Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 52: The People of the Flower Planting Family (Thanks to the support of "Reader 20210477")

“There’s still so much to do!”

Li Mu stood at the bottom of the excavated tunnel, looking at the pitch-black space and felt a little emotional.

Constructing an underground city is not a small project. Li Mu originally planned to devote himself to the construction of the underground city in the next month, but plans cannot keep up with changes.

The sudden visit to the West Lake Shelter forced him to focus on promoting the growth of the Everlasting Light Tree and charging the fruit tree seeds.

After all, population is also very important to Wanling City. If there are sufficient population, the excavation progress of the underground city will surely be much faster.

After returning to the ground in the rattan elevator, Li Mu immediately went back to his house and began to work hard to promote the growth of the Everlasting Tree seedlings.

Although the agreement with the West Lake Shelter was to give them one thousand seedlings, it would not be wrong to give them more seedlings if the shelter was willing to provide more people.

Li Mu's goal is to give birth to two thousand Everbright tree seedlings within one day. No matter what he does, being prepared may not necessarily ensure safety, but the result is always better than having no plan.

The seeds of the Everbright Tree are easy to obtain, but the trouble is to grow all of them into seedlings.

Accumulated soil forms a mountain; gathered water forms a river.

The source energy consumed to produce a seed is not much, but there are two thousand seeds here!

"The liver is done!"

Li Mu secretly cheered himself up in his heart. It was obviously the end of the world and he had become the city lord. Why was it more tiring now than when he was working before?
With a light tap of his fingers, a seed of the Everlasting Tree began to grow rapidly under the green light, and soon it was more than two meters high. Li Mu changed his mind and controlled the Everlasting Tree to stop growing and instead began to produce fruits shaped like pine cones.

Such a large evergreen tree can grow into more than a dozen pine cones each time, and each pine cone has about twenty to thirty seeds.

After controlling the vines to pick all the pine cones, Li Mu once again poured source energy into the Changming Tree, and then the pine cones grew and he picked the pine cones, repeating this five times.

Looking at the pine cones piled up into a small hill, Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief. The next thing he had to do was to find a place to plant all the seeds.

Li Mu didn't want to take out all the seeds one by one. He had to find someone else to do it. He had to use his precious energy to grow tree seeds.

Thinking of this, he walked down the City Lord's Mansion and found Yao Chengcheng, who was arranging warming work at the farm.

"Do we need to plant all the seeds in these pine cones?"

Cheng Cheng looked at Li Mu and asked uncertainly.

"That's right. I have to find a place to plant all these seeds. Then I will catalyze them into seedlings. It would be a waste if I use source energy to catalyze them completely."

"Besides, we don't know when the people from the West Lake Shelter will come next time. If these seedlings are not planted in the soil, they will have to rely on me to continuously replenish their energy to ensure their survival."

Li Mu told Cheng Cheng why he wanted to plant all these seeds.

“Uh, this place might be hard to find.”

Cheng Cheng said with some embarrassment.

"what!"

"It's just two thousand seedlings, and at most they will take up a thousand square meters. Aren't there so many vacant spaces in the city?" Li Mu looked at Yao Chengcheng in disbelief. Aren't there vacant spaces everywhere?
You are telling lies with your eyes open, right?

"You don't know that all the vacant land in Wanling City is used by the residents to grow crops."

“It looks like an empty field, but actually there are potatoes or rice planted underground.”

Yao Chengcheng explained somewhat helplessly that he had known about this situation not long ago.

A few days ago, he held a meeting to inform the residents of the city that there might be an even greater disaster in the future, and asked everyone to cherish the existing resources and store as much food as possible.

We must also take good care of the fields that have already been planted to ensure a harvest. Whether this field can be harvested is the key to future survival.

However, after the meeting, Han Dong came over and informed him of an unexpected situation.

It turned out that after the sowing of thousands of acres of rice fields was completed, some residents still had some seeds left in their hands. They thought it was a pity to eat these seeds directly as food.

Food is so precious now that if we can plant more, we can harvest more in the future.

So they took it upon themselves to plant these seeds on the vacant land in the city, hoping to harvest more in the future.

Hearing this, Li Mu couldn't help but think of the fields in his hometown.

When I went to the lake to farm with my parents, I always saw many people spreading soil to build fields beside the rivers, or sowing seeds on the small roads. At that time, Li Mu couldn't understand why they had to go to the trouble to build a small field or occupy the dirt road when there were already so many fields.

Isn’t it too much trouble?

Moreover, even if these seeds germinate, they will still be crushed or trampled by passers-by, and only one in ten will survive.

Isn't this a waste of effort and just making people despise us?

Considering the similar actions of these people in Wanling City now, Li Mu suddenly understood what they were thinking.

Although Li Mu was born in the countryside, when he was growing up, he rarely saw people starving to death, let alone famine. People from poor families simply didn't eat well, with fewer vegetables and not much meat, but they had no problem getting full.

But not everyone has the same growth experience as him, with no shortage of food and drink.

Some elderly people who survived from the 1960s have experienced the famine era. Technology was not yet developed at that time, and once a large-scale natural disaster occurred, the land would be in a state of barrenness!
At that time, people were fleeing, and wherever they went, they were like locusts, eating whatever they saw.

Wild vegetables, tree bark, leaves, even soil and grass roots, just to fill their stomachs and survive.

However, even so, many people died of hunger.

How is the situation different now than it was then?

In this extremely cold ice age, Yao Chengcheng and his companions relied on Li Mu's ability and never went hungry in these few months.

But it’s different for ordinary people. They don’t have much food stored, and the outside environment is too harsh. They can’t go out at all. No one knows how they survived these months.

Having experienced the feeling of starvation, when they finally arrived at Wanling City and had land to sow, how could they only focus on the planned rice fields?
There are obviously so many vacant spaces in the city that can be used for planting, they will definitely not waste this land!
As long as there is land, I have to plant something on it!
Perhaps this is the instinct rooted deep in the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter, and it is also the reason why the people of the Flower-Growing Country are called "farming maniacs."

I am a farming maniac!
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(End of this chapter)