Chapter 143 Vegetable Planting Game (Part 2)
Wen Haoqian was still confused when he was dragged into the hut.
"Acid rain!?" The damn system prompt ruined his good mood.
"My little chicken! My newly grown folded ears!"
Lou Keqing grabbed him by the collar of his suit with a look of disgust and dragged him into the house.
"It's just a few drops. It won't kill many chickens in a short time."
The most urgent task is to find tools to solve the problem of crops being wetted by rain.
If she hadn't searched the tool shed before and found nothing related to rain shelter, she wouldn't have thought of asking this guy to help.
Different people have different perspectives on finding things. You have to find ways to dig deep into the ground and find possible hidden props in the tool shed.
"How can I help? I can't find gloves as fast as you can."
Wen Haoqian pushed his sunglasses on the bridge of his nose in frustration. His face had just been caught in the rain and some gray spots were already clearly visible. He was just about to take off his sunglasses and go to the pool at the junction of the cabin and the outside world to rinse the wound.
Lou Keqing: "Stop pretending, that thing on your eye is just a prop."
Wen Haoqian paused as he held up his sunglasses.
"So what? But this is just a one-time item. Before looking for a rain-proof item, do I have to use up a search item first? What's the logic behind this?"
And he used his personal property!
Big drops of rain fell on the roof made of special panels, making very heavy clicking sounds.
Qiao Song looked around and said, "I've already searched for it before. If there are any items related to acid rain prevention, they shouldn't be hidden too deep. At worst, there should be clues in the dungeon."
Currently, the only props that can be used are gloves and the storybook under the basket. If there are any special items, they are either related to the known props or to the background of the copy.
Farm protection gloves are a dungeon item in Sky Farm and look more like an advertisement.
As for the storybook, there is only one story in it.
"One monk carries water to drink, two monks lift water to drink, three monks have no water to drink..."
This short fable tells the story of monks carrying water in the temple. At the beginning, when he was alone, the monk would go down the mountain to carry water every day to fill the water tank in the temple.
When there are two monks, they will start to shirk the responsibility of carrying water to each other. They can only carry water together after discussing it, as neither of them wants to suffer a loss by doing more work.
Not to mention the three people, because they were all waiting for other monks to fetch water, and in the end they had no water to drink.
When Qiao Song was interning at a company, his leader would use this story to encourage everyone and tell them the importance of teamwork.
What is the connection between this story and the game in front of me...
By this time, Lou Keqing had already searched the house again and was getting a little anxious.
"That's not right. I guess there should be at least one item left for players to deal with acid rain. How could there be none? The guy with the sunglasses, stop washing your face. Did you really not find anything else over there?"
Wen Haoqian splashed a lot of water on his face to wash away the skin that was touched by the acid rain. He took off his sunglasses, revealing a very immature face, looking like a student who had just entered college.
"Look for yourself. We've both gone through this several times. Why do you keep asking me?"
There was a reason why Lou Keqing was anxious. The destructive power of acid rain was far beyond expectations. The sound of rain gradually increased, and one could even see obvious holes appearing on the leaves of vegetables in the field.
Is this acid rain or sulfuric acid?
At this rate, the fields will be barren sooner or later.
In the distant sky, many players are using their personal skills to rescue the crops in the fields. Some people's skills happen to have some defensive attributes, but it is difficult to cover such a large area.
So the key still lies in the copy props.
Lou Keqing gritted her teeth and decided that if all else failed, they could just discuss spending money together to buy Wen Haoqian's props. At least they would find the tools to prevent acid rain first.
"Have you searched near the well?" a calm voice sounded.
As soon as Qiao Song opened his mouth, Lou Keqing immediately responded: "We've looked, but there's nothing there except a few haystacks."
The water source next to the farmland is not open-air, but an old-fashioned lever well just under the eaves. The white gloves jump flexibly on the pull rod and can quickly draw water directly up to water the fields.
Not far from the well, there is a haystack. Now it is eroded by acid rain, and the hay on it shows obvious signs of decay.
Qiao Song observed for a moment and immediately said, "Move that haystack away."
Without hesitation, Lou Keqing took out her hook and reached the huge haystack with a flick of her hand. Wen Haoqian was quite sensible and hurried over to help her pull the rope.
The acid rain outside also has an impact on the human body. After they carried out the construction at such a long distance, they really saw something under the haystack.
It is a round cover like a sewer manhole cover with three iron chains on it.
“It’s true!”
As soon as Qiao Song saw the three iron chains on the ring, he knew that he was probably right.
