Chapter 1881

The hail lasted for less than three minutes before it smashed the large trees bare. The hail on the ground was dense and covered the ground, pressing down the harmful grass that had grown to half a person tall, and the temperature plummeted by more than ten degrees.

Xia Qing on the top of the shed finally put the straw mat in place. When she landed, her foot slipped and she fell. A dozen hailstones hit her backpack and her left arm, which was extended outside the iron umbrella to steady her body.

"Moo————"

"Clatter!!!"

Sheep Boss in the off-road vehicle saw its little brother slip by the greenhouse and let out a heart-wrenching howl, slamming against the car door, shaking the hail on the roof down with a clatter.

"Boss, I'm fine. I'm good, don't move, I'm coming over!" Although the hail was not small in size, its hardness was much lower. It hurt a bit when it hit her arm, but her bones definitely weren't broken.

Xia Qing quickly climbed up, responded loudly to her companion's call, rushed to the off-road vehicle, opened the door, hugged Sheep Boss who had jumped out, and rushed into the greenhouse.

Hailstones hit the straw mats with a thumping sound, the greenhouse frame was trembling, and the lighting inside the shed was also shivering.

Xia Qing placed Sheep Boss steadily on the ground, then picked up a bundle of rainproof cloth by the shed door and placed it on its back, rushing forward quickly, "Boss, fast, we have to patch the greenhouse as soon as possible."

The width of the hole smashed by the hail in the rainproof cloth exceeded one meter, and the greenhouse frame at the tear had already tilted and deformed to the left and right. If it weren't for Chen Cheng tying the two frames together with rope, the rainproof cloth of Shed No. 9 would have already been torn in two.

Once the rainproof cloth was completely torn, this shed would be completely destroyed.

Sheep Boss, carrying a piece of rainproof cloth, rushed forward behind Xia Qing for more than ten meters, and the rainproof cloth on its back fell to the ground. Sheep Boss turned and ran back, biting the rope tying the rainproof cloth with its teeth, dragging the rainproof cloth and continuing to run forward.

Xia Qing, rushing in front, took out the strong double-sided tape from her backpack, pulled the rainproof cloth with Chen Cheng, bonded the tear, and then cut a piece of rainproof cloth dragged over by Sheep Boss, covering the tear and patching the hole.

After they patched the greenhouse, the thumping sound of the hail gradually stopped, and the lights in the greenhouse no longer trembled. Chen Cheng asked, panting, "Sister Qing, are you injured?"

The sound of the hail was so loud just now that Chen Cheng inside the shed clearly heard Sheep Boss's panicked roar through the thick straw mats, and his heart tightened.

The last time he heard Sheep Boss make such a sound was in July of the tenth year of the natural disaster, when Xia Qing went to the safety zone to attend the agricultural products exhibition and didn't return to the territory that night.

"I slipped and fell when I landed, and was hit by a few hailstones, no broken bones." After speaking, Xia Qing tidied the curly fur on her companion's head and pressed the ear-type walkie-talkie to report the situation, "Shed No. 9 has been patched."

Er Yong, who had returned to the monitoring room, responded, "Shed No. 6 has three holes, which have been patched. Other sheds and greenhouses are intact, the protective cover of the large Chinese toon tree is undamaged, and the animals in the territory haven't run out."

Xia Qing responded, letting out a sigh of relief.

Tan Tan Junjie's stern voice came through the lord's walkie-talkie worn by Xia Qing, "The first wave of hail has ended. All territories report personnel casualties, farmland damage, and whether support is needed."

Territory No. 1 agent Yin Zhao Jie reported, "Territory No. 1 has 15 damaged sheds, 6 injured, no support needed."

Other territories had many sheds and plenty of manpower, and each shed was guarded by someone during the harmful rain period, so they could react quickly when an emergency occurred, minimizing losses.

Xia Qing pressed the walkie-talkie button, "Territory No. 3 has 2 damaged sheds, no casualties, no support needed."

Zhao Ze pressed the walkie-talkie button, "Territory No. 4 has 6 damaged sheds, 4 injured, no support needed."

