I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

[Note: Each evolved plant requires nutrient solution once per stage. It completes its final evolution at level 10, achieving "detoxification." Please cultivate it to level 10 before consuming!]

Jiang Li stared at the words, then at the candied hawthorns and garlic not far away, her eyes widening.

Apply nutrient solution once per stage...

One bottle of nutrient solution costs 99 gold coins.

In other words, it takes a full 990 gold coins to cultivate an evolved plant.

This isn't growing vegetables; it's practically making her spend a fortune on gold coins!

Jiang Li took out her money bag, opened it, and counted the money; there were 9 yuan.

I originally had only 8 yuan, but I just dug up another yuan in the field, so now I have 9 yuan, but it's still not enough.

There's nothing else I can do.

Then, the system prompted her again:

The [Candied Hawthorn Garlic] illustration has been unlocked in the encyclopedia; you can claim the encyclopedia reward now.

Candied hawthorn garlic is a legendary item in the encyclopedia, and the reward is [10 bags of garlic seeds] and [two ducks].

Jiang Li had figured out some of the patterns in how the system sent out rewards.

Unlocking evolved plants usually yields generous rewards, and often includes an extra animal, just like the cow from before.

Jiang Li looked at the two ducks that had been tied up and thrown over to her feet.

(Anti-mutation serum has been injected, so it will not mutate).

One male and one female, both quite large.

Stay and lay eggs.

Jiang Li picked up the duck, untied the rope, and temporarily put it into the chicken coop. Jiang Yan was in charge of taking care of the chicks in the coop every day, and they seemed to be doing quite well.

Jiang Li was very interested in the [anti-alienation serum] mentioned by the system.

It seems like a very useful thing. If we had this, animal husbandry would no longer be a problem.

She opened the online store to take a look. There were so many things in the store: all kinds of furniture, home appliances, buildings, and various seedlings and seeds. It was dazzling. Fortunately, there was a search function.

Jiang Li entered "anti-alienation serum" into the search box.

Finally, I found it in the gold coin shop.

[Anti-mutation serum: New World's specially developed anti-mutation serum for animal husbandry effectively prevents mutations during animal growth.]

Price: 100 gold coins.

Jiang Li: "..."

I should have just not watched it. What was the point? She couldn't afford it anyway.

They were utterly destitute.

What are some ways to earn more gold coins?

The system dropped a booklet down to her from the sky.

After picking it up and opening it, you'll find a "Gold Coin Earning Guide".

Jiang Li was delighted.

Common ways to obtain gold coins:

[1. Daily operation tasks: Complete the daily sales targets for each shop to earn a small amount of coins each day. Examples: beverage shop, agricultural product shop, restaurant, guesthouse, etc.]

[2. Upgrade your trash recycling machine to connect with trading channels for other top-tier recyclers worldwide. You can earn coins by selling resources they need, including but not limited to giant ornamental plants.]

[3. Activate the Garbage Collector side job. You can use the Garbage Collector's built-in "Find Money in the Trash" attribute to have a chance to find gold coins in the wild or in trash heaps. (Note: Garbage Collectors are more likely to obtain a large amount of gold coins than Farmers.)]

4. Upgrade your farm to earn coins. Each farm upgrade grants a coin lucky bag containing anywhere from 100 to 100000 coins, with a random probability.

5. Complete construction tasks assigned by the system to earn gold coins...

6. Earn gold coins by trading gold-quality crops through the "Agricultural Products Trading Box". (Note: Gold quality specifically refers to level 10 evolved plants, such as level 10 garlic...)

【7...】

Jiang Li read the booklet and fell into thought.

Daily management tasks and garbage collection tasks are what she is currently doing, and they are also her main way of obtaining gold coins. However, the amount is too small and not enough to spend. The gold coin lucky bag for upgrading the farm sounds very generous, but it takes time and cannot be completed overnight.

Trading level 10 agricultural products is not currently possible, and even if she had them, she wouldn't be willing to trade golden agricultural products. Golden agricultural products can be used to make beverages to complete the beverage shop's tasks, and if she could make a beverage that could help humans evolve, it would be beneficial in resisting the major catastrophic crisis mentioned by the system.

If the problem in the later major disaster lies with the mutated beasts, and the human evolution rate increases, then humanity will be able to win this disaster. Furthermore, the system has repeatedly mentioned comprehensive evolution, which is definitely an important goal and must be completed as soon as possible before the unknown disaster arrives.

She alone cannot resist the entire world. If all the world's inhabitants die and humanity's defenses collapse, she will not be able to survive the siege of advanced mutated beasts. She must consider things that benefit humanity when managing the business.

So, all she can do now is use her "treasure hunting" skills as a garbage collector to go out and find gold.

She needs to go out and collect gold as soon as possible, and grow the golden crop to make healthy drinks for everyone. She herself also needs to become stronger.

Thinking this, Jiang Li pushed the tricycle out.

"What are you going to do?" Lin An looked at her, completely bewildered. "Aren't you going to build a fence for the cows?"

Jiang Li: "I have more important things to do. I'll leave the task of building the cow pens to you guys for now."

Lin An: "..."

No, why does this person act on a whim?

She watched Jiang Li ride away on her electric tricycle, feeling a little uneasy. So she put down her hammer and said to Chen Ye, "I'm leaving the task of building the cow fence to you. I need to go and keep an eye on her."

Chen Ye nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, I'll get everything done!"

Lin Anfei caught up with Jiang Li's tricycle and got on.

Seeing Jiang Li drive the tricycle out of the fields, she couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?"

Jiang Li: "I want to go and collect some gigantic plants."

She could more or less guess that Jiang Li built the house and bought seeds, all of which seemed to be purchased from a place called the System Mall. The gold coins that the recycling machine spat out must have been used for spending in the System Mall.

Jiang Li nodded, "Relying solely on the people in those dark alleys to collect giant bamboo shoots isn't enough. I'd like to go out and find some myself."

The term "giant ornamental plant" certainly doesn't only refer to bamboo shoots; other plants should also qualify, as long as they meet the condition of "giant".

"I know of a mutated shrubland that's full of mutated berries, some of them quite large. I wonder if they're big enough to meet the requirements for gigantification," Lin An said.

"Where?"

"I'll give you directions; just drive in the direction I tell you."

As Lin An spoke, he picked up his gun and left the field area, knowing it was best to remain vigilant.

Jiang Li rode her tricycle to the bushes that Lin An had mentioned.

"Zhou Yang told me about this place. When they're craving something sweet, they like to come here to look for fruit, but they rarely find anything edible."

As Lin An spoke, he began to examine each plant one by one using his wristwatch.

Jiang Li walked into a bush full of colorful fruits. These fruits looked a bit like berries, but Jiang Li had never seen a bush with five different colors of fruit at the same time.

"These are multicolored raspberries," Lin An said. "They're one of the most common wild fruits in the wild."

"Why can it produce red, black, yellow, blue, and purple fruits at the same time?" Jiang Li was a little confused.