Plant Invasion [End Times]

Shen Kuo has always been very distressed about General Huaishu's relentless desire to get himself on the battlefield.

The creatures in the plant kingdom have a deep-rooted concept that vegetables are low-level plants, and low-level plants should go to the battlefield as soldiers to fight zombies, and the higher the plants, the deeper the obsession with this.

And in District [-], the one with the deepest obsession is naturally this locust tree.Even though he has proved that he can play a greater value behind the scenes, he still has to bring up the matter of letting him go to the battlefield from time to time, and expresses his dissatisfaction with his behavior of watching the battle with a green pepper on the other side of the river .

Shen Kuo didn't try to explain it to him anymore. Facts have proved that these plants are so brain-dead, no matter how reasonable they are, it's useless.The best thing to do is to ignore him.

Sure enough, Shen Kuo adopted a policy of ignoring, and General Huaishu talked to him for a long time before leaving consciously bored.

Shen Kuo looked at his back and could only shake his head.

Three hours is a blink of an eye for the fighting animals, but it is very difficult for Shen Kuo who ran out to earn military merits in the middle of the night without sleep.In order not to miss the end of the battle, he had to stay awake all the time, because as soon as the battle was over, he had to immediately negotiate with the on-duty guards who cleared the battlefield and recovered the soldiers' corpses, calculated his military merits, and then exchanged for the food he needed on the spot.

His so-called food is these low-level plants that died in battle.

For the people in the plant kingdom, these low-level plants have no status, and they are worthless garbage after they die in battle.If it wasn't for the battlefield being used for a long time so it had to be cleaned up, they wouldn't care about it at all.In their view, these dead plants are a kind of waste that takes up space and takes time and effort.Even for a long time, according to Shen Kuo's knowledge, the upper layers of plants have held emergency meetings many times to discuss solutions to the piles of dead lower plant corpses in the garbage dump.

For people in the plant kingdom, those low-level plants that died were waste that took up space, but for Shen Kuo, these low-level plants that died and were no different from vegetables on the earth were life-saving rations.

The plants expressed their understanding of Shen Kuo's behavior of asking them for the dead lower plants.But Shen Kuo knew that they often talked about his "garbage collection addiction" behind his back, and expressed deep sympathy.

Shen Kuo could only laugh it off.

There is no way, and this cannot be explained.Misunderstand it.

Three hours finally passed.In fact, Shen Kuo has every reason to suspect that the flow of time here is different from that on Earth, because the time here is really difficult.

However, today's three hours were successfully completed, and Shen Kuo breathed a sigh of relief looking at the zombie captains and plant captains who were busy collecting the corpses of the dead soldiers and bringing back the living plant soldiers or zombie soldiers on the opposite battlefield.

Plants have a unique advantage in clearing the battlefield, because the plant captains have pods. As long as they send an order, the pods will open and close, and a large area of ​​plants on the ground will disappear.On the zombie side, they could only carry their backs one by one.Basically, the plant captains here have already finished their work, and the zombie captains over there haven't even finished one-tenth of it.Shen Kuo felt deep sympathy for them-this is probably the legendary five minutes of fighting and two hours of corpse collection.

The captain in charge of the cleanup soon came over with the pods transported by the lotus leaves, followed by the twenty captains who participated in the battle tonight.

Today's battle situation is obviously very good. The twenty fruits are all smiling, and they look brighter in color, plump and juicy. Shen Kuo can't help but think that he hasn't eaten fruit for more than half a year.

"Qingjiao No. [-], you are amazing, we won a big victory today!" A lychee captain walked up to Shen Kuo with a happy face, but a total of five lychee captains participated in this battle, and they were as tall as they were. They were exactly the same, and Shen Kuo couldn't tell the number of the person in front of him at all.But this does not prevent Shen Kuo from being sincere and humble: "In fact, it is all thanks to you and the soldiers. I am just writing and drawing behind the scenes. You are the actual participants in this battle, and the credit is all yours." .”

"That's true. But what you said is a bit wrong. Those soldiers are not considered heroes. It is their job to participate in the war." Li Zhi said.

For such remarks, Shen Kuo had no choice but to scold himself for making you talk too much. "Ah, maybe." Shen Kuo let out a haha ​​to deal with it, and then took the initiative to meet today's liquidation guards.

Those were five big bright yellow mangoes, holding a pea pod with a capacity of [-] cubic meters, walking in unison with a straight face.

"Dear Captain Mango, you have worked hard." Shen Kuo stepped forward to greet him cordially.

After the war, the number of casualties between the enemy and us has been calculated by a group of mango guards. It is said that there are 25 mangoes in rotation, but they really look exactly the same, even their expressions and movements are carved out of the same mold. Shen Kuo has never I haven't made it clear who they are, so there is only a collective name.

