Chapter 87 Leisurely Little Bao (Fourth Update)
Zuo Shan had a dream in which she returned home with Xiao Bao, rushed into the supermarket and started shopping, maxing out her credit card.
Then she frantically stuffed all sorts of food and seasonings into her space. By the time she remembered that she hadn't bought any sanitary products, the space was already overflowing. She was sweating profusely and wanted to take some out, but she couldn't bear to part with any of them.
When she opened her eyes and woke up, she couldn't help but chuckle. It seemed that she had gradually accepted the wasteland's food-based lifestyle, and even things like sanitary napkins could be considered later.
With 4m3 of storage space, Zuo Shan's first thought was to stuff in the meat sauce he had stored at home, followed by peanuts. As for other things like pickled vegetables and wild vegetables, they were things that didn't need to be hidden and could be left at home openly.
It's extremely hot now, perfect for gathering wild vegetable leaves, so hardly anyone goes hungry, unless they're particularly lazy or have an injured family member.
Zuo Shan decided to take his whole family to the peanut forest again. That area is surrounded by thorn vines, so there would be relatively more edible wild vegetables to collect.
They sent Pandora out to buy ten burlap sacks, but all the burlap sacks in her house were eaten by gold-eating ants.
Burlap sacks are something that most people in District 50 can make, and the material is readily available, so the price is very cheap. You can buy two for one silver coin, but even so, it still made Pandora very upset.
She felt she could do it herself, so why should she spend money to buy it?
But her sister wanted to take her to scavenge in the wild, and the burlap sacks they had at home were not enough. It would take her at least two days to weave ten burlap sacks.
Fortunately, she had just earned 16 silver coins, so spending 5 didn't bother her. Besides, her sister was so busy setting off that she didn't even notice that the money was transferred from her account.
Pan Duole was secretly delighted that she could finally spend some money on her sister. She didn't want to be just a burden to her sister or a liability to the family.
Pan Duole was exhausted from jogging alongside Zuo Shan, but seeing how easily the chubby Xiao Bao could keep up, she could only grit her teeth and persevere.
Zuo Shan saw her hard work, but as a scavenger, going out to collect things in the wild was the norm, and improving physical fitness and running speed was essential.
She also quoted a line often heard from soldiers on TV: "Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime."
She said to Pan Duole, "Exercise more often, so you can run faster when you're escaping!"
"Huff! Sister is right, if you run fast, you can get a good spot when collecting!" Pandora added, panting heavily.
This was Pandora's first time visiting a large area of thorny vines. Ever since she was old enough to collect them with her mother, her mother had warned her never to go to the thorny vine forest, where the thorny vines stretched as far as the eye could see, and every thorn was poisonous.
But when her sister was coming, she didn't say anything and just followed silently, showing a kind of blind trust in Zuo Shan.
Then she saw Zuo Shan lightly pat her wrist, and two tender leaves suddenly sprouted from the crescent-shaped birthmark, just like the legendary contracted mutated plant.
But isn't her sister an ordinary person? Xiao Bao didn't form a contract with her, so why is she able to form a contract with mutated plants?
Seeing her confusion, Zuo Shan smiled and said, "I've been so busy that I forgot to introduce you to another member of our family. Its name is Wanwan."
"Wanwan, say hello to Lele!" Zuo Shan stretched out her wrist, and Wanwan's tender leaves gently touched Pan Duole's fingers. She was so nervous that she forgot to breathe.
She had never seen a plant with sentience before!
A green light flashed across the curved tender leaves, passing through the tangled roots of the thorny vine, and finally stopping at the base of an extremely thick thorny vine.
Zuo Shan then noticed that this plant was actually the King of Ghost Thorns.
She hadn't seen it clearly last time, but this time she finally saw it clearly. When the curved green light shone on the roots of the Ghost Thorn Vine King, the vines around it visibly shrank back, and then all the Ghost Thorn Vine began to retreat to both sides, making way for them.
