112 Chapter 112 (End)
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The transformation of the land is definitely impossible for Ji Yang and Xie Muchi.
Even if they have the tools and space to use, there are limits to what they can do to make changes.
But they can do a lot more.
Food is no longer so scarce. The land originally used to grow improved high-yield potatoes and sweet potatoes has been freed up, leaving only one-third of the original land to continue growing subsidies to poor families.
The rest is used to plant various trees.
Outside the space, soil that has not been completely transformed is not suitable for growing trees. Even the most drought-resistant poplar forests are prone to die.
But nowadays, where are the so many poplar forests for them to waste?
Therefore, breeding in space has become another excellent way to use space.
Different kinds of trees are planted, and in about a year they can grow to be taller than a person. For example, the poplar trees are moved out and planted on this barren land with the soil. They can basically survive if they occasionally go over to take care of them.
Therefore, after spending a year and a half to transform the pond and the surrounding soil on land, and with the joining of a thousand survivors, Ji Yang and Xie Muchi stopped being busy with these things. At most, they came to check on the situation once a month. In the rest of the time, they fenced off a piece of land for themselves, trying to build a farm in reality while breeding trees for the entire base in space.
The base naturally gave special support to their request.
There is not much else, but the land area of the base is really large now. Originally, this land was only more than 200,000 square kilometers. Note, it is kilometers.
Over the past two years, it has been gradually increasing, and now the total area has reached more than 600,000 square kilometers. However, the human population is too small, and currently they only occupy one place with a water source, and the area they occupy is pitifully small.
However, most of the existing land is wasteland, so the authorities simply waved their hands and let hundreds of soldiers enclose a piece of land far away from human habitation but with an area of more than 100,000 square meters for them.
The old chief also sent a message: "If it's not enough, we will repair the courtyard wall and connect it to the electric grid for free to prevent peeping."
They both didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
One hundred thousand square meters is not a space that can be reclaimed and dug with consciousness. Here, everything has to be done by hand, and the space has to be used from time to time. No outsiders can be present. It is enough to keep them busy and they immediately rejected the possibility of further increasing it.
In addition to adding an electric fence to the monastery wall, the authorities also built a small two-story house for them. It's not very big, but it's enough for the two of them and a bunch of cats and dogs at home to live in.
The first step in reclaiming 100,000 square meters of land is to transform the soil there.
At this time, all the kitchen waste that Ji Yang had hoarded for so many years came in handy.
Use part of the soil, add this slightly deeper piece of soil, add pond silt, kitchen waste, etc., and spread them on the land here for fermentation.
When the time is right, we will plow the fields and finally carry out fully mechanized planting.
The first weeds to be planted are the ones that are easiest to establish.
There is nothing more tenacious and wasteful than weeds. Not to mention the weeds grown specifically in Ji Yang's space, there are even more weeds on the several half-cut mountains in Xie Muchi's space. These weeds grow fast, and after being moved out, they adapt quickly, take root in the ground, and change the soil structure.
The only trouble is that it takes time.
There is no accelerator in life. It took them a year just to transform the soil environment. Even with the help of machines, the two still lived an exceptionally fulfilling life. Every day when they opened their eyes, they would first plant crops in their respective spaces. After dinner, they would go to the farm to plant crops again.
No bugs? Move earthworms, spiders and other things out; if there is a lack of water, draw water from the space pond for irrigation; if there is a lack of nutrients, dilute it with the fermented juice of various rotten plants and animal corpses...
Thanks to their willingness to waste time, the effect is significant. The 100,000 square meters of land here is no longer the wasteland it used to be. Instead, it is lush and green. It is probably the most fertile land on earth.
Then Ji Yang divided out half of the land and started raising chickens, pigs, sheep and rabbits on it.
These are the easiest to raise at present. Chickens and pigs are omnivores and will eat most things. Sheep and rabbits just happen to eat grass, as well as the vegetables grown in the planting boxes in Ji Yang's space. The cost is not very high for her.
