End of the World Cycle

(Thanks to my dear 'Danna's Unparalleled' for the role summon, and I will give you more chapters for your dear)

"Did you see the place where I took the crystal core just now?"

"Yeah. I saw it."

"That's called a crystal nucleus cultivation field. There are fifty of them in the northwest. For safety reasons, they are all located in the wasteland outside the base. I think you also know that space-related esperians are very rare, so for convenience, there will be a rest stop like this every few dozen kilometers."

"Oh."

Xie Qin took out the food that the nanny had prepared in the morning. The other two people ate their fill, but Xie Qin had no appetite at all. All he could think about were the fifty crystal core cultivation farms that Qin Zhang had mentioned.

To be honest, I kind of wanted to do something bad. That's a level three zombie, locked in a cage like this. Anyone would be tempted, right?

Qin Zhang looked at Xie Qin who was counting rice grains. His facial expressions kept changing and his big eyes blinked from time to time. It was obvious that he was thinking about something. He was a little... a little attractive.

Before, when the rainstorm started, Qin Zhang had just joined the army. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he was ignorant of everything. After his superpowers awakened, his mind was full of ideas on how to become stronger.

I had no interest in girls at all. So when the leader came to me and said he wanted to marry Guo Qinling to me, I was disgusted.

But that little bit of disgust inexplicably disappeared during this day. Not only did he feel that Guo Qinling was also very strong, but he also felt that this person was lively and cute. He also attracted a lot of attention to her.

Xie Qin didn't pay any attention to the change in the other person's mood. He was still thinking about how to kill those third-level zombies in the official base without leaving any trace.

After dinner, the three of them set off. When the car had been driving for almost an hour, Xie Qin saw a building that looked like an ancient city wall not far away.

The two mountains were connected, surrounding the inside tightly. Xie Qin felt something was wrong, so he quietly spread out his mental power to find out what was going on.

There are people all behind the city wall.

"What is that?" The girl's innocent voice sounded. Qin Zhang glanced and saw the direction Xie Qin was pointing.

"Residential area."

"Hmm? Is this where the survivors live?"

"That's it."

"What do you mean by 'counted as'? I always can't understand what you say." Xie Qin rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction. Qin Zhang saw Xie Qin's expression through the rearview mirror, smiled unconsciously, and then explained patiently.

“It’s a planting area and a grazing area.”

"Didn't you say before that you didn't know where your planting area was? Do you know now?"

Qin Zhang touched his nose and didn't say anything else.

"Take me to see it!"

"Don't go there. The environment there is average and not suitable for you."

"I don't care! Take me there! I order you to take me there!" Xie Qin acted like a reckless young lady, and even Xu Nuo in the passenger seat was dumbfounded.

This... Is this still the base commander who kills without blinking an eye...?

Qin Zhang had no choice but to change the direction of the car and drive towards the city wall.

When I got closer, I saw that although the city wall was an old-style one, it had been reinforced, and the gate was made of the same material as the Pangu base I had visited.

There was a real person guarding the door, and when he saw the car approaching, he stepped forward and prepared to question us.

Before entering, Xie Qin smelled a foul smell, a stink of feces, and even a bit of an eye irritation, so he couldn't help but pinch his nose and rub his eyes. Qin Zhang, who was in the driving position, handed his ID to the guard at the door while observing Xie Qin's actions and spoke.

"Are you still going?"

"Go! Why not? I can still tolerate this little stinky thing!"

As he spoke, the gate had already opened. Once it was opened, the stench became stronger. A large field of grass was filled with cows, sheep, and horses. Many people were carrying large backpacks, walking on the grass, shoveling manure into the baskets and carrying them to the vegetable fields farther away.

Xie Qin was indescribably shocked. He had only seen such scenes, where everything was operated manually, in history books. Compared with the Pangu Base, which was full of technology and a sense of the future, they were simply two extremes.

The people here lead the most primitive farming and pastoral life, living in simple yurts built along the mountains and city walls. Men, women, young and old are all working.

These people have one thing in common, that is, they are all ordinary people. Except for some people in military uniforms who occasionally walk by and are people with special powers, the rest are all ordinary people, and there are quite a lot of them.

"Are they under control?"

"Of course not. They are just protected. For safety reasons, they are not allowed to go out at will. After all, you know that it is very dangerous outside."

Xie Qin shut up, unable to express his feelings. Ever since coming to the official base, every new discovery has refreshed his view of the official base.

Is it wrong to raise zombies, control the labor force, and build a circle of superiors?

She couldn't judge, but from a certain perspective, doing so could indeed allow more people to survive and better preserve her human civilization.

After all, aren't the most valuable people in this world the inventors with smart brains? Ordinary people live ordinary lives, which is nothing out of the ordinary.

Xie Qin did not get off the bus, for no other reason than it was too dirty. All she could see was people and animal feces on the ground. She could tolerate the smell, but she couldn't stand on the shit.

"Why don't you go down and take a look?"

"I want to, but it's too dirty. I won't go. You drive me around."

Qin Zhang didn't say anything, he just started the car and drove around the edge. Although there were a lot of people, they all took the initiative to avoid the military vehicles. Even though the speed was not slow, it took nearly half an hour to see the entire agricultural and animal husbandry base.

In addition to cattle, sheep, and horses, the base also has a large number of poultry, including rabbits and bamboo rats. All animals that can be raised can be found here. There is also a large vegetable base, which cultivates common vegetables with a short growth cycle. I didn't see any staple food.

"Logically speaking, rice can't be grown in the northwest. Where does the rice you eat come from?"

Qin Zhang turned his head and glanced at Xie Qin, as if he was looking at a fool. Xie Qin hated that kind of look, and resisted the urge to poke Qin Zhang's eyes out, and gave him a fake smile.

Qin Zhang noticed that Xie Qin's smile was forced, and then explained.

"Let alone the military reserve food, the emergency reserve food in each province alone is enough for us survivors to eat for hundreds of years."

"It's still a few hundred years away... Aren't you afraid of it breaking down..." Xie Qin muttered back.

"Never underestimate the scientific research technology of our Xia country. If it weren't for the frequent natural disasters and man-made disasters. If there weren't zombies, it would be impossible for people in Xia country to starve to death."

"So you have a lot of food reserves?"

"I said, without those disasters, people wouldn't starve to death. It's just the difference between eating well and eating poorly."

Xie Qin suddenly thought of the batch of grain in Qingyang City. The equipment inside looked really advanced. Xia Country was so big, and he only took a city-level emergency reserve of grain, which was enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people. Not to mention the military reserves. He even found it a little funny.

Everyone says that the most lacking thing in the apocalypse is food. After building a base, a lot of manpower and material resources will be spent on producing food. But in fact, the thing that is least lacking is food. What is lacking is how to get the food to the hands of those who need it.

It is impossible for the official base to take away so much grain. There must be many places like Qingyang City. I have to ask Miao Zhe to find a way to find the location of the granary. After all, Xie Qin can tell which is more convenient, taking it for nothing or growing it with great effort.

Although the food will run out one day, as Qin Zhang said, more than one billion people can eat enough food for a hundred years, and she doesn't believe that the few hundred million people who survived can consume it all.

With such a long buffer period, even if the overall environment is bad, hundreds of years should be enough for humans to adapt to this new world after the apocalypse.