In the Tenth Year After the Natural Disaster, Follow me to Farm

Chapter 71 Losing control in the rain

One end of these long thick bamboo pieces is buried and fixed at the edge of the field, and the other end is tied to the upper end of the long bamboo piece fixed on the other side of the field to form an arched frame of the rain shelter.

After erecting the arched frames half a meter apart, use the top beams and sub-beams on both sides to fix the arched frames, and then install the door head and front support. A standard of 150 meters long, four meters wide and three meters high. The rainproof shed frame is completed.

 Although the height of the crops in the shed is less than one meter, the height of the rainproof shed must not be less than three meters. When it is less than three meters, firstly, it is inconvenient for people to move inside, and secondly, crops will grow at least double in a short period of time, destroying the rainproof shelter.

After the frame is set up, cover it with a rainproof cloth. Use iron wire, nylon rope, cloth strips and other available fixing lines to tighten the rainproof cloth on the frame and compact it on both sides. The rainproof shed is completed.

Even the planting experts from the safe zone have to say they are professional when they come to the rain shelter she built.

Xia Qing has worked in the construction team for five years. She participated in the construction of more than half of the professional greenhouses in the safe zone planting center. Therefore, the greenhouses in her territory are of course professionally built, but the materials used are not comparable to those in the planting center. However, the greenhouses built with bamboo boards can withstand 90 millimeters of rain for two days without any problem.

 The No. 3 Territory is surrounded by high mountains in both directions to the northwest and is unlikely to be attacked by strong winds. However, Xia Qing, who is accustomed to being cautious, still takes every step very carefully.

 The height of sweet potato and pumpkin sheds that only climb vines but do not grow taller can be lowered. But Xia Qing has no shortage of bamboo and rainproof cloth, and sweet potatoes and pumpkins are next to potatoes, so Xia Qing plans to put the three crops together and build a standard shed.

Although the materials are sufficient, Xia Qing is not used to the smelly habit of pumpkin seedlings crawling everywhere. She smoothed out the more than ten meters long evolved pumpkin seedlings one by one and stuffed them into the rainproof shed. Looking at the regular green balls, Xia Qing felt extremely comfortable.

After the greenhouse was erected, Xia Qing built rain-proof sheds to protect the two red-light peanuts, the sheep’s pasture and a large area of ​​evolved white-haired chicken vines in the territory. By the time I was done, it was already dark.

Xia Qing’s remaining materials were enough to build a standard shed, but she had no idea of ​​sharing them with Zhao Ze and Tang Huai. Instead, these materials were placed separately in various rainproof sheds for preparation.

At ten o'clock in the morning the next day, the clouds turned overcast, and the southeast wind carried water vapor and blew over. Xia Qing immediately put on protective clothing and rushed to the hut next to the farm with the sheep boss.

This house was built by Xia Qing some time ago using building materials dug out from the deserted village. The hut has a pointed roof, one door and one window, and is 12 square meters in size, for her and the sheep boss to rest.

 After a crop evolves, if it is not removed as soon as possible, it will affect the surrounding crops. If it is a dangerous species, the consequences of not clearing it up in time will be even more serious.

However, Xia Qing is not too worried about the medium and high-risk evolution of crops. Because most of the seeds of the crops in her territory are brought from the safe zone, these seeds have been cultivated for several generations. As long as the rainfall does not seriously exceed the standard, the possibility of dangerous evolution is very low.

 Dangerous evolution refers to the fact that after biological evolution, the enhanced new skills will pose a threat to humans. Such threats include killing evolved creatures to release toxins, or evolving active attack skills.

 According to the risk level, the risk of evolution is divided into three levels: high, medium and low. The dangerous evolution tree that appeared in Xia Qing's territory during the first killing rain, Tan Junjie said, was an intermediate dangerous evolution tree.

 Medium-level danger, which ordinary evolved people may not be able to withstand.

For the next two days and 48 hours, Xia Qing will inspect the farmland every hour, remove invasive plants in time, and prevent and kill dangerous invasive animals.

Xia Qing has already said hello to Hu Feng. If she is too busy, she will ask the Hu Feng team to come over for reinforcements.

The sheep boss who lost control in the first rain this year may also lose control again in this rain. It lost control again, ranging from demolishing the house to completely losing its mind and turning into a violent and aggressive zombie.

 So, Xia Qing still has an important task in the second rainstorm: to protect the sheep boss and never let him go crazy again.

