Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

Zhang Mu brought up the lord's panel and granted temporary worker permissions to each of the ten elders.

A door appeared on the pale green light membrane, and as the employees stepped through the door, a thin green ring automatically appeared around their wrists.

People without authorization will be violently bounced away if they touch the light membrane.

Grandpa Hao was the first to enter the botanical garden. When he stepped onto the turned-up ridges, his steps were as light as if he had become twenty years younger.

He squatted down, took a bag of wheat seeds from Wang Can, and examined it carefully in his hands.

The seeds were plump and had a faint sheen on the surface, unlike any other variety he had ever grown.

"Good seeds."

He looked up and waved to the other elderly people.

"Old buddies, lend a hand. I've become lazy since my son took over."

"Director Guo and Manager Ling have been so helpful to us, so we old folks have to do our part to give them face."

The ten elderly people moved so quickly that Ling Shuang and the others were stunned.

Grandpa Hao was in charge of the wheat section, while Grandma Cao and two other women marked out the seedbeds for cabbage and radish. Several other men carried hoes to till the potato section.

In less than two hours, the first batch of seeds in the ordinary crop area had all been planted.

Wang Can stood on the dividing line between the ordinary crop area and the parasitic spore area, and looked back at the area behind him that was completely blocked by the shade shed.

Of the eight mu of land, seven and a half mu were planted with grains and vegetables, and the remaining half mu was fenced off separately to plant that ancestral plant.

Ling Shuang walked to his side and followed his gaze toward the shaded area.

"Only you and Zhang Mu can enter that area. The spore area is a separate protective barrier; even if an employee accidentally touches the boundary, they will be bounced away."

"That's good."

Wang Can found a pair of thick animal skin gloves in the tool shed, along with a few pieces of dark-colored waterproof cloth, and carried them on his shoulder toward the spore area.

The spore area is located in the northwest corner of the botanical garden. The terrain is low-lying, and the abandoned landscape wall overhead blocks the direct sunlight from the dome, making it shady and damp all year round, which is exactly what the parasitic spore mother plants prefer.

Wang Can carefully dug a small pit with a shovel, moved the mother plant along with the protective film layer around the roots into the pit, covered it with soil, and then gently pressed it down with his palm.

[Cultivator Wang Can has already planted a first-order parasitic spore mother plant.]

Current status: Juvenile stage. Estimated maturity time: 10 days.

"Spores will be produced in ten days, just in time to be used before the safe zone is lifted."

Wang Can squatted in front of the mother plant and carefully straightened a crooked leaf through protective gloves.

"Xiao Ling, go outside and catch a Night Demon cub, and have it guard the door for us."

"Come on, Landlord Zhang, take us to see the other new buildings."

Wang Can was engrossed in fiddling with the objects when he waved his hand.

"You guys go first."

Zhang Mu smugly brought up the lord panel and switched his view from the botanical garden to the building management interface of the entire territory.

"Sigh, it's so nice to see these mid-sized buildings. We're finally living a prosperous life."

The newly unlocked building modules for town-level territories filled an entire screen.

Iron walls, crossbow towers, smelting furnaces, and armories.

Zhang Mu cooperated by explaining the detailed attributes of the Iron Wall.

[Iron Wall (Intermediate Defense Facility)]

Wall height: 4 meters. Base width: 1.2 meters.

[Material: Cast from a mixture of local stone and iron.]

[Special Effect - Fortified Wall: When the wall is subjected to physical impact, the iron elements inside will automatically gather at the point of impact, increasing the local defense strength by 50% until the impact ends.]

[Initial area selection is free]

Guo Yueshan muttered calculations to himself, gesturing with his fingers in the air: "The circumference is nearly 1,200 meters, and a fully enclosed area would cost 36,000 yuan. We also have to include the back mountain. We've really made a profit."

This fire crystal is incredibly valuable.

"It's free now, so of course we'll seal it off completely," Ling Shuang declared, making the final decision for everyone.

Zhang Mu defined the area and clicked confirm.

The system's light patterns surged from the Lord's core, extending along the planned lines into the ground.

Soon, a rumbling sound came from deep underground, and a gray-black mixed slurry gushed out from the cracks in the ground and began to "grow" upwards.

Next came the crossbow turret array.

[Crossbow Turret Formation (Intermediate Defensive Building)]

[Can be built on the base of a watchtower within an iron-walled perimeter. Each tower is equipped with one medium-sized ballista with an effective range of 300 meters.]

[Basic Crossbow Bolts: Armor-piercing bolts, effective against Tier 1 targets, and inflict partial penetration damage against Tier 2 targets.]

[Currently 12 (maximum 24), new construction cost: 800 achievement points/unit.]

Zhang Mu didn't stop; his fingers continued scrolling down.

The smelting furnaces and armories were a combination of industrial buildings.

[Smelting Furnace (Primary Industrial Building)]

[Function: Melting metal, forging basic parts and weapon blanks.]

[Output: Standard iron ingots, weapon blanks.]

[Size: 50 square meters]

Armory (Basic Military Building) (Requires capturing a mineral vein to become fully effective)

[Function: Produces armor-piercing crossbow bolts and iron arrowheads.]

Zhang Mu dragged the icons of the two buildings into the open space on the east side of the artificial lake, marking it as an industrial zone.

When the smelting furnace was completed, the dark red light inside the furnace illuminated half of the open space. The armory was built right next to it, and a conveyor belt was automatically generated between the two.

These new buildings are transforming the entire Long Mao Mansion at a visible pace.

The last section of the iron wall was sealed off and closed at dusk.

The four-meter-high gray-black city wall, like a silent dragon, coils along the boundary of the community.

Twelve ballista turrets stood in neat rows atop the watchtower, with the blue glow of the core Frost Arrow Tower standing out prominently in the night.

The first wisp of smoke rose from the flue of the smelting furnace, and the conveyor belt in the armory began to operate.

Ling Shuang gazed into the distance at the direction of the gap in the artificial lake, lost in thought for a while.

It seems I'll have to go out again!

Catch a night ghost larva.

Find out if the ghoul tribe knows the location of the iron ore vein so that the armory can immediately produce weapons after leaving the safe zone.

Soon, night fell.

At this moment, the temperature-controlled enclosure in the botanical garden glows with a soft green light.

In the parasitic spore area, the dark purple mother plant was breathing quietly under the shade.

The three leaves fully unfolded, and the silvery-gray light flowing through the veins was brighter than during the day, as if something inside was accelerating its operation.

After recording the situation in the ordinary planting area, Wang Can shouted at Grandpa Hao, who was still shining a flashlight.

"Uncle Hao, let's do it tomorrow. The temperature is stable, it won't break!"

Grandpa Hao didn't even turn his head, just waved his hand.

"What do you know, you city kid? Go back first, I'll cover this potato patch with another layer of dry fine sand."

I won't feel at ease if I don't take good care of the land in front of my house.

He turned and walked towards the row house, and saw Liu Yun standing at the gate of the courtyard waiting for him, holding a bowl of steaming noodle soup in her hand.

"Isn't Grandpa Hao back yet?" Liu Yun asked.

"Old farmers see the land more dearly than their own fathers."

Wang Can took the bowl of noodle soup and gulped down a large mouthful, grimacing from the heat.

"It's okay, let them handle it."

Judging by how well they're growing, the cabbage seedlings should all be sprouting by the day after tomorrow.

He glanced back in the direction of the botanical garden.

Behind the green light membrane are the hopes of more than 800 mouths!