◎Happy 77th Day: Exclusive Adventure in the Doomsday Dungeon◎
Speaking of understanding, Jiang Muyun definitely understood.
She and Chu Buwen had experienced similar collapses more than once.
So the next day everyone pretended nothing had happened, and Jiang Muyun also cooperated and didn't mention the movie again.
The accumulated snow turned directly into ice when it rained, and the temperature was always hovering above zero, even though everyone knew it was definitely above zero. However, it still felt so cold that even breathing would freeze your nose.
After a whole winter, the temperature finally rises, but this is the most inconvenient time to go out.
Before these large ice blocks melted, when they stepped on them, it was as if a pair of wings with their own thoughts had grown under their feet, and they had no control over where they would float to.
Zhao Jiahao seemed to have no creative bottleneck. Trapped at home and unable to go out, he simply buried his head in banging for two days and made a pair of simple ice skates.
Although it looks weird, it is still smooth going on the ice.
The only problem was that everyone present had only fallen a few times on an indoor ice rink, and not a single one of them could stand on the ice and skate around completely.
The consequence of Zhao Jiahao's bravery in rushing onto the ice was that he couldn't get down.
The ice was wet and slippery now. Zhao Jiahao had difficulty standing up after he fell down. The only things he could use to gain leverage were small tree branches that were not even as thick as his fingers.
Everyone shovels snow on the road every day, so there is no ice now. A group of wicked friends came to watch Zhao Jiahao go on the ice. They all stood on the unfrozen road and laughed happily. No one even tried to save him.
Are you kidding? Whoever steps onto the ice will be in trouble. How can they get on the ice to rescue people?
Finally, Li Anxuan kindly threw a rope to his old comrade and dragged him back from the middle of the ice, breaking countless advanced branches that had bravely grown in the winter along the way.
The snow track they had originally groomed has now become a natural slide. Once you step on it, you can reach the foot of the mountain within ten seconds, and you may even be able to slide all the way out from the foot of the mountain for another 200 meters.
The provider of this data is Wu Xingyue. She struggled for two hours at the foot of the mountain before she successfully paddled to the side of the path leading up the mountain.
During these two hours, Wang Qingqing contributed at least one-third of the credit.
At that time, Wu Xingyue slipped too far away, and Jiang Muyun and others couldn't reach her even if they wanted to throw a rope to save her. They could only watch her struggling alone on the ice, and then give her spiritual encouragement and support.
Wang Qingqing was reluctant to let her good sister fight alone, so when Wu Xingyue finally approached the foot of the mountain, she shouted "Wuhu" and slid down the slope, then knocked Wu Xingyue back a long way like a curling stone.
At that time, Wu Xingyue pressed Wang Qingqing's head and forced her to carry her up the mountain to apologize.
They were so noisy every day that it made no difference whether they brought raincoats and umbrellas or not. Everyone took out the isatis root and ginger tea in their hands and drank a cup every day as a bedtime drink. Surprisingly, they never caught a cold again.
The weather was too cold before, and the two chickens in Jiang Muyun's family were so frozen that they stopped laying eggs.
Now that the temperature has risen, they start to go out and have fun.
Jiang Muyun saw that there were abundant plant species outside and guessed that various insects would soon go out and move around, so he simply cut off the food supply for the two of them and let them fend for themselves in the mountains day by day.
Unexpectedly, these two cubs, who no longer have food and clothing to support their parents, are living a better and better life day by day. Their feathers look shiny and smooth, and the eggs they lay make Dabai so greedy that he runs to Jiang Muyun every day, and no one can stop him.
Seeing that Dabai was eating so happily, Jiang Muyun couldn't help but share half of it with Dabai.
As a result, the fishy smell made her head hurt, and even drinking three glasses of lemonade couldn't suppress it.
But the taste unexpectedly won Wang Qingqing's praise.
According to Wang Qingqing, she could taste the authentic aroma of greenfin mullet from the egg.
