Neighbors in forbidden land

The next job is not much different from before.

As for the potatoes, even I have memorized them. I cut the parts with buds into many pieces, and then buried them at a distance in the field filled with plant ash.

At the beginning, there was no need for watering and fertilization, just let the little fairy give light and heat, which was relatively easy, so we set our sights on the bag of seeds.

But how, that is another question.

"Loosen the soil first, then fertilize, and water every day after planting?" If it is potatoes, this is the method.

"I don't even know what kind of seed this is... and we don't even know if this seed can be planted..."

"Do you want to plant it? Do you want to plant it?" Although Xiao Gu looked eager to try, she couldn't help at the moment.

"Even if you want to plant it... where to plant it is another problem..." Yimi gritted her teeth lightly and fell into deep thought.

"Eh? Isn't it planted in a cave?" If there are not enough caves, I will just dig another one.

"Xiao Hei, you are stupid." Yimi stretched out a finger and pointed the tip of my nose accurately, "What if this grows out to be a big tree, is it long enough in the cave?"

"Black idiot, idiot!" Xiao Gu also smiled and poked the tip of my nose with his finger, imitating Yimi's example, and ended up poking my eyes crookedly.

"..." Why did it become like this?

But what Yimi said...

"Then just dig a bigger cave?"

"Little Hei, you are stupid." Yimi sighed softly and at the same time tapped the tip of my nose with her finger, "There is only one little fairy, so how can I provide light and heat for the potato and the seed at the same time?" ah."

"Black idiot, idiot!" Xiao Gu still imitated Yimi's appearance, but this time he directly poked my face.

"Then expand the potato cave and plant it in—"

"Xiao Hei, you are stupid, you—" "Black idiot, idiot—"

Before I could finish my words, the two voices overlapped, and the tip of my nose was poked by two fingers at the same time.

"Potatoes are mixed with this unknown seed, what if they rob nutrients."

"Oh, that's it, that's it."

"Little Gu, you don't even know it, but you still call me stupid..."

In the end, Yimi decided to plant these seeds next to the pit where I dug out the groundwater, because if the seeds are dead, it will be the same wherever they are planted. If they are not dead, the seeds can grow better near the water source. After all, the soil environment here is much better than that of the stronghold. Although the climate is also changeable, the trees here can grow leaves, and these seeds should also be able to grow. It should be...

I dug a lot of holes along the edge of the hole that has formed a small lake, let Yimi scatter the seeds down, and I will fill it back with soil.According to Yimi's meaning, don't fertilize first to see the situation.

All the things that can be planted have been planted, and we have started a different life from before.It is true that Lan Xue would come here every day and help us fly around with Little Goo on our backs, but the bickering never stopped, which is really strange.

Going to the broken ship by the sea to salvage usable things, and going to the test area on time to help water the potatoes and seeds have become two things we must do every day. Speaking of watering, it is really convenient to have Goo around Quite a lot, because Xiao Gu can control the flow of water as long as she puts her hand into the ditch, and this is much more accurate than her doing various things with her hands. She can always sprinkle water to every corner according to Yimi's requirements go.

On the other side of the wrecked boat, Yimi simply gave the instruction to "evacuate everything", so we took all the things that seemed to be able to be taken away, no matter the garbage or whatever, to the beach for Yimi to inspect, so ——

"Is this bottle filled with water?" A seemingly complete bottle was taken out from among the countless broken slags in the box on the lowest level of the cabin, and the liquid inside was shaking slightly.On the spent surface were written many symbols and words I did not recognize, which seemed to be human language.

After all, I can only speak human language but not write it, the kind of language I use when I write my diary every day... I remember last time the great fairy Lena mentioned that it is the original language of the world... Forget it, I don't seem to understand it, or I don't want to up.

"This smell...is it like a bar?" Yimi sniffed lightly with her nose and then tapped the surface of the bottle with her hands, making a dull sound, as if she could vaguely see that the liquid in the bottle was not transparent.

"Wine? What is wine?"

"It's a... drink. Anyway, there's no need to keep it now, and I'll explain it to you later."

The few of us stood by her side and watched her take out various things one by one.

"There is still a small hammer..." Yimi picked up a hammer with a wooden handle that was larger than the previous knife and shook it, "This size is okay."

"I actually found a basket...it will be convenient to store things in the future." Yimi raised her head and asked us while smiling, "Where did you find this? Is there any more?"

"The others seem to be broken." I found this one. This brown basket woven from the branches of an unknown plant was quietly soaking in a small pool of sea water in a room. The others seemed to have fallen apart. up.

"Then the next one...is this paper? Why is it soaked in water..." Yimi picked up a lot of paper that had been soaked in sea water and shook it, with a look of regret on his face.

"What can I do? It's full of sea water there." With her hips crossed, Lan Xue picked up a bunch of twisted papers that had lost their original shape. That's fine."

"I don't know if it can be used after drying..." Yimi carefully spread out the paper in her hand on the beach, but the paper was torn open. "But... and this! Even if you have been soaked in sea water, just wash it with water and dry it in the sun. Even if it may not fit you perfectly, you can still wear it!" Yimi originally wanted to be a happy face. Suddenly there was a hint of gloom, "Although most of the clothes you found were worn by men..."

"Human, who else do you think needs to wear clothes here?" Lan Xue's eyes fell from Yimi to Xiaogu and me in turn, "You are the only human here, so you should keep it for yourself."

After all, the main purpose of human beings to wear clothes is to resist changes in the temperature of the outside world. Here, in the final analysis, there is only Yimi as a human being.

