Chapter 142 Vegetable Planting Game (Part 2)
[Ding—The farming game is about to begin. Players are requested to try their best to meet the requirements of the special NPC within the specified time and harvest enough vegetables to fill at least three baskets. The higher the NPC's satisfaction, the better the reward.]
At the same time, the little kid standing on the blue ox's back sat down again and added a few more words in a muttered voice:
"But eating only vegetables is not enough. I also need to eat more meat to grow taller."
He clapped his hands, and the sound echoed throughout every farmland:
"There are three different kinds of eggs in the cabin. If you can hatch and raise them properly, you can also use the chicks and ducks to exchange for extra blind boxes from me when you settle the account~"
The child smiled sweetly, revealing his sharp, white shark teeth.
"If I can't eat chicken, duck, or goose, I don't mind using other meats to make up for it."
The players who were originally planning to just get through the game were shuddered and realized that the creatures in this dungeon were not so easy to deal with.
There is a very faint light curtain near different ridges. The land has been divided in advance. It seems that it is not feasible to snatch the vegetables grown by others for the time being.
“You really have to farm yourself…”
As soon as the game started, everyone was in trouble.
On Qiao Song's side, the man in the suit took the lead in asking soul-searching questions: "Has anyone among us ever farmed?"
The young men, all in their early twenties, fell silent.
The freckled girl silently recalled and said, "My mother seemed to have grown coriander potted plants."
The man in the suit's eyes lit up: "Did you plant it?"
The girl rolled her eyes. "A month has passed and none of the three pots have sprouted."
The man in the suit was a little nervous after hearing this: "Is farming so difficult? Then we have such a large area..."
The girl pulled her skirt up and went to look for something in the cabin, leaving only the back view of the man in the suit: "Do you really think the farming game in the game is real farming?"
"Hey, isn't there a tool kit?"
Qiao Song also took a look around the tool shed. There were many farm tools inside, but they all looked very new and seemed to have not been used much.
There are also two very conspicuous tables with boxes labeled with stickers on the left.
Each box has a pattern of a vegetable.
On the table on the right were three hand-woven flower baskets containing three different kinds of eggs.
Although she was very eager for the blind box, the freckled girl just glanced at the egg on the right and did not directly ask to hatch it. Instead, she planned to complete the guaranteed task first.
"Although we are asked to choose one vegetable to grow, I suggest that we try all three."
Qiao Song first looked at the three boxes for a while, then pointed at the instruction manual on them, which had several different stars marked on them according to the difficulty level.
Coriander gets five stars, Chinese cabbage gets four stars, and Houttuynia cordata gets three stars.
The freckled girl thought for a moment before opening the box:
"I remember that coriander seems to be the most difficult to grow. It needs low temperatures to germinate. The current temperature is probably going to make it difficult. Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum grows the fastest, but it's not easy to preserve. Houttuynia cordata..."
Her face turned green, as if she had recalled some bad memories: "If planted in the ground, the Houttuynia cordata will reproduce very quickly, but it will also affect other plants growing in the same area."
Qiao Song's tone didn't change: "It won't be that complicated in the game."
"Wow, is that so?"
The man in the suit seemed like a big fool with no experience in agriculture and could only agree with him.
He was sandwiched in the middle, tilting his head to watch the two girls on his left and right picking seeds: "Then should we plant three kinds? How about picking the easiest to propagate Houttuynia cordata?"
The freckled girl only glanced at Qiao Song a few times, without giving him any extra looks: "I still suggest that we try all three. The kid on the cow's back said that his dream is to plant these things all over the world. Although you only need to pick at least one, try to satisfy the NPC as much as possible, so that the score will be high."
Qiao Song had the same idea.
"The planting speed in the game should be different from that in the real world. We each took the same seeds and experimented on three plots of land."
The boxed seeds might also be a blind box, but they were the kind that had already been drawn. The three of them took the seeds and walked towards the fields they had agreed on.
The man in the suit first took the Houttuynia cordata, which is said to have the fastest reproduction speed. When he opened the box, there were no seeds, but pieces like coarse noodles, cut into strips, and small pieces of roots could be seen.
