Grace woke up to the sound of thunder loudly raging in the middle of the night. She reached out to switch on the bedside lamp only to realize that it wasn’t working.
The clutches of sleep on her started loosening as she moved to a sitting position right when another loud thunderstorm disrupted the silence of the night. The bright lightning filled her bedroom with moments of brightness before it once again got submerged into darkness.
Climbing out of the bed, she made her way toward the switchboard to turn on the lights, but found that nothing was working. She immediately realized that there was no electricity in her unit. Looking at the raging thunderstorm through the window, there was no wonder power had been cut down.
She took out a candle from her space and lit it up before setting it down on the bedside table. She stepped toward the glass window, that was now installed with metal bars, and peeked outside through the gap between the bars, taking in the hazy view of the outside as rain relentlessly poured.
Because of the strong rain, wind, and the darkness of the night, it was impossible to get a proper look at the outside situation. But one thing was easy to depict - the rain had only worsened within the past couple of hours.
She returned to the bed and climbed under the sheets before she grabbed her phone and immediately noticed several notifications in the group chat. Her team members just informed that other two units had also lost power.
Aleena even shared with her some screenshots of the group chat of all the units of their building. The first screenshot was from a conversation that took place earlier that morning. Everyone was mostly showing their unhappiness toward the continuous rain as it was causing them issues.
There were some who were angry because they couldn’t head out to work, some were angry because their flights got canceled or because their plans for the days were ruined. In short, almost every other person was complaining about the unexpected rain and how it didn’t seem to be stopping.
The second screenshot belonged to a conversation that happened earlier that evening. The residents were discussing about the continuous alert notifications they were receiving about the rain and the news of the casualties that had been registered in other cities.
The third and last screenshot was of a recent conversation. Aleena sent it while people were still talking in the chat. Not too many people were up, but those who were, they all were talking about how the power was suddenly gone. No one seemed too worried though because it was the middle of the night and they believed that power would return by morning.
Grace closed the screenshots and opened the web to look at recent news. There were news of flash floods, landslides, mudslides, and even sinkholes that seemed to be appearing in several cities that were already heavily affected by the rain. On the other hand, she noticed no recent news about earthquakes.
She closed her phone and blew out the candle before burying herself under the sheets as if nothing happened. Within merely a few minutes, she was already fast asleep.
* * *
The sun was high in the sky of Infinite Realm as Grace worked on the system’s screen while standing in the middle of empty fields.
She woke up at seven in the morning and after getting ready, she had breakfast with her team. She then sent all of them away and busied herself with work inside the space. She even left a message for Davian, telling him not to disturb her before noon.
Currently, she was working on setting up the fields of crops and vegetables. It would have been a hard job for her to do alone if not for the fact that everything was as easy as breathing inside the Infinite Realm. If something was not possible because of the space’s magical abilities, then it was possible because of system’s help.
First of all, she added all the seeds she had purchased in the system’s inventory before selecting number of squares for the crops and vegetables she was planning to grow. One square was the size of one square meter. Hence, she chose 50 squares to grow Rice.
She first selected the number of squares and clicked on the save option. As soon as she was done clicking, she watched as the area on the far left corner of the fields started turning into those 50 squares that she just selected.
She then selected the option for plowing and then adding manure before she chose the crop that she wanted to grow. It took merely a minute before the seeds were successfully grown. To complete the process, she selected the irrigation option and watched with awe as all 50 squares got watered within seconds out of nowhere.
[Time until harvest: 7 days]
Grace wasn’t sure whether she should laugh or cry after witnessing the system’s farming abilities. She almost felt like she was playing some sort of online farming game.
Instead of spending too much time on wondering about which online farming game Dr. Kian was into while creating this particular feature of the system, she focused her attention back to work.
After rice, she planted wheat, corn, barley, oats, and millet. Then she moved on to vegetables and planted - potatoes, tomatoes, cabbages, spinach, sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, and beans.
Once she was done, she took a look at their harvest time in the system. Almost everything was ready to be harvested within next 7 days, except for sweet potatoes that showed a time frame of 8 days.
Finishing her work in the fields, she headed to the farmhouse to check on the livestock and spent the next several minutes taking care of them through the system’s help.
Once she was mostly done with her work inside the space, she stepped out into the real world and headed to kitchen to cook lunch as it was nearing noon.
She would have barely spent five minutes there when she heard the doorbell ringing.