At night, when the people who went on the mission came back, Shen Qing talked to Song Kaiji about the space upgrade: "The last time I upgraded was at Yucai Middle School, and I suddenly used teleportation to break through. It has been several months, and Xiao Tang has upgraded two levels during this period, and Sister Weiwei has also upgraded one level. Why haven't you made any progress?"
Song Kaiji felt like a new bride who had been married for two years but had not given birth. Her husband criticized her for not having any baby yet. She looked at Shen Qing with grievance. In fact, he was envious of others' ability growth. However, space-based ability users could not increase their abilities by storing and releasing objects. They could only rely on absorbing a few crystal cores every day, so they generally gave birth slowly.
But Song Kaiji is different. In addition to storing and placing items, he can also teleport. Therefore, he thought for a moment and said, "Every time we go on a mission, they have a lot of opportunities to exercise their superpowers, so naturally their superpowers will improve faster." Since the bald man almost killed them last time, Song Kaiji would not easily use teleportation in front of others. When they went out to do the mission, Song Kaiji took the iron cage out of the space and gave it to Tang Wenjie to control, and then there was nothing else to do.
Their iron cage tactics were very safe, and there was no need to teleport out to fight the zombies. At most, they could use a crossbow to kill the zombies in the cage, so their superpowers naturally did not grow as fast as those of Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei, who used their superpowers every day.
"I'll practice more at home when I come back. Not only can I improve my ability level, but I also want to try to see if I can teleport someone."
After returning from Zizhou, Song Kaiji had tried it, and he couldn't teleport anyone. But he couldn't be sure whether it was because he couldn't carry living things, just like space, or because his ability level was too low to carry "objects" that were too large.
He could bring a knife, a crossbow, but he had never tried anything else. Thinking of this, Song Kaiji got up from the bed and started trying.
Relying on the fact that there was everything in the space, he took out many objects of different sizes and tested them one by one.
So that night, people in the villa could see Song Kaiji suddenly appear in the living room from time to time, and then suddenly disappear, and many people were startled. After a few times, Song Kaiji gradually found his limit: he could only teleport with an object the size of a watermelon, which weighed at most 10 to 20 kilograms. If it was hollow, such as an empty rice cooker, the volume could be slightly larger.
If it was bigger, he couldn't take it with him. Song Kaiji would teleport away and the item would fall on the spot. And the bigger the item, the more it consumed his superpowers. After teleporting for the sixth time, Song Kaiji couldn't handle it anymore. He felt a dull pain in his head, which was the feeling of overdrawing his superpowers. He grabbed a handful of crystal cores to absorb, and Shen Qing came over to rub his temples.
"I feel like the things I can carry will slowly get bigger as my abilities improve." The results of tonight's experiment are still very exciting. Although it's not clear that if something is bigger than a person, it can definitely carry someone, it's still a good idea. "I'll practice first. I have kids at home. When my level is raised, I can try it with my daughter."
According to his estimation, after about two levels up, he would be able to try to teleport with Nannan.
After that, Song Kaiji really practiced his supernatural power very diligently. He would teleport anytime and anywhere at home, teleporting when serving food, teleporting when hanging clothes... The growth rate of his supernatural power really accelerated a lot.
Apart from anything else, using teleportation more often can add more fun to their lives. Shen Qing used a children's reading machine to compare the primary school textbooks and learn the characters seriously.
With the help of Song Kaiji, Shen Qing had already finished the second-grade Chinese textbook and the first-grade math textbook. He was working on an exercise book, writing crookedly, when he was suddenly hugged from behind. Shen Qing subconsciously elbowed him and almost threw him over his shoulder.
Song Kaiji covered his chest and said aggrievedly: "Qingqing, it hurts, rub it."
"Subconscious reaction, subconscious." Shen Qing was a little embarrassed. Who else could appear in their bedroom except Song Kaiji? He had developed a subconscious habit of fighting since he was a child. Fortunately, he reacted in the end and did not kill him.
Just like that, Song Kaiji's chest also turned red. Shen Qingzhen helped Song Kaiji rub a few times, and was pulled closer by Song Kaiji and hugged in his arms, saying sullenly: "I met Chen Jiaqian today."
After they came back from Zizhou, they stopped communicating with Chen Jiaqian. When they heard that she had started working at a research institute, Shen Qing was quite happy for her: "How is she doing recently? Is the income from the research institute enough for her family of four to live on?"
"It should be pretty good. Her husband is quite capable and has now made it into management. Although he is just a small boss, he doesn't have to do pure manual labor." Capable people only need an opportunity to make a living in any environment. "But she told me a piece of news that is neither good nor bad."
