Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 122

Chapter 122: Hybrid Animals

[Time left before the arrival of the end of the world: 4 Days]

Grace placed the last plate into the cabinet and stepped back to admire her work. The kitchen was finally looking spotless as every item was back in its rightful place.

As she wiped her hands on the towel hanging by the counter, her phone vibrated with an incoming call. She glanced at the screen and saw Davian’s name. Without any hesitation, she answered.

“Hello,” she said while leaning against the counter.

“Did I disturb you?” Davian’s familiar voice came through the phone. His voice sounded calm but still carried an undertone of urgency.

Grace’s lips twitched faintly. She knew he wouldn’t call unless it was something important. “No, you didn’t. What’s the matter?”

“We talked about finding abandoned military bases yesterday,” he began. “I reached out through my connections, and they have identified a few that might meet your requirements.”

Grace was surpised, but also not to learn that he had taken care of the matter this quickly. “That’s great. Let’s plan a visit tomorrow and see if any of them are suitable.”

They exchanged a few more details before ending the call. She let out a small sigh and headed to her bedroom. Locking the door behind her, she entered the space so she could spend the next hour or two taking care of the work there.

Her first stop was the warehouse. She spent the next thirty minutes (space’s time) meticulously organizing all the supplies that she and her team had gathered over the past few days.

By the time she finished, the warehouse looked exactly how she wanted it to, each section properly arranged and marked. Satisfied with her work, she headed to the farmhouse.

As usual, the animals greeted her with soft sounds as she entered. She fed each animal using the system before she gathered fresh milk, eggs, honey, silk, and wool.

All she needed to do was to select the animal on the screen spread open in front of her, and then choose from the different options that were shown under each of the animals – feed, bath, collect product, or exit.

Selecting ‘feed’ automatically fed the said animal, selecting ‘bath’ made them look newly bathed, the option of ‘collect product’ helped in collecting their products like – eggs, milk, wool, etc, and finally, the option of ‘exit’ would led to the end of that certain animal.

The exit option even had further choices available – if she wanted to entirely earse the selected animal, or just wanted to kill it and use its meat. So far, Grace had used kill option only four times where she turned four of the roosters into fresh chicken meat.

The only reason she did that was because after observing the situation of the poultry farm over the past few months, she noticed how the roosters were fighting for dominance. Their fight eventually led to the death of one of the roosters. Hence, she decreased their numbers.

Not only that but two of the hens had recently cracked their eggs, increasing the population of their community, and there were two new born roosters among those fifteen chickens.

Once she finished her work in the farmhouse, she made her way to the vegetable garden that had expanded across miles over the course of time. To harvest the vegetables, all she needed to do was to use the system’s available features and the work was done barely in a minute or two.

In the farming section, there were several option available – sowing, irrigation, weed management, and harvest. She selected the ‘harvest’ option and the system immediately showed her the pictures and names of all the vegetables that were ready to be harvested.

She selected all the vegetables as she wanted to harvest them all. Within seconds, the system completed the task and offered her further options for how she wanted to handle the harvest – store (kitchen/warehouse), pickle, canned food, powder, dry, or seed.

Grace selected the ‘seed’ option before selecting the vegetables and their amount. She preserved some of the veggies as pickles and canned food, before storing the rest in the villa’s kitchen as she was going to prepare more lunch boxes.

Ending her work in the vegetable garden, she headed to the fruit orchards that were also spread across miles. So far, she had planted about twenty different fruit orchards, and had harvested seventeen of them already.

Just like in the case of vegetables, she handled the harvest of fruits with the help of the system before finally heading to the vineyard to prune the vines and ensure they were healthy. So far, she had harvested the garpes only once, and the next harvest was going to be ready within next four days.

By the time she finished her work, hours had passed and the early morning had turned into noon.

Back at the villa, she prepared lunch using the fresh ingredients she had gathered. She found herself missing both Davian and Rune’s company as the two of them had become her cooking partner in the outside world.

It had been days and she still hadn’t heard from Rune. He even stopped joining her and others during meals, and hadn’t appeared in the training sessions since the night she asked him to make the choice. Though he did ask for some time to consider, she was becoming slightly restless with each passing day.

Shaking away his thoughts, she focused on cooking and was soon storing away ten packed lunch boxes in the warehouse. She then settled down at the dining table and enjoyed the food she had cooked.

She watched an episode of the thriller drama she had started recently as she ate, and once she was done with both, she cleaned up the kitchen and headed to the pet house to continue with the pending work.

Just like she planned before buying these animals, the Shadow Rain had worked amazingly on them as well. 2025’s guidance was also a big boost in their transformation.

The ten huskies she had bought were no longer ordinary dogs. Their bodies were larger now, their fur thicker, and their eyes gleamed with a feral light. They were becoming wolves. And as per 2025’s recent checkup, these wolves were going to be far stronger than those that were seen in the previous timeline.

“2025, status report on their progress,” Grace said as she observed the animals.

[Transformation is 75% complete,] 2025 replied. [Hybrid wolves will be fully developed within next two weeks.]

Grace nodded and turned her attention to the black cats, which were evolving into sleek panthers. Unlike the huskies, the cats needed about four weeks to complete their transformation.

As for the white lion cubs, they were already bigger in size and were becoming stronger. When looked closely, one could also see the tiny feathers that were appearing on their backs.

The other animals were also doing great in handling their transformation. But as per 2025’s words, she still needed to keep a close watch on them.

Her next stop was the herb field, then crops fields, and finally the cave of the hot spring where she had grown some special herbs as per 2025’s advice.

Once she was done with all the work, she headed to the beautiful meadow close to the mountains. This place had become her training ground because of how natural and peaceful she felt there.

For ten or so minutes, she just sat there and enjoyed the nice weather of the Infinite Realm. Whenever she entered the space, she always made sure to bask in the warm sunlight as if to take away the darkness and cold of the real world out from her body.

Once she was done basking in the sunlight, she shifted into the lotus position and closed her eyes. Inhaling deeply to fill her lungs with the fresh air of the space, she focused on the raw and powerful energy deep within her that was becoming more and more familiar with each passing day.

As usual, the energy responded to her call and immediately moved up to the surface, ready to do her bidding. Opening her eyes, Grace focused her gaze on a flower located not far from where she was sitting.

Slolwy, she started processing her thoughts, trying it make it harder and more intricate than usual. She thought about picking out the petals of the flower one after the other, slowly letting them fly in the wind.

Once her thought was in place, she raised her left hand, already feeling the presence of her power that was ready to go out and try to make her thought become reality.

As she flicked her fingers, that pulsating energy finally escaped her palm and landed on the flower, shaking it slightly. And then, Grace watched as one after the other, the flower lost all its petals, losing them to the wind that suddenly grew strong enough to take them away with it.

A smile spread across her lips while a feeling of pure satisfaction settled in her heart. She was improving…!