East China Sea.

Minami Pier Island is an uninhabited island formed by a volcanic eruption, and the magma spewed out formed neatly arranged basalt columns during the condensation process.

There is nothing else on the island, it is all made up of these stone pillars, it is said that there are more than 1.4 million, the whole body is dark green, looking from afar, like a piece of black jade embedded in the blue sky and blue sea.

It's not far from the shore, so it's barely a scenic spot, but after the environment deteriorates, along with the surrounding seas, it stretches all the way to the land, and it has become a paradise for marine alien beasts - that is, the legendary Southeast Dead Sea.

Death does not refer to the sea, but to death.

"Click!"

"Click!"

In a cave on the outskirts of the island that has been eroded by the sea, water droplets dripping from time to time, and Xiao Zhai is wandering slowly. The cave appears to lead straight into the belly of the island, and the walls and top are covered with thick basalt columns, which extend from the stone forest above.

The island has long been occupied by all kinds of creatures, but the cave is deserted. Of course, this doesn't mean it's safe, but it means that there's a better guy here.

Xiao Zhai was neat, and after walking for a short time, he reached the deepest part of the cave. I saw a huge black figure shrinking inside, with its head buried in its body, and it was sleeping soundly.

"Smack!"

She kicked a pebble and flew over, slamming into the scaly shell.

Rumble!

The black shadow was awakened, and there was a sound like a millstone turning, and its body slowly flipped over, revealing four nightlight-like eyes.

"Hey!"

Xiao Zhai beckoned.

"Roar!"

The other party was stunned at first, and then he was furious, and as soon as his body was stretched, a sea beast that looked like a fish and a lizard and was nearly ten meters long appeared. Its head resembles that of a fish, with a very long neck that sticks straight out, opening its huge mouth to reveal two rows of dense fangs.

"Puff puff!"

"Poof!"

The huge head poked out and stopped abruptly, and sixteen black-purple thunderbolts, like iron rods, slanted into the ground, just forming a cage.

"Roar!"

The sea beast flicked its tail and tried to whip, but as soon as it touched a point, it suddenly retracted in pain, and just roared hard.

"Big and brainless, no natural powers, looking bluffing...... Inferior goods. ”

Xiao Zhai observed for a moment, shook his head, and raised his hand.

"Whew!"

The mine flew up, like sixteen scalpels, and slashed silently through the sea beast, without even a trace of blood flowing, and was neatly divided into pieces of flesh all over the ground.

She pulled out the gall of a beast the size of a human head, and it still smelled fishy, "This is still a little useful." ”

casually put it into the storage bag, and with another flick, a fire and thunder shrouded the meat pieces, and the sound of cheering and cheering soon exuded bursts of meat fragrance.

This operation, whether it is the previous mine or the fire mine that was inexplicably practiced in Lushan, is flexible and ingenious, and handy. She roasted a big monster, but instead of eating it herself, she released a green snake and pounced on it.

Xiaoqing followed her master and wandered outside, and her body was much larger, nearly four meters long. It scurried to the food, opened its mouth, and swallowed a piece of animal meat.

Usually snakes, eat a large meal to digest slowly, can not eat for a long time. It's different, the stomach is like a black hole, sweeping away the pieces of meat, and it's still shriveled and slim.

"Gone!"

When it had eaten and drunk enough, Xiao Zhai wiped himself back to the entrance of the cave, stepped a little, and rose lightly to the island, and a little more, he stood on the top of a basalt pillar.

Xiaoqing followed, wrapping the brush around the pillar, hissing and spitting out the letter, looking forward to Shenfei.

"Goo!"

"Chirp!"

The nearby sea beasts and seabirds screamed all kinds of nonsense, and they all retreated, they couldn't be provoked, they couldn't be provoked, we would treat you as a coiling dragon.

“……”

Xiao Zhai checked the sky, seemed to feel something, simply sat on the stone pillar, and cultivated like that.

Two days passed, and she remained motionless, like a stone statue. On the evening of the third day, the clear sky suddenly darkened, and the sea was rough and undulating, and the beasts fled in panic, or hid under the stone pillars, or hid in the sea.

Inky clouds appeared on the horizon, blown by the wind, and half of them were blackened.

It was already dark on the island, and the wind was carrying the advance rain stars, slamming east and west. Immediately after, the sky was cut through by an unpredictable short fiery serpent, and then there was a muffled cracking sound, which grew louder and louder.

"Boom!"

"Click!"

Almost in the blink of an eye, torrential rain poured down, winds swept across the sea, and huge waves raged. The jagged thunderbolts, again and again, slashed head-on, striking the basalt pillars continuously.

“……”

Xiao Zhai opened his eyes, and as soon as his heart moved, four thunderbolts of gold, black, blue, and black rose into the sky.

Rumble!