Out of curiosity, everyone persuaded Jiang Muyun to save eggs for a few days, and then held an egg banquet, including fried, steamed and boiled eggs.
After taking a bite, everyone, except Wang Qingqing and Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen who had a premonition and didn't touch their chopsticks at all, was in a state of covering their mouths, wanting to spit but not spitting.
Chu Buwen pretended to write down the recipe with a serious face: "It smells like green fish, right? I've got that in mind. Next time I make braised eggs, I'll add something to remove the fishy smell."
What pulled them out of all their self-destructive activities was the growth of a new batch of sweet potatoes and potatoes.
After a long winter, perhaps due to insufficient sunlight, the growth rate of this batch of sweet potatoes and potatoes was pitifully slow compared to normal. The yield of the newly grown batch was not high, and the size of the fruits also looked malnourished.
But the fact that it can still grow after such a long time without sunlight is a testament to its strong vitality.
Moreover, they made up for the lack of quality with quantity, so they saved all the potatoes they harvested previously for seeds, and also tried to keep as many sweet potato vines as possible for seedlings. Now is the time to see the results and boast about their foresight.
They laid a large piece of curtain cloth in the middle of the cave, and Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan were responsible for carrying containers for planting potatoes and sweet potatoes back and forth.
Jiang Muyun, along with Wang Qingqing and three others, used engineering shovels to dig up the fruits of their labor. They piled the dug potatoes and sweet potatoes on the curtain cloth, and then the remaining three people picked them up and carefully brushed off the precious soil on them.
As the abnormal growth of plants outside became more and more obvious, they became more and more aware of the importance of soil.
After this heavy snow melts, there's a chance of flooding again, and finding uncontaminated soil will become exponentially more difficult. Therefore, every piece of soil in their hands is a treasure, and absolutely no waste is allowed.
Small potatoes the size of ping-pong balls and long, thin sweet potatoes were cleaned and placed in pre-woven netting bags. Chu Buwen lifted two large bags of potatoes and weighed them, roughly estimating that they weighed over 200 kilograms. The sweet potatoes were fewer in number, but each one was larger, still weighing around 200 kilograms.
This is because the previous climate affected the growth of these light-loving crops, which were too small.
"If we plant all the potatoes this time..." Wang Qingqing made a rough estimate: "Wouldn't that mean food freedom?"
Sweet potato seedlings are primarily grown from sweet potato vines, so all harvested sweet potatoes can be stored for food. Potato seedlings are best grown from seed potatoes, so it's unclear how many of the harvested potatoes are actually edible.
In particular, these potatoes are too small and cannot be cut into pieces for the sake of the quality of the new crop, so they will most likely need to be propagated from whole potatoes.
But even so, it couldn't stop everyone's excitement.
Everyone understands the principle of giving and taking. The food they have can last for a while, so of course they want to plant as much as possible at this time.
Zhou Ying looked at a small potato from side to side and said, "In theory, this is correct, but we don't have enough soil or land."
In order to reduce the gap between crop harvests, Zhou Ying has been using sweet potato vines to grow seedlings and plant them, trying to stagger their maturity periods so that they can harvest a small batch every few days and have a big harvest every few months.
These small batches of sweet potatoes harvested every now and then are used as emergency reserve food to avoid the dilemma of running out of food and having nothing to use in case of an emergency.
If nothing unexpected happens, they will wait for the next batch to be harvested and then eat the previous batch. They can replace the sweet potatoes from time to time without any special methods to preserve them, and can enrich their own diet at the same time.
In this way, they added a pot every now and then, and the soil and containers they had stored before were slowly consumed.
Containers suitable for growing root vegetables also need to be large enough, use more soil, and can't be planted too densely. The remaining containers and soil they have are enough to squeeze together and plant 50 or 60 potatoes at most.
Zhou Ying sighed: "It would be nice if we could plant it in the ground."
If they could grow crops on the ground, they would definitely open up a few acres of land on the mountain and plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are staple foods.
