Wei Heng's reaction was a bit strange. Gu Xi withdrew his power and looked back at him.
Wei Heng walked up to her and joked: "It seems I'm lucky, and I'll be able to make a living soon."
Gu Xi's eyes moved from his clear eyes to his thin and pale face, thought for a moment, and asked seriously: "Can you cook?"
Wei Heng: "...?"
Gu Xi explained seriously: "It's okay for me to farm and raise you, but I'm not good at cooking."
In fact, Gu Xi didn't even know which way to open the kitchen door.
Her outdoor survival skills are very strong, but her cooking skills...are about the same as using fire powers to cook things.
Anyway, as long as the poison doesn't kill people.
As for taste... In the last days when supplies are scarce and precarious, it's good to be able to find something to eat. Who cares about that?
Probably because her expression was too serious at this time, Wei Heng thought for a moment and was not sure: "My cooking skills...should be good, right?"
Gu Xi glanced at him, said nothing, turned back to the container, and brought over the bag of sweet potato seeds.
After selecting the one with the highest activity among them, and quietly plundering the violent and strange energy, Gu Xi began to use the wood power to stimulate the sprouts...
She read the sweet potato planting information last night and knew how to grow sweet potatoes.
After the sprouts sprouted and grew into potato seedlings about one foot long, she withdrew her superpower, then found a machete from the bag and swung it down, causing the potato seedlings to fall to the ground.
Then the small green sprouts on her fingertips instantly swelled into a vine whip of about three meters. With a sweep of the whip, the potato seedlings scattered on the ground flew in all directions.
Then it took root, and with the blessing of the wood attribute, it crawled all over the fields at an extremely fast speed...
The whole process is as smooth as flowing water, it can be said to be simple and crude, and very effective.
Wei Heng, who had just found a pair of scissors to cut potato seedlings, silently threw the scissors back.
He glanced at Gu Xi, didn't say anything, and just walked towards the farm machine with a heavy step. - They said they were working together to farm, so they had to find some work for themselves, right?
But before he climbed onto the farm machine, Wei Heng saw the ground beneath his feet beginning to churn silently...
Looking at the big sweet potatoes being dug out of the ground one by one, Wei Heng fell silent again: How could such a delicate and frail little girl grow the ground so simply and crudely?
He couldn't figure it out.
But soon, he no longer had time to think about these messy things.
Wei Heng looked at the numbers displayed on the portable radiology detector and then at the big sweet potato in his hand, and was shocked!
Originally, he just wanted to test whether the coefficient of variation of these super-large sweet potatoes grown in a simple and crude way was within the edible range. Unexpectedly...
After a "beep——" sound, the number on the abnormality detector finally settled at 0.5!
This is the first time Wei Heng has seen a plant with such a low coefficient of variation!
Wei Heng glanced at Gu Xi, then bent down and picked up a few more large sweet potatoes for inspection.
0.5, 0.6, 0.4...the coefficients of variation of these sweet potatoes are all within 1!
Such things can be sold for sky-high prices at the central base!
"Gu Xi..." Wei Heng's eyes were so bright at this moment that he didn't even notice that his voice was slightly trembling.
He turned to look at Gu Xi, only to find that Gu Xi was staring at the sweet potato field in front of him, frowning slightly.
Wei Heng:?
Gu Xi felt that the problem was a bit serious.
She had clearly removed the violent energy from the sweet potato seeds before germination, and she also compressed the entire planting process to the extreme.
It only takes a few minutes from the time the sweet potato seedlings fall to the ground until the batch of sweet potatoes matures.
But those weird energies still appeared.
They seemed to appear out of thin air and entered the bodies of these plants at extremely fast speeds...
Elusive and unpredictable. These eight words suddenly appeared in Gu Xi's mind.
It seems that this land is not so easy to cultivate.
Gu Xi let out a long sigh, picked up a few big sweet potatoes and stuffed them into Wei Heng's hand: "Let's cook, I'm hungry."
"..." Wei Heng, who was originally full of complicated thoughts, suddenly became a cook.
