The Zhan Qun spoke through their equipment, "Everyone, get some rest. At this pace, we'll be entering the forest by tomorrow evening. Make sure you're well-rested."
Once inside the forest, whether we'll be able to rest, or even have time to rest, is really hard to say.
Sang Luoluo took out her own soft pillow, along with the other people's equipment. This was one of the advantages of traveling with Sang Luoluo: it made food, clothing, shelter, and transportation very convenient.
The car was heated, Sang Luoluo even put up a small curtain for herself to create some privacy.
Leaning back on the soft pillows, I ate a banana and fiddled with my watch.
I sensed that there were already mutated animals moving around nearby.
Chapter 161 Hiking in the Big Country: Make sure the GPS tracker is on...
The environment is relatively safe now, and Sang Luoluo wants to get some rest, otherwise she might not feel well tomorrow.
The consciousness immersed itself in the space, picked a batch of vegetables, and put them on the store shelves. However, the farm's output was simply not enough to meet the demand.
I glanced at the forum; there were many comments, most of them complaining about not being able to buy the items in the store, even the lower-priced ones were subject to purchase limits.
[ Farm Owner, I can't buy any! Could you please supply more stock? Please!]
[Unavailable! Absolutely unavailable!!]
[Could you please add more varieties to the purchase limit? We'd like to try other foods too. The app sells cherries with pits for 26 Crystal Core per pound, but they're resold outside for 100 Crystal Core per pound, and they're often sold out.]
[ Farm Owner, aren't you going to do anything about this?]
[With so many people, can't we limit the number of purchases? Everyone else has bought them all, what are we supposed to buy?! It's so frustrating to have Crystal Core cores that I can't spend!!]
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There were many comments, Sang Luoluo could sense the dissatisfaction in those people's words.
Thinking about it, it's probably a good idea to limit purchases. Otherwise, if only a few people buy all these items, the price will rise too high, which isn't good.
Sang Luoluo replied on the forum:
Grandpa CC's Farm: [Announcement: Starting today, due to popular demand, 60% of the panel items will be subject to purchase limits. Each person is limited to 3 purchases of each item per day.]
The announcement caused quite a stir on the forum, with many people cheering.
They exclaimed that the Farm Owner was wise and a great man.
After seeing this, Sang Luoluo shook her head and changed the data on the first seven-layer panel, setting 60% of the items to purchase limits, while allowing those who didn't lack Crystal Core to buy the remaining 40%.
Of course, due to the VIP level system, only users who spend or recharge enough can unlock the products on the next panel, which requires a large number of Crystal Core. Therefore, a Crystal Core craze has emerged in the forum.
Users from different bases have even started using the farm forum as a communication platform to trade Crystal Core.
Some people even offered rare resources in exchange for Crystal Core, such as weapons, clothes, houses, medicines, and other hard currencies, to obtain equivalent Crystal Core.
Of course, since the app farm currently does not have the function of transferring Crystal Core, many people are just looking for users from the same base, contacting each other online and trading offline, which is very cautious.
Sang Luoluo was also thinking that it would be great if the app could have a function to transfer Crystal Core. Unfortunately, she flipped through the panel but did not find this function. However, as her thoughts grew stronger, she received feedback from the space: Crystal Core, it needs more Crystal Core.
Sigh, this space seems even more thirsty for Crystal Core now, but it will respect Sang Luoluo's opinion to some extent. The Crystal Core that she has recharged next to the panel will only be absorbed by the space after she actively throws them into it; otherwise, they will just sit there, and the space will not actively absorb them even if it is greedy.
She could sense the space's intense desire for Crystal Core. She herself relied on the space for protection, which allowed her to live relatively comfortably in this wasteland world, with no shortage of food or drink. In times of danger, she could even enter the space to take refuge. It was a divine artifact for both home and travel. For this reason alone, she would try to obtain more Crystal Core to feed the space.
Outside the carriage, mutated animals surrounded it, drawn by the scent of living people, and lingered there, unwilling to leave, yet unable to break into the sturdy carriage.
Once the soundproofing in the carriage was turned on, the noise outside immediately decreased significantly, to the point that it was almost inaudible unless you listened very carefully.
But Sang Luoluo was different. Her senses were very clear, and she could even clearly count 102 mutated animals of various sizes within a 70-meter radius. Some of the mutated animals were targeted by larger mutated animals because of their small size, and a survival game of chasing each other had begun.
This feeling made it impossible for her to have a deep sleep. She had been doing farm work for more than three hours and was mentally exhausted. She was so sleepy, but she just couldn't fall asleep.
If only we could block out all the noise and danger from the outside.
