Chapter 358

Lin Qianhuan tiptoed and placed a kiss on his cheek, soft and carrying her unique sweet scent.
“Thank you for the hospitality, Chef Jiang.”

Jiang Xing’s eyes darkened slightly, and he raised his hand to embrace her waist, wanting to deepen the kiss, but she pushed him away.
“I need to go into the Space for a bit, you go ahead with your work.”

After speaking, Lin Qianhuan stepped back into the bedroom and slipped into the Space.

Jiang Xing stood in the kitchen, his raised arms frozen in mid-air, then slowly lowered them somewhat stiffly.
He sighed softly and turned to continue his work.

Lin Qianhuan was in the Jade Bracelet Space, feeding the chickens and ducks as usual, and harvested all the wheat she had planted into the Space.

The ripened wheat automatically turned into bags of flour, stacked in the boundless warehouse.

Opening the system store, Lin Qianhuan scrolled down the crop section and finally saw the cotton icon.

Upon closer inspection, a cotton seed was priced at 0.01 first-level crystal cores.

Each cotton seed, after maturing, could yield 1 jin (0.5 kg) of cotton.

Lin Qianhuan’s eyes lit up, and she hurriedly began to buy seeds.

Now, all the planting plots in the Space had been unlocked, totaling 1000 plots.

Cotton only took 15 minutes to grow from planting to maturity.

At this rate, she could harvest 4000 jin of cotton per hour, and in 5 hours – 20,000 jin!

Lin Qianhuan’s smile became exceptionally bright, and with a thought, 1000 cotton seeds were planted in the soil.

While the cotton was growing, she turned and walked towards the beach.

Every day, she would place a fishing net here to try her luck.

Sometimes she could catch a few octopuses, sometimes ribbonfish, and once she even caught a large shark.

The shark stared at Lin Qianhuan, big eye to big eye, for a long time, then wagged its tail and swam back into the sea.

“I wonder what I’ll catch this time.”

Lin Qianhuan said to herself, forcefully pulling the fishing net onto the shore.

Unsurprisingly, it was just a few sea fish she couldn’t name.

They were ugly and had little meat.

Having prepared herself in advance, Lin Qianhuan didn’t feel too disappointed, only silently picking up a fish, intending to throw it back into the sea.

Just then, the fish in her hand began to struggle violently.

It was covered in slippery mucus, and Lin Qianhuan, not getting a good grip, actually dropped it on the ground.

With a “thud,” the fish’s mouth opened and closed, as if it had spat something out.

Lin Qianhuan squatted down with some curiosity and indeed found a small message in a bottle near the ugly fish’s mouth.

She reached out and picked up the bottle, then kicked the ugly fish back into the sea and turned to sit on the grass.

The bottle looked new, and the cork was tightly plugged inside. Lin Qianhuan struggled for a while before pulling it out.

“What is this?”

Turning the bottle upside down, a yellow piece of paper, folded countless times, fell out.

Lin Qianhuan patiently unfolded it, and when she saw what was drawn on the paper, she scratched her head in confusion.

“Upgrade Modification Talisman?”

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining an Upgrade Modification Talisman.
After burning it, silently recite the building you want to upgrade and modify, and this building will be upgraded in all aspects.
Including but not limited to appearance, interior, and hardness.]

Lin Qianhuan pondered for a moment, and her eyes immediately lit up.
“Then can I modify the entire Xiangyang Base?
It’s equivalent to a large building; it should be within the scope of modification, right?”

[The Xiangyang Base belongs to a building complex and is not within the scope of modification.]

Lin Qianhuan couldn’t help feeling a little frustrated upon hearing this. She had been thinking of taking this opportunity to reinforce and upgrade the entire Xiangyang Base to better cope with the upcoming extreme cold.
But she hadn’t expected that building complexes were not within the scope of modification.

“Dear System, can’t you make an exception?”

Lin Qianhuan’s eyes were round and bright, and she looked expectantly at the blue sky.

The system was silent for a moment before saying: [Collective upgrades are possible, but it must be charged.]

“Charged? How much?”

[50 million first-level crystal cores.]

Lin Qianhuan coughed violently in shock and almost choked on her own saliva.

Catching her breath, she frowned and said, “50 million first-level crystal cores?
That’s equivalent to taking all the start-up funds I was supposed to use to build the base!
Can’t you make it cheaper?”

[The host can choose to give up the collective upgrade.]

Hearing what the system said, Lin Qianhuan felt a little deflated: “Forget it, forget it, take the crystal cores.”

To allow the survivors of the Xiangyang Base to safely weather the extreme cold, she had to improve the quality of their homes and improve their living environment.
The start-up funds were originally for her to use to build the Xiangyang Base.
Now, using them to upgrade the entire Xiangyang Base didn’t seem like a loss.

Lin Qianhuan sighed, used a lighter to ignite the talisman, and then closed her eyes and began to silently recite the name of the Xiangyang Base.

The talisman gradually turned to ashes under the flames’ consumption, but it didn’t fall to the ground, instead drifting in all directions with the wind.

[The Xiangyang Base has been completely upgraded. Host, please check it.]

Lin Qianhuan opened her eyes, first harvested the cotton in the planting plots into the warehouse, then planted a new batch of seeds, and then slipped out of the Space.

Back in the bedroom, she frowned as she looked around at the furnishings in the room: “There’s no change at all?
System, are you scamming me out of my crystal cores?”

The system coldly snorted but didn’t reply.

Lin Qianhuan didn’t mind, walked over to the window, and then discovered the secret.

The walls had become much thicker, and although the glass was still clear and bright, it was also twice as thick.