Chapter 15 The people live on food
Just when Long Fei was full of anticipation, Feng Wu quickly kissed him on the face, and then left with a red face.
The crowd boiled, applauding and cheering.
At this time, Iron Armor shouted at the top of his voice, "Phantom, who do you want to kiss you?" ”
"I abstain!" The phantom finished speaking, and quickly vanished.
It was almost noon, and a strange middle-aged man walked quickly towards the dragon.
Then he shook his hand enthusiastically and introduced himself: "My name is Jin Million, you are Long Fei, right?" ”
"Yes!"
"I'm the captain of the field team in the town, and I'm mainly responsible for collecting food outside. I just came back, and I heard that you helped you find a lot of food. So I came to thank you. In the future, as long as you need it, let me know, and we will try to meet it. Jin Million said sincerely.
"You're welcome! Everyone is willing to let us stay, we are grateful, and we deserve to reciprocate. Besides, it's all a gesture. Listen to your name and accent, it should be Asian, right? "He has a good impression of Jin Million and wants to chat with him.
"It seems that you really came from the sea, and now there is no need to say that on land. During the war more than 100 years ago, there were people who secretly destroyed glaciers, causing many coastal areas and islands to be submerged. The land is no longer seven continents, but five continents. The original Eurasian continent shrunk and is now called Northcontinent. Africa is cut off from Europe, and what was previously Africa is now called Western Continent. This is Middle-earth, and the Americas are now called East-continent. Antarctica is called South Continent. It's all called that on land now. ”
He nodded, in understanding.
Then he asked curiously, "Then how many countries are there on the land now?" ”
Jin Million shook his head: "What other country!" The war of a hundred years ago broke up most of the national organizations, and the land was filled with nuclear radiation, and the population plummeted. People are scattered and hiding, it is difficult to communicate with each other, how can there be any national organization! In the past 100 years, those who survived have formed various organizations, but most of them have difficulty protecting themselves. There is simply no power to re-establish the state! ”
Long Fei was shocked, he didn't expect that the life of the people on the entire land was so difficult now.
"If you are good, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be good alone. We are now weak, the most important thing at the moment is to survive and gain a foothold on land! After he finished speaking, he asked Jin Wan with concern: "You guys went out smoothly this time, right?" ”
Jin Million couldn't help but say sadly: "This time I went out to collect food, there were 30 people when I went, and less than half of them could come back on foot." ”
"How so? What's going on? Long Fei asked suspiciously.
Jin Million recalled the encounter in the past few days with tears in his eyes: "You also know that we have no bullets here. So all 30 of us were armed with knives and guns. After going out the morning the day before, I went straight east and arrived at the beach smoothly. Then everyone went to the sea to salvage seaweed, and who knew that they were attacked by great white sharks. In the course of our escape, we killed and wounded several people, some of whom were torn apart and eaten by great white sharks, leaving nothing behind. Luckily, we were able to collect enough food. So we camped in the woods by the beach that night and prepared to return the next morning. ”
Long Fei calculated the time, they set off yesterday morning, but they didn't expect Jin Million to be in the woods at that time.
"Yesterday morning, we walked out of the woods along the old road and carefully avoided the beasts on the plains." Jin Million continued to tell the story.
Long Fei was a little puzzled: "We also walked through the woods yesterday morning, why didn't we see the road?" ”
"This road is very hidden, it is a small road that we have stepped on all year round, and it is difficult for outsiders to find it except us."
Jin Million explained, and then continued: "Around noon, we saw a flock of mutated seagulls flying in the distance, and we also heard the noisy gunfire, and the sound was very powerful. We were afraid of robbers, so we left the way we came, and took a detour. ”
Long Fei was stunned, he didn't expect such a coincidence: "When we were cooking at noon yesterday, we were attacked by a group of mutated seagulls, it turns out that you were also on the plain at that time!" ”
Jin Million was a little surprised: "It turned out to be you." Alas, at that time I was worried that it was a robber, so I stayed away and made a big circle. So I couldn't come back in time, and I rested on the plains for another night, and only rushed back in the morning. Who knew that on the way back in the morning, he encountered an attack by mutated wolves, and several brothers were killed and wounded. ”
"We ran back and forth from the city to the beach in the morning, why didn't we find you?" Long Fei was a little strange.
