From Robinson Crusoe

Three rewards were delivered at once; this was the first time since we landed on the island.

Chen Zhou's nerves seemed to be particularly excited in his dream, causing him to jump out of bed just after noon.

Last night before going to bed, I half-heartedly took off my pants but not my clothes, so I slept a little tiredly.

While putting on my pants, I looked around and found that the cats were not in the bedroom.

The gray ball that crawled into the bed last night has disappeared without a trace. I guess it has gone back to the hawksbill turtle shell to hug its father.

Only Lai Fu was lying on the ground. When he saw him wake up, he opened his eyelids and glanced at him, then returned to his half-asleep state, apparently not interested in Chen Zhou's waking up.

Knowing that it was worried about not being able to go out to play, Chen Zhou got up and put on his shoes, then walked over to rub Lai Fu's head, looking out the window as he walked towards the kitchen.

The sky today is brighter than usual. Although it is cloudy, the clouds are not that thick.

The rain has stopped, and the island is now shrouded in warm and humid air, with a thin mist in the distance, like a fairyland.

"The weather is nice. I hope my luck will be better today. I hope nothing unexpected happens."

Talking to himself, Chen Zhou picked up his backpack, held a long-handled axe in one hand and a bundle of hemp rope in the other.

"Laifu, let's go out and play. Do you want to go?"

Before he could finish his words, Lai Fu stood up suddenly, ran out of the bedroom, approached him with a flattering look on his face, and stretched his head out knowingly, as if he was going to get into the noose.

"You're really going to be a genius."

Already familiar with its posture, Chen Zhou put Lai Fu's hand around his neck, put a few homemade scones in his arms, and took a glass of water.

Eager to see his reward, he planned to skip breakfast and head straight to the beach.

To be honest, if he hadn't been so tired after choosing the rewards in the early morning, and if it was not for the fact that it was easy to fall or encounter other dangers when walking at night, he would have run to the beach long ago.

Normally, it’s understandable that you can resist giving one completely random reward, but this time there are three, and two of them are gifts that you’ve earned through your own efforts. Who can resist taking a look!

……

The speed of travel had never been so fast before, almost jogging all the way, Chen Zhou and Lai Fu quickly arrived at the beach.

The closer he got to the reward point, the more excited he became. In the last two hundred meters, he started sprinting, stepping on the wet sand and reaching the wooden and stone wall.

As you get closer, all the items in the wall come into view.

It turned out to be three pieces!
There are two large and one small boxes. The largest box is square in shape, and the outer packaging is not made of corrugated paper or plastic, but a slightly dull orange-yellow plastic.

The plastic surface has a non-slip texture and looks very thick.

The entire box has an old-fashioned shape, with the simplicity and practical style unique to military products. Just by looking at it, you can feel that the items in the box are expensive.

"It can't really be a military device, could it be that they issued me a gun?"

“Or did they send me a box of bullets?
Actually, I can accept bullets. Such a big box can probably hold several thousand rounds.

Even if there is no seamless steel tube with rifling, as long as the primer problem can be solved, I can make a beggar's version of an automatic rifle with these bullets..."

Chen Zhou was so obsessed with his imagination that he almost wanted to go up and open the box to see what was inside.

But he didn't do that in the end. Instead, he forced himself to suppress his excitement and looked at another larger reward next to him.

The outer packaging of this reward is quite standard, using relatively high-quality corrugated paper. The overall shape is slender, about 1.8 meters long and only 30 cm wide. It looks like the outer packaging of a fishing rod.

Of course, it could also be some kind of long tool or luxurious and expensive craft.

……

As for the last reward, it was pitifully small.

It is only the size of a mobile phone and is wrapped in a simple small paper box. It looks like a cheap small commodity produced by Bing Xixi.

Chen Zhou, who judged things by appearance, saw at a glance that its price was no more than twenty yuan, so he picked it up first.

……

It was the rainy season, and during the days that Chen Zhou was hiding in the cave due to illness, the rain on the island basically never stopped.

Although there was a slight break today, there was some light precipitation during the day.

All three rewards on the beach were exposed to rain, but the difference between being exposed to rain for five days and five nights and being exposed to rain for half a day is still very obvious.

The long strip was completely soaked, the corrugated paper had turned from light yellow to dark brown, and the corners had even collapsed and slightly deformed.

If the cardboard used for this reward packaging had not been of good quality, it would have been soaked into a puddle of mud by the continuous rain.

From this, it can be seen that this long strip of reward should be the reward delivered on March 3, and the other two are random rewards issued after the puzzle is restored.

However, it is difficult to guess which category the plastic box and small paper box represent.

……

Squatting on the beach, Chen Zhou took out a dagger and prepared to start opening the cheapest reward.

First open the small paper box, then open the long strip of reward, and finally open the plastic box. In this way, each prize is better than the last, and his mood will become better and better.

