Chapter 54: Absolutely Stunning.
Suspended mid-air, Liu Yang looked down at the crowd below.
His black cape snapped violently in the wind, resembling the dark wings of a god of war.
The people gazed up at Liu Yang as if they were looking at a supreme deity high above.
In their eyes, an involuntary reverence began to well up.
"Thud!"
Overwhelmed by Liu Yang’s oppressive aura, a survivor’s knees went weak, and he couldn't help but drop to the ground.
Immediately after, the other survivors fell to their knees in unison.
Even Scar Rat, standing nearby, nearly failed to restrain himself from dropping to his knees.
"Big Brother Liu Yang is... this is just too cool!!!"
It dawned on him at that moment.
This must be the ability of Liu Yang's black cape!
Walking on air!
Hovering in the sky like a veritable deity.
It was utterly mind-blowing!
Amidst the kowtowing crowd, Liu Yang slowly began to speak: "Starting from today, the supplies you are required to submit every day will be reduced by half! At the same time, I can lend each of you fifty catties of potatoes to use for cultivation.
The villa area is vast and sparsely populated. The football field, the green belts, and the lawns can all be cleared into fields for farming.
However, you must repay me two hundred catties of potatoes after one year!
Furthermore, twenty percent of all crops harvested from cultivation within the villa area must be turned over to me in the future!"
With that, Liu Yang began scattering potatoes from his dark spatial dimension.
It seemed to rain potatoes across the sky.
The open ground beneath Liu Yang's feet began to pile up into a small mountain.
Seeing this, all the survivors were dumbfounded.
To conjure so many potatoes out of thin air.
Could it be that he wasn't just like a god—was he a true deity?!
Let there be seeds, said the god.
And thus, a rain of seeds fell from the skies!
This was nothing short of a miracle!
That brute Black Tiger only knew how to exploit ordinary survivors like them.
Compared to Liu Yang, who was like a god, he was absolute trash!
Look at this man, he was simply out of this world!
Expressions of adoration bloomed on every survivor's face.
Mixed with that adoration was a sense of profound joy.
Liu Yang's arrival meant their daily mandatory tribute of supplies was cut in half, making their future lives significantly easier without needing to risk their lives venturing outside for provisions!
Even more importantly, Liu Yang was lending them potato seeds for farming!
Did this mean they wouldn't have to scavenge for supplies anymore, and could become entirely self-sufficient?!
The thought of it brought tears of gratitude to the eyes of all the survivors.
Venturing out daily to scavenge for supplies always kept these ordinary survivors on tenterhooks; even a single ordinary zombie posed a massive threat to them.
If they encountered a pack of zombies, there wouldn't even be anywhere to run!
They had all witnessed friends and family being devoured to the bone by zombies.
Yet, refusing to scavenge meant they could no longer stay within the safety of the survivor base.
Remaining in the base allowed them to team up for scavenging runs without worrying too much about personal safety.
Staying outside alone lowered one's survival rate even further, filled with perpetual dread of being tracked down by zombies.
They couldn't even enjoy a peaceful night's sleep.
Therefore, just to remain in the base, they had to risk their lives venturing out every few days.
But if farming could solve their food crisis, they would never need to scavenge again!
They could stay safely inside the base every day and survive on agricultural produce!
Wouldn't that be no different from the peaceful era?
And the person who brought them this hope of returning to peaceful times was none other than Liu Yang in the sky!
He was a man who was like a god.
A little girl couldn't help pointing at Liu Yang and asking, "Mommy, why is he flying in the sky? Why does he have so much food? Is he a savior sent by the heavens?"
The woman beside her quickly grabbed the girl's hand and said nervously, "Keep your head down. Don't point."
When you see a deity, you bow your head.
From that moment on, the little girl remembered those words.
Etched into her heart for a lifetime.
That black figure in the sky became the enduring light in the little girl's heart.
...
When Liu Yang finished all of this, he descended slowly from the sky to the ground.
Then, Liu Yang turned to Scar Rat and instructed:
"On an individual basis, each person can be allotted fifty catties of potatoes. Keep a registry, and make them return two hundred catties after a year, while taking twenty percent of their crop yield moving forward."
"Understood, Boss, leave it to me," Scar Rat nodded hurriedly.
It wasn't hard for him to see what Liu Yang had just done—these were genuinely pro-people measures!
To ordinary survivors, this was an unimaginable boon.
Food had become extremely precious since the outbreak of the apocalypse.
Being willing to lend food as seeds was nothing short of a supreme act of benevolence!
To put it without exaggeration, fifty catties of potatoes in the apocalypse could easily be traded for five beautiful maidens!
Yet Liu Yang had lent out these most precious supplies without a moment's hesitation!
Once cultivation succeeded and their yields stabilized, they would never have to risk their lives scavenging again!
Besides, external supplies were dwindling the more they were gathered. They were bound to run out eventually.
Farming, however, could provide an endless stream!
It could even multiply!
It was no exaggeration to say that Liu Yang was the savior of all ordinary survivors in this base!
Unlike Black Tiger, who only thought of stripping these survivors of their possessions, Liu Yang focused on how to enable these survivors to achieve sustainable development.
The difference in vision between the two of them was vast as heaven and earth.
A survivor base leader like Liu Yang was a true leader!
The other survivors also wore happy smiles as they formed a line to collect their fifty catties of potatoes.
A pair of parents approached Scar Rat with a little girl—the very same little girl Scar Rat had given candy to earlier.
The little girl skipped over and happily gave Scar Rat a hug.
Looking up with her bright, innocent eyes, she asked Scar Rat:
"Uncle Rat, Uncle Rat, was it you who found the savior?"
"Yes! I was the one who found the savior!" Scar Rat said proudly and affirmatively.
"Yay! Uncle Rat really is the coolest person in the base!" the little girl beamed with joy.
The other adult survivors behind her began to chuckle as well.
Seeing everyone so happy, Scar Rat felt genuinely glad.
In the past, all the esper-users had looked down on him; only these ordinary survivors treated him with respect.
Now, seeing these ordinary survivors acquire so many supplies made Scar Rat extremely happy for them.
Once fifty catties of potatoes were planted, it would only take four to five months for the yield to multiply tenfold, resulting in five hundred catties.
Even after returning two hundred catties to Liu Yang, three hundred catties would remain!
If those three hundred catties were replanted, they could turn into three thousand catties!
This was the explosive growth of resources!
The agricultural age was a vital era in human development; it allowed humanity to survive without the risks of hunting.
And now, this survivor base seemed to be replicating that great era!
...
Liu Yang left the stadium accompanied by two beautiful maidens, leaving the task of distributing supplies to Scar Rat.
Along the way, White Fox asked Liu Yang, "You were so cool just now! Even I almost couldn't help kneeling down!"
Hearing White Fox's words, Liu Yang flashed a mischievous smile. "Don't kneel just yet. Once we get to my room, you can kneel then."
White Fox licked her red lips and swallowed hard.
She was filled with anticipation for what was about to happen next.
Wang Feifei, walking beside them, felt her pretty face flush red.
She naturally understood what Liu Yang meant by those words.
Because she had done precisely that in the room earlier!
Just thinking about it still made her blush!
To think the two of them were talking about such things in broad daylight, how utterly embarrassing!