Jiang Heng's apartment was a penthouse with a total area of nearly a thousand square meters.
One-fourth of it was indoors, but the interior had two floors, adding up to five hundred square meters.
The outdoor portion was over seven hundred square meters. Excluding the outdoor swimming pool and the air car landing platform, there was still about an acre of open space. Originally these were gardens and lawns, but Jiang Heng had transformed them all into greenhouses.
An acre of land doesn't sound like much, but it's actually enough to grow quite a few vegetables and fruits, especially since Jiang Heng was only growing them for himself, not to sell. An acre of land was more than enough.
Moreover, the most important thing was that Jiang Heng's greenhouses had high-tech enhancements, such as temperature control systems, irrigation systems, and so on. The technology of this world was far more advanced than what Jiang Heng had come from.
With the aid of these technologies, crops in the greenhouse grew very quickly, and as long as the growth conditions were met, they could produce yields regardless of the season.
This was why Jiang Heng was already able to eat some fresh vegetables just a month after arriving in Night City.
The maturation cycle for white radishes is generally around fifty days, but Jiang Heng's greenhouse could shorten it to thirty days.
As for lettuce, scallions, garlic sprouts, chives, and so on, they grew even faster.
In fact, besides vegetables, Jiang Heng also planted some fruits, such as grapes and strawberries.
In Night City, ordinary food was rare, let alone fruits.
It would still take some time for the fruits to bear fruit, however.
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After touring the vegetable garden for a while, Jiang Heng took the opportunity to tell Lucy about the real business.
"By the way, Lucy, Rogue said she has some work suitable for us. I'm planning to go to Afterlife to meet her tonight. Will you come with me?"
Upon hearing this, Lucy hesitated for a moment before replying: "I'll come with you. Since we're a team now, we should naturally work together."
Actually, Lucy wasn't very keen on going to crowded places. After all, with so many people, it was hard to keep track of everyone. In this city, there were company informants everywhere. Who knows if there were any Arasaka people among them?
However, when Jiang Heng invited her, Lucy didn't want to refuse.
"That's great. Let's take the tram later."
"Okay. By the way, you're rich enough to live in a place like this, why are you still taking the tram?" Lucy suddenly asked.
"It's simple. I don't have a driver's license."
"..." Lucy's mouth slightly opened, her face full of shock.
What, there were people who actually obeyed traffic regulations in Night City?
"No, what's with that expression?" Jiang Heng looked at Lucy's bewildered expression and couldn't help asking.
Lucy: "Nothing, I just didn't expect you to be a law-abiding good citizen."
"Haha, that's right. I've always been like this. I think the government should give me an 'Excellent Citizen' certificate of honor." Jiang Heng said with a smile.
"Yes, an excellent citizen who goes around being a mercenary." Lucy rolled her eyes at him.
"I'm doing justice, taking on missions mostly related to criminal gangs. I'm, uh, a city hero!"
"Hehe, I believe you, really!"
"..."
As they chatted and laughed, the relationship between them unconsciously became closer.
At nine o'clock that night, Jiang Heng and Lucy left their apartment and took the tram to Afterlife nightclub.
This time of night was considered the peak traffic hour in Night City. After all, it was Night City. Their nightlife was incredibly rich.
Looking at the crowded carriage, Jiang Heng couldn't help but say: "It seems like it's time to get a car. Maybe I'll need one for missions in the future."
Previously, when Jiang Heng went on missions, he either took the tram or called for a Delamain car service. But no matter which one, it wasn't as convenient as driving yourself.
"Do you know how to drive? I'm telling you, I'm not going to be your driver." Lucy immediately said.
Although current cars had automatic driving systems, sometimes in emergency situations, it was still better to have a human at the wheel.
Especially in the mercenary business, if you were being chased, you needed to judge road conditions and change your route at any time, and the automatic driving system simply couldn't handle that.
"Come on, even though I don't have a driver's license, I know how to drive, okay!" Jiang Heng said helplessly. He did know how to drive, because he had gotten his license in college. And both the world he came from and Night City were right-hand drive, so traffic regulations were mostly the same.
Besides, in a place like Night City, who really cared about traffic regulations?
Lucy: "Oh~"
"No, that 'oh' you just said sounds too perfunctory. I'm telling you, your boy here is the legendary 秋名山车神, back in the day, I dominated the racing scene, even on 秋名山, I was a god who could finish a lap in under one minute thirty seconds!"
Jiang Heng said proudly, this guy was just taking advantage of Lucy not having played Penguin Racing.
"Wow~ That's so cool." Although she didn't know what 秋名山 was, Lucy still cooperated and made an expression of admiration.
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