The sixteenth day since the soil erosion began.
Sun Chen's team had breakfast together at the small market in the morning and then went to farm, each completing their own responsibilities according to the previous task allocation.
After watering for the second time, An Yan was the first to react: "Huh? The humidity seems to be decreasing more slowly today!"
The team members paused when they heard the sound and looked towards the fields that had just been watered.
Sun Chen has been in charge of watering recently, but others can get a rough idea of the rate at which the moisture level is decreasing just by watching. Generally speaking, after everyone loosens the soil, the moisture level of the fields that Sun Chen initially watered will drop by about 3%-5%, but now, looking around, almost every field shows: 99%.
The health of the land that had just been dewormed was also 99%, which means that the rate of decline in moisture content had equaled that of health.
"Is soil erosion over?" the team members thought.
Just as he finished speaking, a combat player rushed back to the territory from outside: "Crops are refreshed!!!"
Everyone looked over, and the player gasped, "Raspberry bushes, rice paddies, and all sorts of fruit trees are growing back! They're thriving! Don't miss out if you have the Gathering Skill!"
The gathering players were delighted, and the farming team also said excitedly, "Looks like it's really recovered!"
Sun Chen sighed and laughed, "First the insect swarms and then the soil erosion. It's been a month since I've been gathering. Come on, hurry up and finish this little work. From now on, we can go back to farming in the morning and gathering in the afternoon!"
"Great!" the team members applauded. With enough food and clothing, everyone wanted a more varied life. Working the fields every day was boring, and foraging was a great way to spice things up.
An Yan pondered for a moment and said, "Frost Giants, insect swarm attacks, soil erosion... If I'm not mistaken, it seems like each one is 15 days?"
"Hmm?" The teammates were stunned for a moment, and then someone nodded, "Now that you put it that way... it seems to be true."
After three cycles of events, we finally figured out the rules.
In the villa's bedroom, Ye Miao stood in front of the window, looking at the peaceful territory with a frown.
Now that the "soil erosion" has passed, what will be the next event? According to previous patterns, not only does the cycle last 15 days, but each time, something is wrong. The insect swarm attack and the soil erosion both began early in the morning, while the Frost Giants, due to their unique properties, only showed signs of activity at nightfall on the first night.
It's almost noon now, and nothing has happened yet. Could it be that we won't notice anything unusual until evening?
Ye Miao speculated in her heart, feeling a little irritated. If she had a choice, she would like every event to start during the day, so as not to make everyone nervous at night and disturb their sleep!
…Never mind, there’s no point in making such an assumption.
Ye Miao shook his head, no longer bothered by trivial matters, sighed, and suddenly noticed that the "ziniu ziniu" sound in his ear had been going on for a long time.
She turned her head to look at another window next to her. There was a small flowerpot on the windowsill, with half of the bodies of several earthworms sticking out of the pot. If you didn't dig them out, you wouldn't find that they actually only had one body. Moreover, without the tentacles and suction cups and after being cut into a Q-version style, they actually looked a bit ugly.
"Are you hungry?" Ye Miao smiled, picked up the backpack on the desk, rummaged through it, took out two oranges, peeled them, and fed them the orange segments one by one.
I had just fed half of it when a furry thing appeared at my feet, rubbing against it and making a humming sound.
"Wait a minute!" Ye Miao glanced at the Pixiu, quickly fed it the remaining half of the orange, then bent down to pick it up and sat down beside the bed.
The furry Pixiu struggled hard in her arms, then raised its head, its eyes full of tears.
"Ah! Are you jealous?" Ye Miao was a little surprised and hugged it tightly, "Be good, why are you jealous? It's just a... well, mollusk!"
"Zizizizi——" The earthworms in the flowerpot were so angry that each of them stood straight up, and two of them picked up clods of soil and threw them over viciously.
The Pixiu was hit, its fur stood on end and its teeth bared: "Ouch!"
The earthworm twisted arrogantly, as if it was deliberately trying to annoy people.
Ye Miao: How come you understood it!!!