Jin Million's face darkened after hearing this: "Alas! It's all my fault! I deliberately took a detour to enter the city from the north of the city. If I hadn't taken a detour, my brothers wouldn't have died. After speaking, he was heartbroken, and the old tears were full of tears, and he beat his chest hard.
Long Fei sighed with emotion, this is fate! The past cannot be traced, and the next life cannot be waited!
He comforted Jin Million and said: "You didn't do anything wrong, if it wasn't for us, but for the robbers, you saved everyone's lives!" ”
Jin Million slowly calmed down.
Taking a deep breath, Jin Million asked him, "I heard that you have a flying transport ship, I wonder if you can use it to transport food?" ”
Long Fei nodded: "It's still okay at the moment, but there is not much fuel, and if there is no fuel, the transport ship will not be able to fly." ”
The two chatted for a while, then said goodbye.
Long Fei pondered alone for a long time, and decided to go to Dr. Wang for a discussion.
Seeing that Dr. Wang's energy is much better today, it seems that his condition has improved.
"Dr. Wang, in the morning we drove the transport ship over and landed in the open space behind the church. But this transport ship is running out of fuel, what can be done to replenish it? Long Fei asked.
Dr. Wang replied, "The carrier uses a blend of biofuel, which is a blend of biofuel and chemical fuel in the optimal ratio. In fact, biofuels or chemical fuels can be used alone, but they are not as energy-efficient as blended fuels. ”
He didn't seem to understand what it meant to be a biofuel or a chemical fuel.
"Can you be specific?"
Dr. Wang patiently explains: "Biofuels, such as making wine from grain, can produce alcohol. Corn and soybean oil are extracted, and vegetable oil is processed to produce biodiesel. Chemical fuels are mainly extracted from petroleum and can also be obtained by microbial decomposition. For example, biogas digesters are built to produce combustible gases such as methane by fermentation. ”
Long Fei still didn't seem to understand, and continued to ask: "Then the food problem, is there a better solution besides hunting?" ”
Dr. Wang replied with a smile: "This is simple, you can build a three-dimensional ecological farm to grow crops and animal husbandry. However, this requires a power station and a lot of building materials. ”
Long Fei was even more blindsided, and he still had to study more when he was free in the secret way, otherwise it would be too uncomfortable to not understand anything.
Suddenly, he thought of a good idea.
Jin Million is a jack of all trades on land, and Dr. Wang is a knowledgeable doctor in the floating city on the sea, so it is better to let the two of them communicate more and study by themselves.
So he invited a million gold, and he brought everyone else to study together.
Long Fei sat down in a circle with the others, surrounding Jin Million and Dr. Wang in the middle, like a group of students who were eager to learn.
After introducing each other, Jin Million said politely: "Dr. Wang, as long as you can solve the food problem, you can ask for anything." ”
Dr. Wang modestly said: "Now everyone is in the same boat, you don't have to be polite, I just express some personal opinions, and I will listen to you on how to do it." ”
After the politeness, Dr. Wang analyzed seriously: "I think the first thing to do is to ensure everyone's food supply. When there are surplus resources, the development of cropping and animal husbandry should be considered. When food is self-sufficient, industry can be developed. ”
Jin Million slapped his thigh: "It is worthy of being a doctor in Floating City, and he is really insightful." If you have any requirements, just ask for them, and I'll find a way to solve them. ”
Dr. Wang pondered for a while and said, "If we can solve the fuel problem of the transport ship, it will be safe and fast to drive the transport ship directly to the sea, and collect food." Carriers do not have high requirements for fuel, such as biofuels and chemical fuels. ”
"There's a bazaar to the west, hundreds of kilometers away, where you can buy diesel and gasoline. I heard that most of the fuel is made from underground warehouses or military bases, and the quality is very good, but the price is a little more expensive. ”
"We can trade with them with excess food. If we hunt more and go to the sea, we should have a lot more food. Long Fei thinks it's not difficult to get food.
