Ch 94: TGCIR

Shen Cheng received over two million yuan from selling her house. Now she no longer has to worry about her family’s cub going hungry, Due to a recent slight increase in property prices in the small city, the amount she received was even more than she had initially estimated.

With over two million yuan, buying a house in the new first-tier city where she currently resided would only allow her to make a down payment on a mixed commercial-residential property or a new house that wouldn’t be ready for occupancy for several years. Shen Cheng had no intention of settling down, especially now that she realized her affection was for someone from another world. She had no plans to spend a large sum of money on real estate in reality. As for whether they could truly be together in the future, she could only say she hadn’t thought that far ahead.

Optimistically speaking, since Lan Lan could come to her world once, maybe one day she could go to his world by herself. Maybe one day she would go and never come back. Life was filled with so much uncertainty, but once a choice was made, one had to bravely face it.

Even in real life, couples, even spouses, couldn’t guarantee they would always stay together. It was pointless to agonize over whether they could make it to the end. The only thing that mattered was the present moment.

During the more than two months she had lost him, Shen Cheng had thought through these things thoroughly.

Of course, spending over two million yuan solely on games was impossible. But dividing it for use on daily necessities and purchasing short-term bank guaranteed financial products, then using the interest earned daily to play games, was quite comfortable.

If it wasn’t for Shen Cheng’s desire to maintain a certain social status, she could even live off the interest alone.

With nearly a hundred thousand yuan in interest earned in a year, Shen Cheng had earned nearly fifteen thousand yuan in interest in the past two months alone. After deducting some expenses for improving her living environment, she could now play games without restraint.

Li Weilan watched in astonishment as the base expanded madly, the deep metallic collisions never stopping. In just a few minutes, a living area as large as the original base was built.

Compared to her previous careful calculations and limitations in playing games, Shen Cheng could now be described as lavish. She bought over a hundred ordinary rooms and dozens of luxury suites in one go, leaving most of them for the base to allocate freely, taking only one room for herself and leaving it directly for Li Weilan.

Another huge change in the base was the hydroponic room. Shen Cheng hadn’t logged into the game for a year, yet even Xi Bei, who had just stabilized at the third rank, had reached the fifth rank. There were also more plant-based ability users in the base now, although most were only at the second or third rank. Despite this, the hydroponic room was now densely packed with a large number of plants.

Perhaps because she hadn’t logged in, the hydroponic room couldn’t upgrade and expand according to official requirements. The plants cultivated by these plant-based ability users could only grow densely in the room’s water tanks, striving to grow upward. At first glance, the room was full of greenery, but once the plants reached the ceiling, they started to fight for territory, intertwining and covering even the walking paths.

The trees were densely packed with various fruits, but the variety was still limited without the new species she could purchase, as the base’s development couldn’t support their growth in the hydroponic room.

Shen Cheng quickly clicked on the upgrade for the hydroponic room. A golden light surrounded the room, flashing five times in a row before stopping. After reaching the fifth level, upgrading the room and the base didn’t cost anything as long as the experience points were sufficient. After the hydroponic room reached the fifth level, its area expanded to more than twenty times its original size, and the variety of plants that could be grown increased significantly.

Xi Bei and the other plant-based ability users in the base also heard the announcement that the hydroponic room had been upgraded, and Xi Bei couldn’t help but recall when she first arrived at Noah’s base a year ago.

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She immediately understood what had happened over the past year. That boss, whether missing or facing some other issue, had never appeared.

Without her, brother Li became even more sharp and aggressive than a blade. Those who knew about their relationship might have thought they had fallen out, but no one dared to touch on his sensitive topic or inquire about the whereabouts of that person.

Enduring for a year, the hydroponic room ran out of space, and there was no way to renew the variety of seed crops. They could only come up with some solutions to barely meet the food needs of the base population.

Over the year, the situation outside had been getting worse, and more and more people hoped to live in the base. However, their capabilities were limited, and they could only do their best to accept a portion of them. They selected those who had a better chance of survival, more labor power, and were more loyal to the base. As for the rest, they were more like wishful thinking but powerless to act.

But now, things were different.

Xi Bei looked at the huge room and the large tank quietly flowing with colorless liquid. As soon as she stepped into the room, she could feel the active presence of wood element in the air. The trees swayed their bodies, expressing their satisfaction with the suddenly expanded space.

They no longer felt as cramped as before.

Moreover, the new nutrient solution tasted really good.

Their bodies began to grow, their stiffened branches started to stretch out. For the first time in over half a year, they didn’t need to input too much plant-based ability. Just relying on the nutrients in the water, the plants felt satisfied.

