Chapter 126： Leave, plant the fire of hope! (1/2)
”Why are there babies?”
Su Mo's voice gritted his teeth, but he was afraid of disturbing the women and children inside, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart and whispering softly.
Chen Shen behind was also taken aback, and hurriedly said:
”Brother Lu, don't be angry. She is about to give birth when she just crossed over. With the help of Doctor Song, the children born in this camp were not directly transmitted...”
Listening to Chen Shen's explanation, Su Mo closed his eyes and was not talking.
After a while, Sumo turned around and walked out of the pit and opened the shed of the No. 3 pit.
Fortunately, there is only this pregnant woman and child in the entire camp.
”What do you usually eat?”
Stepping down the hill, looking at the materials on the ground, Sumo's tone is no longer heavy, and his tone is no longer cold.
This time, without Chen Shen's answer, the person who was still sitting on the ground pointed to the materials found nearby and whispered:
”We usually eat bark and grass roots, and then they will give some muddy water. After boiling, everyone can barely eat half full.”
”Then there will be an extra meal in four days. The potato is eaten, and each person can get half...”
Potato?
Su Mo lowered his body, planed the bag on the ground, and sure enough, the bag was filled with potatoes.
Occasionally, a few potatoes that have sprouted but have not rotted are mixed in.
This thing Somo is very familiar with. In fact, when he planted vegetables in the medium for the first time, Somo hesitated whether to plant potatoes, but in the end he chose to give up.
The ”Martian Rescue” used to be in the earth era, almost everyone knows that a large number of potatoes are grown, which is full, delicious, and able to survive.
Therefore, in most of the novels, once they encounter insufficient food, almost all the solutions proposed are:
Plant potatoes!
In contrast to other crops that need to be pampered, potatoes are hardy and full, and the starch inside can provide a lot of calories and nutrients. They are indeed the best crops to grow in this environment.
Coupled with the arbitrary output of several thousand catties per mu, it seems that everyone feels that this is a kind of fetish.
But the reason Somo gave up was straightforward and real.
Energy is conserved, and the exaggerated yield and nutrition of potatoes must be converted by other energy.
This energy is the fertility of the land in a broad sense!
In ordinary barren land, the potatoes planted are small and the yield is low. Without proper fertilizer, the yield will continue to be greatly reduced.
And the lesson in history has clearly told: If you grow a lot of potatoes, once you get sick, you have to finish playing.
”Cook it, cook all the potatoes, everyone is talking!”
There is about one and a half bags of potatoes on the ground, and everyone can get two or so.
Although some potatoes have sprouts and may produce solanine, in this environment, after hearing Suma's words, everyone has no worries on their faces.
Shocking cheers rose from the center of the camp. Everyone did not act immediately. Instead, the group of grateful Dade bent down and bowed before they started to perform their duties.
Those who were looking for the pot were looking for the pot, the fire was being built, and a group of people went to places where no one was there and planed back handfuls of slightly clean snowflakes.
Every refugee who passed by Sumo had the joy of the rest of his life and the joy of having a big meal soon.
Two potatoes per person...
”So this is the simple happiness of ordinary people in the last days?”
Looking at these people, Sumo suddenly understood why from ancient times to the present, even several catastrophes on Earth have not been able to exterminate mankind.
”Perhaps, I am a decisive person, but I...definitely not a cold-blooded person, at least, not now!”
So Mo just stood quietly in the middle of the camp.
Seeing the busy people around him, Sumo even had the idea of bringing all these people back to the base to live in a small camp.
People are always lonely.
Even if it was accompanied by Oreo and sparks, after half a month passed, and after returning to the collective life, a sense of collectiveness that had disappeared came again.
This feeling is unclear.
Even looking at the smiling faces of the same kind, Somo couldn't stop trying to smile.
”But... my current camp hasn't solved the food problem at all, and I don't have enough trusted people to manage these people. Once they rebel, I have no way to counteract it!”
Looking at his own doomsday law silently, Somo's heart that had just warmed up gradually returned to calm again.
Anger can make people lose their minds.
Excited, so too!
Before figuring out the other's character and style of doing things, no stranger can step into the sanctuary within three kilometers except for family members.
Otherwise, it can only be the enemy!
Standing in the corner, Sumo, in a state of contemplation, is like a sculpture, and the four people who are ”don't come in” are almost carved on their faces.
Of course, no one will come to bother at this time.
The pregnant woman in the nest was also helped by the crowd and walked out. The baby in her arms seemed to feel the cold outside and screamed.
All the men formed a circle spontaneously, guarding the pregnant women in the middle, and came to the center of the camp.
The scent of salt evaporating in the water, the round potatoes, and the vigorous firewood below all made pregnant women very curious.
On the jet-black face, a pair of eyes full of death, also recovered a trace of expression at this time.
Immediately, she saw Somo standing in the corner again, with a trace of expectation on her face.
The firewood was still burning, the water had begun to churn, and the potatoes were up and down like a dangling boat in the water.
All the refugees seemed to be possessed, staring closely at the white gas emerging from the pot and the flames below.