Chapter 759: Daily Life in Building

Building 17 was originally more than enough to house the members of the Fair Convoy.

But with the addition of the fifty people Deng Hao brought, the living environment in Building 17 was now slightly cramped.

However, none of this worried Chen Ye. Supervisor Xue Nan would arrange all of it properly.

The Silent Council's Architect superhumans also began to play their role.

These past few days, they had been repairing the public facilities of the entire Happy Garden, with the most urgent priority being solving the water problem.

Of course, if they wanted to restore things to pre-apocalypse levels, even with Architect superhumans, it was not something that could be done in a short time.

Even though the Silent Council was planning to restore the water supply, it would still take time.

Therefore, these Architect superhumans, with the cooperation of other superhumans, installed a massive water tower on the rooftop of each building.

Each building had people specially assigned to carry water up to the top floor and pour it into the enormous water towers.

Right now, job opportunities at the base were pitifully scarce.

Although this work was not easy, there were still people scrambling to do it.

Therefore, every day you could see people hauling water buckets up and down the stairwells without pause.

On the rooftop of the sixth floor, Ding Dong had cleared a dedicated open area specifically for planting Ideal Grain Seeds.

In order to plant these Ideal Grain Seeds, Ding Dong had the survivors transport a large amount of soil up to create a dedicated Planting Base.

For this, Ding Dong even decided to move her own residence to the top floor.

The Ideal Grain Seeds were finally moved from flower pots to being planted in the ground.

They even built a layer of sunshade curtain over the roof.

Chu Che did not object to Ding Dong's decision.

Iron Lion was in recovery, but after he recovered, his frame would be too large. An ordinary residential apartment would truly be cramped for him.

Therefore, he also planned to live on the top floor.

Besides, the issue of going up and down stairs was not a problem at all for Iron Lion.

Chu Che specifically sought out the Silent Council's Architect, paying the price of one hundred Silent Gold Coins, and had the Architect superhuman specially build two rooms on the top floor.

Not only that, but the meatworms and chickens were also moved to the top floor for breeding.

These chubby meatworms, ever since they ate the king tree's leaves last time, had not bred a single new meatworm capable of reproduction.

Therefore, the meatworms capable of breeding still numbered only three.

This showed just how difficult meatworm reproduction was.

Those three white and plump meatworms wriggled their bodies, eating fresh leaves picked in the morning, as well as some completely expired food covered in white and green mold.

Beside them were a few small white plump meatworms, clearly the kind incapable of reproduction.

These meatworms could only serve as meat reserves.

Two of them had already reached slaughtering standards.

It was expected that this afternoon, survivors responsible for meatworm work would slaughter these two meatworms and then salt-cure them.

Hmm, recently everyone's supply of goods had been fairly sufficient. Instead, the Revitalization Talismans seemed to be running a bit short.

Ever since moving to Happy Garden, the price of Revitalization Talismans had been climbing all the way up.

Now, two gold coins might not even secure one.

Therefore, Gong Yong's Revitalization Stove had become extremely popular instead, with quite a few sold, bringing the convoy considerable profit.

Some expired food was simply fed to these meatworms.

This was because Chu Che had seen a little trick for feeding meatworms in the notes of other captains.

If meatworms were frequently fed human food, it might increase their qualified reproduction rate.

But food restored with Revitalization Talismans was not even enough for humans to eat. How could it possibly be fed to meatworms?

So Chu Che had someone try giving them more expired food to see if there was any effect.

Being this stingy, Captain Chu Che had truly racked his brains to the limit.

Ever since they had Revitalization Talismans, most of the food the Fair Convoy fed the meatworms was leaves and such.

Captain Chu Che still had some of those king tree leaves in reserve.

But these leaves were all treasured by Captain Chu as precious keepsakes.

Captain Chu wanted to maximize the value of these leaves, so naturally it was impossible that he would give the king tree leaves to the meatworms to eat.

It was said that Captain Chu took these king tree leaves to find the Silent Council's Botanist Sequence superhuman.

To see if the king tree could be cultivated.

Going to the Eternal Night Sea of Trees again — Chu Che did not dare.

Therefore, this was the only option left.

As long as the king tree could be cultivated, it would benefit not only the Fair Convoy but all convoys.

Things like meatworms, although not many, were still somewhat present in other convoys.

Several Fair Convoy survivors were responsible for the meatworm work.

They cleaned the meatworm cages thoroughly, even specifically placing these cages in a well-ventilated spot.

Someone even held a notebook, earnestly recording the meatworms' changes each day.

