Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Outside the walls of the trading market.

Three trucks loaded with fir wood were queuing up to enter the side door of the trading market.

A driver in the car threw a cigarette butt on the ground.

I looked up and saw Jigong Mountain in the distance. I stared at a white cloud above the mountain in a daze.

Jigong Mountain is located in the south of the trading market.

It is a remnant of the Dabie Mountains.

The area is fifty miles in radius, and the highest point is Baoxiao Peak, which is 784 meters above sea level. Before the end of the world, it was named because the entire mountain looks like a rooster with its head held high, wings spread, and neck stretched to crow.

The sunlight shines through the gaps between the towering trees, falling on the winding path in patches, creating a spectacular sight of interlaced light and shadow.

On the ground, green grass and flowers compete with each other for beauty, and are occasionally caressed by the breeze, emitting a faint fragrance.

Occasionally, a squirrel quickly shuttles between branches, stirring up the dance of fallen leaves. Further away, a stream gurgles by, the sound of water is crisp and pleasant, resonating harmoniously with nature.

rustling --

A middle-aged woman in ragged linen clothes and a hat with two holes in it walked out of the grass.

Behind her followed five young men and women, approximately 25 or 26 years old.

They searched around as if looking for something.

A young man was following at the back, and suddenly, his skin was pierced by a thorny fruit tree.

hiss!
The young man looked down and saw that the fruit tree was full of oval fruits with a circle of thorns on the surface.

He shouted loudly:

"Professor Chu, can I eat this?"

Chu Juan, who was walking in front, frowned when she heard the words, turned her head, pushed aside the weeds and walked over.

“Yongzhen, I’ve told you so many times, please keep your voice down when you go out. Even though it’s daytime, there may be zombies on the mountain. Your loud voice may easily attract zombies.”

As she spoke, she carefully avoided the thorns and picked a fruit.

Look at the fruit carefully.

The surface of the fruit is reddish brown with small raised brown spots; there are disc-shaped flowers on it, with a thin yellow column in the middle, and it gradually tapers at the bottom. It feels a bit hard when I touch it.

Chu Juan stuffed the fruit into the basket behind her. "You can eat it, but don't eat too much, it will burn your stomach. This is called golden cherry, a traditional Chinese medicine that can treat long-term diarrhea, hemorrhage, urethritis and other problems."

"Just pick some. Don't pick too much and it will take up too much space. That's not our goal today."

As she was speaking, several students around her had already picked all the fruit from the tree.

Chu Juan looked at them and sighed, life in the last days is difficult.

Fortunately, she was a botanist before the end of the world and knew all kinds of plants. At least she could always find some wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains and forests to fill her stomach.

After picking, she led everyone down the mountain.

Her main purpose today was wild yam, which grew in abundance in the mountains and forests in southern Henan Province.

Moreover, the wild yam matures in September and October, and September is the perfect time for it to mature.

Yam is a nutritious root food. It contains about 43% starch, which is relatively high. The nutritional content of yam is relatively high. It contains protein, crude fiber and various trace elements, which can strengthen the spleen and qi and increase the body's immunity.

This root plant is rich in starch and can serve as a staple food.

The group walked down the mountain, picking various wild fruits.

It is now mid-September, the season when wild fruits are ripe.

Along the way, they picked wild fruits such as wild berries, wild hawthorns, pomegranates, and jujubes.

These wild fruits are rich in vitamins, but no matter how much you eat, you won’t feel full.

After picking them, they only ate a little bit and kept most of them and carried them back to dry them into dried fruits so that they could be preserved for a longer time.

When they reached the middle of the mountain, a girl with a tanned face, rough skin, but delicate features came up to Chu Juan and asked while panting:
"Professor Chu, why don't you fill in the real situation? There is a notice in the recruitment hall of the trading market, inviting PhD professors and experts to work, and botany is on the recruitment list.

You can try it.”

Chu Juan stopped and slowly turned her head. Time seemed to have left no trace in her eyes. Her eyes were still as clear and bright as before.

The cruelty and hardship of the end of the world did not make her a person full of resentment.

Her eyes were calm and gentle, as if nothing could leave a trace in her heart.

"Let's wait and see. I'm afraid we won't be able to come and go freely. Aren't we doing fine now?"

Wang Beibei nodded and lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking about.

Chu Juan led the group and walked in the front, not forgetting to teach some knowledge to the students behind her.

"You all know what the wild yam we are looking for looks like, but does anyone know where wild yam generally grows?"

