Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 165 Unexpected Harvest

Because they were delayed for some time in Longbei Mountain, it was already dark when they arrived at the experimental field and agricultural seed laboratory they were looking for.

Fortunately, although this place is remote, the laboratory has a yard, and due to certain factors such as confidentiality, the walls are built particularly high.

However, this is not the point. The point is that there are people here!

The big iron gate was tightly closed. Although the experimental field enclosed outside looked no different from the surrounding wasteland full of dead grass and leaves, a closer look revealed that the crops and vegetables in the field had been harvested, leaving only wheat straw and vegetable roots.

Also, Bai Li has sharp senses, and she heard some movement inside the wall as soon as the car stopped here.

It's not surprising that there are survivors here.

And to be honest, whether it is the houses or the fields here, if they can be used well, it can be a good place to live.

But this would make it difficult for her to find the fruit seedlings she wanted.

I wonder if it can be changed?

"Sister, there's someone inside."

Bai Yang stopped the carriage, and with his sharp senses he could hear the noise coming from inside the courtyard wall.

Because they were all bungalows and the walls were particularly high, they couldn't see inside, and the people inside shouldn't be able to see them either. It was just that the car made a lot of noise, so people probably thought it was a robbery, and they might be on guard with weapons.

Of course, it is not ruled out that he has supernatural powers and may be able to "see" all of them clearly.

Bai Li got out of the car and said to Bai Yang, "Go knock on the door and ask if they have mango and banana seedlings. If they do, are you willing to exchange them? If not or if you are not willing to exchange them, tell them that we will stay here overnight and leave early tomorrow morning."

Bai Yang nodded and turned to knock on the door.

Bang bang bang.

He didn't knock too hard, so the sound was not too loud. After knocking, he raised his voice slightly towards the crack of the door and said, "Hello, we just came here to ask if you have mango or banana seedlings? If you do, can you give us some in exchange? If not, it doesn't matter. We will stay here for one night and leave early tomorrow morning. We won't disturb you."

It is roughly estimated that the survivors inside should be teachers or students of the Agricultural University.

Of course, it is possible that it was an outsider.

But no matter who it is, since they have occupied this place, they are the owner of this place.

It would be best if the other party did not destroy the laboratory and was willing to give them fruit seedlings or seeds in exchange.

Of course there is nothing I can do if he refuses.

Bai Li is not capable of doing something like robbery.

After Bai Yang finished speaking, there was silence inside. He turned around and waved to Xi Shuang who jumped off the carriage.

Xi Shuang stepped forward quickly and whispered before he could ask, "I heard the movement of three people. There should be only three people inside."

"Did they speak?"

"said."

"What did you say?"

"Don't open the door."

".Just these three words?"

"Correct."

The two of them asked and answered each other, which was particularly concise and tacit?

Bai Li stood at the front of the car, raised an eyebrow and looked at her silly brother, then looked at Xi Shuang, a smile flashed in her eyes, maybe there is a way.

Xi Shuang thought that after listening to her, Bai Yang would give up, because from the tone of their voice, she could tell that the people inside were very alert and had no intention of opening the door at all. They might even have prepared a trap. If they broke in by force, they might not get any benefit at all.

Of course they won't score, and the other side is right.

But after listening to Bai Yang, he turned around and knocked on the door. He said, "We sincerely want to exchange some seeds and fruit seedlings. Let me tell you what we brought with us. Let me hear if you need anything."

After a pause, he continued, "Napkins and toilet paper wipes, as well as apples, pears, peaches, oranges and cherries, rice, flour and oil, and vegetables such as carrots, corn, tomatoes, greens and cabbage. Oh, and some buns with chives and eggs made by my grandma, but these are for us to eat, so we don't plan to exchange them."

Xi Shuang's mouth twitched, and she thought, "I don't plan to change your mind, what should I say?"
Fool!

It’s not that Bai Yang is stupid, but the last sentence seems useless, but it can invisibly reduce the other party’s vigilance against them.

Especially when there are elderly people around.

Although Xi Shuang did not say whether the voice of the person speaking inside was young or old, he estimated that there must be one or two old professors in charge here. Thinking optimistically, what if this old professor is among the three survivors?

Grandma's buns.
Although they said there would be no exchange, he didn't believe they could resist.

Even if we can resist, our guard against them will be lowered.

After Bai Yang finished speaking, he turned around and left. Seeing Xi Shuang still standing blankly at the door, he turned back and pulled her along, whispering, "Go back first."

The socially anxious girl didn't understand his tricks at all, but she wasn't a talkative person, so she didn't ask anything. She silently pulled back her arm that was grabbed and followed him into the car.

Cheng Siyun was cooking inside. The three little ones were excited about the carriage for most of the day. After it stopped, they rushed to feed the two horses with vegetables, cabbages, carrots, and even apples and pears.

In the time Cheng Siyun turned around, the washed vegetables were gone. She could no longer bear it, so she drove the three little ones out of the car and closed the door. She did not open the door to let anyone in until the meal was ready.

Before we finished our meal, we heard some noise at the gate.

