Apocalypse: I have a supermarket stocked with supplies-Chapter 158 - Unpolluted seeds

Chapter 158: Unpolluted seeds

Chapter 158: Unpolluted seeds

Su Yinhe chuckled.

“Take it home and have a look. It’s good stuff, you’ll like it.”

Lin Musen examined the cloth bag over and over, feeling that her words weren’t right.

What he liked was grain. He liked food.

He liked plenty of grain.

How much could such a small cloth bag hold, a handful of rice?

A handful of rice was no different from not giving anything at all.

Well.

There was a little difference.

Sigh.

At least something was given.

Lin Musen took the cloth bag and muttered to himself as he walked away.

That evening, Su Yinhe, Chi Yan, and Lin Murong, the three people gathered together to decide on the next base to visit.

“Yinhe, what did you give to Lin Musen?” What did that little cloth bag contain that made you so sure Lin Musen would like it?

“Seeds.”

Chi Yan answered first.

“Am I right?” Chi Yan looked at her.

Su Yinhe smiled and nodded. “Yes, some seeds.”

“What’s the use of seeds? The stuff in the supermarket, those vegetables and fruits don’t contain any pollutants. But in this apocalypse, whether it’s people, the land, or even the air, everything’s polluted.”

“The seeds from the supermarkets can’t survive outside.” Lin Murong had bought supermarket seeds before and tried planting them.

But they wouldn’t sprout.

The seeds from the supermarket were too pure, utterly free of pollution.

They simply couldn’t adapt to the external environment.

They couldn’t even sprout.

In this world, every living plant contains pollutants.

“Lin Murong, you and Chi Yan have been going to Apple Base so many times in the middle of the night, surely you’ve found something?”

“Found what?” Lin Murong was a bit confused.

“Hey, Yinhe, how did you know we went to Apple Base in the middle of the night…”

“Not only do I know you went to Apple Base at night, but I also know that you’ve been shaving people over there into braised eggs.”

Hearing this, Chi Yan silently lowered his head.

“How did you know!” Lin Murong was shocked, looking at Chi Yan.

They had been very secretive.

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They even avoided using doors when leaving, always going through windows. How could Yinhe know.

Could it be that Chi Yan had let it slip?

“Never mind how I knew. I just do. Now, tell me, with all your visits, have you not discovered anything?”

“What discovery?” Lin Murong was still bewildered.

“Apple Base, there’s not a trace of pollutants in the air, their land is also free from pollutants,” Chi Yan couldn’t stand it anymore and blurted out.

“How is that possible?!” Lin Murong couldn’t believe it.

Pollutants were supposed to be everywhere in the air and in the land.

Pollutants were like bacteria.

“Didn’t you notice how fresh the air at Apple Base was?” Chi Yan had noticed as soon as he entered, the air at Apple Base was different from the outside.

He found it more cumbersome to use his superpower there.

There was always a sense of awkwardness.

Superpower Users’ superpowers are essentially due to pollutants.

They usually rely on pollutants stored in their bodies for using superpowers, secondly on those ubiquitous pollutants hidden in the air.

The air inside the Apple Base was very clean, containing not a trace of pollution.

He could only rely on the pollutants in his own body when using his superpower within the base.

Thus, there was a slight hindrance.

Very slight.

Had he not noticed the anomaly in the air from the start, he wouldn’t have realized there was a problem when using his abilities.

Knowing that the air contained no pollution, he specifically dug up some soil to study.

To his surprise, he discovered that the soil also contained no pollutants.

The soil in the Apple Base was exactly the same as it had been before the apocalypse.

After learning this, Chi Yan told Su Yinhe.

So, in the past few days, while chatting with the kids, Su Yinhe also asked about it.

There were no plants within several miles of the Apple Base.

The base contained only one apple tree.

It was not that no one had tried bringing back mutated plants from outside before.

However, the lively mutated plants from outside would wilt upon entering the base, and the ones planted would die the next day despite their strong vitality.

Even Lin Musen, the Wood-element Superpower User, could not revive them.

Over time, people in the base stopped trying to plant anything.

After all, they had the apple tree.

They had lived in the Apple Base for so long that they were used to it and rarely paid attention to the composition of the air.

They hadn’t even noticed that the air and soil, which they always thought contained pollutants, had changed.

Since both the soil and air in the base contained no pollutants, those mutated plants that needed pollutants simply died.

The land of the Apple Base couldn’t sustain mutated plants, but it could sustain plants that didn’t contain pollutants.

So, Su Yinhe gave Lin Musen a packet of seeds.

She also wrote him a note explaining her hypothesis.

She suggested he try planting seeds that contained no pollutants.

Upon hearing their discussion, Lin Murong’s mouth fell wide open.

“Is that true? But… but how is that possible? How can there be no pollutants?” After all, post-apocalypse, pollutants were everywhere.

Except in Su Yinhe’s supermarket…

Su Yinhe’s supermarket had mutated…

Wait.

“I’ve got it,” Lin Murong had a sudden realization. “Galaxy, your supermarket has mutated. Pollutants can’t get in. The apple tree in the Apple Base has also mutated…”

“But that’s not right. Don’t mutations require the absorption of pollutants? How could there be no pollutants…”

“It’s simple. The apple tree is growing, upgrading, so it needs a lot of pollutants. Don’t you think it has grown a bit too big?” Su Yinhe stroked her chin, her supermarket was a system product, so of course, it contained no pollutants.

Similarly, there were no pollutants in her body.

Her superpower was different from theirs. Theirs stemmed from pollutants, but hers did not.

“So you mean… for its upgrade, it absorbed all the pollutants from the soil and air?”

“Pretty much. The closer to the apple tree, the fewer the pollutants. Its roots have grown very long, and I suspect they even extend outside the base,” Chi Yan had seen it, no grass grew around the Apple Base.

And the Apple Base didn’t send anyone out to remove the mutated plants.

The Sun Base sent people every day to kill those mutated plants, but still, they grew right outside the base and quietly stretched into the base.

The Apple Base was different.

As far as one could see, everything was yellow—sand.

But the location of the Apple Base wasn’t the Loess Plateau.

That apple tree kept growing, wildly absorbing the surrounding pollutants. Without pollutants, the mutated plants naturally could not grow.

A little further outside the Apple Base, there were still a tiny bit of pollutants, but too few to meet the needs of the mutated plants.

“Holy shit! That’s incredible!” After hearing this, Lin Murong thought the apple tree was even more amazing than the supermarket.

The supermarket just wouldn’t have pollutants inside, but the apple tree rid the area around it of pollutants—a whole base and the Apple Base was quite large.