The thunder and lightning of heaven and earth collided violently with the thunder and lightning of the Dao Law, forming a huge thunderball with flashing arcs of light. The four colors of gold, red, black, and blue rotate non-stop, fighting with the thunder and thunder, and the surrounding gas is all emptied, and there is no rain closer.

Xiao Zhai's face turned white, and he closed his eyes tightly, struggling to support.

Leifa, Leifa...... People first divide the five elements, and then merge into one, but the heavenly thunder is different, the heavenly thunder is born naturally, and it is the whole of the five elements that are one, and it is the most harmonious.

After cutting off the mortal in the illusion, Xiao Zhai's state of mind is almost complete, and the difference is only cultivation. This is also a whim, deliberately lead the thunder to temper itself, after trying it once, I found that the effect is very obvious, so I looked everywhere for places where lightning strikes are frequent.

In this way, the whole night passed, and the thunderstorm stopped.

Xiao Zhai was almost exhausted, and he was busy taking a few pills, holding the spirit stone in his hand to recover, and only improved slightly after half a ring.

"Hoo ......"

She jumped off the stone pillar and went to the sea, which was an ordinary water walking technique, step by step like a walk, stepping on the water surface to the land.

The green snake is full of spirituality, grows very fast, has learned to be watery, swims around its owner, jumps up against the water from time to time, and may think that it is a dolphin.

Nanding Island was six or seven kilometers from the shore, and it didn't take long for her to reach a small abandoned fishing village.

After the wind and rain, the sky became brighter, Xiao Zhai found a house, and lay down on the roof. The sun was warm, and she was sprinkled warmly on her body, she stretched her hands and feet, and took out her mobile phone from the storage bag, fortunately, there was a signal.

"Doodoo ......"

"Toot ......"

The video call was not answered for a long time, and it was only through when I called it a second time, but the screen lit up, showing the fat brother's big face.

"Squeak!"

“……”

"Squeak!"

“……”

When Xiaoqing heard the voice, she swooped up, excited, and shook her head at the screen. The fat brother was also very excited when he saw his good friend, and his little paws waved and jumped in various ways.

"Hiss!"

"Squeak!"

Xiao Zhai looked at them speechlessly, sighed faintly, put his right hand on the back of his head, and crossed a long leg, "Hey, it's going to be the New Year!"

…………

February 14, fine.

Today is Valentine's Day in the West, and of course in China, it's basically about eating, buying, buying, buying, oh, oh, oh!

In fact, as the environment becomes worse and the resources are scarce, many people are not interested in this. This year is even more obvious, because the 15th is Chinese New Year's Eve, the day of family reunion.

There is a ban in the mountains, and you are not allowed to go home at will, but the Spring Festival still has to be celebrated. So Li Dong led the team and led a few people out to purchase.

Like melons, fruits, wine, tea, and vegetables, the mountains are very abundant, and like meat and staple foods, they are very pitiful. Although the yield of spiritual rice is abundant, it is not enough for more than 1,000 people to eat, not to mention that he is still an intern, and he has not reached that welfare.

But they said that when they arrived at the White City Market, they scattered and bought separately.

Compared with the past, the market is much more lively, and there are also firecrackers sellers, which inadvertently adds a bit of New Year's flavor. To eat dumplings in the north and cakes in the south, you have to use rice noodles, but now there is no rice noodles.

Can you imagine dumplings wrapped in potato flour and beaten rice cakes?

I shudder!

Li Dong didn't have much hope, but as he walked, he arrived at the grain and oil store and found that there were many people outside. He leaned over to take a look, and was even more stunned, he was actually selling rice and white noodles.

Bag by bag sell!

"Give me two pounds, one pound!

"Fifty catties of rice, the money is here, no need to look for it!"

"Don't move, don't move, I want it first, I've got it all covered!"

"Ouch, you can't do it, it's still limited per person. ”

The common people went crazy, Li Dong easily lined up, came to him little by little, and asked, "Dude, what's going on?"

"I don't know, the notice I received yesterday was suddenly released. ”

The boss was busy and didn't raise his head, and said: "Maybe the government gives preferential treatment, Spring Festival, who doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year? Come on, come on, buy it and leave, don't delay the back!"

Li Dong couldn't figure it out, and asked those people to line up too. In the end, each person had fifty catties of rice, two catties of noodles, and a bunch of yellow rat meat, and drove a pickup truck back to Shanmen.

"Hey, hello!"

Before I could get in, a girl with a big box on her back suddenly ran over and asked, "Are you from the mountains, can you take me in?"

"Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Brother Gu Yu, my name is Fang Qing. ”

Sizzle!

Li Dong was stunned, as if he had heard of this person, and thought about taking her into the mountain gate, and then found Long Qiu.

Long Qiu was happy to see Fang Qingte, and said with a smile: "Qingqing, why are you here? I heard that you went to college, are you on vacation?"

