Chapter 309 Desert Oasis
In the car, Luo Yunjin was holding a cup of blueberry Sprite smoothie. There were a lot of ice cubes frozen in the small refrigerator in the car. After crushing them with an ice blender, he poured in some Sprite and blueberry juice, and then added ten blueberry pulps.
Refreshing smoothies often require only the simplest of ingredients.
She fed Lin Xi a spoonful from time to time, and the two of them cuddled together to finish a cup of smoothie. The air conditioner was blowing cool air, making them feel very cool.
After two days of driving, we found that most of the roads were uneven, and landslides, melting road steel bars, road collapses, and sunken overpasses were common. Most of the people walking on the road were low-level zombies without self-awareness, and their numbers were very small.
One year after the apocalypse, most zombies were hunted down, and only ordinary low-level zombies and hidden high-level zombies remained.
The survival problems facing mankind now are food and water.
As the earth was evaporated, the water element in the air became less and less, and the ability of water-based mutants to condense water became weaker and weaker, and they could only create water with the help of water crystal cores.
All survivors will not go out during the day, but will travel at night when the temperature drops.
The dry weather and lack of water have caused many survivors to look no better than zombies, and terrifying incidents often occur where it is difficult to distinguish between zombies and humans.
Many bases have been moved to deep mountains. Many deep mountains and northern areas are relatively rich in water elements, and water-based ability users can gather more water sources.
When it comes to life and death, you can hire someone to risk their life as long as you pay a certain amount of water and food.
While their car was driving, they encountered several waves of people fleeing famine.
Seeing the clean vehicles and the water droplets formed outside the windows due to the temperature difference, the survivors who fled the famine chased their vehicles like zombies, trying to steal supplies.
Lin Xi did not hurt them, but avoided them directly.
They fled, they chased, they all got away.
Because it was inconvenient to cook in the car, and Luo Yunjin didn't plan to set up a stove in the car during the hot weather, they ate in the car.
I found a lot of sealed bags of instant food in the cave before, including rice. As long as I add a little water to the compartment of the rice bag, I can get a bag of cooked rice directly.
Although the food is a bit stale, it is still okay to eat occasionally.
The dessert after the meal was canned yellow peaches made by Luo Yunjin himself. The cans had been kept in the refrigerator. The juice was icy and cool, which was very thirst-quenching and refreshing.
The car reached a low bridge, and then looking around, all we saw was yellow sand.
The sand was flying in the air, and occasionally two zombies were swept away by the strong wind and danced in the air.
It was getting late, the temperature gradually dropped to minus ten degrees Celsius, the cold wind was howling, and the car was swaying in the wind.
"After crossing this desert is the Xisui Base. If everything goes well, we will arrive at our destination tomorrow morning." Lin Xi glanced at the map. The desert they are in now was formed after the apocalypse. It used to be covered with green trees, but after the apocalypse, all the plants died for no reason. The first generation founders of the Xisui Base cut down trees to build a city.
It then experienced floods and droughts, and the originally beautiful place turned into a desert.
But it was also this desert that resisted the zombie tide and protected the Xisui base firmly on the oasis.
Just like Haicheng, Xisui Base has a large number of high-level planting and water-based ability people, enough for them to build an oasis in the desert.
Xisui Base is the best-preserved of the existing bases and is also the base that suffered the least impact after the apocalypse. Therefore, the base has been vigorously developed and is now self-sufficient. Except that its overall strength is not as good as the central base, its infrastructure and material construction are much better than the central base.
It was Lin Zhongquan who suggested that Luo Yunjin come here to exchange supplies.
The Xilin Base, far outside of H City, is now notorious for developing a superpower activation potion made from stardust. Many survivors experienced serious side effects after using the potion.
Although it is self-sufficient, Luo Yunjin doesn't think much of it.
The car was driving on the desert. In order to prevent the car from being swallowed by the soft yellow sand, Lin Xi switched to flight mode halfway through driving and went straight through the desert.
The Xisui base was built on an oasis, and its area is constantly expanding. Looking down from the sky, a large area of green plants covers the entire city, and many mutated ivy and morning glories are climbing on the towering city walls.
As soon as the flying car appeared over the Xisui base, the guards on the watchtower picked up the loudspeaker and shouted a warning.
The car slowly stopped outside the iron gate.
A group of psychics wearing silver armor came out with long wooden magazines and long arrows in their hands and surrounded the car.
