[Scavenging + Infrastructure + Farming + An Unconventional Flight from Famine]
A feel-good power fantasy. The heroine is no saint: she shows no mercy to her enemies and is at the peak of her strength.
After a spore invasion and cosmic radiation, humanity enters the wasteland era. Nearly a century has passed.
Ling Jing, an orphan born in the wasteland era, loses her adoptive parents at seven. She cannot survive by scavenging alone, so she relies on the base's medical trial program, which aims to save more survivors. From childhood, she becomes a paid volunteer, and at nineteen she nearly dies from an infection by an extraterrestrial fungus.
But as she lies on the brink of death, the planet's consciousness chooses her and grants her an astonishing power of purification.
"Join me in launching Blue Star's counteroffensive, my ally! Drive the invaders from our world!"
From then on, the planet's consciousness falls dormant, devoting itself to resisting cosmic radiation. Ling Jing takes her pitifully weak purification power, once so feeble it could be snuffed out at any moment, and cultivates it into a roaring bonfire.
The infected plants that other survivors see as a scourge, and that fail the second round of testing and get thrown out of the base, are all scooped up by her.
After all, once purified, these are precious medium-radiation and low-radiation plants.
And eventually, they even develop into the legendary pure plants...
This book is super nice