Chapter 394: Bound to the Child-Bearing System and Becoming a Life Winner Chapter 395: Wasteland Gathering Daily Life (23)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

Another ordinary early morning

Shen Yao slept in a daze, and before she could even go out, Cheng Qi grabbed her.

"Didn't forget today's trip to the Planting Garden?" Why still want to run outside.

A wife who is too capable can also make people worry; Cheng Qi stroked Shen Yao's soft hair and simply had her sit down at the living room sofa to rest.

"The Planting Garden isn't urgent; I'll take you there. Any crops you want to harvest?"

The Planting Garden is under the jurisdiction of the Base Officials, with many different varieties of crops planted inside.

Currently mainly rice and wheat, with corn, kaoliang, millet, soybeans, and other crops interspersed around, as well as some commonly eaten, durable vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, white radish, potato, winter melon, and so on.

Today the Planting Garden opened the grain crop area, one person limited to fifty jin; their family has two people, so they can bring back one hundred jin of grain.

Compared to last year, there is indeed a reduction in quantity, but this year they can go to the Planting Garden more days; gains and losses balancing out, the total quota is still more.

"The family can buy white flour, so let's go to the rice area first," rice is more filling; once the staple food stock is sufficient, then consider other things.

Cheng Qi lowered his head and tapped his wristwatch, soon reporting the information upward.

In a short while, Shen Yao received a notification from the Base here; she was assigned to the Rice Field, to gather at the Base East Seven Star City Side Gate in half an hour.

Bringing food for noon, and filling two thermos cups with clear water, Shen Yao tidied her back basket, confirmed nothing was missing, and then went out with Cheng Qi.

Song Ling and Shen Jiancheng did not have such qualification; at this time they should be driving a tricycle outside to buy things.

"Mom, they said today they would go dig taro; I don't know if they've arrived."

Outside the Base there is a Taro Forest, inside growing taro of extremely large size.

However, taro can be eaten, but post-mutation raw taro has extremely potent effects; Song Ling loves eating this, every year she digs some back, to eat roasted taro at home during the Cold Season.

Originally they had agreed to go together, but Shen Yao suddenly got a quota to enter the Planting Garden, so she could only stand up Song Ling and Shen Jiancheng.

Sigh

Actually Shen Yao also likes taro, very much looking forward to this outing; during the Cold Season using taro to make desserts and brew milk tea, the taste is top-notch.

"The Taro Forest is not far from the Base; Mom and Dad always leave early, they should have arrived."

Cheng Qi looked up at the sky color above, took Shen Yao's wrist, and walked toward the East Seven Star City Side Gate.

At the Base East Seven Star City Side Gate many people gathered, each with big and small bags waiting to depart.

Others noticing the liveliness here cast envious gazes; after all, as long as one isn't blind one can tell they are going to the Base Planting Garden; who made the buses going to the Planting Garden have fixed colors?

Zhou Ying, not seen for a long time, also appeared in a corner Shen Yao didn't notice.

Zhou Ying, with greatly changed appearance and temperament, lowered his head, carrying a back basket heavy enough to crush him, silently withdrew from the crowd and walked toward outside the Base.

"Get on the vehicle"

Cheng Qi had other arrangements and couldn't accompany Shen Yao to depart together; but when Shen Yao returns from the Planting Garden, Cheng Qi can come to pick her up.

Boarding in line and sitting down, Shen Yao turned her head and could see Cheng Qi outside the vehicle.

Cheng Qi smiled and greeted the staff member responsible for vehicle safety; in his words he didn't specially mention Shen Yao, but the sharp-eyed staff member certainly wouldn't pass up a deal to gain favor, patting his chest to guarantee he would take good care of the person, so he wouldn't need to worry about the Planting Garden's safety.

Cheng Qi:... Is that something to be reassured about just because one doesn't worry?

"Pay attention to safety on the road; if there's trouble, run first; survive before considering anything else."

Cheng Qi sent Shen Yao a wristwatch message, prioritizing taking care of himself.

Shen Yao smiled and playfully replied "Understood," then hugged her arms and leaned back to close her eyes and rest her spirit.

The vehicle beneath them started, roaring as it drove toward the distance.

After about half an hour or so, the vehicle's speed gradually slowed, and everyone was brought into a golden yellow sea.

Around them rose and fell exclamations; so much mature rice, how much grain would that be?

The Base is indeed rich; even if it bleeds heavily during the Hot Rainy Season, it wouldn't suffer skin and bone injury.

Resolved to make the Base bleed more, Shen Yao frantically called the system: "Cancel spatial restrictions; this is so our mission can be completed better."

System:... Huh?

"The Cold Season is long; these past two years there's been no danger; I plan to have a child."