The voice just fell.

Wang Beibei, the pretty girl who had been following her, spoke first:

"Wild yams usually grow on the edge of forests on hillsides, under shrubs and along ditches, as well as under forests in valleys, in bushes or weeds, so we are going down now. We are going to look for wild yams."

Chu Juan smiled when she heard that.

Over the years, she often took her students to dig edible wild fruits and roots in the mountains and forests, and she managed to survive.

In the past, I had always learned in class and had never applied the knowledge in practice.

It is being used now.

But these few years have been tough.

From the original 29 students, there are only five left.

Three of them are sports students from the university’s undergraduate department.

However, without these three athletes, they would not have survived until now.

They held sickles or hatchets in their hands and carried woven baskets on their backs, which were filled with wild fruits and vegetables, as well as digging tools such as small hoes.

The group walked down the mountain and found themselves in a valley.

There are towering mountains on both sides and a flat area in the middle covered with bushes and trees.

"Don't scatter, stay within my sight, and look carefully. This side is quite humid, so there is a high possibility of wild yam growing there."

Everyone separated, three to five meters apart, and searched in a straight line.

The wild yams here have not been dug up for many years. Once found, they will definitely be super large ones.

Ten minutes flew by.

Suddenly, the young man with the high nose bridge shouted again: "Professor Chu, this, this, I found it!"

"Wang Yongzhen, don't be so loud, fuck!" A boy who was a little stronger glared at Wang Yongzhen angrily.

"Isn't this too exciting? Hehe." Wang Yongzhen scratched his head and laughed.

He put the basket down, squatted down, took out a small hoe from the basket, and dug hard twice.

This small tree has palm-shaped heart-shaped leaves with triangular lobes on the edges.

It is exactly the shape of wild yam leaves.

Chu Juan rushed over when she heard the sound, and she knew at a glance that it was wild yam.

"Yes, this is a wild yam, but Wang Yongzhen, I warn you, if you make such a fuss again, you won't be able to come out next time."

Wang Yongzhen clasped his fists and said with a guilty look on his face: "I was so excited when I found this wild yam. I'm sorry, everyone."

Chu Juan sighed, shook her head and said:
"Liu Zhuangshi, you and Wang Yongzhen are digging this wild yam here. Let's go look for it nearby. Don't run around."

Liu Zhuangshi was the strong man who scolded Wang Yongzhen. He used to be a college student majoring in physical education.

"Okay, Professor Chu." Liu Zhuangshi did not refuse.

He respected Professor Chu very much. If Professor Chu hadn't led them to collect wild fruits and food in the mountains in the past few years, they would have starved to death. Perhaps because they were far away from the city, there were fewer people and zombies in the mountains, so it was relatively safer.

In the past few years, he has also learned to recognize some wild fruit plants, how to preserve these foods, and how to survive the difficult winter.
Chu Juan then gave the two of them some instructions, and then led the remaining three people to continue walking into the bush.

After they left, Liu Zhuangshi turned his head and looked at Wang Yongzhen and said:
"You dig first, I'll help you watch the surroundings. When you get tired later, I'll do it."

Wang Yongzhen dug very carefully, digging down little by little with an excited smile on his face.

"Zhuangshi, believe it or not, this wild yam is definitely more than 10 kilograms."

He dug to a depth of 30 centimeters and, looking at the thick rhizomes of the wild yam, concluded that it weighed 10 kilograms.

Liu Zhuangshi glanced at him and took a look at the wild yam rhizome.

He taunted, "Don't be like last time, with a big neck and a small body. This wild yam must weigh ten kilograms and be at least half a meter long to be able to do that."

Hearing Liu Zhuangshi's words, Wang Yongzhen recalled the embarrassment of the last time.

The last time he looked at the rhizome, he thought it would weigh more than 10 kilograms, but it turned out to be rotten at the bottom.

Only a small whisker grew out, and the total weight was less than 2 kilograms.

It made him so embarrassed.

This time, I must prove myself.

Thinking of this, he dug harder.

Drops of sweat fell, and the light and shadows shining through the gaps between the leaves gradually moved.

Digging wild yam is a strenuous job that requires a lot of patience.

Wild yam grows straight up, so you can only dig downwards. Therefore, the longer the wild yam grows, the deeper you have to dig.

Even if you dig up wild yam, you may have to dig a two-meter deep pit.

The workload is huge.

The two took turns digging, and after an hour they had dug a pit more than one meter deep.

