Chapter 156

Looking at the star chain fruit seedlings that kept sprouting new leaves and branches and growing happily around, Grandma Guo couldn't help but feel surprised.

She had a clearer understanding of the "rapid growth" characteristic of the Star Chain Vine.

Granny Guo then walked towards the fence placed at the corner of the wall, followed the fireball that burned the bricks, and quickly put down her work and ran over to help.

"Mother-in-law, let me help you!"

"Thank you."

Liehuo watched the child run away again, shook his head, took the half-burned brick and continued to process it.

There are about twenty residents working on the entire brick-making site. Because they are not familiar with each other and the interpersonal relationships in the apocalypse are cold, the scene seems a bit dull.

Not all of these new residents are willing to abide by the rules.

However, in the past few days, those who wanted to quickly obtain supplies through robbery or theft have discovered the existence of "rules".

The power that makes people feel fear from the bottom of their hearts makes them never dare to act rashly again.

As for hurting others, there is no need to mention it - because two new residents were warned by Old Li.

The serious old man came directly to their door and warned them that if they were to attack others again, they would be thrown out of their deserted city home without mercy.

This little old man was already a famous hunter in the deserted city. Now with two giant dogs that would grow bigger and smaller following him every day, no one dared to mess with him.

Those two psychics didn't even dare to fart and obediently handed over the supplies to atone for their sins. Now they are very honest.

Of course, after discovering that the two men had intended to hurt people, no one in the home was willing to approach them anymore.

The other residents finally realized it.

The rules of the deserted city home are real rules, and you are required to follow them whether you like it or not.

So, this is truly a place without robbery, theft, and intentional injury.

This discovery shocked everyone and even made them feel a little at a loss.

After all, these young men in their twenties and thirties have grown up in this cruel doomsday, and they have adapted to the jungle law where the strong are respected.

The peaceful and friendly utopia is too illusory for them.

So although they can work together and are no longer as nervous as before, they cannot get along naturally with the people around them.

Especially those who live in deserted cities are used to being alone.

They didn't understand why Huoqiu took the initiative to help Grandma Guo. They just took a look and continued to work, wanting to burn the bricks for the stove quickly and get away from this collective work scene.

The construction site is silent and stuffy, but the open space next to it is full of vitality.

Fireball helped Grandma Guo move the fence wall to the open space, and then inserted it into the ground in rows. With her patient guidance, she successfully fixed it with vines.

Kang Kang, who was originally talking to the young blue beech tree, heard the noise and ran over with his short legs.

"Mother-in-law—"

Kang Kang, who came to the deserted city home, was obviously more lively than before. After eating a full meal every day, his cheeks became visibly rosy and plump.

Every time she sees Kang Kang’s changes, Grandma Guo’s face is filled with a happy smile.

"Hey." Granny Guo responded, "Help me get the scissors."

"Okay~"

The sweet voice of a child and the gentle and kind response of the old man, in such a sunny day, can't help but make people feel soft in their hearts.

On the construction site, people gradually raised their heads and looked at Grandma Guo and the others.

It’s hard to say what’s so attractive about it, but they still prefer to watch the old man and his two children working rather than the boring bricks.

Grandma Guo thought the fence was too low and wanted to add another floor higher.

Because the fence was heavy, she asked Fireball to call his father for help - Shugen and Jin Guang helped plant on the newly opened land.

Soon the tree roots came running over.

He worked very efficiently and had become familiar with Grandma Guo. He quickly built the fence according to her requirements.

Finally, Grandma Guo added a roof on top of the two fence walls to make a shed.

By the time they had finished building the shed, the newly planted star chain fruit had already grown four or five vines, the longest of which was more than one meter long.

Granny Guo guided the vines to the fence wall and wrapped them around it to secure it.

"Long! Long!"

Kang Kang clapped his hands and said happily.

“Chirp, chirp, chirp—chirp, chirp—”

The big parrot Amu also came out with his chicks to look for food.

The little chicken with milky yellow fluff was so cute that Kang Kang was immediately attracted by it and chased after the little chicken, unwilling to leave.

Although Fireball wanted to continue playing, he took a look at the brickyard and ran back to continue making bricks.

Before leaving, Granny Guo called him and stuffed two potatoes into his hands. Although they were only the size of his palm, Fireball happily accepted them.

He ran back to the brickyard with two potatoes in his pocket and saw a lot of people looking at him.

Fireball smiled carelessly: "Hey, I'm back!"

The person who was staring at him quickly looked away and continued to watch the grandfather and grandson working in the field.

Fireball ran back to Liehuo and sat down next to him, then secretly stuffed one of the potatoes into his mouth, causing Liehuo, who was about to scold him, to shut up in frustration.

