In this kind of weather, vehicles are simply unable to drive, and most supplies are transported in the underground city using semi-automated intelligent equipment.
Jian Cheng was in charge of this task, and he personally took her there.
As Sang Luoluo's bodyguard, Qi Feng naturally had to accompany her, a fact that Jian Cheng tacitly agreed to.
Beneath the laboratory, there is a secret passage leading to the underground city, but the entrance is very small, allowing only one person to pass at a time.
" Assistant Jian, where are we going?" Sang Luoluo had never been here before and felt a little uneasy looking at the unfamiliar passageway around her.
Qi Feng had never been here before, but with his keen senses, he still managed to connect this passage with other passages in the underground city, drawing a small map in his mind in case of emergency.
The road ahead was very winding. They walked for a long time in the underground city, then circled back to the surface, passed through an area with dense hail, and then went back into the underground city. From under a dilapidated high-rise building, they took an elevator down to about 65 floors.
There are places so deep underground!
As soon as the elevator doors opened, she saw a spacious area, but deep underground, it was still a bit stuffy and lacked oxygen, not as comfortable as above ground. Although the ventilation and oxygen supply facilities were complete, Sang Luoluo felt that this place was not as good as her home.
However, Jian Cheng soon led them to a planting base. Although Sang Luoluo and Qi Feng only glanced at it from afar, they couldn't help but be shocked. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, vegetables, and other foods were being grown there, with potatoes being the most abundant.
The environment here is entirely man-made, a suitable ecological environment for planting, including simulated sunlight. So deep underground, it's almost identical to a pre-apocalyptic vegetable greenhouse.
Seeing her curiosity, Jian Cheng explained, "This is one of the planting areas of the base. The planting area is limited, the crops require a long growth cycle, and a lot of manpower and resources are needed for management. The output is limited and is mainly for the laboratory and the base's senior management."
Sang Luoluo also saw that many people were using semi-automatic equipment to transport vegetables to another place for processing, or that someone was using a detector to carefully record the crop data in each greenhouse, very meticulously.
Now that she saw the radiation-free crop production at the base, Sang Luoluo felt that the crops in her space weren't so strange after all.
Jian Cheng continued, "The planting base is so small that most of the people there don't have access to these radiation-free foods, and some don't even know there's a planting base."
After looking at these, Sang Luoluo thought of a new question, " Assistant Jian, do other bases also have their own planting bases, producing different crops?"
Jian Cheng nodded, "Yes, many bases have higher planting standards and a wider variety of crops than ours. However, most of these bases don't even have planting facilities; they rely entirely on low- or high-radiation food for sustenance. Compared to those bases, our Base 71 is already quite impressive."
As they spoke, Jian Cheng led them to a workshop where the mature crops were processed into ready-to-eat canned goods, which also made them easier to preserve. Sang Luoluo had certainly broadened her horizons today.
Qi Feng was the same. He had eaten those canned foods. The Guard could occasionally get a little bit, or when conditions were better, they could buy some themselves. But none of those were as good as the food he ate from Sang Luoluo. He was certain that the food Sang Luoluo had came from Base 71.
Jian Cheng went to find the person in charge here, showed him the official information of the laboratory, and successfully got the person to approve it. He then arranged for someone to transport some supplies to them.
Cases of bottled water, all purified low-radiation water, were distributed at a rate of two bottles per person per day. Then there were canned potatoes and canned vegetables, all tightly sealed. The "vegetable canned" items were really just boiled vegetables with a little salt, packaged together. Canned meat was even scarcer, mostly cheaper dried earthworms, with a small amount of canned pork included—those were for the lab's higher-ups.
As for the fruit, it was just canned tomatoes, in various sizes, and the packaged portions weren't very big. Sang Luoluo thought the preparation method didn't taste very good.
Boxes of goods were transported out by machines and piled up together.
In addition, there were blankets, one for each person.
In no time, the warehouse was filled to the brim.
The laboratory has over a thousand people, so you can imagine how much supplies they have. They can only last them about ten days, and the warehouse is almost overflowing.
Jian Cheng looked at Sang Luoluo, "I've already registered and photographed the types and quantities, so you can accept them without worry."
Without saying a word, Sang Luoluo stepped forward and put all these items into her spatial storage.
"Let's go back," Jian Cheng said with a smile. Sometimes he really envied Sang Luoluo's abilities.
