blood plague

Chapter 245 Plan ahead
The sadness in Iger's heart has not disappeared. Whether it is Father Locke or Thomas, his heart is full of grief.

It was Thomas' last wish to take good care of Catherine and his children, and Iger agreed to him.

Iger was worried that Catherine would be excluded by the gospel team because of Thomas, so Iger brought her to Rose Town.

In Rose Town, Catherine was placed in the kitchen and was still her cook, but Catherine was not as strong as Sister Maria, and she fell into deep grief.

Iger can only help her so far.

Whether Iger hates Thomas or not, it must be hate, but are Dr. Heidemi and Robin right?

He formulated such strict usage regulations, but the two of them didn't care about the implementation of the regulations. Thomas was actually authorized to use energy drinks because of psychological anxiety.

This is nothing short of abuse!
This is dereliction of duty!
It's a crime!

At the thought of this, the blood all over Iger's body rushed to his head, and he made a mistake in judging the use of the crystal.

The Holy Light Salvation Church, what the blind man gave the gospel team was not a heavy gift, but a sugar-coated cannonball with evil intentions.

Iger was educated since he was a child. The history of humiliation in the Central Plains began with a kind of ointment. In the following hundred years, countless people were beaten to the bone by this ointment.

The long and heavy sad lessons in history have made every Central Plains person extremely vigilant against such things.To this day, there are many people who would rather die from pain than take safe painkillers like Blofen.

In the United States, it is the norm to eat a powerful painkiller like pentanil as jelly beans.

In America, doctors are accomplices to the abuse of powerful painkillers.For American doctors, when they use painkillers, they don't care about their addictiveness, and even deliberately prescribe highly addictive painkillers to patients.

Interest groups have used a lot of publicity to relieve medical staff of the psychological burden of drug abuse. According to their propaganda, drugs are safe, as long as the use is controlled.

But in reality, out-of-control abuse is the inevitable result.

When patients become seriously dependent on the use of painkillers, what will doctors do to help them quit?

No, the doctor will prescribe a larger dose or switch to a more powerful drug, and they may also kindly tell the patient that I helped you choose a drug that can be reimbursed for medical expenses.

As for pure things like crystals, that's fine.America, which has 5% of the world's population, consumes 60% of the world's output on its own.

However, Iger was completely unaware of this, and he even had a doctor supervise the proper use of crystals.

This is equivalent to letting wolves take care of the sheep and letting foxes guard the chicken coop.

Iger is not a true American, and his perception and judgment of certain things will inevitably be biased.

Take, for example, the trial that took place in Rapid Creek Town.

In the afternoon, after Iger led the team to Jixi Town, the public trial of Robin and Dr. Heidemi had just been completed here.

"What? They were just victims, so they were acquitted?!" Iger's eyes widened when he heard that.

According to Iger's cognition, Robin and Heidemi were killed directly or the sentence was too severe, but in general there should be some punishment, the lightest public whipping is impossible to escape.

As a result, the two were found not guilty.

You know, this is not just a single murder case, but a series of serial cases.

Let’s not talk about Thomas, he has already been executed, and it’s not appropriate to drag out a dead person to flog his corpse.

But there are still two cases, namely the squandering of team materials and the case of defrauding team materials. In these two cases, Robin and Heidemi will not be able to escape.

Iger was extremely surprised, and heard others slowly say that the scene this morning was extremely exciting.

This morning, around the time when the Reclamation Corps organized a collective funeral, the Gospel Tribunal held a public trial for Robin and Heidemi.

In the plaza outside the Morgan Building, the moment the trial began, the atmosphere reached its peak.

Regarding the case of Father Locke's murder, it can be said that the crowd was excited. Robin and Heidemi had just been brought out of the isolation room, and a group of people almost rushed up and beat them to death.

Fortunately, the armed security personnel next to them worked hard to maintain the order of the scene. On the one hand, everyone vented their anger a little, and on the other hand, they also effectively protected Robin and Heidemi, at least not causing them to be injured too much.

In such a situation where the public opinion of the group was overwhelming, when entering the personal defense session, the atmosphere was turned around.

Robin first defended herself by saying that she was also raped by Thomas. Although she struggled hard, she was not Thomas' opponent who took energy drinks at all.

Subsequently, Thomas continued to threaten Robin's personal safety, coercing Robin to provide himself with energy drinks, and even sadly acting as Thomas' humanoid tool.

At this point, Robin burst into tears.

Influenced by her, Heidemi also had difficulty suppressing his emotions when defending himself.Heidemi's situation is similar to Robin's, but she was raped by two people in partnership.

As the two of them burst into tears, after all, Thomas was dead, and the dead could not defend themselves. With the testimony of a third person as evidence, everyone believed what Robin and Heidemi said.

The last witness to appear is Heidemi's husband, Love.

After Love put his hand on the Bible and swore, he identified Thomas as a crime, saying that Thomas had personally threatened him in private, saying that if Love dared to report Thomas, Thomas would kill him.

