So, the plan was made, and everyone decided to defend against the mutated dogs below the city walls, while Shen Feng would lead the team responsible for cutting off the mutated dogs' retreat. As for blocking the roads, Chang Jianyi was in charge. Everyone was curious how Chang Jianyi would manage to block these intersections. If she couldn't block them, wouldn't the mutated dogs escape?
Shen Feng looked at Guo Pinming and said, "Tomorrow, I need you to spend the entire day teaching the subordinates how to shoot. Is that okay? I'll approve some ammunition for you to practice target shooting. If anyone doesn't know how to shoot by then, I'll hold you personally responsible."
Guo Pinming nodded and said, "No problem, I will definitely train these soldiers well."
Since the meeting had decided how to deal with the mutated dogs, everyone returned to prepare the battlefield for tomorrow according to the plan.
Chang Jianyi hugged Shen Feng's arm and smiled, "Let's go home quickly. Tonight, we can eat fresh vegetables."
For the people of Luzhou, the most lacking thing at the moment was not food or meat, but vegetables! It was already late autumn, and they could still squeeze in another planting, but it would take a long time for the vegetables to grow, so everyone would not be able to get a supplement of vegetables for a while. However, it was different for Chang Jianyi after she gained her abilities. Her ability was to accelerate plant growth, and now was the perfect time to plant vegetables.
Yu Renshu walked over shamelessly and said, "I want to eat vegetables too. Can I come over for a meal?"
"No! Goodbye!" Chang Jianyi completely ignored Yu Renshu and then, hand in arm with Shen Feng, drove home. She had also heard from the young women in the office about what had happened while she was asleep. It seemed that Shen Feng and Yu Renshu were always alone together, and they were laughing and talking.
Chang Jianyi said nothing about this, but she became vigilant in private. She absolutely could not create opportunities for Shen Feng and Yu Renshu to be together. Although Chang Jianyi believed Shen Feng to be a devoted person, Yu Renshu was so beautiful. If Shen Feng couldn't control himself one day and made the mistake that all men make, wouldn't she suffer? Therefore, Chang Jianyi became very watchful of Yu Renshu.
After returning home, the vines and leaves in the house had already been cleared away. Chang Jianyi had learned her lesson. She would never use her abilities at home again, otherwise, the house would definitely be surrounded by vegetation. Chang Jianyi found a clear space nearby, removed the weeds, planted the vegetable seeds in the ground, and then began to water them before using her abilities.
Chang Haojie squatted nearby and watched. He had never seen his sister plant vegetables before and found it very novel. He had actually grown up in the city and had never had the chance to see farmers working the land. The only knowledge he had about farming was what his teacher had told him in school.
After finishing watering, Chang Jianyi reached out towards the clearing. As soon as she started using her abilities, she saw many seedlings growing in the ground. Then, the vegetable seedlings continued to grow at a visible speed. However, at the same time, much of the water that had just been poured was absorbed, and the moist soil became dry almost instantly.
"Xiao Jie, hurry up and water it," Chang Jianyi said urgently to her brother beside her.
Hearing this, Chang Haojie quickly picked up the watering can and began to water the vegetables in the ground. In just a minute, the vegetables had grown. Chang Jianyi planted cabbage, tomatoes, and eggplants. As for the seeds, they were all found in the market. These seeds had now been collected, and Chang Jianyi casually took a few packets home, and it turned out that planting vegetables with them was indeed successful.
In just one minute, the vegetables had matured. Such rapid growth stunned Chang Haojie, who muttered, "I wish I had superpowers too."
Chang Jianyi looked at the vegetables in the ground, seemingly having planted too many. She then said to the guards waiting outside the door, "When you go home later, take some vegetables with you. If you have children at home, give them some nutrition."
The two guards nodded gratefully. Vegetables were extremely difficult to obtain at the moment, as the places where vegetables were grown were outside the city. After more than a month without management, the vegetables in the garden had all grown old. The cabbages had already flowered and seeded, and some had rotted in the ground due to the rain. Therefore, being able to eat fresh vegetables now was an extremely fortunate event.
