Chapter 212 The First Snow

Despite their best efforts, the old housekeeper finally managed to build the temperature-controlled shed before the extreme cold weather arrived.

The soil radiation level in the plantation has dropped to 198 points. The poplar trees planted earlier have grown to almost two meters tall. Zuo Shan decided to move the poplar saplings in the plantation and keep only one poplar tree for every 100 square meters.

Three rings of poplar saplings were transplanted outside the plantation's perimeter wall. By the next extremely hot weather, they should have grown to a height that can provide shade, and in two years, they could even be cut down to make furniture.

The freed-up space could then be used to grow mutated vegetables. Her ultimate goal in renting the plantation was not to improve the soil, but to develop a large-scale planting business.

According to the original plan, common wild vegetables were planted in the outermost circle. The shepherd's purse, chives, and alfalfa that Zuo Shan had planted in the planting box had already been harvested once.

However, because the planting box was too small and there was too little soil, it could not absorb enough nutrients, so this batch of mutated wild vegetables only grew to about twice their original size.

Now is the perfect time to transplant the vegetables that have just been harvested to the plantation, allowing them to grow freely.

The plan is to plant beans, peanuts, and cassava in the second ring. The seedlings on the left side have already been cultivated in the planting boxes and are now ready to be transplanted.

Of course, she didn't forget to transplant all the pagoda plants, lemons, firethorns, hemp balls, and buckwheat that she had originally planted.

Plants need ample land, but the small courtyard she lives in now is only 50 square meters, and the mutated plants are all so tall that she can't grow many of them at all.

The seedlings grown from the 15 seeds given by the old housekeeper have grown to more than 50 centimeters tall. Because the planting box is too small, they are thin and weak, and obviously malnourished.

If it weren't for Lele occasionally letting her daughter Suisui inject some life into her, she would probably have died long ago. It's time to transplant her now.

The only poppy seedling, as well as some seeds of poisonous plants that Lele had collected before, were all planted in separate "single rooms" set up by the old housekeeper to prevent them from harming other plants.

Zuo Shan and Lele were too busy to manage, so the old housekeeper and Madam Gu came to help. It took them a whole day to finally transplant all the plants that needed to be transplanted to the plantation.

The remaining poplar saplings were not wasted. Madam Gu suggested that they be transplanted to an uninhabited wasteland in District 48.

Mao Li and Xiao Bao were also busy.

With so many treasures transplanted all at once, Zuo Shan was worried that someone might try to sabotage them. So Mao Li found the structural diagram of the security robot in the database and drew a holographic 3D model of each part, asking Xiao Bao to help manufacture the parts.

After a whole day, Mao Li assembled eight of the lowest-level security robots. His current energy reserves are not enough to support him in creating higher-level robots.

Although they are low-level, these security robots will issue warnings and expel strangers after sensing their intrusion. If the stranger does not leave after three consecutive warnings, they will forcibly drag the stranger away and trigger the alarm on the management's security system.

This security system requires payment to use. If Zuo Shan can resolve the issue himself, he certainly doesn't want to call the police. However, if he encounters thugs or hooligans, he will have no choice but to call the police.

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In the last two days of the transitional month, the temperature plummeted from around 30°C to around zero°C. Even though her body is now heat-resistant and cold-resistant, Zuo Shan still found it hard to accept such a drop in temperature.

Zuo Shan wrapped both Achen and herself in thick winter coats, and kept urging Lele, "Aren't you cold, little girl? Hurry up and put on your winter coat!"

Lele laughed: "Sister, I've never worn a winter coat before. I'm used to the cold, so I don't feel cold. And since I awakened my fire-type ability, my body is more resistant to cold, so I really don't feel cold."

Zuo Shan looked at Xiao Bao again, but Xiao Bao acted as if nothing was wrong, only rubbing his head against her palm.

Zuo Shan's gaze finally fell on Mao Li, who smiled and said, "Master, the mechanical race can withstand temperatures ranging from -158°C to 258°C."

Then Ah Chen kept stretching out his chubby little hands, tearing at his winter coat, and was suddenly wrapped up like a dumpling. The baby was really uncomfortable!

Left Fan: Okay, so she's the only one in the family who's afraid of the cold!

Overnight, a thick layer of snow covered the streets and alleys of the 48th district.

The snow began to fall in the middle of the night, falling silently without waking the sleeping people.

In the early morning, Zuo Shan pushed open the door and was immediately enveloped by a chilling aura that made her shiver.

The snow is grayish-white. Zuo Shan measured it with his newly bought high-precision detector and found that the snow's emissivity was as high as 232 points. It absorbed too much solar radiation from outside the radiation shield and didn't have time to be filtered by the shield when it fell, which led to this result.

It is said that the first rain and the first snow after the end of the transition month each year are always like this, and people have long been used to it.

The authorities organized all the mercenaries and management, and quickly collected the highly radioactive snow, transporting it to a burial site in a deep ravine dug beneath the mountains outside the 50th district.

This approach only addresses the symptoms, not the root cause. After all, since we live on the same planet, the water there will eventually flow into the safe zone through the groundwater cycle.

However, the authorities were also helpless, as all the spaceships that could escape Earth's gravity and rush into space were destroyed during the cataclysm, making it impossible to send this highly radioactive water into space.

After that devastating blow, the government simply couldn't afford to allocate that much funding for scientific research.

Furthermore, most of the scientists who developed the spacecraft had died, resulting in a shortage of researchers, damage to high-precision instruments, and the aerospace industry stagnated or even regressed.

If it weren't for the fact that an underground satellite base secretly built by a certain country's military survived the star's explosion and subsequently launched two radiation-resistant communication satellites, the communication network of Green Algae Star would probably have been completely cut off.

Unfortunately, the satellite base was destroyed by a super-powerful earthquake three years after the cataclysm. Some say it was because high-ranking officials from various countries wanted to seize the satellite base, which ultimately led to its destruction.

Later, as the level of superhumans increased, their combat power surpassed that of firearms, and the high-ranking officials of various countries were gradually replaced by powerful superhumans, rendering them virtually powerless.

Ten years after the Great Cataclysm, a leading figure finally emerged. He broke through to the seventh level of superpowers, and at that time, such combat power was enough to crush the armies of various countries.

He proposed abolishing nationality and unifying the world so that all survivors would no longer be excluded from each other because of their nationality.

This great figure was Yun Kailang, the first president of the United Government of Green Algae Star.

Perhaps because he was Han Chinese, and because Han Chinese were the majority of survivors after the cataclysm, the United Government of Green Algae Star issued a statement that Chinese was the official language, thus unifying the written language and spoken language.

Zuo Shan considered herself a nobody, and the overall situation was none of her business; what she cared about most was her agricultural business.