Chapter 36: Dwarf Plants

"The oil fruit, the kind of fruit that has oil inside, this oil wood fruit is it." Unexpectedly, the holy war listened to Song Yi's words and spoke.

"Hey, oilwood also grows apodes, can you eat it?" It was not surprising for Song Yi to hear that oil wood also grows oil fruits, after all, not only one plant has mutated into oil fruits.

"I don't believe it, the oil component in the oily fruit is biased towards gasoline and cannot be absorbed by the human body, but it is better than gasoline in that it is burned without pollution." Jihad shook his head.

"That's a bit of a pity." Song Yi said, now there are very few places to use gasoline, not to mention that all energy uses controllable nuclear fusion, isn't there solar wind energy or the like, the energy of crystal nuclei after the end of the world is also good, how can it be more practical than gasoline.

"Not necessarily, there is no such thing as uselessness, and gasoline can only be used as energy." Jihad said.

"That's just as well." Song Yi nodded, the oil on the Blue Star had already been harvested in the past three hundred years, but fortunately, controlled nuclear fusion had been developed before that and applied to various fields.

When the two were chatting, Mo Shaohang and they had already boiled the water, Zhang Ke and they also came back, and took out a huge beast from the space, which looked like a rabbit, but the pair of big teeth were extremely sharp.

Chickens, ducks, rabbits, cows, sheep, cats and dogs are the most common animals before the end of the world, and they are the most common when other animals are extinct or endangered for ecological reasons.

The post-apocalyptic animals seem to have all mutated from their ancestors, so Song Yi is not sure if this is a mutant or an animal that has mutated into another species and just looks like a rabbit.

Anyway, the vast majority of mutated animals can be eaten, but individual parts may be poisonous, and they can also be identified by identification.

Zhang Ke and the others skillfully peeled the skin, got the useful teeth and claws off, and then cut off the inedible parts, buried them in the soil, and prepared to start cooking.

"Do you want my help?" Song Yi felt that it was not good for him and the holy war to stand here and look bad, so he asked.

"No, you and the doctor just wait." Several refused.

"I've got some veggies and spices here." Song Yi took out a few pots of vegetables from the space bag, as well as oilfruits, onions, ginger and garlic.

"Why do you still have this with you?" Jihad was a little speechless when he saw the vegetables that Song Yi took out.

"Anyway, the space bag can put plants, so I brought a few pots, and I don't have to worry about running out of food when I go out." Song Yi said.

"This is rice?" Chef Zeng Lai saw the things that Song Yi took out, and the first thing he saw was the rice that was more than one meter high, and the rice ears on it were the size of ping-pong balls.

"Yes, mutated rice." Song Yi nodded.

"I didn't expect you to have this, there is only a small area on the side of the planting area that has planted this, and you can't eat it yet, so you have to keep the seeds." Qi Cheng was also surprised when he saw it.

"This was originally discovered in the planting area of our school, and after our teacher cultivated it, we removed the aggressiveness, planted some, and later distributed some to W City, which should have been sent over there." Song Yi said.

"What school are you from?" Qi Cheng asked.

"Yunshan Agricultural University." Song Yi replied.

"Hey, it's Yunshan, no wonder." Qi Cheng understood.

"Is Yunshan University famous?" Others have never heard of this school.

"One of the top agricultural universities in China before the end of the world, in addition to Yunshan, there are two agricultural universities in Tianshan and Zhushan." Qi Cheng said that she also studied agriculture, but studied at Tianshan University.

"Where is Senpai?" Song Yi asked.

"Tianshan's." Qi Cheng replied.

"No wonder you know so well." Others who heard her answer suddenly realized that they really rarely paid attention to related schools if they were not majors.

"A few agricultural universities can be said to be the place with the most plants in the pre-apocalyptic era, no wonder you can come up with so many vegetables." Qi Cheng said.

She was not lying, as before the end of the world, when the vegetation cover area was becoming less and less, several agricultural universities were established near a few vegetation covered areas, and a lot of farmland was opened up for students to do homework, which naturally became more abundant than in other places where only a few improved crops and plants could be cultivated.

"There are indeed many mutant plants near the school, but unfortunately there are too few people in our school, and after the end of the world, I am homesick, and I left immediately after building the flying machine, and I didn't explore it properly." Song Yi sighed.

They had basically explored the surrounding area within a thousand kilometers of the base, and had not explored other places at all, including the former forests and plantation areas.

"When the country recovers, you can send people to explore." Jihad said after listening.

"I think so." Zhang Ke also nodded.

Don't look at the fact that there seem to be a lot of mutated plants outside now, but as long as the records are summarized, you will find that these mutated plants are almost all mutated from several identical plants, although there are many varieties after mutation, but there are still a few.

It would take years to restore the abundance of species and the integrity of the food chain to the state of hundreds of years ago, through the dispersal of seeds by birds.

"Alright, it's time to eat." Zeng Lai, who had been listening to their conversation, did not stop what he was doing, picked the rice fruit and shelled it, burned it, plucked a few leaves and made a few dishes, plus the braised rabbit meat, and a sumptuous dinner was ready.

After coming to the capital to see the craftsmanship of those chefs, Song Yi found that they would not chop the vegetables and meat into minced pieces when cooking because they became smaller, but kept the original size.

Because of that size, it was originally the most suitable size for the Xia people after thousands of years of research, just like braised pork, if you cut the braised pork into minced meat, is it still braised pork?

Obviously, Zeng Lai is also an orthodox cook, and the meat and vegetables cut out are all in normal human size, looking at a piece of meat, a vegetable, and half a grain of rice occupying a large pot of food, Song Yi didn't know where to start.

"Give." Jihad handed Song Yi a knife and fork.

"It's really going back the more you live." Song Yi complained: "Who doesn't know that our ancestors eliminated knives and forks, and people in the West who have not evolved are still using them, but now we have to use them again." ”

"I heard that the plant research team is going to dwarf these vegetables." Jihad said elegantly as he cut through the vegetables.

"This one does." Everyone else nodded when they heard it, it's really not okay if vegetables aren't dwarfed, you can't eat vegetable foam at every meal.

"The ones I took out have already been dwarfed, and it's a bit difficult to dwarf them again." Song Yi said.

When the teachers first cultivated mutant plants, they didn't plan to dwarf them at first, after all, what they were pursuing before the end of the world was gigantic.