Chapter 102

The people in the community that had been silent for a long time in the snow and ice began to move around, some opened their doors, some waved.

The plants that had been dozing off in the winter also woke up one after another, and almost instantly burst into new energy, stretching out their vines, roots, stems and leaves to Fu Erdie for a hug.

The feeling of returning to the familiar kindergarten completely melted away the last trace of tension on Fu Erdie's face.

After not seeing them for a few months, the potato seedlings had grown a lot bigger. They came running towards them with great momentum, like a small mountain, and they were so big that Fu Erdie couldn't hold them in arms.

There are many new plants among them, which were obviously planted later under the guidance of everyone in the base.

As the planted intelligent mutant plants grow, new plant seeds will be produced, so the mutant plants in the community will increase almost exponentially.

Old employees like Potato who stayed in the Butterfly Garden have visibly graduated from the senior kindergarten class and started to manage the newly born children like the former boss Green Radish.

This time, Potato was experienced. He squeezed through a group of children to be intimate with Fu Erdie, and then quickly took out a plate of thick leaves for Fu Erdie to see.

On the leaves are lines of pinyin written in slurry, which record the educational achievements that Potato Sprout is quite proud of.

Sang Wenhao and his parents were dealing with unloading supplies, so Fu Erdie picked up this special leaf notebook and looked at it.

It turns out that it tells its newborn cubs not to rush to take root, but to overcome their instincts and be fed by humans in the community and absorb nutrients from the food brought by humans.

Some of the cubs were still young and did not understand the purpose of the potato seedlings, so they insisted on taking root.

As a result, one month later, the plant cubs that had taken root and the plant cubs that had not taken root became the control group.

While the other cubs were running around the entire butterfly garden and even outside the butterfly garden, the rooted cubs were looking at them eagerly, their eyes turning red with anger - if they had eyes.

Later, a new batch of cubs saw the situation of the previous control group directly and chose to change their instinctive lifestyle. They moved around and ran around all day, having a lot of fun.

However, each child has a different personality. Most kindergarten children are lively and active, but there are still some children who like to stand quietly in a certain place and grow up quietly.

The potato sprouts did not force anything, but became more and more experienced, allowing the cubs to choose freely.

Some cubs, after they are able to move, will choose to go out and hunt in the wild.

Some mature second-, third-, or even fourth- and fifth-level cubs will consciously walk out of the Senyu community and head farther away, leaving the core area for the newly born cubs.

Fu Erdie was a little confused.

If that was the case, why didn’t she see the plants outside when she came back?

This question was answered when Fu Erdie put down the supplies and returned to the warm and temperature-controlled 24th floor of Building No. 6.

It stood on the top floor, overlooking the frosty world outside the community from afar. In the overlapping steel forest, it saw large patches of plants hidden behind abandoned buildings, waving at it through the glass.

Behind me, my aunt Cao Rui smiled and said, "The two kilometers around the community have been occupied by plants. They all belong to the category of 'butterfly garden'. There are many more plants than what you see on the surface."

Fu Erdie activated his perspective and observed the situation outside.

The abandoned buildings that looked like any other city were filled with greenery. Many plants were blooming inside, and when they noticed Fu Erdie's gaze, they waved to her.

His eyes softened unconsciously.

"It seems that they have been doing well during this period."

Cao Rui nodded.

The comfort area of ​​the house now covers the entire community, but only the 24th floor of Building 6 is specially designed to maintain a constant temperature for human comfort.

Before Fu Erdie came back, Cao Bingqing and Fu Chenghong had already arranged a room for Fu Erdie. Now it has everything she needs, and even the layout and decoration are based on the original room 16-1 in Building No. 7.

The other rooms on the 24th floor were the rooms of Cao Bingqing and his wife, Professor Zhao and other core members who once lived on the 16th floor of Building 7. After Fu Erdie greeted everyone, they gathered in the public room and talked about the changes in the base in the past six months.

The information that the telegraph machine could communicate was limited. Fu Erdie only vaguely knew that the Senyu community and the surrounding psychics had spent a lot of effort to pull zombies from the northwest region in order to move in, or simply live near the butterfly garden.

In Fu Erdie's opinion, everyone is a low-level psychic. Without her and Sang Wenhao leading the way, it might be more dangerous to pull the zombies and the progress would be very slow.

To her surprise, the psychics were very fast.

The group of people who leave the fastest can be brought back within three or four days.

Although there are not many zombies, only a hundred or so, this is the best and fastest result that low-level psychics can achieve.

Yes, they can't gather tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of zombies at once like Fu Erdie did, and then pull them back, but they can pull zombies in small batches. As long as the body is still moving, the results can continue to accumulate.

"Some people with special abilities have already accumulated half a year's worth of residence time for themselves."

