Zhao Xiaoxiu broke the golden autumn pear from her shirt pocket into pieces and threw it into the pond. Little Peter Pan was so happy he felt like he could fly.

Oh no, it actually took flight.

This guy has mutated again. Not only has his size increased by a third, growing from the length of an adult's arm to 1.2 meters, but his ability to levitate in water has also changed.

Previously, the levitation fish could only swim in the rain, but now it can levitate as long as it is within two meters of the water surface.

But once it leaves the water, it can only float in mid-air at the edge of the pond.

If it goes more than two meters beyond the pond's edge, it will fall in and immediately die.

After finishing a pear, Peter Pan floated up again to search for Zhao Xiaoxiu.

The father and daughter, one big and one small, were pulling the raft up the riverbank, not even taking it apart, intending to take it directly home.

Zhao Gang pulled the raft from the front, while Zhao Xiaoxiu sat on the raft behind. In any case, the extra few dozen kilograms made no difference to Zhao Gang.

As Zhao Xiaoxiu passed by the pond, seeing Peter Pan who wanted to get close to her but couldn't, she suddenly had a bold idea.

If she digs a ditch between her house and the pond, she can turn the raft into a surfboard, a tire, or a plastic basin... whatever it is, as long as she can sit on it and it's lightweight.

Then let Peter Pan be the father who pulls the raft, wouldn't that mean he can fly around the territory?

It would be best to fill the entire territory with ditches, all around, so that we would never have to walk around so wearily again!

However, Zhao Xiaoxiu's excitement lasted less than three seconds. When she looked down at the slope from her doorstep to the pond, she immediately deflated.

Of the entire Territory No. 13, the easternmost part has the lowest elevation, which is why it forms a natural pond.

Water can only flow downhill, not uphill.

The Water Ditch Project failed before it even began.

But then I thought, digging a shallow circular ditch near the pond and playing in the water with Peter Pan wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was happy again. Winter hadn't even arrived yet, and she was already looking forward to how she would spend next summer.

The father and daughter successfully transported all five poplar trees home in two trips.

The cut branches and twigs are spread out to dry, and then used as fuel for fires.

Zhao Gang first used the thicker branches to make two clothes racks.

One is placed in the open space in front of the house, and the other is placed on the second-floor balcony, where small items are usually dried.

The rest were used to build greenhouses.

Due to the limited area of ​​the waterproof fabric, the greenhouse cannot be built too large; it can only be a small greenhouse that is two meters wide and three and a half meters long.

First, use four sawn square timbers as the foundation, then place four wooden stakes at the four corners, and finally prepare four sawn semi-circular timbers to fix them together using mortise and tenon joints.

A half-meter-high beam is attached to the top front and back to support the roof beam. Then, the roof beam is connected to the roof with a trimmed short tree branch, and a small square room with a triangular roof is completed.

The walls on all four sides are made of straight, thin square timber nailed together in a grid pattern, with an opening on the side facing the house to serve as a door.

Finally, cover it with a light blue waterproof tarpaulin, and nail the top with a flat strip of wood.

The ropes are not fixed on any side; stones are used to weigh them down on the ground so that they can be rolled up later to allow light to reach the plants inside.

On either side of the entrance, there are two large jars planted with evolved tomatoes on one side and fifteen vegetable jars planted with evolved sunflowers on the other side.

There was still a small empty space at the very back, where Zhao Gang put a storage rack pieced together from old furniture. It could be used to store vegetable baskets or small planting tools in the future.

It's not cold yet, so we'll roll up the waterproof tarp for now and put it back on when winter really comes.

After two days of continuous work, the small greenhouse was successfully completed.

The father and daughter spent the remaining day thoroughly cleaning the rooftop floor. Thinking they had some waterproof tarpaulin left, they used it to cover the leaks in the roof.

Last time it rained, water started seeping from the ceiling in my house. Water dripped down and the cracks were quite large.

Simply covering the surface with waterproof tarpaulin here and there won't solve the fundamental problem; it's just a temporary fix.

Once I've accumulated enough points, I need to buy asphalt and cover the entire roof with it to achieve a truly leak-proof effect.

Three days passed in a flurry of activity.

A new round of training courses continued, and the lords began learning how to grow evolved potatoes in winter.

This is another cold-resistant crop, with a mild and harmless growth process, stable yield, and near-perfect quality in all aspects.

It is an excellent evolved crop that you can simply bury in the soil and it will grow on its own. It is completely immune to the SHASI virus and will not undergo unstable mutations.

However, unlike the various potato varieties before the cataclysm, the current evolved potato plant only produces one potato per plant.

But each potato is as big as a football, and the taste is not much different from the potatoes before the catastrophe.

Unlike mutated crops, the taste is much worse than before the catastrophe.

Some low-grade mutated fruits look very beautiful and delicious, but when you bite into them, they taste like overripe, sour, and rotten fruit.

Having learned new knowledge from her father, Zhao Xiaoxiu suddenly realized that she was losing out big time by selling the sweet autumn pears to the patrol station for only 60 points each!

Thinking of this, Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly rushed to the kitchen to count how many pears she had left.

The little guy was a bit incredulous, "There are only three left?"

However, considering that it's been half a month since they were picked, they'll rot if we don't eat them soon.

Zhao Xiaoxiu held the pear to her nose and smelled it; it didn't smell very fresh.

After thinking about it, I decided to eat one myself and save one for my dad when he came back from school in the afternoon.

Another one was taken to the pond, broken into pieces, and fed to Peter Pan.

In fact, Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't know what the floating fish ate. She had brought it home for so long but hadn't paid attention to its diet. It was all thanks to the fish's self-reliance.

But Pear Flying Man, which Zhao Xiaoxiu fed, especially loved to eat. Every time she hadn't even gotten close, it seemed to have already smelled the aroma, flew out of the water, and eagerly waited for her to come and feed it with its small fish eyes.

Zhao Xiaoxiu patiently waited for Peter Pan to finish eating the pear, then played with it for a while, making bubbles, before clapping her hands and getting ready to go home.

She's very busy now, taking care of the newly planted tomatoes and sunflowers in the greenhouse.

Every day, I also have to carry a machete to the rapeseed fields to prevent mutated birds from coming down and causing damage.

The mutated plants and animals have amazing resilience, and many more mutated small animals have come to this newly cleared territory in Zone B.

Some will deliberately hide from people and only make their movements quietly at night.

There were also some reckless individuals who would rush towards anything edible they could find, venturing straight into human territory and causing quite a bit of fright to the lords.

Fortunately, they were mostly low-level mutated insects, snakes, rats, sparrows, and wild ducks, which the lords could handle themselves.

The few difficult cases were also dealt with by the patrol team.

Zhao Xiaoxiu isn't worried about anything else now, except that her crops in her field might be damaged.

"See you tomorrow, Peter Pan." Zhao Xiaoxiu tidied Peter Pan's bald head and prepared to go look at the ground.

Unexpectedly, Peter Pan suddenly grabbed her sleeve and swung his fishtail forcefully to pull her aside.