I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Zhu Cuihua jumped down from Jiang Yan's arms, ran to the potato field, and started digging potatoes.

Jiang Yan was overjoyed to see this. "Sister, look! Zhu Cuihua can do chores! She can dig potatoes!"

Jiang Li: "..."

She carried the bucket over and, together with Zhu Cuihua, dug up a large bag of mutated potatoes, which they then poured into the fertilizer converter.

The machines roared to life.

Fertilizer spilled out of the outlet and fell into the wooden bucket below.

The bucket already contains the 5 jin of fertilizer collected yesterday.

"Sis, aren't you going to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes today? I'll take care of the fertilizer."

"Um."

Jiang Li went back to the house to get the seeds. Yesterday, she asked Lin An to buy 5 bags of potato seeds and 5 bags of sweet potato seeds, totaling 5000 points. She hadn't transferred the money to Lin An yet.

I currently have 1450 points, which isn't enough. I'll have to wait until Liu Weidong pays me today before making any further decisions.

In the past two days, Jiang Yan has cleared more than an acre of wasteland next to the rice paddies.

Now that she has a vegetable garden and a acre of rice paddy, Jiang Li plans to use the newly opened acre of land next to the rice paddy to grow crops for supply in large quantities. Potatoes will no longer be grown in the vegetable garden.

Jiang Li plans to divide this acre of land in two, one half as a potato field and the other half as a sweet potato field.

With a plan in place, Jiang Li began to take action.

Today we're going to upgrade the farm.

The area needed for the upgrade is 0.75 mu (approximately 0.1 hectares). One bag of seeds can cover 0.1 mu (approximately 0.067 hectares). Ten bags of seeds will be enough to plant one mu (approximately 0.067 hectares).

Wearing a straw hat and holding a hoe, Jiang Li dug furrows in the field to prepare for spreading base fertilizer.

With such a large planting area, 5 jin of fertilizer is not enough. Jiang Li finally understood what the system meant when it said that if the fertilizer was not used up, it meant that she was not a qualified farmer.

At least 10 jin of fertilizer is needed for every 0.1 mu of land, and 5 jin of fertilizer is only enough to plant half a mu of land.

Jiang Li had no choice but to send Jiang Yan to the seed station to get another 10 bags of fertilizer, which cost 1750 points. Jiang Li paid 1450 points, while Jiang Yan spent the last 200 points in his card and ended up owing the farming station 100 points.

very nice.

Why is it that the more we cultivate this land, the poorer we become?

The two of them were completely empty-handed, their pockets were even cleaner than their faces.

Not only that, but they are also heavily in debt.

After Lin An arrived, he automatically joined the ranks of digging ditches and spreading fertilizer. The three of them walked back and forth in the one-acre field, and even though the weather was still cool, they were still sweating profusely.

Jiang Li couldn't help but wonder, what would happen if it got to summer?

Farming in the scorching heat is no fun. She can only hope that the upgraded system store will offer more automated planting equipment so that she can suffer less.

While they were busy in the field, Zhou Yang and his patrol arrived; they were looking for Lin An.

"Sister Lin, look, what's this?"

Jiang Li looked over curiously and saw two patrol soldiers dragging the carcass of a black behemoth, more than twice the size of a tiger. Its skull was long and strange, its body was covered in bone armor, and its body had been pierced by several holes, from which dark red liquid was flowing out.

Zhou Yang said with great interest, "This is the second-tier mutated tiger that killed three farmers before! But judging from its posture, it's not far from advancing to the third tier. Just now, our people saw it wandering near the fields, and several speed-evolving individuals chased after it and shot it dead."

Lin An: "Well done. This tiger is a huge threat in the area. It's best to kill it while we have the chance to prevent it from harming other people."

Jiang Li went over to examine the mutated tiger's wounds and couldn't help but ask, "How did you do that? This bone armor looks very thick; could a bullet penetrate it?"

Zhou Yang: "Ordinary bullets certainly can't hurt it. We used armor-piercing bullets specifically designed to hunt second-tier mutated beasts, refined from materials such as the horns of high-tier mutated beasts. Their penetrating power is much greater than that of bullets before the apocalypse."

Jiang Li thought to herself, no wonder the corpses of high-level mutated beasts could be exchanged for points; it turns out they were all used to smelt military materials.

After telling Lin An the news, Zhou Yang dragged the tiger's carcass away.

"How many points can we get for that tiger's carcass?" Jiang Li asked.

Lin An: "It's almost at level three, and it's a large ferocious beast. I should be able to exchange it for 300 points."

Jiang Yan came over and asked, "Captain Lin, I heard that some hunters make a living by hunting high-level mutated beasts to earn points. Is that true?"

Lin An: "Of course it's true, and there are quite a few people like that. Skilled hunters can earn tens of thousands of points a month from this."

Lin An also mentioned that there is a hunter alliance not far from the field area. They are a small group in the post-apocalyptic world, living by farming and hunting beasts. They only go to the safe zone to exchange supplies when needed, and live outside most of the time.

They lived a comfortable life, with plenty of food and drink, and meat at every meal, but the casualty rate during hunting was also quite high.

After chatting for a few minutes, Jiang Li continued to carry her hoe back to the potato field to dig ditches.

Farming is still the best.

Having been used to fighting and killing in her previous life, Jiang Li only wants to farm and manage her small plot of land in this life.

The three of them worked together to dig a trench, spread base fertilizer, making sure the fertilizer didn't touch the potato tubers, and then covered it with 5 centimeters of soil before placing the tubers.

Jiang Li held a small hoe, planting the seeds while covering them with soil.

Once you get the hang of it, planting seeds is quite fast. You can put the seed in and cover it with soil in less than six seconds per hole. You can plant 600 holes in an hour, which is equivalent to 6 bags of seeds.

With three people, the speed would be even faster.

In less than an hour, the potatoes and sweet potato chunks were all buried.

Congratulations! You have unlocked the Sweet Potato encyclopedia! The reward (two bags of fertilizer) has been sent to your resource reward box. Please check your account!

The condition for unlocking the Sweet Potato Encyclopedia is: bury the first sweet potato tuber in the ground and wait for it to sprout.

Sure enough, it was readily available and lit up with a simple tap.

Pocket guide progress: 4/366.

Congratulations! Your planting area has reached 2 acres, and your farm has been upgraded!

[Host: Jiang Li]

[Occupation: Ordinary Farmer]

[Land: 50 mu]

[Farm: Level 1]

[Current effective planting area: 2.25 mu]

The system originally recognized the effective planting area as land that had been cultivated and sown with seeds. The system did not require the plants in the land to grow to a certain extent. Even if the seeds had just been planted, it was still considered an effective planting area.

Congratulations! Your farm has reached level 1. You are rewarded with one spin on the prize wheel.

This time, the spinning wheel is different from the last one.

First Prize: One tractor (capable of various operations such as plowing, harrowing, sowing, and transportation. Note: This equipment is a farm owner's exclusive vehicle; there is only one in the world. It can be upgraded, but upgrades require points.)

Second Prize: Agricultural Drones.

Third Prize: Mini Tiller

Fourth Prize: Harvester.

Fifth Prize: Rice transplanter.

Sixth Prize: 1 Golden Hoe (A gleaming golden hoe; take it and become the coolest farmer in the apocalypse!)