Chapter 97: "We seem to be trending on social media."

In Fangzhou, Song Rushuang and her group were leading the parents on a tour of the hidden buildings in Fangzhou.

Before the apocalypse, fearing suspicion, they didn't even go into the teaching building when they took them on a tour at noon. Now that the parents know the truth, the three of them can finally show them their proud campus without reservation.

For parents, it's like unlocking a secret map.

As she explained the directions along the way, Sun Wei spotted a familiar small truck near the East Gate.

Fu Qing, sitting in the driver's seat, greeted the others and then looked at Sun Wei: "Once the things inside are moved out, I'll have the robot deliver the car keys back to your dorm."

"No rush, no rush," Sun Wei quickly replied. "Thank you for your help, Principal."

The parents realized what was happening and thanked them repeatedly.

But it wasn't about bringing back the truck; it was about the entire shelter that Fu Qing had built, and the survival skills she taught her students.

Fu Qing waved dismissively, rolled up the car window, and drove off to unload the goods near the cold storage facility, watched by everyone.

Cars rarely enter the school grounds, and the students and parents she encountered along the way all stopped to let her pass first. Not many parents knew Fuqing, so the students took the opportunity to introduce her.

After the introduction, some parents' gazes towards Fuqing changed, clearly indicating that they had already heard something.

Others simply marveled at the principal's youth and talent; these people were unaware of the truth and naturally failed to notice the complex expressions on the children's faces.

What a wonderful description of "young and promising"!

The robot handles almost all the work of unloading the frozen meat after the car is driven into the vicinity of the storage room.

Fu Qing opened her account and glanced at her teaching points balance.

The live stream had just ended, and the system reminded Fu Qing once again that his influence on the world was deepening, and awarded him 300 teaching points as a reward.

Her current account balance is 812 points.

Some of the money was in small amounts, while some was used to pay teachers' salaries.

After a year of operation, the principal was still not wealthy, but Fu Qing was not anxious, since most of the teaching points earned were used to renovate the campus.

The development of the western plain alone cost nearly three thousand points, but in return, it yielded a cultivated area several times larger than the campus itself.

We also spent a lot of money on farm tools and various specialized equipment.

—After a year of covert renovations, Fangzhou, on the surface, still maintains the appearance of a year ago in order to avoid arousing suspicion among passersby, but internally, earth-shattering changes have already taken place.

Today, the campus is roughly divided into three main areas: a residential area, a public facilities area including a playground, a simulator training room, and a medical center, and an agricultural area. The agricultural area is partly located on campus and partly located on the plains outside the campus.

The campus is surrounded by high walls, with watchtowers and sentry posts, making it heavily guarded. Traps have been set up in advance in key areas that are vulnerable to breaches, and broken glass has been inserted into the top of the walls as a further layer of protection.

Solar panels have been installed on the rooftops of all buildings, sufficient to meet basic electricity needs. Although Fuqing has already purchased the wind power equipment for the plains, it's not under Fangzhou's protection, and its large size would be too conspicuous to install prematurely, so it remains in the system warehouse. It will be moved out when things become completely chaotic in two weeks.

At that point, probably no one will be in the mood to cause trouble.

The Fangzhou area, planned by Fuqing, can accommodate a maximum of 8,000 to 10,000 refugees. The total electricity demand for Fangzhou is actually quite large, including the electricity used for daily life, aquaculture, medical care, water treatment, and other purposes.

Therefore, to ensure everything goes smoothly, in addition to solar and wind power generation, Fuqing also built a biogas digester and supporting systems for biomass power generation and heat supply in the underground near the agricultural area.

With the addition of emergency diesel generators and a large diesel reserve, energy preparations are now temporarily complete.

Returning to the topic of the area's composition, beneath the residential and public facilities areas lies a vast underground region.

It includes storage rooms, cold storage, underground compartments, activity areas, as well as a morgue and incinerator. In addition, the escape route dug by the infrastructure department as an extracurricular activity was officially completed in early August.

