I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

The creatures inside seemed to sense something and looked this way.

Lin An quickly pulled his head back, pressed his body tightly against the cave wall, and slowed his breathing.

"What did you see?" Jiang Li asked her softly.

Lin An: "There is a group of mutated wild monkeys."

Those mutated wild monkeys retained human-like characteristics, stood on two legs, were covered with long dark brown hair, and were two meters long. At first glance, they looked very much like wild men.

That scene was a bit creepy.

More than twenty mutated monkeys stood in various corners, their fur dragging on the ground, with long faces and fangs, communicating in their own language while eating mutated bananas.

The thought of this scene sent chills down Lin An's spine, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

She pulled Jiang Li and turned to walk towards the cave entrance. "Let's go. This isn't a place for us. If those mutated monkeys find us, we'll be trapped here."

Jiang Li was pulled along by Lin An until they returned to the place where she had first fallen.

Fortunately, the mutated wild monkeys did not catch up.

Lin An searched around for tools that could help them climb up. Jiang Li felt the stone surface on the wall, calculated the handholds, and slowly moved up by stepping on the protruding rocks. Finally, when there was still some distance to the cave entrance, Jiang Li held her breath, flipped over, and jumped up.

Lin An was still looking for tools when he turned around and saw that Jiang Li had already gone up.

?

Lin An was a little confused. "Wait, how did you get up there?"

Jiang Li looked at her from the cave entrance, "Swing the vines in your hand over here, and I'll pull you up."

Lin An said "Oh" and quickly tossed the vines up.

Jiang Li wrapped the vines around her twice more and handed them down.

With Jiang Li's help, Lin An grabbed the vines with one hand and pushed off the stone wall with both feet, and climbed up.

Back in the car, Zhu Cuihua was still waiting for them.

Lin An quickly started the vehicle and drove onto the main road.

Jiang Li asked her, "Do you see that banana tree? What does it look like?"

Lin An described the scene to her: "It was more than two meters tall, but the trunk was as thick as a house. It was covered with bananas. I reckon that one tree alone could easily support those twenty-odd mutated wild monkeys."

Moreover, judging from their posture, the monkeys had already established their camp there, living in that cave and relying on that banana tree for their livelihood.

From Lin An's description, Jiang Li could easily imagine how lush that banana tree must be.

However, given the current situation, collecting evolved bananas is probably out of the question. There are so many mutated wild monkeys, larger than her, with sharp snouts and fangs. It won't be easy to snatch food from these monkeys.

"Go back and ask Lu Mingjue if he wants to make a big profit. If we can snatch that banana tree from the monkey, we'll have more bananas than we can eat," Jiang Li said.

That big banana tree can support more than twenty monkeys, which means it can support more than twenty people.

Many people still can't afford bananas.

Upon hearing this, Lin An's eyes lit up. "I'll tell him when I get back!"

She couldn't handle these monkeys by herself, but if she could call on some other people, perhaps she could give it a shot.

Lin An drove very fast, eager to get back and report this to Lu Mingjue.

When they returned to the farm, Qiao Wu was digging irrigation ditches in the fields, wearing galoshes.

Yesterday, I cultivated four acres of new paddy fields and prepared to dig ditches for irrigation. With so many fields, we can't just use water pipes to irrigate them like we do with vegetables. We can only use pumps for irrigation, and we need to use a high-powered pump to draw water from the river.

Not only Qiao Wu, but Chen Ye was also digging ditches in the fields.

Upon seeing Jiang Li return, Qiao Wu and Chen Ye both walked towards her.

Chen Ye approached Jiang Li and said, "The potato field has been cleared. I saw that your rice paddies needed some work, so I helped with that."

Although he finished the work in half a day, he was paid for a whole day, and he couldn't just sit idle for the rest of the day; he would feel guilty if he did.

Jiang Li nodded, "Okay, then I'll trouble you to help with the rice paddies this afternoon."

Looking at Qiao Wu, who was covered in dust and dirt, Jiang Li couldn't help but ask, "Are you getting used to it? Is it too hard for you?"

Qiao Wu, holding the shovel, said with bright eyes, "It's not hard at all! What dirty and tiring jobs haven't I done in the safe zone? You're tired and you don't even earn points. Farming is also tiring, but you can earn 10,000 points a month."

Moreover, she really likes this job. It's simple and unpretentious. When she's busy in the fields, she forgets all her worries and only has this small plot of land in front of her in her mind. So this is what farming feels like. It's really therapeutic.

Jiang Li opened the employee panel and took a look.

[Qiao Wu [Employee]:]

Job satisfaction: 100

Mood Level: 100

It seems she wasn't lying; she's genuinely happy.

That's good. When employees are happy, the system will issue rewards, and when employees receive rewards, they will be even happier. This creates a virtuous cycle, which is excellent.

"Oh right, I haven't given you today's nutrient solution yet." Jiang Li took out a green bottle of nutrient solution and handed it to her.

This nutrient solution is equivalent to 20% of her energy, so it's quite precious. In the future, even five mediocre people can be as good as one Zhuge Liang.

Qiao Wu took the nutrient solution, examined it in her hand, and asked, "Should I drink it directly?"

Jiang Li nodded.

Qiao Wu opened the nutrient solution and drank it down in one gulp.

"What does it taste like?" Jiang Li asked her.

"It's a little sweet and a little astringent, with a very refreshing taste, like drinking vegetable juice."

Jiang Li: "As long as it doesn't taste bad, it's fine."

After drinking the nutrient solution, Qiao Wu felt as if she had suddenly gained strength, as if she had been given a stimulant.

"I feel like I have plenty of energy right now, I'll go dig the ditch."

She picked up the shovel and was about to leave, as if she were addicted to working.

"Wait," Jiang Li called out to her, "Don't go yet."

Jiang Li took out a red rope and four thick wooden sticks, selected an area next to the field where pumpkins were planted, inserted the wooden sticks at the four corners, tied the red rope to them, and pulled out a square dividing line.

It's enclosed on an area of ​​about 0.8 acres.

"From now on, this will be your land. You can plan what you want to plant every day. If you need seeds, just get them from me. To avoid wasting your superpowers, we won't plant seeds bought from the seed station. We'll only plant our own seeds."

Qiao Wu's eyes lit up when she saw the land that Jiang Li had specially set aside for her.

"Is this mine?"

"That's right." Jiang Li stood up, patted the dirt off her hands, and pointed to the tunnel. "From now on, 15% of the output from this land will be your bonus. After it's sold, it will be paid to you every month along with your base salary of 10,000 points."

Qiao Wu's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Not only is there a base salary, but there are also separate bonuses?"

Jiang Li laughed and said, "Of course there will be a bonus. You will get a share of the money if you sell what you grow yourself. You can grow whatever you want. You just need to focus on growing it, and I will help you sell it."

Back in the room, I took the seeds out of the box.

There are a large number of grape seeds, as well as a small number of pumpkin seeds, eggplant seeds, and Chinese cabbage seeds.