Chapter 124: Black Potato

Although there are millions of survivors, every day people are dying, turning into zombies and biting more people to death.

In the last days, the ratio of the number of people in the army was unprecedentedly large, almost reaching 5:1, and the rest was not because they did not want to join the army, but because the conditions were not good.

The ratio of men to women has also reached an unprecedented deformity, and the ratio of men to women once reached 2:1, but even when women have almost become rare animals, the status of women has not only not improved, but has decreased, almost to the point that it can be used for sale in ancient times.

Although there are a few powerful female awakened people who are defending the status of women, they still do not help.

In the world of fist competition, in the world of men's fists are bigger, masculinity is always the main theme.

Although the status of women is very low, there are people who are more underground than women, that is, men who have no strength.

In this cruel last days, if a man is not an awakened person, he has no skills, and his background is as thin as paper. Then it will be very difficult to survive, and there are only three paths left for these people to take.

1. Become an experiment in a military laboratory, and if you are lucky, your strength will skyrocket, and you will become a group with human rights. But the death rate of this road is more than 80%, and the probability of being crippled or turned into a vegetative state is more than 10%. As for becoming a vegetative person, of course, it is buried and waiting to sprout.

2. Actively infected with the virus and waiting for the judgment of fate. After contracting the virus, it is better to hide, otherwise it is easy to eat bullets.

3. Becoming a slave or giving up one's original sex.

In short, the status of women is low, but it is not difficult to live. And men are a polarized group that either lives well or not.

The deformed social form created by the deformed era is another test of human nature. In a sense, civilization is in nirvana.

And the junta, seeing this deformed social form, only shouts slogans, pulls the banner, and then does nothing. Everyone can't protect themselves, who can control others?

As for the set that wins people's hearts, it is not necessary at all for the military government of the last days. As long as the top level of the military is to encircle every powerful person, the families of military personnel have human rights, and the families of the awakened also have human rights. The other survivors will have to rely on themselves if they want to survive.

Rebellion? With that ability, it is more practical to kill zombies.

It's just a matter of survival for ordinary people, and as for the Awakened, joining the army is not a good option. Because after entering the army, you have to obey orders, guard the base city, carry out tasks, and then receive a pitiful amount of energy crystals every month.

Therefore, only the Awakened who are not very good will join the army.

Powerful awakened people form small teams and go out hunting, so that they can get more energy crystals. Of course, in order to encircle this part of the awakened, the military will let these awakened people hang the name of a reserve. And then what to do, the army does not do coercive restraint.

Of course, taxes still have to be paid, and as long as the awakened enter the base city, they have to pay a certain amount of energy crystallization every month.

If you don't want to pay taxes, you can just live outside the base city. But compared to getting a good night's sleep every day, that little bit of energy crystallization per month is insignificant.

As for the children, the attitude of each military region is similar, and the education of food, clothing and clothing is guaranteed for those under the age of 16, but the quality is not guaranteed. Among the three major military regions, the 51 Military Region in Guangshi has the best attitude towards minors, which is also the reason why the 51 Military Region has a better reputation than the other two military regions.

In short, human society in the last days was very deformed, technology reached unprecedented heights, and the social structure regressed to a similar feudal era due to the lack of resources.

This social pattern did not improve until the military region occupied more arable land. However, Pandora's attacks are everywhere, it is very difficult to protect the farmland, and with the presence of mutated creatures, it is only a matter of hours to eat up the crops.

The average yield of an acre of land can only supply one person's food, and if it is an awakened person, it will take three times that of an ordinary person. This is still a case where the harvest can still be guaranteed, but it is very reluctant for a military region to guard the base city, let alone guard a million acres of fertile land.

As for the costly indoor cultivation, it simply does not meet everyone's needs.

Food, a problem that scientists could not solve, was solved by a plant that appeared due to scientific errors.

That's the mutated sweet potato, an amazing plant that is so tenacious that it only needs a pinch of dust and grows fast.

Mutated sweet potatoes are not actually red, but black, and the black color is easy to absorb sunlight and heat. Therefore, this plant, rightly called black potato, sweet potato has always been the best food in the famine era, and scientists have continued to study the variation of this plant, hoping to breed varieties that can grow extra-large sweet potatoes.

However, the direction of this research was wrong from the beginning.

Until a scientific researcher, inadvertently cultivated a black potato seedling with an amazing growth rate, but the tuber rhizome grown by this seedling is small, not much larger than a thumb, and the color is ugly, and the taste is sour. So, without the slightest hesitation, the seedling was judged to be a failure.

In order to prevent the mutant species from damaging the ecology, the seedling should have been destroyed. However, the scientist worked for several days on end, and in a dizzy state, he dumped the seedling in the trash.

