Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

The armored vehicle drove forward slowly.

Finshan Town is relatively remote, with few residential buildings and mainly large industrial buildings.

Many houses on both sides of the road have poured concrete floors, which prevents the growth of mutated plants to a certain extent.

There are not many mutated plants here, and after the lack of a living environment, there are not many mutated animals.

Now that the snow has fallen, there is a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere, and the top is flat, without even the paw prints, and it looks very clean and tidy.

Xia Lunong sat in the front seat, stretched out her hand to show Yan Xiannian the way, "Brother Xinian, over there, there is a road you can turn in."

"Okay." Yan Xiannian held the steering wheel, "Is it clean inside? Are there any mutated animals and plants?"

Xia Lunong shook her head, "Probably not, we didn't see any trace."

Their armored car quickly drove down the road into a parking lot.

When I drove in, I saw that there were neatly parked large vehicles such as yellow pickup trucks and forklifts.

There are quite a few trucks in there too.

"Hey, it looks quite new." Yan Xiannian said, "I'll go down to investigate first, you sit on it, and come down together later."

Xia Huoqu stood up, bent over and followed him, "Together."

Kong Zhi spoke from behind, "I'll follow. I've seen it in the sky before, and I'm familiar with the surrounding terrain. Brother Huo Qu, or you and Xiao Nong will stay here."

Xia Huo said: "Then the three of us will go down together, and Xiao Nong will stay here to guard our car."

"No problem, I promise to complete the task." Xia Lunong turned her head, "Let Xia Huajiao go down with you."

Xia Huajiao: "Whew."

The three of them went down to check the situation nearby, while Xia Lunong stayed in the car.

Everyone has a walkie-talkie and can communicate with each other. Xia Lunong did nothing, but stared intently at the outside of the car, ready to respond at any time.

After Yan Xiannian and the others went down, there were birds fluttering and taking off, but no other sound was heard.

This parking lot is very quiet.

The three looked around.

Yan Xiannian raised his eyes to look around, the reflection of the snow light made his outline deeper and deeper.

There were only marks left by him when he walked over on the nearby snow. He picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "There's nothing wrong here, how about you?"

Xia Huoqu's voice rustled from the walkie-talkie, "I found two nests of mutated birds here, in the trunk of the car, and they don't look aggressive."

Kong Zhi said: "Everything is normal in my direction."

Xia Lunong said in the walkie-talkie: "I don't think there is much to see outside, so go into the warehouse and see if you can find anything?"

This parking lot is full of all kinds of cars, and further inside is a row of bungalows, which are probably warehouses.

Compared with high-rise buildings, these bungalows were not so damaged. Many bungalows are still standing and have not collapsed.

In this case, you can usually find a lot of materials.

Yan Xi Nian said: "Okay, let's meet up and go inside to have a look."

"Okay, old brother, you all be careful." Xia Lunong said, "These houses should be dilapidated houses, if there is something wrong, you should evacuate in time."

Yan Xi Nian said: "It's okay, even if it really collapses, we can get out in time with our strength. I won't tell you, I have time to meet up with your brother, let's go inside and have a look first."

Kong Zhi said in the walkie-talkie: "Xia Huajiao is also following."

Xia Lunong felt relieved, "Go in, I'll watch from outside."

There was no sound from the walkie-talkie for a while, Xia Lunong stared out of the car through the window, it was very quiet here.

Because it was so quiet, he even felt a little sleepy sitting in this environment.

Xia Lunong reached for the thermos, poured herself a cup of rose tea, and took a sip, hoping to refresh herself.

Before he could swallow his tea, Yan Xiannian's voice came out from the walkie-talkie, "Good guy! Come and see what I found?"

Xia Lunong's hands shook, and he almost didn't let the tea in his hands wet his pants. He hurriedly put the tea away, "What's wrong?"

"We found a warehouse full of various supplies!" Yan Xinian said, "Most of the food! It's still edible, and most of it hasn't expired yet!"

Xia Lunong blinked, "What food? Canned biscuits or something?"

Xia Huoqu's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "Almost."

