Chapter 111 Apocalyptic Dimension
Ning Xuan's first thought was to use high-yield crops like sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn. She immediately put together a high-yield three-piece set and also added a modified version of the farm implement blueprints and a physical ironwood plow, which was much lighter than the plow that Wang Erya had. It could also be used to plow deeper into the field.
Of course, all of this had to be handled by Lin Yuhan. Coincidentally, Lin Yuhan replied to the message. She had sold a lot of antiques to buy the villa and wanted to recoup some of the money.
After Lin Yuhan finished buying everything, Ning Xuan traded the ancient ornaments she had obtained from Wang Erya to Lin Yuhan.
Wang Erya used to work in the fields, and as soon as she saw the plow that Ning Xuan sent, she could feel the difference. She tried it out and found it was indeed much lighter. However, she was worried that it was because she had taken a strength pill and cultivated, which made her feel that it was light.
So she took the plow to the people on the farm and the feedback was that it was much lighter, more efficient, and the plowing effect was better, with deeper furrows.
Wang Erya was overjoyed and planned to have someone find a carpenter and a blacksmith to make more.
I also took out some of the newly received seeds and planted them on the farm, explaining the planting method to everyone and asking them to take good care of them.
After completing a transaction with the two, Ning Xuan saw on the system homepage that her transaction limit had finally been reached, and she could upgrade!
Clicking the upgrade button brings up a message: "Congratulations! You have reached 1000 transactions, meeting the upgrade requirements. Would you like to upgrade now?"
Ning Xuan clicked "Yes".
Immediately afterwards, a long-lost golden light flashed.
Upgrade successful. You can proceed to the new dimension.
Ning Xuan clicked on the homepage to match dimensions. It was still showing 4, but a "pending match" button had been added next to it. Ning Xuan selected "confirm match".
After waiting for 30 seconds, the system prompted again:
[Congratulations on successfully matching with a new dimension, the Blue Planet, 5 years into the apocalypse. Would you like to send a transaction inquiry immediately?]
Asteroid 2: The End of the World?
Ning Xuan's heart skipped a beat, and then she felt a wave of tension. The apocalypse sounded awful.
Ning Xuan chose yes, but before she could send the message, a message popped up on the other end.
Do you have any food or drinks? Can I trade these for them?
Han Dongling carefully followed the system's instructions, took photos of the pile of gold and silver jewelry around her, and then called Ning Xuan.
She is now surrounded by these inedible, undrinkable, cold, lifeless things. At the beginning of the apocalypse, people would scramble to buy gold and jewelry, thinking they would get rich after the disaster was over.
Unexpectedly, extreme weather events occurred one after another. In less than a year, the planet Blue underwent tremendous changes, with various disasters such as seawater intrusion, skyscraper collapses, extreme cold and heat, and mutated insect plagues taking place in succession.
The population on the planet Blue is declining rapidly every day, while the number of zombies is constantly increasing.
Moreover, people gradually discovered that not only people who were infected would turn into zombies, but plants and animals also mutated, and the soil and water sources were polluted to varying degrees, making it impossible to grow pollution-free and safe plants anymore.
Most people can only search for the food that was produced on the planet Blue in the past, or if they are lucky, they can find plants that are not too toxic, which may make them feel unwell, but will not be immediately fatal.
People finally realized that the end times had truly arrived, and that gold, silver, and jewelry—inanimate objects—had become a burden to carry around.
In the third year of the apocalypse, the authorities developed an instrument that could detect the pollution levels of plants, water sources, and other things. It was also solar-powered, because the hydroelectric system had collapsed in the first year of the apocalypse, and the only option for rebuilding was to consider natural energy sources.
However, there was a six-month period of polar night, during which solar energy products gradually consumed the stored energy, and many people did not survive that polar night.
In short, the world has changed dramatically in just five years. Han Dongling was just a freshman in college and hadn't even started to enjoy her colorful college life when she encountered the apocalypse.
At first, she followed the school's arrangements and waited for rescue, but after waiting for official rescue for a long time, a riot broke out and various resources in the school were looted.
At first, they survived by searching for supplies everywhere. Although there were occasional looting and vandalism, because they were acting as a group, Han Dongling was able to manage to get a full stomach by blending into the crowd.
However, with various disasters striking one after another—earthquakes, building collapses, and all supplies buried in the rubble—searching for materials became much more difficult.
Then came floods, extreme cold, extreme heat, and so on. Many supplies were buried and destroyed before they could find them, and the resources for survival became increasingly scarce, as did the population.
Then, various survival bases were established, some official and some private. Han Dongling followed others to find survival bases, and there were all kinds of dangers along the way.
In the third year of the apocalypse, humans began to mutate. Some humans were able to awaken superpowers, and those with superpowers were highly sought after by various bases. Some even established their own bases.
Originally, if no one had any superpowers, Han Dongling could still survive by blending into the crowd. However, as more and more people awakened their superpowers, while Han Dongling had not shown any signs of awakening hers even after five years, their small group gradually began to dislike her.
Even though she volunteered to do all the dirty and tiring work she could and actively searched for supplies, she was still abandoned a few days ago.
That day they were searching for supplies when they encountered several zombies. Those in the group with superpowers went to fight the zombies, but she didn't have any, so she could only carefully hide.
After finally defeating the zombies, she continued searching for supplies, but accidentally slipped and fell into sewage. There happened to be a whirlpool in the middle, so she grabbed onto whatever she could and called for help from her teammates.
After watching quietly for a while, a few people who were relatively close by suddenly said to her, "Saving you back would just be another waste of food and other resources. You haven't even awakened the most basic superpower after all this time."
“Yeah, you’re a piece of trash. Saving you is a waste of our energy, especially with supplies so scarce right now,” the others chimed in.
Han Dongling had always known that everyone was dissatisfied with her, but she didn't expect the opinions to be so strong. She couldn't help but retort: "But I'm also working hard. I'm lucky. Almost every time I go out with the team, we can find supplies."
Like that cookie workshop that got buried a few days ago, even though it was a small workshop, those cookies could last us for more than half a month, and if we were careful, almost a month.
"You just happened to be the first person to find it. We were all searching around there. Even without you, we would have found it sooner or later. Otherwise, what good would it do if you were the only one to find it? You don't have any special abilities, so we would have had to dig those things out ourselves!"
"Alright, stop wasting your energy talking to her. Dongling, don't waste your energy either. We're teammates, and it's good that I didn't let you die at the hands of zombies."
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