"Well, I just came back yesterday and have something to do with my brother. ”

"He's up there, I'll take you. ”

Everyone else is stunned, he's still a big man, just go in!

Gu Yu was also surprised to see Fang Qing, since the last goodbye, the little girl was determined, and she had to go to the capital to study, what to study "Research on the Relationship between New Environment and Social Development", and unconsciously it has been more than a year.

His attitude towards her was the same as always, it was the little sister next door, and said with a smile: "You are a rare guest, how are you at school?"

"That's good!"

Fang Qing was not stunned, sat down to drink tea generously, and said, "It's just that this discipline is newly established, and the knowledge is not very systematic. We studied in school for half a year, and then we followed the expert group everywhere. ”

"Oh, where have you been?"

"A lot of places. We went to half of the twenty-seven agricultural bases, and there were several urban agglomerations, and we saw many big people. At present, the overall framework has been built, and the rest is the detailed construction. By the way, I'm not a door-to-door, I have serious business. ”

Saying that, Fang Qing put down the teacup, sat upright, and said seriously: "Since the beginning of the previous year, the global unity has fallen into a food shortage, and we have a perfect grain reserve system, which, in theory, can ensure the national diet within a year. However, the state has taken a long-term view and has stepped up scientific research while implementing food rationing.

For example, last year, the state stipulated that adult men could get 18 catties of rice per month, women 14 catties, and children were few. On the current rice yield, it is barely enough to maintain the supply ......"

"Alright, alright!"

Gu Yu waved his hand to interrupt and said, "You don't have to read and recite, just say it." ”

"Oh......"

Fang Qingxiao's face turned red, opened the big box, and inside was a long ear of rice, and said, "This is cultivated by Yuan Laoxin." ”

Well?

Gu Yu took a look, after the rice grew into an ear of rice, an ordinary rice ear would bloom 200-300 rice flowers, and a rice flower would form a grain of rice. Therefore, to estimate the yield of rice, it is almost the same to look at the number of grains of rice flowers.

And this ear of rice, densely packed from top to bottom, without the slightest gap, has nearly a thousand grains.

"Is this alienated rice?"

"Well, in recent years, the country has found seven wild alienated rice plants. After the first four plants were cultivated, the yield per mu was 1548.66 kg, 1503 kg, 1518 kg and 1545 kg, respectively.

The last three are deepened variants, known as new rice, experts have done several rounds of experiments, this strain belongs to No. 3 rice, with an average yield of 2016 kg per mu. ”

"Wow!"

Long Qiu snorted lightly, although he didn't understand it very well, but it was so powerful to listen to this number.

Gu Yu was even more surprised, remembering that before the world changed, there seemed to be news reports of some giant rice, with a yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per mu, even if it was a high yield.

I don't want to research 2,000 kilograms of varieties in just a few years!

"The government has decided to fully promote new rice this year, with the earliest batch being planted in April. If successful, our food crisis could be greatly alleviated. Fang Qing looked very excited.

"No wonder, I saw Li Dong pull a cart of rice back. This is confidence, so I let go of some of them. Long Qiu suddenly realized, nodded to himself, and looked very understanding.

"So, what are you here for?"

Gu Yu put away the ears of rice and asked the other party.

"Uh......"

When it came to business, Fang Qing was not too embarrassed, and said hesitantly: "I mean, uh, can Phoenix Mountain plant some new rice? This is a node, and the yield is definitely not ordinary, which can not only alleviate the grain shortage in Shengtian, but also use it for scientific research, and maybe research varieties with higher yields per mu."

Also, there are many saline-alkali lands in the province, and there are alienated beasts gathered. We have seawater rice to grow, brother, can you do me a favor......"

The more she spoke, the quieter she became, and finally she lowered her head, not daring to look at him.

“……”

Gu Yu frowned, even this kind of thing has to be detoured and calculated, those people are too good! But he admitted that this person picked it well, and actually asked Fang Qing to come over and say it.

"Good thing, we don't have to put too much effort into it, there's no reason why I shouldn't agree, but!"

His tone changed, with a little sternness: "It shouldn't be up to you to speak, next time I find you, just refuse, let them talk about it themselves!"

"Yes!"

Fang Qing shuddered, and no longer had the feeling of closeness of the brother next door, so she was a little afraid.

"You go back first, I have my own sense of proportion. ”

“……”

The little girl stood up silently and walked out obediently. Seeing that the atmosphere was not appropriate, Long Qiu hurriedly sent someone out and comforted: "Don't care, my brother is afraid that you will be used by others, and you will do bad things with good intentions." ”

"I know, I'm fine. ”

Fang Qing is not a hypocrisy, but she is young and some things are not very transparent. , asked, "Are you still going to the Phoenix Fair this year?"

"No, there are too many people on the mountain, we have to stay. ”

"Oh, then I'll go first, bye-bye!"