Scientific Travel

Even as she lay in bed, Deng Yin was still thinking about Mei Shengke. She held the three coins in her hand, looked at them for a long time, and then put them into the jade bracelet.

The jade bracelet was of excellent quality, clearly beyond her means. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Deng Yin put everything inside the jade bracelet into the system's space for easy access, and also put the jade bracelet into the space.

Now there are only those three silver coins inside the jade bracelet.

The space is 600 square meters in total. 200 square meters are for animals, 100 square meters is for a river, 50 square meters is for a water pit, and the remaining 250 square meters are for supplies.

I've bought so much stuff in the last two weeks that there's no room left.

I still need to put something inside the jade bracelet.

Considering that it would be inconvenient to take out the items placed inside the jade bracelet, Deng Yin put the items that he didn't use often or that he wanted to take back into the jade bracelet.

Canned goods, canned food scraps, Shuhu Lake, and other fun and local specialties were all put into the jade bracelet.

After tidying up the system space, it was much emptier. Deng Yin didn't plan to use the 100-square-meter space for stockpiling goods, but rather for farming.

Anyway, there's no natural disaster here, let's wait until the space expands in the future.

Deng Yin had never learned land reclamation. "Master, can your space automatically reclaim land, water it, plant crops, harvest crops, and even shovel manure?"

No sound.

"all?"

After a long while, the system's voice finally came: "I think what you did was wrong."

Although the system didn't explicitly state what it was about, Deng Yin understood. "What's wrong?"

The system's voice was serious, and it said, word by word, "No matter what, personal attacks are wrong. Appearance is something you are born with and cannot change, so you cannot use someone's flaws as a weapon to attack them."

Deng Yin's voice turned cold. "Your system is really kind to have such high moral standards for someone who robs and slanders others."

The system sensed her sarcasm but remained steadfast in its opinion. "His mistake is his problem. Is it right to use one mistake to solve another?"

Deng Yin sneered. "So even if someone puts a knife to my throat, I can't fight back, because in your eyes, resistance is wrong."

System: "That's not what I meant. There are many ways to resist. Why do you have to choose the wrong one?"

"Heh." Deng Yin's expression was mocking. "I was never a good person to begin with, so everything I did was wrong in your eyes. If you can't stand it, you can unbind yourself from me and find another host."

The system was surprised by Deng Yin's response. "I don't want to argue with you. Calm down first."

This remark stepped on Deng Yin's landmine: "Playing dead when you can't win an argument? You coward!"

After cursing for a long time without the system responding, Deng Yin got tired of cursing and turned his grief and anger into motivation, preparing to start building the basement.

When you're busy, you don't have time to be angry.

The basement was built under the bed in the main house. It couldn't be dug too deep, otherwise there would be no air. Although Deng Yin had an oxygen tank with enough oxygen for her to breathe for twenty years, it was a disposable device, and she would have to use it again when she got home.

The basement is small, only 100 square meters.

If there wasn't only 100 square meters of space left, which couldn't hold that much soil, Deng Yin could have built an even bigger one.

The basement walls are made of tin can slabs; don't be fooled by how thin they are, they're much sturdier than walls.

The space has all the furniture you need; just pick any set and you're good to go.

To be honest, it's quite ugly.

Pieces of tin can were glued together very firmly. This glue is usually used to glue spaceships. If Deng Yin hadn't had connections, he really wouldn't have been able to buy it.

One side of the canned food box has a pattern, and the other side is pure silver. To protect the eyes, the side that Deng Yin showed was pure silver.

Silver walls paired with wooden furniture—it's awful.

Deng Yin glanced at it and hurried upstairs.

There was still a lot of soil in the space, so Deng Yin found a riverbank and scattered the soil along the riverbank.

Occasionally, I would see fish swimming in the river, and on a whim, the fish would appear in a puddle in the space.

Until all the soil was covered, there were at least a hundred fish in the puddle.

Originally, Deng Yin only collected large fish, but considering that fish also need to eat, he also collected a lot of small fish.

