Will Beast Ear Girl Encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"Crack!" The blood-stained giant halberd pierced the wasteland permafrost that was not much softer than steel, and the freed right hand was raised high. The shield-bearing warriors who were still killing were like a precision machine that was ordered , immediately stopped fighting and retreated behind him.

At this time, there were only guards with less than two digits left in front of him.

They surrounded the inspection officer, basically a group of shivering chicken cubs huddled behind the hen, and the large mine on the wasteland only lasted for less than three hours before it completely collapsed.

No one is a match for that demon. Human weapons seem to leave meaningless traces on the opponent's armor. Even military cannons can only make him raise his shield and step back a little. Those terrifying and taciturn subordinates are completely carefully forged killing machines.

"Civilians have been evacuated and the infected are safe"

"Hmm!" The man nodded slightly, and looked at the guards on the opposite side, "Leave here, never come back, or die here..." The guards looked at each other, and a young man with a young face finally couldn't help it. He took a step, and the companions behind him showed a look of unbearable, "Bang!"

"Don't waver, stand still for me, whoever dares to leave the position is a traitor!" The inspector shot dead the wavering guard soldier from behind without hesitation.

"Hmph!" The man appeared in front of the inspector amidst the flying snowflakes like a black storm blowing across the frozen soil of the wasteland. He pinched his face and lifted the burly Ursus man up. .

"Let go... let go..." The inspector frantically kicked the man in front of him, but it was futile. With the sound of cracking bones, the body stopped moving completely , the man threw the body aside, "My promise is still valid, leave here, don't come back, or die here."

He is not a person who kills indiscriminately, these young people who were deceived by the empire's despicable lies and prejudices should not die in this wasteland for the emperor and those despicable old nobles, in such a meaningless way.

Especially after he killed his own son by mistake, he felt disgusted and regretted the imperial officers and officials who deceived the soldiers and used their enthusiasm to do such dirty work for the benefit that did not belong to them. He was like this before, maybe...

The first man put down his weapon, followed by the second, and soon the remaining guards put down their weapons, "Leave them a week's rations and necessary fuel." The man nodded, and ordered his men to leave the necessary supplies for these people. Although the rations were not enough for them to walk out of the wilderness completely, it was enough to walk to the snowy forest area in the south where food was more abundant.

"Bo...patriots, we are running out of food, those infected are willing to follow us"

"No, we escort them to the nearest infected camp." The patriot shook his head. These infected people lack food, medical care, and most of them are weak.

Although they have awakened powerful skills because of this, it is essentially a great burden for them. Maybe other infected guerrillas don't mind fighting by sacrificing some of the old and weak, but at least in his " "Shield" can't have this kind of thing in it.

Moreover, these untrained civilians may not be able to keep up with their own rhythm and footsteps, so they are placed in camps and villages that are completely composed of infected people.

"The surrounding camps are full of people, and they will not accept newcomers." Food in the wasteland is very difficult to find, and it is very difficult to farm in the frozen soil, even if they gritted their teeth and accepted it out of gratitude. Some newcomers, but it does not mean that this can be increased indefinitely.

"Then let's go farther, there are still some villages in the south." The patriot was silent for a moment, and his subordinates were right. The camps for the infected should not only accept the rescued people, but also provide the guerrillas with food and necessary supplies. , is already overwhelmed.

No matter how great his face is, no matter how noble he is in the eyes of those infected, he cannot conjure potatoes and bread out of thin air.

"We are also going south. There are not many mines in the north." Part of it was attacked, and part of it was actively closed by the empire. They no longer have the energy to let the troops of several armies dry up here with the guerrillas. Ursus at best Even if it is Tsarist Russia Plus, the wilderness and snowy forests are a combination of Finland and Afghanistan, where the Soviet Union and the United States will overturn, let alone them.

So when the guerrillas suppressed more and more, and the mines were still being attacked by the shield troops led by the patriots, the empire finally couldn't stand it anymore. They closed a large number of small and medium mines and concentrated their manpower. Among the large mines that are difficult to break through.

Now even if the Patriot troops want to storm these mines, they will need to pay certain casualties, plus, the discipline of the empire's army... In short, the north has already suffered enough disasters.

