Chapter 59 - Machines and Seeds

Wei Xuan had just connected the pile of solar energy, and after sweating all over, he ran to the roof of the next building to observe whether these things would look too conspicuous from above, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He raised his head and looked at the sky. Originally, he could still see the blue sky and white clouds in the early morning sky. Today, he still thought it should be a good weather with clear sky and few clouds, but at this time, the sky looked gloomy. It was only when Wei Xuan raised his head that he realized that the clouds in the sky looked extraordinarily thick at this time, and the wind blowing around was carrying heavy moisture, and a sense of heavy rain was in front of him.

“…Damn! What kind of luck is this?!” Wei Xuan couldn’t help feeling the urge to point his **** at the sky, but fortunately, he still had his senses, so he didn’t make any indecent actions directly. Take a deep breath, the sky is going to rain, and the mother is going to get married, he can’t control God’s body even if he wants to. Now it is better to go downstairs and go home quickly, and continue to organize other things. As for the harvest of solar panels today… let’s wait until the weather clears up.

They hurried downstairs and ran towards the building where they lived. Before the two of them went back, when they were running halfway, there was rumbling thunder in the sky, and they saw that heavy rain was coming.

Wei Xuan, who ran back to the corridor before the heavy rain fell, heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and looked at the sky outside the gate behind him, and was about to express his exclamation, but suddenly found that there seemed to be a small black spot in the sky between several buildings. fly?

Wei Xuan hardly saw any birds in the sky in the last days of the previous life. Of course, this may have something to do with living in a very densely built and narrow base with him for about half of the time. And although he spent at least half of his time wandering outside the base, in order to find supplies and guard against the surrounding situation, he rarely looked up at the sky leisurely.

Therefore, it is normal that he has not seen any birds in the last days in his previous life.

However, he has also heard that there are no flying birds after the end of the world, but mutated flying birds are generally more ferocious. Fortunately, they don’t seem to like to appear in crowded places, so it is often difficult to see them near the base. But once survivors encounter mutated birds in the wild, it will be a war between ferocious creatures, and very few people can survive intact.

Could it be that the mutated birds are flying in the sky now? !

Feeling tense, Wei Xuan quickly took Du Hang’s hand and ran back to the third floor in one breath, took out the binoculars from his backpack, stood in front of the window in the same direction as the entrance of Yulou, and looked out carefully.

The black spot… no, there’s more than one black spot now! But there are as many as three!

What’s more, those black spots are not birds, but – helicopters!

Wei Xuan’s heart tightened, because the base he lived in in his previous life was not a very powerful armed force, so there were no helicopters in the base’s troops, but there were some armored vehicles, so Wei Xuan didn’t know if there were any other bases with this equipment. Now that Wei Xuan saw the three helicopters flying in the sky, it was clear. It seemed that some bases with relatively strong armed forces should indeed have these things.

It’s just that fuel and weapons in the last days are consumables, and they are often gone after they are used up, so even if something is transported between bases, some high-level personnel exchanges generally do not use this kind of flying equipment.

Seeing the three black dots flying from south to north, and completely hidden behind the building, and the raindrops from the sky were falling down one after another, Wei Xuan put down the binoculars and shook his head with a long sigh—look If you go out by yourself after you come, you still need to choose as much as possible at night. Of course, it’s not impossible to go out during the day, but you have to be more careful to imitate the behavior patterns of zombies, so as not to be noticed by this kind of thing that flies around in the sky…

In other words, can the satellites in the sky still be used? If that thing can still be used, I will have even more headaches. Hmm, I don’t seem to have heard that the satellite is also responsible for taking pictures of the ground in the middle of the night, so I’m afraid it will be safer to go out at night in the future?

Rubbing his temples, Wei Xuan felt a little worried, turned around and saw Du Hang standing beside him, and then his mood suddenly improved: “Let’s continue to organize those things.” In any case, he has Du Hang, As long as they live here carefully, the problem shouldn’t be too big.

With the experience of seeing a helicopter, Wei Xuan’s attention to the sky will obviously increase by more than one level when he continues to go out in the future. Of course, he doesn’t need to worry about it for the time being, after all, it has started to rain outside now, even in this kind of weather, he can’t go out and get busy.

