After entering November, the sea breeze carried a hint of chill, heralding the arrival of winter.
Winter on the island was especially tough to endure. It was fine when the sun was out, as one could sit at the mouth of the stone cave and bask in the sun. However, without the sun, on gloomy days, it felt like the cold wind was gusting into one’s body.
By winter, they neither went to sea to catch fish nor dived into the sea. They relied entirely on their fish baskets to survive.
After a month of hard work, she had successfully leveled up to Level 2.
To go from Level 2 to Level 3, she needed five hundred thousand Gold Coins—Xiao Yu sighed at how difficult that would be.
Liang Tian also made it clear to her, "I’m giving you a piece of friendly advice—if in this lifeti, you manage to reach the highest level of regular land and have enough Gold Coins to open the Red Land, it’s best to do so. If not, in your next life, you’ll have to start from the beginning with regular land again. Do you understand?"
Xiao Yu naturally understood, "So if I advanced, I could start from the Red Land in the next life?"
Liang Tian responded, "That’s true in principle, but it’s very, very difficult. As you have seen, advancing from Level 1 to Level 2 costs ten thousand, and from Level 2 to Level 3 it suddenly jumps to five hundred thousand. Rember, regular land goes up to level 117—the further up you go, the more the cost multiplies. You might want to prepare yourself ntally."
After inspecting the Level 2 crops, Xiao Yu’s eyes lit up, "Oh my gosh, there are actually wheat and rice seeds! Can I start planting them now?"
Level 2 was very practical, offering only wheat and rice. At Level 3, corn seeds would beco available.
Her parents had also prepared seeds, but by the ti they arrived, the weather had already cooled down. They didn’t have wheat or corn seeds, only rice seeds, which are sown in spring, so they were of no use. The other vegetable seeds were also not useful, so she had never fard outdoors until now.
But things were different now. Having leveled up to Level 2, even in winter, these seeds could survive and yield would not be affected. Most importantly, the wheat that would take 230 days to mature in the outside world could now mature in rely two months with space seeds, and rice took about the sa amount of ti.
She cleared a flat piece of land under the mountain cave and planted wheat there, buying five hundred seeds for 200 yuan each—spending one hundred thousand yuan in total. This nearly drained all her savings, but there was no helping it; she couldn’t plant the Level 2 crops of the space, so she had to settle for the cheaper Level 1 varieties.
Over at the store, she had saved up ten thousand yuan. Over this long period, it had neither increased nor decreased because she had plenty of food on hand, so she rarely needed to use her account, except when she went out to sea—which was the only thing that caused any changes in her account.
Winter was cold, and the clothes they had on hand were too thin for warmth, so apart from cooking and feeding the chickens, she hardly ever went outside.
Ever since they built a wall with bricks made from clay around their mountain cave, it had beco much warr. Her brother had also made a door, and they could close it at night. Later on, they planned to plant so vines outside. With the vines climbing over it, these clay bricks would beco even sturdier and longer-lasting.
They also used clay to build a nest for the chickens under the mountain cave. The clay was warm and sturdy, protecting them from the wind and rain. During the day, the chickens would play in the straw nests, and at night, they’d return to the clay nests to sleep. They no longer had to be carried back and forth into the cave by the siblings. After all, the environnts for humans and animals couldn’t coexist.
Since there was nowhere to go in winter, the siblings passed the ti by chiseling the rock wall with a hamr, planning to carve out steps from the top to the bottom of the mountain cave, so they wouldn’t have to use vines or leg strength to climb up anymore.
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