The infected were acting as guerrillas, and the civilians who had been repeatedly confiscated by the empire for food and who could not survive were also acting as guerrillas. The two were so mixed together that the imperial officers couldn't tell the difference.

Of course, they may also be too lazy to make a clear distinction on purpose - they will all be slaughtered as infected people - so now, for the patriots in the north, there is no need to stay any longer, and moving to the snow forest and snow field in the south is the only way way.

"We don't have much food, and with so many people..." Guerrillas, even guerrillas that can attack by force like the shield guards, cannot have a stable supply line. The food and supplies they carry It is indeed very difficult for Pin to maintain so many people moving south.

"Look for a camp along the way to find a way to buy some food, and the weather is going to get warmer soon, so I should be able to last for a while by hunting. It will be better in the valley area." That is a place where farming is easier in the snowfield area. Plant some potatoes in the warm season, and you should be able to survive by gathering berries and fishing.

"Empty! Empty~!" Accompanied by the abnormal sound in the pipe, the water rushes in, and there is the sound of water injection in the water tower that Xia Lin temporarily welded, and finally the pipes are connected, and now there is no need to worry about irrigation water. .

The potatoes in the greenhouse are also growing very gratifyingly, but I don’t know what they look like when they are harvested. After all, potatoes are a strange crop. If they are planted with seeds, their traits are hardly affected by the traits of the female parent and the male parent. When growing potatoes, whenever conditions permit, the bud point planting method will be chosen to "copy" potatoes.

After resting for a few days, Yelena was finally able to go out to the ground for activities. The sufficient nutrition supply for several days made her look a little fleshy, no longer like a skeleton wrapped in human skin, but still not enough The extent of throwing it into the farmland to work.

In order to prevent her from being bored and to lighten her own burden, Xia Lin found her a simple job that didn't require much physical strength, taking care of the little chicks in the incubator. These yellow fluffy little guys were the two of them an important source of protein.

Cleaning the chicken manure in the greenhouse and adding feed to the chicks is Yelena's current job. She seems to have adjusted well, and she no longer has the slightly panicked look before.

The girl carefully cleaned out the chicken manure under the incubator, threw it into the garbage collection port, and then checked to see if there were any sluggish individuals among these little guys. If there were any, she needed to reach in and grab them out and put them in a separate isolation observation box , to avoid the spread of disease.

When she caught the chick for the first time, Yelena looked at Xia Lin at a loss, not knowing what to do. She had been in that mine since she was born, and all she could see was a small piece of sky above her head. It's the rude Infestor miners and the pervasive, dangerous Originium worms.

Chicken is something so strange to her that it only exists in the stories of her grandmother. It is said that in the cities of the empire, on the first day of every winter, everyone gets together, lights candles, and celebrates the new year. At that time, there was golden roast chicken, thick marinated lard, and delicious bread.

However, she only has cold, black and foul-smelling meatballs, and every winter means a test of death, and even the guards in the entire mine will be in a state of panic——she has no idea what chicken is. .

Even the candy, which appeared in the story, was eaten here for the first time. The brain couldn’t even tell what this wonderful taste that melted on the tip of the tongue was. I thought it was the kind that my mother made with ginger and tuber powder The taste of candy is sweetness. 【Spicy Ginger Candy~Sacred product to keep out the cold】

However, it was like tasting candy for the first time, holding that fluffy little thing for the first time, watching the little guy make a soft cry in the palm of his hand, and the warm touch was transmitted all the way from the palm to the heart , so that she almost couldn't help shedding tears, for this fragile life, but also for herself.

The chicks grow very fast. This improved broiler only takes about 42 days to be ready for slaughter. If the meat quality and income are not considered, theoretically, they can be eaten in about 30 days. Of course, they can also be eaten. eat.

"Huh~" A gust of cold wind blew past, and then the garage door fell, and Xia Lin, who was carrying tools, walked into the workshop, "Are you in good health?" She was seriously ill, but the involuntary consecutive sneezes showed that her body was still weak.

