For seventeen years in the apocalypse, the fields yielded no crops. Lin Man and her mother struggled daily on the brink of starvation and thirst, until one day, she obtained a space.
Nineteen more pregnant women, obviously this is not a coincidence. The half-baked research team specially formed in the base started from their age, physique, diet, daily habits, etc., hoping to find some patterns. Before the research team found anything, Lin Man figured it out first.
Among these nineteen pairs, most of them were working in the Soul Locking Array. The remaining few had stayed in the hospital for several days, and several women had frequent contact with the first three pregnant women - there Lin Man also set up the Soul Locking Array.
Well, the hero has surfaced, it is indeed spiritual energy.
But Lin Man was puzzled again, because these people were all ordinary people, not a single one with superpowers. Could it be that superpowers were infertile? Then she suddenly realized, because the superpowers in the Peace Base were all elderly men and women. Although there were a few young people among them, they were all bachelors!
Poor mutant!
However, Lin Man also knew that the few young and middle-aged psychics probably did not look down on the women in the base. It was not their fault. After all, they came from big cities, so it was understandable that they looked down on the Tu tribe - a newly formed Tu tribe at that.
The second major event was a bumper harvest in July, with the first batch of grain entering the warehouses. Although the heat and dry weather reduced the yield slightly, it still filled the granaries. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, no longer worrying about food supplies before winter. Because of the excessive heat, large-scale planting was not continued in August, giving both people and the land a break before resuming in September. Although September was still hot, any further delay would have meant that the harvest would not have been ready before winter.
Besides the bumper harvest, many new crops were successfully planted. So, despite the lack of large-scale grain cultivation, numerous vegetable gardens and even herbal medicine gardens have emerged on the north side of Dayan Mountain—the south side receives far too much sunlight and is too strong. Many tree species, including mulberry trees, have also been successfully transplanted. Lin Man didn't actually use his space to interfere with these new crops and trees. He simply surrounded them with soul-locking formations, using nearly all the jade beads produced by the psychics on these.
The third major event was that there were more pregnant women, food was available, and it was time to introduce talent. At the end of August, the Peace Base and the Reunion Base signed an agreement, agreeing that the family planning organization of the Reunion Base would visit the Peace Base and conduct a certain degree of investigation. In exchange, the Reunion Base would provide high-level talent and technology to assist the Peace Base in developing its industry.
In early September, the first group of people arrived, including eight people from the fertility program and ten talents.
In addition, Mr. Zhang came in person and was speechless for a long time after seeing the vegetable garden on Dayan Mountain. He then told Lin Man that he hoped to rent a hill near Dayan Mountain as a planting base for the Reunion Base.
Lin Man disagreed. They thought Dayan Mountain was a magical place. In fact, the real magic lies in the seeds, and secondly in the soul-locking formation. What's the point of renting the surrounding hills? It will also increase groundwater consumption.
Having said that, the weather is hot and there is less rainfall. Now agricultural planting relies on extracting groundwater, and a lot of it is pumped out every day. Lin Man is really worried that one day it will be drained out.
After all, it was not known whether Mr. Zhang could stay for long, so he left after two days, taking away a lot of food. The people who were planning the family planning stayed here for more than half a month, went back and made a plan. With Lin Man's consent and after paying her a considerable amount of accommodation fee, the first batch of 100 volunteer couples from the Reunion Base moved to Dayan Mountain to live.
These two hundred people include both people with special abilities and ordinary people. They are either rich or noble, or have made great contributions to the reunion base. There is also the researcher himself. However, there is one common requirement: they must be a legal couple, have good character and good conduct.
The person who originally contacted her had asked her if she could accept a man bringing ten or eight women with him. Lin Man was shocked and asked if there were many such people. The answer was yes, and she was almost sickened.
They were supposed to have no descendants, but now that they see hope, they suddenly want to upgrade to become breeding pigs. What kind of dream are they having?
The other party said that those women were all willing, and that men who were able to have many women were powerful. If a woman could give birth to a child for him, she would get many benefits, and both mother and child would have no worries in their lives.
Lin Man didn't know what to say. She didn't care whether those people were willing or not. Anyway, she accepted outsiders here, not to let those breeding pigs come and have fun and become emperors.
Lin Man refused without mercy and blacklisted those men who were said to be particularly powerful.
Lin Man arranged these two hundred people to live in the same area, intending to set up a large soul-locking formation there. After all, these people expressed their trust and friendship for the Peace Base, and paid money to come here just to have a child, so he should help them realize it as soon as possible.
Oh, there was another person coming with these people, her father, Lin Zhongrong.
She looked at the man who appeared to be very serious and cold on the surface, whose aura made people dare not look directly at him, but who actually always glanced at her secretly and then quickly looked away before she noticed, and she couldn't help feeling a little depressed.
Before leaving, her mother said to her, "I just saw your father. Ask him to come for dinner tonight. I'll be back early to make dumplings."
The last time the mother and daughter talked about the past, they never talked about this topic again. When Lin Zhongrong called, Lin Man was mostly perfunctory.