"Girls need to learn how to dress themselves up..." Yimi said softly, grasping the clothes in her hand.

"Human, you are the only 'girl' here."

After a short silence.

"I'll wear it." After all, Yimi often helps me weave cloaks, so there shouldn't be much difference between clothes and these cloaks made of plants.

"I want it, I want it, I want it too!" Little Gu kept waving his hands and shouting.

"You two..." Lan Xue looked helpless, but didn't say anything more.

"Okay, then I'll give it to you after I deal with it." Yimi, who was originally expressionless, smiled lightly, shaking the metal box with some brown spots in her hand.

"what is this?"

"Sewing box."

"Sewing box?"

"You will know in the future." Yimi just hid her face behind the box that can be lifted with one hand, and her tone was full of joy, "Fortunately, this one is not broken, and there is not much water in it..."

It always feels like humans are always using things that don't seem to know what they are used for...

Most of the other things seemed to be rubbish, all kinds of broken boards, pieces of wood, and sawdust fell all over the beach.

We then spent another afternoon rummaging around the wreck and brought back some useful items.

For example, food.

At first I almost disposed of these things as garbage, but luckily I showed Yimi a look in advance.

The amount found was not much, because more seemed to be washed away by the sea. According to Yimi, these were some simple "dry food", bread, cakes and so on.

"Although these are not much better than potatoes ... the amount is not much, it is better than nothing."

But other than that, the next thing we fished out, Yimi almost cried after touching it out.

A box of blue fruit.

"Finally there is fruit to eat...it's so sour!" Yimi stuck out her tongue after biting it, but continued to bite the fruit called "green apple" in her hand with an expression of emotion, "Although it's not at all It's not sweet, but the taste is much better than the wild fruits I ate before...do you want to try it too?"

As Yimi said, she handed the green apple that had been bitten several times to my mouth, and I took a bite like biting a potato.This one seems to be almost as hard as the untested potato, and there seems to be water in it. When it falls into the mouth, it will have a different feeling, and the tip of the tongue will feel like a sea breeze.

"How is it?" Yimi tilted her head and asked how I felt.

"good to eat."

"Is there anything not tasty for Xiao Hei..." Yimi sighed softly and handed the apple to Xiao Gu.

"This is delicious!" Xiao Gu shook his head excitedly after taking a bite, "It's the same as a potato!"

Eh?Was it the same?

"Although I thought that the taste of monsters is different from that of human beings...but you too..." Yimi shook her head helplessly, and finally picked up a green apple from the box, and handed it to her with a smile. To Lan Xue:

"You can try it too. After all, you have helped us so much. This is a thank you gift."

"I don't want it. If I take it, I have to continue to help, right?" Lan Xue just folded her arms and shook the small wingspan behind her back, without reaching out to pick it up.

"That is to say... If you don't need to help any more, you'd still like to eat this apple, right?" Yimi chuckled.

"Uh huh... what, I don't want to!" Lan Xue blushed with anger, and the sharp horns on her forehead emitted a slight golden light.

"Or are you too shy to take it because you're afraid you won't be able to hold it steadily?" Yimi raised the green apple in her hand and continued smiling.

"I'm afraid?" As soon as the words fell, Lan Xue snatched the green apple from Yimi's hand, took a bite hard, and said while chewing angrily, "What would I be afraid of as a dragon? It's just a piece of cake, I'm not like this ancient loach who can't even hold things steady!"

I remember that she almost couldn't hold the grilled fish with both hands last time... It's better not to say this.

"So... how does it taste?"

"No! Good! Eat!" Although Lan Xue yelled like this, she still held the green apple with both hands and bit the green apple bit by bit.

"Actually, this can be planted, too?" Yimi raised the green apple that the three of us had already gnawed, and smiled slightly at me.

"Eh? Is it okay?"

"Maybe it's okay...that's what's written in the books."

"..."

But in fact, whether it is possible or not, I will accompany you to plant him.

"I always feel... that life is much better now than before."

"Yes."

Looking at Xiao Gu who was grabbing green apples from Lan Xue in front of me, I remembered the past when I lived alone.

As long as you want to, you don’t need to move even every day. There are no flowers blooming and falling, only the sunrise and sunset.

But since Yimi came, all this has changed.

I need to find water, dig ditches, find fire, find food, and now I have to dig fields to plant potatoes and seeds.

I have learned many things, and I also know that I should learn to leave this land.

Originally, these were meaningless things to me, but now they make sense.

Because Yimi gave me meaning in doing these things.Suddenly, Yimi hugged me gently, and whispered softly in my ear:

"It's all because of you, Xiao Hei."

I didn't say anything, just rested my head on Yimi's chest, felt Yimi's skin through the thin dress, felt her hair sliding across my cheeks, felt that her body was different from mine soft, feeling the warmth of her breath.

Not me.

It's because of... Yimi you.

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At first, I thought that green apples were cut open and buried in the same way as potatoes, but I didn't expect that there were seeds in green apples.

Yimi said that because he didn't know the method and technique, he first planted a few random seeds like that bag of seeds to see the effect.

But obviously they all look like round plants, why don't potatoes have seeds?

Perhaps just as the world has so many colors, the differences between plants must also be varied.

The environment here is very harsh, but we still try to make changes through our hands.

Perhaps this road is full of too many uncertain things, and we have indeed received a lot of help from the outside world.

The life we ​​cultivate on this land grows and withers.

But this time it should work, right?

At least, now I think so.