Chapter 64 A stroke of luck amidst misfortune
However, at that time everyone's attention was on the mutated wild boar herd outside, and no one noticed Bai Tang.
After hearing what Bai Tang said, the other team and Zhao Lei's team agreed, since everyone wants to eat more meat.
After dividing the mutated wild boars, Zhao Lei arranged for people to tie them up securely.
They never expected that their rescue mission would result in bringing back a mutated wild boar, nor did they consider whether they would have been attacked by the mutated wild boar if Bai Tang and the others hadn't been there.
Fortunately, everyone is alright.
After tying up the mutated wild boars, they prepared to drive back to the base as soon as possible, without planning to rest along the way to avoid encountering another herd of mutated wild boars.
The return journey was much faster than the journey there, because the snow on the road had been cleared before the trip.
After walking for about two hours, they arrived at the base entrance. The sentries on the base's high platform saw them dragging back several mutated wild boars and then reported it to their superiors.
Only after the vehicles entered the base did the research staff finally breathe a sigh of relief.
After entering the base, Zhao Lei instructed his men to take the researchers to a place where they could rest.
The base treats these scientists and experts very well.
Then Zhao Lei led Bai Tang and his team, along with another team, in a car, taking the mutated wild boars to the base's office center.
The people at the base saw that they had brought back several more mutated wild boars.
Those who missed out on the mutated wild boar meat last time rushed home to get their ID cards and then hurried to queue up, just in case they missed out again this time.
Bai Tang and Zhao Lei arrived at the base's service center shortly afterward, where Chen Weiliang and his men were already waiting for them at the entrance.
When Chen Weiliang saw so many mutated wild boars, he laughed so hard his teeth were showing.
Then there were military personnel next to him, who were still sent to maintain order.
Then came the familiar process of laying out plastic sheets. The same experienced workers from last time were still present, and this time Chen Weiliang brought a few more workers to help.
Zhao Lei said, "The contribution points from these three larger mutated wild boars will be counted towards Captain Bai's team."
The smaller three heads will be divided equally among the other teams. Old Chen, don't mess it up later.
After listening to Zhao Lei's words, Chen Weiliang said:
"I'll take care of this, so you can rest assured, I'll definitely handle it well."
Bai Tang and his team couldn't get a word in edgewise compared to the other teams.
All they could do was stand by and wait patiently for the experienced chefs to butcher the mutated wild boar meat.
In just a short while, a long queue had formed next to them.
Many people have been asking Chen Weiliang when he can start selling meat.
Chen Weiliang could only try his best to appease everyone, saying:
"Once the masters have finished butchering the wild boar meat and the task teams have finished calculating their contribution points, we can start selling the meat."
The chefs skillfully cut up the mutated wild boar meat, weighed it, and calculated the contribution points.
After about an hour, with the combined efforts of nearly ten experienced workers, the six mutated wild boars were quickly butchered.
After calculating the weight and giving Bai Tang and the others contribution points, they began selling the mutated wild boar meat.
This time, they still reserved pork tenderloin for Bai Tang, and no one objected, because Bai Tang's team deserved most of the credit for these pigs.
Bai Tang and the others took the pork tenderloin and drove home.
While they were selling wild boar meat in a very lively manner, an experienced craftsman approached Chen Weiliang with undigested food residue from a pig's stomach.
"Look at this thing."
Chen Weiliang turned around and saw the old master holding a white thing that looked like a fruit.
Then I asked the experienced craftsman, "Where did you find this?"
The experienced worker replied, "These are undigested contents found in the stomachs of those six mutated wild boars."
Chen Weiliang didn't mind that it was taken from the stomach of a mutated wild boar, and directly picked up the fist-sized white thing to look at it.
Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he said, "This should be the food for the mutated wild boar."
Chen Weiliang was so excited that he immediately found someone to send the fruit to the crop research center at the base.
Let the professional scientists see what it is. If the mutated wild boar is edible, can it be eaten by humans?
Soon someone delivered the white fruit to the research center.
Chen Weiliang asked the old master to take back an extra half pound of mutated wild boar meat because he had carefully discovered the fruit left in the wild boar's stomach.
Now Chen Weiliang is hoping that after their research, humans will be able to eat this fruit.
The research on cold-resistant crops at the base has yielded initial results, but in this kind of weather, the more edible things the better.
Bai Tang and the others had already arrived home, so of course they were unaware of what had happened here.
After entering the house, Lin Fan said, "It's still warm at home."
It was already dark when they got home, time for dinner. Bai Tang simply took out some food from her spatial storage.
After dinner, everyone was tired from a long day out, and they quickly went back to their rooms to rest.
Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu were chatting in the bedroom:
"Now that we've saved those scientists, will they be able to create an 'artificial sun' in the future?"
Gu Yanxu: "Now that they've been rescued, their efforts will surely pay off."
After all, before the apocalypse arrived, the government had already announced that it had made some progress in researching artificial suns.
Don't worry about these things too much. The government will handle these matters even better than we think. Get some rest, Tangtang.
After their conversation ended, the two slowly drifted off to sleep.
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The next day, they slept until they naturally woke up. Since they weren't going to work, they could sleep as long as they wanted.
When Bai Tang woke up, she thought she would be the last one to get up, but she was the first one to get up, while Gu Yanxu was still lying in bed.
As soon as Bai Tang got up, Gu Yanxu woke up and insisted on hugging her and acting cute.
After cuddling together for a while, the two got up to wash up.
When I walked into the living room, I found that everyone had gradually gotten up and was waiting on the sofa for dinner.
Bai Tang looked up at the clock in the living room and realized it was already past nine o'clock.
When Bai Tang took the food out of her spatial storage, she said:
"Are we having breakfast or lunch?"
Bai Jiyang said, "Of course, it's brunch."
Everyone smiled and sat down. After a simple lunch, they all sat on the sofa in the living room to digest.
Bai Tang picked up the novel she hadn't finished reading.
Just then, there was a knock on the front door.
It was Gu Yu outside; she had come to tell Bai Tang about the fruit in the stomach of the mutated wild boar.