Chapter Ninety-Four: Unboxing a Saint's Moment

She wished she could go out and plant sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, wheat, peanuts, and all kinds of vegetables right now.
"But the scale doesn't seem that big—only five hundred mu."
Without modern machinery, if one adult were to plant a single crop purely by hand, working hard, they could manage three to five mu at most.
Add in the climate and the physical condition of modern people with suboptimal health, that number would be around two to three mu—a comfortable figure. Five hundred mu would require roughly two hundred people to cultivate.
But they only had thirty-some people, and among them were those with other duties or those who couldn't serve as labor.
Jiang Huan suddenly slapped her forehead. "No one said we have to release all five hundred mu at once. I can improve the soil quality of a portion first—say, twenty mu or thirty mu nearby. I've been too limited in my thinking."
After more than half a year of being frozen and sealed, Jiang Huan had also learned that leaving others no way to survive was just narrowing her own path.
When the time came, she could also improve the land near the base or other larger survival points. Everyone could get a little broth to sip, preventing order from descending further into chaos.
This crate had her heart racing with excitement. Then she looked over the remaining seven one by one.
[Protective Electric Grid, covering one thousand mu, requires energy crystal, one per ten days, three switch settings—shock, kill, char.] Ah, speaking of energy crystals—she had lucked into two when she drew the RV, and they still hadn't found any use until now.
[Universal Antidote Pills ×20, neutralizes poisons caused by animals and plants within fifty seconds.] This one was absolutely explosive too.
[Encyclopedia, compiling all knowledge of current technology and every preceding category. Simply use a voice command to search, and the best answer is generated within one second.] Holy crap, holy crap—Jiang Huan nearly jumped out of her skin. Wasn't this just an all-purpose, ad-free, no-paywall search engine?
Just a voice command and an answer in one second. From now on, if she encountered professional knowledge, she could ask and get answers. Was her era of being a polymath finally here?
Alright—this one was for Xiao Xi. It suited him best.
In the past, he had learned from others and still managed to pick things up quickly and innovate. Now, with something he could ask questions to at any time, completely unaffected by any third party's interference—couldn't he climb to an even higher level?
Jiang Huan had never been stingy with her brother, nor had she ever been excessively greedy with the things the crate-opener gave her. Forget her brother's mysterious koi luck for a moment—had it not been for his lottery ticket, could she have bought all those supplies in the early days?
[Superstar Glider, seven hundred grams, foldable. When not in use, can serve as a cloak or fold into a sun hat. Take off from flat ground, and after one hundred meters, it begins steady forward motion and descent. Jump from a high place and it can be manipulated according to wind speed and direction, achieving sustained flight—granting roughly two-fifths of an airplane's functionality.] Jiang Huan was too drained to get excited anymore; she had already used up all her excitement.

The last three items weren't as heaven-defying—they were fifty thousand jin of japonica rice, twenty tons of high-quality, non-gamey, tender lamb, and one hundred constant-temperature sleeping bags.
After opening all twenty crates, Jiang Huan felt a sense of release after being overexcited.
How to put it—somewhat like the sage's moment. Looking at the supplies now, she could accept them with a calm mindset.
She put everything away and strapped the search device to her younger brother's wrist, teaching him how to use it.
"Then let your sister test you. If you're with someone other than me, or you're alone with someone and facing a difficult problem, what would you do?"
"What kind of difficult problem?"
Jiang Huan thought for a moment and gave a relatively simple analogy. "Say you're both very hungry, but all the mushrooms around you are colorful and unfamiliar. You want to find something edible without letting the other person know. How would you search?"
"There are so many mushrooms—which one did TV say was edible? Then I'd look at the answer myself and go find that mushroom."
Jiang Xi actually acted it out on the spot, narrating while performing as if he really was facing a pile of strange mushrooms with some outsider by his side. He even angled himself to block the view of the search answer.
Clearly, when it came to his sister's serious instructions, he carried them out with utmost gravity.
Jiang Huan was fully satisfied.
As for the soil, she planned to go down into the pit herself and purify the soil within—and when the time came, she could pretend to accidentally discover the secret of its quality. As for the other things she'd opened, for now she had no intention of bringing them into real life to share with everyone.
In the days that followed, Jiang Huan went down every two or three days, covertly accumulating her points. She didn't plan to open anything for now, but there was no resisting the joy of stockpiling ten thousand points each visit.
Besides going down the pit, searching for supplies, and keeping close tabs on the base's latest news, Jiang Huan also stepped up her own training to improve her physical fitness and hardware condition.
She would follow videos to learn martial arts and do shooting drills. As time went on, more and more people—mirroring her—began to train in their spare time. Within just a few days, this habit had influenced everyone at the bomb shelter survival point.
Jiang Huan hadn't yet found the opportunity to "discover" the land quality when Xie Congzhou came to her first. "I never hid this from you—I told you I have an inexplicable sensitivity to land and celestial phenomena. You remember, right?"
Jiang Huan nodded. He had said so back then, as a gesture of sincerity, offering his fullest allegiance to her as the one everyone rallied around and the controller of resources.

Now he was bringing it up again—what did he mean?
"If you trust me, stockpile water. Reinforce the underground river in the pit immediately. And if possible, recruit more hands to live on our perimeter." Xie Congzhou's words left Jiang Huan deeply puzzled.
Forget recruiting more people—where would supplies come from? And this water stockpiling...
"Your meaning is... the recent natural disasters are about to change?"
"Yes. I sense it—heat, water vapor evaporating." There was not a trace of joking in Xie Congzhou's eyes, because when he spoke, he spoke only the truth.
Jiang Huan inhaled sharply. She had speculated before that the freeze wouldn't last forever, and after the tremors earlier, she had wondered if the next disaster would be frequent earthquakes. But now! Xie Congzhou was telling her to stockpile water. Under what circumstances would one most need to stockpile water?
Drought, of course. Heat.
Honestly, if given the choice between freezing and heat, she would still pick freezing—at least there was water. With ample fuel, people's endurance increased. Most said it was cold, but they had adapted to an average of minus thirty to fifty degrees. But drought...
Even someone like Jiang Huan, with a god-tier artifact in hand, was starting to tense up.
"Alright. We stockpile. But I need time to figure out how to break this possibility to everyone." Jiang Huan indicated she wouldn't expose Xie Congzhou's mysterious nature.
Xie Congzhou was relieved. "I never doubted you anyway."
Jiang Huan went to find the cheat device immediately.
No question about it—she was just an adventure blogger, knowing a bit more than the average person about survival tactics from the experts: self-rescue methods in extreme situations from Bear Grylls's and Ed Stafford's documentaries, that kind of thing. But with a natural disaster of this scale, since she had chosen communa living, she naturally had to plan comprehensively. Yet she also had to admit that she wasn't leader material—there was no way she could account for every aspect of preparing for another catastrophe. So of course she had to find the cheat device.
Eh, the cheat device was nothing other than the search device she had just opened and strapped onto her brother's wrist.
(End of Chapter)