Chapter 1896

20 minutes after the red-level acid rain started, Xia Qing finished feeding the chicken flock and the little yellow cow and drove out of the house.

Yang Laoda, sitting in the passenger seat of the off-road vehicle, and Dai Gua and the blue-faced little monkey in the back seat were all burying their heads in eating. The Gua Pi little pig, which had woken up, leaned against its companions and grunted.

Outside the car, there was wildly growing acid grass and countless insects that had lost control, bumping into the off-road vehicle with thuds.

Xia Qing's brow sensed a sharp acid element magnetic field appearing ahead, but Xiao Jiang, responsible for monitoring, didn't report any abnormalities, indicating that the creature emitting the magnetic field was hiding in the acid grass.

She stopped the car and jumped down, quickly closed the car door, started pulling the Huang Gan 39 in front of the car, and then logically discovered a new variety of aggressive acid-evolved plant that was releasing an acid element magnetic field.

A plant she hadn't seen before, of course, had to be packed and handed over to her idol. Xia Qing neatly pulled out this one-meter-tall sapling that hadn't yet shown its aggressive means, stuffed it into a packaging bag, sealed it to isolate the acid elements, threw it onto the roof of the car, and reported, "Team Tan, Territory No. 3 discovered a new variety of aggressive acid-evolved sapling, one meter tall, growing very fast, aggressive means unknown, already cleared."

Tan Tan Junjie responded, "Received, Brother Three?"

Zhang San went online, "I'll have Zheng Chen come over to take the sapling and confirm the species and aggressive means as soon as possible. Xia Qing, North Gate."

"Received, many thanks, Brother Three." Xia Qing responded.

Hearing the conversation between Zhang San and Xia Qing, even during the red acid rain period, the lords felt very solid in their hearts, encouraged each other, and continued to patrol the territory and clear the acid-evolved crops in the greenhouses.

Xia Qing took her companions, who had just finished eating, to the outside of the laboratory.

Yang Laoda stayed behind to protect the off-road vehicle. Xia Qing sent the two monkeys and the pig into the laboratory, and by the way, planted the 5 Acid Wu Grass plants she brought back into the glass unit cells in the artificial climate culture room.

Then, she used a fish tank circulation pump and a basin of unpolluted spring water to create a flowing unpolluted water stream in this unit cell.

The Acid Wu Grass in Territory No. 3 and Mountain No. 55 both grew by the flowing unpolluted spring water, so Xia Qing felt that creating a flowing water system wouldn't be bad for the growth of the Acid Wu Grass.

After the acid rain period ended and the people in the territory had all left, Xia Qing would move the Acid Wu Grass to the side of the unpolluted spring in her own territory.

After planting the Acid Wu Grass, Xia Qing took a few seconds to confirm that the two dung balls in the glass unit cell next to it were still full of vitality using her magnetic sense evolution ability. She stared at the vegetable seedlings growing vigorously in the other unit cells for a few seconds before leaving the laboratory full of vitality and continuing to patrol the territory with Yang Laoda.

"Sister Qing, in the southeast side of South Zone 21, there is a vine-type acid grass that is climbing and spreading rapidly, suspected to be an aggressive acid-evolved plant."

"Received, going over to clear it immediately." Xia Qing released the walkie-talkie button and stepped on the accelerator, "Lao Da, time to work!"

"Baa." Yang Laoda, lying on the passenger seat and chewing the cud, responded in a good mood.

This rapidly growing vine didn't release an acid element magnetic field, but Xia Qing also stuffed it into a packaging bag and handed it to Zheng Chen. Because this was a new variety of acid-evolved plant she hadn't seen before, her idol should be interested in researching it.

Zheng Chen took away the two acid-evolved plants and left Xia Qing a lunch box.

Yang Jin, far away in the Hui 3 Safe Zone, dialed Zhang San's phone and spent a lot of points to order a nutritious and delicious lunch for Xia Qing from the cafeteria of Territory No. 7.

