"Hello."
The girl took the initiative to greet him, "My name is Wu Ting, I'm a student of Professor Bai. He was suddenly called away just now.
You must be Xu Zhengyang, right? Before he left, Professor Bai asked me to give this to you."
Wu Ting said as she handed Xu Zhengyang a pre-prepared USB drive.
"Uh-huh."
Xu Zhengyang nodded, then connected the USB drive to his phone with an adapter, pretending to browse through it.
After a moment.
Da Bai quietly reminded Xu Zhengyang through his Bluetooth headset, "The plan is fine, Master."
Only then did Xu Zhengyang eject the USB drive, put it away, and said to Wu Ting, "Then I'll take my leave. Please thank Professor Bai for me."
"Wait... wait a moment."
Seeing Xu Zhengyang so decisively about to leave, Wu Ting hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, explaining, "This plan only covers the hardware construction.
It still needs Professor Bai's 'Smart Agriculture System' to coordinate in the middle to ensure the sustainable development of the agricultural area."
"Smart Agriculture System?" Xu Zhengyang asked, puzzled.
"Yes."
Wu Ting nodded, then quickly took out a stack of pre-printed materials, pointing to the content as she explained to Xu Zhengyang, "The core of the Smart Agriculture System is..."
On the surface, Xu Zhengyang appeared to be asking Wu Ting.
In reality, he was asking Da Bai.
So while Wu Ting started to use some vague and grandiose terms to dazzle Xu Zhengyang, Da Bai's voice reappeared in his ear, "Master, according to my calculations.
I only need to allocate seven threads to perfectly execute Professor Bai Kaiyuan's design plan.
We do not need their so-called Smart Agriculture System."
"Uh-huh."
Xu Zhengyang nodded upon hearing this, then said to Wu Ting, "Thank you, but we don't need this."
After saying that.
Xu Zhengyang turned and left Bai Kaiyuan's office, leaving Wu Ting in shock.
...
Not long after Xu Zhengyang left.
Bai Kaiyuan emerged from the office's break room.
Seeing Wu Ting's disappointed expression, he patted her shoulder and comforted her, "It seems that Xu is really busy and can't take care of the shelter over there.
You should go ahead and get busy.
I'll think of other ways to help you."
"Yes, teacher."
Wu Ting held back her tears and responded dejectedly, then hurriedly left Bai Kaiyuan's office...
"Sigh..."
Bai Kaiyuan sighed as he watched her leave, saying, "No matter where it is now, the quotas are extremely limited..."
*After obtaining Bai Kaiyuan's design plan, Da Bai had already begun the hardware construction.
As for Xu Zhengyang.
He first needed to go to the agricultural market to buy various plant seeds and young animals according to the list provided by Bai Kaiyuan.
Not only that.
Xu Zhengyang also needed to go to the building materials market to purchase enough steel frames, water pipes, and other necessary materials; in addition.
Xu Zhengyang needed to buy enough detectors to monitor the temperature, humidity, oxygen concentration, and carbon dioxide concentration in every area of the agricultural zone in real-time.
On the way to the agricultural market, Xu Zhengyang asked Da Bai, "Da Bai, according to Professor Bai's plan.
How long will it take us to complete the construction of the agricultural area?"
"If everything goes smoothly, it can be completed by tomorrow."
Da Bai replied, then provided Xu Zhengyang with a new procurement list, saying, "However, for the first half of the year, most plants won't have started their positive cycles.
So Master, you will also need to buy some food and feed for initial investment."
"Uh-huh."
Xu Zhengyang nodded, then pressed the accelerator to the floor, saying, "I'll leave the house to you, I'm off to buy things."
"Okay, Master." Da Bai replied.
*The next afternoon, all the various goods Xu Zhengyang ordered from the agricultural market arrived at the lumber factory one after another.
After a day and night of work, the framework of the agricultural area had basically taken shape.
According to Bai Kaiyuan's design plan.
Xu Zhengyang's shelter, with a height of five meters, was utilized efficiently; Bai Kaiyuan designed the planting area as a 2+3 double-layer structure.
The first layer was used to plant rice, wheat, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, and other plants that do not require much height;
The second layer was for planting corn, Sichuan pepper, and other plants that have certain height requirements.
Adding them together, Xu Zhengyang's planting area reached one thousand square meters!
With such a large space, after half a year.
When the plants in the planting area enter a positive cycle, they can produce extra food to sustain the animals in the breeding area.
The breeding area, on the other hand, was much more complex; Bai Kaiyuan had almost maximized the utilization of every bit of space! The essence of his entire design plan was right here!
After Xu Zhengyang placed the young animals he had purchased in their designated spaces according to Bai Kaiyuan's requirements.
Looking at the orderly breeding area, even Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but exclaim, "As expected of Professor Bai, truly impressive!"
After saying that.
A series of system notifications appeared before Xu Zhengyang's eyes:
[Main Quest: Agricultural Area Upgrade (Completed)]
[Reward: Area Effect: Group Immunity]
...
[Area Effect: Group Immunity]
[Effect: When your agricultural area is operating normally, all species with a population of two or more within the agricultural area will gain a state of group immunity, exempting them from most diseases.]
"Wow!"
After reading the effect of this area effect, Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but exclaim in surprise! Both plants and animals can get sick.
Especially animals.
Once they fall ill, it is even more difficult to treat them than humans.
After all, animals cannot speak and cannot tell the veterinarian where they feel unwell, so treating animals mostly relies on the veterinarian's experience.
Although Xu Zhengyang's shelter environment is relatively closed.
Even so, he couldn't guarantee that the animals in his agricultural area wouldn't contract some bizarre diseases.
But now, with this area effect [Group Immunity].
Regardless of whether they are plants or animals.
As long as their species count is two or more, they can be immune to the invasion of most diseases!
"Perfect!"
Xu Zhengyang nodded in satisfaction, then opened his task list to check the latest main quest:
[Main Quest: Heavy Firepower (In Progress)]
[In the apocalypse, the shelter is your foundation! To ensure that your shelter can withstand the impact of the zombie tide while also preventing it from being coveted by those with ulterior motives.
You need to build watchtowers and equip them with heavy firepower!]
[Task Objective: Build four watchtowers and equip them with heavy firepower
(Watchtower height not less than 8 meters; heavy firepower caliber not less than 12.7 millimeters)]
[Task Reward: PX-1 Portable Composite Battle Suit]
Upon seeing the task details, Xu Zhengyang immediately said to Da Bai, "Da Bai, help me book a high-speed train ticket to Yunnan Province!"
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