After Apocalypse, I Got Rich With Superpower

The Base Commander had delivered the items to her, and as for how they negotiated, Li Pan was not interested. As long as the Zhang Family no longer troubled her, that was enough.

She had found justice on her own. She could understand the difficulties of the Base Commander. As the administrator of a city, he had to take care of various aspects, protect the citizens and the community’s food basket project, and ensure everyone was fed and clothed, living a good life.

He could not afford to offend the entire Zone 13 just for Li Pan alone. This zone had its value.

Zone 13 wasn’t only home to the rich and powerful Zhang Family with connections. Some relationships were intricately intertwined and could not be treated with simple and crude measures.

The Base Commander also had it tough, stuck in the middle like the filling of a sandwich, struggling on both ends. He still needed to exchange as many good resources as possible for the civilians and superpower users, and foster the next generation to stand up, ensuring succession. Everyone saw his hardships.

Getting some compensation back was also the Base Commander’s way of apologizing, as he had failed to secure justice for her assassination attempt. The Base Commander felt even worse about it than she did.

Life can’t always be perfect in every way.

Li Pan transplanted the iron stone orchid to the forest section of No. 8 Farm, took care of the Spirit Plants, and found that during the previous rains and thunderstorms, the Thunder Spirit Fruit had absorbed a lot of lightning and had grown rapidly, becoming a towering tree.

This tree grew exceptionally tall, probably to absorb lightning. During the last rain, it absorbed a strong energy but did not bear fruit.

However, Li Pan was not in a hurry and still took great care of it, playing with the Spirit Plants every day.

Recently, she had been reading notes from Sister Qian and Pei Yuan, repeatedly pondering and learning for comparison.

She was still not daring to experiment with medicinal materials, planning to study further until she was confident enough to try, as medicinal materials were quite expensive.

Xue Dong had returned and immediately focused on various miscellaneous tasks at the factory, starting to take over Gao Wenbin’s work as he needed to return to the base. The Base Commander needed him there, and he could not stay.

Gao Wenbin was the Base Commander’s right-hand man. He came to the farm to help for nearly a year, purely to support Li Pan.

Now that Xue Dong had returned, he needed to hurry back to the base as there were still many matters waiting for him.

Xue Dong took over the personnel management of the farm, primarily focusing on management issues.

As initially discussed, Li Pan primarily focused on upgrading, taking care of the farm’s plants, cultivating Spirit Plants, and managing medicinal materials.

As long as she faced no problems, the farm was not afraid of not making money. Other elders handled other complicated and troublesome matters.

Everyone was responsible for their part, specializing in their duties, and met monthly to hand over work. The positions rotated once a year.

These were Gao Wenbin’s suggestions, which everyone agreed with. They wanted to learn about each other’s jobs to ensure everyone had a clear understanding of the farm’s operations, ensuring no one acted recklessly.

The farm had become very important to the base, with its food output accounting for half of the base’s production. It fed many residents, allowing them to get enough to eat, even something good, and its influence kept expanding.

The food produced by her farm contributed significantly to stabilizing market prices, ensuring the maximum extent of the Base Commander’s authority and curbing the control of Zone 13 over the food supply, causing them to lose some of their clout.

Now the Base Commander no longer had to bow down to trade with them for food; the good food was kept for their own use, and he had the final say.

It wasn’t like this before. The Base Commander used to endure grievances because he didn’t have enough food while needing to feed all the residents of the city.

Zone 13 was wealthy, with places to grow crops, not entirely dependent on the base. I’m just living here; it’s your resources and food that need me, not the other way around.

Everything was turned upside down, and naturally, Zone 13 was full of bluster. They used to boss around the Base Commander with threats and coercion, showing no respect, all to secure food for the residents and the safety of the entire city. The Base Commander endured humiliation for the sake of food to feed everyone.

These grievances were unknown to outsiders, but Li Pan and the others had seen them with their own eyes.

This was also why Qin Jianzhong and the others hated Zone 13, for they treated people without respect.

But the people of Zone 13 had no rights at the base, they had to get the Base Commander’s approval for some matters to be openly addressed, and even if they had some connections upstairs, they couldn’t just order people around, it wasn’t like ordering a servant at home, they still had to ask for favors.

The Base Commander firmly controlled the power, absolutely not giving the rich district a chance to interfere, using all the hard-working children who had grown up, the years of hardship and tears were endured together by everyone.

Pei Yuan took five Five Elements Spiritual Fruits and planned to go back and discuss with the Base Commander to exchange some resources to bring back.

Currently, the people at his own base had mostly used it, and it was not suitable to use these fruits for the very young children temporarily, afraid it might be dangerous, and it was also somewhat wasteful; the children were too young to do much work, and there was a chance they could awaken on their own, which might be a loss.

East Mountain Base received the news and came to ask the Base Commander if they could have a Spirit Fruit, hoping to continue the cooperation.

The Base Commander asked Pei Yuan, "Have you spoken with Pan’er yet?"

"I haven’t yet, she said you make the decision yourself."

The Base Commander shook his head, "You need to tell her, this is her belonging, she needs to approve it. At least that respect is necessary. The business with Zhang Family in Zone 13, I’ve already wronged that girl."

"She can understand, besides, having crippled eight superpower users from the Zhang Family is also about enough, going too far isn’t right. I’ll ask her then."

Pei Yuan then made a phone call to Li Pan.

"Pan’er, it’s your Uncle Pei, I have something to discuss with you."

"Uncle, go ahead."

"It’s like this, those Five Elements Spiritual Fruits I brought back, currently our family doesn’t have suitable people to use them, planning to cooperate with other brother bases to exchange for some resources, including East Mountain and Zhongxiang Base. They agreed to give you a Spirit Plant each, you can pick, one base provides one Spirit Plant, and they compensate you with two million, that’s all the money they can spare now, the rest will be long-term orders from your farm."

"That’s fine, I’m okay with anything, just give whatever you think is appropriate, what benefits do they provide to the base?"

"The base exchanged for some Crystal Cores and other spots, anyway, we are truly not at a loss."

"Then it’s fine, as long as you think it’s appropriate just do it, do you need me to show up?"

"It might be necessary, I need you to provide protection, afraid there might be problems. If you are there, you can perform healing, and also introduce you to meet other Base Commanders, that would give you more opportunities in the future."

"Alright, arrange it then. We can’t use that stuff in our farm for now, this year is the last batch, if there’s any more, we have to wait until next year and see, if we want fruits to bear, we need to increase superpower input, but can’t damage the Spirit Plants."

"I understand, whatever you need just say the word,"

"Thanks, Uncle Pei."

So it was settled. East Mountain Base and Zhongxiang Base needed to arrange their schedules.

The Base Commander meant they would bring people over, and Li Pan could simply watch over nearby.

The weather grew colder, Li Pan and Xue Dong cleaned up the vacant rooms in No. 7 and No. 9 Farms, creating a movie theater, a billiard room, and other recreational facilities.

Workers who didn’t return home or didn’t have a place to stay at the base could come over to workout and have fun.