A single-player post-apocalyptic game, but with an all-female teammate mod.

A season lasts only a week, and a month is enough to experience all four seasons.

In other words, the crops on the farm can be harvested once a month.

Matsuzaka Ume is actually quite good, but she's just a little bit inferior in comparison.

With her working together with Miyauchi Ichiho, they will definitely be able to produce a large quantity of high-quality crops.

Such a large farm will definitely continue to expand with future upgrades, and the two of them alone are certainly not enough.

Once things get underway, Aono will also recruit from existing NPC survivors to supplement the workforce in the Ark.

This is one of the reasons why he plans to max out all the recruitment requirements first.

Once you've maxed out your resources, you can recruit directly whenever needed, without having to wait three days.

However, the Ark can only accommodate a maximum of 19 people at present. After deducting the recruited combat professions and the reserved slots, the number of people that can be added is actually not much.

For now, we can only ask Matsuzaka Ume and Miyauchi Kazuho for some hard work.

Before breakfast, Aono showed them around the other buildings on the Ark.

After walking around for a while, it was almost time to have breakfast together.

During breakfast, the women got to know the two new women briefly.

However, since a fixed circle had already been formed, and given their different ages, Miyauchi Kazuho and Matsuzaka Ume didn't have much in common with the other women.

However, there's no need to force yourself to fit in; just let things take their natural course.

After breakfast, Aono didn't linger and set off again with Kage and Icarus to explore.

Today's primary goal is to submit the materials and bring Shiba Miyuki back from the valley.

Meanwhile, inside the Ark.

Coco led the two new members toward the farm.

Although she already knew what their next task was from Aono, Matsuzaka Ume was still full of resentment when she actually saw the farmland in front of her.

She crossed her arms, glanced around the empty farm, and pressed her red lips into a straight line.

"Tsk, I studied so hard to leave the countryside back then, just to escape this..."

She recalled the days when she dressed up elegantly and drank afternoon tea in Kasukabe, and then looked at this uncultivated land in front of her, her delicate eyebrows almost furrowed into a knot.

But when her gaze swept over the farm tools and seeds piled up in the corner, her childhood habits and instincts gave her an inexplicable impulse.

Compared to Matsuzaka Ume, Miyauchi Ichiho was much more at ease.

She strolled slowly to the edge of the field, squatted down, picked up a bit of soil with her fingertips and rubbed it, her squinting eyes curving even deeper.

As if sensing something interesting, she said softly, "The soil fertility... is very even."

This feeling is amazing. I've had it while farming before, but never so clearly.

Perhaps it's because of the talent granted by time travel?

Coco noticed Matsuzaka Ume's resistance and, without wasting words, directly threw out the key point.

"Complaining is useless. Your profession is suited to agriculture. If you don't want to do it, you have to think about what other value you can provide."

Being adults, Matsuzaka Ume immediately understood the meaning behind Coco's words.

If you don't farm, it seems like the only thing you can do in this world is fight monsters.

Thinking back to the time she and Aono passed through the energy shield to go to the icy world outside, she suddenly felt that doing farm work wasn't so bad after all.

At level 1, she was just an ordinary person. Even wrapped in a thick cotton-padded coat, she was shivering from the cold in temperatures tens of degrees below zero.

Not to mention monsters like Yetis and Snow Women.

"...Okay, at least it's better than fighting in the freezing cold outside."

She finally gave a snort, barely accepting reality, but immediately pressed on, "When will the chakra training method you mentioned begin?"

Coco raised an eyebrow. "You two can work during the day and discuss how to run the farm and divide the work yourselves."

Miyauchi Ichiho nodded with a smile, offering no objection.

Matsuzaka Ume resignedly rolled up the cuffs of her shirt, revealing her fair yet beautifully shaped forearms.

However, her actions somehow conveyed an awkward feeling of "this young lady is condescending to be noble."

Upon arriving here, Coco did not linger any longer and returned to the captain's cabin to continue discussing the economic system and network construction with Asagi.

Several days have passed and they have made some progress, but to create a perfect and stable system, they still need to plan slowly and even make corrections in practice.

As for matters concerning the farmland, they left it all to Matsuzaka Ume and Miyauchi Kazuho.

Just as Aono delegated authority to her, she also wanted to delegate professional matters to professionals.

For the next few hours, a strange harmony prevailed on the farm.

Miyauchi Ichiho spends most of her time observing, occasionally pointing out the direction of the ridges, yet her efficiency is surprisingly high.

Matsuzaka Ume went from being clumsy at first and constantly complaining about getting her designer shoes and clothes dirty, to gradually becoming immersed in the experience.

He even began to think about how to use his "refined" talent to decorate this land.

76. Proactive newcomers and squinty-eyed people are both monsters.

The cold wind was like a knife, stinging my face.

Aono kicked away the icicle blocking his way and glanced back at Ika and Kage.

The shadow was like a purple streak, following closely behind him.

Icarus flapped his pink and white wings and hovered in mid-air, but his flight appeared somewhat clumsy due to the wind and snow.

"Ika, what's the altitude now?"

Standing atop the snow-capped mountain, Aono squinted and asked.

Icarus blinked his emerald green eyes. "Master, based on the ground, we are currently at an altitude of nine hundred meters."

