The first rain
"Jiang Lin, tell your friends not to come and provoke me." Shenmu's voice reached Jiang Lin's ears in exasperation. She frowned in confusion, and suddenly remembered what she and Sheng Wei said when they left. She really organized people to go. Jiang Lin wanted to laugh.
"What's wrong?" Wen Yan looked at her.
"Nothing." Jiang Lin waved his hand. "Sheng Wei brought a lot of people to visit the sacred tree."
"Minister Jiang, add one more thing here." The construction department looked at the blueprint and called Jiang Lin over to add something. Jiang Lin glanced at Wen Yan and returned to the construction site.
With Jiang Lin as a construction machine, the people in the construction department were like being injected with chicken blood, and even began to improve the design drawings on site.
They didn't care whether the ground was dirty or not. They laid a board and started to modify the design on the ground.
Jiang Lin was also very sad about this project, because if the farm developed, she would have more delicious food. The construction department and she rushed to work together, and the prototype of the farm was completed in one afternoon.
The internal structural design is quite complicated, so Cui Yawen and her team decided to wait until tomorrow to continue working on it.
Jiang Lin and Wen Yan said goodbye to the people from the Construction Department. They would stay here to improve the interior design based on the actual building.
"Aren't you busy lately?" Jiang Lin looked at Wen Yan who had been with her all day and was a little confused. Why did it seem like he had nothing to do now?
"There are still some." Wen Yan went to the warehouse and brought out many cherry tree seedlings, planting them along the roadside. He kept the largest one and planned to transplant it to Jiang Lin's yard.
"Do you want a cherry tree?" Wen Yan looked at her and said.
"It would be better to plant peach trees so that we can have peaches to eat." Jiang Lin thought about it and she was not very interested in cherry blossoms.
Wen Yan nodded thoughtfully. Then he had to change to a beautiful peach tree. After sending a message to Wen Tingjun, he went straight into the human civilization library.
Wen Yan found the location of the peach tree on the large recording screen and slowly walked over.
The blue light shone on him, a bit like a dream. The entire civilization library was like a huge freezer, freezing the formerly prosperous ecology.
He took out the most beautiful tree, which was almost as tall as him, and the roots were still covered with soil.
"What are you doing with the tree?" Wen Tingjun was a little confused when he saw Wen Yan's actions on the surveillance camera. He had never heard that the base was going to plant an orchard.
"Plant it in Jiang Lin's yard." Wen Yan's concise answer made Wen Tingjun choke.
"But speaking of orchards, ask Jiang Lin if he is willing to take the people from the planting department to plant fruit trees on the barren mountain." There is a small hill not far from the base. Now that it has been purified, Wen Tingjun thinks planting fruit trees is a good choice.
"Wait a few days, she's busy with the farm." Wen Yan didn't agree and hung up the phone.
With a smile on his face, he carried the tree to the gate of Jiang Lin's house.
Jiang Lin had just finished dinner when he saw the surveillance camera at the door. Wen Yan was standing by the door holding a tree almost as tall as him, preparing to ring the doorbell.
Jiang Lin walked out directly: "What did you move?"
"Peach Tree, don't you want to eat peaches? I picked the best one from the warehouse." Jiang Lin opened the door and helped Wen Yan move the peach tree in.
It turned out that he asked her in the afternoon if she liked cherry trees because he wanted to plant trees in her yard.
Wen Yan even prepared a shovel. He dug a deep hole in the ground and placed the peach tree in it. Jiang Lin watched her work from the side.
The fruit trees planted before are growing well. I wonder if they will bear fruit after winter is over.
As soon as the peach tree was planted, Jiang Lin poured a bottle of nutrient solution into it, hoping that it would grow quickly. "What kind of peaches will it bear?"
"It looks like a peach, right?" Wen Yan didn't look closely.
The peach tree is still bare and doesn't look very pretty in the bare yard, but the two of them stood under the tree and admired it for a long time.
Until it started to rain.
"It's raining now. I thought it would snow next." It snows quite frequently this winter.
"I'll go back first." It was getting late, and Wen Yan walked towards the door.
"Thank you for the tree." Jiang Lin waved at him.
Wen Yan smiled and turned back to watch her walk back into the room. The raindrops fell on his body, feeling cool.
The sacred tree curled up in the soil stretched out its branches and madly absorbed the raindrops falling from the sky. Although the rain from nature now contains polluted impurities, this natural rain is its best tonic.
The sacred tree emerged from the earth and grew wildly, suddenly reaching the height of a two-story building. Dark green leaves sprouted, and the tree was covered with thorny vines.
There was a muffled thunder in the sky, and heavy rain fell on the sacred tree.
Jiang Lin seemed to sense something and suddenly woke up from the bed. It was raining heavily outside and her windows were covered with dense traces of rain.
She got up from the bed and looked at the dark night sky and heavy rain outside, and had a bad feeling in her heart.
This rain gave the sacred tree a lot of strength, and its roots grew again. Unseen by anyone, they slowly spread across the entire first base underground, all the way to the barren mountain.
Jiang Lin watched for a while, but the rain didn't stop. The wind started to blow outside, blowing the rain onto the window, making crackling sounds.
