Escape From the Library

【Environmental Pollution-03】

To survive for 14 days, they not only have to adapt to the extremely harsh environment here, but also find ways to fill their stomachs.However, judging from the current situation, there are no green plants growing in the whole city, which means that crops such as wheat and rice cannot survive.What do humans eat here?

Rice, flour, and oil all come from plants, let alone vegetables and fruits.Suppose the residents of this city don’t eat vegetables, but only eat meat...But animals like cattle, sheep, and pigs also eat plants. How can they survive without plant feed?

Lin Manluo's question caused everyone to fall into silence for a moment.

14 days of survival, how to solve the problem of food and drinking water?

After a while, Ke Shaobin said: "Isn't Xin Yan's decanter able to distill water? If it doesn't work, let's find some polluted water sources and let Xin Yan use the decanter to purify it before drinking."

Xu Yi sighed deeply: "Looking back now, when we were fleeing in the Academy of Life Sciences, we still ate whole grain porridge every day, had fresh air to breathe, and lived a very happy life!"

When we took a pile of red beans and peanuts on the road, everyone regretted not finding milk and bread in the supermarket, but compared with today’s harsh environment, the Institute of Life Sciences had mineral water to drink and rice porridge to eat during the escape process. So much better.

In this world, it is estimated that it is difficult to find even whole grains.

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "Since the residents of this city can survive, we can also find a way to survive. Let's look for a shopping supermarket nearby."

Lin Manluo raised a key question: "However, we don't have money, how can we buy things? We can't just grab them."

Zhuo Feng immediately said seriously: "You can't take the risk of robbing things. Although the environment in this world is polluted, the order of human society still exists. If the robbery is caught by the police and put in jail, the conditions in the prison must be worse than outside."

Liu Zhaoqing agreed: "If the cell is damp, moldy, and there are all kinds of bacteria, we might get sick. Even if we escape collectively by relying on Qin Lu's panel transposition skills and become wanted criminals, the next life will be difficult." "

Everyone was silent for a moment.Yue Xingwen sighed: "It would be great if the points in the library can be exchanged for money."

At this moment, a message popped up in the floating box in the upper right corner of everyone: "Library points can be exchanged for the world's common currency. The exchange ratio is 20:1. Do you want to exchange?"

Yue Xingwen was stunned for a moment, and said, "With the exchange ratio of 20:1, I have 1200 points left, so I can only exchange it for 60 yuan?"

Jiang Pingce frowned slightly: "60 yuan, 14 days of survival, if you don't consider the issue of rent, sleep outside every day, and eat instant noodles, bread and other fast foods, it should be barely enough."

Yue Xingwen worried: "It's just that the prices in this world may be different from the modern cities we know."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, let's go and have a look."

Everyone made up their minds and looked for a shopping supermarket nearby.

Huaxiang Building is located in the center of the city. Soon, they found that the first floor of the building was the Life Supermarket.

Everyone walked into the supermarket together. It was noon now, and there were not many people in the supermarket. They, a group of people without masks, headscarves and goggles, quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people.

A group of people walked around the supermarket cautiously—there are very few types of goods in supermarkets in this world. The shelves are full of compressed bread, compressed biscuits, and instant noodles. There are no more than ten types of vegetables in the vegetable section, and only four or five fruits. kind.

The price tag on the front of the product left everyone dumbfounded.

Liu Zhaoqing couldn't help but said, "Snatch money! 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 by the piece, and a piece costs 50 yuan. Wouldn't it cost thousands of dollars to get a bunch of grapes? I... the grapes in our place It's less than 20 catties!"

Xu Yi rubbed his forehead deeply, and said with a wry smile, "One apple sells for 200 yuan, are these golden apples?"

Qin Miao said coldly: "The library really won't make it too easy for us. The ratio of points to currency is 20:1, and each person can only exchange 60 yuan. In the end, this money can't even buy a cabbage. rise."

Lin Manluo analyzed: "The environment is seriously polluted, and plants cannot grow on ordinary land. These plants should be planted in the soil purified by technology and cultivated in greenhouses. The cost is very high, and it is not surprising that they are expensive. "

A couple just passed by. They pushed a shopping cart and bought a box 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 are probably used to eating vacuum-compressed food with a long shelf life, fresh fruits and vegetables, and they simply can't afford it.Unexpectedly, one day, the most common cabbage, potatoes, and tomatoes will become luxury goods.

Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment, and said, "Let's see how many points each has."

Jiang Pingce said: "There are 1000 team points left, and they can only be exchanged for 50 yuan. I will keep these points for everyone to eat after returning to the library. First, take out the personal points and exchange them for goods."

The team points are the "living expenses" handed in by everyone before, and they cannot be used up, or they will not be able to afford food after returning to the library.As for the remaining points on hand, they are reserved for upgrading skills, so it doesn't matter if you spend them first, anyway, you can earn them back for the next courses.

Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen made an arrangement: "Surviving for 14 days, we can minimize the quality of life, eat only one pack of compressed biscuits every day, and exchange about 60 yuan per person for biscuits, which is barely enough."

