Chapter 21 is still just routine.
The ritualistic aspect of soaking in a hot spring comes from the food and red wine.
While Lu An went to change into her swimsuit, Yu Miaomiao found out the desserts, cakes, and burgundy, and also found a few simple European-style dessert plates, which she arranged in a pretentious manner.
I poured the red wine into a decanter and found two crystal wine glasses. It was a rare moment of peace, a time to sip but not to get drunk.
In the face of natural disasters, being out of one's mind is very dangerous; the consequence of indulgence could be total annihilation.
Bring the three little ones into the space so they can run around freely. After the disaster, we can no longer take the dog out for walks. Cats don't need to go outside much. The only change before and after the disaster is that it gets colder, but it's different for dogs.
For the first few days, I didn't take it out for a walk. It just whimpered pitifully, but I could bear it. But as I kept enduring it, I realized it was deliberately bullying me!
It's been half a month, and I still haven't taken the dog out. The dog has tried countless times to signal to its owner to go out, morning, noon, and night, but it's been ignored and its attention has been diverted. It no longer wants to be friends with its owner.
So now we let them play in the space, but of course we close all the doors to the resource areas, mainly to prevent them from going crazy and destroying the house without a care.
At first, the cats were curious, looking left and right. But after a while, entering the space felt like entering another home, and they lost interest. They would find a spot close to Yu Miaomiao, curl up, and take a nap.
After all, cats need to sleep 16 hours a day.
Every time the dog enters the space, it's like a new adventure, starting a crazy parkour mode.
German Shepherds need 3-4 hours of exercise every day. After drinking spring water, Ma Jiang's exercise needs doubled, so Yu Miaomiao would take the dog to play in the space whenever she had free time.
The cow in the space was well taken care of by the dog, and Yu Miaomiao was happy to relax and enjoy herself. She would occasionally put the dog in the space, and while she was being lazy, she still won the dog's favor.
This has directly led to Lu An recently discovering that even the dog has become somewhat rebellious, constantly trying to act cute in front of Yu Miaomiao.
As they played among the creatures in the space, the two of them soaked in the hot spring pool, where the rising warmth was enough to make them temporarily forget the troubles of the apocalypse.
Feeling so relaxed, Yu Miaomiao scooped cake into her mouth with a small spoon, then took a few eggs and soaked them in the hot spring. She set up her tablet by the hot spring pool, found "My Own Swordsman," and watched it while eating. She even clinked glasses with Lu An and had a couple of sips, laughing heartily.
Lu An also leaned comfortably in the hot spring pool. She didn't like watching dramas, so she asked Yu Miaomiao to bring her an e-book. She had recently become fascinated with studying farming.
There happened to be a planting area in the space, so she studied the theoretical knowledge and pulled Yu Miaomiao along to plant the first batch of vegetable seeds.
Vegetables such as greens, scallions, and cilantro can be grown by spraying water onto the soil surface to keep it moist. Sow three seeds in each hole, spaced five centimeters apart. They will generally germinate in four days, but at most a week.
However, two days after planting in the space, when Yu Miaomiao sprayed water with the watering can again, she saw that the sprouts had already begun to emerge. Perhaps it wouldn't be long before she could harvest the first batch. The space was not affected by the outside weather, and the temperature was suitable. The current observation results showed that the vegetables sprouted in about half the time it was written in the book.
After harvesting the first batch of vegetables, they plan to plant other varieties of vegetables and fruits, documenting the entire process from germination to harvest to lay the foundation for the next planting.
Without rebirth and a new dimension, the two would probably be meeting in the underworld right now.
Thanks to this miraculous situation, they now have no worries about food and clothing, can enjoy hot springs—an extremely luxurious activity in the post-apocalyptic world—and can also experience the joy of planting.
After the water was cut off, most people had a hard time even getting enough drinking water, and taking a bath was a luxury. Yu Miaomiao and Lu An were now taking baths in the open space to avoid the sound of running water attracting the attention of the people downstairs.
After soaking in the hot spring, Mei Mei went back to her room and fell asleep immediately. The hot spring was so effective at helping her sleep that Lu An overslept the next day, and the two of them didn't wake up naturally until almost noon.
Hedonism makes people lazy, but it's really fun.
For several days in a row, Lu An declined Yu Miaomiao's invitation to the hot springs, focusing instead on studying her culinary skills and planting business.
Aside from exercising, Yu Miaomiao did nothing for two or three days. Then she decided to pull herself together and took out her professional books to review clinical pharmacology, respiratory medicine, and surgical knowledge.
A year later, a global earthquake will cause a supervolcano to erupt, triggering volcanic ash smog that will shroud the Earth in smog for six months. The smog will cause the sun to lose its light and emit a ghostly glow like the moon.
Respiratory diseases spread rapidly, causing the deaths of many survivors at the base. However, the base's research institute spent more than three months developing a filtration device and a special medicine.
In her previous life, although she did not participate, she understood the hardships of the process and knew that the formula required certain mutated herbal plants. Now that she has a second chance, she wants to do everything in her power to accelerate the development of the special medicine.
The apocalypse has just begun; mutated plants and animals have not yet been exposed to people's sight, but it will be soon.
The snowstorm outside has intensified in the past few days, and the weather has deteriorated rapidly. People no longer dare to go out rashly, and they are guarding their remaining supplies, barely surviving by enduring hunger.
Zhang Fengqiang and his gang couldn't contain themselves any longer. The days without food and water were too unbearable. He took a fire axe and went from house to house, robbing them of their supplies. Most families had only a few grains left, and he had looted them all.
Liu Pei and his family lived in the elevator lobby, which left them with no means of defense. They had no choice but to hand over their supplies, as saving their family's lives was more important than anything else.
Liu Yao wrote all these things down to Yu Miaomiao as if she were writing a letter. Her childish handwriting was mixed with a lot of pinyin and typos, but the little girl's logic was very rigorous, and reading the letter was not difficult.
The little girl was happy to share with Yu Miaomiao, and Yu Miaomiao was happy to receive her letters. When replying, she would also correct the little girl's typos and pinyin. Over time, the little girl's address to Yu Miaomiao changed from "sister" to "teacher Yu".
No matter how difficult things were for Liu Pei and his group, they never asked Yu Miaomiao for help, and she was quite satisfied with her tent neighbors in this respect. Therefore, she was happy to be Liu Yao's pen pal or teacher, and at the same time, she could keep track of some of the happenings in the building.
Before the apocalypse, Liu Pei and He Xin were both financial professionals. Despite their busy work schedules, they didn't neglect their children's education and interest cultivation. Whenever they had free time, they would often go on family trips. Their children loved camping, so they would go camping frequently. They had a lot of camping gear at home, and in their spare time, they would often learn about wilderness survival with their daughter. Little did they know that these skills would save their lives in the apocalypse.
The already difficult end times became even more arduous and impoverished due to the plundering and extortion by Zhang Fengqiang and his associates.
People started dying inside the building, not from natural disasters, but from man-made ones.