During the 18-minute violent hail attack, except for Territory No. 7, which was entirely standardized sheds, other territories in the 1-10 lord territories and the Ninth Center all had varying degrees of damage to sheds and personnel injuries, but no one died, and no shed was completely destroyed, which was already a misfortune in the midst of fortune.

Xia Qing came online, affirming the contribution of the core members of the Territory Alliance Research Department, "The protective umbrellas designed and produced by Uncle Huo and Sister Yingzi played a very good protective role in this hail."

Wen Wen Nengjie followed, "Yeah, if it weren't for the bamboo umbrellas, my head would definitely have been smashed open by the hail. The hail in the fifth year of the natural disaster wasn't even this hard or this big."

Except for Xia Qing, all other personnel in the northern first-zone territory were equipped with a backpack-style bamboo umbrella made of hardness-evolved bamboo.

This umbrella was designed by Huo Lei and Jiang Ying, and then everyone divided the work to process the bamboo strips and assemble them. Each umbrella sold for only 25 points, truly good quality and cheap.

Hearing the alliance leader Xia Qing name her daughter, the lords also came online one after another to express their gratitude. Jiang Mu, who was bending over pulling harmful grass in the Territory No. 15 shed, was filled with mixed feelings and shed tears.

Little Eleven, in a room eighty meters away, felt Jiang Mu's magnetic field fluctuation, crawled to the stool by the window to look out, lowered his head, and continued to send a message: The hail has stopped, I'm going out to check the vegetable shed, goodbye Mom.

Ye Yang and Little Eleven built a vegetable shed with an area of only 50 square meters in the courtyard. Half of the shed was for growing vegetables, and half was for raising chickens. Because Ye Yang was inconvenient to move, the vegetables and animals in the shed were all taken care of by Little Eleven.

Zhang Shi, in the cave of the southern wolf pack territory, lowered his head and replied to his daughter earnestly: Good, baby, put on your protective suit and be safe.

Tang Huai reported the situation of other territories in the northern first zone, "Our territories are all sheds built with hardness-evolved bamboo, so not many were smashed by the hail. The sheds built with ordinary bamboo in other territories were completely smashed, 200 of them, 32 injured, 6 dead."

Hearing the heavy casualties in other territories, the lords in the 1-10 lord channel were all filled with lingering fear.

Wen Wen Nengjie came online to ask, "Sister Qing, can we harvest the first batch of the harmful evolutionary bamboo we planted?"

Xia Qing replied, "Yes, you can."

The hardness-evolved red-leaf bamboo that Xia Qing planted in the buffer forest of Territory No. 3 last year was cut too diligently during the harmful rain period—every 4-5 hours—causing the bamboo to undergo secondary harmful evolution, not only doubling its attack power, but the substances secreted by its roots caused soil pollution.

After secondary evolution, the hardness of the red-leaf bamboo did not increase significantly. So Xia Qing dug up all the roots of the hardness-evolved bamboo after secondary evolution and treated the soil with medicine for three months before restoring that piece of land.

Hardness-evolved bamboo was a high-cost-performance material for building sheds, and Xia Qing couldn't give up planting it. After the thaw this year, she dug up many bamboo roots from Mountain No. 50 again and planted them 200 meters south of the wilderness village where she lived.

Not only here, but also in the Ninth Center and the territories of allies in the northern first zone, hardness-evolved bamboo was also planted.

According to the research and calculations of Zhang Tao's team, if this kind of hardness-evolved bamboo is cut more than three times during the harmful rain period, the secondary evolution rate will skyrocket, and it is relatively safe within three times.

Now, the harmful rain period has begun for more than 12 hours, and the hardness-evolved bamboo has grown to more than 20 meters high, thick and strong, and the first batch can be harvested.

"Alright! Harvest the bamboo!" Wen Wen Nengjie responded loudly, and the lords also felt refreshed.

One hardness-evolved bamboo could sell for 50 points, and the lords who had just experienced a rare hail natural disaster could finally recover some losses.

Hearing that Xia Qing was going to cut bamboo, Zhang San in the laboratory of Territory No. 7 picked up his phone, "Xia Qing, can your body hold up?"