I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Lin An: "Sure, but you'll have to pay for the ride, 50 points one way."

Su Xiao asked, "Did Jiang Li also pay for the ride?"

Lin An nodded.

However, what she didn't say was that she had already automatically converted the treats Jiang Li gave her yesterday into the fare, so she wouldn't charge Jiang Li any extra money.

After thinking for a moment, Su Xiao decided to pay for a ride. "Captain Lin, I'll transfer 50 points to you. I want to ride in your car too."

No sooner had she finished speaking than her mother, Su Caihua, shrillly asked, "Are you burning money?"

"What are you doing, taking a ride-sharing?! You'd better take the bus!"

Su Wenhu glared at Su Xiao with displeasure. "Are you out of your mind? Why waste points to ride the bus when there's no other way to do it?"

Su Xiao clenched her fist, feeling somewhat aggrieved. "50 points isn't much. Spending 50 points would make the journey much more comfortable, and besides, I get carsick anyway..."

"Are you going to gather sweet potatoes or to enjoy yourself?" Su Caihua glanced at her coldly and said impatiently, "No riding in the car. 50 points are enough to buy a pound of grain."

Upon hearing this, Su Xiao's eyes darkened, and she clenched her fists, a hint of resentment and forbearance flashing in her eyes.

She was truly fed up with this miserable life, unwilling to buy anything or spend a single point! Since the apocalypse, she'd been counting down her points every day! She couldn't afford anything good or expensive.

She also wanted to live a normal life like Jiang Li, so why was it so difficult?

Today's task: Trade 100 jin of pumpkins (0% progress), reward: 200 pumpkin seedlings with 100% resistance to mutation.

Jiang Li and Jiang Yan got into Lin An's car together, and Jiang Li frowned as she looked at today's tasks.

The Ninth Base doesn't sell any anti-mutation pumpkin seeds.

Jiang Li searched on the forum and found that other bases had not developed anti-mutation pumpkin seeds either, and that major bases did not grow pumpkins.

Great, the system has assigned her a rare, limited-edition task.

It seems I won't be getting the reward for today's task.

Sigh, she really wants these 100% anti-mutation pumpkin seedlings. With her superpower, 200 seedlings could produce quite a few pumpkins.

What a painful day.

The journey to the gathering site wasn't far, so Jiang Li decided to take this opportunity to study the system thoroughly.

First, open the [Planting Guide].

The system notification said the planting guide had been unlocked, but she hadn't had a chance to look at it yet. When she opened it, it was a plant booklet with 20 different plant cards on each page, for a total of 366 plant cards.

Jiang Li flipped through several pages and found that almost all the cards were black.

It was not lit up.

Only one image on the first page is flashing; it's a potato image and can be lit up.

[Activation Requirements: Plant 500 catties of edible potatoes (progress 100%)]

During this period, Jiang Li planted mostly potatoes, which is why she met the conditions for unlocking the potato encyclopedia.

Jiang Li raised her finger and lit it up.

[You have unlocked the Potato Encyclopedia! The encyclopedia reward (10 jin of potatoes) has been sent to your resource reward box. Please check your account!]

[Collection rate: 1/366]

(Note: Completing the entire collection will grant you the ultimate reward! Unlock a machine that will end the apocalypse, so keep up the good work!)

Jiang Li stared at the small, inconspicuous words, and her eyes widened instantly!

Ultimate completion reward?

End of the apocalypse?

Is that really so exaggerated?

What kind of machine could end the apocalypse? She couldn't imagine it.

Could it be a machine capable of launching atomic bombs? And its atomic bombs could bypass humans and buildings, specifically targeting and killing all the mutated beasts?

Killing all the mutated beasts and liberating all of humanity—how can that not be considered an end to the apocalypse?

Thinking about it this way, Jiang Li was actually looking forward to it, wanting to let loose and bombard the world.