After confirming that you have opened the box, you will also get a piece of paper inside.
【General Planting Guide】
[1. Soil culture method of Houttuynia cordata: loosen the soil, dig a hole, plant, water regularly, and care with love, they will grow rapidly and mature]
[2. Please note that too much care is not necessarily a good thing sometimes~]
[3. There are many tools in the planting house. Remember to choose carefully. Useful tools can greatly reduce the time of work.]
There is nothing else in the simple and rough planting guide except these few lines of instructions.
“It doesn’t look that difficult.”
Wen Haoqian took off his new suit jacket, casually pulled up his trouser legs, and went to the field in his leather shoes to plant Polygonum multiflorum.
Up to this point, it's been pretty simple, though a bit time-consuming, as each player is only allocated about half an acre of land, which doesn't look particularly large, but it takes a long time to plant.
Including the time spent digging the hole, sowing the seeds, covering the soil and watering the plants, he only worked for a dozen or twenty minutes before he was so tired that he couldn't even straighten his back.
I straightened my back and glanced to the side, and saw that the two girls were still on the edge of the field, not moving at all.
Lou Keqing searched in the hut for a while and indeed found different planting tools. However, Qiao Song was more efficient than her.
Lou Keqing couldn't help but look at Qiao Song a few more times.
Compared to the idiot in a suit who started farming as soon as he got the box, this female player is quite smart.
Qiao Song was holding a pair of white gloves with strange labels on them.
All the farm tools in the tool shed were brand new, as if they had never been used. She suspected that they were not used for farming. Sure enough, she found the special items behind the cabinet in the corner.
[Hardworking Farm Protection Gloves]
[As a pair of gloves that particularly likes to work, as long as you pay a very small amount of soul coins, the other party will be happy to do all the farm work for you efficiently. Please note that it is a virtue to pay first and then work.]
There is a label nailed to the gloves with the address where the gloves were sold.
[The gloves are produced on the -56th floor, Sky Agricultural Island. You are always welcome to visit. You can buy a large number of high-quality agricultural tools, seeds, and corresponding agricultural products here. Consultation phone number: XXXX]
This glove actually comes with its own advertisement.
Qiao Song took out a 100 soul coin bill and stuck it on the glove. The QR code on the label of the white glove flashed and quickly absorbed the soul coin.
The white gloves that collected money for the job immediately jumped out of Qiao Song's hand, put its five fingers on the ground, crawled around in the farmland, then pointed its index finger, urging Qiao Song to give it the seeds.
The gloves sowed the coriander seeds in the ground for her, and she quickly filled the soil and rammed out small walking paths that were neat and beautiful.
The freckled girl was holding the Chinese spinach seeds and doing the same thing next to her. This made Wen Haoqian, who had been working in the fields for 20 minutes, look like a fool.
"Damn it! Why didn't you tell me there were still props I could use!"
Lou Keqing chuckled: "The planting guide reminded you to find the right tools, but you just went down with a hoe. Who can stop you?"
With mud on the soles of his shoes, Wen Haoqian quickly ran into the tool shed. After searching for a while, he finally found the same white gloves. He decisively decided to spend money to let the props help him with the work.
The three fields are now filled with hardworking white gloves.
At the same time, some players in the nearby farmlands also reacted. It is not impossible to work honestly in the fields, but this is a game. Instead of doing farm work and getting backaches, it is better to spend soul coins directly to solve the problem.
Qiao Song sighed: "The games in this mall are quite interesting. They even advertise to each other."
The insertion method of soft advertisements is much gentler than that of some TV dramas.
I’m afraid that many people will be interested in the props produced by the so-called Sky Farm.
Seeing her go in and out and find another fairy tale book, Lou Keqing took the initiative to ask, "Is this also from the tool shed?"
"Well, I picked out a basket of eggs and I'm going to hatch them."
Since the work in the fields can be solved directly with props, the trap in this game is definitely not in working in the fields. Qiao Song knows that since these eggs are placed in the tool shed, it is not just to lure players to do extra tasks.