"Do you have any temporary defensive props? Let's hide for a while. We must work together in the acid rain to pull up the manhole cover."
Wen Haoqian hesitated for a moment and summoned a huge parasol.
[Accessories of high-end suit shop door curtains: expensive, but in addition to providing shade and shelter from the rain, the gorgeous parasol is not portable at all and cannot withstand the wind]
"Hurry up, hurry up, this broken umbrella is just for show. I don't know how long it can protect against the acid rain in the game world. Hurry up!"
Three people immediately rushed under the umbrella, and one of them pulled it out with force using an iron chain. I don't know if it was because the requirement of three people working in the acid rain at the same time was met, but the lid was pulled open in just a few breaths.
When the lid under the haystack was pulled open, three neatly folded yellow tarpaulins were revealed.
[Sky Farm produces special rain cloth, invulnerable to swords and guns, and immune to water and fire]
[This rain sheet can prevent acid rain disasters and other weather disasters to a great extent, but please note that it also has a good thermal insulation effect, so please use it with caution]
Wen Haoqian was overjoyed. He immediately put the tarpaulin on his head and rushed to rescue his dog.
Qiao Song's gaze lingered for a moment on the thermal insulation effect described in the props, and soon he used the same method as Lou Keqing to cover the crops that had been attacked by a round of acid rain.
But I have to say that in this farm game, even though the players are not very close to each other, copying homework is not a particularly difficult task.
Seeing that someone had found the official tarpaulin, other players immediately went to the well to look for clues.
Not every three people in a team can cooperate perfectly. After all, from choosing seeds to selecting chickens, ducks, and goose eggs, there is very weak competition among players on the same team.
However, no skills or props could be used to open the round manhole cover under the haystack. The only way to achieve cooperation was to discuss and take risks together, just like the three monks in the fairy tale book.
Wen Haoqian successfully rescued his own zebrafish and sat on the eaves, panting.
"It hurts when the rain hits my body."
When he came back, the suit he was wearing on his head was so wet from the acid rain that it was transparent.
The parasol that Wen Haoqian took out earlier could not withstand the acid rain attack for long. This rain was obviously different from the rain in the real world. The corrosive power of acid rain was the same as that of sulfuric acid. Most of the plants in the ground had been burned to pieces.
They managed to save at least the remaining part by putting up the tarpaulin in time.
“I don’t know if I can survive.”
Wen Haoqian's tone was somewhat resentful. This was the first time in his life that he had planted such a large area of plants by himself.
Although this is mainly due to the help of other props.
Qiao Song was the least embarrassed. Her paper beasts would only be affected by the lake water in the paper-making town, and acid rain could not break the layer of paper.
Lou Keqing circled around her several times, apparently wanting to know which copy the item was from.
"Paper Town?"
Lou Keqing repeated the name over and over again: "I'll use the mall map to check later. They should have opened a corresponding store in the blind box mall. Let's see if we can get some related props."
Each copy of the Twelve Committees has a corresponding entire floor in this shopping mall, which is used to sell related blind boxes of daily necessities and props.
The status of the paper-zha town is rather special, so it only occupies a large area on the 44th floor, rather than the entire 44th floor.
Qiao Song only gave a general idea, but Lou Keqing knew the value of the words "Twelve Committees", and her judgment of Qiao Song's ability was further improved.
Lou Keqing: "Okay, I'm not afraid to participate in the game. Since I'm already in the blind box mall, of course I have to get some useful props, otherwise it's a waste of time."
Qiao Song provided the floors corresponding to the paper beast props, and Lou Keqing reciprocated by introducing the various invisible rules of the blind box mall. After all, she had been here for several days and it was not her first time here.
"The daily necessities upstairs actually have corresponding props. For example, the paper-folding material shop you just mentioned is on the 44th floor, so the corresponding prop floor should be on the -44th floor. Of course, if you violate the rules when consuming daily necessities, you may be thrown into the corresponding game by the NPC. However, it seems that there may not be any rewards for entering illegally. It's good enough to be alive."
"If you have any other questions, you can ask me after the game. We should be together when we go out anyway..."
At this time, someone suddenly interrupted and said, "Wait, can you guys stop talking for a while? I feel like something is wrong in the field."
Wen Haoqian's hair was messy at this time, his trouser legs were rolled up high, and his neck was stretched forward to carefully observe the growth of his own Polygonum multiflorum. He seemed to have evolved from a young master in a suit to a farming boy wearing a suit robe.
"Look, why do I feel like the vegetables under the rain sheet are moving?"
To be precise, there were lumps of lump-like things wriggling inside.