He casually cut the transparent tape wrapped around the small paper box, opened the cardboard lid, and took out a small, light, transparent plastic bag from the box.

Although the bag is small, the moment Chen Zhou saw it, he couldn't help but grinning happily.

It was simple, just because it was a bag of seeds, and they were the pepper seeds he needed most.

More importantly, these pepper seeds were packed in an ordinary plastic bag with no origin, no pictures, no instructions, and no business license number.

This means that it is most likely a bag of conventional seeds kept in rural areas.

The hybrid seeds commonly found on the market today, although they have high yields and are resistant to diseases, have a fatal flaw – they cannot be saved for cultivation.

In rural areas, many elderly people are greedy for cheap prices and do not believe what is said on the seed packaging. When they see that the hybrid peppers they bought produce a lot and grow well, they dry the seeds when they are harvested in autumn and keep them for their own use.

As a result, the plants of the second year are often very different from the plants of the first year.

They are of different heights, mature at different times, have a serious drop in yield, and are prone to disease. It is as if they have suddenly turned from Lu Zhishen, who could uproot weeping willows, into Lin Daiyu, who is as delicate and frail as a weakling.

This is not due to the seeds not being adapted to the local climate or the seed merchants putting a curse on the seeds, but rather a natural drawback of hybrid seeds.

Chen Zhou was not interested in biology and had long ago returned the knowledge he had learned about hybrid seeds to his biology teacher.

He only knew that hybrid seeds needed to be purchased and planted in the same year, and keeping seeds for oneself would significantly affect their yield and quality.

……

When faced with the five options last night, he was already very tired and his head was dizzy, and he forgot that choosing seeds might also lead to this drawback.

Looking back now, if he had chosen seeds at that time and ended up receiving a bag of hybrid seeds, he would have been in tears -

That's not a seed, it's actually a pack of "high-quality crop" experience cards, which can only be used for two years at most.

If you are unlucky, the second generation may not produce any harvest.

……

This bag of ordinary and even somewhat earthy "three-no product" is the conventional variety widely circulated in rural areas.

Conventional seeds, as the name suggests, are ordinary seeds with stable properties that can be kept for self-cultivation.

Although they are not as high in yield, taste or look as good as hybrid varieties, they are not much worse.

Before the invention of hybrid seeds, farmers had been growing and eating these things for generations, and their stability has been tested by our ancestors.

Moreover, conventional varieties have one advantage that hybrid varieties cannot match, which is that they can be kept in cultivation and harvested continuously from generation to generation.

Although the yield and quality of conventional varieties will change with each generation, they will not fall from the sky to the ground like hybrid varieties. Conservatively speaking, by the time he leaves the island after the challenge, the properties of these peppers should still remain relatively stable and can still provide warmth and warmth for those who may come to the island later. It is impossible for them to degenerate to the point where they are completely inedible.

……

Limited by his knowledge, when Chen Zhou thought of hybrid varieties, he regarded these seeds with very low practicality as a scourge.

He also thought that the characteristics of "second-generation degradation" applied to all crops.

In fact, in addition to hybrid rice, hybrid corn, hybrid sorghum, cotton, oil paint, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers.

Except for some cucumbers, watermelons, cabbages, onions and carrots, the seeds of most crops can be kept by yourself.

In real comparison, hybrid seeds make up the smallest proportion of all seeds in the world. He doesn't have to worry about drawing hybrid seeds with a casual draw. The possibility of that is extremely small.

……

Chen Zhou carefully put the plastic bag of chili seeds into his backpack and was about to take out a reward when he suddenly found a small note at the bottom of the box.

Thinking it was another bad joke from the Space-Time Administration, he took the note out, only to realize it was instructions about the seeds.

The paper was slightly yellow and had a faint smell of tobacco leaves.

The instructions written on the paper were very brief, and the handwriting was like that of a child, even the Chinese characters for "辣" (hot pepper) and "坐" (fruit setting) were written incorrectly.

"I use chili seeds at home, so there are no insects and no pesticides, and the fruits are plentiful."

"I hope you're not lying to me. For the next twenty years or so, I'm going to be relying on your chili peppers to make a living."

With a smile, Chen Zhou stuffed the small note into his backpack, walked to the long reward, and cut open the wet paper neatly.

……

The water-sensitive corrugated paper never deforms after being soaked by rain, not only because of its good quality, but also because there is support inside the paper shell to fix its shape.

After opening the paper shell, a narrow dark brown wooden box appeared in front of Chen Zhou.

The wooden box is coated with a layer of varnish and there are still water marks on the surface. From left to right, it is closed with seven golden buckles.

Pull the entire wooden box out of the cardboard box, and you can see a gold-plated symbol printed in the center of the wooden box lid, which looks like a logo left by the manufacturer of the items in the box.

