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Another person has died. Just a few hours ago, he was a living, breathing individual, still competing for water in the group chat. Now, he had become a corpse…
A sense of panic spread throughout the chat group. Several people were asking what had happened, how things had become so severe that it led to death. At the same time, everyone was furiously cursing Supermarket Owner Bai.
Wang Xuemei, Building 2: “Supermarket Owner Bai, you knew it was industrial water and still sold it to us at a high price. What are you thinking? People like you who make black-hearted money should just die!”
Young Madam with Kids, Building 13: “Good thing I didn’t get water today. The chickens, ducks, and pigs outside are all diseased, the water is industrial water, vegetables are being sold at dozens of times their normal price. We’re scorched during the day and freezing at night—when will the Dark Days end?”
Wind, Building 3: “Luckily, I only drank a few sips before getting my stomach pumped. Supermarket Owner Bai, you owe me compensation!”
Wang Qiqi, Building 13: “Everyone, neighbors who bought water, please don’t drink it. Today, we should thank @Jing Shu from the villa area for reminding everyone; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.”
Luxury Car Dealer, Building 5: “If I had known it was industrial water, @Jing Shu from the villa area, why didn’t you stop us from buying it? What’s the use of a reminder? I still got heavy metal poisoning. The hospital doesn’t even have a bed available, so I have to get an IV drip in the hallway tonight!”
Wang Qiqi, Building 13: “Also, everyone, rest assured that Supermarket Owner Bai has been beaten until he can’t take care of himself by Jing Shu’s father, Jing An from the villa area. The police even issued a commendation and confiscated all the supermarket’s supplies. It’s expected that after the Dark Days, a new supermarket will move in. If you need to buy anything, you’ll have to go to the Aijia Supermarket 7 kilometers away.”
In the past few days, more people have joined the group, and everyone is very concerned about this matter. Upon hearing that there was no longer a supermarket, they began to complain: “The supermarket sells fake water; they should compensate us with the supermarket’s goods. Aijia Supermarket is so far away, it’s such a hassle to go there. Whoever drove the owner away should open a supermarket themselves,” and so on.
At this moment, Jing Shu’s father, who had read the chat history, spoke up.
Jing An from the Villa Area: “Luxury Car Dealer, Building 5, is the hospital Wi-Fi still working? Are you at Yuewen Hospital? [Smile]”
That [Smile] emoji was really memorable for everyone. Earlier that day, it was this person who asked whether the supermarket owner was around, and then the supermarket owner was beaten until he couldn’t take care of himself, and the police even issued a commendation. This person used actual actions to tell everyone in the group: if you can take action, don’t just talk. Unlike those who only dare to curse in the group.
The group chat suddenly fell silent.
Two minutes passed, and still no one spoke.
Jing An from the Villa Area: “Luxury Car Dealer, Building 5, you’re at the same hospital as Luo Hao, Yuewen Hospital, right? [Smile]”
Luxury Car Dealer, Building 5: “No, no, really, not the same hospital. I’m sorry, I was just talking nonsense earlier. Jing Shu from the villa area. I was wrong, I’m sorry. Please tell your dad not to be impulsive.”
Jing Shu snorted upon seeing this and replied, “Helping you is a favor; not helping is our duty. Don’t whine here, or my dad might teach you a lesson.”
Luxury Car Dealer, Building 5 frantically typed: “Damn it! I’ll kill you! Who’s afraid of whom, you little b*h!” Then he quickly deleted it, typed another line, deleted it again, and finally said: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
People who work in sales customer service often have this habit: when they can’t provoke someone, they can’t curse them directly, so they type out the curse but don’t send it. However, the Luxury Car Dealer, Building 5, didn’t know that once he accidentally sent the curse to Jing Shu, and then…
On the other hand.
“So ‘My dad is so-and-so’ is really useful; it feels great.”
“Just wanted to scare him a bit,” Jing Shu’s father chuckled naively.
In this life, her timid dad and mom seemed to be changing little by little.
