Chapter 65

If ordinary mutant plants can really be transplanted, and ordinary people can obtain plants by watering and planting them every day, then everyone won’t have to work so hard.

There is no need to eat moldy and spoiled food, no need to worry about whether you will go home hungry and empty-handed tomorrow, and no need to worry about the devastating blow that natural disasters may bring to ordinary food. All you need to do is keep the potted plants of mutant crops in the sun during the day, put them at home at night, or even in the bedroom, and keep an eye on them under your noses. In this way, the wind and rain outside have nothing to do with them.

If all this could really come true, what a happy scene it would be.

When Fu Erdie was thinking this, the others were also excited.

The Spring Festival at the end of January is a very lively day.

Fu Chenghong and Cao Bingqing invited external personnel to the 15th floor to have lunch with the people in Senyu Community.

We prepared a lot of hot pot ingredients together, and also made sesame rice balls and cabbage dumplings.

Fu Erdie doesn't like drinking, but half of the more than 30 people want to drink. They just haven't had the chance before and are afraid of delaying work, so they don't dare to drink. Now during the Spring Festival, when they are resting, Fu Erdie took out several boxes of wine he had collected, especially those that were about to expire, and let everyone drink.

"Just one thing, drink only if you want to, don't force yourself to drink."

A bolder external employee laughed and said, "I'm afraid that others will snatch my wine and make me drink less, so how can I persuade them?"

Everybody laughed.

The lunch gathering lasted until two or three o'clock.

Granny Zhang and little Zhang Guya were originally cleaning up the dishes and wanted to pour out the hot pot soup base, but they were asked by an outside staff and asked for it, hoping to cook a few more dishes privately and have a few more meals.

Granny Zhang understood and allowed those who wanted to pack up the soup base to take away.

Upon seeing this, Fu Erdie took out a few bags of hot pot base and pickles and distributed them to the external staff as New Year's "red envelopes", which caused a round of cheers of surprise and the discussion continued even when they returned to the 14th floor.

One person couldn't help but sigh: "It's such a pity. We will eventually finish this power generation system. When we return to the base in City D, everything will start all over again."

The people around him also felt uncomfortable when they heard this.

Who wouldn't want to leave after staying here for a month? Not to mention the food that you can eat every day, the air here is much fresher than outside, the lights can be turned on anytime, the water you can use every day to take a shower, and the easy work that takes seven or eight hours a day to finish and rest...

One by one, every one of them, they all cherish it.

Among the 22 external workers, 5 were engaged in cement wall repair. They became nervous when the topic was mentioned: "The buildings in the community have been repaired. In order to avoid being evicted, we have already started painting the walls. But after all the walls have been painted and the exterior has been completely refurbished, we will have to leave."

"It's frustrating..." a colleague from the cement group next to me sighed, "I even wanted to work slower and stay here longer. But that green radish leaf that looks like a banana leaf keeps hanging around. It's too scary. I don't dare to be lazy at all."

"Sometimes I wonder if these plants had hands, they could do all the work we do."

"Who says it's not?"

The external staff returned to their rooms chatting in a hurry, while Fu Erdie and the others took a short rest on the 16th floor and then began to prepare ingredients for a big meal in the evening.

Fu Erdie suddenly had an idea and decided to go to the pig, sheep, chicken and duck farms. Maybe he could find some mutated animals and have the house use "treatment" to filter out the adverse mutations or disease problems in the animals, and then slaughter them and eat them after they were cured.

Not to mention, during the half month that Fu Erdie went to the city to clear out the zombies, she actually saw quite a few mutant dogs and cats.

They were ordinary mutations, not zombies, and they had not evolved into crystal cores like those of mutants. They were similar to ink and big yellow chickens, so Fu Erdie ignored them.

If you go to a farm now, you might encounter one.

Seeing Fu Erdie getting ready to make a move, grandma quickly pulled him back and said, "Don't be idle and mess around during the Spring Festival. We still have canned food, and there are a lot of them that are about to expire. Let's eat the canned food quickly, and then we can think of other things."

So that evening, everyone had another big meal, and finally sat together to watch a family movie that they had downloaded earlier. This was how they celebrated the most important holiday of the year.

Fu Erdie and Sang Wenhao also officially became together on this day.

There was no solemn confession, no flowers and candies, and no prepared touching lines.

