Chapter 1530 Black Heart, Black Cake, Black Industry
"Look at Feng Shui and fortune telling?"
"Isn't this a magic stick?"
Fan Haizhou, Xiao Zhong, Zhang Sheng, and Zhou Haiping looked at Liu Shiba with their faces full of dementia and were speechless for a long time.
If you want to take such a magician and take the risk to hang out in a gathering place, you may have to bear huge consequences.
"Brother, do you still think this guy is a noble?"
Xiao Zhong looked at Fan Haizhou in confusion.
Fan Haizhou scratched his head and affirmed:
"What? You doubt my judgment. I said that only nobles can play with these useless things without worrying about food and drink these days. Am I wrong?"
After the argument, Fan Haizhou turned to glare at Liu Shiba and said:
"I have done my best to bring you inside the wall of the gathering place. As for how many days you can hang out there after entering, we have nothing to do with it. Whether you can survive or not depends on your own ability."
"Everything is up to Brother Fan's arrangement!"
Liu Shiba responded, in fact, he felt a little regretful now. What he said was wrong, except that he knew how to read Feng Shui and facial features. These things were really not suitable at the moment.
"Let's go in!"
Fan Haizhou hesitated for a while, then waved his hand and made the final decision.
The defense of the gathering place is relatively strict. In order to prevent people entering the wall from carrying viruses or bringing other purposes, all people entering and leaving the high wall of the gathering place need to be inspected.
This kind of inspection does not seem complicated. Xiao Zhong parked the off-road vehicle in front of the checkpoint, and there were three or four soldiers in biochemical suits holding instruments to scan the whole body of everyone who entered, especially the pupils of the eyes.
The entire off-road vehicle and the items carried on the vehicle do not need to be opened. They can be directly scanned with instruments. As long as no alarm is sounded, it means it is safe.
There were not many people or cars qualified to trade bone drills behind the high walls of the gathering place. The routine inspection was completed quickly. The only trouble was that Liu Shiba was a new face.
In the end, Fan Haizhou helped stuff a few bone drills as a benefit, and the soldiers at the checkpoint did not continue to embarrass him. They just registered Liu Shiba as a routine, asked about some basic identity information, and issued him a temporary pass.
From this, even if Liu Shiba temporarily has the legal status to enter and exit the gathering place, of course it is only temporary...
"This is, this is the planting place?"
When the off-road vehicle slowly drove into the high wall, Liu Shiba let out an exclamation of surprise at what he saw.
Close to the base of the high wall of the gathering place are patches of green planting land reclaimed by humans, stretching as far as the eye can see against the high wall.
Surrounding the green crops, which are more than a foot high, there are actually soldiers with loaded ammunition patrolling back and forth, which shows that the gathering place attaches great importance to these crops.
Liu Shiba looked at it carefully and then murmured with saliva dripping:
"All the fields are planted with sweet potatoes and corn, right?"
Fan Haizhou turned to look out the window, with a look of envy on his face and replied:
"Don't look down on sweet potatoes and corn. These two crops not only feed the people inside the high wall, but also feed everyone outside the high wall."
Liu Shiba nodded and said:
"Tsk, tsk! But this chef's skills are too poor. No matter how you cook sweet potatoes and cornmeal, you can't make something like black pancakes."
"Ah, haha?"
Fan Haizhou laughed when he heard this, and several other people in the car also laughed.
"Why are you laughing? Don't the black pancakes taste good?"
Liu Shiba pursed his lips.
Fan Haizhou smiled and took out another piece of black cake from his bag, pointed at it and explained to Liu Shiba:
"The main raw material of black pancake is not sweet potato and corn. Make no mistake, half of the ingredients in black pancake are sweet potato stalks, sweet potato vines, corn leaves, corn stalks, and the other half..."
"And half the ingredients?"
Liu Shiba's eyes bulged.
Xiao Zhong, who was driving, took the words and turned around and said:
"The black cakes we have here are called ant cakes, cockroach cakes...hahaha!"
Fan Haizhou then added:
"That's right! This black cake is actually artificially bred ants and cockroaches, mixed with sweet potato stems, sweet potato vines, corn leaves, corn stems, and some additives as the main raw materials, ground into powder, and then boiled into a cake."
"vomit……"
Before Fan Haizhou could finish his explanation, Liu Shiba felt acid water churning in his stomach and he couldn't stop retching.
He felt that the wonderful aftertaste he had during the past two days of eating black cakes instantly fed the dog...
Black cake - ant cake, cockroach cake?
The difference in taste was not that big. Liu Shiba's heart couldn't accept it. The ant was okay, but the cockroach Xiaoqiang's appearance was really unacceptable to him.
Fan Haizhou seemed not to notice Liu Shiba's miserable expression and continued to explain:
"Don't underestimate these sweet potato stalks, sweet potato vines, corn leaves, corn stalks and ants and cockroaches, which are deeply processed into ant cakes.
You have to know that it is impossible to feed so many people just by relying on the circle of sweet potato buns and grains surrounding the gathering place.
Ant cakes, however, just fill the food shortage in our gathering place. The output of ant cakes feeds more than 25,000 people in the entire settlement.
I'm afraid you don't know that our ant cake processing factory is the most important strategically protected industry in the gathering place besides the arsenal. The entire ant cake processing factory is controlled by the military and has even been classified as a restricted area.
Anyone who approaches the arsenal or the ant cake processing factory without any reason, the guarding soldiers have the right to kill them directly, do you understand?"
Liu Shiba's face was gloomy, and he held back a sentence for a long time:
"The products of the black cake processing factory are indeed an industry that challenges the limits of human psychological endurance."
Speaking of this, Liu Shiba suddenly turned his head, looked at Fan Haizhou and asked:
"This gathering place has a history of fifty years, right? Why don't the 20,000 people outside the high wall know how to open up wasteland to plant some sweet potatoes and cereals?
No matter how low the harvest is, you can still eat some sweet potato-wrapped cereal noodles, right? Why do you eat this black ant cake all the time?"
Zhou Haiping, who had been silent on the off-road vehicle, suddenly said:
"Is it a joke to farm outside a high wall? I'm afraid the seedlings will be pulled out by hungry people and eaten up before they mature."
Liu Shiba had a strange look on his face and said curiously:
"Isn't there an army? The gathering place can be the same as inside the wall, and heavy troops can be sent to guard the land to open up wasteland. Isn't that enough?
The ownerless wasteland outside the high walls of the gathering place was simply weeded and turned into cultivated land. Only one crop, sweet potato, was cultivated. The harvest of sweet potatoes in one year was enough to feed the people in the gathering place for three years. No matter how unpalatable sweet potatoes are, they are still better than ant cakes...
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Fan Haizhou glanced at Liu Shiba and smiled lightly:
"Everyone has sweet potatoes to eat, but who wants to eat ant cakes? Everyone can eat sweet potatoes and cereals, so who will go out to hunt zombies and get bone drills?"
And if a gathering place loses the source of bone drills, it means losing electricity, lighting, and power.
What’s even more serious is that those with special abilities gathered in the gathering place will lose their bone drills that absorb evolution, which will lead to a decline in strength. If they encounter a zombie wave or other gathering places to attack, they will be defeated and the gathering place will collapse instantly. "
