At 2 pm in the afternoon, everyone’s eyes were dark at the same time. Immediately after, they appeared in the exam room of the second course of the Faculty of Environment <Clear Water Green Mountain>.
As soon as they entered the exam room, everyone was blown by the sand blowing on their faces and could hardly open their eyes.
Yue Xingwen wanted to speak, but ended up eating a mouthful of sand. While spitting sand, he quickly typed on the chat channel: “Is the Faculty of Environment unable to part with the sandstorm? This weather again!”
Lin Manluo looked around and said, “Unlike the previous course, this is not a doomsday environment, and it looks like the sandstorm is temporary. So, maybe it will be fine in a couple of days.”
She turned around and pointed to the town not far away: “The towns near the desert are easily affected by the desertification, and once the wind blows, this kind of sandstorm weather will form. I have seen it in reality.”
Liu Zhaoqing complained: “The exam requires us to prevent desertification, but we are not given any props?”
As soon as the voice fell, a prompt popped up in the upper right corner: “The exam starts. The area of desertification is 500 meters ahead, please ask the team leader to allocate the funds in his hand reasonably, and purchase the required props. Note: Purchase errors can’t be returned. You are required to treat this sandy land within 1 year, and the speed of time passing during the exam will be accelerated, 1 hour = 1 day.”
The course <Cell Factory> of the Faculty of Biological Science also accelerated the speed of time, and the baby that was originally conceived for 10 months to be born, they made it in only ten hours. Today, the course is faster, 1 hour = 1 day, and they need to complete it in a year, which is 365 hours of exam time.
Jiang Pingce said in a low voice, “365 hours, about 15 days. To complete the work of wind prevention and sand fixation, the difficulty is not small.”
Ke Shaobin said, “If 1 hour equals 1 day, if we sleep 7 hours at night, isn’t it equivalent to 7 days have passed? What should I do when I wake up and all the saplings I planted are dead!”
The speed of time was accelerating, and every hour became extremely important. Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and said, “There are 12 of us, divided into 3 groups. Who are on duty 24 hours a day, we can’t all sleep.”
Xu Yishen rubbed his temples helplessly. “It seems that a base has to be built again. Everyone’s doof and accommodation are on the front line. If something happens, it’s good to deal with it in time.”
Lin Manluo said simply, “Let’s go. Let’s check out the venue first, and then sum up what to buy.”
Everyone followed the course prompt to the area 500 meters ahead.
In the distance was an endless desert, the area that needed them protected from wind and sand was exactly at the junction of desert and farmland. It could be seen that part of the farmland had been covered by sand, quicksand gradually invaded. The problem of land desertification was very serious, if they sat idly by, the desert would spread inch by inch, eventually affecting the town inhabited by humans in front.
The so-called wind protection and sand fixation was to prevent quicksand from invading forward and ensured that human cultivated land was not affected by sand and dust.
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Not far ahead, a large sign was erected, which read: “Clear Water Green Mountain is the mountains of gold and silver.”
Ke Shaobin pointed to the sign, and couldn’t cry or laugh. “The library’s course really keeps up with current events ah! The tourist attractions of our hometown also have such a brand.”
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Lin Manluo asked, “Xingwen, take a look at the funds given to us this time?”
Yue Xingwen opened the chat channel and entered the word ‘funds’. Soon, a message popped up: “In this course, the Research Group 183 received a special rectification fund of 100,000 yuan, which can be used freely. The remaining money cannot be exchanged for points and cannot be taken out of the exam room.”
Everyone was slightly relieved to see so much money.
Yue Xingwen said, “In this way, take out 1,000 yuan. Ke Shaobin, Xin Yan, Qin Lu and Qin Miao, go to a nearby town, buy back 15 days of food at one time, buy instant noodles, pickles and other staple foods with good storage times, and you can see the rest.”
Four people received the money and immediately set off to buy things.
This world was not the end of the environment. From the surrounding farmland, although the life of the residents had been affected, but not to the extent that it could not be passed, there should be no robbery gangs.
Therefore, Yue Xingwen was relieved to send a 4-person team to purchase food.
He continued, “Xiao Nian, find a place to build a base nearby with senior brother Liu and senior brother Xu’s help.”
Zhang Xiaonian immediately summoned the excavator to work.
The rest of the people discussed the next plan, Yue Xingwen said, “Senior sister, I have a pop up mall here. I’ll share it on the chat channel, you can see what we need to buy.”
Chat channel: “Yue Xingwen shared [Mall Connection]”
When everyone opened it and saw that it was the same as the mall in the online game, with a variety of goods in it, all marked with prices, they were all related to wind prevention and sand fixation.
For example, tool excavators 10,000 yuan, asphalt 100 yuan/barrel, barbed wire 10 yuan/square meter, wooden piles 1 yuan/pcs… There were also plants such as reeds 1 yuan/kg, fence 0,5 yuan/meter, saplings of plants such as jujube, sea buckthorn, sand willow, sand artemisia and other plants were listed at 10 yuan.
Yue Xingwen had a headache when he looked at it. The layman didn’t know how to do it at all.
Lin Manluo was also a little dizzy, she turned the mall from beginning to end. There were hundreds of plants listed alone. Although it was cheap to buy, once you buy it wrong, it could not live even if you plant it, then it was equivalent to work in vain.
To choose the most suitable plant among so many plants, you also had to adapt to local conditions.
Yue Xingwen turned his head to look at Lin Manluo and said, “With junior brother from the Architecture Department, we can save the money for machinery. I’ll give you all the funds for whatever else you need to buy, and you decide.”