Finish the mission first, then better arrange subsequent matters.

Shen Yao, with a calm face, painted a big pie for the system, including but not limited to the benefits of sufficient grain, and that things inside the space cannot be used; she's currently miserable like this, yet can't accumulate some grain as a retreat route; otherwise if the Base has an accident, the two of them would truly have no way to survive.

System:... Suddenly realized

"Only temporarily open permission for now, and only a few cubic grids."

The system sneakily opened a back door for Shen Yao, while also having to guard against the Heavenly Dao Consciousness causing it trouble.

The Heavenly Dao here is crazier than last century; it's a warmonger who likes to take action.

The system previously couldn't contact the Host because it wanted to avoid the entanglement of the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, using going offline/shutting down to hoodwink.

Now reopening temporary spatial grids, the system truly took a huge risk.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao didn't care how wronged the system was; nothing compared to herself.

This is what being greatly wronged is? Other transmigrators get better and better; only I get worse and worse; simply unluckier than offending the Feng Shui.

Outside the rice field, staff members were already holding small signs to divide areas.

Don't look at this all being rice fields, but some cannot be harvested.

"Zone Three Row Two Plot 32"

Handed Shen Yao a badge and told her to line up at the front to collect tools.

Because rice yield was very important to the base, after they finished harvesting their own quota, they still had to finish the day's work for the base.

To prevent some people from secretly taking unauthorized rice grains back, the base issued them tools uniformly.

"What about my back basket? Are we not allowed to bring hemp sacks either?"

The noisy crowd around them was clearly very dissatisfied with the base doing this.

Pity that one's arm cannot twist one's thigh; if they said not to bring it, then it was not allowed, and if they really argued with the staff, they would be the ones to suffer.

The back baskets and hemp sacks were placed in a corner to be collected by themselves after finishing work, and Shen Yao obediently took her own share of work tools.

Zone Three

After walking forward for about ten minutes, Shen Yao finally reached her workplace.

The rice bent by the seeds looked pleasing to the eye; Shen Yao reached out to weigh the rice ears, and they felt somewhat heavy in her hand.

She directly cut down the entire rice ear with a sickle, then cleared a small patch around her where she could sit.

Shen Yao took out her wristwatch and tested the rice grains on the rice ears.

This was a very tedious and meticulous job; fortunately, the crops planted by the base had a high shipment rate, and before long she had filled half of her hemp sack.

Lifting it to feel the weight, it was over twenty jin; the progress was not bad.

Standing up to continue cutting rice ears and putting them away, Shen Yao cleaned up the portion assigned to her, and the following time passed to the dripping sound of her wristwatch.

Anyway, this field was full of people everywhere; except for someone like Shen Yao who had a space to store things and could smuggle without fear of being discovered, no one else could carry rice grains out without official permission.

Whether the rice shipment volume was high or low, for them who received a fixed quota, it held not the slightest appeal.

She pounded her shoulders and shook her neck, then stood up and walked around to move her body.

Shen Yao hurriedly handed in her day's task, so that her fixed quota would not be deducted when returning to the base; working herself to death and still not getting a hundred jin.

"You can go around the surroundings, but cannot leave the crowd, cannot enter some unharvested rice fields, return to the base at four in the afternoon, and cannot be late."

There was water around the rice fields, and people who finished work could move about freely.

Returning Shen Yao's own back basket to her, the staff member waved his hand, signaling the next person behind in line to step forward.

Shen Yao obediently left the crowd and instead went to the riverside not far away to stroll.

Rice needed water to grow; although the river here was not large, the water quality was clear.

The detection needle was inserted into the river, and as expected, the sound of moderate mutation appeared.

"No wonder the rice ears have a high shipment rate; the base is using this river to irrigate the rice fields."

Even the water the base drank internally needed purification tablets to clean, yet the crops in the planting garden ate so well; indeed, it was the base's treasure basin.

"System, look around to see if there's anything to eat; let's pick some to take back."

It was now two in the afternoon; she could continue strolling outside for another hour, and Shen Yao did not want to return to a place packed with people.

The system mobilized its positioning function and conducted a comprehensive scan of the surrounding area.

As a result, it did not scan any edible food, but instead discovered that danger was approaching.

"Host, run! A large snake is coming!" The system's words exploded directly in Shen Yao's mind.

Shen Yao stood up with a hum and ran back; "How long until the large snake arrives?"

She did not doubt the system was joking at all; no matter how much of a bastard the system was, it had a reputation guarantee regarding personal safety.

Since it said a large snake was coming, there definitely was a snake, and it was very likely to cause immeasurable losses.

