Plant Invasion [End Times]

"Use it if necessary. If you can communicate directly in front of you, of course it is better to speak directly." General Huaishu said

"Eh? Why is that?" Shen Kuo asked.

"Are you a fool?" General Huaishu, who had been patiently explaining to Shen Kuo just now, became impatient in an instant, "Conversation with the mental body consumes so much energy, who can use it every day for nothing?"

"Oh." Knowing what he wanted to know, Shen Kuo didn't bother to argue with him anymore.

Afterwards, Shen Kuo had nothing to say to General Huaishu. He and General Huaishu hated each other now, and they didn't attack each other because of each other's forbearance. Fortunately, Mango No. [-] came back quickly.

Shen Kuo breathed a sigh of relief and asked him, "How is it? How many rice bullets are there?"

"There are only a little more than ten cubic meters in total, and the high priest told you to calculate the whole number." Captain Mango said.

"Thank you High Priest for me." Shen Kuo nodded, but he was a little strange, "Twelve war zones, why are there so many rice bullets?"

Captain Mango explained, "This is the first time I've used it, and everyone didn't dare to believe in its function, so I didn't use it much, and the number made by the high priest this time is not much. All of them are here."

"That's it, it's okay, I'm not in a hurry, I'll take it slowly later." Shen Kuo turned to General Huaishu and said, "There's no rush to improve plants. I'll take the samples you gave me and study them first. Improvement is not so easy. It can be done, and I will tell you when I think about it. You don’t have to worry that I want to run away, as you can see, I only get such a small reward, so I will definitely come back to get it.”

"I'm sorry you don't dare." General Huaishu snorted angrily.

Shen Kuo ignored him, went straight past the pods given to him by Captain Mango, and left.

Back in his room, Shen Kuo looked at the time and found that only half an hour had passed.

This is much more comfortable than when he had to go there for more than three hours every day.

When Shen Kuo got the rice, he was inevitably excited.I couldn't sleep for a while, so I went downstairs in the dark all night to put food in the yard.

With rice, Shen Kuo naturally gave priority to sharing this with everyone.Of course, he didn't forget to put some dishes out.

Shen Kuo didn't divide the rice before, but he also had a rough idea in mind.One liter of rice is about 2000 grams. There are women and children in their village who don’t eat much.The [-] people in his village need one thousand liters, that is, one cubic meter. Now he has ten cubic meters in his hand, which is enough to feed everyone for ten days.

Thinking of this, Shen Kuo was very happy: it is still cheaper to eat rice.He and the plants change things according to the space. Rice is really a kind of thing that is convenient and densely stacked. When it is put into the pods, it is one by one, basically leaving no gaps.A cubic meter of rice can support dozens of cubic meters of other plants.

Shen Kuo happily put the things away in the yard, and then walked back with a healthy body, and even hummed a few tunes in the dead of night.

However, as soon as he entered the living room, he heard a "click" from the door on the other side of the guest room.

The door of the guest room opened, and Jin Shao poked his head out with his messy hair, and said with a displeased face, "It's late at night, what are you wandering around here for?"

Shen Kuo's smile froze on his face, he scratched his head in embarrassment, and said embarrassingly, "You still haven't slept yet?"

"Why didn't I sleep? I just finished a round of sleep, halfway through my dream, and I was woken up by you." Jin Shao dissatisfied.

"That, I'm sorry." Shen Kuo didn't expect that he would disturb others by forgetting his form for a while, and he felt guilty all of a sudden.

Jin Shao rubbed his head, stood against the door for a while and regained consciousness, then glanced at Shen Kuo as if realizing something, then walked slowly towards the toilet as if nothing had happened: "It's okay , just get up and go to the toilet. You should go back to sleep quickly."

"Oh, let's go." Shen Kuo ran across the living room with his head down and guilt.

Just as he was about to go upstairs, the toilet door opened again, and Jin Shao's voice came from inside to Shen Kuo's ears: "Next time, don't make it so late, staying up late will hurt your health."

Shen Kuo's foot slipped as he stepped up the stairs and almost fell down.

Did he guess that his coming out in the middle of the night was related to food?

"Hey!" He replied from a distance, and hurried upstairs with his heart beating.

After closing the door, Shen Kuo took a breath and revived.

Unexpectedly, Jin Shao was woken up.Shen Kuo regretted it a bit. You said he just got some rice, so he was so uncertain.

However, judging by Jin Shao's performance tonight, it seems that he has really kept his promise and is no longer obsessed with inquiring about the secrets of his food source.This made Shen Kuo feel a lot better.

With the settlement of the plant kingdom's affairs, Jin Shao's troubles here are also resolved, and the firewood for the villagers is also available.Shen Kuo lay on the bed, feeling that everything was going well.

Shen Kuo fell asleep soundly.

Early the next morning, he was awakened by the sound of Jin Shao getting up downstairs.In fact, Jin Shao was already very quiet, but he was thinking about going to collect firewood, so when there was a sound downstairs, he bounced off the bed.

When they went downstairs, they found Jin Shao sitting at the entrance of the living room in a daze.

What is he doing?

Shen Kuo walked around to him, and found that Jin Shao was not in a daze, but was holding a blunt hatchet knife in his hand, slowly sharpening a wooden stick with its only sharp part near the handle.

Shen Kuo snatched the knife from his hand and said anxiously, "What are you doing? It's almost five o'clock! Don't you gather?"

"What are you doing?" Jin Shao snatched the hatchet back and gave him a blank look, "Didn't I tell you? I will go out every other day and rest today."

"Ah?" Shen Kuo scratched his head in confusion, "Why don't I know?"

