My Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Levels Up Infinitely! Chapter 126: Leave, plant the fire of hope!
"Why are there babies?"
Su Mo's voice was gritted, but he was afraid of disturbing the women and children inside, so he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and whispered softly.
The latter Chen Shen was also taken aback, and hurriedly said:
"Brother Lu, don't be angry. She was about to give birth when she just came here. With the help of Dr. Song, the baby born in this camp is not directly transmitted..."
Listening to Chen Shen's explanation, Su Mo closed his eyes and did not speak.
After a while, Su Mo turned around and walked out of the nest, and opened the shed of the third nest.
Fortunately, there was only this pregnant woman and child who had just given birth in the entire camp.
"What do you usually eat?"
Stepping down the hillside, looking at the supplies on the ground, Su Mo's tone was no longer heavy and cold.
This time, Chen Shen didn't need to answer. The man who was still sitting on the ground pointed to the materials found next to him, and whispered:
"We usually eat bark and grass roots, and then they will give some muddy water. After cooking, everyone can barely eat half full."
"Then there will be an extra meal every four days. They eat potatoes, and each person can get half of..."
Potatoes?
Somo lowered his body and dug the bag on the ground. Sure enough, the bag was full of potatoes.
Occasionally, there are a few potatoes that have sprouted but not yet rotten.
Sumo is very familiar with this thing. In fact, when he first planted vegetables in the medium, Sumo hesitated whether to plant potatoes, but finally chose to give up.
In the "The Martian" in the Earth Age, almost everyone knew about planting potatoes in large quantities, which is full of food, delicious, many ways, and can survive.
So most time-traveling novels, once encountering insufficient food, almost the solutions proposed are:
Grow potatoes!
Compared to other crops that need to be pampered, potatoes are cold-resistant and full, and the starch inside can provide a lot of calories and nutrients. It is indeed the best crop in this environment.
Combined with the output of a few thousand catties per mu, it seems that everyone thinks it is a kind of fetish.
But Su Mo's reason for giving up is very direct and very real.
Energy is conserved, so the exaggerated yield and nutrition of potatoes must be converted by other energy.
This energy is the fertility of the land in a broad sense!
In general barren land, the potatoes grown are small and the yield is low. Without suitable fertilizers, the yield will continue to be greatly reduced.
And the lessons of history have been clearly told: once a large number of potatoes are planted, once they get sick, they have to die.
"Let's cook it, cook all the potatoes, everyone is talking after a full meal!"
There are still about one and a half bags of potatoes on the ground, and they are distributed to everyone, and they can basically get about two.
Although some potatoes have sprouts and may produce solanine, in this environment, after hearing Su Mo's words, there is no trace of concern on everyone's face.
The sky-shattering cheers rose from the center of the camp. Everyone didn't act immediately. Instead, they bent down and bowed in gratitude collectively, and then started to perform their duties.
Those who looked for pots looked for pots, those who started fires lit fires, and a group of people went to places where no one was around, and came back with handfuls of slightly clean snowflakes.
Every refugee who passed by Somo had a face full of the joy of surviving after the catastrophe, and the joy of having a big meal soon.
One person, two potatoes...
"So this is the simple happiness of ordinary people in the last days?"
Looking at these people, Su Mo suddenly understood the reason why human beings have not been exterminated even after several catastrophes on the earth since ancient times.
"Perhaps, I am a decisive person, but I... definitely am not a cold-blooded person, at least not now!"
Sumo just stood quietly in the middle of the camp.
Seeing the busy people around him, Su Mo even had the idea of pulling all these people back to the base and forming a small camp in an instant.
People are always alone.
Even with the company of Oreos and Sparks, half a month later, after returning to collective life, a sense of community that had disappeared came back again.
This feeling is indescribable.
Even looking at the smiling faces of the same kind, Su Mo couldn't help but want to smile.
"However... my current camp does not solve the food problem at all, and I don't have enough trustworthy people to manage these people. Once they rebel, I have no way to counter!"
Looking at his own law of the end of the world silently, Su Mo's heart that had just warmed up gradually returned to calm.
Anger makes people lose their minds.
Excited, too!
Unless you have a clear understanding of the other person's character and style of doing things, no stranger, except family members, can enter the three-kilometer range of the shelter.
Otherwise, you can only be the enemy!
Standing in the corner, Sumo, who was in a state of contemplation, was like a sculpture, and the four people "Do not enter" were engraved on his face.
Of course, no one will bother you at this time.
The pregnant woman in the ground nest was also helped out by the crowd at this time, and the baby in her arms seemed to feel the cold outside, screaming loudly.
All the men spontaneously formed a circle, protecting the pregnant woman in the middle, until they came to the center of the camp.
The scent of salt volatilized in the water, the round potatoes, and the vigorous firewood below all made the pregnant woman very curious.
On the black face, a pair of eyes full of dead silence also recovered a bit of spirit at this time.
Immediately, she saw Su Mo 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 like a swaying boat in the water, ups and downs.
All the refugees stared at the white gas coming out of the pot and the flames below as if they were possessed.