As long as the temperature is not extreme every day and there are three or four months of normal time, their harvest will be several times higher than it is now.
Unfortunately, this is just talk. If they hadn't insisted on growing crops in pots, which made it convenient to move the crops around and manually improve their growing environment, they wouldn't have been able to harvest what they have today.
Because even if there are three or four months when the temperature is normal, the weather may not be normal.
The best proof of this is the rain that has never stopped since the temperature started to rise.
First there was high temperature and severe drought, then acid rain pollution, followed by extreme cold and blizzards, and then rain for several months. Even potatoes that can be grown on Mars may not be able to survive in such an environment.
It is somewhat offensive to still call a crop that can adapt to this environment and survive by its original name, potato.
Jiang Muyun would like to respectfully call the other party Bibi Multi-Flavor Beans Blue Star Special Edition, the kind that only has snot flavor.
The wild potatoes that Jiang Muyun dug in his previous life tasted like this once they were cooked. Even the soft and sticky texture perfectly matched its flavor.
Whether it is steamed, boiled or baked, once it is cooked it will be soft and sticky with a strange stench, the kind that will make you vomit yesterday's meal after eating it.
As for what it would look like when fried, Jiang Muyun didn’t know because she didn’t have the conditions to cook in her previous life.
Wild sweet potatoes and potatoes are almost the same in distress, except that sweet potatoes are a little sweeter than potatoes.
It is said that because sweet potatoes have a bit of toughness, the taste is more realistic.
However, only Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen knew about this, but the others had never seen potatoes and sweet potatoes grown on the ground.
With the idea of trying without losing out, Qin Shiwen actively suggested: "How about we dig up some ordinary soil and plant it for a season first?"
Just like when they tried to use the ash from burning firewood that had been exposed to acid rain as fertilizer, they picked out a bunch of sweet potatoes to fertilize it.
The experimental results were quite good, so they subsequently used this fertilizer when planting other sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes harvested today were able to reach this size, perhaps thanks to the fertilizer.
It doesn’t matter if the planting fails. It’s just one pot and they can afford the loss for the time being.
While their food reserves can still hold up, they should seize the time to try and make mistakes!
In addition to potatoes and sweet potatoes, other vegetables have also matured many times during this period.
In winter, you can cook crops like spinach and freeze them so that they can be dried when the sun comes out.
But now winter is over and the sun has not come out yet. In order not to waste food, they can only eat the vegetables before the temperature rises completely.
The happy life of eating vegetables every day has soothed everyone's mood to a certain extent.
As the ice gradually melted, the plants that had been buried in the snow for a winter officially appeared, and their small hill was completely transformed with the rebirth of the plants.
Jiang Muyun once called the plants with branches sticking out at the foot of the mountain "saplings". That was because they were buried under a thick layer of snow, and the parts that could poke out of the snow did look like seedlings.
But when the snow layer with a thickness of more than two meters gradually melted, the full appearance of the "saplings" was already quite amazing.
The saying that spring rain nourishes all things is still true today.
The trees, which were originally only about two meters tall, have grown quite strong after the spring rain melted away the ice, and are beginning to take on the appearance of a forest.
Jiang Muyun estimated that the main trunks of these trees were more than three meters high and as thick as an adult's thigh. It was impossible to tell that they were saplings less than a year old.
All kinds of low plants grew on the mountain one after another. Even though Dabai hated rainy days, Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen had to take it out to patrol the mountain with an umbrella.
Dabai squatted on Xiaobai's head with a wronged look on his face. Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen took turns holding an umbrella for it. It only needed to meow twice when it encountered an unpleasant smell, and Xiaobai would find out the locations of all the plants with special smells nearby and take Dabai to smell them one by one.
Dabai is uniquely skilled at identifying poisonous plants.
Xiaobai has a more sensitive sense of smell, but perhaps because of its larger size, some plants that are not extremely toxic cannot affect it, so it cannot accurately distinguish which plants are harmful.
