Chapter 157 Truth and Falsehood
"This is a sweet potato, and I recognize these sweet potato leaves. We used to eat them often back in our hometown. I can't believe they can be grown here!" Yang Ming exclaimed in surprise.
Teng Pingke squatted down in disbelief. He originally wanted to just pick a leaf and taste it, but he stopped before he could do so. Instead, he touched the sweet potato leaf and smelled it. "It really is a sweet potato. I remember this smell too. I used to dislike sweet potato leaves the most, but my parents liked them. They would stir-fry them every few days. The longest they ever did was a month of stir-frying sweet potato leaves every day. I was almost sick of it."
But I never expected that in the years that followed, what I craved most would be this taste…
As Fujihira was speaking, he thought of his parents who had passed away in the first year of the program, and tears streamed down his face.
Yang Ming knew that Teng Pingke must have been thinking about his parents, so he patted him on the back and comforted him, "Actually, leaving is a kind of relief. These past few days have been terrifying. Every day I wake up, I celebrate that I've survived another day, but I also have to start a new one."
Seeing the two of them immersed in sadness, Han Dongling quickly spoke up to pull them back to reality: "Alright, we need to look forward. You're right, these are sweet potato leaves, and this piece of land, it seems that normal plants can be grown here. But since I haven't known about it for long, I can't be sure if it's just temporary or if it's really completely destroyed. So we need to buy some time and plant some crops first."
Hearing that Han Dongling was also unsure about the situation of the land, the two quickly put aside their sadness and said seriously, "Don't worry, we will definitely do our best!"
"I trust you. This time, we'll plant potatoes and sweet potatoes. These two have high yields and short growing cycles. Soon, we can also cook and eat sweet potato leaves. In these years of the apocalypse, everyone is deficient in vitamins, and these sweet potato leaves can help supplement some."
Han Dongling was incredibly grateful that she had an excuse about having a spatial ability. Now, she simply took out the potatoes and sweet potato vines, and the two people in front of her only felt envy and shock, without a trace of doubt.
This place is quite a distance from the Xinghuo Base, and it would be too time-consuming for these two to go back to the base every day. It's not practical for them to do this without transportation, and it's also not safe.
So Han Dongling set up a small mobile prefabricated house here, where two people live together.
So the two of them stayed at the farm, and Han Dongling would come to visit whenever she had time.
Moreover, she also has an invisibility talisman, so she can come over and check invisibly in the future, just in time to see if these two people are reliable when no one else is around, and whether they will steal anything.
They could never have imagined that, with the power equipment now out of order and surveillance cameras no longer everywhere, she would still be able to inspect the area without alerting the two of them.
With farming taken care of and a considerable amount of thorn vines harvested, Han Dongling instructed the ability users to build a thorn wall around the area she had marked out. Then, she began trading supplies with other bases.
To make it easier for her to return to the base in time, Han Dongling set up a small teleportation array in her hut. Ning Xuan had traded it with Yun Xi, and she later traded several more, so Han Dongling got one of them.
This teleportation array is unique; one end is fixed, while the other end can be moved by holding the array plate. It can be activated when needed.
However, the maximum distance she can teleport is no more than a hundred miles. For cultivators on the Yunlan Continent, those with slightly higher cultivation levels don't need it, and those with lower cultivation levels are unwilling to spend so many spirit stones. Therefore, this kind of array plate is actually quite useless on the Yunlan Continent.
However, this array is very convenient for Ning Xuan and Han Dongling, because most of the time they don't have to go that far.
Han Dongling also kept her puppet in her small house so that she could know the situation of the base at any time. In case of any emergency, she could rush back immediately. After all, their base was just starting out and was still very fragile in all aspects. She did not want her hard work to be destroyed.
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While Han Dongling was busily building the base, Yun Xi encountered another problem: she was trapped in a secret realm once again.
She was just wandering around this public secret realm like any other cultivator from the Canglan Continent, hoping to find something useful. Unexpectedly, she stumbled upon a hidden secret realm. While picking a spiritual herb, she suddenly lost her balance, and then the world spun around her, and she found herself here.
Moreover, this secret realm was fraught with danger. As soon as she entered, before she could even get her footing, a demonic beast charged at her. She quickly dealt with the beast by instinct.
Fortunately, the monster wasn't high-level; it was just an ordinary first-tier monster. But she soon realized she had been too optimistic.
She killed all the first-tier demonic beasts in half an hour, but soon a wave of second-tier demonic beasts emerged, and this time it took her two hours to kill them all.
Next came the third and fourth tiers. Fortunately, as the level of the monsters increased, the monster respawn rate slowed down. But even so, by the time she reached the fifth tier monsters, she had been killing monsters for three days and three nights straight. If she hadn't had a very good supply of recovery pills, she might have been dragged to her death by the endless stream of monsters.
Now, the number of monsters has decreased significantly. The last wave of monsters consists of sixth-tier monsters, but they spawn one by one. Yunxi kills one before another appears. When the last one comes out, Yunxi discovers that the monster spawn point has closed. She quickly finishes off the monster outside in one go.
But before she could catch her breath, as the last monster fell, she was instantly teleported to another location.
Fortunately, this time there weren't endless streams of monsters, but it was eerily quiet, as if something dangerous might rush out from the shadows at any moment.
So once she arrived at this place, Yunxi was unable to relax; on the contrary, she became even more tense because of the unseen danger.
Fifteen minutes later, Yunxi finally understood what the danger here was.
Suddenly, a figure appeared before Yunxi who looked exactly like her. Even the expression of confusion and frown that Yunxi had was perfectly replicated by the other person.
Yunxi made the first move against her opponent, but she soon realized that this wouldn't work, because whatever move she made, her opponent would make the same move.
Although the other party can't hurt her right now, she can't hurt the other party either, so the two of them are stuck in this stalemate.
Between truth and falsehood, in a daze, Yunxi seemed unable to distinguish whether she was real or the other person was real, or whether there was no one on the other side at all and she was just looking in a mirror.
Yunxi lowered her hand from the sword, and the sound of the sword tip hitting the ground brought her back to her senses.
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