The other half of the land was officially used to grow staple food.
The lush grass is uprooted by the tiller and mixed into the soil. After a period of time, it will turn into fertilizer. At this time, watering is carried out again. The compact soil will no longer lose water, and paddy fields will be formed naturally. Crops such as rice can also be planted.
The two of them had become very skilled at operating the seeder and did not need any help from others. They started with breeding, which Ji Yang did directly in the space. After about forty days, they pulled all the seeds out and handed them over to the seeder for planting.
A 50,000 square meter rice field can be planted in half a day if the seed drill is efficient enough.
After the rice planting is finished, the two can finally take a break!
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But I just took a break.
After finishing their work, Ji Yang and Xie Muchi first went to add a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs to the pond near the base, then ran to the shallow sea area from the other side and transported a thousand kilograms of sea fish and shrimps. They then helped transport a batch of supplies from the land base to the sea base, and helped transport a batch of things from the sea base to the land base. They really became "porters".
Of course, the most important thing is to give them the excess output of her space this year.
They have given an unknown amount of supplies to the authorities so far. If they were to calculate the points, it would be impossible to count them. As a result, every time someone who is aware of the situation and receives supplies sees the two of them, they feel particularly guilty, as if they are getting something for free. The main reason is that they really can't afford the compensation!
Ji Yang could see that the other party was guilty, and once deliberately teased him: "Speaking of which, how many points can these supplies be exchanged for? What can I exchange them for at the base? Am I losing a lot?"
The man was so anxious that his face turned red, and he didn't know how to solve the problem. Such a tall man looked particularly weak and helpless.
After finishing their work and resting for a few days, the two chose a remote place and transplanted the trees that had been grown in the space for a year.
Most of them are trees that are not very picky about the environment.
Last year, all the seedlings were handed over to the government as the base needed greening, so this year we will keep them for ourselves and create an artificial forest.
Planting trees is not difficult. The excavator will dig a hole in a while. Ji Yang can throw a tree with soil into the hole with just a thought, and then cover it with the excavator. Finally, pour some fresh water from the pond from the space to water it.
It was done in less than a week.
Finally, we will sprinkle some grass seeds here, and when the time is right, we can release a large number of wild animals here.
At this point, there really wasn't much going on between the two of them.
When Ji Yang woke up in the morning in the house built for them by the government, he suddenly felt relaxed and stayed in bed longer.
Xie Muchi was a hardworking child. He got up as usual and went to feed the livestock outside.
An area of 50,000 square meters is a lot of space, but there are not many livestock. Only Ji Yang and Xie Muchi took out most of the livestock raised in the space. It takes time for them to reproduce. The environment outside the space is not very good, the temperature is either very high or very cold, and the reproduction capacity of livestock will definitely decrease a lot. It is considered easy.
Even now, it is necessary to clean and distinguish animals regularly.
After lying there for almost an hour, Ji Yang finally got up.
Hearing the noise, Xixi, who was guarding outside the door, immediately ran over attentively: "Woof woof woof!"
As soon as he heard the noise, Ji Yang understood that it wanted to go out and play.
Wangwang came over slowly, saw his owner, meowed coquettishly, and lay down again. Compared to Xixi's liveliness, he was much lazier.
Since settling down here, they have let out all their cats and dogs to live in the big yard, which is much more spacious and comfortable.
There is no separation between males and females, allowing them to reproduce freely.
So far, there are more than fifty cats and dogs. The big ones take care of the small ones. Each one of them is very sensible and likes to work. Usually they either help to take care of the small animals or help to pick up eggs.
If they had hands, Ji Yang felt that they could help clean up animal feces.
Only Xixi and Wangwang followed her as always.
Ji Yang touched Xixi's head, and after a simple wash, he took it out with a pancake in his hand.
Ever since she'd been with Xie Muchi, most of the time they'd eaten the meals Xie Muchi cooked, so much so that half of the cooked food she'd stockpiled wasn't even finished yet!
