Chapter 39: The Confidential Coordinates

Rising from his embrace, as long as she herself wasn't embarrassed, then it was others who would be.

Ruan Mian thought this to herself, squeezed her palms, and felt a little bit of awkwardness.

"You've already bought it back? It is a bit fierce."

Huo Junze changed the subject, and the ambiguous atmosphere from just a moment ago dissipated completely, which also conveniently avoided any embarrassment.

However, his gaze fell upon the pig in the cage, which was nothing but skin stretched over a skeleton, and he still revealed his distaste, his high-bridged nose even wrinkling.

It was truly quite smelly, and its backside was also stained with a large amount of yellowish-brown feces.

Any normal person would find it somewhat repulsive.

"Mm, I reckon it's hungry."

Because the pig's gaze was glowing with a green light, exactly the same as those chicks when they first saw vegetable leaves.

Its gaze was fixed straight onto the clusters of green leaves.

Ruan Mian pulled a handful of vegetable leaves and walked over.

The pig in the cage had already stood up, its long snout already opening uncontrollably.

She still carefully handed them over, and the little pig finished them in two bites.

After eating, it kept oinking, not yet full, and by the looks of it, it still wanted to eat.

There was some helplessness in Huo Junze's eyes, and his voice lowered, "Pigs as animals just eat quite a lot, and they can grow very large later on."

Ruan Mian nodded immediately; she wasn't afraid of it eating, she was only afraid it wouldn't grow!

"Alright, alright, 917, hurry up, go cut a big pile of sweet potato vines for it!"

917 received the instruction, turned around, and immediately walked toward the sweet potato vines.

With a knife in one hand and the sweet potato vines in the other, with a flick of the wrist, it cut a whole pile.

It made Huo Junze's heart ache to watch.

He simply turned his head to look elsewhere and saw Ruan Mian walking outside.

"Where are you going?"

Ruan Mian raised an eyebrow and gestured with her chin toward the courtyard outside, "To build a nest for the little piggy."

Huo Junze's gaze fell upon her slender arms, and the moment he thought of her building a house, he was afraid she would snap them.

"I'll go help you."

Help her?

Huo Junze watched with his own eyes as the person before him squatted on the ground, her hands emitting a faint green glow.

Then he saw a green branch sprout out rapidly.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, it quickly elongated and thickened.

When it was about the thickness of a thumb, she stopped, then wrapped these vines around the iron bars, weaving them into a large fence.

She continued to channel her ability, forcing the vines to become completely thick and sturdy, growing to half a person's height.

The lush green leaves grew very densely and looked quite beautiful.

She continued to set up an iron frame overhead and kept channeling the vines.

A simple, ordinary pigsty was finished.

She poked the arm of the person standing there in a daze.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Ruan Mian looked into his eyes, and there seemed to be some surprise in his dark pupils.

How could he not be surprised!

He thought she would use some sheet metal to make it, or at the very least, he could just scan for a pet house on the Light Brain.

To save the trouble.

But he never imagined that she would build a hut in this way.

"How could it be like this..."

He suddenly felt very envious of this pig; why was it able to live so well!

"This is more convenient, don't you think? Plus, it's well-ventilated, and the thick leaves on top can provide shade and block out the heat during the day~"

A piggy still needs to be raised delicately; it can't get sick, and who knows if there are any veterinarians or anything around here.

She suddenly thought that her own courtyard should also have a few big trees planted for shade.

Now that she had the protection of a powerful ally, she had to make good use of everything!

However, this pigsty was still missing something...

Oh right, there was also the pig's feces, but that was a good thing; the land here still needed to be nourished, and she couldn't keep relying on her using her ability to force-grow crops one by one in the future.

This organic fertilizer could be used on these crops just right.

But now she had to dig a big pit.

"917, come here, come here."

Huo Junze's arm reached out first to grab the wrist she was about to turn away with.

"Where are you going?"

Ruan Mian pointed toward the direction of the pigsty, "I need to dig a big pit behind there to dispose of the pig's feces."

Hearing the word "feces," Huo Junze's brow furrowed, and one could feel his disgust.

"There are machines specifically for processing feces; they are sold on the Light Brain."

He really wanted to say he would buy one for her, but he saw the person before him shake her head.

The refusal in her eyes didn't seem fake, "No need, no need, I have my own use for this feces!"

What use could such dirty, smelly, and disgusting things as feces possibly have?

917 had already walked over a step ahead to interrupt their conversation, heading straight toward the pigsty to carry out the order.

Ruan Mian was preparing to go plant two more large trees, but her gaze fell upon the small sapling she and Huo Junze had planted.

She still tentatively asked aloud, "Huo Junze, do you want to see what the big tree you planted will look like when it grows up?"

Huo Junze looked at her and nodded, his thin lips pursed and slightly curved, his eyes filled with anticipation.

"Okay."

"Aren't you curious about my ability?" His failure to ask anything at all left Ruan Mian full of confusion.

A normal person would be very surprised to see an ability like his, and then curious.

How could he be like this, saying nothing at all?

"I am curious."

His tone did not sound curious in the slightest.

"Is your Mental Power capable of controlling plants?"

Ruan Mian shook her head and stated a fact that surprised him, "I don't have Mental Power."

How could that be...

Huo Junze looked at everything around them, then thought of her age on the contract, and understood in his heart.

She must have been abandoned by her family for having no Mental Power.

For a moment, an endless feeling of pity welled up in his heart.

How did she manage to survive with such a thin and weak little frame?

If it weren't for these plants, would she have already ceased to exist?

He found it hard to believe.

"But what is lost in the east is gained in the west; heaven hasn't treated me too poorly. Although no Mental Power was detected, it gave me other abilities. Isn't it magical?"

Anyway, since she couldn't explain where her Plant Ability came from, she simply made something up and would let him guess the rest himself.

"It is not exactly magical. I have seen citizens before who did not awaken Mental Power but possessed abilities in other areas, though none as precious as yours."

That was good, that was good; she wasn't the only anomaly in the Interstellar.

With her life gaining another layer of security, Ruan Mian patted his shoulder in a good mood, though she still had to stand on her tiptoes to do it.

"Let's go, Huo Junze, let's go plant trees!"

"Report, Marshal, the source of the items has been found!"

As soon as Zhou Rui finished speaking, the man sitting behind the desk cast a sharp gaze over.

"Speak."

"We checked and it is being sold by a shop on the Light Brain, but the amount sold each day is limited, so the quantity of plants in their hands is likely not large."

Qin Xiulin tapped his fingertips on the tabletop irritably, "Did you find the coordinates?"

Zhou Rui shook his head, looking regretful, "There are no coordinates. We only found that it belongs to a contract under the Huo Group; everything else has been kept confidential."

"Huo Group?"

Qin Xiulin's gaze was somewhat cold...