The direction of things is getting weirder and weirder.
The dazzling sunlight directly above her head made Gu Xi's already dizzy mind even more dizzy.
If this wasn't a ridiculous dream she had after being drunk... Gu Xi closed her eyes and looked back at the booklet in her hand.
The booklet only had a few thin pages, and Gu Xi read it quickly.
It turns out that thirty years have really passed, but the beautiful world she once longed for and fought for has not appeared. Although human society has restored order, a new food crisis has arisen:
——After the zombies were completely eliminated, it didn’t take long for animals and plants to undergo a second large-scale mutation.
After mutating again, the plant was no longer aggressive, but suddenly there was a strange energy in the body that the human body could not digest and absorb, nor could it be excreted through metabolism.
And once the energy contained in the human body exceeds the standard, it will become an irrational monster, no less than a zombie.
The food crisis has once again posed a huge threat to human survival.
So over the years, while the country has been organizing efforts to eradicate those dangerous mutant animals, it has also been vigorously developing agriculture.
Many policies have been introduced to encourage people to leave their safe bases, open up wasteland for farming, and try to find and plant crops with a low coefficient of variation that can be safely eaten.
Gu Xi closed the booklet in his hand, and his eyes fell on the black and green under the high wall in the distance again, thinking deeply.
…
Half an hour later, when Gu Xi walked out of the gate of the camp, she noticed someone following her.
He is a young, thin man.
He has good facial features, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his face is very pale and his steps seem a little weak.
The man saw her turning around and smiled: "You have just arrived at the camp and are about to leave. Uncle Zhou was a little worried, so he asked me to follow you and take a look..."
Uncle Zhou is the scar-faced man from before.
He looks fierce, but he is actually gentle and helpful.
Last night, it was he and several others who found the unconscious Gu Xi in the ruins and brought him back to the camp.
Gu Xi knew that the visitor had good intentions, but she took one look at the young man's pale face and weak steps, thought about it, and refused: "Thank you, but no, I'm just walking around..."
Having lost thirty years of her life inexplicably, Gu Xi desperately wanted to see what the outside world had become like now.
"Let me follow you. When we found you last night, your condition was not very good..." After saying this, the young man smiled slightly, with a suspicious blush appearing on his pale face.
He avoided Gu Xi's sight and walked in front of her pretending to be nonchalant: "There are mutated plants everywhere outside. Although they don't attack people, there may be other situations..."
"Besides, you've just arrived and you're not familiar with the situation around here..." He didn't feel comfortable letting Gu Xi, a frail little girl, walk out of the camp alone.
Although the army came to clean up the nearby land before the camp was established, the mutated plants now grow rapidly and vigorously, and no one knows whether there may be any powerful poisonous insects and beasts hidden in it.
Gu Xi watched the man grab a hatchet from the cloth bag he carried with him, and opened the way for her with frivolous steps. He was silent for a moment.
"Thank you. My name is Gu Xi," she walked to the man calmly, "You are..."
"Wei Heng." The young man clenched the hatchet in his hand. Seeing Gu Xi's eyes falling on the cloth bag on his waist, he explained with a smile:
"Although the coefficient of variation of wild plants in the wild is very high, and almost none can be directly eaten, but are we guaranteed to be lucky?"
The higher the coefficient of variation, the more weird energy the plant contains.
Plants with a coefficient of variation exceeding 5 are inedible.
Gu Xi was silent. She didn't expect that the human food crisis had now reached such a serious level, it was as if she had returned to the famine years.
After a while, she raised her head and looked at the lush fields and forests around her. A small piece of delicate green bud quietly emerged from her fingertips.
Gu Xi had seen many mutant plants, and even hunted many high-level mutant plants with his own hands, but he never thought that the world would one day enter an era of total plant mutation.
Yes, whole plant variation.
Everywhere you look, there are dense, lush and mutated plants.
The green color that originally symbolized vitality, hope and life is now frightening to see.
Wei Heng pursed his lips when he saw this, and tightened the hatchet in his hand again.
The mutated plants around here are too lush. Although they are not lethal, the little girl looks like a weak wood-type superpower. What if she encounters some powerful venomous snakes and beasts that suddenly come out...
Gu Xi didn't know what the man was thinking, so she followed him silently observing the mutated plants around her, while habitually activating her own powers.
Although, the pamphlet distributed at the camp stated that mutated plants in the wild today will not actively attack humans.
