Chapter 18 -

2 days more passed in this way, and after eating more and more the crab meat was starting to run out and he had eaten almost all the carapace pellets and fish spines, even some of the crabs' organs after washing them and per Rose's recommendation also the reproductive organs that made him last a bit more, his bones and muscles already felt much stronger, Inky was also getting stronger though so the difference wasn't much noted, on this day he started the worm farm and grass farm, he had also accumulated a lot of compost and some batches of lettuce that had grown really fast, the potatoes, carrots, garlic, and spice bushes would still require a lot more months, but it was progress.

He gets serious and also started creating ropes with lots of kelps seedlings attached and the same for mussels, and at the bottom, metallic boxes with small holes for the water to flow, full of clams for them to grow, all stacked in granite shelves, with Inky and his exoesqueletons strength now they had a long term food source secured, he also installed more hidden cameras and motion sensors around the perimeter, they would only record if they detected movement and send him an alert with the videos and the dates, he specially also set up an articulated long distance camera on a hill looking at the snake forest to have them controlled and record them on camera to study their behavior, also one morning without Inky knowing he went and set up cameras looking at his space ship to observe the octo people, they had built a village around his space ship by now which would make things more difficult, also infiltrating was just impossible, he could try leading a monster there and infiltrating in the confusion but it just didn't feel right with him, anyways, it was better to study them first and see their habits, on first sight, he noticed they had lookouts, that signified at least a tribal level society or higher, if his study of them went well he might try coming to trade weapons and equipment with them, maybe food if he ever growed enough, in exchange for high quality meat to evolve his body, maybe even set an store for the octopeople to come exchange stuff there.🤔

The farm and soil production were advancing nicely, he left half of the lettuce also go past harvest time so they produced flowers and seeds, there was one thing that troubled him though, pollination, on the space ship there was cryopreserved bee growing automatic packs, but even if they were still alive the sugar reserves used for feeding them the first months had already disappeared and he was still quite a distance away from producing sugar, he would have to grow the plants first, maybe even dig a third level of the base, sigh so much work he thought.

As it had become usual the past days, they exercised in the gym in the morning, worked during the day, and hugged while watching a movie at night with meals in between, with Inky trying to cook a few times but not being able to do it properly for complex things other than just frying things, and then after all that they did a 69, and when the aphrodisiac did its effect, Erik would then fuck Inky time after time, filling her and after that she would do the same, fucking his ass, it was a labor and energy costly routine so they were both eating much more too, and Erik actually noticed his body starting to build up quite some muscle after just 2 weeks, he also added the eggs to the worm and compost piles, speeding up the production of soil.

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he also tried the spaghetti like algae for pasta but they were rubbery though so he dried them and ground them to a flour but with no eggs as the chicken clams were still growing he just used the flour to coat the meat before frying it, making it have a crunchy crust, something Inky loved, he would still for need to search for new strains though, just on earth there were thousands of kinds of edible seaweed, with the most popular being the 3 Asiatic ones Wakame(https://images.app.goo.gl/g4irdkapRpdovfP76. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakame ), Nori(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyropia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nori ) and Kombu(kelp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombu ) that were grown all over the planet by now, he had kept some leaves from the gigantic ones in the serpent forest the process was simple, he patted them dry a bit, then cooled them on the fridge and then put them on a bucket with water and lots of rope made with reed and papyrus fiber that were growing nicely, cat tails were growing quickly too, once the kelp was added to the water it started releasing it's spokes and growing all over the rope, then he just hung the rope along the others outside the garage and let them grow.

"by the way, am I not using a lot of electricity?"

[hahaha, no not at all, there's lots of other bases and installations all over the planet, most of them inactive and abandoned, by the energy generation is directly monitored by me and always operating so don't worry, the dark matter generators can continue generating energy almost forever, since it's what makes the majority of the universe]

"oh... that's a relief, by the way, I need you to build something for me, I'm planning to build a nitrogen freeze cannon, it will have water inside and have a big harpoon with an enormous hook, when the nitrogen circulates freezing the water inside it will expand and the increase in pressure will be enormous, eventually rupturing in the weakest spot and launching the harpoon at high speeds, I could also use steam but heating underwater should be way more difficult than cooling"

[quite the interesting idea, but I have an even better one]

"and that is?"