Ordinary observers in fast time travel

Chapter 938 Let's go for the hard way!
There were five men in total, all muscular and exuding a menacing aura, and dressed in clean, uniform combat attire. Whose hunting team is this?
Shi Jia scrutinized the group, "Who are you?"

"Miss Yuan, hello. We are the Lou family's hunting team—Seven Kills." The tallest and most robust man stepped forward and introduced himself to Shi Jia. "I am Lou Ming."

Lou Jia?

Lou Xiao's uncle's family?
"Who is Lou Xiao to you?"

“Lou Xiao is my cousin,” Lou Ming said.

"Hmm, is there something you need from me?" Shi Jia raised an eyebrow, she really couldn't figure out why the Lou family wanted to see her.

"It's like this, Miss Yuan has awakened a wood-type ability." Lou Ming forced a smile. "My Lou family is planning to invest in developing a grain planting base and would like to invite Miss Yuan to join us."

"No." Developing grain planting bases? Does this mean they've discovered a grain problem? Or is there something else?
“Miss Yuan, no, please don’t refuse yet. Listen to the conditions we offer first,” Lou Ming said anxiously. “First, we will give you 50 contribution points in one lump sum, then you will receive a monthly salary of 2 contribution points, and 100 energy cores suitable for wood-type ability users to cultivate…”

"Tsk tsk, such good conditions?" Shi Jia looked at Lou Ming suspiciously. "With these conditions, you could easily recruit some fourth or fifth-tier planters from the cultivation base. Why are you looking for someone like me who just awakened my wood-type ability?"

Upon hearing this, Lou Ming broke out in a cold sweat, "This..."

"Beep——"

Just then, a car drove up from the gravel road. Shi Jia looked up and saw four or five more cars behind it. Before the car in front had come to a complete stop, the passenger door was pushed open, and a strange man got out. "Wait, Miss Yuan, our Han Group cordially invites you to be a special advisor to our Han Group Agricultural Research Base."

"Miss Yuan, the Lü family invites you..." The people in the car then spoke up one after another.

Shi Jia blinked, then suddenly realized. Her adoptive father had remembered again? No, even if he did remember, shouldn't he be sending officials to find her?

"stop--"

The chattering and noise stopped instantly, and everyone turned to look at Shi Jia.

Shi Jia pointed to the greenhouse behind her, "See? I'm going to do it myself." She waved her hand, "Alright, I have to go now, goodbye."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and prepared to go back to the greenhouse.

"Wait, Miss Yuan, although it's a pity we couldn't invite you, could you sell us a share of the seeds for the vegetables and grains you cultivate in the future?" Lou Ming was much more polite now.

"Well, we can consider that later." Shi Jia glanced at everyone. "But I'm curious, why are you all so sure I can cultivate vegetable seeds?"

Although her adoptive father had witnessed her ability to accelerate lettuce seed growth, he didn't completely trust her. How could this servant be so certain?
Upon hearing this, everyone avoided Shi Jia's gaze.

Lou Ming thought for a moment and said, "You previously induced the growth of lettuce seeds at the cultivation base and also gave some seeds to Wang Baobao, a first-level planter."

"Wang Baobao?" Shi Jia raised an eyebrow. "She reported it to the breeding base?" She should have used her mental power to deliver it on time. She shouldn't have said it voluntarily.

However, with an additional seed available, it's possible to conduct a survey of the cultivation base.

Lou Ming shook his head and recounted Wang Baobao's story.

Upon hearing this, Shi Jia felt no guilt for Wang Baobao almost suffering imprisonment, but only sadness that Wang Baobao could not grow vegetables openly and honestly.

This apocalypse has deprived the children of China of even the freedom to grow their own vegetables.

"So you're so sure I can accelerate the growth of grain seeds? Aren't you afraid I'm just lucky?" Shi Jia said.

The representative of the Han Group laughed and said, "Miss Yuan, you underestimate yourself. In the nearly twenty years since the apocalypse, you are the first person to successfully cultivate vegetable seeds. This cannot be explained by mere coincidence."

