Early the next morning, the members of the engineering team came in a big truck with large construction equipment.

However, they had to complete Professor Zhao's task first, and Gu Xi's small house would have to wait for a while.

Gu Xi was not in a hurry.

Qin Yi came over early in the morning to rub the sweet potatoes, and when he saw that the engineering team over there had already started construction, he couldn't help but be a little envious, "I don't know when I will be able to have a small house of my own......"

Gu Xi felt a little strange: "You shouldn't be short of money, right?" ”

"Missing, why not lacking?" Qin Yi took a bite of the sweet potato viciously, the country has been difficult all these years, and the army has to tighten its belts to get by, and the little money she and her sister saved before was all replaced by seeds a few days ago.

"What are you doing?" Wei Heng held a big sweet potato, sat next to Qin Yi, and glanced at her: "My sweet potato provoked you?" ”

Qin Yi glanced at him, ignored him, and said to Gu Xi with a smile: "After planting watermelons yesterday, Professor Zhao said that your land was too ruthless, and you won't be able to raise it back without resting for three or five months." So Gu Xi, what are your plans next? ”

Wei Heng snorted beside him: "Don't bother Gu Xi's idea, yesterday we bought a whole box of land nutrient solution." And even if Gu Xi's land can't be planted, what about my 100 acres......"

Want to kidnap people out from under his nose? No way.

However, he was not very lucky, unlike Gu Xi's land, which was on the edge of the creek, and it was leveled and cultivated; Nearly half of his land, which lies between the slopes and the woodlands, has now developed into dense mountain forests.

The mutated trees in the forest, covering the sky and the sun, had deep roots and thick leaves, and all kinds of vines and bushes...... In short, it is difficult to cultivate.

As for the remaining slopes, they can barely be reclaimed, and they can also grow some sweet potatoes or something, but looking at Gu Xi's appearance, it seems that he has other plans?

"Gu Xiaoxi." Wei Heng peeled off the sweet potato skin, glanced at Shen Yue, who was walking towards this side not far away, and sighed: "The person who beat your sweet potato idea has another one." ”

Sure enough, Shen Yue's first sentence after coming over was: "Gu Xi, do you have anything to eat?" I'm starving to death......"

Gu Xi pointed to the stove and asked him to get it himself.

As a result, he just took it away, and he said that he had to bring a few back to the professors.

Wei Heng snorted twice and didn't speak.

Instead, Gu Xi glanced at him and suddenly asked, "Those mutated upland rice should be harvested, right?" What did Professor Zhao say? ”

After eating sweet potatoes for several days, her heart that wanted to eat rice was already eager to try and couldn't bear it.

Shen Yue took a bite of the sweet potato and said vaguely: "It should be today, but I have to ask the two professors again......"

After Gu Xi listened, his eyes lit up slightly, he swallowed the remaining sweet potatoes in his hand in one bite, and casually brushed two handfuls of morning dew on the weeds next to him to wash his hands, got up and said, "Then I'll go with you and ask Professor Zhao." ”

I don't eat actively, and I have problems with my thoughts.

There is no delay in this matter.

Shen Yue looked at her extraordinarily skillful action of washing her hands with dew, and said in her heart, this girl is really rough, it is just a fight with him.

……

Professor Zhao did not disappoint Gu Xi either, and after coming over to confirm in person, he told Gu Xi that these upland rice was ripe and ready to be harvested.

After harvesting, Professor Zhao only took half of it, and gave the rest to Gu Xi for seeding.

Gu Xi held the heavy ears of rice and said in his heart, he could finally eat white rice.

The little green sprouts were probably also affected by her, and they came out of the ground at once, wrapping around those heavy ears of rice several times.

Professor Zhao looked very interesting, and asked her with a smile: "Xiao Gu, I'm afraid you have to recuperate for a while on this piece of land, what are your plans next?" ”

On the side, when Wei Heng heard this, he suddenly felt a little wrong, how could there be so many people who beat Gu Xiaoxi's idea?

Gu Xi's heart moved.

"Professor, how about you plant some fruit on the slopes over there?" She asked Professor Zhao as she pointed to the hillside behind her.

