Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 32 Wanling City! (4000 chapters)

When the majestic body of the giant war tree took root firmly at the entrance of the town, Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

The huge size of the war tree almost consumed all the energy in his body.

According to Li Mu's estimation, although this giant war tree barely has the strength of the fifth level, it is more than enough under the current situation.

Li Mu was extremely tired at this moment and urgently needed a thorough rest.

As for many other trivial matters, they were naturally left to Chengcheng and Asao to handle.

Ever since he obtained thirty third-order crystal cores from General Wang, Cheng Cheng and Asao have also been able to possess valuable resources to accelerate their cultivation.

In order not to become a burden on Li Mu's path forward, and for the thriving growth of the shelter, Cheng Cheng and Asao seized every spare moment to absorb crystal cores, determined to be promoted to the third level as soon as possible.

When they were not practicing, they would take care of all the chores and never let Li Mu interfere.

After the Ice Age, perhaps because of the shutdown of factories, the sky gradually became clear and bright.

Whenever night falls, looking up, the sky full of twinkling stars reminds people of their carefree childhood.

A bright moon hung high in the sky. Li Mu, Asao and Cheng Cheng were sitting by the campfire eating skewers. On the grill was a roasted wild boar.

"Chengcheng, do you think the end of the world is due to the activation of Blue Planet's self-repair mechanism?"

Asao said this with deep emotion while gnawing on a pig's trotter.

"Why do you think so?"

Cheng Cheng scratched his head in confusion.

"Look at the sky, look at the mountains and rivers. In just two months, the blue planet has regained its former beauty. Isn't this like antivirus software on a computer?"

Asao explained on the side.

“Sometimes I wonder if the Ice Age wasn’t all bad.”

Li Mu said thoughtfully, "In the past, I always saw news reports about the melting of the Arctic and global warming, calling on everyone to reduce carbon emissions. Now that human activities have stopped, the blue planet has finally had a chance to breathe."

For the Blue Planet, it might be better without humans.

A night of silence.
Li Mu slowly woke up accompanied by the sound of birds singing from somewhere.

Looking at the faint sunlight, Li Mu dressed neatly, as there were still many things waiting for him to do.

After a night's rest, Li Mu's energy has almost recovered.

Although he had plenty of source energy, he was not planning to transform the giant war tree again in the short term. Transforming such a large giant war tree would use up almost all of his source energy and a whole day's time. The cost-effectiveness was too low, and one tree was enough for now.

The next thing he had to do was to build the city wall as quickly as possible. Only with the city wall could he develop safely.

For most people, the best choice for building city walls is huge stones or fired bricks, but for Li Mu, as long as there are trees, it will be fine.

He planned to build an unprecedented wall around the refuge, a "living" wall full of vitality.

This is a square city with a side length of about 500 meters and a total area of ​​250,000 square meters. It is surrounded by hundreds of acres of rice fields in Shuangpu Town.

The wall will be made mainly of hemlock trees, supplemented by soil and stones, and other plants will be planted in the gaps.

Integrating knowledge with action, Li Mu immediately began to prepare.

The first step is still to use one's ability to ripen a hemlock tree and bear fruit, and then pick its fruits to ensure that there are enough seeds.

The second step of the plan is to draw the boundaries of this square.

The process is fairly simple.

Li Mu planted a hemlock seed every five meters on the square border and activated his ability to make it grow to two meters high.

Planting a hemlock seedling takes about a minute, but the process consumes source energy, and his source energy is enough to support him to plant a hundred trees at a time.

Five days had passed since he planted the hemlock seedlings on all four sides. During these five days, he devoted himself to the project and meals were brought to him by Cheng Cheng and Asao.

After the square border was drawn, Li Mu immediately started the third step of the plan, which was to promote the rapid growth of these small hemlocks and turn them into giant hemlocks with a diameter of five meters and a height of tens of meters, while also enhancing their hardness and toughness.

The limit of Li Mu's ability is to give birth to eight giant hemlocks every day, but he certainly cannot consume all the source energy in his body at once. He needs to reserve a part for emergencies to prevent attacks from enemies or mutant beasts. Therefore, he can actually only give birth to five giant hemlocks every day.

