Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 84 Digging a Trench

Because they were delayed on the road and had to run back to look for Zhao Gang's clothes, it was already past two in the morning when the father and daughter returned to the camp.

The camp was quiet when I left, but it was busy when I came back.

Soldiers were running around in the camp, and vehicles were coming and going, driving towards the command center and then leaving the command center in an emergency.

Just as Zhao Xiaoxiu and his daughter dodged everyone and got into the tent, Mo Shigui strode in, blew a whistle, and woke everyone up.

"It's so busy outside and you're still sleeping!" Mo Shigui started scolding as soon as he entered the room and kicked the mercenaries who were curled up in their sleeping bags one by one.

Someone complained helplessly: "Captain, isn't that what you said? We just need to follow orders. It's so busy outside and no one comes to call us, which means it has nothing to do with us."

Mo Shigui glanced over coldly and his complaints stopped abruptly.

Everyone quickly climbed out of their sleeping bags, put on their clothes, picked up their weapons, and followed Mo Shigui out of the camp and came to an open space.

At this moment, many people have come to the open space.

Trucks and armored vehicles drove in, and the captains directed the soldiers to board quickly.

"Captain, what are we doing?" someone asked in confusion.

Everyone looked at the busy camp in front of them and the various notification broadcasts coming from the command center, and finally realized that something was wrong.

We agreed to advance slowly and steadily into Jiangcheng, so why did we suddenly set off in the middle of the night?

"Captain, has something big happened?" someone else asked in a low voice.

After Mo Shigui finished his inspection and confirmed that all team members were on board, he waved to the drivers of the two vehicles, jumped onto the passenger seat of the armored vehicle, and took out the loudspeaker to order:
"Set off at full speed to Jiangcheng. All soldiers, please take your weapons. The task of digging trenches should be advanced. We will encounter a large number of White Walkers on the way to the mission site. We must keep them all in the trenches we have dug!"

After announcing the order he had just received, Mo Shigui put away the loudspeaker, immediately picked up his weapon, and entered a state of alert.

When the others saw this, they had no time to ask any further questions and quickly raised their weapons just in case.

Zhao Gang put Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was yawning from sleepiness in his arms, on his backpack, then stood up and stood on alert with everyone else.

He doesn't need any weapons, he can just swing his tentacles when the situation requires.

Trucks were speeding along the road through the dense forest. As the first batch of soldiers of the Trench Team, Zhao Xiaoxiu and his companions killed countless White Walkers who suddenly rushed out along the way.

Jiangcheng used to be a big city with a population of tens of millions. Over the years, due to the existence of mutant parasol mushrooms, all the mutant creatures in the city have been trapped inside and become nutrients for the parasol mushrooms.

But the mutant parasol mushroom's devouring ability is limited. It cannot eat up a swarm of tens of millions of White Walkers.

Now that the entire city is no longer under the control of the Parasol Mushrooms, the White Walkers hiding deep underground have awakened one after another.

After being in prison for thirteen years, when he was released, he went crazy at the slightest smell of a living person.

Moreover, their numbers are so terrifying that once they are allowed to leave Jiangcheng and rush into the nearest Taoyuan base in groups, the consequences are simply unimaginable.

An hour later, all members of the trench team arrived at the target location.

The armored vehicles were lined up in a row, with high-temperature flamethrowers mounted as cover, and the soldiers on the trucks immediately picked up weapons and tools and began digging holes.

Thousands of small drones flew in the sky, spraying virus suppressants on Jiangcheng to control the range of the White Walkers' activities and buy time for the trench team's soldiers. Everyone was so busy that no one cared about Zhao Xiaoxiu.

Zhao Gang was very confident in his own abilities. He asked the child to take her axe, then turned around and started digging trenches with other teammates.

There are currently only two main excavators for the operation. The others were attacked by mutant plants on the road, causing their suspended shelves to tilt and fall to the side of the road.

But these are not the concern of Zhao Gang and others. Their Group 528 is now divided into two groups, half is responsible for digging pits and the other half is responsible for covering teammates.

Zhao Xiaoxiu took his axe and climbed up a tall stone pier, thinking to himself, what is the use of digging a hole to cover?
"Hold!"

The mercenaries' curses were heard suddenly. Zhao Xiaoxiu looked over and saw a group of mutant ants as big as soybeans and shiny black running out from the ground in fear.

But the human soldiers facing them looked even more terrified than they were.

"Get out of the way!" Aji, who was in charge of providing cover, shouted and started spraying flamethrower into the ditch.

Another cry of "Help!" was heard, and a brown root as thick as a human wrist rolled up a soldier's leg and dragged him to the ground.

Just as the man was about to sink into the sand, a blood vessel arrived in time and forcefully pulled the man and the mutant roots out of the soil.

Aji looked at Zhao Gang who was controlling the blood touch with surprise, and quickly aimed the flame at the mutant rhizome to rescue his teammate.

The burnt roots curled up into a ball and twisted violently until they became a ball of charred hard carbon, and only then did they completely become obedient.

Zhao Xiaoxiu shouted "Wow" excitedly, quickly slid down from the big rock pier, and pushed the football-sized piece of charcoal aside to study it.

She stared at the charcoal ball for a while, and was surprised to find a little green fluorescence coming through the cracks in the charcoal. She raised the axe and chopped it hard!
With a "click", the black charcoal ball was split into two, revealing the white core that was still steaming.

Zhao Xiaoxiu sniffed the tip of her nose. It smelled so good.
She stretched out her fingers to pick off a little of the white core. It was still very hot and a little hot. She quickly blew a few breaths of cool air into her mouth. The aroma became stronger, like cooked high-starch plant roots, very sweet.

After rubbing his fingers together, coarse glutinous powder fell down. Zhao Xiaoxiu looked around and saw no one, so he secretly put it in his mouth and tasted it.

It was soft and sticky, with a faint sweetness. My eyes, which had been a little sleepy, suddenly opened wide.

Delicious!
The cub, having discovered the delicious food, quickly picked up the two charcoal balls, carried them to the truck, climbed on, sat in the bed, found the spoon that his father had put in the backpack, scooped out the white core of the charcoal ball, and put it into his mouth bite by bite.

It was so delicious that Zhao Xiaoxiu wanted to cry.

A big hand suddenly rested on the small shoulder. The little girl who was eating alone looked up suddenly, staring with her two round eyes, like a frightened fat mouse.

Mo Shigui quickly suppressed the corners of his mouth that were about to curl up, and asked in a serious tone, "What are you doing here, little girl?"

Zhao Xiaoxiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and handed the remaining half of the charcoal ball to Mo Shigui, "Uncle Mo, this is delicious."

It was still dark, and the only lighting was dependent on car lights. The truck bed was facing away from the light, so Mo Shigui couldn't see clearly what was going on inside.

Only now did he realize that Zhao Xiaoxiu was picking up mutant plants to eat. He was shocked, but afraid of scaring the child, so he suppressed his nervousness and asked, "Did you test it before eating it?"

Why didn't he remember that Zhao Gang had exchanged the detector?

(End of this chapter)