Lin Ruo's immense spiritual power surged underground, and he saw many mutated rats shuttling back and forth along the underground pipes, constantly digging at the ice inside the pipes, and then sending the dug-out ice fragments out of the pipes to the surface, which was why they were making a rustling sound.

These mutated rats are each half a meter long, with sharp claws and long, thin teeth. Their fur stands on end, making them look somewhat like hedgehogs. (Dear friends, this describes a northern rat mutation, which is relatively small. City B is in the north. I will describe the southern mutated rats later.)

The sound became very faint when it reached the ground through the 3-meter-high ice layer. If Lin Ruo hadn't had exceptionally strong senses, she definitely wouldn't have heard it.

The underground pipes had been completely frozen due to water accumulation, but now rats have managed to break through them! How many rats must have been involved to dig them all out?

Following the rats' movements with their mental energy, they discovered that it was just a small group of mutated rats, numbering around a few thousand, digging underground pipes in different directions.

It seems their goal was simply to dig through all the underground pipes in City B, likely to facilitate a future rat swarm attack.

Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Lin Ruo no longer hesitated. His eyes flashed with blue light, and the pipe was immediately filled with water again. The rats were instantly impacted by the water and struggled. Then, the blue light in Lin Ruo's eyes intensified, and the water instantly froze, emitting a chilling aura that immediately froze the mutated rats.

Then, like an ice dragon, it emerged from the ground and stopped at Lin Ruo's feet.

Lin Ruo looked with satisfaction at the thousands of mutated rats inside the ice dragon. The blue light in his hand flashed again, and he rolled the ice dragon into a huge ice ball and put it into his space.

Insects may contain crystal nuclei, and mice are even more likely to have them, so we can't waste them.

After cleaning up the place, she used her mental power to thoroughly scan it again, confirming that there were no more mutated animals in the mall, whether above or below ground, before she stopped.

She raised her wrist to check her watch; an hour had passed, and Afu and Ashou still hadn't returned.

Since she couldn't leave, she simply found a rock to sit on, focused her mental energy into the space, and began to deal with the ant balls and mouse balls.

The ants and mice inside the ice ball were all dead. She melted the three large ice balls and used her spatial ability to explode each of the small heads one by one. Not many had crystal cores, and of the countless ants, she only picked out five hundred, each only the size of a glass marble.

The proportion of rats was larger, with more than 3,500 mutated rats, from which 85 crystal cores were harvested, each the size of a ping-pong ball.

After processing all the loose ant balls again, they finally obtained 53 crystal cores.

Lin Ruo put all the crystal cores into the still space. Since the animals mutated, she had dug up hundreds of crystal cores, but they were all level one crystal cores.

When Lin Ruo was reborn, all the crystal cores she brought back from her space had been used up. Now she uses these level one crystal cores for cultivation, and she has to take a few extra each time she cultivates.

Lin Ruo took out a rat crystal core from his spatial storage and placed it in front of him. "Level three and four crystal cores will only appear during extremely hot periods. For now, we can only use these level one crystal cores for cultivation."

She stored the rat crystal core in her spatial storage, and then placed the ants and rats together with the corpses of other mutated animals. Since Afu and Ashou hadn't returned yet, she could take another stroll around the planting area.

Seeing that the crops planted on the black soil and those planted on ordinary soil were already ripe, Lin Ruo was happy and quickly used her mental energy to complete the harvest.

We harvested 200 tons of wheat, 200 tons of corn, 100 tons of rice, and 20 tons of other grains, for a total of 520 tons of pure grains.

Lin Ruo pulled up all the crop stalks in the field, crushed them, mixed them with the grain harvested from ordinary land in this space and some grain purchased before the apocalypse, made them into feed, dried them with water-based supernatural abilities, and then stored them in the static space along with other grains.

The remaining grain harvested from the black soil was stored by Lin Ruo in the static space.

After the harvest, she did not take out any more seeds to plant. Both the black soil and the ordinary soil needed to recover their nutrients. Continuous cultivation would only reduce the yield of the land.

Lin Ruo wasn't sure if this was the right thing to do. She had read about it in an agricultural book, and she decided to leave the planting for a week before planting.

There were many ripe vegetables in the garden. She threw some of the older vegetables onto the small hill in the breeding area, which the animals loved to eat. She stored the tender vegetables in the still space.

A batch of fruits grown in the orchard also ripened. This time, they harvested 10 tons of watermelons, 8 tons of strawberries, 1 ton of blueberries, and 1 ton of grapes, which Lin Ruoquan stored in his static space.

After walking through the planting area, Lin Ruo arrived at the breeding area. The animals in the breeding area were munching on the vegetables that Lin Ruo threw over. The number of rabbits was starting to increase rapidly again, and many chicks, ducklings, and goslings were being born. He put all the unfertilized eggs into his spatial storage and added feed to all of them.

She went to the hill where pigs, cows, and sheep were growing up and found that as the piglets grew, the old boars became useless and didn't gain weight.

The newborn piglets in the space are growing fast; they are already a meter long and will soon be adults.

Lin Ruoshuo slaughtered a large number of boars, leaving only ten of the strongest and most vigorous ones for breeding, and even marked them.

The other male piglets in the space were all subjected to an egg-eliminating technique manipulated by Lin Ruo's mental power, which made the pork taste better and grow faster.

Each of these boars weighed over 200 jin (approximately 100 catties). Lin Ruo slaughtered more than 100 of them, which immediately increased the amount of meat stored in his space.

We slaughtered another batch of rams, so we can make roast lamb for Afu and Ashou when we get home.

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