"Hehehe, look, they are twins. Don't even mention ten kilograms, they weigh twenty kilograms!" Wang Yongzhen let out a long sigh and handed the small hoe to Liu Zhuangshi.

Climbed up the pit.

Liu Zhuangshi's eyes were slightly excited. Twenty kilograms of wild yam was too much.

If you take it back to the trading market, you can exchange it for 10 points.

This wild yam is very rare and can be eaten as a staple food.

However, fresh wild yam contains a lot of water, 80% of which is water.

10 jin of wild yam, after drying and grinding, will only produce 2 jin of yam powder.

In theory, 2 kilograms of yam can be exchanged for 1 point, which means it can be exchanged for 1 kilogram of dry food. In fact, the exchange rate is still very high.

You should know that 1 kilogram of gold can only be exchanged for 3 kilograms of grain.

However, since wild yam is also a traditional Chinese medicine, and the traditional Chinese medicine hall at the big camphor tree base needs wild yam, it is difficult to mine.

So, the price was slightly raised.

Now in the task hall of the trading market, some other required Chinese medicines are also released.

Just bring it and you can redeem it for points.

All along, most of the herbs in the Chinese Medicine Hall were collected by survivors and partners after the missions were issued by the mission hall of the Big Camphor Tree Base and the Trading Market.

Another hour passed.

Liu Zhuangshi finally dug to the bottom of the wild yam. He said to Wang Yongzhen above:

"Yongzhen, we've dug to the bottom!"

"Fuck, these two wild yams probably weigh 40 kilograms in total!"

The flesh on his face was shaking with excitement. This was the largest and thickest wild yam they had ever dug up.

Wang Yongzhen's hands were shaking and he was so excited that he started jumping around.

"Don't shout." Liu Zhuangshi saw him like this and quickly reminded him.

Wang Yongzhen grabbed his hair and roared silently.

The veins on his neck were exposed, his eyes were red, he was jumping around and patting his chest.

too excited!

So excited!

"Wang Yongzhen, what are you doing?" Chu Juan and others walked out of the bushes and saw Wang Yongzhen who looked like a madman.

"Professor, he might have been bitten by a zombie and is about to mutate. Stand back and let me do it." A man stopped Chu Juan behind him, took out a hatchet and was about to go forward to kill Wang Yongzhen.

When Wang Yongzhen heard them say this, he shuddered and quickly said, "No, no, no, no!"

"I'm happy! Stop it!"

The man breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, but he wanted to make a joke.

"Huh? A zombie can still talk? I can't let him live, I'm going to chop him to death right now!"

As he spoke, he walked a few steps towards Wang Yongzhen with the knife in hand.

Wang Yongzhen took a few steps back and fell to the ground.

"Brother Bo, stop making trouble. Look at this pit below. There are more than 40 kilograms of wild yam. We are going to make a fortune!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

As he spoke, Wang Yongzhen couldn't hold back his smile and burst into laughter.

Bo Ge hurried over, and when he saw the two-meter-deep pit and the two wild yams that were two meters long and as thick as elbows, his eyes gradually widened.

"Oh my god! Oh my god! It's so big!"

"Still two!"

Chu Juan and others hurried over, and when they discovered the two huge wild yams, smiles appeared on everyone's faces instantly.

"So big!"

"We're rich!"

"There are 50 kilograms of wild yams here, plus the 25 kilograms we just dug up, which makes 100 kilograms of wild yams. We can exchange them for points, which is corn cakes. This is enough for us to eat for ten days!"

"Wang Yongzhen, Liu Zhuangshi, you are so amazing!"

"This time, I want to eat something different. Professor Chu, can we not eat corn tortillas, but some other steamed buns?"

"I want to eat meat. I haven't eaten meat for a long, long time."

"Forget it. Meat is too expensive. We can't afford it. Let's save it."

"The corn tortillas are good. I like to eat corn tortillas. They are very filling!"

Before they brought the wild yams back, they were already imagining the points they could get after bringing them back.

Imagine using points to buy various foods in the future.

Many of them swallow their saliva every time they pass by a barbecue restaurant, but each time they can only swallow their saliva and smell the smell.

Chu Juan was very happy to see everyone so happy.

He smiled and said:

"Hurry up and dig out the yam. It's so long that it can only be cut into several sections."

"Okay!" Wang Yongzhen climbed up and jumped down the pit.
Digging wild yams!

(Little leek, begging for the guaranteed monthly ticket, I have fallen out of the monthly ticket list~) (End of this chapter)