Chapter 284: Universal Planting System (23)

Xie Yang was so angry she laughed.

Very well! Universal Planting System, is that it? Stop jumping around! You're out!

The Sub-system was quite bewildered:

【Why! I am so good to the Host! I think of the Host and miss the Host every moment, and the Host doesn't even need to worry about the Planting Space. Is there any Sub-system more worry-free for the Host than me? There isn't, right?】

"..."

She really wanted to bundle this troublesome thing up right now and send it back to the factory.

This blockhead!

It had screwed her over!

The Main System hadn't expected this Sub-system to be so dense, shoving things directly into the Host's hands.

Now it was a mess; someone had seen it, and the Host probably felt like strangling them both.

It simply looked at its nose, then at its heart, and played dead without a word.

Xie Yang clutched the coconut, which felt like a hot potato, her brain spinning frantically on how to smooth this over, as the other party strode toward her with his long legs.

After he walked closer, Xie Yang realized he looked a bit familiar. Wasn't this the Gene Warrior she had encountered the first time she went to the Zone 1 Garbage Dump? She had heard the staff at the garbage station call him Major General Xing.

Just as Xie Yang was sizing him up, Xing Lan's cold, clear eyes also swept rapidly over her.

Her attire, even for Garbage Star, belonged to the most inferior and cheap category; it was clearly not the lightweight Combat Suit that Gene Warriors could claim two of every quarter.

After scanning her image from a distance, the Gene Warrior database returned a "No such person found" response.

Yet she was able to move freely outdoors without fear of radiation; how did she manage that?

Thinking this, he asked it aloud: "You are not a Gene Warrior, so how do you manage to move freely outdoors?"

Xie Yang: "..."

Ah, right!

She wasn't wearing an Anti-Radiation Suit!

Because the stretch from home to the Ice Lake had the Giant Cactus absorbing the toxic substances in the air, the air quality was even better than inside the shelter house. Being someone who loved freedom and was unrestrained, once she took off the Anti-Radiation Suit, how could she be willing to pick it up and put it back on?

"Is it related to this?"

Xing Lan pointed thoughtfully at the Giant Cactus behind her.

He had discovered this type of crop on the outskirts of District 1. Giant green plants like this, which seemed to pop up overnight, were not just "uncommon" across the entire galaxy, but quite rare.

After reporting it, he continued searching along District 1 to see if there were other such peculiar alien plants in other areas, and discovered there really were.

And there weren't just a few scattered ones; a total of twenty-one had been discovered so far along the flight path from District 1 to District 31.

And this one by the shore of the Ice Lake on the eastern border of District 31 was the tallest and largest among the discovered plants.

Upon exiting the Flying Vehicle, the fresh air he smelled actually gave him the illusion of being on a Habitable Star.

Xie Yang: Ah! It's good he isn't questioning the coconut in her hand.

She smiled at him: "You also think the air near this big guy is great, right? I discovered it by accident too. After I found it, I stopped wearing an Anti-Radiation Suit whenever I came near here."

Xing Lan looked around: "The air quality here is indeed quite good."

He took out a Radiation Tester and found that the radiation level here actually matched the air index of most areas on Yilan Star, second only to the Central Zone with the highest green coverage.

But the reason the air quality in the Central Zone of Yilan Star was good was thanks to the lush green plants, while here, there was no other vegetation besides this one plant.

This showed just how strong this plant's absorption capacity was.

He raised an eyebrow, walked around with the tester, and the conclusion he reached was much the same as the previous few times—

With this plant as the center, the radiation level within two hundred meters met habitable conditions; beyond this range, it was the same as before.

In other words, this type of plant could indeed absorb radioactive substances in the air, but there was a range limit, which was a radius of two hundred meters; beyond this range, it was out of its reach.

"Are you sent by the Federation to investigate it?" Xie Yang asked quite bluntly with her arms crossed. "You won't move it away, will you?"

Xing Lan was squatting by the Ice Lake testing the radiation level of the lake water. Hearing this, he turned his head to look at her and said:

"The Federation has no authority to dispatch me. I discovered it by accident and reported it to the Military Department. Your concerns won't happen for the time being. Even if the authorities intervene later, they won't act rashly before determining its cause."

"I hope you don't move it." Xie Yang deliberately revealed, "I finally managed to clear a piece of wasteland by borrowing its absorption ability, and I'm trying to figure out how to grow some vegetables. If it's moved, my vegetable garden plan will fail."

"Vegetable garden plan?" Xing Lan suddenly turned his head to look at her again. "Are you a Planting Master?"

"No, I just accidentally discovered that after the air quality improved, the soil environment also started getting better, so I tried soaking discarded seeds I scavenged from the ecological garbage dump and planting them in the ground. I didn't expect a few to sprout."

Xing Lan was just about to go with her to see the sprouted seeds she mentioned when his Light Brain received a message from headquarters, summoning him to return to his team immediately.

Time was tight, and he didn't even have time to ask for Xie Yang's contact information.

However, her shelter house was nearby, and he had already memorized the coordinates in his mind. It wouldn't be too late to come back and ask her about the seeds after finishing this Task.

He thought the sprouted seeds Xie Yang mentioned were just one or two; if he had known there was half a mu, he wouldn't have left in such a hurry, and would have definitely gone to take a look even if it meant delaying his return.

Xie Yang watched him board the Flying Vehicle and leave, witnessing with her own eyes the Radiation Tester in his hand disappear into thin air, and suddenly realized: So he had a Space Button! No wonder he turned a blind eye to the coconut that appeared out of thin air in her hand.

He probably thought she was like him, able to travel freely to other planets, so she could get a coconut?

If that was the case, could she disguise the Universal Planting System as a Space Button?

But forget it, better safe than sorry, lest she reveal a flaw after getting used to it and be unable to cover it up.

Xie Yang released the Salt Harvesting Gadget, dove to the bottom of the lake to collect the day's portion of sea salt, stretched, and headed home!

"Mommy! Come quickly, Zai Zai has finished watering the veggies!"

As soon as she entered the house, Xie Yang heard the little one's cheerful voice.

She smiled and went to the backyard, reaching out to catch a fluffy ball, and gave her son a kiss: "My Zai Zai is so capable! You helped Mommy water the vegetable patch so quickly?"

The little one's ears turned red from the kiss, and he answered shyly and happily: "Yes, yes, the veggies have all drunk the water Zai Zai fed them!"

"So great! What should Mommy reward Zai Zai with? I've got it!"

Xie Yang saw a bundle of branches and broken wood scavenged from the ecological garbage dump piled in the corner of the backyard, and there was still quite a bit of the metal plating she had scavenged left, so she decided to make her son a set of small playground equipment, such as a swing, a rocking boat, a slide, a climbing frame, and the like.

And so, Xie Yang's daily routine gained one more task: building a set of children's play equipment for her son.

She chose the site to the east of the shelter; the west was also wasteland, but it was beyond the suction range of the Giant Cactus.

A thought occurred to her: since the authorities had already discovered the existence of the Giant Cactus, they might install surveillance on Garbage Star in the future. Judging by that man's tone, the authorities would not act rashly before they had investigated things clearly...

Xie Yang rubbed her chin and had an idea.