Chapter 77
After the brothers who were going out of the city for inventory came out, they shook hands with each other, knowing that it would be difficult for them to reunite again in this life, so they parted ways.
When Zhao Xiaolu and Qin Huai's respective boyfriends got the news and ran out in a rage, they only saw a group of people leaving on bicycles.
The two men returned to the city cursing, but were blocked at the door and couldn't get in.
Because "your wives have registered, taken away your supplies for leaving the city, and crossed out your names on the roster of the Anshi base."
They both: “…”
Shit! We got cheated! Zhao Xiaolu and Qin Huai rode their bicycles, carrying dozens of kilograms of food and luggage on the back seat and set off.
They had no burden about cheating people before leaving. After all, they had been in Anshi base for more than half a year, and the protection fees they paid to their two boyfriends were 20 to 30 kilograms every month. In total, they had taken away at least 150 kilograms of food.
They were so hungry that they had no energy every day, but they had the money to eat, drink, gamble and have sex. Taking away their 20 kilograms of food now would just be a way to vent their anger.
Even if they did nothing, they would be abandoned by the base and driven out naked after a few days of doing nothing. The situation at that time would be exactly the same as it is now, or even worse than it is now.
After all, when the base is officially occupied by powerful psychics, they will not be as merciful as the current leadership.
The two men worked in the workshop for more than half a year. They took maps from the warehouse and copied them with pens.
After deciding to leave An City, they further refined the map they had been copying for half a year, and only now did they finally have a clearer and more specific map.
They planned to return to City C, the city they were most familiar with since they grew up.
Due to the zombie tide, many zombies have left their original cities and headed for major bases. So relatively speaking, many city centers that were originally crowded with zombies have become empty.
Without the protection of the base, Zhao Xiaolu and the other person are not psychics and do not know how to farm. If they do not seek cooperation or protection, they can only sit and wait for death.
According to what we have learned in the past six months, many large bases are built in relatively remote suburban areas with power stations. However, when choosing a location, small groups of psychics still prefer to choose cities.
Because most of the food for the small groups of psychics comes from the plant psychics in the team. They don't have high requirements for the location of plant growth. As long as they are given a seed and a small flower bed, they can grow the crops that the team members want to eat.
When the location is chosen in the city, the small group of psychics can choose various supplies more conveniently, and can also directly obtain various scraps that are inconvenient and not worth moving after being looted, such as pots and pans, or iron rods and shovels that can be used for combat.
They built their own living quarters in some corners of the city and took turns to keep watch at night. They went to the city not expecting to seek refuge, but only hoping that when some special ability teams lacked people to repair various tools, they could fill in and exchange for supplies.
For example, bicycles, the most common means of transportation in the apocalypse, may suffer various kinds of damage on a daily basis. If the psychic team does not have someone who can repair or replace them, they may need to replace the bicycles frequently, and then they will be scrapped continuously, causing a lot of waste.
Qin Huai can handle the bicycle issue.
Some groups of people with special abilities brought solar panels, storage batteries, matching power banks, etc.
These relatively precise parts can be repaired by Zhao Xiaolu.
Each of them has their own skills and division of labor. If they form a maintenance team and go to the city to recommend themselves, they may be able to exchange food with these psychics.
In fact, it is not impossible for them to go to other cities outside City C, but relatively speaking, they escaped from City C, and are relatively familiar with this route and general direction. Even if they get lost, they can vaguely find some traces from their memory by looking at some road signs, so they will not lose their direction all of a sudden and then get lost on the highway, national road or wilderness.
They don't have much food, so they have to get back to the city as quickly as possible while avoiding the zombies. At the same time, they have to pray that the zombies in the city have gone to the major bases because of the zombie tide instead of staying in the city.
June is the most exciting month for the people in the entire D City Base since the end of the world.
Because they gradually received the mutant crops distributed by the base.
Most of them are potatoes and sweet potatoes, and a small part are various fruits and vegetables.
No matter what they got, people carefully maintained it under the guidance of the base, and finally after more than ten days, they obtained various crops produced by the plants here.
For the first time, the people of City D knew that crops could be produced so quickly! It was also the first time they knew... that crops could be produced every day!
The base said that this is a mutated crop created by the butterfly gardener's supernatural power, and it can produce an average of about one kilogram of food per day.
But the power of the people is strong. After they discovered the magic of mutant crops, they worshipped them like Buddha every day. They also improved the pots for crops by making holes in the bottom of the plastic pots to leave space for the roots to extend out. Then they used a simple rack to put the pots in a larger bucket. This bucket will hold all kinds of waste that can be processed and absorbed by the plants.
The most common is the natural excrement of each person every day, followed by various garbage generated by the base on a daily basis, such as the remaining slag after the thermal power plant burns the garbage, the unusable fragments screened out from the gravel yard, the residue of the surrounding plant branches and leaves destroyed by various attacks caused by the psychics belonging to the current leadership faction of the base practicing their superpowers every day, and so on.
People would look for anything that could feed the mutated crops from all directions, put these things in buckets under the potted plants, and wait for the crops to clean up all the residue.
Since we know that crops can absorb plastic, all kinds of discarded broken and unusable plastics have become nutrients that allow mutant crops to digest over a long period of time.
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When all the garbage in the base has been searched through, everyone will form groups to look for garbage outside the city.
There has been no warning of a zombie wave recently. The scattered zombies around are being cleaned up at any time by some guys called intelligent mutant plants, so it is relatively safe for people to go out.
Due to various factors, the mutant crops that arrived at the base in City D were very well taken care of, and the average daily output increased from one kilogram to about 12 kilograms per day.
At the end of June, the four batches of mutant crops shipped from the butterfly garden had already reached everyone. Everyone was ecstatic about raising the crops, and they worked harder every day.
The base no longer needs to spend a lot of time on farming. The 10,000 people originally used for farming have all been assigned to other jobs, such as the transportation of stone, coal, and garbage, as well as fabric weaving, raw material processing, clothing and quilt making, bamboo tube bowl making, etc., which greatly shares the work of the other 20,000 people.
Thirty thousand people can now take on the workload of twenty thousand people. Those tasks that could not be completed even if you had to get up early or work late can now basically be completed in eight standard working hours a day.
Less work meant less food demand. Every day they ate the produce from the mutant crops in their hands, and drank a bowl of rice porridge given to them by the base in the morning and evening. They were full all day, eating clean and satisfying food, and their physical condition improved visibly.
Several healing psychics at the base also ate a lot of fresh and healthy fruits and vegetables. Since they no longer needed to prepare their superpowers at all times to deal with foreign psychics who might be injured at any time, they could devote their energy to treating a limited number of people with serious physical injuries every day.
Except for some people whose old age diseases could not be cured, most serious diseases were well relieved, including those caused by water pollution, which were well controlled.
The base has opened pipelines from the surrounding rivers to the accommodation area within the base, so river water can be used to irrigate mutant crops and for bathing more conveniently.
With the help of a healing psychic, people don't have to worry too much about bathing. If the body is seriously ill due to the river water, the healing psychic can provide timely treatment.
Just like that, in just one month, the D City base had become completely prosperous.
As for the Butterfly Garden, which is also known as the Senyu Community, it has undergone considerable changes over the past month.
Because the supernatural power station on the roof of Building No. 6 has officially started generating electricity! When Zhuang Licheng, an engineer with electrical supernatural powers, hit the supernatural power access port of the power station with all his strength and injected tens of millions of volts of voltage, the huge battery was fully charged and then input into Building No. 6, Building No. 7... and the entire community of ten apartment buildings. At night, Senyu Community was completely and completely lit up! (End of this chapter)