With this calculation, this step will undoubtedly take longer. If we wait until the city wall is renovated before farming, it will undoubtedly waste a lot of time.

So the three of them began to divide the work. During this period, Li Mu concentrated on building the city wall, while Cheng Cheng and Aso, in addition to cooking and clearing the snow, also began to look for survivors who could come to farm. Li Mu didn't want to do all the work by himself.

A few days after the program started,
Cheng Cheng and Asao, who were searching for survivors nearby, unexpectedly met Han Dong who was out hunting. Han Dong recognized the two benefactors who had once saved his life.

When he learned that Cheng Cheng and Asao planned to build a shelter in Shuangpu Town, Han Dong eagerly asked if manpower was needed for the construction out of gratitude to his saviors, hoping to do his part.

Cheng Cheng and Asao naturally welcomed his help, and then told him frankly that the establishment of the shelter currently needed a lot of people, and whether he could help promote it.

They explained that if you join now, you will be able to enjoy three meals a day provided to all participants during the construction of the shelter, as well as a house donated free of charge with permanent residency rights.

This news made Han Dong very excited. After careful consideration, he decisively decided to join the construction team of the shelter and returned to the shelter to secretly reveal the news.

As word spread, more and more people tried to join this new refuge.

In the end, Cheng Cheng and Ah Sao stopped recruiting after selecting more than 300 people. This was not only because the number was sufficient, but also because Cheng Cheng was worried that if he continued to recruit people, it might cause dissatisfaction with Mayor Qian.

Time flies, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Today, Shuangpu Town is no longer the dilapidated appearance it once was. Tall giant hemlocks stand outside the town, tightly surrounding the rice fields. Inside the town, people can be seen walking through it from time to time.

In a farmland, there were two figures, one big and one small.

"Dad, is the Grand City Lord going to transform the last hemlock tree today?"

A little girl, only seven or eight years old, wearing a black down jacket, asked the person next to her.

"Yes, Nini, we are moving soon."

Standing next to her was a man in his thirties, who touched the little girl's hair and answered with emotion.

These two people were naturally Han Dong and his daughter Nini. They had been in Shuangpu Town for more than a month and had long heard about what Li Mu was doing.

In the distance, Li Mu, with a scruffy beard, gently stroked a giant hemlock tree. After more than a month of hard work, he finally completed the preliminary construction of the main part of the city wall! He thought to himself,
“If there is no breakthrough along the way, it will probably take more time.

With emotion, he loosened the hemlock in his hand.

During this month or so, Li Mu's life was regular and monotonous, with only two focuses: promoting the growth of hemlock and restoring source energy.

Every day, after waking up and having a meal, he would rush to induce the birth of hemlock. When his source energy was exhausted or he was hungry, he would stop to eat, and then use the help of Polygonum multiflorum to practice and restore his source energy. After his source energy was restored, he would continue to induce the birth of hemlock.

Initially, Li Mu would keep some source energy as a backup, but after Cheng Cheng and Asao successfully broke through to the third level, he decided to go all out, exhausting the source energy each time until there was not a drop left, and then go back to rest and recover.

It was this spirit of constantly challenging the limits that enabled Li Mu to successfully break through to the fifth level half a month after building the city wall!
After reaching the fifth level, the total amount of source energy in Li Mu's body increased significantly, and the number of giant hemlocks born every day increased to twenty, thus shortening the time that originally took more than two months to more than one month.

Now that the main structure has been built, all that remains is to add the details.

The giant hemlock stands proudly, more than thirty meters high. The dense trunk at the bottom is about fifteen meters high, while the slender branches above have about twenty meters of space, which is full of gaps.

In order to make full use of these spaces, Li Mu came up with a clever idea.

He used his abilities to produce a large number of vines, which closely connected each hemlock tree to form a corridor two meters wide.

Then he spread a thick layer of soil on the corridor, creating conditions for the growth of other plants.

In Li Mu's heart, compared to the guards of ordinary people, he trusts the plants he created more.

