Have a Dream (v1c10)
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Edible spinach!
After nearly an hour of work, Ye Sheng felt numb. During this time, she doubted her decision many times.
She had thought she could find some overlooked treasures...
The wilderness area closest to the mitigation zone was the safest, with the lowest chance of encountering polluted creatures. It was also a place where the old, weak, sick, and disabled in the mitigation zone could scavenge.
But it was hard for the truly old, weak, sick, and disabled to survive long, so the number of scavengers was very small.
The teams of strong scavengers despised this place, leaving only a few lonely outcasts to scavenge in silence. But most of them also hated the barrenness here.
That's why Ye Sheng felt that there was a gap to exploit and that there might be a surprise!
But every time the detector beeped, it showed high radiation and inedibility. The repeated sounds made Ye Sheng's confidence fade quickly, and she wondered if she was being too clever.
Maybe she wasn't the only one who had such thoughts, but also other hungry people in the mitigation zone.
But they had given up after finding nothing.
To fill their stomachs, people had to go deeper into the wilderness.
But just when Ye Sheng was about to give up, this medium radiation spinach appeared! ! !
Ye Sheng was ecstatic, wishing she could clench her fists and laugh wildly at the sky.
She had actually found food! ! !
And spinach~
Even though she had been sent to this world to make up the numbers, her luck wasn't that bad!
Thinking of this, Ye Sheng looked at the edible spinach with delight. Unlike ordinary spinach, the spinach in the wasteland world had mutated after being 'ripened' by the poisonous fog radiation.
Although the general shape was the same, the size difference was obvious.
The spinach reached Ye Sheng's waist, and the slender leaves spread out in all directions, standing proudly in front of her. The elongated green leaves were so tender~
The more she looked, the more she liked it.
Ye Sheng smiled. Even though her cheeks were thin, she still had exquisite facial features, which looked a bit sweet. At this moment, her dark eyes were full of joy, and her lips, which were pale due to malnutrition, curved slightly.
She quickly pointed the detector at the spinach and scanned it again, eager to hear the beautiful sound once more.
'Beep~High radiation spinach detected. It is not edible.'
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Ye Sheng had scanned it again just to feel happy, but now the surprise turned into shock.
Her eyes widened in disbelief, but instead of panicking, she furrowed her brows and thought carefully about the prompt she had just heard.
The quality of the inspection machine issued by the base was very good. Unless it was taken apart, there would be no unexpected errors.
Absolutely not...wait, she remembered!
She had been too happy and ignored the last two words of the prompt.
A piece of medium-radiation spinach…
After figuring out the key, Ye Sheng scanned it again and soon found the real spinach hidden among the many leaves.
Ye Sheng, who had only arrived a few days ago in this world', remembered that unless these radioactive plants were whole, their branches and leaves would contain different amounts of radiation.
They all needed to be tested.
This spinach was fine, like rice grains, sesame seeds, and so on, all calculated on a case-by-case basis.
Of course, if she didn't want to go through such trouble, she could take the radioactive plants to the swap shop, spend points to activate the large detector, and pick out the edible plants.
But the manpower in the mitigation zone was worthless, so she had to spend points.
Wouldn't it be better to save the points and redeem them for nutrient solutions?
Ye Sheng sighed helplessly. Although she was a bit disappointed that she couldn't take all the big spinach, it was better than nothing. She grabbed the edible spinach leaf and then took out a small hoe and chopped it off from the root.
Ye Sheng had been rummaging around in her shack for a long time, and she knew that poor families had nothing.
Not to mention tools like knives.
For now, she could only use a small hoe as a universal tool...
From this point of view, her luck in drawing the blind box was not bad. What she drew was exactly what she needed.
Thinking of this, Ye Sheng rolled up the chopped vegetable leaves into a ball about the size of two fists. Then she carefully put it into her backpack and decided to use this piece of spinach to make soup when she got back.
But just when Ye Sheng was about to continue carrying the backpack, something suddenly occurred to her. She quickly chopped off a few pieces of high-radiation spinach with the small hoe, rolled them into balls, and put them in the backpack as well.
If she encountered someone trying to rob her on the road, these spinach leaves could be used to confuse them.
The reason?
She could say that these spinach leaves were used to make fertilizer and to maintain the mugwort leaves that could stop bleeding.
People in the mitigation zone couldn't afford the expensive hemostatic drugs in the exchange hall, so they did their best to survive, and thus discovered mugwort, a medicinal plant with lower radiation contamination.
There were mugwort leaves planted in front of almost every house or behind the house. If she had anything to do, she would check them out. If she found mugwort leaves with low to medium radiation, she would pick them off and grind them into powder, which could then be used as a medicinal powder to stop bleeding.
Although the raw materials and production were very crude, it was very effective. At least it could stop bleeding and save lives at critical moments.
Therefore, it was not surprising that Ye Sheng used spinach leaves to make fertilizer.
As for such troublesome cover-ups and lies, it wasn't that Ye Sheng was making a fuss, but that the people of the wasteland did everything they could to survive...the big fish ate the small fish, and the small fish ate the shrimp.
Robbery and the like were not uncommon.
Even murder!
Well!
Survival was not easy!
After traveling from a society ruled by law to a wasteland world, Ye Sheng knew that she could no longer be naive.
Thinking of this, the excitement of finding edible spinach quickly faded away. After that, she continued to use the detector to scan in various ways, hoping to get lucky again.
Besides making soup with spinach leaves, she also wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes.
If that didn't work, baked potatoes would do.
She knew that searching for starchy fruits in the wilderness was simply a dream, but what if!
A person had to have dreams.
Ye Sheng took a deep breath and started testing with full motivation.
The area was quickly inspected.
Obviously, the god of luck wouldn't come often. Apart from the piece of spinach she found at the beginning, Ye Sheng had no other harvest.
Seeing this, Ye Sheng was not disappointed, she was in a good mood.
At worst, she would go somewhere else.
But the searching work took more than four hours. Although it wasn't a high-intensity work, it still gave Ye Sheng, who had never been so diligent, a sore back.
She straightened up with a grimace, and while massaging her lower back with her hands, she looked towards the wilderness ahead.
Except for the paths that people often walked, the rest of the place was green. The various radiated plants had grown in size. At that moment, they were clustered together, forming a green kingdom.
As the wind blew, the grass leaves swayed.
There was a sense of tranquility and leisure.
Ye Sheng's expression was relaxed, silently admiring the scene in front of her, feeling close to nature.
Ye Sheng might have been in a better mood if she hadn't noticed a pair of red eyes staring at her from not far away.
She quickly took out the small hoe from the lucky draw space, and subconsciously gripped it tightly. She stared at the spot in front of her. She saw a red-eyed rat the size of an adult golden retriever, hiding among the vegetable leaves like a ghost, waiting for the right moment to strike.
Damn!
It was a Porcupine rat!