Chapter 1179: New-Material Water-Fertilizer Integrated Machine

Within the northern Zone 1 territory of Radiance Three Base, scenes of busy farming could be seen everywhere.

Xia Qing, who was leveling the ground in the shed, heard Tang Huai's voice on the walkie-talkie asking, "Sister Qing, how many mu of overwintering wheat are you planning to plant this year?"

Tang Huai was calling her at this time probably because he was worried there was a problem with the call she received when entering the territory, so he was using this method to check on her situation.

So Xia Qing pressed the walkie-talkie button and answered calmly, "Five mu."

Hearing Xia Qing's reply, Tang Huai breathed a sigh of relief. "But I've got plenty of people on my side, so I'm planning to plant thirty mu. Five mu by yourself is quite a lot. Can you handle it? Should I come over and help you clear some weeds and spread some fertilizer?"

Wen Nengjie immediately came online to make his presence felt. "Sister Qing, the fields on my side for wheat and rapeseed are already cleared. Should I come over with Brother Huai?"

Xia Qing naturally refused. "No need for now. I'll call everyone when I need help."

"Got it, Sister Qing. Just give us a shout if anything comes up." Having successfully made his presence felt, Wen Nengjie silently continued spreading manure.

To grow good crops, he had even dug out the feces from the toilet to ferment.

Lord Huo Lei came online. "How many mu of winter wheat is everyone planting? I'm afraid of losing money, so I'm only planting three mu. This winter I plan to sun-dry the soil and stockpile more fertilizer, then plant more spring wheat next year."

During its growing period, winter wheat has to go through one Harmful Snow and two Harmful Rains. By the time it matures, green-light wheat will turn yellow-light, or even red-light.

Spring wheat planted after the first Harmful Rain of spring only needs to go through one Harmful Rain during its growing period.

If seeds with the same Harmful Element content are used, then the Harmful Element content of spring wheat at harvest will definitely be lower than that of winter wheat.

Does spring wheat have less nutritional content and worse taste than winter wheat?

These are disaster years when having grain to eat is already something to thank the heavens for—who the hell still cares about taste?

Xia Qing planted winter wheat not to obtain better-tasting grain. It was because her eleven years of struggling to survive had left her with an extreme lack of security.

Blue Star is still evolving, and no one knows whether even more severe disasters will appear next, ones where even crops cannot be planted. So Xia Qing had to take advantage of the time while Blue Star's climate was still relatively normal to plant more grain and stockpile more grain.

If grain weren't so scarce right now, with people starving to death every day, Xia Qing would exchange all her points for food to stockpile and boost her sense of security.

Additionally, she was indeed the only person in Territory Three, but she raised many grain-eating animals, so she had to plant more grain.

Once the busy farming season was over and the Hardness-Evolved bamboo leaves she harvested during the third Harmful Rain were dried, Xia Qing planned to build four more greenhouses to put into use next spring, planting more high-quality grain to stockpile against disasters.

Qi Fu came online. "The sheds for planting wheat are best placed close to the greenhouse, ideally with greenhouses in front and behind to block the cold wind."

Xia Qing's good neighbor Zhao Ze also came online. "Brother Qi is right. I considered the same thing, so I'm currently clearing out the two sheds in the middle."

"Me too." Xia Qing replied briefly and stopped chatting. She followed the water flow, shoveling the soil on the surface and tossing it to the lower areas that already had water.

Zhang Hongda, a Three-System Evolver who had taken over from Yue Haiying as Acting Steward of Territory Fifteen, asked, "Is everyone still planting rapeseed this winter?"

Shi Mu pressed the button. "The rapeseed we harvested this spring didn't produce any breedable optimized seeds—they were all yellow-light, so we can't plant them. Da Zi, can you get your hands on high-quality rapeseed?"

Seeds that even Kuang Qingwei couldn't get his hands on, Zhang Hongda naturally couldn't get either. "We've got seeds harvested in spring with a Harmful Element content of just over six on our side, less than half a jin. We're planning to plant all of them."

"We're not planting any either." Yuan Yan came online. "Sunflowers have higher yields, are easier to manage, and have a higher oil extraction rate than rapeseed. Planting rapeseed is worse than saving fertilizer to plant sunflowers next year."