Lin Xi and Luo Yunjin got out of the car.
"Hello, we are from the Stone Mountain in Haicheng and would like to trade supplies with your Xisui base." Luo Yunjin said politely.
The guard in the front was 1.89 meters tall and was no shorter than Lin Xi when wearing armor. He pushed his helmet up, revealing a cold face.
"I know you. The central base recommended you here." Li Mingrui led the two into the base.
Luo Yunjin waved his hand lightly and put the car into the space.
Everyone around was stunned. It was a spatial ability!
Space-related abilities are one of the rare abilities, and so far, everyone has only heard of them. Now, seeing a person with space-related abilities actually existing in front of them, everyone was surprised.
The greening in the Xisui base is very good, comparable to the previous H city, and the air here is very fresh. The city walls block the wind and sand, and also lock in the water elements needed to grow plants.
The Xisui base is not governed by a leader system, but is jointly managed by eight star-level psychics and some ninth-level psychics within the base.
Various wooden houses can be seen everywhere in the base, and the base also uses the crystal core energy of the central base. This base is fully powered and relies on crystal cores as electricity.
It was early morning and there were still a few lights on in some houses.
Neither Luo Yunjin nor Lin Xi concealed their identities as star-level psychics, especially Luo Yunjin, who was a star-level psychic in the planting department.
There are also two star-level planting-type psychics in the Xisui base, and they both want to communicate with Luo Yunjin.
Although Luo Yunjin has never left Stone Mountain, many planting-type psychics have heard of her name.
"I heard that all the plants in H City before, as well as the Stone Mountain in Haicheng now, were planted by you. As a mutant planting-type mutant, I know it's very difficult to grow a large number of plants at one time and have them mature in a short period of time." The woman in white pajamas was very excited and wanted to have an in-depth communication as soon as she saw Luo Yunjin.
She didn't care whether it was indecent or not, her eyes were full of curiosity.
"It's not all my own abilities. I believe you should know about the Tree of Life. We have a Tree of Life with a rich vitality bonus, so it is not difficult to plant so many plants." Luo Yunjin could see that the other party was very sincere, but she couldn't say that her abilities were actually game skills, so she could only attribute them all to the Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life does have a bonus effect, but being able to grow a large number of plants at once is still a stronger game skill left by the system.
When she was at level five, she could display the abilities of an ordinary star-level planting-type mutant.
There is only one Tree of Life, a rare find, and it recognizes its master. Without its recognition, even if you take it away, it will not be able to exert its true power and can only be regarded as a tree with tenacious vitality.
Guo Xinling nodded in understanding.
She knew about this tree, but she hadn't thought much about it. She had always believed that the Tree of Life was a precious mutant plant.
Just like their planting-type psychics can cultivate mutated plants for their own use.
However, this does not deny Luo Yunjin's own abilities.
Being able to build a city and a mountain by himself means he is definitely not an ordinary planting-type mutant.
And I heard from my subordinates that she had just displayed spatial abilities.
Dual-element rare abilities, this is not easy!
Guo Xinling warmly invited Luo Yunjin and Lin Xi to live in the newly renovated wooden house. "We'll discuss the trading of supplies tomorrow. I'll organize all the supplies that can be traded at our base, and you can choose then."
She wasn't worried at all about what Luo Yunjin would offer in exchange.
Since they came all the way to Xisui Base, the things they prepared must be very good.
Luo Yunjin thanked him.
Then she found out that the man had prepared a single room.
Lin Xi entered the room and closed the door. Seeing the only bed in the room, he curled his lips and smiled softly.
"Not tonight. We have important things to do tomorrow. Besides, we don't know if there are any hidden cameras installed here. It's not safe. Just go to sleep!" Luo Yunjin pushed the man onto the bed, then got into the quilt, turned off the desk lamp, and naturally hugged the man's waist through the quilt.
Lin Xi:…
They slept in their clothes, as they were only staying in the house for a few hours anyway.
At this time, many people with special abilities were paying attention to this small wooden house. They saw that the lights were turned off soon and there was no movement.
They were all gossiping.
"The girl just now was about 1.6 meters tall, no more than 1.65 meters at most. And that boy was over 1.9 meters tall. Oh my god, the cutest height difference, it makes me so cute!" Passerby A covered his face and laughed.
