Chapter 143: City B Cleanup Completed
"Quick, let me see!"
Time quickly entered December. After being warm for a few days at the end of November, the weather quickly turned cold again.
Every passenger who got on the bus was wrapped tightly. Through the glass windows of the car, one could see the red fingers and faces of the people queuing outside to get on the bus.
Fortunately, along with the increasingly severe weather came the news that the zombies in the entire urban area of City B had been cleared. This news was like a shot of adrenaline injected into the pessimistic and exhausted people, and it immediately lifted their spirits!
City B is just a small city with a small urban area and a small population. Compared with other big cities, it is relatively easy to clean up.
After the train set up a station here, the cleaning speed was faster because there was sufficient manpower. Although the cleaning was slowed down for a while due to snow, fortunately it was completed by the end of the month.
While the rescue team was clearing the danger zone, the construction crew in City B had been working. Now, with the cleanup complete, the high walls and barbed wire fences had been constructed, enclosing the entire city. City B had officially become the nation's first safe city, a move that lifted everyone's spirits.
After the news was released, there was jubilation on the Internet.
"Great! This proves we're doing the right thing."
[People in City B no longer have to worry about zombies knocking on their doors when they go to bed at night! ]
【Maybe one day this world will really return to its former state! 】
[The effort was not in vain, woo woo woo]
[Right now, I'm cleaning up the zombies, and suddenly I feel more motivated. As long as we keep doing it, the zombies will be cleared out one day!]
[Zombies move very slowly in low temperatures, making this a good time to clean up our home. Everyone, work harder and hold on. Hope lies ahead!]
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The success of City B has given people hope and the possibility of returning to normal life in the future.
Good things come in pairs.
When people were still excited about the news of City B's success, when the excitement ignited by the news of City B's success had not yet dissipated in this cold winter, another good news came.
The train affairs working group announced that by the middle of this month at the latest, the train route will completely connect the country's northernmost city and southernmost island, realizing a route from south to north across the country.
After this news was released, everyone noticed that in the past six months, the train routes have spread across the north and south. The newest station has landed in the northernmost city, and when the next station lands on the island, this major north-south transportation artery will be completely formed.
[Great! Does this mean we can travel all over the country just by taking the train?]
[No more worries about transporting supplies this winter! ]
My brother and his family live and work on the island. I haven't heard from them in ages, and my family has been so worried. Now I can finally go look for them!
Now that the north-south artery is complete, what's next? When will plans for the east-west artery be made? And will plans for remote areas like ours be considered?
[Yeah, look at our western region. It's such a large area, but there's not even a single station. How can that be right...?]
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Jiang Qian lay on the sofa, looking through the comments online. Faced with these urgings, she didn't feel as anxious as before.
After handing over all the responsibilities on the train, she realized for the first time how comfortable it was to be a hands-off boss. Everything was planned, arranged, and done by someone else, and she only needed to act as a liaison in the middle.
Jiang Qian felt that the current situation was very good. In the future, she could try to hand over the tasks at hand to smart people, which would be much more effective than just wasting their brain cells on a bunch of idiots.
While Jiang Qian was thinking this, somewhere unknown to her, things happened as she wished.
In the planting staff's dormitory, someone was talking on a cell phone, while in the train working group meeting room on the other side of the phone, the person who received the call and heard the news jumped up from his chair.
"What did you say? Something that can purify soil and water?"
The young man exclaimed, ignoring the looks from the other people in the meeting room. He clenched the receiver tightly with his fingers, "Professor Nie, are you sure? Is there really such a thing? Are you kidding?"
"Of course not." On the other side of the phone, the gray-haired old professor flipped through the planting manual in his hand.
"I'm not sure yet, because we don't have the equipment and instruments to conduct more detailed analysis and inspection. But the planting manual they gave us mentioned this function, so I think it can't be fake!"
The young man was a little disappointed when he heard the first half of the sentence, but he became energetic again after hearing the second half.
As the train that had provided them with many chemicals before, he certainly didn't think the other party would make such a big joke in the planting manual. He was about to ask Professor Nie to continue paying attention and wanted to hang up the phone to discuss with others in the conference room when he heard Professor Nie's voice on the phone.
"...Besides that, I also saw a number of nutrient solutions that are very suitable for plant growth. They are several times more effective than the ones we are using now. Combined with other methods, based on my observations, we can estimate that the harvest time can be shortened by half..."
"Really? Are you serious?" The young man couldn't believe it.
During this period, in order to safely survive this longer and colder winter and ensure food supplies for the coming year, various safe bases have begun greenhouse planting programs. Young people have participated in many meetings and naturally learned a lot about agriculture.
For example, winter wheat, the most common staple food, takes seven to eight months to grow, starting from October of the previous year and harvested in May or June of the following year. If the growing period could be shortened by half, it would mean that they could obtain twice as much food in the same amount of time.
Thinking of the final amount, even the young man, a non-agricultural person, felt a little crazy, not to mention Professor Nie, an old professor who has devoted almost his entire life to the cause of agronomy!
But Professor Nie was obviously too excited and seemed very calm when facing the young people.
"Hurry up and report to the meeting to discuss whether we should cooperate with the train. Our planting plan has just started, so the sooner we can get it, the sooner we can use it! I'll continue to keep an eye on the train to see if there's anything else we can use."