Outrageous!!!
She was thus forced to spend a full half hour coaxing these two ancestors, and finally the Pixiu's fur became smooth again, and the mutated little earthworm also lay back softly in the basin.
In the thatched cottage area, Zheng Minhui knocked on the door of Zhang Jianjun's thatched cottage. Zhang Jianjun opened the door and Zheng Minhui sighed, tears welling up in his eyes. "I never thought that 'Pure Land' would be so good!"
Zhang Jianjun, who hadn't even bothered to leave the house after getting his application approved, was taken aback: "Have you been shopping?"
"Yeah." Zheng Minhui nodded as he placed his backpack on the simple wooden table in his room and took things out one by one. "I bought some things and brought some for you too. Here... a blue sickle and a hoe. From now on, you'll have your own gathering tools! And these are some food items. I bought them for a day. Try them!"
Zhang Jianjun looked over in surprise. On the table were winter melon meatball soup, sushi roasted rabbit, beef noodles, pancakes, and two glasses of juice.
"Where did you get so much money?!" Zhang Jianjun exclaimed.
Zheng Minhui laughed and said, "It's really not expensive! So I took out all the gold coins I had saved, sold the ones I got on the way here, and then I went all in!"
Zhang Jianjun: “…”
"We only have such a small fortune, and you still dare to spend it all..." Zhang Jianjun had a complicated expression, with a hint of blame in his eyes.
Zheng Minhui shrugged. "Since things are looking good, let's just have some fun! Oh, by the way, I just heard that crop yields are recovering. So, pack up and go get some food so we can get back on track!"
"Okay!" Zhang Jianjun cheered up, immediately put on his backpack and went out with him.
The moment they stepped out of the thatched hut, the sun shone down, casting a brilliant light. The two of them sighed deeply as they gazed at the light. Despite all the hardships they had endured before, they now felt incredibly lucky, and a sense of pride that was hard to explain arose.
——Because they joined the Pure Land!
T City is so big, not everyone is so lucky!
At 12:00 noon, Liu Yin, who had just returned from collecting, went straight to the villa area, placed half of the results collected today at the door, knocked on the door, and then turned and ran.
Running to the corner of the wall, Liu Yin hid in the corner and waited with bated breath. When she saw Ye Miao open the door and come out a few seconds later, she breathed a sigh of relief and left quietly.
For the past two or three days, as soil erosion continued, Ye Miao had been leading the new foragers in monster hunting. While she'd been leading them, she'd been contributing the lion's share of the battle output, with the remaining team members contributing a small portion. Not only did Ye Miao pay them 30 gold coins a day, she also provided three guaranteed meals. Everyone was more or less aware that Ye Miao was helping them, and that their presence or absence wouldn't affect her monster-hunting speed.
Among them, Liu Yin felt the most guilty. While the other members still had some damage output, her combat skills were negligible. Even if she fought with all her might every day, her damage output was still pitifully low.
Therefore, Liu Yin planned to send Ye Miao the collected drops for three consecutive days as a thank you!
At the entrance of the villa, Ye Miao looked left and right but couldn't find the person who was delivering the things, so he had to put the pile of food into his backpack. He sighed again in his heart: There are indeed so many good people!
Liu Yin walked briskly into the small market, looked around, and planned to go to Deng Wei's pancake stall to buy pancakes.
Pancakes are often a go-to when you're unsure what to eat, so Deng Wei's pancakes never have trouble selling, often drawing lines during peak meal times. Liu Yin waited calmly in line for seven or eight minutes when someone hesitantly called out, "Liu Yin? Is that Liu Yin?"
Liu Yin turned around, looking surprised: "Zhou He?!"
"It's really you!" Zhou He took a few steps forward and looked her up and down. "When did you become rich overnight?!"
"Just two days ago! I saw they were recruiting players with Gathering Skills above level 30, so I rushed over!" Liu Yin said, glancing at her expression and carefully asking, "Fei Fei and Si Yu and the others..."
