Chapter 8: Don't want tomatoes

Although Gu Xi took the initiative to avoid it, Wei Heng obviously didn't mind. He started chatting with the people in the group in front of Gu Xi.

Although the instinct of planting has long been engraved into the genes of the flower planting clan, Wei Heng is a novice after all. After humbly asking the "old farmers" in the group, he looked up at Gu Xi: "Or why not, let's choose sweet potatoes..."

Sweet potatoes have high yield and storage resistance. They can be used as staple food and can be made into many snacks of different flavors. Sweet potato leaves can also be eaten as vegetables. Even sweet potato vines can be used to feed poultry and livestock. After drying, they can also be burned as firewood.

"... Moreover, it is said that there is another saying before the end of the world that eating sweet potato leaves regularly can also prevent cancer." Wei Heng held his chin and sought Gu Xi's opinion.

Gu Xi has no objection.

Just now, Wei Heng used voice chat with the people in the group. She listened quietly next to her for a while and got some useful news.

Although she has never planted the land and does not know the crops, her use of wood-type superpowers can be said to be at its peak and no one can match.

Gu Xi is confident that she can plant it no matter what kind of variety she is!

But after planting it, can you eat it? Gu Xi cannot guarantee it.

In this era of all plant mutation, plants have become stranger.

Although Gu Xi had some ideas in his mind, it still needs to be tried before he could succeed.

While submitting the information, Wei Heng asked Gu Xi: "Apart from sweet potatoes, do you have anything else you want to grow? How about cabbage and radish?"

Although the seeds sent from the base are generally similar, they are carefully selected seeds with relatively low variation coefficients after screening by professionals.

However, the variation coefficient of plants is not static and will be affected by the environment at any time.

And the longer the growth cycle of crops, the higher the uncontrollability of this variation.

Therefore, like most people, Wei Heng is more inclined to plant crops with shorter growth cycles.

"Everything is OK." Gu Xi was not picky, but if she could, she wanted to grow some fruits.

From the chat between Wei Heng and the pioneers in the group just now, Gu Xi learned that fruits are now a very rare object and can’t be bought outside.

If ordinary people want to eat some fruit, they can only go out to try their luck and see if they can find some fruits with relatively low coefficient of variation...

Gu Xi has a little-known hobby, which is that she especially likes to eat fruits. So what she had the most in her space in the past was all kinds of fruits... and fruit seeds.

But now there is something wrong with her supernatural powers. She is pitifully weak, at most at level three, and even the space she opened up in the past is gone.

If you want to open up space again, you have to wait for her superpower to recover to level seven or above.

I don’t know if the materials she collected before can be retrieved after reopening the space?

Wei Heng was very considerate and deliberately turned the light screen in front of her and asked her to look carefully before choosing.

But after reading it, Gu Xi regretfully found that none of the seeds distributed from the base were fruits.

Finally, she barely chose a tomato.

...

The next morning, the helicopters belonging to the central base flew away.

In the next two days, the camp was calm and there was no evil change in alien plants. But Wei Heng told her that the army had actually come.

After repeated strict screening of the army, the danger has been basically eliminated and the camp will be unblocked soon.

And that night, the supply from the Nancheng base finally arrived.

Wei Heng immediately sent her personal terminal and tried his best to show his aesthetic: "How is it? This is what I specially selected for you, isn't it good?"

Gu Xi looked at the pink watch in front of him, which was full of childlike fun and was silent: "..."

Wei Heng realized something was wrong later. He scratched his head embarrassedly and hesitated: "Gu Xi, do you, don't you like it?" It shouldn't be. Uncle Zhou said that his little niece likes this pink cat head the most?

"...Thank you." Gu Xi was silent for a while, and said with a wooden face: "I like it very much."

Then, Wei Heng was pushed out of the house inexplicably.

Gu Xi closed the door and lowered her head slightly. After a while, she opened her personal terminal.

She needs to understand the world thirty years later as soon as possible.

Gu Xi tinkered for a while and found that this thing looked very similar, but in fact, it was not a real intelligent brain system.

