Chapter 1

"Military Cadet Obsessed with

Farming

"Author:

Long

Qi [Complete + Extras]

Synopsis:

Li Yang was accepted into Huaxia First Military Academy and was about to choose a department.

Everyone around her watched expectantly, assuming she would join one of the higher-ranked combat departments. But when she spoke, she said, "I want to join the agronomy department."

Students: "???"

Teachers: "???"

Why would a genius combat cadet want to join the agronomy department, that godforsaken place where birds wouldn't even shit?

The teachers couldn't bear to see such talent go to waste and earnestly tried to persuade her, but Li Yang was resolute: "I. Want. To. Join. The. Agronomy. Department."

Amid the teachers' bafflement and the students' scorn and gloating, Li Yang joined the agronomy department without looking back.

She had no choice!

A line of large text floated before Li Yang's eyes: "Only 1 day of lifespan remaining. Please harvest plants as soon as possible to extend your lifespan."

Li Yang harvested ordinary-grade wheat and gained 1 year of lifespan.

Li Yang harvested high-quality wheat and gained 10 years of lifespan.

Li Yang took on all the work in the agronomy department and gained 100 years of lifespan!

Ding-dong.

Her lifespan surpassed 100 years, unlocking physique enhancement, combat technique enhancement, and mental enhancement.

Li Yang: "?" There's a good thing like this too?

Li Yang spent 10 years of life and improved her physique.

Li Yang spent 30 years of life and learned an excellent combat technique.

Li Yang spent 50 years of life and broke through her mental bottleneck!

Six months later, a new student stormed onto Huaxia Military Academy's top 100 rankings-agronomy department: Li Yang.

Who was that?

From the agronomy department?

Impossible!

Reading notes:

1. Updated daily at 8 a.m. Updates at other times are for fixing errors. Any breaks will be announced in advance.

2. A long progression story focused on the female lead's growth. There is a romantic pairing, but the other half appears late and isn't human (literally).

3. The author's abilities are limited; I only wanted to write a

feel-good story

to bring everyone a little entertainment in their spare time. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Tags: Strong leads, progression, spiritual energy recovery

Search keywords: Protagonists: Li Yang, Lianxin | Supporting characters: Agronomy people, Huaxia people, astral creatures | Other:

One-line summary: Please harvest plants as soon as possible to gain life.

Theme: Strive unceasingly for self-improvement

Volume One: Undercurrents in the Central Capital

Chapter 1

The May weather was just right. The evening sun fell with neither chill nor heat, lending even the old, dilapidated residential complex a touch of softness and comfort. The buildings in Heqing Residential Complex stood close together, and the various unauthorized structures made them crowd even closer, balconies facing balconies.

The only main road wasn't particularly wide, and one fork was currently blocked. It wasn't residents occupying it, though, but a giant four-leaf clover squatting there, blotting out the sky and sun.

Four-leaf clovers were common plants, normally no bigger than a thumb, but this one stood a full two meters tall. Its four enormous leaves spread out across the entire area, and its slender stem was as hard as iron. A swing of an axe produced nothing but a clang.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A skinny girl was swinging an axe, chopping at the giant four-leaf clover again and again.

She looked about seventeen or eighteen. Years of malnutrition had left her body as thin as a bamboo slat. Messy black hair obscured her face, making her features hard to see; all that was visible was the sweat sliding down her cheeks and soaking her collar.

A passerby said, "She's still chopping? How long has she been at it?"

"Hasn't it been two hours?"

"That four-leaf clover hasn't got a scratch on it!"

"It's a mutated plant, after all. It might not be aggressive, but an ordinary person can't chop it down."

The giant four-leaf clover had appeared a month ago.

At first, the residents had been alarmed, afraid it might be aggressive. Then the authorities sent people with instruments to examine it for some time, and they gave it a safety rating: extremely high.

Extremely high meant that not only would it never attack people unprovoked, it wouldn't retaliate even if attacked.

These

days

, mutated creatures were everywhere. As long as their safety rating was high enough, the authorities had no time to send people to clear them away. They simply didn't have enough manpower.

And so, a month later, the four-leaf clover was still squatting there like a statue.

The residents found it annoying too. The main road was narrow to begin with, and now they had to go around it. Annoyed as they were, though, no one was willing to put in the effort to chop the big thing down.

Everyone thought, "What's the hurry? There are so many people in the complex; someone's bound to lose patience eventually." And so they put it off for a whole month.

Then, today, someone finally came to clear the giant four-leaf clover away—and it was a scrawny girl.

She carried an axe and spent two hours chopping away with a series of clangs.

Yet after two hours, the four-leaf clover hadn't budged. Someone urged her, "Don't waste your strength. It's a mutated plant; ordinary people can't deal with it!"

The girl didn't make a sound.

