Chapter 14
The old lady finished eating the kumquats in silence and looked at Fu Erdie with eyes full of gratitude.
Fu Erdie took a step back.
She would not be able to help but save a person's life, but a moment of weakness did not mean that she would support the other person for a long time.
Now she only has a little spare energy. The potatoes produce two or three potatoes every two days, and with kumquats, sweet potatoes, and other crops that have matured, she has just enough to eat, and she has just started to store some new food.
She would not support irrelevant people, nor would she be willing to expose her secrets.
"Take care of yourself."
Leaving these words behind, she went to search for supplies in other rooms on this floor.
This time, in order to keep the secret, she did not bring potted plants, but first moved the useful things to 16-2 in batches, and then came up, enduring the discomfort, to collect the body parts and put them in a room in the corner of the floor. She covered the body parts with a layer of soil and planted dandelion and cabbage seedlings.
Fu Erdie has tried it, and the survival rate of ordinary seeds in 16-1 is extremely high, and they will mutate in a good direction. But the only seeds that can survive outside are those with intelligent mutations.
These seeds did not mutate at the beginning, but entered 16-1 and stayed there for a day or so before accidentally triggering the tendency of intelligent mutation.
The dandelions and cabbages now planted on the 24th floor are the seedlings of intelligent mutation.
If the old lady could find the cabbage after it was ripe, it would be fine for her to eat it. If she didn't find it, Fu Erdie wouldn't deliberately remind her.
After doing all this, she returned to the corridor and saw the old lady waiting for her with a bag of things.
Fu Erdie walked over: "Anything else?"
The old lady seemed to know that she was being guarded against, so she didn't say much. Instead, she lowered her head and pushed open the dusty sack.
Inside were a dozen sprouted potatoes, a large bag of sesame paste, and a large can of oatmeal.
The old lady's voice was no longer as dry as before. She whispered, "I want to exchange fruit with you. Is it possible?"
Everything brought out for exchange needs to be soaked in water or cannot be eaten directly.
The old lady did not ask about Fu Erdie's situation, but just took out everything she could exchange.
"Just a few bottles of water and some of the kumquats I just ate will be enough." Fearing that Fu Erdie would be embarrassed, the old lady said sincerely, "It's up to you to decide how much to give, sister."
Surrounded by zombies, the old lady couldn't get out. Without water, no matter how much food she had, it was useless.
Fu Erdie lowered her eyes and finally agreed.
She hoped that when she helped the little old lady, someone would also help her grandmother when she needed help.
Although this extravagant hope cannot be equated with hard work, she still wants her grandmother, aunt and others to be well.
Fu Erdie filled a bucket of water for the old lady, estimated her appetite, and gave her 30 kumquats that she had saved recently.
Kumquats can be stored at this temperature for fifteen days. The old lady should be able to get by for a while if she eats two or three a day.
As for the bag of dry goods that Fu Erdie got, the oatmeal and sesame paste could be eaten for breakfast, but the sprouted potatoes were a bit of a headache. She had no place to grow them.
During the sweep from the 16th to the 24th floor, she gradually acquired 11 flower pots. However, the soil had already been covered with the seeds she had plundered, leaving no room for potatoes.
Furthermore, the balcony is only about 8 or 9 square meters, and there was originally a flower bed at the very edge, where many things were planted, occupying 2 or 3 square meters. Seventeen flower pots were added one after another, plus the wooden box with the intelligent mutant green plants, which occupied another 2 or 3 square meters.
As the crops grow, the distance between different pots gradually increases. The environmentally friendly green plants are getting bigger and bigger, and now they occupy the entire balcony. If they are planted again, they will have to be planted in the living room or bedroom.
But the problem arises again. Even if she uses one of her two-bedroom, one-living-room house for planting, she doesn't have that much soil.
But should we just ignore these seeds and sprouted potatoes? Keep them at home as nutrients for the house and environmentally friendly green plants? Fu Erdie couldn't bear to do that.
She stroked her chin, confused for a moment.
After cleaning the 24th floor, Fu Erdie successfully reached the top floor.
The view from the rooftop is wide, and Fu Erdie can see the current status of the surrounding houses.
Compared to the early days of the apocalypse, the world now seems too quiet.
There are no birds or insects chirping, only rolling heat waves.
I don't know if the zombies were also affected by the heat, so they rarely came out to hang around. On the contrary, there were quite a few zombies wandering around in the residential buildings.
Fu Erdie suddenly felt that high temperatures made people tired, dehydrated, and had a loss of appetite. But high temperatures also had advantages. While they restricted humans, they also restricted zombies.
Now, she has cleaned up everything above the 16th floor. After she cleans up the floors below the 16th floor and makes sure there are no zombies in the entire building, she can try to seal off the building.
Both the main door and the broken windows on the first floor must be sealed.
When there are only two living people in a building, her and the old lady, it is unlikely to attract more zombies from afar.
