It took a while for Sun Sainan and Geng Zhixing to calm down, and Li Sikai smiled and told everyone to go about their own business.
The two didn't return until evening. They were covered in dirt, but their excitement was undeniable.
"Boss, we've found a cave. It's quite far from the crowd, perfect for us to hide in."
"However, it's far from the sea, so it's not very convenient for us to explore there."
Li Sikai nodded: "It's okay, we can just go check on it every night around midnight."
Seeing this, the two of them said nothing. It wasn't until late at night that the three of them moved to a new location, the place that Geng Zhixing and Sun Sainan had found during the day.
It was a dark cave, quite small, maybe only two or three square meters. The entrance was hidden by vines, making it difficult to spot.
Li Sikai was very satisfied with the environment. After entering the cave, he found a pile of plants in the corner.
"Boss, this is what we found: jujube trees, wild grapes, locust saplings, and crabapple blossoms. Be careful, jujubes have thorns."
Li Sikai smiled, put the saplings into his spatial storage, and praised them, "Not bad, you actually found so many fruit trees."
The two men smiled sheepishly and said, "We happen to have some in the mountains."
Without saying much, Li Sikai directly pulled the two of them into the space.
Geng Zhixing and Sun Sainan were caught off guard. They suddenly found themselves in a place as bright as day, surrounded by vast expanses of land.
Just as the two were about to scream, they asked a question: "Boss, did we all come in?" They didn't want their souls to enter while their bodies were still outside.
Li Sikai wasn't sure either, but thinking about how he had successfully recruited Xiong Jianwei, he said, "It must have been through physical penetration. That old Xiong, he just came all the way in."
Geng Zhixing and Sun Sainan felt that Li Sikai's words lacked confidence, so they asked, "How about the three of us go out and give it a try?"
Li Sikai thought for a moment, nodded, and then pulled the two of them out of the space.
Then, pulling Geng Zhixing inside, Sun Sainan saw the two living people disappear in a flash.
He lowered his voice and said, "Boss, no problem, the guy's in. Can you hear what's going on outside from inside?"
Li Sikai had just steadied himself in the air when he heard this voice from above. The voice was clear, as if it were whispering in his ear.
"Oh, wait a moment, I'll come out to get you right away," Li Sikai said instinctively.
After waiting for a while without anyone responding, he scratched his head, wondering, "Can you see the outside from inside?" when he saw a projection appear in the air.
The scene shows Sun Sainan looking anxious and agitated, muttering to himself, "Why isn't the boss out yet? He's been inside for a while now. Is he going to leave me out here?"
Li Sikai rarely saw Sun Sainan so unsteady, and he chuckled. Geng Zhixing looked at him blankly, "Boss, what are you laughing at?"
Li Sikai looked at the sky, then at him: "Can't you see?"
"What do you see? There's nothing there!" Geng Zhixing looked around seriously, and after confirming that there was nothing there, he said, "I was just about to say that you must have heard something to say those words."
Li Sikai nodded, and Geng Zhixing looked at him with envy: "This is probably a perk of being the owner of a space."
Li Sikai didn't say much, he flashed out of the space and brought Sun Sainan in.
Only then did the two brothers have the leisure to examine this space. Apart from the white mist-like walls around them and the sky above that never distinguished between day and night, it was really no different from the outside world.
The small thatched hut has a large space, filled with hundreds of bags of rice grains and soybeans, which can not only be eaten but also used for planting.
The hundred-acre plot of land looked spectacular. Two acres were covered with neat rows of seedlings. Another acre was planted with various wild vegetables and mushrooms they had found during the day, all of which looked very healthy.
Two sparrows flew around, and a few newly brought-in saplings lay haphazardly on the ground.
"Alright, stop looking around and get to work," Li Sikai ordered bluntly.
Sun Sainan and Geng Zhixing sighed, but still quickly turned the ground over.
After turning the rice, we took a bag of rice grains from the warehouse and scattered them in the field as seeds.
The two of them kept asking, "Without seedlings, will it even germinate?"
Upon hearing this, Li Sikai immediately exclaimed, "It's alright, I planted them just like that this morning, and the seedlings are already quite tall."
Upon hearing this, the two were relieved and worked even harder.
After Li Sikai finished planting the saplings, he went to see Xiong Jianwei.
Xiong Jianwei was still lying on the bed in a daze, half-dead. However, his complexion looked much rosier, and the rash had stopped spreading.
Li Sikai drew a basin of water from the well, wiped his body from head to toe, and then gave him two anti-inflammatory pills.
"Old Xiong, the medicine is almost gone. You'd better keep fighting and get through the virus!"
After he finished speaking, he went to help Sun Sainan and Geng Zhixing.
The three of them worked for quite a while before stopping, and then lay on the ground, exhausted.
"Shall we cook?" Geng Zhixing asked.
Li Sikai nodded, but then realized there was no firewood in the space.
"I should have brought those dead branches in," he thought to himself, then stood up, supporting his aching back, and went into the warehouse.
After rummaging around, they found that Yuan Ruoxi still had more than a dozen bottles of yogurt and a few pieces of bread, so they took three portions out.
"Let's eat this for tonight. Tomorrow we'll go out and gather some firewood and hunt some wild game, then we can build a fire and have some barbecue."
The two had no objections. After finishing their meal, they lay down on the ground. "Ah, that feels so good. I'm so full, and I can finally get a good night's sleep."
"Yeah, it's been so long since I've been in such a peaceful environment. I'm sure I'll be able to sleep in until my butt is soaking in the sun tomorrow."
Li Sikai smiled and said, "Go to sleep, you can sleep in until you naturally wake up tomorrow!"
Geng Zhixing and Sun Sainan smiled contentedly, nodded, and soon began to snore.
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After Bi Qiaoan and the others "drank" a pot of delicious mushroom soup that night, the girls began to pay special attention to the muddy area.
It hasn't rained for the past two days, and the mushrooms grew rapidly for two days before stopping. Even the other small seedlings are the same; they've lost their initial vigor.
Bi Qiaoan didn't care, but the others felt frustrated because the food they had just found was gone again.
What frustrated everyone even more was that the "sea" was gone, leaving only a muddy mess.
Even if they wanted to make the arduous trek to fetch water, it was no longer possible.
Because the mud has a low water content and is full of fish and shrimp carcasses, various kinds of garbage, and rotting human corpses that are no longer recognizable as human bodies.
Several girls couldn't help but vomit upon seeing this scene. Even Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang felt a churning in their stomachs.
But as people get older and experience more, they get over the pain and it's all over.
Several girls, however, developed fevers. Bi Qiaoan thought to herself, "They're probably just disgusted with themselves."
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