Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 216 - Solo Adventure 05
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Chapter 216: Chapter 216: Solo Adventure 05
The snowstorm was too fierce; it blurred the vision.
Jiang Yan only realized after landing that this hut wasn’t exactly what one might strictly call a hut.
It merely had a thick layer of dry straw on the roof, while the surrounding walls and door were built from whole logs.
The door was closed but not locked.
The glass on the window remained intact.
It was evident that this place hadn’t suffered from disasters like earthquakes and was rarely visited.
“Knock, knock, knock!”
Jiang Yan took a step forward, and out of habit, she knocked on the door, “Is anyone there?”
She had removed her bulky flight suit upon landing and now held a small handgun, about the size of her palm.
As she had expected, there was no response from inside.
Jiang Yan reached out and pushed the door open with a “creak.”
The inside of the house was bare, and she could see everything at a glance.
There was a wooden bed measuring 1.2 meters, having nothing but some wrinkled old newspapers on it.
The house also contained a wooden table, two wooden stools, and an old-fashioned kerosene lamp hanging on the wooden wall.
The kerosene in the lamp had long since run out.
Near the door, there was a large white plastic barrel labeled for forest fire extinction.
Jiang Yan had seen several similar barrels in the forest before.
She kicked it with her foot, finding it half full of water, though it had all frozen.
In another corner of the house, neatly stacked were a pile of chopped firewood and a rusty axe.
Next to it, an iron charcoal brazier, circular on the outside and round on the inside, accompanied by a pair of tongs.
Having surveyed everything, Jiang Yan was quite satisfied.
With a thought, she then retrieved cleaning tools like a broom from the Space, ready to begin, but Hua Bao snatched them from her.
“Hehehe!” Mom, I know this, let me do it!
Hua Bao’s six vines quickly flew about, and the house was soon swept clean.
Jiang Yan was surprised for a second before a beaming aunt-like smile appeared on her face:
Hmm.
Initiating hands-on abilities from childhood!
“Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh~”
The snow outside intensified.
Jiang Yan glanced at the time; it was only around four or five in the afternoon.
It was still early.
But the house was chilling cold.
Her gaze settled on the brazier, she moved it over, and added some firewood from the house. She then retrieved a fire-starting fluid and a lighter from the Space, and lit the fire.
A pungent, thick smoke began to fill the room.
Jiang Yan had to open the window a crack.
Snowflakes blew in through the gap.
As the fire grew stronger, the smoke gradually lessened, and the temperature inside the house also began to slowly warm up.
When it seemed about right, Jiang Yan took a metal net cover from the Space and placed it over the brazier. Then, with a thought, she and Hua Bao entered the Space.
Compared to the icy world outside, the Space was like heaven and hell.
Jiang Yan quickly removed her scarf, hat, and padding jacket.
During this period, her daily routine consisted of flying and hurrying during the day, then retreating into the Space to rest at night—her life had become rather orderly and comfortable.
The garden fences she had acquired through free purchases before were already set up around the perimeter of the dark soil.
She had divided the area according to the original plan into the vegetable planting zone, orchard zone, and flowering plant zone.
The orchard zone’s dark soil, previously empty, was now filled with some of the fruit tree saplings she had bought before the apocalypse.
Apples, bananas, pears, cherries, kiwis, custard apples, oranges, grapefruits, lychees, coconuts, mangosteens, blueberries, and more were each planted.
Jiang Yan had bought all these fruits before the apocalypse, and in significant quantities.
Thanks to the halt of time in the Space’s Inventory Area, they were as fresh as when first bought.
However, the joy of growing and harvesting her own crops could not be replaced by ready-made products.
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She had been too busy to tend to the planting previously.
Now that she had some downtime, she could attend to these tasks one by one.
Though these fruits required different environments and specific temperatures and humidity levels, Jiang Yan wasn’t worried.
Thinking of the tropical and cold-water fish in the stream, she was not concerned.
She had confidence in the Space.
The fruit saplings didn’t disappoint her; shortly after being planted in the dark soil, they began rapidly absorbing nutrients and growing.
As for her favorite strawberries, watermelons, and cantaloupes, she placed them in the vegetable zone.
These past few days, Jiang Yan discovered that the plants in the Space did not need pollination to bear fruit.
Crops like cherry tomatoes, chili peppers, and cucumbers that hadn’t been manually pollinated due to her busy schedule were already fruit-laden.
This was a pleasant surprise indeed.
The magical Space continuously presented her with little unexpected delights.
The flowers planted in the garden bloomed competitively without regard to the seasons—red, yellow, white, purple, pink, they all flourished.
During this time, she had also caught up on her physical fitness and firearms practice.
The three eggs kept in the incubator had successfully hatched.
One chick, one duckling, one gosling.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, quack, quack, quack.
Adorably noisy and seeing Hua Bao as their mother upon first sight.
Jiang Yan knew this was imprinting behavior in young animals, recognizing the first moving object they see as their mother.
Now, whenever Hua Bao entered the Space, the three little ones would open their mouths and flutter their wings, affectionately following her.
Each time this happened, Hua Bao would shrink its body, its crimson tongue licking its fangs, and rest on Jiang Yan’s shoulder.
It seemed that Hua Bao was still getting used to these fluffy little darlings.
With the successful experience of hatching these three, Jiang Yan fetched more fertilized eggs and put them in three incubators to continue hatching.
The number of fish, shrimp, and crabs in the stream had also increased significantly.
They swam freely in schools.
Jiang Yan felt her Space growing more vibrant.
Looking at the newly emerged patches of green grasslands, she thought about how perfect it would be to add some cattle and horses.
However, she didn’t know whether the surviving cattle and horses had undergone mutations.
After feeding the chick, duckling, gosling, and the aquatic creatures, Jiang Yan left the Space.
Before leaving the Space, she fully armed herself and changed into a pair of heated, waterproof snow boots.
The temperature in the Space was around 24 to 25 degrees Celsius. Returning to the wooden house heated by charcoal felt like entering an ice cellar.
With a thought, Jiang Yan fetched a thermometer from the Space, hanging it next to the kerosene lamp.
With goggles and hat properly adjusted, Jiang Yan pulled open the wooden door.
A gust of wind and snow swirled in, striking her directly.
The snow outside had thickened.
Jiang Yan took out her telescope and scanned around. After listening intently for a while, she detected no abnormalities.
She speculated that her location might be akin to a rarely visited deep forest.
With that thought, she fetched several large animal traps from the Space and set them outside the door.
She closed the door.
The firewood in the brazier continued to burn vigorously, and she added a few more logs.
“Cough, cough, cough!”
A waft of dense smoke, swept in by the lingering wind, hit her face.
