However, although I reluctantly refused those toiletries, I cannot completely ignore the hygiene issue.
Lin Man left the space and filtered a bucket of water for herself. She wanted to jump in and wash, but after thinking about it, she gave up. This wasn't a bathtub. She took off her clothes and poured water on herself one bucket at a time.
The dirt on her body was already very stubborn, so she balled up her clothes and used them as a towel to rub her body hard, as if she was not rubbing her own skin.
The person in the space was twitching with fear, thinking that this guy was treating himself as a slab of stone!
It looked at the shower gel, shampoo, and other things on the ground with a bit of resentment. After hesitating for a while, it finally said, "Forget it, forget it. I'll give you some of this shower gel for free."
Lin Man paused and said, "Forget it, I've always washed like this."
"I'm telling you to stop talking nonsense!" Guan Guan snorted.
Finally, Lin Man got a little bit of shower gel and shampoo, just enough to fill a small cavity in the palm of his hand. However, Lin Man had hardly used this kind of stuff since he could remember. He applied it on his body and head, and it was super lubricating. But after a few swipes, dirty water flowed down, which was not enough to cover everything.
But even so, Lin Man still wiped his whole body all over, continued to rub it with the balled-up clothes, and finally poured a bucket of water over his head, washing it so thoroughly.
This was the most enjoyable and comfortable bath she had ever taken, not only because there was shower gel and shampoo, but also because the water was available for free use.
After washing, she felt dry, comfortable and fragrant all over.
He rubbed his clothes and hung them on the branch where the filter was placed to dry. He then changed into the clean clothes he had brought from the cave. After all this, Lin Man felt sleepy. "Guan Guan, can I go into the space and sleep?"
"OK."
Lin Man immediately entered the space happily and lay down on the dry ground.
The optical fiber in the space was always bright but not glaring. Lin Man rested one hand behind his head, thinking about everything that had happened today. He felt a mixture of emotion and peace. He slowly closed his eyes. "Boss, wake me up in two hours. I'll check the water level in the puddle. If it's high, I'll continue filtering."
Guanguan looked at her with its dark eyes. What it actually wanted to say was that its collection included things like mattresses.
But thinking about it, I had already made enough exceptions for this person. We had agreed to three things a day, so how could I give away so much for free? So I gave up.
Two hours later, Lin Man woke up and went out to see that the water level had indeed risen a little. It seemed that there was really plenty of groundwater here.
She had heard that groundwater would flow, just like a river. Sometimes it would dry up here, but the water would come back after a while. She thought that maybe groundwater from other places had flowed here?
She filtered another bucket of water and continued to water the fields. After two more rounds of hard work, it was dawn.
She was reluctant to let others discover this water source, but it would take more than a day or two to irrigate so much soil in the space. Could she just keep it a secret, claim it as her own, and then watch others die for lack of a drink?
She searched the narrow valley. Apart from the wild vegetable patch, there were some weeds growing in the corners. Probably because there was more groundwater here, these things were not bad, but only enough for three or four people to eat every day.
"You want to save your compatriots?"
"I want to save him, but I don't have the ability." Lin Man would not sacrifice himself and his mother to save others.
"Then you can farm here too."
"But there are no seeds." Lin Man smiled bitterly, "Besides, nothing can grow now."
She suddenly stopped. As for the seeds, there were some in the space, but she didn't know if they could survive if planted outside.
"Guan Guan, can you plant those seeds outside?" She might get excited at the thought of this. Although it seems that she can grow food in the space now, and she and her mother will definitely not have to worry about food in the future, but there is no way to take those things out openly, let alone use them to save others.
But if we can grow crops outside, then everyone who is still alive in the base will have a way out!
"Of course you can," Guan Guan said, "but it probably won't survive. Your world is already extremely unsuitable for plant growth. Ordinary seeds can't even sprout."
Lin Man's shoulders slumped: "Is that so..."
"However, the ones that grow in the Broken Earth... space are different." With Lin Man's blood and essence as the driving force, the Broken Earth regained its vitality. If it is allowed to recover slowly on its own, it will naturally recover in thousands or even millions of years and become a fairyland filled with spiritual energy again.
But the chick can't wait that long. It urgently needs spiritual energy, so we have to bring in soil from outside and then plant things artificially so that those plants can produce spiritual energy.
At the same time, in the process of generating spiritual energy, the plants themselves will be nourished and transformed, and their quality will become stronger with each generation. Although they are not even one-tenth as good as spiritual plants and immortal herbs, their survival ability will be greatly improved. Isn't it a piece of cake for them to grow in the harsh environment of the outside world?
Lin Man's eyes lit up again: "So, for example, if I use corn seeds to plant a crop of corn in the space, and then take them outside to sow when they are mature, will they be able to survive?"
"That's right." Guan Guan said proudly.
But the problem is, whether it is sweet potatoes or corn, it takes three or four months to grow. It takes three or four months before the sweet potatoes and corn harvested in the space can be taken out, and then it will take another three or four months to harvest. By then, many people will starve to death.