Jin Million agrees with Long Fei's idea: "The most valuable thing now is food, which must be very cost-effective to exchange for fuel." ”
"If the first phase of food can be solved, then we can move on to the second phase, which is to develop subsistence farming and animal husbandry." Dr. Wang continued.
"What do you need for Phase 2?"
Dr. Wang calculated: "At least there needs to be a small power station, and a lot of building materials are needed, as well as glass, wires, electric lights, etc. ”
Long Fei proposed: "Dr. Wang, you make a list of the things you need, and we can buy them according to them." It just so happened that we still had a lot of dried fish on the boat, so we could go to the market and sell them to see what we could get in exchange. ”
"And the meat and skins of the beasts that everyone hunted in the past two days were loaded onto the ship and sold together." Kim Million added.
Long Fei asked with some doubts: "Don't the people here eat animal meat?" Why sell it? ”
Jin Million explained: "We usually eat sea vegetables and wild vegetables here, who is willing to eat meat." Generally, the meat is made into jerky or bacon, and when it is accumulated, it is sold in the market and exchanged for some daily necessities. ”
After listening to Jin Million's words, everyone felt a little ashamed.
Long Fei comforted everyone: "You still have to eat meat, otherwise how can you have the strength to hunt." With us in the future, are you still afraid that there will be no meat to eat? ”
"Yes!" The people should be in peace.
Jin Million understood what he meant, and hurriedly said, "Everyone is working so hard, you must eat more meat." Our side is mainly limited in ability, not as good as everyone else. If we were all as good as you, we would eat meat at once. More work, more rewards. ”
This time the business talked about the end of this, Jin Million and Long Fei agreed to set off for the market early tomorrow morning.
At noon, at Long Fei's insistence, everyone still ate seagull meat for lunch.
After eating, everyone began to discuss the matter of hunting in the afternoon.
In order to better exercise everyone, but also to save bullets. Long Fei asked not to use firearms as a last resort.
In the afternoon, Long Fei took everyone and set off on a transport ship.
Then a puddle was chosen as a hunting spot.
In a densely weed area, everyone set up an ambush and set up a pocket array.
Then tie a mutant hare in the middle of the pocket array as bait.
Soon a mutated wild dog came running and was about to pounce on the fat hare.
Feng Wu threw a spear and directly pierced the body of the mutant wild dog, nailing it to the ground.
Long Fei found that the beasts here were easy to catch because they had few natural predators and were not afraid of people.
By the time it was almost dark, they had already killed dozens of beasts.
Thankfully, there are no bigger carnivores than mutant dingos.
Just when everyone felt that there was no challenge, there was a "rustling" sound in the grass.
Suddenly, Iron Armor jumped up and shouted as he ran, "Mom! There are crocodiles! ”
Hearing Tie Jia's words, Long Fei hurriedly stood up: "Everyone stay vigilant, you can shoot freely!" ”
Da Niu laughed at Tie Jia and said, "Old Tie, are you stupid? How big a crocodile can bite your iron lump? ”
When he saw the animal in pursuit of the iron armor, his eyes were almost out, and his jaw was about to fall to the ground.
It was a mutated saltwater crocodile more than ten meters long, with gray-black scales all over its body glowing like armor.
Such a large crocodile can swallow iron armor in one bite. Even if it's a big cow, you can chew it, chew it, and swallow it.
At this time, Long Fei's glasses show data: Species: Mutant saltwater crocodile, Current speed: 15 km/h, Attack strength: Level 6, Defense strength: Level 6, Weapon: Mouth.
Looking at this mutant saltwater crocodile, supporting its huge body with 4 strong short legs, and quickly chasing after the iron armor with steps, Long Fei was also dumbfounded.
"Help! I can't run! Iron Armor hurriedly shouted.