“Yes, since you were able to cultivate it once, you can naturally cultivate it a second time,” said the representative of the Lü family.

"Besides, doesn't this greenhouse prove our suspicions?" someone added from behind. Shi Jia nodded in agreement; the analysis was excellent. Indeed, no one who had survived this long was stupid. But why did she feel a slight sense of regret?
Shouldn't there be some clowns who jump out to question things at this time, and then the protagonist shows his strength in front of everyone, slaps them in the face, and wins everyone's admiration?

Shi Jia smacked his lips, "Ahem!"

Everyone looked at her again.

"Thank you all for your trust. To be honest, I do have some experience in cultivating grain and vegetable seeds, but it's still in the experimental stage. If I cultivate more seeds in the future, I will definitely not forget you all," Shi Jia said with a smile. "It's getting late, so you should all go back first."

Upon hearing this, everyone prepared to say goodbye.

Then came another car horn sound. Shi Jia, who had just turned around, couldn't help but roll her eyes. Helplessly, she turned back to look and raised an eyebrow.

Seeing this, everyone quickly moved their cars to make way.

"Xiaxia, your greenhouse is quite well built." Yuan Lei got out of the car and curiously looked at the glass greenhouse.

"Xiaxia, it's been so long! You've become even more beautiful." Hao Ren was the second to get off the bus, and he looked at Shi Jia as if she were a precious gem.

"Uncle Hao," Shi Jia greeted him. Then she looked at Yuan Lei, "Dad, would you like to go in and have a look around?"

“Okay, let’s go visit Xiaxia’s agricultural base.” Yuan Lei gave Shi Jia an apologetic look.

Shi Jia smiled, not minding at all. "Uncle Hao, please."

Hao Ren nodded.

Shi Jia led a dozen or so officials from the base into the glass greenhouse. Lou Ming and the others, who had originally planned to leave, decided against it, but they didn't foolishly follow. Instead, they waited outside, trying to get firsthand information about Shi Jia.

"Wow, Xiaxia, did you plant these?" Yuan Lei's eyes were immediately drawn to the small vegetable patch as he entered.

“Yes, this is the vegetable garden I reserved,” Shi Jia said. “I’ll encourage some loofahs to grow later, and I’ll have Aunt Zhang make loofah soup for us tonight.”

"Great! Great! I haven't had loofah soup in over ten years!" Yuan Lei said happily.

The father and daughter were excitedly discussing tonight's dishes, while Hao Ren, the director of the breeding base, was pacing anxiously.

Taking advantage of the pause in their conversation, Hao Ren hurriedly asked, "Xiaxia, I heard you can induce the growth of seeds, is that true?"

Shi Jia nodded, "Yes, Uncle Hao should know from Wang Baobao, right? That's right, I'm the one who gave her those lettuce seeds."

"How did you do that?" Hao Ren continued to ask.

"Well, it's probably about using mental power to isolate the virus and prevent it from causing plant gene mutations that would make them lose their breeding ability," Shi Jia said succinctly.

"Mental power? Gene chain?" Hao Ren was completely confused. He knew both, since they also had to observe the genes of plants to study and cultivate superior varieties. Selecting excellent genes for inheritance has always been a method for cultivating superior seeds.

But how are these two things connected?
“Yes, Uncle Hao should know that the base is currently researching and developing devices that can control mental energy, right?” Shi Jia said.

"Hmm, but how can mental power isolate the virus? Can mental power see the virus?" Hao Ren didn't understand, but he could find the key point.

"Whether he can see it or not, Uncle Hao can observe it himself once he activates his spiritual power," Shi Jia said. She wasn't going to answer any questions now, otherwise she could foresee big trouble in the future.

However, Hao Ren was clearly not someone to be easily appeased. "Xiaxia, how about this, let's go to the breeding lab and use the most advanced virus detection equipment. Show me how you can induce the growth of vegetable seeds."

Shi Jia sighed, realizing that Uncle Hao didn't seem to understand human speech. She had already politely declined several times.

Fine, if the soft approach doesn't work, then let's try the hard one!