From Apocalypse Boss to Farmer: My Vegetables Make Me Stronger!-Chapter 31 - 29: Food is Heaven, and There’s No Shame in Farming

Chapter 31: Chapter 29: Food is Heaven, and There’s No Shame in Farming

After that meal of white rice, Gu Xi noticed that Wei Heng was a completely different person.

He was full of vigor and brimming with hope.

Looking at him, Gu Xi was suddenly reminded of the saying—to the people, food is heaven.

The two of them, having snuck out for a private meal in the middle of the night, slipped back home under the cover of darkness.

The next morning, Gu Xi discovered many strangers in the vicinity. Besides the construction crew, there were also armed patrol teams in the distance.

It seemed the base was taking the professors’ test field very seriously.

After breakfast, Gu Xi ambled over in that direction.

Along the way, she noted that more than half of the patrol members were ability users.

This was hardly the security detail for a typical research unit.

Mr. Zhao and Mr. Zhang were both very busy at the moment, discussing the test field with the head of the construction crew. They didn’t have time for Gu Xi and told her to go find Shen Yue first.

Gu Xi’s gaze fell on a certain someone not far away, who was walking over from his place carrying a pot of big sweet potatoes. "..."

Shen Yue was a truly interesting character.

He had bought half a truckload of sweet potatoes from Gu Xi in his team’s name, to serve as rations for himself and the two professors.

The money had already been transferred to Wei Heng’s account yesterday at noon.

Wei Heng had originally planned to just bring the sweet potatoes over to him—he had even sorted them and loaded up the truck—but Shen Yue refused, insisting on waiting until Wei Heng had cooked them at mealtimes before coming to get them himself.

You couldn’t say he was lazy. After all, steaming sweet potatoes didn’t take much effort or any special skill.

Besides, he wasn’t taking advantage of Wei Heng. Over the past two days, he’d even gone into the woods to gather and deliver a good amount of firewood. Occasionally, when Wei Heng was stir-frying dishes, he would even be there to lend a hand.

Gu Xi couldn’t quite figure the man out.

It wasn’t far to begin with. Carrying the pot of big sweet potatoes, Shen Yue strode over on his long legs and was in front of Gu Xi in an instant. "I just told you to wait for me, but you had to go ahead..."

Gu Xi glanced at the sweet potatoes in the pot without a word and slowly followed behind him.

After handing the sweet potatoes to the professors, Shen Yue glanced at Gu Xi.

One after the other, the two ambled over to a newly cleared plot of land on the other side of the hill.

"What is it?" Gu Xi looked at the man, puzzled. Nothing was planted in this field, so why had he brought her here?

Shen Yue stuffed the remaining half of the sweet potato in his hand directly into his mouth, then opened his personal terminal and said indistinctly, "I have something to show you."

With that, he turned the Light Screen to face Gu Xi.

After she finished reading, Gu Xi was silent for a long moment before looking up to ask him, "Why are you showing me this?"

She had just seen an almost identical file from Wei Heng last night.

And now, this man was presenting the same file to her...

’Is this a coincidence, or... a test?’

"Well, I was thinking about how you also came from the NX1984 ruin zone," Shen Yue said, glancing at her. It seemed like a casual remark. "I happened to see this data and thought you might be interested..."

Gu Xi was, in fact, very interested in this file. It contained records of every person who had appeared near the NX1984 ruin zone in the last three months.

It was very detailed.

But from this file alone, there was no information related to her origins.

However, Gu Xi did see a familiar name on it...

Gu Xi thought for a moment, then looked up at Shen Yue. "...You investigated me?"

Shen Yue’s attitude was frank, or perhaps... brazenly so.

He nodded. "Yes."

He paused, then added, "Your sweet potatoes... are very tempting."

Gu Xi fell silent. ’Alright, it’s all for survival. I can understand that.’

’It’s just...’

"How many... of you are there?" Gu Xi asked.

Shen Yue looked up, the lazy expression on his face gradually fading. "A lot."

There were still over a hundred thousand brothers at the front, fighting on the front lines to reclaim lost territory for humanity, all while starving every day.

So, after eating the sweet potatoes Gu Xi grew, it was hard for Shen Yue not to turn his attention to her.