"Nine hundred meters..."

Aono exhaled a breath of white air, which instantly condensed into ice crystals and scattered. "The glacier accounts for 200 meters, which means that after crossing the iceberg, we climbed another 700 meters of mountain."

Even through thick down jackets and gear, the bone-chilling cold still relentlessly eroded body temperature.

The temperature here is probably below zero, and an ordinary person probably wouldn't last even a second.

"Let's go down and take a look."

Braving the blizzard that could blow a person away, Qingye decisively crossed the mountain and began to descend.

Just a hundred meters down the mountain, dozens of clusters of eerie blue light suddenly shone through the wind and snow.

Swarms of ice sprites shot out ice spikes, the sound of them piercing the air sharp as whistles.

Ice spikes, mixed with the wind and snow, attacked Aono and his companions, but they easily dodged them.

Then, a purple light flashed, and the shadow's figure left a trail of afterimages in place. The ice sprites then disintegrated into ice shards scattered on the ground in the wind.

"Master, 17 degrees to the left."

As Icarus gave his warning, three pale figures emerged gracefully from the snow.

The ghostly snow woman let out an invisible shriek, causing Shadow and Ika to pause in their movements.

At the same time, they raised their hands and began to cast spells.

The surrounding snowflakes instantly condensed into huge ice cones, which blasted towards Aono with a biting chill.

"Ugh, so noisy."

Aono casually swung his alloy battle axe, easily crushing the three ice spikes.

He took a step forward, and his battle axe drew a graceful arc before silently exploding in front of a snow woman's chest.

Under the influence of the blue lightning chakra, the snow woman cried out in alarm, her body cracking like shattered porcelain, and finally turning into a pile of gold coins and materials.

Upon seeing this, the remaining two snow women instinctively stopped their shrill screams and took a step back in fear.

But it was this brief pause that cost them their lives.

A flash of purple lightning, and the remaining two snow women were instantly killed.

After defeating the enemy, Shadow flicked his hand, and the chill on his fingertips was instantly evaporated by lightning.

After putting away the materials and gold coins, the three continued down the mountain.

You'll occasionally encounter ice sprites and snow women along the way, but you can easily defeat them.

Half an hour later, the three arrived at the bottom of the mountain.

The terrain ahead suddenly became flat, but after walking less than 500 meters, the air suddenly became thick.

An invisible wall stood before them; behind it, there was no longer wind and snow, but a surging, endless black chaos that devoured all light.

Aono reached out, his palm touching a hard yet ethereal barrier. With a soft "hum," the pitch-black chaos was almost within reach, as if it were about to devour him.

"gone back."

He did not linger there.

Now that the boundaries have been identified, the remaining task is to find the BOSS and clear the map.

Faced with the choice of going over the mountain or taking a detour back, Aono chose the first option.

Even if we can bypass the snow-capped mountains, the time saved probably won't be much.

More importantly, Shiba Miyuki is still waiting for him to bring back the Ark in the opposite valley.

At 2 p.m., the wind and snow intensified, and the sky darkened.

Aono and his two companions arrived at the snow-capped mountaintop once again.

According to Icarus's map, the three returned to the valley they had come from and successfully submitted the materials to unlock the NPC Shiba Miyuki.

Seeing that her Ice Mage class was exactly the same as Oikawa Hirei's, Aono smiled.

He guessed correctly; these two NPC teammates were specially "customized" teammates for this level.

Once recruitment is complete and the team's level is raised slightly, the team's combat power can instantly double when exploring.

This would free Aono to do other things.

These monsters did not serve any training purpose for him, Ika, or Shadow.

Instead of wasting time fighting and exploring the map, it's better to continue improving combat skills and developing Lightning Release Chakra Mode in the training room.

Moreover, their abilities are extremely well-suited to this complex terrain and harsh, frigid world, greatly improving their efficiency in exploration and map clearing.

Just before nightfall, Aono carried the beautiful girl with long, straight black hair who was reciting lines through the energy shield and returned to the Ark.

Shadow and Ika followed them in.

The raging snowstorm was completely shut out, and the three of them felt the warm air, their tense bodies slowly relaxing.

The dinner table became much livelier at dinner time.

Aono sat in the main seat, his gaze sweeping over Matsuzaka Ume, who was sitting at the table looking somewhat reserved.

This mature woman, who had worked all day, was eating small bites of synthetic rice.

Miyauchi Ichiho tried to relax a bit, but her movements showed that they were all quite tired today.

For the average person, life in this world is still too difficult.

Unfortunately, the experience book is only unlocked at the next level. Otherwise, if you level them up to level 10, you won't feel tired at all doing this kind of basic physical labor.

"Don't be too reserved."

Aono picked up a piece of stir-fried mushrooms and greens with his chopsticks. "I'll leave the farm construction to you. Once the experience books are unlocked, I'll help you level up, which will make things much easier for you."

He did not mention the extraction of chakra for the time being.

Their current level is too low, their chakra learning efficiency is too low, and they can't play much of a role.

It would be better to use this time to rest and recover more physical and mental strength.

Of course, he wouldn't stop them from going to the training room to learn from Tsunade how to extract chakra.