The Cannon Fodder in the Global Apocalypse Game lives a leisurely life
Chapter 47: An Agricultural Crisis

Chapter 47: An Agricultural Crisis

Some people in combat uniform were guarding the four corners and entrance of the greenhouse, and they were armed with guns.

When they saw the elderly, they dropped their guns and made their way for them.

"This is the base’s greenhouse. The management had tasked us old people and those with wood-based abilities to take care of the plants. Come inside. We’ll show the chumpets."

The grannies instantly pulled Siri inside a large building with beams and pillars made of thick wooden poles. The roof was made of something thin and transparent, which allowed him to see the sky clearly, and the rays of the glowing giant red star peered easily through the barrier, basking the plants with nutrients they needed.

When they went past the entrance, Siri immediately saw the patches of green vegetation growing in a row, extending toward the end. It was a mesmerizing sight that can make anyone conclude the plants were very healthy.

But despite the lush greenish color of the round leaves and the stems, Siri felt it didn’t have much vitality.

High Pantheon Elves were innately close to nature, and they were particularly extra sensitive toward wooden elements.

The wooden elements circulating in the greenhouse were extremely lacking.

The grannies carrying baskets dragged him towards the west side, where the batches of ripe chumpets were planted.

One of them sat down and pulled one chumpet carefully. After inspecting the condition of the root crop, the granny slightly frowned before speaking in a sad tone. "This batch is smaller than the previous. I hope we can reach the quota. Last week was a terrible harvest. We barely had left-overs for the community."

The other grandmothers heaved sighs of distress. If the harvest is bad, their share will be reduced. Chumpets initially had a harvest time of three weeks, but after the catastrophe, the time extended to one and a half months, which took a toll on them.

Other vegetables could barely survive, and only this particular vegetable was able to withstand the drastic change in the environment.

Siri’s instincts were spot-on.

Just from the conversation these people were having at the moment, the situation was not optimistic. The method of planting in their kingdom was very different. Because of the abundant wood element, the plants were thriving and gained additional miraculous properties even with the little care they took. It may not compare to the Main Game World, the Green Planet, but in the entire federation of planets, the soil quality was of the upper class.

Siri looked at the light-green skin root crop that was shaped like a trumpet and barely contained wooden elements before silently squatting and feeling the earth with his right palm, and when it came to contact with the soil, his brows creased.

Very thin wisps of wood energy and slowly receding towards somewhere else, as if there’s something eating these wooden elements away.

Siri wanted to prolong his investigation, but there was a loud crash, causing the grandparents to panic. They looked over sound and saw one of the beams broke, had fallen over, crushed some of the plants, and a large tear emerged on the plastic film attached to it.

The guards hurriedly entered the greenhouse and evacuated the people to check on the problem.

Outside, the grandmothers gathered and began talking, expressing their confusion over the matter.

Siri could hear the conversation because he was dragged into their circle.

"What just happened? Didn’t the repair team just inspect it yesterday and say there was no problem? How did it suddenly gave out?"

All the grandmothers didn’t know the answer except for Siri. He attributed the unfortunate event to his ’wonderful’ luck.

One of the guards told them to rest while they called the repair team to prevent injuries in case the other beams also became faulty.

The grannies complied, and some went back to the Outer District to return to their homes. While at it, they invited the newcomer Siri.

A flurry of images where the building crumbled down or asteroids suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the sky sprang to Siri’s mind, and the Elf vehemently refused.

I need to get out of here!

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Main Game World: Green Planet, 9:00 a.m.

[Countdown before Monsters Tide: 6 Days: 9 Hours: 4 Minutes: 45 Secs]

The croaking and boasting battle over which class is the most powerful momentarily halted because the players realized that without anyone reaching level 5 and changing classes and having matches with each other to determine the winner, it was pointless to argue.

Another thing to note was that the mechanics of the basic skills granted by the system might be different from their expectations or from the online games they knew.

Thus, the players reached a unanimous decision to continue this battle in the future.

A night of eliminating monsters brought a bit of a harvest to some lucky players with combatant natives, and teams, through pooling and redistributing resources among their group members, were able to build strategic territory buildings.

Unlike the demands of Li Chunhua’s special territory buildings, the required materials for a normal version were not costly since they were still the most basic structures.

However, the difference was very obvious; the territory may be less expensive, but the functions were not on par compared with Li Chunhua’s.

The players were not aware of this fact when they entered construction mode.

[Basic Hut Residence Blueprint

- Grade: Copper

- Capacity: 1-2 occupants

- Function: Resting inside for one hour can dispel fatigue and recover stamina.

- Necessary Materials: 5 units of wood, 5 units of dried vines, 20 copper coins]

[Basic Quarry/Mine Blueprint

- Grade: Copper

- Capacity: 3-5 workers

- Production per day (average production in parenthesis): 10 metal ingots (90%), 50 units of lime stones (10%), 20 units of other kinds of ores (10%),

- Necessary Materials: 10 units of wood, 10 units of stones, 100 copper coins]

[Basic Arrow Tower

-Grade: Copper

-Firing Range and Damage: can shoot arrows per interval of 2 seconds within 10 meters range and can cause 20 points of damage to unfriendly units

- Necessary Materials: 30 units of wood, 20 units of stones, 100 copper coins]

[Basic Farm (2x2 meters)

- Grade: Copper

- Production per harvest time and quality depend on the player’s capabilities.

- Necessary materials: 2 units of wood, 10 copper coins]

Not only the Hallow City’s greenhouse was having a problem in agriculture, but the players in the global chat who have non-existent knowledge of farming were also in a bind and began complaining and seeking help in the global chat.

[Brother Niu]: I’m finished. I thought it was like those farming games in QQ where you could harvest automatically after planting. My native only knows how to eat and doesn’t even want to touch dirt. If I screw this up and we can no longer find food, this guy might consider eating me.

This was also the sentiment of all the farming noobs who were crying besides the field they had just built.

The prompt ’Production per harvest time and quality depends on the player’s capabilities’ was making them very depressed.

The system was clearly hinting that if they didn’t do well, then the seeds would be wasted.

If they were unable to keep up with the monsters’ strength or unable to have a stable food source, only the fate of starving to death awaits them.

Amidst this crisis, a lot of suggestions popped up, and the depressed players didn’t know if they were meant to crack them up or if they were genuine.

For instance...

[Beef Noodles]: Just poke the soil with your finger and throw the seeds in, brother, and talk to your plants every minute with love, and it will grow into a fine and healthy young lady...I mean a vegetable.

Brother Beef, you’re not helping at all!

Amidst the crisis, some players took advantage to make profits. These self-proclaimed gurus of farming popped up like common mushrooms with their voodoo knowledge about agriculture.

One of these gurus was Player #8950, who was known by others as the one with natives specializing in farming, and due to this, he managed to accumulate a lot of customers with his post.

[#8950]: Five units of basic resources or food. Or one unit of uncommon items for a tutorial video from my native

Those players who were desperate instantly traded and each received a video.

The moment they played the video, they coughed out blood.

(꒪ཀ꒪) What is this nonsense?

(Little Baozi: Thank you so much for the gifts Daisiesmp, Chibi_Wolf38, littlestar27 and Chot_F \^o^/. Check comment section for reference images.)