Because the combat units at the front had it far too difficult.

Not only did they have to venture deep into the wilderness every day to clear out extremely dangerous mutated animals, but the food standards allocated by logistics were less than half of what the brothers needed to eat.

This wasn’t just because of food shortages, but also because of the strange X Energy contained in the food.

The soldiers expended a great deal of energy, so they ate a lot. The more they ate, the more X Energy entered their bodies through the food chain. But once their X Energy intake exceeded the limit, the entire army of soldiers could potentially devolve into those mindless monsters.

The consequences would be unimaginable!

Therefore, until the military could find an effective solution to this problem, they could only control the soldiers’ daily food intake to reduce their X Energy consumption.

It was the crudest method.

It was real, and it was cruel.

Gu Xi was also reminded of her old comrades-in-arms.

Strictly speaking, her former Doomsday Squad hadn’t belonged to the military, but rather to the base and the Abnormal Ability Research Institute.

But back then, Gu Xi’s squad had collaborated with the military on many occasions.

Gu Xi held a deep admiration for those respectable and endearing fine young men.

After a moment of silence, she looked up and asked Shen Yue, "What do you... want me to do?"

The corners of Shen Yue’s lips curled up slightly, his eyes once again holding that lazy look. "Farming is just fine. Of course, if you want to do something else..." ’...that’s not off the table either.’

"No." Gu Xi shook her head slowly. "I just like farming."

Food is heaven to the people; there’s no shame in farming.

"In that case... to a happy partnership?" Shen Yue smiled and extended a hand toward her. Then, as a show of good faith, he sent a top-secret file to Gu Xi’s personal terminal.

’This girl will like this,’ he thought.

Sure enough, Gu Xi was very satisfied with Shen Yue’s show of good faith after receiving it. She shook his hand. "To a happy partnership."

With this tacit understanding with the military, even if her identity really did set off alarms one day, it would be others who would have to be wary, not her.

This wasn’t just because she was powerful and confident, but also because Gu Xi had understood a certain principle since she was young:

—The greater the value you demonstrate, the less others will dare to touch you.

Back when she was still young and naive, there had been no shortage of fanatical researchers who wanted to imprison her in a lab for dissection and study. But when her ability grew to a certain level of power and she displayed astonishing combat strength, the entire base stood on her side.

Besides, although she no longer wanted to live that life of constant fighting, Gu Xi was more than willing to do something for this country and for those kind and admirable people.

After settling the terms of her cooperation with Shen Yue, Gu Xi was in a very cheerful mood.

But that cheerfulness only lasted until noon that day.

Because after lunch, the two professors’ hellish lectures began again.

...

Gu Xi went to "work" for the two professors (i.e., attend class), while the Qin Family sisters and Wei Heng, who had originally wanted to work for her, were left with nothing to do.

One morning, on a whim, Qin Yi offered to accompany Gu Xi to her "job" (class).

Wei Heng also showed some interest. Mainly, the two of them had been too idle these past few days, so idle that they were starting to panic.

"Sure," Gu Xi agreed with a nod.

Before they left, she gave the two of them a deep, meaningful look.

At that moment, Wei Heng and Qin Yi still hadn’t noticed that anything was amiss. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

But after finishing the morning’s class, the two of them rushed out of the classroom, their faces deathly pale. They didn’t forget to look back at Gu Xi with a horrified expression.

Gu Xi expressionlessly closed her personal terminal and asked them with a wooden face, "Are you... coming back this afternoon?"

"No, no way." Like frightened little animals, Wei Heng and Qin Yi frantically shook their heads in unison.

Recalling the terrifying scene of being relentlessly questioned by the two "devil professors" in class, Wei Heng couldn’t help but ask Gu Xi with a look of awe, "Gu Xiaoxi, is this how you’ve been ’working’ for the professors all this time?"

Gu Xi looked at him, her expression unchanging. "...What did you expect?"

Wei Heng and Qin Yi shivered in unison. ’That was terrifying!’

The two slackers looked at each other, still shaken. In each other’s dazed eyes, they both saw the exact same thought:

’Working for the professors is terrifying beyond belief!’