Chapter 44: Cloud Hidden Mode
In the eyes of Yunyin's man, Su Xiaoyu is a dazzling and ever-changing girl, with an unpredictable personality, and the same temperament as changing her outfit. Today, Su Xiaoyu has changed her usual punk cowboy and the image of a young rebellious woman with a ponytail on her head. Swap into a proper sweater and chartreuse camouflage pants. The wide camouflage pants set off her small waist to the fullest, and only those who have seen Su Xiaoyu's skills know how much power this looks like can hold the broken small waist with one hand. Su Xiaoyu changed from a young rebellious girl to a sharp and cold look, and immediately turned into a heroic field female soldier.
On the second arrival of the search team's independent search, they also brought back four heavy trucks of building materials, but the difference was that this time Qin Sheng and the team personally selected them. High-grade cement, rebar, and some construction molds. Including some engineering vehicles. The rest is almost all clothing. These clothes have made the small population of the entire tree city almost reach one or two pieces per person, of course, the original 426 regiment people are not needed, on the one hand, the design of the protective clothing is more insulated, pull the wind. On the one hand, they also have their own pride as soldiers, and they are unwilling to compete with civilians for those limited supplies.
Winter is coming, under the protection of King Bodhi, in addition to other woody and herbaceous plants under the tree can not survive, the ecological structure around the King Bodhi is extremely prosperous, the blood earthworms in the soil, feed on humus, they can eat almost all the organic matter that falls on the map, the nutrition of the blood earthworm is very good, if it is not for the muddy smell that cannot be washed away, it is almost comparable to conventional meat, these blood-red earthworms can mature more than one meter, they reproduce quickly, and the growth cycle is short. Therefore, the people of Shucheng have developed the habit of dumping domestic garbage and waste wood in special places, which is considered semi-farming. It can be said that this mutated blood earthworm, after being discovered, has almost become an important natural food source and one of the means of household waste disposal in the entire tree city. In addition, although the blood earthworm has a soft body, it has well-developed mouthparts, and the array of hard teeth in its mouth can crush most of the surface rock, and they absorb the trace elements in it, and what is excreted from the body is soft soil.
The other is the glow-in-the-dark mushroom, when the sun goes down and the stars shine. The moonlight that shines through the gaps in the leaves can spark a fungus plant that grows wildly. This mushroom is like a budding golden flower, the size of a fist, growing against the moonlight, in the growth will release a slight phosphorus gas, so it seems that at night they will emit a faint blue light to reflect the surrounding very beautiful, and in the morning when the sun rises, it will open a bowl-like umbrella, which will only last for a short time, and then at noon, it will quickly fibrosis, scatter its own spores, and then wither. So every day when the sun rises, many women come here with small wooden knives to carefully pick the full-looking mushroom umbrellas. Then they were washed and sliced in a pond under the roots of the trees, and the men raised a fire to smoke them, so that they would no longer fibrosis. Accompanied by blood earthworm meat and some freshly picked moss lichen, this is almost a standard meal for the people of Shucheng.
And the small lake is also a gift from the king Bodhi, his root system is too huge, Qin Sheng once led people to dig a well into the ground to observe, the soil here is weak, a few meters down is the rock formation, and the main trunk of these tree roots penetrated the rock formation, a branch luckily penetrated an underground dark river water source convergence place, from the plateau snow mountain through the underground dark river, here was forcibly opened up a small spring, spring water gushing all over this low-lying area. The result is a lake under a tree surrounded by huge arched roots, and the water rushes into the lake and then flows away through some rock crevices. It became a source of water for everyone.
After initial registration and self-introduction, the new survivors will be dispersed to work in various parts of Tree City. They were very satisfied with Tree City, even surprised. Everything here, except for supplies and scarcity, each person can only eat two meals a day, one of which requires a small amount of leaves to fill the house. Here, however, they see hope and vigor. Everyone is not in a state of eating and waiting to die.
In the distance, Qin Sheng, a polite and polite student, was baptized by the construction site, and he couldn't care about the reserve of his own culture, and the construction site was full of his shouts and scolding. Some people add more cement and mud and can't open, and some people mix soil and water and add less agglomeration. Qin Sheng once felt that infrastructure construction was such a headache, and he would stab Lou Zi if he didn't pay attention to the on-site management.
Situ Nan himself is also quietly retraining himself. He was faintly unconvinced, holding back his strength. Originally, he was nearly half a hundred years old, and his physical strength and energy were going downhill, but Zeng Tianren's medicine changed all this, and after a period of exercise, the old fat on his belly was also turning into lumps at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his physical strength and reaction had entered a new stage. The recovery of physical vitality and the increasing vigor made Situ Nan seem to forget the fact that he was in his forties. He couldn't help but recall in his heart from time to time when he was hesitant as a teenager.
