I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Jiang Li returned to the vegetable garden, poured out the bag of potato seeds she had left over from the previous purchase, and piled them aside.

There is still a patch of soybean seedlings and a dozen or so eggplant and pepper plants in the field.

However, the eggplant and chili plants were getting old and wouldn't produce much fruit anymore. They were only suitable for her to pick and eat occasionally, so Jiang Li didn't plan to touch them anymore and just watered them.

Jiang Li selected a plot of land, raised it into ridges, fertilized it, planted it in double rows, and buried the potato tubers at intervals of 50cm between rows and 40cm between plants.

Lin An watched Jiang Li's busy figure, his brows furrowing little by little.

I looked around for a long time but didn't see any special abilities. However, I did see Jiang Li planting crops here for almost an hour.

She would occasionally glance warily at the mutated birds flying overhead, but she didn't see any large birds or beasts. The level one mutated birds didn't seem to have any intention of swooping down to cause trouble.

Jiang Li planted the potatoes and used her supernatural power to irrigate the soil. She could clearly feel that the energy in her body was much more abundant than before after the upgrade. Soon, the tubers on the ground pushed up and sprouted tender shoots, growing into seedlings.

However, these seedlings look a little different from before.

The stems have become much stronger, and there are many more leaves.

Is it because the [Flourishing and Withering of Plants] system has been upgraded?

What did you do?

Lin An merely glanced up at the sky, but when he turned his head, he saw a field of seedlings.

She stopped her relaxed posture and strode over.

Jiang Li explained, "It's a superpower. My superpower is to accelerate the growth of plants."

Lin An was surprised.

Looking at the seedlings scattered on the ground, "So you planted all of these just now?"

Jiang Li nodded.

"Make me another one, I didn't see it just now."

Jiang Li still had plenty of energy in her body, and she felt that she could directly accelerate the ripening of this pile of potatoes.

With that thought in mind, she did it.

The seedlings grew taller in an instant, and the familiar scene of the soil being pushed aside was unexpected this time. Some potatoes were even squeezed out of the soil and fell directly onto the ground.

The field was crammed with potatoes.

Lin An saw it clearly this time. She didn't expect that the way Jiang Li was growing vegetables was like this. Is this any different from magic?

Jiang Li started digging potatoes. She spotted an unmutated potato vine, pulled it up, and dug down along the roots. The deeper she dug, the more potatoes she found.

"I'll do it, you're too slow!"

Lin An took over the task of digging potatoes. She was much stronger than Jiang Li and moved incredibly fast, like a dog digging, but it still took her quite a while to finish digging this section, leaving a large pit... The pit contained more than thirty potatoes...

Jiang Li was dumbfounded, and Lin An was dumbfounded as well.

"This is... way too much!"

Lin An had seen potatoes with high yields, but never with this many. When she went out to collect potatoes with the harvesting team before, a potato vine would only grow a dozen or so potatoes at most, and that was considered a relatively large quantity.

She had never seen more than thirty potatoes under this vine before.

Jiang Yan came out of the safe house and opened the door to see Jiang Li busy in the vegetable garden.

"Sis, why didn't you call me?"

He overslept.

When Jiang Yan walked over and saw the potatoes in the field, he wasn't surprised at first.

Upon closer inspection, I was startled. "Sis, what have you done now? Why are you doing so much?"

Jiang Li said, "You've come at the right time. Help me dig out all the potatoes."

Jiang Yan didn't waste any time. He went back into the house, grabbed a small shovel, and started digging potatoes.

Lin An unconsciously joined in digging potatoes, purely enjoying the joy of the harvest, even though the process of digging potatoes had nothing to do with her.

But looking at the ground covered with plump, golden potatoes, who could resist digging them up?

The three of them dug away for a whole morning.

Finally, we compiled and summarized everything.

A total of 731 jin of potatoes, including 598 jin of mutated potatoes and 133 jin of normal potatoes.

Jiang Li was surprised.

That's incredibly prolific.

Under normal circumstances, the yield of a single potato plant is only about 2 jin (1 catties).

However, the yield per potato plant in this batch reached an astonishing 7.3 jin!

Is that correct?

Looking at the faint, emerald-green light at her fingertips, Jiang Li experienced the terror of superpowers for the first time.

Jiang Yan used a small cart to take the poisonous potatoes to the woods and bury them. The remaining 130-plus pounds of potatoes filled two snakeskin bags.

Jiang Li used a small shovel to dig a deep pit in the ground next to her, picked up dry branches and wood blocks, and burned them in the pit until they turned into charcoal. Jiang Li threw some potatoes into the charcoal and then covered it with a layer of loose soil.

An hour later, the aroma of roasted potatoes wafted out as the soil was dug up.

Jiang Li was so hungry she was almost fainting. She took one, peeled off the crispy skin, took a big bite, and then handed another big one to Lin An.

"For me?" Lin An asked in surprise.

Jiang Li nodded with a smile.

Lin An smelled the aroma of the roasted potatoes emanating from Jiang Li's hands, swallowed hard, hesitated for a moment, and then took them.

"Thank you."

Lin An peeled the potato skin and took a bite of the golden, steaming potato.

good to eat!

Lin An finished his meal in no time.

Jiang Li gave her another one, saying, "I heard that the higher the evolution level, the bigger the appetite. I baked a lot, so you can eat as much as you want."

Lin An thought to himself, no wonder he saw her bury more than twenty potatoes into the charcoal fire earlier; it turned out she had included hers as well.

Hmph, not bad.

After Jiang Yan finished burying the potatoes, he also joined in eating roasted potatoes.

Lin An originally thought that she would only eat one because she was grateful for the food, but she couldn't resist and ate ten.

After finishing the meal, Lin An felt that he owed Jiang Li a huge favor.

That's ten potatoes!

She actually ate ten potatoes from someone else in one go!

If it were an ordinary person, who would give her ten potatoes to eat all at once? This is the apocalypse, food is very expensive, so it's as if she ate ten pounds of rice.

"Ahem..." Lin An stood up awkwardly and looked at Jiang Li, saying, "Thank you for your hospitality."

"You're welcome. You're my bodyguard anyway, so it's only right that I provide you with food and drink."

Lin An blushed with anxiety. "I'll say it again! I'm not your bodyguard! I'm a patrolman. I just happened to have nothing to do this morning, so I stayed here all morning. I have things to do this afternoon, so I won't stay by your side anymore."

Jiang Li: "..."

Lin An crossed his arms and turned his head away. "I'm leaving!"

"It's time to get back to the team!"

After saying that, she disappeared in a flash.

Lin An returned to his post.

"Sister Lin, you're back. Come and eat." Zhou Yang walked towards her carrying a lunchbox, followed by other soldiers.

It was lunchtime at the camp, and everyone was enthusiastically lining up from the mess hall to get their rations.

Lin An glanced into their lunchboxes.

Coarse flour steamed buns with a little bit of pickled vegetables.

snort!

It's not as good as roasted potatoes.

"I've already eaten, I don't need to eat anymore," Lin An said.

"You've already eaten?" Zhou Yang asked in surprise. "Where did you eat?"

Lin An: "I ate at the farm owner's place at number 121."

Zhou Yang asked, puzzled, "Why did Miss Jiang invite you to dinner?"

Lin An raised his chin. "Of course, because I'm her bodyguard—"

Before he could finish speaking, Lin An choked on his words, pursed his lips, and raised his head, saying, "Of course, it's because she wanted to get closer to me! She insisted on treating me to dinner! I wanted to refuse, but I couldn't refuse her kindness, so I had no choice but to eat."