She could faintly hear the whispers of the green elements. A smile appeared on Xi Bei’s face as she reached out and plucked a red apple swaying on a branch. She sniffed it, catching a whiff of its mature fruity aroma.

She recorded the yield of this fruit under her own share. This was the first fruit produced after the expansion of the hydroponic room. She needed to take it to test the pollution level with Fu Yanzhou.

After finishing the food and accommodation tasks, a new prompt popped up in the game for Shen Cheng.

“Please check the current commercial status of the base and select trade goods for the base. Mission completion reward: Business Route 2, population 500.”

Commercial Status?

Shen Cheng remembered that the base had some trade dealings with merchants before. If she recalled correctly, when she built the electrolysis water room, she lacked platinum, and it was cub who helped her exchange with the outside merchants.

A year had passed, and the base should have had some commercial development.

Shen Cheng surveyed the situation in the base and found something quite puzzling. The base only had contribution points and a contribution point system. Regardless of what the people needed or wanted, if one family lacked something, they would basically exchange goods with each other. However, until now, the base had nothing luxurious to exchange, which resulted in a nearly zero commercial status at present.

Trade options were indeed a problem. Shen Cheng pondered the situation in the base, thinking about what they could trade with other large bases.

Trading weapons was out of the question. Selling weapons to other bases and then causing conflicts would result in greater losses than the benefits of commerce.

Food was also not feasible. Despite the high quality of food produced by Noah’s base, there were transportation losses and preservation issues, and most merchant caravans were unlikely to be equipped with high-level spatial ability users. Li Weilan’s situation was very special. Most spatial ability users didn’t have attack abilities, so they needed protection wherever they went. In merchant caravans, they were certainly not as safe as they were in some other large bases.

Selling food and weapons was ruled out, leaving only armor and medicine.

These two options were actually quite profitable. In the absence of healing ability users, medicine was more precious than anything else. Whether it was an ability user or an ordinary person, they were willing to pay a certain price for this extra guarantee of safety.

Shen Cheng included these two options in her consideration.

Speaking of medicine, Shen Cheng suddenly remembered the healing-type girl she encountered before. She had looked around the entire base and hadn’t found a single healing-type ability user. As a result, the base still didn’t have a treatment cabin or a prayer room. No matter what illness the ability users had, they mostly relied on taking medicine, going to the hospital, and seeing doctors.

Shen Cheng even wondered if there was only one healing-type ability user in the entire apocalypse.

After they missed her, the treatment cabin and prayer room would never open again.

However, Shen Cheng always felt that the treatment cabin and prayer room sounded like something from a charlatan.

Thinking about it, if they had accepted that tree that could produce Mana as food and accepted the healing-type ability user into their base, the entire base could have adopted a charlatan style. In that case, the name Noah might have been more fitting.

Shen Cheng checked the current prescription and medicinal fields of the base. Noah’s base currently only produced one type of medicine, which was an external universal healing potion, commonly known as the Little Red Bottle. When ingested, it mainly facilitated rapid recovery from external injuries.

However, this medicine mainly targeted external injuries and had no therapeutic effect on common ailments like colds or runny noses. Additionally, it lacked a means of replenishing abilities if exhausted.

Shen Cheng checked the system and found that the pharmaceutical factory could produce “Common Disease Universal Healing Potion” at level two, “Ability Replenishment Potion” at level three, “Aging Delaying Solution” at level four, and “Limbs Regeneration Potion” at level five. Shen Cheng wasn’t very interested in selling practical potions at levels one to three; instead, she prioritized level four and five potions.

Even in the apocalypse, there were still wealthy and privileged people.

Among these people, there would surely be some willing to pay a huge price for aging delay and limb regeneration.

After upgrading the medicinal field and pharmaceutical factory, Shen Cheng realized that the raw material for the Aging Delaying Solution required royal jelly as a base material, while the Limbs Regeneration Potion required the cultivation of high-grade ginseng.

It seemed that the pharmaceutical factory would refine the essence of these two already quite precious medicinal materials and then synthesize them into potions.

Beekeeping was required for royal jelly, and ginseng seeds needed to be purchased in cub’s space. Shen Cheng looked at the location marked as the Queen Bee’s Nest on the map and decided to go buy the ginseng seeds first.

As soon as she opened Li Weilan’s space, she was immediately shocked.

This is cub’s space?

Endless waves of wheat fields filled the horizon, and the warehouse was packed to the brim with harvest.

Just how hard did cub work during the time she was offline?

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