Chapter 244: Chu Zhuohua, You're Dreaming Big

"What exactly did he modify?" Jing Shu asked, feeling a headache coming on.

Regarding Chu Zhuohua, she had the same idea as Chen Nan at the time. She originally intended to make up for the cost of Chen Nan’s camper van modifications, so she told Chen Nan she would chip in an additional 800 virtual coins to cover the cost of Chu Zhuohua’s modifications as well, and Chen Nan agreed.

But who would have thought Chu Zhuohua would use up all the precious materials? Jing Shu knew about memory metal combined with aluminum alloy; even if it got deformed in a collision, a splash of boiling water would restore it to its original shape.

"He turned it into a house."

Jing Shu: "???"

Chen Nan regretted it deeply. "It's probably something like a camper van trailer. But he used my only, most expensive, largest collectible antique all-terrain AT tires... It's practically a monster. You'll see when you come check it out."

So what exactly did he modify? And has her camper been finished yet?

Jing Shu couldn't stay there any longer. She had already caused Chen Nan trouble twice, and she felt guilty. She hastily handed over a blood mushroom and scurried back to her villa, deciding to check it out tomorrow.

"Ah, nothing beats being at home," Jing Shu said, changing out of her raincoat and into her home clothes. She laid on the sofa in the living room, made herself a fruit salad, and started reviewing the surveillance footage of Lin Yi over the past few days. In three days, he had only left the house twice, once returning with a package of medicine. Nothing else seemed out of the ordinary.

The The Fat Chicken fluttered around Jing Shu's feet, waiting obediently for scraps. Unfortunately for the chicken, it was destined for disappointment.

The villa had become a bit damp after three days of absence. Jing Shu’s father was in the yard replacing the desiccants, her grandmother was heating the floor with the boiler, her mother was using a warm-air blower to dry out the corners, and her aunt was wiping everything down.

Grandpa was cleaning the chicken and pig pens. After mixing spirit spring water into their food, the chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, and sheep were indeed voracious eaters—the feed troughs were spotless. Over the course of a few days, a significant amount of manure had accumulated.

Grandpa, reluctant to waste it, reached out to Wang Qiqi. For 4 virtual coins a month, he rented a small plot of land, built a shed, and set up a multi-tiered rack to dry the manure, intending to turn it into fertilizer. After all, in the apocalypse, there was no fertilizer, and they would need good fertilizer to grow crops the following year.

Due to the rain, Grandpa had even made a hand-crank blower to dry the manure, creating an indescribably pungent smell.

Jing Shu had mentioned the spirit spring, but ultimately, she decided to let her grandfather proceed with his plan. After all, growing good vegetables with well-made fertilizer provided a reasonable explanation to outsiders for the quality of their produce.

The family’s livestock feed was mostly homemade, aside from the stockpiles Jing Shu had bought before the apocalypse. Her grandmother and grandfather crafted additional feed, mixing red worms, vegetable scraps, and other materials to nourish the poultry.

Despite their efforts, Jing Shu's massive stockpile had already dwindled to half. If she didn’t want to rely solely on red worms as feed, she would need to think of alternative solutions soon.

Fortunately, the animals in her Rubik's Cube space didn’t have these concerns. The plants in her space’s fields were enough to sustain them, and there was even some surplus that she used to feed the livestock in the villa.

At night, while Jing Shu was taking a walk, she gathered the red worms from the four containers at home and transferred them into her space to feed her leeches. A few leeches remained in the villa’s yard, while the rest were in her space. After feeding both groups, she moved on.

Inside the small 4-cubic-meter space, a pile of blood mushrooms, now reduced to their stems, was fiercely guarded by the leeches. When Jing Shu scattered the red worms into the space, the leeches reacted like starving fish, frantically wriggling and competing for the worms.

The red worms fought back, as if they had encountered their natural predator. But the leeches, strengthened by the spirit spring, were fierce, and the worms were quickly devoured.

Jing Shu considered raising a group of red worms to act as sparring partners for the leeches. Moreover, after six months, the red worms would carry a virus, making them unsuitable as feed for the leeches. However, if she wanted to keep feeding her leeches blood mushrooms, she would need a steady supply of fresh red worms.

"Guess I'll wait until the space upgrades. Right now, it's just too small; there's no room for anything." Jing Shu sighed. The more space she had, the more she wanted to do, but it was never enough.

As for the animals in her space—chickens, ducks, quails, rabbits, cattle, sheep, pigs—feeding them was manageable. The biological cycle within the Rubik's Cube space formed a perfect loop, allowing everything to sustain itself.

However, maintaining this system required Jing Shu’s full attention every day. Whenever her gaze wandered off, it was likely because she was managing something in her Rubik's Cube space—feeding, cleaning, or harvesting.

The bees collected honey year-round, the bell frogs ate insects, and the leeches consumed red worms.

As for the five-step snakes... Jing Shu noticed that the baby snakes had completed their first molt, leaving snakeskin scattered across the space. This meant they were ready to eat. After much deliberation, Jing Shu decided to feed them the bell frogs.

Five-step snakes primarily ate frogs, mice, and insects. Previously, Jing Shu had been feeding them a mix of red worms and spirit spring water. But now, with so many baby snakes, they needed more nutritious food.

Frogs number 6 and 7 had already grown to several pounds, and they bred quickly. Rather than letting them go to waste, Jing Shu figured it was better to fatten them up for the baby snakes. This way, the snakes would grow stronger, and their meat would be even better for soup.

"I'm such a clever girl," Jing Shu thought, feeding the baby snakes after their first molt. In a few days, she would finally be able to soak them in alcohol, a thought that filled her with excitement.

After completing her day’s chores as the family’s animal caretaker, Jing Shu harvested another batch of crops from her fields before going to bed.

The next morning, after breakfast, everyone in the family went about their tasks. Jing Shu drove her shark-shaped submarine to Chen Nan's modification shop.

The sky over Wu City was still pitch black. Using her key, Jing Shu opened the now dilapidated workshop. In the empty garage, she first saw her MAN camper, and behind it, attached to two enormous wheels, was a small house.

Jing Shu’s jaw slowly dropped as she saw the house, illuminated by lights and pulsing with DJ music. "Chu Zhuohua! You’re dreaming big!!!" she shouted.

Now she understood what Chu Zhuohua had modified: he had attached a trailer house to her camper!

"Sure, that's a great idea!"