It rained all night. And the following week, it was more like a big hole in the sky, thunder and lightning at the same time, and an endless stream of rain was dumped.

Occasionally, even if the rain stops, there must be thick clouds hanging low overhead, covering the whole world with a gloomy lotus color, and finally having a somewhat depressing feeling of the apocalypse.

Late spring and early summer are the seasons when everything grows wildly. Abundant thunderstorms have become a valuable source of nitrogen fertilizer. The entire botanical garden washed by the rain is full of different shades of green, and the air is soaked in the different volatile aromas of various plants, which is intoxicatingly sweet.

However, the people who lived in the botanical garden villa could not be happy.

The continuous rain caused them all kinds of problems - they could not dry their clothes and pants naturally; The leaves that are ready to be dried and stored begin to rot, and the salt on the surface of the cured meat becomes transparent due to water absorption.

On top of that, the artificial lake swelled, the surface of the lake was covered with mist, and the lakeshore was approaching only five or six meters from the back door of the villa. The turbidity of the lake has increased the burden on pumps and water filters.

To add insult to injury, the dampness attracts a pervasive number of mosquitoes. It's fine during the day, but at night, it's hard to sleep. It's only the end of April and the beginning of May, and it's hard to imagine when it's hotter.

In order to prevent moisture, the people had to temporarily close the doors and windows facing the lake. And the roof was covered with waterproofing membrane, and small bags of lime were placed in the corners of the house.

Also because of the rain, many of the construction plans that had to be carried out outdoors had to be interrupted. Except for routine security checks, most of the time, the six adults and the seven people stayed indoors.

On the morning of the second day when the rain began, led by Duan Whale, everyone held an emergency meeting after breakfast and worked out the "Foguang Island Rainy Season Charging Plan".

The charging plan is divided into two parts: "civil and military". The so-called "Wen" means that everyone teaches each other professional knowledge and skills in their respective fields, while "Wu" is to learn self-defense skills.

The most spacious rooms in the basement were vacated and covered with pearl cotton rolls, also from the construction site. The policeman, Haichen, is the instructor and teaches grappling skills.

Since the first rainy night, the relationship between Su He and Du Yunfei has reached a delicate impasse. Although the two have been together for a long time, they often catch each other when they "practice martial arts". But Su He, who always likes to flirt twice on weekdays, seems to have changed as if he has changed, and even half of his words are missing.

A few days later, it was Duan Whale and Lin Youqing's turn to be on duty. Although the rain outside the house still didn't stop, Lin Youqing changed his way to make food, everyone played cards and went to class, and life was not too difficult.

On the third day of Duan Whale and Lin Youqing's duty, the long-lost sunshine finally broke through the clouds. The annoying sound of rain has finally been replaced by the sound of birdsong of all kinds.

The crowd hovering on the edge of the mold was immediately refreshed, grabbed their tools and ran outside.

According to the work plan formulated these days, Haichen and Lu Rulan had to carry out the construction and renovation of the temporary wooden shed where the water pumps were placed. By the way, build a small bamboo canopy by the artificial lake where you can fish in a daze on rainy days.

Duan Whale and Lin Youqing, who were in charge of logistics duty, moved the secret weapon that was successfully "developed" a few days ago to the courtyard.

It is a simple foot-operated washing machine consisting of an inner and outer drum and pedals. Pour water and Suhe's secret soaphorn liquid into the drum, sit on the bracket above the drum, and keep pressing the pedal to realize the function of the drum washing machine. The water can be spun dry after emptying.

After placing the washing machine in the yard, the glorious and sacred mission of washing laundry was handed over to his son by Duan Whale. A rough estimate is that a bucket can wash four or five pieces of clothing for about fifteen minutes at a time. To wash off the coats and coats that have accumulated this week, Duan Xingze, a child laborer, has to be busy.

As for Su He's side, the situation is a little more complicated. Because of the continuous rainfall, both the compost pond and the corpse pond inevitably got some water. Mushrooms grew in the compost pool, and the corpse pool completely decomposed into a pool of green water, but fortunately, the situation was not strict.

As a rough estimate, the compost is expected to mature by the end of June. However, in the week that he was held in the house, Su He couldn't hold it back. He decided to take advantage of the fresh fertilization of the soil after the rain and began a small-scale plant experiment on the golf course he hated so much.

When deciding on the site, the choice of plants becomes the key. After thinking about it, Su He decided to plant the most ordinary alfalfa.

The reason for choosing alfalfa is actually very simple, because it is a crop that can fix nitrogen, and can grow well in the environment of low phosphorus and salt stress, which is an ideal test plant.

With the help of Du Yunfei, Su He ploughed out a small test field on the golf course. Several different areas were divided into the fields, and wooden sticks were inserted as markers.

Before performing the real yàn, he first took out two alfalfa seeds and placed them on a glass plate, each dropping a drop of dilute green corpse liquid, and then looked at it with a magnifying glass.

