Chapter 116: Hope and Dilemma
“The potatoes are finally ripe!
Oh my God, I'm almost spitting out all kinds of convenient foods every day. If it weren't for the bean sprouts, small green vegetables and other vegetables that were eaten together, I would probably have been crazy!"
While happily digging potatoes, Tang Monk was frantically complaining about the difficult days of the past three months, and he loved them very much, but now he wanted to vomit.
After all, anyone who eats instant noodles, canned food, pickles, pickles and various snacks for three months will feel a little broken.
No matter how delicious the food is, it will hurt if you eat too much, not to mention that those things may not be very delicious. But when there is no other thing to eat, what else can I do besides eating those?
In the ruins, whether it is fresh vegetables, frozen fresh food, or rice and flour, it cannot be preserved for a long time after the disaster.
Because those things either have a very short shelf life, or they cannot eat once they are damp or other types of contamination, they have nothing to eat except for these foods and snacks.
Just soak some bean sprouts occasionally, or plant some vegetables that grow faster, so that it will not be too difficult.
But even so, it is quite difficult to have no staple food for a long time.
Until today!
Until today, the 300 acres of potatoes planted have finally been harvested. However, if there is no accident, they should also become disgusted with potatoes after eating them for another month.
Fortunately, in a month, sweet potatoes and some other crops will be harvested. Then, I will feel better if I eat them again.
"You are content!
You didn't look at the people in the base. Even if they want to eat the things you are tired of, they don't have to eat them. They are all sweet potato skins as treasures!
Living standards have plummeted, and they have almost fallen to the three years in the early 1960s.
I heard that they all starved to death.
By the way, fortunately the place we chose was relatively secret, with a mountain beside us. Although it was a bit troublesome to enter and exit, it was quite safe!
If we had a seed openly, we might not have time to harvest the potatoes and would be secretly dug and eaten by those hungry people!"
While digging potatoes, Wu Fan ruthlessly responded to Tang Monk and sighed at the correct choice he made at the beginning.
Although the one or two months after leaving the base were difficult and I had to do a lot of things every day, it was just a bit difficult at the beginning. Now it is not as tired as it was at the beginning, and many things are already self-sufficient. There is no need to go to those dark areas as frequently as before to find things, and even sell some of the surplus products produced to others.
Compared to this, the situation inside the base is much worse. The population density inside has reached an extremely terrifying number. Not only is the hygiene conditions extremely poor, but the food is even worse. Even if you have points, it is useless.
I don’t know how many people starve to death every day.
As early as two months ago, many people in the base could not stand the environment in the base. Those who were more brave had to worry about building small bases or gathering places outside the base to survive. Those who were timid and even directly brought their families back to the dark area. They felt that if they walked deeper, they might find things that had not been turned over by others before, or they could also prey on aquatic animals to make a living if they found a big river.
But no matter what, compared to those people, their lives are still quite good now, at least they won’t go hungry every day.
Only with comparison can you have confidence.
It is precisely because of the miserable appearance of those outside as a comparison that they believe that Cui Ming’s suggestions and instructions are correct.
Do whatever you want.
Very obedient.
The people outside were digging potatoes, while Cui Ming was studying where he lived, studying how to disperse the dust clouds in the sky.
In fact, if there is no need to consider some problems, Cui Ming has many ways to solve Chen Aiyun. However, because he faces the situation of disconnection when he comes to this world, it becomes very difficult to collect information.
Once it is difficult to collect information, it will be difficult for him to understand the direction of technological development in this world in the shortest time. It is precisely because of this that he has been reluctant to take any action, for fear of doing something wrong.
In the past two months, he finally learned about the direction of civilized and technological development in this world through the local area network in the base. After understanding the direction of technological development in this world, Cui Ming began to study shells that dispel dust clouds.
Of course, in addition to this solution, making artificial suns is also a solution. However, because the scientific and technological development system in this world has no reason to develop in the nuclear direction, Cui Ming cannot make artificial suns, so he can only choose to directly use special shells to drive away the dust clouds in the sky.
After a month of research, he finally made some breakthroughs on the day of a bumper potato harvest, but the results were not very optimistic.
This is the case.
The current situation is that almost all the outer periphery of the planet is wrapped in dust clouds. These dust clouds are of a relatively special form, much more serious than haze, and are non-degradable substances that can block sunlight.
There are two ways to make the dust cloud disappear. One is to wait. As long as you wait for hundreds of years, the dust cloud will gradually disappear with the self-circulation of the natural environment.
Another type is to conduct large-scale rainfall.
But the problem now is that this life planet can wait for hundreds of years, but life on this planet, especially humans, cannot wait for hundreds of years. Hundreds of years, is enough to turn this planet into an ice hockey, and is enough to extinct most of the life on this planet.
When hundreds of years later, after these dust clouds completely disappear, what will be born again is only new species and new intelligent life, which should have nothing to do with the current group of humans.
So, you definitely can't wait.
But large-scale rainfall is also difficult.
Because most parts of the world are now covered by dust clouds, this causes the sun to be unable to shine on the area below the dust clouds at all.
Even if the sunlight cannot shine there, the evaporation of water vapor will naturally decrease to an extreme. Even if a country has mastered the technology of artificial rainfall, the basis of artificial rainfall is also lies in the existence of water vapor.
Without water vapor, even if artificial rainfall technology is used, even if there is dry ice, it is impossible to deliver dry ice to the sky.
This is the difficulty at present.
Chapter completed!