Chapter 184 Harvest
When Han Dongling returned to the Xinghuo Base, she released the supplies she had collected from Base 37 directly onto the open ground of the base.
In an instant, a lot of supplies were piled up on the open ground, attracting the other members of the base.
"Oh my god, so much stuff!"
"These are the apologies I received from Base 37 today. Everyone has a share of these things. Cheng Hui, please redeem them for everyone at a 90% discount from the normal points price."
"Wow, thank you, boss!"
After Han Dongling finished speaking, the base members who were watching burst into enthusiastic applause.
"Boss, you're amazing! You managed to bring back so much stuff all by yourself."
Cheng Hui and Lu Lu also admired Han Dongling, but they were still a little worried that Han Dongling might be bullied at Base 37. "Boss, is Feng Yuan no match for you? His superpower is amazing."
Han Dongling shook her head. "Don't worry, your boss is even more powerful. Their entire base combined couldn't beat me. I taught them all a lesson; consider it interest for how they exploited you before."
Lu Lu looked at Han Dongling with starry eyes, "Boss, you're so kind of you, you even thought of standing up for us~ It's just a pity we couldn't see their ugly behavior in person."
“Now that you’ve joined the Spark Base, we’re family. If I’m not good to you, who will I be good to?” Han Dongling looked at Lu Lu, who was smiling and her eyes were getting a little wet, and gave her a big hug. “There will be other opportunities to see each other in the future. I just didn’t think of it this time. Next time, I’ll let you all see it.”
Others' inner thoughts: I'm so envious of Team Leader Lu, she gets to be so close to the boss!
She was capable and had resources, and she was generous to the members of the base. Not long after she joined the Spark Base, these people showed signs of being devoted to Han Dongling.
Looking at the smiling faces of the members, Han Dongling thought to herself, "This is nothing. There will be even more exciting times to come."
Although she didn't select items carefully, Han Dongling did a general screening when collecting them, choosing supplies that were more useful to the base members.
When this group of members from their base escaped from Base 37, they took almost nothing with them, so basic living supplies such as blankets and clothes were very necessary.
After all, the climate is very abnormal after the apocalypse. Although the temperature has been relatively high and warm recently, and it is okay not to cover yourself with a blanket at night, it may suddenly drop in temperature one day. So it is still necessary to prepare some clothes in advance to be on the safe side.
Seeing everyone happily exchanging supplies with Cheng Hui and Lu Lu, Han Dongling walked away. She planned to go to the farm to check on the crops there, which seemed ready for harvest in the next few days.
Perhaps because the soil there has been purified by spiritual energy and has changed for the better, the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted there grow very quickly.
Han Dongling used her divine sense to check the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the ground. They had already grown quite large, but according to Yang Ming and the others' farming experience, the sweet potatoes and potatoes should still be quite far from being harvested. So Han Dongling let them continue planting according to their previous experience.
However, Yang Ming and his team also noticed the anomalies in the farm's soil. Considering the various mutations that occurred in the post-apocalyptic world, they worried that their experience would not be applicable to the land after the apocalypse. Therefore, they not only observed the stems and leaves on the ground, but also gently dug into the soil to see how the sweet potatoes and potatoes were growing underground.
A few days ago when Han Dongling went there, the two of them told her that the sweet potatoes and potatoes were ready to be harvested.
As they spoke, the excitement on their faces was impossible to hide. One of them said that the potatoes and sweet potatoes on the farm were very large, with the smallest being as big as a person's head. Fortunately, they were only larger in size, and so far, there were no special contaminated patches on the surface, so they should be free of toxins.
However, it can't be certain. Han Dongling had previously let Yang Ming and the other person pick and eat sweet potato leaves here. She later realized that she hadn't been careful enough. Fortunately, the two of them were fine after eating them, and they continued to eat them afterward.
The two volunteered to be guinea pigs and tried the food several times without any problems. Only then did Han Dongling allow them to pick some leaves every day, which she would then take back to the base for other members to exchange for with their points.
However, leaves are leaves, and sometimes toxins can accumulate in the fruit. Therefore, to be on the safe side, Han Dongling strictly forbade them from secretly acting as guinea pigs and eating the sweet potatoes and potatoes directly from the plant.
The points required for exchanging supplies at the Spark Base aren't actually that high. As long as you work hard at the base, ensuring your daily needs aren't a problem. Their brick kiln is also finished; the bricks for building the kiln were obtained by Han Dongling from Ning Xuan.
Once they can successfully make bricks themselves, the base can start building houses and vigorously carry out infrastructure construction, so even ordinary survivors will not have to worry about not having work.
Han Dongling is still a bit worried because there are still too few people. If they really want to do something, they don't have enough manpower.
However, there's no rush. There aren't many survivors in the apocalypse to begin with. Even the largest official base has a maximum population of no more than 100,000 people, which is less than the population of a large neighborhood before the apocalypse.
Han Dongling was very fast. When Yang Ming and Teng Pingke saw Han Dongling arrive, they quickly greeted her.
"The boss is here!"
"Hello, boss!"
No one knows who started it, but one day, everyone in the base began to call Han Dongling "boss". Before, when they called him "boss of base number 37", they felt resentful. Now, when they called Han Dongling "boss", they were happy and glad that they had met such a good boss.
Seeing that they were shouting enthusiastically, Han Dongling let them go.
Han Dongling nodded to the two of them, "So, when do you plan to collect them?"
"We can harvest them anytime these days. Sweet potatoes and potatoes can stay in the ground for a couple more days without any problem, but we can't plant them for too long, otherwise they'll get too old, especially sweet potatoes, which will be all hard fibers by then."
Fujihira continued, "We really can't just copy our previous farming experience. The stems and leaves of these sweet potatoes and potatoes are still fresh and green, without a single yellowing leaf."
Upon hearing this, Han Dongling waved her hand and said, "Then let's not wait any longer and start collecting them today."
Although the farmland wasn't large, planting one crop at a time would be time-consuming, and it wouldn't be good to use machines if the crops weren't properly tilled, as it would easily damage the sweet potatoes and potatoes. So Han Dongling simply used two tilling talismans to till both plots of land.
Of course, Han Dongling avoided Yang Ming and Teng Pingke when using the talisman. Seeing the land turned upside down in an instant, with sweet potatoes and potatoes almost all exposed, Yang Ming and Teng Pingke were overjoyed and their admiration for their boss grew even stronger.
"Boss, you're amazing! You even have this special ability?" Yang Ming said admiringly.
Han Dongling would reveal a little more information to her own people, "Well, I happen to know a little bit of this; it's another ability derived from my spatial ability."
"So that's how it is. Our superpowers are all so weak. We didn't even know they could derive other abilities," Yang Ming said somewhat self-deprecatingly.
Fujihira also expressed his disdain for his useless superpower, saying, "This is the first time I've heard of a superpower that can derive into other abilities. All the superpowers we've heard of so far are single-element superpowers."
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