Chapter 240: Changes In Her Space ( 2 )
Compared to the amount of supplies stored by Feng Yun and Xiao Qi, hers were a hundredfold greater. It took her five minutes to fill a three-story house to the brim.
One and half an hour later, she had filled 18 empty houses with supplies. In addition to food, water, and medicine, she also provided clothes, shampoo, soap, and detergent.
Hygiene was important to prevent sickness. To lower the risk of infection from the zombie virus, they had to wash their bodies with soap and clean their clothes with detergent. Ten of the houses were used to store clothes and daily necessities.
When they were finished, Jiao Lizhi checked her space and noticed that the area seemed to have grown larger.
"Ah Zhi, are you alright?" Jin Xuyan asked when he saw her standing still.
As fellow space-type ability-users, both Feng Yun and Xiao Qi understood the risks of overusing mental energy and looked at her with concern. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
Snapping back to her senses, Jiao Lizhi smiled and replied, "Brother Yan, I'm fine. Just a little tired."
"Then let's stop for today," Jin Xuyan said.
"Okay."
After they left the warehouse area, one of the soldiers went to check the stock and reported to Xun Che about the addition of 18 full warehouses.
By the time news spread among the soldiers, the Phantom team had already left the base and were on their way to the commercial district.
Today, they used armored vehicles and split the team into three cars, with Jin Xuyan sharing a car with his girlfriend.
While driving, Jin Xuyan glanced at his girlfriend through the rearview mirror and said, "Ah Zhi, if you are tired, take a nap. It will take two hours to reach the commercial district."
Jiao Lizhi wanted to check the changes in her space, so she nodded and closed her eyes. While she appeared to be sleeping, her mind entered her space.
Standing on the grassland, she opened her space's information panel and began reading. The house area remained the same, but the planting area had indeed expanded.
The farmland had increased by 300 square meters—from 200 to 500 square meters. The yield had also doubled, going from 5 kilograms per square meter to 10 kilograms per square meter.
In addition to the farmland, the pond had changed as well. Although its diameter remained at ten meters, its depth had increased from five meters to fifteen meters.
She continued reading and noticed that the original grassland area, which covered 10 hectares, had now expanded to 30 hectares.
After reading this information, she checked on the animals and noticed an additional area had appeared around the fences. She moved the fences and animals closer to the fog before checking the supplies she had placed on the grassland.
Just like with the animals, there was now an empty area between the supplies and the fog. From this, she realized that the fog had actually moved farther back.
She began to wonder what lay beyond the fog. Was it just endless grassland, or would she be able to unlock more things in the future?
Since she was still far from leveling up her space again, she pushed the thought aside and continued checking the information panel.
At this point, the oxygen produced in her space had increased by 130%, while the oxygen requirement to raise an animal had dropped from 30% to 20%. The oxygen consumption per animal had also decreased from 0.5% to 0.3%.
She was thrilled by these improvements—until she read the new energy maintenance and upgrade requirements.
Now, she needed five crystal cores per day—up from just one—to maintain the space's energy consumption. The requirement to upgrade the space had also increased from 100 crystal cores to 200.
After calculating the cost against the benefits, Jiao Lizhi concluded that she still came out benefited from these changes.
Still, one mystery lingered in her mind. She had yet to understand why her space couldn't absorb other zombies, yet it had been able to absorb the zombified Mo Binxue.
Was it because Mo Binxue had retained her consciousness even after turning into a zombie? Or was there some other condition required for the absorption function?
She thought for a long time but still couldn't find the answer. Letting out a long sigh, she decided not to dwell on the matter any longer.
Glancing at her clothes soaking in the basin, she went to wash them. She had collected some washing machines earlier in the shopping mall, so there was no need to do it by hand.
After tossing the clothes into the washing machine, she returned to the house and ground some roasted coffee beans.
Fortunately, her space preserved everything in optimal condition, so she didn't have to worry about the coffee beans losing their fragrance over time.
Once the coffee beans were ground, she began preparing chicken soup. It would come in handy when they had to camp in areas without a kitchen.
Since she was using a large commercial stock pot, she built five bonfires near the house. Each stock pot could hold around 250 liters of water. To fill a 500-gallon water tank, she needed to cook about seven to eight pots.
Considering the low number of mutated animals in her space, she decided to use the regular chickens she had collected earlier. To speed up the cooking process, she added extra firewood and increased the flames.
While waiting for the soup to finish, she cleaned the water tank. Once the soup was done, she poured it into the tank and cooked three more pots.
It took her nearly two hours, but she finally managed to fill the water tank with soup. Just as she finished washing the stock pot, she heard Jin Xuyan's voice calling her.
"Ah Zhi, we are here."
Hearing this, Jiao Lizhi's mind returned from her space, and she slowly opened her eyes. Glancing at her watch, she saw that it was nearly nine o'clock in the morning.