Thinking of the seedlings in the planting boxes in the ecological carriage that had grown very strong in just a few days, Professor Nie felt more and more that it was right for him to come to this train.
Over the past few days, while teaching his team key planting techniques based on the planting manual, Professor Nie has also been constantly learning. These discoveries are undoubtedly due to his eager and attentive learning spirit. It was precisely because of these findings that Professor Nie decided to stay in the car and continue observing.
The young man didn't think that far ahead. He was already overwhelmed by the huge opportunity in front of him. "I'll go report now!"
After saying this, the young man immediately hung up the phone and told the colleagues in the conference room who had already noticed the situation. Then, the entire group meeting room was in an uproar.
That night, Professor Nie’s discovery was brought to the national conference in the evening. All the bases in the country that participated in the conference knew the news, and the agricultural experts who had been following the news were also delighted.
As a result, the next morning, Jiang Qian heard the system say that it had received cooperation invitations from major bases.
Although Jiang Qian felt it was sudden, she was prepared for it.
Regarding the fungus that can decompose Life No. 7, although it is a species unique to Interstellar, the cultivation conditions are not strict. Therefore, Jiang Qian asked the system to apply to Interstellar so that the strain and cultivation method can be directly shared with them.
However, since the nutrient solution and nutrient powder use some interstellar plants and substances, they cannot be produced on this planet even if the methods and production lines are given, so they can only be purchased and exchanged with crystals, and the amount that can be exchanged is not much.
However, the interstellar side also said that they could give them some seeds that had been genetically modified and selected before leaving the earth. Although they may not be as good as crops that use nutrient solution and nutrient soil, their maturity time is much shorter than their current crop seeds, and they are more capable of adapting to the environment.
Jiang Qian directly asked the system to send the answer that had been discussed and prepared long ago. The base had obviously been waiting and responded quickly.
Although we were a little disappointed not to get the nutrient solution and nutrient soil, it was an unexpected gain to get better seeds than the ones we have now, and the experts and professors were also very satisfied.
Not to mention that the most important thing in this transaction and the most important thing in their minds, the fungus that can decompose pathogenic bacteria and improve soil and water quality, was obtained so easily. It would be unreasonable to be dissatisfied.
Even when the news first came back, no one could believe it.
"Really? Do you really agree?"
"It's great that they can even give us bacterial strains and cultivation methods!"
"If this fungus is really that effective, can we return to our previous normal and stable lives?"
"Of course we can. We can clean up the zombies while continuing to purify the water and soil. Professor Nie mentioned earlier that the planting manual states that complete purification will take about fifty years. We may not see it yet, but the children will definitely see it in the future!"
"Yes, we must leave a clean planet for our children!"
"It's a pity that this fungus only targets soil and water sources. It would be even better if it could be used on the human body!" An old professor who has been engaged in epidemiology sighed when he thought about the long period of no progress in vaccine development.
But some are optimistic. "With this, we can improve the environment around us and have more time to research vaccines. Vaccines will be developed sooner or later!"
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All major bases were beaming with joy. In order to obtain the fungus strains, improved seeds, and nutrient solution as soon as possible, they immediately began preparing crystal nuclei under the arrangement of the National Rescue Command Center.
Although I don’t know how many seeds and nutrient solution I can exchange, greenhouses everywhere are already ready for sowing. I heard that nutrient solution and nutrient soil should be mixed into the planting soil in advance. The importance of seeds goes without saying. Now is a critical moment, so of course I should exchange as much as I can.
So, the next day, each base delivered the crystal cores they had collected to the vehicles one after another.
Because the train has been helping the rescue team transport supplies recently, the transactions these times were all held in the freight cars dedicated to the rescue team.
As the train passed and stopped at various stations on its return journey, the people at each base saw the seeds, nutrient solution and nutrient soil they had been longing for in the carriage where the crystals had been placed previously.
The system is very thorough. Not only has it prepared everything, but it has also thoughtfully prepared several planting manuals for each base.
After taking everything back, the base managers of each base looked through the planting manuals, all of them excited to do something big.
"Next, just do what's written here and get ready for next year!"
Jingmingshan, where the train affairs working group is located, also received a small box of bacterial strains and culture methods sent by the train.
The person in charge of the transaction braved the snow and wind to retrieve the items from the train and then made their way to the office building behind the Jingmingshan Visitor Center, which had been converted into a research institute. Several biological experts, who had learned of the news and arrived early, were already waiting there, eagerly awaiting their arrival.
Seeing someone coming in, these experts and scholars with half or completely white hair almost ran over quickly regardless of their age, their eyes full of eager light, "Quick, let me see!"
【Author’s words】
[Heart]
I said before that I have already written the middle part of this book and am finishing it, so I will put the next book forward first. After I finish writing this book, I should update the column "Mom, I am your aunt".
If you're interested, please bookmark this. It's a warm and everyday piece, without any intense conflicts. It's a sentimental piece, but the emotional descriptions aren't overwhelming. It was also inspired by my own feelings when I was feeling down, thinking about myself and my mom. Perhaps it was to heal myself.
This is the book I wrote to change my thoughts when I was in a bad mood. I have already written 160,000 words in the manuscript without realizing it... So I decided to put the night market stalls and fried skewers I wanted to write about first on the back burner...
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