But Xie Muzhi kept adding to her space, and it was getting more and more.
I don’t know if I can finish it in this lifetime.
Time flies so fast. It has been almost fifteen years since the natural disaster.
After the natural disaster, humans have become very strong, and eating food that has been expired for many years will only cause diarrhea. However, they have also become very fragile, and their unhealthy bodies have caused the current human mortality rate to be 300% higher than in peacetime!
The elderly can hardly see it, the children can't see it at all, most of them are young people in their twenties and thirties, and a small number are middle-aged people in their forties and fifties. However, this group of middle-aged people are all full of illnesses and look extremely haggard.
The research institute did a calculation during the official census and found that the current average life expectancy in their country is 51 years old.
In addition to premature death caused by malnutrition, the main factor is environmental factors. There is no spring or autumn at the offshore base, which is known to have sunny days. Either the temperature is more than ten degrees below zero for half a year in winter, or the temperature is forty or fifty degrees in summer for half a year.
The median value does not exist for more than one month.
The land here is a thousand kilometers away and the weather is similar.
The relatively extreme temperature difference, under insufficient conditions, can easily cause human death. Up to now, Ji Yang has taken out all the medicines in the space, but it is still of no avail.
All this means that the natural disaster may have come to an end, but it has not really ended yet.
No one even knows if it will ever really end and return to the time when it was suitable for survival.
Of course, some people think that maybe there are normal temperatures in other places on the blue planet, but they just haven't found them. For this reason, now that most of the survivors who have been stranded outside have returned, the authorities send a group of people out every month to explore the environment of the entire blue planet. Each time they go out, it takes about half a year to come back. There are also people who were killed in accidents, but compared with previous situations, the number of casualties is much less.
But even so, the authorities cannot stop this task.
Everyone is looking forward to the world returning to the way they are familiar with it.
While thinking, Ji Yang walked to the breeding area as usual.
The outermost area is the chicken farm. This group of chickens, which have lived here for almost two months, are leisurely walking in the territory that has expanded by who knows how many times. There are many trees growing around them, including fruit trees and ornamental trees. They are not particularly thick, but without exception, there are many birds resting on them.
There are no longer only the most common sparrows and magpies. All the birds that can be found in a two-person space are here, and in greater numbers.
At this time, in the chicken coop, seven or eight big dogs, a dozen young dogs and ten half-grown dogs were diligently picking eggs.
The hen, accustomed to having her eggs stolen, cooperated by lifting her butt to reveal the eggs.
The big dog picked up the egg skillfully, returned to the door happily with all four paws, and placed it carefully in the basket.
There are already dozens of eggs in the basket.
A batch of chicks have just been hatched, so Ji Yang does not plan to keep this batch for the time being. He plans to hand over the big chickens to the authorities after these chicks grow up, and let the new chicks breed the next batch of chickens. During this time, they can provide the base with a steady supply of eggs.
Seeing Ji Yang coming over, Duoli immediately ran towards her with her tail wagging, rubbing her legs happily: "Awoo~"
"Thank you for your hard work." Ji Yang touched its back. Duoli is almost ten years old now. She has been checked by the research institute and is in excellent health. All her previous injuries have been recovered.
"Woof!" Dolly puffed out her chest proudly, and continued to work with her head held high.
He also called out to the other dogs that hadn't left yet: "Woof woof woof!"
Follow up!
The group of dogs immediately followed, and Xixi also ran over to help with bright eyes.
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Continuing forward, when Ji Yang had eaten most of the pancake, he happened to see Xie Muchi pulling a large basket of animal excrement on a small electric scooter.
She paused, quickly sent the remaining half of the pancake back to the space, and put on a mask herself.
Xie Muzhi was speechless and paused.
Seeing this, Ji Yang smiled and said, "It's okay, come over."
Xie Muzhi then got back on his bike and asked Ji Yang as he passed by: "Should I bring you anything to eat?"
