Apocalyptic Flood: Sexy Beauty Neighbor's Midnight Plea for Food

Chapter 1096: Chapter 443: Li Qinghua’s Paper Mill

As soon as beauty and youth preservation were mentioned, the girls instantly perked up.

The conversation around this topic immediately took off and didn’t stop.

During this, Ding Yan analyzed and thought that Yang Mei’s ice attribute ability might, after enhancing its power, cool her cells and slow down the speed of cell metabolism.

In this way, aging could be greatly delayed, becoming a true "frozen-age goddess."

And Song Wen’s wood attribute superpower, with its self-recovery ability, could also restore and heal aging cells, similarly possessing the ability to maintain youth and extend lifespan.

This made the two girls restless— they had never considered this aspect before.

Which woman could resist the temptation of eternal youth?

Especially Yang Mei, who was already an older woman and very concerned about her appearance.

After all, she was much older than Liang Yuan, and in this aspect, she felt a bit inferior.

So, if she can keep herself from aging, she certainly wants to make an effort.

Even though Song Wen was not yet worried about her age, as a former female anchor, she always had anxiety about her looks.

Listening to Ding Yan’s analysis, she got excited for quite a while, increasingly feeling that her superpower was too incredible.

As for Dong Yan, she didn’t feel much, given she was only nineteen, not even twenty; talking about aging and youth was somewhat boring for her.

As she was in her adolescence.

Liang Yuan observed as their conversation drifted off-topic, feeling a mix of amusement and helplessness.

He checked the time and interrupted their discussion, saying: "Let’s go, it’s time for the meeting at the Sunshine District."

"On this trip, I need to discuss the Genetic Species, Floating Island, and some situations in Guangfu with everyone."

"Additionally, the group of people I’ve brought back also needs to be integrated into our Yangshan Shelter as soon as possible."

Upon hearing the matter at hand, Ding Yan and Yang Mei immediately stopped, quickly gathering their things and heading to Sunshine District together.

Nowadays, the range of Sunshine District has expanded greatly, and the growth scale of mutated sunflowers inside has also increased.

Multiple three- to four-story wooden and bamboo houses have been constructed inside Sunshine District, and it has become the administrative center of Yangshan.

Yang Mei introduced: "All these buildings were constructed by Old Ma and his team. Don’t be fooled by their wooden structure; the walls and floors inside are drawn with [Silence Runes] provided by the research institute. Their soundproofing is very strong."

"Silence Runes?" Liang Yuan was surprised: "Is this a newly researched rune?"

"Yes, it was researched and developed by Professor Li Hanzhong from the slaughterhouse’s rune extensions."

"Nowadays, they have been widely used in various buildings."

Liang Yuan felt pleased; seeing that in his absence, Yangshan’s development had not stagnated, but rather progressed rapidly and innovatively.

"These buildings in Sunshine District are important functional departments, including the Yangshan administrative center, inspection center, patrol center, agriculture department, construction department..."

"The whole structural plan was established with the help of an experienced administrative personnel."

"Furthermore, a Leader’s Mansion has been set aside specifically for you, making it convenient for you to hold meetings here and handle various matters of Yangshan."

Liang Yuan was surprised, not expecting that in just a few days of his absence, Yang Mei and the others had arranged Yangshan’s management structure so neatly.

"Hey, what are they doing?"

Just as they reached the vicinity of the Sunshine House, Liang Yuan saw a large group of people queued up at a small gate on the left side of the Sunshine House.

Song Wen saw this and smiled, "The third round of Mutated Sunflowers has already produced seeds; everyone is here buying sunflower seeds."

Liang Yuan was astonished: "They grew the third round so quickly?"

Song Wen nodded, "We cultivated selected seeds; the second round was planted then, and now this batch, which rapidly blooms and bears seeds, is from that selected batch."

"These third-round seeds not only grow quickly but also yield high; each sunflower can produce five to six pounds of seeds."

"Currently, Meishan and other places have already started the fourth round of planting using these sunflower seeds."

Liang Yuan was delighted, eager to have sun-producing mutated sunflowers amidst the constant torrential rain outside.

"Are they buying to plant themselves?"

Yang Mei laughed at this moment, "It’s definitely for planting at home; right now, every household wants to plant a few, not only for lighting but also for dehumidifying and heating."

"Nowadays, Mutated Sunflowers have become a household necessity."

"Consequently, even the once-neglected solar panels in our complex shopping center are sold out."

"There is even now an undersea treasure hunting team dedicated to diving underwater to find submerged streetlights and the like to see if those solar panels can be retrieved."

Liang Yuan was astounded: "Undersea treasure hunting team?"

Ding Yan explained beside him, "It’s a recently popular concept."

"As Yangshan develops better and better, all kinds of assets and materials are classified as public property, and there’s no place for people to hunt exotic beasts. So, someone had the sudden idea that there might be lots of pre-apocalyptic treasures underwater worth money."

"Thus, many organized teams specifically dive underwater searching for materials, eventually forming the undersea treasure hunting teams."

"Last time, a few Water Attribute Superpower Users discovered a photovoltaic power plant underwater in the development zone, bringing back quite a few battery devices and suddenly becoming rich."

