On the tenth year of the natural disaster, I went to farm with me

Chapter 5 Text Messages From Strangers
“安全区外安全系数较高的领地，除环绕安全区的领地外还有：2、15、68、113、166，唐家人有意领取其中的三块。”

Because Xia Qing has been paying attention to territory information, he knows that the five territories listed in this text message are indeed relatively safe. The credibility of this message is very high.

Xia Qing had been secretly paying attention to the Tang family and knew that they were planning to gain territory, so she went to the mission hall early to queue up and wait for people from the Tang family to come.

To speed up the utilization of cultivated land outside the safety zone and solve the problem of food shortage as soon as possible, the country's top department requires the military and government of all large and small bases to work together to promote territorial work pilots as soon as possible.

Under the supervision of the military at Huisan Base, the Tang family did not dare to blatantly occupy good land. They had to do a good job in appearance.

No matter how well you do it, there are still loopholes in the superficial work.Xia Qing wants to seize the loophole and take the opportunity to get land No. [-].Because this land contains important resources for her survival.

After this person sent her a text message to a number that was publicly used in the safe zone, he quickly used the communication satellite to send the same text message to a number that she had not used for seven years. Unfortunately, Xia Qing had turned off her phone and did not notice it.

Xia Qing was able to successfully receive Land No. [-] thanks to this text message.As for who this person is, whether he sent the text message out of good intentions or for ulterior motives, the truth will be revealed sooner or later, and there is no rush.

Xia Qing deleted the text message again, yawned and got into the sleeping bag.She wants to nourish her spirit and start a new life.

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After getting up early the next day, Xia Qing cleared the grass and shrubs in the yard, then left the village with a piece of rations in his mouth, heading north through the large scorched farmland, bypassing the narrow reservoir, and climbing up the hillside.

The cultivated land here is surrounded by mountains on both sides to the northwest. In order to ensure that the cultivated land is not invaded and destroyed by evolutionary organisms, the base sent people to clear an isolation zone of at least 50 meters wide as a transition zone between the uncleared evolutionary forest and the cultivated land.The isolation zone is regularly sprayed with insect repellent to prevent evolved insects in the evolutionary forest from crawling through the isolation zone and entering the territorial area.

In order to protect the safety of the cultivated land and the lords, there is a buffer zone between the isolation zone and the cultivated land. The more than 3000 acres of mountain forest cleared on the northwest sides of No. [-] Land belong to the buffer zone. This buffer zone has also been included in the scope of No. [-] Land. Within, the area of ​​land No. [-] reached an astonishing six thousand acres.

The buffer forest area has only been cleared of harmful evolutionary organisms, and the vegetation is still dense, which contrasts sharply with the color of the charred farmland below.

Xia Qing climbed up the grass with a wooden stick, and it took him 10 minutes to reach the destination of his trip - a small stone cave with a spring.

This spring was accidentally discovered by Xia Qing when he and his team were cleaning up the forest.The water gushes from the spring slowly seeps out from the inside of the narrow stone cave that is half a meter deep and [-] centimeters high, and then seeps into the ground along the cracks in the stone, silently.

If it hadn't been for a speed-evolved squirrel that suddenly jumped out of the cave, Xia Qing wouldn't have discovered this spring.

In order to solve the drinking water problem, Huisan Base drilled three deep wells in the safety zone. The water drilled out was contaminated and must be purified before drinking.

Because the cost of purifying contaminated water is high, the task board of the base has the task of finding uncontaminated water sources all year round. No matter what task the team takes out of the safe zone, they will look for water sources along the way.

In the past ten years, four unpolluted water sources have been found within the Huisan base, all of which are springs gushing from the mountains.However, because the amount of water is too small, it can only be supplied to a small number of people.

Xia Qing, who lives by selling his strength, is certainly not among the few.

Of course, not all mountain springs are polluted.So when Xia Qing used the detector she carried with her to test and found that the spring water showed a green light, she immediately made this land her first choice.

Water is the source of life.

Now, this spring water finally belongs to her alone.After Xia Qing took half a bowl of water and drank it all, a slogan from a certain water brand echoed repeatedly in her heart.It’s so cool!
She could drink as much as she wanted from such clean spring water.

Not only did she drink it, she also used it to wash her face. She was so proud!

Xia Qing washed her face and cleaned and enlarged the cave with a silly smile.For power evolution people, this is a piece of cake.

The sound of spring water flowing into the bucket along the bamboo slices was like the sound of nature to Xia Qing's ears.

It took time to collect the water, so Xia Qing stood up and looked down at his territory.

There are no volcanoes in the Huisan base area, and there have been no major earthquakes, so the landscape here is no different from before the disaster. However, there are many evolved creatures hidden in the dense mountain forests that can easily kill people.

The mountains, forests and cultivated land in Xia Qing's territory were also occupied by them three months ago.The pits several meters deep that remain on the ground are the traces of fierce battles between humans and evolved creatures for this land.

After filling the two 20-liter buckets, Xia Qing stuffed them into an extra-large backpack and hid them, and then blocked the small cave with rocks and branches to avoid being discovered.

After going down the mountain to put the water home, Xia Qing went to the canteen in the deserted village, dug through the ruins that smelled of decay, took out a flattened stainless steel solar vertical water storage tank, restored it to its original shape, and used it to fetch water from the reservoir. .

As soon as they arrived at the reservoir, a black shadow suddenly jumped out of the water and rushed towards Xia Qing's face.Xia Qing slapped it five meters away and hit it on the rocks beside the reservoir.

After the black shadow rolled a few times and became silent, Xia Qing was happy.

What attacked her was an evolved catfish thicker than an arm.Like many carnivorous creatures that have evolved, the evolved catfish has also included humans in its diet and will actively attack humans.If Xia Qing had just been bitten by its rasp-like teeth after its evolution, he would definitely have lost a large piece of flesh.

Now……

Xia Qing cut off a small piece of fish with a knife and put it into the small multi-function detector that he carried with him. The green light turned on.

This evolved catfish is edible!
Xia Qing immediately stuffed the catfish into the water basin and hid it to prevent the evolved raptors flying in the sky from swooping down to snatch it.

After carefully filling the water, Xia Qing carried the [-]-kilogram water tank back home and made a simple filter device using fine sand, fine stones and several layers of gauze to purify the water for the first time, and then installed the primary purification device from Jifa. Filter element for secondary purification of water.

While the water was slowly filtering, Xia Qing found a handy tool and removed all the moldy and yellowed mottled walls of the two-story house and threw them away.Then I cleaned the big iron pot at home, boiled the filtered water, and took a quick hot bath.

After drinking a glass of mountain spring water, Xia Qing, whose stomach was growling with hunger, picked up the knife and headed straight for the big catfish.

She wanted to eat meat for her first meal after entering the territory.

(End of this chapter)