Hurriedly calling the personnel responsible for patrolling, Shen Yao explained that there was a snake in the woods not far away.

"I, I was scared to death; that snake's head was as big as a car."

Under Shen Yao's extremely exaggerated description, the patrol personnel had serious faces, used their walkie-talkies in hand to alert the surroundings to stand guard, and then quickly summoned the personnel who had gone out back.

However, people sometimes would not die if they did not court death; the patrol personnel had no evidence, only Shen Yao's extremely serious description.

The timid ones directly dragged their back baskets and ran back, while the bold ones, relying on sufficient firepower around them, stayed in place and ignored everything.

Shen Yao hurriedly returned to the gathering point and asked when they would return to the base.

"Four o'clock."

They could not leave early, because the rice had not been harvested yet, the base's vehicle was not full, and it would not leave.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao simply ran back to the car and sat down, hugging her shoulders with both hands and remaining silent.

There were not many people in the car; someone like Shen Yao could be considered independent and unconventional.

The driver smilingly persuaded Shen Yao to go harvest; there was no lack of edible things like fish and shrimp by the riverside; coming out for a trip, she could not really just rely on that hundred jin grain quota, right?

Shen Yao:... What's wrong with just relying on that hundred jin of grain?

Oh, saying that was not quite right either; she had rice ears smuggled into her space, and their combined weight was over a hundred jin.

No matter how strictly the rice fields here were checked, it was impossible to arrange staff to watch one-on-one; as soon as Shen Yao noticed no line of sight was on her, she secretly threw the cut rice ears into her space.

Accumulating bit by bit, she had things in her space, but unfortunately could not test them, and still did not know how much was left in the end.

"Eh? Why is someone running back?" The driver suddenly sighed while looking at the rearview mirror, scaring Shen Yao into looking back; sure enough, many people who had thrown away their back baskets and hemp sacks were running, looking exactly as if monsters were chasing them from behind.

"Drive quickly in a moment, there is danger behind," As soon as Shen Yao's words landed, the driver received a transmission on his wristwatch, and this person immediately locked the car door in fright.

Boom boom boom—

"Open the door, open the door quickly"

The bus was smashed until it shook the heavens; the driver remained motionless like a mountain until the staff ran over, and only then did the driver open the car door, giving the wedding guests blocked at the doorway a chance to surge in.

"A large snake attacked the planting garden; the patrol personnel exchanged fire with it."

"Driver, drive away from here first and return to the base."

The staff member's legs were shaking a little; when getting on the car, if no one supported him, he was afraid he would fall.

Hearing this, the driver closed the car door to prevent the crowd that still wanted to squeeze into the car from entering.

Stepping on the accelerator, the car shot forward; by the time the driver got onto the Avenue, a series of booming tremors suddenly came from behind.

"It's the Base's cannons."

"Firing shells—how big would that Snake have to be?"

"Don't mention it; one mouth could swallow a person whole. How big do you say it is?"

"......"

The people in the car began to discuss it in a crowd, mostly curious about the Large Snake's Length.

Most people in the car were just repeating hearsay; none had actually seen it.

Because those who could escape back from the Riverside basically couldn't catch this car, and those who couldn't escape back were buried in the Snake's belly, so no one would speak of the Snake's Length.

Shen Yao shrank into her seat, eyes closed, sitting perfectly still.

In her mind, the System was watching the Planting Garden's liveliness together with Shen Yao.

With both sides fighting fiercely, Shen Yao and the System each bet on one side, the stake being the situation in the next world.

"Oh no, that Snake dodged, and the Inspection Personnel died in a swath."

The System explained diligently, never forgetting to put a mosaic over bloody scenes.

Shen Yao told the System not to worry about the Inspection Personnel, "We have Weapons; that Snake can't win."

No matter how thick an Animal's skin and flesh, it is still Flesh and Blood; the Planting Garden is the Base's painstaking effort, and the Base has poured who knows how many Resources into feeding it here. That Snake seemed to come with great momentum, but couldn't even break through the outermost Defense—losing was only a matter of time.

The System didn't believe it, "Host, you're speaking too confidently." Animals in the Mutated World gained too great an Advantage; humans could only fight back a little by relying on Weapons.

Shen Yao thought the System still didn't understand humans. Humans didn't occupy a place by relying on Weapons; humans relied on having useful Brains.

She told the System to keep watching and not speak; it wouldn't be long before both sides could determine a winner.

The System puffed up in anger; the Accuracy Rate of the data it calculated was very high. The Inspection Personnel had no chance of winning, so the Host could just rest easy and wait to lose.

Pity such a boastful scenario didn't last long; the change in the situation on the field left the System speechless.

The Large Snake with astonishing Defense Power actually fell!