Lin Man felt a little uncomfortable when he suddenly heard that he was invited to dinner at home.
Chen Yu nodded her head in amusement: "You still remember that little thing? You want to hold this grudge for the rest of your life? Invite him to dinner and don't give him a cold shoulder. After all, he is your father."
Lin Man pouted and followed her reluctantly: "There's no need to make dumplings specially."
The wheat in the space matured twice again. Because the area was increased, the harvests were very good both times. However, outsiders did not know that they had flour in their hands, and the wheat field on the north side of the mountain was not yet harvested.
"You're willing to give it to Lin Cheng, but not to him? Then, mix some cornmeal into the flour and say it's flour from the north mixed with cornmeal. Your dad has a very rough palate and won't be able to tell the difference."
Thinking of his mother's words, Lin Man let out a breath. Although he was still a little reluctant, he still walked over: "My mother asked you to eat dumplings in the evening."
Lin Zhongrong was immediately flattered: "Oh, great!"
His daughter was finally willing to talk to him. Lin Zhongrong racked his brains to think of something to say, but his brain seemed to be stuck, and he blurted out: "Lin Cheng wrote a letter to you."
"Oh, really? Where is the letter?" Lin Cheng went abroad, and she couldn't contact him. She didn't expect that he would write to her. It was such a surprise.
Lin Zhongrong wanted to punch himself in the head. This was originally just an excuse to talk to his daughter, but now that she had taken the initiative to talk to him, why bring it up again? It would be better to just talk about the dumplings.
But under Lin Man's gaze, he had no choice but to take out the letter from his pocket, and then as expected, he watched his daughter immediately leave him and find a place where she could not see anyone to read it.
Lin Zhongrong: ...
Lin Man unfolded the letter, and his first impression was how beautiful Lin Cheng's handwriting was. The words on the slightly yellowed paper were small, perhaps to make them more compact, but they were thick, powerful, resolute, and sharp, just like him: calm and resolute.
In the letter, he first thanked Lin Man for the food he sent him, saying that it was all delicious, the candy was delicious, the biscuits were delicious, and the energy bars were delicious. Well, that was the only adjective he could use.
Then he mentioned that he had received the second batch of things. Although it was not written explicitly, Lin Man knew that he was talking about the thirty pairs of warning symbols, because it was written at the end that he had used the first pair to try out with a man named Zhang Changming beside him, and they worked very well.
He wrote that there were a lot of zombies, and under the command of the Zombie King, they began to systematically destroy signal towers. As long as they left the city called S City, long-distance communications would become unstable, so warning symbols might play a critical role in some cases. But if they really wanted to rely on warning symbols, this thing certainly could not be used only in his team, so he asked Lin Man whether this could be exposed and whether it could be mass-produced.
The words he used were rather obscure, but Lin Man completely understood what he meant.
She was very excited. It was a good thing that the warning symbol could come in handy and help!
She went to ask Lin Zhongrong: "Do you know what Lin Cheng said?"
Lin Zhongrong was so depressed that he was drawing circles on the ground with the tip of his shoe. He was stunned when he heard her and asked her what was the matter.
He truly had no idea what Lin Cheng had said to her. While items sent abroad and returned from abroad were supposed to be rigorously inspected, especially those sent back from abroad, with Lin Zhongrong around, it was up to him to decide whether to check or not. And out of respect for his daughter, although he desperately wanted to know what she had given Lin Cheng and what letters Lin Cheng had written to her, he stubbornly resisted the urge to open them.
Lin Man didn't think too much about it and looked around: "It's okay now, let's go back early, this is what happened."
She told Lin Zhongrong about the warning talisman, and Lin Zhongrong unexpectedly told her about the situation abroad. After the two of them discussed it, they felt that the warning talisman was really important. Anyway, she already had a supernatural weapon, so having a supernatural alarm and a locator would not be a big deal, so they decided to supply her with it.
"Let him handle the stuff first. It won't be needed unless it's a critical moment. You can take your time here and don't tire yourself out." Lin Zhongrong sighed. "If our satellites weren't useless, communications wouldn't be so difficult."
"I know." Lin Man said, "Is that zombie king really that powerful?"
"What's powerful isn't the creature itself, but the virus within it, and its ability to command zombies. Those foreigners are so useless. They should have been eliminated from the beginning. Otherwise, how could the situation have gotten as serious as it is now?"
Chen Yu was a little surprised to see the father and daughter coming back while talking. They seemed to be getting along well. Did they reconcile?
After being surprised, she felt relieved. Her daughter had always been well-behaved, quiet and sweet, but she was definitely not a submissive and soft person. As expected, as she grew stronger, her stubborn temper also emerged, just like her father's. Moreover, her attitude towards her father was even a little spoiled, although Chen Yu felt that this spoiled attitude was completely spoiled by the man himself.
Chen Yu didn't think there was anything wrong with this. Her daughter deserved to be spoiled, but if she kept going against her father, it would not be a good thing.
So she wanted to mediate. This time, Lin Zhongrong was actually called over by her. However, she didn't expect that before she did anything, the two of them were almost the same as before.