59: Chapter 59 Preparing to Slay the Monster

The construction progress of the Outpost Camp was very fast. Once the walls were built, some of the personnel who originally built the walls could be freed up to do other things.

Most of these people were put in charge of Qu Ling and his group, numbering around sixty or seventy, both men and women. They all entered the Vine Town stronghold and were responsible for reclaiming the farmland behind the stronghold.

The location of the farmland reclamation was actually about 400 meters away from the Vine Town stronghold, right where the town entered the suburbs.

They reclaimed farmland on both sides of the road, where the land was relatively flat and had fewer debris, so the progress was not slow.

The reclamation team first burned all the weeds on the wasteland with a fire, then used hoes and crude plows to turn up the deep soil, picked out gravel and debris, and then crushed the soil clods to form a cultivated soil layer.

If they wanted to nourish this soil well, conventional methods would still require composting the soil layer with fertilizer and waiting for a period of time.

Fortunately, Ren Chuan asked Scarecrow Town for a batch of Rot Soil Hound sludge, which was directly turned into the soil. Repeating this several times, they managed to reclaim the land into a patch of farmland with decent fertility.

Not long ago, the reclamation team split up some personnel to plant wheat on the farmland that had already been reclaimed.

Wang Ting had promised Fan Da that he would build the third farm in Vine Town.

This was both a promise to Fan Da and a consideration of his own.

The Outpost Camp was bound to become independent. Right now, most of their material supplies relied on Scarecrow Town. Although there was no shortage for the time being, this was not a long-term solution.

Food and ammunition were the lifeline of survival. No matter what purpose he considered, Wang Ting had to keep them in his own hands. Reclaiming farmland right now was the first step. Only by tightly grasping food production in his own hands could he ensure safety.

Moreover, Wang Ting had also mastered traits such as Primary Plant Control and Plant Growth. For constructing farmland, it had a hundred benefits without a single harm, and perhaps it could play a miraculous effect.

Led by Qu Ling, Wang Ting came to the farm under reclamation.

The reclamation team was still working enthusiastically, each holding hoes and shovels, turning the soil further away. Seventeen or eight men were carrying logs, driving logs with burned skins into the ground, preparing to build a fence.

Their goal was to reclaim at least about 300 mu of farmland around the stronghold.

A reclamation team of sixty or seventy people could reclaim more farmland, but under the constraints of the growth rate of the Floor World vines in Vine Town, attacks from Parasitic Fungus Vines, and water diversion conditions, they could not take care of more farmland in the short term.

They could only build one place well, protect one place, and then slowly reclaim outward.

Wang Ting walked to the side of the road, and the farmland came into view. Large areas of land had been turned over, the soil layer was crushed into fine pieces, and a layer of black sludge was mixed in the soil, already giving a sense of humus.

"It really is thanks to the sludge from the Rot Soil Hounds; otherwise, with just this reclaimed soil, we would have to work it repeatedly for ten days or half a month."

"Have the wheat from the Shelter been planted?"

"They have been planted."

Qu Ling nodded, pointing to the green sprouts in the farmland.

"The light here is not as good as Scarecrow Town, and the temperature is actually a bit worse. But fortunately, there are usually no seasonal changes in the Floor World, so it can barely be grown well. The wheat has all sprouted, but I don't know how much the yield will be."

The wheat had been sown for some time, and only sprouted at this time. However, the sprout tips were tiny. If one didn't look closely, they were probably even more inconspicuous than weeds.

Wang Ting felt the vitality gestating within these wheat plants. The vitality was not vigorous. Even with the wheat seeds obtained from the Scarecrow Farm floor, coming to this region was still a bit lacking after all.

However, when Wang Ting approached, the trait of Plant Growth began to play a role.

The wheat, which was originally just growing normally, seemed to have become more vigorous in vitality at this moment. Although their growth rate could not be seen with the naked eye, if this momentum continued, they would naturally grow rapidly.

Wang Ting came to the middle of the paddy field. Under Qu Ling's strange gaze, Wang Ting began to display his Plant Control ability.

He sensed the newly sprouted wheat in the soil and began to urge them to grow rapidly, with the trait of Plant Growth blessing them at the same time.

The wheat seedlings seemed to have received a divine call, actually growing slowly and stretching upwards bit by bit.

