Chapter 73 What's Unscientific?! 【VIP】

Lin Chen worked diligently all night, arranging appropriate grades for each underage NPC, picking out special individuals for the system to give remedial lessons, and promoting the gravity NPC to be a discipline committee member to look after them.

Well, but Xiao Congming is still their manager. School bags, stationery, uniforms... are all prepared by Xiao Congming.

This made the players feel relieved. They had enough trouble taking care of children in the previous stage, so they didn't need to do that in this stage.

Feeling idle, Lin Chen ran to the fields to instruct the NPCs on farming. He had no sympathy for the clumsy NPC players and was a little disgusted, but he still kindly demonstrated to them how to farm.

First, the player equips the hoe and then stands back for a while. Once the grid in sight has expanded from a single grid to a 3×3 grid, the player lowers the hoe into the ground.

After a while, a large and neat piece of land was dug out by the players.

Then, he pulled out a seed he had picked up at some unknown time from his system backpack. He bent down and tossed it down. The seed was placed in the right position without any movement in the soil.

Adhering to the principle that since he had already planted a piece of land, he should plant the other hoed land, Lin Chen bent down and planted 80 seeds in the same way.

Get out your watering can and start watering until the soil is 100% moist. Drown? No, plants won't drown. They'll simply die of thirst and add stress to the player's level.

At this point, the preliminary work has been almost completed, and the next step is the most important one.

Lin Chen emphasized this to the NPCs queuing around him, and only began to demonstrate slowly after they all opened their eyes wide and pricked up their ears.

The player bent over the small mound and began to praise it, encourage his children, and imagine the future with an expressionless face.

"That's not right!" The Gravity NPC, who had been watching for a while, questioned the player's actions. "Even if I don't have any common sense, I know that no one farms like that!!"

The player turns a deaf ear to the NPC's rebellious spirit. Foolish humans, don't you know that plants also need some spiritual pursuits? Considering there is no phonograph, the player needs to talk to them one by one, otherwise they would just start playing records!

[Agricultural Skill Experience +50]

[Unlock new music score: "Botanical Fantasy"]

Lin Chen took it out without stopping and quickly read it. He rummaged through the system backpack for a while and took out the guitar, the only designated instrument in the music score, which he had also put in there at some unknown time.

The music game popped up!

The sharp-eyed players gave it a rating of great sound and beauty!

The plants around me sprouted, branched out, bloomed, and bore fruit very quickly, completing most of their lives in just a few minutes!

The NPC was stunned. When the player leisurely put away his guitar and went to pick tomatoes, he could still hear Researcher Meow next to him, muttering to a tomato that was bigger than his head.

It's probably like, "This is impossible!" "This doesn't make sense!" "Is it a problem with the soil or the seeds?"

All NPCs are the same when faced with things beyond their cognition, even if they are equipped with the most intelligent advanced AI.

Why can't we believe that it's just because of the player's superb farming skills? The NPCs are still too feudal!

"This is unscientific..." The gravity NPC seemed to be confused.

The player who had harvested all the fruits at breakneck speed, as if hearing something funny, kindly reminded the short-circuited NPC, "Your ability isn't scientific either."

The gravity NPC had an expression as if his throat was clogged with mud, and he wanted to say something but couldn't.

——

Looking at the absurd scene before him, Nakahara Chuuya felt that his worldview had been brutally shattered and reshaped.

Those people actually started to imitate him, squatting on the ground and muttering to the seeds they had just planted, like a group of lunatics.

"No," he asked Lin Chen, who was eating a tomato, "What's the principle behind this?"

Lin Chen blinked his red eyes: "Game settings."

"ha?"

"Plants need conversation to grow," the internationally wanted criminal, responsible for countless bloodbaths, explained seriously, "just like in RPGs, you have to talk to every NPC to trigger a quest."

Chuuya's mouth twitched. "This isn't a game... Wait, isn't this your ability? Why are the seeds glowing after their conversation?!"

The piles of earth that had been "talked to" by the residents were glowing with a faint golden light, and some of them even had tender green buds emerging.

Player raised his chin proudly. "See, it works."

"…Maybe I didn't sleep well last night and my eyes are blurry." Chuuya muttered.

"No." Her eyes drifted upwards, as if she were carefully examining something. "You're in excellent condition, in a good mood, looking forward to school, and vowing to maintain this wonderful life. If anyone dares to destroy it, then..."

"Alright!" He put his other hand in front of Bai's mouth and covered his face, "...Don't say anymore."

