The meals at the Oasis base now consist of steamed buns, dumplings, and noodles, served in rotation.
The base members enjoyed the meal immensely, but Fang Qingdai quickly grew tired of it.
She then taught the cafeteria staff how to make fried dough cakes using animal fat. Everyone thought they were amazing and delicious, but Fang Qingdai felt that the oil extracted from the fat of the mutated animal had a fishy and foul smell, and she couldn't eat more than a couple of bites.
That's just how people are; if they don't have something, they're fine with it, but once they have it, they want something better.
After handing the vegetable seeds to Zhang Xin, Fang Qingdai immediately turned to the machinery manufacturing department and explained the functions of the oil press to them.
The base has sunflower seeds, which are excellent raw materials for pressing vegetable oil.
The machinery manufacturing department worked through the night to search for relevant records in the library, and then began working overtime to manufacture oil presses.
In fact, it would be possible to have a power-type ability user press oil with a stone mill, but that would be too labor-intensive.
The expansion of the base's walls has been ongoing. Strength-type ability users are better at moving stones than machines; they can place them wherever they are pointed, which is very convenient. Therefore, strength-type ability users cannot be mobilized.
After the base officially started supplying pasta, Su Zhuo formed a trading team. These team members would take the steamed buns made by the canteen out to find buyers every day.
Wilderness bandits, outpost guards, or even teams of superhumans on missions—these are all their trading partners.
Unfortunately, since the base hasn't made its official debut yet, it's inconvenient to trade in large quantities with any particular faction. So, we can only sell to smaller organizations.
It wasn't that she lacked the money; Fang Qingdai was trying to build the reputation of the food products produced at the Oasis Base.
Nowadays, the trade teams in the base can easily sell out the food, and many people even use points to reserve food and try all sorts of ways to find out the source of the food.
Fang Qingdai planned to whet people's appetites first, and then, once the news of selling the raw materials came out, she wouldn't have to worry about finding buyers.
In order to have enough food to open up trade, farming teams worked overtime to clear land and sow seeds.
Earth-type ability users not only build city walls but also help with land reclamation. It's not that machines can't be operated, but earth-type ability users are better at it.
After the machine digs out the rocks, additional cleaning is required, and some of the larger rocks are quite difficult to clean.
Earth-type ability users can directly use their abilities to pulverize rocks and even change their structure, turning them into a texture similar to soil.
Fang Qingdai couldn't help but sigh, "If earth-type ability users lived in the 21st century, they could use their abilities to create precious jade without consuming too much of their abilities."
Unfortunately, this is a wasteland, and jade has little value here.
Earth-type ability users cooperate with machines to clear land, while water-type ability users cooperate with robots to artificially induce rainfall and irrigate.
Then, the wood-type ability user used the composting knowledge he learned in the library to compost the decaying plant leaves and dead leaves collected from the forest.
Composting is a task that can only be done by wood-type ability users.
Because many mutated plants contain toxins, they must be separated and removed by wood-type ability users.
The preparation work alone requires a lot of manpower. After the crops are planted, the wood-type ability users will have to take turns to watch over them and help them grow.
Even so, the machines are still operated by ordinary people. If we rely on people with superpowers, we simply can't keep up with the demand.
The Oasis base has always been short-staffed.
Fang Qingdai instructed the team members who went out to sell noodles to keep an eye out for groups of independent individuals who were of good character and had the intention of joining a powerful organization, and to try to recruit them.
After finishing her business for the day, Fang Qingdai packed several baskets of steamed buns and mantou and left the base.
Today, Xiao Mao and the others are out on a mission, and as usual, they will be dropping her off.
It's not appropriate for team members to die on every mission, so Xiao Mao and his team only occasionally send off team members, and occasionally send off the families of team members who have been transferred to Zhang Chengjie's place in advance.
To Fang Qingdai's surprise, among the people being relocated this time were Uncle Lu and his wife.
"Uncle Lu, Aunt Lu, you two have finally agreed to come!" Fang Qingdai was most concerned about Uncle Lu and his wife, who were the first to lend her a helping hand after she came to this world.
She had Xiao Mao ask several times, and Uncle Lu and his wife had always disagreed with moving to the Oasis Base. Fang Qingdai guessed that they were worried about Lu Hai at the base.
No matter how much they blamed Lu Hai for losing Lu Die, they were still blood brothers, and Lu Hai had never settled down or started a family because of his guilt. It was impossible for Uncle Lu and his wife not to miss him.
If you couldn't bear to leave, why did you finally decide to come this time?
Xiao Mao winked at Fang Qingdai: "Uncle Lu Hai will be coming out in the next batch!"
Fang Qingdai's eyes lit up: "He's willing to leave?"
Lu Hai didn't leave because he wanted to stay at the base to continue investigating Lu Die's whereabouts.
Although Fang Qingdai had seen the organization's information, which indicated that Lu Die had likely met with misfortune and that she had already told Lu Jiaming.
But without seeing the body and without receiving a completely certain answer, how could the Lu family be satisfied?
They continued their investigation with a fanatical intensity, more frantic than ever before.
Fang Qingdai was worried that they might have psychological problems, but unexpectedly, the Lu family suddenly agreed to move out.
Is this a case of believing the facts and finally giving up?
Uncle Lu and his wife had red eyes, presumably because they had cried for a long time before making the decision to leave.
Upon seeing Fang Qingdai, the two forced a smile and greeted her.
Fang Qingdai thought for a moment and said, "There's a group of kids at the Oasis Base who are very mischievous. Most people don't have the patience to teach them. Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu, you've come at the perfect time. I think you should have the patience to take care of those little rascals!"
"By the way, Qingluan is with those kids too. Now Qingluan is the squad leader. Qingluan will definitely be happy to see you two here!"
As Uncle Lu and his wife listened to Fang Qingdai's story, they both perked up a bit.
"Really? But we don't know how to teach people, though we can help you take care of the kids." Aunt Lu forced a smile, and a hint of emotion flickered in her eyes, no longer as flat and expressionless as before.
Fang Qingdai offered a few words of comfort, telling them that teachers also have specialized training courses, which put their minds at ease.
When they returned to the Oasis base and saw the children, Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu's mood improved considerably.
Fang Qingdai had just breathed a sigh of relief when, only three days later, she received a message from Xiao Mao saying that Lu Hai had gotten into trouble.
Fang Qingdai looked up at Uncle Lu and his wife, who were being pulled into a game by a group of children, and her heart sank inch by inch.
In just three days, Uncle Lu and his wife went from looking lifeless to having genuine smiles on their faces. Seeing that they were getting better and better, could they bear to be told that Lu Hai was in trouble?
But Xiao Mao said that Lu Hai was seriously injured, with 70% of his internal organs damaged. The damage was so severe that even two bottles of Grade A treatment drugs couldn't help him recover.
Mao Ling used her healing powers to keep him hanging on, giving him a breath of life.
If we don't tell Uncle Lu and his wife, and they miss seeing each other one last time, they'll be overwhelmed with guilt when they find out, right?
Fang Qingdai sighed several times, and finally gritted her teeth and walked towards Uncle Lu and his wife.
"What's wrong, Xiao Dai?" Aunt Lu turned to look at Fang Qingdai, her eyes still brimming with a smile.
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