Ji Yang just didn't like encountering these things while eating, but overall, the poultry raised at home didn't smell very strong as they cleaned them diligently. The baskets containing feces were also covered, so there was no smell coming over. She was wearing a mask, so it didn't affect her appetite. So after thinking for a while, she said, "Give me one portion of hot and sour cold noodles."
Almost a year has passed. The first batch of survivors have already passed the news here to the offshore base. The number of people coming here has increased suddenly. If it weren't for official control, it might have exploded.
When there are more people and supplies become a little more abundant, all kinds of smart people start to think of ways to earn points.
There are no big fish, but plenty of small ones. For such a large pond, the government controls the catch, but it also allows the survivors here to eat some seafood regularly. Relatively speaking, the demand for staple food has decreased a bit, so some people started making cold noodles, which tastes really good.
Xie Muchi can also make it, but Ji Yang likes to try different flavors. She has been eating it for three days in a row.
"Okay, let's see if there's anything else to eat. I heard that someone sells grilled fish over there at night, I wonder if they sell it during the day." Xie Muzhi smiled, and stopped when he passed by the chicken coop, came over to the chicken coop, and asked, "Are there any eggs left?"
Dolly and the others immediately sped up, grunting and bringing in a dozen eggs, and then stood aside: "Woof!"
The others followed its example: "Woof!"
Xie Muzhi understood that there was no more. He picked up the basket and waved to them: "I'm leaving. I'll bring you some delicious food when I come back."
“Woof woof woof!!!” Xixi understood and took the lead in barking happily, and Duoli also followed suit, wagging her tail.
Xie Muchi continued to ride his electric scooter, and this time he left the breeding area directly.
Feces is a scarce commodity nowadays, and is used for composting. The government also needs to open up new land, and there is nothing better than animal identification.
Therefore, when he has nothing to do, Xie Muchi will take the initiative to send these to the official side.
The coming and going of these animals also let the survivors know that there is a large-scale breeder here. They are all looking forward to the harvest so that they can enjoy a feast.
Ji Yang doesn't like going out, so he doesn't know this.
But as the Chinese New Year approached, both the sea base and the land base sent gifts. Ji Yang was not stingy and divided the old hens, old roosters, big fat pigs, big fat sheep, and rabbits that had been selected in advance into three parts and seven parts. The more were given to the sea base and the less were given to the land base.
In addition, they also harvested another batch of those raised in their own space, totaling more than 800 chickens, more than 400 pigs, more than 700 rabbits, and more than 100 sheep.
Together with those raised by the base itself, this wave can be said to be a real bumper harvest, and they are all alive, which makes the whole base boil.
Haven’t seen so much meat in a long time!
When Ji Yang and Xie Muzhi were doing the year-end statistics, they looked at the data and sighed, "It's still outside."
The breeding area alone is 50,000 square meters. It’s a large enough area so the output will be high!
Unfortunately, by the second year, Ji Yang began to regret it.
After a round of breeding and the addition of space, the number of poultry and livestock raised in the 50,000 square meters of breeding area has skyrocketed!
In the pigpen alone, there were originally more than 300 pigs, but after two rounds of reproduction, all the piglets added up to more than 1,000!
After growing up and reproducing again, the amount of food they eat every day is a terrifying number!
Even if she and Xie Muchi had the cheat device of space, it was still difficult to get food for them every day.
So after careful consideration, it was not right, mainly because he felt a little tired, Ji Yang decisively proposed: "Recruit people!"
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Recruiting workers is a hassle.
Because you have to deal with other people.
Their situation is special. The food they usually feed the pigs and chickens may be better than what many survivors eat. This gap can easily lead to accidents. Ji Yang struggled for a long time and finally decided to find someone he knew to help with management.
That way she wouldn't have to deal with them directly.
If anything happens, just fire them directly and don’t have direct contact, and you will have fewer troubles.
So the two of them discussed it, Xie Muzhi would find two people he knew and trusted, while Ji Yang would... try to find someone willing to work from her thin interpersonal relationships.
