The new cultivation rooms were spacious. The watermelons and potatoes here only took up about one-fifth of the space, and the other shelves were still empty.
Lin Huanyan didn’t place them in the same cultivation room. She kept them in two large rooms, as her future plan was to expand the scale and increase the varieties.
The lotus was placed in a small cultivation room, which also wasn’t fully occupied, but that wasn’t a concern— more plants would be added gradually.
The laboratory currently houses aquatic organisms, including the original magical fish and the recently spotlighted brine shrimp, which Lin Huanyan is preparing to cultivate on a large scale.
The magical fish are kept in aquariums at an appropriate density.
As for the brine shrimp, with a short growth cycle, they begin to breed after about a week. This batch of brine shrimp that Lin Huanyan has carefully raised is about to start laying eggs.
Lin Huanyan separates them into several large tanks as she plans to breed brine shrimp on a large scale for commercial sale.
The magical fish, however, have a long growth cycle that takes several months. Lin Huanyan plans to wait until the fry grow large enough to breed and then consider selling them.
Therefore, the brine shrimp’s one-week growth period is just the right timing to utilize.
With the biological breeding base arranged, the black hole research lab also needs to be organized.
This will eventually become Lin Huanyan’s private research lab, a main hub dedicated to biological research, while the biological breeding base is clearly meant for plant cultivation.
Some species, like the stone flower, white peony, and kumquat tree, which only have one specimen, are left at the research lab.
After they mature and successfully reproduce, Lin Huanyan will consider moving some to the breeding base.
Since there aren’t many remaining plants, the main laboratory has enough space to accommodate them, so Lin Huanyan simply sealed off a few rooms that had only recently opened.
She had underestimated the pace of interstellar development. The high-end planting robots she bought earlier are now unnecessary, so she sent them to the breeding base to continue taking care of the plants there.
In addition to the robots, Lin Huanyan instructed the interns, who were also relocated to the breeding base, to divide up the tasks and each take care of some plants, observing and tending to the organisms daily.
Lin Huanyan wrote down the cultivation methods for each species and sent them to the interns.
This not only ensures the organisms are well cared for and any unexpected issues are noticed early, but also helps the interns quickly familiarize themselves with the organisms, which will be useful for future work.
The biological base is well-arranged, and the shipping routes and logistics are ready to be used. Now, only the star network shop remains to be officially launched.
In the past few days, the mature watermelons were harvested and stored in the storage room.
Except for a small portion given to shareholders and kept by Lin Huanyan herself, there are still a lot left, filling up half a room.
It’s time to sell them.
So, Lin Huanyan spent the entire day working on the star network shop.
There wasn’t much to do, just choosing an appealing interface, listing the products to sell, setting prices, and writing product details.
The products to be listed were easy to select since Lin Huanyan had already chosen them earlier, given the limited number of items available for sale from the breeding base.
The watermelons are one, the bowl lotus another, and then the brine shrimp, which are about to lay another batch of eggs.
Lin Huanyan quickly finished the setup, as the prices had already been discussed and agreed upon in the shareholder meeting, so she didn’t have to worry about them.
Watermelons are sold by individual piece, divided into large, medium, and small categories based on weight. The price is 1 million star coins for a large watermelon, 950,000 for a medium one, and 900,000 for a small one.
The price isn’t very low, but it’s not high either. For an average family in the empire, it would take several years’ worth of salary to buy one.
However, the price can’t be lowered for now. After all, they are pollution-free plants, and they can’t be sold cheaper than pure-grade plants. Even though Lin Huanyan agreed, other shareholders wouldn’t approve of lowering the price.
This price is the result of her best effort to negotiate.
The bowl lotus is sold as seeds, which have been purified by Lin Huanyan’s abilities to prevent contamination, and come with a specially formulated nutrient solution designed to meet their growth needs.
Of course, a cultivation bottle and nutrient soil are also included.
A set includes three seeds, priced at 200,000 star coins.
Finally, there’s the brine shrimp. The brine shrimp eggs can be dried and stored, and the breeding base processes them into dried eggs, packaged in small bottles with around 1 gram of eggs per bottle. The set also includes nutrient liquid, a breeding bottle, and a hatching salt.
Since brine shrimp naturally thrive in salt fields and salt lakes on land, their environment needs to be carefully replicated for breeding.
The lifespan of brine shrimp is only 9 days, and they cannot breed outside of the laboratory, meaning the effectiveness of this batch will only last for 9 days. However, they are zero-pollution creatures, which sets them apart from zero-pollution plants.
Taking all factors into consideration, the price for brine shrimp is set at 100,000 star coins.
Simply claiming that they are zero-pollution organisms with beneficial effects for mental disorders wouldn’t convince anyone. Therefore, after writing a basic introduction, Lin Huanyan also included the relevant certificates issued by the Imperial Research Institute.
After finishing this, it was time to deal with the troublesome interface design choices.
Lin Huanyan had initially planned to go through all the options and choose the one she liked best. However, after browsing through several pages, she realized there were too many options and could not decide.
Then, the few options she had initially selected as candidates couldn’t be found anymore. In the end, she had no choice but to give up the others and reluctantly settled on the one design she liked the most.
This design has a plant theme. She wasn’t sure which planet the plants were from, but they looked beautiful. The fresh green background and the lovely plants painted on it perfectly matched the shop’s theme.
The StarNet shops have several entry options: 2D is the regular interface with flat images, 3D allows you to click on products and rotate them for a closer view.
The holographic entry is the latest technology and the favorite of the StarNet people.
It simulates a street, similar to real-world streets, with shops located along it. The products for sale are displayed inside the shops, and customers can go in and browse freely.
This way, customers can easily explore products and enjoy the experience of shopping without leaving their homes.
After choosing the design, Lin Huanyan clicked to preview it.
Her shop was located in the most prominent spot on the virtual street. The design she selected automatically turned into the floor, walls, and even the furniture, all matching the same theme.
Since there were too few products, the shop looked a bit empty. Lin Huanyan thought for a moment and opened the shop’s decoration function.
The dazzling golden SSSVIP almost blinded her.
It was obvious that this was a creation of the Carla family. As the operators of StarNet, they had these permissions, which were nothing for them.
But it was convenient for Lin Huanyan. She flipped through the furniture list and started selecting decorations that matched the shop’s theme.
After gently selecting and confirming, an identical home decoration from the list appeared in front of her. She then placed it in a suitable spot.
Lin Huanyan grew happier as she placed more items. It felt like an upgraded version of a decorating game—so much fun.
Finally, the AI’s reminder brought her back to reality. Lin Huanyan decorated her shop with the most satisfying ornaments she had chosen.
Looking at her newly decorated shop, Lin Huanyan reluctantly logged out.
The StarNet shop was done, but she still had other things to do.
In preparation for tomorrow’s shop opening, she had to work with the interns at the biological cultivation base to pack tomorrow’s products for the logistics team to handle.
Since none of them had done this before, it took them all afternoon to finish packing the products.
There was no choice; for now, they were the only ones available. The other staff hadn’t arrived yet, so they had to do it.
However, Lin Huanyan was generous, and everyone who helped received generous rewards.
After a busy and tense day, the next day was the grand opening of the StarNet shop. Lin Huanyan went to bed with a mix of excitement, anticipation, joy, anxiety, and unease.
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translation works:
ARTTEDSBGT (After Rebirth The True Eldest Daughter Starts Brewing Green Tea):
main story – completed translating
extras/side stories – i still dont have money and account to access this
ATISIUP:
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