Xia Qing has two choices. One is to give the soothing capsules to Boss Yang in advance, and the other is to take Boss Yang with him at all times. The soothing capsule had too many side effects, so Xia Qing chose to take the sheep boss to the farmland to take care of both.

After the rain continued for half an hour, the sheep boss was comforted by Xia Qing's stroking and did not lose control. She felt relieved that it was time to inspect the rain shelter.

Xia Qing took a small bundle of fresh grass from the shelf and put it in the trough. "The boss eats grass first. I will go to the shed for a walk and then come back." The sheep boss stood up to eat grass. Xia Qing left the hut wearing protective clothing. Step on the holes drilled on the road and patrol according to the designed order.

 Looking around, not a single crop in the territory has evolved.

This is because Xia Qing’s rainproof shed was built professionally so that it does not leak, and the digging around the shed has good drainage function. Under the protection of rainproof sheds and drainage ditches, the crops in the sheds have not been exposed to rain, and the content of chlorine elements in the air has not risen to a certain concentration, which is not enough to cause the evolution of crop wormwood.

 However, as the content of chemical elements in the air and soil increases, the risk of chemical pollution of crops will also increase.

Xia Qing quickly returned to the hut. Seeing that the sheep boss was in a normal mood, he took off his protective mask, threw a few firewood into the small stove built with broken bricks in the middle of the house, used smoke and heat to drive away the evolution bugs, and then opened the lord channel , always pay attention to the latest developments in the surrounding territories.

In the event that dangerous evolved creatures appear in the surrounding territories, she must immediately come up with a response plan to prevent the possibility of dangers from other territories spreading to Territory Three.

The second hour before the rain fell, Zhao Ze from Land No. 4 was the first to report the destruction of crops in his territory.

None of the lords were surprised, because Zhao Ze didn't even build enough rain shelters, and part of the farmland was directly soaked by the rain. It was strange that the crops didn't evolve.

At this time, Xia Qing felt a little impatient and took out the detector to detect the rain. He found that the level of rain had reached orange, indicating that the danger had escalated.

Xia Qing went to the farmland again and found that the crops were still in good condition.

On the third hour of the rain falling, Kuang Qingwei reported that cotton had rotted. "Brother Qi, I see that the cotton has sprouted a lot of buds after it bloomed. Do you have to pull them out? Doesn't it mean that cotton buds may grow after it blooms?" Cotton?"

Qi Fu replied, "It must be pulled out, otherwise the cotton next to it will be affected and destroyed."

"With so many buds, how many cotton bolls will grow." Kuang Qingwei was reluctant to bear it. "It doesn't matter if the cotton has melted. As long as cotton grows..."

 No one paid any attention to him, and Kuang Qingwei muttered a few words and fell silent. Everyone understands that we must eradicate the evolution of plants, because large areas of the same plant may evolve, which may lead to dangerous evolution. At that time, it will not be about how many cotton bolls can grow, but whether we can save our lives.

Half an hour after Kuang Qingwei finished talking, Xia Qing intuitively felt his confusion. Because the two cotton trees in her cotton field have also evolved. The plants have grown from thigh-high to the height of a person, and all the new branches are fruit branches. There are more than fifty flower buds growing on them.

Xia Qingliu used a shovel to dig out the dead plants with their roots and soil, and planted them far away in the cultivated land outside the rain shelter to let them continue to grow.

Even if a cotton tree is not too tall and dangerous evolution occurs, Xia Qing's ability can completely eradicate it.

 Four and a half hours later, the rain stopped. Xia Qing has eighteen cotton plants, thirteen mung bean plants, and twenty-six wheat plants that have evolved. Without exception, they are all in the farmland where the seeds were soaked in filtered water. In addition, six of her red lantern flower seedlings died, and two of her yellow lantern soybean seedlings also died.

 The duration of the second rain is forecast to be forty-eight hours. So many crops have been destroyed in just over four hours. How much will be lost in forty-eight hours?

Xia Qing felt a little irritated and immediately returned to the hut, took off his protective mask and drank a few sips of spring water.

The sheep boss's mood also fluctuated significantly. Xia Qing stroked his fur, fed him some spring water, and took out some dried green bamboo shoots to grind his teeth. It made her and the sheep boss feel obviously irritable at the same time, which meant that the content of the element in the air had increased again, and the next rain might be at the red level.

 Red level, more dangers will occur.

The second burst of rain was indeed at the red level. Kuang Qingwei was cursing on the lord channel because a worker in his territory suddenly lost control and went crazy, destroying a large area of ​​mung beans and damaging the rain shelter.

 (End of this chapter)