"Your method of use is slightly off. A crystal is an energy body. Before using it, you need to communicate with the crystal to build a bridge between your internal energy and the crystal's energy, and slowly guide the crystal's energy and your internal energy to intertwine. You can give it a try."

This is a very mysterious state of mind, which Jiang Zhi can only understand intuitively and cannot express in words, perhaps because her language skills are not good enough.

Zuo Rou tried it as Jiang Zhi had suggested, but she had never heard of anything like communication or building bridges.

Everyone has thoroughly studied the information at the Superpower Center, and everyone is well aware of the latest research findings on crystals.

Zuo Rou tried several times but failed. The others also took out the crystals they had and did as Jiang Zhi had instructed.

The process was somewhat difficult, and they tried many times. One of the girls, Xianyun, finally felt the power of the crystal merge with the power in her own body, and was able to unleash it.

A rice plant sprouted a tender shoot, slowly grew, and gradually blossomed. The whole process wasn't as fast as Jiang Zhi's, but she still managed to get a rice plant within ten minutes.

"Wow, it's true, it really works."

"Quickly check how much energy the crystal has left?"

After sensing it for a moment, Xianyun said, "It's extremely wasteful; one percent of the energy in this crystal has been used up." In other words, under ideal conditions, the energy in one red crystal is only enough to ripen one hundred rice plants.

However, for now, this is excellent news.

"One percent?"

"It should also be related to the purity of the crystal. Professor Jiang's method worked. If there are a large number of crystals as a base, the problem of food and clothing may be solved," Zuo Rou said.

"Yes, that's how it is in theory." After saying that, Jiang Zhi walked out of the rice paddy, leaving the harvest to her own devices.

Jiang Zhi came up from the field, and Zhou Heng was waiting for her with a box in his arms.

"This is what Director Zhang asked me to give you. It's the same old rule, but this time, Director Zhang said the contract is void. You are free. In the face of the apocalypse, you should preserve yourself and think about other things only if you have the energy. As for whether you think about other things or not, that's your choice."

"Hasn't this old guy always been like this?" Jiang Zhi laughed.

"Director Zhang is not in good health, and the base doctors are already administering strong medication."

"Mmm." Jiang Zhi took the box and turned to look at the distant mountains. Under the sunlight, she actually felt a little cold.

Zhou Heng directed the people to harvest the rice. Smelling the unique fragrance of the rice, the joy on the faces of the harvesters was undisguised.

It's all grain, all grain.

In the afternoon, Jiang Zhi helped several small teams to urge the wheat to ripen.

Some teams, upon receiving the wheat, immediately gathered firewood to start a fire and roast the wheat to eat.

Food only brings satisfaction when it is eaten.

That night, Jiang Zhi saw that several small teams had set up camps in the ruins around her, but they were too far away to see her.

Good grief, they're trying to surround her.

Jiang Zhi didn't care; she was going back to her villa's basement tonight. This little hole was just a temporary shop. After collecting the gold bricks and gold elements, Jiang Zhi carried her bag back to the basement of her ruined villa.

She doesn't like places with people at all, and after the extreme heat subsides, she'll just move to another place.

While Jiang Zhi was leisurely preparing a late-night snack, the high-level conference room at the Shuofang base was bustling with activity.

During the day, Jiang Zhi taught five wood-type ability users the correct way to use crystals. This method allows wood-type ability users to produce food crops by expending very little of their own energy.

After they returned, they used potato chunks to conduct growth-inducing experiments. The growth-inducing effect was completely different in the presence of crystals and in the absence of crystals.

As the base's first escaped seed, Jiang Zhi brought hope for seed sources to the base.

Since crystals can be used to help ripen food, they can also be used for many other things.

The lab is indeed conducting extensive research on the external release of crystal energy, attempting to transform crystals into a completely new energy resource.

If this experiment succeeds, Earth may be able to directly enter an era of advanced technology.

To be precise, it's the wasteland technology era.

"Immediately establish the Crystal Ability Union to research various methods of combining crystals with abilities, so that ability users can grow up as quickly as possible. Mutant animals have too strong a reproductive capacity, and each generation is stronger than the last. If humans are not strong enough, they will be devoured by the beasts and become extinct." After the base commander gave the order, all departments below acted cautiously.

No matter how difficult things get, people always like to stick together for warmth. We can't let humanity keep dying, otherwise even if they survive to the end, they will feel that the whole world is meaningless.

Jiang Zhi was exhausted after a long day and all she wanted to do was have some snacks, watch TV, and take a bath.

I opened a period drama called "Xie San Niang", and placed some boneless chicken feet, pork jerky, strawberry puffs, spicy strips and other snacks on the table. Then I put on a cup of Ye Ye Bo Bo fruit tea and a tricolor ice cream ball decorated with Oreo powder and fresh strawberries.

Jiang Zhi happily ate and soaked in the bathtub while watching a show.

Wanfu paced back and forth at the bathroom door. What was his mother doing inside?

I closed the door and watched TV.

Who eats while watching TV in the bathroom?

Wanfu didn't understand, but it was really curious.

An hour later, Jiang Zhi cleaned up the mess. The TV series was still playing. She took two bowls of noodles from the deli section, one for Wanfu and one for herself.

She ate some spicy snacks while taking a bath, and the strong flavor made her feel like eating something, even though she wasn't very hungry.

Waaaaah, spicy strips are the best thing to stimulate your taste buds. After eating them, I crave even stronger flavors.

After the meal, Jiang Zhi stood against the wall for half an hour. After the food in her stomach had dissipated a lot, she lay down on the bed and closed her eyes to rest.

The next day at nine o'clock, Jiang Zhi came out of the basement. Today she was wearing a black short-sleeved shirt with black ice silk wide-leg pants, and on her feet were straw sandals she had found in the storage area. She had never seen these shoes before, and they looked very fashionable, so she put them on.

She thought the shoes were very unique.

Jiang Zhi carried yesterday's bag to the signboard to hang up the sign indicating that the business was open today, and then headed towards the cave.

Good heavens! The long queue startled Jiang Zhi.

What time is it?

Is there really that many people?

Jiang Zhi glanced at the queue; there were at least thirty people, if not forty.

Several people huddled together, whispering amongst themselves.

Upon seeing Jiang Zhi, most people wore fawning smiles, and one man even said in a high-pitched voice, "Boss Jiang, you've finally arrived."

Jiang Zhi broke out in a cold sweat.

There were several piles of metal on the road, some of which were still covered in wet soil, indicating they had been dug out of the mud not long ago.

Jiang Zhi used the key to open the iron gate and brought out the table and scale inside.

"Mr. Jiang, this is something I took from an aluminum alloy window. I wonder if you would accept it?"