Looking at the baby, and then at the refugees with a desire for survival on their faces, Sumo walked slowly to the pot that hadn't boiled yet.
With a move by Void, the remaining 200ml of phantom energy water appeared in Su Mo's hands. He lifted the lid of the pot and watched the phantom energy water slowly enter the ground pot.
A scent different from potatoes radiated out, which surprised all the refugees!
No one can refuse the taste of psionic water!
As long as it is the first time to smell it, almost everyone can feel the desire for this smell in their genes!
Looking at Su Mo standing in the middle and putting down the lid of the pot, these people had mixed emotions on their faces.
I am used to seeing the ugliness of human nature, but if there is a person who is a little bit normal, in their eyes, he is no less than an angel.
"It's right to give them a reward for helping me collect saltpeter!" Su Mo said silently in his heart, and at the same time walked out of the camp, he said loudly:
"I'll wait until I get back. These pregnant women and their children will be divided into four. Anyone who dares to **** them will be responsible for the consequences!"
I'm used to eating the food I made in the refuge, this kind of potato can't provoke any change in Sumo's taste and emotion at all.
Everyone watched in awe as Su Mo followed the way he had come, and then fled away from the gate. Xiao Se's back gradually disappeared from sight.
"He's a good guy!"
I don't know who said that, but the others nodded and agreed!
But immediately, as the aroma in the pot became more and more intense, everyone turned their eyes back and stared at the pot feverishly.
...
"Oreo, do you think I should take care of these people? Obviously I have the ability to do something..."
Walking on the snow, Oreo ran over affectionately and rubbed Somo's trousers with his dog's head.
Hearing Su Mo's words, Oreo raised his head, his eyes full of curiosity and puzzlement.
Woof!
Woo!
Immediately, it couldn't figure it out, and showed a humane smile again, puffing out its chest.
"You mean I'm very powerful?" Seeing Oreo's nodding repeatedly, Su Mo laughed, then shook his head again.
"You're wrong, I'm not good, if I were good, I would have brought everyone back to Earth!"
Stopping, Sumo turned his head to look at the camp that still had waves of fire behind him.
This flame, in a single thought, can become a flame that symbolizes hope, and it can also become a hellfire that devours everyone.
Paused, Su Mo's eyes gradually became firm.
Walk all the way back to the nest where the ground tiger is parked, light a fire, and drive the ground tiger out.
Facing the way to the camp, Sumo estimated the time and drove slowly.
The noon sun shines on the car window, and Oreo lies lazily on the passenger seat, showing a satisfied smile from time to time as the terrain rises and falls.
When they drove to the gate of the camp, Su Mo honked the horn, waking up all the refugees inside who were still eating potatoes.
Seeing the ground tiger, the refugees first had a trace of disbelief on their faces, and then they became relieved.
"Bring me all the saltpeter, as well as the treasure chest!" Lying by the car window, Su Mo yelled into the inside.
The refugees who were still eating got the order, put down the potatoes that were still hot in their hands, and started to work.
Piece after piece of saltpeter was moved to the front of the car, and Sumo sucked it into the storage space of the ground tiger.
The treasure chest for killing the Kobold was also stored by Su Mo in the storage space of the game panel.
After all the things were moved, Sumo shook his head as he looked at the refugees who were handing over the potatoes with their masks on.
"Chen Shen, come here!"
He greeted the young man twice and leaned over. Before Su Mo could speak, Chen Shen spoke timidly:
"Brother Lu, are you leaving?"
After a moment of silence, Su Mo didn't answer directly, but instead stretched out his hand and touched Chen Shen's head, looking forward quietly:
"Remember, go out along here, fifty kilometers to the west, there is a human sanctuary, take all the remaining supplies, go, survive!"
After speaking, Su Mo slowly released the brake, and the Land Tiger began to slide forward.
The rubber anti-skid chains brought huge tire marks one after another on the ground, and gradually drove forward.
Hearing Chen Shen's words, all the refugees looked in awe, but also full of hope. They stood at the door and watched Dihu go away.
When the ground tiger disappeared at the end of the horizon and was hard to see any more, these people still stood there blankly.
Suddenly, an exclamation "woke up" everyone:
"Look, what's that?"
Others followed the direction of this person's finger and looked curiously. There seemed to be a bunch of colorful things in the haystack at the gate of the camp~IndoMTL.com~:
Everyone walked over quickly, and among the haystacks, they suddenly found the blood-stained padded jackets that Sumo had collected before.
On the padded jacket, there are two stacks of dead dough pancakes, and a note is sandwiched between the pancakes.
Everyone looked at Chen Shen, and Chen Shen didn't show any timidity. He walked up quickly, picked up the note in the pancake, and after looking at it, he could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes:
"Brother Lu said that joining the refuge in the west is a test for us. If one day, he thinks that we have passed the test, we can join his refuge!"
"Brother Lu...he...is a good man!"
Wow!
Once again, no one proposed, and no one opened their mouths. All the refugees spontaneously knelt on the ground in the direction where the ground tiger was leaving.
Kowtow! Thank you!