Chapter 621: Binding the Birth System to Become a Winner in Life Chapter 622 Spiritual Qi Revival Diary (15)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

Yu Ze Yun had a natural talent for currying favor with middle-aged and elderly people.

Others might say a lot without guessing preferences correctly, but Yu Ze Yun was different; in just a few sentences he could make Fu Chunfang beam with joy.

Shen Guozhu's expression remained stern, but it wasn't hard to see his satisfaction with Yu Ze Yun. As parents, nothing made them happier than their children finding a good match for marriage and children.

Yu Ze Yun satisfied them both in family and work; the only thing worth mentioning was that he was usually busy, but their own daughter also had a farm to manage. Oh well, they were small matters.

Shen Yao:...?

Shen Le grabbed Shen Yao's arm and said confidently, "Dad and Mom just think the Yu family is reliable, and Brother Yu can leave Brother-in-law Chen Peng in the dust."

Chen Peng and Shen Xin's marriage was in name only, but they hadn't gone through divorce proceedings, so everyone in the Shen family still habitually called him brother-in-law.

Shen Yao raised an eyebrow. "If the Chen family doesn't come, Eldest Sister can live in peace."

On the Shen family's side were Shen Xin's relatives, and since their daughter was an ability user, it was no exaggeration to say Shen Xin's life was better than most people in Sweetwater Village.

Shen Le chimed in with a couple of "mm-hmms," saying quietly that Shen Xin was much more normal than before. Although she was locked up alone on the third floor, given enough time, several siblings would surely go care for and visit her.

Besides, Shen Guozhu and his wife couldn't possibly abuse Shen Xin, and Chen Lili was a speed-type ability user who could earn a nice side income helping run errands. A life of eating and drinking without needing to use one's brain or hands was something many people dreamed of.

Anyway, Shen Le occasionally envied Shen Xin. Every time she went to Songlin Village to work, she had conflicts with the villagers. If she hadn't listened to Second Sister early on and pulled Grandpa and several uncles into the venture, the mountain forest she rented in Songlin Village probably wouldn't be safe.

After a meal where host and guest were both pleased, Shen Yao used the excuse of seeing Yu Ze Yun off to also meet the elders of the Yu family.

The meeting gift for a first visit naturally had to be prepared by Shen Yao, and it was placed at the farm.

Because of the Awakening Fruit, the Yu couple had both awakened support-type abilities, making them half-disciples of Shen Yao's wood-type ability.

Therefore, the Yu family knew Shen Yao's importance and abilities better than the Shen family did.

If Yu Ze Yun didn't have to go on missions after a while, they would have wanted to move up the wedding and bring the person home as soon as possible for safety.

"No rush. We two plan to discuss it at the end of the year," Yu Ze Yun revealed his tentative plan, with the main consideration being the current situation.

"The official prediction is that there will be several more earthquakes of considerable scale in the second half of the year."

The news Yu Ze Yun was about to share next was classified, so he hadn't mentioned it while at the Shen family's. However, Shen Yao would later remind the Shen family more tactfully to pay attention to safety. The Shen family wasn't as sensitive to these matters as the Yu family, and if things were explained too plainly, it could easily lead the Shen family into trouble.

"Conservatively estimated, the planet's overall area will expand two to three times."

By that time, even villages and towns originally connected to the urban area would be shaken apart.

The authorities had already prepared as much as possible in advance and planned to release the news in stages, so that those still alive could make early plans.

Yu Ze Yun's meaning was that the Yu family shouldn't leave the Sweetwater Village area during this period, and related relatives and friends could gather more around here. More people would eventually move here, so why couldn't it be the Yu family's faction?

The Yu couple thought along Yu Ze Yun's lines and agreed it made sense.

However, the Yu family had too many relatives. If they tried to rope everyone in without discrimination, the Yu family would first have internal strife.

"You don't need to worry about this matter. We'll discuss it with others later."

Yu Ze Yun's birth parents had elders above and children below, and were used to facing things together.

Even considering the situations of relatives with different relationships, they could implement a system of checks and balances, like a company—it couldn't be one-person rule, nor a chaotic mix. It was best to have several parties checking each other. Although it would affect development, it was the lowest-risk option.

Yu Ze Yun grunted in agreement and nodded. He believed in his parents' abilities; doing this kind of thing was as simple as drinking water and eating for them.

The four sat down for a simple meal, after which Shen Yao and Yu Ze Yun returned to the farm.