In the last month, since the students went home for the holidays, Fuqing had the school's robots help with the final touches.

Some local students also came to help when they had free time, and they worked hard to finally complete the passage.

In the initial planning, the passage was originally intended to be about 1 kilometer long, but after surveying the terrain and buildings near Fangzhou, they ultimately chose the passage's exit to be inside an abandoned factory, which forced the passage to be extended.

The final underground escape tunnel is 1.3 kilometers long and has been reinforced internally, ensuring that 8,000 people can be evacuated within ten minutes in an emergency.

The choice of export destination was also carefully considered. Xu Mingyue and her group of students went to great lengths, inspecting many places but were not satisfied with any of them. Finally, after careful selection, they settled on a particular destination.

The exit of the escape route must meet several conditions simultaneously: first, it must be sufficiently concealed; second, there must be no gathering of zombies and refugees in the apocalypse; and third, there must be enough space to accommodate those who escape, and at least allow them a short period of time to move around after leaving the passage, so that they do not attract nearby enemies and immediately face battle due to excessive noise upon escaping.

However, the very places that zombies find difficult to enter are precisely the places where fleeing civilians most like to gather, directly excluding abandoned old buildings. While choosing dense forests might avoid encountering crowds, it also lacks cover. By the time a mass evacuation is necessary, the area around Fangzhou will inevitably have fallen. Within a kilometer, thousands of people gathered outdoors would easily be drawn by the scent of zombies.

After much deliberation, this abandoned factory came into Xu Mingyue's view.

The reason is simple: it's a chemical plant.

It was shut down years ago for failing to meet environmental standards and has been abandoned here ever since. Fortunately, it was originally a food additive factory, and the raw materials used were mostly biodegradable. In addition, after several years, there is no longer any pollution in the factory area. Xu Mingyue used the teaching point approved by Fu Qing and made a special trip with her equipment to confirm its safety.

So the group set a goal: some people started digging a tunnel on the spot, while others took on a special task—modifying the factory.

To the average person who doesn't know much about chemical plants, they are very dangerous places, especially abandoned ones.

Although China has long had a comprehensive policy for dealing with such situations, its actual implementation is often inadequate. Considering the possibility of toxic pollutants remaining in the chemical plant, this has deterred more than half of the explorers.

In addition, compared to food factories, the rewards for exploring chemical plants are extremely low, and any useful items in abandoned factories have most likely already been taken away, which discourages a large number of people.

Most of the remaining intruders are either being chased by zombies or have nowhere else to go and are desperate. The modified factory is for these people.

All of the selected students were originally art students.

They racked their brains for several days, then packed their art supplies and went.

The first thing I did was to paint a huge red skull on the old sign I found.

The paint had dried streaks at the end, like blood that had seeped in after being soaked by rain and then dried, giving it a creepy feel.

Next to the skull, the words "Danger!" are painted in the same red paint, making it look like a warning from local residents to children and passersby.

Next to it, a huge signboard was erected, using more formal and official language, warning that dangerous chemicals were inside and that it was highly toxic and should not be entered.

After writing it, I did some more processing, and the final product looked like something that had been standing in the same place for many years, and had become old and damaged after being exposed to the wind and sun.

Combined with the rusty barbed wire fence next to it and the eerie, deserted factory buildings not far away, it gives off the feeling of an abandoned factory in a movie that no one dares to approach, enough to frighten many ordinary people who are unaware of the truth.

The exit was located in one of the warehouses, which contained many empty storage tanks that had not been moved. They were stacked one on top of the other, and several of them formed a U-shape inside. The exit of the escape route was in the middle. From the warehouse entrance, it was completely blocked by the other storage tanks, and it was impossible to find it without going inside and searching carefully.

At the entrance of this warehouse, art students also created a sign indicating that it contains hazardous chemicals.

In this way, the exit of the escape route is almost completely safe.

