Summer 1st-2nd of the first year

The change of seasons was sudden; overnight, the crops on the farm withered, and the orange wildflowers, like miniature suns, cast varying shades of light on the emerald green grass.

You swing your axe to chop down the branches and weeds that appear in the field, followed by the "pickled vegetables," preparing for the planting of summer crops.

It was still early, so after tidying up the field, we went to peep on rabbits, chickens, ducks, sheep, and cows.

Rabbits feel the most comfortable to touch, as soft as a cotton candy; chicken and duck feathers feel a bit oily, but are still fluffy and smooth; goat fur feels a bit rough and stiff, not as comfortable to touch as cow fur.

When the sun was high in the sky, Pierre's place finally opened its doors to visitors. You went to Pelican Town and bought over a hundred summer seeds, which you planted from noon until night.

On a whim, I wanted to make the summer fields look nicer, but after much deliberation, it seems to be much more messy than simply planting in neat rows. Sigh.

The live stream still shows as "off," and there's no "start live" button; I can only wait.

You were thinking of rushing to blast a few layers of ore, but then you realized that the show might start streaming again at any time, and you'd have to go down into the mine even if you didn't want to. So you suddenly got lazy and decided to go to sleep first and deal with blasting the mine tomorrow.

The next morning, you open your eyes and check the live stream status—it's not live. You can continue to relax. If there's nothing urgent, going to the beach to daydream and enjoy the scenery is also a good idea!

With that in mind, you leisurely stroll through the living room, open the refrigerator to grab a strawberry, check the weather forecast, and admire the paintings hanging on the wall until nine o'clock before leaving the house.

As a result, even though you don't look for work, things come looking for you. Villagers are standing at your door early in the morning asking for your help.

Mingming seemed to have been standing at the door for a while, but she didn't show any signs of impatience. Instead, she was quite pleased with herself for taking a picture of the plush rabbit in front of your door and was carefully editing it.

“Good morning, Mr. Iridium Rabbit Paw.” Mingming put away her phone and explained, “This doll has had very low sales since it went on sale for Easter, but I absolutely will not lower the price to let Pierre make the lion’s share, so I hope this ‘buyer feedback’ will be of some use…”

“The good news is that I have a new money-making project now.” Mingming smiled and said, “I’m training goats to greet people, but their attention is not on me at all unless I attract them with their favorite cave carrots.”

"Bring some cave carrots to my shop between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., and as a reward, I'll pick out a good pig for you next time, how about that?"

You think it's great? Cave radishes are the kind of scraps that are second only to tree sap when you don't have enough space in your backpack while mining and need to throw things away. If you could exchange them for a high-yield pig, wouldn't that be a huge profit?

After Mingming left, you quickly grabbed a cave radish from the wooden box in front of the door and put it in your backpack.

This radish is very thin and looks like it has an earthy smell. The tops are also prickly, but since goats like to eat it, it must be quite sweet? However, humans may not be able to understand the taste of cyber herbivores.

There was still a while before 9 o'clock, so you went to pet the rabbits and ducks first, and then peeked into the fruit bat cave—there were only two bunches of American raspberries, the yield was really terrible.

Continuing my walk towards the pasture, I saw that the pine trees in the field on the left had grown into a forest, but I didn't want to use bombs to clear them out completely for the time being, so I decided to cut down a few trees first, hoping to gain some gathering experience along the way.

"Thump, thump, thump, thump, crack—"

A tree trunk as thick as two people could hug fell and broke into several pieces of wood, which flew towards you with a series of "dududu" sounds before disappearing. This job was so addictive that you would not realize it was past the time the ranch opened.

Chopping trees is not only stress-relieving, but also great exercise. When you first arrive in Stardew Valley, you don't know how to chop trees, relying entirely on the axe to guide your movements. Each chop requires a jump, arm raised and swung, and after a few repetitions, your logging technique becomes increasingly "standard." If you hadn't later been buying lumber directly for building houses, you'd probably be a muscleman by now… No offense to musclemen, but for a shut-in like me, this physique is just too much…

While the golden axe's tree-cutting effect wasn't as dramatic as the iridium axe's, it still far exceeded the normal tree-cutting speed, quickly clearing out a large area.

You wipe away non-existent sweat and realize it's almost noon, so you hurry to the pasture.

Tuesday is the day the ladies get together to exercise. Mingming should have already left by now, but that's okay. Delivering the cave radishes to her won't be affected by her schedule.

Summer is a great time for sea fishing, so after leaving the underworld, you head straight to the beach, intending to catch the various summer fish needed for the sacrifice.

Pufferfish are the most difficult to catch, especially since your fishing level is only level 4 and you can't even buy a fishing rod that can hold a wooden plug float or a trap float. It really tests your skills... Luckily, your fishing skills are pretty good.