Love's testimony completely overturned everyone's expectations. When the final verdict was determined, the judges of the trial court voted for conviction.

As a result, 1 vote was guilty, 2 votes were not guilty, and 1 vote was abstained. The result of the conviction was that Robin and Heidemi were not guilty.

Andy, as the presiding judge, announced on the spot that Robin and Heidemi were not accomplices in this case, but victims of coercion and control, so they were not guilty.

As soon as the verdict was delivered, there was a burst of excited cheers at the scene.

When Iger heard this, he felt mixed feelings in his heart.

The reason why Iger elected Andy as chairman that day is that he is now somewhat disappointed with the structure of the Gospel team.

In the past, the Gospel team was like home to Iger, but when Father Locke and Sister Maria were no longer in Rapid Creek Town, the attraction for him here was not as good as before.

Of course, there are many close friends and comrades-in-arms of Iger here, such as Uncle Vance, Fran, and Nicholas, and Iger is reluctant to part with them.

As for the mess of the gospel team, Iger really doesn't want it.

Iger personally led the team here today. Not only is he going to fight in Pudu City, Iger has a very important matter to discuss with Andy.

It's spring, and John's farm is about to sow grain.

Originally, Iger thought that it only needed to sound the loudspeaker, and there would be a lot of people who would contract the land to grow grain.As a result, after such a long time, except for John's father and his family, no ghosts were encountered.

There are indeed many people who can farm, and many survived, but those people fled Puduo County, and it is very likely that they have all been buried outside.

During the conversation with Bella and others, Iger realized a very serious situation, that is, the situation outside is extremely bad.

Iger wanted to convince Andy today that he asked John Farm not to keep the land in rotation this year, but to plant all the land that could be reclaimed.

To put it bluntly, no one can tell whether they will have the mind and energy to farm next year.

There is a saying: "If you have food in your hand, don't panic in your heart."

In any case, even if there is still a lot of food in stock, growing food is always a priority.

Don’t be afraid of harvesting too much grain. Wheat is very durable and can be stored for 3-5 years.

The processing of wheat is very simple, even simpler than that of rice. It only needs to be dried in the sun, and it can be directly ground into powder with a grinder.

This kind of flour that is broken together with the shell is called whole wheat flour, and the conversion rate of flour is as high as 100%.

Iger estimated that only half of the crops will be planted this year, and about 10 jin, or about 50 tons, will be harvested, and some weight will be lost after drying.

Speaking of it, 50 tons is a lot, but you will know after careful calculation.

Iger asked Catherine, she is very familiar with kitchen work, and she is the clearest about food consumption.

Catherine said that after the gospel team has stabilized, each person will consume an average of 3 pounds of staple food per day, which is equivalent to 1.5 kilograms if rounded up.

Such a large consumption of staple food was unimaginable in the past, but now, with limited supply of meat and almost no other non-staple food, even a girl like Joanna can almost eat so much.

One person consumes 1.5 kilograms of staple food a day, and consumes 547.5 kilograms a year, and when all kinds of losses are included, the calculation is 550 kilograms, which is less than half a ton.

1 ton can supply 2 people for one year, and 50 tons can only supply 100 people for one year.

Now the combined population of the Gospel Team and the Reclamation Team has reached over a hundred, which is just enough food.

In consideration of preparations for war and famine, we must get more food.

After Iger found Andy, he told Andy this way, and Andy fell into deep thought.

For some things, Andy may just have no idea, but once the data is in front of him, he will quickly measure the gains and losses.

"Okay, just as you said, expand the planting area to 100 acres this year." Andy decided to follow Iger's suggestion.

After all, the team may expand further.

When the planting agreement was signed, the Gospel team had only about 30 people. Now the sub-team Reclamation Team under the Gospel team has almost 70 people.

The population has suddenly increased so much, and the food production will naturally increase.

Of course, Iger has a deeper worry, and he is worried about seeds.

The current seeds are all in stock before use, and the life span of the seeds is limited, and it should not exceed 5 years.

That is to say, after 5 years, all the high-yielding seeds in the whole world will disappear.

If you want to live until 5 years later, you have to prepare for the seed shortage in advance.

Iger has prepared two things here. The first is that he asked Father John to plant more wheat.

If the trial planting is successful this year, Iger will send more people to learn planting techniques next year.Consume as many wheat seeds as possible within 5 years and turn them into food.

The second is to want Papa John to breed.

Those who understand simple biological knowledge will know that the genetic material is AaBb organisms, the next generation will inevitably have segregation of traits.

Of course, the current food seeds are much more complicated than this, but the principle is the same.No matter how the traits segregate, there will always be a high-yield trait like AABB that is inherited.

Iger asked Papa John to specially collect and store a batch of wheat for planting next year.The wheat planted in this batch does not pursue yield, but only requires selection of offspring with large and plump grains.

After 5 years of selection, Iger believes that a batch of high-yielding wheat seeds with stable characteristics can be obtained.

This is the most important purpose for Iger to come to Jixi Town in person.

(End of this chapter)