I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

"What is this? I won't sign!"

Chen Xiue looked at the contents of the agreement and immediately turned her head away.

"What do you mean by stripping me of my identity? Why are you trying to strip me of my identity? She has the ability to do it herself, but she won't let anyone else say it. Why should she?"

Chen Xiu'e was just preparing to return to the safe zone tomorrow to discuss with her younger brother about marrying Jiang Li to Chen Daliandao, but then she was told not to leak the secret.

How can this be allowed?

Lu Mingjue gave her a serious look. "Everyone in District B must sign this agreement! You can choose not to sign, but you should be aware of the consequences of not signing this agreement."

Lu Mingjue warned her, "Don't forget, you're only able to live peacefully now because the base is protecting you! Both the safe zone and the farmland are under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Base, unless you voluntarily give up your status as survivors of the Ninth Base and give up everything you have there—your house and your land!"

Chen Xiu'e stubbornly refused to sign, her neck contorted. "What if I just won't sign?"

She was testing Lu Mingjue's bottom line.

Lu Mingjue: "From now on, you can leave here. Your identity information will be immediately erased by the Ninth Base. You will not be able to take the Ninth Base bus, enter the high-walled checkpoints, or enter the fields. The points on your points card will also be confiscated. You will become a refugee, waiting to be eaten by mutated beasts in the wild at any time!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiue's face turned pale again.

They're really taking advantage of their master's power!

They're just patrol soldiers, what's so great about them!

"I'll sign it, okay!"

Chen Xiu'e reluctantly signed her name and pressed her fingerprint on the confidentiality agreement.

……

"Humanity spent ten years rebuilding order after it collapsed. People lived in peace and prosperity, with food to eat and shelter to live in every day. But do you know what it takes to destroy all of this?"

All it takes is an endless red rain.

"Three years ago, the rain lasted for four months, causing the starvation of more than 200,000 people. Under the influence of extremely high concentrations of alien elements, all ordinary crops were mutated, and even the mutated seeds had a 92% mutation rate. Under the enormous burden of food rations, the base's granaries were instantly depleted, and the patrols cleared countless corpses of starving refugees from the streets every day..."

Inside the military and political building in Zone 1, Shen Zhongshan looked at the cascading rain with a solemn expression.

He wasn't the first base commander, but he was a high-ranking official at the base before taking office, and he personally witnessed the Ninth Base being built up bit by bit.

This area was originally a city. They cleared out the city, built walls around it, and experienced countless upheavals over the past ten years. In the end, they successfully controlled the mutated beasts on the periphery, formed their own safe zone, and had their own home.

Therefore, he became more and more afraid every time it rained red.

I'm afraid this rain won't stop, afraid that the homes I've worked so hard to build will be destroyed.

Border Defense Commander Song Changqin comforted him, "Base Commander Shen, don't worry, this rain will definitely stop."

He knew Shen Zhongshan's worries. Every time the red rain fell, the base's higher-ups were very concerned about the food supply. No one wanted the great famine of three years ago to repeat itself.

But worrying about things that are bound to happen is useless.

Moreover, the meteorological bureau's monitoring results show that although the rain will last for a while, it will stop in a month.

"Commander Shen, I have to rush back to the front line today. Every time the Red Rain season comes, those high-level mutated beasts frequently riot. I'm a little worried about the situation on the front line."

Shen Chongshan nodded. "Yes, you should go quickly. The front lines need you."

……

"Did you see the news? This rain is going to last for a whole month!"

"It's best to stock up on food these days! What if food prices go up again?"

In factories, hospitals, on the streets, and in shelter communities, people are talking about this.

"This weather is really strange! It's been so long since it's rained this heavily! Could something really be going to happen?"

"What if it rains for four months straight like it did three years ago? Won't many more people starve to death?"

For a time, everyone felt insecure.

While browsing the forum, Jiang Tang called Jiang Li. "Xiao Li, there's going to be a month of heavy rain. Will it affect your farming? Should we stock up on some food?"

Jiang Li looked up at the dark red sky, which resembled a huge red curtain, making her feel uneasy.

Jiang Li: "It won't be affected for the time being. The rain has just started, and the concentration of foreign elements hasn't accumulated yet."

However, things are uncertain about what will happen next. Perhaps in a week or two, her crop yields will be significantly affected. In this case, the 100% anti-mutation seeds awarded by the system will be particularly useful.

Jiang Li said to Jiang Tang, "Just to be on the safe side, you should also stock up on some food in the safe zone. The rice paddies will be ready tomorrow, and I will start planting rice, but it's always good for you to stock up on some food."

Jiang Tang thought the same way. She currently had more than ten kilograms of rice, enough for only half a month, and she planned to stock up for another half month.

"I'll go check on the grain station."

Jiang Tang hung up the phone and went out. As soon as she stepped outside, she found the entire shelter community filled with people running out in the rain.

The chaotic scene filled Jiang Tang with a sense of panic, as if she had been transported back to the eve of the apocalypse.

"Hurry! If we're too late, all the food will be looted!"

Several people shoved and pushed their way past her.

Jiang Tang quickened her pace and squeezed into the rickety old elevator to go down. The shelter was already densely populated, and now the elevator was packed with people, making it stuffy and suffocating.

After the elevator doors opened, the crowd surged out again, all rushing towards the nearest grain store.

Jiang Tang put on a raincoat, unlocked the electric scooter, and rode it out of the shelter community.

Upon arriving at the nearest grain station, it was packed with people, and Jiang Tang couldn't even squeeze in.

Before anyone even went inside, they suddenly heard a staff member shout loudly:

"We're out of grain. Please go to another store!"

"What? It's sold out?"

"How come it sold out so quickly?"

Some people complained dejectedly, while others hurried to other grain stations!

Jiang Tang also visited several grain stations, but they were all empty; the rice and flour on the shelves had long been sold out.

The grain depot supplies grain in limited quantities each day based on the population and demand of the base. Under normal circumstances, this is just enough. However, the large amount of stockpiling has led to the grain depot being completely empty.

Even Jiang Tang couldn't help but feel a sense of panic.

The current situation is exactly the same as when everyone rushed to the supermarket to buy things at the very beginning of the apocalypse!

Jiang Tang rode her electric scooter and headed towards the private grain store.

Private grain stores are shops run by grain merchants themselves, who generally have their own sourcing channels.

"Coarse grains are 80 points per pound! Refined grains are 120 points per pound!"

Upon hearing the price, Jiang Tang frowned.

"So expensive? Why don't you just rob me!" an older woman shouted at the top of her lungs.