"Put on more clothes, and don't wander around in the garage if you have nothing to do. The temperature here is relatively low." Xia Lin put the tools in her hand in a corner of the garage. When a large enough cistern is used, the cistern can be used to raise fish and store water, which can later be used as a place to grow rice.

The yield of rice is generally higher than that of wheat and other crops, but it is also time-consuming. Xia Lin saves it for preparation before planting it. This is a typical intensive farming crop. Just controlling water, fertilizer, and temperature requires several orders of magnitude of trouble. ——Of course, modern agricultural technology allows you to plant seedlings even if you throw them casually.

"Get ready to eat." It is said to be a meal, but in fact there is nothing to eat, only the plants collected by Xia Lin are smashed and soaked, and the necessary vegetable protein, sugar, cellulose and various vitamins are separated through the molecular permeable membrane. Add flakes to blend synthetic nutritional creams and egg whites.

As emergency food for civilian use, it is not as unpalatable as military food so that it can be used as a torture tool. Of course, the cost and manufacturing cycle are also more stringent in the selection of raw materials.

Moreover, both Yelena and Xia Lin are the kind of people who are not good at cooking. The former has never touched any ingredients and food that need to be cooked, while the latter is simply spoiled by the automatic cooking machine.

However, Yelena quickly accepted the biscuits baked with egg whites and nutrient cream. Anyway, this kind of biscuits with a faint milk flavor is much more delicious than the vegetable dumpling from the mine She is hungry, and very hungry, which is already a delicacy in the world for her.

And not to mention Yelena, even ordinary Ursas see it this way, their normal winter meals will not be much better, this kind of biscuits without wood chips can only be eaten every day by people above the middle level.

"Wait another two weeks, the cabbage will be able to harvest a batch, and the potatoes will have to wait, at least you can make some salad"

"Can cabbage really be grown?" Yelena has never been in a planting greenhouse, but as far as she knows, the people in the mine only grow cabbages in summer. Not to mention cabbage, cold-resistant rye cannot be grown in this season. come out.

"Speaking of which, I should take you in to have a look." Xia Lin nodded, this little girl is at most eleven or twelve years old, it's okay to expect her to do heavy work, but it's okay to take care of the things grown in the greenhouse.

Chapter 9 Agricultural assistance has a long way to go

In order to prevent the low temperature outside from causing serious consequences to the girl who is still recovering after surgery, Xia Lin wrapped her up tightly. Her fair face was wrapped in thick synthetic fiber fluff, which made her look even smaller. It looks like a white fluffy fat rabbit.

"嗤~" The door of the greenhouse opened, revealing the conversion cabin behind. After simple disinfection, with the opening of the inner door, a gust of hot air rushed in.

What appeared in front of the girl were two long rows of planting troughs. On one side were cabbages that had already begun to take shape, and on the other side were emerald green potato seedlings, showing their vigorous vitality. Xia Lin clicked twice on the console next to the door. , "Come and see"

"Okay, Xia Lin." Yelena originally wanted to use the honorific title. Anyway, Mr. Xia Lin who saved herself and didn't ask for any reward is indeed a respectable person. She is not stupid and knows that no matter what she eats Neither the food nor the medicines used could be cheap, so I was even more surprised and flattered by this.

"This is the water and fertilizer console. Generally speaking, you don't need to manually control it." Xia Lin pointed to several parameters and operation buttons on the holographic screen, "However, if there is a problem with the water pump or when top dressing is needed, Use this to adjust the ratio of water and fertilizer for irrigation and the frequency of irrigation. Specifically, I will give you a book later. When you have nothing to do, read more and learn."

"I see." Yelena is also very happy to be able to help Xia Lin, and these tasks are not too difficult, and it is also a kind of happiness to deal with these green cuties every day in the wasteland things.

"Then here is to adjust the temperature of the greenhouse. Now the potatoes and cabbages we plant are the first batches that don't need to be adjusted. After that, I will plant watermelons and more potatoes with sprouts. At that time, the temperature needs to be adjusted sooner or later. Be careful not to overheat during the day." High, keep the accumulated temperature line displayed here slightly higher, and not too low at night, except for the first two days before harvesting."

