Farming for Survival in the Apocalypse

Bi Qiao’an lay motionless in the icy snow, watching helplessly as the falling flakes slowly buried her. As her consciousness faded, her mind drifted back to the three arduous years she had spent ...

Chapter 52 You Are Just Lazy

Chapter 52 You Are Just Lazy

At half past eleven, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan went out wearing thin cotton pajamas and plastic slippers, carrying a small stool and basin, and without an umbrella.

As usual, the two of them took a small path to Green Lemon Mountain. Bi Qiaoan and Shen Yanming placed the small stools and basins one by one, and then they sat side by side on the small stools, waiting for twelve o'clock in the morning.

The dense raindrops have never stopped, but at this time every day, the rain will become different. It will make people feel super comfortable when it drops on the body, without any feeling of coldness. Moreover, the space of both people will absorb huge energy, and the space will produce visible changes every day.

Bi Qiaoan took Shen Yanming's arm and said, "Tell me, if we don't have space, can we still absorb the energy from the rain?"

Shen Yanming shook his head. "I don't know. After all, no one would stay up late at night and go out in the rain. Even if one or two people happened to go out in the rain, they either didn't notice anything unusual, or kept silent after noticing anything."

Bi Qiaoan suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly pulled Shen Yanming and said, "Yanming, quickly get me a few mushroom bags. I want to spread them in the soil and see if mushrooms can grow."

After hearing this, Shen Yanming took advantage of the two people's bodies to block and took out two mushroom bags from the space and handed them to Bi Qiaoan.

Bi Qiaoan opened the mushroom bag and spread the culture medium and mycelium evenly around himself. After spreading it, Bi Qiaoan muttered, "Why didn't I think of it before? I wasted so much energy rain in vain."

Shen Yanming comforted Bi Qiaoan, "I don't know if mushrooms can be grown this way."

"We'll know in two days. It will take a few days for mushrooms to grow from the fungus bags. Maybe with the nourishment of the energy rain, their growth cycle will be shorter and their yield will be greater. Moreover, maybe the mushrooms in the energy rain will also retain energy."

Shen Yanming thought for a moment and said, “What you said is really possible. I remember in my previous life, the fruits were especially delicious after the rain stopped.”

Bi Qiaoan was excited after hearing this, "If mushrooms can really grow, then we should plant mushrooms every day in the future. Mushrooms grow the fastest!"

"Sure. We can keep some of the mushrooms we pick and dry them into dried mushrooms. We can put them in the kitchen as a cover. Also, we don't have to pick them all. If other people in the community are interested, they can also take them back and use them as a dish."

Bi Qiaoan was not optimistic. "I think it's difficult to let them go out to pick mushrooms. On the one hand, no one wants to go out in the rain. On the other hand, everyone is quite afraid of poisonous mushrooms. Even if they find mushrooms on Qingning Mountain, I'm afraid they will treat them as poisonous mushrooms."

"They shouldn't be considered poisonous mushrooms. The mushrooms I picked up are the most common oyster mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms." Shen Yanming continued, "The Qinghua country's top leaders are already taking action. Maybe they will mobilize everyone to go up the mountains and down the sea to forage for food and stockpile grain in a while."

Soon, the energy rain ended. After collecting the rainwater into the space, the two of them walked towards Building 6 in Area B, carrying a small stool and a plastic basin.

Walking downstairs of Building 6, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan put their things on the ground, wrung out the rain on their clothes and trouser legs, then took the things into the building and took the elevator back to their house.

By the time they had taken a hot shower and changed into clean pajamas, it was already three o'clock in the morning.

According to the usual schedule, it was time to go to bed, but today Bi Qiaoan pulled Shen Yanming into the planting space, “I feel that my connection with the space is deeper, and I always feel that something different has appeared in the space.”

Shen Yanming followed Bi Qiaoan's gaze and looked into the distance. There seemed to be mountains vaguely visible in the white mist.

Chen Yanming pulled Bi Qiaoan towards the white fog. It took about 15 minutes before they reached the white fog. Now they could see more clearly that there was a mountain in the distance behind the white fog.

The two looked at each other, unable to hide their shock.

Shen Yanming looked down and saw that it was green. He squatted down and picked up some soil with his hands. After observing it, he said, "Look, there is already a hint of green here. Maybe when the white fog spreads further, grassland will appear."

Bi Qiaoan looked at the grass on the tip of Shen Yanming's finger and said in surprise: "Just like Forrest Gump's chocolate box, there will always be surprises waiting for us!"

Shen Yanming smiled and nodded, then used his consciousness to feel his storage space. Sure enough, just like the planting space, some different things appeared.

Shen Yanming pulled Bi Qiaoan into his storage space, and the two walked towards the white fog. After more than a month of energy rain, the space area has expanded to fifty acres, and the floor of the storage space is jade, and the newly added space is still empty.

Shen Yanming took out an electric bike and rode with Bi Qiaoan for less than two minutes to the edge of the white fog.

Shen Yanming looked hard into the white fog. How come there was a mountain there?

Shen Yanming frowned, and at this time Bi Qiaoan said, "It's not a mountain, it's boxes piled up like a mountain!"

After Bi Qiaoan's reminder, Shen Yanming took a closer look and saw that there were indeed boxes stacked up one by one, as high as a hill and as long as mountains and rivers.

"I guess it might be something left behind by the previous owner of this space. Maybe this space has had many owners. When we first recognized it as the master, what we saw was just the tip of the iceberg of the original appearance of this space." Bi Qiaoan told Shen Yanming his guess.

Shen Yanming felt that this speculation was very likely. After all, the ring was a family heirloom of the Shen family. It looked so ordinary, but it had been passed down for thousands of years. It was very likely that the ancestors of the Shen family had opened a space and knew the importance of the ring, so it was passed down from generation to generation.

After some exploration, the two of them came out of the space and found that it was almost four o'clock.

Chen Yanming hugged Bi Qiaoan and said, "Go to sleep. I won't wake you up tomorrow morning. When you wake up, let's go in and collect the fruits and food."

Bi Qiaoan covered his mouth and yawned, "Well, good night!"

As the space gets bigger, there are more and more places to take care of. Since they planted fruit trees and food, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan have only harvested them once during the Spring Festival holiday, which made them so tired that their backs ached and they didn't want to suffer again.

Bi Qiaoan also found excuses for himself, for example, the food bought from abroad was enough for the two of them to eat for a lifetime, excessive use of space might make it impossible to grow crops in the future, and there was not much space left in Shen Yanming's storage space, etc.

Ugh, you're just lazy!

Shen Yanming witnessed the diligence of his ancestors today and felt that he could no longer indulge himself in laziness and extravagance. Shen Yanming decided to pick all the fruits from the trees and store them tomorrow, and also collect and store all the grain.

In the future, we will harvest once every quarter. Although it has been observed that the fruit trees will bloom and bear fruit in about a month, and the grains will also germinate and mature, but as Bi Qiaoan said, if we overuse it, it will be troublesome if we can't plant it anymore! After all, when the two of them first recognized the master, the space was only one acre in size. Before we figure out the reason, we should be cautious!

Before going to bed, Chen Yanming was still thinking that there would be more and more fruits and grains to collect in the future, and he couldn't just pile them on the floor. It seemed that he would need to customize some cardboard boxes tomorrow.