Everyone at the base mocked Lin Zhou's F-rank planting talent, but with a single fast-growing potato, he learned that food meant power, expanding from a plastic box on a balcony to the nine ecological cores.
"Can an F-rank grow bullets?" the entire shelter laughed at him.
On the seventh day after the apocalypse arrived, Lin Zhou climbed out of a basement with nothing but a few bags of seed potatoes. S-rank fighters got the best rations; he received half a meal a day. He didn't argue. He crouched on an abandoned balcony and buried his first fast-growing potato in a plastic box.
Forty-eight hours later, he took his first bite. His wounds were healing.
[Fast-Growing Potato] Time until maturity: 47 hours. Estimated yield: 12 kilograms. Ecology Value +0.3.
Half a bag of potatoes saved Su Wan, the reconnaissance squad leader, from her grievous injuries. She laid her gun in front of him. "From now on, I'll protect you." For forty-three days, the shelter was besieged by a tide of corpses. Cold-resistant radishes and energy pumpkins kept everyone from starving. Then people from the Dawn Base arrived, and its leader, Zhou Tieshan, handed Lin Zhou a mission: keep a hundred thousand people fed for thirty days.
The underground parking garage was converted into a three-tier hydroponic farm. On the day the first crop of potatoes ripened, the cafeteria cooked potato soup for a hundred thousand people.
But when Lin Zhou looked at the System panel, his pupils contracted. Ecology Value: 52 -> 31. The more you kill, the faster you die.
He cultivated, layer by layer, the safe zone that guns couldn't secure. From irradiated valleys to the nine ecological cores, everyone was betting on whether this F-rank farmer could bring the entire post-apocalyptic world back to green.
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