They did not actually live in the community for half a year before. Instead, when they noticed that their bodies were deformed due to water or other pollution outside, or when they were injured or something else, they would come to live in the community and ask for treatment at the same time to pass the time.

However, in the days when the temperature has not dropped, the supernatural

They almost non-stop, repeating the cycle of going out to pull zombies, coming back, recording the results, resting, and going out again as frequently as possible.

In order to give back to those with special abilities, Cao Bingqing also made some institutional adjustments. For example, based on a comprehensive assessment of the number of zombies brought back and the number of days they were out, they would be given free time to recuperate in the community.

However, after the temperature dropped in June, the strong winds and snowstorms outside were no longer suitable for going out to recruit zombies to take on missions, so Cao Bingqing and Fu Chenghong set aside a separate building for the temporary accommodation of the psychics.

Most of the people with special abilities were grateful. They didn't want to appear useless or take advantage of the butterfly garden, so they took the initiative to help the two hundred ordinary people in the community who usually took care of the baby plants to take care of all the trivial matters in the Senyu community.

Not to mention, it is difficult for ordinary people to move around outside in this kind of weather. If they are not careful, they may catch a cold or have a fever and die. Normally, whether it is repairing power generation equipment, community circuits, or taking care of young plants and mutated crops, it is more appropriate and safer for people with special abilities to do the work.

After listening to her mother's talk about the situation in the community, Fu Erdie suddenly thought of the group of psychics in the Qing City base, as well as the serious conflict between psychics and ordinary people in the D City base.

Sure enough, when basic living needs are barely met, most people will not choose to be bad people.

Being kind to others is a very simple thing that has been taught over the years, either explicitly or implicitly. Most people in the butterfly garden now are like this.

Of course, if anyone does evil, Fu Erdie will never tolerate it.

Fu Erdie looked at her cousin Cao Yuanbai calmly. He performed well and she hoped he would continue to do so. Otherwise, if he took the lead in making mistakes, she would not mind using him as an example.

Cao Yuanbai felt a chill on his neck for some reason. As expected, even in a constant temperature floor, you can't wear too little clothes! The plants in the butterfly garden thrive under various feedings and are now huge in scale. The scale of the mutant crops is also very large.

Fu Erdie contacted the D City base, and through him indirectly contacted the other six major bases to explore the situation. If necessary, they could try to trade.

Looking at the plants living freely in the tall buildings outside, Fu Erdie thought that only by controlling all the bases and understanding the situations of all the bases would they not be in a passive state at all times.

A plan to build an army of plants to cover the entire flower kingdom begins to sprout in the frozen snowball world.

From July to September of the third year of the apocalypse, all activities in all bases came to a standstill.

Temperatures continued to drop over vast areas, reaching minus 40 degrees Celsius by the end of September.

This temperature is already the coldest temperature in the northeast of Huaguo in winter. Even though ordinary people in the D City base received a lot of warm supplies that Fu Erdie brought back from afar, two thousand people still died one after another.

Most of these people were old people and children, and everyone was very sad at the moment.

Relatives buried the dead elderly and children, and then sprinkled dandelion seeds on the small graves.

They know that these mutant dandelions will absorb the remains of their loved ones, but the decay of corpses is irreversible and people will eventually turn into dust. Asking a dandelion for a seed and scattering it will give them the illusion that their loved ones have passed away and are still alive in another form.

Therefore, for every additional grave mound in the cemetery of City D, there would be an additional dandelion on the tip of the grave mound.

After a dandelion seed is planted, it will grow up in a day and produce a lot of catkins. After these catkins leave the main body, they will consciously leave the cemetery and take root in other places. Therefore, the number of dandelions in the cemetery is always equal to the number of dead people.

After discovering this, those who had lost loved ones could no longer hold back their tears.

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Inadvertently, the people at the D City base developed this tacit understanding that when a loved one passed away or when they wanted to commemorate someone, they would plant a dandelion.

In October, a major event occurred at the D City Base—the new provincial base chose to come and join them.

The Xinsheng Base is located in the northwest and is one of the eight major bases.

When Fu Erdie was fighting the zombie king and pulling zombies in the northwest, he passed by the new province base and took away a wave of zombies that were besieging them.

For Fu Erdie, this was a perfect win-win situation. He got the crystal cores of the zombie king and so many zombies with special powers, and the new province base solved the zombie crisis.

However, for the new provincial base, Fu Erdie's arrival was like timely help.

Now, with the temperature dropping sharply, it is the turn of the new province base to provide timely assistance.

They brought real carbon, as well as a lot of mineral deposits that can be used as fuel! Even extremely precious oil! Now, with C City and D City as the border, a large area of ​​land in the northwest is safe. Therefore, the way from the new provincial base did not encounter the deadly threat from the superpower zombies.