Lou Keqing also reacted.
"There are three different types of eggs. According to their size, the smallest one should be the chicken egg, the medium one is the duck egg, and the largest one is the goose egg."
Lou Keqing looked strange for a moment: "You want to hatch a batch of geese?"
And this creature is notoriously ferocious.
Soon, Lou Keqing seemed to realize something and hurried back to get a basket of eggs.
The method of hatching the eggs is very simple, which is to read the fairy tale booklet placed under the basket in advance.
Of course, this is also something with the same attributes as gloves.
Qiao Song calmly picked up the label on the fairy tale book.
【Cub Story Book】
[No child can resist a fable, even if he or she does not understand the meaning of the story.]
[Reading a fairy tale to any creature in the growth stage can speed up its growth cycle. ]
Any creature?
Qiao Song's eyes moved around these words.
After paying 100 soul coins and unlocking the storybook that the little animals loved to listen to during their growth period, she quickly read the words on it to a basket of goose eggs.
"A long time ago, there was a temple on a mountain. There was only one water tank in the temple, and people had to carry water to drink..."
One monk carries water to drink, two monks lift water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink.
Qiao Song finished reading the story thoughtfully, and indeed found a crack on the goose eggs in the basket.
A basket of goose eggs hatched quickly, and the goslings in the basket cried softly, holding the eggshells on their heads.
Wen Haoqian, who had just finished copying homework, saw that she had already started hatching eggs, and immediately became alert: "Is this also a strategy?"
Qiao Song put away the fairy tale book: "Maybe it's useful, maybe it's not, I just want to try it first, by the way..."
She was just about to say that there was something wrong with the fairy tale book and that one should not read too many stories at once. After all, there was only one story in the thin book and the effect of reading it several times might not necessarily be positive.
Who would have known that Lou Keqing, who was holding the egg with her, had already read the story twice in one breath.
The eggs in her basket were duck eggs, slightly smaller than goose eggs. But because she had read the story twice, the duckling, which was tender yellow just now, had doubled in size.
The duck grew too fast in a short period of time and seemed to be very hungry. It ate the egg shells first after it was born and was now gnawing on the vines on the basket.
Lou Keqing also realized that something was wrong and felt that she was a little too competitive and impatient.
"No, I have to find them something to eat. They are growing too fast."
It would be a shame if the ducks that were hatched with great difficulty starved to death.
The white-gloved workers in the farmland had finished their work and were now lining up to shake off the dirt on their bodies. They took the initiative to pull at Qiao Song's trouser legs.
Qiao Song lowered his head and saw the gloves taking out a new bill from somewhere, which showed that helping with watering would cost 150 soul coins.
Qiao Song did not pay directly: "How much will the subsequent care, such as pruning, fertilizing, watering and catching insects, cost?"
White Gloves paused, as if he didn't expect her to react so quickly. Before he took out another list, he saw a sickle placed next to it.
Then came scissors, hammers, and even a chainsaw that looked scary to the gloves.
Qiao Song simply squatted down, supporting his chin with one hand. His expression was quite gentle, without any intimidation or threat.
"I deserve a good wage for the hard work, but I don't lack tools, and the harvest from the farmland itself can't be exchanged for many soul coins. You should be able to offer a suitable price, right?"
The man in white gloves took a look at the buzzing electric saw, silently crumpled the list in his hand, and quickly took out a new one.
Wen Haoqian didn't realize that this could actually be bargained for. He had just paid all the expenses for his own gloves until they were mature.
"Shit, I didn't even look carefully, and I just spent 5,000 soul coins in one go."
If you don’t compare, you won’t know why he became the scapegoat again?
Who knew that this thing would actually secretly increase the price.
While Qiao Song was whispering to White Gloves, the geese she hatched came over and pecked at her trouser legs.
When the gosling was born, it was almost the same size as the duck that was born after listening to the story twice. Its light yellow fur was mixed with some gray and black. It looked thin, but it was quite strong.
