Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 99 You still have to have dreams

During the last experiment, Li Mu was thinking about creating a plant that could produce compressed military rations.

However, there were too many things to do, so he put the matter aside for the time being. It was not until he was starving again that he thought of putting this matter on the agenda.

But before that, he has to take a rest and go out for a walk. Otherwise, if he stays in the laboratory all the time, he will really become a "vegetable".

……

"Um, two o'clock in the afternoon?"

Li Mu raised his watch and looked at the sun in the sky. He had slept for five or six hours without realizing it.

Because he had been immersed in making spirit coins, anyone who came to apply for a job in the past two days was turned away by Yao Chengcheng.

Because he was familiar with Li Mu's work style, once he started concentrating on something, he would be completely immersed in it and would not want to care about other things at all.

Yao Chengcheng had previously thought about arranging two people to serve Li Mu temporarily, but he refused. His reason was that apart from delivering messages, he didn't need help with anything else for the time being, and assigning two people to him would be a complete waste of human resources.

As it is, Li Mu still has no one to use, so if he wants to pass on a message or find someone, he has to go there in person.

Arriving at the restaurant on the first floor, Li Mu first took out a few large pork elbows from the braised meat pot that had been kept warm, and then asked Aunt Wang to stir-fry a few side dishes and noodles for him.

Then he took the elbow to the dining table and began to eat it ravenously. He was really greedy as he hadn't eaten properly in the past two days.

After a while, Aunt Wang brought out an iron basin of noodles topped with braised beef topping and some vegetables, then turned back to the kitchen to start cooking.

Half an hour later, Li Mu finished the last mouthful of noodle soup in the iron basin, burped comfortably, and slowly walked out of the gate of the City Lord's Mansion.

"I don't know what they are busy with now?"

Li Mu muttered softly while waving his hand to create a clover. Then he grabbed the handle of the clover and slowly floated towards the sky.

When the clover brought him up to a height of fifty meters above the ground, Li Mu keenly noticed the change in temperature.

Before the sun underwent its second change, the temperature outside was hovering around minus fifty degrees Celsius, but now the temperature outside is obviously lower than before!
Although there was no specific measurement, he estimated that the temperature was around minus eighty degrees Celsius.

Thinking that the second disaster would break out in two weeks, Li Mu's joy over producing a large amount of spirit coins suddenly sank.

He didn't know what would happen then, maybe the temperature would just be lower, or maybe there would be other natural disasters.

It's like there's a sword of Damocles hanging over your head, ready to fall and take your life at any time. This uncontrollable factor is the most terrifying.

Li Mu thought silently: "It has been half a month since the last time the sun went dark. Maybe I should ask Mayor Qian for more information."

At the same time, Li Mu deeply felt that without monitoring methods, he was restricted everywhere.

If he had dozens of satellites in outer space like previous governments and could monitor the situation around him at any time, he would not have to worry about these situations at all.

"Perhaps we could create a plant that has a remote monitoring capability, like the Eye of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings."

Li Mu kept this in mind and planned to write it down in the Book of All Spirits when he returned:
9. Creating remotely monitored plants
A few minutes later, Li Mu loosened his grip on the clover and landed steadily on the hemlock wall, looking down.

Outside Wanling City, there was a huge crowd of people. At a glance, there were about five or six hundred people.

Some of them were carrying wood in teams of two, and some were moving bricks in groups of three or five. They were actually busy building houses.

However, these houses have only simple structures, and it is unknown how long it will take to be completed. Li Mu looked through the crowd and found Yao Chengcheng on a high platform made of wood.

So he grabbed the clover again and slowly floated towards Yao Chengcheng.

"Who is that?"

On the ground, Ma Yuan, who was moving wood with Hong Pengfei, looked at the dark shadow in the sky and asked.

Upon hearing this, Hong Pengfei couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking that his good friend seemed to be very good at discovering things that others could not see.

He looked up and said, "Hmm, it looks like the city lord!"

As the black shadow slowly lowered its altitude, Ma Yuan finally saw his face clearly. It was the city lord whom they had met once.

Ma Yuan looked at Li Mu floating in the sky and asked in surprise, "The city lord can actually fly?!"

Hong Pengfei rolled his eyes. "Didn't you see that the city lord was holding something in his hand? He should be able to float in the air with the help of that thing."

After hearing Hong Pengfei's reminder, Ma Yuan looked intently at Li Mu's right hand, and discovered that he was holding a long wooden handle in his hand, and at the top of the wooden handle was a constantly rotating fan-like object.

"When can I fly?"

Ma Yuan said with some emotion.

"Don't look at it, don't dream about it. No matter what it is, it's not something we can get right now. The most important thing now is to hurry up and build a house. Once the house is built, we can move to the ground and live there."

Hong Pengfei sighed and interrupted his friend's fantasy.

He feels that his life now is already very good. He can have enough food and clothes in the underground city, and now he can own his own house on the ground through hard work.

These were things he had never dared to imagine when he was in the West Lake Shelter.

"How can this be called a dream?"

“This is my dream. I also want to become an awakener like the city lord and possess powerful strength.

By then we can live in a big house and find a way to find our parents."

After a pause, Ma Yuan looked at Hong Pengfei seriously and asked,
"Since the end of the world, we have lost contact with our family. Don't you want to find them?"

Hong Pengfei lowered his head when he heard that. Didn't he also want to have powerful strength and use it to find his family?
In just the one month he spent in the West Lake Shelter, he had seen too many helpless things and realized his own abilities, and now his edges have been smoothed out.

Ma Yuan seemed to notice his friend's depression, and knew that his words just now had touched the other party's sore spot, so he hurriedly stepped forward and put his arm around Hong Pengfei's shoulders.

"Believe me, I will definitely become an awakener in the future. I will take you to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, and then I will help you find news about your family."

"Besides, if you don't have a dream, you are no different from a salted fish!"

Hong Pengfei felt his friend's confidence, and couldn't help but raise his head and force a smile.

"I'm too negative. You're right. We should still have dreams. Besides, every department is recruiting people now. If I'm selected, it will be a step up to the sky."

“Dreams may come true!”

(End of this chapter)