After finishing the first al post-harvest, and the first proper rice al since arriving at the refuge, Chen Xin patted his bulging stomach, feeling genuinely satisfied.
Having a full stomach had beco a long-lost feeling since the apocalypse struck. After all, having food to eat and eating until your belly is full are two entirely different things.
The forr is considered semi-full, while the latter is eating until you’re stuffed. The difference in food consumption between the two is significant; the forr might be 0.8, and the latter reaches 1.5, enough to have another al.
So Chen Xin felt extrely satisfied and very blissful.
After eating and drinking his fill, Chen Xin didn’t turn on the ga console today. Instead, he planned to play so gas on his laptop before continuing to work on the dryer blueprints.
Using the laptop, he could start work right after gaming without having to turn off the TV or ga console, making things a bit more convenient.
However, after turning on the computer, Chen Xin inexplicably opened a refuge ga.
It was a simple pixelated side-scrolling ga. The main storyline was about a family building an underground refuge after a nuclear war to escape the apocalypse.
This ga was likely downloaded by Chen Xin a long ti ago because it was small and he never deleted it, leaving it on the desktop.
In this ga, players need to control a ga character to venture into urban wastelands to gather resources, expand their refuge, and ultimately collect parts to repair a car for escaping the apocalypse.
During the ga, characters would face various crises and difficulties, encountering enemies, excessive radiation, illness or hunger due to lack of water and food, and even psychological issues from committing acts like shooting people...
All these issues needed to be handled by the players to keep the refuge running and the characters alive until they fixed the car to escape the apocalypse.
But as Chen Xin played, he discovered a fundantal problem that made him want to laugh.
Because he himself was in the apocalypse, playing this ga gave him a vivid impression. So issues he encountered in the ga, while so he didn’t—but that was aside. However, the main character surviving solely by scavenging for food in the abandoned city was sothing Chen Xin couldn’t accept.
This might reflect the biggest difference between Eastern and Western civilizations. Westerners always think about looting resources to develop, while Easterners think more about farming.
For soone from the Fla Country, if they encounter an apocalypse, once the environnt stabilizes, they will find ans to plant sothing, even if it’s just a pot with tomatoes. Plant sothing they must.
This mindset difference also led to Chen Xin’s survival strategy differing vastly from the ga’s.
Of course, it might be because he had a system and perks, making farming feasible. If he was like other refuges without conditions for a greenhouse, he wouldn’t be able to farm either.
However, the mindset of wanting to farm is deeply ingrained; given the ans, people would still try to plant sothing.
In the view of the Fla Country people, relying on the sky, earth, or parents is nothing compared to relying on oneself.
Hoping to gather resources from abandoned cities, how’s that more stable than farming? Growing your own food lets you eat your own produce, and surplus can be traded with others. Isn’t this developnt model appealing?
Moreover, without taking the risk of venturing into city ruins to gather resources, doesn’t it greatly enhance safety?
If one could farm peacefully and have food, why risk life and limb battling others for a bit of food?
Of course, if truly without conditions, there’s no choice. But if conditions permit, Chen Xin believed no one would willingly risk life and limb for food rather than farm steadily.
Perhaps this highlights the difference in perspectives between the Fla Country and other countries. Western perspectives on the apocalypse resemble beasts in a dark forest, everyone cautious, hiding, wary of others, struggling to get a bite, and upon discovery, a vicious fight ensues— the defeated beco the victor’s prey.
But for people from the Fla Country, they prefer to cultivate and farm together, then build a ho, unite and strengthen to live better.
It’s because of such deep-rooted beliefs and sufficient conditions that Chen Xin took special care of his greenhouse, not only planting upland rice and vegetables to eat but also trading with Li Wensheng for aquaponics equipnt, planning to implent aquaponics in his greenhouse, raising fish to diversify his diet.
However, although Li Wensheng delivered the aquaponics equipnt, Chen Xin hadn’t started raising fish imdiately. One reason was the equipnt wasn’t installed, and Chen Xin had nowhere to raise fish. Another was Li Wensheng hadn’t delivered live fish.
These days, Chen Xin was occupied with harvesting rice, delaying the aquaponics equipnt installation.
Now that the rice was harvested and he had tasted the new rice cooked al, Chen Xin naturally rembered this matter.
For the aquaponics equipnt, Chen Xin initially planned to integrate it into the greenhouse, combining it with hydroponics, cultivating vegetables while raising fish simultaneously.
It’s not hard to achieve since aquaponics was designed for hydroponics; integrating the equipnt posed no conflict or unsuitability.
However, the aquaponics equipnt Li Wensheng delivered is quite small. According to him, it’s a small household set, designed for a 30-square-ter hydroponic area and a 3-cubic-ter aquaculture water body.
For a household’s consumption, this was sufficient for 3-5 people, but for Chen Xin’s greenhouse, one set doesn’t cover even a fifth of the area.
If Chen Xin wanted to convert the hydroponic system in his greenhouse to an aquaponics system, he’d need either multiple setups or use the current equipnt as upgrade materials to upgrade the entire greenhouse.
However, upgrading the greenhouse this ti would require three tis the previous survival points, and more crucially, Chen Xin lacked enough materials. The aquaponics equipnt alone would only reduce the survival points consumption by 10%.
Fortunately, his greenhouse’s hydroponic planting trays were separated, not an integrated large trough. He could first connect part of the trays to the aquaponics system.
After all, he only traded with Li Wensheng for ten live fish, so he wouldn’t need a large-scale aquaculture water body imdiately.
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