Of course, every week or so, a group of students would walk through the passageway to check for any risk of collapse and to check for any signs of people passing by or staying in the export warehouse and factory, to ensure that no accidents would occur when it was officially put into use.

...

The construction of residential and public areas is almost complete, while the remaining agricultural areas are about 70% complete, still some distance from the planned development of Fuqing.

This was mainly to deal with the parents who arrived early.

If parents had noticed something amiss before the apocalypse broke out and rushed to leave the school in the last hour, Fuqing and the students would have had nowhere to turn to cry.

Therefore, the artificial lake and grove of trees remain unchanged and have not been altered.

Her goal today is to complete the remaining renovations as much as possible, and even if it cannot be built immediately, she will put it into the space first.

Fu Qing glanced at the extra points in her account, silently calculated the price in her mind, and then went to the system shop.

[Cost: 300 Teaching Points]

[Received: Recirculating Aquaculture System *1]

[Cost: 100 Teaching Points]

[Received: 2 fish fry of your choice]

Please select two species of fish fry from the following list (the system will automatically stock the fry after the recirculating aquaculture system is built, or you can choose to stock them manually): grass carp, common carp, crucian carp, black carp, sardine, salmon, catfish...

Fu Qing had done her research on what kind of fish to keep.

However, the points were almost always used up as soon as they were obtained, so the fish farm that could only be built after the artificial lake was demolished was not arranged immediately.

Fu Qing felt a little pained spending 50 points to buy fish fry, since fish fry could be bought with money elsewhere, and teaching points were much more valuable than the cash she had.

After all, once the construction and operation tasks are completed in the first year, it will be very difficult to obtain points in the future.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a suitable space to put the fish fry after they were bought, so Fuqing ultimately chose to buy them through the teaching center.

—Aside from a few high-tech products like simulators and realistic zombies, almost all buildings and props in Fangzhou can be bought or built with money. However, the advantages of purchasing from the system store are twofold: concealment and speed. This has forced Fu Qing to grit his teeth and buy with points many times, leaving him with nowhere to save points.

With the 300-point reward, she was finally a little more financially secure. After scanning through various types of fish fry, she quickly selected two.

Tilapia and catfish.

Although these two types of fish are not as common as the four major freshwater fish such as crucian carp and grass carp, their flesh is delicate and highly nutritious, and there are actually quite a few people who love to eat them. The reason why they are not often seen on the dining table is mostly because they have a less-than-pleasant name.

Catfish have long been called trash fish, and tilapia are even worse, with some people calling them cancer fish.

It's not that these two types of fish are inherently problematic, but rather that they are so resilient that they can thrive even in heavily polluted waters, accumulating large amounts of heavy metals and compounds in their bodies while remaining lively and energetic, making it impossible for diners to discern whether the fish served to them is actually safe or not.

But what Fu Qing valued was their strong vitality.

Tilapia and catfish share the characteristic of having a fast growth cycle. Compared to carp, which takes a year to grow, tilapia generally takes 4-6 months to grow, while largemouth catfish can grow up in 3-4 months and can be sold three times a year.

They are not picky about space and can survive even if they are squeezed in. In the same size pond, catfish can be held almost twice as many times as carp, and tilapia can be held 1.5 times or more.

The area inside the Fangzhou wall is incredibly valuable; every inch of land there is worth its weight in gold. The same area can raise twice as many fish, so there's no need to hesitate about which one to choose.

Not only does it save space, but more importantly, it saves water and electricity.

In addition, both types of fish are omnivorous and have low requirements for food. Unlike some delicate fish that have extremely high requirements for water quality and can die if not properly cared for, they are truly easy to keep.

With its super reproductive capacity, once a batch of fry is introduced, stable reproduction can be achieved in the future, and there will be no need to replenish the fry.

—What we need to worry about even more is whether they will reproduce too many times.

As for the recirculating aquaculture system that costs 300 teaching points, it is also for the purpose of saving space and water.