The two of them needed to discuss the farm's planning issues. After all, the farm's area would keep getting larger. Even though they had already brought in the authorities, Shen Yao still held decision-making power over the farm.

The authorities' role was mainly to deter and more conveniently obtain the farm's crops, and they offered no opinions on Shen Yao's farm management and planting.

Of course, if Shen Yao's behavior style was too outrageous, the authorities would definitely step in to manage.

Coincidentally, Shen Yao was a rare all-around talent, so the authorities naturally felt at ease leaving her to it.

Captain Sun even waved his hand, transferring the management and command rights of the squad stationed at the farm to Shen Yao. The implication was that as long as she didn't work them to death, she could use them however she wanted.

Shen Yao was both stunned by the authorities' generosity and had to bear the heavy burden on her shoulders.

This time when Yu Ze Yun returned, he brought back many strange seeds. Some were mutated plants from the modern world, some were newly grown varieties, or rather, species that had appeared out of nowhere.

"It's very strange. Its appearance and function are different from existing plant species on the planet. When we first encountered it, we thought it was a dead object."

Yu Ze Yun looked at the small teacup placed on the tabletop with a puzzled expression.

Well, it was that kind of cup one person drinks from, with patterns of different shapes around it.

Shen Yao raised her hand and touched it. The texture was different from a real teacup. It was actually a dormant seed.

A green light halo appeared on her fingertip and sank into the teacup. Soon, a layer of patterns on the outside of the teacup cracked open, revealing many small, fragile cracks.

Shen Yao stopped the operation, feeling the little ability left in her body, and pointed out that this seed was a big eater. You have to know her ability had increased several times compared to before, yet it was almost exhausted in just a few minutes.

"What does the laboratory say?" Yu Ze Yun could bring back one teacup, which meant the laboratory had at least ten.

Yu Ze Yun rested his chin on one hand. "Relying on wood-type ability users cooperating with each other, progress is not going smoothly."

Otherwise, he couldn't have brought back such a special seed, even though Shen Yao's reputation in the authorities was very prominent.

"Let's try it, but don't pin too much hope on it."

Shen Yao somewhat recognized the origin of this seed. After Yu Ze Yun left, she summoned the system and pointed at the teacup full of cracks, saying, "How could creatures from the Wasteland Apocalypse appear in modern times?"

This wasn't a species from the Cultivation World. Unlike the previous Half-Moon Spirit Lotus and Jinshou Buddha Melon, it was a creature from the Wasteland Apocalypse mutated by radiation, called a Basin Tree.

Because after this seed sprouted, the fruits it bore were basins the size of a face.

The material of the basins was different from ordinary metal materials. After all, they were still living creatures, just more durable than ordinary industrial products.

But how to put this thing? It was useful, but not indispensable.

That's why Shen Yao told Yu Ze Yun not to have too high expectations. Even if this thing was successfully grown, it wouldn't receive much attention. At most, it would be considered a novelty—once you've seen it, that's it.

"Host, Spiritual Qi Revival, Heaven and Earth anomalies—anything is possible."

It's just that wasteland end-of-days creatures ran into the modern world; the system babbled on telling the host not to make a fuss, saying planetary self-evolution abilities are bizarre beyond measure — who knows, this planet might be a bit out of the ordinary.

Shen Yao: ……

Shen Yao was amused by the system's theory; it treated her like a stupid person, thinking she's easy to fool, huh.

System: ……

The system knew its words couldn't fool the host, so it could only hem and haw and admit it had a tiny hand in this; it fairly traded with this world's consciousness, didn't let the other side get the better of the deal.

"Just you?"

Before it was just a mission-knowing naive sweetheart, later a tool system constantly white-looted by her — not that Shen Yao looks down on her own system, but pull it out and it just makes people unable to believe.

"Besides exchanging out wasteland end-of-days data and cultivation world data, do you have anything else?"

As the person bound together with the system, Shen Yao decided to start from her own side first, to properly probe just how much the system has sold.

Upon hearing this the system recalled a bit, and mentioned it had also sold several ancient world data sets, and as a convenience threw in infinite world intel at a friendship price.

Shen Yao: ……

Got it!

Why doesn't this system just lay out all their origins cleanly — does it still need to be praised for knowing how to do business?

