Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 697 - 224: What Kind of Life Do You Want to Choose? (2)

The high price of vegetables in Night City is not just due to the shortage of water; in fact, there is also the issue of biotechnological manipulation of yields to raise prices for profit.

In this regard, they have learned the essence from the Neon People.

In the agricultural building of Night City, the wealthy designate a favored agricultural guardian to personally tend to the growth of their produce and take daily photos to post on social media for when they feel like glancing at them.

The degree of exaggeration is such that for every single grape on a bunch, these guardians need to wipe them individually with a wet wipe and photograph them.

Otherwise, how else can I sell a single grape for 100 Orokin?

Using absurd planting methods to seize pricing power has been a masterful game by the Neon since the last century.

What the rich leave uneaten flows into the low-end market of Night City.

At the bar, canned oranges are sold by the segment.

After solving the issues of technology, water, and electricity, the final challenge for agricultural farming bases lies in seeds.

Whether it's Chun Er wheat or seeds of those fruits and vegetables, they are firmly controlled by major biotech companies, forming a technological monopoly for exorbitant profits, much like Lin Miao's Shiva bacteria.

Before paying a bloody price, Lin Miao couldn't get those seeds, not even with military technology.

Doing so would offend the entire world.

Fortunately, Lin Miao has seeds drawn from the prize pool, including mycelium, tree seeds, and flowers in such quantities and varieties that even he can't remember them all. He has asked many times where these came from, and the system always said it didn't know.

When questioned by military technology, Lin Miao could only begrudgingly relax on biotechnology and justify his actions by robbing their transport vehicles a few times, thus officially having a reason to temporarily shut the military's mouth.

Why?

I stole it!

If you have the guts, go steal it yourself.

You ask me what to do next? Why do you care about me? I might just break through the biotechnology barrier!

However, there is still a small problem: 99.9% of players are not interested in farming, nor do they have the patience for it, even if it has been mechanized. It's fine for some novelty, but if they have to guard a vegetable garden every day, they'd go mad and might start playing vegetable ninja on the spot.

But there are always exceptions to everything.

"Watch closely, this is an automatic seeder."

[Li Feiyu the Arsonist]pointed at the perforated cylindrical machine in front of him and began to explain the workflow of this agricultural farm base to the Chaotic Blade Association prisoners or now, rather, the trainee agricultural technicians following behind him.

His nose was almost up in the air, remembering the haughty expressions of those foreign experts when he was in college. Now the tables have turned, and it's his turn to discipline the foreigners.

"Using the air pressure created by the motor, these holes will suck the seeds onto them, and when the seeds rotate to the bottom, they will fall into the pre-segmented sponge base. Each sponge block gets a seed, and occasionally a few small seeds may fall into one pit, but that's okay as long as there are no empty slots."

As he spoke, the rotating drum started to operate, sucking up the seeds and dropping them precisely into each sponge's hole. A board has about eighty slots, and one round of sowing is completed in about thirty seconds, with the assembly line operation being exceptionally fast.

When this agricultural base was being built, Li Feiyu watched over it closely and even volunteered to apply to Gloria to participate in the work.

Later, it was proven that even though the technology here is more advanced than Tokyo University, it was still within his understanding. After getting hands-on, he quickly mastered the operation of these machines.

"Once one board of sponge has been planted, you take it to the germination room. With a hundred percent humidity in there, seeds will complete germination in two to four days. You need to always monitor the temperature and humidity in there. If the seeds die, you're fully responsible, understand?"

Clint and the others nodded repeatedly.

Having bandits as agricultural technicians is a hassle, but fortunately, those who came here were self-selected, and with a month and a half of good training, the bandits were very compliant.

They surely don't want to find out what 'full responsibility' entails.

The entire planting process is temporarily monitored by W, which uses imaging and tray code scanning to identify crop information and then customizes water and light plans. Since this is an enclosed sterile workshop, there's no worry of pest issues or plant diseases.

This means no need for pesticides.

No need to worry about seasons, temperature, or soil fertility factors; you can sow whatever crop you want at any time.

Even water use is reduced by 90% compared to traditional irrigated farmland, while the planting density is several times greater, though the downside is power consumption.

Li Feiyu walked over to a sponge tray where seeds had already sprouted and spoke in a solemn tone as if conveying something very important, 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Each type of crop requires a different nutrient solution. Mixing them up would reduce yields at best and burn the seedlings at worst. You need to treat these things like your own children because they relate to everyone's stomach. Food is the biggest issue, and you have to be true to your conscience. Don't be like those guys in the news from a few days ago; what you grow, you eat."

Clint and the others knew about the recent joke from a mainland food factory, but the Chaotic Blade Association wasn't too concerned.