On the contrary, the Big White, which was still a small coal ball after being raised for several years, showed a straight upward trend in sensitivity in this area after the plants on the mountain began to grow wildly.
Many of the plants pulled out by Dabai were so confusing that Qin Shiwu and Zhou Ying couldn't understand them even after looking at them for a long time.
But since they've all been found, they're probably poisonous. Even if you can't figure out their toxicity right away, you can still record them.
Qin Shiwu and Zhou Ying's Chinese medicine picture album has basically been completed and is now being circulated among several people.
After the mountain patrol began, Qin Shiwu and Zhou Ying began to compile picture albums for the plants that had been discovered.
Some plants, even if mutated, still retained their original characteristics, so Qin Shiwu would first record their medicinal properties based on their pre-mutation properties. For some plants he couldn't identify, he would use Xiaobai's reactions to determine whether they were extremely toxic and make a simple record.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen recognized quite a few mutant species that appeared after the end of the world. Some of them were quite toxic, such as shrubs that would make people lose their sense of taste if they smelled them for a long time. They secretly noted down the places where they grew.
It is very difficult to eradicate this plant with extremely strong vitality. It will most likely continue to grow after being pulled out and left alone for a few days.
Write down where they grow so you can find them when you need them.
Of course, it is best to have no need at all.
Many people call this shrub that causes loss of taste the satiety tree.
Because after holding it and smelling it for half an hour, I can eat anything, even if it smells like snot, I don’t think it’s a big deal.
After the end of the world, many people will plant one at home and use it to satisfy their taste buds when they can’t bear it anymore.
After searching for poisonous plants, the remaining newly grown safe plants have to be taken in waves to the cornerstones of the breeding industry for selection.
Now they don't have to worry about the chickens, but the two rabbits' appetites are getting bigger and bigger. They eat five or six kilograms of grass every day. It looks like a big, fluffy basket, and I don't know how they fit it into their stomachs.
Zhou Ying said that these two rabbits now made her dream back to her childhood.
She had the same feeling when she went up the mountain to collect grass and feed the pigs as a child.
Now that the temperature has risen, they feel it is inconvenient to always run to the big cave, so they want to find another nest for the rabbits.
But they didn't expect that the two rabbits refused to move no matter what they said. If they showed any signs of taking them away, they would immediately become angry.
One of them reacted extremely violently when being dragged by the rope. Seeing that it could not withstand the force on its feet, it simply rushed in the direction of the dragging and almost kicked Li Anxuan's arm out of place.
Li Anxuan hissed softly and let go of the rope. He watched the rabbit, which was definitely a giant among its kind, scurry back to its den. He wondered, "They weren't like this last time I took them to dig a hole. Why are they so irritable now?"
Jiang Muyun thought about the rabbits' sudden increase in appetite and their intense reaction just now, and made a bold hypothesis: "Could the female rabbit be pregnant?"
"The rabbit's appetite suddenly increased, its courage decreased and it refused to move, and its temper became bad and aggressive. It is indeed possible that it is pregnant!" After hearing what Jiang Muyun said, Zhou Ying checked it with the common reactions of pregnancy in some domestic animals, and instantly felt that these abnormal behaviors of the rabbit could be explained.
Zhao Jiahao asked, "Should we deliver the baby? I've heard rabbits eat their own babies. These two... these rabbit cubs won't survive more than three days after they're born, right?"
Everyone remembered the pile of bloody ice and hair in the ice pit when they were catching rabbits.
Zheng Xiang signaled Zhao Jiahao to release the male rabbits as well: "They brought their cubs with them when they went to the reservoir to escape the cold, so under normal circumstances they shouldn't use the cubs as food."
Jiang Muyun poured out all the information he had learned about raising rabbits in his previous life. "They probably only eat their own cubs in special circumstances, such as when they are frightened, hungry, or in a harsh environment and need food to replenish their energy."
