Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 115 Corn
Brother...

Lu Xian was speechless for a moment.

This old man is so much older than me, yet he calls me brother!

Yao Wei also looked a little strange for a moment.

Chai Xin looked at Lu Xian, then at the old man, and couldn't help laughing.

"Stop calling me that, you're older than me."

Lu Xian said.

The old man nodded repeatedly: "Okay, brother!"

Lu Xian: "..."

"Pfft..."

Chai Xin couldn't help laughing out loud, but when Lu Xian glared at him, he quickly stopped laughing and sat up straight, staring at the pot.

Lu Xian sighed inwardly, forget it, don't dwell on these issues, looking at the old man's character, if he brings it up again, he's afraid he'll say "I know, brother" again.

In that case, Chai Xin would probably laugh even more happily.

He changed the subject and asked the old man, "What's your name, uncle?"

"what is it call……"

The old man was confused for a moment, "What's my name...what's my name...I seem to have forgotten..."

Seeing his confused look, Lu Xian had no choice but to say: "Forget it, forget it, there is no need to talk about this issue. The name is just a code name, and you don't have to deal with others, so what can't be called?"

But the old man was still confused, as if he had suddenly fallen into it and couldn't get out of it: "What's it called...what is it...tree...tree...tree...there seems to be a tree?"

Lu Xian patted the old man, and finally brought him back to his senses.

"Okay, forget it. At worst, we can just give it a new name. Tree Master? Tree Brother?"

he said casually.

The old man shook his head and said, "Forget it, just call me Lao Shu. It sounds more comfortable."

But Lu Xian still didn't call him Old Tree, but continued to call him Grandpa: "Grandpa, how did you get so many tree roots on your head?"

"How long...how long..."

The old man and the old tree fell into confusion again. It seemed that time had passed too long and he could no longer remember these things.

Lu Xian was about to interrupt his recollection, but he didn't expect Lao Shu to suddenly remember something. He patted his forehead and said, "Oh! That's right! That's it! I remember it now!"

"When I first came back, the corn was still poisonous. Those people came here and took everything. They took away the TV, the sofa, the table, and the corn.

"I was hiding by a tree, and when they were trying to snatch the table, I hit my head and passed out.

"It seems I was unconscious for too long. When I woke up, my house collapsed and these tree roots grew on my head."

Lu Xian couldn't understand what this phenomenon was, but Lao Shu must have been unconscious for a long time.

He added a question: "How long were you unconscious on East Mountain?"

The old tree reminisced for a while and said, "It must have been quite a while. There was still snow on the mountain when it rained, but when I woke up, the snow was gone and the weather was suddenly warm. Otherwise, how could I grow corn?"

Lu Xian asked: "It's been such a long time since we last farmed. How do you grow corn?"

Lao Shu said, "I have corn seeds at home. I bought them before the cold disaster came. I didn't have time to plant them before the cold disaster came." To be honest, I didn't have any hope at the time. So much time had passed, how could the seeds still be useful?
"But I didn't expect that after I tried it, it actually grew! Do you think it was the cold weather that boosted the soil? Or was it the strange rain?

"It wasn't just that time. There was also a second time when I was knocked unconscious by a table. After I woke up for such a long time, the corn was still growing, but it had grown bad because of the long time.

“Then I took care of it for a while and it grew back.

"Look at it now. No matter how the weather changes, the corn is growing so well. As long as I take care of it and look after it, it won't grow crooked. I don't have to plant it every year like before.

"Oh... I was thinking, if only the corn could continue to grow like this before the cold disaster came, without having to be planted, how great it would be.

"You say this isn't just about nurturing the land, but what is it? I just don't know what's nurturing the land.

"I thought about this question for a long time, but I couldn't figure it out. Then, as time went by, I forgot about it."

"Who knows?"

Lu Xian said that he couldn't figure out the connection between them.

But the matter has been sorted out. The old tree fainted after being hit twice. It is unknown how long he was unconscious, probably a few months at the shortest and a few years at the longest.

After suffering severe trauma, they fall into a hibernation state, staying alive and slowly recovering.

I wonder if Chai Xin has such ability?
But why do I feel that this ability is more like that of the Type B new human like Luo Ping?
The corn here must have changed for some special reason, resulting in such a miraculous effect. The fact that it produced a poison that was effective against ordinary people was also a later effect.

It’s a pity that Luo Ping is not here. If he were here, he would definitely be very interested in these corns.

For the New World, these corns are of great research value.

Lu Xian originally wanted to ask again when the corn here started to poison people, but now he has the answer, so there is no need to ask again.

The water in the pot gradually boiled, and the corn floating on the water gradually absorbed water, and the grains began to become plump.

The fragrance gradually wafted out of the pot. Lu Xian was attracted by the fragrance and temporarily lost the mood to speak.

The same is true for others.

The four of them were looking forward to it and waited for a long time. The old man even took the initiative to collect the skins that fell off the corn stalks and some branches to add firewood to the fire. Chai Xin also followed him to work diligently.

When Yao Wei saw Chai Xin move, she also started moving.

Lu Xian ignored them and sat here watching the fire.

Time passed little by little, and the corn in the pot finally looked like it was cooked. Lu Xian picked up an ear of corn, broke off a kernel from the edge and tasted it. After confirming that it was okay, the four of them each took an ear of corn and sat down to eat it.

The cooked corn exudes an enticing sweetness and is soft and delicious when you bite it. Although it is a variety that is poisonous to ordinary people after the apocalypse, it tastes almost the same as the corn of the past.

Lu Xian didn't know if this was an illusion because he hadn't eaten for a long time. Anyway, he ate so fast that he didn't care whether it was hot or not.

Yao Wei and Chai Xin were the same, especially Chai Xin, who gnawed on the food with grunts, grinning to ease the burning sensation, and kept saying, "Delicious! Delicious! I've never eaten anything so delicious!"

Lu Xian said with a smile: "Eat slowly, don't burn yourself, no one is going to snatch it from you." But he was not in a better condition.

Chai Xin said while gnawing, "I am a new human and I am not afraid of heat."

Also.

So Lu Xian kept silent and just ate frantically.

But Yao Wei had already quietly finished her portion, then stood up very consciously, went to the cornfield to pick a few more, and put them into the pot.

(End of this chapter)