Many people in the city had already dug up the plants in the green belts, and many chose to plant vegetables in the green belts, even putting up signs to claim their territory. The City Lord's Mansion did not bother with these trivial matters. It was just planting vegetables, so let them plant if they wanted to, as long as they didn't cause trouble.
Chang Jianyi also discovered that when she accelerated plant growth, she could not choose which plants to accelerate. Thus, not only did the vegetables grow taller, but the weeds also grew, and they tended to become even more lush. Chang Jianyi understood the feeling of Tao Yuanming when he was farming. "Planting beans at the foot of Mount Nan, weeds flourish and seedlings are sparse," it was just like this now.
Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi, along with their family of three, began to have hot pot in the villa. Chang Haojie disliked preserved meat or cured sausage and ate only vegetables. He had been eating preserved meat and cured sausage for a month, and now that he could finally eat fresh vegetables, he was overjoyed.
This, however, made Chang Jianyi a little unhappy. She said, "No picky eating! How can you just eat vegetables and not eat more meat?"
Shen Feng said helplessly, "There's nothing we can do about it. Children don't like preserved meat, and there's no fresh meat to be found now, unless it's mutated rat meat from the city. But that stuff might not be clean, so it's best not to eat it!"
Chang Haojie interjected, "Brother-in-law, you don't know, but many people in the city are catching rats to eat now. It's said that eating the meat can make you an evolver. Besides, rats are so big. Once you catch one, it's enough for a family to eat for two meals. My little friend told me."
Shen Feng said helplessly, "Eating the meat of mutated beasts can indeed make you an evolver. These people will do anything to become stronger."
Chang Jianyi said to Chang Haojie, "You are not allowed to eat rat meat, understand? This stuff is not clean. Do you know about the four pests? If you want to become an evolver, wait a couple of years until you're older, and I'll give you evolutionary medicine. Don't envy others. Eating rat meat can easily make you sick!"
Chang Haojie nodded and continued to eat vegetables, saying as he ate, "I don't envy others. It's always others who envy me. They all say I can have whatever I want."
Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi exchanged a glance and shook their heads helplessly. The truth was indeed so. After all, Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi were the top managers of Luzhou. As their younger brother, Chang Haojie naturally had whatever he wanted. And now, it was a time of chaos. Schools and everything else were gone. Children generally played on the streets. They didn't have to go to school and were happy all day long. However, not being able to go to school for a long time also made many children unhappy.
Shen Feng was also considering whether to set up a school at some point and send these children who played outside all day to school. But what was the use of going to school? There was no longer the college entrance examination, nor the need to rely on civil service exams or public institution exams. Even if children went to school, they still wouldn't know what the future held.
However, Shen Feng still thought of a reason for children to go to school: if children went to school, it would liberate the parents' labor, so that parents would not have to stay by their children's side to take care of them at all times. Moreover, children who went to school would always learn something. If these children grew up ten years later and were all illiterate, then Luzhou would have no future! Although Shen Feng felt that the war between humans and zombies would be decided within three to four years, one always had to prepare for the worst. Education could not wait until after three or four years.
One night passed, and the sixty-year-old elderly people couldn't sleep. They all got up and went out to check the vegetable gardens. They were old, but at this age, they had encountered the era of zombie outbreaks. The only thing they could do was actually plant vegetables in the green belts, hoping to improve their family's diet.
It was just dawn at this time, and cars were driving one after another on the street. The people in the cars were construction workers who needed to hurry to repair the city walls. At least they had to build a one-meter-high wall from a twenty to thirty-centimeter-thick base, because there would be a battle in a few days.
An old man with a white beard watched the continuous stream of cars and shook his head helplessly, saying, "There's going to be war again! There's going to be war again!"
There were only a few hundred elderly people over sixty years old in Luzhou. It wasn't that Shen Feng didn't accept the elderly, but that the elderly had low immunity and often couldn't resist the zombie virus. Therefore, a large number of elderly people had turned into zombies. It was already quite good to have a few hundred elderly people now.