Naturally, they would ask Li's parents first. Although they are not young, the management does not need to do it themselves.
The only fear was that they felt the journey was too far. Li Yi and Jiang Jing were both serving at the offshore base and had no plans to come over for the time being. Fortunately, when Ji Yang went over to ask, they both agreed immediately.
Jiang Jing also took the initiative to send her daughter over.
An An is not young. She will be taking the college entrance examination before the holiday. She has learned a lot from Li's parents. The government is currently setting up a school, and after discussing it, they decide not to go there. They will talk about it after junior high and high schools are built.
Before that, it would be good to find her a job so that she can support herself.
Since they were willing to come, Ji Yang did not let them live on the land. Instead, he directly hired someone to build a house on the farm. However, except for them, no one else could live here.
The round trip drive takes fifty minutes, which is not far.
Ji Yang had taken out many cars from the space before, and he hasn't finished taking them all yet. There are still a lot of them. Now it's easy to find a small truck to pick up and drop off people at a fixed time every day.
Things were settled quickly. From the time she proposed recruiting to the time the employees were in place, it took no more than half a month.
Ji Yang and Xie Muchi were liberated directly because of this.
From then on, they no longer had to get involved in harvesting and sowing on the farm, or feeding and cleaning the growing areas.
Before the workers arrive every day, all the feed that needs to be processed is placed in the designated area. When the workers arrive, they start cooking pig feed, cutting grass, and grinding clam shells, fish heads, fish bones and other things into powder. Another group of workers is responsible for cleaning, cleaning up the animals' feces, and checking the condition of each one to prevent them from getting sick.
By about nine o'clock all the animals were fed.
Wait until one o'clock and feed it again, then feed it again at five o'clock before getting off work, and finally clean up the feces.
The whole day's mission is over.
Li's parents were responsible for supervision, An An was responsible for accounting, signing in, and doing miscellaneous tasks, and there was also a specially hired auntie to take care of lunch. Throughout the whole process, Ji Yang and Xie Muchi did not need to do anything much. They only needed to take care of the poultry and livestock in their own space.
It feels so relaxing.
It feels really good, you know what.
The two of them spent the New Year comfortably, and the same was true for the base.
Because this time there was a bumper harvest, the base originally had a limit on the purchase of various meats, so each person was issued a meat ticket once every ten days, with only two taels of meat each time, which was much better than before.
But this Chinese New Year, everyone got a pound of meat ticket, and if there are big people in the family, you can buy several pounds of meat!
The abundant source of meat allowed the survivors of both bases to have an exceptionally satisfying year!
Having tasted the sweetness, Ji Yang contracted another 100,000 square meters of land in the second year, intending to cultivate more land. However, this time the reclamation was not as troublesome as before. In the past two years, they had gradually transferred rotten leaves, soil nourished by animal feces and other things to the surrounding areas, and the soil had unknowingly become relatively suitable for planting.
Therefore, you only need to arrange what needs to be done every day, and there will be someone dedicated to handle it.
We plant and raise livestock together, using the food we grow to feed the poultry, thus achieving complete self-sufficiency.
After Ji Yang and Xie Muzhi became hands-off bosses, they began to explore around the mainland. Occasionally, when they saw a pond that was about to dry up, they would transfer a few tons of water into it and put some fish and shrimp in it.
Occasionally, when I see a piece of good soil, I will transfer a few trees from space.
From time to time, I have to go back to check on the condition of the trees I planted previously, and replenish what is missing. If I don’t understand something, I will ask the people in the research institute, and they are happy to answer my questions.
During this inspection, Ji Yang discovered that the area of the land base had expanded by more than ten times.
Although the official did not do as well as they did, with the support of the number of people, the speed of land reclamation was still very fast. The only problem was that the land was still not fertile enough. If crops were planted, the output would only be one-third of that of Ji Yang.
But it's better than spending more than you earn.
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In the third year of the construction of the land base, food was finally no longer the main theme of mankind. Various abundant resources gradually appeared in people's lives. The Xia Kingdom, which had been cut off from other countries for many years, also received news and requests for help from other countries again and again.
