Chapter 28: The Players' Great Harvest and Trouble
"A bumper harvest!"
Violet stood on the ridge of the field, looking at the fully ripe crops in the [Advanced Farm] with great satisfaction.
It was worth all the effort she put into taking care of them these past few days; all the seeds in each of the four 3x3 advanced farm plots have grown.
Luo and Mihawk also stood beside Vera, witnessing this moment of harvest together.
Luo: "ROOM!"
He raised his hand, and the next second, the crops, some hanging on the branches and some half-buried in the soil, were neatly arranged in front of Vera, completely clean without a speck of dirt.
[You harvested 10 carrots, 8 corn, 8 potatoes, 6 asparagus, and 4 onions]
[You have obtained 5 carrot seeds, 6 corn seeds, 5 potato seeds, 3 asparagus seeds, and 2 onion seeds.]
When harvesting crops, there is a 50% chance of obtaining additional seeds of the corresponding crop. However, even if you don't harvest any crops, it's okay. Just feed the crops to the seagulls in the birdcage, and they will return a seed to you.
When only a single crop is planted in each 3x3 advanced farm, the crop will not feel lonely during its growth process, and with careful care, it can produce giant crops.
Violet: "Then we'll plant carrots, corn, and potatoes for the next batch, and continue planting some unknown seeds on the remaining high-end farm to see if there are any other types of crops."
Violet fed Lightning 5 carrots, 2 ears of corn and 5 potatoes.
Mihawk watched as the lightning seemed to be sucked in like a bottomless pit, and his fingertips twitched.
It's a breed that eats a lot; it might be good for breeding and raising for meat.
Lightning: "Cough... Cough! Crack!"
It struggled to spit out a large piece of potato seed from its mouth, then raised its fluffy bird face, looking in horror at a swordsman who was eyeing its body.
It scrutinized the object with the eyes of a hawk, as if assessing the best way to cook it.
Lightning: !!!
Lightning, who had been nonviolently uncooperative since being captured, suddenly shook its feathers, spread its wings and flew to the cage near Violet, pressing its head against the golden birdcage, its dark, shiny eyes slowly blinking at her.
Violet: "Lightning, do you really like potatoes?"
Luo sneered, "It's just afraid of dying."
Luo acted like an evil villain who discovers someone's weakness and uses it to threaten them: "Behave yourself from now on, or if you peck at the cage again in the middle of the night, I'll turn you into roast chicken."
Violet: "Does lightning peck at cages in the middle of the night?"
Lightning raised its wings, covered its mouth, and shook its head vigorously.
"Heh." Luo looked at Lightning's pitiful little black eyes and deliberately made it wait in fear for a long time before saying, "Then maybe I remembered it wrong."
Mihawk: "These are the birds you caught?"
Mihawk set aside his preconceived notion of a chicken and examined the fat bird in the cage more closely: "It doesn't seem to be a chicken, it's... a newsboy gull?"
Mihawk looked at Violet, who turned to look at Law.
Luo Kuku put his hands in his pockets and said confidently, "It's just an ordinary fat bird."
Luo tapped the birdcage with his fingers: "Are you a newsboy seagull?"
lightning:……
Lightning and Law stared at each other for two seconds, then shook their heads with a cooing sound, and then turned their backs to them again.
Luo said to Vera with satisfaction, "See, it says it isn't."
Vera: "I see. But what is a news-delivering gull?" Is it some kind of special bird species?
Luo was too lazy to comment on Violet's lack of common sense. He explained directly, "They are newspaper-delivering birds. You can see them circling in the sky every morning when you're in the world of the Four Seas. You can buy the day's newspaper from them by waving your hand."
It sounds like a rather unique way of gathering intelligence?
Vera asked in bewilderment, "Then why have I never seen a newspaper seagull?"
Luo's gaze shifted to the golden birdcage, then quickly returned: "Maybe it's because we don't have Pele."
Violet: "..."
Actually, there was one. When she did the "guide the pretty lady" quest in the Sabaody Archipelago, the quest reward included a bag of Berries.
However, this does not seem to change the fact that they are poor at this time.
Vera: "It's alright, once our large-scale planting project begins, R'lyeh will become more and more prosperous!"
The newspaper-delivery gull will regret not choosing her as a potential catch sooner!
Luo: "But at that time, there will definitely be dangerous guys who will have their eyes on R'lyeh."
Violet raised her fist and held it out to Luo: "See this? If anyone dares to cause trouble here in R'lyeh, I'll show them what a fist the size of a sandbag looks like!"
Luo Xinwei nodded: "Then we'll have to rely on you then."
The Newspaper Gull is the president of the World News Agency and a subordinate of Morgans, one of the underground emperors. Violet has special abilities, and it's best not to expose information to such a dangerous guy until he and Violet grow up to be able to protect R'lyeh.
Luo coldly glanced at Lightning's bird rear end, making it clench its anus and quickly curl up.