They just wore warm coats, sat on the edge of the roof, looked at the ruined city and the Li River, whose water level was still very high, and kissed unexpectedly.

Under the moonlight, Fu Erdie put her arms around the man's waist and dropped him from the 24th floor, doing a free fall bungee jumping without a rope.

The cold wind whistled past their ears, the rooftops of the tall buildings quickly receded, and the surging adrenaline and huge throbbing intertwined, blending into a sad yet gorgeous doomsday music.

When they were about to hit the ground on the third floor, the metal sheet used its strength to slow down the two people, and the fleshy and thick fleshy leaves stretched out at the right time to catch the people and bounce them up again like a trampoline.

Fu Erdie found it fun, so she pulled Sang Wenhao's hand and bounced on the succulent leaves.

Seeing this, the other plants also came over and rubbed the director and the gardener like a ball, and occasionally threw them into the sky.

Feeling the free falls and the contact with the leaves of plants again and again, Fu Erdie laughed out loud with great relief.

When the people upstairs heard the sound, they leaned out of the window to look and were terrified for a moment.

Especially Cen Xiyang, who knew that these plants were actually independent and not controlled by butterflies, broke out in a cold sweat.

Only Fu Erdie was not worried at all.

She trusted the plants, trusted Sang Wenhao, trusted the house, and trusted her own very strong body which was at the fourth level and was about to break through to the fifth level.

“That’s great.”

When being thrown to the highest point of the parabola again, Fu Erdie looked at the bright moon in the sky, with the refracted light of the moon imprinted in his eyes.

Have a good night.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Fu Erdie and Sang Wenhao took an ordinary metal box and went to all the farms they could find within a radius of 30 kilometers.

This time they did not bring the house with them, but used a metal box as large as possible to travel, intending to take with them all the animals they saw that had not turned into zombies, as many as they could. Those that could mate would be kept to give birth, and those that could not mate would be slaughtered and eaten.

But maybe it was because it was winter, the animals were hiding and didn't want to come out. I ran around for a whole morning and only found a goose. I tied it up, sealed its beak, and threw it into the box and continued walking.

Passing by the Li River, Fu Erdie suddenly said, "Let's go to the river and see if we can catch any fish?"

With a change of thought, the two went to the river to check the situation.

The river water is polluted, and there are many dead fish and corpses. The remaining fish and aquatic plants all have some mutated scavenging characteristics.

When I looked over, I saw that the corpse floating on the water was surrounded by all kinds of algae and various extremely ugly fish.

There was something like mold on the fish's body, and there were hairy flocs everywhere.

In addition, there are mouths of various shapes. Many mouths are not in the front in the conventional sense, but on the top of the head or on the cheeks, like a 3D version of "Peppa Pig".

Fu Erdie: “…”

These fish all look easy to catch.

But she was disgusted.

After a quick look, he decided that it was not something he could eat, so he took the goose to look for other land livestock farms.

We were lucky in the afternoon and found many edible chickens, ducks and geese in a larger farm. After changing to another place, we even found a sheep. We returned home with a full load and had a whole sheep feast in the evening.

However, during the routine communication with the D City base at 20:00, Fu Erdie received some not-so-good news.

"Cao Yuanbai had a fight with someone."

It's only the second day of the Spring Festival, why did my cousin get into a fight with someone?

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Thinking about the food that he asked the person in charge of City D to bring back a few days ago, as well as the request to the person in charge of the cement factory there to take care of Cao Yuanbai, Fu Erdie had some guesses.

The person in charge of the telegraph machine now has changed from Professor Zhao at the beginning to my aunt Cao Rui, who has temporarily learned how to use Morse code.

At this time, Cao Ruiwu was extremely worried and could not sit still.

Fu Erdie calmed her down and said, "Send a message over there to ask if Cao Yuanbai is injured. If not, the telegram is too slow to tell clearly. I'll go to the D City base tomorrow to tell you."

Cao Rui nodded quickly.

Knowing that Cao Rui, Fu Erdie and others were anxious, they gave a general description of the situation.

More than a month ago, when Fu Erdie took her grandmother and aunt away, she left 40 kilograms of food for her cousin Cao Yuanbai. But the food was lost within seven days.

Cao Yuanbai kept insisting on it and didn't make a big deal out of it.

On New Year's Eve, when he was halfway through his work, the person in charge of the cement factory received the Spring Festival gift sent by Fu Erdie, and also sent over Cao Yuanbai's new 40 kilograms of grain.

