Chapter 30 - hope and food

During this trip, among the water purifiers that Wei Xuan and Du Hang brought back were those with electricity and filters. The kind that uses electricity is said to purify pure water without any impurities (minerals will also be thoroughly purified). Drinking for a long time may not be good for the human body, and it will also produce waste water. However, another type of purification device relies on various filter elements and filter elements, and these filter elements must be replaced after a period of use. So Wei Xuan decided to use them together.

That is, he runs the two devices together while treating the water, then mixes the treated water into the same bucket…

This means that he has the time, leisure and equipment to make such a fuss, but if other survivors find out, everyone will definitely want to kill him directly.

After he piled up all the newly acquired things in a certain room, Wei Xuan finally heaved a long sigh of relief, moving his sore shoulders and sighing: “Finally, I can rest for a while.”

Most of the supplies he needs to collect have already been collected. In addition, although there are still some things that need to be brought back sporadically, those are not in a hurry for the time being. When there is time later and the weather is not particularly hot, there is still time to get them. . Now, the two of them have finally ushered in the post-apocalyptic days when they can settle down in relative stability and take a good rest to tidy up their “homeland”.

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An earthquake has brought many newly built survivor bases to another test. Many people were slightly or seriously injured in the earthquake, but fortunately, because the magnitude of the earthquake was not large and there were no tall buildings in the survivor base, they calmed down after the initial panic. .

Because these survivors originally escaped from the city, many of the base builders themselves were people from the military and political circles before the end of the world, and they may not be able to grasp the key point for a while on how to deal with the zombified world, but How to deal with post-disaster reconstruction issues, but there are many experienced people and experts among them.

Quickly make preparations for rain and epidemic prevention, and carry out secondary repairs on the bases that have not yet been established. Many large bases quickly use the large number of earth-type supernatural beings found in the military to cooperate with some reinforced concrete. Very strong buildings and walls.

The largest survivor base around T City was completed quickly at this time, and the strict militarized management made it possible for the people living in it not to face the days of being exposed to the rain and the sun after encountering several crises in succession. .

After the relatively complete survivor base stabilized, it also began to consider some other issues. For example, how to organize people to enter the city to rescue supplies, such as how to go to the farmland to harvest or sow food. Faced with the problem of feeding a large number of survivors in a base, there is no doubt that the most important thing is to quickly rescue and take care of the nearby farmland. In comparison, although they are eager for the supplies in the city, they are really unable to send troops into the city to rescue them.

Therefore, after discussions among many base executives, they came up with a method that can achieve both—dividing the troops in the base into two parts, one part is responsible for reclaiming the surrounding farmland and quickly confirming the status of the crops in the field. If the existing crops can be harvested before the low season, they must be cleaned up quickly and crops with short growth times and high yields should be planted. The other part of the force is mainly responsible for protecting the base and escorting the team to the farmland, trying to ensure the safety of the base and personnel.

At the same time, the base issued tasks to the survivors in the base. Except that the old, young, women and children could stay in the base to participate in some daily construction and cleaning work in the base, the base began to encourage young adults to go out to collect supplies. The base only collects part of the collected materials, and the rest can be handled by the personnel who go out. People who are willing to go out to do tasks are eligible to live in the safer inner city after returning.

As soon as this regulation came out, many people who hurried out of the city and had no time to bring any supplies when they fled for their lives were moved.

The city is so big, they don’t need to enter the inner city to find anything and come back.

Some people even went out to look for food and supplies after arriving at the base because they had no supplies. They were relatively familiar with this job. City scavengers.

The military also stated that those who are willing to go out to do missions can exchange some urgently needed materials in the base for firearms and ammunition. Although only some firearms with less power and shorter range are allowed to be exchanged, they are still better than empty hands!

In this way, most of the people who already had some supplies in their hands simply went to exchange for a few and came back to have fun, and relying on these items to pull up teams to leave the base and start looking for all useful things around the city…

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In the city, there are also some survivors who escaped the previous earthquake disaster. People who had already run out of water and food finally couldn’t help but began to go out one after another to see if they could find some food and water.

