On the first day of the internal testing of "Taohuayuan", the response was quite good.

What this means specifically is that the number of people crying and begging Xu Piao on her homepage to quickly open the public beta has doubled compared to yesterday, or they want her to open another wave of internal beta, saying that 30,000 accounts are really too few.

This was a very normal situation, and Xu Piao just glanced at it and passed it by.

She planned to schedule the public beta test before the start of her collaboration with Lake. She estimated that the time spent collaborating with Lake on the chicken-killing game wouldn't be too short, so opening Peach Blossom Spring at that time would help maintain the game's popularity.

At that time, the beginning of the Lich expansion pack of "Shan Hai Lu" was almost released, and the concept of "saint" was also introduced. By the time she started to participate in the production of the chicken-killing game, it should have been when the conflict between the Lich and the Lich intensified.

Well, in this way, the demon heaven represented by Donghuang Taiyi, which was pulled out for emergency response when attacked by Unicorn Company last time, can also serve as the introduction to the next activity.

After thinking about this, Xu Piao nodded with satisfaction, making a draft in his mind and scribbling out the schedule bit by bit.

"Someone just bought 500 resurrection pills." 079, who was helping her pay attention to everything in the game world, suddenly told her.

Xu Piao shifted his focus a little from the event planning. "What's going on?"

079 passed the information to her skillfully.

Xu Piao looked down and found that it was a player named Hewlett... She seemed to have some impression of this name. He was a host in the strategy area. He seemed to have often released some strategy guides for "Shan Hai Lu" before, and he also liked to explore the background story of the game.

If Xu Piao remembered correctly, the host made the analysis that the human race would prosper in the future in "Records of Mountains and Seas".

This is the type of player that the producer likes most.

But what was this player going to do with 500 resurrection pills? And so far, this was the first beta tester to buy a resurrection pill.

——Xu Piao had not originally planned to make money from the internal test, and the internal test data would be deleted when the public beta was launched, so she only put one product, the resurrection pill, in the store to prevent players from accidentally eating poisonous seafood and mushrooms.

Could it be that someone in "Record of Mountains and Seas" is so used to hoarding things that they even hoard resurrection pills?

Xu Piao flipped through the game record of the player named Hewlett with some doubts, and fell silent after reading it.

Hewlett's initial game route is still very normal, just following the land's novice tutorial process.

But there was a small problem when it came to picking mushrooms.

After picking up a bunch of mushrooms, he went back and cooked them all. He insisted on doing all the cooking by himself and did not turn on the automatic cooking mode even once. In Xu Piao's settings, as long as the automatic mode was turned on even once, the mushrooms would never be uncooked.

As for this player, although he picked up mushrooms strictly according to the illustrations and did not pick up any poisonous mushrooms that were inedible, all the mushrooms in his pot were not cooked!

Then, as expected, the player died after eating this pot of mushrooms.

...If it only came this far, it would just be an accident.

But after Hewlett took the resurrection pill and was resurrected, he frowned and pondered for a while, muttering to himself, "Why did I die?"

Then, as if he had suddenly made up his mind to find out which kind of mushroom had caused his death, he cooked each of the remaining mushrooms separately with a serious face. If the mushrooms were gone, he would go and pick more. If he died, he would take resurrection pills to revive him.

He even considered the possibility that it was caused by a combination of two different types of mushrooms, and came up with permutations of two, three, and four.

In this way, he died and was resurrected.

The land had told Hewlett several times, hesitantly, "Except for a few species, mushrooms must be cooked before they can be eaten, especially wild mushrooms..."

Finally, Hewlett said very seriously, "Even so, I have to find out what kind of mushroom I died from eating."

"And my actions are not meaningless." Hewlett held up the small sign on which he recorded the characteristics and dangers of each mushroom.

The land sighed and didn't try to persuade him anymore.

This is the whole story of purchasing 500 resurrection pills at one time.

Xu Piao was very moved after reading the player's game record. After thinking about it for a while, he added an achievement in the game specifically for this player's behavior.

After a long time, Hewlett, who was still in the game, eating mushrooms and recording their characteristics with a research mentality, died and resurrected many times. Suddenly, two golden system notifications popped up in front of his eyes one after another.

[Congratulations, you've completed the achievement [Died 200 Times Eating Mushrooms] and earned the special title [Shennong Yunnan Farmer]. Wearing this title increases your ability to identify unknown mushrooms by 40%]

[Congratulations, you've completed the achievement [Died 400 Times Eating Mushrooms] and earned the special title [Mushroom God]. Wearing this title increases your ability to identify unknown mushrooms by 70%]

Because Hewlett kept dying, the only people still in his livestream were his diehard fans. Even diehard fans would get bored watching the same repetitive scenes, so they'd inevitably open another screen to watch other livestreams. Suddenly, while watching those other livestreams, out of the corner of their eyes, they caught sight of something golden flashing in Hewlett's livestream.

