Chapter 172 Shanghai Base
Seeing Su Cheng running away as if he was being chased by a ghost, Lu Xingtang was silent. She was a doctor and she didn't laugh at him for having kidney deficiency, so there was no need for him to run for his life!
Ji Yanmo quietly walked to Lu Xingtang's side and held out his hand: "Doctor Lu, I'm not feeling well either. Can you check me out?"
When Lu Xingtang saw Ji Yanmo taking off his clothes, his face changed: "Brother, please let me go..."
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After the arrival of the polar day, everyone was busy planting. Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo were not idle either. They had cultivated all the land around their house. Since there was not enough food at home, they took the food they had collected from the Huxiao Gang to the base commercial street to exchange for seeds and planted them.
The base was bustling with activity. No one felt tired and rushed to the planting sites, breeding farms, or medicinal herb breeding farms every day. Although other factories were preserved, they had no materials, so they were forced to stop and everyone joined in the planting.
In a blink of an eye, another month passed, and the vegetables and grains that Lu Xingtang had planted before gradually matured. Lu Xingtang stared at the lettuce again and again. The seeds of the lettuce were exchanged from the base. They were very ordinary seeds, but the leaves that grew from them were very broad, and the rhizomes were as thick as wrists, thicker than the lettuce he bought before the end of the world.
Moreover, there are some small soft thorns on the rhizome.
In addition to lettuce, there are also potatoes. The potatoes are unusually large, but the core is hollow, and there is a black skin on the edge of the hollow. They are even more unpalatable than cold-resistant potatoes.
The herbs that Lu Xingtang planted outside also mutated, such as Polygonum multiflorum.
Polygonum multiflorum (He Shou Wu) originally grew as a twining vine, with arrow-shaped leaves at the base and tapering to a point at the front. The central vein is prominently white. When dug out, the He Shou Wu is spindle-shaped or lumpy, with elongated lenticels within red circles. The surface is a rosy red. When cut open, it reveals a bright yellow, polygonal shape.
But now, the Polygonum multiflorum has doubled in size. The base of the vine's leaves is still arrow-shaped, but the front has become oval. The main vein in the middle of the leaf is white and hidden, and the leaves have become round, as if they have gained weight. The fresh Polygonum multiflorum that is dug out is no longer polygonal, but has become an irregular circle. When cut open, it is yellow and white, as if the Polygonum multiflorum has gone off the rails.
Lu Xingtang took out the Polygonum multiflorum planted in the space and looked at it. The Polygonum multiflorum in the space was no different from the Polygonum multiflorum before the end of the world, except that it was a little bigger.
That is to say, during the polar day, all people's plants mutated.
Lu Xingtang immediately went to the base, where plant mutations were also discovered. In addition to all the vegetables, fruits, grains and medicinal herbs, the animals in the farm had also mutated.
For example, the tails of sheep, originally small tufts, now grow to 30 centimeters, the horns on their heads curve and develop into the horns of argali, and the soles of their feet have become very thick, five centimeters thicker than before.
The situation of cows is similar to that of sheep. The soles of their feet become thicker, and their hair becomes hard and coarse, very prickly, as if they are wearing a bulletproof vest.
The pig grew tusks and became like a wild boar.
Plants and animals have mutated!
The research team immediately studied the mutated plants and animals to see if they were edible. They were found to be edible, non-toxic, and posed no danger to humans. This reassured everyone.
As time came to June, the weather became hotter and the workers gradually suffered from heatstroke. The base planted honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, dandelion, forsythia, mint, Panax notoginseng flower, etc. Lu Xingtang did not exchange the herbs he planted with the base, but kept them for himself.
But she was not idle. Instead, she took advantage of the crazy growth of herbs to prepare a large number of special medicines, an astonishing amount.
Although it is polar day, the sun does not set, the sky does not get dark, and it is very hot. However, the wind and rain are still blowing and do not affect people's lives.
The number of small animals in the mountains gradually increased. Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo went hunting in the mountains and added many small animals to the space.
When they were not hunting and the crops in the fields did not need fertilizing or weeding, they kept making delicious food. They made whatever they wanted to eat and kept it in the space for future use.
What gave Lu Xingtang a slight headache was that the seeds the old man left for her hadn't sprouted yet. It had been a year, and there was no sign of anything. "Could it be that the seeds transformed from Blue Star's heart, like my jade pendant, also need to absorb blood to transform?"
Ji Yanmo thought it made sense, so they dug the Blue Star's heart out of the black soil. Looking at the untouched seeds, Lu Xingtang was speechless again. "If that old man knew that the seeds hadn't sprouted yet, would he get angry?"
Ji Yanmo took out a small knife from his space, cut his finger, and dripped the scarlet blood on the seed. He waited for a long time, but there was no movement.
Lu Xingtang also cut his finger and dripped blood on the seed. He waited for a long time, but there was no movement.
If it weren't for the mysterious origin of the old man, Lan Suxin, no, it was Xie Zhenchuan's origin that made them very worried, they would have definitely thrown the seeds into a corner.
"Plant it first!" Maybe one day it will sprout and grow into seedlings.
Lu Xingtang nodded, and replanted the seeds with Ji Yanmo, but they did not leave the space immediately. Instead, they were busy in the black soil.
But what the two didn't know was that as soon as they left, the seeds sprouted. The sprouts broke through the soil and swayed slightly in the breeze, as if they were leaving their parents to go out and play for the first time.
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo collected the vegetables, grains and fruits in the space and left. They didn't even notice that the seeds had sprouted.
Because the weather was too hot, Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo dug a cellar near the house. The cellar was not big, but it could accommodate a bed, which was enough for two people to sleep.
The cellar is much fresher than outside, and with the cellar covered, there is no glare from the sun, so sleeping is very comfortable.
The moment Su Cheng saw the cellar, he immediately returned to the base and asked the survivors to dig a cellar and rest in it.
Time slowly passed, and the vegetables Lu Xingtang and his companions had grown matured, so they stored them in the space and continued to grow them. Both Lu Xingtang and his companions, as well as the base, had determined that growing food during the polar daylight period would shorten the time it took for the food to mature, so they kept growing it. They didn't care if the food tasted good, as long as it filled their stomachs.
On August 7, a group of refugees arrived at the Hope Base. They were skinny, their clothes were tattered, they were barefoot, their faces were pale, and they appeared at the base extremely weak.
The moment Su Cheng saw the refugees, he thought of the survivors in the base. They had grown stronger under the protection of the base and were much healthier than when he first took over the base.
"Where are you from?"
"We...we came from Fucheng Base. Please take us in. We really don't have the energy to continue fleeing!"
"We don't ask for much. Just food and a place to live is enough! It doesn't matter if we have enough food and warm clothes. We don't want to flee!"
Fucheng base?
(End of this chapter)
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