Half an hour after the red acid rain ended, the acid element concentration dropped to 25‰, and aggressive acid-evolved plants no longer drilled out in the territory, and acid-evolved wheat seedlings no longer sprang up in the greenhouses. Xia Qing took the lunch box to the conference room and ate lunch with everyone.

After two o'clock in the afternoon, Xia Qing went to the Wild Boar Valley to get some wild boar milk. After returning to the territory, she lay on the bed and slept until eight o'clock in the evening.

Xia Qing, who had regained her energy, drove the car to Territory No. 9 to be on duty until 1:30 in the morning before returning to her own territory to continue her shift.

At 4:30 in the morning, the first acid rain, which had lasted for 50 hours, finally ended.

In this acid rain, there were two extreme weather disasters with high disaster levels—hail and gale—and two rounds of red-level acid rain. 17 people died in the Northern First District territories, 64 were injured, 128 greenhouses were completely destroyed, and hundreds of greenhouses and houses were damaged.

However, most people and most greenhouses survived this natural disaster.

The survivors lay in their respective territories, wished each other peace, and saved their strength, waiting for dawn.

After dawn, the lords had to immediately start repairing the greenhouses, then clear the acid grass, apply fertilizer, plow the fields, and transplant seedlings and sow seeds.

If seedlings and seeds are planted one day earlier, the losses caused by acid evolution to crops during the second acid rain might be lower.

An hour and a half after the acid rain stopped, the sun, which had been hiding for three days, finally climbed out of the East Mountain, illuminating the overwhelming acid grass in the Northern First District territories. Tang Huai, the lord of Territory No. 12, who was full of energy, immediately pressed the walkie-talkie button to report this great news.

"Allies, the atmospheric acid element concentration has dropped to 18‰, everyone can pull open the rainproof tarps and take a look at the sun rising after the natural disaster."

In Greenhouse No. 5 of Territory No. 3, Xia Qing, the lord of Territory No. 3, Technical Worker No. 002 Dai Gua, and Apprentice No. 005 Blue-Faced, who were burying their heads in pulling acid grass, all raised their heads at the same time.

Xia Qing pulled open the ventilation opening of the rainproof tarp, and bright light shone in, carrying the brightness and warmth unique to the sun, making people feel refreshed.

Two hours later, the atmospheric acid element concentration dropped to a normal level. The lords put away the rainproof tarps and began to clear the acid grass inside and around the greenhouses.

Xia Qing, who had already completed this work, drove into the Ninth Center.

The Ninth Center had a total of 899 steel-framed greenhouses, 50 brick-walled conservatories, 20 earth-walled conservatories, 20 hard bamboo-wood greenhouses, and 2 standard conservatories.

In this acid rain, the conservatories and standard greenhouses weren't damaged, 6 steel-framed greenhouses were completely destroyed, and 2 bamboo-wood greenhouses were damaged.

A steel pipe from one of the destroyed greenhouses rolled from the Ninth Center to Territory No. 3, smashing the window board of the shelf building in Territory No. 3 and ruining more than thirty bundles of green-light corn stalks.

Xia Qing raised her hand, grasped a greenhouse steel pipe, and pulled it upward.

A muffled "bang" came from the soil, and the greenhouse steel pipe, which had been firmly glued into the rock drill hole underground with evolved pine resin, was pulled out directly by Xia Qing.

Several middle and high-level cadres of the Ninth Center following Xia Qing had their eyes widened.

Xia Qing spoke, "The viscosity of this resin has decreased, leading to a decrease in the stability of the greenhouses. Take samples immediately and send them to Territory No. 7 to confirm the reason for the decrease in viscosity as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

Mao Mao Chuntai immediately sent people to dig pits and take samples.

The construction team leader responsible for these greenhouses walked to Xia Qing's side to plead guilty, "Director, this greenhouse..."

Xia Qing raised her hand, signaling that he didn't need to explain, "I personally inspected every one of these greenhouses, and every steel pipe was glued very well. It's not your team's problem. Wait for the test results to come out before thinking about how to reinforce the greenhouse frames."

"Yes!" Hearing Xia Qing's words, the leader of Construction Team No. 5, whose face was covered in burn scars, immediately straightened his back.