Living on 60 yuan for 14 days is also very difficult in the real world.

Don't even think about accommodation, they may have to sleep on the streets for the next few days, and renting a house is simply unaffordable.

Group C has bonus points after each exam. The points in everyone's hands are still relatively rich, but they have all fallen into this situation. It is hard to imagine how other people in Group A and Group B will live.

Liu Zhaoqing followed up with a reminder: "Not only food, we also have to buy masks, scarves, and protective clothing for going out. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to fall ill after inhaling dust for several days in a sandstorm."

Lin Manluo said: "My skill can plant a tree and purify the surrounding air, but I can only turn on the purification for one hour a day. For the rest of the time, everyone still has to wear a mask."

Ke Shaobin turned around and went to the place selling daily necessities to look for masks. When he found them, he couldn't help complaining: "Masks are so expensive, 20 yuan each! Goggles cost 30 yuan, protective clothing 30 yuan, that is to say, all my points are exchanged. If it becomes currency, you can’t afford to buy this set of equipment?”

Everyone: "..."

They are so poor.

The ratio of the library's points to the world currency is too bad - 20:1!

I wasted so many brain cells in the law school, and finally earned more than 1000 points. When I came to the environment school, I couldn't even afford a cabbage.

Looking at the prices of those goods, Yue Xingwen couldn't laugh or cry: "Do we have to go to work to make money?"

Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin: "It seems that the library doesn't want us to have a good time. If we want to work part-time, we don't have the ID card of this world, and we can't find a formal job, so we can only do temporary jobs, alas."

Zhang Xiaonian whispered: "Can I go to the construction site to move bricks? Or drive an excavator?"

Yue Xingwen said helplessly: "Then there must be a construction site willing to take you. With your underage appearance, if the world prohibits the employment of child labor, and you don't have an ID card, it will be difficult to find a job."

Everyone stood in front of the shelves and fell silent.

In the end, Yue Xingwen made a decision: "Let's buy a mask first. The air quality in this world is too bad. Even in an underground supermarket, I feel that the air is covered with dust, and my nose is itchy. As for goggles, scarves, protective clothing, etc., Everyone can share, buy two or three sets, whoever wears them when they go out."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Their goal is to survive, and they don't have to go out every day. If they can find a spare building to hide in, it's okay not to go out for half a month.

Qin Lu whispered: "Let's find some office buildings and other buildings, and after the doors are closed at night, we will use the plate transposition skill to lead everyone to sneak in and live there. However, it is difficult for so many of us to hide during the day, so we have to think again." Method."

Yue Xingwen nodded, and looked at his teammates: "How many points can everyone give? Let's hand it over to Ping Ce first, and let's calculate how much food and daily necessities we can buy."

At the juncture of survival, everyone does not need to hide their points. Except for Jiang Pingce who left 1000 team points in case of accidents, everyone else handed over all their points. , converted into the currency of this world, it is 15620 yuan."

780 yuan, let 12 people live for 14 days...

It really cost a penny to break it in half.

Yue Xingwen carefully calculated: "12 masks cost 240 yuan; goggles and protective clothing only buy 2 sets, costing 120 yuan. For the remaining 420 yuan, you can buy up to six boxes of biscuits, a total of 120 packs, each person can share to 10 packs."

14 days, a total of 10 packs of biscuits per person, not even one pack a day.

As a team of college students with an average age of 20 years old, when they are young and have a strong appetite, they only eat half a pack of biscuits a day?This is not enough to get between the teeth!

Besides, in case someone gets sick...

Yue Xingwen said: "We can't use all the money to buy food. We have to save some emergency funds to buy medicine. In such an environment, getting sick will be very dangerous. If it doesn't work, use Ping Ce's team Funds, spend all the points in this world, and then, the points obtained in this course will be used as living expenses after returning to the library."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, don't buy too much at one time, you must keep emergency money in your hand. Let's buy masks today, and then buy a pack of biscuits for each person to satisfy their hunger."

Yue Xingwen had a headache, this was the first time he was worried about making a living.

It can be seen that the series of effects caused by environmental pollution make people in this world live in dire straits every day.

Soil pollution, increased cost of growing plants, and increased cost of raising animals will inevitably lead to rising prices.Fresh vegetables and fruits have become cherished items, and ordinary families are probably willing to buy a few grapes and apples only during the holidays.Don't even think about meat, that's something rich people can afford.

The recipes are too single and the nutrition is not balanced. It is no wonder that the people on the street are all yellow and muscular, skinny, and look sick and weak due to long-term malnutrition.

The air is seriously polluted, and people must be fully armed when traveling every day. Although special masks can filter the dust in the air, breathing such air for many years will definitely increase the incidence of bronchitis. Over time, various cancers will also appear one after another. The average human Life expectancy will be greatly shortened.

Water pollution, long-term bacterial infection of the gastrointestinal tract, diarrhea will become a "everyday disease", and severe cases can lead to death.

Compared with the biochemical doomsday full of zombies, this kind of environmental doomsday, which is calm on the surface but actually endangers human beings every minute and every second, is equally terrifying!