Chapter 5: Text Messages from Strangers

"The territories with a high safety factor outside the security zone, in addition to the territories surrounding the security zone, are: 2, 15, 68, 113, and 166, and the Tang family intends to receive three of them."

Because Xia Qing has been paying attention to the information of the territory, he knows that the five territories listed in this text message are indeed all with a high safety factor, and the credibility of this message is very high.

Xia Qing has been secretly paying attention to the Tang family and knows that they have the idea of fighting the territory, so she will go to the mission hall early to line up and wait for the Tang family to come.

To speed up the utilization rate of cultivated land on the periphery of the security zone and solve the problem of food shortage as soon as possible, the highest state department has asked the military and the government of all bases to work together to promote the pilot work of territorial work as soon as possible.

Under the supervision of the military at the Huisan base, the Tang family did not dare to blatantly occupy good land, and they had to do enough superficial work.

No matter how much you do it, there are loopholes in the superficial effort. Xia Qing wanted to seize the loophole and take the opportunity to get to the third place. Because in this field, there are important resources for her survival.

After this person sent a text message to the number she used publicly in the security zone, he soon used a communication satellite to send the same text message to her number that had not been used for seven years, but it was a pity that Xia Qing kept turning off the phone and did not find out.

Xia Qing was able to successfully get to the third place, thanks to this text message. As for who this person really is, whether he sent the text message out of kindness or something else, sooner or later the truth will be revealed, and there is no hurry.

Xia Qing deleted the text message again and yawned into her sleeping bag. She wants to recuperate her spirit and start a new life.

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The next morning, after clearing the yard of wild grass and shrubs, Xia Qing left the village with a piece of ration in his mouth, and headed north through large scorched farmland, bypassing a narrow reservoir and climbing up the hillside.

In order to ensure that the cultivated land is not damaged by the invasion of evolutionary organisms, the base has sent personnel to clear a separation zone at least 50 meters wide as a transitional zone between the uncleared evolutionary forest and the cultivated land. The zone is regularly sprayed with insect repellent to prevent evolutionary insects in the evolutionary forest from crawling through the barrier into the territorial area.

In order to protect the safety of cultivated land and lords, there is also a buffer zone between the isolation zone and the cultivated land, and more than 3,000 acres of mountain forests cleared on the northwest side of No. 3 land belong to the buffer zone, and this buffer zone is also included in the scope of No. 3 land, so the area of No. 3 land has reached an astonishing 6,000 acres.

The buffer forest area has been cleared of only harmful evolutionary organisms, and the vegetation is still dense, contrasting with the blackened farmland below.

Xia Qing's wooden stick picked up the grass and climbed up, and it took twenty minutes to reach the destination of this trip, a small stone cave with a spring.

This spring was accidentally discovered by Xia Qing when he was cleaning up the mountains and forests with his team. The spring water gushing out of the spring slowly seeps out on the inside of the narrow stone cave that is half a meter deep and 30 centimeters high, and then seeps into the ground along the stone cracks, silently.

If it weren't for the fact that a speed evolution squirrel suddenly jumped out of the stone cave at that time, Xia Qing would not have been able to discover this spring.

In order to solve the problem of drinking water, the Huisan base has drilled three deep wells in the safety zone, and the water is polluted and purified before it can be drunk.

Due to the high cost of purifying polluted water, the mission card of the base is hung with the task of finding unpolluted water sources all year round, and each team will stop by to find water sources no matter what mission they receive when they leave the safe zone.

In the past ten years, four unpolluted water sources have been found within the Huisan base, all of which are springs gushing from the mountains. However, because the amount of water is too small, it can only be supplied to a small number of people.

Xia Qing, who survived by selling his strength, is certainly not among the few.

Of course, not all mountain springs are polluted. So when Xia Qing used the detector she carried with her to detect that the spring water showed a green light, she immediately set this land as her first choice.

Water is the source of life.

Now, the spring is finally hers alone. After Xia Qing took half a bowl of water and drank it all, the advertising slogans of a certain water brand echoed repeatedly in her heart.

It's so cool!

With such a clean spring water, she drank as much as she wanted.

Not only drink, but she also washes her face with this water, which is so proud!

Xia Qing, who washed his face, smirked and cleaned up the expanded stone cave. This is a trivial matter for the power evolutionary.

The sound of spring water flowing into the bucket along the bamboo pieces was a natural sound in Xia Qing's ears.

It takes time to catch water, and Xia Qing stood up and looked down at his territory.

There are no volcanoes in the area of the Hui San base, and there are no major earthquakes, so the landscape here is no different from before the disaster, but there are many evolutionary creatures that can easily kill people in the dense mountains and forests.

The mountains and forests and cultivated land in Xia Qing's territory were also occupied by them three months ago. The pits that remain several meters deep on the ground are the traces of the fierce battle between humans and evolved creatures for this land.

After the two 20-liter buckets were filled, Xia Qing stuffed them into an oversized backpack and hid them, and then blocked the small stone cave with stones and branches to avoid being discovered.

After going down the mountain to put the water home, Xia Qing went to the commissary in the deserted village, picked up the ruins that smelled of decay, took out a deflated stainless steel solar vertical water storage tank, restored it to its original state, and used it to draw water from the reservoir.

As soon as he arrived at the edge of the reservoir, a black shadow suddenly jumped out of the water and rushed straight to Xia Qing's face. Xia Qing slapped it five meters away and smashed it on the stone by the reservoir.

After the black shadow rolled a few times and didn't move, Xia Qingle was happy.

The one who attacked her was an evolutionary catfish thicker than an arm. Like many carnivorous creatures, the evolutionary catfish has incorporated humans into its diet and will actively attack humans. If Xia Qing had been bitten by its file-like teeth after evolution just now, he would definitely lose a large piece of meat.

Now......

Xia Qing took a knife and cut a small piece of fish meat, put it into the small multi-functional detector he carried with him, and the green light turned on.

This evolved catfish, edible!

Xia Qing immediately stuffed the catfish into a basin of water and hid it, so as not to swoop down and snatch it from the evolutionary birds of prey flying in the sky.

After carefully filling it with water, Xia Qing carried the 400-pound water tank back to his home, made a simple filter device with fine sand, fine stones and several layers of gauze, purified the water for the first time, and then installed the primary purification filter cartridge issued by the base to purify the water for the second time.

Taking advantage of the slow filtering of the water, Xia Qing found the tools at his disposal to eradicate and throw away all the moldy and yellowed mottled walls in this two-story building. Then I cleaned the big iron pot at home, boiled the filtered water, and took a hot bath.

After drinking a glass of mountain spring water, Xia Qing, who was so hungry that his stomach growled, raised his knife and went straight to the big catfish.

For the first meal in the realm, she was to eat meat.

Again:

Dear book friends, the author is here to explain the setting of the creature name of this book: (because it has not been put on the shelves yet, so it is directly placed in the text)

All living things in Blue Star evolve and are divided into two types: evolution at the ordinary level and evolution beyond the ordinary level. For the convenience of reading, when the name of the creature is mentioned later in the text, the original name of the creature that has evolved at the ordinary level is directly used, and the word "evolution" is added before the name of the creature that has evolved at the super level, such as the evolutionary potato, the evolutionary snake, etc.

By analogy, the name of an advanced evolutionary creature that exceeds the ordinary evolution of the species by more than five times is added to the word "advanced evolution", such as an advanced evolutionary potato, an advanced evolutionary snake, etc.