"Xiaoman, what's going on?" Mother Lin watched Lin Man's movements for a while and figured out something.
Lin Man said excitedly, "Mom, I have superpowers!"
The little chicken in the space: "No, this is not your ability. Your ability is not like this."
But Lin Man didn't care what it said. She was now filled with excitement. She gave up the rain and sat next to Mother Lin. She hooked her fingers, released a wisp of spiritual energy, and hooked the embroidery needle in Mother Lin's hand.
Mother Lin opened her eyes wide.
Lin Man smiled, but if she wanted to use her spiritual energy to control the embroidery needle to sew something, she couldn't do it. She couldn't do it so delicately yet. But for things like this, you will definitely become proficient with more practice.
She tried various objects in the house, and finally found that she could use her spiritual energy to hold and move small and light objects like embroidery needles, but she couldn't do anything larger or heavier.
Ultimately, one reason was that she was not skilled enough, and the second was that the spiritual energy in her palms was too little and too thin.
After trying for a while, she had used up most of the spiritual energy she had absorbed, and she stopped with a sense of unsatisfied desire. Guan Guan would definitely not allow her to absorb spiritual energy in the short term, so it was necessary to keep some for emergencies.
As soon as Lin Man entered the space, he met a pair of black eyes. Guan Guan asked in confusion: "How did you create a channel through spiritual power and space?"
Just now, the raindrops were sent directly into the space when they touched the spiritual energy. Normally, the medium between the space and the outside world is Lin Man, so if she wants to collect something, she must have physical contact with that thing.
Lin Man smiled and said, "I feel that the spiritual energy I release is like my own hands, collecting the rainwater."
Guan Guan was silent for a while. How could the spiritual energy released be like his own hands? What kind of realm and talent was this?
Oh, there is no comparison, no comparison.
However, seeing Lin Manyi's expression of "this is nothing", the little chicken felt upset and decided not to tell this person about it for the time being, so as to prevent her from getting even more proud.
"This is not your special ability. You should practice your special ability more often." Guan Guan said again, so don't rely too much on spiritual energy and absorb less spiritual energy.
"I know, you mean that mental power, right? But I can't feel the mental power. Is mental power used to control objects? But I can also use spiritual energy." Lin Man now trusts this spiritual energy more.
Guan Guan was defeated and shouted angrily, "Stop standing here and go collect the water for me. The few drops of rainwater that just came in are gone. There's not even a shadow of it."
Lin Man rubbed her nose and went out to work obediently. She didn't have any better ideas. She was reluctant to use her spiritual energy, so she had to move all the utensils in the house to collect rainwater. Then she kept an eye on the puddle, pumping out a little water when it filled up.
Later, she realized how long this busy work would take, so she ran to the mountain to get water regardless of the wind and rain.
There was no raincoat at home, not even an umbrella, but Lin Man was not afraid of getting wet with the spiritual energy protecting him, so he turned a washbasin upside down on his head, opened a small opening on each side of the washbasin, tied a small piece of cloth to each, and tied the two small pieces of cloth into a knot under his chin, and a simple and crude rain hat appeared.
The shoes Lin Man was wearing were homemade straw sandals made many years ago, so they were not afraid of getting soaked in water. He rolled up his trouser legs and walked into the rain.
There are many natural or man-made potholes on the mountain. After two days of rain, some rainwater has accumulated in these places. When Lin Man saw this, he collected the accumulated water into the space and collected it as he walked.
Sometimes, if you are lucky, you will come across a former spring. The rainwater falling from high places will gather along the former mountain streams and ditches. Before it has time to seep into the ground, the accumulated water there will be quite considerable.
Lin Man not only collected rainwater, but also planted some wild vegetables in hidden cracks in the rocks and corners. He bought a few sweet potatoes with vines and even brought out potatoes the size of pigeon eggs and buried them in a few places.
Although the newly harvested corn had not yet dried, she took a corn cob, twisted off the corn kernels from it, and threw a few on the ground as she walked. By the time she had walked all over the mountain, the corn kernels were also all over the mountain.
As for how big these corn kernels will eventually grow, it depends on luck.
Even when she saw some weeds and thorns, she would plant some in the space. When she walked around and came back, the weeds and thorns in the space had grown taller and denser. She would then take them out, thinking that after the rain, these weeds would grow well and bring more vitality to the mountain.
Before the rain stopped, Lin Man finally watered the land in the space thoroughly. She created areas one by one and planted some of each seed in the bag that Guan Guan gave her. She also planted the red beans, mung beans and various legumes that had already sprouted.