Until then, it would be better if there were "no" news-carrying gulls near R'lyeh.
With great enthusiasm, Violet planted carrot, corn, and potato seeds in the first three [Advanced Farm] plots, and then filled the last [Advanced Farm] plot with unknown seeds.
Mihawk and Law, who had postponed their training session to witness the harvest, said goodbye and went to train after Vera finished planting a new batch of crops.
Violet leaned on her hoe with one hand: "It's really hard work."
Vera: "Okay, I'm going to start working hard too!"
Violet set her sights on a beehive she had seen in the meadow.
If she can catch some bees and cut off a piece of the honeycomb, she can make a beehive out of planks and obtain a continuous supply of sweet honey.
Honey is not only an important ingredient in making desserts, but when combined with papyrus, it can also be used to make honey ointment, which has a healing effect of 40 points of health.
Without further ado, Vera took out the remaining spider webs and carefully glued the sticky threads around the straw hat, making a simple beekeeping hat to protect her head and face.
Vera put on her beekeeping hat, grabbed her insect net, and rushed out.
Luo, who was practicing swordsmanship in the woods, suddenly shivered for no apparent reason.
Mihawk looked up: "Don't tremble, swing your sword faster."
Holding the [Swordfish Dagger], Luo replied, "Yes!"
He gritted his teeth, enduring the excruciating soreness in his arm from overuse, and swung his sword downwards again and again.
Mihawk is a responsible and serious teacher. After realizing that Violet's cooking has the effect of restoring energy and healing injuries, he increased the amount of training he gave Law.
He could sense the surging hatred in the young man's heart. Perhaps he would not consider himself a swordsman in the future, but Mihawk still hoped that Luo could learn as much as possible during his short stay.
This may one day in the future become the key to whether he can survive.
In short, the key is to practice relentlessly, even to the point of exhaustion.
Luo clearly understood this as well, and he could grit his teeth and remain silent no matter how tough the training was. The first time the training intensity was increased, he even collapsed to the ground after Mihawk said it was over, only managing to say "I'll rest for half an hour" before passing out.
Amazingly, half an hour later, Luo actually woke up from his coma. Despite his extremely sore body, he forced himself to walk back to the base so that Violet would not notice anything amiss.
Luo didn't want Vera to worry about him.
Mihawk looked at the sword-wielding boy in front of him with satisfaction, and he remembered what a certain annoying guy had said.
Her red hair trembled like burning flames in the sea breeze, and her face, which seemed never to be covered by gloom, revealed a radiant smile to him.
"This sea is never short of interesting young people, Mihawk!"
That guy was right once, actually.
The swordfish dagger slashed through the air again and again, mingling with Luo's heavy breathing as he tried to maintain his balance.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh... Buzz, buzz—
Luo looked at the short sword in his hand with suspicion. The sound of the sword being swung, was that right?
"Aaaaaah, help! Why are you chasing me?!"
Mihawk saw Violet running towards them, wearing a strangely shaped hat and carrying an insect net, screaming as she raced toward them.
Behind Violet followed a swarm of bees that had turned from a lovely pale yellow to bright red in a state of rage.
Vera: "Mihawk, Law?!"
Violet: "Quick, run!"
She hadn't expected the bees to be so vengeful. She waited behind the grass for any bees that were out collecting nectar. Once she had enough bees to build a hive, she carefully approached the yellowish-brown hive, which was about half a person's height, built on the grass, wearing a beekeeping hat.
The industrious little bees, covered in pollen, flitted in and out of the hive. Violet carefully raised her stone spear and cut a piece along the hive…
Buzz—Buzz—
Enraged, the red bees swarmed out of their hive, brandishing their gleaming stingers, determined to teach the creature that dared to attack their nest a lesson!
Mihawk, with a serious expression, quickly walked two steps to Luo, grabbed his collar, and leaped onto the tree trunk.
Vera: "Huh?"
Vera: "Huh?!" Are you really going to leave me to die?!
As it turned out, Mihawk, the only adult on the entire island, was reliable.
After placing Luo in a safe place, Mihawk leaped down and stood in front of Violet, the exaggerated white feathers on his hat fluttering in the wind.
"Step back."
He said in a deep voice, then raised his hand and grabbed the golden cross hanging in front of his chest, pulling out a miniature pocket knife from the cross that Violet had always thought was just an ornament.
Mihawk gripped his knife and aimed it at the swarm of bees. These mindless insects weren't worth using the weapon on his back.
Mihawk: "Sorry, I don't have a smaller knife than this."
The angry swarm of bees stopped in front of Mihawk. The bee at the front shook its body, and its black stinger cut through the air.
It confronted the great swordsman without fear.
Mihawk: "Choosing a head-on confrontation? Interesting."
Violet: "..."
Ah, swordsman.
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Author's Note: After reading the latest information, Shanks didn't intentionally lose his arm, did he? So, is that guy going to save you or not? [crying emoji]
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