After Chen Jiaqian discovered that the woman selling vegetables was Qu Weiwei, she read the glasses man's memory while he was not paying attention. Then she knew that the research institute planned to find Qu Weiwei and find an excuse to steal the seeds in her hands, as well as various speculations about Qu Weiwei's identity during the meeting.
Didn't Shen Qing give the seeds in Qu Weiwei's hand? Chen Jiaqian was somewhat relieved that these people were just looking for a woman and didn't know that there was a team behind her.
Chen Jiaqian's son has now recovered, and she is still very grateful for Shen Qing's help. Therefore, she concealed Qu Weiwei's identity in front of the man with glasses, and followed the guesses of those people in the man's memory, leading him to think that the mysterious woman was just passing by Hongcheng and has now left.
The man with glasses was disappointed: "Then can you see where that woman came from?"
The woman herself is not important, what is important is the source of the seed.
Chen Jiaqian shook her head: "These people don't have any memories of her coming. But I know what she looks like, so I can go check the memories of the patrolmen at the city gate and maybe I can find out. But... it will consume a lot of superpowers."
The man with glasses hesitated for a while, then applied for a sum of money from his superiors and asked Chen Jiaqian to search the base for the origins of the mysterious woman.
She and Song Kaiji met by chance near the city gate, so she treated Song Kaiji to a bowl of wontons: "I don't know where you got the seeds that Hongcheng doesn't have, but anyway, don't sell vegetables anymore. Qu Weiwei... also try to get her to change her hairstyle or something, so as to avoid danger."
"Also, where did you get the seeds from? Can you tell me? Just give me a general direction, I want to complete the task as well." Chen Jiaqian is a smart person. She naturally wants to repay Shen Qing, but she also wants to get some benefits for herself. She glanced at Song Kaiji and whispered, "Although those people in the research institute are not doing human work, they still have some abilities. They got some radish and celery from Qu Weiwei before, and developed new varieties to relieve the food pressure of the base. If you have more varieties of seeds to provide to the research institute, it may have a great impact on the Hongcheng base, so that many people will not have to go hungry anymore."
Apart from other things, her husband is now in charge of building the city wall. Before, ordinary workers only had three whole grain cakes a day, but now they have five. The whole grain cakes are also filled with radish tops and celery leaves, which taste much better than before. Occasionally, they can get a bowl of radish soup.
There is no doubt that a little bit of seeds will improve the Hongcheng base. After learning the whole process, Chen Jiaqian also had many complaints about the people in the agricultural department of the institute: In her heart, Shen Qing is a very kind person. If the institute had not had bad intentions to take the credit of the real seed owner, she would actually be happy to help them introduce Shen Qing. The improvement of the Hongcheng base means that her living environment will be improved. Why not do a win-win situation?
But the research institute refused to do anything! If Shen Qing and Qu Weiwei took the initiative to hand over the seeds, they might be in danger.
Song Kaiji frowned tightly: "This... I need to go back and discuss it. Thank you so much this time." It was just a coincidence that he had been leading the team on more missions recently. After the team expanded, he could make much more money by digging crystal cores than selling vegetables. That's why Qu Weiwei stopped selling vegetables.
Chen Jiaqian understood very well. She knew that the real leader of this team was Shen Qing, and that look probably came from Shen Qing. It was normal that Song Kaiji didn't know the origins. "We can try not to meet each other in the future to reduce suspicion. If you have anything, go to the city wall to find my husband and my son, or ask an inconspicuous person in your team to pass the message to my son. Maybe we can cooperate a few times and help each other and win together."
She and her husband are the same kind of people, unwilling to do only the lowest level of work, and want to climb up when there is a chance. She really hopes that this will help her gain a firm foothold in the institute, at least not just take the lowest salary.
Song Kaiji told Shen Qing about this, and Shen Qing's eyes widened: "What should we do? Will Sister Weiwei be in danger?"
Song Kaiji had been thinking all the way back. He rolled around on the bed with Shen Qing in his arms, and Shen Qing punched him several times before he let go: "What time is it that you still have the mood to think about this!"
"It's not a critical moment now, right?" Song Kaiji sat up from the bed. He was also shocked when he heard Chen Jiaqian's news, but when he thought about it carefully, didn't the research institute find Qu Weiwei because they couldn't find her and had no other choice but to find Chen Jiaqian to find a needle in a haystack and read other people's memories everywhere? As long as Chen Jiaqian didn't say it, who would know that Qu Weiwei was the mysterious woman? She should wear a mask when she goes out next time, and wear some different styles of clothes.
