East China Sea.
Nanding Island is an uninhabited island, which was formed by volcanic eruption. During the condensation process, the ejected magma formed neatly arranged basalt pillars.
There is nothing else on the island, it is all composed of these stone pillars, it is said that there are more than 1.4 million stone pillars, the whole body is dark green, looking from a distance, it looks like a piece of black jade inlaid in the blue sky and blue sea.
This place is not far from the shore, so it can barely be regarded as a scenic spot, but after the environment deteriorates, together with the surrounding sea area, extending to the land, it has become a paradise for marine alienated beasts—that is, the legendary Southeast Dead Sea.
Death does not refer to sea water, but death.
"despair!"
"despair!"
In a cave eroded by sea water on the outskirts of the island, water dripped from time to time, and Xiao Zhai was wandering slowly. The cave seemed to go straight into the belly of the island, and the walls and roof were full of thick basalt columns—that was the extension of the stone forest above.
The island has long been occupied by various creatures, but the cave is deserted. Of course, this does not mean safety, but it means that there is a more powerful guy here.
Xiao Zhai was neat and tidy, and after a short walk, he reached the deepest part of the cave. I saw a huge black figure huddled inside, with its head buried in its body, sleeping soundly.
"Slap!"
She kicked a stone and it flew across, hitting the scaly shell.
boom!
The black shadow was awakened, and there was a sound like a millstone turning, and the body slowly turned over, revealing four night-light-like eyes.
"Why!"
Xiao Zhai waved.
"Roar!"
The other party stared in a daze at first, and then became furious. When he stretched out his body, a ten-meter-long sea beast resembling a fish or a lizard appeared. Its head is like a fish, with a very long neck that stretches straight out, opening its huge mouth, revealing two rows of dense fangs.
"Puff puff!"
"Puff!"
The huge head poked out, and stopped abruptly, sixteen black and purple thunder lights, like iron rods, were inserted obliquely into the ground, just forming a cage.
"Roar!"
The sea beast flicked its tail and tried to whip, but as soon as it touched a point, it suddenly retracted in pain, and just roared with all its strength.
"Big body and no brains, no natural talent and supernatural powers, it looks like a bluff... inferior goods."
Xiao Zhai observed for a moment, shook his head, and waved his hand.
"laugh!"
The sea mines flew up, like sixteen scalpels, and cut across the sea beast's body without a sound, without even a trace of blood, it was neatly divided into pieces all over the ground.
She took out the animal gall that was the size of a human head, and it still had a stench, "This is still useful."
Putting it into the storage bag, it was fired again, and a thunderbolt enveloped the meat, making a sizzling sound, and soon there was a burst of meaty fragrance.
This operation, no matter the previous sea mine or the fire mine inexplicably practiced in Lushan, is flexible and ingenious, and it is handy. She roasted a big monster, but she didn't eat it. Instead, she released a green snake and rushed towards it.
Xiaoqing wandered outside with her master, and her body became much larger, nearly four meters long. It ran to the food, opened its mouth, and swallowed a piece of animal meat.
Ordinary snakes need to digest slowly after eating a big meal, and they can not eat for a long time. It's different, its stomach is like a black hole, and the meat is swept away, and it is still very slender.
"gone!"
After it had eaten and drank enough, Xiao Zhai wiped himself and returned to the entrance of the cave. With a little step, he floated up to the island lightly, and after a little bit, he stood on the top of a basalt pillar.
Xiaoqing followed closely behind, tangled up on the pillar, hissing and spitting out the letter, looking forward to flying.
"Cuckoo!"
"Chirp!"
The nearby sea beasts and seabirds yelled all kinds of noises and retreated one after another. If you can't be provoked, if you can't be provoked, we will treat you as a Panlong.
"..."
Xiaozhai checked the sky, and seemed to have a feeling, so he simply sat on the stone pillar and started to practice like that.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and she remained motionless, like a stone statue. On the third night, the clear sky suddenly became dark, the sea was rough and undulating, and the beasts ran away in panic, or hid under the stone pillars, or hid in the sea.
Dark clouds like black ink appeared in the sky, being blown by the wind and covering half of the sky.
It was already very dark on the small island, and the wind brought the rain stars ahead, bumping here and there. Immediately afterwards, the sky was pierced by an unpredictable short and long fire snake, and then there was a muffled cracking sound, which became louder and louder.
"boom!"
"Crack!"
Almost in the blink of an eye, the torrential rain poured down, the sea was swept by strong winds, and huge waves were surging. The zigzag lightning struck the basalt pillar one after another.
"..."
Xiao Zhai opened his eyes, and with a thought, four lightning bolts of gold, black, blue, and black shot into the sky.
boom!
