After the virus, animals and plants around the world mutated, their bodies expanded several times or even hundreds of times. However, not all plants mutated according to human imagination. For example, some starchy root plants that once tasted great, such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, now taste very difficult to describe. Not only has the delicate taste become rough, like chewing unpalatable wood chips, which is particularly hard on the teeth, but the most important thing is that the starch content is far less than before the mutation.
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The mutated fruits and vegetables also have different tastes, some better and some worse.
Carrots are the most flavorful and easiest to grow of these crops. Their roots are buried underground, and few insects are attracted to their unpleasant smell. Furthermore, their excellent taste makes them a popular choice for the refugees, who planted more carrots when they were developing their crop areas.
"We also plant crops like cabbage and corn in our vegetable garden...but the corn doesn't taste very good. It's not as good as the starchy young thatch roots on the roadside. So after this year, we probably won't plant it again..." Yang Fan, with a big golden retriever that was more than three meters tall, stepped on the snow to make a creaking sound while observing the surrounding situation. At the same time, he carefully explained the planting situation around the shelter to Xia Ruanruan.
Living in the city, with so many people to feed, the shelter couldn't sustain so many people without cultivating some crops; relying solely on street vegetables was clearly insufficient. However, as a once-bustling commercial plaza, the Xinghai Shelter's available vegetable plots were limited. They primarily consisted of the central flowerbeds, the green belts flanking the plaza, and the areas where the roots of mutated plants had broken through, revealing the soil beneath. These areas could be used to sow a seed and plant a seedling.
Xia Ruanruan listened carefully to this different world.
Coming to the vegetable patch in the square with the two of them was the main force digging carrots today - 30 strong men and women. She and Yang Fan brought Dan Huang and Maomao to protect these people to prevent other mutant animals from approaching. They were worried that a little kid like Xia Ruanruan might disappear while walking and delay the work.
Yang Fan also specifically instructed a middle-aged man to help keep an eye on things when he had nothing to do.
The little girl blinked and said nothing. She only brought Egg Yolk and 666 out today, and Xiaobai was left in the room to recuperate.
Soon the group arrived at the center of the square. Not a single flower or plant was left in the original flower bed. What remained was all densely packed vegetable leaves and other crops. From a distance, carrots accounted for about one-third of the entire flower bed. The lush carrots were particularly tall, and the leaves of each carrot were at least one story high. Some of the tall ones were even much higher than the overpass next to them.
The beautiful statue fountain in the center of the flower bed was almost completely covered by these vegetable leaves.
Xia Ruanruan: "..."
Xia Ruanruan was a little worried. Perhaps one carrot was three meters long? She didn't know how these people would dig such long carrots out of the ground.
Fortunately, Xia Runrun didn't have to think about it for long. She knew the answer in just a moment. She saw these people tied the leaves of a carrot with a thick hemp rope, and then hung the rope directly on the overpass next to them. Because the leaves of the mutant carrot were large and long, and particularly thick and close to the bridge, they were divided into groups of six. After tying the carrots, they also put safety ropes on themselves. In the end, two of them grabbed the hemp rope and jumped directly from the overpass.
“Swoosh!——”
The two of them used the impact of jumping off the bridge to pull the entire carrot out of the ground in one go!
The bright red carrots, still clinging to fresh soil, were three or four meters long! One carrot must have been at least as thick as a bucket!
“!!!!”
Xia Runrun's eyes widened. Aren't these people afraid of getting into trouble if they jump directly from the overpass?
Perhaps because the little girl looked so shocked, Yang Fan burst into laughter. He reached out and stroked the little girl's fluffy head and said with a smile, "Don't worry about those uncles and aunts. Just tie the safety rope, just like bungee jumping in the games we used to play. You'll be fine. We're all familiar with these carrot-pulling jobs...Okay, Uncle Yang will guard the south side, and you stay here on the north side. Don't run around...If you encounter any mutant animals, let this big orange cat help drive them away."
Yang Fan stretched out his hand and patted the big paw of Egg Yolk, indicating to the little girl that she had a steady and reliable friend. However, the man's hand was only half extended when he was coldly rejected by the big orange cat. The furry big paw was directly blocked at the side of the body, with an arrogant look of "Don't come near me".
