Too Many Reincarnators? I Bring the National Team to the Field - Chapter 152

Chapter 152

A single strawberry brought Jiang Yu endless enlightenment.

What exactly had she been holding onto all this time?

She’d been working herself to the bone like an old ox-farming every day, learning how to farm-just to keep the secret of her Space Ability.

But the truth was… did her Space Ability even belong to her anymore?

She couldn’t even secretly grow a few strawberries without those people calculating everything down to the last detail…

And they were the very people she was paying wages to!

Who wouldn’t feel sorry for her?

How was she supposed to live like this?

The Space Ability didn’t belong to her. Only the work inside it did.

Jiang Yu finally got it.

Even without the Space Ability, she was still one of the important Plant Ability Users!

She stuffed the remaining half of the deformed strawberry into her mouth, then climbed out of her Space Ability with the strawberries she’d picked.

Jiang Yu’s face was serious.

“Old Zhou, call Sister Sheng over. I need to talk about something big.”
Half an hour later.

Jiang Yu sat across from everyone. She took a deep breath and said solemnly, “My Space Ability can let people in now.”

After that, she fixed her gaze on them, waiting to see their reactions.

Sheng An: “Oh.”

Academician Zhou: “Oh.”

Everyone else: “Oh.”

Three calm faces stared back at her.

Jiang Yu: “???”

Her eyes went wide and her voice shot up. “I said my Space Ability can let people other than me in!”

Sheng An nodded. “And?”

Academician Zhou played along with a totally uninvested, “Huh? Well, that’s wonderful.”

Hao Jingye was even more perfunctory. “Pretty good.”

Jiang Yu fell silent.

Somehow, their reactions… felt like they’d known already.

No. Impossible.

Jiang Yu refused to think about that. She swallowed and explained haltingly, “It… it seems like it changed all of a sudden. Now it can… it can let people in.”

Sheng An: “And?”

Academician Zhou: “That’s wonderful.”

Hao Jingye: “Pretty good.”

Feeling like that explanation wasn’t great, Jiang Yu hurriedly added, “Or maybe it could let people in before, and I just never tested it.”

Sheng An: “And?”

Academician Zhou: “That’s wonderful.”

Hao Jingye: “Pretty good.”

Still the same perfunctory responses.

Even their smiles were identical-polite, fake, and dismissive.

Jiang Yu’s ramrod-straight posture slowly wilted as she stammered, “W-we can plan the Space Ability better. Let the researchers go in and make rational use of the Space Ability.”

-Crap. The more she talked, the more she felt like these people actually knew everything!!

Academician Zhou nodded and stood. “That’s great. Bring people in and let’s take a look first.”

So Jiang Yu forced herself to steady down and brought the Research Institute personnel, along with Sheng An and Hao Jingye, into her Space Ability.

Academician Zhou and the other researchers immediately started discussing.

“The Space Ability really is huge. We’ll continue the previous planting plan and have the Research Team come in.”

“We can add a few more people to the Research Team. I think we shouldn’t just research cultivation-we should also research the Space Ability itself, see if it can be expanded.”

“Yes, yes, yes.”

“Hey, this experimental plot from before…”

…

They spoke with effortless familiarity, and their planning sounded like something they’d prepared ages ago.

There was even a Research Team roster-Plant Ability Users, plus Water Ability and Earth Ability-as if they’d been ready for this Space Ability the whole time…

Jiang Yu went quiet again.

She glanced at Sheng An and Hao Jingye. The two of them looked utterly unfazed, eating strawberries while standing beside her on guard.

When Sheng An saw her looking, she even offered her a strawberry.

Jiang Yu took one.

A whole, normal strawberry tasted far better than that deformed one from earlier.

Jiang Yu asked, “So from now on, all I have to do is bring them in, right?”

Sheng An nodded. “It’s best if you’re not inside the Space Ability at the same time as them. Unless there’s a special situation, when the Research Group goes in, you stay outside.”

Jiang Yu’s eyes widened. “So I don’t have to work anymore?”

If she wasn’t inside with the Research Group, there was no way she could keep doing long-term labor.
Sheng An nodded. “Of course. With so many people at the Research Institute, we aren’t lacking for one person.”

