Planting Barn

Just as people were sweating profusely from the scorching heat, another expanse of endless darkness appeared, dominated by cold and silence.

However, the peace was completely broken at some point.

The sizzling sound of electricity, accompanied by a mechanical voice, echoed continuously throughout the space.

"I know you're suffering and exhausted, and you have no other expectations for this world. But please look back. I'm always by your side. Please think of your family, friends, and daughter. We are all..."

"Humanity will succeed, you should believe it. It's understandable that children are afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when adults fear the light."

“…”

It echoed endlessly, the code continuously hitting the surrounding darkness until even the most indifferent would react.

"Looking back? Haha." After an indefinitely long pause, another voice finally spoke. "Isn't it in human language? When you're imprisoned and I come to visit you, it's not called 'looking back'; it's called 'prison visit'."

"You do quote human words, but even if you quote them all, they won't convince me. No one understands human greed better than I do. No one can resist the power of divine light, for it is truly divine."

The mechanical voice continued to persuade, "Now, they have survived three and a half disasters in a row. The current situation is very favorable. According to history..."

The man chuckled, almost laughing at the mechanical voice. "The stupidest thing you can do is delve into databases. You have to understand that no matter how long human history is, or how vast the database is, it's limited. Even if you collect even more historical data, there's still a limit."

"These finite things, accumulated together, will only lead to infinity, and that is the extinction of mankind. This is the only outcome. My friend, I've experienced this ending, so I don't blame you. No one can imagine that something that has never happened in history will happen to them."

"What I'm doing now is just inflicting on them what happened to me... Sooner or later, their luck will run out and they'll have to go through this inevitable process."

"So my friend, will you shut up?"

The chattering voice finally fell silent for a while, as if it had a premonition of what this person was going to do.

But over a long period of time, it had said all the useful words, and now it didn't know what to say.

After a long silence, it said, "No matter what you want to do, I will always be your friend." This was probably the most sincere words it could come up with after racking its brains.

A burst of sneers finally rang out, and after a while, the space returned to calm.

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At this moment, Ye Miaomiao is building a planting warehouse underground.

The planting warehouse uses only zombie fertilizer and does not require additional sunlight or water. Ye Miaomiao built the planting warehouse in the Yellowstone Mine, where there is the most vacant land, and did not occupy the idle farmland. After all, once the drought disaster is over, the land that is now unpopular will become valuable land.

Not only are plants precious, but some vegetables also need to be moved to underground planting warehouses to ensure a stable supply.

The planting warehouse only has two floors. Ye Miaomiao has stockpiled enough other things such as rice and herbs, enough for the entire territory to survive several rounds of disasters. There is no need to waste zombie fertilizer on planting for the time being.

The first floor is filled with shelves, each with a planting pot, neatly arranged. The planting pots can ensure that each plant has sufficient nutrition, and Ye Miaomiao plans to use them to grow rare plants.

The second floor was divided into two halves. One half was filled with rows of planting troughs, which could be used to grow a lot of vegetables. The other half was used as a warehouse, which was filled with zombie fertilizer and various seeds.

The team of farmers quickly got busy, filling the containers with fertilizer and burying the seeds.

Seeing that the precious plants could be grown, Ye Miaomiao left the underground planting chamber with peace of mind.

As soon as she came out of the underground, she received a message from Fang Yan, and then she knew that Hu Mifeng was looking for her. She found the team members for help but couldn't find him.

Ye Miaomiao ate ice cream and went to the city wall.

Hu Mifeng's eyes lit up, and he glanced at Fang Yan, as if wanting to discuss the matter in more detail. However, Fang Yan didn't leave. He sat quietly in the shadows of the window, looking down at the library's newly released books. He didn't know if he hadn't noticed, or if he hadn't forgotten the unpleasant parting of the ways between Ye Miaomiao and Hu Mifeng.

"It's okay, we are all family." Ye Miaomiao touched her nose. Why did Hu Mifeng make it seem like an underground transaction?