[Wait, something just flashed by?]

I saw it! It's a special achievement! That's awesome!

[Fuck (a plant), is this even possible?!]

[As expected of Hewlett, a boss is a boss. So all of this was calculated by the boss! ! ! ]

Hewlett didn't read the discussion on the barrage. His eyes fell on the system notification and he slowly read out the two words in the notification.

"...Shennong?"

What do these two words mean? Why do they appear in both titles?

Hewlett had a lot of doubts in his mind, but he still habitually wrote down these two words.

…

After Xu Piaojia finished, he no longer paid attention to this side. By the way, he went to check on the live broadcast room of Qinghuangbujie Xiaobaicai to understand the current progress of the normal players. He saw that he was already building the first villager's house.

It's indeed about the same progress.

The cabbage trees, which were in a period of transition, rubbed their hands expectantly as they waited for the completion of the first villager's house. No matter what they were doing, they would look over there every once in a while.

While waiting, he also made some food according to the recipe using the fish he caught and the mushrooms he dug.

Fortunately, he often uses the automatic mode when cooking, so the mushrooms were successfully cooked, leaving him no chance to use the resurrection pill.

Finally, after the cabbages were upgraded and the beach area was unlocked, and after a wave of early-ripening vegetables were harvested, the building was finally completed.

"What kind of traveler will come?"

He looked toward the land expectantly.

Land once again said it was all random and he didn't know.

Xiao Baicai waited and waited, but until the broadcast was about to end, the big yellow dog was lying quietly under a big tree at the entrance of the village and sleeping, without any sign of waking up.

He couldn't be sure that the big yellow dog would go when the traveler came, so he ran to the entrance of the cave and waited.

[Since even its appearance is random, doesn't that mean it's possible that it won't appear today?]

[Xiaobaicai is too impatient, hahaha]

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. How about this, let's go fishing and pick up some mushrooms. Maybe we'll find a traveler when we come back. It's random, isn't it? The more you want it, the less likely it is to come, and when you don't want it, it will come.

[Damn it, what kind of truth is this! This is what happens when I draw cards. There are so many partners I don't have, but the ones that appear in golden light are the ones I do have!]

When Xiao Baicai, who was in a difficult situation, saw these comments, he felt that this was indeed the case. After looking into the cave for a few times, he tentatively turned around and prepared to return to the village.

——I looked back four or five times along the way, and I always felt that I would see someone as soon as I looked back.

"Hey, come and play with me! If there's no one else, I'd like to shamelessly go visit Grandpa Yu's house again." Xiao Baicai sighed and said until he couldn't see the cave anymore.

The barrage was full of [We also want to play with you, but we don’t have an account.jpg].

When passing by the stream, Xiaobaicai, who was in a period of transition, looked into the stream as usual and saw that the items with simple descriptions were still sinking to the bottom of the stream, and nothing new was floating down. After crossing the small bridge, he was about to continue walking forward back to the village when someone suddenly reminded him on the barrage.

[Look back! There seems to be a new wave of things floating down the stream.]

Xiao Baicai looked back and saw that the fast-flowing stream was almost flowing over the small bridge.

It was a rare opportunity to encounter refreshed items in this stream, so Xiao Baicai hurried back to the bridge, his eyes moving over the various items floating in the stream.

[A handkerchief whose owner is unknown], [a blood-stained banner with the word 'Yang' written on it], [a travelogue], [a piece of paper]...

Xiao Baicai looked around among the things, unsure what to pick up. However, urged by the comments in the comments section, "Hurry up, hurry up, it's floating away!", he reached out and scooped up the "piece of paper" closest to the shore where he was.

There seemed to be some words written on the paper, but a lot of the front and back halves were wet and smudged by water. Xiao Baicai could only see a few lines of clear handwriting - but he could not recognize the words at all, and could only barely make out a few sentences relying on the system's translation.

"The clams are half-cooked and contain wine, the crabs are slightly raw and contain dregs. These are the great beauty of all things, to satisfy my old gourmet*..." He read out a few sentences marked by the system, but he felt that this sentence also seemed confusing.

After Xiao Baicai fished out the piece of paper, all the other things had slowly drifted away. He saw an exquisite fan floating behind him, which looked very beautiful. He felt a little regretful that he had only fished out such a wet piece of paper.

But since I've already gotten the money, there's nothing I can do.

Xiao Baicai shook her head, turned around and stood up with the paper, preparing to leave the river.

——But suddenly I heard an unfamiliar voice coming from the bridge behind me.

"Huh? Why do I seem to hear someone reciting my fu?"

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Note*: Ode to the Gourmet by Su Shi