As if remembering something, she added, “By the way, the Nation is rewarding you for providing the Space Ability. You’ve been credited with a major contribution. Just like before, your benefits remain unchanged. Additionally, a plot of land in the Space Ability will be reserved for you; you can plant whatever you want there.”

In other words, even if she didn’t work hard at farming anymore, her treatment would remain the same, and the Nation would provide whatever she wanted.

Furthermore, they had set aside a piece of land for her to handle however she pleased.

Jiang Yu: “…”

She suddenly felt like crying.

-Dammit, this treatment makes my past self, who worked so hard at farming, look like a total sucker!

And…

Sister Sheng, aren’t you even going to try to hide it?

From the moment she mentioned the Space Ability until they entered it, Sheng An hadn’t contacted the Nation once. That meant this reward and credit had been decided beforehand!

So, the fact that people could enter her Space Ability…

They. All. Knew!

In the field ahead, Academician Zhou and Academician Huang were still talking.

Academician Zhou said, “I’ll be out for quite a while this time. You need to hold down the fort. There isn’t much clean soil left outside right now; take some from the Space Ability later.”

Academician Huang replied, “Alright. I won’t take too much. It’ll just get contaminated once it’s outside.”

…

Jiang Yu fell into silence.

She turned her head. “So, I can go on missions too?”

Sheng An replied, “Of course.”

After a pause, she gave her some face and added, “Oh, since others can enter your Space Ability now, you can apply for missions. Hao Jingye, add Xiao Yu’s name to the list.”

Hao Jingye said, “Understood. I’ll report it shortly.”

Not far away.

Academician Zhou remarked, “I’ve wanted to come in here for ages. This last disciple of mine works hard, but her skill level isn’t up to par. Directing her farming is more exhausting than doing it myself.”

Academician Huang agreed, “Isn’t that the truth? The Research Group is heading to the Southwest together this time. I hope we can make some breakthroughs.”

…

What ‘apply for missions’?

They had planned to go together all along! Academician Zhou and Academician Huang had known for ages!

No wonder the Research Institute had been so busy lately; they were preparing for the trip.

Jiang Yu said gloomily, “Sister Sheng, you really didn’t have to go out of your way to humiliate me with such perfunctory excuses…”

They definitely knew the secret of the Space Ability!

Now they were just humoring her, pretending they hadn’t known.

And it was such half-hearted humoring!

Looking toward the corner at the trembling Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao, it was as if everyone else couldn’t even see them. Sheng An and Hao Jingye remained calm, while Old Zhou and the others didn’t spare them a single glance, treating them like thin air.

Sheng An gave a slight smile. “Alright, we did indeed know for a long time.”

Jiang Yu gritted her teeth. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

Sheng An swallowed a strawberry, her smile unchanging. “Didn’t we see that you were doing quite well farming on your own? Since you weren’t willing to speak up, how could the Nation force you? What if we scared you?”

Jiang Yu: “.” She really wanted to cry.

Hao Jingye gave a bright smile. “We thought you liked farming.”

Jiang Yu: “..” She wanted to cry even more.

From the moment she revealed that people could enter the Space Ability, every plan made was based on the premise of ensuring her safety while figuring out how to better utilize and expand the Space Ability.

No one cared at all whether the Space Ability belonged exclusively to her or if it could exist without her!

In the future, she just had to bring people in.

Oh, and she had her own plot of land where she could grow whatever she wanted to eat. She could make Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao do the planting, and she would only need to find time to accelerate the growth.

If she was too busy, she could even get other Plant Ability Users to help.

She wouldn’t have to do anything and could just enjoy the fruits of others’ labor, all while receiving top-tier treatment from the Nation because of this Space Ability…

This is the life of a damn Farm Owner!

Looking back at before, that was the miserable life of a common peasant.

Jiang Yu took a huge bite of a strawberry. As the sweet flavor spread, she actually started crying.

She really was a total sucker.

A sucker before the Apocalypse, a sucker in her Previous Life, and still a sucker even after getting a Golden Finger!

-She didn’t love farming. Not one bit.