After just half a minute, the seeds begin to swell, then turn almost transparent white and elongate rapidly. In about two minutes, it grows into a small seedling that somewhat resembles a bean sprout.

However, due to the lack of more nutrients, the seedlings were not able to continue their development.

"It seems that in the future, there will definitely be black-hearted products such as corpse water bean sprouts in the world."

As he spoke, Su He dripped two more drops of corpse liquid onto the glass plate.

The seedlings began to grow again, becoming more and more transparent, and later became a "water column". Half a minute later, the epidermis of the water column began to shrink and blacken, and finally cracked, and a large amount of liquid flowed on the glass plate.

"The corpse fluid stimulates the growth of seeds, but the plants do not get more nutrients that make up life, and can only absorb water and swell and grow. When the life cycle ends, it becomes like this. ”

Su He dictated his judgment, and Du Yunfei was responsible for recording it.

Set the glass plate aside, and it's time for the formal trial.

Su He planted alfalfa seeds in the soil designated as a mutant field, and then dripped a controlled dose of corpse liquid into the mutated field. After waiting for a while, I saw a line of alfalfa seedlings break through the soil, and in a short time they stretched out their sinuous branches and leaves.

Su He took out the reagent bottle containing the zombie brain stone mixture, and dripped the liquid into the soil of the mutant plant every other plant.

After a few moments, all the dripping alfalfa quickly withered and re-germinated, but the new plants that sprouted were strange.

The first one on the left has grown into a small shrub like the Lycoris flower at the door. the third, crawling on the ground and winding into vines; In the fifth, the stem is completely gone, and the leaves grow directly from the soil, with a large yellow flower blooming in the center. And the seventh plant ......

In terms of plants, Su He can be regarded as a well-informed person. But he really hadn't seen such a gorgeous and disorganized scene.

"These variations don't seem to follow a pattern." Du Yunfei broke through the sky with one sentence, "God is rolling the dice." ”

"I think it should be, too." Su He nodded, "This thing is too random." ”

Immediately afterward, he continued to add corpse fluid containing brain stones to the mutated plants. The plant grows rapidly and withers rapidly, and the new individual that germinates and grows again is exactly the same as the previous one.

"Mutation seems to only happen once." Su He muttered, "The mutations that have occurred under the action of the brain stone will be memorized, and the traits will be stable...... What do you think? ”

Du Yunfei didn't say anything, only recorded quietly.

Su He was not idle, he walked to the first test sample, picked a pod-like fruit, peeled it off, took out the seeds inside, replanted them in the ground, and poured corpse fluid containing brain stones.

After a while, the second generation of alfalfa broke through the ground, and its appearance was exactly the same as that of the first generation of mutated plants.

"The genes of the seeds have also inherited the variation of the parents." Su He was very satisfied with this result, "In this way, if a mutation is produced in our favor, we can multiply and expand it and use it." ”

Du Yunfei kept recording in his hands, and at the same time raised a blind spot of Su He: "However, mutation can only happen once." Once the zombie virus has worked on this plant, it is impossible to try again, regardless of whether the mutation is satisfactory or not. This also means that plants and seeds that have not been exposed to the zombie virus are very valuable, and once they are depleted, the mutation experiment is over. ”

"That's right. So primitive plants still have to be planted well. And avoid contamination by corpse fluids. Su He snapped his fingers, and then pointed at Du Yunfei again, "It seems really good to choose you as an assistant." ”

"Should I say thank you for the compliment?" Du Yunfei stopped his pen and looked at him.

"Well...... this"

Su He suddenly took a big step towards him, raised his eyes and looked at Du Yunfei with a grin.

The two of them looked at each other for three or four seconds, and the atmosphere was a little charming, when suddenly Su He turned around sharply.

"Great harvest, eat grass tonight!"

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In fact, this large pile of mutated and bizarre alfalfa did not end up on everyone's table tonight.

The reason is very simple - six to one, an overwhelming veto, no one wants to be a free real garbage disposal machine.

Fortunately, plants are plants after all, and even if they can't be eaten, they can still be used as compost or made into plant ash. It's just that in the next period of time, Su He's real yàn had to come to an end temporarily.

Because, finally, it was his turn and Du Yunfei to be on duty in housekeeping.

To be honest, everyone has some concerns about the quality of life this week.

Thanks to the spread of Lu Rulan and Duan Whale, everyone now knows that Su He has perhaps the darkest cooking skills in the world. It is said that he can boil glutinous rice dumplings sold in supermarkets into squares, boil instant noodles into white foam a decimeter thick, and is especially good at turning all the rich ingredients into black and purple.

With such a culinary god in the dark culinary world in charge of eating and drinking a large family, everyone must be uneasy. So naturally, Du Yunfei became the key person in whether he could spend this week safely.

But then again, what is Du Yunfei's cooking skills?