The day before the event started passed uneventfully amid the anticipation and active preparations of the players.
Except that Bai Li discovered that he hadn't met Yao Xing for almost the entire day. This had never happened before.
Still suspecting that the other party had encountered some difficulties, Bai Li asked him through a friend message, and Wen Xingyao hesitantly replied that he was fine.
Since everything was fine and he was an adult, after completing the daily greetings, Bai Li naturally would not hold on to the matter. After logging off at 7pm and resting for a few hours, he logged into the game again at midnight the next day.
The game is lively beyond the conventional sense.
Normally, this would be the time when the number of players is the least, as players who have played all day would usually go offline to rest. Even night owls would not stay in their yards to farm at this time, but would wander around the entire game map, eating and drinking, looking very happy.
But now, all the players are working hard in their own yards, clearing out the land in advance and planting corn seeds in the ground.
The reading comprehension ability of the interstellar people was put to good use at this moment. The announcement said that only corn planted and harvested could be converted into points. If the corn was planted before the event started, no points would be earned if it was harvested after the event started, which would waste the initial harvest time.
In theory, corn seeds are harvested every 2 hours. After the magical spring is fully irrigated, the time will be reduced by half to 1 hour. Currently, the player's yard can only cultivate 100 plots of land. The player's limit in one day is 2,400 corns, which is 240 points. But this value is definitely unattainable because the time for planting and harvesting must be subtracted.
After getting the highest score possible in the corn planting competition, the remaining points will depend on the other two competitions.
Bai Li came out of the house without delay, took out the farm tools and the seeds he had prepared in advance and went to work. As a qualified god of agriculture, he was still very competitive in farming, and did not want his farming speed to be caught up by the interstellar people who had only been involved in farming for a few months.
His expression was serious and solemn, his eyes fixed on the ground at his feet. He dug a hole with a hoe, sprinkled the seeds, and then used the hoe to fill the hole back in. If there were precision instruments measuring at the same time, it would be found that every hole Bai Li dug, the position of each seed sown, and the angle of the hoe digging and burying were exactly the same.
The whole person seems to be the most sophisticated instrument, without any error or deviation.
When Wen Xingyao came out of the house after getting ready, he saw this scene. The usually lazy boy seemed to be working at full capacity at this time, moving swiftly in the fields, fully engaged, and not moved by external things. Even when he finally came out after being bored for a day, he didn't get any glances from Bai Li.
At this moment, Bai Li's face in the game seemed to overlap with his real face in reality. Wen Xingyao was in a trance for a moment, and remembered the scene when he was a child and lay in Bai Li's arms and licked his fingers.
Realizing that he was thinking strange things, he quickly shook his head to get rid of these inappropriate fragments from his mind. Childhood is childhood, he is him, the two must not be classified as the same person!
Let's plant corn quickly, eh! Planting corn is more important!
Feeling guilty, which he himself did not understand, Wen Xingyao stopped looking at Bai Li and focused on his own business.
Finally, after planting corn seeds in 100 plots of land, Bai Li straightened up and habitually wiped his sweat. Then, as if he had made up his mind, he opened the game store with a serious face and first bought 4 888 krypton gold gift packs, which gave him a total of 3,952 diamond coins. Then he selected the "Magic Spring Lucky Gift Pack" and bought 100 of them with his eyes closed, spending a total of 3,000 diamond coins.
Although Bai Li has money now, he can't spend it recklessly. In essence, he still thinks he is a good young man who is hardworking and simple. Even if he gritted his teeth and bought 100 fountain gift packs, he kept comforting himself in his heart that at least he could get 70% of the money back in time. With this calculation, he only spent 900 at most, which is much more cost-effective than other players!
Who said that in a competition like growing corn, if you don't use the magic spring water, you can't expect to surpass other players? If others want to use the magic spring water, he must also use it. The reason is that simple.
While Bai Li was muttering something in his mind, he opened a few gift bags and took out the newly obtained magical spring water and poured it over each one.
By the time a round of planting is completed, more than ten minutes have passed. If we wait another forty minutes, this batch of corn will be mature.
Taking advantage of this gap, Bai Li planned to look around to see if he could find some activity props with "corn" elements.
Even though he is the designer of these activities, if you ask him where the corn props will appear, he really can't answer. In Bai Li's setting, corn props are everywhere. They may be buried deep in the soil, hidden in leaves, or appear with the fish caught, or they may fall directly from the sky when using life skills to make something.
Even for the appearance of these props, he chose to let the system generate them randomly, only stipulating that they needed to have the element of "corn". As for what they would look like after they were generated, he would have to wait until he saw them to know.
He just planted 100 plots of land but didn't dig up a single corn item. It seemed that his luck wasn't that good. Bai Li felt a slight sense of crisis in his heart. After thinking for a while, he decided to start looking in the yard.
In the chicken villa on the left side of the hut, after a period of breeding, the chicks have all grown up. One of them is a strong big rooster, crowing on time at seven o'clock every morning. The other four are fat hens responsible for producing eggs. The eggs they produce cannot hatch new chicks.