But in Gu Xi's eyes, these mutated plants are filled with some violent energy and are still very dangerous; if they suddenly attack...
Suddenly, she stopped.
"Gu Xi?" After Wei Heng noticed it, he raised his head and followed her line of sight, looking towards the forest not far away to the northwest.
But no abnormalities were found.
"What's wrong?" he asked, subconsciously clenching the hatchet in his hand.
"It's okay." Gu Xi shook his head slightly and curled up slightly with his fingertips hanging on one side, "I just feel a little strange. This place is very close to the camp, but no one has come to clean the road?"
"Why not? The road under our feet was just cleared a few days ago..." Wei Heng said with a bitter smile: "But now these wild exotic plants outside are growing like crazy, and their growth and reproduction speeds are terrible.
Called scary..."
He used the hatchet in his hand to brush away the weeds in front of him, revealing the road covered by dense vegetation.
This is probably a pre-apocalyptic cement asphalt road, but the originally smooth road has long since collapsed into disarray, and traces of damage by plants can be seen everywhere.
Gu Xi lowered his eyes and looked at a wild grass that was about half a person tall beside him. After a moment of silence, he took the initiative to release his superpower...
She wanted to give it a try.
Although the energy in these mutated plants is still a bit unfamiliar to her...
But at this moment, a piercing siren suddenly sounded over the camp.
Wei Heng's expression suddenly changed. He took Gu Xi's hand, turned around without saying a word, and ran as fast as he could in the direction of the camp.
Caught off guard, Gu Xi was staggered and frowned slightly.
But seeing that the other party was pale and out of breath and running very hard, he only opened his mouth and didn't ask anything.
After running back to the camp, Gu Xi found that many people had ran out of the house and came to the open space in the center of the camp. Their faces were extremely pale and their expressions were particularly solemn.
There are also many people who frequently raise their heads to look at the sky.
What happened? Could it be that some powerful mutant bird came over?
But it shouldn’t be. The pamphlet said that after thirty years of strangulation by the country, there are very few powerful mutant animals in the wild...
Otherwise, people will not be encouraged to leave their safe base and come out to open up wasteland and farm.
Gu Xi glanced at the young man next to him who was squatting on the ground with his hands and knees, panting violently. He gave up the idea of asking, only quietly pricked up his ears, and began to receive the information from the outside world calmly:
"What happened? Why did the alarm sound suddenly?"
"I heard that the machine in the camp detected an abnormal energy riot in the mountain forest to the northwest. After the drone passed by, it was discovered that the strange plants there were withering in patches..."
"How could the alien plant suddenly wither on its own? Has a supernatural killing team passed by?"
"It would be great if it really was a supernatural killing team, I'm afraid the world is about to change again..."
"It's also possible that more advanced mutant plants have appeared nearby..."
Such speculation made everyone in the camp change their expressions.
As we all know, the vitality of plants has always been tenacious, and the vitality of mutant plants is extremely strong, and their growth and reproduction speeds are terrifying.
After the apocalypse, plants with higher coefficients of variation will have greater vitality, faster growth and reproduction rates; and there are only two possibilities for making patches of high-end wild exotic plants suddenly wither:
First, just like the sudden outbreak of the apocalypse more than fifty years ago, the soil and environment here have undergone some unknown changes and are no longer suitable for plant growth;
Second, plants with a higher coefficient of variation appeared nearby, and they quietly plundered the living space of the original exotic plants.
But these two situations, no matter which one they are, make it almost impossible for the pioneers in the camp to successfully grow edible crops with a lower coefficient of variation nearby.
things.
Since the end of the world, farming has become an extremely difficult task.
Wild exotic plants all over the mountains and plains will seize the living space of crops with lower coefficients of variation, and any environmental changes may affect the coefficient of variation of crops...
The seedlings you planted with full hope may be swallowed up by weeds that pop up out of the ground at any time. Even if you protect them carefully, the coefficient of variation may have exceeded the standard before the day of harvest, and there is no way to protect them.
edible!
At this moment, everyone fell silent.
Gu Xi leaned against the wall and turned her head to look at Wei Heng. Seeing that he was still out of breath, she thought about it and decided to forget it.
At this moment, the roar of a helicopter suddenly sounded in the distance.
Soon, several helicopters flew over the camp.
When she saw a familiar logo flashing across the fuselage, Gu Xi narrowed her eyes slightly.