The low temperature reduces the life activity of the plant, and the carbon dioxide is introduced to forcibly suppress its respiration to consume sugar and nutrients, thereby accumulating larger and sweeter fruits.

"The specific operation, you will be familiar with it a few times in the future. Also, the temperature in the greenhouse is very high. Before you go out, it is best to stay outside for a while to let your body adapt before you go, otherwise you will catch a cold easily. You There is no implant in the body, so you have to take medicine for a cold, and the cost of synthesizing cold medicine is not low."

"I see." Yelena nodded obediently, "Is that all? Don't you need to dig the soil?"

"No, you can't do this job right now, wait until you grow up." Xia Lin shook her head, without the support of a working exoskeleton, he, an adult man with implant augmentation, would struggle to do it, let alone Such a little girl.

And she won't be able to do it at that time, causing trouble, and in the end, she will have to deal with the aftermath by herself, which will only increase the workload. Fortunately, this little girl with rabbit ears is still very quick in doing things, and her hands and feet are also diligent, and she will help when nothing happens. Clean the room and tidy up the tools that are scattered everywhere.

There are indeed some assistants. After all, strictly speaking, this colonial facility needs 3 to 5 people to maintain it. It is still a bit difficult for Xia Lin to be alone.

After roughly teaching some basic control and monitoring of the greenhouse, Xia Lin pulled out a stack of thick agricultural technology books from the printer and placed them beside Yelena's bed.

"These are the tutorials I compiled. If there is anything I don't understand, ask me during dinner. By the way, are you literate?" Yelena nodded. I still feel a little unconfident to understand such a thick book.

"Well, that's good, but don't be too scared, the main thing is the pictures." Xia Lin put on the rifle and walked outside the fence, "I'm going to explore the surrounding environment and see if I can catch something by the way." Prey, eating that biscuit every day is really enough."

These days, he took the time to check the biological samples and blood samples taken from Yelena's body. They are not very different from humans, and the composition of nutrients is similar. This shows that the local animals are edible, and the nutrients can be absorbed by humans. .

After all, Yelena is only considered to be a human with traces of illegal genetic modification. The only question now is whether the suspended particles in the air will cause her to suffer from the so-called ore disease like her.

Speaking of ore disease, for the stones picked from Yelena's body, as well as the decomposition and refining of the particles filtered out of the air, Xia Lin obtained a translucent crystal mineral like coffee sugar, with a dark golden glow in the core.

She didn't know what kind of mineral it was, and said frankly that it was different from the raw ore mines she had seen. According to the test of the agricultural machinery level equipment at hand, this material is a high-density energy material. In theory, it can Used as explosives, the energy density is very high, and it has certain radioactivity.

However, for the sake of safety, Xia Lin stored this thing in a special radioactive trash bin, and was going to consider what to do with it after further understanding. Besides, the remaining refining residue was normal calcium oxalate and silicic acid. Salt compound, nothing special, throw it away after confirming that it is useless.

The main task of Xia Lin's exploration this time is to find metal veins and collect some. The metal materials in the workshop are almost in a hurry. He needs to find metal veins such as titanium, aluminum, iron and lead, take them back for decomposition, and then send them to Entering the electronic furnace, even if you can't smelt standard interstellar light alloys, you must at least get titanium alloys and other materials.

Only in this way can he find a way to drive a crane by himself and assemble the agricultural machinery carrier, so that the range of activities can be expanded a lot, and he can also use agricultural products to trade some other necessities with the locals.

The light alloy combat boots made a slight creaking sound when stepping on the snow, and Xia Lin didn't deliberately cover up her whereabouts, and took a handheld scanner to scan various outcropping rocks and vegetation.

Xia Lin currently has two ways to find minerals, one is to find through the geological analysis of the rock formations on the bare ground, and the other is to find through plants. Some specific plants will grow on specific mineral veins, which is very useful for searching for minerals in the future. Mineral veins such as rare earths and bauxite are useful.