"You want to plant fruit trees?" Professor Zhao was a little surprised. In these years, there are not many wood-based abilities who dare to plant fruit trees.

He thought for a moment and said, "It's very suitable to plant fruit trees on this slope, but, Xiao Gu, have you really thought about it?" Fruit trees have a long growth cycle and mutate faster than ordinary crops......"

"Professor Zhao, I want to try." Now that he has finally lived a peaceful life, Gu Xi doesn't want to wronged himself.

She also loves to eat fruits, so why not be kind to herself when she has the ability?

"Professor, do you have fruit seeds there?" Gu Xi asked.

Although she was confident that she could grow delicious fruits, she did not have seeds in her hands.

Professor Zhao shook his head: "Fruit seeds, I don't have ...... here."

Gu Xi was a little disappointed, so he heard Professor Zhao smile again and said, "However, I can help you apply." ”

In his capacity, applying for fruit seeds should not be a big problem.

But......

Professor Zhao sighed: "Xiao Gu, you also know that fruits are rare nowadays, and fruit seeds, especially fruit seeds with a low coefficient of variation, are even more rare and precious, and I can't guarantee how many seeds you can apply for......

At that time, almost all the fruit trees at that time were wiped out, and they could no longer bear fruit that could be eaten by humans.

The existing fruit seeds are still the seeds left behind after the country activated the pre-apocalyptic seed bank in recent years, allowing the high-level wood-based abilities to quickly spawn and then bear fruit.

However, even if the fruit trees planted with pre-apocalyptic seeds will mutate in a very short period of time, and the coefficient of variation of the final fruit will be high and low.

When Professor Zhao talked about this, he also felt sorry for him, as well as ...... Painful.

Gu Xi expressed his understanding and thanked him: "Thank you, Professor Zhao, I don't pick the number and type of seeds." "Some are eaten.

After a pause, Gu Xi still couldn't hold back, and asked again: "Professor Zhao, can those X energies in the bodies of animals and plants really not be purified, or can they be extracted directly?" ”

Professor Zhao didn't expect her to ask this, so he shook his head after a pause and said, "There is no effective way for the time being." ”

In fact, after the second great mutation of animals and plants, some people proposed that if X energy could be extracted or purified, the food crisis could be solved.

It's a pity that over the years, no effective method has been found.

"Then there's no way around it?" Gu Xi frowned slightly. It shouldn't be......

Gu Xi never underestimated the power of the state apparatus, even in the darkest period of the last days.

Sure enough, Professor Zhao paused and said, "That's not either." More than twenty years ago, it was suggested that maybe we could try it out with an ability......"

“…… Later, although they all failed, Vice Dean Ye used his purification ability to appease those X energies in the seeds and pressed the pause button on them......"

Speaking of this, Professor Zhao paused and sighed: "Thanks to Vice President Ye back then, the country was able to preserve so many seeds with a low coefficient of variation. ”

Otherwise, if those seeds were allowed to continue to mutate at that time, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Vice Dean Ye?" Gu Xi raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked curiously.

"Well, the vice president of the Central Base Ability Research Institute, Ye Xin."

Professor Zhao already knew that this girl was brought out of the ruins, and he didn't know the situation outside, so he explained two more sentences:

"Over the years, Vice Dean Ye has been on the front line of research, and her purification ability can effectively appease X energy and reduce its activity ......"

And Ye Xin also relied on this merit to successfully sit in the position of vice president of the Institute of Abnormal Energy fifteen years ago.

Now she has a great voice in the Anomalies Research Institute, and even in the entire central base.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a big man.

But Gu Xi's focus at this time was on another matter.

"So, those seeds that have been distributed by the base now have actually passed through the hands of the healing powers?" Gu Xi tilted his head and asked.

"Not bad." Professor Zhao nodded: "Vice Dean Ye's ability research shows that the healing ability can appease the violentness of X energy and reduce its activity ......."

Gu Xi thought of the subtle difference she felt when she first snatched energy from those sweet potato seeds and when she snatched energy from wild plants in the wild, and frowned slightly......