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Although Jing Shu had been very busy during this time, she still inspected the little cuties in her space every night and practiced the 6th-order Rubik’s Cube. The improvement in her physical fitness also enhanced her mastery of the Rubik’s Cube.
At the same time, she made a new discovery: the 12 plots of land in the 5th-order Rubik’s Cube still consumed 1 drop of spiritual spring water per plot per day, but the space’s daily production of spiritual spring water had increased from 20 drops to 26 drops. This made Jing Shu very excited. Previously, she had been afraid to overuse it, but now she could finally let loose a bit.
Currently, Jing Shu uses about 5 drops of spiritual spring water per day to feed the livestock, her family, the fish and shrimp, and the bees. Jing Shu planned to start feeding Number 1, the battle chicken, with spiritual spring water again. Number 1 had been performing very well lately—when she told it to go east, it didn’t go west. It was very intelligent and aggressive. Jing Shu wanted to see if she could cultivate a real battle chicken.
In the future, when others unleash their dogs, she will unleash her chicken—capable of fighting and laying eggs—a perfect chicken!
The vegetables and fruits she had newly planted in the Rubik’s Cube space last time had all matured. Jing Shu transplanted some of the tomatoes, eggplants, and baby cabbages into the conservatory and vegetable garden, saying they were expensive purchases from outside. Now, vegetable prices were skyrocketing, and supply couldn’t meet demand. Families with yards had planted some, but many were wilted by the high temperatures. Indoor mushroom cultivation has become popular recently.
Garlic was placed in the living room, occupying her father’s entire bookshelf with trays. After peeling the garlic, she arranged them in trays, added some diluted spiritual spring water, and within a few days, garlic sprouts grew—harvest one batch, and another would grow.
A tray of garlic was definitely a high-end gift in the post-apocalyptic world. Jing Shu had to prepare in advance. In her previous life, her mother was demoted at a critical moment, causing the family not to enter the system. In this life… Jing Shu was ready to help her “Bun Mom” advance further.
Then she replanted pumpkins, soybeans, and potatoes—these easy-to-store crops—to be stored in the basement, occasionally making pumpkin porridge or fries.
The main crop she planted was soybeans. In the apocalypse, they were truly useful. They could be used to extract oil; the residue could make steamed cakes. They could be ground into soy milk, tofu skin, tofu, dried tofu sticks, moldy tofu, etc.; and they could be sprouted into various bean sprouts.
In the apocalypse, if you wanted to get things done, when shaking hands with someone, you could secretly pass them a handful of fresh soybeans, and they would surely give you a knowing smile.
Actually, Jing Shu planned to use half of the soybeans to make crispy soybeans. After deep-frying, they were fragrant and crispy—a handful in your mouth to slowly chew as a snack. They could be added to fried rice noodles, hot pot ingredients, plain noodles, and served as a side dish with pickled sour beans. One bite of crispy soybeans, one bite of sour beans… *slurp!*
So delicious, so delicious, Jing Shu was drooling again.
As for fruits, besides focusing on watermelons and oranges, Jing Shu also planted lemon trees, which finally matured after more than half a month of waiting.
When she had the 4th-order Rubik’s Cube space, the bees produced 100 jin (about 50 kg) of honey. Since upgrading to the 5th-order Rubik’s Cube, production has doubled. Now, she had accumulated 2 liters of royal jelly and 400 jin (about 200 kg) of honey, which was equivalent to twice the annual production of ordinary beekeepers.
This was still the result of limited black soil planting in the Rubik’s Cube space; otherwise, the yield would have been higher. It sounded like a lot, but it was only one-fifth of a cubic meter of space.
After finally waiting for the lemons to ripen, Jing Shu washed them, sliced them, soaked them in honey, and refrigerated them for three days. After storing them in her space, she filled the space with ice water—the 1-cubic-meter iced lemon honey water was ready!
In this scorching apocalypse, how about a glass of iced lemon honey water?
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Author’s Note:
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