At this moment, Guan Guan suddenly called out in panic: "Lin Man, hurry up, come in and water the plants!"
"What's wrong?" Lin Man brought the water from the bottom of a bucket that she had just filtered into the space. After working all night, she had only wet about three square meters of land. However, when she went in this time, she found that the soil in the places where the sweet potatoes and corn kernels were buried had dried up slightly, while the tender green sweet potato and corn seedlings had emerged from the soil.
The corn seedlings are individual, but the sweet potato seedlings grow in groups of several. However, they are all small and short, less than a finger long, and look very cute.
Lin was stunned.
How long has it been since then?
It's only been one night!
She practically lay on the ground, examining the seedlings. She carefully touched them with her hand to confirm they were real. "How come they're growing so fast? Don't you know, Guanguan?"
It seemed like it had grown up too fast. The chick was a little confused, but it swallowed its doubts and said in an unfathomable manner, "Of course I know."
Immortal soil? Even if it's broken or destroyed, it's still the raw material of immortal soil. Isn't it normal for it to be a little different? What's the big deal?
Lin Man was surprised for a long time, estimating that the growth in one night was equivalent to five days, which means that the crops grew for one day inside, which was equivalent to ten days outside?
She was stunned by this huge surprise. After coming to her senses, she carefully watered the plants. However, she found that the soil near the seedlings was obviously not as good as that elsewhere because they were growing too fast, and the nutrients were all drawn away by the seedlings.
The fertility of these carefully cultivated soils is not very good, but it is not bad either. However, it looks bad after just one night. What if the nutrients are not enough and the plants stop growing halfway?
You can't move them to another place to grow every other day, right?
Top dressing! Top dressing is a must!
Lin Man went out without saying a word and started searching for humus soil everywhere.
Humus soil is not easy to make. In recent years, there are fewer trees, fallen leaves and grass on the mountain. The remaining ones have been collected and burned. There is also very little rainfall, so new humus soil is difficult to generate. As for the old soil, it is difficult to see where it is fertile due to the wind and sun.
But there were always some in those corners. Lin Man dug up the black and fertile soils.
The mud dug out from the deep puddles seems pretty good too, and then there's the mud from the ravines...
People who have just taken a shower look dirty again.
Lin Man found that this work would never be finished. She was working on the soil on one side and there was a shortage of water on the other side. She was really overwhelmed.
While she was busy, she almost met some people. They were the survivors of the base, a few scattered people, looking emaciated, helplessly looking for food in the mountains. They passed by the valley several times, but did not find it because the entrance was too narrow.
But you will always find it.
This valley does not belong to Lin Man alone. Thinking about it, it is not a good idea for Lin Mama and the others to stay in that empty cave. Instead of being discovered and occupied by others, it is better to bring them here as soon as possible.
Before leaving, Lin Man walked around the wild vegetable patch, got some water from the puddle and watered the vegetables, hoping they would grow faster, denser, and better. Suddenly, an idea popped up in his mind: "Guan Guan, what would happen if I transplanted these wild vegetables into the space?"
Will it grow that fast?
Wild vegetables have a short growth period. They should produce a crop every ten days, which means they can grow a crop in a day in this space. And since other things can't be taken out, I can take these wild vegetables, right? Then I can say I picked them from somewhere else.
Lin Man felt that she was extremely clever. She transplanted the small wild vegetables into a few slightly denser clumps of wild vegetables and arranged them neatly onto the moistened soil in the space.
I hope I can see them grown up next time I come in.
They quietly returned to the cave and had drunk the last drop of Ah Shui. When they heard that she was going to take them to a place with wild vegetables and water, the three Wu family members were very excited and packed up their things to follow her without saying a word.
In the space, a little white chick squatted nervously in the sparse vegetable patch, looking at the small wild vegetables.
They slowly took root in the soil and began to absorb nutrients and water from the soil. This land allowed them to grow rapidly, and small tender leaves slowly grew...
Then, a trace of almost negligible spiritual energy overflowed from the leaves.
The little chick was almost moved to tears.
Spiritual energy! How many years has it been? It hasn't received spiritual energy for how many years!
Although this trace of spiritual energy is really too little, too little, and too little, and the amount produced by so many wild vegetables combined is so little that it is invisible, but it is still spiritual energy!
The chick greedily absorbed the energy, then suddenly realized something: the sweet potato and corn seedlings were also beginning to release spiritual energy, almost imperceptibly. The chick was so moved that it cried, feeling that it had found the right person to contract with.
"Lin Man Lin Man, there is spiritual energy!" It told the good news to its partner as soon as possible.
Lin Man, carrying his mother on his back, paused and thought to himself, "Is it sweet potatoes and corn, or wild vegetables?"
"They all have it all, and they can all generate spiritual energy!"
"Really? That's great!"
Lin Man was also extremely happy. First, he was happy that these three things were really planted. Second, Guan Guan also got what it wanted. In this way, space planting was really on track.
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