Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 257 Free Caravan
Zhao Xiaoxiu was awakened by a burst of crying. In front of her was a simple tent roof made of bed sheets. A solar camping lamp hung under the pointed roof, emitting a faint light.

I heard wailing and the woman's scolding, as well as a few persuasive voices. The woman calmed down, took out half a bottle of nutrient solution and handed it to the child, and the wailing stopped.

This is a tent of more than ten square meters, filled with women and children.

They are led by a young woman who has evolved twice. They form free caravans and wander between major camps. They survive with difficulty by earning meager profits from selling things collected from major bases and urban areas.

Zhao Xiaoxiu and Monkey Sister squeezed into the corner of the tent. In such a narrow tent, the space for one person and one monkey was extra spacious, and Zhao Xiaoxiu could even lie sideways.

This was only because the women in this caravan were afraid of the evolved macaques around her.

Although Zhao Xiaoxiu had shown them that Sister Monkey was not interested in eating humans, they were still scared just by looking at its strong arms and sharp fangs.

On the contrary, the children in the caravan were much braver. They even dared to come close to Zhao Xiaoxiu, look at Sister Monkey with tilted heads, and point fingers at her.

Sister Monkey was repeatedly warned by Zhao Xiaoxiu not to scare the little friends, so no matter how unhappy she was at the moment, she just sat there and raised her fist at this group of little kids who were born with disabilities.

"Here." A little girl who looked younger than Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly put something on the ground, moved her two skinny bamboo legs, and ran back to her mother's arms.

Zhao Xiaoxiu looked over in surprise, and the little girl's mother nodded at her gently.

Zhao Xiaoxiu looked down and saw something wrapped in green leaves. She picked it up and opened it. Inside was a small piece of roasted low-level mutant animal meat.

There was no seasoning on the barbecue, only the greasy smell of charcoal mixed with oil.

But even such a piece of unappetizing barbecue caused people around to look at the mother with dissatisfaction.

The caravan business was not doing well, the ratio of adults to children was almost one to one, most of the children were born with certain disabilities, they did not belong to any base and could not receive child assistance, so in addition to traveling for business, they also had to hunt to make ends meet.

However, the weapons and equipment of this free caravan were very backward, and only the leader had a laser pistol that was obtained from somewhere unknown.

It is also thanks to this laser pistol that this caravan consisting only of women and children has been able to survive until now.

Hunting is a collective activity and the food obtained is divided equally among the team.

The little girl's mother shared her meat with Zhao Xiaoxiu according to her personal wish.

Therefore, although other people were dissatisfied, they did not say anything as it did not harm the collective interests.

"Thank you, Auntie." Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled happily at the mother and her shy daughter, brought the tasteless piece of barbecue to her mouth, and ate it slowly, one bite at a time.

After taking two bites, he noticed a large furry creature behind him swallowing its saliva, so he quickly stuffed the remaining half into its mouth.

Sister Monkey was immediately satisfied. Although the meat was far inferior to the one roasted by Zhao Gang, it was still fresh roasted meat and tasted delicious when chewed.

If it hadn't been afraid of scaring the women and cubs in the room, it would have been so happy that it would have danced with joy.

The little girl nestled in her mother's arms opened her normal right eye and noticed the little movements of the monkey and the little sister. She blinked her eyes and showed a surprised expression.

She seemed to be mentally retarded and could only utter words one by one. Now she excitedly grabbed her mother's sleeve, pointed at Sister Monkey and said, "Eat! Eat!" Monkeys can also eat barbecue!
Her mother was talking to the woman next door. When she heard her daughter's voice, she looked over in confusion, only to see Zhao Xiaoxiu's sweet smile and nodded in response.

When the little girl saw that her mother didn’t understand what she meant at all, she became anxious and kept shouting “monkey, monkey, monkey”

Her mother just smiled and signaled her daughter to keep her voice down and not disturb others.

The little girl sighed, "Oh~" and kept her good eye wide open, staring at Monkey Sister who was sitting with her legs spread out behind Zhao Xiaoxiu.

There was a noise outside the tent, and soon a group of women surrounded a young woman in a green mountain suit and walked into the tent.

The women who were taking care of the children in the tent all looked over there. The noisy children instantly quieted down and looked at the young woman obediently.

This is the caravan leader Lin Siyu, who is in his early twenties, with a bald head, a green headscarf all year round, two big silver circles hanging from his ears, and ornaments all around his neck and wrists that jingle when he walks.

This was a very fashionable young woman, and as soon as she walked into the tent, she instantly became the focus of attention.

"Announcing good news!"

Lin Siyu held an old-fashioned radio in her hand and said to everyone with a smile: "The biological company branch of the Hope Base has just announced the successful development of the SHASI vaccine, and promised that the conditions for the first batch of survivors who voluntarily receive the vaccine will be relaxed, regardless of birthplace, and anyone can sign up!"

As soon as Lin Siyu said this, the quiet tent suddenly exploded as if a drop of water fell into an frying pan!
Everyone stood up and gathered around Lin Siyu to listen to the news on the radio. After listening to it several times, they still couldn't believe that the vaccine was announced to be successfully developed on such an ordinary day.

Lin Siyu was also in an excited mood. She laughed wildly without caring about her image. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of the monkey and the baby in the corner from the corner of her eye.

The four-year-old girl who had the audacity to intercept their convoy halfway did not react at all when she heard the good news that the vaccine was successfully developed.

No, there were some, but it was only a very brief moment of surprise, and then everything quickly returned to normal, as if they had known that the vaccine would be successfully developed.

"Xiao Shanshan!" Lin Siyu pushed away the women surrounding her and walked to Zhao Xiaoxiu. The excited women and children also looked over curiously.

"Aren't you happy to hear such good news?" Lin Siyu asked with one hand on her waist and lowered her head.

The other hand wanted to rub the child's messy hair, but as expected, the little guy dodged it flexibly.

The evolved macaque behind him immediately squatted down, looking alert.

Zhao Xiaoxiu grabbed Sister Monkey's arm with her backhand, signaling it to calm down. She looked up at Lin Siyu's sparkling necklace, shook her head and said, "I'm not unhappy."

Before Lin Siyu could speak again, Zhao Xiaoxiu asked her, "Have you fixed my shower device?"

Lin Siyu looked at this serious little face and inexplicably felt that it was more adorable than when she smiled. Her hands were itchy and she quickly pinched the little guy's red face without stroking his head.

Sure enough, it feels exactly as soft and tender as I imagined.

This rascal! Zhao Xiaoxiu angrily pushed away the evil hand on his face.

He frowned and asked again, "You said it could be fixed in three days, you can't lie to a child!"