Many elderly people were silently watching the cars speeding by. Some of their children were wall repairmen, and some were soldiers about to go to battle. They were all worried about their children's safety. In this chaotic world, if their children had an accident, wouldn't they lose another loved one?
Zhou Xiaoxiao urged the construction workers to work quickly. The city wall was three meters thick, with brick and stone on both sides and filled with various construction waste in the middle. Once the filling was almost complete, cement would be poured into these gaps, and the city wall would be built. This construction speed was still quite fast. It was a bit unsightly, but it was much better than having no city wall. They couldn't tile the city wall after it was completed, could they?
Now, the buildings on the outskirts of the city were no longer necessary. Not only did they block the view of the distance, but they also occupied space. It was better to demolish these buildings and let the bricks and stones play their original role. Zhou Xiaoxiao's plan was to demolish all the buildings outside the city. This way, they would have building materials, and the surrounding view would also be broadened.
At this time, Chang Jianyi led more than a hundred people in cars to the outskirts of the city. Chang Jianyi planned to block all the surrounding road intersections, making them difficult to pass. She directed everyone to dig up the road surface and plant the saplings brought from the cars at the intersections. These saplings were willows, many of which were dug up from the green belts in the city. Since the street trees would eventually be cut down to plant vegetables in the city, it was better to make good use of them outside the city.
As the workers worked, they watched from afar as people outside the city planted trees. When they heard that they were preparing to block the mutated dogs, they couldn't help but laugh. They thought, "These trees can't even stop me, and they want to stop dogs? It seems the City Lord's wife has gone mad to have such an idea."
The workers were secretly laughing in their hearts, but after the street trees were planted, Chang Jianyi walked to the center and began to use her abilities with all her might. Instantly, the surrounding plants began to grow wildly. Weeds even grew from under the bricks and stones of the sidewalk. As for the street trees that had just been planted, they grew extremely quickly. It was autumn now, and most of the leaves had already fallen. However, at this moment, these trees were constantly sprouting new branches and growing new leaves. In a short time, the street trees had become lush and leafy.
Chang Jianyi shouted to the people around her, "Hurry up and water them!"
Only then did everyone realize that Chang Jianyi and her group had brought sprinkler trucks, and there were more than a dozen sprinkler trucks. Everyone quickly began to water the trees, and the growth of the trees was incredibly rapid. These plants continued to grow upwards, but most of the trees had actually been topped. Therefore, these trees could only spread outwards. Thus, it usually only took four or five street trees to block an intersection. It was simply impossible to pass through the street trees.
When everyone present witnessed this ability, almost no one dared to underestimate Chang Jianyi anymore. They had originally thought that Chang Jianyi could do nothing but command others, but now Chang Jianyi had proven with her strength that she was also very powerful. In just half a day, she could make trees grow to a diameter of four to five meters. Apart from needing to be watered, she hardly had to do anything else. This ability could be said to be the most envied ability by lumberjacks.
Shen Feng watched this scene from afar and couldn't help but laugh. He thought, "Brother Xiong would definitely like Sister's ability. If he could make plants grow, he wouldn't have to fight with the two bears."
Then, Shen Feng turned his head to look at the stadium within the city. This place had been requisitioned by the soldiers and was now used as a shooting range. Gunshots could faintly be heard from the direction of the shooting range. The soldiers were practicing shooting there.
Chang Jianyi looked at the intersections that were tightly blocked by trees, and a smile appeared on her face, but the smile was a little pale. In fact, Chang Jianyi had almost exhausted her strength this time. She could still stand only by sheer willpower. She had deliberately done this because she needed to show through her actions that she was also an evolver!
Of course, Chang Jianyi's goal was achieved. At this moment, no one dared to underestimate her. Although this ability had very weak combat utility, it was still stronger than an evolver who had no abilities at all. She returned to her sports car and sat down, eating bread. The people around could only look at her with envy. Everyone was guessing how the City Lord's wife had obtained her abilities. Clearly, she had seemed to have no abilities at all before.