Having helped process several fish, Niu Niu excitedly raised her hand. "Big Sis, can I help you feed the moose, too?"

Jiang Si smiled. "Of course."

A box and a net bag full of groupers yielded about twenty-two pounds of innards after cleaning.

Jiang Si packed the innards into a bucket and, holding Niu Niu’s hand, returned to the Icebreaker.

On the monitor, the mother moose in the lower hold was nursing her calves.

The fodder they had put out yesterday was almost gone.

In addition to feeding them, Jiang Si and Niu Niu also needed to clean the pen and clear the air in the hold.

When she noticed them appear, the mother moose shot to her feet, her dark eyes filled with anxiety and tension.

Jiang Si and Niu Niu did their best to muffle their footsteps as they approached, quietly tossing the food into a separate, adjacent pen.

The scent of the grouper innards immediately drew the mother moose’s attention. Her massive body kept shifting toward the other pen.

The little calves moved along with her.

Jiang Si connected the gate to the entrance of the new pen. Only after all preparations were complete did she open the final barrier, allowing the mother moose to move into the other enclosure.

With the two little calves trailing after their mother, Jiang Si and Niu Niu grabbed brooms and other cleaning supplies to deal with the droppings.

The droppings from three moose were quite substantial. Since the Icebreaker’s temperature was maintained at around eighteen degrees Celsius, the smell had become quite strong in less than a day.

But there was no helping it. The lower hold lacked an air circulation system and a trough for direct waste disposal.

Any hasty modifications to the Icebreaker’s structure could interfere with its normal operation.

To avoid this risk, Jiang Si had already asked her father to figure out how to build a waste collection trough.

Of course, the best way to raise moose was to let them roam free.

They were already adapted to the extreme cold. If they were let out during the day to do their business, then returned at night, it would reduce the amount of waste inside.

It would make life easier for the humans and keep the air fresher.

However, the calves were still too little. Once their immune systems were a bit stronger, they could be let out to wander.

Jiang Si and Niu Niu cleaned up about fifty-five pounds of droppings, which would later be moved to a fermentation tank to be used as fertilizer for the crops.

Just as they finished and breathed a sigh of relief, Niu Niu exclaimed in pleasant surprise, "Big Sis, the mother moose ate all the innards!"

An adult moose needed about sixty-six pounds of fodder a day. After finishing off twenty-two pounds of innards, the mother moose looked like she’d just had a special treat and glanced at them, still seemingly wanting more.

Niu Niu said excitedly, "Big Sis, she stuck her tongue out at us! She must want more. I’ll go fishing again and get her more innards!"

Jiang Si smiled. "Alright, but you have to promise to be safe."

Niu Niu nodded happily. "Thank you, Big Sis!"

After eating the food they provided, the mother moose was no longer so agitated. She even let them pet her calves through the pen’s fence.

The newborn calves were fluffy and wonderful to the touch. Well-behaved and unafraid of people, they were filled with curiosity about the two humans.

The little white calf even stuck out its tongue and gave Jiang Si’s palm a lick.

The wet touch tickled.

The gray calf was a male, and the white one was a female. When she grew up, she would surely be a first-rate beauty just like her mother.

Jiang Si gave them some more fodder and let the hold air out a little longer before closing the hatch and returning to the main deck with Niu Niu.

After they both changed their clothes, Niu Niu eagerly rushed off to chisel a hole in the ice for fishing.

Seeing Jiang Si return alone, Shen Baoying, who was in the middle of curing fish, asked, "Where’s Niu Niu?"

Jiang Si replied, "She went fishing again."

Zhang Qingfang looked up, worried. "How could you let her go alone? It’s too dangerous. What if she falls through the ice?"

Jiang Si shook her head. "Big Black and Little Black are with her. She’s also wearing a life jacket and has a walkie-talkie. If she yells, we’ll all be able to hear her. She’ll be fine. Don’t forget, this is the apocalypse. Courage and guts are what she’ll need to truly survive."

Hearing Jiang Si’s words, Shen Baoying’s heart ached for all the suffering the girl must have endured in her past life.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t be so strict about the survival skills everyone had to master.

’Thankfully, in this life, she has Qin Shen. He understands her, stays by her side, and can warm her heart.’

Zhang Qingfang was still worried. "I’ll go check on her in a little while. But still, that’s so many fish. If we catch this many every day, where are we going to put them all?"

Jiang Si laughed. "This world of ice and snow is the best freezer. The temperature is so low, they’ll keep for a year or two without any trouble. We can just leave them out."

Zhang Qingfang chuckled. "And you’re not afraid of attracting wild animals?"

Shen Baoying was also concerned. "Exactly. We’ve already got moose and Snow Monkeys. What if White Tigers and wild wolves show up next?"

’It’s true... there is a White Tiger...’

’But with Qin Shen around, any other beast that wants to try its luck would have to first consider if it’s strong enough.’

Jiang Si smiled. "Don’t worry. We’ll just pile them on the Icebreaker. They won’t dare come near."

"Besides, even if a few get snatched, there are plenty more fish in the sea. If any animals dare to come, we’ll just catch them and put them to work for us."

"Alright then."

In a single afternoon under Jiang Linhai’s leadership, they managed to pour half of the greenhouse’s concrete foundation.

The progress was remarkably fast.

At this rate, the basic structure of the greenhouse would be complete in less than a week.

"I just hope it doesn’t snow again for the next few days," Jiang Linhai said.

As long as it didn’t snow, the temperature would slowly rise. If it could stabilize at around twenty or thirty degrees Celsius, their lives would be quite comfortable, even in this world of ice and snow.

The weather forecasting equipment had long been unable to predict the apocalyptic climate; they had to rely entirely on their own estimations.

Jiang Si glanced up at the vast, cloudless sky. "It probably won’t snow. The temperature today is already a little warmer than yesterday."

Jiang Linhai smiled. "Let’s hope so."

It wasn’t that they were in a rush to build the greenhouse; they just wanted to get it done in one go so it wouldn’t be weighing on their minds.

Jiang Si handed them hot drinks, then turned to check on the radish seedlings Zhang Qingfang had planted earlier.

The radish seedlings were almost all frozen solid.

They lay limply on the ground, each plant coated in a layer of frost.

Jiang Si sighed. "I guess radishes that haven’t endured hardship can’t grow big. What a shame."

Jiang Linhai overheard her sighing. "Why don’t you go check on those few seedlings I planted over by the woods? They’ve endured some hardship. See if they’ve grown big."

Jiang Si chuckled. Just as she was about to leave, Jiang Linhai turned to Qin Shen, who was busy working hard. "You go with her. Just in case there’s any danger."

Qin Shen stood up. "Alright."

She and Qin Shen walked to the edge of the fallen woods. Looking around, all she could find was a series of monkey tracks.

Judging by the large holes where something had been pulled from the ground, Jiang Si guessed the casually planted radish seedlings had probably survived.

A single moose consumes sixty-six pounds a day,