June 8, 128 A.D.!

After the nuclear explosion, after hundreds of years, the first humans and clones gradually walked towards the wasteland, and the day they stepped into the wasteland was set by humans as January 1, the first year of the era.

The dark clouds above the sky rolled, and from time to time there were bursts of thunder, and a wasteland full of loess and sand was filled with a heavy and oppressive atmosphere.

The drizzling rain ticked and ticked, and in the gusts of wind, it landed in an inclined posture, and finally made a subtle sound of "呲~".

"If you don't get anything more, it's time to go back." On a small mound in the wasteland, a slightly immature voice murmured.

There is a huge sloping stone on the mound, the stone is full of sores, and the perennial wind and sun, coupled with the corrosion of acid rain, have long lost the original appearance of the stone.

In the middle of the stone, there is a small mezzanine, and the sound comes from this mezzanine.

A teenager, lying quietly inside.

The young man's name is Ren Hai, seventeen years old, living in Xinyang Town, outside the envelope city, he is about 1.75 meters tall, his body is slightly thin, because of long-term malnutrition, resulting in a hungry complexion, and his cheeks are deeply sunken inward.

Ren Hai wore a set of shabby coarse linen clothes, which was the most common dress in the market towns outside the envelope city, and the coarse linen clothes were made from some waste cloth mixed with a relatively common plant, hemp, and had no other purpose except to wrap the body and keep a little warm.

His eyes kept staring at the sand in front of him, quietly watching the acid rain fall on the sand, when the sand suddenly squirmed.

There's a play!

Ren Hai's eyes lit up in the stone interlayer, and he quickly took out a pair of gloves and a short blade from a small whitish cloth bag, the gloves had some earthy yellow peculiar lines, the surface looked smooth and bright, and the short blade was in two states, one with a metallic luster, and the other was a jet-black material.

The gloves are specially made, and the material used is the skin of the sand snake, known as the snakeskin gloves, which can effectively prevent the corrosion of acid rain and are a must-have for going out.

The short blade is about 30 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide, it is cast by a weapon processing factory in the envelope city, the material used for the rest of the short blade is average, the only value is the black material of about half a centimeter between the tip of the blade and the blade, which is a hybrid material, the most basic material of all knives, and only the knives that use this material can be called real knives.

Knives made of this material are called standard weapons.

Ren Hai put the gloves on his hands, stretched out five fingers, and slowly squeezed them into fists, adapting to the slight discomfort of wearing gloves, and then held the standard short blade in the palm of his hand in reverse, and the action was very skillful, obviously not the first time.

An arm stretched out from the crack in the stone, and the acid rain dripped on the snakeskin glove, and in an instant, it slid down the skin and fell to the ground.

The heart began to beat unconsciously, and the sand scorpion was very vigilant, and if it couldn't hit it once, it could go back.

Ren Hai raised the standard short blade in his hand and quickly stabbed down towards the wriggling sand.

Zheng!

The sound of a metal crash occurs as if the standard blade is pierced against a piece of metal.

It's so hard!

Ren Hai's eyes narrowed slightly, his arm was forced again, and he stabbed down, and the short blade stabbed down a little.

Feeling that something in the sand was stabbed, Ren Hai hurriedly pulled out the standard short blade.

I saw a black bug stuck in the standard short blade, with a tail and several pairs of feet swaying back and forth, according to the remaining information in the Federation, this kind of insect was called a scorpion before the nuclear explosion, but if you look at the remaining data, it cannot be called a scorpion, so it was included in the data by the Federation and gave it a new name - Sand Scorpion.

The sand scorpion is not much different from the scorpion before the nuclear explosion, the only change is that the overall data of the sand scorpion is about three times larger than before the nuclear explosion, especially the scorpion tail, which is exaggerated and long, accounting for two-thirds of the overall length, and is also the most offensive means of the sand scorpion.

Sand scorpions usually live in sand, and if someone who doesn't understand, doesn't do any protection, and sleeps in the sand, then there is a high chance that he won't see the sun tomorrow.

Ren Hai withdrew his arm into the crack between the stones, erected the sand scorpion and the standard short blade on the stone, and used his strength again to end the life of the giant scorpion, after doing all this, Ren Hai breathed a sigh of relief, don't look at everything that seemed so smooth just now, in fact, this is just the result of doing too much skill.