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Yang Fan touched his nose awkwardly and ran to the other side of the square with the big golden retriever.
In fact, along the way, Yang Fan was worried that the little girl was afraid and didn't tell her that, in addition to the sweet smell of carrots that would attract some herbivorous animals, in fact, what they were mainly guarding against were those carnivorous mutant animals hiding in dark corners that would attack humans when they smelled humans gathering.
Yang Fan narrowed his eyes and walked towards the south to guard.
…
The once colorful human-shaped standees, square advertising billboards, and 3D large-screen projections in the center of the square are now all covered with various mutant plants. The cold winter has blown the leaves of these plants from green to golden red.
If all the weeds and vines near the square were removed, Xia Runrun would easily see how prosperous the original Xingyue City Square was.
"Rustle, rustle... tap, tap, tap..."
The big orange cat was so cold that it kept sharpening its claws.
Xia Ruanruan felt a little sorry for her cat, her two delicate little eyebrows twisted into a ball. She tried to raise her head and look around the square. The houses and buildings collapsed due to damage from plants, and the statues in the square were knocked down by the chain reaction...
With so much snow, she didn't know where she could find dry firewood to burn for warmth with her small body.
Just as Xia Ruanruan was racking her brains...
"Help! Help! Help!..."
"Run! Run! It's a mutant beast, it's coming!..."
Suddenly, there were bursts of exclamations from the nearby square, followed by a series of footsteps that made the ground shake slightly!
“??!!”
Xia Runrun was startled and instinctively looked up in the direction of the sound. Unfortunately, her legs were short, and apart from the panicked crowd and the white snow, she couldn't see what was happening on the other side.
"Egg yolk! Let's go and take a look!"
Xia Runrun was very skilled and brave. She grabbed Egg Yolk's fluffy tail and, with the force of the tail swinging on her back, she turned over and sat on Egg Yolk's back. The big orange cat stared at the movement on the opposite side and meowed aggrievedly.
"Meow meow meow~ Meow awww~" (No... Let's not go over there... The cat thinks it's scary over there... Woohoo~ Can Ruanruan just take the cat and run? Let's go back to where we slept last night... What if the cat gets hurt?...)
"No! We have to go over and take a look..."
The short hands patted Egg Yolk's fur, and Xia Ruanruan coaxed and urged, "Egg Yolk, let's go take a look... If we can't win, leave immediately... We have to go see if anyone else is injured..."
Hearing the increasingly loud noise not far away and Xia Ruanruan's anxious tone, she was a little worried that the people who followed her today would get hurt.
"Meow meow meow~ meow meow woooooo..." (The cabbage field is yellow, the cat lost its mother at the age of three... The cat is so pitiful... The cat will definitely be bitten and seriously injured by other animals... woooooooo)
Seeing that Xia Ruanruan was indifferent to its crying, Egg Yolk felt so aggrieved that he wanted to roll on the ground.
How could there be such a cruel cub in the world?
How could they let this weak, pitiful and helpless cat fight with other cruel mutant animals?
The big orange cat muttered in grievance, but still ran obediently with Xia Runrun in the direction of the noisy sound. The mutant orange cat was large in size and fast in speed. Almost in the blink of an eye, Xia Runrun had already seen the animals swarming from the road in the west.
It was a group of thirty or forty mutant rabbits!
Except for the leader of the group, which is smaller in size and looks about one meter tall, and has ears that are obviously shorter than the rabbits next to it, like a dwarf rabbit, the other rabbits behind are all big white rabbits and big gray rabbits that are more than two meters tall.
“!!!!”
There were thirty or forty super-large mutant rabbits, each of which could jump nearly two stories high, and each jump could reach several meters, or even more than ten meters!
Xia Ruanruan: “!!!”
Xia Runrun was so shocked that she stood there in a daze, her mouth slightly open, her jaw almost unable to close. No wonder the ground was shaking so violently.
“This…this…”
Xia Runrun swallowed hard. It turned out...the carrots grown in the shelter could be so powerful?
Yes, I'm sorry... She underestimated carrots before. _(:з」∠)_!
"Hmm, Hmm..." (Go, go! The carrots are just ahead! I smell carrots! Go, everybody!)
"Mmmmm..." (Go! Those damned humans don't deserve carrots! These carrots are ours, go!!)