Zhou He paused briefly, his expression turning grim. He held his breath and said indifferently, "It seems you've heard about it, right?"
"Yeah..." Liu Yin admitted with her head down, and the atmosphere between the two of them became quiet for a while.
Then Liu Yin said softly, "Fei Fei and Si Yu told me what happened. I don't think it's a big deal... What do you think?"
"...It's really not a big deal." Zhou He's eyebrows and eyes showed discomfort.
Liu Yin struck while the iron was hot: "Then why bother deleting each other!"
“…” Zhou He’s expression became even more awkward.
"No more talking!" Liu Yin stopped talking, shrugged and smiled, "Want some pancakes? It's my treat!"
"How can I let you treat me?" Zhou Hesong said angrily, weighing the lunch box in his hand. "I bought it. You eat yours, and I'll treat you tonight!"
"Okay!" Liu Yin didn't want to be polite with her and immediately agreed without hesitation. Zhou He waved her hand and said, "I'm going back to eat first. If you want to go out for gathering in the afternoon, call me. I can just go monster hunting on the way."
The implication is: I can fight, and I will protect you.
Liu Yin said "hmm", looked at her back and pondered for a while. Her understanding of each other made her feel that there was still hope for the roommates to reconcile!
By then, they could buy a nicer house together and become roommates! Girls are meant to be together, hanging out together, chatting at night. If it weren't for the apocalypse where everyone was digitized, they could probably add "going to the bathroom together"!
That night, Ye Miao drank a bottle of stamina potion at nine o'clock, maxed out the value, and prepared to survive until the next morning.
The whole day was uneventful, she wanted to see what the system would do at night!
But staying up late in the game is really hard. Mainly because there is no entertainment in the end times, no computers or mobile phones, and if you don't sleep, you can only lie there and stare blankly.
After two hours of struggling to empty her mind, the extremely bored Ye Miao woke up the Pixiu who was snoring beside her pillow: "Don't sleep anymore! Get up and play with me!" She forced the Pixiu to turn over and buried her face in its furry and fleshy belly.
"Huh——" The Pixiu, who was jealous of the mutated earthworm in the morning, now had impatience written all over his face. He struggled hard for a few times, but when he saw that she wouldn't let go, he simply used all four limbs to push her away.
"Hey, are you so disrespectful? Then I'll go play with the little earthworm!" Ye Miao pretended to let go, waiting for the Pixiu's reaction.
However, Pixiu just turned over indifferently with his back to her and continued to sleep, ignoring her words.
"...So heartless!" Ye Miao curled his lips and got off the bed. He took out a pen from the drawer of the desk, walked to the windowsill, and annoyed the alienated little earthworm in a mean way.
The mutated little earthworms had also fallen asleep a long time ago. Several of their bodies popped out and coiled into small spirals on the soil, which were picked apart by the annoying Ye Miao with a pen.
After the first two were picked apart, they coiled to the other side and tried to continue sleeping. The third one was obviously in a bad mood when it woke up. When it saw that she was deliberately making trouble, it immediately picked up a piece of dirt next to it and threw it at her!
"Oh, don't be angry, get up and play with me!" Ye Miao was in high spirits, smiling like a pervert.
The light in the bedroom was not turned off, and her figure bending over to tease the mutated little earthworm was reflected on the thin gauze curtain in front of the window. Fang Yuming was walking out along the path in front of the yard. He subconsciously looked up, his gaze paused for a while, then he took a deep breath and continued to stride towards the gate of the territory.
At 7:00 in the morning, Ye Miao's eyes were as big as copper bells. His physical strength was still within a safe range, but he was extremely exhausted mentally.
So... nothing... happened...?
24 hours have passed and nothing?!
She sat up sluggishly, and after thinking for a while, she sent Dazhuang to the post station and asked him to ask the new caravan that had just arrived today whether anything new had happened yesterday. She also sent messages to Ren Guoqing and Wang Yong, asking them to pay attention to collecting information when they went out to do business.
With the previous incident of the Frost Giant, she had reason to suspect that the incident triggered by the system this time would also start from a local area and progress slowly.
