After surviving for 14 days, they not only have to adapt to the extremely harsh environment here, but also find a way to fill their stomachs. However, from the current situation, there were no green plants growing in the entire city, which means that crops such as wheat and rice couldn’t survive either. What did humans eat here?
Rice, noodles, and oil all came from plants, not to mention vegetables and fruits. Assuming that residents in this city did not eat vegetables and they only ate meat… But animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs also had to eat plants, how could they survive without feeding grass?
Lin Manluo’s question made everyone fall silent for a while.
How would the food and water problems be solved during the 14-day survival period?
A moment later, Ke Shaobin said, “Xin Yan’s distillation flask steam out water? If it really doesn’t work, let’s find some contaminated water sources and let Xin Yan purify it with a distilled flask before drinking.”
Xu Yishen sighed deeply and said, “Looking back now, when we were in the process of escaping from the Faculty of Biological Science, there were still grains and porridge to eat every day and there was still fresh air to breathe, and we had a very happy life ah!”
At first, with a bunch of red beans and peanuts, everyone regretted that they did not find milk bread in the supermarket, but compared with today’s harsh environment, the escape process of the Faculty of Biological Science had mineral water to drink and rice porridge to eat, which was really much better.
In this world, it was estimated that even cereals were difficult to find.
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “Since the residents of this city can live, we can also find a way to survive. First, let’s look for a shopping supermarket nearby.”
Lin Manluo asked a key question, “However, we have no money in hand, how can we buy things? We can’t just grab it.”
Zhuo Feng immediately said seriously, “You can’t risk grabbing things. Although the environment in this world is polluted, the order of human society still exists. We will be caught by the police if we do the robbery and we will go to jail, the conditions of the cell must be worse than outside.”
Liu Zhaoqing agreed and said, “If the cell is damp, moldy, and has all kinds of bacteria, you may get sick. Even if we rely on Qin Lu’s plate movement skill to escape collectively and become wanted criminals, the next few days will not be easy ah.”
Everyone was silent for a moment. Yue Xingwen sighed. “If only the library points could be exchanged for money to spend.”
At this moment, a message popped up in the hover box in the upper right corner of everyone at the same time: “Library points can be exchanged for the world’s common currency, the exchange ratio is 20:1, do you want to exchange?”
Yue Xingwen froze for a moment and said, “WIth a 20:1 exchange ratio, I still have 1,200 points left and can only exchange them for 60 yuan?”
Jiang Pingce frowned slightly, “60 yuan to survive 14 days, if you don’t consider the problems of rent, and sleep outside every day, just eating instant food such as instant noodles, bread, should be barely enough.”
Yue Xingwen was worried, “It’s just that the prices in this world may not be quite the same as the modern cities we know.”
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Jiang Pingce nodded. “En, go and see before saying anything.”
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A group of people carefully circled the supermarket—— The variety of goods in this world’s supermarket was very small, the shelves were full of compressed bread, compressed biscuits, instant noodles, no more than ten types of vegetables in the vegetable section, and only four or five types of fruits.
The price tag in front of the product made everyone stunned.
Liu Zhaoqing couldn’t help but say, “Cheating money ah! A cabbage sells for 200 yuan?”
Ke Shaobin looked at the grapes on the shelf, swallowed his saliva and said, “The grapes are actually sold in one piece, 50 yuan per piece, won’t this bunch cost thousands of yuan? We… we have less than 20 pounds of grapes here ah!”
Xu Yishen rubbed his forehead and smiled bitterly. “An apple sells for 200 yuan, is this a golden apple?”
Qin Miao said coldly, “The library really won’t make it easy for us, the ratio of points to currency is 20:1, and each person can only exchange 50 or 60 yuan. As a result, this money can’t even afford a cabbage.”
Lin Manluo analyzed and said, “The environment pollution is serious, ordinary plants can’t grow, these plants should be planted in technology purified soil, greenhouse cultivation, the cost is very high, and it’s not unusual to sell at high price.”
It just so happened that a couple passed by, pushing a shopping cart and buying a carton of compressed biscuits and a box of compressed bread. As for the vegetable and fruit section, they didn’t even look at it.
People here should be accustomed to eating vacuum compressed foods with a long shelf life. They simply couldn’t afford to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Unexpectedly, one day, the most common cabbage, potatoes and tomatoes would become luxury goods.
Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment and said, “Let’s see how many points we each have.”
Jiang Pingce said, “There are still 1,000 team points left, and they can only be exchanged for 50 yuan. I will keep this point first, so we can use it for eating after we return to the library. Take out your personal points and exchange them for goods.”
Team points were the ‘living expenses’ paid by everyone before, and they couldn’t be used up, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to afford to eat after returning to the library. As for the remaining points on hand, they were all reserved for upgrading skills, and it didn’t matter if they were spent first, anyway, they could be earned back in the next courses.
Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen then arranged. “Survive for 14 days, we can reduce the quality of life to the minimum, only eat a packet of compressed biscuits every day. If each person exchanges about 60 yuan of biscuits, it’s barely enough.”
60 yuan to live for 14 days, which was also very difficult in the real world.
They couldn’t think about accommodation, they might have to sleep on the streets for the next few days. They simply could not afford to rent a house.
