On the plateau, the temperature difference between day and night is particularly large, and Chen Yang was woken up by the cold in the morning.

The temperature was really low in the early morning. Chen Yang wasn't even wearing winter clothes. The only things that kept him warm were the campfire and the lucky star.

Sleeping with the lucky guy is quite warm. He's not afraid of the cold at all, even at minus ten degrees Celsius, let alone this temperature.

After Chen Yang woke up from the cold, he started punching to warm himself. Meanwhile, the European Emperor was woken up by him and went hunting.

Just as the sun was rising, the lucky man returned carrying a rabbit in his mouth.

Although the fire had gone out, the charcoal was still burning, and it reignited as soon as some dry grass was laid on top.

In autumn, there's no shortage of dry grass and wood. Chen Yang easily gathered a pile and started a roaring fire, warming the surrounding area.

The dog still dislikes fire; it's too hot and it scares dogs. But food cooked over fire is so delicious that the dog can't resist it. This makes it conflicted, unsure whether it should hate fire.

After having a greasy breakfast, Chen Yang continued his journey across the grassland.

He is now deep in the plateau, but he is not traveling in a straight line; instead, he is following a river on the plateau.

He had already traversed the grasslands of the plateau, and now the trees were gradually becoming sparser, and the altitude was getting higher and higher, approaching 5,000 meters.

There are still many unique creatures on the plateau, but Chen Yang's purpose is not to hunt. The camp is not short of meat now, so he no longer hunts except for the meat he needs to fill his stomach each day.

He found a huge pile of matsutake mushrooms, which are very precious fungi with a great taste, but they are not very affordable.

Because of limited carrying capacity, Chen Yang only picked the best few types and took a bag of them back.

Chen Yang's main goal on this trip was to find some green plants, and he found one that could be grown.

spinach.

Spinach is a very common plant, and precisely because it's common, it can be found almost anywhere. Moreover, these spinach plants were in their seed-producing season, so Chen Yang collected all the spinach seeds he could to take back and plant.

If spinach is planted properly, it can be grown all year round, and they can eat spinach the following year.

If Chen Yang brings over a few more seeds from the real world in the next few months, the green plants should be sufficient for next year's needs.

However, for the next opportunity to bring in seeds, Chen Yang does not plan to bring in seeds, but instead wants to choose a high-tech product—a mobile phone.

Once you choose the right model, the phone's weight and size will meet your requirements. Moreover, the phone has many functions, including taking photos, recording videos, typing, alarm clocks, and more. If you buy one with large storage capacity, you can also download books and movies.

However, the biggest limitation of mobile phones is that most of the time only one person can use them at the same time. Only when watching a movie can two or three people gather together to watch. However, since the camp already has a projector, this function is somewhat useless.

In any case, it's good to have a cell phone in the camp. Cell phones are arguably the most indispensable tool for modern humans, bar none. They have so many functions, all condensed into one cell phone, making them extremely convenient.

However, entering the micro-world on a mobile phone is equivalent to disconnecting from the internet, so after buying the phone, Chen Yang uninstalled all the functions on the phone that required the internet.

He also had someone uninstall unnecessary functions from his phone to extend its lifespan, and bought the safest protective case and tempered glass screen protector, not caring about their appearance as long as they wouldn't break if dropped.

Then, he planned to download dozens of single-player games to his phone so that everyone could play on their phones when they were bored.

Once winter arrives, the boring times will definitely be long because it will be too cold to do many things. We can't just sit around the fireplace doing nothing, can we?

The Xindu camp already has a library, a media room, and a gym. Chen Yang could add an entertainment room so that there will be something to do in the winter.

He hopes that the inhabitants of the Microworld will be able to live more independent lives in the future, able to grow their own vegetables and raise their own livestock, and exchange resources when they are in short supply, instead of having to work together to survive as they do now.

Of course, Chen Yang is definitely not lazy and doesn't worry about the camp every day, absolutely not!

Okay, Chen Yang admits he had such thoughts.

He wasn't a very controlling person to begin with. Now, assigning tasks, planning construction, and allocating resources to the people in the camp every day might be very fulfilling for someone else, but Chen Yang found it a bit troublesome.

He longed for freedom, to go wherever he wanted. Therefore, he wanted the camp to develop better. Once the people in the camp no longer needed him, he could leave and explore the micro-world, taking Lucky Star and Li Su'er with him. It would be quite carefree.

Moreover, in reality, he can still interact and chat with everyone, so he doesn't feel lonely or isolated at all.

The task is arduous and the road ahead is long.

Chen Yang gazed at the rising sun over the plateau and sighed. As usual, he did his morning exercises, practicing Xingyi Quan for an hour, before voluntarily leaving the micro-world before it kicked him out.

He had just gotten up when he heard some good news: Xiao Qi and Xia Yue had found peas in the Night Forest, and quite a lot of them. They also now had soybeans, and quite a lot of them too.

They could finally start making soy sauce. With wheat and soybeans, brewing soy sauce was no problem. Although it didn't taste as good as real soy sauce, it could still add a flavor to their food.

Moreover, soybeans are a green and edible plant with a pretty good taste.

More importantly, they can now grind soybeans to make soy milk.

Soy milk is a beverage that has been enjoyed throughout Chinese history and is the perfect accompaniment to breakfast. It evokes memories for everyone, regardless of social class, and no one would refuse a cup of healthy, freshly ground soy milk.

For this reason, Jiang Bo even ran back to the camp from the West Boundary River to help make a hand mill for grinding soybeans.

Grinding soybeans is different from grinding grains. With the current number of people in the camp, hand grinding is sufficient. Besides, what could be more satisfying than hand grinding? Watching soybeans and water mix together in the mill, and then the milky white liquid flowing out of the trough—just seeing this process is enough to whet your appetite.

Now that they have wheat, which can be ground into flour to make steamed buns, dumplings, and fried dough sticks, and paired with freshly ground soy milk, it makes a very standard Chinese breakfast.

This is the perfect breakfast! The only downside is that they didn't have rice; if they did, it would be perfect.

(End of this chapter)