Such as weight, body length, color changes on their surface, and so on.

Their level of attentiveness was practically more meticulous than they would be with their own parents.

One had to know that behind them, there was still a large crowd of survivors waiting to take their place.

If they made even one mistake, someone would immediately replace their position.

The chickens, on the other hand, were doing fairly well.

Almost every day they provided the convoy with some eggs.

Thanks to the careful care of the convoy's survivors, the convoy's chickens had currently reached thirteen.

One had to know that at the very beginning, Auntie Zhao had given the Fair Convoy only three chickens.

Now reaching thirteen was already quite good care from the Fair Convoy's survivors.

Of course, if it were before the apocalypse, with scientific feeding, three chickens over this long a period would have hatched many times over by now.

But the pre-apocalypse environment and the stable post-apocalypse environment could not be compared.

Sometimes, after the convoy encountered an Anomaly, those chickens would get spooked and simply stop eating and drinking, and then after a few days they could only be processed as ingredients.

Like when Chen Ye and the others fought Number Two earlier.

Although those chickens had already been successfully transferred to the vehicles in preparation for escape.

Perhaps Number Two's aura was too powerful. Afterward, according to Xue Nan's report, a full three chickens had been scared to death by Number Two's terrifying aura.

Many of the remaining chickens also had their feathers standing on end from the fright.

Even with their best efforts to soothe them, it would be a long time before they laid eggs again.

Some chickens, let loose outside, would eat who-knows-what and come back dead.

Still others would run into the deep forest and never be found again.

Too many similar situations too many times...

For this reason, the survivors responsible for raising chickens had been replaced several batches.

Fortunately, there were the Feed Silkworms given earlier.

These Feed Silkworms were highly nourishing food for the chickens, which was the only reason the Fair Convoy's chicken-raising enterprise had not collapsed midway.

Now they had finally obtained a stable environment, building a new chicken coop on the top floor and putting these chickens inside.

These chickens' moods had clearly stabilized considerably.

Little Yu was in a fairly good mood today.

Her cousin had recovered, and the convoy had obtained a stable residence. Other than missing her little companion Tang Le Le a bit, there seemed to be nothing troubling her.

In the past, she still had to worry about homework problems. Now that it was the apocalypse, no one cared at all whether she had done her homework.

Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction.

Therefore, Little Yu got up early in the morning and ran to the top floor to look at the chicken coop.

Yesterday she had discovered that several old hens were brooding.

They would probably be hatching chicks soon.

This made Little Yu very excited.

Bouncing and skipping to the top floor, she saw Auntie Ding Dong earnestly directing others to plant the Ideal Grain Seeds into the soil.

"Hello, Auntie Ding Dong!"

Ding Dong smiled and nodded: "Little Yu, you've come to see the chicks again?"

"Hehe... yep!"

Beside Ding Dong was the ever-silent Zhou Xiaoxiao.

Even though Little Yu was very cute, Zhou Xiaoxiao did not spare her a glance, only focusing intently on her own tasks.

The second dose of Sequence Serum had already been injected several days ago.

But there still seemed to be no reaction.

Although sunlight was currently shining on Zhou Xiaoxiao.

Zhou Xiaoxiao still felt horrifyingly cold all over.

Little Yu did not bother trying to strike up a conversation with Zhou Xiaoxiao. Instead, she went to take a look at Iron Lion.

At this moment, Iron Lion was lying on a bed board, with Bald Old Li dozing beside him.

Clearly, Bald Old Li had been taking care of Iron Lion all along.

Little Yu blinked at Iron Lion, as a way of greeting.

Iron Lion, with only his head exposed outside while his body remained covered by black cloth, also blinked at Little Yu.

Little Yu knew that Uncle Iron Lion's body was gone, but it would grow back after some time.

The apocalypse had lasted so long that Little Yu was already used to situations like this.

Little Yu arrived beside the chicken coop, under the morning sunlight.

Four or five yellow, fluffy little things were waddling around behind a plump old hen.

Fluffy and downy, they looked exceptionally adorable.

"Ah~~~ lit... little chicks, there are little chicks!"

Little Yu hopped and skipped excitedly around the chicken cage.

Those little chicks, startled by Little Yu's commotion, scattered and fled in all directions.

Little Yu's eyes were bright and shining.

She had never been this excited upon seeing chicks before.

But this was the apocalypse. This was different.

The survivors working nearby were also drawn by Little Yu's voice, running over to witness this scene.

Everyone cheered and laughed, their faces brimming with smiles of happiness and hope.