Chapter 54

Her temporary plan was to let He Xuan and the other two propose to find a child first.

This child was a distant relative of my grandmother in Xiangde Village. She was also the only one who had visited City C and taken a photo with Fu Erdie. When I went to Xiangde Village to look for my grandmother, the farmer said that this child was the only one left in her family and had also gone to the base in City D.

He Xuan and his friends can compare the child's photo to confirm if he is the person they are looking for.

If the base allows them to take them home smoothly, it means that the base is trustworthy and there is no situation where they are detained and not allowed to leave.

If the base was playing tricks and wanted to keep the child as a "hostage", then Fu Erdie would first secretly take the grandmother and the other two away, and then come back and find an opportunity to rescue the child.

This will scare the child, but it should not be life-threatening. After all, the hostages also need to ensure that their basic diet is healthy, and they may eat better than before.

Of course, Fu Erdie hoped that she could pick the person up smoothly without any unnecessary complications.

"But in this case, the food needed to accommodate four people is 2,920 kilograms." Fu Erdie pointed to the numbers.

It seems I have to work harder tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

When Fu Erdie returned home, all the little plants were very happy. But this happiness lasted until the next morning, when it began to change.

First, Fu Erdie assigned a "task" to her parents, asking them to teach the plants pinyin.

The couple:? Under the gaze of others, Fu Erdie described the plant babies as intelligent individuals that she created: "After their intelligence mutated, they have the ability to think independently. We can do some basic teaching work like educating children, enlightening their intelligence while enabling them to communicate with us."

The couple: ...

Fu Erdie caught the fleeing cubs, took out the previously recorded Pinyin teaching video and Pinyin table, and said coldly: "You must learn. If you don't learn, I will drag you here for training."

The plants were excited! Exercise is good! Isn't exercise just being close to the director? They are willing! The cubs rushed to gather around Fu Erdie.

Fu Erdie gave a wolf grandmother smile: "So you like exercise so much? Don't worry, come one by one."

The potato seedlings that were squeezed dry the day before yesterday and are still lying like Ge You: "..."

Young! These plants are still too young! What can it do?

Of course, we were just watching the show~ Then the two dark days for the intelligent mutated plants, especially the crops, began.

Push and pull, squeeze and drain, empty the body completely, then recover, squeeze again...

It's like, you normally take a leisurely walk, but suddenly you're forced to do a training exercise, and when you're exhausted you drink a box of special energy drink, which restores your strength to 90%, then drains it all again, then restores to 80%, drains it all again, and then restores to 70%...

This torture continued over and over until the cubs' physical strength was only 2% and Fu Erdie was exhausted and unable to provide any recovery effects. Only then did she let them go and instead carried Sang Wenhao to efficiently recover his supernatural powers.

After Fu Erdie's blood recovered, he started to take the other cubs out for exercise.

After the potato seedlings, tomatoes, cucumbers, rice, millet, cabbage, peach trees, cherry trees, orange trees... were all hollowed out over and over again. After two days, 3,000 tons of food were finally prepared.

Fu Erdie was very happy. After achieving the goal, she asked the cubs again if they wanted to restore their energy.

Pure recovery, no output.

As a result, the kids didn't trust her at all! They always felt that they were being exploited, so they hid and pretended to be dead.

Fu Erdie had no choice but to continue looking for Sang Wenhao to recover his health.

Previously, Sang Wenhao lived in 16-2, and Fu Erdie lived in 16-1. Now, because Fu Erdie and Sang Wenhao can automatically transfer their supernatural powers when they sleep together, the two of them live together by accident for this reason.

The house connected two units into one, and Fu Erdie moved the bed out of the bedroom and put it in the living room of 16-1, so that the not-so-large living room became a large and comfortable bedroom. The original bedroom, like the balcony and the other bedroom, was used to grow mutant but non-intelligent crops.

Mozhi was not very used to the new people, so when he slept at night, he had to get between the two people to separate them.

Fu Erdie found it fun.

However, the automatic flow of supernatural powers requires physical contact, and the dog is in the middle, so she can't guarantee that she will have contact with Sang Wenhao when she sleeps.

In desperation, she could only explain these principles to the dog carefully, bit by bit.

