【Environmental Pollution-03】

For 14 days, they don't want to adapt to the extremely harsh environment here, and they have to find a way to fill their stomachs. However, judging from the current situation, there are no green plants growing in the whole city, which means that crops such as wheat and rice cannot survive. What do humans eat here?

Rice, noodles, and oil all come from plants, not to mention vegetables and fruits. Suppose the residents of this city don't eat vegetables, but only meat... But animals like cows, sheep, and pigs also eat plants. How can they survive without plant feed?

Lin Manluo's question made everyone silent for a while.

14-day shelf life, how to solve food and water problems?

After a while, Ke Shaobin said, "Isn't Xin Yan's retort capable of distilling water? If it doesn't work, let's find a contaminated water source and let Xin Yan purify it with a retort before drinking it."

Xu Yi sighed deeply: "Looking back on it now, when we escaped from the Academy of Biological Sciences, we still ate whole grain porridge every day, and we had fresh air to breathe, and we lived a very happy life!"

At the beginning, took a bunch of red beans and peanuts on the road. Everyone regretted that they couldn't find cow's milk' bread in the supermarket. Compared with today's harsh environment, the Acade of Sciences had mineral water to drink and rice porridge to eat during the escape process. is much better.

In this world, it is estimated that even whole grains are hard to find.

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "Since the residents of this city can survive, we can also find a way to survive. Let's find a shopping mall nearby first."

Lin Manluo raised a key question: "Yes, we have no money, how can we buy things? We can't just grab it."

Zhuo Feng immediately said seriously: "You can't take risks to rob things. Although the environment in this world is polluted, the order of human society still exists. If the robbery is caught by the police and sent to prison, the conditions of the prison cells are definitely worse than those outside."

Liu Zhaoqing agreed: "If the cell is damp, moldy, and there are all kinds of bacteria, we might get sick. Even if we escaped collectively by relying on Qin's Lu's plate transposition skills and became wanted criminals, the following days will also be the same. It's not good."

The crowd was silent for a moment. Yue Xingwen sighed: "If only the points in the library could be exchanged for money."

At this moment, a message popped up in the floating box in the upper right corner of everyone: "You can use the library points to exchange for the universal currency of this world. The exchange ratio is 20:1. Do you want to exchange it?"

Yue Xingwen was stunned for a moment, and said: "The exchange ratio of 20:1, I still have 1,200 points left, and can only exchange 60 yuan?"

Jiang Pingce frowned slightly: "60 yuan, save for 14 days, if you don't consider the rent issue, sleep outside every day, just eat instant noodles, bread and other fast food, it should be barely enough."

Yue Xingwen worried: "It's just that the prices in this world may not be the same as the modern cities we know."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, let's go and see."

Everyone made up their minds and looked for a shopping mall nearby.

Huaxiang Building is located in the center of the city, and soon, they found that the negative first floor of the building is a supermarket.

Everyone walked into the supermarket together. It was noon now, and there were not many people in the supermarket. These people, who were not wearing masks, headscarves and goggles, quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people.

The group carefully walked around the supermarket—there are very few kinds of goods in the supermarket in this world. The shelves are full of compressed bread, compressed biscuits, and instant noodles. There are no more than ten kinds of vegetables in the vegetable section, and only five kinds of fruits. .

The price tag on the front of the product made everyone stunned.

Liu Zhaoqing couldn't help but said, "Grab money! Selling a cabbage for 200 yuan?"

Ke Shaobin looked at the grapes on the shelf, swallowed his saliva, and said, "Grapes are actually sold by the piece, 50 yuan a piece, wouldn't it cost thousands of dollars for this bunch? I...we have a bunch of grapes there. It's less than 20 pounds!"

Xu Yishen rubbed his forehead and smiled bitterly: "One apple sells for 200 yuan, is this a golden apple?"

Qin Miao said coldly: "The library really doesn't let us relax. The ratio of points to currency is 20:1, and each person can only exchange fifty or sixty yuan. As a result, this amount of money can't even buy a single cabbage. rise."

Lin Manluo analyzed: "The environmental pollution is serious, and plants cannot grow on ordinary land. This plant should be planted in the soil purified by technology and cultivated in a greenhouse. The cost is very high, and it is not unusual to sell it. "

A couple just happened to pass by. They pushed a shopping cart and bought a box of compressed biscuits and a box of compressed bread. As for the vegetables and fruits area, they didn't even look at it.

People here should be used to eating vacuum-compressed food with a long shelf life, fresh fruits and vegetables, and can't afford it at all. Unexpectedly, one day, the most common cabbage, potatoes and tomatoes will become luxury goods.

Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment and said, "Let's see how many points each has."

Jiang Pingce said: "There are still 1,000 team points left, which can only be exchanged for 50 yuan. I will keep these points for the first time. After returning to the library, everyone will eat them. Take out the personal points and exchange them for goods."

Team points are the "living expenses" that everyone handed in before, and they can't be used up, otherwise they won't be able to eat after returning to the library. As for the remaining points of the personal head, they are reserved for upgrading skills. It doesn't matter if you spend them first, anyway, you can earn them back for the next courses.

Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen arranged: "With 14 days of storage, we can minimize the quality of life. We only eat one pack of compressed biscuits every day, and each person exchanges biscuits for about 60 yuan, which is barely enough."

60 dollars to live for 14 days, which is also very difficult in the real society.

Don't even think about lodging, they may have to live on the streets in the next days, and they can't afford to rent a house.

Group C has points bonus every time they finish the exam. Everyone's points are still rich, and they are all reduced to this situation. It is difficult to imagine how other people in Group A and Group B will live.

Liu Zhaoqing followed with a reminder: "Not only food, but we also have to buy masks, head scarves and protective clothing for going out. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to suck the dust for several days in a sandstorm weather and fall ill."

Lin Manluo said: "My skills can plant a tree and purify the surrounding air. I can only open the purification for 1 hour a day. For the rest of the time, everyone still has to wear masks."

Ke Shaobin turned around and went to the place where the daily necessities were sold to look for masks. After finding them, he couldn't help but complain: "Masks are so expensive, 20 yuan a piece! Goggles are 30 yuan, and protective clothing is 30 yuan, that is to say, all my points are exchanged. Even if it becomes currency, you can't afford to buy this set of equipment?"

Everyone: "..."

They are so poor.

The ratio of the library's points to the world's currency is also too pit-20:1!

I wasted so many brain cells in the law school, and finally earned more than 1,000 points. When came to the environmental school, couldn't even buy a cabbage.

Looking at the prices of those goods, Yue Xingwen couldn't help laughing and crying: "Do we have to go to work to make money?"

Liu Zhaoqing "touched" his chin: "It seems that the library doesn't want us to feel better. If we work part-time, we don't have an ID card in this world and can't find a formal job, so we can only work as temporary workers, alas."

Zhang Xiaonian whispered: "Can I go to the construction site to move bricks? Or to drive an excavator?"

Yue Xingwen said helplessly: "Then there must be a construction site that is willing to ask you. You look like a minor. If the world prohibits the employment of child labor, and you don't have an ID card, it will be difficult to find a job."

Everyone stood in front of the shelves and fell into silence.

In the end, Yue Xingwen decided: "let's buy a mask first, the air quality in this world is too bad, even in the underground supermarket, I feel a layer of dust in the air, and my nose is very itchy. As for goggles, scarves, and protective clothing, Everyone can share, buy two or three sets, and whoever wears it when they go out."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Their goal is to survive, and they don't have to go out every day. If they can find a free building to hide in, it is okay not to go out for half a month.

Qin "Lu" whispered: "Let's find some office buildings and other buildings, and after closing at night, we will use the plate transposition skill to take everyone in and live in. However, it is difficult for so many of us to hide during the day, and we have to Think again."

Yue Xingwen nodded and looked at his teammates: "How many points can you give? First hand them over to Pingce, let's calculate how much food and daily necessities can be bought."

At the moment, everyone doesn't need to hide their points. Except for Jiang Pingce who left 1,000 team points to prevent accidents, everyone else handed over all their points. Jiang Pingce did the math and said, "A total of 15,620 points. , converted into the currency of this world, it is 780 yuan."

780 yuan, let 12 people live for 14 days...

It really cost a penny to split in half.

Yue Xingwen said carefully: "12 masks cost 240 yuan; only 2 sets of goggles and protective clothing cost 120 yuan. For the remaining 420 yuan, you can buy up to six boxes of biscuits, a total of 120 packets, each person can share to 10 packs."

14 days, a total of 10 packets of cookies per person, not even a single packet a day.

As a university team with an average age of 20 years old, young and young, just eat half a pack of biscuits a day when your appetite is strong? That's not enough to jam the teeth!

Besides, if anyone gets sick...

Yue Xingwen said: "We can't use all the money to buy food, we have to reserve an emergency fund to buy "medicine". In such an environment, the disease is very dangerous. If it can't be done, we will use the team in Pingceli. Funds, spend all the points in this world, and then, the points obtained in this course will be used as living expenses after returning to the library."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, don't buy too much at one time, you must keep emergency money. Buy a mask today, and buy a pack of biscuits for each person to satisfy their hunger."

Yue Xingwen had a headache, and this was the first time he was worried about the plan.

It can be seen that the series of effects caused by environmental pollution make people in this world live in dire straits every day.

Soil pollution, increased planting costs, and increased animal breeding costs will inevitably lead to rising prices. Fresh vegetables and fruits have become treasured items. Ordinary families are only willing to buy a few grapes and a few apples during the holidays. Forget about meat, it's something the rich can afford.

The recipes are too simple and the nutrition is not balanced. It is no wonder that the people on the street have yellow muscles, skinny, and a long-term malnutrition.

The air is seriously polluted, and people must be fully armed when they travel every day. Although special masks can filter the sand and dust in the air, breathing such air for many years will definitely increase the incidence of bronchitis. Over time, various cancers have appeared one after another, and the average human life expectancy drastically shortened.

Water pollution, bacteria infect the gastrointestinal tract for a long time, diarrhea becomes an "everyday disease", and severe cases can lead to death.

Compared with the doomsday where zombies are everywhere, this kind of environmental apocalypse where every minute and every second is endangering human beings is just as terrifying!