READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 8: Stockpiling (2)
The soldiers had wanted to escort her to the hospital.
At her adamant refusal, the soldiers went to ask for her name and number instead, saying that they'll contact her in the future to repay the favor.
Lu Nanzhi drew a clear line. Her identity was forged. It would be stupid to give it to them.
Fortunately, they didn't make trouble for her and only extracted a statement from her regarding what happened while receiving first aid. One of the soldiers was a medic.
She told them about the car crashing and her coincidentally passing by.
The soldiers asked a few more questions about her destination, or if she saw suspicious people loitering around the area or if there were other cars chasing the victim's car.
"I was on my way to visit villages to transport the vegetables and fruits to the supermarket when I saw the car crash. Because of panic, I haven't noticed anything else," Lu Nanzhi answered, pretending to be daunted by the accident.
The medic who saw the bandages on their master's shoulder squeezed in a question, "Miss, are you a nurse or a doctor too?" The way the bandages were dressed was skillful.
Lu Nanzhi shook her head, "I only know a little bit of bandaging." She met a doctor once before she regressed, and he taught her the basics.
The soldiers finally let her go and apologized for the lengthy interrogation before thanking her endlessly.
Staring at the back of the disappearing truck, the leader of the soldier was faintly disappointed at failing to persuade Lu Nanzhi to go with them.
Because of the wounds she sustained, Lu Nanzhi had to change her route and drive 6 hours back to the city to get further treatment.
Although her plan was ruined and her hands were injured, her mood still soared because of the new system function.
[Virtual Farm is unlocked.]
She didn't imagine for this function to unlock very early!
In the game app, it was only accessible when she was Level 30 and after collecting 10 types of edible crops seed in the post-disaster world.
At that stage, the alien beasts had already become very active, invading human settlements and cities often making the search for the seeds very difficult.
It took two weeks of in-game time for her to collect it.
With the virtual farm on hand, she doesn't have to worry about being self-sustainable. It was a relief that she hadn't purchased vegetables and fruits yet.
On the holographic screen in front of her was 2 hectares of fertile land, which was divided into 60 plots. Each plot can be planted with one type of vegetable.
She wasn't certain about the yield and harvesting time, whether it follows the real-world law or the game.
What she was positive of most is that this virtual land is more convenient than natural farming since she doesn't need to worry about plowing, pests, water consumption, and investing time and labor.
Since it was getting late, she stayed in a small hotel for the night after making a call to the supervisor to add solar panels on the balcony for a backup system.
The latter agreed and sent her the video for today's progress and the additional estimate bill for procuring solar panels.
Afterwards, she made sure there were no hidden cameras around before opening the virtual farm.
There were pots of tomato, cabbage, and bean sprouts in her inventory. They were still a small sapling, far from maturity.
Lu Nanzhi transferred the small sprout onto the soil of the Virtual Farm by tapping on the options on the corner of the screen.
[Sow]
[Transplant]
[Discard]
[Harvest]
[Seeding]
Under the tab [Transplant], there was a list of choices to click from, and it was the [Tomato], [Cabbage], and [Bean].
Lu Nanzhi chose all of them. Out of the 60 squares, three of which changed colors from brown to verdant green, and tiny shoots were growing on them.
The floating prompts above the squares made her heart race and her eyes widened in incredulity.
[Bean: Time until harvest: 18 hours]
[Tomato Time until harvest: 24 hours]
[Cabbage: Time until harvest: 36 hours]
The vegetables that take at least months to grow can reach maturity with days?
Lu Nanzhi was looking forward to the results!
She called room service and ordered several plates of braised pork, fragrant rice, and pickled side dishes as dinner to celebrate the upgrade. It was only regretful that she unlocked the farm after buying rice and flour.
Come to think of it, she might need to personally mill the rice and wheat. Should she buy the milling machine? Lu Nanzhi wrote it down in her notebook just in case.
The first thing Lu Nanshi did in the morning was visit the seed shops in the Grand Central Market.
She spent 60, 000 yuan and bought 100 packets each of seeds of cabbage, lettuce, baby spinach, tomato, potato, sweet potato, corn, rice, wheat, cucumbers, green peppers, peanuts, eggplant, carrots, white radish, taro, wax gourd, various beans, and other edible fungi.
Lu Nanzhi also didn't spare the fruit saplings in the nursery room and paid 48, 000 yuan for the olive tree, jackfruit, apple, mango, lychee, peach, lemon, mandarin orange, plum, silver date, avocado, apricot, pineapple, grapes and so on.
The shop owner also introduced her to the seed kit of medicinal herbs. Lu Nanzhi didn't discriminate and hoarded all of it.
Meanwhile, on the top floor of Pearl City's biggest private hospital, Lu Nanzhi's mission targets finally regained consciousness.