For a regular pond, it only costs 100 points in the store, but the yield per unit area is far lower than the former, requiring a larger area to build a breeding farm.

Nowadays, campuses utilize all available space—ground buildings, rooftops, and underground spaces—and if that's not enough, they have to expand the perimeter walls.

However, expanding the wall was no simple matter. After much deliberation, Fu Qing gritted his teeth and bought a circulating water system.

Fangzhou already had chickens and ducks, and during the summer vacation, Fuqing added a batch of rabbits. Now, with the addition of fish, there is no shortage of fresh meat.

People have enough food, but what they eat is still lacking.

Animals need only a few types of feed: insects, grains, processed kitchen waste, and hay.

Kitchen waste is readily available; some is collected for composting, some goes to a biogas digester, and some is used as animal feed. With so many uses, there's no fear of running out of waste; in fact, it's often not enough.

As for pasture, Grandma Liu had already thought of it. When she was clearing the plains, she set aside a portion to plant alfalfa. The rabbits ate alfalfa as their staple food, and chickens and ducks could also eat it. Even people could eat its tender leaves.

Grains, needless to say, can be directly allocated from people's food rations after harvest.

There are many insects that can be used as feed. Fuqing chose black soldier flies because they are high in protein and fat, and chickens, ducks and fish love to eat them. They are one of the best feeds.

The larvae can be dried, crushed into black soldier fly powder, and stored for a long time. The larvae can grow by eating kitchen waste, so there is no need to buy additional feed.

[Cost: 100 Teaching Points]

[Received: 1 Vertical Aquaculture Zone]

[Cost: 50 Teaching Points]

[Obtained: Black soldier fly larvae (3 days old)]

Fortunately, black soldier fly larvae have extremely high yields when farmed in an integrated manner, and can be housed in a small room, so they don't take up much space.

In the blink of an eye, 550 points were spent. With a "what the heck" attitude, Fu Qing quickly bought the last item.

[Cost: 100 Teaching Points]

[Received: Spirulina culture tank *1]

Algae can also provide nutrients for animals, especially fish. This completes the feed supply; everything else we bought today will have to wait until the artificial lake is demolished before we can rebuild.

The demolition of the artificial lake would cause too much of a stir, and at this point, many students haven't figured out how to tell their parents. Fuqing is prepared to wait a little longer.

In any case, Fangzhou is not short of food for the time being. This year, they have harvested some potatoes, wheat, carrots, onions and other vegetables, as well as dried beans, all of which have been sorted and stored by Fuqing.

During this period, Fang Zhou's daily diet consisted mostly of staple foods and vegetables that Fu Qing purchased from outside sources. This way, he could stock up on supplies without arousing suspicion.

After stuffing everything into the system's magical little backpack, Fu Qing checked his balance and found he only had 162 teaching points left.

Let's look at the things I want to buy next; they cost 300 teaching points.

Fu Qing was a little annoyed: "..."

There are never enough teaching sites.

Currently, most of the tasks that can earn points have been completed, and Fu Qing's popularity has remained at 83%, which has not increased for some time. The next milestone of 100% is still a long way off.

Where else can I earn points?

Fu Qing stood there pondering for a while, and as if in response to her mood, a reminder suddenly popped up in front of her.

Your influence on the world has deepened once again!

[Received 200 teaching points as a reward]

Keep up the good work!

Fu Qing: "...?"

What's the meaning?

Is there really such a thing as a free lunch in the world?

Furthermore... what does "again" mean, and why is the reward of 200 teaching points 100 points less than usual?

She looked at the reward with a puzzled expression and casually asked the system.

System: [To the host, this reward is an extra bonus for new progress in the preceding events, therefore the amount is relatively small.]

Fu Qing had even more questions on her mind, and wanted to ask about any new developments, but then a new message suddenly appeared on the system page.

It was a private message from Su Huaijin.

"Principal, it seems we're trending on social media."

A short, straightforward line of text, followed by an emoji. The little figure blinks innocently.