Chapter 552 - 274 Partners
Given that it’s about farming, the natural choice is to go for an outdoor setup. Shana offered her opinion that perhaps they could use the super large plot for livestock and poultry and the remaining two small plots for hydroponics. Shana wasn’t suggesting this because she was fond of eating meat; she thought that as it was becoming increasingly difficult to obtain scraps of fabric, if they could breed sheep, they could ensure a supply of clothing materials for the base members.
With this setup, the small plots would become extremely tight, and although the yield from hydroponics wouldn’t compare to traditional farming, the advantage was that hydroponics would still produce crops during winter.
Next was an issue for the leaders to consider. After expanding the base, Maya continued to discuss how to utilize the base plots with Stone and Shana. Following the expansion, Maya brought good news to everyone: the Doomsday Fortress could expand a second time. The bad news was that the second expansion required a thousand building materials.
The result of the expansion was simple and crude: they stacked shipping containers up to three levels high outside the northeast corner wall, creating a large, almost square, rectangular space. A slightly more humane touch was the addition of a 1.2-meter-high railing around the entire top level. Additionally, the five spare plots on the first and second floors were sealed off.
Now, the Doomsday Fortress had two small plots and one super large plot left. Considering the gym was non-essential and the cinema had only one movie poster, there were effectively four small plots and one super large plot.
Speaking of the super large plot, it was genuinely huge, the size of a real acre. Maya thoughtfully moved the water faucet at the south gate to the super large plot, ensuring that whether for grazing or planting, water was readily available.
Lin Wu suggested a combination of planting and animal husbandry. Whichever animal ate the crops, they would eat that animal that evening, thus taking care of everyone’s compassion. After all, crops also had lives, and as their owners, they had a duty to avenge them.
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