Half an hour later.
Wei Heng held the fragrant, sweet, soft and glutinous steamed sweet potatoes in his hands, and sighed with satisfaction: "This thing with a low coefficient of variation has a different taste! It's so delicious!"
"Gu Xi, I have never eaten such delicious sweet potatoes! The taste is really amazing!" Wei Heng gave a thumbs up.
Gu Xi: "..." How should I tell you that the reason these sweet potatoes are so delicious is because I used my superpower to clean them again before putting them in the pot?
"In the future, we will grow more and more delicious things." Gu Xi nodded and said seriously.
After finishing this simple lunch, Wei Heng sent her back to the house to rest, while he turned around to clean up the makeshift kitchen.
——He could tell that the little girl's superpower was not very strong, just about level three or four. She had just forced herself to grow such a large field of sweet potatoes, so she must have been exhausted.
Gu Xi glanced at him and didn't refuse - division of labor and cooperation are good.
After Wei Heng finished cleaning the kitchen, he looked up at Gu Xi's container house. After a moment of silence, he opened his personal terminal.
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Gu Xi didn't have the habit of taking a nap, so she just lay on the bed for a while, refreshed herself, and then went out.
Wei Heng was squatting on the ground picking sweet potatoes from the ground.
Seeing Gu Xi come out, he patted the mud on his hands and said with a smile, "Are you awake? Why don't you sleep more?"
"Can't sleep." She walked over slowly.
Wei Heng had almost cleaned up the sweet potatoes on the ground, leaving only some sweet potato vines still spread messily on the ground.
Gu Xi stared at the sweet potato vines for a while and suddenly asked Wei Heng: "Didn't you say there is someone above you? Can you find a way to get some chicks?"
After a pause, he added, "Maybe a piglet." She didn't choose, as long as it was a mutated animal.
Wei Heng glanced at her in surprise, threw the last few sweet potatoes into the basket aside, waved his hand and said, "I can't get that..."
In recent years, although the state has encouraged everyone to go out of their bases and open up wasteland to grow food, it still does not allow private individuals to feed mutant animals.
However, there is no way around this.
As a simple example, take chicken, the most common poultry:
Before the end of the world, almost every household in the countryside would raise a few chickens. They generally would not attack people. Even if they were aroused to be ferocious, their attack power would be very limited and almost non-lethal.
But now, although the mutated chickens have not changed much in their habits, they will not actively attack humans.
But the body size is about 10 times that before the end of the world, about the same height as an adult, the sharp chicken beak is more than half a foot long, and the sharp chicken claws are bigger than the two palms of an adult male!
If you accidentally get a mouth or a claw, few people can bear it.
Common livestock such as pigs, sheep, and cattle are almost in the same situation.
Therefore, over the years, the country has not allowed private individuals to feed mutant animals.
When the military collects mutated animals in the wild, it will also depend on the situation:
If you encounter mutant animals with a high risk factor, they will be strangled directly; those with a relatively docile temperament will be sent to a designated place and raised by dedicated personnel from the base.
As for some common poultry and livestock, they are also raised uniformly at the base, slaughtered and processed regularly, and then sent to designated locations for sale.
Ordinary people who want to eat meat can buy it with money just like before the end of the world.
But in fact, very few people would buy this kind of meat. No other reason than that after the animals mutate, the taste of the meat... is really hard to describe.
In short, not many people can eat it.
When Wei Heng saw Gu Xi suddenly asking about this, he had been staring at the sweet potato vines on the ground for a while, thought about it, and said: "I just tested it, and the variation coefficient of these sweet potato vines is basically around 3, over there at the base
Someone should recycle it..."
Gu Xi was thinking about another thing.
When these sweet potato vines were first planted in the morning, the level of mutation was still very low, similar to that of sweet potatoes in the field, and the coefficient of variation should also be around 0.5.
But now, only a few hours have passed, and the coefficient of variation has already reached over 3.
Gu Xi glanced at Wei Heng. It was impossible for him not to notice such an obvious thing... This chapter has been completed!