At the training ground on the edge of the cliff in the west, the new recruits of the reserve are stepping up their training. Su Xiaoyu is now officially supervising the training on the spot, cooperating with Ge Lianchen, improving the training syllabus, and cultivating the next batch of more outstanding recruits under the premise that Zeng Tianqi will no longer lead the team. Through the efforts of Marin and Fang Fu, coupled with Bazhuo's helpers in the laboratory, the extraction and purification of X transcriptase have kept up. The special training of the search team has been changed from the distribution of potions at the graduation ceremony to the distribution of potions to the first place in training without taking potions in each cycle, so as to speed up the maturity of newcomers.
Su Xiaoyu shouted at this group of reserve recruits, this time there were girls to join, Mei Zixin was impressively listed, when she escaped from Sa City and fell into the fire pit of Boss Yang, she was actually very desperate. She wondered more than once if the man who saved him didn't put her in the closet, but took her out with him or died in Sa City.
Until Zeng Tianqi said that that person was his brother, and rescued her, gave her clothes, and gave her dignity. She was personally questioned by Su Xiaoyu, and she had also seen Su Xiaoyu's brand: Heishui 00459-06. He understood that the man who saved him at the beginning was the same as Zeng Tianqi and Su Xiaoyu, and he was not from the same world as her.
When she heard about the search team's Naple victory, Lu Yan told her as if she had seen it herself. He decided to join the search team and follow in the footsteps of Zeng Tianqi. She believed that one day, Zeng Tianqi would definitely find that man, his brother. She wants to say thank you to her in person one day. Right now, although she is weak, she is so tired that she is dizzy with Venus in her eyes, and saliva is dripping from the corners of her mouth. But she still gritted her teeth and didn't say a word. Climbing the cliff, she didn't know how many times she slipped down, and her fingernails rubbed against the rock wall and the nails of a few fingers were about to be overturned. The pain of drilling the heart is enough to make most women cry, and the yearning for the strong makes Mei Zixin endure these pains, even if it is training that ordinary people can't bear, she only makes a stubborn muffled snort in her mouth.
Su Xiaoyu was in a bad mood, and Boss Yang's subordinates recruited all the things Boss Yang did. She came out of the interrogation room with a black face, and Boss Yang's life was trampled on by her high heels. She didn't care if Boss Yang could still live, and she didn't think that Su Xiaoyu would underestimate him because she was always the quirky little girl next door. Blackwater Bailing, after all, is the ultimate agent cultivated by the Blackwater Battalion, and he has no mercy when he moves.
It's not so much angry that she's a little sad. As a woman, she felt sorry for these submissive women, and she was also extremely angry at Boss Yang's man who not only kept in captivity, but also physically abused women, in Zeng Tianqi's words: "The weak, bullying the weaker, this is animal nature." So, she has no sympathy for this inhuman fellow, even if it's the end times. Qian Feng: They have also committed many things. However, even if they kill people, it is only for food, for their own survival, in the face of this apocalypse, the law of natural elimination is more helpless, rather than animal nature.
It's just that when he saw Mei Zixin on the training ground, Su Xiaoyu's mood finally improved, and looking at Mei Zixin's almost crazy obsession, it reminded her of being in Heishui. "It turns out that there are also people in the female crowd who are willing to take this path."
She is like this, at that time, although Zeng Tianqi protected her, but he would not help her in training, she completed all the training projects in Heishui by herself, and did not fake her hands to anyone, before she was most wronged that Zeng Tianqi completed the training and watched the struggles and sufferings of those who were hanging at the end, and never reached out to help. However, because of this, she and several others finally completed their self-transformation. She later recalled that maybe Zeng Tianqi helped them at the beginning, but in the later assessment competition, they had already failed and died.
In her eyes, Mei Zixin is the self who was at the crossroads of fate, so weak, and the process of transformation is painful, but only if she persists and succeeds, the god of fate is willing to return her fate to her.
On the cliff of the training ground, there is the wasteland reclamation team led by Brother Li, and those reserve recruits who climb the cliff must pick up hoes and tools to reclaim the land. Part of the day, and then Brother Li led people to build greenhouses and plant seeds of crops.
Brother Li put his hand on the pergola and looked at the edge of the mist, which was the edge of the circle of atmospheric fog dispelled by King Bodhi. Here, the sun is shining. Marlin has detected the amount of radiation, which is in the lethal range. This is the experimental field, where those pre-apocalyptic seeds are planted, so that the radiation can be transformed and mutated, and finally the suitable ones will be selected for large-scale planting and promotion in the coming year. At that time, the dependence of the settlements on the search for food for the search team will be greatly reduced. Search teams will also be freed up to focus on equipment and other supplies.