However, the bad weather and the many mountains and dangerous terrain were indeed a problem. However, the new provincial base still overcame it, bringing 2,000 superpowers and 2,000 ordinary people to deliver resources to D City and the Butterfly Garden, and to seek refuge there.

When Fu Erdie heard that they had abundant oil, he was immediately attracted.

After all, with oil, people can drive without worry, instead of relying on human power to travel. This is a win-win situation. When the weather gets better, the supernatural people in the butterfly garden can drive out to catch zombies.

Therefore, Fu Erdie accepted the offer and stated that he could open up a new area to accommodate ordinary people.

This is the area outside the community, and it is also the first step in the official expansion of the Butterfly Garden.

The buildings around Senyu Community are maintained by plant cubs. If the plants find cracks in the windows, they will clean them up in time, pull out the branches and roots that are about to fall off, and weave new windows for the houses.

Wherever there is a crack in the wall, the plants will use their bodies to repair it.

Although they are not as strong as the original plants in Building No. 7, they can still make the building look acceptable by imitating them.

Now that it has been decided to take over part of the new provincial base, my cousin Cao Yuanbai finally has something to do again instead of just sitting at home and working.

He is responsible for the repair of these dilapidated buildings.

After the people from the new province base arrived, half of them were arranged to stay in the D City base, and the other half came to the Butterfly Garden and quickly settled down.

The D City base did not let the Butterfly Garden take over all the ordinary people, but completely leveled it out, with one thousand ordinary people and one thousand superpowered people on each side. There was no pressure on the current D City and the Butterfly Garden. After all, everyone's mutant crops have been growing a lot.

The Butterfly Garden obtained a lot of oil, but also got an unexpected surprise, which was the more than three million zombies that followed the convoy all the way and were deliberately kept by more than twenty psychics.

It was a very large number, but it made Fu Erdie's eyes light up, and also made the plant cubs who understood the words excited.

Extras! Huge extras!!!

What could make me happier than now?

So, on the third day when the dusty New Province convoy arrived at the Butterfly Garden, the psychics who were hanging zombies arrived a little late. The huge group of zombies, which could not stand steadily in the wind and snow but were determined to gather together and move closer to the crowd, also arrived.

Thirty kilometers away from the Senyu community, Fu Erdie designated a hilltop as the place where the zombies would die, and brought the movable plant cubs to eat them.

In just two days, the huge group of zombies were strangled to death by the plant cubs and were waiting to be slowly absorbed.

Fu Erdie told the plants not to worry and to eat peacefully on the hill. She wanted to use this time to count the combat power of the plant cubs and optimize the teaching courses for the plants. When the cubs grow to a certain level, they will be released to serve as eyes at different intersections and areas.

In October, the wind and snow are still strong, and the temperature has dropped to minus fifty degrees Celsius, and there is no more room for it to go down.

In the strong wind, Fu Erdie brought 3,562 intelligent mutant plants and countless mutant dandelion seeds to Jian City and An City, two large cities with bases. She sowed seeds along the way, making the plants blend in with the surrounding native plants and buildings so that they could not be distinguished.

The flying catkins of dandelions mixed with the vast snow, and for a moment it was unclear where they took root.

When expanding the plant area, Fu Erdie would encounter dandelions hunting in the wild. These plants obviously had a higher chance of being eaten in the wild and grew faster. The dandelions that Fu Erdie encountered, as well as the dandelions that floated over from a distance to greet her, totaled fifteen fourth-level dandelions.

These dandelions looked at their newly born little brothers, and when the wind and waves came, they took them to some sheltered corner of an alley to take root and begin their own practice.

In mid-October, Fu Erdie returned to Building No. 7 on the riverside of Jian City and met with Building No. 7.

During this period, Building No. 7 also produced a lot of fruits and seeds. However, without the bonus of the house, their chances of producing intelligent mutant seeds were relatively low.

Surrounded by green ivy, Fu Erdie collected the seeds, consulted the cubs in Building No. 7, and then stationed Building No. 7 in Jian City.

At the same time, the technical team of the D City base and Professor Zhao of the Butterfly Garden have been preparing a new type of special-energy power generation device in full swing, striving to optimize the generator set based on the existing one in the Butterfly Garden so that it can be used on more floors and also in Building No. 7.

Building No. 7 is still an important outpost at the junction of the middle and lower reaches of the Li River. Fu Erdie left his house in Senyu Community to protect his family, and he and Building No. 7 stayed together, waiting for news from City D and those people with special powers.

Yes, when Fu Erdie asked the D City base to discuss transaction matters with several other major bases, Fu Erdie also used crystal cores as rewards to allow familiar and trusted psychics to sneak into the six major bases in the wind and snow.

(End of this chapter)