The sky was dark, the copper-colored sea of clouds was turbulent, rolling and spreading from the horizon, and the sound of thunder was endless.
The cold east wind kept rolling and whistling, ruffling the accumulated water on the ground, and sweeping up the fallen leaves and flying them into the distance.
Here, there used to be a large orchard fifty kilometers away from Yongcheng.
However, now it is a desolate and dead world, and there are no more agricultural workers to care for, remove insects, and fertilize...
However, fortunately, most of the fruits grown in this large orchard are suitable for winter, including tangerines, oranges, bananas, and grapefruits. Even though it is already winter in December, the orchard will not be destroyed because the bugs will not mess with the plants. The fruits inside are all well preserved!
What's even more incredible is that the energy generated by cosmic storms and space vibrations caused the trees to mutate, and the fruit trees also grew exponentially. Not only did their branches become larger and thicker, they even produced a lot of heavy fruits. Hanging all over the branches, oranges are as big as cantaloupes, grapefruits are bigger than watermelons, and bananas are thicker than cucumbers.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Telekinesis masters, turbulence masters, pick all the fruits quickly. All the deft inheritors also go to the trees to pick the fruits. We must finish picking the fruits before dark and return to Yongcheng. !”
The sweet and magnetic female voice spread throughout the orchard, and the woman who spoke was suddenly Xie Qingmei, dye Hongxia's mother, who was also Li Jiayu's other mother-in-law.
Nearly ten days have passed since the battle between the dragons.
Xie Qingmei finally broke through the shackles of the second-level peak and was successfully promoted to a third-level strongman. Together with the second-level peak earth-walking dragon she captured, her overall strength is considered very powerful among the same level. , so Xie Qingmei is qualified to lead nearly three hundred inheritors to leave Yongcheng and risk their lives to run to this orchard to collect more food.
The inheritors she leads are naturally from the commando team under Ran Hongxia. Most of them are second-level mid-to-high-level experts, and there are even two young men who are third-level low-level players. It can be said that the troops are strong, and the three hundred people alone account for 30% of the commando team under Ran Hongxia.
Even though Xie Qingmei's strength cannot convince this group of inheritors, this group of people still respect Xie Qingmei. After all, this group of inheritors have extreme admiration and trust in Ran Hongxia, and Xie Qingmei It's Ran Hongxia's mother. She looks like a young woman's version of Ran Hongxia. When I see her. It seemed that he saw the righteous dye Hongxia.
"boom"
Xie Qingmei hit a fruit tree with a fist. In an instant, the leaves rustled down like snowflakes, and the bark splashed everywhere. However, all the big oranges on the tree were also shaken off. , fell to the ground like hail!
Then, Xie Qingmei's fighting spirit turned into a clever force, rolling up all the large yellow and orange oranges on the ground and throwing them into a large trolley made of wooden boards.
"Cousin, thank you for your hard work." Qin Siyao's beautiful eyes shone and she said enviously, while bending down. An orange that rolled on the ground also ran into the wooden cart.
Qin Siyao received a large amount of insect crystals and resources funded by the Xijiang Demon Hunting Group, and has now broken through the shackles and been promoted to a second-level peak healer. Unfortunately, no matter how advanced the healer is, it is difficult to fight against insects on the battlefield, let alone The method is like Xie Qingmei's, punching the tree trunk and dropping fruits all over the ground.
"No hard work, this is what Hongxia and I should do!" Xie Qingmei smiled. He shook his head slightly, moved a few steps, and punched another fruit tree. At the same time, he said to his cousin: "We must seize the time to complete the task, so as not to have long nights and dreams... When we came here early in the morning, we didn't touch it much. When it comes to bugs, there must be monsters if they act abnormally. I always have a strange foreboding feeling in my heart... I am really worried that a large group of bugs will suddenly appear and surround us in the orchard... "
"Cousin, don't worry. Our luck shouldn't be that bad. Such a bad thing may not happen to us. Even if there is an insect wave... it may not have any impact. Our team has nearly Among the three hundred masters, even if you meet the third-level intermediate insect king, you and the other two colonels can still be equally matched..." Qin Siyao smiled sweetly. She had great confidence in her relatives. After all, Xie Wenyuan's family The children are all among the best.
"I hope so..."
Xie Qingmei sighed noncommittally, and suddenly thought of her daughter who was still bedridden and didn't want to eat or drink...
Li Jiayu has disappeared for a long time. During this period, Ran Hongxia was depressed. Even if she couldn't take care of herself, she would often talk about Li Jiayu with Xie Qingmei, and talk to her mother about every bit of her and Li Jiayu...
Xie Qingmei could naturally see that her daughter was deeply trapped in the emotional whirlpool and had reached a point where she could not extricate herself. However, her daughter was unwilling to admit that she had a crush on Li Jiayu...
