Reborn To The Start Of The Apocalypse To Farm - Chapter 43

After eating and drinking, Wei Xuan took out the bag containing snowflakes, took out one piece, and fed it to his zombies, then he absorbed one piece himself. However, Du Hang, who had ‘eaten’ the strange snow on the roof during the day, only ate two slices and then closed his mouth to express that he was full. While fiddling with the snowflakes, he thought about the snow he collected. How long will it take for the water to evaporate? I don’t know if the method is useful. I don’t know how many snowflakes can be collected when the water evaporates…

With this kind of apprehension and worry, Wei Xuan waited for four and a half days, the snow water remaining under the hot sun. The result also confirmed his guess – this method can collect snowflakes!!

Looking at the crystal clear snowflakes on the bottom of various pots and jars, they seem to be the snowflakes that fell during the strange snow. But different from natural snowflakes, the size of each individual snowflake is as big as a little fingernail, which is much larger than natural snowflakes! And their number is much less than the snowflakes collected at the beginning.

But no matter how few they were, their number exceeded Wei Xuan’s expectations!

After seeing the snow melt into snow water, Wei Xuan felt that it would be good enough to collect a dozen or so from each container after the water evaporated. But to his surprise, the bottom of the container was completely covered by the snowflakes, completely blocking the color of the bottom of the basin!

In a plastic basin with a diameter of about 30 centimeters, the number of snowflakes collected is enough to fit a small bag. He has placed so many basins on so many roofs, one can only imagine the amount he has collected!!

However, it is precisely because this kind of snow contains so much energy that the zombies can continue to prevail, right?

Wei Xuan estimates that the next strange snow should fall in November, but if the weather is colder, it is normal for natural snow to fall at that time. Moreover, the weather will be cold at that time, and even if this kind of strange snow was collected, it might be difficult to evaporate the water. Therefore, it is very likely that Du Hang and the zombie couple will have to count on the snowflakes collected this time until the spring of next year.

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan immediately started to collect the snowflakes with great enthusiasm. Some containers are relatively deep, so the water inside has not been completely dried at this time. Wei Xuan first cleaned up the basins where the snowflakes had completely precipitated, collected the snowflakes inside, and then poured out the liquid in those pots and jars that still had water, and divided them into several containers to speed up drying.

This kind of strange snow is very strange. They will only precipitate snowflakes after the surrounding water is completely volatilized. At the same time, there is no trace of half a drop of water in the basin, but it seems that as long as there is water in it, no one would discover the snowflakes. How is it different from normal water?

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“That’s right, even if the three of you eat together, it’s enough to last until next year!” Wei Xuan sighed with satisfaction.

He and Du Hang immediately went back to the room where the two of them lived. Put all the snowflakes in the cabinet in the bedroom, and divide the rest into a couple of bags.  Wei Xuan took one of the snowflake bags, grabbed Du Hang, and headed downstairs again, to the next building to visit the neighbors.

When it snowed two days ago, Wei Xuan seemed to have seen these two zombies near the open window on the top floor of the building. They were standing with their mouths open, waiting for the snowflakes to fall into their mouths. However, because the two of them were in the room, the snowflakes were falling straight down at that time, and there was no wind, so they probably only ate a few pieces at that time.

But fortunately, there is a whole bag of snowflakes beside the two of them, so Wei Xuan is not afraid of starving them.

At this time, as he came to the room, Wei Xuan was relieved that there was still a quarter left in the snowflake bag. It seems that they eat enough every day. 

Seeing Wei Xuan and Du Hang walking in, the older zombie seemed to be looking at Du Hang warily, and Du Hang also set his sights on the zombie after entering the room. Wei Xuan is no stranger to this—it seems that since the last conflict, these two guys seem to enter into a state of dislike for each other every time they meet. At least they didn’t fight directly, mostly because of Wei Xuan and the snowflakes.

Pouring the new bag of snowflakes he brought into the other bag on the small table, Wei Xuan smiled and looked at the two zombies—the older one was standing a little closer to the front, watching out for Du Hang while still glancing at the snowflakes that were just added. Behind it, the younger one dangled around the window and did not join the two zombies staring at each other.

“These are for this time, eat slowly, and I will come to see you in a few days.” Although Wei Xuan brought them back, he did not treat them like other ordinary zombies. He subconsciously treated them like neighbors, and he and Du Hang rarely come to disturb their lives. They just come over periodically to see what’s going on and see how much of the snowflakes have been eaten. 

The zombie didn’t seem to have heard Wei Xuan’s words and was still looking at Du Hang vigilantly as if Du Hang would rush over at any time and push his wife out of the window.

Wei Xuan didn’t express any dissatisfaction with the other party’s ‘impoliteness’. He checked the general situation of the room slightly, confirmed that there was nothing unusual in the room, he pulled his zombie and turned around to leave. God knows if these two decided to fight each other, I will never be able to hold them back without any combat abilities!

How fierce will the battle between zombies be? Wei Xuan has never seen it, but he can infer some points from the usual battles between zombies and ability users.

Zombies should have no abilities. What they do enhance are physical strength and speed abilities, but even so, they can still fight against those with abilities that have the same effect as magicians. 

So even if he was curious about the effect of zombies fighting with zombies, he would never let his zombies try it out, he couldn’t bear the slightest wound on Du Hang’s body. 

Until now, Wei Xuan still remembered the heart-wrenching heartache and anger when he came out of the base and joined Du Hang who was hiding outside and found a bullet wound on his body.

“The snow didn’t affect the field, did it?” In the base conference room, a person asked his subordinate in a deep voice.

“Reporting to the chief, the thirteenth team has checked, and the crops in the field are not affected. In addition, they found that although most of the sown crops have mutated, several crops have accelerated their maturation speed! In addition, the potatoes that have been planted before are mature and they are edible!!” The subordinates’ voices were full of excitement, and although they scavenged and collected a lot of food in the early days, once they were eaten, there would be no more.

After discovering that after the apocalypse, plants mutate on a large scale, and many crops even die completely and cannot grow, everyone was worried that if all the crops before the apocalypse cannot grow… then no matter how much human beings can persist, it is impossible to survive in this world of nothing!

Fortunately, God did not completely give up on human beings and left them with a glimmer of life.

Sure enough, the chief stood up excitedly after hearing this: “They can be eaten? Has it been tested?!”

“Yes! This is the test report just sent!” The man hurriedly handed over the report he had just received.

In addition to the description and yield of potatoes, there are several other results of trying to grow crops. Among them, even if the vast majority of crops still have seeds, they have become completely uncultivable now. Even if they try to germinate the seeds first, when they are taken out of the special environment and planted into regular soil, they will wither and die immediately.

Of the remaining crops that germinated successfully and were planted in the ground, most of them grew very poorly, and some had weird mutations, and it was unclear whether they could be harvested normally. Some even turned into aggressive mutant plants!

Therefore, when the experimental sowing team discovered potatoes, an alternative, healthy, and normally growing crop, their surprise can be imagined.

“…It only takes two months to harvest!” The chief took a deep breath, with a smile on his face, “Let them set aside a few acres of land to plant this, and besides, this thing can also be promoted and planted in the base. Those who have vacant land and whoever wants to grow it can let them grow it themselves! After all, it may not be safe to put it in the farmland outside.”