After Xia Huoqu finished speaking, he called Kong Zhi on the walkie-talkie, "Kong Zhi, come here together. This place used to be a supermarket warehouse. There are a lot of things. Come here and help."

Kong Zhi responded, "I've found some books and materials here, I'll come when I'm done."

Xia Lunong and the others rarely collected food when they went out to collect supplies.

The period of catastrophe actually lasted for a period of time, not an earthquake or an explosion.

During this period of time, everyone will consciously come out to collect supplies, so the supplies, especially food, in the human gathering area are actually getting less and less.

They usually collect less processed food outside.

The food from various supermarket ruins has been taken by people long ago, and there are more in the residential area. However, as time goes by, a lot of food has either deteriorated, been polluted, or has been preempted by various mutated animals.

Xia Lunong swallowed when she heard the snacks, "Is there a lot of food? Do you need me to come down and help?"

There was a smile in Xia Huoqu's voice, "You lock the armored vehicle before getting off."

"Okay, no problem!" Xia Lunong immediately felt relieved, tightened the thermos and put it away, "I'll lock it when I'm here."

Xia Lunong was in a hurry, so she checked the situation inside the car and got out of the car after making sure there was nothing unusual.

When he got out of the car, he was about to find out the direction to go to the warehouse, when he saw the tall figure of Kong Zhi already got out of the garage, walking towards him.

Xia Lunong waved her hand vigorously, looked left and right, saw that there was no danger, quickly ran towards him, and jumped to his side, "Why did you come out?"

"Come here to pick you up." Kong Zhi took his hand, took the backpack with the space bamboo tube on his back, and looked around.

The lot is full of cars, and when they stand on the ground, the cars will block their view.

In this case, they need to be extra careful, alert to mutated animals and plants that may suddenly jump out of the car or under the car.

Xia Lunong took his hand, followed him to look left and right, and said happily: "My strength is not that bad, so I won't be in danger just a few steps away."

"I'll come out to pick you up, don't worry."

The two walked into the warehouse hand in hand. The warehouse is a kind of iron house, which looks quite sturdy, and the possibility of a sudden collapse is very small.

However, the air permeability and lighting of the tin house are not very good.

Xia Lunong smelled a musty smell that hadn't been circulated for a long time.

Xia Huoqu and Yan Xiannian were opening the cardboard box and stuffing things into the bamboo tube in the space.

Xia Lunong leaned over to look.

He squatted by the side, and quickly discovered the clue, "Biscuits?!"

"Yes." Yan Xiannian cheerfully stuffed a pack of biscuits for him to eat, "Those boxes are full of biscuits, all kinds of wafers, soda cakes, and rice pudding, wine, chocolate, etc., you See what you want to eat, go and get it yourself."

Xia Lunong was not in a hurry to eat snacks, he was just curious about what was in it.

He turned around and looked at the cartons one by one. There was no logo printed on the outside of the cartons, and the contents inside were varied.

He quickly found instant noodles, ham sausage, pickles and other convenience foods inside.

All kinds of convenience food and alcohol are actually the most.

Xia Lunong can almost imagine that this warehouse used to produce some more solid food to supply drivers and passengers on the road.

I didn't expect it to be cheaper for them now.

Just when Xia Lunong was distracted, Xia Huoqu called him from the side, "Xiao Nong, the bamboo tube in this space is full, change it."

"Oh." Xia Lunong hurriedly carried the backpack on her back, ran over, and asked while digging out the space bamboo tube, "Why did it fill up so quickly?"

Space The space in the bamboo tube is not small, at least a few hundred cubic meters.

It didn't take a while for Xia Huoqu and the others to come in.

Xia Huo channel: "These cardboard boxes were piled up to the ceiling when we came in, and now they are half full."

"Is that much?" Xia Lunong turned her head to look, full of expectation, "I just don't know what's in those warehouses next to it? Could it be full of food too?"

Yan Xinian smiled, "I'm already satisfied with so much food, and there's little chance that there's still food next to it."