"Hey, if Jiayu's child was still in Yongcheng, the situation wouldn't be so chaotic, right?" Xie Qingmei said with a pun.
"Yes, Captain Li can even compete with the lord-level dragon clan... With him here, what do those miscellaneous bugs mean?" Qin Siyao also agreed. Under the influence of Ran Hongxia's mother and daughter, she already knew that Li Jiayu was As a man, she now has two female companions. Even her other cousin Xiao Wanqing has an unclear relationship with Li Jiayu. Qin Siyao is a little troubled because she doesn't know that Li Jiayu will become her cousin-in-law in the future. Or the man who becomes her niece... maybe, both are possible...
This time he ran out to pick fruits at great risk. To put it bluntly, he did so out of necessity.
After Lu Dingyun's death, the magic manor in Yongcheng almost collapsed. No matter how much it was saved with petal fruits and platycodon inherited from the earth's energy, it could not prevent the crops from withering. Therefore, the largest source of food for the eight million survivors was completely destroyed. Disconnected.
Without the source of food, relief food cannot be distributed. Those ordinary survivors are destined to starve. During the nearly ten days of famine, everything that can be eaten and drunk in Yong City has been consumed. There are even some people. Many people risked their lives and ran into the river to catch fish and blood-sucking insects to eat. Even the mutated plants in Yong City were uprooted. Barks, leaves, grass roots, as long as they were organic matter, as long as they could sustain life, they would be hungry. The hungry people who went crazy stuffed it into their mouths desperately.
Some rumors have spread that some crazy parents even exchanged their children for food, throwing their starving children into iron pots and cooking them...
In this terrible famine, Yongcheng has lost its former vitality, and many ordinary people have become completely desperate, thinking that there is no point in continuing to live. More and more people are committing suicide by jumping off buildings, while robberies, Evils such as cannibalism, rape, revenge, and abuse are also spreading everywhere, and public security is in chaos...
Every day, when the inheritors were transporting fruits and insect meat back from outside the city, a large group of starving people with emaciated faces, haggard faces, and filthy bodies would rush to surround the convoy, stretch out their helpless hands, and use fiery And he looked at the food in the large wooden cart with greedy eyes...
There have been riots several times. Some hungry people who were dizzy from hunger united to rob the food brought back from outside the city. But the final result was that the conflicts escalated again and again. In the end, hundreds of hungry people were killed, and blood was shed. Splattered all over the street.
But even so... The hungry people who are dizzy from hunger still don't have a long memory. There are still a lot of people coveting the food transported back to Yongcheng, and their minds are full of thinking about how to get a little bit of food to win sympathy. Or is it to build relationships or use force
"Cousin, there are a lot of fruits in this orchard, and the portions are quite large. One grapefruit alone weighs more than ten kilograms. The total of all the fruits is probably one million kilograms... If we take all this food back, it will probably be too much. It can barely sustain the lives of two to three million people for a day..." Qin Siyao bent down and picked up a heavy big grapefruit and said thoughtfully.
"Well, if you save some food, it should be enough... Now we can only take one step at a time. We can't leave our compatriots who are hungry and suffering. Hey, now I am looking forward to the insects coming to attack. If this happens , at least we can get some more insect meat..." Xie Qingmei nodded.
Over the past few days, a large number of insects have emerged from a wasteland dozens of kilometers west of Yongcheng. It is obvious that there is a space-time rift leading to the insect world under the wasteland.
Among the bugs that escaped this time, in addition to the common colorful centipedes, purple beetles, green beetles, and suspended jellyfish, there are also many new species that have never been seen before. Some of the new bugs have terrifyingly high attack power, and some are extremely poisonous. It’s scary, but luckily, there are also a lot of bugs like red-capped beetles!
What is a red-capped beetle
In the early days of the end of the world, this thing was like a small tank that caused huge casualties to people. It was called the god of death in the early days of the end of the world. However, now that the strength of the inheritors has been improved, there is no need to worry about the red-topped beetle. On the contrary, Red-capped beetles are a dish in the eyes of humans, because every time a red-capped beetle is captured, it is equivalent to possessing two to three thousand kilograms of delicious insect meat, and the brains and internal organs of the red-capped beetles can also be used!
In other words, all the food of a red-capped beetle is enough to barely sustain the daily energy consumption of nearly ten thousand people. It is definitely impossible to eat enough, but if it is just to maintain life and not starve to death, it is still possible.
In just over an hour, the team led by Xie Qingmei had picked the entire orchard like a storm and filled the dozens of large wooden carts!
"Okay, we can go back to Yongcheng, let's go!"
Xie Qingmei rode on the back of Di Xinglong, waved her hand, and greeted her companions to leave the orchard without looking back. (To be continued)RQ