As a layman, Yue Xingwen never dictated in areas that he was not good at. Only Lin Manluo in the team knew this knowledge, and she carefully considered it for a moment and said, “In 1 year, in theory, we have the opportunity to fail the first attempt and start again, but I still want to succeed at first try.”
She paused and said seriously, “There are usually three kinds of wind prevention and sand fixation. The first is physical engineering, that is, increasing the movement resistance of quicksand, for example, in the area where the soil may be invaded, we surround a circle of barriers, fences, walls, etc, blocking the quicksand to continue to move forward, and this project is also the easiest to succeed.”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “There is Xiao Nian, he can drive an excavator to dig a circle of trenches as a barrier, and then we build walls, or fences to block the flow of sand and dust, is that what you mean?”
Lin Manluo said with a smile, “Yes. But this is just treating the symptoms, not the root cause.”
Zhuo Feng said, “That’s right. Physical engineering can only stop the sand, and has no effect on land desertification itself. What are the other two you’re talking about?”
Lin Manluo said, “There are also chemical engineering and plant engineering. In chemical engineering, we need to use some chemical materials, build a solid structural layer on the surface to improve the desertification properties, spray chemical reinforcements, or chemical agents specially used for improving quicksand. For example, asphalt compounds are commonly used in chemical engineering.”
Asphalt. Everyone thought that it was used for road construction. Yue Xingwen was confused when it appeared in the mall. Now listening to Lin Manluo’s explanation, he also understood. Those quicksand float on the surface, and when it was blown by the wind, it was easy to spread forward, and if they sealed them with asphalt, wouldn’t it be blown?
Lin Manluo followed closely and said, “The most important thing is plant engineering. Planting a large number of plants that can survive in desertified soil, because the roots of plants will penetrate deep into the soil, so as to prevent the continued spread of quicksand on the surface. At the same time, the existence of plants can improve the ecological environment on a large scale and slow down the wind speed, which can be said to be a means of ‘combination of prevention and control’.”
Yue Xingwen looked at Lin Manluo’s serious look when she talked about her major knowledge, and couldn’t help but say, “If we don’t bring teammates from the Faculty of Environment in this course, we will be blind. Senior sister, you will be the director of this project, we will listen to you.”
Lin Manluo said with a smile, “I’m also a rookie, I only understand some theoretical knowledge, and I have never practiced.”
Zhuo Feng said, “It’s better than if we don’t even understand the theory!”
Lin Manluo simply nodded. “Okay, let me try.”
Jiang Pingce suggested, “365 days, there is still plenty of time, but we can’t blindly mess around. I recommend making a detailed schedule, divided into several stages to complete the task, and consolidate the results step by step.”
Lin Manluo looked at Jiang Pingce with a smile, “Pingce said well! Since it’s an engineering project, there must be a plan. Wind prevention and sand fixation are indeed divided into several stages, including closing the quicksand surface, fixing the surface layer, setting up sand barriers to deter sand, diverting the accumulated drifting sand, and finally carrying out plant engineering to improve the ecological environment.”
She thought about it carefully, opened the mall list again, took a look and said, “Closed and fixed quicksand, I want to spray asphalt directly and make a protective case on the surface of the land. This method is the simplest and fastest. After all, the area we want to manage is quite large, and if we use straw and wheat straw to pave it, if it’s blown away, it will be lost.”
A group of laymen nodded in agreement.
They didn’t know how to fix the sand, and simply never thought that the asphalt could still fix the sand.
Lin Manluo glanced at the price of the mall plants again and said, “As for the sand barrier, we use the cheapest fence to build it, let Xiao Nian dig a circle of pits, build a fence wall, and then reinforce it wot wooden stakes at intervals to prevent the fence wall from being blown down by the wind. I looked at the price of the mall fence, and it doesn’t cost much to make a circle.”
The key was the planted plants, and the sea buckthorn was finally selected based on comprehensive price and growth resilience.
Lin Manluo said, “The seedlings of sea buckthorn are relatively cheap. Moreover, this plant is drought-tolerant, wind-sand resistant, can survive in harsh saline-alkali land, and the fruit is rich in nutrients, which can be eaten directly or taken to squeeze.
Yue XIngwen said with a smile, “That Xiao Ke must like it very much. I don’t know if we can wait for the day when sea buckthorn bears fruit.”
Lin Manluo said, “It should be okay, right? The malls sell all the saplings, plant them, as long as they survive, when the fruiting season comes, there will be fruits to eat.”
Upon hearing this, everyone was full of energy.
They used to plant only one or two trees on Arbor Day, symbolically following the activities organized by the school. This time, 12 people would personally participate in the environmental improvement project, which is very significant.
A moment later, Ke Shaobin’s and the other three returned, buying a large number of instant noodles with different flavors, several cartons of milk, and several boxes of pickles, jerky, dried fruits and other snacks, enough for them to eat for 15 days.
Zhang Xiaonian’s underground base was also quickly built.
Yue Xingwen greeted everyone, “Next, we will eat and live here, so put things away first. Time is urgent, from now on, we are the 173 tree squad. Everyone listen to senior system’s command, let’s divide the work!
This one is gonna move fast! I would have no idea how to fix these issues
Thanks for the chapter! <3
Let’s plant a tree everyone! Fighting!
Name of the team!!
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Agriculture was one of my subject and I had it for 2 school years 😭 but I didn’t understand a thing here ah. I’m so miserable