Compared with Xia State, most countries have not yet escaped the predicament of lack of food and clothing.
With the help of the golden finger of space, the Xia Kingdom, which had developed beyond expectations, generously agreed to their request for help and transported batch after batch of survivors.
Outside the base, Ji Yang and Xie Muchi built artificial forests, and there were also many wild animals.
Bees and butterflies fly around, while mosquitoes and flies continue to survive in the cracks.
They occasionally sent some supplies over, and the forest naturally expanded outward, and the green gradually hid this free world.
The dolphins and killer whales in the Ji Yang sea area also became larger, and the small sea area became crowded.
It was also in this year that the purification of the ocean had a clear effect, and biological species gradually became abundant. Basically, if you sailed on the sea in a submarine for a while, you would encounter a bunch of fish and shrimp.
The richest area is the offshore base.
Ji Yang released a lot of marine animals and plants, and the authorities have been trying their best to protect them. Until now, they have begun to take shape. Because there is no shortage of food and in order to restore the marine ecology as soon as possible, the authorities have very strict restrictions on marine fishing. Basically, three days of fishing time are open a month, which is enough for everyone to taste the seafood. Anything else is absolutely not allowed.
At most... let the fisherman go fishing.
Therefore, after confirming that the ocean had gradually recovered, officials suggested that she could send some of the large creatures out.
Ji Yang was still a little worried, but the small sea area was indeed not suitable for large groups to live in, so she could only reluctantly drive the nuclear submarine to a range of 500 kilometers from the offshore base. The authorities helped to transfer the nearby cruise ships, and she released all the dolphins, killer whales, and sharks in one breath.
Killer whales and dolphins live in groups. She couldn't release only half of them, otherwise the big ones outside might wander the entire ocean looking for their missing companions.
I could only let it out in one breath.
This is a bit risky, but if something happens in the ocean again, she will definitely take them back to the small sea area as soon as possible.
Let's just hope the ocean can hold up for now.
This group of guys may not have noticed the sudden change in their living space for a while.
Fortunately, they are all extremely fast creatures and soon discovered that the space had become much larger. They were all surprised and panicked, and gathered together with the group, whimpering and communicating with each other. Finally, probably realizing that there was no danger, they happily started playing in the sea.
Ji Yang felt relieved and a little disappointed when he saw this.
She doesn't go to the small sea area very often, but she will go in sometimes when she is bored. She is absolutely safe in the small sea area, so she likes swimming there very much. Every time she goes in, she will be warmly welcomed by these guys. After getting familiar with them, the killer whale will even carry her around in circles in the small sea area.
She raised them herself.
Therefore, Ji Yang asked Xie Muchi to stay here for another month.
During this month, she would add hundreds of kilograms of fish and shrimp to the sea every day, for fear that there was not enough food in the ocean and these creatures with amazing appetites would die. Xie Muchi saw her reluctance and did not urge her. He just quietly accompanied her on the sea.
Until a killer whale took the initiative to hunt a one-meter-long tuna and brought it to them.
Ji Yang suddenly let it go.
This is their home. Just as humans always love land the most, they can survive in the sea where the ecology has recovered a lot. There is no need to worry too much.
Ji Yang accepted the gift, gave them the last 500 kilograms of fish and shrimp in return, and then went back with Xie Muchi.
On the way back, they drove a motorboat, which was faster. After three hours, at around nine o'clock in the evening, when it was dark, she finally saw the shore.
At this time, the land seemed to have returned to its former appearance.
The concrete dock has become spacious and clean again; a slightly curved but generally straight asphalt road leads to a base in the distance; a city with bright lights, cars coming and going, and everyone talking on their mobile phones with a relaxed smile; a new environment where the ears are gradually filled with more and more children's tender voices; a peaceful world... where people no longer fight for a bite of food!
The end of the world has ended without us noticing.
【Author’s words】
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