"That's true." Xia Lunong took out a few packs of instant noodles from the box, and said enthusiastically, "Let's eat instant noodles later, it happens that there are some cabbage in the bamboo tube in the space, cook the noodles and eat."

"Eat!" Yan Xiannian enthusiastically agreed, "Isn't there ham sausage? It's best to eat with it."

"Yes." Xia Lunong squatted on the side, giggling, "I also saw Coke, I will put Coke in the snow later, how about iced Coke with instant noodles?"

Yan Xiannian gave him a thumbs up.

The four of them were busy together, and soon stuffed the entire warehouse into the bamboo tube in the space.

Most of the storage in this warehouse is food, and they almost fill two bamboo tubes.

This has something to do with the fact that they couldn't arrange things neatly in the bamboo tubes of the space, so they had to throw them all in and pile them up.

If it can be placed neatly without leaving any gaps, Xia Lunong feels that the bamboo tube can be filled in one space.

After they finished loading, they went to the warehouses next door for a stroll.

There are relatively few things in the warehouses next door, and there are two warehouses that are empty, and the materials they have collected are relatively small.

But this already satisfied Xia Lunong.

He came out with four bottles of Coke in his arms, buried them in the snow, turned back to the armored vehicle and took out the pot, planning to cook.

The taste of instant noodles is too strong. Although there is a place for cooking inside the armored vehicle, it is not suitable for cooking inside.

Xia Lunong hummed, took out Chinese cabbage, instant noodles, ham sausage, and went to find eggs and seaweed.

They brought the eggs and cabbage out of the base, and other than that, the rest of the materials were just found.

Kong Zhi and the others were not idle, those who lit the fire beside them lit the fire, and counted the supplies.

Yan Xiannian watched Xia Lunong start to tear the seaweed from the side, and wondered: "You still put seaweed in the instant noodles?"

"No, cook some seaweed egg drop soup by the way." Xia Lunong moved quickly in his hands, "Brother in the past, you didn't know that seaweed egg drop soup is a perfect match for instant noodles! A great initiative for contemporary college students to maintain a balanced diet."

Yan Xi Nian smiled, "Soak wolfberries in beer, and instant noodles with egg drop soup?"

Xia Lunong raised her chin, "Do you want to eat?"

"eat!"

After the catastrophe, the conditions were insufficient, and they hadn't eaten instant noodles for a long time.

Instant noodles are different from dried noodles. They are springy and smooth, especially when the hard core inside has just hardened and the noodles have not been cooked. At this time, pick up the noodles and send them to your mouth. It is refreshing and delicious. The slippery noodles soak up the soup, and if you are not skilled enough, you can bounce them so that your face is full of greasy spots!

The noodles cooked by Xia Lunong are Laotan sauerkraut noodles.

He took a sip, and the noodles were wrapped in the sour and rich soup, which fully touched every taste bud. It was sour, spicy, and very thick.

After the noodles, have a mouthful of soft and salty ham sausage, or a mouthful of refreshing and tender cabbage, the taste is absolutely amazing.

After eating, you can have a sip of iced Coke if you find it too spicy, or have a sip of seaweed and egg drop soup if you find it too salty. The Coke and Egg Drop Soup are right next to you, you can choose.

Xia Lunong was eating with a bowl, and was "hissed" by the spicy heat.

He hadn't eaten so well in a long time, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

Seeing him like this, Kong Zhi gave him the green vegetables in his bowl, and asked him to eat more, so as to save himself from stomachaches.

After eating the noodles, Yan Xiannian took the bowl to wash up.

The oily layer of instant noodles is difficult to wash off, and it takes a lot of effort to wash it with hot water.

Charlon has always preferred to cook rather than wash dishes.

After they were full, they moved their positions and returned to the armored vehicle to chat.

Xia Lunong checked the space bamboo tube, and said: "Our space bamboo tube is almost filled, and we will go to the rose tomorrow, just collect some things on the way, and it should be full."

Xia Huoqu nodded, "Then there is no need to make a special trip. When we drive back, we can just take the road we have never driven before."

"Okay." Xia Lunong put the bamboo tube in the space away, touched the branch of Xiahuajiao who was resting next to him, and asked, "Brother, there are so many cars here, how do we drive back?"