The dog's ears moved, rubbed Fu Erdie's hand, and reluctantly got out of bed and returned to the doghouse next to it.

At the end of December, the temperature in City C finally reached 10 degrees, which is similar to the previous winters in City C.

Fu Erdie, wearing a thin cotton jacket, set out again with Sang Wenhao, He Xuan, Ye Jia, Zhuang Licheng and others, carrying 3,000 kilograms of food.

This time they drove to a dealership that specialized in selling buses, and found an electric minibus in a chaotic parking lot that had obviously been looted. They stuffed the food into the luggage compartment and the empty seats, and then set off.

Just like before, Fu Erdie killed zombies as she walked and scattered mutated dandelion seeds, and then collected the grown dandelions when she came back.

Fu Erdie thought about letting the dandelions grow naturally outside, and let them become seeds of dandelion babies growing outside. But maybe it was because of the linkage characteristics of dandelions, the larger the coverage area of ​​dandelions, the larger the stall, the more the ability of a single dandelion would decline.

It's like a ball of gel. When it's gathered together, it's very sticky, but when you spread it out and make the gel very thin to ensure coverage, the stickiness of the gel will be greatly reduced.

For example, before spreading out, a dandelion can store ten mutant seeds a day. Then when Fu Erdie led the dandelions out of City C and did not cut off the connection with the dandelions in the community, the mutant seeds produced every day became less and less, and finally there was no new output, and the flying ability was also much weaker.

Therefore, Fu Erdie could only cut off the connection between the dandelions in the box truck and the dandelions in the community.

After returning to the community, this connection will be restored. However, for the time being, the dandelion outside can only become a separate jungler with no connection to Fu Erdie, and if injured, it cannot be treated through the dandelion seeds in Fu Erdie's treatment community.

Fu Erdie let these mutant seeds choose to stay outside or follow her. Nine out of ten followed her, and the remaining one ran away from home, cut off contact with the group, corroded zombies and garbage, and grew up slowly, ignoring Fu Erdie. Fu Erdie respected their choices.

When children grow up, they always have to choose the path they want to take.

So on the way back from H City, some dandelions ran away from home and went out to hunt in the wild, while most of them stayed and waited in the original place.

When the wind carries the scent of Fu Erdie's return, they will rise from the ground and ride the wind to Fu Erdie's side.

The situation is the same now when going to City D. The seeds first corrode the zombies on the ground and grow quietly, waiting for Fu Erdie to return and make a choice.

The group had a smooth journey.

Except for one period of time when we were passing through a congested section of road and were blocked by many zombies and vehicles for a whole day, the rest of the time we drove smoothly.

The D City base currently covers an area of ​​20 square kilometers. There is a granary in the base. Before the end of the world, there were 100,000 tons of stored grain, which should be enough to feed 30,000 people for nine years.

However, different grains in the granary have strict requirements on various storage indicators, especially temperature and humidity, which will directly determine the germination, temperature rise and mildew conditions of the grains.

Generally speaking, the temperature of the granary needs to be kept at a standard normal temperature below 25 degrees. Some grains and seeds need to be kept at 20 degrees or even below 15 degrees in a low-temperature warehouse.

However, during the last six months of the last century, the temperature was at 40 to 50 degrees for four months. In addition, there were heavy rains from time to time, and the air humidity was extremely high, so the granary became a breeding ground for mold.

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The base tried relatively stable thermal power generation, constantly looking for resources and energy, and using manpower to maintain the fuel transportation of the power plant. At the same time, it also cooperated with the few solar power generation sources for assistance, hoping to stabilize the power supply to the granary and allow the grain to be stored for a longer period of time.

However, after the core power generation equipment was not maintained in time and suffered repeated power outages, the grain fell into an uncontrollable internal fermentation, heating up and mildewing.

What’s even worse is that after burning coal for thermal power generation, they started to burn garbage.

However, burning garbage will produce a lot of waste gas and waste water, and some garbage may damage the internal equipment of the furnace during burning. Although many ordinary people are arranged to pick out the sharp and angular garbage, it is inevitable that many sharp parts will be missed in the garbage mountain.

Especially after a survivor stepped on a kitchen knife in the garbage and died of tetanus, more survivors felt sorry for their fellow survivors. They cursed and protested in vain while rummaging through the garbage even more lazily.

