The mutations of these sweet potato vines seem to have stabilized.
And that weird energy seems to have reached a certain balance in the bodies of these plants.
Gu Xi released the supernatural powers and felt them carefully, then took out a portable anomaly detector to measure their coefficient of variation.
The results show that the coefficient of variation of these sweet potato vines is 4.8. Although it is still within the edible range, it is actually not much different from the wild alien plants in the distance whose coefficient of variation is generally above 6.
It's edible, but it definitely doesn't taste any better!
As for the sweet potato vines that Wei Heng had harvested with a machine earlier and piled aside, they were almost unchanged from when she went out at noon, and the coefficient of variation should still be around 3.
Gu Xi glanced at the other side of the stream and ignored the sweet potato vines. She stood up and slowly returned to the container house.
The ink-black wild chrysanthemums are too big to be carried into the house.
Gu Xi used her earth power to get a large vase on the spot and put it aside casually.
After entering the door, she pulled out the only chair in the room and sat down, holding her chin in one hand and looking out the window expressionlessly.
As time passed by, Gu Xi just sat like that, without any mood swings.
Until a small green sprout emerged from her fingertips and circled around her wrist.
"Gu Xi." Wei Heng stood at the door and knocked on the iron door. "The sweet potato vines left in the field have mutated again. I'm afraid they can't be eaten..."
The world is so fucked up, plants growing in the ground may mutate anytime and anywhere.
What's even worse is that scientists still haven't figured out the reasons for the mutation of those plants.
No wonder there are so many people on the forum lamenting the difficulty of farming...
But no matter how difficult it is, you still have to live this life, right?
"Have you found out what happened to the two sisters opposite?" Gu Xi gently stroked the little green sprouts on her fingertips: "I haven't seen them in the camp before..."
"They came from another camp." Wei Heng walked over, took out a small bag of seeds wrapped in plastic film from his pocket, and showed it to Gu Xi like a treasure: "Look, what is this?"
"What?" Gu Xi glanced at it but didn't recognize it.
"These are the seeds of tomatoes."
Wei Heng looked at her with bright eyes and said: "Qin Yi and the others brought some crop seeds... Didn't I just go over to help? When she came back, she insisted on letting me bring some as a thank you gift..."
"I can't shirk it. I thought you had wanted to grow tomatoes before, so I asked if there were any tomato seeds? I didn't expect that they actually had them. Do you think it was a coincidence?"
Wei Heng handed the seed in his hand to her and looked at Gu Xi with bright eyes, looking like a well-behaved big dog begging for praise from his master online.
Gu Xi's eyes moved from his bright eyes to the tomato seeds in his hand, and he nodded. It was quite a coincidence.
She remembered that tomato seeds were not cheap.
"Gu Xi, how about we eat tomatoes tonight?" Wei Heng licked his dry and white lips and looked at Gu Xi expectantly.
In recent years, life at the base has not been easy. Even when he was in the special service team, he rarely had the opportunity to eat expensive fruits and vegetables like tomatoes.
"Okay." Gu Xi took the small bag of seeds from his hand and nodded: "But there is a problem."
"What's the problem?" Wei Heng swallowed subconsciously, not knowing whether it was because he was nervous or because he was too greedy for tomatoes.
Gu Xi: "...I don't know how to grow tomatoes."
Wei Heng:...Ah, this...aren't all of you wood-type superpowers directly induced by superpowers?
"No." Facing his suspicious gaze, Gu Xi repeated confidently.
The two of them looked at each other, and finally, Wei Heng silently opened his personal terminal.
If you say no, then you won't. But it doesn't matter, there are videos of tomato planting on the forum...
Unexpectedly, as soon as he logged into the official forum, he saw a pop-up notification.
The notice stated that in order to help the pioneers better open up wasteland and grow food, the central base will organize a large number of experienced agronomy experts to travel to various parts of the country in the near future...
Wei Heng was silent, then turned the light screen in front of Gu Xi and motioned for her to look at it.
Gu Xi: Is this going to provide on-site technical guidance and teaching?
Wei Heng glanced at her and cautiously suggested: "How about we also learn from it?" Although he was also a novice in farming, he always felt that there was something wrong with Gu Xi's simple and crude planting method.
Gu Xi looked at him silently for a while: "...Let's learn to grow tomatoes first."
