Disaster Apocalypse: Farming, Family, and My Hidden Secret Space

After the grand feast, Hua Village returned to normal, and life went on smoothly.

Hua Jing had returned to her usual self, unchanged even after her coming-of-age ceremony, still wearing her favorite short clothes, as dashing as a young man.

Every day, she was eager to practice martial arts, and also shared the dream she had that day with her grandfather and father. Consequently, the martial arts practice time in the village was extended from half an hour to an hour.

Her father's inexpensive teacher, Zhao Ji, also acquired a new identity as the martial arts master of Hua Village, responsible for the training of the villagers young and old, completely liberating Hua Chengtian.

With the freed-up time, apart from tending to the crops in the fields, Hua Chengtian would still take his sons and nephews out of the valley to search for minerals.

The daughter's dream increased his sense of urgency once again. Although the space had quite a few weapons, at most they could equip several hundred people, which was far from enough. The village's young and strong numbered over a thousand, and they couldn't eventually rely on sickles to fight the enemy.

However, luck wasn't as good as before; even after several outings, they still returned empty-handed, although they did manage to process and bring back a lot of salt.

...

After practicing martial arts with her sisters and working up a sweat, Hua Jing went home to change her clothes. Rarely interested in heading out of the valley, she had just started to prepare when Xiaoxiao latched onto her.

"Sis, when are you going to teach me the Light Body Skill?"

"Can you already adapt to the weight you're carrying? Standing steadily without trembling, running around the valley within the time I require, and can you dodge mud-ball attacks?"

"Adapted, adapted, Sis, I can now stand stably, and I can run back within the stipulated time. Look… isn't my body clean? The mud balls can't hit me anymore. Can I start my exercises?" Xiaoxiao asked expectantly, looking at his sister.

"Aren't you already practicing right now!"

Indeed, his body was clean, unlike before when he was covered in mud spots. Hua Jing nodded secretly.

Speaking of which, this kid really has strong adaptability!

"Sis, is tying sandbags on the body really practicing the Light Body Skill?" Xiaoxiao asked incredulously, looking at his sister.

"What's it? Don't believe your sister, if you don't believe then don't practice." Hua Jing cast a sideways glance at her brother, speaking with a playful yet serious expression.

This look, this tone gave Xiaoxiao a shiver, his expression immediately turned obsequious, "Of course I believe you, Sis, practice, definitely practice."

"Really?"

Under his sister's doubtful gaze, Xiaoxiao quickly nodded firmly.

"Couldn't be more true."

"Alright, see those…"

"Sandbags again?" Following his sister's pointing direction, Xiaoxiao felt like his heart was dying.

"Well…"

"No, I'll tie, I'll tie," seeing his sister's eyes narrowing dangerously, Xiaoxiao quickly approached with a smile.

"That's more like it. Remember, no slacking off, don't take them off before resting at night."

"Understood," Xiaoxiao accepted his fate, tying sandbags around his legs, arms, abdomen, and back. Once standing up, he felt his breathing become a bit labored.

"Sis, with so much load on my body, will I not grow taller?" Xiaoxiao was really worried.

Every day with dozens of pounds of sandbags on his body, not only having to run but also perform various exercises, Xiaoxiao truly feared he wouldn't grow tall.

"Didn't I let you loosen them up at night?"

"Alright, go do your training." Hua Jing pointed towards the grain drying yard direction dismissively.

Hua Jing hired the village children to cooperate for the price of a piece of malt sugar each day.

The simple task was to throw mud balls at Xiaoxiao, thereby enhancing Xiaoxiao's reaction and speed. The challenge was standing on a wooden stake, if he fell while dodging, it counted as a failure.

Forgive Hua Jing's limited imagination, only able to think of simple and quick methods.

Xiaoxiao: "..."

The pit he dug for himself, no choice but to jump in, envy oozing as he looked at his sister's outgoing attire, resigning himself to continue training.

Just for a moment forgetting the increased body load in his movements, almost flinging himself off, he was quickly held up by his sister, blushing before running off.

Hua Jing nearly laughed out loud, considering Xiaoxiao's little bit of dignity.

Then she informed her grandma that she wouldn't come back for lunch, and according to plan, Hua Jing left the valley.

Grandma was aware of her granddaughter's Combat Power, plus with the blessings of their sacred land, she truly wasn't worried about the child going out, simply urging her to come back early before letting her go.

Did not plan to take several others along; with them around, her speed wouldn't be as fast as when she's alone.

This time, she didn't plan on heading into the deep mountains; the daily news on the mountain was truly isolated, so she thought of descending to take a look, conveniently returning to Hua Village.

Last time, due to her brother being around, the bricks, wooden beams, and such materials cleaned up weren't stored into the space, though there's plenty of construction material in the space, it still pained Hua Jing deeply when realizing it would have been wasted or taken by others, considering it was extracted painstakingly with grandfather and brother from the mud.

Informing Grandma, coaxing the large ones following her back into the yard, Hua Jing prepared to leave.

She didn't know if it was because of growing taller or some other reasons, but Hua Jing's already fast speed improved significantly over these days, far surpassing the speed at which Black rushed behind her.

Anyway, the large ones couldn't hope to catch up with her.

From the valley to reach the mountain they used to reside took no more than half a day with her speed. At full force, the time could be shortened further, thus making a day's round trip feasible.

However, after considering potential unforeseen events, she returned home to give Grandma a heads-up, saying that if she didn't make it back in time at night, not to worry, she'd surely be in the sacred land and would return the next day.

"Not... Jin'er, where are you going? How come you might not be back in time... Jin..." Sensing something amiss, Grandma stopped her granddaughter.

"Grandma, don't worry, I'm just strolling on the mountain, you're aware of the far steep roads, I'm just afraid of not making it in time, so I'm giving you an early heads-up. Alright, it's getting late, I need to hurry... Grandma, don't forget to tell Dad and Mom…"

Then, before Grandma could respond, she decisively left, patting Black's tail-wagging excitement was genuinely parting this time.

Taking half a day's time, Hua Jing finally exited the mountain range, then spent a cup of tea's time returning to Hua Village. By then it was already noon and her stomach started protesting, so Hua Jing quickened her pace.

Just upon entering the village, Hua Jing noticed something unusual, village... someone was there.

Though the traces weren't too obvious, a careful look revealed them, and it appeared to be more than one person, someone had indeed moved into their village.

She expanded her spiritual power, enveloping the entire village, at the same time, a family came into sight as they dined in what used to be Hua Jing's vision familiar house.

Looking at this family, Hua Jing was stunned, it really was too unexpected.

Just... how did they end up in her house, weren't they supposed to return to Qin Village, and the crops were already planted, with hope for the future who would want to leave?

With these doubts, Hua Jing walked towards her house.