However, I have to say that today’s rain fell in a timely manner. Although it rained very frequently for a period of time before, Wei Xuan also accumulated a lot of rainwater during that period and purified it as daily water. But the stored water is still used day by day, and he can’t just consume it without replenishing it.

Seeing that autumn is about to enter, the precipitation in T City in previous years is not too large in autumn and winter, so every extra rain is a very precious opportunity for people like him who are planning to live in a small house for a long time to save water.

At this time, the pots and pots on the top of the houses once again showed their usefulness, catching every drop of rainwater that fell in. At this time, Wei Xuan returned to the room where he lived, and began to assemble the two devices he brought back from his trip this time.

What equipment? Of course the equipment used for farming.

When the group came back on the last day, they brought two small indoor vegetable growers with various functions such as supplementary light and constant temperature. If this thing is placed before the end of the world, it is purely a kind of vegetable growing machine that people who are full and have nothing to do, have space at home, like to toss these things, and usually have time to take care of them at home.

This machine was imported from a foreign country. There were only three finished products in the store that Wei Xuan found. One of them was put in the store as a sample and was smashed in the earthquake. The remaining two were lost all the time. Unattended in the back warehouse.

There are many advantages of this kind of thing, such as neat and tidy appearance, there are several different colors of fill lights that can be adjusted for different types of crops, and there is also a temperature control system, so you don’t have to deliberately toss about the temperature and humidity in the room. Let it adjust the temperature, humidity, water and fertilizer by itself.

But there are also many problems. The biggest problem is that this thing takes up a lot of space. It seems very convenient and beautiful, but it really can’t grow much. Although it looks like it has two floors, the space on the two floors is a bit too small. It’s better to just get some plastic baskets and put them on your balcony!

However, the biggest advantage of this gadget is that it can be used no matter how cold the weather is. As long as it is powered on, it can be used normally even if there is no insulation in the room.

In fact, this thing can only be regarded as a concept product, and it is a device that can only be purchased by a wealthy person who has time and money to adjust their mood. This thing grows some fresh vegetables, which can be eaten at any time when there is no harvest outside.

This is also the main reason why Wei Xuan wanted to carry them back regardless of the high mountains and rivers, otherwise, he would rather buy more plastic baskets for growing vegetables in that store and bring them back.

Moreover, Wei Xuan has some other ideas. Although he knows that after the end of the world, a large number of plants will mutate, or wither and die, or simply mutate into terrifying plants that are inedible or even have attack power. But it is said that there are still many plants that are edible after planting.

Wei Xuan didn’t know what those crops were, so he was going to try to grow them with these two devices in the last days and when there was no shortage of rations.

After all, this thing is placed inside the building, and after getting up every day, you can carefully observe the conditions of the crops inside. It’s much more convenient than planting them in random places in the community, and you don’t have to worry about zombies stepping on the crops by mistake.

After installing and adjusting the equipment, Wei Xuan gnawed at the instruction manual for a long time before he figured out how to adjust the various settings inside. There is also a booklet attached, which describes the temperature and humidity that need to be set for different common vegetables. Listed separately, as long as there are corresponding vegetable seeds or seedlings, they can be planted.

After flipping through it for a while, not to mention, the functions inside seem to be very complete, but the biggest problem at this time is – “There is no seed…” Raising his hand and scratching his head, Wei Xuan felt a little guilty, perhaps because he was worried about his previous life. The reason why his memory of potatoes and carrots is too deep is that since the end of the world, he has never noticed where there are seeds for sale when he went out to collect supplies…

In other words, where are the seeds going to get them?

Wei Xuan was once again speechless and found that he didn’t even know where he could get seeds now… It can’t be blamed on him. He is still a wage earner, he is too busy with work every day, even if he has some time to watch movies and read books at home, and occasionally go out to eat karaoke with his colleagues, but he has never been interested in raising any plants and flowers.

Therefore, his impression of the sources of plants used for decoration in ordinary households before the end of the world is only various flower shops, or stalls selling pots of ornamental flowers in markets and roadside stalls. Maybe there are various crop seeds sold in some markets, and it seems that there are also such things sold in supermarkets, but the specifics…he needs to find it slowly.

After the apocalypse in his previous life, he of course planted potatoes and carrots to make ends meet. After all, these two things were vigorously promoted in the base. But as a young and strong laborer who needs to go out frequently to find supplies, how can he usually have the time to study what else can be planted in the last days?