"That group not only rented a shop in the shopping center but also rented land at our core location and built a house."

"Because of this, many people from Yangshan joined the treasure hunting teams."

"Hence, a trend of underwater treasure hunting burst forth."

Liang Yuan listened to Ding Yan’s description and couldn’t help but laugh.

The changes in Yangshan were indeed getting bigger day by day.

He had only been away for a few days, and so many novel things had happened.

Upon entering the Sunshine District, he indeed saw that the entire area had expanded significantly.

Not only was more than half of it inside caves, but outside, a large canopy had been built, shielding against the heavy rain while expanding the Sunshine District more than threefold.

Sunflowers were planted all around, illuminating the entire Sunshine District with warmth and brightness.

The wooden structures were built in a staggered manner, and each building was labeled with the name of the corresponding Yangshan functional department.

Many people were coming and going, seemingly busy with their affairs.

Liang Yuan suddenly noticed a girl passing by with a thick stack of paper in her hand.

Upon seeing the paper in the girl’s hand, Liang Yuan immediately called out to her: "Wait a minute."

The girl had been secretly watching Liang Yuan, and when he called out to her, she was both surprised and delighted, quickly turning to him with a mix of nervousness and excitement, "Mr. Liang, did you call me?"

Liang Yuan smiled and nodded at her, asking: "What are those in your hand?"

"Ah? Oh, this?" She glanced down at the papers in her hands and quickly said, "These are the materials Granny Li asked me to organize for the Department of Agriculture, which includes this year’s agricultural results from the plantation and Meishan, to be used for a meeting."

Song Wen also spoke up: "Brother Liang, this is Xiao Min from our plantation, she is Granny Li’s assistant."

Liang Yuan laughed, "Don’t be nervous, I’m not asking what’s written on them, I’m asking where these sheets of paper come from."

As he spoke, he took the grayish-white papers from Xiao Min’s hands.

This paper was slightly thick, about twice the thickness of regular A4 paper, and its overall texture was quite rough, with visible straw-like fragments inside the paper surface.

Liang Yuan, however, was full of surprise and delight, asking: "Is this... paper we made ourselves?"

Beside Liang Yuan, Dong Yan immediately giggled and said: "Brother Liang, this was produced by the paper mill over at Lingyun Slope."

"Paper mill?"

"Yes, it’s over by the Mulberry Forest, it was started by Li Qinghua and a few others."

"Right now their paper mill isn’t large, and their main raw materials are fire bamboo leaves and mulberry leaves. They’re not only producing high-quality document paper but also other types of paper. Demand is outstripping supply."

Liang Yuan was astonished, how did Li Qinghua, a space power user, end up building a factory there?

"Wasn’t he in the patrol team?"

Ding Yan explained: "He quit."

"What?"

Liang Yuan was shocked and quickly asked what happened.

Ding Yan said: "He felt there wasn’t much to do in the patrol team, we’ve nearly wiped out all the monsters around Yangshan, the only crisis is the monthly sea tide."

"With our current manpower at Yangshan, we can easily handle the sea tide."

"So he voluntarily resigned from the patrol team’s captaincy and went to Lingyun Slope to start a paper mill."

"I later asked Zhou Qingming and Sister Wan, and found out that his family used to run a paper mill, and he believed paper would become an indispensable commodity in Yangshan’s future, so he decided to start a paper mill."

"By the way, he’s coming to the meeting too, and now his Qinghua Paper Mill is one of the important small factories of Yangshan."

Liang Yuan was dumbfounded, and after a moment, he burst out laughing.

"For a space power user not to dig into his abilities but to start a factory... "

Ding Yan laughed: "I think it’s great; if he has the ability to start a factory, why waste it?"

"Besides, starting the factory doesn’t prevent him from continuing to cultivate his superpower."

"In fact, because he started the factory, he achieved economic freedom, giving him more energy to explore his abilities."

"This also proves that Yangshan has enough vitality in every aspect."

"Moreover, Yangshan really needs a lot of paper; otherwise, there wouldn’t be any paper for the toilet."

Liang Yuan couldn’t help but laugh, paper indeed is an indispensable part of life.

"However, it’s a shame they can only produce this rough type of paper and can’t yet produce soft tissues or toilet paper," said Song Wen, somewhat regretfully.

Liang Yuan asked, "Why can’t they produce those?"

"The craftsmanship isn’t there yet, and we lack the machinery," said Song Wen helplessly.

Liang Yuan thought to himself, his system could still produce tissues and even sanitary pads, so there was no worry about that.

Nevertheless, the paper produced by Li Qinghua’s mill was still suitable for writing and recording documents.

As he walked in, Liang Yuan saw many new things.

Besides paper, there were even people selling homemade soy sauce and tofu.

Liang Yuan asked around and found out these items emerged after the bountiful harvest of mutated soybeans from Meishan.

In short, Yangshan’s development was fast, so fast that even though Liang Yuan was only away for a few days, he felt a sense of spring’s revival.

Everyone’s face was filled with smiles.

A smile that indicated renewed hope in life.