"Tomorrow, let's see if we can meet Ba Niu and the others. If we do, let them divide up into several people and drive the car back to the base. If not, your old brother and I will lead the team over in two days and drive the car back to the base." go back."

Xia Lunong thought for a while, "This is fine."

Xia Huo's channel: "There is nothing to do around winter, it doesn't matter if you run a few more times."

Xia Lunong took a look at Kong Zhi, "If there is nothing to do next, Kong Zhi and I want to go and have a look around."

Xia Huoqu knew that he had this idea, so he didn't stop him, "If you want to go, go, just pay attention to safety."

Xia Lunong was full of confidence, "It's okay, Kongzhi can fly, there is no danger, we will be careful outside."

As my younger brother has grown up, Xia Huoqu doesn't want to interfere too much, "Okay."

Nothing special happened to them next.

The next day they went back to look for the rose plant.

Rose readily made a deal with them.

Xia Lunong said: "We still have something to do, we have to go back to the base first, and come to see you next time when we have time."

"When will you be free next time?" Rose didn't want to part with them, "Would you like to exchange more petals with me?"

"Next time, there are too many exchanges at once, and we can't use them all up." Xia Lunong said, "Then we're going back with your body."

The part of the body separated from the rose is also conscious, that is, it is separated from the rose bush, the body is not so active, and it has fallen into a semi-dormant state.

In the past two days, they wrapped the rose body in a plastic bag and stuffed it into the back seat of the armored vehicle, but there was no movement from it.

Xia Lunong and the others brought the rose body back to the base.

They did not encounter the other two vehicles along the way, and judging from the ruts, the other two vehicles may have returned to the base.

They did not arrive at the foot of the base mountain until the next afternoon.

Before returning to the base, Xia Lunong took the rose body to the honeysuckle body, planted the rose body, and input a certain ability into the wilting rose body.

The rose itself felt the breath of honeysuckle, and then regained consciousness, raised a branch to feel it, and asked Xia Lunong depressingly, "Why is this place so desolate, why is honeysuckle not conscious yet, what does this have to do with living here with a mutant plant?" the difference?"

Xia Lunong felt the frustration coming from it, and couldn't help but smile, "I told you before, it's like this for the time being, maybe next spring, the honeysuckle itself will become conscious."

"Then how long do we have to wait?" Rose was not used to it, and turned the branches, "I am a mutant plant here, how boring is it?"

Xia Lunong touched its branches and leaves, "We will often go down the mountain to check, you should rest here, and we will meet again when the time comes."

"Hey!" Rose stretched out the vine and grabbed the corner of his clothes, "Why don't you take me to your base?"

"Don't you want to go to our base?" Xia Lunong hesitated, "Our base has a lot of people."

Rose did not hesitate, "As many as there are! Didn't you say that there will be more people here in the future, so what does it matter if I get used to it in advance?"

Xia Lunong was grabbed by the corner of her clothes by Rose and refused to let her go.

Kong Zhi planted roses with him, and asked, "Why?"

Xia Lunong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and told him about Rose's plan, "Rose also wants to go to our base."

After answering Kong Zhi's question, Xia Lunong said to Rose: "If you follow to our base, what will happen here? Are you not planting with honeysuckle?"

Rose said: "You break a section of my branch, insert it here, and give me some abilities, and a new body of mine will grow here."

Xia Lunong faintly felt something was wrong, "So you can reproduce infinitely?"

"That's not true. If I have too many body plants, my consciousness will collapse." Rose said, "I just bred too many body plants this summer. Then something didn't feel right, and some bodies froze to death in winter. Things are slowly getting better."

Xia Lunong: "..."

He said how he felt that this rose plant was weird. It turned out that something really happened, and now it is the result of self-help.

Rose didn't know that she had slipped her tongue, so she urged Xia Lunong, "How about it? Can you do it? Take me up there."

Xia Lunong thought for a while, "It's okay to bring you up, but we have to make an agreement first. You have to restrain yourself, you can't breed at will, and the poison on the thorns must also be restrained, and you can't hurt the members of our base."

