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

After trying all the tricks and still being defeated by the little grazing sheep, the little honey badger was so angry that he lay on the ground groaning and refused to get up.

Boss Yang raised his head high and looked at Xia Qing.

Tang Huai? He ran away the moment the little honey badger stopped getting up.

Chen Zheng? He has already returned to Hill No. 49. There are only one person, one sheep, and one badger left here.

"The little flat-head came over to provoke me. I wasn't in the territory, but I came out and defeated it. Boss, you are so reliable. What would we do without you in our territory? What would I do without you? Boss, you are really the most reliable sheep in the world. If there is a ranking list of reliable evolved sheep on Blue Planet, you would definitely be ranked first..."

"Bah."

"Yes, it's getting dark, and the boss is hungry. Let's go home and eat. The barley grass in the field has started to grow. Can I help him pick some?"

"Mea~~~"

Barley grass is also known as wheatgrass.

The two Evolution Flat Spike Ice Grass plants that Broken Waist Wolf sent to Xia Qing last year were both killed by Xia Qing. After that, she would look for this grass every time she went to the Evolution Forest, and she actually found a few edible plants. This small handful of seeds was not enough for planting, so Xia Qing exchanged two bags of grass seeds through Zhong Tao.

Flat spike ice grass was used to feed livestock before the natural disaster; the evolved flat spike ice grass after the natural disaster is one of the main raw materials for making compressed rations in Lancheng Base in northwest China. The Huisan Base Breeding Center also grows this grass, part of which is used to make rations and part of which is used to feed livestock. The grass seeds that Xia Qing exchanged with Zhong Tao are the green light grass seeds cultivated by the Huisan Safety Zone Planting Center.

Ever since Xia Qing exchanged the meat of a high-level green lantern python with Zhong Tao and Zheng Kui last year, these two people have been particularly attentive in finding seeds for Xia Qing.

This spring, Xia Qing not only planted some green-light evolved flat-spiked ice grass seeds in the terraced fields to cultivate better grass species, but also sowed a lot of them in the buffer forest of Territory No. 3 and the valley of Area 3 of Mountain No. 49 to feed the sheep boss and the wild boars in the valley.

Every once in a while, humans would use helicopters to spread high-quality grass seeds, vegetable seeds, and grain seeds cultivated by the planting center in the evolutionary forest outside the safe zone. This matter was a secret of the base.

Some of these green or yellow light plants will be discovered by the gathering teams on missions. They will be brought back to the safe zone and handed in to the mission hall in exchange for points. Then, the mission hall will classify the collected plants by species and quality. Most of them will be sent to food processing factories to make compressed rations and other foods, and a small number of high-quality species will be sent back to the safe zone for further cultivation.

When Xia Qing first heard Yang Jin talk about this, she was speechless for a long time. She had never thought that the plants she had collected with the team in the Evolution Forest were actually planted by people sent by the base.

Yang Jin understood the base's approach very well. "The materials obtained from trading green light plant seeds, which are not scarce, in the planting center are far less than those obtained by sowing them in the evolutionary forest and allowing the plants to grow and evolve naturally. This not only selects the seeds, but also improves the quality of wild animals in the evolutionary forest near the safe zone, giving the team something to do and less fighting."

Xia Qing felt that what Yang Jin said was right.

The population density in the base's safety zone is high, and the planting area is limited. The crops grown cannot meet the needs of two million people. On the other hand, there are not enough jobs in the safety zone, so people who don't have jobs have to find something to do.

Gathering outside is one of the main tasks of the team. Every year, the team will organize a large number of people to go out for gathering. In order to collect more supplies, the team will recruit non-staff personnel. Evolvers like Xia Qing and some ordinary people with strong physical fitness obtain survival supplies by participating in gathering missions or hunting missions.

As for why it had to be kept secret, Xia Qing thought about it carefully and understood. If it wasn't kept secret, people's expectations and sense of accomplishment when going out to collect would be greatly reduced, and there would be many complaints.

Xia Qing suspected that the evolved basil she found after arriving in the territory last year grew from seeds sown in the safe zone, because evolved basil was the main raw material for making No. 3 rations at Hui Base 3. The alfalfa in the No. 4 territory should also be grown from seeds sown in the safe zone.

And those iron soybeans that she treated as treasures last year, taking good care of with good fertilizer and water for half a year, must have been seeds sown in the safe zone!
Even the Gaoyi Elemental Green Light Spinach on the hillside in her territory is spinach seeds sown by drones at the base, an optimized species that emerged after natural evolution.

This possibility made Xia Qing excited.

Because if this is true, it proves that the soil in her territory with high Yi element planting area can indeed produce better quality spinach seeds. If she cultivates it carefully for another two years, she may be able to cultivate high-quality spinach with Yi element content exceeding 10!

The seeds of the flat-spiked ice mist grass in the Evolution Forest should also have been sown at the base, because this grass species is not scarce.

After the heavy rain, many of the ice fog grass seeds that Xia Qing sowed in the buffer forest and the third zone took root and sprouted, adding a lot of fun to Boss Yang.

Because it likes to find edible grass in the buffer forest.

The reason why Xia Qing now calls the flat-spiked ice grass "barley grass" is because Yuan Yan came to her territory before and saw the flat-spiked ice grass Xia Qing planted in the terraced fields, and said that they called this grass barley grass in their hometown. Xia Qing felt that this name was more intimate, so she changed the name.

"Boss, next time you come out to fight with the little flat-headed guy, you must wear your protective clothing, otherwise it will be troublesome if you get bit by it..."

The snorting little honey badger lying on the isolation belt kept staring at the two enemies with its black eyes. After they walked away, the little honey badger turned over and got up, ran into the Evolution Forest in Area 3, and practiced its claws fiercely on the pine tree from which it had torn a piece of bark for a while before turning around to look for food.

After running so far and having a fight, it was now thirsty and hungry.

Grass has strong vitality and grows much faster than vegetables. Xia Qing picked some barley grass leaves from the terraced fields, put a bucket of unpolluted spring water from the spring cave into the backpack, covered it with a lid, and took the sheep boss home to cook and eat.

"Brother, what are you thinking about?"

In Territory No. 12, Tang Heng handed the hand towel to Tang Huai who was standing in a daze beside the washbasin.

Tang Huai took the tissue and wiped his hands clean, then sat at the table and muttered, "I'm so annoyed. The people from Territory No. 14 are trying to sow discord between Xia Qing and me!"

Tang Heng smiled. "You and Xia Qing didn't have a good relationship to begin with. There was no need for anyone to stir up trouble. What did Yan Meng do?"

"It wasn't Yan Meng, it was a new guy in his territory named Liao Chen..." Tang Huai told the story and viciously took a piece of food with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. (End of this chapter)