Ch56.2 - Pure Born And Bred Chinese (Part Two)

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When Cui QiChao returned, Cui Hu was sitting in a daze in front of the pile of space garbage.

“Elder cousin, are you slacking off?” Cui QiChao asked him. He had reminded Cui Hu to fertilize the crops before heading out.

Cui Hu gulped and asked Cui QiChao, “Are you crazy? How did you get these?” Although he didn’t dare to escape because of what was around his neck, as soon as he was alone, he began to observe his surroundings, searching for a chance to get out.

He first tried to remove the mini bomb from his neck, but it didn’t work. Then he searched the room and was depressed when he found weapons of different shapes and from different manufacturing eras. These were probably picked up by his little cousin. 

But this was nothing. What was terrifying was that while he was fertilizing the crops, he rummaged through the pile of space garbage for a short while and found some strange things in the pile like what appears to be a weapon modification system of some building or aircraft. After he fiddled with them a few times, his legs went soft. Because he found that they were actually weapons and ammunition belonging to the highly dangerous K921 series.

This entire set of weaponry, which were of different shapes, had extremely high lethality. For example, Cui Hu’s aircraft shield wouldn’t be able to block three rounds of such bullets. The most insidious thing about them was that they damaged the physiology and glands of alphas and omegas after exploding. To be precise, they were mainly aimed at alphas, because the excellent fighters on the battlefield were all basically alphas.

Therefore, the appearance of the K921 series products might be different from one another, but due to the uniqueness of its gunpowder formula compared to that of other ammunition, it also emitted a unique scent, which only alphas and omegas could smell. As far as he knew, the formula currently couldn’t be altered yet. Cui Hu had also smelled it before, so he could recognize it at once.

At present, there already existed protective equipment against K921 ammunition, which could effectively protect the gland system to a certain extent. But under normal circumstances, this series of ammunition was also inaccessible to everyone. It was also difficult to get such things even in the black market, because it seemed to be quite difficult to manufacture. Thus, the available supply at a time was very small.

As one would have expected, Cui Hu grew stunned when he smelled his aircraft. His entire self had been scared silly, so it wasn’t that he was skiving off, but that his legs were currently too soft to be able to let himself stand up…

If these things accidentally detonated, they would have great lethality. Even if one was able to escape death, which would be considered lucky already, the damage to the gland would remain irreversible. One’s pheromones would outbreak and become chaotically imbalanced, and one would be completely crippled from inside out.

“I picked them up,” Cui QiChao replied.

Cui Hu didn’t believe that at all. “Nonsense, who would throw K921 ammo and let you pick it up? Why don’t you just say you picked up a vault instead?” 

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Cui QiChao helped Cui Hu up. “How much work have you done?”

Hearing that Cui QiChao was still avoiding the topic, Cui Hu became filled with grief and anger, and the words he had suppressed for a long time poured out. He said, “…I watered an acre. These things are too dangerous. Can you place it elsewhere? Don’t just put it here!”

Cui QiChao pondered for a moment and said, “Then where should I put it, elder cousin?” 

Cui Hu choked. Yes, there was only one space station here. The internal space was limited. Even Cui Hu had to stack tables together to form a bed to sleep on. Did that mean they had to continue storing these weapons inside the space station? That was scarier!

“Or you can dismantle them too, right? Dismantle them… With these kinds of things placed next to me, I don’t dare sleep at night. What if they accidentally explode? By then, we won’t have time to escape…” Cui Hu’s cold sweat trickled down.

He could stay relaxed during his time here back when he didn’t know about the presence of these weapons. But now that he found out about them, he felt terrified regardless of how he went about this matter. His little cousin was really crazy. How could he live in such a place worry-free? No, how could he have the courage to put such highly dangerous weapons outside his door and be able to sleep and farm next to the weapons everyday?!

And there was yet another depressing matter he comprehended. After finding out about the weapons and ammunition, he now had a giant question mark in his mind as to whether his family could successfully save him from this planet. 

“How can they explode? I won’t touch the weapons if there’s nothing wrong going on.” The tone Cui QiChao used was as if he was comforting Cui Hu that the cooking machine wouldn’t explode. His tone was very flat. He then took Cui Hu to work. Cui QiChao could now drive the aircraft back and forth and carry out farming in the air instead of just using his hands to farm.

Cui Hu was so upset that he couldn’t even care about Cui QiChao filling his aircraft with fertilizer. It was all over. His little cousin was going to detain him here forever.

The working efficiency of the aircraft was much higher than that of the human body. More than 20 mu of land was taken care of in less than 10 minutes. This included the time taken to dilute the fertilizer with water.

Cui QiChao refrigerated all the things he had exchanged for, such as the cans and the nutrient solutions, which could be stored for a long time for emergencies and long winters. The climate on this uninhabited planet was basically divided into three seasons. Spring and summer lasted a little longer, but they only accounted for a little more than half a year. They lasted around eight months combined. The winter season then encompassed the rest of the year. 