Qiao Song took out his toolbox and without any mercy gave any response to the geese begging for food, he put them directly into the net bag.
On Lou Keqing's side, the ducks that had gone through two growth cycles seemed even hungrier than the geese on Qiao Song's side. When she wasn't paying attention, they jumped out of the basket and ran straight to the field where she planted Chinese spinach.
"Wow, you bunch of dead ducks, don't eat my chrysanthemums!"
She rushed out with one step, and quite nimbly caught two ducks that were about to rush into the field, and a large bundle of mesh ropes instantly appeared in her hands.
[Special circus ropes, very effective against animals]
She quickly corralled all the ducks together.
The commotion from Qiao Song and Lou Keqing made Wen Haoqian, who was already hatching chicks, react.
He also recited the story of the three monks drinking water. As soon as the chicks were hatched, he happily wrapped them in his suit jacket.
He poked it like a primary school student and said, "I bought this thing at the school gate when I was a kid. It cost one dollar each."
Lou Keqing, who was passing by, couldn't help but roll her eyes: "This is a vegetable-growing game, are you still playing it?"
Fortunately, all three players have skills with restricted attributes, which to a great extent prevents the newborn little guy from destroying their crops.
Wen Haoqian's expression was not very good, and he seemed a little complaining: "It's better not to hatch it."
His suit jacket was clearly not as restraining as the other two players' mesh props.
The hatched chickens, ducks and geese still need to eat, but there is no feed in the tool shed, so what do they eat?
Qiao Song seemed to know what Wen Haoqian was thinking, and pointed at the white gloves that were starting a new round of work in the field: "The crops have entered the growth period, give them the waste leaves that have been pruned first."
After failing to raise the price of the gloves, he began to feed the chickens, ducks and geese diligently again. Wen Haoqian, who had already changed into his third new suit, squatted on the ground and observed those tender yellow little things.
"Isn't this game a bit too easy?"
The young man in the suit muttered.
You can just spend some money to hire white gloves to help with farming, and you can also keep the animals in a cage. And, at worst, if you spend some money to buy gloves, it seems you can also raise chickens yourself.
However, he thought about it and felt that he was the only one who had wasted money.
The two female players next to them somehow managed to intimidate their own gloves. Although those guys worked very seriously, they obviously did not have the cheerful atmosphere of their own gloves, as if they had picked up money.
Damn it, I should have asked before copying the homework.
The three of them are considered a group with quite smooth progress.
Some of the other players around started quarreling over seeds from the beginning, while others didn't even realize there were props, and worked hard to farm only to start copying their neighbors' homework.
Others, like Qiao Song and the others, farmed and hatched chickens and ducks. However, because they were too greedy and read too many stories too quickly, the little ones grew too fast and soon began to eat up the half-grown plants in the field.
Qiao Song observed the farce around him, holding a buzzing chainsaw in his hand, not knowing what he was guarding against.
Seeing Wen Haoqian staring at him, Qiao Song reminded him, "The most precious thing in the hut is the seeds. There is only one seed. If the plants are eaten, there will be no more. So we must hatch the eggs, but not too fast to make them grow fast. At this rate, the leaves we trimmed are just enough to feed our chickens, ducks and geese."
When Wen Haoqian saw her taking out her weapon, he was a little confused: "You're going to kill the chicken if you eat it too quickly?"
Lou Keqing next to him couldn't stand this idiot in a suit anymore: "It's to guard against players!"
"Didn't you see that the light curtain next to the farmland had disappeared? Otherwise, how did everyone copy each other's homework?"
She reached out her hand and took out a hook from under her skirt, and then she began to be alert to her surroundings:
"They all failed to take good care of their own crops, which were eaten by chickens and ducks, so they had to go to other people's farms to pick up some ready-made plants."
In the early stage it was a planting game, but now...
"So they are coming here to steal vegetables!?" Wen Haoqian was shocked.
"What a fool! It's a robbery, okay?"
Lou Keqing pulled out a hook and threw it towards their tool shed, quickly hitting a man emerging from the soil.
