Wasteland scavenging, fat girl takes the sick and disabled family away

The number of survivors in the lair will not increase any further.

All the newly captured laborers were thrown onto the top of the garbage mountain, regardless of age or gender.

Shi Yuebai was also constantly expanding her protective barrier.

As time went by, she drew the protective array faster and faster.

Without anyone noticing, Shi Yuebai had already pulled her protective array to the foot of the garbage mountain.

The inside of the garbage mountain is at a vertical angle.

This is also to prevent external survivors from climbing up the garbage mountain, avoiding the exposed steel bars, and entering the lair directly from the top of the garbage mountain.

Although the area outside the garbage mountain is now a vast ocean, with snowmelt flooding large areas of land.

The survivors are all on another high ground.

Unless there are some extremely powerful survivors who can sail across a vast ocean to reach the garbage mountain.

However, it cannot be ruled out that there really is such a force in this wasteland, capable of accomplishing such a thing.

Even if those powerful survivors manage to climb to the top of Garbage Mountain, what will happen if they want to enter the lair?

We also need to figure out a way to jump off the cliff.

The laborers who were originally inside the lair now need to submit a report to the higher-ups in the lair to apply for permission to leave if they want to cross the third wall.

However, since Shi Yuebai's protective array was expanded, the laborers have been able to freely enter and exit the third wall.

Especially after the construction of turrets and watchtowers began.

Many survivors followed in the footsteps of the little mute and applied to move to the outside of the third wall.

Every laborer who moves to the outside of the third wall will be given a small courtyard.

They can plant osmanthus trees or Panax notoginseng in this small courtyard of several hundred square meters.

This is certainly much better than everyone crowding into the open space between the second and third walls.

After all, the circular open space between the second and third walls was mostly used to grow vegetables and rice.

In reality, the area of ​​land actually available for laborers to use was very small.

If people want to earn some extra small red flags by growing osmanthus trees and Panax notoginseng, then they need a large area.

If they could live outside the third wall, they could realize their dream of getting rich.

The most crucial point is that moving to the outside of the third wall not only increases the area where one can freely cultivate crops.

The environmental crisis caused by the snowmelt that used to create potholes and uneven terrain no longer exists.

After all, with more osmanthus and Panax notoginseng trees planted, more snowmelt water is needed.

This also saved them a lot of time fetching water.

When they lived inside the third wall, they had to find a way to get outside the third wall.

They used buckets to carry melted snow from the uneven ground outside back to their tent.

Watering the osmanthus and Panax notoginseng trees that I planted myself.

Now things are much better, as long as the cracks in the garbage dump allow snowmelt to flow down continuously.

The meltwater from the snow can then flow along the grooves in the ground into various potholes and depressions.

These laborers living outside could even plant their osmanthus trees and Panax notoginseng in the uneven, pitted areas.

Every day, they collect melted snow from nearby trees and use the water to irrigate their osmanthus and ginseng trees.

The laborers had absolutely no reason to refuse to live outside the third wall.

In just a few days, the production of osmanthus and Panax notoginseng powder increased several times over.

Of course, Black Monkey and Gong Chen on the front lines were also putting in their best effort, leading their teams to frantically search for supplies.

Both of their teams have a bit of a combat attribute.

Therefore, they were able to closely follow the mercenary group and venture deep into dangerous areas. In particular, every member of their team carried a handful of osmanthus flowers in their pockets every time they went out.

They will no longer be affected by the stench of melting snow.

Especially after they used osmanthus for a long time, they did not experience the phenomenon of their bodies becoming increasingly unable to integrate with the current wasteland.

On the contrary, their long-term use of osmanthus made them increasingly clear-headed.

Many people have gradually realized that their stagnant minds are now refreshed by the fragrant air around them.

It started rotating slowly again.

Black Monkey and Gong Chen sometimes run into each other in the danger zone.

Because Yitong and Shiyuebai were doing business together, the tense atmosphere between the two teams gradually eased.

Sometimes, the black monkey and Gong Chen could even exchange ideas about their long-term experience using osmanthus.

"Have you noticed that the fragrance of osmanthus can prevent the intelligence of survivors from declining?"

The black monkey asked Gong Chen a question.

He wasn't entirely sure, but several survivors had already emerged from his team.

Even he himself, whose mind had been becoming increasingly dull, started thinking much faster and reacting much more nimbly.

Gong Chen hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"It only improves thinking and reaction speed, but it doesn't actually help much in terms of improving intelligence."

If one were to insist that the osmanthus flowers Shi Yuebai sold them had any medicinal effects, that would be a very far-fetched claim.

At most, it only prevented survivors from smelling the odor of melted snow, thus protecting their brains from the stench.

As time went on, the survivors' minds naturally became much clearer.

This means that while the overall level of intelligence declined, the intelligence of those survivors who wore the Osmanthus Talisman remained stable at the current level.

Their intelligence has stopped declining, which is equivalent to their intelligence improving.

"You could see this as a slight way to prevent the survivors' intelligence from declining," Gong Chen continued.

The black monkey nodded happily.

In the wasteland, if there is anything that can, in a tiny way, prevent the decline of human intelligence, that would be very good.

He still remembers that a very clever scientist had made a prediction during the apocalyptic catastrophe.

After this apocalyptic catastrophe, humanity will enter a wasteland era.

According to scientific research at the time, the survivors' intelligence would decline over time.

This is the true beginning of humanity's demise.

The problems that arose in the early stages were not problems at all, and were not enough to lead to the extinction of the race.

Once the overall level of intelligence declines significantly, no one will be able to solve the wasteland problem anymore.

So when the black monkey realized this...

His eyes were shining.

Gong Chen, who was standing to the side, nodded in agreement.

"I've decided to buy more osmanthus flowers, because Shi Yuebai's supply of osmanthus flowers will run out."

Gong Chen was filled with worry.

They could certainly find a lot of expired food, but they found even more intact living supplies.

Since we know that osmanthus can also prevent intellectual decline, then of course we need to stock up on it in case of any unforeseen circumstances.

(End of this chapter)