Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 163: Chapter 163: A New Method of Ice Excavation (Four Updates, Please Subscribe)

Inside the cave of Kongming Academy, it was bustling with activity.

A thousand bags of rice, each weighing 30 jin, making a total of 30,000 jin, along with 200 bags of flour, each weighing 50 jin, making a total of 10,000 jin, and nearly a hundred boxes of various seasonings like soy sauce, vinegar, and salt.

”Boss, we finally have rice to eat, I’m sick of eating potatoes every day.”

Huang Wen said.

Feifei said excitedly,

”Boss, I especially love eating big steamed buns, and now we finally have them.”

”Do we have baking powder? Do we have the tools for steaming buns?”

Yang Xiao asked with a wry smile.

Feifei was stunned, not knowing how to answer, feeling like his dream of buns might be shattered.

Long Yongjun, a Northwesterner, immediately said:

”Boss, you don’t understand, flour doesn’t necessarily need baking powder to ferment.”

”What do we use then?”

”Just let the dough ferment naturally using old dough.”

”I suppose that’s tough, with this cold weather, how can it ferment?”

Zhao Gang interrupted.

”What’s so hard about that? Just knead the flour into a dough, put it in a pot, light a small fire in the stove to keep it warm, it will naturally ferment. Also, now we have Golden Dragonfish peanut oil, right? We can fry pancakes, dough sticks...”

”Stop, don’t say anymore, I’m drooling.”

Xiao Zhe laughed.

Suddenly, someone shouted,

”Oh, the New Year is just five days away.”

New Year?

Suddenly, the whole cave fell silent.

Since the first day of school in September, the world had entered the apocalypse, and everyone had been struggling to survive, forgetting about time and dates.

”Who are you, how do you know it’s almost the holiday in a few days?”

Xiao Zhe asked.

A young girl walked over, holding a card calendar in her hand.

”I picked this up from the ruins, and because I was bored, I drew a circle on it every day. Look, isn’t it almost New Year?”

The girl handed the card calendar to Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao glanced at it, and it was indeed so.

But the words ’New Year’ were too heavy, as it used to remind everyone of family reunions, dinner with parents, relatives, and siblings, shopping for new clothes, visiting relatives, and receiving red envelopes.

But now?

The cave was silent, some people remembered their families and quietly shed tears, some girls even started sobbing softly, creating a somewhat sorrowful atmosphere.

”Cough,”

Yang Xiao coughed lightly and said loudly:

”New Year, great, we should prepare well and have a good New Year. Now that we have so much food, we can have a plentiful year. Aren’t there people who want to eat buns and dough sticks? Those who know how to make these, volunteer and start making, and also dumplings, wolf meat dumplings would be nice, right?

Since we’re still alive, we should live well and happily. I always say, life in the apocalypse is hard, cherish it while you can,

No crying, no sadness, be optimistic, be strong, as long as we are united and strong, we will eventually get out of this predicament, tomorrow will be better!”

Yang Xiao unknowingly delivered a motivational speech, everyone was moved by his emotions, they put away their sadness, dried their tears, and cheered.

For the New Year, everyone really got busy, some went to the school’s office building to find materials, like various colored papers and ballpoint pens, then drew some festive patterns and blessings on them and pasted them on the walls.

Some people found last year’s calendars with big characters for ’Spring’ or ’Fortune’ in some rooms of the office building, cut them out, and hung them in the cave.

Xu Nanqiang and others also adjusted the generator, planning to generate electricity on New Year’s Eve. The cave was already equipped with hanging wires and bulbs, installed beforehand.

Huang Wen, Qin Yu, and Deng Xiao took the girls to pick some green pine branches from the nearby mountains and stuck them in the snowy ground outside the cave dwelling’s entrance.

”Is this for celebrating Christmas?”

Yang Xiao laughed.

Seeing many people suddenly get busy and happy for the holiday, Yang Xiao felt happy as well; at least everyone was living a less dreary life.

”Xiao Zhe, tomorrow let’s go to Xianan University with a hundred people. If possible, we’ll also dig for fish in the ice river. The festival is upon us, so we should add a dish, right? There must be surpluses every year, right? Haha...”

With rice available, breakfast the next day had more variety, including congee and even fried pancakes.

This was an attempt by Xu Nanqiang to lead everyone; the quantity was limited, so not everyone could have some.

Yang Xiao ate two large pancakes; they were crispy and delicious. After drinking two bowls of congee and eating a few pieces of roast meat, he set out with Xiao Zhe, Zhao Gang, Long Yongjun, and a hundred others.

They quickly arrived at Xianan University through the Transmission Array.

The people at Xianan University were now very friendly to Yang Xiao and others. Upon seeing Yang Xiao, they quickly greeted him.

Yang Xiao asked about the location Xia Luo and Zhou Qiang were ice fishing and then led the team along the road in that direction.

Along the way, the snowy ground was covered in footprints, making it very easy to find.

After walking for about half an hour, they arrived at the banks of the Star River, climbed up the riverbank, and saw hundreds of figures on the river surface digging through the ice.

Rows of Ice Fish were being hauled out and placed beside the riverbank.

Xia Luo and Zhou Qiang saw Yang Xiao coming and crawled out of the ice cave.

”Hehe, Xia Luo, not bad at all. You guys have really taken an original approach. I admire it; I hadn’t thought of this trick myself!”

Yang Xiao laughed.

Since Xia Luo invented this way of fishing from the ice, he had become much brighter and more confident. These past few days, they had dug up hundreds of big fish. Aside from securing food, the key was the fifty-odd pieces of Fish Skin Armor they obtained.

So far, over a hundred people at Xianan University were equipped with Snow Wolf Armor and Fish Skin Armor, now all fishing in the ice river.

At this rate, Xia Luo estimated that it would take about a month for everyone to wear Fish Skin Armor.

The dense fog over the river was still thick. The river being five hundred meters wide, Xia Luo and his team did not go beyond one hundred meters; most of them were digging near the shore for easy transportation. Also, he didn’t want to alarm the people on the opposite bank.

Yang Xiao chatted with Xia Luo for a bit and said:

”I also want to dig for fish, what do you think?”

Xia Luo laughed heartily and said:

”This Star River is hundreds of kilometers long. Do you think you and I can dig it all up? If you want to dig, just go ahead as long as you have the strength to do it.”

Yang Xiao nodded and said:

”I think the way you guys are digging through the ice is too slow, inefficient.”

Xia Luo heard this and scoffed, not convinced:

”These fish are about 5 to 7 or 8 meters under the ice, and even some are beneath very hard ice. Even if you have great strength, it’s not easy to utilize it. Even if you break the ice into pieces, you still need to remove the shards to reach the fish beneath the ice layer.”

Xia Luo had tried many methods, even had his subordinates use their various skills. No matter how powerful the skill, it only broke the ice, but to find the fish beneath, they still had to remove the broken pieces. It was more convenient to just cut large blocks of ice and transport them.

Yang Xiao smiled and said:

”This method of fishing under the ice was your idea, now I’m learning from you. I’ll pay you some tuition fees as a token of appreciation. Watch closely.”

Yang Xiao finished speaking, stretched his hand towards the distant ice surface,

One Finger Splitting Earth!

With a crack,

a cone about 20 meters in diameter suddenly protruded from the ice layer, whooshing up and flipping the massive ice block, sending large pieces of ice flying everywhere.

Crack, crack, crack,

Yang Xiao continued to use several moves,

smashing the originally smooth and sturdy river ice, overturning it, and several large fish were also flipped up.

Xia Luo and others watched all this dumbfounded, feeling a complex mix of emotions.