Chapter 277: What is the food after the sixth year of the apocalypse?
Qian Duoduo suffered even greater losses. All the houses were set with bombs and bombed. More than one hundred of the six hundred people died due to various reasons. The staff building I saw when I passed by Xishan last time was flattened, and the bodyguards and servants had nowhere to live. Not to mention the financial losses, the farms and breeding farms that were built at a high price are all gone. However, I heard that there is still a lot of food in Qian Duoduo Castle, so it should be able to hold on.
In short, it seems like today was a lose-lose situation, no one achieved their goal, and Lin Yi's entire army was wiped out. Wait... If there was anyone who benefited, it seemed to be Jingshu?
Jingshu is sure that if she doesn't go on this trip, she doesn't know when the Rubik's Cube Space can be upgraded, so the upgrade of the Rubik's Cube Space is definitely a life-saving trump card for Jingshu.
The Rubik's Cube space was upgraded and gained new abilities. Jingshu also got 14 tons of TNT explosives, which will be of great use after the end of the world. She also got valuable favors from Su Xiangnan and Qian Duoduo. With this level of connections, Jingshu is moving towards becoming a big shot even if she is not one.
Catching Lin Yi would definitely earn him a first-class merit, right? He'd be rewarded with some virtual currency, which would be a source of income after all.
Thinking of this, Jingshu's tired body seemed to relax a lot, but because she was eager to see the upgraded Rubik's Cube, Jingshu worked much faster when she ate dinner in the evening.
Jingshu's experience of the day naturally had to be told as a joke, not to show off, but to reassure her family. Jing's grandmother specially killed a chicken and stewed a fish soup to calm Jingshu down. Of course, Jingshu skipped the matter of the explosives and just said that she was rewarded for seeing through the conspiracy, otherwise Jing's grandmother, who had a weak heart, might faint.
After dinner, each family member drank a sip of medicinal wine to remove dampness, and ate some available fruits. Jingshu asked Jing's father to look after the leeches and Jing's grandfather to walk the chickens.
Since there are too many people in the community, we made a plastic raincoat for Fatty Chicken and put him on a leash. Fortunately, it was dark outside during the heavy rain, and we couldn't tell whether it was a dog or a chicken. Fatty Chicken has grown to the size of a medium-sized dog, and we don't know if he will continue to grow.
If it's too big, will it be taken for research? Oh, the research institute may not have time now. There are many new species that have mutated and evolved. Their current focus is on how to produce more food. I heard that they are studying a genetically mutated animal.
Because of their different status, Jingshu in her previous life had never heard of it, but Jingshu in this life happened to hear Sumali mention it. It means to extract genes and combine them with carriers, introduce the target genes into recipient cells, and form new species or plants that are suitable for survival in the apocalypse, so as to achieve the purpose of increasing food production.
Jingshu was a little confused when she heard this, until Su Mali whispered:
"It might be something like growing legs and wings all over a chicken, or even giving it multiple genitals to lay eggs. Or making a cow oviparous, laying eggs daily, hatching a batch every month. Or it might be fish fattening, injecting large amounts of hormones and drugs to ensure each generation of fish soars to tens or even hundreds of kilograms within a few months. They might even add anti-darkness hormones to each generation, or eliminate the organism's natural photosynthesis, forcing them to grow through other means."
"They completely disregard the impact of genetic breakthroughs and modifications, forcibly increasing production without any regard for the consequences of consuming them. After all, they say that if the apocalypse continues, given the current state of the country, China will be destroyed within ten years. So, you don't even know, but the prices of livestock and various crops have recently skyrocketed again."
"After all, the country is now storing large quantities of red nematodes. Once there is sufficient feed, the authorities will want to raise more of these animals."
After Sumali said this, Jingshu finally understood how the famous monster food came about after the sixth year of the apocalypse. It turned out that they had invested heavily in research in the second year. However, Sumali was right. The migration at the beginning of the apocalypse and the heavy snow and cold weather had caused the earth's crop yields to be pitifully low, and many people had starved to death. If new food was not developed, China would really be wiped out.
If people in the end times ate local products, including red nematodes, maggots, and carrion worms, then in the later stages, they would start eating these strange, hard-to-swallow things that had no meat taste at all.
Jingshu shu shuddered, really not wanting to think about these things. Not to mention these genetically-breakthrough foods, in her previous life, only people with a certain amount of assets could afford to eat them.
She remembered eating a genetically engineered fish one year. The fish meat couldn't even be called fish meat. A single cell in the fish meat had expanded a hundred times in size, and biting into it felt like chewing wood chips. It was hard and difficult to swallow, and the fishy smell was amplified hundreds of times, like a sewer that had been vomited for months.
Yes, eating fish is like eating the stinky garbage from the sewer.
When the market is flooded with genetically modified foods, the most precious and valuable things will be those that have not been altered and are in their original state. Chickens, ducks, and fish will then be as valuable as pre-apocalyptic antiques. Why will they become increasingly valuable? Can't we just reproduce more abundantly?
Because of the environment and cost.
First of all, the saying "survival of the fittest" is not a joke. The longer the apocalypse lasts, the more likely these original plants and animals will be eliminated if they do not become stronger and adapt to the apocalypse. Original creatures are too delicate and are easily killed by darkness, cold, viruses, low yields, etc.
In terms of cost, the same amount of food may only be able to feed one original livestock, but after the genetic breakthrough, the output has increased 5-10 times. China still has a population of one billion, so they can only choose low-cost and large-scale breeding, which can only prevent most people from starving to death.
The original ecology only exists in the upper class.
Shaking his head, these are still too far away. Genetically-developed organisms are a livelihood issue for China. If the father of rice had not invented grafted high-yield rice, perhaps half of the Chinese people would have starved to death. Therefore, staying alive is more important than anything else.
After Jingshu locked herself in the bedroom, she took out the challenge Rubik's Cube that had transformed into level 8, and at the same time she silently said: Rubik's Cube Space!
At this moment, the Rubik's Cube space entered the second form and spread out with Jingshu as the center. The current Rubik's Cube space is: 7*7*7=343. If she can complete the upgrade conditions of the 8th-level Rubik's Cube, she will have 8*8*8=512 cubic meters of space. Very good, Jingshu is full of motivation!
The 7th-level space has changed a lot. The spiritual spring in the middle still seems to have a pitifully small daily output, but now there are 6 more space fields, which is 36 square meters of planting space.
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