They subconsciously felt that they were working for a very large collective at the base, and did not feel that they were protecting their own granary.

After the machinery and equipment are damaged by these garbage, they cannot be effectively maintained. There are not enough tools or replacement parts, and the technicians are too busy to take care of all the maintenance links.

As a result, the failure rate of the power plant increased, and the loss of grain warehouses increased. In the blink of an eye, only 10,000 tons of grain were left.

The germinated grain seeds had to be planted under unsuitable environment and climate. The remaining 7,000 to 8,000 tons of grain were almost consumed by 30,000 people for half a year. At most, they could only be eaten and drunk for another two months.

However, the harvest of the crops was extremely poor, with only about 100 to 200 kilograms per acre of land. It was difficult to feed one person, let alone a mutant whose appetite was two or three times greater.

This is why the base is so anxious for food.

Even if Fu Erdie went over to find someone, the two or three thousand kilograms of food he gave would be nothing compared to the food gap of tens of thousands of kilograms. The people at the base could still grab whatever they could.

So when Fu Erdie and Sang Wenhao got off the car halfway and He Xuan, Ye Jia and Zhuang Licheng arrived at the D City base with food, the people at the city gate who were notified were very happy. After confirming that the three people were all superpowered and had not been infected or mutated, they hurriedly notified them and sent them to the stop for transporting supplies.

The person sent by the base to contact him was a leader of some importance named Xu Qi, a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, wearing a relatively formal fleece jacket. He came up and shook He Xuan's hand: "Are you here to look for your relatives? I'm very thoughtful."

He handed over the handwritten backup list: "Here is a list of the survivors from different cities around. You can take anyone you like. Take as many as you can."

He brought a solar-powered calculator with him. He reset it to zero and punched in a new number for them: "If you take less than 10 people, we will provide them with 700 kilograms of food per person. If you take 10 to 100 people, we will provide them with 400 kilograms of food per person. If you take more than 100 people, you can take them away directly without paying any resettlement fee."

As he said this, he looked at He Xuan expectantly: "It shouldn't be difficult to find 100 acquaintances among so many people, right?"

He Xuan and the other two: "..."

Why do I feel like this is not a way to pick up people, but a way to pick up some hot potato. The other side can't wait to throw out more people.

Think about it, a working person needs to eat two kilograms of food a day, otherwise he won’t be able to finish so much work if he is not full.

One hundred people eat two hundred kilograms of food a day, which is three thousand kilograms in half a month. The food they transported as a thank-you fee is not as good as solving the food and clothing problems of hundreds of people.

However, He Xuan and the others were not from City D or City C, and did not have that many relatives. In the end, they only looked for the child from Xiangde Village, saying that her biological sister was looking for her.

"Only one person?" Xu Qi was disappointed. "No other relatives?"

He Xuan: "...We are mainly looking for her. As for the others, I'll take a look at the list."

Xu Qi: "Okay, okay! Look carefully, look seriously! Who doesn't have relatives and friends? A hundred people can definitely find them out! In addition, you are not from the H City base, right? H City has been completely flooded and scattered. We don't care which base it is, as long as we can trade. We still have a lot of crystal cores here to buy food and seeds. If you can be responsible for this transaction, let's go into the house and talk."

He Xuan thought about Fu Erdie's request to find out more information and agreed.

At this time, Fu Erdie and Sang Wenhao were on their way to the D City base with a modified box truck that looked like an ordinary cargo box.

The windows of the box truck have been folded inside the box truck, and it looks like an ordinary piece of junk.

The two deliberately got off the bus ten kilometers in advance just to collect dust while walking and make themselves look more dusty, so that they would look more like refugees.

Because she was not sure whether tickets were required to enter City D, Fu Erdie thought about it and decided to put 100 kilograms of food and some warm cotton clothes and quilts in the box car.

Since the potato seedlings had been squeezed dry, Fu Erdie brought out ordinary mutated potatoes without intelligence this time, a total of six plants. They can produce a two-pound potato in the box truck every day, which can be used for emergency purposes.

The two men walked very quickly. After walking five kilometers in twenty minutes, they found that there were already many refugees stationed outside the city with only five kilometers to go.

(End of this chapter)