Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 5 Dad, I'm Hungry, Meat
"Are you okay?" one of the guards asked the father and daughter with concern.

Zhao Xiaoxiu shook her head.

Zhao Gang said nothing and carried her home.

As for the subdued ghost, he had no interest in it at all.

Just the lowest of the low, trash who can't even hide himself!

The corridor was bustling for quite a while.

The gossipy residents were determined to find out what happened between the ghost and the crying woman.

The soundproofing in the corridor is very poor and everyone is talking very loudly.

Zhao Xiaoxiu stood at the door of her house and listened with great interest.

Zhao Gang handed her the cup of water and said, "Xiaoxiu, drink some water."

Zhao Xiaoxiu took the cup of water, drank it in one gulp, returned the cup, and continued to listen.

It turned out that the ghost was the woman's husband.

Two days ago, my husband took out all the family savings and bought an evolution potion.

Yesterday morning, I couldn't wait to take the evolution potion and then fell into a coma.

After a day and night of coma and high fever, he finally woke up this morning.

His two deaf-mute sons were the first to notice that their father had woken up, and they came up to him happily.

Unexpectedly, the husband suddenly changed. He pounced on her, grabbed the mute little son and bit him.

The woman realized something was wrong when she heard her eldest son screaming.

After all, they were human beings tempered in the apocalypse. When the woman discovered that her husband's behavior was very similar to that of a ghost, she immediately swung the machete at home.

The husband was stabbed on the back, and the pain made him abandon his two children and turn his attention to his wife.

It was at this time that the woman's cry for help was heard.

Fortunately, the guards arrived in time and the woman and child were rescued.

The youngest son was already dead, so the building manager found two people and immediately sent the child's body to the incinerator.

The husband's head was chopped off, but his body was still struggling and had to be burned to kill him.

There is a special team in the base that is responsible for dealing with ghosts and mutants.

These people arrived unusually quickly, not only quickly dealt with the ghost, but also sent the woman and her surviving son home, and set up an investigation team to investigate the cause.

The security tape on the door was not removed until two hours later.

People could vaguely hear the people in the room mentioning things like "fake medicine", "the arena is very suspicious", "the company is investigating", and "I hope the victims' families will actively cooperate".

Fake medicine?

Are there fake evolution potions?
Zhao Xiaoxiu subconsciously turned around to look at her father who was collecting scavenging tools in the house - did he become like this because he took a fake evolution potion?
But Zhao Xiaoxiu's intuition told her that the matter of having a living father was not that simple.

The ghost just now didn't have the IQ of her father.

Suddenly, there was a noise at the end of the corridor.

The fourth and sixth floors, as well as the fifth floor on Zhao Xiaoxiu's side.

The three men each brought a group of people to the woman's house.

It was announced that her residency status had been revoked and she was required to move out of the unfinished building immediately.

The manager of the fourth floor said, "We are all women. I know you are a woman who has just gone through such a big thing and you are in a bad mood. It is not easy to find a place to live with a child, but we have no choice. This is the result of everyone's vote."

It was rare for Zhao Xiaoxiu to make eye contact with her father.

What voting? How come she/he doesn’t know about it?
The fifth floor manager looked helpless, "Your husband was like that just now, and everyone was scared."

The eldest son couldn't hear anything, but he could read lips. He tried to sign to tell the building manager and his mother that he and his mother didn't drink the fake evolution potion and would not turn into ghosts.

But what's the use of this? People are bullying you, an orphan and a widow.

The manager of the sixth floor had a sullen face. Seeing that the woman was still not leaving, he raised his hand and a group of people surrounded her with unfriendly eyes.

The woman protected the child and said through gritted teeth: "I'm leaving."

In less than half an hour, Zhao Xiaoxiu watched five people, men and women, move into the room at the end of the corridor.

The building managers on the fourth and sixth floors helped them carry their luggage into the house in a friendly manner.

The manager of the fifth floor was flattered and took the two cigarettes given by the group of people. He patted his chest and promised that they could come to him if they had any problems in the future.

As the three building managers left chatting and laughing, they also smiled kindly at Zhao Xiaoxiu who was standing at the door.

Zhao Xiaoxiu shuddered and suddenly felt a chill on her back.

Without her father, wouldn’t her fate be even more miserable than that mother and son?
She also receives 30 bottles of special health children's relief nutrient solution every month until she is six years old.

That’s a total of 1080 pens!
There was a rustling sound in the room.

Zhao Xiaoxiu looked back with lingering fear.

Huo Di had already come to the door with his scavenging backpack on his back.

"Live daddy. No, daddy."

Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched out a soft little hand and took the initiative to grab his fingers, "Hungry, Rourou."

She tried her best to put on the sweetest smile, her round eyes sparkling.

As if he remembered the delicious taste of the grilled tentacles, his mouth was full of saliva and Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help swallowing hard.

The tentacle that had just poked out of Zhao Gang's sleeve shrank back instantly in fear when he heard the human cub's words.

Zhao Gang shook his head: "You can't eat meat."

What it ate yesterday has not been fully absorbed yet, and if it eats another meal, its frail body will not be able to handle it.

Zhao Xiaoxiu lowered her head: "Okay."

Looking at the cub with a disappointed face, Zhao Gang felt a little worried.

It would not do to have a cub this weak, he had to raise her to be strong and powerful, the kind that could swallow a planet in one bite!
Zhao Gang was not confident in handing the little cub over to any human being.

He went back and filled another pot with clean filtered water, picked up the quacking rubber duck, and put the cub in the backpack with them.

Lock the door and go out with your baby.

This was the first time Zhao Xiaoxiu walked out of the high-voltage power grid wall of the base.

The former cities are now abandoned among the wildly growing grass and trees, but from the exposed steel bars, concrete, wires, glass, and giant billboards rusting on the roadside, one can vaguely catch a glimpse of humanity's former glory.

These scenes were things Zhao Xiaoxiu had never seen before, and she was dazzled.

But he did not forget to worry about his father's tentacles that always wanted to come out.

The temperature has dropped recently at noon, and no one has gone to the shade to rest. Scavengers rummaging through the ruins can be seen everywhere.

A child as young as Zhao Xiaoxiu appearing in the ruins of the city was very eye-catching.

Since the arrival of the SHASI virus, the number of human newborns has dropped drastically, especially in recent years, with the number of births in the five major bases in Zone C combined not exceeding one hundred.

Although the urban area near the base has been almost cleared, there is still a 100-meter-wide isolation zone on the outermost edge separating the forest area and the urban area, and there are no mutant animals or plants above level C.

However, plants and rodents grow and multiply very quickly. They cannot be burned or killed by poison. Occasionally, they will pop up from some dark corner.

Therefore, even the scavengers living near the base live in fear every day.

In this situation, no one would bring out a child who has no ability to protect himself.

(End of this chapter)