Lisa also gave Cui QiChao some salt and sugar. The quantity wasn’t much. The sugar she gave was only in a small bag. As for the salt, she gave him a little more of it compared to the sugar. It was stored in a small jar. Cui QiChao weighed the sugar before opening the jar again and dabbing a little salt on his fingers to taste. Then all of a sudden, he laughed.

Cui Hu shuddered. Cui QiChao’s current appearance wasn’t very different from that of a madman in his eyes. “…What are you laughing at?”

“Looks like there’s salt on this uninhabited planet,” Cui QiChao said, covering the jar.

Whether it was sulfate, chloride, perchlorate, or brine… there were definitely some salt substances here in some form. 

“How do you know?” Cui Hu didn’t quite understand.

“This salt is clearly self-made. The other foods they had were tightly packed, and the sugar they gave is commercial sugar, but this salt tastes much cruder. I tasted it just now. It should have only been preliminarily purified,” said Cui QiChao.

Since this planet had salt and was uninhabited, if other people could find naturally occuring salt and turn it into edible salt, he can naturally do it too. He didn’t even have to find Lisa and ask them where they got the salt from. There couldn’t be only one place here with a lot of salt.

With enough salt and sugar, it would be much easier to preserve food for the winter. Fruits could be made into jam, while meat could be pickled. 

Cui QiChao was in a better mood than normal because he had obtained sorghum. He decided to go out and search for salt.

He first poured out all the sorghum and selected the better varieties. Afterward, he ended up with more than four kilograms of sorghum on hand. Planting these would occupy about two to three acres of land.

Cui QiChao didn’t know how many sorghum seeds could be harvested, but he estimated that the yield per mu would at least be hundreds of kilograms. It would mature in a little more than four months too, so they were guaranteed to be harvested before the incoming winter.

If Lisa and the rest were still on this planet once these were ready for harvest, maybe Cui QiChao could sell them some sorghum… Four kilograms of sorghum in the spring became 40 kilograms in the winter. How interesting. 

They could use the cultivated land they had here. Although sorghum was drought-resistant during its growth and did not need too much water, he must ensure sufficient moisture. Soil moisture, that is.

The water in Cui QiChao’s reservoir obviously wasn’t enough, so he had to use Cui Hu’s aircraft to transport water from the lake to counter the thermal change. During this period, he would also apply fertilizer, soak the seeds, and promote germination, which could improve the seedling emergence rate. Finally, he would sow them.

Although sorghum was resistant to unfertilized soil, the amount of fertilizer used couldn’t be skimped on if he wanted to increase the yield. Cui QiChao almost didn’t have enough fertilizer.

The low-quality seeds were peeled. They were then eaten directly after shelling. Meanwhile, the remaining sorghum seeds were all planted on two mu of land. 

Cui Hu worked with Cui QiChao. When he saw those weapons, he grew a little discouraged. He always felt that his little cousin was quite insane. Maybe one day, his cousin would blow everyone up. But if he could keep his life for a day more, he wouldn’t complain. Whatever Cui QiChao asked him to do, he would do it. His current state was the epitome of a meaningless life.

This was also Cui Hu’s first time sowing. It had to be said that this job was much more difficult than picking lettuce. Certain standards had to be met when sowing.

Cui QiChao said, “No, no. The sowing depth should be 1.637 cm into the soil. Some of the seeds you sowed are more than 3 cm deep. Sowing too deep will delay the emergence period, which will cause the seeds to consume more nutrients in vain. Not to mention, growing sorghum seedlings are small and won’t be able to emerge from the soil.”

Cui Hu: “……” 

Cui Hu: “I don’t have a tiller. How can sow the seeds exactly 1.637cm deep?!”

Cui QiChao frowned. “…Forget it. Go and have a rest.”

He had a limited amount of sorghum seeds. He couldn’t allow Cui Hu to affect the emergence rate.

“……” Cui Hu was despised for the first time in his life. Angry, he said, “Nonsense. I think you sowed them around 2cm deep into the soil. I was just sowing according to how you did it.” 

When Cui QiChao first told him that he should sow 1.637 cm deep, he made fun of Cui QiChao. When Cui QiChao went down and sowed the seeds without measuring, Cui Hu followed him and observed how deep he was sowing the seeds. People who weren’t in the know would think that Cui QiChao was competing with Cui Hu.

Cui QiChao didn’t bother with Cui Hu and continued sowing his seeds. XiaoBai followed him, holding the bag of seeds.

“I’m happier if you don’t allow me to sow…” Cui Hu said to himself. But after sitting on the ridge for a while, he grew displeased with what Cui QiChao had commented about him. Secretly, he took a tree branch, inserted it into one area of the soil that contained seeds Cui QiChao had buried, and measured it again.

The data showed: 1.637 cm. Not one cm less. 

Cui Hu: “Fuck!”

No, he didn’t believe it. Cui Hu turned and ran to Cui QiChao. “Do you bring an instrument that can measure how deep you sow everywhere you go? You can’t have a mini sowing machine with you, right? Let me take a look at your hand.”

The cat hissed at Cui Hu in what seemed to be disdain and circled around Cui Hu’s leg.

Cui Hu: “……” 

He felt like the cat was targeting him.