#679 - Chapter 679: Crops that can be grown outside

At the ground planting area of this branch base, the man who had just appeared was none other than Yuan Mu, the head of the base's planting unit!

This middle-aged man, with his considerable status, displayed not a hint of pretension, dressed in ordinary clothes, looking like a common farmer as he walked from the fields.

"Hello, Teacher Yuan!"

The students, including Xia Zizhou, who had come to their senses, hurriedly greeted him.

How could they not recognize him?

This was the big boss in charge of grain planting at the base!

After Zhong Yu brought them back, this person from the planting department had personally led the assessment of them to rule out the possibility of them using fake identities to infiltrate Green Source.

Therefore,

Xia Zizhou and the others had already learned about the main personnel in the planting department they were about to join.

Even Xia Zizhou didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of Yuan Mu, because this man's status was no less than that of his cousin.

Casually waving his hand in response to the students' greetings, Yuan Mu walked to the side of the super rice that had matured ahead of schedule.

"This rice is very magical, isn't it? This is future grain that we obtained through certain methods. I hope you won't tell anyone outside the planting department about it in the future!"

"At best, you'll be expelled from the planting department; at worst, you might not even be able to stay in Green Source!"

Mentioning the importance of super rice, Yuan Mu's tone became slightly serious.

Although these students seemed sensible from their previous performance, it was still necessary to give them a warning.

Xia Zizhou and the others were greatly alarmed!

They naturally knew that in this post-apocalyptic world, the food problem was of utmost importance and could not be taken lightly, so they all expressed on the spot that they would abide by the relevant confidentiality system.

Seeing that these students had taken it to heart, Yuan Mu continued with satisfaction.

"The main reason I came to you today is about this rice. You've all seen that this rice yields much more than the ordinary varieties you've seen before."

"But you should also know that the land outside has undergone some unknown changes, and it's all hardened. Even ordinary plants don't grow easily, let alone crops like rice!"

"Our planting department is currently short of staff, so we need to divide a group of people to carry out a new project!"

"That is to cultivate rice or other crops that can adapt to the soil outside!"

!!!

The more the students listened to Yuan Mu's description, the wider their eyes opened.

Good heavens!

They actually wanted to cultivate grain crops that could be planted outside!

After a year of conditioning in the post-apocalyptic world, almost all surviving survivors knew that the land outside had undergone unknown changes and was no longer suitable for plant growth and planting.

Survivors with knowledge or quick reactions would immediately associate it with the acid rain that fell after the earthquake last year.

It was from that time that everything withered, the lush mountains and forests in the wild became much bare, and even many plants, fruits, and vegetables that should have been able to fill their stomachs disappeared from sight.

Otherwise, the lives of the current survivors would not be so difficult.

Of the Blue Star humans, less than 3% remain. If it hadn't been for the acid rain baptism, the remaining animals and plants wouldn't have made the remaining humans experience such terrible hunger.

Due to Qin Jin's early preparations, Green Source Base had hoarded a lot of fertile field soil and unpolluted soil in the base early on, so it had never lacked planting use.

But no matter what, this number has a limit.

As the headquarters' development plan begins to continue digging underground, more and more new underground planting spaces will appear in the future.

And the three large residential areas may also engage in underground space in the future.

In this way, even these unpolluted fertile soils will inevitably be insufficient.

Qin Jin also had people test the soil dug out from the deep underground, but unfortunately, even though these soils were buried deep underground, they were still subject to some pollution.

And these do not belong to planting soil, and are not very suitable for planting many kinds of plants.

Therefore,

With the development of the base, developing more plantable areas has become inevitable.

And finding crops like the magical cassava that can adapt to wild acidic soil must be put on the agenda.

It does not need to be as productive as in fertile land, as long as it can normally be planted to survive and bear grain, that is a watershed victory!

"You don't need to be too stressed. I know this matter is not easy to produce results, so it is still based on discussion and experimentation for the time being!"

"I will lead you to research in this direction, and I hope you will put in your efforts in the future!"

Yuan Mu encouraged these students.

In the post-apocalyptic world, it is very difficult to find seedlings in the direction of agronomy, and one of them is a relative of Captain Zhong, so it is reasonable to give these children certain treatment.

I don't ask them to really find any breakthrough results, as long as they can promote certain progress in this direction.

After all, Wu Qinu is still conducting research on magical cassava.

With a two-pronged approach, as long as one of them achieves a breakthrough in the future, Green Source will master that key trump card in this post-apocalyptic world!

Being able to plant grain on wild acidic soil, such a technology will definitely change the current human survival situation.

Getting back to the topic.

Yuan Mu came here today not only to encourage these students, but also to arrange tasks for them.

The super rice in this branch base is expected to fully enter the maturity period in less than a month, which happens to allow these students to participate in the growth observation during this period, and they can also verify some assumptions.

After passing the various tests of the base, these personnel who have just truly joined the planting department should shoulder the heavy responsibility of grain.

Without too much nonsense, Yuan Mu began to explain some planting and agricultural knowledge.

As an expert in this field, his knowledge completely crushes these students too much.

Soon Xia Zizhou and others were overwhelmed by his knowledge, obediently put down the arrogance that may or may not exist in their hearts, and sincerely learned agricultural knowledge from him.

Li Xiulan smiled and watched Yuan Mu guide the newcomers. Green Source is able to explode with a strong speed of progress because of these people who have been working hard.

She and her daughter Jiafu have completely integrated here.

Especially herself.

After being allowed to join the planting department before, she devoted herself wholeheartedly, starting from a former housewife to learn various agricultural knowledge, and quickly got started and became a formal member of this department.

Alas.

If Qizheng hadn't died at that time, it would have been great.

Then their family of three could live happily here.

Jiafu also joined the external cooperation combat unit because of the previous incident. I heard that she trained extremely hard and performed better and better.

This child has also suffered a lot.

It can only be said that fate makes people.

If there hadn't been the previous incident, they might still be struggling to survive in Green Source.

How could they come to the headquarters here and live a life they never dared to think about?

(End of this chapter)