Chapter 289 Food crisis...grass Roots and Bark
On the Dragon Boat Festival, the hot sun shines on the body. It is hot and can make people sweat. The surrounding mountain roads are full of weeds and green trees, symbolizing the surging vitality. The green leaves are gently swaying in the wind. No pop-ups
The dense heat wave distorted the air, but it revealed a long-lost enthusiasm. Although it was unbearably hot, compared with the torrential rain and the chilling wind these days, this heat wave, It's really invaluable
but……
If it wasn't for the pressure of the vanguard's powerhouses, fighting against the corpse and the Zerg again and again, shedding blood, experiencing waves of violent storms, and baptism of cruelty and war, then seventy How can the survivors of Wan survive until now?
After leaving Linchuan, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After all, they were trapped for four days and four nights, and everyone was scared. They wanted to rush to Yongcheng, so they walked very quickly, and there were few people dragging the team. There are very few, even if there are old and weak women and children who cannot walk, there are still many people rushing to help
To this day, because Li Jiayu and others have become spiritual idols and soul beliefs, there are not many survivors who have completely blackened and degenerated in the apocalypse, and only about 30% are selfish people. Humans account for 40%, and the rest are kind-hearted people who are more and more brilliant in their humanity and who can lend a helping hand to others in times of difficulty.
Only in adversity can one see the truth, and only in the face of real difficulties can one's character be tested. Although there are not many kind-hearted people in the team, when you see those young men volunteering to help the disadvantaged, carrying the elderly on bicycles, and using their backs Climb up the hillside with children, and when you cross the cracks in the ground, you will find that some people are really admirable
Of course, there are not a few people who have collapsed in the last days, especially after experiencing so much danger and witnessing so much bloodshed, some people with weak tolerance will more or less psychologically distort and become frightened birds. The temperament has changed drastically, the temper is short-tempered, and the person who takes the lead in casting lots at any time is bad.
Fortunately, because of the great victory last night, most of the fugitives have a lot of hope for the future. Although they are not confident, at least they will not be as pessimistic and depressed as before.
For most of the day, the escape team ran for more than 30 kilometers. When they couldn't walk at night, they set up camp in the mountains and forests. However, most of the escape team were already hungry and croaking, and their faces were full of sadness.
"I'm so hungry..."
"Who still has food, share with me, my daughter is so hungry that her lips are blue..."
"Little brother, can you give me half of your crispy noodles? I'll exchange this dagger for you..."
"Mother,
The rhizomes of those glowing plants I ate last night hurt my stomach...
"Axue, look at how hungry your father is. Do you have the heart to let him eat wild vegetables with roots every day? I have a can of beef here, so hurry up and take it to replenish the old man's body, eh wait, don't go. So fast, it's a deal... you have to stay with me just once a night and the canned beef is yours"
"Furong, don't feed your baby any more... You can't get enough to eat yourself, and people are so thin. If you continue to breastfeed him without regard for your body like this, sooner or later your body will collapse..."
"Then what can I do? I can't just watch the child starve. If I'm too hungry to produce milk, I'll cut my flesh and feed him with blood... In any case, I'll bring the child alive to Yongcheng."
"No, Furong, why don't you just throw the baby away, in such a world... the baby is just a burden, we can't keep him safe, we don't have any food to feed him... If you insist on breastfeeding him, you won't be able to In a week, you will be too weak to walk. Now is the time to choose one, the child can go to Yongcheng to have another one, but if you die, I don’t want to live anymore.”
At night, the moon is bright and the stars are thin, and the mountain wind is whistling, but the complaints, wailing, sighing, and cries of the 700,000 fleeing people are one after another, and the main reason is the problem of food.
As early as four days ago, the escape team had almost run out of food and was in a state of shortage. Many escapees had already run out of ammunition and food, so they could only find food in every way possible, and some even ate a lot of Linchuan County exotic food. The roots, stems, and leaves of the plant are strangely sick, and they are very uncomfortable...
Until last night, apart from the large organizations and the surplus food they had saved, the other commoners basically had no stock. Later, the corpse tide broke out, and most of the east and west of the city were occupied. Even if the corpse clan retreated later, many Much of the food in storage was contaminated with corpse poison and could no longer be eaten, so the only ones left with some surplus food were Xijiang University and the military headquarters of the two cities...
The haze of food shortages made everyone demoralized and sighed...
Along the way, there were naturally people who kept collecting wild vegetables and wild fruits along the way. Even those bitter grasses and aquatic plants that were difficult to swallow were scrambled to catch up. As for the wild beasts and birds in the forest and mountains, they were caught early The masters of the vanguard are captured, they are also human, and they will starve
Especially those melee-type occupations such as Berserker, Hercules, Fighter, Qigong Master, all of them must consume a lot of food, because they must draw enough energy from food to maintain the consumption of the body.
