Chapter 293 - 172: Scouring the Apartment Rooms! An Unexpected Surprise! Rapeseeds and Brown Rice

Chapter 293: Chapter 172: Scouring the Apartment Rooms! An Unexpected Surprise! Rapeseeds and Brown Rice

’Only by following Chen Chong can we have a better chance of surviving in this land...’

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After scavenging everything, Chen Chong and the others returned to the seventh floor.

The supplies piled here were packed in box after box, almost filling up more than half of the hallway.

Previously, to save time while emptying the place, aside from the first few rooms, the group had barely looked at anything in detail, planning to sort through it all slowly at the end.

According to Chen Chong’s plan, he had to first see what was useful for him and fill up his own cellar before anything else.

Anything extra would be given to core members like Zhang Meng, Huang Mao, and Zhong Fang. The rest would be sent to the gymnasium to be stored as the team’s resource stockpile.

’After all, even though I’m the leader of the entire team, I have to first ensure my own comfort and survival, as well as that of those closest to me...’

And so, the six of them—Chen Chong, Xu Jun, Zhang Meng, Huang Mao, Wang Biao, and Qi Zhen—began to sort through all the resources.

Jia Wen was off to the side, responsible for taking notes for later processing and distribution.

Most of the items were more or less the same: all sorts of food and miscellaneous daily necessities.

From food and drinks to washbasins and rags, they had everything imaginable...

As time slowly trickled by, the group grew numb from the sheer monotony of sorting.

Just then, as if he had discovered something, Xu Jun pulled out two items wrapped in plastic bags.

After puzzling over them for a long time, he handed them directly to Chen Chong.

"Brother Chong, take a look and see what these two things are."

"One of them looks like rice to me, but the other one is all dark and I’m not quite sure what it is."

Chen Chong took them and looked closely. The first bag was indeed rice. There wasn’t much, only about half a plastic bag’s worth, probably weighing a pound or two in total.

To be honest, while rice was considered rare in the school at the moment, it wasn’t unheard of.

After all, many people at the school had looted the cafeteria back at the beginning.

Although the school cafeteria had most of its raw ingredients delivered fresh every morning, it still kept a considerable stock of staples like grain, oil, rice, and flour.

Many of the students who went to loot it managed to grab some.

While most people had eaten their share during the initial phase of the transmigration, a small number of people had taken theirs to the trading market to sell, hoping to exchange it for other supplies.

However, this was all ordinary white rice that had been highly processed, with the germ removed.

This kind of rice had no agricultural value whatsoever; besides being eaten, it had almost no other use.

In terms of real value, it was probably worth less than an equivalent weight of instant noodles.

At least the latter was more balanced and much more convenient.

But seeing how tightly this bag of rice was wrapped, Chen Chong was a little puzzled. ’Could it be that some teacher at the school couldn’t bear to eat it?’

’That can’t be right. I don’t know which teacher or security guard this belonged to, but they all hoarded so many instant noodles and bread. This kind of rice, with no value for planting, shouldn’t be that precious to them, right?’

Without thinking too much about it, Chen Chong turned his attention to the other bag...

Just as Xu Jun had said, it was dark and black, looking like sesame seeds, only rounder.

Chen Chong didn’t know what it was, only that it was probably some kind of plant seed.

’Since I can’t figure it out, I’ll use Identification Skill!’

As the Identification Skill activated, Chen Chong’s expression shifted from calm to grave, and finally, to utter shock.

Watching Chen Chong’s expression change from the side, Xu Jun couldn’t help but feel puzzled.

As Chen Chong’s good brother, he knew that Brother Chong didn’t usually show such strong emotional fluctuations.

’For him to show such obvious shock, what on earth is so special about these two bags?’

"Brother Chong, what’s wrong?"

Chen Chong took a deep breath before he slowly began to speak:

"Ah Jun, this time, scavenging the apartments... we’ve hit the jackpot."

"These two bags of seeds... one is rapeseed, and the other is Brown Rice. And..."

"...they can both be planted!"

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