Chapter 4109: When Pumpkins Mature (2)

This community is not completely without supporting facilities, basic community hospitals and stores are still there. The store Schiller came to is the only community store in this community, the place responsible for distributing all daily necessities and food during the war, and now it has been changed to purchase with points.

As soon as he pushed the door, he found that the layout here was brand new: pumpkins were piled at the door, bat decorations were hung on the ceiling, the mannequin model changed into a yellow and purple suit, and a wizard hat was on its head. As soon as you enter the door, there is a large row of candy shelves.

"Good morning," Schiller said, "I'm here to buy candy."

"Oh, it's Professor Rodriguez," the clerk smiled at him and said, "I didn't expect you to still hold on here, when are you planning to move to the Inner World?"

"I'm not going," Schiller said, "I still have to work at Cat Getan University..."

"Isn't that just right? I heard there is an entrance directly to Cat Getan University," the clerk smiled and said, "If it weren't for the high housing prices there, I would also want to move over, heard that commuting is more convenient than outside."

"You're right, the housing prices are too expensive," Schiller shook his head and said, "My current house is quite good, I don't plan to move. Any recommended candy?"

"Several kinds over there are not bad, but our community has few people and few children, so there shouldn't be anyone coming to ask for candy. If you don't like to eat it yourself, you'd better buy less."

Schiller nodded and went to choose candy. Although there are few children in the community where he lives, he believes that there must be many people who would rather travel across half the city to ask him for candy, just to bet that he didn't prepare candy at all—he won't let them succeed.

Schiller took a lot of candy, some chocolate, and some caramel. When checking out, he said: "Are there any carving knives? Give me a set."

"Oh, my God, are you planning to carve pumpkins yourself?" The clerk said with some surprise, "That work is not easy to do."

"Yes, I planted some pumpkins myself..."

"You actually know how to plant pumpkins?!"

Schiller felt a bit guilty. That can't be counted as him planting: except for the pit where the seeds were planted by himself, and the seeds were sprinkled by him, everything else relied on the pumpkins themselves. He didn't even water them. But even so, three pumpkins miraculously grew.

The clerk gave him a set of carving knives. After Schiller took them, he put them into the bag with candy together and carried them home.

Putting down the things, he came to the backyard. It rained all night yesterday, and it was windy all morning, the backyard looked a bit messy, but the three big pumpkins stood still, yellow and round, standard as if they were in a textbook.

But Schiller didn't pick them directly. He first went to the tool room to pick up a shovel and gardening shears, one shovel in one hand and scissors in the other, before approaching the field.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked over, one of the pumpkins jumped up and was about to smash at him. Schiller was quick-eyed and slapped it with a shovel, successfully slapping the pumpkin back, and then cut off the vine on the top of the pumpkin's head with one cut, and the pumpkin stayed in the ground and didn't move.

He knew that how could Pamela be so kind to suggest him to plant pumpkins, and gave him a pile of seeds. It was right not to water them—three survived without watering, if he took care of them carefully and watered them every day, it would be the home of pumpkins now.

Knocking off the remaining two pumpkins in the same way, Schiller went up to check and found that this was not a man-eating plant, and this thing did not become a spirit, it was just a very ordinary pumpkin. The jump should be the power Pamela deliberately left in the vine.

Schiller shook his head, brought a small cart, and put the three big pumpkins on the cart. One is enough for him, and he plans to give the remaining two to others. After all, such big and standard pumpkins are rare.

Then Schiller walked back to the house to make a phone call, first to Victor. Victor's carving skills are very good, and he adopted a child, it is time to pass on this skill, he must give him a big pumpkin.

The other one is to be given to Killer Croc, because when moving before, he came to help, and later when Schiller bought furniture, he often borrowed his car, and he has a company, which recently resumed business, so it is quite good to put such a big pumpkin at the entrance of the company.

"Hello, Victor? Are you free recently? I grew three big pumpkins, you can take them back and carve with Billy. What? Billy's school also planted pumpkins? Okay, I'll come over later..."

"Hello? Waylon? No, nothing, I grew a few pumpkins, maybe you can take them to carve. Harley already gave you one? He also planted? Okay, I see, I'll come over another day."

Hanging up the phone, Schiller sighed. I don't know how everyone likes to farm, and everyone has pumpkins. It's probably Pamela casting a wide net, and there are many people planting, there will always be those who are fooled.

Just as he turned back, the phone rang again.

"Hello? Doctor, I've been calling you and it's been busy, what happened?"

"No, nothing," Schiller shook his head and said, "Did you book a hotel?"

"That, I was just about to say this," Main Universe Batman's tone revealed a trace of embarrassment, and he said, "I don't know that you have changed the currency here, what are these points and credits? Can't I book a room with US dollars?"

Schiller was stunned, and then said: "Which hotel did you book? Some hotels can use cash..."

