Irina smiled with her mouth closed and ran back to the stone castle to take a stone mortar.

“Just strip off the rice grains and try using this,” Irina said. They were running out of rice, but the rice here wasn’t enough either. She wanted to leave them for planting, but in order to try pounding rice, she had no choice but to sacrifice some of these grains.

“You want to crush the rice?” Damien had a furious look on his face, and his nostrils flared.

Although planting crops was now much easier thanks to Irina and Winston’s innovations, this was his first time planting, and he had put in...