However……
The huge team of 700,000 people needs to consume too much food... The food picked on the road is far from being in short supply, so the problem of food shortage is getting more and more serious, and 700,000 people are tired. All day long, excessive exercise made the feeling of hunger intensify, and many girls who hadn't eaten for a few days fainted from hunger
There is a river along the way. Chu Xiang often burrows into the river water and wants to go fishing, but for some reason, the water specialties in this water area are quite rare. Instead, they are low-level insects such as blood-sucking worms, strong acid leeches, and mercury giant insects. The king is hegemony. If Chu Xiang's dragon armor is not strong enough, he would have been killed by the swarming water bugs long ago.
After working all day, Chu Xiang caught less than 200 catties of aquatic products, which is far from the consumption of so many people in Xijiang University...
"Jiayu... When the apocalypse broke out, we took the lead and captured a lot of food, and we have often had fish to eat with Chu Xiang for half a month, so to this day, we still retain a large amount of food. Stock up..."
Li Jiayu and Yan Zisu were talking softly beside a bonfire. The light of the fire made both of their faces flush red. Secretly, Li Jiayu gently held her cousin's jade hand and gave her ideological work softly, hoping that she would To accompany him again tonight, but unfortunately he was decisively rejected by his sister-in-law. Li Jiayu still wanted to stalk him, but Ran Hongxia's voice suddenly sounded behind him.
No matter what, I went to the Three Treasures Hall. As soon as I heard what Ran Hongxia said, Li Jiayu knew that Ran Hongxia must be overflowing with sympathy again, and she wanted to distribute the food in stock to others.
This brainless, rotten good man
"Well, so what, do you think we have too much food, so you think we should lose weight and donate all the food selflessly?" Li Jiayu spread out his hands, rolled his eyes at Ran Hongxia, his face There was a hint of cold sarcasm
"Jiayu, please don't be so yin and yang, okay... Go outside and see, many children haven't eaten normal food for two or three days, and their stomachs are starving." Ran Hongxia's eyes were a little red. Apparently, she had seen too many cases of being tortured by starvation after going out just now, but this girl is very soft-hearted and likes to be helpful...
"Oh, so what... Isn't there a lot of bark and grass roots on the road? These are all edible, those people are really hungry and dizzy, they can go all over the mountains to find bark and grass roots to eat, they will definitely not starve to death. People, plants within a radius of ten miles must be enough to consume 700,000 people,..." Li Jiayu said indifferently.
"Li Jiayu, why are you doing this? Can't you be a little sympathetic? Can you bear to watch those children starve so badly? If you eat too much bark and grass roots, people will die."
"Everyone is fair in the last days, even children need to face the cruel living environment in the last days... Besides, our Xijiang University does not have much food, you distribute it to hundreds of thousands of starving children, elderly, and What role can it play? Enough for their meal? Or enough for their consumption for a day? Don’t be stupid, it still takes a month for us to go to Yongcheng. Even if you give them all the food, it is a drop in the bucket, and it can help them today. , then what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? Those who starve to death will still starve to death, there is no way you can stop the hunger frenzy in the last days.
"No, that's not the case... We have the ability to help those old people and children, why don't we help? Most of Xijiang University are young and able-bodied adults, even if they eat wild vegetable roots every day, they can survive, as long as Gritting your teeth can survive...,,, but those old people and children can't survive, they must eat some easily digestible food, maybe we can't help them too much, but we can help them survive this time, maybe In a few days, we will encounter the red-topped beetle, maybe we will pass the melon orchard, and then we will be able to get enough food, Jiayu, you will help once..." Said, Ranhongxia was pitiful again. She blinked her watery eyes with hope, and looked at Li Jiayu pitifully.
Yan Zisu also stood up and helped Ran Hongxia speak:
"Yeah, Jiayu, we have Chu Xiang, he can bring us hundreds of catties of aquatic products every day, it should not make us too hungry, and eating bark and grass roots for a month is for our inheritors. It's nothing, but those old people and children can't endure so much hardship. Maybe if we lend a helping hand, they will still starve to death on the way to Yongcheng. However, as long as one tenth of the people we have helped can It is worthwhile to arrive at Yongcheng safely.”
Yan Zisu is also a soft-hearted person, and even followed Dye Hongxia's nerves, agreeing to give good food to others, and then wronged his own people to eat bark and grass roots every day...
But since the sister-in-law spoke, Li Jiayu could only helplessly grin, and said expressionlessly:
"Whatever you want, I don't care about the food in the team anyway, you can give it to whoever you like"