Then, along with other garbage, it was dumped at a garbage dump outside the base city.

As a result, the next day, the garbage dump was full of small purple flowers, which was very pleasant.

After three days, the black potato plant spread rapidly, even crawling on the wall like a creeper.

A month later, the vine's roots sprouted thumb-sized black tuberous rhizomes, known as black potatoes.

Black potatoes are small in size, but they are massive. Generally, sweet potatoes or white potatoes can produce one, and black potatoes can produce dozens. In comparison, the total volume of a black potato is two or three times that of a sweet potato.

The volume is not the point, the point is that the growth cycle of black potatoes only takes one month, and half of the harvest can be achieved even in snow. It can be harvested ten times a year, which is five times more than ordinary sweet potatoes.

In addition to growing quickly, black potatoes are stronger in that they have very low growth requirements, requiring only a small pinch of soil, and can even grow on old walls.

Of course, there is a side effect of such rapid growth, which is the rapid loss of soil fertility, which is not yet evident in the cultivation of black potatoes in the cities.

If you plant on fertile land, the fertility of the soil will be basically lost in a year or two. However, this is not a big problem, in addition to fertilizer, scientists have developed a super green manure variant milk vetch. It only takes a few months of planting super green manure mutant milk vetch to supply black potatoes for a year.

If this is the case, it is still difficult to grow black potatoes widely, and the best thing about black potatoes is that they are difficult to eat.

It's so sour that it's not delicious at all, so various herbivores such as bugs are not interested in it. In addition, the growth ability is strong, and there is no need for people to watch at all, you only need to clear a piece of land, plant black potatoes, and harvest them once a month.

As for the problem of "how can people eat it if it is so unpalatable", it is not a problem at all, humans can artificially synthesize eggs and make bacteria into meat, so it is really not a problem to make a sour black potato into refreshing instant noodles.

This kind of black potato only appeared a year after the end of the world, and at that time I don't know how many people starved to death, and if you count the part of people who rushed out to feed the zombies in the hope of awakening, it would be even more.

And the first place where this black potato appeared was Jinling.

An important reason why Du Fei came to Jinling was that he wanted the black potato to come in advance, if the black potato appeared in the last month of the world, it would be able to save hundreds of thousands of people, and let human society settle down in the shortest possible time.

This is the most critical step that Du Fei wants to take to change history, more human survival means more awakened people, and more strong people can fight against Pandora. This is a crucial step towards victory.

Du Fei looked at this ancient city where the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and exhaled deeply.

Military vehicles have always been privileged, and Lin Zhen and the others drove two military jeeps, which were only allowed after a simple inspection.

After passing through the quarantine entrance, Illya in her arms suddenly trembled, and shrank into Du Fei's arms, as if she wanted to get into Du Fei's body.

Du Fei hugged Yiliya tightly, stroked her back and asked, "Yiyi, what's wrong?" Are you sick? ”

The little girl was just trembling vigorously, and she couldn't say a complete sentence in her mouth, looking like a wounded little rabbit. There were tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, and his pitiful appearance was distressing to look at.

Du Fei touched her forehead, she didn't have a fever, she didn't look sick, and she didn't look like a sign of evolution. Looking up, there was nothing out of the ordinary, mostly the military, and some refugees.

There was a soup kitchen shop on the side of the road, and many refugees with their families crowded over to receive the porridge, and the military still wanted to save some people at the beginning of the last days. However, these gruels are not much better than boiled water, and they are more like a show than a relief for refugees. But it's better to put on a show than not to do it at all.

In front of the jeep were several luxury RVs, as well as military vehicles escorting, presumably the family of a certain bigwig.

Then there are the snipers who are ambushed on the high-rise buildings everywhere, and under the induction controlled by Du Fei's metal, every sniper rifle cannot escape the induction.

Other than that, there's nothing out of the ordinary.

But what is it that makes the little demon king in his arms who can fan a handprint on the tank with a slap afraid to be like this?

Is there any powerful individual?

Du Fei looked at Ouyang Xiu and saw that she didn't have any abnormalities, if the perceptual awakened people couldn't find it, then the little girl in his arms couldn't find it.

Du Fei couldn't, so he had to hug the little girl in his arms tighter and try his best to comfort her.

The jeep turned into another street, and Lin Zhen should have gone to find someone from Guangshi to pick him up.

After the jeep traveled some distance, Illya in her arms finally stopped trembling, but her expression was sluggish and she looked very unhappy. She just hugged Du Fei's neck tightly, leaned her head on Du Fei's shoulder, and said nothing with a tense little face.

Du Fei didn't ask Iliya anything, but turned his head to the few luxury RVs that were far away, with a sharp doubt in his eyes.