"110, is spring coming?" Late at night, only the 110 system was still operating.
"Yes, the season for plants to grow." 110 answered her question in the quiet night.
Jiang Lin nodded, looked at the heavy rain outside the window, and slowly fell asleep.
The next morning, they were woken up by an emergency notice. This morning, the patrol team discovered that the originally small clone of the sacred tree suddenly became huge.
The patrol team did not dare to get close and could only urgently notify the headquarters.
When Jiang Lin woke up, the first group of patrol members had already been killed. They were injured by vines and have now been sent to the hospital at the base for treatment.
Jiang Lin looked at the photo of the sacred tree uploaded by the patrol team on the intelligent computer. It had grown to a size almost the same as that in the cave. It seemed that it could still grow in the open wilderness without the obstruction of the cave.
Did last night's rain make it grow so much? Jiang Lin was a little worried.
However, Shenmu has only attacked the patrol members close to it and has not launched any further active attacks on the first base.
The headquarters means to wait and see.
Jiang Lin put on his clothes and went to the farm according to his original itinerary.
"You're here. I thought you were going outside to check out the situation today." Cui Yawen was a little surprised to see Jiang Lin. Everyone from the Construction Department had already arrived.
Jiang Lin was a little silent, and the others were also a little absent-minded, not feeling as relaxed as they did yesterday.
A young member of the Construction Division leaned over to Jiang Lin and asked, "What would happen to the First Base if it suddenly attacked us? Would we die?"
Jiang Lin wanted to answer him, but she didn't say anything for a long time. She didn't know what would happen.
She completed the construction of the farm as quickly as possible. Next was Cui Yawen and her colleagues' work. They had to move the poultry originally raised at the base and breed more poultry there.
Jiang Lin greeted her hurriedly and rushed to the door.
When she arrived, she saw a medical vehicle providing emergency treatment. The man lying on the stretcher was covered in blood, with not a single piece of healthy flesh on his body.
Jiang Lin once again felt the ruthlessness of the sacred tree. Once it develops, it will not show any mercy to humans.
"There is a weak heartbeat." The doctor who had been monitoring the heart rate nearby shouted, and the treatment chamber in the medical vehicle was opened to the maximum.
Seeing that the bloody man's heartbeat had recovered, he was immediately moved to the treatment chamber, but he had lost too much blood and had to return to the hospital for a blood transfusion as soon as possible.
"The blood from the blood bank has been delivered, hurry back to the hospital." There was a commotion at the gate, the ground was dyed dark brown with blood, and there was a faint smell of blood.
Jiang Lin walked to the top of the base wall, and the person next to her handed her a telescope. Through the telescope, she saw the sacred tree. Compared with its original appearance, it was now several times larger.
There was still blood on the thorns of the vines hanging on the branches, but it was quickly absorbed. The vines that absorbed the human blood became thicker, which made Jiang Lin feel nauseous.
"How many people were injured?"
"Fifteen people, the ones who were on patrol this morning. It rained too heavily last night, so the base canceled the patrol. It grew this big in just one night." The guard's voice trembled a little.
Now they can only see it through a telescope. Will this tree-shaped monster appear near them one day?
Jiang Lin nodded and got down from the wall.
Wen Yan also came. He still had the morning moisture on him, and his brows were slightly furrowed. "Rain will make it grow rapidly."
Jiang Lin: "It seems like that now."
"Spring is coming, and it will rain more often." Wen Yan's expression was a little solemn. They didn't know before that a rain could make the sacred tree so powerful.
"Has anyone died?" Jiang Lin asked with difficulty. They did not prepare for the situation. If they had been more careful, perhaps these people would not have died.
"Not yet, they are all external injuries. The treatment rooms in the base are all top-notch, and everyone has started donating blood, so the casualty rate will be reduced to a minimum." The First Base came from the zombie era and already has a very complete process for treating external injuries.
Jiang Lin nodded, feeling a little better.
The bracelet rang, and it was a message from Tang Xiaoyan: the condition of the fifteen injured has been controlled, there is no spore infection, and it seems that they were all injured by vines.
"After the next rain, will the yellow fungi with contaminated spores grow?" Jiang Lin remembered that when she looked at the sacred tree with a telescope just now, she didn't seem to see the fungi that lived in symbiosis with it.
Wen Yan shook his head. He didn't know either: "I hope not."
If the spores grew and began to spread, the First Base would enter its most difficult period since the outbreak. There was little they could do about this overbearing infection.
"I'll go see how the herbs are growing." Jiang Lin walked towards the Planting Research Institute.
Wen Yan summoned the original members of the special operations team. The dangerous situation outside was obviously not suitable for ordinary patrolmen to continue patrolling.
He quickly shared with his former team members the only knowledge he had about the sacred tree.
The mutant who was locked in the dungeon became manic again, and was transferred to a sealed room as soon as he released the spores.
This time, the power of the sacred tree fluctuated, and the mutant's strength increased again. He swung his fist and smashed the door, and a dent was directly smashed into the heavy special metal door.
The guards were frightened by the sudden agitation of the mutant, and the mutant locked in the special cell gave them a strange smile.
The mutant could feel its 'mother' power approaching.
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