"Who knew you—" Jin Shao rolled his eyes halfway, and suddenly remembered that he said this after Shen Kuo fainted, and he really didn't know.

"Well, you really don't know." Jin Shao's voice changed, "Then you know now? It's still early, you go back and catch up on sleep."

"Oh." Shen Kuo felt that this morning was quite magical, and he even got up early for nothing.

But it's nice to be able to sleep back in the cage.Shen Kuo casually glanced at Jin Shao's cut thing, compared it to something ugly, but didn't see what it was, turned around and walked back.

"Ah, wait a minute." Jin Shao stopped him.

"Yawn—what else is there?" Shen Kuo asked as he yawned and squinted his eyes as he was sleepy.

"What are you doing with so much rice in the yard?" Jin Shao's deep voice came to Shen Kuo's ears. I don't know if it was because Jin Shao announced to him the good news that he didn't have to go out. It was very nice, deep and magnetic, almost like a cello playing in his ear.

"What can you do, eat." Shen Kuo didn't understand what he meant by asking this question, did he want to praise himself?Well, feel free to boast.He went on.

Shen Kuo tilted his head lazily, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, squinting his eyes and continuing to climb upstairs along the handrail.

"A pile of rice, what do you want us to eat? Do you like the ancients and eat yellow rice by smashing it with a stone pestle?" Jin Shao's pleasant voice continued to come over, but Shen Kuo didn't have time to get intoxicated.

Shen Kuo's face suddenly changed color, and the sleepiness just now was completely shaken away by Jin Shao's words.

"God, I didn't expect this." Shen Kuo ran to Jin Shao's side, and followed his gaze to the rice piles piled up in the yard.

"What can we do?" Shen Kuo murmured in a daze.He was not asking Jin Shao, Jin Shao is an outsider, and he has more help than him. He just suddenly felt a great sense of loss when he was being poured cold water on his head, so he couldn't help but speak out what was in his heart. said.

"What else can I do? Cold salad." At this moment, Jin Shao's voice sounded again, "What do you think? When you...made the food, didn't you think...to ask for rice?" Because it involved the source of Shen Kuo's food , Jin Shao, who didn't know the specific situation, could only vaguely pass it.

"I-I didn't think about it that much at the time." Shen Kuo said with difficulty.

He looked sadly at the pile of rice that was destined to be wasted, thinking that he still had nine cubic meters of rice to eat, "I just thought that rice is changed from rice, so I thought that if there is rice... ...I was in such a hurry."

Shen Kuo's heart was sour, and he lowered his head sadly.

Jin Shao looked at the sad Shen Kuo in bewilderment.He didn't expect that Shen Kuo would be helpless when faced with this problem.He thought...that Shen Kuo had a solution.

A burst of regret welled up in Jin Shao's heart.Maybe he shouldn't have brought it up at this time?But he also knew that this question was obvious, and if he didn't talk about it now, it would be brought up when the villagers came later.It is too embarrassing for human beings to eat rice directly. They eat rice husks, which is how chickens and ducks eat.

With the development of human science and technology, the method of removing the husks of rice has long been replaced by rice threshers. Shen Kuo and his village must have this kind of thing, but the problem is that there is no electricity in the village now, even if there is a machine, they cannot operate it.

Looking at Shen Kuo who was depressed, Jin Shao felt uncomfortable for no reason.He didn't know how Shen Kuo got the food. He didn't know anything, and at this time, he didn't know where to start.

"You——didn't do it on purpose." Jin Shao patted Shen Kuo's shoulder a little jerky. He seldom comforted others, and he felt particularly awkward doing it now.

Shen Kuo didn't make a sound.

Seeing this, Jin Shao was helpless.He scratched his head and stood beside Shen Kuo for a while, and then choked out a few words: "It's okay, you villagers love you so much, and you don't want to die, you will definitely understand you." He said, and clumsily patted Shen Kuo's Shoulder.

This guy didn't care about the severity of his strikes. He was clearly trying to comfort others, but it made Shen Kuo's bones ache.

"Stop taking pictures." Shen Kuo walked away unwillingly, "Bones are broken."

"Ah? Oh." Jin Shao was rarely embarrassed, and put the hand that had patted Shen Kuo behind his back, and hit himself hard with the other hand.

Shen Kuo was amused by his little gesture, and then felt that it was really boring to look downcast after such a small blow.

Forget it, what's the use of being sad?Will the sad problem be solved by itself?

Shen Kuo cleaned up his mood, turned around and went into the room and took out a few sacks.

Seeing him put the rice in the bag, Jin Shao consciously followed him to help: "Do you want to put the rice away?"

"Well. Since you can't eat it, why put it here? Is it specially used to occupy space?" Shen Kuo said as he started.

I used to come to Grandpa's place many times before, and he is quite quick at work.After a while, several big sacks of rice came out.It's just that something went wrong when he tried to carry the rice to the warehouse - he packed too big a bag and couldn't carry it.

That's pretty embarrassing.

Shen Kuo had no choice but to release some of the rice from the sack, but was stopped by Jin Shao: "Keep pretending, and move quickly. I am strong, so I will carry it."

Shen Kuo glanced at him, seeing that he didn't mean to laugh at himself, nor did he embarrass himself: "Okay."

Jin Shao's strength is really great. Shen Kuo's sacks are all the kind that can hold more than 100 catties. Jin Shao can resist two at a time.Back and forth several times, not even out of breath.

However, Shen Kuo piled up more than 1000 catties here. After all, Jin Shao was not made of iron. After going back and forth seven or eight times, he was also sweating all over, and was so tired that he sat at the door panting.

Shen Kuo poured him a glass of water, looked at him for a while, and suddenly said sincerely, "Thank you."