Chapter 545: A New Life
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
There was cow and horses. As long as they made a few plows, they could start plowing. If it were not for the fact that the two sheep were too small, Du Yue would have gotten them to do some labor too. Ever since they started farming, the four of them had become exceptionally disciplined. Every morning, they would wake up at seven or eight o’clock on time and go to the fields to work after eating. Other than taking a break during lunch, they worked hard the rest of the time.
It was not until dinner time that they returned home from the fields. Dozens of acres of land were not small. Even if there were animals to help plow the land, they needed to personally do a lot of tasks. After a month of hard work, all the fields were finally sown.
When the cow plowed an acre of land, they would sow another acre of land. By the time the last acre of seeds were planted, the seedlings of the first acre had already grown to knee height. Du Yue and the other two had already seen the rate of growth of these seeds, so they were not surprised. However, Shen Teng was really shocked! Previously, when he heard Du Yue and the others talk about it, he had no idea.
It was only when he saw it with his own eyes that he finally realized how good this improved breed was. After the sowing was completed, a few of them could not stay idle. The seedlings had sprouted, and the gra.s.s had also grown. It was time to weed. Xia Ju had developed a pesticide and insect repellent. The effects were great, but they still needed to spray it on the fields one acre at a time. It was not difficult to do it, but it required time. Fortunately, time was the most abundant thing they had now.
30 days pa.s.sed by quickly. Now, no matter if one was standing in the yard or on the roof of the car, everything in sight had turned into green gra.s.s and crops. The sprouts and gra.s.s brought new hope.
The crops did not need to be taken care of every day. Du Yue liked to sit on the roof of the car when she was idle. It was not only to enjoy the rare beautiful scenery, but also to guard their crops. Although there were only four of them living within a hundred miles, it was hard to guarantee that no one else would pa.s.s by. If they did not guard it, what if someone secretly took away their crops? Would they not have worked hard for the benefit of others? As the plants grew day by day, Du Yue’s frown kept getting longer. It was not because of anything else, but because the sky was getting darker by the day.
Not only was the sky turning dark earlier, but even dawn was much later than before. All the signs were clearly reminding Du Yue that the Eternal Night was coming. Du Yue told He Xing and Xia Ju about her discovery. The two of them were silent for a while after hearing it. After a short silence, they decided to dig a bas.e.m.e.nt. After the Eternal Night, they would try to plant in the bas.e.m.e.nt.
They had a digging robot, so they did not have to do it themselves, which saved them a lot of trouble.
After digging the bas.e.m.e.nt, Du Yue and the other two went to Shen Teng’s house. They did not tell him that the Eternal Night was coming, but reminded him that they could dig a bas.e.m.e.nt so that they could store the crops after harvesting. Shen Teng had been worried these few days. He had planted 20 acres of seeds and did not know how to store the produce after harvesting. After He Xing’s reminder, he agreed without hesitation. When he saw the digging robot brought by He Xing, Shen Teng was completely stunned. After a long time, he finally said, “This… 1 thought our lives would deteriorate after the apocalypse. 1 didn’t expect technology to have developed to this extent.”
Du Yue and the other two listened to Shen Teng’s sigh. They only looked at each other but did not reply. They really did not know how to explain it to the other party. Were they going to say that the technology of the blue planet was indeed declining and that this thing they were seeing was not a product of the blue planet at all? If they could not explain it, he would not explain it. Anyway, Shen Teng was not a person who liked to get to the bottom of things.
The efficiency of the digging robot was extremely high. Before the crops were harvested, the bas.e.m.e.nts of the two families had already been dug. The bas.e.m.e.nt was dug very deep, as high as a two-story building. Du Yue’s bas.e.m.e.nt was more than 500 square meters, and Shen Teng’s bas.e.m.e.nt was more than 200 square meters. In order to prevent the food stored in the bas.e.m.e.nt from being eroded by moisture, He Xing and Shen Teng drove to the city together and brought back two carts full of bedding. When all the bedding was laid out, the bas.e.m.e.nt was completely built. At the same time, they also brought back news about the city.
Similar to what Shen Teng had said before, many bases had already begun to move into the city, preparing to resume normal life. Everyone they saw in the city had a happy smile on their faces, and they were full of motivation when they worked. They believed that their suffering was over and that the apocalypse was about to end. A new life filled with hope was about to arrive..