Sang Luoluo could control a range of 10 meters. Thinking that she couldn't sleep anyway, she might as well try to find a new way.
Her Mental Power was scattered outside, trying to isolate a 10-meter radius. She could feel that she could faintly touch the threshold, but perhaps because her Mental Power was not enough, she could not gather it into a physical Mental Power shield.
Unable to sleep, Sang Luoluo began using her Mental Power to pull any mutated animals within a 10-meter radius into her space, killing them one by one as they came.
The mutated animals that entered the area controlled by Sang Luoluo immediately disappeared. Even the nearby mutated animals noticed something was wrong. They weren't stupid; as their bodies evolved, their brains also evolved.
Some of the mutated animals sensed something was wrong and stopped moving forward. Instead, they stayed behind where their companions had disappeared, patiently lying in ambush in the snow, waiting for human activity to emerge.
After a night, Sang Luoluo dozed off for about an hour. When dawn broke, her dark circles were quite noticeable. She took out a cup of warm Spirit Spring Water and sipped it to replenish her energy. In addition, she took out two black Crystal Core from her spatial storage and absorbed them to replenish her mental energy.
After absorbing the black Crystal Core, her Mental Power recovered by more than half. With the nourishment of the Spirit Spring Water, the aftereffects of not sleeping well all lessened considerably.
In the morning, Sang Luoluo took out everyone's canned food and water, started the car again, and ate while driving, the three cars moving forward at top speed.
Sang Luoluo took a meat bun and ate it in big bites, then drank a cup of hot soy milk, feeling completely refreshed.
Lei Qi and Qi Feng were each given an egg and a cup of soy milk.
These are all common items in the app's farm game; if you're lucky, it's not difficult to snag them.
Even Assistant Jian brought her own rations, which looked like they were bought from a store—self-packaged milk and eggs.
Sang Luoluo helped them pack their luggage. Assistant Jian's luggage was bulging with a lot of things. It was fine for him to eat these things; at least she wouldn't feel pressured to eat with him.
Qi Feng noticed the dark circles under Sang Luoluo's eyes and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Sang Luoluo nodded, "Mm."
Lei Qi rubbed his stray hairs. "This car is really safe. I slept soundly last night; no noise from outside could get in. How come you couldn't sleep?"
Sang Luoluo said, "I sense that there are many mutated animals moving around outside. They're probably stressed and can't sleep. They get startled awake as soon as they fall asleep."
Upon hearing this, Assistant Jian said with concern, " Dr. Wang and I have studied your Mental Power abilities; you are the first to awaken this ability."
He adjusted his glasses and continued, "When you first awakened this ability, your senses weren't particularly strong. You weren't very alert to your surroundings and constantly wanted to sleep. Just like you said, as your senses became stronger, your mind became highly tense, so it's normal that your sleep was affected. Now it seems that the drawbacks of your ability have already appeared."
Sang Luoluo was silent for a moment. Actually, if she went into the space to rest, she would be in an absolutely safe environment and could fall asleep. But there were so many people here. If she went into the space, she wouldn't know if the people outside called her.
Assistant Jian continued, "You don't need to worry too much. After we finish this mission and return, I will report your situation to Dr. Wang, and the research team will try to customize a device that can help you sleep. Don't be too nervous."
Sang Luoluo nodded. "Okay."
With a research and record-keeping mindset, Assistant Jian asked Sang Luoluo some specific details and recorded the data.
I was extremely surprised to hear that Sang Luoluo hadn't slept all night and had been dealing with the mutated animals.
Assistant Jian asked, "How many mutated animals did you kill last night?"
Using Mental Power to pull mutated animals within a controllable range into space, and then killing them inside with Crystal Core, this method suits Sang Luoluo very well. According to the data, he knows that Sang Luoluo's current ability is still evolving. During her travels, Sang Luoluo uses this ability to acquire Crystal Core, constantly absorbing them, and her ability has changed, or rather, evolved.
Sang Luoluo did a quick calculation and said, "I didn't count carefully, but there must be several hundred of them, and the Crystal Core together number around 1,000."
Everyone gasped. Around 1000 crystals—that was no small number. With her current abilities, she could survive independently even outside the lab. Assistant Jian gave her a thumbs up and said frankly, "Based on your current ability changes, if you absorb more Crystal Core, your abilities will most likely evolve further."
No wonder they could eat eggs whenever they wanted and not hesitate to eat meat buns; it turns out they really weren't short of Crystal Core. Assistant Jian felt a little bitter thinking about the fixed amount of Crystal Core she earned each month in the lab.
Seeing that Sang Luoluo brought out two bodyguards and didn't seem to be under any pressure, he was extremely envious.