She also bit an apple, took out the seeds and germinated them, preparing to plant a few apple trees. Guan Guan said that trees produce much more spiritual energy than herbs.
The rain lasted for three days. When people went up the mountain, they found that sparse green sprouted on the hillside, and a few new buds grew on the trees that were thought to be dead. The most surprising thing was that someone actually found sweet potatoes!
Those people carefully dug up the sweet potatoes and brought them back to the valley, exchanging them for a considerable amount of wild vegetables and also increasing their daily water consumption.
After that, some plants suspected to be corn seedlings and potato seedlings were discovered one after another, and the planting area in the valley gradually expanded.
On the fifth day after the heavy rain, Zheng Gang came to see Lin Man: "I plan to arrange a few people to go out and look for salt."
"Salt?" Lin Manyi was surprised for a moment, then understood. "Salt is indeed a very urgent problem."
"Well, for now, we won't be short of water, and we can still survive on food, but almost everyone has run out of salt."
Lin Man thought of her own salt jar which had been empty for a long time, and felt helpless. Food could grow in the space, but salt could not. Fortunately, the food provided by the manager was added with salt, and there was also a little salt in the seasoning given to her along with the induction cooker last time. Otherwise, she and her daughter would have gotten sick long ago.
Just as she thought of this, Guan Guan jumped up in the space, and a voice rang in her mind: "Salt, salt, I want salt!"
Lin Man was slightly surprised and asked in his mind, "Guan Guan, how much salt do you have left?"
"Not much left, only two packs."
Guan Guan said helplessly that after it had gone through so much trouble to condense its spiritual body, it could not stand the loneliness, so it secretly peeked into the outside world and secretly collected human things whenever it found an opportunity. But at that time, it did not know what those things were used for. It would collect something if it saw something that interested it or if it felt like doing so.
Later, the end of the world came and it no longer had the opportunity to collect things. It stayed in the space and read some cooking books, lighting up the chef skills. Only then did it realize the importance of seasonings. It wanted to get those things on its mobile phone, but it couldn't.
So why is it so precious to its collection? Because once it is used, it cannot be replaced.
Two packs?
Lin Man breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned slightly again.
Two packets of salt can last for a long time, but what if they are used up?
She asked Zheng Gang: "Where are you going to find it?"
You definitely can’t find salt in the town outside, but the nearest base is across the province.
Zheng Gang took out a radio and said, "I fixed it when it was raining, and then I heard a news report that several large bases in the north were planning to establish a new country and a new regime, and were encouraging the survivors in the south to migrate north."
What does this have to do with salt?
"Brother Gang probably doesn't want to move north, right?" Lin Man could see that Zheng Gang was not interested in moving north.
Zheng Gang chuckled mockingly, "Xiaoman, you might not know about the struggles within and between bases, but people your mother and I, your age, witnessed a lot back then. Every shift in power was followed by rivers of bloodshed. Our country's political power completely split years ago, and the surviving senior officials are mainly scattered among the major bases in the north. This time, when they talk about establishing a new regime, there must be a huge fight over who will lead it. Even if we want to go north, we have to wait until the situation is clear."
Lin Man nodded slightly. Those who were rushing north at this time were probably those who wanted to take a chance and make a future. The old, weak and sick people like them should just forget about it.
"But the broadcast also said that in order to let the survivors in the South feel the care of the northern leaders, a batch of supplies would be sent to the South, mainly salt, medicine and other items."
Lin Man's eyes lit up: "What rules?"
Zheng Gang knew that Lin Man was interested, so he smiled and said, "We will definitely send helicopters to all those famous large bases in the south that are well-known in the north. Besides the initial visit, every province and city will be patrolled by helicopter. After all, there are still small bases and gathering places like ours."
Lin Man narrowed his eyes slightly, his mind racing: "So to get these supplies, we have to go to the city?"
"That's right."
Lin Man understood why Zheng Gang wanted to talk to him.
It’s not that easy to get to the city, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many people stuck in the base.
"Xiaoman." Mother Lin had been listening quietly on the side. Suddenly, she held Lin Man's hand with worry in her eyes.
Zheng Gang said hurriedly, "I'm telling you this because I hope you'll consider it. I've already chosen the two young men I brought to the valley the other day. If you're willing to go with me, that would be great. If not, I won't force you."
This is a polite way of saying it. In fact, Zheng Gang is also helpless. There are not many capable people under him who can stand up when things go wrong. He himself has no strength and cannot give material rewards. People are willing to listen to him and obey him, mostly because they admire his loyalty or have received his favors in the past.
So naturally, he would not order his own subordinates around at will. He treated them like friends. Lin Man was obviously included in this list.
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