Back in the lab, Sang Luoluo stored all the supplies in the lab warehouse. Someone would distribute the supplies to everyone. Sang Luoluo and Assistant Jian Cheng made sure everything was in order and that no supplies were missing.
By the time they made their round trip, it was already evening. They hadn't even had time for dinner on the way. When it was time for dinner, the lab started sending people to distribute supplies. Sang Luoluo had to go to the warehouse to collect her supplies. She received 20 bags of nutrient solution and a bunch of canned goods.
Yes, a bunch of canned goods; the others only had ten cans each, so she got roughly twice as many as they did.
Sang Luoluo put it away.
As for the subsidy Dr. Wang mentioned, it's three cans of food a day, which she can collect from the logistics department after midnight each day using a redemption code.
This treatment is already much better than many people's, and she doesn't lack these things.
After a long day, all I want to do is rest.
Sang Luoluo took out her tent in the corner and sat comfortably inside. Seeing Qi Feng standing to the side, Sang Luoluo and got him a tent too. She then took out the canned food she had received, saying, "See if there's anything you want to eat?"
Qi Feng was slightly taken aback. "These weren't included in our agreed-upon wages."
Sang Luoluo looked at him and said, "I know I can't finish all these cans, do you want some?"
Sang Luoluo took out a pork one and tossed it to him.
Looking at the other canned goods, I curiously opened a vegetable-flavored one to try. Ugh, it tasted awful. The liquid inside was actually a diluted nutrient solution.
I reluctantly tried a tiny bit, and it was really awful; so awful that my brow furrowed involuntarily.
Qi Feng observed Sang Luoluo's expression with great interest; it was quite interesting. She actually thought the food was unpalatable and even complained about it.
Sang Luoluo pushed all the canned food in front of Qi Feng, "It's all yours."
Including the can of vegetables she had just opened.
Qi Feng didn't mind at all; he put all the canned food into his backpack. These things weren't something you could just find anywhere. You couldn't even buy them outside.
Sang Luoluo also had some bottled water, including a low-radiation bottle, which was all cold. She didn't want to drink that kind of water, so she left it there for now.
There are power outlets nearby, and everyone here has their own small pot and kettle, enough to boil water and cook a meal for one person.
Sang Luoluo took out a kettle, filled it with Spirit Spring Water from her space, and placed it there to boil water.
Anyway, there's no one around, and it's so cold. It's not like you can find such a good place to boil water every day. Sang Luoluo said, "If you have nothing else to do after you eat, boil some more water."
With a wave of his hand, several buckets of room-temperature Spirit Spring Water and a row of kettles appeared beside him.
"Good."
Qi Feng drank the water that Sang Luoluo brought out. This water was also free of radiation and tasted very Qingtian. It was from a completely different water source than the water supplied to the base.
Sang Luoluo's watch beeped a few times; her work for tomorrow had already been arranged.
They're all transporting hailstones.
Sigh, just thinking about this makes me feel the cold outside.
Lying on the soft cushion, Sang Luoluo closed her eyes and did farm work in the space.
After harvesting dozens of acres of potatoes, we still need to plant new ones and water them.
There was still a large field of corn that hadn't been harvested; it was already ripe. Sang Luoluo harvested all the corn from those dozens of acres, cutting down all the corn stalks and stacking them in the Stasis Zone to feed the cattle.
The corn also needs to be husked one by one. Fortunately, she can control it with her mind, so husking thousands of ears of corn at the same time is not a problem. After that, the dried corn needs to be threshed, and then the soil needs to be loosened. Since she is currently outside, she can only use her mind to control the machines to plow and loosen the soil before planting a new batch.
There's too much work to do, it's impossible to finish it all.
We've harvested so much that our existing warehouse is already full and can't hold any more.
If possible, she would like to build more shelving units, the large kind, or even warehouses for storing grain.
Qi Feng was filling the last thermos when a young man came over and asked if he could borrow a cup of water. They happened to be boiling water there, so it was just bad luck. Qi Feng refused outright. The man tried to say something more, but Qi Feng pointed to the people sleeping in the tent and gave him a look. The man sheepishly left.
Sang Luoluo suddenly sat up with a jolt, Qi Feng plugged the kettle with a cork, indicating that the water was boiled.
They also made sure to fill both of their thermos flasks with hot water.
Chapter 85 A Big Appetite in the Middle of the Night
Sang Luoluo waved her hand to collect all the water bottles, then looked down at her wristwatch and found a few pictures. She showed them to Qi Feng: "Do you know where I can buy this kind of large shelf?"