Rose bargained, "What if they provoke me first?"

Xia Lunong said: "I will tell the people in the base not to provoke you. If they do do something, try not to fight back. I will deal with it when I come back."

Rose is not too convinced.

Xia Lunong added sternly, "Even if you really fight back, you can't leave irreversible damage to the people in the base."

He paused as he spoke, "If you intentionally hurt people in our base, then we are the enemy."

Rose was silent for a moment.

Looking at it like this, Xia Lunong felt that this guy was still wild and unruly, so she suggested: "Either you think about it first, and I'll come down tomorrow to see you and Honeysuckle. Then you decide whether you want to go to the base with me?"

Rose was angry, "Why do you keep urging me? Give me some time, can I think about it today?"

Xia Lunong smiled and said, "Okay, okay, think about it for a while, I'll go to the armored car and talk to my brothers."

Xia Lunong talked about it with her two elder brothers.

Xia Huo channel: "You have to ensure the safety of the rose and ensure that it will not endanger our base."

Xia Lunong said: "This should be no problem. I will keep its size in mind and prevent it from breeding outside. As long as people from the base don't come to our house to provoke this rose plant, nothing will happen."

Xia Huoqu nodded and said: "As long as you know it in your heart, it's fine to bring it into the base, but don't talk too much about this rose plant with the people in the base."

This Xia Lunong knew that even if everyone was in the same base, some things should not be fully disclosed.

There are many secrets in their family, and he knows that other people in the base also have many secrets.

For example, Lao Liu, such as some scientists in Bailou.

As long as these secrets will not cause harm to others, everyone will turn a blind eye and close one eye, and will not inquire too much.

Yan Xinian said: "Raising rose flowers in the base is a double-edged sword. Xiao Nong, you should communicate more with rose flowers to make sure that its thoughts are not dangerous. At least after entering the human gathering area, it needs to abide by human rules. Some customs."

Xia Lunong nodded, "No problem, I will tell it, try to ensure that it understands some human conventions, and don't let it spread to a large scale. A plant will not cause any danger to us, after all, for plants , our advantage is too great.”

Seeing that he knew what he was thinking, Xia Huoqu didn't say much.

Rose has a lot of trust in Xia Lunong.

After thinking for a while, it decided to go to their base with Xia Lunong.

I've talked a lot with Xia Lunong recently, and she's not happy with a rose plant waiting here.

Xia Lunong had no objection, "Remember our agreement."

"Why are you so wordy?" Rose said, "I see."

Xia Lunong touched the rose leaves and smiled.

Seeing this, Xia Huajiao waved the branch unhappily, trying to squeeze away Rose to wrap around Xia Lunong's hand.

Xia Zanthoxylum followed them all the way in a semi-hibernating state, and now finally understands that Rose will go back with them, and it will not be the only intelligent mutant plant in the family from now on.

Rose's IQ is much higher than that of Xiahuajiao, and it is not afraid of Xiahuajiao, which is much larger than it. If the thin branches are drawn to the branches and leaves of Xiahuajiao, it will pull Xiahuajiao away.

Xia Lunong's eyes were quick, and she stretched out her hand to pinch the tender thorns at the top of the rose, "Don't bully Xia Huajiao!"

Xia Huajiao: "Hoo!"

Rose's thin and weak branches entangled him and accused him, "Why are you partial?"

"I'm biased if I don't care about you." Xia Lunong smiled, "You get along well, or I won't give you the power."

Rose is not very satisfied, "I feel that once I return to your base with you, your attitude will change."

"If you don't bully Xiahuajiao and other animals and plants, I will definitely not change." Xia Lunong injected a little ability into it and Xiahuajiao each, "You get along well and cooperate to win-win."

Rose's temper is not very good, but Xia Lunong quickly took care of this guy because she was not deeply involved in the world.

After calming down the dispute between the two plants, Xia Lunong muttered to Kong Zhi, "Why do I feel like we have a second child?"

Kong Zhi said: "That guy has to change his name to Xia Yueji."