Her parents and Yangyang were all stunned. Their drowsiness vanished instantly as they gathered around her.
“Wanwan, explain it clearly. What do you mean by farming and raising chickens?” Lin Yang asked anxiously, scratching his head.
Lin Wan tried to steady her breathing and described it as clearly as possible.
“The Space Dimension has gotten bigger, and it’s now divided into four sections! Before, there were only two areas. Now there’s a piece of black soil land—it’s very large and looks very fertile! There’s also an open space surrounded by a fence, a Breeding Area where we can raise chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep. There’s even a pond inside the Breeding Area where fish can be raised! And all the supplies we bought have already been neatly sorted and stored!”
“Oh my heavens…” Li Shulan clasped her hands together, so excited she almost began praying aloud. “Th-this… even heaven is helping us! If we can farm, then we’ll always have fresh vegetables to eat, right? Can those potatoes and sweet potatoes be planted?”
“Yes! Definitely!” Lin Wan nodded heavily, her eyes burning with excitement. “And the Breeding Area—we can gather more live chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep, even fish… We can raise them there. Later we’ll have eggs… and meat…”
She didn’t dare continue imagining.
This sudden surprise was like a powerful shot of adrenaline injected into a family that had been on the brink of despair.
Lin Jianguo suddenly slapped his thigh. Because he was so excited, the slap made a loud “smack!” sound, but he didn’t feel the pain at all. The tense lines on his face, tightened by days of fatigue and anxiety, finally softened slightly, and a blazing light flashed in his eyes.
“Good! That’s wonderful! This is great news! Wanwan, does the land or the Breeding Area need anything special? Like water? Feed?”
Father had always been the calmest and most practical one. He immediately thought of the key questions.
Lin Wan focused again, sensing the Space Dimension. A stream of information flowed into her mind.
[Survival Panel]
Name: Lin Wan
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Space Dimension Area: 10,000 square meters (Level 2)
Survival Points: 93
Living Storage Area: Activated (Can store items. Time is frozen. No living organisms allowed.)
Dormancy Area: Activated (Can induce dormancy. Any living being placed inside will enter deep hibernation.)
Planting Area: Activated (Can plant with mental control. One day inside equals one month outside. Rapid growth. Requires water. Any plant can grow quickly.)
Breeding Area: Activated (Can raise animals. One day inside equals one month outside. No requirements. Grassland refreshes once per day.)
“The Planting Area needs water, but aside from that there are no requirements. One day inside equals one month outside. Between the Planting Area and Breeding Area there’s a small river that stretches endlessly, so we don’t have to worry about water sources.
“The Breeding Area is the same. The grassland refreshes once every day, so there’s no need to worry about food for cattle and sheep… Also, the time in the Storage Area is frozen.
“The Dormancy Area’s time is also frozen.
“The Dormancy Area can hold living creatures, but they can’t grow… Once placed inside, they go into hibernation.”
She muttered while sensing the information.
“Try it!” Lin Yang whispered excitedly. “Sis, try planting the seeds!”
Lin Wan had been thinking the same thing.
With a thought, a bag of vegetable seeds scattered across the soil in the next moment. She used her mind to draw some river water and sprinkled it over them. After that, she left them alone, planning to check again tomorrow.
Then she grabbed a chicken from the Dormancy Area.
When the trussed-up old hen appeared in the living room, its previously closed eyes suddenly opened, and it began clucking loudly.
With another thought from Lin Wan, the chicken was transferred into the Breeding Area.
The hen’s tiny eyes looked around in confusion, as if it had no idea where it had suddenly arrived.
Lin Wan untied it. The hen cautiously stood up, took a couple of steps, and clucked softly. Soon it began pecking at tiny grain-like particles scattered across the grass.
It behaved completely naturally, without any sign of discomfort.
“It’s alive! It’s moving! It’s eating!” Lin Wan reported excitedly. “The Breeding Area can automatically generate the most basic food.”
Next, she buried a sprouting sweet potato into the soil of the Planting Area and watered it with water from the small river.
The water seeped into the black soil.
The sweet potato’s tender sprout began to grow visibly, stretching slightly.
When she looked again at the seeds she had just planted, tiny green shoots had already begun to emerge.
“It works! The Planting Area can really grow things!” Lin Wan’s voice trembled, tears of joy welling up.
“That’s wonderful! This is… this is…” Li Shulan cried with happiness, wiping her tears repeatedly. “Now it’s good… we won’t starve… we really won’t starve…”
Hope.
