The gatekeeper then said, "If she was from our base, I would have introduced her to you, but unfortunately the girl is from the Dongyang base." So I can't be a pimp, please don't make things difficult for me.
Lin Cheng glanced at him indifferently, and he immediately fell silent. He secretly complained that it was just that I couldn't pimp for you, there was no need to look at me with murderous eyes, right?
Lin Cheng thought that it turned out to be someone from Dongyang Base. He had never seen him before, but since he was from Dongyang Base, he was definitely not the person he was looking for.
Lin Man left the base, patted her chest, and entered the space with the chicken in her arms. She released the old hen from the layers of pockets and freed it from the restraints. It was not known whether it was still immersed in the sadness of being sold by the previous owner, or whether it had just arrived in a new world and had not yet adapted. It was completely confused, and its two little eyes were crossed.
"Hey!" Lin Man pushed it, but it didn't move. He picked some vegetable leaves and threw them in front of it. After thinking for a while, he broke off some dried corn cobs. Worried that the corn kernels were too big, he crushed them. He put them in a bowl and poured it a bowl of water, serving it very attentively.
Probably finally attracted by the delicious food, the old hen began to peck at the food while clucking. From the sound, it could be seen that it was very satisfied with the meal.
Lin Man was also very satisfied with it. She touched the yellow, not very thick, chicken feathers. Hmm, the smell was a bit strong. Lin Man couldn't give it a bath, so she could only let it stay in the space for a long time to dissipate the smell. She said to Guan Guan, "Guan Guan, if you have nothing to do, keep an eye on it. Don't let it jump into the vegetable garden and peck around... Guan Guan?"
Guan Guan was dumbfounded. His small black bean-like eyes became cross-eyed and he stared blankly at the old hen: "It, it, it, why does it look so much like me?" Guan Guan's voice sounded broken.
Lin Man was a little surprised. Was this unexpected? The first time she saw Guan Guan, she mistook it for a chick, a plump one. If its wings weren't so small, she would have called it a chick or a fat chicken—in her mind, of course.
But she also knew that Guan Guan was made up of a ball of spiritual energy.
She asked, "Didn't you grow up like this yourself?"
But it didn't know, or it didn't expect that mortal chickens also looked like this when they were alive!
"I am a fairy bird! A fairy bird!"
A fairy bird, then it's really oversized. Lin Man glanced at its body, then at the old hen happily pecking at the corn kernels, "How about... you cultivate yourself and lose some weight? After all, we are all spiritual energy, so it's easy to change our appearance, right?"
It's not that easy! This is the most comfortable state for it. Except when it's cooking, it will change its shape. Otherwise, it will keep this shape!
Guan Guan thought angrily, but seeing the stupid look of the old hen, he decided to change his appearance.
So every time Lin Man entered the space, he would see a white mass of strange-shaped things. The shape was different every time, and he would ask Lin Man: "Do I look good like this?"
Haha, do you think it would look good to turn into a white snake-like insect, or a lump like a sweet potato with long legs?
Lin Man suggested to it: "You can turn into your original fairy bird form."
Then the next time she came in, she saw an old yellow hen and a white... big chicken, no, it could barely be considered a big bird, although its wings were still so small that they seemed undeveloped.
Guan Guan said with great sadness that it couldn't change back to being that small, unless it dispersed most of its spiritual energy, otherwise it could only grow bigger.
Lin Man touched its cloud-like body sympathetically, unable to give any more advice. He turned around to comfort the old hen that had been frightened by the white ball that kept changing like a lunatic these days, and by the way, to see if there were any new eggs in the chicken coop.
Of course, this is all a story for later. While Guan Guan was still thinking, Lin Man pointed out the sweet potatoes needed to trade for linen.
Zhao Hengshui also had seven pieces of high-quality linen, more than a hundred pieces of rough linen, and some cloth made of other materials, such as a thick canvas that Lin Man wanted to make into a backpack.
In total, about 1,200 kilograms of sweet potatoes are needed.
Lin Man didn't have her own scale, but the battery Guan Guan had given her weighed a full 52 kilograms, or 104 pounds. Lin Man compared it to that and calculated the weight of the piles of sweet potatoes. She was naturally sensitive to weight, and after a few practice sessions, she knew how much 100 pounds was without having to compare them.
The problem was that she didn't have enough bags to put so many sweet potatoes, so she decided to find a safe place to take out the sweet potatoes first, and then wait for Zhao Hengshui to come and collect them.
Lin Man hummed a little tune, feeling very happy. She seemed to see the day when she could wear new clothes and carry a sturdy backpack. She sat with her back against the small hill of sweet potatoes, thinking to herself, isn't the pursuit of life to have enough food and clothing? Now she is almost there.
