Chapter 27 p1
Fifteenth Floor
Only after returning home did Ji Yang have the time to inspect the newly added space.
Two ten-thousand-square-meter square spaces, side by side, were already immense.
And at the end of the static space, a small blue square, the size of a mung bean, had appeared. But upon approaching it with her consciousness, she knew it wasn’t a small square, but a 10×10 square meter pond!
Oh, right.
This one hundred square meters was actually the result of tossing in the lotus base.
Ji Yang had thought it would be something spectacular, but it turned out to be a small shrimp!
This pond is a bit greedy.
Grumbling inwardly, Ji Yang observed the pond. She suddenly noticed that the clear water had no ripples at all. After a thought, she took out a plastic bowl and filled it with water. Then, with her consciousness, she caught two quails and two button quails from the breeding area.
These two little guys reproduced the fastest, so losing a few wouldn’t hurt.
She penned these four separately by the fruit trees, placed the bowl full of water next to them, and added some feed, then just watched.
She wouldn’t worry about the salinity for now; she had to see if it was poisonous first.
Although her gut told her that nothing harmful would appear in her space, it wouldn’t hurt to be cautious. Anyway, she wasn’t short of water.
After settling this, she busied herself with putting the extra one thousand square meters of space to use.
For a child like her who had suffered, leaving fertile land empty was simply a wanton waste of nature’s gifts!
However, she had already planted enough medicinal herbs and couldn’t handle any more. So, for this one thousand square meters, after some hesitation, she took out five hundred square meters and sowed grass seeds. In the future, this area would be dedicated to growing pasture. The poultry breeding area had been re-expanded, and now each of them had a lot of space to move around. The boars and sows were housed together. Ji Yang had noticed the sow was pregnant half a month ago, and the cattle and sheep had gotten pregnant even earlier.
The little rabbits, after several months of growth, were also about to have babies. The female rabbit was pregnant again and about to give birth.
All of these needed to eat.
Ji Yang had previously hoarded enough to feed them for many years, but as they reproduced, their food consumption would multiply. She definitely couldn’t rely solely on feed.
Sheep, cattle, and rabbits could all eat pasture. Chickens, ducks, and geese ate more grains. Pigs were omnivores; anything chopped up could be fed to them.
Therefore, she sowed grass seeds on five hundred square meters, which would be used to feed the cattle, sheep, and rabbits in the future. The remaining five hundred square meters would be planted with rice seeds to feed the chickens, ducks, and geese. She would find an opportunity to raise some fish and shrimp and could even give them extra meals from time to time.
Perhaps after she had tinkered with it, the space could form a food chain, and she wouldn’t have to worry about what they ate anymore.
By the time everything was done, it was already nine in the evening.
Thinking that she had to wake up an hour earlier the next day, Ji Yang was already sleepy. But before she went to bed, she looked at Xixi, who was playing with its toys without a care in the world, and worried. She was going out, so Xixi definitely couldn’t follow. If something happened during the mission, her heart would break.
She had raised Xixi with a purpose, but after so long, feelings had already developed.
But she didn’t feel at ease giving it to someone else to raise. It was safe in her space, but she herself didn’t like to stay in the space, and she was afraid that if she put Xixi in, the little dog would also feel uncomfortable. Xixi was very smart. At least in her eyes, it wasn’t just an animal and couldn’t be treated the same as the poultry.
Ji Yang decided to give Xixi the choice. “Xixi, I’m going out tomorrow. Do you want to follow me into the space, or should we separate for a while?”
“Awoo?” Xixi looked at her blankly, tilting its head, as if it didn’t quite understand.
Its round, big eyes blinked twice, and it came over to rub against her.
“Woof!”
Ji Yang felt that she understood its meaning. “Alright, then you’ll stay in the space!”
“Woof woof!” Xixi wagged its tail and responded cheerfully twice.
It was as if it understood.
Ji Yang pursed her lips and smiled, then went to sleep peacefully. Before she slept, she was still looking forward to it. After this mission, if she could fill the small pond in one go, would it be even more satisfying if a fourth space appeared directly?!
If it’s seawater, I can raise tuna, big lobsters, and king crabs…
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The Next Day
A long-unheard alarm clock woke Ji Yang up.
She opened her eyes and saw Xixi coming over, wagging its tail. It seemed that it also realized its owner was going out.
Ji Yang casually rubbed its head. With a thought, Xixi disappeared and appeared in the space.
The fences separating each type of animal in the space were not high. With Xixi’s current size, it could easily jump in. It was suddenly sent here by its owner and was startled for a moment, but it quickly knew that it had been to this place before and had even marked it, so it wasn’t flustered. It sniffed around, peed near the sheep pen to mark its territory, and then slowly began to observe the space.
It hadn’t been here for a long time, and it also found that the space had become much larger. There were plants and animals everywhere, especially the animals, which had increased a lot.
Its working instinct made it immediately settle in the breeding area after patrolling the entire space. When it saw the ram and the pregnant ewe playing, it even ran over to kick the ram away, lowered its body, and let out a low growl.
The ram subconsciously avoided it and went to the side.
Only then did Xixi continue to patrol its owner’s territory with satisfaction.
And at this moment, in the room, Ji Yang was squinting as she got dressed. Her consciousness was also paying attention to the situation in the space. Seeing that Xixi was feeling good, she was also very happy. She placed its breakfast and water where it could see them at a glance and also found a dog bed for it and placed it next to it.