According to the rough statistics of the various market towns outside the envelope, the number of people who die under the tail of the sand scorpion every year is enough to form a militia brigade.

The standard configuration of a brigade is about one hundred to one hundred and fifty people.

Ren Hai pulled the scorpion off the standard short blade, carefully cut off the scorpion tail, and carefully packed it, this scorpion tail is highly poisonous, and it is advisable to keep it separately from the scorpion body.

There are roughly three ways to deal with sand scorpions, one is to catch live scorpions and sell them in the city, it is said that they are used to collect scorpion venom, some poisons on the market have the ingredients of this scorpion venom, and the second is to sell the whole sand scorpion to the pharmacy, which is a very precious medicinal material, after the pharmacy is recovered, dried and ground into powder, which can treat many diseases.

In Ren Hai's memory, in an environment with a high radiation value, plants are rich in a lot of radiation, and most of them cannot be eaten, but such as sand scorpions, there is almost no radiation in the body, which may be an advantage given by God to these lives!

It is because of this that the third method of treatment of sand scorpions has emerged - to be eaten as food, except for the scorpion tail, the rest of the sand scorpion is rich in a lot of protein, which is also one of the few ways for the residents of the market town to replenish protein.

After doing all this, Ren Hai looked at the sky outside, it was noon at this time, and he simply cleaned up and said softly: "It's time to go back." With that, Ren Hai slowly crawled out of the cracks and put a shabby hat on his head, after all, the corrosion of acid rain is very painful.

The sandy area he was on was ten kilometers south of Envelope City, and it would take at least an hour and a half to walk on foot, which was still to exclude the exception of extreme weather.

Ren Hai began to run wildly, only in this way could the time of contact with acid rain be minimized.

As you run, you look at everything around you, and collect as much information as you can with your eyes, and you might get something out of it.

The acid rain dripped on Ren Hai's thin body drop by drop, and from time to time a few drops of acid rain floated onto Ren Hai's face, feeling the pain on his face, Ren Hai gritted his teeth and stepped out again.

Well?

In a low-lying place of loess, seeing a touch of green, Ren Hai's face showed joy, and he hurriedly ran over.

The leaves of the plant are very small, with a stone block on the south side, and the direction of the whole plant is north-west, according to the principle of phototropism of the plant, which is not logical at all, but here, it is in line with this characteristic, in the city of Envelope, the main wind direction is the northwest wind.

There are about ten square meters of loess around the plant, unlike other places, even if it rains, it is still dry, and the loess in this low-lying place is a little moist, mixed with some glue soil.

It's a great place to grow!

Ren Hai made a brief judgment in his head.

Stable and sufficient water, light, temperature, excellent soil quality, reasonable soil structure, icing on the cake of organic matter...

As a result of the global nuclear explosion at the time of the great change, the area that can be cultivated on the entire continent has been greatly reduced, and the problem of food hangs high above everyone's head.

There are not too few places suitable for planting, even if there are not as many as before, but it is not a problem to feed hundreds of millions of people, the question is, can the food grown be eaten? How long can it last?

Once the food is rich in radiation, the faster its own radiation value will increase, once it reaches the limit that the human body can bear, its own cells will become cancerous, and eventually become sick or die, and the most fatal thing is that after its own cancer, it will also affect people who are close to it.

Pity...

It would be nice if this place was not far from Xinyang Town, after all, the radiation value there, the things that are grown, can be eaten, and here...

Ren Hai was immersed in thought, and soon withdrew this useless thought, looking back, if this place was near the market town, how could it be his turn to find out?

Taking out the standard short blade placed in the cloth bag, Ren Hai dug down the leaves little by little, and after a while, he took out several earthy yellow irregular spheres, the largest of which weighed half a kilogram.

Seeing this, the joy on Ren Hai's face was even worse.

Drip! Potatoes 0.7 kg, detected radiation residue total value of 2.1, whether to purify radiation.

The young man silently recited in his heart: Purification.

Happiness 2.1 is required, purification fails, and the remaining happiness is 0.0...