Cao Yuanbai was naturally happy, and this time he thought he had chosen a more secluded place to hide.

But his food was still gone.

Now he got angry and started making a scene, telling all the survivors that whoever found the food would own it, but the person who stole the food must be found, otherwise no one would have a good life.

If he couldn't find it, he would keep an eye on everyone every day, and if anyone ate better that day, he would make a fuss and let everyone know.

With this half threat and half inducement, everyone started looking.

Since everyone at the base eats, lives and works together, they all know exactly how much time each person has for activities every day and what their activities are at work. So after finding food in the activity area and checking each other's statements and movements, the thread of stealing food becomes clear.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Cao Yuanbai got the food and immediately found a dead tree near a stone transportation route and hid the food among a lot of debris and garbage under the tree.

In the afternoon, three people among the ordinary people asked for leave, all of them were sick. Two of them were lying at home, visibly too weak to move. The other one asked for leave because of "hand cramps."

After work in the evening, Cao Yuanbai went to check the place where he had stored the grain. He found nothing wrong and ate cucumbers and zucchini happily.

As a result, on the third day, which was the second day of the Chinese New Year, he wanted to check the fruit at the bottom of the food box, but found that This is why he made a scene without caring about anything and found food in the area where his good brother Xiao Feng passed by when he went to work.

Coincidentally, Xiao Feng is also the only person who has taken leave and is in good health in the two or three days from the afternoon of New Year's Eve to now.

So the case was solved in this way, and Cao Yuanbai and Xiao Feng started fighting.

Ironically, since Cao Yuanbai's previous food was also stolen by Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng's current physical strength and health condition are better than Cao Yuanbai's. At first, he felt guilty and was punched a few times, but later he turned the tables and beat Cao Yuanbai to the ground.

While beating him, he shouted, "The whole family relies on your cousin to sell her body to get out, what are you doing all day long! Ah? She can't take care of herself, and she gives you some food to feed a beggar, don't you know what's going on?! You have food but you don't take the initiative to share it with your brothers, and you still have the nerve to call me brother? Pah!"

"I'm telling you, the situation has already been exposed. Everyone knows that you have the food given by your sister. Unless you get out of the base right away or ask your sister to pick you up, if you take a batch of food, everyone will grab a batch. Let's see what you can do!"

The person next to him who originally wanted to help Cao Yuanbai hesitated.

Naturally, Cao Yuanbai was right in this matter, but how he was right... had nothing to do with these onlookers.

If it weren't for this incident, they would not have known that Cao Yuanbai's cousin still sent him food every month.

If his cousin was thinking about him and had the energy to take him away, she would have done so long ago.

Since he is here, it means he can only be here. And if these hungry people want to eat more in the future, won't they have to steal or rob? Although they haven't made up their minds to kill this person every day, for a while, the evil thoughts prevailed and no one moved. Until the person in charge heard the noise and came over, and some flying catkins floated into Xiao Feng's mouth, making him cough, and there was no time to fight anymore, Cao Yuanbai left the battlefield with a bruised face.

There are people with healing abilities in the base, and one of them has a good relationship with Xu Qi, who is in charge of communicating with the Senyu community. He knows that this base is somewhat special and values ​​Cao Yuanbai, his younger brother who is still cultivating his mind, so he quickly healed the man's serious wounds. The rest were not treated because the level of this healing system is not high and the abilities are limited.

So when Fu Erdie arrived at the base in City D on the third day of the New Year, she saw her cousin covered in blood and looking like he was about to die.

She pulled the man into the box truck, and while treating him, she flew to where Xiao Feng was working and snapped her fingers above Xiao Feng's head.

The next moment, white fluff came out of Xiao Feng's mouth, eyes and nose, and his whole body began to swell up. However, he could not make any sound because something was blocking his throat. In the end, he couldn't even scream before he exploded.

However, the way it exploded was also very strange.

There was no blood, only flying catkins that looked like dandelions when a down pillow was slashed and burst open.

Not to mention other people who were stunned, even Cao Yuanbai, who was still crying in the car, was stunned.

"Sister...Sister, aren't you an ordinary person?"

Fu Erdie looked at her friend.

Cao Yuanbai choked in shock, and after a long while he said, "Isn't this the plant system? Damn, you're my sister! You're so handsome!"

(End of this chapter)