Early the next morning, people from the engineering team drove over with large trucks and large engineering equipment.
However, they had to complete Professor Zhao's mission first, and Gu Xi's small house would have to wait for a while.
Gu Xi was not in a hurry.
Qin Yi came over early in the morning to enjoy the sweet potatoes. Seeing that the engineering team over there had already started construction, he couldn't help but feel a little envious, "I wonder when I will have my own little house..."
Gu Xi felt a little strange: "You shouldn't be short of money, right?"
"Que, why not?" Qin Yi took a bite of the sweet potato fiercely. In recent years, the country has been in difficulty, and the army has to tighten its belt to live. The little money she and her sister had saved before were all replaced by seeds in the past few days.
"What are you doing?" Wei Heng held a big sweet potato, sat next to Qin Yi, and glanced sideways at her: "Did my sweet potato offend you?"
Qin Yi rolled his eyes at him, ignored him, and turned to Gu Xi with a smile: "After planting watermelons yesterday, Professor Zhao said that your land was plowed too hard, and you won't be able to grow it back if you don't rest for three to five months."
.Then Gu Xi, what are your plans next?"
Wei Heng hummed next to him: "Don't bother Gu Xi. Yesterday we bought a whole box of land nutrient solution. And even if Gu Xi's land can't be planted, there's still mine.
What about one hundred acres..."
Want to abduct people from under his nose? No way.
However, he was not very lucky. Unlike Gu Xi, whose land was beside the creek and was flat and easy to cultivate; his land was between the slopes and the forest land, and nearly half of it had now developed into dense mountain forests.
Those mutated trees in the forest block out the sky and sun, have deep roots and lush leaves, and have various vines and bushes... In short, they are difficult to cultivate.
As for the remaining slopes, they could be reclaimed and some sweet potatoes could be grown. But the way he looked at Gu Xi seemed to have other plans?
"Gu Xiaoxi." Wei Heng peeled off the skin of the sweet potato, glanced at Shen Yue who was walking towards this direction not far away, and shouted: "There is another person who wants to take advantage of your sweet potato."
Sure enough, Shen Yue's first words after coming over were: "Gu Xi, is there anything to eat? I'm almost starving to death..."
Gu Xi pointed at the stove and asked him to get it himself.
As a result, he just took the pot away, euphemistically saying that he had to take a few back to the professors.
Wei Heng chuckled twice but said nothing.
However, Gu Xi glanced at him and suddenly asked: "Is it time to harvest those mutated upland rice? What did Professor Zhao say?"
After eating sweet potatoes for several days in a row, her desire to eat rice was so eager that she could no longer hold back.
Shen Yue took a bite of the sweet potato and said vaguely: "It should be today, but I have to ask the two professors again..."
After hearing this, Gu Xi's eyes brightened, and she swallowed the remaining sweet potatoes in her hand. She casually wiped two handfuls of morning dew on the weeds nearby and washed her hands. She stood up and said, "Then I'll go with you and ask Zhao
professor."
He is not active in eating and has problems with his thinking.
This matter cannot be delayed.
Shen Yue looked at her exceptionally skillful way of washing her hands with dew, and thought to herself, this girl's life is really rough, she is almost as good as him.
…
Professor Zhao did not disappoint Gu Xi. After personally coming to confirm, he told Gu Xi that the upland rice was mature and ready for harvest.
After harvesting, Professor Zhao only took half of it, and gave the rest to Gu Xi for seeding.
Gu Xi held the heavy ears of rice and thought to herself, she can finally eat white rice.
The little green buds were probably also influenced by her. They suddenly came out and wrapped around the heavy ears of rice several times.
Professor Zhao was very interested and asked her with a smile: "Xiao Gu, I'm afraid your land needs to rest and recuperate for a while. What are your plans next?"
On the side, Wei Heng suddenly felt something was wrong when he heard this. Why are there so many people interested in Gu Xiaoxi?
Gu Xi's heart moved.
"Professor, what do you think about growing some fruits on the slope over there?" she asked Professor Zhao, pointing to the hillside behind.