Real, tangible hope.
They were no longer relying only on stockpiled supplies but now possessed the possibility of sustainable production. That feeling was even more exciting than gaining millions of yuan.
Lin Jianguo took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging emotions in his chest. His voice was hoarse with excitement but filled with strength.
“Then we need to change the plan!”
His sharp gaze swept across his family.
“Tomorrow! Shulan, go to the seed wholesale market. Buy all kinds of vegetable and grain seeds—especially the ones with short growing cycles! Buy a lot! Also check if there are fruit tree saplings. Buy some and plant them in the Planting Area. Wanwan, set aside a section of land for fruit trees. And stock up more seasonings too. Also buy cold-weather clothing.”
“Little Yang, tomorrow you’ll go to the countryside again with your sister! This time specifically collect live animals—chickens, ducks, geese, cattle, sheep, fish! We didn’t buy enough today. Buy as many as possible! Also see if you can find fruit tree saplings. If you can, buy some and plant them in the land you set aside.”
“As for me, I’ll go get some weapons for self-defense! We’ve been stocking food and supplies, but we also need weapons.”
“And Wanwan, keep experimenting. Figure out exactly how the Planting Area and Breeding Area work, what kind of output they produce, and what we need to watch out for!”
“Okay!” the three of them replied in unison, their voices full of renewed energy and hope.
After that, who could still sleep?
The family simply stayed up under the glow of an emergency lamp, revising and expanding their supply list, discussing countless details until the sky began to lighten.
The next day, the family split up again, but everyone’s state of mind had completely changed.
Though they were still exhausted, there was now light in their eyes.
Lin Wan and Lin Yang drove to the countryside again, this time with a clear goal. When villagers heard that they were not only buying agricultural products but also purchasing large amounts of poultry and livestock, they became even more enthusiastic. Some people even led over their newly born lambs along with their mother sheep.
When Lin Wan saw the bleating little lamb and the ewe with a full udder, she bought them immediately.
She also bought many ducks and a large group of half-grown chicks, nearly filling the truck bed.
She deliberately purchased several large sacks of corn kernels and unhulled wheat to test planting later.
After visiting several other places, they finally bought enough chickens, ducks, geese, cattle, sheep, pigs, and fish—she even bought a few rabbits.
Looking at the lively Breeding Area inside the Space Dimension, Lin Wan felt deeply satisfied.
Meanwhile, Li Shulan had nearly swept clean the seed wholesale market of every variety of seeds. She even sold her gold jewelry for tens of thousands of yuan in cash and spent all of it on seeds and fruit saplings.
She then went to a clothing wholesale center and bought large quantities of cotton quilts, wool blankets, silk comforters, cold-proof coats, and down jackets. She even bought out a warehouse’s unsold stock of extreme-cold clothing that had been sitting at the bottom of storage.
Li Shulan felt incredibly lucky, while the shop owners were delighted as well—after all, selling winter clothing in such scorching weather was practically unheard of.
Lin Jianguo, meanwhile, demonstrated the connections and decisiveness he had accumulated over many years.
Through special channels, he actually managed to purchase several large machetes for self-defense, as well as compact and razor-sharp daggers.
Most importantly, he obtained more than a dozen modified nail guns.
By evening, everyone gathered once again at the warehouse Li Shulan had newly rented.
When Lin Wan stored all the live animals, seeds, fruit saplings, and the weapons her father had acquired into the Space Dimension, she could clearly sense the changes inside.
In the Breeding Area, chickens, ducks, geese, cattle, and sheep moved about harmoniously.
In the Planting Area, a small portion of the black soil had already been planted with fruit saplings, while a vast area of land waited quietly to be sown.
Hope was slowly growing stronger.
However, when they dragged their even more exhausted bodies back downstairs to their residential building, Lin Wan instinctively looked up at the sky.
The sun was setting, and the horizon was covered with dazzling evening clouds.
But the red color looked strangely ominous.
The air was unusually stifling and hot. Not a single breeze stirred. Even the leaves of the trees downstairs remained perfectly still.
A strange, oppressive feeling settled heavily in the air, making people uneasy.
An elderly woman chatting at the entrance of the residential community frowned and complained, “What kind of weather is this? It’s suffocating. It’s so hot it’s hard to even breathe.”
Lin Wan’s heart suddenly sank.
Could the extreme heat be arriving earlier than expected?