The wind on the mountaintop was still biting, and even though the temperature inside the villa wasn't high, the temperature of 10 degrees Celsius was still quite comfortable by comparison.
Zuli felt even sleepier.
Perhaps because she had finally resolved a long-standing worry, Su Li slept exceptionally well that night.
In the blink of an eye, three months have passed since the start of the extreme cold.
Early that morning, Su Li stood behind the south storage room.
Compared to the previous barren area, this place now has a greenhouse of about 100 square meters, which is now full of lush green vegetables. In the innermost part, there is also a small patch of various melon seedlings and a few fruit tree seedlings.
Xuanqing helped build this greenhouse.
Su Li had previously received a lot of these materials from building material stores in Yucheng Small Commodities City. She found them in her space and even built a fireplace in the middle and at both ends of the greenhouse, connecting it to the fire wall at the back.
Because the weather is too cold now, we need to light a small fire in the fireplace every morning and evening so that the fire wall can radiate heat to warm the vegetables in the greenhouse.
Otherwise, with the current low temperatures and constant overcast weather, these vegetables would have a hard time surviving.
Zurich's original intention in building this greenhouse was not actually for his own consumption.
The grains, vegetables, and fruits produced in her space each day are enough to feed her for four or five months!
Even though Xuanqing is eating with them now, and Su Li has Xuanqing send some to the people down the mountain every few days, the speed at which the people eat still can't keep up with the speed at which grains and vegetables are produced.
So Zuli plans to sell these extra vegetables to the base.
In this way, she can get some of the savings in the base, and the base can get the urgently needed supplies. It should be a win-win situation.
After all, no one can say for sure what the base will become in the future.
But no matter what, now is the best time to build up capital for your future!
Because of Qi Zhi and the others, Su Li is fully aware of what is happening in the base.
Therefore, she also knew that as the extreme cold continued, although the food in the base was sufficient, it was becoming increasingly monotonous.
In the early stages of its establishment, the base had already seized almost half of the grain depots in the local area and several subordinate small cities, so its grain reserves were sufficient.
What's remarkable is that the survivors in the base haven't eaten fresh vegetables and fruits for a long time!
The apocalypse has now been underway for almost a year, and many people are experiencing health problems due to a lack of various vitamins and minerals.
Qi Zhi said that the base had started trying to plant plants a long time ago and was studying the feasibility of consuming them after the apocalypse.
However, the vegetables grown at the base were only harvested once before the extreme cold arrived.
The cold weather has made heating resources scarce, forcing both studies to be suspended. Now, only a few heating plants at the base are still growing vegetables.
But that amount was far from enough to supply the entire base.
Therefore, the price is extremely high!
The situation at the base was similar to what Su Li had imagined, so she shared her thoughts with Qi Zhi.
“I built a greenhouse behind my house and grew some vegetables. I can’t eat them all myself, so I’d like to ask if your base needs them. If you do, I can produce a batch of vegetables every week, but the base has to come and pick them up themselves!”
Zurich's plan was excellent. The reason why no one is planting now, besides the weather and lack of seeds, is mainly because the land has been polluted after the apocalypse, causing all the plants that grow to mutate and become inedible for humans.
Even if the seeds are replanted, crops grown in polluted soil will still mutate.
So, Su Li planned to explain why she was able to grow vegetables by saying that she had built an isolation layer under the greenhouse and that the soil on top was uncontaminated soil that she had bought from other earth-type ability users.
In fact, that's exactly what she did, except the soil was dug out from the space.
As for why the vegetables grow so fast, she said it's because she plants them in batches and harvests them in rotation, so there's no fear of running out of supply.
After hearing this, Qi Zhi turned around and told Lu Yu what Su Li meant.
Only three months have passed, but Lu Yu has already been promoted twice and is now the head of the Human Survival Management Department of the base.
Although Lu Yu is now without Xuan Qing's help, as the story unfolds, his promotion speed at the base has not changed.
Based on his current position, he only needs to be promoted two more times to reach the highest management level of the base in the original book.
His current job responsibilities basically include ensuring the survival and health of the survivors in the base, as well as the continuation of the population.
After hearing Qi Zhi's explanation, he almost immediately agreed to Su Li's cooperation regarding the purchase of fresh vegetables that the base urgently needed.
So the next morning, a helicopter painted entirely in black took off from the base with a hum, and a dozen minutes later, it landed on a flat area on the mountaintop.
A seven-person team then disembarked from the plane. Bai Feng stored the helicopter in his spatial storage, and the group then headed towards the courtyard that they had seen from the plane, which stood out prominently on the mountaintop.
"They've arrived!"
Xuanqing stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the first floor, looking towards the north side gate of the courtyard.
Zuli got up and put on her long, heavy down jacket as the helicopter flew over the yard.
Upon entering the courtyard and opening the gate, a group of familiar faces came into view.
The group that came were all acquaintances. Everyone was present except for Xu Xiaojie, who didn't work with them. In addition, there was Lu Yu, Bai Feng, and a face that Su Li had never seen before.
After being introduced, Su Li learned that the man's name was Zhao Shiyang, and he was today's pilot.
Now that Xuan Qing has transformed into human form, Qi Zhi and the others had already seen him when he delivered vegetables time and time again.
As for Lu Yu and Bai Feng, who were unaware of this, although they had never seen Xuan Qing in human form before, when they saw Su Li pointing at this handsome and aloof man and saying that his name was "Xuan Qing," coupled with their prior knowledge of Xuan Qing's identity as a demon and the name "Xuan Qing," they immediately guessed Xuan Qing's origins.
Both of them were intelligent and quickly accepted the idea that fairies who could transform into humans truly existed.
The apocalypse has arrived, and 30% of all living humanity now possess superpowers that were once only found in novels. So what is impossible?
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