The remaining one man and two women, named Li Xuemei, He Shuang, and Sun Shaohui, were all sent to the countryside in Shandong. They weren't assigned to the same production brigade, but they weren't far apart either, so they chatted enthusiastically. Only Shen Mu Ning was sent to the countryside in Heilongjiang Province in Lingbei. She hadn't intended to talk to them anyway, so their conversation allowed her to withdraw and close her eyes to rest.
The distance from Haishi to Heijiang Province is not short; it takes about half a month by train. For the first day or two, Li Hai and his companions were still excited about the train journey and chatted enthusiastically with others along the way. However, because they were sitting in their seats the whole time and couldn't move around, they became a bit listless. Fortunately, they arrived at their destination in only five or six days.
Shen Mu Ning didn't talk to them much during this time. Since there weren't many people on the train, she would go to the restaurant to buy food. Because the food on the train didn't require tickets and tasted better than home-cooked meals, Shen Mu Ning would buy several portions each time she went. Fortunately, the train attendants all assumed she was buying food for others, so they didn't ask any questions and sold it to her.
On the way to the dining car, she could move around and stretch her arms and legs. If there were too many people and the train was too crowded, she could only sit in her seat and eat some pickled vegetables and flatbread. At those times, she didn't even dare to drink too much water, so as not to have to squeeze through the crowd to go to the toilet frequently.
The rest of the time she either cultivated her supernatural abilities—though wood-based elements were scarce on the train, it was better than nothing—or used her mental power to survey the space. Seeing the chili peppers beginning to bear fruit, she couldn't very well perform a disappearing act on the train, and even if she could enter and exit the space while going to the restroom, the time couldn't be too long. So she kept wanting to try picking the chili peppers with her mental power, and surprisingly, she actually succeeded.
In the past, during the apocalypse, everyone used their mental power in a fixed way, mainly to investigate the surroundings, attack, hypnotize, or use extrasensory perception, charm, etc. No one tried to use their mental power to retrieve things.
Now, Shen Mu Ning sees that all the chili peppers are hanging on the branches. Although crops on the land in the space will remain ripe and not rot if you don't pick them, it will not only affect the subsequent fruiting of the chili peppers, but also cause all the branches to turn red.
So she wanted to find a way to control objects within the space from outside. Later, she repeatedly divided her mental energy into several strands, then wove them into a net. This net of mental energy enveloped the chili peppers, which she then pulled from the branches. Although she initially failed, as her mental energy couldn't withstand the pulling force, the net of mental energy easily disintegrated. She succeeded only after many trials.
However, with her level three mental strength, she couldn't lift anything too heavy, just enough to pick chili peppers. This allowed her to quickly deplete her mental strength, and during the recovery process, her mental strength would also be enhanced.
Time passed as Shen Mu Ning continued picking fruits and vegetables, and her mental power quickly rose to level four. Later, when the eggplants and green beans ripened, she could easily pick them and use her mental power to place them in the kitchen. Only the cabbages, once cooked, she left unattended, letting them grow in place. The cabbages were simply too heavy, each weighing two or three pounds, and no matter how hard she tried, they wouldn't budge. Fortunately, the soil in her spatial dimension maintained their ripeness, preventing them from rotting in the ground.
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