The thunder and lightning of heaven and earth collided fiercely with the thunder and lightning of Taoism, forming a huge lightning ball with flashing arcs. The four colors of gold, red, black, and blue are constantly rotating in it, and they seem to be fighting and blending with the sky thunder. The surrounding air is completely evacuated, and there is no trace of rain approaching.
Xiao Zhai's face turned pale, and he closed his eyes tightly, struggling to support himself.
Thunder method, thunder method... People first cultivate the five elements separately, and then combine them into one, but Tianlei is different. Tianlei is born naturally.
After cutting off the mortal world in the illusion, Xiao Zhai's state of mind is almost perfect, the difference is only in cultivation. This was also a sudden whim, and he intentionally induced the thunder to temper himself. After trying it once, he found that the effect was very obvious, so he searched everywhere for places where lightning strikes frequently.
In this way, the whole night passed before the thunderstorm stopped.
Xiao Zhai was almost exhausted, so he took a few pills and recovered with the spirit stone in his hand. It took a long time for him to get better.
"Hoo..."
She jumped off the stone pillar, and when she reached the beach, it was just an ordinary water-walking technique, step by step, like a walk, stepping on the water to land.
The green snake is full of spirituality and grows very fast. It has already learned the water skills. It swims around its owner and jumps up against the spray from time to time. It may think that it is a dolphin.
Nanding Island was six or seven kilometers away from the shore, and not long after, she arrived at an abandoned small fishing village.
After the storm, the sky became brighter and brighter, so Xiao Zhai found a house and lay down on the roof. The sun was warm and warm on her body. She stretched her arms and legs and took out her phone from the storage bag. Fortunately, there was a signal.
"Beep beep..."
"Toot..."
I didn't answer the video call for a long time, and it got through after the second call. As a result, the screen lit up, showing Fat Brother's big face.
"Squeak!"
"..."
"Squeak!"
"..."
When Xiaoqing heard the voice, she swooped up, extremely excited, and kept shaking society at the screen. The fat brother was also very excited to see his good friend, waving his little paws and jumping up and down.
"Hiss!"
"Squeak!"
Xiao Zhai watched them talk to each other speechlessly, sighed faintly, put his right hand behind his head, and raised his long leg, "Hey, it's the Chinese New Year!"
…
On February 14, it was sunny.
Today is Valentine's Day in the West. Of course, in China, it's basically just eating, buying, buying, oh oh oh, ah!
In fact, as the environment gets worse and resources are scarce, many people lose the interest. This year is even more obvious, because the 15th is New Year's Eve, a day for family reunion.
There is a ban in the mountains, you are not allowed to go home at will, but the Spring Festival still has to be celebrated. So Li Dong led the team and led a few people out to purchase.
Things like melon, fruit, wine, tea and vegetables are abundant in the mountains, while meat and staple foods are very poor. Although the output of Lingmi is plentiful, it is still not enough to feed more than a thousand people, let alone an intern, so it is not included in the benefits.
But they said that when they arrived at the Baicheng market, they dispersed and bought separately.
Compared with the past, the market is much more lively, and there are people selling firecrackers, which inadvertently adds a bit of New Year flavor. If you eat dumplings in the north and cakes in the south, you have to use rice noodles, but now there is no rice noodles.
Can you imagine dumplings made of potato powder and rice cakes
I shudder!
Li Dong didn't have much hope at first, but when he walked to the grain and oil store, he suddenly found many people surrounded outside. He leaned over to take a look, and was even more stunned, he was actually selling rice and flour.
Sold by the bag!
"Give me another two catties, one catty! One catty is fine!"
"Fifty catties of rice, the money is here, don't need to look for it!"
"Don't move, don't move, I want it first, I'll wrap it up!"
"Oh, you can't pack it, there is still a limit per person."
The common people were scrambling crazy, Li Dong managed to get in line, and came up to him little by little, asking, "Brother, what's going on?"
"I don't know either. The notice I received yesterday was suddenly released."
The boss was busy without raising his head, and said, "Maybe the government will give you preferential treatment. During the Spring Festival, who doesn't want to eat dumplings during the New Year? Come, come, come, buy it and leave, don't delay the rest!"
Li Dong couldn't figure it out, so he asked those people to line up too. In the end, each person had fifty catties of rice, two catties of noodles, and a pile of yellow-haired rat meat, and drove a pickup back to the mountain gate.
"Hey, hello!"
Before entering, a girl carrying a big box suddenly ran over and asked, "Are you from the mountain, can you take me in?"
"Who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for Brother Gu Yu, my name is Fang Qing."
Hiss!
A few people were taken aback and called out their names! Li Dong was startled, he seemed to have heard of this person before, thought about bringing her into the mountain gate, and found Long Qiu again.