At first there was only one or two noises, but gradually the noises under the tarpaulin became louder and louder.
Add to that the sound of large drops of acid rain hitting the tarpaulin, and it seemed even more eerie.
Qiao Song was not surprised at all. Instead, he seemed to confirm a certain guess and reached out to Lou Keqing: "Give me the hook rope."
When laying the tarpaulin before, she suggested that Lou Keqing use tools to hook the edges and corners of the tarpaulin, so that even if she didn't go out in the rain, she could straighten the tarpaulin in time or even recycle it.
Lou Keqing handed her the rope without hesitation, wondering, "What are you going to do? Just lift the tarp? But the rain hasn't stopped yet."
As long as the players find the props in time and take good protection, the damage caused by acid rain to the plants will not be destructive. Qiao Song's current approach will undoubtedly make the first aid measures that they have taken ahead of other players useless.
"Remember the last sentence of the tarp's instructions? The tarp has a heat-retaining effect and cannot be used for a long time."
"In a warm environment and fertile soil, the most likely things to breed are germs and insects."
Qiao Song tightened the rope and suddenly lifted the tarpaulin that had been covering his field.
The coriander that was previously damaged by acid rain has now grown new green shoots. Once this plant has passed the first stage, its subsequent growth rate will be quite fast and it is not easy to be infested by insects.
But this is a copy world, how could there be ordinary bugs on the vegetables?
Rows of strangely shaped green caterpillars have been hiding on the tops of the corianders. Each of them has a small black horn on its head. Their growth rates vary. The strongest ones look as big as a palm.
Before, these things were wiggling around under the tarp.
The good thermal insulation environment and tender green leafy vegetables allow the insects to reproduce rapidly after hatching.
The eggs may have been in the soil from the beginning.
But the tarpaulin was lifted and the acid rain fell directly on the insects again.
Qiao Song listened carefully and could even hear the rustling sound of dead insects falling to the ground amid the sound of rain hitting the leaves.
"Ahhhh where did these bugs come from?! Are these the same bugs on my Polygonum multiflorum?"
Wen Haoqian was going crazy. He was about to pull the rope to check on his vegetables, but hesitated. He saw that after Qiao Song pulled off the rain sheet, the coriander leaves that had finally recovered were full of holes caused by acid rain again.
With holes eaten by insects and holes corroded by acid rain, how could growing vegetables have such a difficult fate!
Lou Keqing immediately realized what was going on and followed Qiao Song's example by pulling open the rainproof cloth.
Wen Haoqian was rubbing his hair and was about to go crazy.
"No, if you do this, the insects will die, but what about the leaves? Can we still have a harvest?"
Lou Keqing was unsure, but she could see that the rain was slowing down.
"If it's any later, these bugs will get bigger and bigger. Don't you realize that they grow very fast? It's only been a few minutes and they've already grown this big!"
Each of those big caterpillars had a very strange polygonal head. When they grew to the size of a palm, the strange appearance became more and more obvious.
This clearly looks 80% similar to the blue bull that the little NPC kid was riding!
Whose bug has a cow's head on top?
Once you see it, you can’t stay!
Wen Haoqian was reminded of this and was instantly frightened by the bugs with cow heads all over the vegetable garden. His hands trembled, but he finally gritted his teeth and quickly lifted up his own rainproof cloth.
The heavy rain once again fell on the leaves of the Houttuynia cordata plant in his yard, taking away a large number of insects that had grown to the size of finger joints and began to corrode those that were the size of fists.
"Acid rain has a good insect-killing effect, so the vegetable leaves are not completely hopeless."
Qiao Song's voice rang out.
"If you believe me, take out the fairy tale book. We have to act quickly from now on."
Qiao Song first took the fairy tale book, and then took out his basket of goslings. Because he had gone to the player's vegetable garden near Huo Huo before, the goslings had eaten so much that their bellies were round and they were almost reaching adulthood.
When he saw Qiao Song let him out, he immediately started to cry out with hunger.
Wen Haoqian was not so stupid as to need others to remind him of everything. He immediately widened his eyes and looked at the cage of chickens in his hand, and then at the insects in the field that had not been completely killed by the acid rain.
"No, sis, are you planning to let these guys out to eat bugs?"
Compared to the vegetable leaves in the field, Wen Haoqian was obviously more concerned about his own chicks. It looked like three or five of those bugs could eat an entire chicken!
"Besides, don't chickens eat vegetables? Wouldn't both of them perish together?"
Lou Keqing thought quickly and took out her own duckling, ready to release it at any time.
