Chapter 129 Leave and plant the fire of hope! (Third update)
“Why are there babies?”
Su Mo was a little stunned. He didn’t realize at the first time how the game’s placement mechanism allowed babies to enter together.
Chen Shen from behind quickly explained:
"Brother Su, don't be angry. She was about to give birth when she first traveled through time. With the help of Doctor Song, she was born in this camp. The children born there are not directly transferred here”
Pregnant woman?
Listening to Chen Shen's explanation, Sumo was a little silent and did not speak.
After a while, he turned around and walked out of the den, and opened the shed of No. 3 den.
Fortunately, there was only one pregnant woman and her child who had just given birth in the entire camp.
“What do you usually eat?”
Stepping down the hillside and looking at the supplies on the ground, Somo's tone was no longer heavy or cold.
This time, there was no need for Chen Shen to answer. The man who was still slumped on the ground pointed to the supplies found nearby and whispered:
"We usually eat bark and Grass roots, and then they will give some muddy water. After boiling, everyone can barely eat half full."
"Then there will be a snack every four days, and they will eat potatoes, and each person can get half a meal. .”
Potatoes?
Sumo lowered his body and dug the bag on the ground. Sure enough, the bag was filled with potatoes.
Occasionally, there are a few potatoes that have sprouted but have not rotted among them.
This is something Sumo is very familiar with. In fact, when he first planted vegetables in a medium, Sumo hesitated whether to plant potatoes, but in the end he chose to give up.
Once upon a time in the Earth Age, the movie "The Martian" made almost everyone know that growing potatoes in large quantities is a food that is full of food, delicious, can be cooked in many ways, and can keep you alive.
So in most time-travel novels, once food is insufficient, the solutions almost proposed are:
Plant potatoes!
Compared with other crops that require pampering, potatoes are cold-resistant and filling. The starch in them can provide a lot of calories and nutrients. It is indeed the best crop to grow in this environment.
Coupled with the yield of several thousand kilograms per mu, it seems that everyone thinks it is a magical thing.
But the reason why Sumo gave up was very direct and very real.
Energy is conserved. The exaggerated yield and nutrition of potatoes must be converted by other energies.
This energy is land fertility in a broad sense!
In general barren land, the potatoes grown are small and the yield is low. Without suitable fertilizer, the yield will continue to be greatly reduced.
And the lessons of history clearly tell us: if you grow potatoes in large quantities, once you get sick, you have to finish it.
"Let's cook it. Boil all the potatoes. Let's talk after everyone has a full meal!"
There are about one and a half bags of potatoes on the ground, and they are distributed to everyone. Basically you can get about two.
Although some potatoes have sprouts and may produce solanine, in this environment, after hearing Sumo's words, there was no trace of concern on everyone's faces.
Shocking cheers rose from the center of the camp. Everyone did not take action immediately. Instead, the grateful collective bent down and bowed before starting to perform their duties.
Those who were looking for pots were looking for pots, those who were lighting fires were lighting fires, and a group of people went to uninhabited places and came back with handfuls of slightly clean snowflakes.
Every refugee passing by Somo had a look on their face that showed the joy of surviving the disaster and the joy of having a big meal soon.
Two potatoes per person.
"So this is the simple happiness of ordinary people in the last days?"
Looking at these people, Sumo suddenly understood why, from ancient times to the present, the earth has not been extinct even after several major disasters. human reasons.
"Perhaps, I am a decisive and decisive person, but I am definitely not a cold-blooded person, at least, not now!"
Sumo stood quietly in the center of the camp.
Looking at the busy people around him, for a moment, Sumo even had the idea of bringing all these people back to the base to live in and form a small camp.
People are always lonely.
Even with the company of Oreos and Little Sparks, after half a month passed and I returned to collective life, a sense of community that had disappeared came back again.
This feeling is hard to explain.
Even looking at the smiling faces on the faces of his kind, Sumo couldn't help but want to smile.
“However, my current camp has not solved the food problem at all, and I don’t have anyone I trust enough to manage these people. Once they rebel, I have no way to counterattack!”
Silently looking through his apocalyptic rules, Somo's heart, which had just become heated, gradually returned to calm.
Anger can make people lose their minds.
Excited, the same will happen!
No stranger, except family members, can enter the three-kilometer radius of the shelter before they have a clear understanding of the other person's character and style of doing things.
Otherwise, they can only be enemies!
Standing in the corner, Sumo, deep in thought, was like a sculpture, with the words "No strangers allowed to enter" carved on his face.
Of course, no one will come to disturb you at this time.
The pregnant woman in the nest was also helped out by everyone at this time. The baby in her arms seemed to feel the cold outside and screamed.
All the men spontaneously formed a circle, protecting the pregnant woman in the middle, until they reached the center of the camp.
The aroma of salt evaporating in the water, the round potatoes, and the strong firewood below all made the pregnant woman extremely curious.
On the dark face, a pair of eyes filled with deathly silence also regained some vitality at this time.
Immediately, she saw Somo standing in the corner again, with a trace of expectation on her face.