Exclamations suddenly rang out: "Look, these wheat seedlings are actually growing!"

The residents who were reclaiming the farmland widened their eyes at this moment, watching the wheat seedlings in the wheat field growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The wheat seedlings, from a height of less than a little finger, grew to the height of a palm in just a few short minutes.

"It's the leader! The leader is accelerating the growth of the plants!"

The excited expressions of the onlookers were beyond words. Food was life, and if the leader could accelerate the growth of food, it meant guarding everyone's lifeline.

Under the influence of Wang Ting's ability, before long, the wheat seedlings in the dozen or so acres of wheat field had grown a bit higher, reaching a height of twenty to thirty centimeters. The tender green wheat seedlings now had a hint of cyan.

Wang Ting felt that the mental and transcendental energy in his body had consumed a lot, and the acceleration seemed to have reached the limit of the wheat seedlings' growth, so he slowly stopped at this moment.

Qu Ling excitedly stepped forward, his mind filled with this whimsical thought: "Captain, if you continue to accelerate their growth, won't we be able to harvest food in just a few days?"

Wang Ting glanced at him, then said: "You're thinking quite wishfully, but that's impossible. I only sped up their growth rate; speeding them up further would kill them. I can only do it from time to time to accelerate their conversion of accumulated nutrients."

Wang Ting did not tell Qu Ling more detailed circumstances.

In the process of controlling plants, he had a hunch that accelerating Plant Growth within the normal range would not excessively affect the subsequent growth of the plants.

But if he wanted to accelerate growth as quickly as in battle, he must have sufficient transcendental energy, either converted from the plant's own vitality or supplied by the transcendental energy in his body.

With his current level of transcendental energy, it was impossible to support so many wheat plants to grow healthily to maturity, and his mental power could not support such long-term consumption.

Accelerating the wheat was more like a test of Wang Ting's own Plant Control ability. After obtaining the blessing of the Plant Growth trait, the strength of Primary Plant Control had indeed been greatly enhanced.

"According to my current degree of control over plants, if I control those vines, there is definitely no problem fighting continuously for one or two hours."

Scarecrow Physique, Vine Beast Body, virus potion, and Photosynthetic Straw brought Wang Ting a powerful physique and decent resilience, giving him more enduring combat capabilities.

The improvement of his ability made him particularly satisfied, and next was to settle scores and grievances.

"Exchange for vine skull tyrant blade, Earth Vine Spike"

monster points - 400

monster points balance 11

Ever since exploring Hall Hospital last time, Wang Ting had holed up in the camp for 10 days straight, finally gathering enough monster points.

Physical strength, weapons and equipment, Plant Control, and skill attacks. The reason why he didn't choose Power Vine Heart and instead chose Vine Beast Body was partly because both were elite individual traits and both were strength amplifications. Although there were strengths and weaknesses, they could be considered equivalent replacements and weren't too bad.

Another consideration was to equip his means in the shortest possible time and maximize his comprehensive combat power.

As a means to deal with monsters, physical strength was important, but vine control and the weapon in his hand were also major sharp weapons.

The monster points Wang Ting saved up by holing up for 10 days were all used on this wave of enhancement, and the goal was to take down Hall Hospital.

This was also the first time Wang Ting exchanged for a skill.

Unlike instincts that existed in the body such as the power and characteristics of skills, Wang Ting felt that in his consciousness and body, there seemed to be a thumb-sized ball of light, which was the condensation of transcendental energy, vaguely with textures like vines.

This was the power core of the Earth Vine Spike skill. It was directly linked to Wang Ting's transcendental energy and mental power, and driven by transcendental energy and mental power.

When his mind reached it, a powerful attack could erupt, far surpassing ordinary means.

After the exchange, Wang Ting strode to the camp stronghold. As soon as he walked in, Ren Chuan walked towards him from the opposite direction.

"Captain."

Holding two cans in his hand, Ren Chuan said with a smile: "During today's search, two beef can supplies refreshed, and I was just preparing to send them over to you."

Wang Ting waved his hand and said: "The cans can wait until tomorrow to eat. Help me tell Feng Bo that there are no search missions today, and pull me 10 people and two vehicles to go out to Hall Hospital with me. I'm responsible for chopping monsters, and they are responsible for collecting things for me."