System: ……Not necessary

Temporarily aligning stories with the system, Shen Yao pondered a moment then continued rummaging through that pile of stuff in her space; every world she would store a batch of supplies whether for eating or using, even the most useless ancient world — gold, silver, jewels and unpollinated grain and medicinal herbs, even all kinds of exquisite beautiful artworks — main principle: since you came, not taking a bit would be a loss.

Shen Yao eats anything, just doesn't eat losses.

So her space inside has all kinds of things slowly piled into a small mountain; anyway stored things don't spoil, the more worlds she goes to, the grander the scenes she witnesses, there'll always be a place for her skills to be used.

See, since basin trees have already appeared, those other comparatively abstract seeds should also make a timely debut — at minimum they won't be stranger than the basin tree before her eyes.

After Shen Yao searched carefully, she finally picked up a few abstract seeds on par with the basin tree from the nooks and crannies.

Yu Ze Yun gave her quite a number of seeds; mixing these few seeds among them, Shen Yao carried the seed bag and rode the little electric donkey to the mountain foot.

By now the sky had already dimmed; at the mountain foot a clearing had been cleared out because the medicinal herbs matured.

Shen Yao planted the seeds in sequence on the clearing, and mobilized the supernatural abilities already recovered in her body to give these seeds necessary guidance.

Who let most of these seeds be in dormancy — not awakened by supernatural abilities, waiting for them to wake up and take root and sprout on their own would stretch the time by several months.

Not all were planted; one, the ground area at the mountain foot wasn't enough; two, recent weather reasons — some seeds aren't suitable to plant now.

Shen Yao carried the remaining small portion back to the residence, planning to plant them in the plant room inside the residence; indoors temperature can be regulated, and she can observe seed growth anytime — a very good control experiment.

Seeds planted, next comes daily care; farm crops planted a new batch, all varieties possessing various resistances — like dwarf heat-resistant cold-resistant rice, large high-nutrition early-maturing sweet potatoes, high-yield low-maintenance potatoes……

Shen Yao planned these lands into zones, then handed them to the squad members living in the farm; she took charge of overall coordination and planning — wherever problems appear she goes there.

Such life though boring is also peaceful; occasionally accompanying both families eating and chatting with Yu Ze Yun, the two privately deepening feelings — when another earthquake struck, Shen Yao only belatedly reacted: Earth grew larger once again.

Farm's geographical location is good; every time it can white-pick up the extra land that appears.

Shen Yao paid money to sign contracts, called engineering teams to help repair walls shaken down, strung energy grids on top of walls and powered them — one process finished, new earthquakes followed in quick succession.

Yu Ze Yun's prediction finally became reality; the planet's successive expansions made the already turbulent world even more dangerous.

When the tea cup seed sprouted and flowered, the man who brought it back went on a mission again.

Yu Ze Yun didn't say when he'd return, only apologized to Shen Yao — outside conditions deteriorated extremely rapidly; even with official action, order still couldn't be stabilized.

At this time people like them need to step forward and solve problems.

Shen Yao smiled seeing Yu Ze Yun off, and also had to soothe the several elders of both the Shen family and Yu family.

Missions inevitably have casualties; previously the five ability users who walked out of Sweetwater Village (including Yu Xingye and Shen Shuo), one has already unfortunately sacrificed — even ashes were sent back.

Such news made the already not-very-at-ease elders on both sides even more anxious.

At such times Shen Yao is the existence that holds the fort; household inside and out she manages single-handedly, and her specially bred seeds still need the management bureau to take away timely — including that abstract basin tree, when carried away the whole scene was very quiet.

Time passed in one earthquake after another; her farmstead kept changing; more and more people came to live in Sweetwater Village; finally the village chief brought officials to the door — her farmstead needs to carve out a piece to build residences for those coming to seek refuge.

Village chief came over somewhat embarrassed; official personnel even a bit anguished — after all farmstead land is all very fertile; even planting the most ordinary crops, per-mu income is still shockingly bright.

Such a good place used to settle incoming people — if not truly no other place to free up, the officials as major funders wouldn't bear to part with it either.

Shen Yao followed the two to plan the farmstead, trying to allocate a portion near the outer side, preserving the area around the mountain foot for planting.

"Miss Shen, if there are new migration settlement tasks later, I'm afraid even this piece won't be keepable."

When cities become no longer suitable for living, the countryside's space will become increasingly narrow.

Sweetwater Village overall conditions are good; it's some people's first choice; if not for officials stepping in to block a hand, right now Shen Yao wouldn't just be drawing out a piece — half the entire farmstead would have to be abandoned.