But when she looked at her progress, she realized she had only unlocked one entry in the encyclopedia after all that time. Especially since some of the plants in the encyclopedia were strangely shaped and she had no idea what they were. She had never seen them in her entire life, and she suddenly felt that she might never get the machine to end the apocalypse in this lifetime. What if she ended up dying before the apocalypse even ended?

Six buses from B field area, several armored cargo vehicles from the collection team, and the escorting patrol troops arrived at the collection site smoothly.

As soon as Su Xiao got off the bus, she saw Jiang Li getting off the military off-road vehicle. There were only three people in that vehicle: Jiang Li, Jiang Yan, and Lin An!

Su Xiao's face darkened when she thought about how comfortable Jiang Li had been all the way. It was truly infuriating to compare oneself to others, especially since she suffered from motion sickness. The roads in this post-apocalyptic world were full of potholes, making her feel like her internal organs were about to shatter...

Seeing Jiang Li made Su Xiao angry, so she turned her head away, refusing to look at that bitch, and turned her gaze to the field where she would be harvesting sweet potatoes.

It was a very large sweet potato field, a full two hundred acres, surrounded by barbed wire. There was a sentry post next to it, with three soldiers responsible for guarding the harvesting field.

Upon seeing the collection team arrive, three soldiers walked over, checked their credentials, and allowed them to pass.

One of the soldiers said, "Let's clear this land quickly. There's plenty of food in there! If it rains for a few more days, all the things growing in the ground will mutate."

The peak of the red rain's elemental activity is enough to make crops grown from these ordinary seeds reach a 98% mutation rate. If they are not harvested in advance, they will all be wasted.

That's exactly what they were thinking, so the harvesting teams had no free time during this period and had to hurry up and harvest all the grain from the harvesting fields and put it into the base's granary.

Based on past experience, this 200-mu (approximately 33 acres) extensively managed harvesting area should yield about 20,000 jin (approximately 10,000 kg) of sweet potatoes.

Although this amount of food is insignificant compared to the base's population of two million, every little bit helps, and food is precious in itself.

The leader of the collection team gathered more than 300 farmers from B field area who were participating in the operation and lined them up.

He pointed to a plot of land of more than 30 mu (approximately 2 hectares) on the left and said, "That's the land allocated to you. See those dividing lines marked with red rope? Each square is 70 square meters, and each of you will get a plot."

"Ten people per batch. Once you get there, just choose your own spot and start digging. Don't cross the boundary. Once you've finished digging up what's in your spot, get on the bus."

After saying that, let the first ten people in line pass.

After the ten people had chosen their desired gathering sites, another ten were allowed to pass, and so on, to avoid chaos caused by everyone fighting over the land.

Jiang Li hadn't used her [Plant Perception] ability for a long time, but now it came in handy.

Once the scan is activated, a quick glance reveals which plots of land have a high mutation rate and which have a low mutation rate; it's as clear as if you have X-ray vision.

Soon it will be Li Lan's family's turn to go and choose a plot of land.

Li Lan cautiously approached Jiang Li and tentatively asked, "Miss Jiang, you're lucky. Could you give me some advice? Could you help me decide which plot of land our family should choose?"

It has to be said that Li Lan is a smart person. Jiang Li actually knew a long time ago that Li Lan had guessed her abilities. It was during the second time she went to the mountains to dig for wild vegetables that she saw through Li Lan's attempt to curry favor with her and knew what Li Lan was thinking.

However, in the apocalypse, these little actions are understandable. After all, everyone wants to live well, to have enough to eat and wear, as long as they don't have any intention to harm others.

Jiang Li pointed to the three plots in the middle of the second row, "Your family can choose those three adjacent plots."

Looking across those three plots of land, the green dots are the most numerous, indicating that a good amount of edible sweet potatoes can be dug up.

Li Lan nodded, "Okay, I understand."

So when it was Li Lan's turn to go, she didn't hesitate to choose the three plots of land that Jiang Li had mentioned, and she and Ye Hongjun and Ye Qing got busy in the fields.