Shen Tangtang stepped on the dry sweet potato vines, listening to the sound under her feet, and she didn't feel bored at all.
However, the sun in the sky was becoming increasingly scorching, forcing her to quickly walk into the forest to carry out today's work.
This place is close to the safe city, so there are a lot of people scavenging. Everyone checks on their own, and there is almost one person every 20 meters.
The sounds of exclamations, excitement, frustration, and arguments echoed through the woods, but of course, there was mostly numb silence. If they found food, they wouldn't go hungry for the day. If they couldn't find food, they could only pray that they could survive until tomorrow.
Shen Tangtang picked up a wooden stick on the ground and knocked it around. Although she saw that the old leaves of wild vegetables had been inspected many times by other scavengers, she would inspect the newly grown tender leaves as well.
After busying around for half an hour, Chen Tangtang's backpack was still empty.
The edible wild vegetables had already been picked by the early-rising scavengers, and the rest were discarded products that had been screened by many pairs of eyes.
Feeling hungry, Shen Tangtang took out a nutrient solution worth 25 points from the space, looked at the milky white liquid in the glass tube, and finally replaced it with an expired nutrient solution.
She should just take the 3-point nutritional supplement! She only changed two, and she didn't dare to show off in the wild.
Hiding from the crowd, she drank half a bottle and touched her stomach. Her appetite was getting bigger and bigger. This nutritional supplement could keep an ordinary person full for two meals, but she only felt half full after drinking half a bottle.
Finish the whole tube of nutritional supplement, put the tube into the space, and return the empty tube to the redemption hall to exchange for 0.5 points each. Points should be spent and saved.
Shen Tangtang came out from the bushes, checked the time, avoided the sight of people around her, and walked into the mountains.
[Test results show that the radiation level of purslane is 33%, making it edible.]
The first harvest after entering the mountains, Shen Tangtang looked at the large cluster of purslane in front of her excitedly, feeling that a large number of wild vegetables were rushing towards her.
[Test results show that the radiation level of purslane is 60%, making it inedible.]
[Test results show that the radiation level of purslane is 57%, making it inedible.]
[Test results show that the radiation level of purslane is 40%, making it edible.]
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Many purslane leaves with low radiation values appeared one after another. It took Chen Tangtang more than an hour to test all the purslane on the ground. He weighed the sack and found that there were 23 leaves, which must weigh more than 130 kilograms.
As expected, there are many harvests in the deep mountains. Everyone is afraid of mutant beasts and dare not go deep into the forest. Only people with special abilities can venture into the forest. However, people with special abilities are arrogant and they don’t lack food. Naturally, there are many wild vegetables in the deep mountains that no one has tested.
Isn't this a bargain for her?
Shen Tangtang's eyebrows curved, she tightened the mouth of the sack and put it into the backpack she was carrying. She believed that no one outside would know what was inside.
Continue into the woods.
The dandelion has yellow flowers, and the flower stalk on the other side of the flower is the dandelion seed that is ready to float in the wind. The flower stalk is hollow inside and straight outside, with tiny hooks on it.
Shen Tangtang cut off the flower stem, picked the flowers, and squatted down to examine each petal.
When the 8th petal was detected, I finally saw the pleasant information.
[Test results show that the radiation level of dandelion flowers is 39%, making them edible.]
The petals are twice the size of your palm, and the two-centimeter thickness shows how plump and sweet they are.
I broke off the Chen Tangtang and cut a piece into my mouth. The thick gelatinous juice was wrapped in the sweet floral fragrance. It burst in my mouth as soon as I bit it. Before I knew it, a whole petal was in my mouth.
After testing all the remaining petals, I only got two palm-sized petals, which were much smaller than the one I just ate.
After putting them into the space, I continued to check the leaves, with the main goal of plucking all the dandelion family.
The rest of the journey was smooth. The wild vegetables in the mountains grow regardless of the season. Along the way, we found wild vegetables such as bracken, motherwort, and gray moss.
No matter how tall and fat the fern grows, as long as the ears do not fall apart, they are extremely fresh and juicy, without any fiber.
Chen Tangtang only needed to cut a hole at the bottom and test the sample to know the radiation value, so it took only two hours to easily get 136 ferns.
Motherwort has a strong smell, which made Chen Tang sneeze several times during the test, but the harvest was also good, and he got about 50 kilograms of leaves.
The gray-gray vegetable is very strange. It grows like a small tree, with leaves hanging down and white powder falling all over the ground.
Chen Tangtang actually didn't know that this thing was edible. She just saw the leaves and checked them out of habit. Who would have thought that it was an edible vegetable.
As the sky gradually darkened, it became noticeably darker in the forest.
Shen Tangtang checked the time and was shocked to realize that it was already past 5 pm.
I didn't realize how much time passed while I was checking the wild vegetables. If I hadn't sensed some stirring around me and looked up, I wouldn't have known how late it was.
I picked up the backpack next to me, which still contained the purslane that I had tested before. The wild vegetables I found later were all stored in the space, so I could go back lightly.
Shen Tangtang arrived at the outer woods smoothly. The lively scene in the morning was gone, and through the gaps between the trees she could see figures of people returning from the path in the distance.
Shen Tangtang walked very fast. The 130-pound wild vegetables on her back felt light and she naturally followed the group of scavengers returning to the city.
"Old Meng, have you heard? One of the refugees living outside the city had his head pecked open by a strange bird last night. When he was found, his brain had been sucked dry."
"Ah~ That's so scary! When did a strange bird appear in our Dawn City? How did you hear about it? This is too scary! Now no one dares to leave their children home alone."
"Oh, you guys heard about this too. I got goosebumps when I heard about it this morning. I heard that his child had to pee last night and didn't want to disturb his parents' rest, so he peed right in front of his own door, and he died as a result."
"What a sin! This hasn't happened before. Could it be the refugees from Shengcheng and Wucheng who brought them here? I heard that the first thing that broke into Wucheng was man-eating birds."
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Shen Tangtang walked at the back, listening to all the sounds around her, skipping over all the sighs and complaints, and finding out what information she could gather.
A strange bird that eats children's brains appeared in Dawn City?
Shen Tangtang felt that this matter might not be so simple. Although there were many forests in Dawn City, the birds in the mountains would attack the Safe City because they could not find food in the cold season. She had never heard of birds coming out to harm people in the autumn.
Maybe it had happened before, but she hadn't heard of it. If it had happened before, she would have heard something about it. But last night, even the scavengers knew about it, so it was no different from being known to everyone. It could only have been brought here by the latest refugees.
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