The appearance of mutant birds immediately attracted the attention of many parties.
The sudden appearance of those birds around T City may have been an accident, but this accident has caused many forward-thinking people to raise concerns.
Compared to some unlucky bases that were attacked by a large number of mutant animals, the bases inside and outside T City and its surrounding areas were quite lucky. They only encountered such an incident recently, and not all bases were attacked by mutant birds.
However, even so, the management of those bases was also troubled by this – dealing with zombies is one thing, but now they also have to be careful of these mutant animals! This world seems to be really looking down on humans, trying to exterminate them in various ways!
Of course, there are still many survivors and bases that have not found the trace of mutant animals.
Some are because they are not on the route where these birds pass by, and some are too busy dealing with internal issues within the base – such as small bases like the school base. For various reasons, even if there are people on duty monitoring the outside situation, their attention will never be focused on the sky.
Previously, when the base playground was invaded by zombies, although the potatoes and carrots planted there were destroyed, the only green plants that could potentially attract mutant birds were also gone.
For example, some survivors who stay alone on the floors of the city buildings for a long time. Even if they occasionally go out for activities, most of them go out late and return early. When the mutant birds flew over, many people were still asleep and naturally did not notice.
And those who have found the passage of mutant birds are not people from every base who have fought with these creatures.
After all, although mutant animals can eat humans, when flying at high altitudes, unless they discover a large number of humans, the low-intelligence birds will not easily identify whether those creatures that look similar to zombies are edible or not.
After all, mutant animals won’t eat zombies!
The reason why Wei Xuan and Du Hang’s community was attacked by mutant birds had a lot to do with the plants Wei Xuan had previously planted in the community. Plus, Du Hang’s subsequent provocative roar drew the attention of these birds, who came down to kill this arrogant troublemaker.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have noticed these passing birds if the two of them had just stayed in their rooms.
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“Hmm… why do plants of the same species look different after germinating?” Wei Xuan frowned at a few small plants.
After the first batch of plants had successfully germinated, he had almost taken photos and recorded the appearance of each plant individually.
However, some of the newly sprouted plants looked different from the previous ones of the same species.
Wei Xuan was not sure if it was because some seeds had been accidentally mixed up at the beginning or if the mutated plants would naturally produce different changes.
Unfortunately, he had no one to ask or no network to search, so he could only record these differences one by one, categorize and organize them, and distinguish them after they grew up, bloomed, and produced fruit.
Fortunately, he had found a solar charging panel and a battery. Even luckier, in this society, as long as he searched around and visited a few households, he could find a bunch of spare phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops.
Wei Xuan selected the phone with the best camera and paired it with a high-end laptop he had borrowed from a computer enthusiast’s home to back up and record everything. Of course, if he wanted to save some trouble, he could achieve the same goal by using a high-performance tablet.
Even after the apocalypse, as long as there was electricity, people’s lives could be as convenient and simple as before.
In Wei Xuan’s eyes, the three years he lived in the apocalypse in his previous life were like living in a primitive society compared to now.
Although he didn’t have broadband, he could use a router to create a small local area network in his home, where he often moved around, even though he wasn’t very familiar with computer networks.
If his skills were strong enough and he investigated and searched deeply in the city, he might be able to come up with a whole set of servers and even set up a network throughout the city to monitor all the streets and areas.
Carefully and meticulously, he separated several seedlings of crops of the same type that looked similar, planted them in flowerpots he had acquired from a store he didn’t remember, labeled them, and placed them in the shade on the balcony.
After these seedlings had grown for a few days and fully adapted to growing in soil, Wei Xuan could move them to a sunny spot and plant them slowly.
“What kind of water should I use?” Wei Xuan wrinkled his brow again and seriously thought about this problem. Now he could choose to use ordinary purified water or even rainwater for planting.
He could also use water dissolved from snowflakes to water these plants. But if he used snow water, the snowflakes might even condense at the bottom of the pot…
In the end, there were too few samples for him to experiment with, and now it was already autumn. Even if he planted these plants in the room, he might not be able to keep them alive after the weather turned cold. Therefore, Wei Xuan was just experimenting a little bit now. If he failed, he could slowly try again next spring.
Of course, during this period, the crops in the planting machine could still be very promising.
After some contemplation, Wei Xuan decided to use regular, unpurified rainwater to water these crops for the time being, but not now. He wanted to wait for a day or two until the plants adapted to the growing environment before watering them.
After finishing these tasks, he got up and took Du Hang downstairs to the remaining vegetable plots in the community to deal with the remaining crops.
As the weather had become increasingly cold, Wei Xuan and Du Hang had already changed into relatively thicker clothes, even though Du Hang couldn’t feel the change in temperature.
When the mutant birds attacked last time, the two large mutated birds crashed into one of the vegetable plots, not only smashing all the vegetables but also leaving the area covered in blood.
When Wei Xuan washed the roof with the stored rainwater, the blood was also splashed around. Combined with the previous rain, the blood was quickly diluted and now had mostly seeped into the ground.
Now Wei Xuan came to check if there was any need to harvest the potatoes and carrots in the soil.
First, he harvested all the other vegetables in the other plots and put them in the supermarket basket before placing them in the cart. Then, he came to the still-devastated vegetable plot and tried to dig from one of the spots.
After digging a few times, he stopped his actions decisively. The potatoes were still there, and it seemed that they had not been smashed. However, the potatoes were stained with black and red blood, and he didn’t want to try their taste recklessly.
He knew that blood mixing into the soil would not cause any problems, but at least this batch of blood-stained potatoes and carrots was not suitable for his taste.
He ate meat, and before the apocalypse, he also ate pork blood and duck blood, but he had no interest in eating vegetables soaked in fresh blood. So he decided to leave them in the soil and make them into seeds for the next wave of vegetables.
“Let’s go back,” he said, leveling the land and turning around to pull Du Hang and push the cart back to their building.
After reserving a portion of the newly harvested potatoes and carrots, the remaining vegetables were cut into pieces, boiled in water, and placed on the sunny side of the top floor room for drying.
Wei Xuan intentionally saved some potatoes and carrots for another meat dish.
After trying to make fish-flavored shredded bird with the fresh meat from the bird he caught last time twice, he hasn’t touched the rest of the frozen meat since.
Today, he didn’t plan to use that meat for anything to eat but instead pulled out two cans of beef from his canned goods pile, planning to stew the meat with his potatoes and carrots to make a standard beef and potato stew.
After all, he also had high hopes for the taste of these canned goods, hoping that their flavor would at least be no worse than the side dishes in those convenient rice packages.
He soaked some rice, peeled and cut the potatoes and carrots, and washed away the starch with water before frying them in oil until the outside was slightly golden. Only then did Wei Xuan cautiously open a can of beef, and sniffed the smell inside it.
“There’s actually a lot of meat inside!” Upon opening the can, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but exclaim at the sight of the full can of beef. He didn’t know if this brand of canned beef was more cost-effective or if all canned goods were like this, but at least the can in front of him satisfied him.
The smell he sniffed was also very similar to the canned beef he had eaten in restaurants before, but now this thing was still cold, and he couldn’t be sure if it would still have the same flavor after being heated in the pot.
He poured the entire can of beef with the soup into a large bowl and then opened another can. With just two cans of beef, the large bowl was almost full. Wei Xuan hurriedly walked back to the stove, opened the oil pan again, added some spices to fry, and then poured the bowl of beef into the heat.
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Now I’m hungry
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I’m full of food and a vegetarian but this chapter makes me hungry all of the same. Thank you for the translation !
Thanks for the chapter! Yeah, I wouldn’t eat blood soaked stuff either, lol