Pandora's mouth was wide open, his eyes were wide open, and he couldn't utter a single word.
She didn't dare say anything, afraid of startling the thorny vines beside her. These things looked menacing and were covered with sharp thorns; they were truly terrifying.
Zuo Shan's destination today was not the peanut grove, as it had already been completely harvested by her.
She led Pandora and Chestnut out along the perimeter of the peanut grove to check the surrounding wild vegetables.
Mao Li has been getting more energy lately, and based on the detection principle of the cutting blade, he wrote his own program and installed it on his robotic arm.
His robotic arm now has the ability to detect plant radiation levels and the presence of toxins, with a higher measurement accuracy than the simple cutting blades used by Zuo Shan and the others.
Pandora watched as the chestnut extended its mechanical arm, a metal spike popping out from its mechanical finger and piercing into the leaf. Then, a screen appeared in front of her, displaying the plant's leaf data. She was incredibly envious.
"Mao Li, you are absolutely amazing!" she praised sincerely.
Chestnut smiled shyly, its cat eyes sparkling: "Thank you for the compliment, Lele!"
Pan Duole felt immense pressure. Everyone in her family was incredibly capable, except for her, who was just an ordinary person with no special talents.
Since we don't have any special skills, let's just work like crazy!
Everyone was busy with the testing, and Xiao Bao wanted to help, but after several attempts, it was too difficult for its panda paws to grasp the cutting blade, so it wandered around and climbed trees to play.
The area was surrounded by thorny vines, which caused the wild plants that originally grew there to thrive even more because there were no natural predators to gnaw on them.
Except for the very high tips, which are pecked by passing large birds, smaller birds dare not approach, for fear of accidentally falling and getting pricked by the thorny vine.
Xiao Bao naturally didn't dare to run far. While Wanwan could suppress these ghost thorn vines, it didn't have that ability.
However, when it tried to scratch the spikes with its little claws, it discovered that its little claws were no longer what they used to be. Not only were they much harder, but even its paws had become metallic.
The thorns on the devil's vine prick it like a tickle, causing it no harm whatsoever.
It raised its paw and slapped a patch of thorny vines in front of it that was not growing very densely, instantly knocking down a pile of sharp thorns.
Although these ghost vines are not as clever as the Ghost Vine King, they still possess a little intelligence and obediently give way to anything powerful they encounter.
Xiao Bao looked at the large hole that had appeared in front of him and plunged into it headfirst.
It raised its palms and clapped to clear a path, and the large hole continued to extend forward wherever it passed, which looked quite interesting.
As it walked, it suddenly smelled a familiar, somewhat pungent fragrance. Looking up, it saw a slender green plant.
It grew a large clump of green leaves from the base of the branch, about the same height as Sister Fan, and two leaves were just enough to cover her whole body.
It remembered the taste and shape of the leaves; they were the same green leaves that Lele had held in her arms when she came home that day.
Xiao Bao remembers that when Lele came to the house, it seemed that it didn't bring anything with it, except for a few leaves like these. It didn't know if these were edible, so it stretched out its little paws and "snap snap snap" all the leaves off and put them into its belly space.
Then it discovered a cylindrical object, about the thickness of an arm, in the center of the leaves. After breaking it, it found that green sap was dripping out of the broken end.
Its top is covered with a dense cluster of white flowers, about the size of a bamboo basin. Some of the flowers have withered, and small black seeds have formed below.
Xiao Bao knew that Sister Fan liked flowers, so it decided to bring the flowering branch back to her as well.
On its way back, it discovered that a few bright red flowers were blooming on a branch of the ghost thorn vine that was hiding to the side. So it casually snapped off the flowering branch and put it into its space.
"Yes, a fruitful harvest," Xiao Bao nodded in satisfaction, and strolled leisurely through the area covered by the ghost thorn vines back to the area where Zuo Shan and the others had gathered their supplies.
They had been working for more than four hours and were now gathered together to show off their day's harvest.
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