The strongest in the world: starting from picking up Feng Baobao

Chapter 99 Human famine in the early days of alien beast invasion
Therefore, even if the Qianyu government popularizes the method of practice to the people and provides free training needs, most of them still have not practiced to become the school captains that everyone admires.

After all, living in the last days, the first goal people have to do is to stay alive.

No matter how difficult the reality is, the most important thing is to try to miss it, and other things can only be ranked behind.

To ensure that you can survive, you must ensure that you have enough water and food every day to provide the body's minimum energy needs.

Even if it is wind, food and camp, as long as there is food, at least it can guarantee that he will not starve to death.

And as long as they live in the city, no matter how poor the living conditions are, they will not live on the streets and be frozen to death.

Due to the war between human beings and aliens, the population has been greatly reduced, food production has been reduced, and the energy supply of other living materials is insufficient.

But precisely because of this, there are many uninhabited and empty buildings in the city, and the residential density is much smaller than before.

So as long as you live in the city, you can hardly find people living on the streets.

And most people have a difficult life only because of food shortages, which lead to unbearable hunger every day.

As for the extent of the food shortage?

Even if you take money to buy food, you may not be able to buy it.

In order to solve this dilemma, the dry area officials will also sell some public grains at low prices every day, but it is still a drop in the bucket, and the distant water cannot quench the near thirst.

Due to the sharp reduction of human living areas and the shortage of arable land, a large number of livestock have been mutated by the influence of high-level alien animals.

Therefore, the rate of human food production is far lower than the rate of consumption.

This has also led to high food prices, and the money can't buy food. Most people eat this meal and don't have another meal.

If you look at it in today's Qian domain, this scene is indeed a bit outrageous.

But in the early stage of the war between humans and aliens, these things really happened.

War brings not only the destruction of homes, but also death, famine and disease.

For human beings, this can be called extinction.

In the third war against the invasion of alien beasts, human beings are indeed on the verge of extinction.

The emergence of the 'Ten World-Destroying Beasts' wiped out the entire human domain in one fell swoop.

It also reduced the 48 domains previously owned by humans to 24 domains.

Not only the living area has been halved sharply, but also important industries such as food, animal husbandry, medicine, communication, transportation, etc. have been seriously affected.

This industry can be said to be the capital on which human beings depend for their survival.

Food and animal husbandry ensure that human beings will not starve to death.

The pharmaceutical industry ensures that humans are protected from disease.

Communication ensures that human beings can communicate with each other, and each large domain can be connected with each other.

And transportation is fundamental to ensure the rapid expansion of human territory.

These are all due to the appearance of strange beasts, which have had a greater or lesser impact. To put it more seriously, some industries even almost withered for a time.

One of the most affected is the grain and animal husbandry.

In order to ensure the food and meat supply for billions of people around the world, the area of ​​arable land and animal husbandry circled by humans is very large.

All added up is even close to the area of ​​a large domain.

Most of these cultivated lands and livestock lands are in peripheral areas far away from the city, and the freshest grain and meat are delivered to the city every day through developed transportation.

Day after day, year after year, nothing changes.

But the appearance of the strange beast broke this situation.

After the human failed to resist the beast horde, the living area was reduced by half, the entire population shrank back into the city, completely abandoned the area far from the city, and shrank to a corner.

And those abandoned areas, except for some mountainous areas, are mostly arable land and livestock land.

Only a small amount of cultivated land and livestock land around the city were left to make a living.

It's not that human beings want to give up these vital areas deliberately, but reality really doesn't allow it.

As the alien beasts invaded for longer, more and more creatures were mutated under the influence of high-level alien beasts.

Therefore, the enemies that human beings need to face are also increasing exponentially every day.

If it weren't for the high-level human beings to find a way to activate the defensive formations of each large domain in the "sacred relic", then human beings may have disappeared in the torrent of time now.

Once the defensive formation is opened, it cannot be closed without the core key.

It is precisely because of this that human beings are trapped in the area planned by the large formation, and it is almost impossible to take a step.

The place protected by the large defensive array of each large domain is also very simple. It only encloses the area where most of the cities are concentrated, while the other areas are not protected by the large array at all, and they are completely reduced to a paradise for strange beasts.

Doing so does guarantee the survival power of human beings, but it can also be said to be a way to survive by docking the tail.

Because in order to open a large formation, a large amount of cultivated land and livestock land must be given up.

But if the big formation is not activated, human beings will be gradually devoured by countless strange beasts.

One is a slow poison and the other is an acute poison.

Which is more important, which one to choose.

You should know it if you don’t want to, right?
Therefore, the high-level human beings reluctantly opened the defensive formation, which also ushered in the buffer recovery period that human beings dream of.

However, with the concentration of the population, the amount of food that needs to be consumed every day is also huge.

In the beginning, each domain could indeed survive this period with a large amount of food reserves.

Once the reserve food is consumed.

The problem of food shortage immediately became apparent.

After ushering in a short period of peace, the first problem that mankind has to face.

Famines caused by food shortages have been faced by human beings since ancient times.

It's just that in ancient times, food shortages were caused by low food production and various environmental factors.

Now, it is due to the food shortage caused by the sharp reduction of arable land and livestock land.

Both of these are deadly to humans.

But if you want to say which one is more serious, it must be the sharp reduction of cultivated land and livestock land, and the problems will be more serious.

After all, there is no place to grow food and raise livestock, so where can we get food?
Some people may say something like soilless cultivation.

However, soilless cultivation also requires certain conditions. It does not mean that if you just put the seeds in the water, food will grow.

Soilless cultivation crops are not cultivated in soil, but are planted in an aqueous solution containing minerals, such as nutrient solution.

And this method replaces the soil environment with the artificially created crop root growth environment, so as to ensure the needs of crops for nutrients, water, air and other conditions.

But this is nothing more than replacing the soil with a nutrient solution, and it still requires a large area of ​​land to grow crops.

Although the population has dropped sharply due to the invasion of alien beasts, the living area of ​​human beings has also dropped by more than half.

In cities where every inch of land is expensive, how many places can be used to grow food?
In the end, it's just a drop in the bucket.

(End of this chapter)