Ch44 - New Harvests and New Plans

“Chief, by using so much land for planting, won’t it affect the base construction and foreign counterattacks?” Another person in charge of the base asked a question.

Shaking his head slowly, the chief sighed helplessly: “That must be promoted as much as possible in the base, or we can only count on the farmlands outside—not to mention the distance, once a large-scale zombie tide comes over, the crops would get trampled. If all the farmland outside is crushed by zombies, we will get nothing after working hard for a few months. We should find a way to expand the base and promote individual planting, only this can guarantee future rations.”

This situation has happened several times, especially when survivors escaped from the surrounding areas to the base, and when the team returned to the city to do missions, it would always attract some zombies by the way. Some zombies passed through the farmlands managed by the base, trampling the crops in those fields.

What’s more, no one can prove whether the crops that have been trampled and killed by zombies will contain the zombie virus. If there is, it will be troublesome, no matter how much food they plant in the farmland outside, it can not be able to be eaten by people!

During these times, a single day feels like a year. 

But because experiencing his first life, and choosing another way of life that is completely different from the previous life, Wei Xuan in this life feels that his life is very leisurely.

Since the second strange snow fell, T City has ushered in a period of continuous rain for nearly a month. 

During this period, the harvest period of the potatoes and carrots planted by Wei Xuan was forced to be pushed back. But what surprised him was—no wonder the base vigorously promoted these two crops in his previous life. Now, under such a long period of cloudy weather and continuous rainstorms, almost none of the mutated potatoes and mutated carrots were destroyed by water. 

He can just wait until the weather clears up and the autumn air is crisp, and they’ll be ready to harvest again! 

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Such tenacious vitality is the glimmer of hope to the surviving human beings in this world.

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Taking advantage of his free time, Wei Xuan sorted it out properly, and only found out after searching – in this kind of community, if you don’t search carefully, you won’t know you can find a lot of good things! 

Not to mention all kinds of commonly used furniture and electrical appliances, in addition to the necessities of life, he also found a lot of things for leisure and entertainment. There are a few gigabytes of various entertainment content on other people’s hard drives…Of course, even if Wei Xuan finds porn, he is not interested. After all, he is gay, and he only likes men. Watching those things, for him, was no different from watching the clouds rise and disperse outside.

But wouldn’t someone else’s computer only have pornography? Shenma TV series, movies, animations, entertainment variety shows, etc., although you can watch everything online these days, there is no need to download it to your hard drive, and there is no way to download it from many websites. There are a few households where technical nerds live. Not only do they have a few hard disks full of various resources, but they also have burning discs from years ago, even more than ten years ago! Of course, he also found various types of game consoles and game discs that he can play with. 

With such a great harvest, Wei Xuan, who didn’t go to someone’s bedroom to check carefully when he came last time, was overjoyed. He directly carried this pile of things and put them in the room where he lives now. He can count on these things to pass the time on rainy days. 

In addition, he also found a few households that have an online shop, they have all kinds of hand-made models placed all over the house, even a life-sized Gundam of a certain model. 

It’s a pity that those few online shops sell women’s clothing, accessories, and even DIY handicrafts, which are of no use to Wei Xuan. And he just took a look at the handicrafts in that house, and when he left, he kindly helped the family close the door—of course before he left, he found a lot of computer games in the cabinet of this family. He picked some games that don’t look specifically for girls and planned to try them out at home.

Although he has collected a lot of games, movies, and electronics, it is a pity that the weather has been very bad recently, and Wei Xuan didn’t get many solar panels in the early days, so he didn’t dare to use the computer crazily. After all, when the apocalypse just started, he didn’t expect that he would still have time to play games. 

“Hey, after a while, we have to go out and look for more solar panels.” Looking at the bright starry sky outside the window, Wei Xuan began to sigh. As a modern person, he has already gotten used to it. The convenience brought by electric energy, if possible, he will subconsciously think of the simplest and most trouble-free solution when doing certain things, that is to use various convenient electrical appliances.

That is to say, in this life, he is in the city, and he can still find solar panels to use electricity. Otherwise, when returning to the previous life… 

No, wait.

A gleam of light flashed in Wei Xuan’s eyes. In his previous life, in the third year, a conversion device using energy cores had been developed in the base. That kind of device can convert the energy from crystal nuclei and make it into lamps and other things. 

Although this type of device was just emerging at the time, it caused a sensation in the entire base and even all survivor bases that could still get in touch!

Converting crystal nuclei energy into lamps is only the first step. If those scientists continue to experiment, then there may be energy fans, energy TVs, and even… energy weapons in the near future. 

Yes, since what is contained in the crystal nucleus is a kind of energy, then they are bound to be able to be manufactured into various types of weapons. Once humans have mastered this method, humans with new weapons will hunt and kill zombies on a large scale, harvest the crystal nuclei in their brains and create more powerful weapons.

However, the zombies are also able to fight back against the human army because of the gradual strengthening of their bodies. If this continues, what will the earth be like in the future? 

Looking at the endless starry sky, Wei Xuan suddenly fell into a kind of inexplicable sadness—melancholy for human beings and the world.

He is just a small person, after he is reborn, he just wants to stay with Du Hang forever, but if the future world becomes what he speculates, where can he live? 

“Oh…forget it, let’s do what I love.” Wei Xuan stood up suddenly, drove all these things out of his mind, turned around, and took Du Hang’s hand that had been standing silently beside him, “Let’s go, let’s go to bed!”

During this time of collecting and sorting, Wei Xuan not only harvested a bunch of games and hard drives but also found many convenient and practical appliances. For example, the bread machine in a certain family, although he doesn’t know how to use it to make bread, it is much better for kneading dough than the one he kneaded by himself, coupled with the hand-cranked noodle machine, he can now make noodles easily. 

It’s a pity that these things are all big consumers of electricity, and Wei Xuan can’t use them much during the continuous heavy rain and cloudy weather.

So, after the weather finally cleared up and most of the accumulated water outside evaporated, Wei Xuan immediately decided to leave and find more solar panels! 

He had visited the nearby home store once in the early days, but there was a bigger one a little farther away. It’s just that the home store is further north, and its area is much larger than the one he’s been to before.

Bringing the potatoes that sprouted a few days ago, and together with their backpacks, hats, masks, and coats, the two of them walked out of the gate of their community. 

Wei Xuan’s destination this time is the north of the urban area. Although he would leave the urban area of ​​T City if he walked further north, Wei Xuan did not find any signs of survivors operating in that area before. Being cautious, he still mixed in among the wandering zombies, carefully bypassing the cracked road and puddles.

To the north, the zombies outside were still the same as before. As long as no humans appeared and no sound attracted their attention, they would wander around blankly. 

Wei Xuan didn’t go too far to the north before, and this time he came here to check the surrounding situation and check whether there is a survivor base nearby.

After a few heavy showers of rain, the dilapidated buildings made the ground more difficult to walk. Fortunately, Wei Xuan has adapted to the broken road conditions in this post-apocalyptic city. Walking, as long as it is a place that can be walked by his physique, he will not find it difficult – but it is just walking more than usual. 

After walking to a place that he had never been to before, Wei Xuan started to plant his potatoes along the way – he had already planted potatoes in the other directions, so how could he leave this place alone? What’s more, he only needed to plant, not harvest, and it didn’t take much trouble.