"You want to plant fruit trees?" Professor Zhao was a little surprised. These days, there are not many people with wood-type abilities who dare to plant fruit trees.
He thought for a while and said: "It is very suitable to plant fruit trees on this slope, but, Xiao Gu, have you really thought about it? Fruit trees have a long growth cycle and mutate faster than ordinary crops..."
"Professor Zhao, I want to give it a try." Now that she has finally lived a peaceful life, Gu Xi doesn't want to wrong herself.
She only has a hobby of eating fruits. If she has the ability, why not be nice to herself?
"Professor, do you have any fruit seeds?" Gu Xi asked.
Although she was confident that she could grow delicious fruits, she didn't have any seeds.
Professor Zhao shook his head: "I don't have any fruit seeds here either..."
Gu Xi was a little disappointed when Professor Zhao said with a smile: "But I can help you apply."
Given his status, applying for fruit seeds should not be a big problem.
but……
Professor Zhao sighed: "Xiao Gu, you also know that fruits are rare nowadays, and fruit seeds, especially those with low coefficient of variation, are even rarer and more precious. I can't guarantee how many seeds I can apply for..."
The great mutation at that time almost wiped out all the fruit trees at that time and could no longer bear fruit that could be eaten by humans.
The existing fruit seeds are the seeds left over from the pre-apocalyptic seed bank launched by the country in recent years, allowing high-level wood-type superpowers to be rapidly spawned and then bear fruit.
But even fruit trees grown from pre-apocalyptic seeds will mutate in a very short period of time, and the final fruit will have high or low coefficients of variation.
Professor Zhao also had a look of regret and... sadness when he talked about this.
Gu Xi expressed her understanding and thanked you: "Thank you, Professor Zhao. I don't care about the number or type of seeds." Just eat some.
After a pause, Gu Xi still couldn't hold it back and asked again: "Professor Zhao, is it true that the x energy in animals and plants cannot be purified, or can it be extracted directly?"
Professor Zhao did not expect that she would ask this. He was stunned for a moment before shaking his head and said: "There is no effective way yet."
In fact, after the second major mutation of animals and plants, some people suggested that if X energy could be extracted or purified, the food crisis could be solved.
Unfortunately, over the years, no effective method has been found.
"Then there's nothing we can do?" Gu Xi frowned slightly. It shouldn't be...
Gu Xi never underestimated the power of the state machine, even in the darkest period of the apocalypse.
Sure enough, Professor Zhao paused and said: "That's not true. More than 20 years ago, someone suggested that we might try using supernatural powers..."
"...Although they all failed later, Vice-President Ye used his purification power to calm the x-energy in the seeds and press the pause button on them..."
Having said this, Professor Zhao paused and sighed: "Thanks to Vice President Ye, the country was able to preserve so many seeds with low variation coefficients."
Otherwise, if those seeds were allowed to continue to mutate, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Vice President Ye?" Gu Xi raised his eyebrows slightly and asked curiously.
"Yes, Ye Xin, the deputy director of the Central Base Superpower Research Institute."
Professor Zhao already knew that the girl came out of the ruins and did not understand the situation outside, so he explained a few more sentences:
"Over the years, Vice President Ye has been on the front line of research. Her purification ability can effectively soothe X energy and reduce its activity..."
Ye Xin also relied on this merit to successfully take the position of vice president of the Superpower Research Institute fifteen years ago.
Now she has a strong voice in the Superpower Research Institute and even in the entire central base.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a big boss.
But Gu Xi's focus at this time was on another matter.
"So, the seeds distributed by the base now have actually gone through the hands of people with healing powers?" Gu Xi tilted her head and asked.
"That's right." Professor Zhao nodded: "Vice Dean Ye's research on superpowers shows that healing superpowers can appease the violent nature of X energy and reduce its activity..."
Gu Xi frowned slightly as she thought of the subtle differences she sensed when she first plundered energy from those sweet potato seeds and when she plundered energy from wild exotic plants in the wild... This chapter has been completed!