Wen Nengjie thought it over, and it really was the case. "Then I won't plant rapeseed either. I'll plant two more sheds of wheat. My rapeseed quality isn't high either."

Although he didn't have a Yishi, Wen Nengjie, who had crawled through piles of corpses for ten years, felt the same sense of urgency as Xia Qing, wanting to seize the time to plant more grain.

Kuang Qingwei came online. "When we planted rapeseed back then, we were thinking of raising bees during the flowering period, but our rapeseed variety wasn't stable enough, and the honey brewed from the flowers wasn't good either."

The topic naturally shifted to beekeeping, and everyone chatted with great enthusiasm.

Xia Qing only listened quietly to the lords chatting. Working with her companions all morning, she cleared the weeds from the five greenhouses where wheat was to be planted, leveled the plots, spread fertilizer, and watered them thoroughly.

At lunch, Sheep Boss got abundant forage, Wolf Lao Er got boiled eggs and green-light meat, Daigua got a small spoonful of honey, and Old Four and Scarface Junior Wolf got three eggs and a bowl of meat soup.

Xia Qing heated up steamed buns and made egg-drop spinach soup, happily gnawing on the green-light meat Sister Ping had braised.

The meat was so delicious that when Xia Qing went in the afternoon to greet Seeing Xin Yu, who had been brought back by the Heavy Alliance Group's helicopter, she brought her two jin of braised meat, and Xin Yu brought Xia Qing back two sets of water-fertilizer integrated machines.

Seeing Xin Yu, who often visited Territory Three, knew that Xia Qing's terraced fields contained High-Yi Element soil, so she used the terraced fields for breeding to cultivate higher-quality crops.

Grain crops didn't need frequent watering during breeding, but vegetables were different. Vegetables like cucumbers, water celery, spinach, lettuce, and oil-wheat vegetables that liked water but feared waterlogging needed a little water every day.

Xia Qing was so busy every day her feet barely touched the ground, and she had to carry water with her Strength-Evolved sheep to irrigate the fields. In Xin Yu's view, this was extremely hard work.

So she took this opportunity to return to the company and secured two sets of new-material equipment newly developed by Heavy Alliance that were insect-bite-proof and resistant to extreme cold. When Xia Qing called her, Xin Yu asked if she needed them.

If she didn't need them, Xin Yu would still bring the equipment back to use in her own territory.

With such good equipment that couldn't be mass-produced due to scarce raw materials and wasn't publicly sold, Xia Qing naturally wanted it.

She was now a senior sniper, and everyone at Radiance Three Base knew she had earned over a million points on a mission a few days ago, so spending 110,000 points to install two sets of new-material water-fertilizer integrated machines wasn't anything out of the ordinary at all.

Xin Yu, carrying the equipment and construction team to exchange with Xia Qing, successfully shook off the Yu family's attempts to keep her by both soft and hard means, and returned to the territory under the personal "escort" of Yu Wenchuang.

Seeing the top sniper Xia Qing standing inside Territory Eight waiting for Xin Yu, Yu Wenchuang thought of his painful experience over the past two months of having prices ruthlessly haggled down by Yang Jin, and didn't want to look at her one more second, because the sight made his flesh ache.

Unexpectedly, the moment Yu Wenchuang turned his head, he actually saw Mongoose, the special forces team member from Radiance One Flood Dragon who had beaten him up together with Yanlong! This time it wasn't just his flesh that ached, even his bones hurt.

Because that damned woman had kicked his arm and broken it...

After the workers unloaded the equipment and supplies from the helicopter, Zhou Zhaoping, all smiles, urged Yu Wenchuang to stay in the territory for a few days. Yu Wenchuang very politely declined, and after "sincerely" lecturing Xin Yu for over ten minutes, establishing his persona as a good cousin, he boarded the helicopter and left this stinking hellhole.

"Hoo—"

After the helicopter took off, Xia Qing heard Mongoose, who was standing beside her, let out a long breath.

Xia Qing understood Wang Man's feelings, because she herself couldn't resist wanting to rush up and kick him a couple of times—one kick to send Yu Wenchuang into the helicopter, and a second kick to send the helicopter flying!

Xin Yu researching explosives must have been driven mad by these people.