Of course, she also needed to have enough strength to protect the food and clothing. She looked at the pile of wheat straw left over from the wheat harvest not far away. With a move of her mental power, a straw was pulled by an invisible hand and slid quickly towards her.
The old hen who was happily eating corn was stunned and turned into a stupid chicken again.
Lin Man used his mental power to control the straw to spin in front of him, and then he used a bit of his mental power to pull the second straw.
He did this one after another, until there were ten straws standing in front of him, some vertical, some horizontal, and some twisted. Lin Man's face finally turned pale, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
She withdrew her mental power, and all the wheat straws lost their support and scattered. Lin Man wiped the sweat from her forehead. She felt a little tired, but her eyes were bright and she felt a little proud in her heart. She could now barely divide her mental power into ten parts, which means she could control ten things at the same time to perform motionless operations.
She rested for a while and continued to practice like this until all the wheat straws were brought to her. She began to use them to weave a chicken coop, which she had helped Grandma Wu weave when she was a child, but now her hands were a little rusty.
At the same time, there was a stone that looked like a whetstone next to her, and an iron wire as thick as a pencil lead and as long as a finger was grinding back and forth on the stone, each stroke heavy and powerful.
This was Lin Man, after practicing her mental control abilities, now starting to practice her mental strength. Well, this was a name she had chosen herself, and it was also a training method she had come up with. Besides this, she had also figured out many other training methods and would practice them whenever she had time, usually training her mental strength, and sometimes she would even indulge in spiritual energy training.
She is now accustomed to calling the energy that has not yet been absorbed into the body "spiritual energy", and the energy that has been absorbed and can be driven by her "spiritual power", because she feels that "power" is more like an existence that can exert an effect and cause an attack, while a ball of fleeting air cannot do that.
After a while, a crude chicken coop was ready. She then used corn stalks to surround a calf-high, one-meter-square chicken coop, put the coop inside, and said to the old hen, "This will be your home from now on. You can lay eggs and sleep here, and you can go out and run around whenever you want. But you are not allowed to peck at the ground or the grain that has been harvested and piled there. Do you understand?"
Regardless of whether it understood or not, Lin Man said it seriously, released the chicken, and left the space.
Nearly an hour had passed and there was no movement outside. The agreed transaction time was at midnight today. Lin Man did not plan to enter the Nanming base again today. She chose a safe and secluded place and took out all the sweet potatoes around dawn. An hour later, Zhao Hengshui arrived.
The blind man came with him. After both sides counted their belongings and were very satisfied, Lin Man asked, "How did you two get all these sweet potatoes into the base?"
Perhaps he had gained some trust in her, so Zhao Hengshui said, "If you don't let it in, someone will come and take it away soon."
"Oh, I see." Lin Man moved his lips, but still didn't ask whether the person coming was a buyer, or what he could earn by selling this pile of sweet potatoes.
Lin Man felt that this thing was definitely more valuable than the cloth and chicken she had obtained. At least it was something Zhao Hengshui and the others needed more. Although she was very curious, because she also wanted to buy more things, she already had a mountain of sweet potatoes like this, two piles of corn cobs like this, and many other miscellaneous things in her space. She couldn't finish eating them all in a short time, and the land was always producing...
The father and son were obviously in a tense and nervous mood and had no intention of continuing to talk with Lin Man. Lin Man left here with some regret.
After she left, Zhao Hengshui went back to the base to call for help. Half an hour later, he returned with a few people.
The buyer had already received the over 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes earlier that day and, knowing the quality, was quite pleased with the pile. He took out a safe and said to Zhao Hengshui, "Your pile of sweet potatoes shouldn't have been worth this. I'm buying them because they might grow into small sweet potatoes for me, and because you're a talented person. If you need something good like this again, remember to come to me."
Zhao Hengshui and his father checked the contents of the box and found them to be genuine. They looked at each other, exchanged some polite words, and left quickly.
The buyer looked in the direction they left and calmly instructed his men, "Keep an eye on them and see who they come into contact with."
Lin Man waited for two days but heard nothing. She thought that there would be no follow-up to the sweet potato transaction, so she continued to wander around the Nanming base.
This time she did not trade anything rashly. She observed and studied everything in the base. She wanted to know how a base was actually run.
When she passed by a place, Guan Guan suddenly shouted: "Spiritual energy! Such rich spiritual energy!"
She looked up and saw the Center for Superpowers. She asked in her heart, "You said there is spiritual energy here?"
"Yeah, there's even more inside the house! Lin Man, I need to absorb it. I'm transforming now, right? This spiritual energy is denser than the one in my current space. It would be very beneficial for me to absorb it all at once." Guan Guan tried his best to persuade Lin Man, "If you can get in, I'll let you sleep in the space for a month!"
If you sleep for a month, you can absorb a month's worth of spiritual energy!
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