The sweet potatoes in the morning can be explained as an exception, but if the tomatoes grown by her hands were like that... it would not make sense.
What's more, two new neighbors have arrived on the other side of the creek.
So these tomatoes must be grown normally.
This is a bit difficult for Gu Xi. She is used to using her wood power to directly ripen plants...
But fortunately, after the second major mutation thirty years ago, there was no regularity in the mutation of plants, which gave her room to operate.
Wei Heng searched the official forum for a while and found the exact video about tomato planting.
After reading it, they both frowned at the same time.
Tomatoes are very delicate, not like sweet potatoes. You can harvest whatever you plant.
The most important thing is that it needs to be pollinated.
Speaking of pollination, Ye Zhen suddenly thought of something:
After the second major mutation, animals and plants were affected, and there was that kind of weird energy in their bodies, but insects seemed not to be affected by it, and they didn't have that kind of weird energy in their bodies.
Over the years, through continuous eradication by the army, most of the dangerous insects in the wild have been wiped out, and the remaining ones are almost the same as before the apocalypse.
Except for being bigger.
Gu Xi thought of the several oversized butterflies he saw in the forest today...perhaps he could ask them to help with pollination?
Of course, as the video says, you can also pollinate manually.
But artificial pollination of tomatoes requires a special "red ink", which not only they, but also the Qin sisters on the other side don't have.
Because of the key technical problem of pollination, the two were unable to eat tomatoes at night.
Wei Heng cooked a pot of big sweet potatoes.
Under the eerie moonlight, Gu Xi hugged a big sweet potato and squatted in front of the container house. Looking at the sudden lights on the other side of the stream, she turned to Wei Heng and said, "There should be a generator over there in the camp, right? Wait until tomorrow."
Let’s grow some sweet potatoes…”
Wei Heng squatted next to her and looked at the lights opposite with envy: "You want to exchange grain for generators? It's not impossible. But energy is tight now. If we want to exchange sweet potatoes for generators, we may have to use a variety of methods.
Just order sweet potatoes..."
Gu Xi thought of her 100 acres of uncultivated land, and immediately said proudly: "No problem." No matter how many sweet potatoes there are, she will cover them all.
The matter of left and right sweet potatoes has already been exposed, and if she hides it again, it will only arouse more suspicion.
It's better to show it openly and openly.
What's more, the two new neighbors who came in the afternoon gave her a heads up... Gu Xi still wanted to see it again.
After the apocalypse, there will be no electricity and no entertainment activities in these deserted mountains and mountains.
After eating the sweet potatoes, the two planned to wash up and go to bed.
Before leaving, Gu Xi suddenly turned around and asked Wei Heng: "By the way, where did you pick me up back then?"
Wei Henggang walked to his container house and was about to open the door and go in. Hearing this, he turned around and looked at her in surprise: "Don't you remember where you were before you passed out?"
It was completely dark now, but Gu Xi's vision didn't seem to be affected. She stared at Wei Heng for a while and then said: "I was hungry for several days and there was something wrong with my powers."
, my mind is a little unclear..."
"That's it." Wei Heng said: "We found you in the ruins area of nx1984..."
Gu Xi: "I heard from Uncle Zhou that you were the first to discover me that day..."
"Yes." Wei Heng nodded and said: "That day, I followed Uncle Zhou and others to scavenge... When I found you, you were unconscious in the grass..."
He smiled and briefly explained the process of picking up Gu Xi. At the end, he joked: "They say that a life-saving favor must be given in person. Gu Xi, you have to pay for all my food... for the rest of my life."
Already."
Gu Xi stared at him for a while, then nodded in agreement: "...Okay."
After saying that, she pushed open the iron door on her side and entered the house.
Late at night, Gu Xi was lying on the bed, but her eyes were as bright as stars.
When she suddenly asked Wei Heng where he picked her up, Wei Heng's reaction was natural, and his surprised eyes didn't seem to be fake.
Moreover, she never sensed any malice from him from beginning to end.
Could it be that the appearance of the two new neighbors and the small bag of tomato seeds were really just accidents and coincidences?
……Lets see.
After a while, Gu Xi closed her eyes.
There is also the ruins area of nx1984. She has to find time to visit it. This chapter has been completed!