Bai Yang's last words, coupled with the children's laughter, finally made the people inside let down their guard. They approached the door and shouted, "Hey, do you really want to exchange seeds and seedlings?"

They had to shout loudly, as they had all seen it. Everyone was eating dinner in the car and no longer paying attention to them.

Hearing the shouting, Bai Yang, who was eating, did not go over immediately. For this, Xi Shuang looked at him in confusion.

Isn't the purpose of coming here this time to get the fruit seedlings and seeds?
Why aren't you in a hurry yet?
After drinking the last mouthful of soup in the bowl, Bai Yang stood up from his seat, took another bun, and walked out while eating.

Bai Li had finished eating. She got off the car and stood in front of the car, about seven or eight meters away from Bai Yang. At the same time, a small piece of green radish quietly approached the gate from the base of the wall on one side.

I didn't plan to do anything, just defend myself.

"Of course it's true, otherwise why would we travel so far to travel at a time like this?"

The other person looked at the bun in Bai Yang's hand through the crack in the door and swallowed subconsciously. The gulp sounded particularly loud.

Although there was a door between them, the man couldn't help but blush.

So embarrassing.

He coughed lightly to cover up his embarrassment and asked, "Well, how do you plan to exchange it? How many buns for a fruit seedling?"

Bai Yang couldn't help but laugh. There was a piece of chive leaf stuck on his big white teeth, which looked like showing off in the other person's eyes.

"I told you, we don't bring many buns with us, we just eat them ourselves, we don't plan to exchange them."

"Then how much do you have left?"

It seemed like the other party didn't understand the last sentence, but I had to give him a few buns in exchange anyway.

Bai Yang had expected this, and he had just had enough leek buns, so he didn't dwell on it and asked, "What fruit seedlings and seeds do you have?" "We have the two you mentioned, and even more seeds. Anyway, we should have enough of whatever you want to plant. Not only that, but they are all improved versions, definitely much better than what you get from that agricultural and forestry station outside."

When talking about this, the other party raised his chin and seemed very proud.

I see. It seems that this person is a student of Agricultural University.

It seems that the other two people should be similar to him, either teachers at the Agricultural University, or students like him.

That’s great! If they can stay in this place and continue to study seeds, they won’t have to worry about the source of seeds in the future.

For a moment, Bai Yang thought too much and too far-fetchedly.

But it only took a moment, and he responded immediately, "Since you speak so highly of your fruit seedlings and seeds, why not give us all you can? You can make a list of what you want, and we can give you whatever we have. Even if we don't have it now, we will bring it to you later. How do you think?"

how about it?
What else.

The young man inside immediately turned around and ran. He had to discuss with the teacher and professor quickly to find out whether this person’s words could be trusted and whether he should make a list for him.

"Wait a moment."

Bai Li came over with three hot buns on a plate. She said to the young man, "These are for you."

The buns were frozen. After being heated in the pot, they were not as delicious as when they were freshly made, but the taste was only slightly different.

The young man stood in the doorway, staring at the three buns, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva again. It's really not his fault. God knows what they have eaten in the past eight months since the end of the world. The chef turned into a zombie and was chopped by him. The senior sister who can cook turned into a zombie and was chopped by him. The associate professor who can make delicious fried rice turned into a zombie and was also chopped by him. His teacher, senior brothers and sisters, anyone who turned into a zombie was chopped by him. After he chopped them, he cried loudly, but what to do? If he didn't chop them, he would die, and Teacher Kang and the professor would also die.

Finally, the three of them who couldn't cook were left. They lived in fear until now. They had enough food, but they were barely enough to keep from starving to death. It was not at all delicious. He even missed the white steamed buns that he didn't like to eat before, not to mention steamed stuffed buns.

Under the temptation of the three buns, the young man forgot to go back and discuss with his teacher and professor. He directly opened the small door next to the big iron gate and took the buns from Bai Li's hand.

However, due to his upbringing, he subconsciously said "thank you" when he took the bun.

He didn't eat yet and went inside with the buns in his hand. However, he remembered to lock the small door again before leaving.

Bai Li was quite amused.

Not long after, footsteps were heard again from inside the door. This time, it was not only the young man from before, but also a middle-aged man with a thin face.

The two opened the small door and walked out. Seeing Bai Li, the thin middle-aged man was stunned, and then blurted out her name, "Bai Li?"

It looks like a question, but it is not a question about Bai Li's identity, but a curiosity about why she appears here.

Bai Li was also surprised, even though the face in front of her was a little unfamiliar to her, after all, she hadn't seen him since she graduated from high school. If she met him on the street normally, she would definitely not recognize him, because compared to when she was in school, the other person had changed so much.

But because I had just discussed it with Cheng Siyun before coming here, I naturally matched the names with those of my classmates in the high school group.

"Kang Wentao?"

Bai Li was really surprised. Although they had graduated from high school for more than ten years, their ages were basically between 32 and 33.

He was in his early thirties, but he had bald spots. He might not have eaten well during this period, so his face was full of wrinkles. If someone guessed his age, it would probably be no less than 45. He looked like two generations older than her when standing next to her.