"Wayne Hotel."

"Oh, that won't work, that requires points. You should be able to book with cash if you change to another hotel. If you don't want to change, I can lend you some points, I still have quite a few."

"Hmm, okay, thank you, Doctor, it seems that regarding your world, I still have many things to explore."

"It doesn't matter if you don't explore," Schiller said sincerely. This kind of moment of warning others not to explore certain secrets is mostly out of concern for the other party's safety, but if one of them is Batman, what should be more worried about is the thing being explored by him—in short, Schiller is more worried about Brainiac.

After hanging up the phone, Schiller thought about it, but he felt that Brainiac must know that Main Universe Batman had come. Since he didn't intend to disguise, it was probably that there was a countermeasure, and he didn't need to worry blindly.

Frankly speaking, Schiller is still very satisfied with his current life. Compared with the restrictions brought by Brainiac, he actually enjoys more benefits, especially after opening up in many aspects, life is quite calm, almost without waves, although slightly boring, but compared to the thrilling Cat Getan before, this boredom can also be said to be a rare gospel.

Victor hasn't finished work yet, so Schiller returned to the study to start researching the final exam questions. Except for his subject, the final exam papers for all other subjects were produced by Brainiac, and why his subject was produced by himself is because Brainiac has also discovered that the content he taught in class and the content he hopes students master are a hundred thousand miles apart. Compared to learning, it is more like channeling, and Brainiac didn't figure it out, so he let Schiller do it himself.

Thinking about a few questions, it was noon. Victor has no class in the afternoon and should be home now, so Schiller drove his car to Victor's house.

He and Victor arrived almost at the same time. Victor took out the key to open the door, and while pushing the door in, he said: "You don't know how big a pumpkin Billy brought back, my God, I have never seen such a big pumpkin in my life..."

Schiller thought he was exaggerating, but as soon as he entered the backyard of the house, he saw a super big pumpkin, several times larger than the biggest pumpkin he planted.

"Is this a pumpkin?" Schiller couldn't help asking, "Looks like a new Halloween model from Volkswagen Beetle."

"Unfortunately, this is a pumpkin," Victor said, "And at that time Billy used the power of Shazam to carry this thing back. Before this thing landed, Nora and I wanted to educate him not to move other people's cars casually..."

"I guess it's the seeds Pamela gave to the school."

"Probably, except for her, no one can research such a big pumpkin," Victor thought for a while and said, "I heard it's a project team Brainiac got, besides pumpkins, there seem to be potatoes and corn and so on."

"Are they all super-sized?"

"Not clear, but I think the yield should not be bad. How do you think this pumpkin tastes?"

"You are a science professor, the bigger the pumpkin, the thicker the fiber, and the less delicious it is, isn't it common sense?"

"But this is different from the kind of competition pumpkins I have seen before. The colors of those super-sized pumpkins have changed, and they are hard when knocked, and there is no pumpkin fragrance. This is different, it looks like it can be eaten."

Both of them looked at the super big pumpkin. Schiller thought for a while and said: "Are you and Billy planning to carve it?"

"Don't joke, this thing probably has to be carved with a chainsaw? I can't take the child to do such a dangerous thing, Nora won't agree either."

"I have one of the right size, I'll send it to you tomorrow. We can split this one open to see, if it can be eaten, our lunch will be solved."

"Then let's try it," Victor turned to find tools, but after looking for a long time, he only found an ice pick and a kitchen knife. The two dug a piece from that huge pumpkin.

Don't look at the piece dug down, it is already more than ten pounds heavy, in fact, this pumpkin only suffered a skin injury, you can't see the wound from far away, and it didn't even chisel to the hollow inside.

When digging halfway, the two found that this thing seems to be really edible, it is not at all like the texture of the big pumpkin like wood before, it looks more like a vegetable, and the pumpkin fragrance is very rich, and there is even juice, it looks delicious at first glance.

Because it was just for tasting, so no tricks were made: more than half was used to steam, and the other half was added with sugar and butter, put into a blender to make pumpkin puree, and then a base was made with pre-mixed powder, and put into the oven to bake into a pumpkin pie.

When it was done, the whole house was filled with a rich pumpkin smell. Schiller tasted a bite of steamed pumpkin, the taste was not bad, it was just the taste of very natural pumpkin, the fiber was a bit too much, but it was not inedible. The taste of pumpkin pie was much better, because the fibers were all crushed, and sugar and butter were added, the taste was very smooth, and the taste was quite good.

"Pamela finally did a good thing," Schiller said.

"You should say Brainiac did a good thing, if it weren't for him, Pamela wouldn't give up her man-eating plant project," Victor obviously also liked pumpkin pie, ate one in two or three bites, and then said, "Or didn't give up completely, I listened to Billy for three days, how their planting group fought the giant pumpkin—this is their trophy." ===== CHAPTER 4110 =====