Are you hungry (v1c7)
She raised her hand, eager to try. She silently said the word 'hoe' in her mind, with a mix of anticipation and apprehension. She hoped for a good result.
After all, the little girl was seriously injured and she couldn't take her with her all the time. Although she had only won a small hoe from the blind box this time, what if she drew something big in the future? She wouldn't be able to move it by herself.
She felt that people always needed something to look forward to.
What if she opened the blind box and got an airplane, a tank, or something like that?
With this thought, she focused and watched her hands. As she silently said the word 'hoe', something appeared in her left palm.
She looked down and saw a hoe in her hand.
She could actually summon it at will!
ヾ(●´∀｀●)
She said it again and the hoe vanished.
She repeated the experiment several times and it worked every time. She was very satisfied. The disappointment of not getting the peerless martial arts from the blind box faded away.
People had to know how to be content.
Anyway, it was a free blind box and it was good to get a small hoe. She just had to wait until dawn to set off for the wilderness. She had a tool that could be used for digging.
If she encountered a polluted creature, she could fight back...
'Bah, bah, bah, my luck wouldn't be so bad. God bless me, I had to be safe.'
The wilderness was not the same everywhere.
For example, near the mitigation zone, various mercenary groups would clean it up regularly. Unfortunately, the wilderness was too vast and the mercenaries couldn't cover it all. There were always some that escaped.
Or there might be polluted creatures that could burrow underground or fly in the sky, making them hard to defend against.
Also, some polluted creatures evolved very fast and had high IQs. They were smart enough to avoid the mercenary groups and prey on the weak civilians.
These cleared wilderness areas were dangerous enough, let alone the mysterious ones that no one had explored.
Even the best mercenary groups didn't dare to go near them.
But to prevent the polluted creatures, the base officials had developed many powerful weapons, such as energy shells, that could turn a dense forest into ashes with one shot.
Not to mention the polluted creatures hiding in the forest.
If a powerful polluted creature attacked the city, the base could protect itself with the energy shells.
Of course, the people in the mitigation zone had no chance to enter the safe zone. They could only wait to die.
When she heard Zhou Lin say this, she asked doubtfully, why didn't the base officials just bomb the wilderness?
The plants grew very fast because of the poisonous mist radiation, so there was no need to worry about the damage.
Zhou Lin giggled like a little chicken and she waited until she stopped laughing before explaining.
The wilderness was too big, no matter how many shells they had, they couldn't blast it all. Besides, after bombing some areas, the surviving or nearby polluted creatures would become more aggressive and might attack the safe zone base.
Too risky.
Moreover, the powerful weapons they developed needed energy stones to work.
Where could they get so many energy stones?
Energy stones were a rare and precious commodity in the apocalyptic wasteland world. They were created by the poisonous mist radiation that brought death and destruction, but also some benefits. The radiation infused the underground rocks with a special new type of energy, which could be extracted and used for various purposes.
If she was lucky enough to find an energy stone, she could exchange it for a large number of credit points, but the exchange rate depended on the specific value contained in the energy stone. A detector could measure that value.
Energy stones also had different levels, but Zhou Lin didn't understand this and didn't explain it to her.
Ye Sheng sighed as she thought about this.
Not only did the base's official weapons require energy stones, but so did her lucky draw. She had to feed the energy stones to the Lucky Cat God to get points for the draw.
But energy stones were so scarce, she felt that she shouldn't dream too big.
For now, she set a small goal: not to go hungry for a month.
She had four tubes of nutrient solution left, so she and the little girl consumed two tubes a day, which would last only two days.
She had to wait until dawn to go to the wilderness and search hard.
She yawned subconsciously and felt sleepy again. She was still exhausted from rushing to the garbage dump. She stopped thinking about the wilderness and prepared to sleep.
But before going to bed, she couldn't resist a temptation. She picked up a straw and tried to put it into the lucky draw space.
It turned out that she was hoping for too much.
The straw in her hand didn't disappear, and nothing else changed. She threw it away and lay down next to the little girl, closed her eyes, and fell asleep in seconds.
But while she was sleeping soundly, the little girl lying next to her slowly turned her head.
Even though her red eyes couldn't see anything, they fixed on Ye Sheng's face. After a long time, she turned back again, not revealing what she was thinking in her heart.
...
This time, she woke up just after dawn.
She couldn't sleep for too long.
She washed up energetically and was ready to go, when she heard a sudden noise from the straw bed. She walked over quickly, fearing that something might have happened to the little girl.
She was very worried about leaving her here, because her injuries were serious.
But the remaining food at home would only last for two more days, so she had no choice but to leave.
Luckily, the nutrient solution in the wasteland world was very effective. After drinking it, she could feel full for a whole day, and even basic physiological needs disappeared. She didn't have to worry about going to the toilet, for example.
Otherwise, she would have to help the little girl... Ahem, even though she was a girl too, she still felt shy.
She carefully observed the little girl's condition and found that it hadn't worsened. As if she noticed her presence, the little girl blinked her confused eyes and then raised her arms with great difficulty.
But the bones of both arms were broken and they couldn't be lifted.
It only made the pain of the cuts and fractures worse.
She noticed that and stopped the little girl's movement. Then she asked: "What do you want to do? Are you hungry?"
She remembered the little girl's shaking head yesterday, and added, "If I guess right, blink your eyes. If I guess wrong, don't blink."
She waited for a moment, but the little girl didn't blink.
She raised her hand and scratched her hair, puzzled. What did the poor child want to do?
Just when she was about to give up guessing, the little girl raised her arm again.
She stopped wondering and quickly held down her hand. Then she realized that the little girl's raised arm was the one with the Super Smart Internet Watch.
She understood what she meant.
She felt a surge of emotion. She wasn't as firm as before, but hesitated for a moment before asking again: "Do you want to give me the super smart network?"
As soon as she said that, the little girl blinked, confirming that she had guessed right.