He put the little potato in his pocket, ready to take it back for his wife to eat, and then spoke to Fireball in a low voice.

"Are you familiar with that old woman?"

"That's Granny Guo! Master, you can't call her that. It's very rude!"

Fireball has been corrected many times because of this "politeness" issue, and now it's finally his turn to criticize others!

Liehuo didn't know what politeness was, but he accepted Huoqiu as his disciple and also hoped that he would support him, so he changed his mind after Huoqiu said that.

"Okay, okay, Granny Guo."

"Kang Kang and I are good friends, and my mother-in-law likes me very much and often feeds me small potatoes!"

"What is she growing?"

"It seems to be called Star...Star Fruit!" Fireball said casually.

"Star fruit?"

"Yes! The leaves look like stars, so beautiful!"

With the return of Fireball, the brickyard finally had a lively atmosphere.

Gradually, some people finally tried to chat with the people around them.

Tang Yu'an stood on the balcony and saw everything that happened downstairs clearly. He smiled, stretched, turned around and went to eat with Zhou Qi.

"Once everyone has built their kangs, we can try hatching chicks."

"Well, are there any heaters or anything like that in the furniture mall?"

Tang Yu'an took a look and shook his head: "Not yet, I guess I have to continue upgrading."

Maybe because it is the second direction, the upgrade conditions for Big is Beautiful are very harsh.

[Ping An Grocery Store (Big is Beautiful!) Level 1]

[Level 2 Upgrade Conditions: Merchant Level 10 (Already met), Own 6 stores (Not met), Total store area of 10,000 square meters (Not met), Total store popularity 50,000 (Not met)]

Just reaching a total store popularity of 50,000 is a big challenge - their current total store popularity is only over 10,000.

To achieve this goal, there is naturally a long way to go.

As for the six stores, he currently owns four. This condition is not difficult. Even a total store area of 10,000 square meters can be achieved through land enclosure.

After all, for 10,000 square meters, if calculated at 200*50, only 500 meters of fence wall would be needed. He didn't even need to buy it. The fence wall left over from building the life passage was more than enough.

"We can only take it slowly." Zhou Qi said.

"Um."

As soon as they returned to the attic of Ping'an Grocery Store through the teleportation array, a system prompt popped up.

[Super Cargo Container Level 1 upgrade completed, please check]

[The furniture elf Yaya was very satisfied with your hospitality and gave you a five-star rating]

[Warm Tips: Furniture that receives five-star praise from the elves will have a chance to trigger additional effects, so please pay attention to it.]

Great, the Super Cargo Container upgrade is finished!

They had previously used the Seven-Day Sale Refresh Card to get Space Stones. After they successfully redeemed them, they chose to upgrade.

The upgrade took two full days, and Tang Yu'an later forgot about it.

Now the upgrade is finally successful!

He quickly pulled Zhou Qi to the warehouse downstairs to check.

The warehouse has been installed with a self-priming variable temperature air conditioner, which keeps the temperature constant at 10 degrees, maintaining a certain low temperature without freezing.

It is noon now. Although the temperature has dropped compared to before, it is still around 30 degrees.

As soon as Tang Yu'an walked into the warehouse, he couldn't help but sigh in comfort, and then his eyes fell on the super-capacity container that had been upgraded.

From the outside, the container has not changed significantly. It is still the plain wood color, but with some bright green plant patterns. Compared with the level 1 next to it, it looks more gorgeous.

The tofu pudding he had placed on top of the container was nowhere to be found, leaving only an empty bowl.

Tang Yu'an couldn't help but chuckle when he saw the empty bowl. It seemed that Yaya also liked to eat tofu pudding. I just wondered if it could trigger any special effects this time...

But it doesn’t matter if there are none. He just thinks the furniture elves are cute, so he can’t help but feed them.

Moreover, Yaya’s furniture after-sales service is super good. When Xiaoqige was fighting with a mutant giant bear and damaged two green containers, it helped to repair them for free.

He really likes Yaya!

It's a pity that Yaya is super serious when working and won't let him get close to her, unlike Bobo who will be lazy and drink and eat snacks, and can interact with him...

While Tang Yu'an was observing the exterior of the container, Zhou Qi had already opened the door.

The original 20 cubic meter small room has become 100 cubic meters, which looks much larger visually.

Zhou Qi measured it with a ruler and found it was 10 meters long, 5 meters wide and 2 meters high. In other words, the small Ping'an grocery store suddenly had an additional 50 square meters of area.

A strange sense of satisfaction rose from the hearts of the two teenagers.

Although they already own the entire building of No. 1 Store, Ping An Grocery Store has an irreplaceable position for them.

This is their true home.

Without changing the original layout of the house, they gained 50 square meters of space. For them, this was completely different from the land obtained by enclosure.