This symbol has both the element of fire and a strong arm. Besides its tough lines, it also has the sharpness of a sword, as if it is telling Chen Zhou -

Inside the box is a hand-forged cold weapon.

"Wow, it's so long, is it the Fang Tian Hua Ji or the Overlord Spear?
No wonder it feels so heavy in the hand."

Now that he roughly knew what was in the box, Chen Zhou's expectations were greatly reduced.

Without further ado, he opened all the buckles in order to get a glimpse of the true face of Mount Lu.

Sure enough, there was a cold weapon in the box, and the shape of this weapon was very sharp.

The whole weapon is divided into two parts: the gun head and the gun barrel.

The length of the gun head is about 70cm, and the length of the gun barrel is about 150cm.

The two are connected using threads, and the total length after assembly is estimated to be around 220cm. It can be said that the principle of "an inch longer, an inch stronger" has been implemented to the extreme.

There is a leather protective cover on the outside of the gun head. After removing the protective cover, you can see that this gun head, which is more than half a meter long, is completely different from the common "red tassel gun".

Its shape is more like a Han sword, which is long and narrow, with a pointed head, sharp sides, and a blood groove in the middle.

Because the gun head is made of folded forged steel, the surface naturally has a flowing water pattern, which makes it look even colder and more sharp.

The part where the spear head and the spear barrel are connected is inlaid with a circle of red copper. The red copper is in the shape of a ring, made into the shape of an antique beast, and can be inserted into the spear tassel.

The gun barrel is made of a hollow steel tube with a large number of intricate cloud patterns engraved on the surface to prevent slipping.

Forged from pure metal, both the gun head and the gun barrel are quite heavy.

Holding it in his hand, Chen Zhou estimated that the weight of the gun head alone was close to 3 kilograms. With the gun barrel included, the weight of the entire gun would be about 7 kilograms, if not more.

A metal weapon of this weight, let alone with a blade, even without a blade, can still cause considerable damage just by its weight.

……

Which boy could refuse such an exquisite cold weapon? Touching the gun barrel, picking it up and waving it a few times, Chen Zhou felt even more delighted.

The person who made this spear was obviously an experienced craftsman. He not only took into account the beauty and strength of the entire weapon, but also made the comfort of holding the weapon and the center of gravity close to perfection.

Holding the gun barrel, Chen Zhou could feel that the texture of the gun barrel fit perfectly with the palm of his hand and was not slippery at all.

But the only drawback is that the center of gravity of this gun seems to be a little too forward, so it is very powerful when thrusting, but not very comfortable when swinging.

Due to its heavy weight, it is difficult to control the angle when swinging, and it is easy to cut off track. It is even more difficult to stop the attack in time when the gun head falls, and the controllability has obvious defects.

Chen Zhou speculated that this might be because it was not designed for infantry combat.

The reason why the center of gravity is so forward is to take into account horse battles and to increase the lethality of forward thrusts.

On the other hand, he had no martial arts background and no experience in using guns.

It is normal to feel clumsy when you first start using it, but you will definitely get better with more practice.

……

I didn't expect that the reward delivered on March 3th would be such a practical and ornamental weapon.

Chen Zhou was so happy that he didn't even try to control his facial expression. He happily unpacked the spear, put it on the holster, and put it back into the wooden box. He then came to the last reward with great anticipation.

There were a few raindrops hanging on the surface of the orange plastic box, like a silent extinct volcano standing on the beach, waiting to erupt.

As he approached it, Chen Zhou had a vague sense of danger.

Call ~
It was his first time coming into contact with a serious military product, so he couldn't help but feel nervous.

After letting out a long sigh, he opened the buckles on both sides of the plastic box.

With a firm push and a lift, what comes into view are "yellow bricks" neatly stacked in eight rows.

Although they are called bricks, they are actually several times smaller than the bricks used to build houses in the north. Each brick is only the size of a soap.

The yellow color of the brick surface is also different from the yellow of the soil. It has a distinct granular and crystalline feel, and there is a round hole in the center of the side of the brick.

If ordinary people see these little things, they might mistake them for some special building materials.

Chen Zhou couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

He knew of few military items, and these "little bricks" happened to be one of them.

Its chemical composition is trinitrotoluene, and it has a widely known name - TNT.

This plain and ordinary orange box is actually filled with a box of TNT explosives!

According to the label on the side of the box, each "small brick" is a standard 200g medicine block.

And this small 200g is enough to blow half of a wooden sailboat into pieces.

However, Chen Zhou's worries did not last long, because he knew that the structure of TNT and flammable and explosive black powder was very different.

TNT is extremely powerful but quite stable. It usually does not explode even if it is burned by fire, penetrated by bullets or burned at high temperatures.

Moreover, it has low impact sensitivity and weak friction sensitivity, so it can be said that it is safer to store than bricks.

To detonate it, you must use external high energy, such as a detonator, and use a fuse to ensure safety. (End of this chapter)