Chapter 81 Are you willing to stay in Y City forever?
Zhao Yunduo was still wondering why the progress was only halfway. The next day, she went to the laboratory and found out what was going on.
As loud as the cheers at the Y City base in the morning were, as deafening was the silence of the crowd in the afternoon.
The green seedlings that had just sprouted yesterday are now beginning to wither and turn black, as if everything that happened yesterday was just a dream.
"How could this happen..."
A man wearing frameless glasses sighed with regret. He touched the leaves of the green seedling unwillingly, but with a little force, he broke the leaves.
Lin Xiaoyue looked at the pot of soil, took out a measuring instrument, and with a beep, detected that the virus was still there.
This discovery seemed to be a death sentence for the leaves and the soil.
In an instant, everyone's brows drooped even more.
The dark clouds of life suddenly loomed over the heads of the people in Y City.
I thought the food problem had been solved, but it turned out to be just an illusion.
Professor Zhang also sighed and said with regret: "It seems that the viruses in the air can revive the bacteria in the soil."
"If not, just grow all the food in a sterile laboratory! Isn't the seedling in the laboratory still alive?"
Suddenly a voice in the crowd said this.
"But the conditions in the sterile laboratory are too stringent!"
A group of people in white coats started talking at once, but Zhao Yunduo did not interrupt.
She was thinking that the progress of this mission was 50%, not 0%, which meant that the direction was correct, but there was still something missing.
It is autumn now, and Zhao Yunduo suddenly remembered that when she was a child, her grandparents would build a greenhouse in the vegetable garden to prevent the autumn wind and frost from harming the seedlings.
Build an airtight semi-outdoor vegetable shed, purify the air inside, ensure that people do not bring polluted air in when they move around, and ensure that the plants can get sunlight normally every day. This should be able to maintain a certain amount of vegetable planting.
Zhao Yunduo told Lin Xiaoyue about this idea. Lin Xiaoyue hesitated for a while and said, "It's feasible in theory, but the cost of a sterile greenhouse is not lower than that of a sterile laboratory."
On the other side, Shen Linglan heard this method, but before she told Zhang Shengnan, Zhang Shengnan actually found Shen Linglan herself and asked her: "Miss Shen, are the plants last time and the soil this time from the same environment?"
"Yes." Shen Linglan replied.
Zhang Shengnan on the other end of the phone was a little far away from the microphone, and I didn't know what she was saying to the students.
What soil, what air, what germs, the terms were too technical, Shen Linglan didn't quite understand. A minute later she turned around and asked Shen Linglan, "Is the result this time not as good as expected?"
Shen Linglan was shocked before she could say anything: "You are truly amazing!"
Zhang Shengnan smiled. "I couldn't sleep last night because I kept thinking, if it's so easy to solve, why wait until I come to study it? I guess air is still the biggest problem. The last time we studied the disinfectant spray, it contained an air freshener that can kill airborne germs. I asked them to increase production last night."
She and Zhao Yunduo had the same idea and decided to build a sterile environment to grow plants.
There were ten bottles of special air freshener. Zhang Shengnan placed an order and found a runner to deliver them to Shen Linglan as soon as possible, along with the soil purifier that had just been made.
According to Zhang Shengnan, these ten bottles can keep 80 cubic meters of air clean and can continuously eliminate germs in a small area.
In other words, unless the greenhouse is damaged by human beings, as long as the people entering the greenhouse are disinfected, the greenhouse and the soil can be kept clean.
The soil problem has been temporarily solved.
Zhang Shengnan immediately started a new round of research.
After getting the things, Shen Linglan did not hesitate and immediately stuffed them into Zhao Yunduo's space.
Lin Xiaoyue over there also knew that soil purifiers were effective.
After hearing about Zhao Yunduo's greenhouse concept and the air freshener in her hand, he thought it was feasible and immediately asked someone to arrange it.
She had people dig a truckload of soil, piled thick soil on a clean cement floor in the base, and then built a three-meter-high greenhouse with special, airtight membrane cloth and wood.
There were two types of purifiers, one for air and one for soil. It took the whole afternoon to finish the cleaning.
There is an entrance to the greenhouse, and the entrance is very strict. Not only do you have to wash and disinfect your hands, but you also have to wear a mask and change into sterile clothes to ensure the sterility of the soil culture room to the greatest extent possible.
The next step is to choose vegetables to plant, mainly focusing on those that are easy to grow and mature, and secondly, those that do not require too much sunlight. After all, the greenhouse is a hothouse and cannot receive too much sunlight.
After a small meeting, Lin Xiaoyue and Professor Zhang chose three types of vegetables: lettuce, leeks, and mushrooms.
Connie's face was full of smiles and satisfaction when he thought about eating fresh vegetables in the near future instead of bean sprouts, pickles, fungus and other things that he had already eaten a lot, even if he could only grow them in this greenhouse of less than 100 square meters.
"Ms. Yun Duo, you are the light of our Y City. Are you willing to stay in Y City forever?"
These words sounded like a marriage proposal, and Zhao Yunduo got goosebumps on her arms.
She shook her head. "I will leave Y City after the problem is solved."
There was still some time left before the one-month deadline, and Connie didn't want Zhao Yunduo to make a conclusion so early, so he changed the subject and asked Zhao Yunduo, "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
He seemed to know that Zhao Yunduo had everything she needed.
Although he had no evidence, he had never seen Zhao Yunduo have any abundant supplies other than guns.
But he just had this feeling, especially seeing that Zhao Yunduo's eyes never sparkled because of any food in the base, and her complexion always remained rosy and healthy, he guessed that she had never lacked food, and perhaps she had never been hungry in the past five years.
The most important thing is that Zhao Yunduo still feels relaxed all over, and he does not have the slightest bit of the strong sense of world-weariness that comes from living in the apocalypse for five years.
Even Connie, who was like a fish in water in Y City and could eat meat and bean sprouts from time to time, often felt bored.
This kind of world-weariness has never been seen in Zhao Yunduo. Sometimes Connie feels that she and he are not from the same world.
Therefore, Connie concluded that Zhao Yunduo was not a person who lacked material things, so Connie no longer took her to eat delicacies that he thought were precious to thank her, but asked Zhao Yunduo sincerely about her needs.
Zhao Yunduo thought about it carefully and realized that she really needed help from Y City.
"I want the pilots at your base to teach me how to fly a plane."
Connie was slightly stunned by the unexpected answer. After a moment, he asked doubtfully, "Didn't the plane in City B break down? Do you want to stay in City Y as a pilot?"
Zhao Yunduo thought to himself, what is this Y City and B City? Are these two bases the only places where we can stay in this apocalypse?
She wanted to learn how to fly a plane just because of the plane in the system store. She would have to change the plane sooner or later, so she might as well learn how to fly the plane first, and then when she had enough points, she could switch out and fly it directly.
"Can you teach me?" Zhao Yunduo was too lazy to explain too much to him, so she asked directly.
"Yes!" Connie immediately asked someone to call the pilot.