The firewood is still burning, the water has begun to churn, and the potatoes are rising and falling in the water like a swaying boat.
All the refugees seemed to be possessed, staring closely at the white gas coming out of the pot and the flames below. After looking at the baby, and then at the refugees with longing for survival on their faces, Somo slowly came to the pot that was not yet boiling.
With a move from the void, the remaining 200ml of psionic water appeared in Somo's hand. He opened the lid and watched the psionic water slowly enter the pot.
A scent that was different from potatoes spread out, shocking all the refugees!
No one can resist the taste of psionic water!
As long as they smell it for the first time, almost everyone can feel the desire for this smell in their genes!
Looking at Somo standing in the center and putting down the lid of the pot, these people had a hint of complicated emotions on their faces.
They are used to seeing the ugliness of human nature, but in their eyes, as long as there is a slightly normal person, they are no less than an angel.
"Just think of it as a reward for helping me collect saltpeter!" Sumo thought silently in his heart, and at the same time walked out of the camp and said loudly:
"I will come back later, these Pregnant women and their children must be divided into four potatoes. Anyone who dares to snatch them will do so at their own risk!"
I am used to eating the food I cooked in the shelter, but this kind of potato cannot provoke any change in Somo's taste and mood. .
Everyone watched in awe as Somo walked along the way he came and then walked away from the gate, his bleak back gradually disappearing from sight.
"He is a good man!"
I don't know who said this, but others nodded and agreed!
But then, as the aroma in the pot became stronger and stronger, everyone turned their attention back and stared at the pot feverishly.
"Oreo, do you think I should take care of these people? I obviously have the ability to do something."
Walking on the snow, Oreo ran away affectionately Come over and rub Somo's pants with your dog's head.
Hearing Somo speak, Oreo raised his head, his eyes full of curiosity and confusion.
Woof!
Woo!
Immediately, confused, it showed a human smile and puffed out its chest.
“You mean they are very powerful?” Seeing Oreo nodding his head, Sumo laughed and shook his head in relief.
"Perhaps I underestimated their resilience and courage."
Stop walking, Somo turned his head and looked at the camp where the fire wave was still rising behind him.
This flame, in a single thought, can become a flame that symbolizes hope, or it can become a hellfire that devours everyone.
After a pause, his eyes gradually became firm.
Walked all the way back to the nest where the earth tiger was parked, lit a fire, and drove the earth tiger out.
Facing the road to the camp, Sumo estimated the time and drove slowly.
The midday sun shone on the car window, and Oreo lay lazily on the passenger seat, showing a satisfied smile from time to time as the terrain undulated.
When they drove to the entrance of the camp, Sumo honked the horn, waking up all the refugees inside who were still eating potatoes.
Seeing the tiger, these refugees first had a hint of disbelief on their faces, and then relief.
"Bring me all the saltpeter and the treasure chest!" Somo yelled while lying by the car window.
The refugees who were still eating received the order and quickly put down the still warm potatoes in their hands and started working.
One piece of saltpeter after another was moved to the front of the car, and was sucked into the storage space of Dihu by Somo.
The treasure chest for killing the kobold was also stored by Somo in the storage space of the game panel.
After all the things were moved, Sumo shook his head when he looked at the refugees holding potatoes in their hands and about to hand them over. They were wearing masks.
"Chen Shen, come here!"
After greeting the young man twice, he came over. Before Su Mo could say anything, Chen Shen timidly said:
"Brother Su, are you leaving?"
There was a silence. , Sumo did not answer directly. Instead, he stretched out his hand and touched Chen Shen's head, looking forward faintly:
"Remember, go out along here, fifty kilometers to the west, there are Humanity’s refuge, take all the remaining supplies, go and survive!”
After saying that, Somo slowly released the brakes, and the Dihu began to slide forward.
The rubber anti-skid chains brought up huge tire tracks on the ground, and they slowly drove forward.
Hearing what Chen Shen conveyed, all the refugees looked in awe but also full of hope. They stood at the door and watched the earth tiger go away.
These people still stood there blankly until the tiger disappeared at the end of the horizon and was no longer visible.
Suddenly, a cry "woke up" everyone:
"Look, what is that?"
Others followed the direction of the man's finger and looked curiously. There seemed to be a group of colorful things in the haystack at the entrance of the camp:
Everyone walked over quickly, and among the haystacks, there was something impressive. I found the cotton-padded jackets that Somo had collected before and were stained with blood and had not had time to be washed.
On the cotton-padded jacket, there were two stacks of dead dough pancakes, with a note sandwiched between the pancakes.
Everyone looked at Chen Shen. Chen Shen did not show any timidity. He walked up quickly and picked up the note in the cake. After taking a look, he could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes. :
“Brother Su said that joining the shelter in the west is a test for us. If one day, he feels that we have passed the test, we can join his shelter!”
"Brother Su. He is a good man!"
Wow!
Once again, without anyone suggesting or speaking, all the refugees spontaneously knelt on the ground in the direction where Dihu left.
Kowtow! Thank you!
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(End of this chapter)