Chapter 144 Fruit
You should know that after the country of origin discharged nuclear wastewater in 2030, the color of the ocean became darker and darker, and by 2040 it had turned black. Most of the marine life died, and humans no longer consumed marine seafood, but instead ate expensive artificial marine farmed seafood.
It’s been less than three years since the end of the world, and the color of the ocean has magically turned blue.
"Hehe, the ocean is magical, it turns blue by itself. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. It slowly turned blue a year after the end of the world, and now it's getting clearer and clearer." Chi Yiyi said with a smile.
Pu Zhi followed not far away and echoed: "It is indeed magical, it is very beautiful."
When Chi Yiyi heard Pu Zhi praising Haiyang for her beauty, she smiled even more happily.
The two walked for about ten minutes and stopped under a small white building.
The coastline here protrudes out a bit, and there is green grass all the way up. The highest point is three stories high from the sea, and the white building is located at the highest point.
It is only one and a half stories high and is very small, covering only 50 square meters. The two floors combined are less than 100 square meters. The white color on the outside of the wall does not look like wall paint, but more like it is made of crushed natural materials. You can vaguely see white things similar to conch shells.
It is worth mentioning that there is a lighthouse more than ten meters high standing next to it, which is as high as three white houses.
Chi Yiyi symbolically lifted the latch on the door. The door might as well not be locked. He could open it with just a slight lift.
She smiled and extended her hand, saying, "Sister Dongyue, please come in."
As soon as the door is opened, the view is through the white wall with a dream catcher woven with hemp rope and hanging with shells, the clean and bright light-colored living room, and the white hollow flower curtains blown by the wind. From time to time, a corner of the transparent window is exposed, and the endless blue sea is faintly revealed. Under the morning sun, the sea surface is sparkling, as if it is coated with a layer of gold foil.
Together with the cottage, it forms a fresh and bright watercolor painting. Pu Zhi had only seen such beautiful scenery in paintings, and she never expected that such a scene would exist in reality.
Chi Yiyi looked at the stunned Pu Zhi and walked in first with a smile: "It looks nice, right? I have slowly renovated this place over the years. I go to the city every week to look for things just to decorate this place."
Hearing her words, Pu Zhi came back to his senses, looked down to see if his shoes were dirty before stepping in.
In the hot weather, entering this house feels like entering an air-conditioned room. The continuous cool sea breeze makes the heat in your heart disappear completely.
Chi Yiyi pointed to the table in the living room and said, "Please sit down. I'll get you some water."
After that, she brought out a kettle and two glasses from the kitchen and filled two glasses.
Perhaps fearing that Pu Zhi wouldn't dare drink, she picked up a cup and gulped it down. "I got this water from the river just now. I've boiled it, so don't worry about it."
Watching her explain, Pu Zhi smiled and drank half of it, not worrying about anything. If there really was a problem, his talent would have reminded him long ago.
Seeing Pu Zhi's trust in him, Chi Yiyi was very happy and said that he would show Pu Zhi something good. He also held a stick in his hand, with an iron hook fixed on the top with tape and string. This crude method looked like it was homemade.
Pu Zhi followed her out of another door in the living room closer to the sea. There was a small lawn behind it, about three or four meters away from the sea.
Chi Yiyi skipped to the edge of the cliff. Pu Zhi looked down and saw a huge cactus. Its branches occupied half of the cliff. There were many fruits on it. There were about twenty or thirty fruits at a glance, but only three were ripe.
Chi Yiyi took out a wooden stick with a hook tied to it and stretched it towards the red fruit. The first one was closer, so she gently raised her hand and put it down, and the hook pierced directly into the center of the fruit. She turned the stick left and right, and the fruit fell off.
She happily retracted her stick, carefully removed the cactus fruit from it, and then placed it on the grass beside her. She wanted to pick a second one, but she looked at Pu Zhi worriedly: "Sister Dongyue, you can't eat it secretly. Wait until I pick them and then we can eat together."
After seeing Pu Zhi promise not to steal, she felt at ease to hook the second one. The third one was a bit far away and she couldn't reach it no matter how hard she tried.
Seeing her small body swaying from side to side on the edge of the cliff, Pu Zhixin also felt nervous.
Suddenly, she lost her balance and one of her feet fell off. The waves in the sea were extremely turbulent at this moment, as if they were waiting to swallow Chi Yi one by one.
Pu Zhi reached out his hand to save her, but she sat down on the ground to steady herself.
Even so, she didn't drop the stick in her hand. She patted her butt and stood up quickly: "It's too scary. I won't pick it anymore. I won't pick it anymore."
But looking at the fully ripe cactus fruits, she felt reluctant to pick them because they would go bad if she didn't pick them.
The next second, the fruit floated up out of thin air and slowly appeared in front of Chi Yiyi.
She reached out and took the fruit, then turned around in surprise and looked at Pu Zhi: "Sister Dongyue, your ability is amazing!"
Pu Zhi looked at her with a faint smile and gladly accepted the compliment.
Chi Yiyi picked up three fruits, happily returned to the house, and divided the fruits evenly into two parts.
Although this thing is nothing to Pu Zhi, for ordinary people, being able to eat fruit in the end times is simply unimaginable. Even people with special abilities have to think twice before buying some precious things like fruit.
There is no way. There are not many crops that can survive in this terrible weather. Even in Base No. 3, there are only dozens of fruit trees. The heating and cooling equipment are turned on all day long. The fruits only bear fruit once or twice a year. Isn't the price going up rapidly?
Being able to serve fruit can be said to be the highest treatment for entertaining guests in the apocalypse.
"Hehe, this is so delicious. I usually can't bear to eat it. Sister Dongyue, you should try it." Chi Yiyi looked at Pu Zhi expectantly.
Pu Zhi peeled the half piece of bright red cactus fruit and put it into his mouth. It tasted eight parts sweet and two parts sour, and a little less juicy, but overall it tasted very good.
After getting Pu Zhi's answer, Chi Yiyi's eyes were almost smiling away. She put the red fruit into her mouth and sucked her fingers reluctantly.
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