This trust is not without reason, because these plants have been transformed by him and have acquired basic intelligence.

Not only can they alert Li Mu in time, they also have impressive combat capabilities and will never betray him.

After some selection, the plant Li Mu planned to plant on it was the "big mouth flower".

The prototype of the big-mouthed flower is the Venus flytrap, which was originally small in size, only the size of a palm, but can effectively catch flies.

However, the height of the modified big-mouthed flower is as high as three meters. Its thick vines are as strong as thighs and are connected to a big mouth full of fangs. Its image is quite terrifying.

After half a month of hard work, Li Mu finally planted a big-mouthed flower every ten meters on the two-kilometer-long city wall, forming a unique landscape.

Li Mu looked at the dense big-mouthed flowers in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

These big-mouthed flowers are not only terrifying in appearance, but their power is even more astonishing.

After his careful transformation, these big-mouthed flowers would fall into a dormant state at ordinary times. As long as an enemy approaches, these big-mouthed flowers will wake up immediately, open their terrifying big mouths, swallow the enemy, and then use gastric juice comparable to sulfuric acid to turn everything into nothing.

Now that the big-mouthed flowers have been planted, the basic construction of the city wall can come to an end.

Next, he needs to build houses suitable for human habitation in the city and plant some plants that he has improved.

After much deliberation, Li Mu decided to choose a type of tree to transform into a tree house, and the chosen tree species was the distinctive "banyan tree".

Another week passed. Under the leadership of Li Mu, all the staff worked together to complete tree houses that were five or six meters wide and seven or eight meters high.

In order to make the tree house lively at night, he planted street lights and sunflowers in the house to provide lighting and heating.

By this calculation, about two months have passed since the construction of the city wall began.

At present, all the infrastructure has been completed, and the subsequent development will depend on the efforts of the residents themselves.

The next morning.

"Chengcheng, Asao, notify all residents to prepare to move!"

Li Mu looked at the city he built and felt full of satisfaction.

At this moment, he finally had a place of his own to settle down!

"Okay, I'll go and notify them right away."

Cheng Cheng nodded slightly, then took Asao to the town to inform everyone of the news.

And when Cheng Cheng announced the news, everyone cheered continuously, with voices rising one after another.

“It’s finally built!”

"We can move to this safe place now!"

"Thanks to the Lord Mayor, I will finally have my own house in the shelter."

Li Mu looked at the excited crowd with a smile, his heart filled with joy. He knew that all his hard work over the past month was worth it.

This will be their home, a place full of hope and joy, and also where his dream begins.

Under the leadership of Cheng Cheng and Asao, the residents began to get busy, packing their luggage and furniture. Everyone had a smile on their face and was full of anticipation.

Li Mu also began to check whether there were any omissions in the formation surrounding the giant hemlock to make sure everything was ready.

It was not until the sun was about to set in the afternoon that all the residents had finally finished packing up. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the whole town was shrouded in a busy and peaceful atmosphere.

As night fell, residents came one after another to a gap that had been reserved long ago, waiting for Li Mu's instructions.

Li Mu stood on a branch of the giant tree of war, looking at the dark crowd below, feeling deeply moved.

He knew that from now on, he would shoulder the responsibility of protecting them, and they would start a new life here.

Retracting his gaze, Li Mu looked at the gap in front of him and shouted in a low voice, "Open!"
Then he gently waved his right hand, and instantly, the two huge hemlock trees on both sides of the gap seemed to be given life and began to bend and entwine.
After a while, a magnificent city gate ten meters high and five meters wide rose up before everyone's eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Li Mu waved his arms again, and several vines climbed up the city gate, intertwining and twisting, and finally evolved into two majestic characters - "Wan Ling".

"From now on, this city will be called 'Wanling City'!"

Li Mu's eyes were as sharp as torches as he scanned the crowd below and solemnly gave this name to the new city.

"Start heading into town."

At Li Mu's command, the residents cheered and set foot on this land full of hope.

Behind them, the city wall that was built with great difficulty is like a solid barrier, protecting them and witnessing their growth.

This chapter seems a bit messy
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