Chapter 289: Selling Agricultural Products?

As for Griffin's encounter with disaster, what relationship did it have with Renault Security Contracting Firm?

Well, it's true that there's no direct link, but one could argue there's an indirect connection.

These security contracting companies, ultimately, exist because the military hasn't freed up resources to manage them or lacks a legitimate reason to do so.

Once those guys find a reason, they'll undoubtedly hesitate to sweep these roaming security contractors into the trash, maybe even stomping on the bin to prevent overflow.

And if Griffin, as the largest security contractor, were to fall, it would undoubtedly affect other security contractors, large and small, to varying degrees.

However, this actually had little to do with Renault's plan to build a spaceship.

He just instinctively felt it wasn't reliable to stay in one place and wanted to bring all his belongings with him.

Moreover, with a spaceship, they could go wherever they pleased. They could move all the equipment, vertical farms, and breeding farms from home onto the ship, creating a mobile base. Although they couldn't build overly large ships due to material constraints, those things weren't meant to be built in a gravity environment anyway.

But getting a slightly smaller one was still possible; the original Valkyrie frigate ships from the UED era were a good choice. Based on his current conditions, with some modifications to the design drawings, increasing the internal space of such a ship to accommodate all his belongings wouldn't be a problem.

The original Valkyrie frigate, with a height of twenty meters, a width of over twenty meters, and a length of around forty meters, was already quite large, but Renault planned to widen and lengthen the hull.

He also planned to modify the somewhat chilling appearance of the UED original Valkyrie frigate, replacing the unnecessary designs that weren't suited for a gravity-heavy environment.

The upper half of the ship would serve as living quarters, the middle section for vertical farms and breeding farms, while the lower half, besides housing weapons and equipment, might even have space for a large cargo hold.

Besides these areas, the elongated hull could accommodate more functional compartments...

"Commander! Commander! Our warehouse can't hold anymore!"

Just as Renault was calculating, he and HK416 heard CF05's voice suddenly coming from the direction of the elevator.

"The warehouse can't hold anymore? That shouldn't be the case. If the warehouse is full, just temporarily store it in the open space outside." Hearing CF05's words, Renault instinctively thought of the metal materials being transported.

But he had already counted that the materials remaining in S09's jurisdiction from the industrial zone couldn't fill up the warehouses here, and there was still a large open space outside, so how could there be a problem with space?

"No! Not those metal materials brought back, but the vegetables from our vertical farms! They can't be picked anymore! The warehouse is already full!"

"What!?"

Hearing this, Renault was truly surprised.

Vegetables couldn't be picked anymore? How was that possible? He had never heard of a problem where someone couldn't pick their garden vegetables because there were too many.

If they couldn't pick them, they could just leave them for a while, pick them after consuming some, and if they couldn't be eaten after a long time, they could just throw them into a shredder to make fertilizer again.

"This... Oh my! Commander, just come and see for yourself!"

Seeing Renault's astonished expression, CF05 didn't know where to start explaining, so she directly grabbed Renault's hand and ran towards the direction of the vertical farm.

Seeing this, HK416, curious, followed along.

Arriving at the front of the vertical farm door, before pushing it open, Renault and HK416 were shocked by the scene inside! Because the vertical farm had turned into a green jungle!

Many vegetables were already ripe, heavy fruits and dense leaves hung haphazardly on the well-built frames, and the ground inside the room was already densely covered with vines of climbing plants.

Beans, grapes, HK416 even saw several giant pumpkins lying on the ground, each the size of a wheel hub.

"What... did you use some strange fertilizer for these vegetables and fruits!? They've grown too big!"

Whether it was cabbage, cucumber, grapes on the shelf, or watermelons lying on the ground, the size of these vegetables and fruits far exceeded HK416's normal perception.

Could it be that these... vegetables had undergone some kind of genetic mutation due to collapse radiation?

Eating these... oh, eating them was fine. After all, T-Dolls wouldn't absorb their nutrients; they just ate for the taste. After eating, most of the remains would be taken out and used as fertilizer.

So the only one who might have a problem if they ate them was Renault alone.

Crack.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

Just as HK416 realized that these vegetables might affect human health if eaten, she heard a crisp sound in her ear, followed by consecutive chewing sounds.

Beside her, Renault had already plucked a cucumber from the shelf, as thick as HK416's forearm, and started gnawing on it.

"Mm, it tastes good, and there's no problem eating it. Although these plants grow a bit fast, the taste hasn't changed at all."

Chewing on the cucumber, Renault commented, his eyes now on the watermelons on the ground.

"Of course, there's no problem! These were carefully cultivated by me and NZ75! Oh no! That's not the issue! Commander, look at those frames! If this continues, the cultivation tanks in the farm will be crushed by these vegetables and fruits!"

"Uh, then let's pick them first, and later, find some radiation-proof crates to pack them and send them to Gentiane's place."

Since these surplus vegetables and fruits would be forgotten here anyway, it was better to send them to those in need.

As for why they were sent to Gentiane instead of the impoverished people who couldn't even afford a meal, it was because his area was a deserted area within a radius of a dozen kilometers, and finding a living person there was almost as difficult as quitting smoking on the spot.

On the other hand, Gentiane's place not only had direct trains routes, but the trains were also freight trains, making transportation very convenient.

"Uh, Commander, should we charge for them?"

"Forget about charging. These are just vegetables that can't be eaten. But if they want more next time, they'll have to pay."

Seeing the smile on Renault's face, HK416 rolled her eyes.

Renault was just doing whatever he thought of.

He was just pondering how to build a spaceship, and now he was already thinking about selling the vegetables they grew at Griffin's place.