Seeing their owner coming, the hens clucked, flapped their wings and raised their tails, as if urging Bai Li to hurry up and take the eggs they laid today.
Bai Li followed suit, leaned over and reached out his hand. While touching the round eggs, he also felt a strange grainy texture on one of the eggs.
When I took it out and looked at it, I found that the egg had mutated. The lower part was still round and shaped like an egg, but the upper part had become a corn head, pointed and covered with simulated corn kernels.
Okay, get the first corn prop.
After putting this item into the backpack, the item will automatically disappear, and instead, "5" points will be added after Li Bai's name on the activity scoreboard.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck!" The hen watched the owner take out the strange-shaped eggs from under her body, and was shocked. After staring at Bai Li for a few seconds, she suddenly spread her wings and "flew" up, startling her companions. In the small chicken coop, there was a lot of flying and jumping.
After confirming that he could not find a second egg like this, Bai Li left quickly, leaving the hen whose worldview was shocked and doubting her life alone.
What on earth did it give birth to?
After finding the Chicken House, it’s time to look for the vine trellis on the other side of the house.
The bamboo shoots that Mo Zhu had sent had been planted behind the rack. As they were not conventional crops, the growth of the bamboo shoots was not fast. Compared with the previous two days, they had only grown about 20 centimeters, and the shape of the bamboo could not be seen yet. Bai Li only glanced over there and focused all his attention on the vine rack.
He raised his head and looked upward.
The vines on the rack are growing well. The sunlight above has been completely blocked by the dense leaves, and standing underneath makes people feel cool.
And it is easiest to hide things between these densely packed leaves.
Bai Li thought about it, took out a long stick from his backpack, and moved it on the leaves bit by bit. He was very careful not to damage the leaves at all, and when he was halfway through, something really fell out of it.
An ear of corn with a parachute made of leaves floated in the air, as if it had eyes, and landed steadily in Bai Li's open palm.
There were only three points this time, but Bai Li was still satisfied.
Afterwards, he searched every corner of the yard and found three props with the "corn" element. The five props earned him a total of 17 points. He didn't know whether it was a good or bad harvest.
After making sure there was no more props to be found in the yard, more than 40 minutes had passed. With the strong aroma of corn coming, the corn plants planted on the 100 plots of land "bang bang bang" matured one by one.
Bai Li hurried to collect them, and then planted another wave.
For the god of agriculture, planting is the happiest thing. Even though the planting action is repetitive and boring, Bai Li enjoys it. After planting two batches of corn in a row, Bai Li not only does not feel tired, but is full of motivation.
But for some players who have limited enthusiasm for daily planting, the tense and exciting planting competition brings them far more pain than the happiness they can gain from it.
For example, next door to Bai Li’s house.
"Ah!!" Jiang Huaibi wailed in pain, "Farming is so difficult, I need a fully automatic farming robot now!!"
It's not that she doesn't like farming. She would actively clean up everything in the yard every time she went online before going out to explore and hunt for treasures. But now the times have changed. Game activities = planting corn, corn = points, and points are a necessary condition for players to finally get precious game places.
Since they knew that there were two game spots in the February event rewards of Leisure Farm, Jiang's father and mother had been "advising" their baby daughter to be more active in participating in the event, to plant crops when necessary, to break corn when necessary, and to use her expertise to try to find more corn-themed props in the game. For this reason, Jiang's father also approved a large amount of game funds for Jiang Huaibi, asking her to buy more magical spring water, so that she would not lag behind others in planting corn.
This was a fund that excited Jiang Huaibi, who had limited pocket money every month. Unfortunately, it could only be used in specific places and could not be embezzled secretly.
Back to the original topic, Jiang Huaibi, like Bai Li, logged into the game as soon as it was midnight and started working hard.
Her movements were not as agile as Bai Li's. Sometimes, when the pit was dug too deep or too crooked, she would stop and adjust it. As a result, Bai Li had already finished planting a round of crops, but she had just planted the first batch of corn and watered it with the magical spring water.
After working so hard for more than an hour, all I got was a sore waist and a slight sense of frustration.
At this time, Jiang Huaibi missed the farming robots that are essential on the agricultural planet in reality. How great it would be to have one that can farm automatically! If he had one in the game, wouldn’t he be super awesome?
It’s a pity that the main feature of “Living in the Farm” is to let players experience the fun of farming, so her idea is destined to fail.
Thinking of this, Jiang Huaibi sighed exaggeratedly again.
"Huai Bi, are you okay?" Bai Li asked through two fences.
"I'm fine." Jiang Huaibi replied in a depressed mood, "I just think farming is so difficult. I'm only 17 years old. I'm so tired QAQ!"
"Then you can go treasure hunting first. This is suitable for you." Thinking of what Jiang Huaibi does every day, Bai Li suggested without thinking.
A word of advice awakened Jiang Huaibi's eyes, which suddenly lit up!
Yes, she can do what she is good at first! Plant corn or something, she can just come back and plant it when she remembers. If she doesn't have enough points, maybe she can make up for it with the small props she finds!
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