Although it was a little hard to bear leaving Han Rui to suffer the torment of the sunflower's ear-piercing noise alone, for the sake of the future of all humanity, Lu Sheng could only prepare a few more pairs of earplugs for Han Rui.
Han Rui, on the other hand, was in high spirits and had a positive outlook. She even waved excitedly to Lu Sheng and the others from inside the glass greenhouse.
"Sister Lu, believe me!" Her little fists were clenched tightly.
After being a mere accessory for almost three years, she finally has a chance to shine! Fortune changes every thirty years; never underestimate a young person's potential!
To minimize Han Rui's pain, Xu Yi thoughtfully prepared a soundproof mask for the little sunflower to reduce its lethality.
The happiest person in the room was none other than Little Sunflower.
Without any hesitation, it sang loudly, something it had never imagined would happen. The little fellow even shook out a handful of melon seeds, offering them to its only audience with its tiny flower-shaped hands.
You can't hit a smiling flower, and it's already offered a gift on its own initiative, so Han Rui probably won't hit it, right?
So, one person and one flower worked together seamlessly inside the glass greenhouse, starting an assembly line-style operation. Every day, countless saplings that had already sprouted were transported out of the glass greenhouse and then taken by others to be planted outside the safe area.
To replenish Han Rui's lost supernatural abilities, Lu Sheng arranged for the head chef to prepare various delicious dishes for her every day, using only the purest crystal core water.
Under this barrage of dietary supplements, Han Rui gained ten pounds in just half a month, and her oval face turned into a round face.
Zhang Xiaojuan would bring Han Rui some snacks every day when she had a spare moment. Before leaving, she couldn't help but tease her, "Kid, you should control yourself. There are still several months until the New Year. You're almost ready to be sold."
Little Sunflower couldn't stand anyone bullying her most precious listener, so she immediately started spitting sunflower seeds at Zhang Xiaojuan's bottom, making him run to Lu Sheng to complain while clutching his backside.
It hurts quite a bit to hit Zhang Xiaojuan with that little melon seed; it swelled up her buttocks.
Planting trees is a monotonous and tedious task.
Every morning, Lu Sheng leads a convoy loaded with heavy saplings and sets off to plant various sand-fixing plants in the desert under the scorching sun, according to the plan.
Faced with temperatures soaring to over forty degrees Celsius and intense ultraviolet radiation, everyone gritted their teeth and held their breath to persevere.
They are the only known human oasis in the vicinity, and if the desert continues to spread, everyone will have nowhere left to retreat.
Almost everyone got tanned to a dark brown, even Sun Tiantian, who is known for her fair skin that doesn't tan, turned a coffee color.
The K3 base, led by Su Zheng and Ma Dongmei, was the most dedicated.
Su Zheng's back was sunburned, and Ma Dongmei and Lin Xiaobao looked like they'd been pulled out of a soy sauce vat. The laboratory where Xiao Yu's parents worked immediately suspended its other drug experiments and research, switching its focus to developing sunburn ointments and sunscreens.
With everyone working together, a month later, the desert within a radius of tens of kilometers had been planted with plants suitable for desertification control.
They could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but soon they discovered a new problem.
These plants are still growing too slowly.
Although the seeds were carefully selected from the system store, and with the double acceleration from Han Rui and the little sunflower, these plants are growing ten times faster than before the apocalypse.
However, compared to the ever-worsening desertification, this pace is still too slow. They also tried having plant-type ability users directly accelerate the growth of saplings into adulthood, but the survival rate of these accelerated saplings was extremely low, and they withered after a couple of days due to unstable roots.
"Teacher Xu, at the rate these plants are growing, how long will it take to turn the desert into an oasis?"
After driving dozens of kilometers to water plants for three consecutive days, Xiao Yusheng slumped on the sofa, utterly dejected, and asked...
The most convenient way, of course, is to build a water supply pipeline, but that would waste materials and take time to construct. In order to allow the desert forest to develop as quickly as possible, Xiao Yu volunteered to take on the role of a human-shaped water tap.
After three consecutive days of hard work, I was tanned and thin, and when I returned to the base, I was completely exhausted.
Xu Yi was exposed to the sun for a month and still looked fair and tender, seemingly out of place with the people around her. "At the current rate, it will take at least another one to two years."
"So long??" Zhao Mujia let out a desperate wail on the spot.
A perfectly good college student, not only is he fighting zombies in the apocalypse, but now he also has to do heavy physical labor like planting trees and watering them.
It's unbearable.
“Based on domestic experience in land reclamation, it usually takes the efforts of several generations to change the landscape. Our current speed is already considered fast,” Su Zheng explained to Xu Yi.
Lu Sheng stood by the window, looking out at the endless yellow sand.
One or two years isn't a long time, but she didn't want to wait.
She'd get double points as long as her happiness index reached orange, and the zombie virus eradication agent was already beckoning her. Two years to get what she wanted? She couldn't wait a second longer!
"Is there any way to speed up the growth of these trees?" Ma Dongmei asked, grimacing as she applied burn ointment.
Plant-based ability users are no longer useful; we can only hope for other technologies and ruthless skills.
"Do you guys still remember Spicy Sister Food Factory?" Lu Sheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Sun Tiantian and Han Rui swallowed hard. "I remember, we originally wanted to loot some pickled chicken feet or something, but we left without getting anything."
Lu Sheng: "..."
Her friends are always the most sensitive to food, as expected.
Only Xu Yi understood her thought process: "You mean bone meal used in food factories to stimulate rapid plant growth?"
They discovered at the factory that fruits and vegetables planted in the morning had already sprouted branches and leaves by evening. This extraordinary growth rate was entirely due to the mushroom powder and bone meal provided by the factory manager, Mr. Pei.
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