The player looked at him quietly, and beyond Chuuya Nakahara's expectation, he did not report his mental process without caring about other people's lives like a weather forecast.

And, without any explanation, she stuffed it into his mouth.

Yes, even if he said "no" it was useless. The player who returned to his nature didn't know what he did, leaving his lips without a mouth.

Nakahara Chuuya had just taken a step back out of habit when the tomato juice burst in his mouth, and a sweet taste slid down his throat.

He subconsciously took a bite and it tasted sour and sweet.

Player tilted his head to look at him and gave him a thumbs-up. "Is it delicious?"

Chuuya nodded mechanically, then realized that he had been bribed by a tomato. He was about to say something, but after thinking for a moment, he covered his face and said, "You... forget it."

Chuuya looked at this person who talked about supernatural phenomena as if they were common sense, and suddenly felt that arguing with her was a very stupid thing to do.

He looked down at the half-eaten tomato in his hand and decided to give up thinking.

Not far away, Chisa Mihara was distributing baskets with a group of children.

Children excitedly shuttled between the ridges of the fields, neatly stacking the fruits and vegetables they had picked. One girl with pigtails was holding strawberries bigger than her head, her eyes narrowed with laughter.

"Chuuya-nii!" she ran over excitedly. "Look at this!"

Chuuya took the heavy strawberry. There were still water droplets hanging on the bright red fruit, which exuded an enticing aroma.

This made him think deeply: This season is wrong, isn't it? And I only watered it once when it was still a seed, so why are there water droplets on its fruit?

Then he quickly gave up thinking and thought, forget it, maybe normal people would look at people with special abilities in the same way as he looked at Player, confused and beyond their cognitive scope.

He looked up in the direction of Player—the white-haired young man was standing in front of a golden wheat field, his red eyes slightly narrowed, a smile on his lips.

The sunlight shone on her body, giving her a golden outline.

At this moment, she looked less like the "Player" that was feared by organizations around the world, and more like an ordinary farmer immersed in the joy of a good harvest.

The next second, the farmer raised his hand with great enthusiasm and swung his sword, chopping down all the wheat. With a snap of his fingers, a huge crack appeared in the ground, and all the wheat fell into it without warning, as if attracted by the dark crack.

The happy farmer wiped the sweat from his forehead and went to the next field to harvest happily.

Well, it seems that the atmosphere is not warm at all.

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The hardworking Lin Chen is like a little bee, he opens his eyes and starts harvesting. The NPCs have gone home to sleep, but the players are still working diligently on the farm.

It was not until the seeds and ingredients reached the terrifying 9999 that Lin Chen stopped with a feeling of being unsatisfied.

Farming is so interesting, fellow! How can this simple mechanical labor be so touching, fellow?

In order to farm better, Lin Chen ran to all the factories on the island to watch the production process, obtain blueprints, and upgrade skills and technology trees.

It has lit up low- and mid-end technologies such as smart greenhouses, automated seedling cultivation, pest and disease monitoring systems, and drones, but those gray basic theoretical nodes are like an invisible wall that hinders the development of players.

She scratched her hair in annoyance - she had already unlocked the technology, but she couldn't use it because she hadn't unlocked the prerequisite knowledge of "Fundamentals of Materials Science".

Even though players know this is how the game is set up, they're still furious! So what if players can just make an atomic bomb without any physics knowledge?!

The player decides to go out and complete his original goal - to open the remaining anchor points. When playing the game, there are always so many things that attract the player's attention.

After all, games are always the most fun at the beginning, when everything is so new and interesting. It's understandable that players might stray slightly from the theme, right?

After being teleported to an underwater anchor point closest to the nearby continent, the player, who had no oxygen or endurance bars, couldn't help but catch many fish, crabs, shrimps and other marine creatures.

Only after the lost ingredients for cooking were replenished did the players regain consciousness and climb ashore.

This place is very remote and uninhabited.

But not far away you can see a factory standing there, with an anchor placed next to it, so coincidentally.

Lin Shen was overjoyed. He ran over at the speed of the old lady in the math problem, climbed over the railing lightly, squatted on the roof of the factory, and stared at the assembly line intently.

The workers were skillfully assembling silicon chips, completely unaware that a white-haired figure overhead was scanning every step with glowing eyes.

After looking around here, just walk a few steps to the next factory, and then walk a few more steps to the next factory. It is very friendly for people like Lin Chen who are learning by stealing.

