Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 36: Farming Hope Sanctuary (Thanks to "Wu Bu Ji Dao" for your continued support)

Another busy day has passed, and it is the end of 2024.

After planting blood vines on Fu Zilei and Zhang Tiankuo, the hunting team's force problem was barely solved. At least Asao was no longer the only one holding the team together.

The next thing to do is to solve the problem of farming.

In the past few days, Yao Chengcheng has led the farmers to clear the snow from hundreds of acres of rice fields.

First, hundreds of drainage channels were dug in the rice fields, and then dozens of modified "Titan Arum" were planted.

The Titan Arum is a magical plant that can emit heat when it blooms, with the highest temperature reaching thirty-six degrees!
But the downside is that it stinks. When Li Mu smelled it, he almost vomited out his overnight meal!
This magical plant originated from a girl named "Hu Li" among the residents of Wanling City. Hu Li has a cute appearance, two shallow dimples when she smiles, and a very lively personality.

When Li Mu was asking the city's residents for advice on how to melt the snow, Hu Li stepped forward and suggested a plant called Titan Arum to Li Mu.

After learning about this magical plant, Li Mu immediately sent Cheng Cheng to the West Lake Shelter to look for the seeds of the Titan Amorphophallus, but even after asking Tang Anguo to issue the task again, it was still not found.

Just when Li Mu was feeling a little disappointed, Ah Sao, who had gone out hunting, brought back good news.

When he was leading the hunting team out hunting, he encountered a group of seven or eight people being chased by a third-level mutant bird.

This group of people are all men, including young people in their twenties as well as middle-aged and elderly people in their forties and fifties. There are no awakened people, but there is a second-level source warrior.

But even so, he was still no match for the mutant bird and could only run for his life.

This mutant bird seems to have evolved from a egret. Not only is it huge in size, its wingspan reaches an astonishing seven or eight meters!
While they were still chasing, they kept spitting out fist-sized fireballs at them. Although many people were not hit directly in the vitals, the fireballs exploded like cannonballs when they hit the ground. Everyone was still covered in dust and it seemed that they were about to lose people!

Seeing this, Asao led Fu Zikui and Zhang Tiankuo to take decisive action. Asao was responsible for the main attack, while Fu and Zhang took the opportunity to use the blood vines to entangle the mutant bird.

After a thrilling fight, thanks to the tenacity of the blood vine, the three men finally killed the mutant bird!
Afterwards, this group of people expressed their gratitude to Ah Sao and others for saving their lives and invited them to sit in their place.

Ah Sao also wanted to know about the current living conditions of other survivors, so he agreed.

Then Ah Sao followed the group of people to a dilapidated village. There were about seventy or eighty survivors in it. Most of them looked pale and thin, obviously because they had not eaten enough for a long time.

The leader is a young man in his early twenties named "Ren Hong", who has the strength of a second-level peak source warrior.

After communication, Asao learned that these survivors were all people who originally lived in Gongshu District, including migrant workers and locals.

Because of the coming of the Ice Age, they went out to look for a way to survive. When they happened to meet each other, they gathered together for warmth and tried to survive in the doomsday together.

They already knew about the nearby West Lake Shelter, but for some reason did not join it, and named their team "Hope Shelter."

It symbolizes a glimmer of hope for survival in the end times.

Afterwards, the group took out the few available foods to entertain a few people. They were all packaged foods or dried meat of small mutant beasts.

Although these foods were not very good to Ah Sao, he believed that they were the best food they could offer.

This also made Ah Sao realize that except for the large shelters, people in many small shelters couldn’t even get enough food!

Life is already difficult in shelters where many people gather, let alone places with fewer people.

After politely declining the hospitality of Ren Hong and others, Asao simply told them about his search for the Titan Arum, hoping that they could help him keep an eye out for it.

Just after Ah Sao finished speaking, a thin but clean-looking woman came out and said that she knew where the Titan Arum was. In order to thank them for saving the lives of the shelter members, she would take Ah Sao to find it. Upon hearing this, Ah Sao immediately asked her about the relevant situation.

It turned out that she used to be a person who loved growing flowers and plants. There were Titan Arum flowers planted where she used to live. She didn't take them with her when she escaped, but they are probably frozen to death.

But Ah Sao didn't care whether it was dead or not. As long as there were seeds or rhizomes, it would be a piece of cake for Li Mu to revive it.

After saying goodbye to Ren Hong, he took "Xing Xiaoping", the female survivor, to a residential area more than ten kilometers away from the Hope Shelter, where she used to live, and successfully found the Titan Arum plant in the house.

As expected, it had frozen to death, but Ah Sao still took the whole pot away, and also took away a dozen other plants, none of whose species he recognized.

He then sent Xiao Xiaoping safely back to the Hope Shelter, and left the entire mutant bird's body except for the crystal core as a reward.

Ah Sao narrated his origins and told them where Wanling City was. He welcomed them to come and trade or join Wanling City.

Then he took the rest of the people and rushed back to Wanling City.

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Li Mu combined the Titan Arum with sunflowers and jasmine to create a new type of plant that is more than two meters tall and has flowers as big as millstones.

Li Mu called it "fever konjac"!
It not only removes the odor of the Titan Arum when it blooms, but also prolongs the flowering period and enhances its heat dissipation temperature, with the highest temperature reaching over eighty degrees!

As dozens of konjac plants bloomed at the urging of Li Mu, a fragrance mixed with jasmine spread across the vast rice field.

As the fragrance of the flowers spread, the entire Wanling City was surrounded by this fragrance, bringing a touch of warmth to all the people struggling to survive in the severe cold!

The heated konjac began to dissipate heat with all its strength, and the thick snow began to gradually melt under this heat, turning into a trickle that flowed into the reservoir that had been dug long ago along the drainage ditch.

This warm water flow not only serves as daily water for the residents of Wanling City after purification, but also moisturizes the hard soil, making it more suitable for farming.

As the snow completely melted, Li Mu walked to the center of the rice field and took a deep breath.

Then he stretched out his hands, and dozens of vines as thick as arms appeared from the air, and then burrowed into the ground like earthworms.

In an instant, the soil flew everywhere, and the originally hard land was turned into soft soil.

As Li Mu walked, the vines also crawled forward with him. In just half an hour, hundreds of acres of rice fields were plowed.

Then he stopped to rest briefly and used the vines to turn the soil again.

By dinner time, all the hundred acres of rice fields had become land suitable for planting.

Those who witnessed Li Mu's operation all had several common thoughts in their minds:
"Human-shaped tiller?"

"Horse Rider?!"

"Fuck, the pig is charging forward!"

More and more people will say: human nature is evil, but I hope that even in the end times, there will be the light of humanity. "Sanctuary of Hope" is the idea I want to express.

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(End of this chapter)