The puddle was three meters deep and crystal clear. Deng Yin picked up a lot of pretty stones and threw them in.

I heard that people used to create aquascapes when raising fish, and she wanted to do the same with her fish.

After finishing these busy days, it was already dark. Deng Yin simply lit a campfire on the spot. He had all the seasonings and grilled two fish to eat.

"Ding, system upgrade completed."

Faced with the sudden sound, Deng Yin didn't say anything and continued with what he was doing.

As soon as the system finished speaking, the sound of the flames leaping and crackling diminished, and was replaced by the sound of raindrops.

No, we haven't finished catching the fish yet.

There was no time to save the grilled fish, so Deng Yin took out the Rain Wall from his spatial storage.

A rain wall can isolate liquids with a radius of one meter centered on itself.

Deng Yin opened the rain wall and walked into the river. Everyone says that there are many fish when it rains, so he took advantage of the rain to fill the puddles.

That makes some sense; in the same amount of time, you caught at least three times as many fish as before.

After catching the fish, Deng Yin didn't linger and quickly headed home.

The rain wall provides 360° protection without any blind spots, and not a single drop of rainwater got on my shoes until I got home.

Deng Yin covered himself with a down comforter, opened the window, and fell asleep to the sound of rain.

The down comforter was brought by her using her bracelet. Her house was small and couldn't hold too many things, so all the out-of-season clothes and comforters had to be stored away in the living space.

It's convenient now, though.

Have a good night's sleep.

When Deng Yin woke up, the rain had stopped, and he had a simple breakfast.

The system suddenly announced, "The next task is to plant 3000 jin of cotton."

Deng Yin's expression remained unchanged, and he said coldly, "Understood."

When the system mentioned planting, Deng Yincai remembered that he still had questions he hadn't asked.

No matter how much we argue, there's no need to make things harder for ourselves. "System, can your space automatically cultivate, water, plant, harvest, and even shovel manure?"

"Of course it can." The system's voice carried a hint of barely perceptible pride. It had checked, and the systems in Deng Yin's world novels did not possess these abilities.

"My space is completely controlled by my brain. Except for time, which I cannot control, everything else is what I think of."

Deng Yin nodded, then suddenly realized something. "Wouldn't I be at a loss? I could easily create invisible walls for categorization; there's no need to buy so many shelves."

"That's what it means."

"No!" Deng Yin couldn't accept buying something completely useless for a small amount of money, rather than spending his own money on expensive things.

No, I need to make money quickly.

Before making money, finish this task first.

Fortunately, cotton seeds were among the question mark products that Deng Yin had bought earlier.

Deng Yin had never farmed before, but he knew that each cotton seed should not be planted too close together.

You'll have to ask the system about this. "System, do you know how to plant these cotton seeds? I only have 100 square meters of land, is that enough?"

"70 centimeters between rows and 20 centimeters between plants. Excluding dead plants, 50 square meters is enough." The system replied very positively, indicating that Deng Yin had calmed down and was no longer angry.

Deng Yin didn't calculate it. Since the system said it was enough, it must be enough. Such a big system couldn't possibly be unable to do arithmetic.

Deng Yin: "How long does it take for cotton to mature?"

System: "It will take one and a half months inside the space, and four months outside."

Time in this space is magical. The flow rate is clearly faster than outside, yet relative to this space, everything outside is still.

She once went into the space to look at the fish while cooking, for about half an hour, but when she came out, the food was still the same, and the water hadn't even boiled.

Following the system's instructions, Deng Yin reclaimed and planted the land step by step. It wasn't tiring, but he found it very troublesome.

It would be great if the space could do all these tasks by itself.

The cotton has already been planted, so there's no need to worry about watering. The vegetable garden isn't square, but rectangular, and it's planted along the riverbank.

Deng Yin discovered this while digging: the soil was very loose, and since the vegetable garden was so close to the river, the water would definitely seep through, so there was no need for artificial watering.

The biggest problem now is making money.