Due to the previous earthquake, many of the zombies entrenched in various living areas wandered out of the community where they first stayed, and most of them are wandering on the streets at this time. Coupled with the washing of the rain, many clever people found some toilet water and sprayed perfume all over their heads and faces, trying to avoid revealing the possibility of being discovered by zombies.

Unexpectedly, these methods can actually play a certain role-as long as the zombies are not too close to them, the strange aroma mixed with them can be fooled!

Some people hurriedly searched for food and drinks in the surrounding shops, but many people found out in despair when they arrived at those places—as long as the supermarkets and shops in the city were slightly larger, the shelves in the shops were almost all empty! They dare not enter the deeper places where zombies hang around! How to survive like this? !

“Huh? Do you think the grass grows a bit strange?” Two survivors who found nothing were looking around anxiously for shops that might still have food. One of them suddenly pointed to the green belt in the middle of the road and walked towards the other. asked the man.

“What’s strange? Isn’t it all grass?” The man was a little impatient, “What time is it, do you still have time to look at the grass?”

The man hurriedly said: “No! I mean, the grass is dead in other places, why is it so weird and still grow a lot here? And the leaves of that thing don’t look like the grass you usually see!”

The other person looked in the direction of his fingers, and suddenly realized that the appearance of those things was indeed different from the grass sown in ordinary green belts.

“…What if I can eat it?”

“Don’t be the kind of plant that can beat people! Do you remember? In the next neighborhood, there is a willow tree that has turned into a spirit? All the branches have turned red, and anyone who walks by it will slap people!”

“It’s so short, even if it can eat people, it can only bite me at most… I can’t bear it anymore, even if it’s bark, I have to eat my fill first!” The man gritted his teeth and stepped into the green belt a few steps. He bent over and pulled up on that spot.

Not long after, a surprised voice sounded: “Potato! It’s a little potato!”

Who grows potatoes in the green belt? Did this thing exist before the end of the world, or did it appear by accident after the end of the world?

The two of them had no time to think about this question, and they had no time to think about it. They had to hurry up and dig out these potatoes before the zombies wandered back and bring them home! This is food, real food! Even if they are smaller in size and fewer in number, they are still good things to eat!

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“It’s sprouting! It’s sprouting!”

A burst of cheers sounded from the roof. Although the distance was a bit far away, it still attracted the zombies below to look up in this quiet neighborhood.

The “bridges” that appeared inexplicably were built between the roofs of several high-rise buildings. They didn’t seem very strong, but they were built at a height that these zombies couldn’t reach. Even if there are zombies with special abilities among them, and they have the ability to launch fireballs and wind blades, they will definitely not be able to hit the roofs of more than ten or twenty floors.

A few days ago, some pots and tanks were placed on the roofs of the high-rise buildings to store rainwater, but today, the few remaining residents in the buildings are actually on the roofs, which have not been built for a long time. Something grows in the flower pot!

They don’t grow many things, not many types, and not many quantities, but now, in these days when there is no tomorrow, and there is no next meal, this little bit of greenery can be a life-saving thing !

“Grandma Yu, when will this thing grow?” A man wearing glasses looked expectantly at an aunt beside him.

Grandma Yu could only shake her head: “Potatoes may grow in three to four months. I don’t know about small tomatoes, mung beans and red beans.”

“Alas… It’s a pity that the quantity of these things we brought is too small, otherwise, if we plant all these roofs, we won’t have to worry about food in the future!” Another person sighed.

“It’s not bad. There are only a few dozen people left in our large community, and the collected materials. When these things grow up, we will set aside the seeds that can be used as seeds next year. The days to come You can count on it.”

“Next year… I don’t know what will happen next year…”

Thinking of the future life, thinking of the countless excited zombies waving their arms downstairs, everyone became decadent again.

“I don’t know if Xiao Liu and the others have left the city…” a person muttered in a low voice.

The rest of the people also fell into silence.