"Hmm, hmm..." (Brothers and sisters, look over there! There's a cat and a stupid dog! Beat them up! I'm going to beat these carnivores so hard that they won't even recognize their mothers! Beat them up!)
Rabbits usually make very small calls, and even though they have become mutant rabbits, this characteristic has not changed much. However, at this moment, the eyes of these furry and chubby mutant rabbits were crimson and they were extremely angry. Each of them looked like they had eaten dynamite, and they rushed towards the center of the square in anger. The furry group was so powerful that it was shocking.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Yang Fan, perched on the back of the Golden Hair, paled at the sight of such a massive herd. While he'd encountered mutants while harvesting carrots and other crops in the past, he'd never encountered so many at once! Normally, there would be only two or three solitary mutants per day, but with so many rabbits, even if each rabbit merely gave them a couple of kicks, dozens, or even hundreds... even the strongest Maomao couldn't withstand such an onslaught.
Yang Fan urged Xia Ruanruan and the others to leave quickly, not even wanting the carrots they had just pulled out of the ground. He just hoped that when they came back, there would be some leftover carrots and other crops in the center of the square.
But at this moment, the little girl who had just arrived at the shelter seemed to be frightened silly, and even the big orange cat under her stood there motionless. Yang Fan's face looked grim. He gritted his teeth and turned back with the golden retriever to rescue the little girl.
However, at this time——
Xia Runrun's heart was also beating fast, but her sense of responsibility made her stay where she was.
The winter in Xingyue City is very long. If it weren't for the carrots and cabbages on the ground, I'm afraid the shelter would have a very difficult winter this year...
As someone who was naturally favored by furries, although she had never encountered such an aggressive and angry furry creature that wanted to eat humans alive, she believed that as long as she was here.
These mutant rabbits would never hurt her and Egg Yolk even if they were angry!
“Mmmmmmm!” (Charge! Charge!… Defeat the humans and carnivores ahead. I’m going to use my strong body to knock them away! Brothers and sisters, charge!)
The leading dwarf rabbit roared and rushed to the front, like an angry calf.
It was the fastest, and each leap seemed to use its utmost strength. Although it wasn't the tallest, it was the one that leaped the highest and farthest. In just a moment, before Yang Fan could even get close to Xia Ruanruan on his golden retriever, the leading white dwarf rabbit had already slammed into Egg Yolk, its two powerful hind legs slamming into the cat. Egg Yolk instinctively tried to dodge, but because he was concerned about Xia Ruanruan sitting on it, he couldn't get away in that instant.
"bump!--"
Xia Runrun fell backwards and was knocked into a pile of snow by the powerful impact of the dwarf rabbit.
Waves of pain from the collisions came from her arms. Xia Runrun looked at the rabbits that were getting closer and closer in the distance, as if they would arrive at the scene in the next second to besiege and assault her and her cat. She took a deep breath and burst into tears at the top of her lungs.
"Wow, wow, wow!!... You are all a bunch of bad rabbits! I have never seen rabbits as bad as you~! You actually bullied me and Egg Yolk, wow, wow, wow~!!!" The little girl's voice seemed to be amplified several times in the empty square as if with an echo effect, and tears flowed down her cheeks like pearls with broken strings.
The little girl's eyes were red and her nose was pink from crying, she looked very pitiful, but her voice was loud and clear, and her mouth was chattering like a small trumpet. She had obviously cried until she had hiccups, but her speech was exceptionally clear.
Rabbits' hearing is much stronger than that of other small animals. The little girl's loud crying immediately stopped the mutant rabbits and made them stiffen.
A few rabbits were jumping fast and one of them failed to brake and bumped into each other. Their fur rolled all over the ground, the gray turned white, and the white rolled into the thick snow pile.
Pah--
Several rabbits fell into the snow.
"Wow! Bad guys, you are all a bunch of bad guys! You are all a bunch of bad guys who bully children!" The little girl's crying sounded like a devil's sound penetrating the brain, and immediately made the large group of mutant rabbits look at each other in surprise.
Ahem…! To be honest…!
This little girl looks cute, but her voice is too loud, so Rabbit doesn't dare to get close to her.
And this little girl always makes them feel like they are bullying the cubs...but the little girl in front of them is obviously a human being.