【Sewer pipe worker】
[Not only Mario lives in the sewers, but also real skilled workers. It is a dirty and smelly place, so you need good equipment to get through it. ]
A man dressed in pitch-black gear was dug out of the soil by a hook.
The middle-aged man cursed and rushed quickly to the basket of chicks at the door of the tool shed.
Those were the chicks that Wen Haoqian had wrapped in his suit. He had just fed them a round of Houttuynia cordata!
Wen Haoqian became furious instantly, and a strange awning popped out of his hand. Oh no, behind the awning fell to the ground, there was a gorgeous dressing room.
[High-end suit shop, special dressing room]
[Wearing a suit is not an easy task, and high-end stores naturally have to give customers enough personal space, and sometimes even need someone to go in and help, so the dressing room is also spacious enough. Of course, only the owner has the key here, oh, and his useless apprentice son]
The locker room that crashed to the ground successfully caught the first thief, but soon more people came around.
Although Wen Haoqian was always late in copying the homework and made some minor mistakes, Qiao Song and her group had the smoothest progress.
Needless to say, the crops in the fields were growing well, and even the small animals had successfully eaten their fill.
Qiao Song was actually also paying attention to the situation of other people. According to her speculation, the chickens, ducks and geese that were raised on crops had obviously higher attack power than those born from fairy tale books, but their appetite was smaller.
Therefore, except for the incubation stage, it is best not to use fairy tale books later.
"How many people can your dressing room hold?"
Qiao Song picked up the electric saw and chopped off the javelin that was probably thrown by a javelin thrower from next door.
Wen Haoqian shouted: "About five or six, oh, five now."
Lou Keqing, who had a wire rope tied to her body, kicked over another player who was stealing food from her side with a sharp kick, and without any hesitation, pushed the player into Wen Haoqian's locker room.
The main reason was that Wen Haoqian didn't dare to have any opinion. He looked at this girl with freckles, who pulled the wire on her body and jumped out like a female flying man in every minute. She was as agile as a monkey, and the kind of monkey holding long swords and short guns.
【Acrobats and Aerial Trapeze Artists】
[Give me a rope, I can do any aerial moves. With the rope hanging in the air, under the centrifugal force, the indestructible legs are no joke. And you don't want to experience the lethality of a fully armed aerialist.]
The freckled girl Lou Keqing's skills are much better than this guy in a suit.
But Wen Haoqian can provide a locked locker room prison.
As for the other guy with a chainsaw, there's no need to mention it.
Wen Haoqian didn't even know where those huge monsters beside him came from.
Qiao Song held a chainsaw in his hand and stood directly on the paper beast's shoulder.
She was now able to do two things at once. She summoned paper beasts not just to defend against players who came to steal her crops. After raising her field of vision, she observed the conditions of the crops in the fields and quickly clapped her hands.
A man and a woman who had already dealt with the intruder looked over.
Qiao Song stated his suggestion very easily:
"Everyone else has come to our house to grab food, and we also need to feed the small animals at home, so why don't we go get some feed?"
Lou Keqing's eyes lit up.
"good!"
This sister is very much to my liking!
If the enemy does not attack me, I will not attack anyone. If the enemy attacks me, I will empty his entire family!
Those guys around who didn't grow their own vegetables well and wanted to take advantage of the situation soon suffered. Qiao Song and her friends didn't attack others, but only caught the players who attacked them and directly raided their nests.
Like bandits crossing the border, Qiao Song and Lou Keqing openly played the food-grabbing game and packed up a lot of Houttuynia cordata, coriander and Chinese cabbage.
If he wasn't afraid that the little ones would never come back, Qiao Song would have wanted to take them to a vegetable buffet.
Although she herself thought that this thing was not very tasty, the chickens, ducks and geese still ate it happily.
But just after feeding the geese, Qiao Song suddenly frowned and looked up at the sky.
Wen Haoqian: "It's raining?"
A drop of rain fell on his face.
As soon as he finished saying this, Qiao Song's face changed when he realized something was wrong.
This is no ordinary rain.
[Ding—acid rain is coming! ]
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