At the edge of the field, after several days of hard work, the crops in the advanced farmland finally matured. Judging by the time, the advanced farmland seemed to mature faster than the primary and intermediate farmlands, and the yield was also considerable.
"One peach tree yielded over a hundred peaches!" An Yan handed the peaches to Sun Chen after finishing the harvest. A team member who was picking shrubs nearby also said, "The raspberry bush is also very productive. One tree produces 30 raspberries. You can plant four trees per square meter. If you plant them all, you can harvest 120 raspberries at once. It's much better than wild raspberry bushes!"
"I'll plant it full next time!" Sun Chen said firmly.
The last time they went to transplant crops in the wild, they had no experience and only moved back one berry crop of each kind. After planting, they found that it only occupied a quarter of the area in the field, which was a lot of waste.
However, since they were not sure whether the plants would survive, they did not rush to transplant new ones. Now that he had a clearer idea, Sun Chen planned to make the best use of them in the future!
Sweet Orange Village.
After breakfast, Song Feifei and Fang Siyu went out together to kill monsters and gather materials, both feeling apprehensive. It wasn't just them; the other players felt the same way.
The event was refreshed three times, and they also found that every 15 days was a cycle. It seemed that nothing happened from morning to night yesterday. Today everyone was worried that they would encounter some sudden accidents when they were killing monsters.
"I wonder how things are going in the Pure Land," Fang Siyu said as she reached for apples from the tree. "Liu Yin always says things are going great over there, but this time the situation is strange. I wonder if the Pure Land has any advanced measures?"
"I don't think so..." Song Feifei mused, "Actually, it's not called 'strange situation' now, but 'no situation' - how to deal with it if there is no situation?"
"That's right." Fang Siyu smiled dumbly, realizing that she seemed to be a little superstitious about the "Pure Land".
"I don't know when Pure Land will recruit again. Otherwise, I don't know the review conditions, and I'm always afraid that I will quit here and not be able to enter the other side. Being caught in a dilemma is the most uncomfortable thing." Song Feifei sighed.
"Yeah..." Fang Siyu nodded, and the message bar beeped three times.
She clicked on it and received the message: Player [Zhou He] wants to add you as a friend.
At the same time, Song Feifei also received the message. The two of them looked at each other with their pupils trembling. After two seconds, they came back to their senses and pressed the "Agree" button at the same time.
The next second, I saw Zhou He created a group.
Holding my breath, I clicked on the group chat window. A pen hung over Zhou He's avatar, meaning "typing," and then a message popped up quickly:
[Zhou He] I met Liu Yin in the village where people got rich overnight.
【Zhou He】Are you coming?
【Zhou He】If you are coming, please apply immediately.
She never mentioned the previous unpleasantness, as if they had just not been in touch for a while and nothing else had happened.
Song Feifei and Fang Siyu understood what he meant and immediately put the previous matter behind them.
[Song Feifei] Have you joined Pure Land Buddhism? We've wanted to go for a long time, but we're worried our application won't be approved...
[Zhou He] I arrived a few days earlier than Liu Yin.
[Zhou He] I asked about the attributes of new members in recent days. Except for the specially recruited gathering players and control players, the attributes of most ordinary applicants are not as good as you two. I think your application should be fine.
[Fang Siyu] Really?
[Zhou He] Damn, we've been good friends for years, how could I possibly cheat you? Stop talking nonsense and pack up quickly. I'll be waiting for you at the market at 5pm to welcome you.
"Okay..." Song Feifei was almost dazed as she replied to this last message. Just like that? The sisters who had fallen out were reunited? And they could go to the Pure Land?
Life is really full of surprises.
Zhou He closed the dialog box expressionlessly and glanced at Liu Yin, who was smiling beside him. "Are you satisfied?"
"Hehe... Yeah!" Liu Yin nodded heavily. Seeing Zhou He's indifferent expression, she went over and hugged her arm. "Don't look so serious. Admit it, you're pretty happy too! You miss them too!"
