When the torrential rain begins to subside, it means that humanity has gained a brief respite.
People began to occupy higher ground and cultivate the land.
Even in the apocalypse, people are not powerless to do anything.
Rod carefully took out the sprouted potato he had preserved and buried it in the soil.
In the apocalypse, not only animals are mutating, but even plants are mutating.
For example, this potato can stop growing in hot, dry soil, but it can still maintain its vitality and enter a 'dormant' state.
For Rhodes, this was the hope of all mankind.
Even during the most unbearable heat, he never ate it. He believed it would be the key for humanity to overcome the crisis.
He didn't even tell the people around him.
Now is the perfect time to plant potatoes.
Rod told everyone about the potatoes, and everyone's breathing became heavy.
These are potatoes, you know.
Many people are starting to miss the taste of roasted potatoes.
Rhodes warned everyone: "No one is allowed to eat this potato after it grows, or whoever does will be a sinner against all of us."
"We can't keep eating corpses forever, so we can only eat them when the potatoes are harvested, understand?"
"In addition, as the heavy rainfall subsided, we began to look for seeds of plants around us, seeds of edible things, and planted them all as we cultivated the land."
"yes!"
Everyone was filled with hope for life.
No one thought Rod was wrong; on the contrary, they thought Rod was right. Potatoes were the hope of all mankind.
In truth, human nature is selfish.
Everyone wants to acquire more resources.
However, in the current situation, almost everyone has suppressed their selfish side and instead become selfless.
Everyone understands that potatoes are now more important than human lives.
Even people who don't speak the language started searching for plant seeds.
At this time, some people suggested migrating towards human refugees.
The human refuge can store supplies and also house an industrial production line.
In this era, an operational industrial production line is the wealth of wealth.
Rhodes thought about it and agreed.
He planted the potatoes in a makeshift flowerpot, and the others did the same by putting some seeds in other flowerpots.
The person holding the seed and flowerpot seems to be holding hope.
This is the hope for the survival of civilization.
All eyes were on the flowerpots.
They watched it sprout and then slowly grow.
The tender shoots attract insects, which then become a delicious source of protein.
Watering and fertilizing are also handled by designated personnel.
In fact, almost everyone wants to get involved in caring for the plants.
There's no other way; people have almost nothing to do during this time, but tending to plants is different. Even without pay, the sense of accomplishment is immense.
Rod breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the increasingly healthy plant.
As the plant grew larger, almost everyone became more and more excited and obedient.
Hope is the source of human cohesion.
It was because of these plants that Rhodes allowed them to migrate nearly ten thousand miles to human refuges near the equator, and they did so without complaint.
Even more remarkably, many mutated fruits have appeared in this equatorial region.
Although these fruits may not be ripe yet due to the time of year, they are simply a delicacy for someone who is almost sick of eating human flesh.
With fruit available, people could slowly return to civilization.
Gradually, people tacitly stopped mentioning the past practice of eating human flesh, and if there were dead people on the road, no one would pick up the corpses and make them into cured meat.
Who among those who have survived to this day hasn't touched human flesh?
However, their pride in civilization made them unwilling to continue in this way.
They are the people who once built skyscrapers hundreds of meters high and bridges thousands of miles long.
How could it be like a barbaric wilderness?
Rhodes began organizing people to study. It didn't matter if there were no books; everyone started consciously searching for libraries in various cities and finding all the books in those libraries.
These books are a form of inheritance.
His requirements weren't high; everyone had to bring at least one book with them when they migrated.
Then everyone can exchange ideas about reading.
With books, all restless people find inner peace.
Only if knowledge is passed down can civilization have hope of survival, right?
With hope, the team finally overcame all obstacles and arrived at the former stronghold of humankind.
At this point, the first potato plant bore fruit, producing a total of seven or eight small potatoes.
At Rod's insistence, two potatoes were used to make potato soup, and the rest were used as seeds to continue planting.
He knew that if these people weren't allowed to taste the potatoes, then some of them would definitely not be able to stand the second batch.
Therefore, a portion must be offered as a reward.
Rhodes is a natural leader.
After arriving at the base, he had his men begin to settle in the vicinity.
The drainage and sewage systems here are excellent; even during global torrential rains, the base remains free of flooding.
If it weren't for the high temperatures, the people here would never have migrated away.
If we don't encounter such high temperatures again, this is the best place.
Of course, under his organization, the work of stockpiling food and water had to be done well.
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