Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 116: One Life, Two Brothers
On the top floor of the Interior Affairs Building, in a spacious office.

"Cai Ning, have you finished transcribing the breathing method?"

Yao Chengcheng looked at the man in front of him and asked.

"There are 300 copies in total. All have been copied. This is a sample. Please take a look."

Cai Ning took out a booklet from his briefcase and handed it to Yao Chengcheng respectfully.

Yao Chengcheng opened the booklet with the words "Basic Breathing Method" printed in large letters on the cover and read it carefully.

Three minutes later, he found that the manuscript was quite attentive. Not only was the text exactly the same as the original, but even the patterns were restored one to one.

Nodding with satisfaction, he smiled and said, "Well done, I'll send them all out tomorrow morning."

Cai Ning quickly stood up and replied, "I guarantee that I will complete the task!"

Since the electricity was out and there were no printing presses available, anyone who wanted to copy the breathing method had to do it by hand.

Yao Chengcheng handed the job to Cai Ning, who performed outstandingly. Now it seems that his working ability is indeed good, and he completed the work in just three days.

The next morning, six in the morning.

On the second floor of the dungeon, as Ma Yuan, who was appointed as the "dormitory manager", distributed booklets to each dormitory, it immediately caused a sensation.

Although this basic breathing method was learned by Li Mu from the West Lake refuge, and everyone was also transferred from there.

But perhaps for the sake of ease of management, or perhaps because of a shortage of resources, the top management of the West Lake Shelter did not choose to fully announce the breathing method before.

The end of the world has been here for so long, but this is the first time that people know there is such a thing as cultivation techniques.

Due to time constraints, I only had time to hand-copy 300 copies of the breathing method, so the current situation is that about 10 people read one copy.

Ma Yuan ignored the people who were scrambling to watch the breathing method, and turned back to his dormitory.

Because of his outstanding performance and his management position, although he still lives in the dormitory, there are only two people living in it, him and Hong Pengfei.

As soon as he entered the room, Ma Yuan looked at his friend with lingering fear and said with emotion, "Old Hong, thanks to you for teaching me the breathing method before, otherwise I would have to compete with them to see it now."

Hong Pengfei, who was sitting on a chair and putting on his shoes, smiled and said, "If you want to thank someone, thank the city lord. If I didn't get his permission, I wouldn't dare to teach you the breathing method in private."

Ma Yuan waved his hand indifferently and said nothing more.

But deep down in his heart he still knew who he should thank. Hong Pengfei learned the breathing method when he first joined the scientific research department, but he could obviously practice it secretly or keep it secret. After all, this was the normal situation.

But Hong Pengfei did not do so. On the second day after joining, he took the risk of angering the city lord and applied to teach himself the breathing method. Fortunately, the city lord did not blame him for this little thing, but readily agreed.

Of course, Hong Pengfei did not tell Ma Yuan these things on his own initiative, but Ma Yuan found out about them himself. He has always been good at this, just like when he inquired about the news of Wanling City in the West Lake Shelter.

"Lao Ma, I feel like I can make a breakthrough today!"

Hong Pengfei looked at his friend seriously and said.

"What a coincidence!?"

“I feel the same way today.”

Ma Yuan showed a surprised expression. He didn't expect that the two brothers had breakthroughs on the same day.

"It's quite a coincidence indeed, but I've eaten more mutant beast meat than you. So, your talent should be better than mine."

Hong Pengfei analyzed rationally. Although he had been lending his salary to Ma Yuan to buy mutant beast meat, he must have eaten more mutant beast meat in the canteen of the City Lord's Mansion. But he would not be jealous because his talent was slightly worse than his good brother. After all, without Ma Yuan's encouragement, he would not have the courage to interview for the scientific research department.

Ma Yuan did not respond, but instead changed the subject and guessed,
"It should be because of the fourth-level black bear meat you brought back, otherwise it wouldn't be so fast."

Hong Pengfei touched his chin and said, "Maybe. I will ask the city lord for leave today, and then come back to concentrate on cultivation."

……

"You said you felt you were about to make a breakthrough today, so you came to me to ask for a day off?"

Li Mu looked at the young man in front of him and was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would have a breakthrough after only practicing for less than half a month.

Overjoyed, he immediately replied, "Okay!"

Then he looked at the equally shocked Fox next to him, stepped forward and patted her head slightly, "Can you learn from Ah Fei? You just slack off every day!"

Hu Li cried out "Ouch!", rubbed his head, and said with a guilty conscience, "How could I be lazy? I'm obviously working very hard!"

"In another five, six, seven or eight days at most, I will be able to break through..."

Her voice became smaller and smaller, and she seemed to be losing confidence.

Li Mu sighed softly. This little girl was good in every way except that she was not very hardworking in cultivation. All her thoughts were focused on "eating".

"Forget it, forget it, you two follow me."

Li Mu waved his hand and led the two to the flower stand. Looking at the increasingly sparse red fruit trees, he gritted his teeth and picked two fruits from them.

He turned around and said to the two of them seriously, "This is the Vermillion Fruit, which contains abundant source energy. Take one third of it before the breakthrough, and it will help you!"

He handed the red fruit to the two and reminded them again, "It's very precious. Remember to eat it before you break through."

The two of them took the red fruit with great care and bowed to Li Mu, "Thank you, Boss!"

Li Mu waved his hand nonchalantly, "Alright, alright, go about your business."

The two of them stopped being pretentious and immediately said goodbye and left.

When Hong Pengfei returned to the dormitory again, he saw Ma Yuan sitting cross-legged on the bed practicing with his eyes closed.

Although he didn't want to wake Ma Yuan up at this time, he still stepped forward and whispered,

"Wake up, there's something good!"

Ma Yuan woke up after hearing the sound and asked curiously, "What good stuff?"

Hong Pengfei spread out his palm, revealing the red fruit in his palm. "This is the red fruit given to me by the city lord. He said that eating one third of it before a breakthrough will help with the breakthrough."

As he said this, he took out his pocket knife and cut the red fruit in half. "I can't use it all anyway, so I'll give you half."

Ma originally wanted to refuse, but seeing Hong Pengfei's sincere eyes, he couldn't say anything. He could only take it and said softly,
"Thank you!"

He thought about it and realized that he already owed a lot. What he needed to do now was to improve his strength as quickly as possible and join the military so that he could better repay his brother's kindness!

"Eat, let's hurry up and practice to break through!"

Hong Pengfei threw half a red fruit into his mouth, then smiled and comforted him.

(End of this chapter)