Chapter 245 - 153: Harvesting the Farmland’s Bounty and a Terrifying Stockpile

Chapter 245: Chapter 153: Harvesting the Farmland’s Bounty and a Terrifying Stockpile

Seeing Xu Jun’s earnest expression, Chen Chong was completely exasperated.

He slowly offered the Golden Fertilizer.

"Why don’t you try some?"

Xu Jun’s expression was conflicted, as if he was actually pondering whether to have a taste.

But in the end, he shook his head.

"Forget it, Brother Chong. At the end of the day, this stuff is still fertilizer. Even plants grow like they’re on steroids after eating it. If I ate it and got poisoned, there’s no way to even get my stomach pumped in this godforsaken environment."

Chen Chong was relieved to hear that.

’Looks like this buddy of mine isn’t a lost cause after all. At least he knows you’re not supposed to stuff fertilizer in your mouth.’

After putting the Golden Fertilizer back in the room, Chen Chong stepped into the A-Level Farmland.

"Enough with the nonsense. Let’s hurry up and get all this picked. We can’t just leave it all in the ground."

Boosted by the Golden Fertilizer, nearly all the crops in the field had grown to their maximum potential, except for the corn.

Right now, every crop had reached the stage where it was either ready to be eaten or could be harvested for its seeds.

Using his Identification Skill, Chen Chong could confirm that the crops had stopped growing and were ready to be eaten.

Even if he applied more Golden Fertilizer, the nutrients would just go to waste.

At best, it would only over-ripen the already mature crops. This would cause the fruit, which was perfectly edible, to age prematurely and lose its nutrients as it tried to prepare its seeds for germination. In turn, this would make it unsuitable for eating.

Chen Chong was afraid that if he left them in the farmland, the residual effects of the fertilizer, combined with the plot’s growth acceleration, would cause just that.

After all, not all crops could be replanted by cutting up their tubers, like sweet potatoes, potatoes, and ginger.

For winter melons, pumpkins, and tomatoes, for instance, you only needed to save the seeds from the flesh you ate.

If they got too old, the flesh would be inedible—a complete waste.

"You got it!"

Xu Jun immediately rolled up his sleeves and stepped into the farmland with him.

And just like that, bright and early, the two of them began harvesting the fruits and vegetables in the A-Level Farmland...

As Chen Chong harvested, he couldn’t help but marvel at the sight.

’I have to say, the effects of the Golden Fertilizer are just absurd.’

A single winter melon weighed over thirty pounds!

The pumpkins were just as massive, some even heavier than the winter melons. Even with his strength, he felt a slight strain just lifting one.

The sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peanuts had grown so large from the abundant nutrients that their tubers were buried extremely deep in the soil.

Just digging them out took a considerable amount of effort...

If the two of them weren’t already Transcendents, with their physical conditioning and strength drastically improved, they likely wouldn’t have been able to get all these crops out in a single day.

Not because of a lack of time, but a lack of stamina.

Moving a winter melon was like hauling a boulder, and pulling up a potato was like yanking out a tree root.

An ordinary person’s stamina would be no match for the task...

Though the harvesting process was tiring, both of them wore smiles on their faces.

The joy of a bountiful harvest is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and in a world where food was desperately scarce, this haul was more precious than anything...

「A while later.」

Wang Biao, Jia Wen, and Qi Zhen emerged from their rooms one by one.

Having just woken up and stepped outside, the three were called over to help with the work.

With all five of them working together, they quickly harvested all the crops, either picking them or pulling them from the earth, and stacked them neatly to the side.

By the time everything was sorted and put away, two hours had passed...

Chen Chong and the others collapsed on the ground, their bodies covered in dirt and their faces smudged with mud. Sweat dripped from their foreheads; they were utterly exhausted.

Even with their Transcendent physiques, they were reaching their limits.

But the smiles on their faces hadn’t faded in the slightest.

Gazing at the various vegetables piled up into a small mountain, they felt a joy that surpassed even the time they’d successfully hunted a wild boar.

After a short rest, Chen Chong began to take stock of the harvest.

Soon, the full extent of their haul was clear.

Thirty-five basketball-sized sweet potatoes.

Thirty-one potatoes, none of them smaller than the sweet potatoes.

Five giant pumpkins, each big enough for a person to half-lie on.

Six torpedo-sized winter melons.

Twenty-three massive tomatoes.

Over seventy snake-like cowpeas.

Five radishes, each half the height of a person.

Seven stalks of celtuce, each as thick as an arm.

The peppers and peanuts each filled two large baskets, their numbers easily in the hundreds.

Not only was the yield enormous, but the size of each item was top-tier. Any single one of them, if brought back to the world before, could be entered into a farming competition and win first place with its eyes closed!

This was all from an A-Level Farmland of only ten square meters, where Chen Chong had only transplanted a few of each crop. Otherwise, the yield would have been even more staggering.

But even so, the amount of produce from just these few plants was astonishingly large...

In addition to all that, there was also a single stalk of green onion and a single ginger plant.

The former’s flower bud was full of seeds, while the latter’s ginger root was larger than a washbasin.

As a crop that needed to be cut into pieces for replanting, just like sweet potatoes and potatoes, a ginger root this large could be divided into dozens of pieces, yielding dozens of new ginger seedlings.

As for the winter melons, tomatoes, and pumpkins...

They could eat the flesh and simply save the seeds inside for replanting.

For most of the crops, once the fruit was picked, the remaining stalks had fulfilled their purpose of producing the next generation and would simply wither and die.

They wouldn’t have survived even if Chen Chong hadn’t pulled them out.

So, in the process of harvesting the produce, they had also cleared out the entire farmland plot.

The only exceptions were the corn, which wasn’t fully mature yet, and the pepper plant, which had grown into a hardy bush that could continuously bear fruit...

Of course, even though the pepper bush could fruit prolifically regardless of the environment or season, Chen Chong still planned to use the peppers he collected to cultivate new plants.