"Mom will definitely love this cabinet!"

Because the house is too small, my mother always has to find ways to use the space for storage. Now that she has such a cabinet, she must be very satisfied.

"Well, I'll move the things outside in."

"OK."

Tang Yu'an strolled around the container before opening the panel to check the properties of the upgraded container.

【Super container capacity】

[Level: lv2]

【Dimensions: 2x1x0.5 (unit: meter)】

[Description: Magical item, exquisite and compact, takes up little space, and can hold items 100 times its own volume]

[Special Effect: "Nanyuan Bean Tender"]

The beans in the container will remain in the same state as when they were placed in. They will not rot or spoil, nor will they sprout or grow.

"Wow! It's a special preservation effect!" Looking at the special effect triggered by the super-capable container, Tang Yu'an's eyes lit up.

He had barely used the 900 kilograms of soybeans he had traded from Hongli, and because his personal warehouse couldn't hold them all, he had to keep them in the main store's warehouse.

Now with this "tender bean" effect, it couldn't be better.

Tang Yu'an immediately used his telekinetic skills to transfer the nine bags of soybeans into the upgraded super-capacity container.

All the beans we had in stock at home, such as red beans, mung beans, and black beans, were also put in.

He also named this only lv2 container "Nanyuan Container" to distinguish it from the other two lv1 super-capacity containers.

Put all the beans you have on hand in it and there is still plenty of space in the container.

However, they still have to find a way to consume these soybeans. After all, Hongli still owes them more than 300 kilograms of soybeans.

Next month, when I go to trade salt, it will be another 1,000 kilograms of soybeans. No matter how big the place is, it will not work if we only import but not export.

At this time, Tang Yu'an suddenly said: "Wow, the level 3 effect of this container is the same as the one in my warehouse!"

[Upgrade Conditions: Points x10000, Psychic Stones of Any Attribute x5, Mutated Plant Fruit x5, Space Stone x2]

[Level 3 Effect: Can hold items no less than 1000 times its own volume. The specific multiple depends on the quality of the space stone. It will become an independent space. Items will always remain in the state they were placed in. Living things cannot be placed in it.]

Combined with the skill of picking up items remotely, isn’t it equivalent to having a 1,000 cubic meter portable space?

"Although there is a restriction that no living things can be put in, it feels okay." Tang Yu'an said excitedly.

Zhou Qi nodded, but remained calm.

"But it requires two space stones," he said.

If you get another space stone, you must upgrade the other two super-capable containers first. After all, to upgrade the main store to level 3, you still need 3 pieces of level 2 magical furniture.

"That's true..."

Tang Yu'an muttered something and began to study the upgrades of other furniture.

What he wanted to upgrade most was of course the gray-blue broom. If the automatic cleaning time could be longer, or if it could be scheduled, he and Xiaoqi would not have to clean every day.

However……

Maybe this broom was originally just an ordinary and somewhat old broom with poor qualifications, so it reached its limit after being upgraded to level 1 and could not be upgraded any further.

Tang Yu'an couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.

Although the teleportation array is very convenient now, they probably won't stay in the deserted city and Jufeng Mountain forever.

If you are away for a long time in the future, there will be no one to clean the house and daily tasks cannot be completed, which will be a headache.

However, Ping'an Grocery Store is their private territory, and they don't want other employees to set foot there.

If it's absolutely necessary, I'll probably have to ask Grandpa Li to come...

Tang Yu'an sighed, put the gray-blue broom aside, and continued to check other furniture.

Basically, the original furniture in his house reached the limit after upgrading to level 1, and only the magical furniture purchased from the seven-day sale could be further upgraded.

However, the upgrade materials required for these furniture are difficult to meet. For example, containers and refrigerators require space stones, while the green light strips require fluorescent stones, and the variable temperature air conditioner requires a chip with a number that he cannot understand.

The purple-red carpet is so amazing that it actually requires phoenix feathers!

He didn't know whether this required real phoenix feathers, but the name sounded very powerful.

Apart from the space stone, he had only seen fluorescent stone in the plane store, but one stone cost 100,000 points.

So after looking for a long time, Tang Yu'an finally decided to put the important task of level 2 aside and upgrade the ordinary furniture in the house first.

For example, a wok can remember the cooking method of the previous dish after upgrading. As long as you put in the correct proportion of ingredients, you can perfectly replicate that dish.

I can’t say if it’s very useful, but it’s fun!

Of course, after hearing this, Zhou Qi just asked him to upgrade the juicer and kicked him out of the kitchen.

The upgrade effect of the juicer is quite good. Not only does it compress the original time by half, but it can also achieve true silence and perfect self-cleaning effect.

