wait for death."
As soon as he opened his mouth, someone suggested: "Why not go to other bases to buy food?"
As soon as this person said this, someone else said rudely: "Which base should we go to buy food? Which base has enough food now? Even if there is enough food, how can they sell it to us?"
Then new people became dissatisfied: "There is not enough food in the base. What else can we do except go to other bases to find a solution? Can we conjure up the food?"
Then, there was all kinds of noise.
Qiu Yiming sat next to Qiu Hongsheng, looking at everything in front of him with a gloomy face and cold eyes, saying nothing. Ever since Fang Yuxin left the Shangshi base, his face has never been better. He always has a gloomy face all day long, and even the way he looks at people is sinister, like a lonely but vicious wolf.
Qiu Hongsheng secretly looked at his expression and sighed in his heart. If he had known that things would develop to this point, he would never have let Zhou Fanghua do whatever he wanted!
Qiu Hongsheng couldn't understand why things had developed to this point. The Fang family was too impulsive! In the apocalypse, except for the safe base, there were zombies everywhere outside. How dangerous would it be for them to go out?
But he just thought about it in his heart at most, and didn't dare to mention anything about the Fang family, especially Fang Yuxin, in front of Qiu Yiming! Because of this matter, Qiu Yiming, who has always been filial, even had a big quarrel with Zhou Fanghua. Until now, the relationship between mother and son has not been eased. He didn't dare to take this risk!
He listened to the noise of others and felt even more annoyed. This kind of meeting had been held more than once, but unfortunately no one had been able to come up with a good solution. Every meeting was accompanied by various quarrels, which made people very annoyed.
He originally thought that he might as well just get by like this, but Qiu Yiming, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke up and said, "I'm going to the Bei City base. The situation there should be much better than here."
When Qiu Hongsheng suddenly heard him say this, his heart suddenly jumped!
(End of this chapter)
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