Chapter 183 The Ecstasy After Opening the Treasure Chest!
Mao Li busied himself splitting the wood into small strips about twenty centimeters long, while Pan Duole helped carry them to the basement for storage. The yard wasn't suitable for storing too many things; just enough for a week's use was sufficient.
Zuo Shan wanted to help, but the two of them refused. She remembered that she still had the supplies she had taken out of the rat hole in her spatial storage, so she took out a sealed bag and emptied them all out.
There are over ten pounds of yams, which must be kept for seed; not a single one can be eaten. The handful of beans that look like mung beans must also be kept for seed.
There wasn't much to eat among the dozen or so nuts, so he saved them to disinfect with ultraviolet light when he had some free time. This was a skill he unlocked after recovering somewhat, and it was also an ability possessed by every member of the mechanical race.
After looking around, all that was left was that rusty metal box. In TV shows, these kinds of boxes are usually used to store money or high-end medicines, so what could be inside it?
Zuo Shan was bursting with girlish excitement, hoping to find some treasure inside, so she called Xiao Bao over for help. It was unclear what material the box was made of, but it took Xiao Bao a full fifteen minutes to liquefy it.
Yes, it truly lives up to its reputation as a treasure chest!
Zuo Shan praised it, and upon closer inspection, he saw that there were nine compartments inside. The material of the compartments looked a bit like compressed straw, and each compartment was covered with a glass cover.
When Zuo Shan saw what was inside clearly, he almost couldn't help but let out a groundhog scream!
Inside, inside, it is, seed!
The world is not short of seeds; you can easily pick a handful in the wild. What kind of seed could make her scream?
It's rice, wheat, and corn, and the kind that hasn't been hulled!
Zuo Shan rubbed his eyes hard. Yes, it was rice, wheat, and corn!
She steeled herself and pinched the inside of her thigh. "Ouch!" It hurts!
The strange sounds she made aroused the curiosity of Ah Chen in the crib. He stared at her with wide eyes, wondering what was wrong with his mother.
The baby clearly didn't sense any danger.
After confirming it several times, Zuo Shan finally believed that what she saw was true; she had indeed brought back these three kinds of crop seeds that were said to have been lost long ago from the rat hole.
According to the historical records of the Algae Star that she had browsed, the great catastrophe more than 300 years ago came too suddenly, and neither the government nor the people had time to make any preparations.
At that time, all the crops exposed to the sun were powerless to resist the sun's intense radiation and the sudden rise in temperature. Within just three days, they all died, and even the seeds that had formed lost their vitality.
Only a few wild plants, through their tenacious vitality, have undergone a qualitative change and become mutated plants.
After the cataclysm, when the authorities organized survivors to establish safe zones, some surviving agricultural experts suggested searching for the seed vaults that the authorities had once built underground.
However, almost all the managers in charge of this business died, with only a few surviving.
The authorities dispatched them with a team of relatively strong first-generation superhumans to the underground seed vault. Along the way, they encountered multiple attacks by mutated beasts, resulting in heavy casualties.
When they found the area near the seed bank, they couldn't find the entrance to the seed bank no matter what they did.
Because the planet Green Algae experienced multiple high-intensity earthquakes during the Great Cataclysm, the entrance was completely destroyed, and a large rift valley appeared around it.
People speculate that the underground seed bank may have been submerged by underground lava and has long since vanished.
Later, some people found some grain seeds in small seed banks, but after planting them, they were quickly killed by the relatively high radiation environment around them.
Gradually, no one thought about finding that underground seed bank anymore, because even if they found it, the seeds inside probably wouldn't survive in the current environment.
Why was Zuo Shan so overjoyed about these seeds? Because she felt that more than three hundred years had passed since the Great Cataclysm, and the radiation level in the air should be lower than it was back then.
Moreover, the radiation shield that was later built by the authorities can filter out some of the super-strong radiation, making the overall environment much better.
Moreover, she has a trump card: Wanwan and Suisui. As long as Wanwan lowers the radiation level of this batch of seeds every day when breeding begins, and Suisui injects a little bit of vitality into them, they can survive for a longer period of time.
The best hope is that they will also mutate during this growth process, thus making it possible for them to truly survive on their own and reproduce.
Zuo Shan had truly had enough of days without staple foods. The thought of staple foods coming in the future, with rice, flour, and cornmeal rolling in, made her want to scream!
Alas! Who can understand her feelings if they haven't experienced eating wild vegetables every day?
After three minutes of excessive excitement, Zuo Shan decisively instructed Xiao Bao to reshape the liquefied metal box and then put the seeds back into the box for preservation.
She needs to calm down, and calm down even more!
After developing a detailed and comprehensive breeding plan, trial plantings can begin in batches.
After all, these seeds are hard to come by, and who knows if they are the only surviving food seeds on this planet.
She treasured the mutated buckwheat seed she had harvested before, planting it separately, and thankfully it has now sprouted.
However, she wasn't too worried about the buckwheat seed, since it had already mutated and could survive in the wild.
But this batch of seeds is different. They are still unmutated seeds and have been stored for more than three hundred years. Who knows how much vitality is left inside?
Therefore, she had to be extremely careful and cautious.
As for the words she had once spoken to the agriculturalist Chu Heng about "raising children with a lowly upbringing," she had long since forgotten them.
I remember hearing a saying once: It's not that you don't betray, it's just that the stakes for betraying aren't high enough.
What she wants to say now is: it's not that we don't cherish things, it's that we haven't encountered a true treasure yet!
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