However, Xixi seemed to prefer the land covered with weeds. After finishing its breakfast, it lay down on the land, wagging its tail, and seemed to be in a very happy mood.
Ji Yang was relieved and had also finished washing up. She busied herself with eating her own breakfast.
Thinking that she was going out and wouldn’t be able to eat anything good for a short period of time, she decisively chose to have a ‘Manchu Han Imperial Feast’ for breakfast: a small bowl of hot and sour noodles, two small steamed buns, one steamed dumpling, one pan-fried dumpling, one crystal shrimp dumpling, two bites of tofu pudding, half a fried dough stick…
After tasting everything, her stomach was also full.
Finally, she checked the house, took most of the things with her, extinguished the fireplace, put away the heaters, and took the batteries. Most of the food that was used to cover her tracks was also taken away by her. The bedding was all changed, leaving a relatively old set. The gas canister was also taken out, one that was almost used up. Only a few dozen pieces of firewood were left…
She couldn’t guarantee that this home would still be intact when she returned, so she didn’t want to make it too easy for the door-pryers.
But if something happened to the house, she would definitely make Xie Muzhi compensate her with a better one!
She didn’t feel the slightest bit of heartache when it came to fleecing a big shot.
After confirming that there were no suspicious points and that it wouldn’t be too easy for the bad guys, Ji Yang went out with light steps.
Lying flat was great, but an occasional bit of excitement was also good. Otherwise, if she were too much of a salted fish, even if she exercised every day, she would still suspect that her skills would decline, and her sense of crisis would also decline.
Ji Yang still drove her snowmobile over.
As agreed, at ten minutes to eight, she arrived at Xie Muzhi’s den, opposite the exchange point.
Hearing the sound, someone in the house quickly came out to greet her. Luo Laosan said with a smile, “Miss Ji is here. Hey, where’s that big dog? Didn’t we agree that I would watch it for you?”
Ji Yang parked the car where he had directed and shook her head. “I asked a friend to watch it. He also has a dog.”
Luo Laosan smacked his lips in regret. “I was thinking of petting that big dog.”
Ji Yang smiled. “When are we leaving?”
“Soon. Please come in first,” Luo Laosan’s attitude was very respectful. To be invited by the boss to participate in a mission, she must be very formidable. And the mission was a certain degree of danger. Regardless of whether Ji Yang was doing it for the jade, the fact that she had participated was enough for him to admire her.
After leading the person in, Luo Laosan said, “Miss Ji, I don’t know if you have arranged for someone to guard your home. If not, you can give me the address. I will arrange for someone to patrol there twice a day in the future.”
Ji Yang was just feeling heartbroken over her house. Hearing this, she immediately said, “Jiafu Community, Building 2, 1501. I’ll have to trouble you.”
“No trouble, no trouble,” Luo Laosan quickly shook his head, took out a pen and paper, and wrote down the address to avoid patrolling the wrong place.
Ji Yang followed Luo Laosan in. There were already quite a few people in the house.
A rough glance showed seven men and three women. With her, that made four women, a total of eleven people.
However, there were no government officials.
The mountain kings in Yun City were extremely disgusted with the government. In addition, they were criminals before the apocalypse and had dealt with the government a lot. They could recognize them at a glance just by their posture, just like when the government had come to check her gun, she could also tell at a glance whether the other party was a real government official.
Therefore, it was impossible for there to be any government officials in this operation.
Seeing that a new person had come in, the people sitting there were relatively cold and just nodded faintly.
Ji Yang also nodded faintly.
There were also a few who were more enthusiastic and simply greeted her. Ji Yang also responded.
Just as she had sat down for less than three minutes, the sound of a car appeared at the door. Luo Laosan immediately came over and said, “The car is here. Big shots, you can get on. Hey, be careful, have a safe trip!”
“Thank you,” Ji Yang smiled, put on her oversized hiking backpack, and got on the car.
The car was a modified truck. They got on from the back. As soon as they got on, they felt a blast of warm air. They saw a charcoal basin fixed in the middle, with charcoal burning. For safety, there was also a wire mesh cover on the outside to prevent the charcoal from splashing out when the car bumped. The sunroof was also open for ventilation.
At this time, there were already five people in the car. Xie Muzhi was sitting in the middle, and there were also three men and one woman.
When the two of them got on, Xie Muzhi took the initiative to give them a hand. It wasn’t until everyone was on that he closed the door and said in a low voice, “Next, I’ll call the roll. The person whose name is called should answer.”
After he finished speaking, he began to count. “Liang Yuan.”
A middle-aged man next to Ji Yang quickly shouted, “Here!”
“Gao Yan!”
“Here!”
“Lin Hui.”
“Lin Hui…”
After three times, no one answered. He continued to call the next person. “Ji Yang.”
“Here,” Ji Yang replied.
Xie Muzhi glanced at her and then continued to call. “Yan Cheng.”
“Here,” the cold young man opposite Ji Yang said.
Then, “Feng Yexing.”
“Here,” a female voice replied, sitting next to Yan Cheng.
Ji Yang felt that this voice was a bit familiar, but she couldn’t remember, so she gave up. Including Xie Muzhi, there were a total of sixteen people, and three were missing.
It was already a very large team.
After the roll call, Xie Muzhi didn’t say much more. He greeted the driver in the front row, and the car immediately started. Just a minute after it started, a voice seemed to be shouting, “Wait, wait,” but the car didn’t stop. The people in the car who heard this voice silently looked at each other. Seeing that Xie Muzhi didn’t react, they also pretended not to have heard.
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