If elements such as molybdenum can be found, then electronic components can be produced, but he does not have a production line for quantum cell packaging chips, so star alliance standard smart devices are out of the question, but ordinary early automatic devices and chips can still be manufactured of.He buried his head in search of the ore, but he didn't notice that in the shadow of the woodland, two figures looked at him quietly, and occasionally had a quick conversation in sign language.

"Huh? Copper mine?" Xia Lin looked at the content displayed on the scanner in surprise, squatted down, took out a mining chisel from the tool bag, tapped on the rock, and prepared to extract samples to see the details What is the grade and whether there are other accompanying elements.

Copper is indeed a mineral that is relatively easy to find, but most of the time, it cannot be called "ore". Not really so bad as to pick up a random rock and break it down, which means small-scale mining is possible.

Of course, it would be even better if it was a serious high-grade copper mine. Compared with copper, he needs iron and titanium more. Iron is currently in short supply, and titanium has not been found at all.

"What is he doing?" "Exploration"

"Should we..."

"Don't move around." The scouts of the two shield troops retreated quietly, "Dad won't allow it."

Although the ore prospecting technicians are also the personnel of those mines in theory, they are just ordinary people who are fulfilling their duties, and the ore prospecting itself is not evil, and they did not directly oppress those civilians, so, according to Dad's style would not allow them to hurt these people at will.

"The grade is good, let's mine some first." Xia Lin confirmed that the grade of this micro-copper mine is not bad, and there is another surprise, it also has some associated silver ore and galena, and even a small amount of copper ore. Gold and ilmenite composition.

"Tud-chug!" The sound of the drilling rig startled the flocks of birds. They drilled through the rocks on the surface, and then put the crushed slag into the bag on their back. After the bag was filled with about 25 kilograms, Xia Lin stopped.

It’s reasonable to drive a vehicle to load things like ore later. I’m afraid it’s not good to rely on people’s backs, Xia Lin thought, and then set up a road sign here, and stabbed the road sign with a fluorescent head into the vein In the soil on the edge.

Xia Lin, who was carrying a large bag of ore nuggets, started to walk back, and at a distance behind him, two black shadows followed silently.

The location of the ore vein is only about 40 minutes’ walk away from the workshop, which is not too far away. The reason why it took almost an afternoon is mainly to scan while walking along the way. After all, walking too fast, this kind of handheld scanner The speed can not keep up, to complete a certain depth of metal detection work, you have to walk slowly, just like mine detection.

The outer fence has been set up. When Xia Lin walked to the entrance, the folding fence automatically moved away to the sides, and closed automatically after passing, while the automatic machine gun towers on both sides rotated back and forth silently.

"Do you want to go in?" The scout made a gesture. This place didn't look like an ordinary mine, but more like some kind of mobile barracks, heavily guarded.

"Don't make extra troubles." The relatively experienced scouts marked on the map, indicating that their companions could retreat. Although there were not many guards here, it was precisely because of this that they had to deal with it carefully.

On the snow field, there is no place where the guards have not been bulldozed by bandits and wild beasts, so there must be a problem, either they have only settled down soon, or the fighting power is beyond imagination, and now the shield guards bring a large group of rescued infected civilians It is also inconvenient to storm such a facility.

"There was an alarm just now, and there are two people outside watching us in the woods." After returning, Yelena reported the special situation to Xia Lin, "Is it a hunter nearby? Or those people from last time?"

"I don't know." She shook her head, "It's not like the guards in those mines."

"Well, if you find something, tell me right away." Xia Lin didn't want to have too much conflict with the locals. It was the guards who did it first, so she had to shoot. After all, this is an agricultural site, not a military site. Site, if there is a direct conflict, it must be at a disadvantage.

After putting the ore into the crushing port of the small electronic furnace, it is a slow smelting operation. The crushing, ore washing, and feeding are all automated, and Xia Lin does not need to worry about it, but the processing capacity and output are relatively bad. a little.

After all, it is just an old workshop-level equipment, and it is not a formal mining smelting and processing array of the Star Alliance. That thing can process a mine with an altitude of more than 1000 meters in a month, and the mountains and mines together.

And those who are almost able to digest all the output of several mines in one day and night, in comparison, this gadget with a daily output of only about 50 tons can really only be described as a household toy.