Group C had a point bonus every time after the examination. The points in everyone’s hands were quite rich and they had all fallen into this situation, and it was difficult to imagine how other people in Group A and Group B would live.
Liu Zhaoqing followed closely to remind, “Not only food, we also have to buy masks, headscarves and protective clothing for going out, otherwise, it’s also troublesome to breath dust for several days in this sandstorm weather and fall ill.”
Lin Manluo said, “My skills can grow a tree and purify the surrounding air, but I can only open the skill for 1 hour of purification every day, and everyone still has to wear masks for the rest of the time.”
Ke Shaobin turned around and walked to the place where daily necessities were sold to look for masks, and after finding them, he couldn’t help but complain, “The masks are so expensive, 20 yuan a piece! 30 for goggles, 30 yuan for protective clothing. That is to say, after all my points are converted into currency, I can’t afford to buy this set of equipment?”
Everyone: “…”
They were so poor.
The proportion of the library’s points exchanged for the world’s currency was also too pit—— 20:1 ah!
Wasting so many brain cells in the Faculty of Law and finally earning more than a thousand points, only to find that they couldn’t afford to buy a cabbage in the Faculty of Environment.
Looking at the price of those goods, Yue Xingwen couldn’t cry or laugh. “Do we have to go to work to earn money?”
Liu Zhaoqing stroked his chin. “It seems that the library doesn’t want to let us have a good time. If we work, we don’t have an ID card in this world, we can’t find a formal job, and we can only do temporary work, ai.”
Zhang Xiaonian whispered, “Can I go to the construction site to move bricks? Or go drive an excavator?”
Yue Xingwen said helplessly, “That also has to have a construction site willing to hire you. You look like a minor, in case the world prohibits child labor and you don’t have an ID card, it’s difficult to find a job.”
Everyone stood in front of the shelves and fell silent.
In the end, Yue Xingwen decided. “Let’s buy a mask first, the air quality in this world is too bad, even in the underground supermarket. I feel a layer of ash in the air, and my nose is itchy. As for goggles, headscarves, protective clothing, we can share, buy two or three sets, the person who goes out will wear it.”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Their goal was to survive, they didn’t have to go out every day. If they could find a free building to hide in, it was okay not to go out for half a month.
Qin Lu whispered, “Let’s find some office buildings and other buildings. After they close at night, use the plate movement skill to take everyone to sneak in and stay. It’s just that it’s hard for so many of us to hide during the day, and we still have to think of another way.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and looked at his teammates. “How many points can everyone come up with? First, hand it over to Pingce, let’s calculate how much food and daily necessities we can buy.”
At the moment of survival, everyone did not need to hide their points, except for Jiang Pingce who left 1,000 team points in case of accidents, everyone else handed over all their points. Jiang Pingce calculated and said, “The total is 15,620 points, which is 780 yuan when converted into the currency of this world.”
780 yuan for 12 people, living for 14 days…
It was really about breaking a cent into two.
Yue Xingwen carefully calculated, “12 masks cost 240 yuan; Buy only 2 sets of goggles and protective clothing for 120 yuan. The remaining 420 yuan, you can buy up to six boxes of biscuits, a total of 120 packs, and each person can share 10 packs.”
For 14 days, a total of 10 packs of biscuits per person, not even one pack a day.
As a team of university students with an average age of 20, still in youth, and at a time when their appetite was high, eating only half a pack of biscuits a day? That was not enough to stuff your teeth!
Moreover, in case anyone got sick…
Yue Xingwen said, “We can’t take all this money to buy food, we have to leave some emergency funds to buy medicine. In such an environment, getting sick can be dangerous. If it really doesn’t work, we will use the team funds in Pingce’s hand and spend all the points in this world, and then the points obtained from this course will be used as living expenses after returning to the library.”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En, don’t buy too much at once, you must keep emergency money in your hands. Let’s buy a mask today, and buy another pack of biscuits for each person to fill your hunger.”
Yue Xingwen had a headache, and this was the first time he worried about his livelihood.
It could be seen that a series of effects caused by environmental pollution make people in this world live in misery every day.
Soil pollution, increased cost of plant cultivation and increased cost of animal breeding would inevitably lead to higher prices. Fresh vegetables and fruits had become cherished items, and ordinary families were probably willing to buy a few grapes and apples during New Year’s Day.
The meal was too simple, the nutrition was unbalanced, and it was no wonder that the people on the street had yellow muscles and were skinny, looking sick and weak because of long-term malnutrition.
The air was seriously polluted, people must be fully armed when traveling every day. Although special masks could filter the sand and dust in the air, but for many years to breathe such air, the incidence of bronchitis would definitely increase, over time, various cancers would appear one after another, and the average life expectancy of human beings would be greatly shortened.
Water pollution, long-term infection of the gastrointestinal tract by bacteria, diarrhea could become a ‘daily disease’, and in serious cases could lead to death.
Compared to the biochemical apocalypse where zombies were everywhere, this kind of calm on the surface, but in fact, every minute and every second was endangering human beings, and it was equally terrifying!
Wow, so hard!!
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T__T I was waiting for them to upgrade their skills and buy new props but this course is so hard ahh~
20:1??? The library is so hard on our babies