You plan to first go to Willie's to buy some trout soup and gain a fishing level that's better than nothing, then try your luck. If all else fails, you'll wait until tomorrow when Mingming goes to work to grind some code and get some sea bubble pudding.

Plans can't keep up with changes. You've just stepped from the coal mining forest into the town when suddenly you find yourself in front of a hospital ward.

Looking through the doorway, you see a pale, thin young woman lying on a hospital bed. She is struggling to sit up, trying to comfort her crying baby in the stroller.

But the woman was too weak to care for another fragile little life. She collapsed by the bedside and never got up again.

Her husband, looking flustered, rushed in, picked her up, and called for medical staff repeatedly. Soon, only the baby's cries were fading and you, looking like a ghost, remained in the ward.

...What should we do now!

Having no experience with children, you peered over and looked at the baby from left to right, but aside from recognizing that the baby with the sea urchin-shaped head was probably Fushiguro Megumi, you couldn't figure it out. In the end, the nurse came in and changed Megumi's diaper.

The nurses pushed the stroller out of the ward and looked after the baby while on night duty, but the big, intimidating-looking father didn't come back to pick up the child until late into the night.

She asked a colleague to inquire and learned that the child's mother had died two hours earlier despite attempts to save her, and the father was currently missing.

The call bell rang again. Due to a shortage of staff, the nurse had to leave Hui, who was already asleep, alone while she dragged her tired feet to serve the patient.

Not long after she left, a furtive figure appeared beside the stroller.

Four options pop up in front of you:

One option is to not interfere and believe that Shen'er will find Hui.

Another one is: helping this person cover their tracks, and later a kind police officer adopted Hui.

Another one is: it attracted the attention of security guards who stopped it and helped the nurse find Shen Er.

The last one is: he pretended to be a ghost to scare Hui, causing him to smother Hui to death and prematurely ending Hui's tragic life.

You thought you were just here to observe Megumi Fushiguro's past, but you never expected to have to make choices, especially crucial ones that seem to affect the fate of Megumi Fushiguro in this timeline?!

First, let's eliminate the last one. To avoid a future tragedy where Fushiguro Megumi's life ends abruptly at the very beginning, no normal person would do that, right?

But the other three are harder to choose from. First of all, if you do nothing, Hui's fate will follow the original trajectory: losing her mother in childhood, losing her father in childhood, entering the Jujutsu High School in her teens for her comatose sister, then being possessed by Ryoumen Sukuna, killing the teacher who adopted her, and finally letting go of everything under the force of a forced happy ending.

The second option seems pretty good at first glance. Although it involves helping a bad guy, he should be caught, and then Megumi can get a reliable adoptive father, stay away from the world of sorcery, and live a normal and happy life like an ordinary person... right?

It's unlikely. Megumi's world is different from his adoptive father's, making him difficult to understand. Moreover, if his talent for sorcery and his techniques are discovered, without Gojo Satoru's help, the situation could become even worse. Therefore, this option might be a trap.

The third option is very similar to the first, the difference being when Hui returns to Shen'er's side, but what changes it will lead to is unknown. This option has a lot of uncertainty and doesn't seem like a good choice.

After much deliberation, you feel that even if the outcome may still be unsatisfactory, you still want to try to change it.

You chose to help Hui return to Shen's protection as soon as possible, even though the man was so grief-stricken over the loss of his wife that he had no heart to care for his son.

The storyline for Megumi Fushiguro's 2-heart encounter is longer than the others you've experienced, but it still doesn't show you the full story. Perhaps the ending won't be unlocked until you reach 4 hearts, or even 10 or 14 hearts.

You're unsure how far your relationship with Fushiguro Megumi will go, but it's unlikely to lead to marriage because he's not your type. Probably a maximum of 8 hearts.

Next, you recall what you were going to do before the story began, and you successfully remember that you were going to go fishing at the beach, so you continue running forward and turn right to cross the bridge.

As soon as you enter the beach, you see Hisahito Itadori's figure. He runs past you at high speed, jumps over the school gate, and disappears into the corridor.

You instinctively followed to find out what was going on. However, given the huge difference in their speeds, by the time he jumped out of the teaching building window, you were still climbing the stairs.

Fortunately, you still managed to catch the famous scene. Ryoumen Sukuna, who had successfully been taken advantage of, tore open his shirt under the moonlight. Next, he was supposed to give his standard villain speech—but things took a dramatic turn when you appeared at the window high up in the teaching building.

Suddenly, the two Sukuna turned around and met your gaze, saying uncontrollably, "Uh, you're Iridium Rabbit Foot, right?"

His face contorted as he tried to control himself but quickly failed, and he continued, “I’m just enjoying the weather, Iridium Rabbit Foot.”

Fushiguro Megumi: "???"

"Hey, wanna try it out?" Ryoumen Sukuna's face grew increasingly terrifying, but he suddenly vomited out a long, thin object and threw it at you.

You instinctively blocked it, sending that disgusting thing flying.