"Old classmate. I didn't expect to see you again in my lifetime. Cheng Siyun?"

Kang Wentao was excitedly about to shake Bai Li's hand when another person turned around from the front of the car. Just like he recognized Bai Li, he recognized Cheng Siyun at a glance.

"How come you two are still as inseparable as you were in school?"

Kang Wentao was even more excited. He really didn't expect to see his old classmates again, and he actually saw two of them at once.

"Lao Kang, have you been staying here since the end of the world?"

Cheng Siyun and Bai Li looked at each other, and they both thought that it seemed that Kang Wentao did not have good connections at that time, and was finally sent here by the school.

However, how do we know that his life was not saved because of coming here?

After all, on the day the zombie virus broke out, colleges and universities became the places with the most infections. Just like in Bai Yang's school, less than one-tenth of the people survived.

"At first I wanted to go back to Pengcheng to find my wife and children, but there were too many zombies in Longbei Mountain and I couldn't get through. I wanted to take another small road, but when I passed a village, my car was robbed by the villagers there. In the end, I had no choice but to return here."

When talking about his wife and children, Kang Wentao's face was full of depression. He didn't know how they were doing now, and whether they were still alive.

He looked at the two of them and asked hopefully, "Are you from Pengcheng? What's the situation there now?"

Without waiting for Bai Li and Cheng Siyun to answer, the young man next to them couldn't help but said, "Teacher, it's getting dark soon. Why don't you go in and talk with your two old classmates?"

Kang Wentao reacted and said hurriedly, "Yes, yes, let's go in and talk. Let's go into the yard and talk. This is considered wild. Once it gets dark, some animals will run over here. It's very dangerous."

So the RV and the carriage entered the yard of the Agricultural University Experimental Base. Lei Jia, the young man who contacted them at the beginning, quickly closed the door and placed a row of cacti beside the door.

Bai Yang was surprised to see this, and then he noticed that there were also cacti or prickly pears planted on the walls around their base. They were not big, but they were densely packed together, very many. However, the color was similar to the wall, and it was impossible to tell unless you looked carefully.

When he saw Xi Shuang coming over, he raised his hand and pointed at the wall, and whispered to her, "His ability is the same as my sister's, it's wood-related, but the thing he induced looks weird."

Xi Shuang had a blank expression on her face and said seriously, "Maybe it has mutated. This is not surprising. Isn't my sister-in-law's green radish different from ordinary green radishes?"

"But it's better looking than this, a gray cactus, so ugly."

Xi Shuang looked at it carefully, then nodded in agreement, "It really doesn't look good."

Lei Jia, whose five senses are equally sharp, was speechless after hearing this. Are these two people crazy?
His cacti and prickly pear are so powerful that mutant mice can't survive if they are pricked by them. How come they become ugly in their mouths?
He turned his head and said to Bai Yang and Xi Shuang, "What do you two know? Do you know that my cacti and cacti can change color? The purpose is to blend in with the surrounding environment and catch the mutant animals off guard. There is another point."

He paused for a second, so he didn't notice that the faces of the two people opposite him turned red. He just raised his chin slightly and said complacently, "The second thing you have to pay attention to is, don't touch my cactus out of curiosity. If you get pricked, I can't remove the poison."

Now Bai Yang and Xi Shuang didn't even care about the embarrassment, and naturally forgot to explain their relationship to Lei Jia.

Bai Yang was surprised and said, "The cactus you helped to grow is actually poisonous? So awesome?"

His sister couldn't do that.

Lei Jia nodded modestly, but he felt a little guilty inside, because when he was inducing the birth, he couldn't tell which ones were poisonous and which ones were not, and most of them were non-poisonous, and there were very few poisonous ones. When those mutant animals bumped into him, it was just the unlucky ones who encountered the poisonous ones.

So what he just said in his mind, that one would die from being stabbed once, was because he was stabbed by something poisonous.

This was discovered by the professor's careful observation, otherwise he would not have known that the cactus he nurtured was poisonous.

But the poisonous strain was almost identical to the non-toxic one, and there was no difference at all. The professor's analysis was that the strain should have been non-toxic when it was induced to grow, but it mutated during its later growth, so some of them became poisonous.

But in the final analysis, after all, wasn't it he who gave birth to this poisonous cactus?
So there's nothing wrong with that.

He was also very pleased with Bai Yang's flattery.

On the other side, Kang Wentao took Bai Li and Cheng Siyun to meet the head of their laboratory, Professor Leng Zhiwei.

Except that Lei Jia is still a graduate student and his home is in the south, Kang Wentao and Leng Zhiwei both live in Pengcheng, and although it seems peaceful here, it is not that safe.

So after some discussion, the three decided to return to Pengcheng with Bai Li and the others the next day.

Of course, all the equipment and fruit seedlings and seeds from the laboratory had to be taken away. Fortunately, there was a pickup truck here, and Bai Li had enough gasoline. Together with the RV and the horse-drawn carriage, it was enough to move the laboratory.

This is really an unexpected gain.

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