Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 105: Damn, it’s coming for me!

January 2025, 1, there are only ten days left until the government estimates that the second disaster will occur.

Today is the day when Wanling City officially issues spirit coins. After three days of discussion by the Finance Department, the value of the copper spirit coin was finally set at one pound of potatoes, or half a pound of vegetables, or one or two ounces of mutant beast meat.

People engaged in ordinary work such as building the outer city and farming received a daily wage of five copper spirit coins, or one iron spirit coin.

This salary is enough to guarantee their daily life.

The restaurant on the first floor of the City Lord’s Mansion.

"Wow! This pork elbow is delicious."

Hu Li held a thick roasted pork elbow in both hands and kept gnawing on it, uttering exclamations from time to time.

Hong Pengfei next to him was much more reserved and was eating noodles slowly.

Although it was the first time he saw such a sumptuous breakfast after the apocalypse, it not only included various common breakfasts such as steamed buns, rice porridge, and fried dough sticks, but also rare meats such as barbecue, stir-fried dishes, and braised food.

"Not to your liking?"

Li Mu asked as he looked at Hong Pengfei who was only eating noodles.

“No, no, just.”

Hong Pengfei quickly put down his chopsticks and waved his hands. He didn't understand why the little girl next to him was so relaxed when having dinner with the city lord for the first time. Was she born to be thick-skinned and outgoing?
Anyway, he was a little embarrassed and didn't want to be so rude in front of the city lord.

"These dishes are all made from mutant beast meat. Eating more will help you awaken sooner."

Li Mu smiled and said, if you don’t eat well, how will you have the energy to help him with work later.

When he heard that these were all mutant animal meat, Hong Pengfei's eyes lit up. Then he no longer cared about his reservedness and picked up a pork elbow to start chewing on it.

Twenty minutes later, the two assistants burped at the same time, rubbing their bloated stomachs from time to time.

"Let's go, let's get down to business."

Li Mu stood up and walked down the stairs to the laboratory, followed by two assistants.

Pushing open the door, he led the two to the wooden rack where the mother plants were placed, "How many of these plants do you know?"

"This must be the fever konjac!"

Hu Li was the first to speak, pointing excitedly at a flowerpot on the third layer of the wooden rack, and then pointed at other plants and said, "Also, this one is blood wheat, and that one is street lamp flower."

She named more than a dozen plants in one breath, which really surprised Li Mu.

Hong Pengfei standing next to him was somewhat awkward. He had just taken a quick look and could only see that three of the plants looked like wheat, potato and tomato.

Li Mu clapped his hands. "It doesn't matter if you don't recognize all of them. I will explain the growth characteristics and functions of these plants to you in detail throughout the next day. Your future task is to continue recruiting people and then plant all these plants."

The two nodded gently like chicks pecking at rice, with excitement on their faces. After all, they might be the first people in the entire Wanling City to see all the magical plants.

Li Mu smiled slightly. The little assistants seemed very motivated. After I teach them, I can be lazy from now on!

"This is a rice bamboo, which combines the advantages of rice and bamboo. Its characteristic is that rice can grow in the bamboo nodes."

A week passed in a flash. On the first day, Li Mu introduced the detailed information of various plants to Hong Pengfei and Hu Li, and then handed over all the matters of recruiting people and farming to them, and then he became a hands-off manager.

However, the two did not disappoint Li Mu's trust. Although they were young, they were very organized. They understood their shortcomings and did not have much farming experience, so they immediately accepted the two people who interviewed with them that day.

Of the two, the middle-aged man is called Ke Tianze, who has been growing rice for more than ten years and is very experienced; the other old man is even more amazing, his name is Shi Yuanshang, and he is a retired professor of agronomy from Yangzhou University. His knowledge of various crops far surpasses Li Mu's!

After they joined, the four began to divide the work. Ke Tian was responsible for recruiting farmers to farm the land; Professor Shi was responsible for experimenting and recording various data of all plants, and teaching apprentices at the same time; Hu Li and Hong Pengfei were responsible for writing slogans and naming, and also investigating what functional plants were still missing in the city.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, the production department began to develop rapidly.

Li Mu, the leader, was also not idle. He had been busy these days infusing source energy into the hibiscus tree and promoting the birth of the lighthouse tree.

Thanks to his efforts, the little Golden Crow has grown from the size of a thumb to the size of an egg. Now the heat it emits inadvertently can instantly raise the temperature within a ten-meter radius by more than ten degrees!
With sufficient energy supply, the lighthouse tree maintains the frequency of ripening once a day and continues to scatter fruits to the outside world.

Five p.m.

Li Mu looked up and out the window. The sun had already set, leaving only the stars shining brightly in the sky.

"Phew, it's getting colder. It's about minus 100 degrees now."

The hot air that Li Mu exhaled was instantly frozen into swirling smoke.

The temperature has dropped sharply in recent days, dropping by an average of five or six degrees every day. This extreme environment is so severe that most people dare not go out after dark, for fear of dying of hypothermia.

The residents of the underground city are basically ordinary people. They only dare to go out to work during the three hours when the sunlight is strongest: from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the construction speed of the outer city has therefore slowed down.

But even so, he did not take out the Red Flame Fruit, because he always felt that he would need it more later.

Li Mu had trouble falling asleep these past two days. He didn't expect that the situation would become so bad just as the second wave of disaster was about to break out.

Who knows what kind of horrible natural disaster will come in those three days!
Just when Li Mu was worried, countless dense light spots suddenly flashed across the sky, instantly catching his attention. "Is this a meteor shower?"

Li Mu stood up and walked to the window. He looked at the stars scattered in the night sky and felt a little curious. Why did a meteor shower suddenly start at this time?
Legend has it that if you make a wish to a shooting star, your dream will most likely come true. However, he had made this wish several times before the end of the world, hoping to win 30 million in the lottery, but he had never succeeded once!

He never believed it again after that.

However, meteors are beautiful and short-lived like ephemeral flowers, so it is a blessing to be able to see them.

Thinking of this, Li Mu simply moved the recliner to the window, enjoying the meteor shower while drinking the wine in the glass to relieve his anxious mood.

"Hmm? This meteor shower is a bit long?!"

"It's been half an hour, right?"

Li Mu glanced at the watch on his wrist and was very surprised, but it would be better if it was a little longer so that he could look at it longer.

As Li Mu was staring at the meteor streaking across the sky, he suddenly discovered something that puzzled him: Why was the meteor getting bigger and bigger?
"Fuck! Why is this meteor getting closer and closer to me?"

"Are you coming for me?"

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