At that time, although her house was small, the crops that produced fruits continuously were enough to feed the two of them. She didn't feel so bad about the seeds that couldn't be planted, even if they went bad.
Fu Erdie didn't realize that she had already taken the old lady into consideration when she was making her plans.
The problem now is that she can clean up the buildings one floor at a time, but how can she seal the windows on the first floor? Moreover, the purpose of sealing the windows is to isolate the smell as much as possible and prevent the zombies from entering. But among a bunch of dilapidated buildings, this building is sealed so tightly, isn't it a cover-up? The zombies can't get in, but what about the survivors? Or... what about the superpowers who are searching for resources everywhere?
Fu Erdie noticed that his negative emotions were beginning to surge again, so he took a deep breath and forced himself to suppress them.
I went back to 16-2, put away all the useful and useless things I had found, and went to water the millet in 16-7.
Compared with the potted plants and mutant plants at home, the intelligent mutant plants planted outside are very pitiful, languid and listless all day long. Only when Fu Erdie went to water them would they be a little more energetic.
But Fu Erdie could still sense Gu Zi's resentment. After drinking water and becoming energetic, the little Gu Miao would poke Fu Erdie's fingers unhappily, which made Fu Erdie melt.
But what can she do? There is no place to grow crops at home!
After finishing all the work, Fu Erdie went home to take a shower, change clothes and lie down like Ge You.
The body was tired, but the mind was tense and the not-so-bright brain was working fast.
At present, she has two very big problems. One is that she is not a supernatural being and may not be able to protect this home and this building.
Secondly, she actually likes to get to the bottom of many things. The house and the green ivy are her backers, but they also grew stronger step by step because they ate a lot of zombies.
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Now, they can't move, and they have eaten all the zombies they can eat. They haven't eaten for a long time.
What can be decomposed every day is just a little bit of household garbage and her and the dog's excrement in the bathroom.
Maybe we should also count the flies and mosquitoes flying everywhere.
But are these things really enough for the normal operation of the house? The air conditioning, the water for eating, drinking and bathing, and the electricity used every day cannot appear out of thin air.
Even if a person with special abilities wants to use his special abilities, the prerequisite is that he must continue to eat and maintain his physical strength.
The house and green plants haven't eaten for a long time. Can they survive?
Once you can't hold on any longer, the comfort and stability that you have now, the clean water, fresh air, cool indoor environment, the continuous production of crops... will all become clouds.
Unless she is sure that this house and the green ivy can photosynthesize, absorb rain and dew, and grow healthily, Fu Erdie will never be able to let go of her worries.
During the two months of the apocalypse, Fu Erdie gained a survival experience, which is that when one is anxious or fearful, one should use physical busyness to wash away the mental tension.
From the 16th floor down, a total of 15 floors, she cleaned every floor as quickly as possible.
On the eighth floor, she brought potato sprouts. During this period, the potato sprouts contributed 30 potatoes.
The potato seedling workers take one day off a day, and the seven days of rest are taken care of by the gardenias and spider plants.
As for the cutest and slowest of the environmentally friendly green plants, the succulent plants, Fu Erdie simply walks around and takes them with her, placing them in sight as a mascot to improve her mood. As for food, she eats as much as she can. If she is bullied by kindergarten classmates... spider plants, potato seedlings, and their food is snatched away, Fu Erdie will do her best to stop them. If she can't stop them, there's nothing she can do.
It took Fu Erdie more than half a month to complete the entire building.
During this period, in addition to some regular supplies, Fu Erdie also found some inspiring things.
The first is the power strip.
Fu Erdie doesn't know how to connect wires, but he can still use a power strip.
She could find at least two power strips in each room. Some people run businesses at home or often hold activities outside, so they would use very long power strips, which was a good deal for Fu Erdie.
There are more than two hundred households and four or five hundred power strips. If you collect them all, Fu Erdie feels that they can circle the earth twice.
Anyway, there is no problem connecting from the 16th floor to the 1st floor.
That means she can place surveillance cameras on the required floors of the building.
Monitoring was also discovered by Fu Erdie, and it is another series of tools that can be used.
There is a surveillance camera in the corridor outside her house. She had bought a pet surveillance camera for fun before, so she has some basic knowledge of surveillance equipment.
Some monitoring systems can only connect to the network for remote transmission, while others only have the function of recording.
In today's environment, if you want to remotely understand what's going on downstairs, you can only use Bluetooth monitoring.
But the Bluetooth range is limited, and it can only be used one floor at most. If Fu Erdie doesn't live on the second floor, she can't know who is coming in and out on the first floor at any time.
Fortunately, Fu Erdie found a third tool, a walkie-talkie.
Different walkie-talkies can be used as long as they are tuned to the same channel. After searching the 24th floor, Fu Erdie found 9 walkie-talkies. As long as they are within five kilometers of each other, they can definitely hear each other.
Fu Erdie felt that she knew how to settle the old lady.
(End of this chapter)