"A rabbit's gestation period is generally one month, and the young rabbits also take about a month to leave the nest." Chu Buwen's statement was much more certain: "Wild rabbits are very tenacious. We have no experience in caring for young rabbits. Instead of intervening, it's better to let them grow on their own. For the next two months, prepare more fodder and come here less often to avoid scaring the adult rabbits. It should be fine."
"It's a good opportunity to build a rabbit hive now, and move the little rabbits there when they leave the hive." Jiang Muyun added.
As far as she knew, wild rabbits would only protect their young until they reached adulthood.
Once the cubs reach adulthood, both parents and children will spontaneously start to ignore all relatives.
Instead of waiting for the bunnies to grow up after six months and then separating them at the risk of having their ribs broken by a kick from the bunnies, it is better to help them live independently early.
Zhou Ying peeked into the rabbit hole from a distance and said, "Judging from how much she eats, the female rabbit has been pregnant for almost a week, right?"
Jiang Muyun calculated with his fingers: "If this rabbit's appetite is really due to pregnancy, then the time is about the same."
Zhao Jiahao was curious: "What if she's not pregnant?"
Jiang Muyun: "How about we go and check it out?"
Zhao Jiahao asked, "How do you confirm it?"
Chu Buwen smiled and said, "Find a warrior to touch the belly of the female rabbit."
Zhao Jiahao immediately touched Li Anxuan's arm, which was almost broken by the kick, with pity, and said with a loving face: "You can't force pregnancy. Even if the child just suddenly has a big appetite, we can feed him. Let's just let nature take its course and don't confirm it."
Li Anxuan pulled his hand away: "The way you look at my arm now makes me think it's my arm that's pregnant."
Jiang Muyun didn't know why, but after hearing this, a 5'9" tall, 180-pound man appeared in her mind, stroking the bulging muscles on his arm and saying, "My arm is pregnant."
If the strong man's face was replaced with Li Anxuan's...
It’s over, I’m not clean anymore, Jiang Muyun thought in despair.
Qin Shiwu was also frightened by this bizarre mental pollution: "If you had said this while touching your belly, the effect wouldn't be so terrifying."
Li Anxuan smiled. "I'm going to pick a lucky person on the spot to go with me to check the female rabbit's physical condition. By the way, I'll also check whether the bulge on my arm is muscle or a human cub. To be honest, this problem has been bothering me for a long time. Is there anyone kind enough to help me?"
Everyone scattered like birds and beasts in an instant.
This drizzle of spring rain lasted for more than half a month. The temperature on the day the rain stopped was high enough for Jiang Muyun to wear only light clothes when going out.
When Jiang Muyun opened the door and found that the rain had stopped, his first reaction was happiness.
But look at the gray sky again.
Jiang Muyun sighed.
I don't want to watch another movie.
She had suffered enough mental pollution recently and couldn't stand it again.
Jiang Muyun hugged Xiaobai and rubbed him for a while: "What should I do, my Bai? Let's find a way to have fun!"
It was the season of change, and Xiaobai was beginning to suffer from hair loss again. Now, after being rubbed by Jiang Muyun, his already scarce hair was even worse.
Xiaobai had not yet thought about things as far ahead as summer. It only knew that its beautiful and soft fur was leaving it again. It was so sad that it wanted to imitate Dabai and hit Jiang Muyun with a claw. It didn't want to pay any attention to her at all.
Jiang Muyun took the opportunity of howling to rub Xiaobai enough, then turned around and took Xiaobai for a stroll as if nothing had happened, as if the previous cruel methods had never happened.
The rain was not heavy, but it lasted for a long time. A lot of snow melted, but the ground was just wet without any accumulation of water.
It should be due to the previous severe drought.
Jiang Muyun figured that the firewood at home was almost gone, and the liquefied gas and other things that they had fished out from underwater were also probably almost used up. It was time to go down the mountain and scrape the land for survival.
As for the trees on the mountain, Jiang Muyun still wants to wait for them to shine and give off heat when the next winter comes, so it is better to let them grow first.