Settled in Yunyin, he is no longer afraid of X Gamma, but will take advantage of its development. In Zeng Tianqi's eyes, this settlement is too important. Of course, he knew the plan of the Sea Nation at the beginning, to establish a large settlement, block the sky, prevent radiation from polymerizing materials, and build. He estimated that the top brass of the eastern country would also choose to do the same. After all, this is the most suitable way out that Haiguo has come up with after nearly a year of research. Among the materials he brought back, there were even blueprints of the city that could accommodate hundreds of millions of people.
Tree City, will come out of a completely different model... Zeng Tianqi thought in his heart about the possibility and conditions for Tree City to become a large-scale settlement in the future. But for now, it's a race against time. Grab the survivors as much as possible, otherwise, the more time passes, the number of survivors outside will become smaller and smaller, or even all extinct.
"Zizizi~~~~ Woo woo woo woo ~~~~~" was learning to debug the radio station, and Lu Yan received a task that was most suitable for her - to turn on the radio regularly every day for broadcasting. The radio brought back by the search team was still an antique from the Naple police station. However, it was tinkered with by Situ Nan's engineer and connected to the battery, and it can actually be used.
"Survivors! Hello! This is the city of trees. This is a settlement built by man himself, and we are located in a valley 6 km south of the town of Naple, where a towering tree is a sign of recognition. ”
"There's food, there's water, there's clothes, there's cabins. Our search team is searching for survivors around. We have strong walls, we have military city defenses, and it's a safe haven. ”
"You are not alone, come to Tree City, I am the announcer Lu Yan, come to us. There is hope and tomorrow ... Build tomorrow with us. ”
Then Lu Yan changed the band again and repeated this broadcast. She didn't find it boring, maybe some survivors had heard her announcement and were rushing here. It's a particularly rewarding thing to think about, Lu Yan used the spiritual victory method she is good at...
In the main house of the sub-city, a large platform was built on the side of the house on the branches of the trees, and there were simple tools and hardware in it. Qian Feng was directing a group of people to make some weapon parts.
On a small forging table, a greasy man is banging on a red-hot steel plate of a car's spring. Zeng Tianqi began to forge the knives they used here, although it was only forged and quenched and then sharpened on the hand-grinding wheel next to it, and it also required at least five people. On the other side, the three people are polishing and drilling holes with python bamboo pieces according to Su Xiaoyu's hand-drawn design drawings to make bamboo bows and bamboo crossbows, and python bamboo is the bamboo found in 9. When cutting down python bamboo to find an exit, the careful Su Xiaoyu discovered the superior elasticity and toughness of this bamboo. Quietly collected a section in the backpack, and after coming to Tree City, he cut it on the west side of the cliff. I didn't expect the python bamboo to survive. And a small bamboo forest grew in more than two months. This gave a new way out for the search team, which had been running out of ammunition several times.
On the other side, two people were using a knife to cut a piece of thin iron plate out of a triangular arrow. Then two women quickly came over and slightly sanded the patch to remove the burrs, clamped it to an arrow shaft, and tied it tightly. The other end of the shaft is brushed with glue and a blade of grass as thin as a cicada's wing is inserted into the shaft. An arrow did just that. Grass leaves are the leaves of a new plant discovered in the last days, light and transparent, and after soaking and defleshing, only the veins remain, and they are as flexible as feathers. The tail feathers used to make the shaft are not bird feathers, and they are neatly cut, and the balanced tail feathers made from it are even better than ordinary bird feathers.
There are no large military bases in the Naple region, and even the nearest highland military district is 100 kilometers away. There are also a few police stations nearby, and there is no smuggling or customs detention. There are only a few small-caliber submachine guns for police use. A lot of rubber bullets. It's okay for training, but it's useless to fight mad corpses, and 9mm guns are obviously useless.
The python bamboo bow has been tested, and the arrow shot by Su Xiaoyu on the 50-meter line penetrated a 1 cm thick single-layer plank, you know, this is a wooden board made of the roots of Dawang Bodhi. For a mad corpse, this power is enough. The only thing that limits it is the range. But at the moment the fog is shrouded, and in such a visibility situation, too high a range is also a waste. 50 meters, which is just the effective sight distance of the fog. Perhaps for the Potion Evolutionaries, their vision is farther, and it seems that many have evolved filter-enhanced vision in this foggy environment. The vitreous of the eye filters out the refraction of the near fog particles according to the intensity of the light.
Without the guns at hand, Shucheng has embarked on the road of traditional weapons + white-knuckle warfare. The road is thorny ... It can be said that if it were a human war, Tree City would have no power to resist at all. But it was such a primitive way of fighting, and in later generations, the "Iron Raven Army" composed of all the evolutionaries of Tree City shocked one side and was marked as one of the dangerous special operations arms by various forces.