"It's not hard, this is our job." The mangoes spoke in unison.

"Excuse me, what is my military merit in this battle?" Shen Kuo asked anxiously.

"Your military achievements are not under our control, you can ask the general yourself." After the leader Mango answered, he was about to leave with the other four Mango captains.

Shen Kuo was a little excited. He knew that the mangoes had such a strict temper, so he quickly changed his words: "I mean, how many enemies have been eliminated by our soldiers in this battle."

"Oh, you mean this." Mango the leader suddenly realized, and he said every word: "In this battle, we sent 530 troops, and [-] survived; the enemy sent [-] troops." [-], [-] survived. The result of the war: our side won."

Shen Kuo listened patiently, then nodded, and said, "I have obtained ninety military merits in this battle, do you have any objections?"

The leader Mango shook his head: "The general said that there can be errors of less than ten, and we have no objection."

"Very good, I should have five remaining military exploits from yesterday, you should record them, and now I want to exchange them all for the lower plants that died today."

"Yes, please give the specific ratio."

"[-] military merits for potatoes, [-] military merits for corn, I just need corn kernels, please help sort them, ten military merits for onions, and the remaining five military merits for exchange, uh, one military merit for peppers, this has become chili powder, I hope it can be packed separately, I remember I still have broad bean pods stored with you, don’t you? Just use that, and the last four military meritorious service to help me exchange for General Sophora’s Sophora japonica, thank you.”

The leader, Mango, nodded expressionlessly throughout the whole process, as if he was doing business. Only when he heard that Shen Kuo asked for General Huaishu's pagoda tree at the end, his expression cracked.Surprise flashed across the faces of the other four mangoes.

"Please be sure, do you want to exchange military achievements for the general's Sophora japonica flower?" The leader Mango put away his disbelief, and asked again with a straight face.

"Steamed Sophora japonica", "Stir-fried Sophora japonica", "Cold Sophora japonica" and "Scrambled Sophora japonica eggs" recurred in his mind, and Shen Kuo said in a serious tone: "Yes, I confirm. By the way, before I asked Yangmei's personal guard to give it to me." I packed some in broad bean pods, please transfer them to the pea pods you gave me."

"Okay. Is it still here for you?"

"Yes. Please give it to me as soon as possible. I am busy going home to visit the mother tree."

"Please wait a moment." The leading mango walked towards the barracks calmly with the other four mango captains, and then disappeared between the heavy curtains.

Shen Kuo waited anxiously on the spot.

When Shen Kuo stretched his neck to look into the tent for the third time, a mango figure appeared at the door of the tent.Shen Kuo didn't know if this was the one he communicated with before, but he still took the initiative to go forward.

He stretched out his hand to pick up the pea pods in the opponent's hand: "Thank you, thank you for your hard work."

"It's not hard, this is my job." Mango handed the pods to Shen Kuo with a straight face, and walked towards the tent with steps of the same size.

And Shen Kuo stood there and watched him go away, and when he entered the barracks, Shen Kuo walked to the river and jumped into it—in fact, it was not into the water, but just to prevent people from seeing him disappear in the same place in broad daylight.At the moment when he was about to hit the water, he left the space

Shen Kuo lay on his bed, looked at his watch by the moonlight, it was on time: twenty past zero.In the three-hour battle, the remaining [-] minutes were spent on taking his own spoils.

The pale moonlight hit his bed, and Shen Kuo, who was anxious to come back to have a good sleep, looked at the moonlight on his hand, and suddenly lost sleepiness again.

The moonlight made him think of one thing for no reason—natural gas.

The food has been solved, but the fuel in the village is getting less and less. It is impossible to leave the village. Where can I find new fuel?

Ugh.

The thoughtful village chief sighed, watching the moonlight rising into the middle of the sky, not only worried about his own village, but also worried about the fate of several temporary bases around him.

The base city has been out of food for three or four months. It was a good idea to distribute rations to them on time and according to the population every month, but now it has become empty talk.The wildly growing plants have blocked their way out. Without the basic living resources, their village alone is already in such a difficult situation. The other temporary bases around have no food source, and I am afraid it has already become a hell.

The village chief put his hard-earned pea pods in his chest pocket, and then slowly fell asleep with a sigh of relief.

Tomorrow, the villagers' rations will be steamed (roasted/boiled/fried) potatoes, steamed acacia flowers, fried onions, and chili powder for seasoning.

In this apocalyptic world where everyone is starving to death, we cannot ask too much.The people in their village eat some food in one bite, and they can change the types and patterns to eat with seasonings, and they are already very happy.