Besides, there is no sun now, so even if we cut down the trees, we can’t use them as firewood. We can’t smoke ourselves.
After being a wanderer for ten years, Jiang Muyun began to think about how to live at home.
Searching for supplies should be able to divert a large part of the attention. It's just that everyone is probably quite irritable right now, and there will probably be conflicts if we meet people outside.
It would be better for them to find other fun things to do and calm down before going out.
Jiang Muyun was not afraid of conflict with others, she just didn't want to fight with others under such circumstances.
The easiest way to vent your emotions now is to go to the city to search for supplies and kill a few people to vent your anger.
The moment the knife is raised and chopped, the warm human blood will soothe all the troubles in the heart. The irritability and anger that have been suppressed for a whole winter will also dissipate as the sharp weapon breaks through the resistance and penetrates the flesh with a charming touch.
This way of relieving emotions is quick, efficient, and allows you to take over the other person's supplies at the same time, killing two birds with one stone. It's easy to get addicted.
Jiang Muyun has killed many people, so many that she can't even remember them all, but she still dares to pat her chest and guarantee that she is not a good person, but at least she is a human being.
Because she always remembered that whether she was killing or hunting, it was all for survival, not for fun.
When a person is addicted to the pleasure of killing, the human part of his body is already fading.
But Jiang Muyun had personally experienced how tempting this kind of happiness that was readily available was.
Even she herself couldn't guarantee that if her memory were to go back ten years, she would be able to once again maintain the dignity that she deserved as a rational human being.
Not to mention ten years ago, wasn't she still smashing ice sculptures crazily on the mountain three months ago?
Given their mood at the time, if someone really had no eyes to care about them and bumped into them, the things they smashed might have turned from ice sculptures into human heads.
Jiang Muyun took Xiaobai for a stroll in the mountains. During the walk, they didn't meet anyone except Chu Buwen. It seemed that everyone was probably staying at home and feeling depressed.
Jiang Muyun, who was thinking about where to find some fun to vent his emotions, saw Dabai squatting on Chu Buwen's shoulder, and a bad idea suddenly came to his mind.
After the rain, in the jungle, it is humid and warm. This new spring is a paradise for the reproduction and growth of various mushrooms. It is also the beginning of mushrooms replacing carbohydrates on the human table.
At the current temperature, it will only take a day or two for the mountain to be filled with all kinds of mushrooms, some edible, some inedible, some that dance after being eaten, and some with little dancing people.
Isn't the fun here?
An exclusive adventure activity that will be available on the server only after the Blue Star Doomsday dungeon is opened: picking wild mushrooms and eating them.
The first half of the sentence is about activity, and the second half is about adventure.
If you try it before the apocalypse opens, you might get a multi-day trip to the hospital and the same level of adventure as a mixed doubles package for parents.
After the Doomsday dungeon is opened, any random attempts will also risk being logged out of the game.
But now, aren’t there two players on the mountain who have come back with a guide to redo the game?
It's time for some big, wholesome adventures.
The next morning, Jiang Muyun took the poison testing instrument Dabai, its owner Chu Buwen, and the mascot Xiaobai, and went door to door knocking on doors and calling for help.
Wake up, magic potions are on sale.
Jiang Muyun thoughtfully brought two boiled eggs for today's protagonist Dabai as breakfast.
Jiang Muyun whispered softly, "My dear, eat more. You will have a lot of work to do soon."
After all, Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen both seemed a bit clueless before, so there was no reason for them to suddenly become experts in identifying mushroom species. It couldn't be said that they were dreaming about identifying mushrooms at night.
The tool cat finished its breakfast gracefully and nodded to Jiang Muyun reservedly.
The author has something to say:
Theme of this chapter: As long as the world has not ended, do not pick wild mushrooms to eat by yourself. Even if the world does end, you must be prepared to leave the earth at any time before picking wild mushrooms to eat.
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