Human beings have become smaller in the last days

"Youguo, the kind of fruit with oil inside, this is the fruit of the oily tree." Unexpectedly, Ji Zhan spoke after listening to Song Yi's words.

"Hey, oil trees also grow oil fruits. Can they be eaten?" Song Yi was not surprised to hear that oil trees also grow oil fruits. After all, it is not just one kind of plant that mutates into oil fruits.

"If you don't believe it, the oil content in the oil tree is more like gasoline and cannot be absorbed by the human body. However, it is better than gasoline in that it burns without pollution." Jihad shook his head.

"That's a pity." Song Yi said. There are very few places that use gasoline now. Not to mention that all energy is controlled by nuclear fusion. There are also solar and wind energy. After the apocalypse, crystal Nuclear energy is also good, and it is more practical than gasoline.

"That's not necessarily the case. There are no useless things, and gasoline can't only be used as energy." Jihad said.

"That's true." Song Yi nodded. The oil on Blue Star had been harvested in the past three hundred years. Fortunately, controllable nuclear fusion had been developed before that and applied in various fields.

While the two were chatting, Mo Shaohang and the others had already boiled the water. Zhang Ke and the others also came back and took out a huge alien beast from the space. It looked like a rabbit, but the pair of big fangs were particularly strange. sharp.

Chickens, ducks, rabbits, cattle, sheep, cats, and dogs. These are the most common animals before the end of the world. They are the most common animals when other animals are extinct or endangered due to ecological reasons.

Animals after the apocalypse seemed to have mutated atavistically, so Song Yi was not sure whether this was a mutant or an animal that had mutated into another species and just looked like a rabbit.

No matter what, the vast majority of mutated animals are edible, but individual parts may be poisonous, which can also be identified using identification techniques.

Zhang Ke and others skillfully peeled off the skin, removed the useful teeth and claws, then cut off the inedible parts and buried them in the soil, ready to start cooking.

"Do you want my help?" Song Yi felt that it was not good for him and Ji Zhan to just stand here and look at each other, so he asked.

"No, just wait here with the doctor." Several people refused.

"I have some vegetables and seasonings here." Song Yi took out several pots of vegetables from the space bag, as well as seasonings such as oil fruits and onions, ginger, and garlic.

"Why are you still carrying this with you?" Ji Zhan was speechless when he saw the vegetables Song Yi took out.

"Anyway, the space bag can hold plants, so I just brought a few pots with me. I don't have to worry about running out of food when I go out," Song Yi said.

"Is this rice?" When Chef Zeng Lai saw what Song Yi took out, he immediately saw the rice that was more than one meter high, and the rice ears on it were the size of table tennis balls.

"Yes, mutated rice." Song Yi nodded.

"I didn't expect you to have this. There is only a small area in the planting area where this is grown. It cannot be eaten yet, so it needs to be saved for seed." Qi Cheng was also surprised when he saw it.

"This was originally found in the planting area of ​​our school. Our teacher cultivated it to eliminate its aggressiveness, planted some, and later distributed some to City W. It should have been sent from there." Song Yi said.

"What school are you from?" Qi Cheng asked.

"Yunshan Agricultural University." Song Yi answered.

"Hey, it's Yunshan, no wonder." Qi Cheng understood.

"Is Yunshan University famous?" Others have never heard of this school. "Before the end of the world, one of the top agricultural universities in the country, in addition to Yunshan, there were also two agricultural universities, Tianshan and Zhushan." Qi Cheng said. She also studied agriculture, but she studied at Tianshan University.

"Where is senior sister from?" Song Yi asked.

"From Tianshan Mountain." Qi Cheng replied.

"No wonder you know it so well." Others who heard her answer suddenly realized that those who are not majoring in this field rarely pay attention to related schools.

"Several agricultural universities can be said to be the places with the most plants before the end of the world. No wonder you can produce so many vegetables." Qi Cheng said.

What she said is not a lie. Before the end of the world, when the vegetation coverage area was getting smaller and smaller, several agricultural universities were established near a few vegetation coverage areas, and a lot of farmland was also opened up for students to do homework, such as Since only a few types of improved crop plants can be grown elsewhere, species will naturally be richer.

"There are indeed many kinds of mutated plants near the school. It's a pity that there are too few people in our school, and they are homesick after the apocalypse. After building the aircraft, they immediately left and went their separate ways without exploring it properly." Song Yi sighed. .

Their initial exploration of the surrounding area was basically within a thousand kilometers of the base, and they did not explore other places at all, including former forests and planting areas.

"After the country recovers, you can send people to explore." Jihad said after listening.

"I think it's okay." Zhang Ke also nodded.

Even though there seem to be a lot of mutated plants outside, as long as the records are compiled, you will find that these mutated plants are almost all mutated from several identical plants. Although there are many kinds of mutated plants, there are still fewer of them.

To return to the rich species and complete food chain that existed hundreds of years ago, I am afraid it will take several years through the spread of seeds by flying birds.

"Okay, it's time to eat." Zeng Lai, who had been listening to their conversation, did not stop what she was doing. She picked the rice fruits, peeled them and burned them. She also pulled out a few leaves and made several dishes. Braised rabbit, a sumptuous dinner is ready.

After coming to the capital and seeing the skills of those chefs, Song Yi discovered that they would not chop the vegetables and meat into mince when cooking because they had become smaller, but would keep them in their original size.

Because that size is originally the most suitable size for the Xia people after thousands of years of research. Just like braised pork, if you cut the braised pork into minced meat, will the result still be braised pork?

Obviously, Zeng Lai is also an orthodox chef. The meat and vegetables he cuts are all in normal human size. Seeing that a piece of meat, a vegetable, and half a grain of rice take up a large bowl of food, Song Yi Some don't know where to start.

"Here." Ji Zhan handed Song Yi a knife and fork.

"It's true that the longer we live, the more we go back." Song Yi complained: "Who doesn't know that our ancestors eliminated knives and forks, and only people in the West who have not evolved still use them, but now we have to use them again."

"I heard that the plant research team is planning to conduct research on dwarfing vegetables." Jihad said as he cut the vegetables gracefully.

"This is indeed necessary." The others nodded when they heard it. It's really not possible for vegetables to become dwarfed. You can't eat vegetable foam every meal.

"The ones I took out have already been dwarfed. It's a bit difficult to make them dwarfed again." Song Yi said.

When the teachers cultivated mutant plants, they did not intend to make them dwarfed at first. After all, before the end of the world, they were pursuing giant growth.