Several rabbits surrounding Xia Runrun subconsciously took two steps back, looking at each other, with a look of confusion on their faces, as if they didn't know what to do.
"Hmm, huhuhu!" (You humans are the bad guys!)
The leading dwarf rabbit was so angry that he jumped up and down, and was even more furious at the group of disappointing brothers and sisters behind him. They had clearly agreed to beat the humans to a pulp when they saw them, so what was wrong with these guys that they actually fell in front of a little kid.
"No, you're the bad guy. You were the one who bullied me and Egg Yolk first!" The little girl's eyes welled up with tears, her voice choking. "Egg Yolk and I were just standing here, doing nothing... and you jumped up and kicked us... Isn't that bad of you?"
"Only bad guys would hit people for no reason."
The egg yolk fell to the ground at the right time, and the cat had a miserable expression on its face, as if it was very smart and pitiful, to match Xia Runrun's performance.
"Hoo-hoo-hoo!" (Nonsense, nonsense! It was you humans who were so cunning and treacherous that you ate the rabbit first! Dry pot rabbit, spicy rabbit, cold rabbit meat, even the rabbit head! I only kicked you once, how can that be considered bullying!)
The little rabbit was angry and jumped on the ground fiercely.
"But... every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor... I have never eaten rabbit. But, but you really bullied me just now, so you are the bad one." The little girl raised her chubby little hands, wiping her eyes while crying. Her thin, small and lonely appearance made people feel pity.
A few gray rabbits nearby couldn't stand it anymore, so they shook their ears and touched the leading dwarf rabbit with their furry paws.
"Hmm..." (Or... you should apologize to her. She's so tiny... Even though she's a human, she probably hasn't eaten rabbit. I heard that human babies can only drink milk when they're young...)
"Huff, huff, huff..." (Yeah... this brat seems to be quite right. We are a group of civilized rabbits after all. How can we kill rabbits without any evidence like barbaric humans?)
The dwarf rabbit was so angry that he wanted to kick the two gray rabbits in front of everyone. He opened his mouth and yelled loudly.
"Hoo-hoo-hoo!" (How could you rebel so easily?! Have you all forgotten about those brothers and sisters who were made into stir-fried rabbit meat?! ...And have you forgotten what happened to my ears?!)
“Hoo-hoo!” (It’s these humans! It’s these humans who cut off my ears just because they like dwarf rabbits! I was so little at the time, do you know how painful it was when my ears were cut? These hateful humans, from the oldest to the youngest, none of them are good people!)
The excited little rabbit cursed at the group of rabbits.
Xia Ruanruan: "..."
The little girl's body was a little stiff. She didn't know whether she should continue to act pitiful and cry, stirring up conflicts within the rabbit group and directly breaking them up, or should she comfort the leader rabbit whose ears had been clipped.
After thinking about it, she decided that she couldn't do something to sow discord. This rabbit was already pitiful enough.
Xia Ruanruan took two steps forward in the snow, stretched out her short little hands, and pulled the fur on the leading rabbit's legs.
The soft rabbit fur was much softer than the fur on the egg yolk. She pursed her lips and said in a baby voice, "Please don't be angry, okay?... I don't want you to apologize... Although my arm still hurts, your ears must have hurt more..."
"Why don't I help you blow on it...it won't hurt anymore..."
The little girl's eyes were as red as a rabbit's, and her voice was filled with tears. Especially her pitiful expression when she looked up, it was like a sharp sword piercing the heart of the leader rabbit.
It will shorten your life!
What's wrong with this cub?! It's already so aggressive, and this little guy actually dares to pull its fur and say he wants to help it?!
Looking up at the condemning eyes of the other rabbits around...
This moment.
The leader rabbit felt that he had gone too far...
Indeed, it was not the little girl in front of him who cut its ears in the pet shop, and the little girl did not seem to have any smell of stir-fried rabbit head.
Take a closer look at this little kid, he is so well-behaved, he looks so wronged but still has to be comforted.
The leading little rabbit felt even more guilty...
Take a closer look at the little one's appearance.
...Actually, this one looks pretty cute.
The red illustrated book above the little girl's head emitted a faint golden light again. Above the fifth page of the illustrated book, a gray rabbit shadow was faintly visible.
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