"Nice shot~" Suddenly, a figure appeared outside the window. It turned out to be Ms. Gojo, who had sneaked out to buy daifuku and finally arrived late.

He caught the two Sukuna fingers that you had knocked away, and the cursed object retrieval operation was successfully completed.

After experiencing two heart-stopping scenes involving two different characters, and both scenes were so thrilling, you felt a little tired and decided to just cast a few lines and call it a day to go home and get some rest.

As a result, you stumbled into the third part of the story, this time in the authentic Stardew Valley style. Willie introduces you to the bait in his shop that smells good for seven weeks and asks if you've caught a lot of fish.

You would of course answer "yes," but this is the time you feel most guilty, since you haven't touched a fishing rod since you caught all the sacrificial fish that can be caught in the spring.

Willie got the answer he wanted and smiled happily, but soon a worried look appeared on his face as he said that business hadn't been good lately.

“My fish sales haven’t been as good since the old community center closed… I have to work twice as long to support my family! I don’t have time for myself anymore…”

"Excuse me," you couldn't help but interrupt, "If I remember correctly, you can fix the ship in one night if you just call Robin, right? Do you have to work three days on and four days off to have time to fix the ship to Jiang Island?"

Willie's beard twitched, and he said awkwardly, "Oh, well, I have to say... this isn't a big city."

He confessed, "The truth is, I can't find the materials to repair the ship, young man. Even Robin wouldn't use her axe to chop two hundred pieces of hardwood, let alone iridium ingots... Who would actually give me such a precious metal just to go to a deserted island with nothing? The resort has been abandoned for ages!"

“But the fish there are good,” you advised. “Why don’t you open the back door of the shop soon? I’ll bring the boat repair materials quickly. I’ll buy the boat tickets, I’ll build the resort, and you can go fishing for valuable summer sea fish all year round. Wouldn’t that be great!”

You've kept most of the hardwood on the farm uncut, and you've also accumulated some in your chest. Go to the Secret Forest and the bottom left corner of the farm a few more times to cut down some more, and it won't be too difficult to gather two hundred hardwood.

The other materials are not needed in large quantities; you can just go to Mingming's place and do some coding, which is even simpler.

Unfortunately, Willie remained unmoved. Of course, he might have wanted to go fishing on Jiang Island earlier, but the game settings didn't allow it. In any case, you reappeared in the fish shop, continued to buy trout soup that could improve your fishing level, and drank it after reaching your fishing spot.

The product description for the trout soup states that it is very salty, and it tastes even more so, to the point of being nauseatingly salty, as if it were made directly from seawater. The initial taste is bitter, and only after rinsing your mouth with several bottles of energy drinks do you realize how salty it is, making your tongue numb – it's so salty it can practically destroy your sense of taste.

You spat and pulled out your fishing rod again, and started fishing!

Of all the sacrificial fish, you're least adept at catching pufferfish. Ironically, this fish has an even lower hook-up rate than catfish, and you can only catch it for a shorter time than with a largemouth bass. That afternoon, you only had one chance to catch it, but the cunning pufferfish escaped.

Unfortunately, I had no choice but to give up for now and try again next time.

You see Gojo Satoru and Iori on the beach. They are far apart, but that doesn't stop Gojo Satoru from teasing Iori to the point of exasperation.

Ankagi looked like she wanted to run away, but the time wasn't right yet. She could only take a deep breath in front of the sea for a while, then tear up the drawing paper filled with accusations against someone and start over.

You hesitated for a few seconds, but decided to go find Gojo Satoru first to find out what was going on. After all, you were busy fishing and didn't understand what kind of conflict had occurred between them.

[Gojo Satoru is busy playing the guitar]

After looking at it again and again, I was quite certain that what Gojo Satoru was holding was a somewhat familiar paintbrush, covered in sand, and it didn't resemble a guitar at all.

Okay, no need to ask, you roughly know.

Send Gojo Satoru a bowl of trout soup so he can also taste the bitterness of being too salty.

Gojo Satoru grinned as he took the trout soup, pretending to take a big gulp, but actually covered it all up with shamelessness, not getting a single drop in. He said Jody had bought this soup before, and for a whole week he used it as salt—it was incredibly awful!

After your prank failed, you returned to the farm and threw the rest of the trout soup into the shipping box, deciding to go find Mingming tomorrow to make sea snail pudding, which should taste much better than trout soup... right?

That night, your fishing level reached 5. Whether you chose the "Fisherman" or "Hunter" skill was irrelevant to you. What was more surprising was the sap collector recipe that you unlocked at level 3, because the collected sap could not only be used for sacrifices, but also as a material for making looms, buckets, and beehives!

In your sleep, you vaguely feel the ground shaking, and at the same time, a notification sound that seems like a hallucination suddenly rings out.

—The streamer you follow, "Yixing Rabbit's Foot," has started broadcasting—