"I didn't." Zhou He's face became even more stern. Liu Yin looked at her and laughed until she was twitching. She didn't stop even after she glared at her several times.
In the evening, the lights in the territory gradually lit up. Chu Cheng and his teammates came back from killing monsters and knocked on Ye Miao's door.
"Come in." Ye Miao made way for him. He walked into the living room and said straight to the point, "Do you feel anything is wrong?"
"Yeah." Ye Miao nodded. "The cycle of events is 15 days, but now the soil erosion has ended, and it's been calm for almost two days..." After saying this, she suddenly felt unsure. "Is this what you want to say?"
Chu Cheng laughed: "Yes." After a pause, he asked, "Can I ask what you think?"
Ye Miao pondered and said, "I think there are only two possibilities. One is that the system has a change of heart and decided to give everyone a chance to recuperate. The other is that the system has ulterior motives and is preparing a big move."
Chu Cheng nodded: "That makes sense, so what are your plans?"
Ye Miao: "If it's one, then we should take this opportunity to stockpile resources, upgrade fortifications, and prepare for the next event. If it's two... before the 'ultimate move' appears, we can also be one, stockpile resources, upgrade fortifications, and prepare for the ultimate move."
Chu Cheng raised his eyebrows and couldn't help laughing.
Ye Miao was dissatisfied: "What are you laughing at!"
"Nothing." Chu Cheng shook his head. "Simple and crude, it works. If you want to team up to kill monsters, call me."
"Okay." Ye Miao agreed readily. Chu Cheng didn't stay long. He simply said goodbye and left.
Ye Miao returned to the bedroom on the second floor, took out a pen and paper, and began to make a detailed plan.
If the system really allowed everyone time to recuperate, she hoped to at least upgrade the fortifications to another level, upgrading the "bombardment turret" to a "shotgun turret" and the "concrete wall" to a "reinforced concrete wall."
Then complete various upgrade tasks and upgrade the "Get Rich Overnight Village" to the next level, turning it into a "Get Rich Overnight Town".
In addition, if possible, she would like to save an extra 300,000 gold coins for emergencies.
If all these can be achieved, the territory should be able to develop smoothly in the future as long as no outrageous accidents occur.
And if the system doesn't intend to let everyone rest and recuperate, and is now quietly preparing its ultimate move...
Then upgrade the fortifications one by one, and do whatever you can!
After making the plan, Ye Miao opened the upgrade panel. The tasks displayed on the panel were:
Have at least 800 members [287/800] (not completed);
· Upgrade the post to Lv2 [2/2] (completed);
Have at least 4 mortar towers [10/4] (completed);
The total tax revenue reached 50,000 gold coins [50,000/50,000] (Completed).
"After completing all the goals, you can upgrade the [Get Rich Overnight Village] to [Get Rich Overnight Town] by spending 300,000 gold coins."
After upgrading to [Get Rich Overnight Town], you will get:
Larger territory area;
The area covered by the barrier stone expands with the area of the territory;
The upper limit of the number of people in a territory is increased to 3,000 (current upper limit: 1,000);
·Open more rare item trading permissions;
Enable the world auction function;
Unlock more public facilities.
300,000 gold coins...
Ye Miao took a deep breath and opened his backpack with fear. The current number of gold coins was: 427851.
Damn, when did she become so rich?!
As expected, in a business simulation game, once the territory develops, resources will accumulate faster and faster without you noticing!
She originally thought that the most difficult thing to do this time would still be money, but now it seems...
It turned out to be a human.
Ye Miao stared at the shining [287/800] and fell into deep thought. She always felt that there were a lot of newcomers recently, but she didn't expect that the gap to upgrading was still quite large!
So what to do? Then hire people!
Anyway, her territory has a good reputation. Judging from the previous recruitment and control of players, there is not much pressure to achieve the goal of 800 people. The only possible problem is that she attracts players from other territories, which may make her hated.
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Ye Miao: My territory is so outstanding, what should I do? If I openly recruit people, everyone will be attracted and I will offend other lords!
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