I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse

Chapter 797 - 887: How Awesome Is My Luxurious Villa in the South Sea

Oh, right, there’s also jackfruit. It seems that Jing Shu hasn’t eaten jackfruit since the apocalypse. A single jackfruit tree can bear many fruits, probably more than enough for a family. We can dry them into snacks; honestly, dried jackfruit is crunchy and sweet, even better than the fresh ones.

Acting on her thought, with a swoosh, the space completely merged with reality, and Jing Shu seemed to be transported into the space itself.

Plots of land unfolded before Jing Shu, and each cubic plot of land was filled with various crops.

Typically, the ground was packed with radishes and garlic buried underneath, watermelons growing above, with tomatoes, strawberries lying in nooks and crannies, and stubborn pepper plants sprouting through the cracks.

The plants just grow and squeeze each other as they please.

Now, Jing Shu’s space has a total of 54 cubic meters of land. Thinking back, when the space first awakened, it only had 64 cubic meters, with just 6 plots of land...

But now, there’s so much land!

The plots of land in the space are cubic; if all six sides are planted with crops, that’s 324 square meters. If planting trees, one plot can only accommodate one fruit tree, with gaps for some potatoes and sweet potatoes, and on the surface, perhaps some green onions and cilantro.

Anyway, there’s just that bit of land; as long as you sow seeds, you can leave the rest to the space.

And any crops that sprout from the soil are unrestricted by the space, no matter how tall or big it gets—an invisible benefit of the space’s land.

Speaking of which, the current planting situation in Jing Shu’s space is as follows:

plots are planted with various grains such as various barley, wheat, oats, rice, millet, black rice, soybeans, mung beans, and others, ready to stack the warehouse before Grandma Jing arrives. As for further processing, that’s up to Mr. Jing.

plots are planted with various vegetables, harvested every dozen days or so. Jing Shu takes some to supplement the household, and the rest are made into freeze-dried vegetables, which don’t take up space and aren’t too abrupt when they are brought out later.

plots are planted with fruits, mainly because fruit trees take up so much land and take a long time to grow.

Basic monthly harvests result in some durian chips, apple chips, dried prunes, dried plums, banana chips, or canned mandarins, lychees, and pineapples. Sometimes gifts are given, or exchanged for other expensive materials, and some are kept in storage, while rare fresh fruits which the market doesn’t usually have are generally eaten up by Jing Shu.

Just now, heading to the Middle East, Jing Shu plans to bring out a few tons of commonly found materials on the market. The freeze-dried vegetables in the space will be brought out as well to clear out inventory, saving the need to spend money on buying materials and also to clear the space to load things acquired from the Middle East.

The remaining plots are planted with medicinal herbs. Jing Shu decides to clear out the field for medicinal herbs, then looks for seeds of fruits like jackfruit in the space and scatters them, using a bit of Spiritual Spring to accelerate growth. Within over ten days, they will bear fruit and can be transplanted into the yard!

Passing through the wasteland, there’s a villa-front courtyard, which apart from a parking space, has been transformed by Jing Shu into a Nine Palace fish pond from the original 20 square meters, learning from past lessons to segregate the fish this time.

Otherwise, coexisting peacefully always resulted in clashes—either you eat me or I eat you, and one race could unexpectedly dominate, filling the pond with their offspring.

Most ridiculously, the carp once achieved a major victory. When Jing Shu went to the United States, Mr. Jing fed the fish with feed mixed with Spiritual Spring, and before half a month passed, fish started jumping out of the pond!

To cap it off, the fish that landed in the cucumber patch started nibbling on the cucumbers. Can you believe this?

So Mr. Jing promptly fished them out—surprisingly, one haul yielded thousands of fat carps, driving other shrimps and crabs into trembling corners.

This caused the Jing Family to spend the night killing, salting, and smoking fish, with Grandma Jing scolding Mr. Jing for feeding the fish three times daily. Mr. Jing, feeling wronged, dared not speak up, not realizing their fish would be so boisterous.

For over three months, the Jing Family’s dinner table was filled with various carp dishes. Finally, before Jing Shu returned, they barely managed to finish them all. The family, almost fed up with carp, dared not give them away or make a fuss, and definitely couldn’t tell Jing Shu that her grandfather accidentally wiped out the fish and several other species in the pond. Luckily, Jing Shu, being carefree, didn’t realize why the house was filled with smoked carp upon returning.

But the truth couldn’t stay hidden; eventually, gossip let it slip to Jing Shu, who found it both funny and exasperating.

Anyway.

Now the pond is filled with filtered and treated water, with four sections already re-filled with fish, lobsters, oysters, and abalones, supplementing the species that the Jing Family lacked. When Grandma Jing arrives, they can release fish and shrimp fry from the camper into it, rounding them up nicely.

There are fewer species here since Wu City’s Northwest never had many livable seafood options. Now, having come to the coast, they can see if there are any non-extinct sea creatures left to buy and raise.

It’s unsure if there are still bluefin tuna, clawed lobsters, rose pink diamond oysters, giant king crabs, goose barnacles, salmon, or Alaskan king crabs, such rare seafood left...

Clearing the drool, Jing Shu entered the villa, which has a changing room and, next to it, an over 200-square-meter grand dual-purpose living room. After installing crystal chandeliers and some luxury furniture brought from the United States, it turned quite opulent.

Following it were two conjoined kitchen spaces that Jing Shu had always dreamed of, especially the row of six stoves, which were very pleasing. Jing Shu could imagine using one for soup, another for braising meat, another for stir-frying, stewing, steaming seafood, while the last one could be for making milk tea... Finally, for the big Jing Family, cooking wouldn’t be chaotic anymore.

The dining room is also much larger than in Wu City. Only one master bedroom with a bathroom remains on the first floor for Mr. Jing and Grandma Jing, with the rest of the rooms turned into storage.

Organized by Jing Shu into:

Dry goods and nuts warehouse, grain warehouse, seasoning and bean oil warehouse, household goods warehouse, snack and instant food warehouse.

The second-floor villa is configured for housing, along with two storerooms and a cloakroom.

It’s worth mentioning that there’s electricity supply here, albeit at a high cost—every kilowatt of electricity is worth the food equivalent of 30 Virtual Coins, with a monthly cap, and exceeding a certain quota results in doubled prices. But for Jing Shu, this isn’t an issue; using money to solve problems is no problem.

There’s naturally no natural gas or coal gas. Wealthy areas generally manage to acquire coal, or a small canister of gas costing as much as 5,000 Virtual Coins.

Jing Shu’s house directly hooked up to the neighbor, Su Malie’s, natural gas line, supplying goods at a discounted rate monthly in exchange, which was immensely satisfying.