However, since it has a super separation function for the item list, this self-cleaning effect is not necessary.

After lunch, Zhou Qi took the drawings of the stone mill to find Old Li.

While he was in class, he searched for detailed diagrams of the stone mill in the study materials, which were much more detailed than his own drawings.

He simply printed out the diagram and gave it to Old Li for reference, hoping that someone with earth-type abilities among the residents could make one.

Old Li stared at the blueprint for a while and said, "Of course you can, but what are you going to use it for?"

“It’s very useful for grinding soy milk and wheat flour.”

There were no soybeans and wheat among the redeemable commodities unlocked by Old Li, but after hearing what Zhou Qi said, he didn't find it surprising.

"Okay, I'll ask Bashi to do it." Old Li said, "Is this something urgently needed?"

"No rush, just do it when he's free."

"Okay, I understand."

After handing the drawings to Old Li for arrangement, Zhou Qi returned to Room 901 and started today's study with Tang Yu'an.

The study lasted until the evening.

When Tang Yu'an came to the balcony to relax while eating a lollipop, he saw that Grandma Guo had already built two sheds in the fields downstairs.

The star chain vines that had just been planted during the day had already climbed up half of the fence.

Other residents thought it was the effect of Granny Fruit's labor-inducing effect, but Tang Yu'an knew that it might be the fast-growing characteristics of the Star Chain Fruit that took effect.

But isn't it growing so fast? I feel like it'll be all over the fence by tomorrow morning.

However, thinking of the severe cold at night, Tang Yu'an became a little worried.

Obviously, Grandma Guo had also thought of this problem, so she went to Old Li to exchange for a piece of cotton cloth and was trying hard to tie it to the shed.

It's just a thin piece of cotton cloth. On such a cold night, the warmth effect is probably limited...

Tang Yu'an thought for a moment, then pulled Zhou Qi downstairs and went to the yard together.

"Mother-in-law, why don't we transplant the blue beech tree seedlings here?" He first made this suggestion.

Granny Guo shook her head and said, "October is too young. It's the time when it needs to absorb a lot of nutrients. The fertility of these two plots of land can't keep up."

Moreover, the temperature regulation effect of blue beech seedlings is very limited, and basically only works within the range covered by its canopy.

If you want to rely on it to control the temperature, you have to wait until it grows tall and becomes a forest.

Since that was the case, Tang Yu'an took out the 1,000 blue beard leaves that he had traded from Xiao Risheng yesterday.

The moisture of these blue beard leaves has been basically lost, but the effect of controlling temperature is still there.

"Mother-in-law, what do you think about us spreading these leaves on the ground and surrounding the shed with cotton cloth?" Tang Yu'an said.

Granny Guo watched him take out a big red plastic bag from his backpack, with thousands of blue beard leaves casually placed in it, and she couldn't help but widen her eyes.

"This is blue beard leaf, are you willing to waste it like this?"

"We use it to keep the Star Chain fruit seedlings warm. How can it be considered a waste?" Tang Yu'an muttered unconvinced.

Granny Guo: “…”

Even humans don’t use so many blue beard leaves to keep warm!

"But people live in a building, with Brother Lan Lin providing heating, and they can change their quilts, so they won't freeze to death," said Tang Yu'an.

But the star chain fruit seedlings grow outdoors. What if they freeze to death at night?

As for the people in Jufeng Town...

Just like Brother Xiaoqi said, they can't save everyone, they can only do what they should do within their own abilities.

Grandma Guo had nothing to say.

She finally gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, then I'll do as you say!"

There is no way to do it in the short term, but the growth rate of the Star Chain Fruit is so fast that she can carry out targeted cultivation in the future to cultivate seeds that are both cold-resistant and heat-resistant.

By then, there will be no need to use such extravagant methods for planting.

So Zhou Qi went to get more cotton cloth and surrounded the entire shed. After it was surrounded, Tang Yu'an laid out the blue beard leaves.

The thousand blue beard leaves quickly took effect, and the temperature in the shed gradually rose to a relatively comfortable level.

Because of the black cotton cloth, the residents couldn't see what they were doing in the shed.

Of course, to be on the safe side, Tang Yu'an set this area as a restricted area, prohibiting residents other than Granny Guo and Kang Kang from entering during non-business hours.

"Please put away these leaves before eight o'clock tomorrow and lay them out again after six o'clock in the evening."

Granny Guo didn't know how to express her feelings. She could only say, "I will try my best to take good care of these Star Chain Fruits."

Seeing her nervousness, Tang Yu'an smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, mother-in-law. It's just a few blue beard leaves. I have plenty more."

But Grandma Guo couldn't laugh.

What do you mean by "a little" blue beard leaf? These are a thousand! A whole thousand!

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