Chapter 247 Mature So Fast
Ye Qi has official statistical information here.
A few months after the end of the world, the authorities combined the research information of investigators from all over the country and finally calculated the basic disaster situation. They also learned that the water and soil in various places had undergone varying degrees of changes, making it impossible to grow crops normally.
Food is a huge problem! In the short term, we can scavenge for supplies and rely on leftover food from before the apocalypse, but what about the long term? Survivors need to eat. In a few years, when all the existing food has been foraged and consumed, or has spoiled and become inedible, will everyone be left with nothing?
Therefore, the breeding experiment conducted today in Qiao Lan's small room is simply a blessing from heaven.
This is not only good news for the survivors in City C, but also good news for everyone everywhere!
"Thank you, thank you..."
Ye Qi turned around and couldn't help but hug Qiao Lan in his arms, his eyes slightly moist. This fat girl, does she know how earth-shattering she has done?
"Also, I'm sorry."
He whispered in her ear.
I’m sorry, I’m sorry… Thousands of sorrys were buried in his heart, and he felt very guilty.
I hurt her at the time.
“Yo yo!”
The crowd around them started to make noises. Qiao Lan's companions were all here watching the plant cultivation, and naturally they all sided with Qiao Lan.
Yin Wanying smiled and said, "It seems someone once said that they would apologize to our little Lanlan in the next life? Oh, is this already the next life? Time has passed so quickly without me even noticing."
"You know what, I don't know either."
"Yeah, I don't know if this is my next life."
Ye Qi remained silent, neither explaining nor refutating. He was the one who made the first mistake, and compared to Qiao Lan being surrounded, insulted, and chased away by everyone at the base, this little bit of bullying was nothing.
"Okay." Qiao Lan broke free from Ye Qi's arms and raised her hand to knock him on the forehead.
"Is saying sorry enough? It's better if you truly change. Next time, just don't act on your own accord and do things 'for my own good.'"
"Okay, I understand. I'll definitely change it."
Last time he made the promise to Qiao Lan alone, this time he made the promise in public, Ye Qi was very serious.
Qiao Lan smiled at everyone, "That's enough. Our Chief Ye had good intentions in protecting me. He chased me away, but he was ready to die on the battlefield. Everyone, please be kind."
To be honest, if Qiao Lan was a weak woman, she might be deeply moved by Ye Qi.
From the perspective of protection, Ye Qi is worthy of the base, worthy of the battlefield, and worthy of everyone present, including Qiao Lan.
Qiao Lan did scold Ye Qi, but when others bullied him, emm... she felt a little distressed.
"Ah! Another shade of yellow! Oh my! It matures so quickly!"
Jiang Yue screamed.
He was the only one in the room who showed no reaction to Ye Qi hugging Qiao Lan. He was completely focused on the mutant rice plant, staring at it intently as if it were his treasure. He even took out a color chart and continuously compared the color changes with the rice ears to judge the maturity.
"Yes, it matures very quickly. It won't be long before we can eat the ripe rice grains," said Qiao Lan.
Although Ye Qi wanted to see the rice as soon as possible, he felt sorry for Qiao Lan because she was tired after a day of work. Seeing her pale face, he couldn't bear to let her work overtime to ripen the rice ears, so he waited for the plants to develop on their own.
Fortunately, the temperature was almost right, and by daybreak, the golden rice ears were fully plump and ripe, ready to be harvested.
Ye Qi stayed in Qiao Lan's room that night, guarding the plants. It was a pity that Jiang Yue and the ice-type psychic were also there, otherwise it would have been just the two of them.
Everyone just lay down on the chairs and tables to take a nap for the night. When the daybreak came, they were very excited to see the ripe rice ears. They quickly cut them, dried them in the air and removed the shells, and got a pile of rice grains.
Before the apocalypse, an ordinary rice ear would yield about 200 grains, while superior varieties would yield over 400, but that was without mutations. The mutant strain being cultivated now actually has over a thousand grains per ear, and the grains are three times the size of ordinary rice.
How do you feel about this quantity?
For example, a bowl of rice at home contains about 3,000 grains of rice, which is enough to fill a normal person. Of course, for those with a large appetite, that's another matter.
If we use this mutant rice, the yield of one ear of rice can feed an adult.
One plant of this kind of rice has more than 40 ears of rice, which means that when a mature plant of mutant rice is mature, it can feed more than 40 adults.
Qiao Lan cultivated five rice plants this time. If the rice is harvested and cooked, it can feed two hundred people at the same time!
Imagine if you planted a rice field with rice plants as far as the eye could see, how many people would that feed?
In the end times, a place with such rice fields is equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
“Let me try it!”
Jiang Yue was the first to raise his hand, wanting to become a taster of the mutant rice.
The experiment is not considered successful until we make sure that the rice is safe for human consumption.
Ye Qi pondered, considering who would be the safest person to test the food. After discussing it with Jiang Yue for a while, they decided to use the mutant beast as the taster first, and then change people if there were no problems.
Ordinary people, awakened ones, men, women, the weak, the injured...all kinds of population types must be taken into consideration, and everyone must have no problem eating it. Moreover, it needs to be observed for a period of time, and only when there is really no problem will it be promoted.
Qiao Lan smiled and let them discuss it.
This is the proper process, and she won't stop it.
But she was certain that the rice was perfectly fine. In her past life, she'd worked as a laborer in experimental fields and had seen several mutant rice strains. The strain she'd obtained from the temple this time was one she'd seen, and it was edible.
Ye Qi and Jiang Yue took the rice to taste, and the ice-type psychic who helped cultivate the crops also said goodbye and left. Qiao Lan took a nap in the room alone and went out when it was dark.
There was no one walking around in the town, only a few patrols of soldiers moving around. Now that there was no electricity, people basically stopped moving after dark.
Qiao Lan had already picked out a place before. He went there in the dark, checked to see if there was anyone around, and let the earthworms dig a hole in the ground.
After the big pit was dug, she quietly released the safe houses she had collected from the west of the city and placed them in the pit.
Then they reinforced the foundation, filled it with cement, and worked until dawn, when a neat little building appeared in the morning light.
Qiao Lan applied a thin layer of cement on the outside of the small building, so when everyone in the town got up one after another, they saw a new building that looked like it had just been built, and the cement had not yet dried.
"Haha, it was all thanks to the mutants. We can't build a building on flat ground overnight relying solely on our own manpower."
Facing the shocked crowds who came to watch, Qiao Lan solemnly introduced her earthworm friends.
A few earthworms as big as snakes stunned people.
"The future restoration and reconstruction of the town, as well as the development of City C, will all depend on the efforts of these friends. Everyone, we can help each other with some good mutant beasts, there's no need to be hostile!"
Qiao Lan prepared everyone mentally early on.
Restoring the town requires the help of various talented mutant beasts.
She wanted to repair the town quickly. She hoped that when she brought Xiao Tang back from the capital, he would still be alive and the town would be restored. She wanted to show him their new home and make him happy.
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