At least, it is very different from the intelligent brain system proposed by Dr. Qi thirty years ago. Many of the functions originally envisioned were not realized...

After thinking about it, she clicked on the search bar, but this kind of personal terminal is a basic model specially distributed by the base for pioneers. Many functions are not open for permissions, and the information that can be found is very limited, and most of them are related to planting...

Gu Xi stared at the screen for a while, then decisively exited the search bar, opened the official APP that came with it on the terminal, and then clicked on the forum section inside...

At this moment, a small box suddenly popped up in the lower right corner of the light screen - a message from Wei Heng to add friends to the forum.

Gu Xi frowned slightly, feeling a little strange. She did not register for the forum account, but just logged in to the forum as a tourist. How did Wei Heng find her accurately?

While quickly browsing the news on the forum, Gu Xi passed Wei Heng's friend application and asked him about this question sincerely.

Pioneer Xiao Wei: Select people nearby and check the ID number.

Gu Xi is not stupid, she understands it instantly.

The long list of numbers followed by her tourist identity, the first few digits should represent the area, the middle few digits are the camp number, and the long list of numbers at the end is the first time to log in to the forum.

Their camp has just been established for a while and there are not many members. She is probably the only one who has just obtained the personal terminal today...

No wonder Wei Heng came here as soon as she went online.

After visiting the forum overnight, Gu Xi finally got a rough understanding of the world thirty years later.

The next morning, just as she washed her cold water face, Wei Heng took a bowl of black vegetables and came excitedly: "Gu Xi, the camp will be unblocked tomorrow, you..."

Halfway through Wei Heng, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

He looked up and looked at Gu Xi very seriously, "You don't seem to be surprised at all..."

Gu Xi raised his hand and said calmly: "At five o'clock in the morning, the camp posted the news about the seal on the forum..."

Wei Heng frowned slightly and looked around her up and down, left and right: "Gu Xi, you won't have been sleeping all night, right?" I really can't tell, is this still an Internet-addicted girl?

Gu Xiaoxi, a girl who is addicted to the Internet: No, I just want to learn more about the world.

An hour later, with the land contract that he had just obtained, Gu Xi followed Wei Heng to the camp's agricultural technology station to collect crop seeds and farming machinery.

By the time they arrived, there were already many people standing in front of the Agricultural Technology Station.

The two followed the team slowly. Wei Heng, who was walking in front, suddenly thought of something, paused, and turned around and said, "Gu Xi, you just brought it out of the ruins. You should have no money in your account, right? We have to apply for a loan first..."

Gu Xi frowned: "Aren't those seeds distributed uniformly by the base for free?" Last night, she saw news about this on the official forum.

Wei Heng explained: "Although the seeds are issued for free by the base, there are regulations on the number and types of free seeds that everyone can receive. That day, I helped you choose a few more..."

Gu Xi: "?"

For some reason, she suddenly had a bad premonition.

Wei Heng glanced at her and said embarrassedly: "Originally, I thought the balance in my account should be enough..."

"But this is not the first time I came out to open up land and farm. I have no experience, so when I was selecting seeds that day, I accidentally picked more..." Wei Heng's voice became lower and lower.

To be honest, it was the first time he was worried about money.

When he was in the Superpower Special Service Team, the country provided food and accommodation, and he had no money to send all the allowances to the families of those who had died.

Half a year ago, after that incident, he voluntarily left the special service team, but most of the retirement money was spent on superpower inhibitors...

So much so that I'm a little short of money now.

Fortunately, the country is now vigorously supporting farming and planting. As long as you take the land contract, you can take out a loan.

Moreover, Gu Xi is a newcomer who has just returned to the base from the ruins and can enjoy three years of interest-free loans...

Wei Heng comforted her: "Gu Xi, you really don't have to worry about not being able to pay back the money. After we planted the grain, we can still use the grain to repay this part of the loan..."

After hearing this, Gu Xi asked him with a silence: "So, how much is the shortage except for the seeds distributed by the base for free?"

Wei Heng whispered a number.

Gu Xi: Destroy, don’t want tomatoes!

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!