The research institute had no idea what to do with them. What really made Song Kaiji think about was what Chen Jiaqian said about the impact of seed hybridization on the base.
I can't say I'm saving the world, but this is the world where I was born and raised. If I have the ability to make this world a better place so that more people can survive, why not?
They used to only think about how to use the gold and silver of the end times to nourish Shen Qing's business in Anping County, but they never thought that one day, Shen Qing's world would have the opportunity to give back to the end times and give the people here some hope of survival.
"To put it bluntly, the institute is just a group of scientific researchers. How much power can they have? We might as well take this opportunity to directly contact the top officials and either sell the seeds at a good price or use the seeds to find a backer. With someone to back us up, we won't have to worry about the mischief of a few people in the institute..."
Backer. Shen Qing was in a daze, holding Song Kaiji's chest. That's right, in the novels he had listened to, the heroine would eventually marry a very powerful person, usually a prince, a prime minister, or a scholar who passed the imperial examination and became a top scholar. In the end, he would become an official and a member of the court.
Before meeting the male protagonist, she usually establishes good relations with the local officials.
I come from a grassroots background and have no one to back me up, so I have to find one to back me up.
Learned something again. Shen Qing kept this knowledge point in mind and asked Song Kaiji: "Who should we rely on then? Should we send the seeds directly to them?"
Song Kaiji pinched his chin and said, "I don't know either... I'm afraid I'll have to trouble Chen Jiaqian for this matter. Since the people in the institute are so bad, we'd better find someone who doesn't have such a good relationship with the institute to rely on, to prevent them from colluding with each other."
Also, how are they going to explain the origin of the seeds? Chen Jiaqian still wants to gain a foothold in the research institute, so how can we help her?
After thinking for a long time, Song Kaiji took out a mobile phone and looked for a village not far from them on the map: "How about this... we find a small village and put some seeds in the village. Then we say that we went to that village to kill zombies and look for supplies, and accidentally found these seeds, and brought them back to donate to the base."
As for Chen Jiaqian, "She can also report this address to the research institute. When the team from the research institute sets out to look for seeds, we can deliver the seeds first. This can also provide indirect evidence that the seeds are indeed from that village. The mysterious woman also got the seeds from that village."
It can also make those people in the research institute come up empty-handed and make them mad to death!
"I'll call Wen Jie and Sister Weiwei as well, and let's work together to see if there are any loopholes in this plan." Song Kaiji was about to stand up, but Shen Qing grabbed his shoulders and gave him a loud kiss on the cheek: "You are great! How come you are so smart!"
Shen Qing looked at him with sparkling eyes. Song Kaiji felt a little embarrassed by the compliment: "No, no... I just said it casually. There may be many imperfections in it."
"It's already great." Shen Qing put on his shoes and got out of bed: "Then I'll go back and buy more seeds. You guys discuss it, and when we've discussed it, we'll go on the mission together."
"...Ah? Ah?" Song Kaiji stopped and said, "You're leaving now? You're leaving so late? Aren't you staying here tonight?"
Spring ploughing is approaching, and grain stores and grocery stores in the county are all selling seeds. The most popular product at this time is sweet potatoes, followed by various beans and vegetables.
Shen Qing went to several stores and tried to buy as many kinds of seeds as possible. The space had just vacated a small gap, but it was filled up again.
The villagers hurriedly planted the sweet potatoes and then returned to build the workshop. By now the outline of the house was almost finished, and as the weather warmed up a little and the ground thawed, they started to prepare the mud for building the courtyard wall.
Shen Qing took some time out of his busy schedule to take a look and said to Aunt Guixiang, "We need to build this courtyard wall higher. The method of making starch sausage is a secret recipe. Maybe several generations of our village will depend on it for their livelihood. We can't let anyone steal it."
Aunt Guixiang agreed repeatedly. She thought the same thing. Especially since the mud bricks are free, it only requires a bit of labor. It would be best if the wall could be two people high. She read the list of selected personnel to Shen Qing: "I think we should select one or two people from each household, so that there will be someone working at home. If you go home with nothing to do, even if you go out to make money, the men in charge will have opinions."
Shen Qing frowned slightly. He had only been in the end of the world for half a year. What used to be taken for granted now sounded harsh to him. But he knew that this was not Aunt Guixiang's fault, so he nodded randomly.
Aunt Guixiang told Shen Qing the names of the people in detail. Most of them were young wives and husbands in the family, and there were also a few sturdy and strong middle-aged women.
