Natural Disaster: My Portable Farm in the End of the World

Chapter 201 A blessing in disguise

Xu Ge continued:

"We also experienced COVID-19 in the past two years, but if you look at the experts' interpretation of the virus at that time, viruses all follow one principle, that is, if the spread is wide and fast, the fatality rate will be low, which means the stronger the spread, the stronger the spread. The weaker the lethality, and vice versa, regardless of the direction of their mutation, they must follow this mechanism. But..."

Xu Ge paused, frowning slightly worried.

"But this time the virus actually violated this mechanism. It not only spreads quickly, but also has a high fatality rate and a short incubation period. This is so unreasonable. I also don't think it is a modern latent virus. It may really be an ancient virus. Viruses left over from the era..."

Xiang Chi felt heavy and said dullly:

"Those experts should be able to develop a vaccine, right? There are vaccines for viruses as terrible as Ebola..."

Xu Ge smiled bitterly.

"The Ebola virus vaccine is still in the development stage in China. It is only available in Europe and the United States. And it is expensive after years of research. Now..."

Xu Ge sighed and didn't continue, but Xiang Chi understood.

"Yes, the most lacking thing now is time..."

Not only are Xiang Chi and Xu Ge worried about this matter, but the entire top management of Dan City is now in a dilemma.

This infectious disease spread too fast. By the time they reacted and wanted to isolate the infected people, the epidemic had already broken out on a large scale among the people.

Among them, the dredging team is particularly serious. People die in pain every day.

The dredging work has been completely stopped, and the army has taken action to isolate all infected people and close contacts in batches.

Some people's symptoms were still mild, and they knew that being quarantined would mean death. They desperately wanted to get out, and even triggered several small-scale riots. In the end, under the violent suppression, everyone seemed to have accepted their fate...

Not only did the masses die on a large scale, but many soldiers were not spared either.

Medical experts in Dancheng are exhausted every day, but they still have no clue. They have also realized that this virus was probably brought by this flood... and the source should be the melting Antarctic glaciers.

In just seven days, 200,000 people have died painfully due to the new type of pneumonia.

However, this disaster did not stop because of human will. People who had just recovered from the flood were caught off guard because there were no limited drugs available. Some people who were diagnosed did not want to suffer and chose to deal with it on their own.

The entire Dan City was filled with a dead silence.

With the desilting work suspended, the only source of food is gone.

Officials had no choice but to open warehouses again to release grain.

Minister Liao's hair has become grayer with worry these days. The official food reserves are really running low. If they are not replenished, it will only be enough for the whole city to last for another two months.

Thinking that the food was about to run out, Minister Liao once again came to the farmland in the south of the city.

Although the dredging work has been suspended, part of the silt has been deposited and separated. In order to fill the gap in grain reserves as soon as possible, Minister Liao ordered half of this batch to be planted with buckwheat.

The growth cycle of buckwheat only takes about two and a half months from planting to harvesting, which is shorter than the maturity cycle of radish and Chinese cabbage. As a food crop, it has the fastest maturity cycle.

The other half of the farmland was planted with potatoes. In the south, potatoes don’t care about the season and can be grown in all seasons. In the north, April is the best time to plant.

But now the climate is chaotic. Minister Liao made a detailed comparison between the current temperature and the previous temperature. Although it is already June, the temperature is not much different.

Moreover, potatoes are a high-yielding and satiating crop, with a growth cycle of about ninety days.

The combination of these two is the best.

Minister Liao was stopped by the clerk as soon as he returned from the farmland. It was learned that the waterproof platform of a granary suddenly broke, and the stored corn was at risk of becoming damp and moldy.

In addition to developing vaccines, food is the most important thing now. When he heard that the entire 50,000-ton granary was not safe, Minister Liao felt his head spin and almost fainted.

The secretary next to him quickly supported Minister Liao.

"Minister! Cheer up!"

Minister Liao endured his headache, his feet were shaking, and he led everyone to rush to the granary where the accident occurred.

I was anxious all the way, and when I arrived at the grain depot, Minister Liao got out of the car before it even stopped.

When I came to the accidental granary, before Minister Liao could reach it, I had already seen the collapsed granary and the corn on the ground.

Minister Liao's hands trembled unconsciously. Roaring loudly.

"Where are the people in the reserve!?"

The clerk whispered from behind:

"Minister, the administrator contracted pneumonia and has... gone away."

Minister Liao paused, closed his eyes, and cried heartbrokenly as he looked at the grain all over the ground. Without saying anything, he stepped forward, took a shovel, and put the spilled grain into bags with the workers.

Fifty thousand tons of grain, this is fifty thousand tons! Enough to feed two million people for twenty days. This is one-third of all the grain reserves in Dan City.

Minister Liao's back was a little rickety with pain.

The corn in this warehouse can no longer be stored, so Minister Liao decided to just distribute corn kernels as tomorrow’s relief grain.

Everyone packed the corn in bags and loaded it into the truck, leaving the bottom layer that was touching the ground dirty.

Minister Liao squatted on the ground and picked up all of them without missing a single particle.

After packing the last package, Minister Liao sighed.

"Let's just eat the last bit of today's work meal. Leave the good ones to the masses."

Everyone around him nodded.

In the evening, the staff who had been busy all day gathered in the canteen and found that today it was not the multigrain pancakes that were irritating their throats, but corn porridge.

The master chef in the canteen tried his best to make the porridge thick with the smallest amount of corn.

The aroma of corn filled the surroundings, and everyone had not had hot porridge for a long time. For a while, the whole cafeteria was filled with "snoring" sounds.

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Xue Can opened the door curtain and entered the room with a bowl of corn porridge.

"Mom, it's time to eat. Today's dinner is porridge! I tasted it and it's very delicious!"

Xue Can's mother struggled to sit up on the hospital bed.

"Yangyang, you can eat, mom is not hungry..."

Xue Can couldn't hear this. Pretending to be angry, he said:

"If you don't eat, I won't either! I'll just starve to death. No one cares about me anyway..."

Xue's mother's eyes were dim with tears. Seeing her daughter's firm attitude, she tremblingly picked up the spoon.

"Okay, good Yangyang, don't be angry with mom, mom will eat it."

Xue Can looked at the weak Xue Ma, tears streaming down her chin through the mask.

Just when Xue Can was about to lift up the mask, Xue's mother suddenly grabbed Xue Can's hand after seeing it.

"Yangyang! Don't take off the mask!"

Xue Can paused and put down his hand.

"Okay, Mom, I won't pick it. You can eat it quickly."

Xue Ma was relieved.