A few days later, she had already covered seventeen industrial parks. Well, that was a long way off. A bunch of new application-layer technologies had been added to the system, but the underlying theory was still a mystery.

The player scratched his head, this kind of thing must be in school!

So I crawled into the last school and randomly selected a few lucky students to quickly read the textbooks.

Ah…it’s an elementary school textbook.

Never mind, at least the system search did unlock some basic knowledge.

Maintaining this action, Lin Chen drove around various schools while opening the anchor point and flipping through textbooks.

Sometimes during the day, you can also unlock the teacher's [Classroom Quick Questions and Answers] challenge game, and enthusiastic students will ask the player whether the white hair is natural.

Of course, there's only one answer to this kind of question! The player nodded firmly, confirming her guess, earning envious sighs from the surrounding student NPCs.

White hair and red eyes are the best!

However, no matter where they are, there are always NPCs with [Bluebird XXX] hanging around in front of the players. Because most of them have yellow names, they are very conspicuous among the green names.

Speculating that he might suddenly turn red and start a killing spree, Lin Chen followed the NPC all the way and practiced his stealth skills.

The NPC suddenly stopped. Did he want to eat the grilled sausage from the stall next to him?

NPC: "Who is it? Stop following me!"

Lin Shen was horrified. What? The NPC noticed the player was following her? Impossible! I was so stealthy!

NPC: "I saw you, behind the telephone pole and the fruit box. Why did you push the stall owner away? Did you think I wouldn't notice the sudden change of people?!"

Damn it! As Lin Chen collected the skewers from the grill, he thought bitterly, "The NPC has locked on me. It seems I can't escape now."

The player saw an oversized trash can.

The NPC came over and said, "What on earth are you following me for? Wait, why did you jump into the trash can? It's just because I found you, right?!"

Lin Chen did not forget his original mission under the temptation of the trash can. After flipping through it, he climbed out reluctantly and followed the NPC home.

NPC: "You stink... No, why don't you smell even though you're in the trash? This doesn't make sense!"

There was nothing scientific about it. Lin Chen took out a bouquet of gorgeous roses from the trash can and gave it to her.

NPC: "Thank you, I really like flowers... No, you dug this out of the trash can, didn't you? Don't look away, I saw you dig it out! Why are you running? Do you even know the way to my house?"

The NPC at home also has the title of [Blue Bird] on his head!

The player poked the other player, and the NPC smiled broadly, "Le Le, did you bring a friend back? Mom is so happy. Can you introduce her to me?"

By the way, why is the emotion on the mother NPC's head [Schadenfreude]?

The student NPC's expression twitched slightly, her chest heaving. After taking a deep breath, she happily threw herself into the arms of the mother NPC, "This is my new friend. She answered all the questions correctly, right, from the dean who loves to give questions beyond the syllabus!"

The player nodded continuously, it’s me, yes, it’s me!

"Yeah, that's right. I haven't asked you your name yet." The student NPC looked at her with a smile.

"My name is Lin Chen." The player answered the NPC's question while rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

Ignoring the NPCs, I stuffed everything into my backpack: [A strange photo], [a necklace from the boutique], [three Swiss rolls left], [a military knife], [a fruit bowl], [a repair kit]... Hmm? Did something strange sneak in?

"Would you like to stay here for dinner? I'm quite confident in my cooking skills." The mother NPC came over and said with a smile after exchanging maternal feelings with the student NPC.

Lin Chen immediately threw away everything that had just been in his mind and answered excitedly, "Okay!"

Then, he happily went into the kitchen with his mother. On the way, the mother reminded the student to remember to do his homework. Once inside, he closed the door to prevent smoke from escaping, and then took out the prepared ingredients from the refrigerator.

"I had already prepared them before Lele came back, so now we can just do it!"

The player watched the NPC cook and learned to make [Dragon Fruit Corn Egg Fried Rice], [Spicy Banana], [Orange Stir-fried Pork], and [Pork Intestine Durian].

You know what, I really want to try it.

The player quickly picked up the plate and poured it into his mouth, chewing it. It seemed to taste okay... Ugh.

Lin Chen put the dishes and vegetables into her backpack, leaving half of the [Dragon Fruit, Corn and Egg Fried Rice] for the NPCs. Then she left the kitchen and began to open every door she could see.

Lin Chen swept away everything like a whirlwind and flipped out of the window. He rolled before landing and ran towards the anchor point in the distance without any injury.

As for "Blue Bird" and the like, it might be a characteristic of this place, just like when you walk on the street in America you might encounter someone called "Drug Addict".