The next day, the base announced that most of the insects were non-toxic, and even posted pictures of several poisonous insects, indicating that they could be used as medicine, were available for purchase, and listed their prices.
The news caused an immediate uproar.
What? They're non-toxic, edible, can be used as animal feed, and some can even be used as medicine?
This is hardly a disaster; it's a blessing in disguise!
Without needing any prompting, everyone immediately rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
Every evening, someone would go and collect the white frost.
It must be clean and fresh; absolutely no food that has been left overnight and has an odor, and no food that is unclean or has impurities.
Having finally found cheap, high-protein feed, Bai Shuang decided to stock up on a batch.
Whether you're raising poultry and livestock in the space or feeding animals outside, this will be excellent feed.
They also gave them a very cheap price: 1 point per pound for fresh ones and 3 points for dried ones.
Although the price is low, the sheer quantity makes it easy for any individual to collect 20 to 30 kilograms a day.
Based on a 5-point system for one pound of dry food, one can earn 4 to 6 pounds of food per day.
Upon hearing the news, Commander Wang and the Yuwen family head were furious.
They were discussing yesterday how to exchange power and positions for stopping the insects. Last night, he even had his eldest son secretly do something to make sure there were even more insects in the residential area today.
He wanted to create widespread discontent and resentment among the people, and then he would tell the survivors that they could prevent the insect plague from spreading to the base, but the commander disagreed.
He wanted the people to force the leader to agree that he wanted to become the base commander.
But to everyone's surprise, overnight these insects turned into valuable items that could be exchanged for points, and even many members of their own tribe went out to collect them.
Bai Shuang's mind raced. Could she take this opportunity to make a big splash and make her plan to build a large ship a reality?
Two senior uncles came to help Bai Shuang hatch the chicks.
"Hurry, hatch quickly, I'm going to make a big splash."
My two senior uncles... are you treating us like old hens?
Regardless of what they thought, Bai Shuang had her own plans.
In the apocalypse, opportunities to store food are scarce, so she needs to take advantage of the hard-won insect plague to store as much feed and food as possible, and earn more points.
Her luxury cruise ship seemed to be beckoning to him.
It would be best to buy the entire elliptic.
Bai Shuang took out hundreds of thousands of fertilized eggs and a large number of incubators.
Uncles, ...we're just here to help you out. Do you think we're superheroes?
We're not young anymore, are we?
Bai Shuang, you are still young.
Where did you get so many eggs? No need to ask, they must have been from Grandpa Lu.
It's normal for such a large facility to produce this many eggs.
Even if Bai Shuang said she saved it herself, they wouldn't believe her.
She seemed to sense their concerns as well.
"Take your time hatching them. If you get too busy, call Bai Tian and Zuo Shao for help."
The two senior uncles were thinking, "Slowly incubate? Didn't you just say hurry up?"
Forget it, I won't argue with the kids. They're adults, and they have to solve their own problems.
As the two uncles were thinking this, they heard Bai Shuang say something else.
"Work hard. Opportunities like this don't come often in the apocalypse. If we do a good job, our families won't have to worry about food for several years."
The two senior uncles were instantly filled with excitement.
Bai Shuang certainly doesn't have to worry about food, but what about those other families? We need an excuse to give them things.
While other things may not be ideal in the sweltering heat, hatching eggs is surprisingly easy; the chicks will emerge from their shells in no time.
Now, not only have the insects in the greenhouse been eaten up, but even the insect eggs have been devoured.
Bai Shuang hired a lot of people to let them out to eat the mutant insects every day. It was troublesome, but the only advantage was that they grew very strong without any feed, and their meat was especially delicious.
In the blink of an eye, the original fifteen mu of greenhouses have been planted with medicinal herbs, grains and vegetables, and alfalfa has been harvested several times.
Aside from using some as chicken feed, the rest was sold as vegetables to the base supermarket to supply the survivors.
The base specially prepared some land for Bai Shuang to raise chickens.
Once the insects in the shed are eliminated, crops are planted. However, after each harvest, insects reappear in the fields, and then chickens are released again.
They alternate between planting and raising livestock, and the crops in the sheds where chickens roam freely grow exceptionally well because of the chicken manure and the fact that Bai Shuang secretly watered them with spiritual spring water.
Those who had originally competed with Bai Shuang for farming, except for the Yuwen family and a few other households, all gave up.
However, they were all in small numbers, not only on a small scale, but also their chickens and crops were growing much worse than those of Baishuang.
People say that the Bai family is following the will of Heaven, and even the insects in the ground are bigger than those of the other households.
But they never dreamed that the white frost had sprinkled the spiritual spring water.
There are no idle people at the base now. Apart from those who have formal jobs, the rest are either fishing for seafood in the lake or picking up insects.
Once the survivors have something to look forward to, they rarely have to do anything else. In their words, they'd rather spend that time picking up a pound of insects.
Several months have passed, and everyone has not only accumulated a lot of points, but also a lot of dried seafood and dried insects.
February has arrived, and the Spring Festival is just around the corner.
The chickens from Baishuang have grown up. Except for the roosters kept for breeding, all the roosters are sold as broilers, and the hens have started laying eggs.
The vegetables in the fields have long been on the market, and many medicinal herbs with short growing seasons have also been harvested, so the pharmaceutical factory has also started operating.
Looking at the thriving crops, everyone smiled, a rare sight in the end times.
So much so that wherever Bai Shuang went, people would ask her with a smile, "Boss Bai, when can we eat those sweet potatoes and corn?"
Even if it's not yours, you can buy it with points as long as someone else has it or the base has it.
Anyway, even if Boss Bai herself couldn't finish it, it still wouldn't be enough, even with her employees included.
And it's not like I don't have enough points to buy it.
Bai Shuang felt that those people were already coveting her crops.
"Don't worry, they will all be available before the Spring Festival. This year, we will have both eggs and chicken for the Spring Festival."
"Great! We're going to have eggs to eat!"
The ordinary lucky ones ultimately did not raise chickens, because most people lived in a tent and simply didn't have the space to keep them.
How many points are needed per pound for eggs?
"It's about the same price as meat; that's what the farm sets."
"Not only these, but potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, wheat, soybeans, and other crops can all be harvested before the New Year."
Water was scarce, so rice was not grown.
"That's great, thank you, Boss Bai."
Hurry up and collect bugs to earn points and try to have a prosperous New Year.
Some people got so excited that they wanted to go up and hug her.
Bai Shuang quickly moved away; those people smelled strongly of sweat, and she was a germaphobe.
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