Long Qiu was very happy to see Fang Qing, and said with a smile, "Qingqing, why are you here? I heard you went to college, are you on vacation?"
"Well, I just came back yesterday, and I have something to ask my brother."
"He's up there, I'll take you there."
Good guy! The others were all dumbstruck in a daze, he is still a big shot, so if he said it, he would do it!
Gu Yu was also very surprised to see Fang Qing. Since the last farewell, the little girl was determined and insisted on going to the capital to study and study "Research on the Relationship between the New Environment and Social Development". It has been more than a year without knowing it.
His attitude towards her was the same as before, that is, the little sister next door, and said with a smile: "You are a rare visitor, how are you doing at school?"
"Great!"
Fang Qing didn't hesitate, sat down to drink tea, and said, "It's just that this subject is newly established, and the knowledge is not very systematic. We studied at school for half a year, and then followed the expert group to go everywhere."
"Oh? Where have you been?"
"A lot of places. We went to half of the twenty-seven agricultural bases, and several urban agglomerations, and met a lot of big people. At present, the overall framework is completed, and the rest is the detailed construction. By the way, I am not visiting Yes, I have business."
As she said that, Fang Qing put down her teacup, sat upright, and said seriously: "Since the year before last, the whole world has been in a food shortage. We have a perfect grain reserve system. In theory, it can guarantee the national diet within a year. But the long-term development of the country Consider increasing scientific research while implementing food rationing. For example, last year, the state stipulated that adult men can get 18 catties of rice per month, women 14 catties, and children are less. The current rice production can barely maintain Supply…”
"Okay, okay!"
Gu Yu interrupted with a wave of his hand, and said, "You don't have to read and recite, just talk."
"oh… "
Fang Qing blushed, opened the big box, and inside was a long ear of rice, and said, "This is cultivated by Yuan Laoxin."
Um
Gu Yu took it and looked at it. After the rice grows into ears, an ordinary rice ear will bloom 200-300 rice flowers, and one rice flower will form a grain of rice. Therefore, to estimate the rice yield, the number of grains of rice flowers is almost the same.
And this rice ear is densely packed from top to bottom, without the slightest gap, and there are nearly a thousand grains.
"Is this alienated rice?"
"Well, in the past few years, the country has successively found seven wild alienated rice plants. After the first four plants were cultivated, the yields per mu were 1548.66 kg, 1503 kg, 1518 kg and 1545 kg respectively. The last three plants are deepened mutations, known as Experts have conducted several rounds of experiments on new rice, and this plant belongs to No. 3 rice, with an average yield of 2,016 kilograms per mu."
"Wow!"
Long Qiu let out a soft cry, although he didn't quite understand it, it was amazing to hear this number.
Gu Yu was even more surprised. He remembered that before the world changed, there seemed to be some news about giant rice, with a yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per mu, which was considered a high yield.
I don't want to research a variety of 2,000 kilograms in just a few years!
"The government has decided to fully promote new rice this year, and the earliest batch will be sown in April. If it succeeds, our food crisis will be greatly alleviated." Fang Qing seemed very excited.
"No wonder, I saw Li Dong brought a cart full of rice back. This is because I have confidence, so I let go." Long Qiu suddenly realized, and nodded himself, looking very understanding.
"So, what are you here for?"
Gu Yu collected the ears of rice and asked the other party.
"Well… "
When it comes to business, Fang Qing is not too embarrassed, he hesitated and said: "I mean, uh, can some new rice be planted in Fenghuang Mountain? This is a node, and the output must be extraordinary. Use it for scientific research, maybe we can develop varieties with higher yields per mu. Also, there are many saline-alkali lands in the province, where alienated beasts gather. We have seawater rice that we can grow, brother, can you do me a favor... "
She spoke more and more quietly, and finally lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
"..."
Gu Yu frowned, even this kind of thing has to go round and round and make calculations, those people are so good! However, he admitted that this person was so well chosen that Fang Qing came over to talk about it.
"Good thing, we don't need to spend too much effort, I have no reason not to agree, but!"
He changed his tone and became a little stern: "You shouldn't be the one to talk about it. I'll find you next time. Just refuse and let them talk about it themselves!"
"yes!"
Fang Qing shivered, no longer feeling close to the brother next door, and actually felt a little afraid.
"You go back first, I have my own discretion in this matter."
"..."
The little girl stood up silently, and walked away obediently. Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Long Qiu hurriedly sent people out, and comforted him: "Don't worry about it, brother is afraid that you will be used by others and do bad things with good intentions."
"I know, I'm fine."
Fang Qing is not a hypocritical person, but she is young and some things are not clear enough, so she asked, "Are you going to the Phoenix Collection this year?"
"Not going, there are too many people on the mountain, we have to stay."
"Oh, then I'll go first, bye!"