Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 277 A Bigger Whirlpool

The heavy snow fell like white cotton wool, covering the valley with a soft blanket.

The already remote valley seemed to have completely lost any trace of animal activity and was completely silent.

At night, Zhao Xiaoxiu lay on the warm little bed, holding a water bag filled with hot water in her arms. When she closed her eyes, she could hear the sound of snowflakes falling on the treetops, huge leaves, and the ground.

It was freezing and snowy outside, but the house was warm as spring. In this isolated valley, Zhao Xiaoxiu and her father spent a comfortable winter.

There is sufficient supply of supplies at home. Every day when I wake up, I eat, and when I am full, I sleep.

You can sleep as long as you want, because no one will disturb you.

Occasionally when she was bored, Zhao Xiaoxiu would take Monkey Sister and Green Fairy to make snowmen and have snowball fights at the door.

Peter Pan went into hibernation before the snow fell.

There was a thick layer of ice on the lake. Afraid that the lake would be lonely, Zhao Xiaoxiu and Monkey Sister skated on the lake from morning to night during the days when the ice was thickest.

A child and a monkey go out clean every day and come home dirty.

I was unable to buy solar photovoltaic equipment before the snow fell. Without electricity, I couldn’t install a water heater for taking a shower or a washing machine for washing clothes.

Zhao Gang's tentacles were forced to take on the "burden" of bathing and washing clothes for the cubs.

Children are so naughty that the speed at which clothes are changed and washed at home cannot keep up with the speed at which they get dirty.

In the small room on the first floor, a stove and a fire were burning all day long. Next to them were wooden shelves filled with children's clothes that had just been washed and had not yet been dried.

What makes Tentacle most unhappy is not washing clothes, but fetching water.

You have to walk out of the green wall and go to the small stream 800 meters away to get clean water.

Afraid that the tentacles would go on strike, Zhao Gang thought he might as well dig a water channel.

He did what he said, stopped the cub who wanted to run out to play in the snow again, handed her a small shovel, and said, "Let's go and work."

Zhao Xiaoxiu, who had tied herself up like a ball, let out an "Ah?" and could only wave helplessly to Monkey Sister who was waiting outside the green wall. He picked up a small shovel and went to dig a canal with his father.

First, dig away the thick snow, then shovel up and down on the hard ground. With a little effort from both hands, you can shovel away a piece of ground.

The creek was slightly higher than the tree house, so the father and daughter saved a lot of effort. As long as they dug a ditch, the water would naturally flow down the ditch.

It took Zhao Xiaoxiu and his father three days to successfully dig a water diversion channel more than 1,000 meters long.

The canal flows directly into the green wall, where a reservoir is dug and filled with picked up round stones. The turbid water settles naturally and the bottom becomes clear.

With this reservoir, getting water is much more convenient.

While Zhao Gang was free, he moved a huge piece of rock and carved a washbasin.

The stone basin is very large and can be used for washing hands, dishes and clothes.

Zhao Xiaoxiu secretly climbed into the stone basin and found that it was just the right size and could be used as a bathtub in the summer.

There is nothing to do on a snowy day, and the mutated plants and animals are all suppressed by the cold and do not come out to move at all.

They could not hunt and all the work they could do at home was done, so Zhao Xiaoxiu and his daughter began to really lie down and spend the winter.

I don’t know how long I lay there. One day, when the sun was shining brightly in the sky, the icicles hanging on the eaves suddenly fell with a “crack”. The snow melted and spring came again.

Zhao Xiaoxiu, who had been lying at home for almost a month, felt itchy all over. Unable to wait for the snow to melt, he picked up a hoe and rushed to the yard.

She wanted to reclaim all the open space in the yard and plant lots of vegetables, so many that she would never be able to eat them all.

The evolved tomatoes in the greenhouse were ripe. Zhao Gang picked a small basket full of them and turned to the youngsters who were actively cultivating the fields in the yard and said:
"I'll cook you some tomato and bird egg instant noodles later."

Zhao Xiaoxiu was overjoyed and swung the hoe even harder.

After being lazy for a whole winter, my body can finally stretch out completely after working for a morning.

Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched her arms and legs, looking at the two acres of land she had reclaimed by herself, feeling a great sense of accomplishment. The weather was getting better day by day, everything was reviving, and neat vegetable plots appeared in front of the cabin in the valley.

Zhao Xiaoxiu and her father spent a week planting all the seeds.

After a spring rain, the mutant crops sprouted tender green seedlings from the soil, chasing the sunlight, which was very cute.

The father and daughter seemed to be living a peaceful life.

In this valley that cannot be found by outsiders, they occupy the entire fertile land and cultivate it diligently with their own hands.

Work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and the cycle repeats itself.

The lush mutant plants frighten humans, but they serve as a protective wall for the father and daughter.

The ferocious and bloodthirsty mutant animals regard humans as food, but the father and daughter regard them as reserve food.

Zhao Xiaoxiu found many mutated animals in the mountains, and forcefully captured them and brought them to his own territory to domesticate them.

As she grew another year older, her appetite also grew and she could eat ten kilograms of meat in one meal.

Zhao Xiaoxiu knew that she was becoming less and less like a human being.

But it doesn’t matter, Dad is just as inhuman as she is, and having each other is enough for them.

One day in summer.

The father and daughter, who were lying on the balcony taking a nap, both felt a palpitation in their hearts and opened their eyes and sat up.

The father and daughter looked at each other.

"Dad, did you hear someone talking?"

Zhao Gang nodded solemnly, "The sound came from the White Tower."

Arknights base.

Ever since the White Pagoda was closed last fall, the fishing town has been in unrest.

Before winter came, the base's top leader actually announced a large-scale migration, and all residents evacuated the base and moved to other cities.

One stone caused a thousand ripples, and the whole town was in an uproar.

Ever since the establishment of Tomorrow Base, the fishing town on the edge of the base has never moved.

This is the necessary passage leading to the White Pagoda. To put it bluntly, the scientific researchers in the White Pagoda rely entirely on the support of the fishing town for their food, drink, and defecation.

If the town moves, will those people in the White Tower have to stop eating?
Or does that mean that the White Tower should be moved as well?

The answer is the latter.

After the winter snow, there was no time to wait for spring, and the leader immediately issued a migration notice. The entire town, including the White Pagoda, moved 500 kilometers inland.

The news came suddenly, saying that an S-level mutant was found in the deep sea and could attack human towns at any time.

The biological company issued a special announcement to prove it, and the residents of the small town had to believe it even if they didn't want to.

Everyone is reluctant to leave the new home that has been built with great effort, but as long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood.

So after the winter snow, the entire fishing town began to move inland in batches.

By early summer, the once prosperous fishing town had become a deserted city, with only a team of mercenaries from a biological company stationed there.

The atmosphere on the White Tower became increasingly serious. The alarm sounded from morning to night, from the appearance of the huge vortex last year until this moment, without stopping.

The staff inside the tower suffered great mental torture, but had to stay at their posts.

Until that day, an even bigger whirlpool appeared in the deep sea near the White Tower, sweeping across the entire fishing town like a strong hurricane.