Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 40: Calm Madness

Without the cover of mutant plants, the mutant animals hidden inside jumped out and violently attacked humans.

But under the overwhelming numbers and firepower, the escaped mutant animals all became prey.

During this period, except for a Class B mutant lizard that caused a little panic for everyone, the whole process went incredibly smoothly.

In less than two hours, the 300-acre clearing area was successfully cleaned up.

In order to prevent these extremely fast-growing mutant plants from making a comeback, people sprayed special pesticides on the cleared wasteland.

When everyone finished all these, they found a cool place to rest.

The people at Taoyuan Base did not rest.

Under the leadership of the team leader, they used instruments to measure the land, divide it into zones, and set up boundary markers.

The sign reads, Lot 13.

Because of the strength displayed by Zhao Gang, all members of Qinghe Hunting now show the greatest goodwill towards Zhao Xiaoxiu, the "burden".

From time to time, someone would come and feed her a few edible wild fruits, or some sweet, slightly mutated grass roots.

Zhao Xiaoxiu put the grass root in her mouth and sucked it, finding it sweet. She then picked out the thickest one and put it to Zhao Gang's mouth.

Sweetness is the only taste that Zhao Xiaoxiu has discovered so far that can be accepted by her father.

Zhao Gang frowned with a bit of disgust, not understanding why humans liked to eat grass.

But the cub looked at her with eyes full of expectation, and he didn't want to disappoint her, so he reluctantly took the grass root in his mouth.

"Chew, chew, chew." Zhao Xiaoxiu puffed up her cheeks to demonstrate and pointed her little finger at Zhao Gang, signaling him to move as well.

Zhao Gang had no choice but to chew it, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

The father and daughter looked at each other and discovered a new world.

Grandma Yin came over carrying her rocket launcher, placed it in front of Zhao Xiaoxiu, and raised her eyebrows at her, "Little girl, do you want to play with the rocket launcher?"

Zhao Xiaoxiu’s eyes widened. Is this fun?

Grandma Yin raised her lips and smiled, half-knelt down and picked up the more than one-meter-long rocket launcher, fired it as a demonstration, then put it down and encouraged Zhao Xiaoxiu to play with it.

Zhao Xiaoxiu first glanced at her father, without any reaction.

She immediately stood up, spat out the tasteless grass roots in her mouth, controlled her excitement and came to Yin Lao, and under her encouraging eyes, she reached out and touched the rocket launcher in front of her, and gradually let go.

"Here is the switch." Grandma Yin grabbed Zhao Xiaoxiu's little hand, put it on the switch, and then taught her step by step how to aim and fire.

The situation now is different from before the disaster. For convenience, most people have removed the safety pins on their weapons.

The rocket launcher in Yin Lao's hand is even more ferocious and direct. Just put the cannon on, aim, press the switch and fire directly.

It was not known whether it was intentional on the part of Grandma Yin or unintentional on the part of Zhao Xiaoxiu, but with a "puff" sound, a cannon was fired out.

The powerful recoil caused Zhao Xiaoxiu and Yin Lao to fall to the ground.

The people who were resting without any preparation suddenly heard a loud "bang!" Their faces changed, they jumped up on the spot, raised their weapons and looked towards the source of the sound in horror.

Then I saw a hill not far away explode.

The thick smoke composed of gunpowder, gravel and loess took more than ten seconds to dissipate.

"What are you doing?" Someone noticed Grandma Yin sitting next to the rocket launcher and asked loudly in a bad mood.

Grandma Yin laughed and sneered confidently: "You are blind to lead the girl to set off firecrackers!"

Only then did everyone realize that there was a little girl in Grandma Yin's arms, who looked to be about three years old.

Faced with such a scene, the little girl didn't cry or panic, she just remained calm.

How can I describe it?
Compared to Yin Lao's extroverted madness, she has a kind of calm madness.

Everyone looked at the pair of calm round dog eyes and was speechless for a moment.

The leader of Taoyuan Base called out to Grandma Yin, asking her to calm down. Grandma Yin replied perfunctorily, "It's okay, it's okay. A group of adults are making a fuss, but they are not as calm as a little girl."

Zhao Gang sat aside and laughed, thinking that his cub was really amazing, having learned to launch a rocket launcher so quickly.

At the same time, he felt that Grandma Yin's rocket launcher was too big, so he turned around and asked the Meng brothers beside him: "Is there a children's version of this rocket launcher?"

The two brothers looked at him in horror when they heard this.

"Gangzi, children are not allowed to play with this." Grandma Meng warned nervously.

Zhao Gang said "oh" and didn't feel disappointed even though he didn't get the answer he wanted.

Turning around, I continued to watch Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was studying how to use a rocket launcher to dig a hole with Grandma Yin. It was full of colorful bubbles, so beautiful.

"Grandma Yin, why did they divide the land?"

Zhao Xiaoxiu knelt on the ground with his upper body lying on the rocket launcher. Using the support of the bracket, he moved the gun head towards the wasteland.

There was a telescope on the rocket launcher. She closed her left eye and used her right eye to focus on the lens to watch the people at Taoyuan base busying about.

Grandma Yin thought the little girl wanted to blow someone up, so she quietly turned the cannon towards the abandoned house next to her.

He replied uncertainly: "It should be to facilitate the division of land."

"Who will it be given to?" Zhao Xiaoxiu turned around and asked curiously.

Grandma Yin turned her head back and tapped the camera to signal her to concentrate on her studies. "Don't worry too much at such a young age."

I wasn't prepared to talk much to a three-year-old.

Zhao Xiaoxiu: “.”

At 3:30 in the afternoon, the people at Taoyuan Base completed the final zoning work, and the main force left the clearing area and returned to the base at full speed.

But the load was even heavier than when we came here, so we couldn't increase our speed and didn't return to the base until after eight o'clock in the evening.

When the task was handed in, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

The mission points are first collected by the leaders of each hunting group and then distributed to their respective team members.

When Grandma Yin came back with the points card, Shen Que and others had already set up the stove.

All the low-mutation animals hunted today have been cleaned and put on the barbecue grill, waiting for the leader to come back to celebrate together.

Mother Shen also took out a box of beer and opened it to share with everyone to liven up the atmosphere.

Everyone knew that their hunting team would receive generous points rewards today.

And all this is due to the joining of Zhao Gang, a temporary team member.

As soon as Grandma Yin arrived, everyone became quiet unconsciously and looked at her.

She smiled at everyone, picked up a whole bottle of beer, came to Zhao Gang and his daughter, poured two large glasses, and handed one to Zhao Gang.

He lifted his own glass and drank half of it in one gulp, then raised it to signal him to do as he pleased.

After quenching her thirst, Grandma Yin announced: "For today's mission, our Qinghe Hunting Group received 6,000 points!"

"Head, how much?" Shen Que suspected that he had heard it wrong. He couldn't believe it, but the corners of his mouth were already curled up uncontrollably.

Grandma Yin took out her points card and repeated the number with unprecedented patience: "Six thousand!"

There was silence by the campfire for three seconds.

Then there was an explosion of excited cheers.

The two Meng brothers pushed Zhao Gang's arms hard, their eyes filled with ecstasy.

Grandma Yin raised her hand, and everyone tried to control their emotions and calm down.

She looked at Zhao Gang and his daughter, who were calm as usual, and said, "The reason why we were able to get so many points this time is thanks to Zhao Gang, so I decided to give him 50% of the points, and the remaining 50% will be divided equally among the 36 people in our group. Do you have any objections?"

(End of this chapter)