Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 6 Can I Call You Gangzi?

Zhao Xiaoxiu only poked her head a little bit out of the backpack, and instantly attracted countless surprised glances.

But the tentacles on Huo Die's body always tried to get in through the narrow gaps in the backpack, showing their big teeth and trying to scare her.

Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't feel scared either, after all, she was already numb from seeing it.

She only worried about them being noticed by humans.

If anyone saw these tentacles, they would realize that her father was a monster.

The monster's fate is to be sent to a high-temperature incinerator.

Without her father, she would become an orphan without a guardian.

Orphans in the end times?

Just thinking about it, Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help but shiver.

It’s better to follow a living father, at least there is meat to eat!

Another tentacle was about to squeeze in through the gap in the backpack.

The pointed fleshy bud twisted and twisted until it was deformed, but it had to squeeze through the gap which was only the size of a soybean.

Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched out a finger and pressed the gap: "Go back, go back."

The fleshy bud outside the backpack, which was trying hard to push inside, paused for a moment.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was anxious: "Hide yourself quickly."

Those tentacles really went back.

Zhao Gang looked back at the backpack in confusion.

Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled and said, "Dad is awesome~"

Zhao Gang was stunned for a moment, then started laughing, looking a little silly.

The father and daughter continued forward, passing through a collapsed high-rise building and coming to a track overgrown with weeds.

There is more grass and fewer people here.

Of course, there are few things to pick up.

The man looked nonchalant, and according to the memory he extracted from 'Zhao Gang', he took out a hatchet and a homemade long-handled iron hook from his backpack.

With one hand, he held a knife and swept away the weeds that looked harmless but actually had extremely sharp leaf edges.

In one hand he held a long-handled iron hook and dug around in various crevices.

As the sun was setting, Huo Die still hadn't dug out anything useful.

Zhao Xiaoxiu touched her flat belly and thought that she had to talk to her father.

Otherwise, the father and daughter would probably starve to death because they were unable to earn points.

Zhao Xiaoxiu leaned on the backpack and asked, "Dad, what's your name?"

The man replied: "Zhao Gang."

Zhao Xiaoxiu: “.” is fine too.

"Can I call you Gangzi?"

Zhao Gang: "No, you have to call me dad."

Zhao Xiaoxiu followed suit and asked, "Dad, do you eat children?"

"Don't eat."

After getting this answer, Zhao Xiaoxiu was obviously relieved.

She asked curiously: "Dad, you haven't eaten anything, aren't you hungry?"

Zhao Gang: "I will eat when I am hungry."

Zhao Xiaoxiu said, "I have to drink virus immunity medicine. Children's nutrition solution is also OK. I have to drink it until I am six years old. Otherwise, I will become unhealthy."

"I also want to eat fruits and vegetables. I heard that they are sold in the core area of ​​the base, but it requires a lot of points. For a poor family like ours, it is likely that we will never be able to afford them in this lifetime."

Her little mouth kept talking.

The implication is: I am a troublesome cub, you have to take good care of me, or I will report you!
Zhao Gang rubbed his ears, but didn't hear any hidden meaning. He thought, it turns out that the voices of human cubs are so loud.

"besides."

Zhao Xiaoxiu stood up from the backpack, stretched out her hand, poked the back of Zhao Gang's neck with her index finger, and reminded him: "If we don't earn points to exchange for nutrient solution today, we will go hungry."

All the relief nutrient solution in the house was taken away by her biological father, and the balance on the points card was zero.

There are still twenty-five days until the first of next month when I can receive the relief nutrient solution again.

If it were just Huo Di and her, they would need at least fifty bottles of nutrient solution to avoid going hungry.

A bottle of ordinary nutrient solution is worth five points, which adds up to two hundred and fifty points.

Zhao Gang stopped his bored digging. It was absolutely impossible to let the cubs starve!
“How can I get points?”

All his current behaviors are imitating a human named Zhao Gang.

But in fact, he still doesn't particularly understand human affairs.

For example, the complex emotions of human beings and those cumbersome rules.

Zhao Xiaoxiu thought about what the people in the building had said, his eyes lit up, and he clenched his fist confidently and said, "I know what can be exchanged for points!"

Uncle Meng said that he hoped the factories at the base would focus on heavy industry, mainly repairing and processing new and old raw materials.

The repair work mainly focuses on abandoned large-scale tool machines. Those that can be repaired are repaired, and those that cannot be repaired are dismantled and made into spare parts.

Zhao Xiaoxiu said: "We can look for abandoned cars and machines."

Zhao Gang discovered that his cub seemed to be smarter than the other cubs.

And humans certainly understand humans better than he does.

So the old father decided to listen to his daughter's instructions.

The father and daughter left this fruitless track and came to the streets of the former city.

But now the streets are full of collapsed building stones and smashed vehicles.

When the father and daughter saw these old means of transportation for the first time, they were happy.

When I got closer, I saw that they were all empty shells and rotten iron sheets, things that the recycling station didn't want at all.

Seeing his father's disappointed face, Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled and said, "We can go to the residential area to find raw materials that can be processed and manufactured, such as plastic, cardboard, cloth, glass, steel bars from abandoned buildings, etc."

The father and daughter immediately moved to an abandoned residential area.

On the collapsed ruins, countless scavengers were anxiously digging through the ruins, holding self-defense weapons in one hand and iron hooks in the other.

But this area had been cleaned countless times and was already as clean as it could be.

If you want to find something useful, you either have to go deep underground and risk encountering hidden mutated animals, plants, and ghosts.

Otherwise, you can only take tools such as hammers and pickaxes to fight against the buildings wrapped in thick cement, knock open the cement bit by bit, and take out the steel bars inside.

Even so, the building materials that were exposed on the surface and could be easily chiseled away had long been discovered and taken away by our predecessors.

Looking at the dense crowds of scavengers on the ruins, Zhao Gang asked the cub on his back expressionlessly: "Should we join them?"

He spoke in a loud voice, and the scavengers around him turned their heads and looked at him warily.

These slum survivors who make a living by scavenging have their own area divisions in each small group.

Outsiders want to rob it?
no way!

A wise man knows when to act. Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Zhao Xiaoxiu made a decisive decision: "Dad, let's retreat!"

Zhao Gang didn't quite understand why he should retreat since he could swallow all of these people in one bite.

But adhering to the rules that humans have, she still ran away obediently with the cub on her back.

The speed was so fast that the scavengers only felt a gust of wind blowing past their eyes, and the father and daughter disappeared from their sight.

If there hadn't been footprints where the father and daughter had just stood, everyone would have thought they were hallucinating.

Zhao Gang ran all the way, and the father and daughter got back on track.

There is really nothing to pick up here, and I didn’t see any scavengers.

Seeing the sun setting, Zhao Xiaoxiu became anxious and racked her brain to think of something else that could be exchanged for points.

and many more!

She remembered.

The base factory's raw material processing and manufacturing requires not only old things like plastic, glass, steel bars, and paperboard, but also new things - mutated and evolved animals and plants.

(End of this chapter)