"That's fine..." Hu Mifeng took a sip of ice water awkwardly.

Only then did he tell the purpose of his visit - to buy ice cubes.

Shortly after the disaster began, a man unexpectedly died of heatstroke. With the loss of life at stake, Hu Mifeng suddenly realized the importance of the situation and invested heavily in buying two refrigerators. However, because they were purchased through special channels, they were small and useless, and the ice they produced was simply not enough.

He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and only came here in a hurry when he saw Ye Miaomiao announced that he would stop doing business and use the divine light to produce ice cubes.

"It doesn't matter how many points I have, as long as I can buy some ice cubes..." Hu Mifeng looked at the refrigerator in the corner of the room with a bitter smile.

"Why don't you just buy the refrigerator? The price is..." Ye Miaomiao was about to agree when she suddenly remembered something and her eyes lit up. "Since you can find a refrigerator, can you find precious plants?"

Hu Mifeng was about to overjoyed, puzzled as to why she asked such a question, but nodded in agreement. "Of course you can find rare plants. However, some of these plants are difficult to preserve, and some are extremely expensive. If you want to increase your attribute values, it's better to use other methods. Although there are some side effects, it's much more cost-effective than expensive rare plants that only increase attribute values ​​a little bit!"

Ye Miaomiao quickly shook her head: "No, just cherish the plants, three for a refrigerator." She always felt that it was not enough, and quickly said, "We are also going to produce air conditioners, and you can exchange them later."

Hu Mifeng stood up suddenly and looked at Ye Miaomiao in disbelief - this was much better than he had imagined!

He didn't realize how hard it was to come up with ice-making and refrigeration tools until the disaster began. Merchants prioritized profit, and even the system's mall was no exception. Prices would immediately increase when a specific disaster struck, giving no one a chance to react.

Points were just for show, unreliable. When life and death were at stake, the mall he normally shopped at wouldn't give him a discount or let him buy a refrigerator just because he begged.

Who knows how much effort he put into those two car refrigerators.

Unexpectedly, Ye Miaomiao was still willing to sell it to him. He immediately recalled what happened last time, feeling extremely guilty and wanting to bend down and apologize immediately.

"Four plants per plant." Hu Mifeng raised the price proactively, his face showing an unprecedented determination. "I can also buy some plants from specific disasters. Although they are not rare, they all have special effects." Ye Miaomiao opened her mouth to say something, but Hu Mifeng immediately clarified, "I collected them and gave them to Lord Ye. Thank you for saving us. Four plants per plant will still be counted as rare plants."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and he gave all the precious plants in his inventory to Ye Miaomiao, carried two refrigerators away, and left Ye Miaomiao sitting where she was.

"He got what he wanted, which is not bad. He gave him something as a thank you gift." Fang Yan asked, "I thought you were mad at him? Why did you sell him the refrigerator?"

Ye Miaomiao looked at the book with a deep look on her face. She knew that he had listened to everything and didn't mind. She even said openly: "Why should I be angry with him? Last time, I was just worried that his actions would harm me. What he does or how he acts is none of my business. I'm just an ordinary person. I just want my territory to be good."

"If he still behaves like that and affects our territory, I won't sell him the refrigerator! I might even cut off all ties with him."

Seeing her little face that looked like she had stolen something fishy, ​​Fang Yan shook the book he was holding and seemed to laugh twice.

The words are honest enough, but there are loopholes -

Three rare plants were worth three refrigerators, much more than selling them to other territories. Hu Mifeng didn't know, but how could Ye Miaomiao not know? Clearly, they were still angry and deliberately trying to make more money. But Hu Mifeng probably wouldn't care. If he did...

Fang Yan laughed and said, "He has some cleverness, but not much. If he only cares about money, he might end up in a dead end."

Ye Miaomiao nodded thoughtfully, not noticing that Fang Yan's mention of death was particularly intriguing.

"Speaking of business," Fang Yan continued after a moment, "I stayed here specifically to talk to you about this accompanying disaster. I have some ideas."