Someone else said, "Let her chop. If she manages to get rid of it, we won't have to go around it every day."

"As if she could ever chop it down!"

"Why do you care? Nobody's asking you to do the chopping."

"I just don't want to watch her be so stupid!"

The girl chopping the four-leaf clover was named Li Yang.

Was she stupid?

Judging by her experiences in her previous life, she was anything but.

After her parents died in an accident, Li Yang had supported herself on scholarships, tested her way into a top university, and landed an offer from a major company after graduating, with a starting annual salary in the seven figures.

Who could have guessed that, while she was buried in a project, she would fall asleep and wake up as a pitiful girl who had just died of illness?

The original owner had the same name as her and no parents either, but she had a grandmother who paid for her schooling. Unfortunately, her grandmother had passed away half a year ago. The original owner had been forced to drop out and work odd jobs everywhere to make a living. Sadly, her health was too poor, and a high fever had killed her.

When Li Yang transmigrated, she still had a high fever and was dizzy all over.

She didn't understand. How had she transmigrated?

Had she died too? Had she worked herself to death on the project?

She hadn't felt tired!

With a crisp "ding," a translucent panel appeared before her: [Abundant vitality... unwavering determination... conditions met...]

[Checking information...]

[Loading Longevity

System

...]

When the progress bar filled, the translucent panel turned a pale green, and a line of text appeared on it: [Longevity System activated.]

The panel flickered again, and several lines appeared.

Name: Li Yang

Lifespan: 1 (day)

Physique: 30

Mental: 30

Note: Only 1 day of lifespan remaining. Please harvest plants as soon as possible to extend your lifespan.

The final note was written in blood-red letters, especially glaring. Li Yang's heart pounded as she read it. Did she only have one day to live?!

Li Yang sat up in bed and unexpectedly found that her body felt much better. She touched her forehead. Her temperature had gone down, the exhaustion that had made her head spin was gone, and her strength had returned.

Was it because she had activated this Longevity System?

Longevity?

The word struck Li Yang hard. Who didn't want longevity? She just didn't know where the system had come from or whether there were any risks.

But she had transmigrated, and in the original owner's memories, this world even had mutated creatures. Against that backdrop, the Longevity System seemed hardly surprising.

What worried Li Yang most right now was the message in the note.

With a thought, she brought the panel up before her again.

The "lifespan" field had changed from 1 (day) to 24 (hours).

Li Yang felt with absolute clarity what it meant for life to slip away.

Li Yang murmured, "When that number reaches zero, I'll die? To gain life, I have to harvest plants?" It was easy to understand, but precisely because it was so easy to understand, she wasn't sure.

What kind of plants did she have to harvest? Were there requirements about the type? Li Yang didn't challenge the giant four-leaf clover yet, choosing the wild grass by the roadside instead.

That counted as a plant too, right?

Li Yang didn't want to waste time. She pushed open the door, went downstairs, and reached the outside in a few steps. Then she rolled up her sleeves and began pulling weeds by the road.

One, two, three, four... She had pulled out a small handful before the panel finally changed, displaying a line of small text: [Lifespan +1 (second).]

Li Yang: "..."

The good news was that harvesting wild grass could extend her life.

The bad news was that, extending it one second at a time, she'd be working herself to death!

There were quite a few weeds in Heqing Residential Complex, but Li Yang had spent two minutes pulling them and gained only one second of life. Her expenditure far exceeded her income.

Li Yang continued searching the original owner's memories... There was farmland outside the city, but the world was dangerous, and leaving the city was unsafe. If she ran into an aggressive mutated creature, she'd be a goner.

The other plants in Heqing Residential Complex were probably much like the wild grass... Hmm, the one exception was that giant four-leaf clover.

Li Yang raised her head and looked at the four-leaf clover, spread open like a giant umbrella.

In the original owner's memories, the four-leaf clover had a very high safety rating, but Li Yang, who had been born in the twenty-first century, simply couldn't understand how a four-leaf clover could grow so enormous.

No matter how high its safety rating was, it didn't look safe, but she had no other choice right now.

The clover's leaves covered a wide area, but its stem wasn't particularly thick. If she could chop through the stem, she could presumably "harvest" it.

Li Yang went home and rummaged around until she found an axe hidden in the wardrobe.

The original owner's grandmother had bought it. With just an old woman and a young girl in the family, they needed a weapon for self-defense, something they could use to scare people off if anyone came to their door to bully them.

And so the scene in Heqing Residential Complex came to pass, with Li Yang chopping for two hours straight.

Bang, bang, bang. Only a few shallow axe marks had appeared on the four-leaf clover's stem.

Li Yang's arms ached, and she was panting from exhaustion. The upside was that the "Longevity System" was keeping her alive: no matter how hard she pushed herself, she wouldn't die of exhaustion before her time was up.

Bang, bang, bang!

Another two hours passed.