"Who isn't? I'm just concerned about the size, right? It might hurt." Passerby B was daydreaming.
"I didn't expect that the two star-level psychics coming from Haicheng are so young. Have you noticed that it seems that star-level psychics are all quite young nowadays? Among the eight star-level psychics in our base, the oldest one is no more than 40 years old." Passerby C speculated.
"I heard that there are more than 20 star-level mutants on the Stone Mountain in Haicheng, almost comparable to the central base. No wonder Boss Guo values them so much. I also think it is necessary to make friends with the Stone Mountain in Haicheng." Passerby Ding was thinking about the base.
This must have been a sleepless night for many.
Many survivors in the Xisui base were notified overnight to take out the relatively intact supplies stored at home and go to the square to trade them tomorrow.
Luo Yunjin had mentioned this before. She wanted some rare plant seeds and uncommon electrical equipment. Some rare supplies could also be traded.
This time she also brought a lot of finished fruit tree seedlings and homemade juice, jam and wine. Qi Chi also asked her to bring a batch of astronomical telescopes and thermal weapons cannons that can be driven by crystal cores.
The next morning, Luo Yunjin was awakened by the sound of knocking on the door.
She raised her head from Lin Xi's arms, pushed him away, and got up quickly.
Lin Xi, who was almost pushed off the bed:???
It’s numb, just throw it away after use!
"Here I come."
A girl in a headscarf stood outside the house, holding a jar of honey in her hand. A simple smile adorned her slightly dark and yellow face. "Miss, this is my own honey, very fresh. I heard you're a plant-based psychic from another safe zone. Do you have any lychee seeds? I can trade you for ten jars of this honey!"
As she spoke, her tone was tearful.
"Xiaomi! What are you doing! I told you that this honey is worthless. I will find a way to get the lychee seeds. Don't ask others for help." A half-grown boy walked up to the girl and snatched the honey from her hand.
Luo Yunjin could see that she really needed litchi seeds, and she happened to have a litchi tree planted in her space anyway.
"I can give you a seedling, but I don't need honey. What seeds do you have at home? I can use them in exchange." Luo Yunjin touched her head.
"I, I, I have green onions, sweet potatoes, yams and pineapples." Tian Xiaomi said shyly. Although she is young, she is actually a seventh-level planting ability user and can skillfully grow these four plants.
Luo Yunjin happened to be out of yam, "Then you can just use yam seedlings instead."
She flipped her hand and took out a litchi sapling from the space.
When Tian Xiaomi saw the saplings, her already round eyes became even rounder.
She ran home happily and specially cleared out two flower pots, moving a mature yam and a yam seedling into each.
"Many people in our base are still growing this yam. It's not rare." Tian Xiaomi said a little embarrassedly.
"It's okay, happy business." Luo Yunjin handed her the lychee saplings tied in a sack and stuffed a handful of lychees into her arms.
"Thank you." The somewhat shy boy took Tian Xiaomi's hand and handed the jar of honey to Luo Yunjin. "This is for you. It's very sweet. Drink it with water. It's very effective for constipation and can make defecation very smooth."
Luo Yunjin took it politely, "Thank you."
In the square, every household took out all the plant seeds they had. They had just seen Tian Xiaomi exchange two yams for lychee tree seedlings.
Fruit saplings are always more expensive than seasonal vegetables, so no matter what, they are getting a bargain.
In particular, the plant yam is very common in their Xisui base.
The main purpose of Luo Yunjin's trip was to exchange for a batch of new seeds to enrich the vegetation types of Stone Mountain.
"Miss, come and see my milk watermelon. It has no seeds, only mature seedlings."
"My family has seeds of yams, potatoes, wheat, and lettuce."
"These are prune seeds. I'm not sure what kind of prune they are, but they're a hybrid. They taste pretty good, and you can make dried fruit snacks if you dry them."
"Ugly oranges, ugli oranges, they're juicy and full of juice. Before the apocalypse, I majored in orange cultivation. Besides the ugli oranges, I also have three other citrus varieties, all of which I cultivated myself!"
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Luo Yunjin didn't expect that there would be so many unexpected gains. Many of the planting-related ability users here were experts in plants before the end of the world. Especially after awakening their planting-related abilities, they integrated their expertise and abilities to cultivate many new varieties.
It is precisely because the planting-type psychics here are so powerful that the Xisui base can build an oasis in the desert.
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