"Why isn't Ou'er here?" Shen Qing listened for a while, but didn't see Lian Ou's name: "Aunt Lian is my mother's sister, and we are relatives. Even if there are a few more people in her family, no one can say anything. Aunt Lian, Yu'er, and Ou'er should all go."
After saying this, Shen Qing realized that not only was there no Lianou, there was not a single unmarried girl or boy on these lists!
Aunt Guixiang paused for a moment before saying, "It's okay for Ou'er to go alone. But even the second wife herself won't let him go. The women from the second room all come to work in the workshop, so all the housework has to be done by Wang from the first room, and there will be no peace at home. Ou'er will stay at home and share the housework from the second room."
"As for other families, who would let their wives come to work, but who would let unmarried girls and boys come?"
This is not just a question of exposure, but also a matter of real interests: girls and boys will get married and belong to other families in the future. Especially girls and boys who can work, at least 15, 16 or 17 years old, will soon get married.
When they get married, will the job in the workshop remain in their parents' home? Or will the girl and the boy continue to do it? They would like to keep the job in their parents' home, but do they have the final say in the workshop?
If the girl and the boy were to take her away, wouldn't that mean her family would lose a job? It would be better to let the daughter-in-law go from the beginning, after all, she is one of our family!
It can even be said that the Lian family did not let Zhao Yu stay at home to do housework and look after the children, but instead let Ou Ge'er stay at home. This may not be without this concern.
This damn restriction again! You have to get married, have children, and have a clear sense of belonging before you can be treated as a "person" and even be qualified to work!
Shen Qing was furious, but he also knew that interests were involved. This was the villagers' own decision. Even if he wanted to oppose it, he was afraid that few people would be willing to listen to him. He took a deep breath, as if to comfort himself: "Take it slow, take it slow... Sooner or later, there will be a way, sooner or later, there will be a way."
However, Aunt Guixiang looked at Shen Qing in confusion and didn't understand what he was saying.
Song Kaiji's idea was unanimously affirmed by Qu Weiwei, Tang Wenjie and others. Qu Weiwei patted her chest and said in fear: "Fortunately, I have not sold vegetables since I came back from Zizhou. It seems that not being lazy and diligent in killing zombies will be rewarded."
After that, he spat fiercely: "The research institute and the third farm are two pieces of rubbish. They didn't behave like human beings in the first place. If the boss hadn't saved me, I would be a cripple with one arm missing now! And they still want the seeds in my hand, but I'm not willing to give them to anyone!"
Speaking of the third farm, Song Kaiji's face became even worse. He had recently received a lot of news from Chen Jiaqian, including the time when Qu Weiwei was injured. There are three farms in Hongcheng Base. The first farm and the second farm are directly under the government and supply the food needed by Hongcheng Base. The third farm is smaller and is allocated to the research institute for various research.
On the surface, the welfare benefits of the three farms are similar. Logically, Qu Weiwei was injured at work, and the institute has the obligation to treat her. After all, she is a superpower, so how can they just leave her disabled?
As a result, Chen Jiaqian secretly read some of the memories of the leaders of the Third Farm and found out that when the mutant willow riot occurred, the Third Farm was afraid of leaving a bad impression on the higher-ups, so it suppressed it and did not report it to the authorities. This is why it could not allocate much funds for a thorough treatment.
Anyway, there are many wood-type psychics who want to enter the farm. If these few die, more can be recruited. As long as this matter is covered up, there will be fewer psychics in the Rainbow City base and fewer psychics in the entire human world. The research institute does not care.
Chen Jiaqian peeked along the way and had no idea what the officials at Hongcheng Base were like, but this research institute was completely rotten.
"When we come back, it would be best if we could give the seeds to the military and let them negotiate with the government. The farther we are from the institute, the better." The military and government at Hongcheng Base have always had a big conflict over refugee resettlement, and the military is powerful, so it would be best if we could rely on them. "If we really can't find anyone from the military, Chen Jiaqian has also provided us with a list of several high-level people from different factions than the institute."
I just don’t know how they can reach these people?
"If it doesn't work... I'll ask Qi Zhan to help. He works in the hospital and has access to many high-level people."
Those senior executives value their lives very much. Even though the healing ability is of little use for chronic diseases, they still need to check their "safety pulse" from time to time just to maintain their health.
Song Kaiji asked Tang Wenjie: "Can Qi Zhan go on the mission with us this time?"
Tang Wenjie shook his head and said after a long silence: "We are not in the relationship you think."
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