Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 55 Returning with a Full Load
"Wow!" A child's cry echoed through the sky.

The birds and animals in the forest fled in all directions upon hearing the sound.

The blood tentacles that were chewing the sweet golden autumn pears felt as if they were electrocuted all over their bodies. The half golden autumn pear in their fleshy buds was spat out with a "puff", and their panic was visibly evident.

Zhao Gang instantly flashed to the side of his cub.

Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was just breaking down and crying, looked at him with tearful eyes, then turned her head to look at her pants, and let out a "wuuuu", feeling even more aggrieved.

She didn't cry when she was chased by a mutant bird.

She didn't cry even when being pecked by a mutant bird.

His pants were torn, but he cried so hard that he almost died.

This situation was totally beyond Zhao Gang's expectations. He was so panicked that his eyes rolled around and he was completely at a loss. He raised his two hands but they froze in mid-air, not knowing what to do.

Two tentacles on the back of the head stretched out in a panic, and one of them quickly picked a golden autumn pear from the tree and handed it to the cub.

One of them went to collect a bunch of broad banana leaves and tried to help her plug the hole in her pants.

The tip of the fleshy bud accidentally touched her buttocks, causing Zhao Xiaoxiu to shrink back in itch, and her crying stopped abruptly.

The tentacle holding the golden autumn pear saw her eyes lighting up, and it quickly bit off the skin with its sharp teeth, revealing the entire juicy and sweet white pear flesh.

The aroma was tempting. Zhao Xiaoxiu raised her little hand and wiped the tears from her face, grabbed the golden autumn pear, opened her mouth and took a big bite.

Crisp, sweet and juicy, it tastes exactly as you imagined!
Instantly satisfied.

Zhao Gang and his two blood tentacles all breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly picked all the golden autumn pears from the tree, gathered them on the broad leaves, and placed them under Zhao Xiaoxiu's feet. There were more than sixty pears piled up into a small hill.

Zhao Xiaoxiu ate one in a few big bites, then took another one and nibbled the skin with its tentacles.

While eating, she stretched out her little index finger and pointed at her butt.

That's not a broken hole, that's a girl's broken face!
Zhao Gang's eyes rolled, he squatted down and picked up the remaining broad leaves on the ground.

I don't know how he moved, but in a short while he had woven an apron. Then he tore the fallen leaves into strips and tied a green tassel skirt around Zhao Xiaoxiu's waist.

"Do you like it?" Zhao Gang asked expectantly.

The little girl snorted twice and raised her chubby chin proudly: "Not bad!"

He twisted his belly, and the tassels swayed like waves, and his mood instantly changed from cloudy to sunny.

Zhao Gang then dared to ask her: "Did Xiaoxiu see anything just now?"

Zhao Xiaoxiu recalled seriously: "Sparrow wings, and green light."

"Dad, what is the green light?"

Zhao Gang did not answer immediately. Instead, he picked up a golden autumn pear and asked her to concentrate to see what she could see.

Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded obediently, and after finishing the last bite of the pear in her hand, she took the pear in Zhao Gang's hand in front of her and stared at it with all her attention.

She still remembered the feeling of "seeing", so this time she saw it very smoothly. She could see some green and yellow spots of light flowing inside the golden autumn pear.

"What is it?" Zhao Gang guided.

Zhao Xiaoxiu said hesitantly, "Yellow and green light spots. The green light spots are the same as those on the mutant sparrows. I have never seen the yellow ones."

Zhao Gang: "Which color is more?"

“There’s more green than yellow.”

Zhao Gang: "How much are they exactly?"

Zhao Xiaoxiu had mathematical concepts in her memory, and she had no difficulty counting since she was a child. But this time, she could speak out the numbers as naturally and easily as eating and drinking.

"There are 209 yellow dots and 791 green dots."

The little man squatted down and placed the golden autumn pear on a broad green leaf.

Then he picked up the hatchet he had just thrown away and walked back. He made a few moves on the pear and cut off a small piece on the left side with one stroke.

"After peeling off the yellow ones, only the green ones are left." Zhao Xiaoxiu held up the remaining half of the Golden Autumn Pear and handed it to Zhao Gang to see.

I asked curiously, "Dad, what do these dots of light mean? I've already eaten them, will it be okay?"

Zhao Gang smiled at the cub soothingly, "No, you can eat both yellow and green."

As he spoke, he looked at the corpses of mutant sparrows lying on the ground at the entrance of the tree hole, and the meaning was self-evident.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was stunned in disbelief, and finally realized what she had seen.

"Is it the degree of mutation?" She looked up at Zhao Gang to confirm her guess.

Zhao Gang nodded heavily, "Xiaoxiu is great. You have learned to identify the degree of mutation of mutants so quickly."

"The reason why we have the perception of green and yellow colors is probably due to the preconceived influence of the detection lights in the base."

In fact, the degree of mutation of mutant species is not determined by color.

But individual differences exist, as long as we can distinguish them.

Zhao Xiaoxiu found it incredible that she had mastered such strong self-healing ability and the ability to automatically identify the degree of mutation of mutants so easily.

For a moment, the cub felt that he was now incredibly strong!
However, when he looked up and saw his father standing in front of him, he was immediately brought back to reality.

The reality is that humans are terribly weak in the face of unknown monsters.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Dad, is killing a human as easy as killing an ant?"

Zhao Gang, who was shaking out the sack and preparing to help the cub pick up the mutant sparrows, paused and looked up blankly, "Why would I kill a person or an ant?"

Zhao Xiaoxiu: It's numb! Humans and monsters are really not on the same logical thinking chain!

Twenty-three C-level mutant sparrows were wrapped in broad leaves and put into a burlap bag.

The remaining sixty-four fist-sized Golden Autumn Pears and the Golden Autumn Pears that had a small half cut off were all close to B-level mutation. Zhao Xiaoxiu put some of them in her own small backpack, and put most of the others into a burlap bag separated by leaves.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was very satisfied with his harvest this afternoon and did not plan to go any further.

Zhao Gang thought of the cub's loud crying just now and decided to stop there. After all, his goal for today had been achieved.

Zhao Xiaoxiu dug up a bunch of unknown C-level mutant purple flowers growing next to the tree hole. The father and daughter packed up and went home.

After taking a few steps, the satellite phone in Zhao Xiaoxiu's bag vibrated twice.

"Dad, there is a text message." Zhao Xiaoxiu was still holding the flowers in her hand and it was inconvenient for her to move. She hunched over her backpack and motioned Zhao Gang to take out his cell phone to have a look.

"It's the weather forecast, reminding you that there will be local thunderstorms this evening and tonight." After reading it, Zhao Gang stuffed the phone back into the cub's full backpack and zipped it up.

Zhao Xiaoxiu looked up at the sky. The sun was hanging on the horizon, shining brightly, and there was no sign of rain.

But when the father and daughter came out of the isolation zone and just found the hidden bicycle and drove into Area B, it suddenly became dark.

The air quickly became humid and a few drops of rain drifted in from the north.

Zhao Xiaoxiu watched the rain curtain move from north to south and quickly come to his head.