"Who would want to be a vegetarian when there's meat to eat? Can't you see that these little ancestors are so hungry that they're almost gnawing the cage?"
She remembered watching a documentary when she was a child, in which chickens and ducks even helped catch locusts.
Qiao Song had already opened the storybook. The story of the three monks was only in the first two or three pages. This book, which previously only had one story, was now obviously thicker and was quickly refreshed with two new fairy tales.
One is "The Ugly Duckling" and the other is "Jack and the Beanstalk".
She quickly skimmed through the new short story and already had an idea in her mind.
"Before the vegetables die, read all three stories together. No matter what happens in the middle, don't stop. Just keep reading."
Fairy tale books can help creatures in any growth state grow quickly.
This note suddenly flashed in the minds of the other two people.
Wow, an ecological balance is achieved directly!
"What about the mission?" Wen Haoqian shouted, kicking the tarpaulin aside while starting to pour the chicks out of the chicken coop.
"The rain will stop soon. We can only use chickens, ducks and geese to deal with the insects. If I'm not mistaken, the growth rate of plants will become very fast after using the fairy tale book. As for the things needed to settle the task, remember to find an opportunity to collect them when the time comes."
After understanding Qiao Song's intention, before she could take any action, the agile Lou Keqing quickly went to the tool room and dragged out two large backpacks that she had prepared in advance.
This is the tool we found when we were looking for a tarp.
The matching sickles, scissors and other tools all show signs of use. Although they are ordinary tools, they are very useful for harvesting vegetables.
Wen Haoqian immediately yelled, "How disloyal! Can't you help me drag it for a bit?"
He rushed back to the house to get his backpack and sickle. In the blink of an eye, the chicks had already rushed into the vegetable garden.
Just as Qiao Song expected, the acid rain stopped soon, and the chickens, ducks and geese, whose eyes turned green from hunger, were drooling at the strange-shaped insects in the vegetable field.
"The rain has stopped, hurry up and study!"
The three of them stood in front of their own fields and recited three stories quickly.
After reading the first story, the chickens, ducks and geese instantly doubled in size and crushed the caterpillars in the vegetable garden, making them scream.
After reading the second story, the little bugs grew bigger and started to attack the little animals.
While the two sides were pulling each other, they had no time to eat the leaves in the vegetable garden.
As soon as the third story, "Jack and the Beanstalk", was finished, the three plants in the land suddenly grew taller as if they had eaten fertilizer.
The tender leaves, which were originally only ankle-deep, stretched upwards by several meters, growing as rapidly as trees.
The original light green color gradually deepened and the leaves became larger. Qiao Song knew that this was a sign of complete maturity.
The other two were not fools either, and they immediately began picking ripe plants.
It was hard for Wen Haoqian who was wearing a suit.
I don’t know if it’s because the Houttuynia cordata in his field smells too strong, but even though the tarpaulin was opened for a shorter time and the chicks were not big enough, the number of insects in the field was the least.
But the problem is that Houttuynia cordata grows underground, and those on the ground are leaves, namely Houttuynia cordata.
"You big fool, you spent so much money on the White Gloves before, why don't you ask them to help you!"
Lou Keqing yelled, and Wen Haoqian reacted and quickly shouted to the tool room in the back: "I spent money, why don't you come and help me dig out the Polygonum multiflorum!"
When it rained acid before, the gloves that were very smart and hiding from the rain in the house were finally woken up by their employer.
These gloves are not lazy, but they will not work on their own initiative and need the employer to give the order first.
Qiao Song and Lou Keqing also used gloves to help harvest vegetables, which greatly improved efficiency.
Originally, Lou Keqing didn't want to spend this money. She had done farm work before, and harvesting vegetables might be the last step of the game, so the gloves were very expensive.
The little guys that Qiao Song had threatened also took 500 soul coins from her, and Lou Keqing even spent 1,200 soul coins.
From this perspective, Wen Haoqian, who bought out the entire glove service package in one go, can be considered a lucky idiot.
But Qiao Song said it was better to hurry up.
The most dangerous time is after the vegetables are harvested.
Soon, Lou Keqing understood what she meant.
They experienced the acid rain process without any major problems, and used chickens, ducks, and geese to solve the problem of insects in the vegetable garden, but other players were not so lucky.
Some people failed to find rainproof cloth, which resulted in the destruction of their vegetable fields. At this point, there was no hope of passing the level and they could only think of ways to hatch chickens, ducks and geese in order to get extra NPC rewards so as not to return empty-handed.
After the eggs hatched, because there were no vegetables in the fields and acid rain killed the insects in the fields, the chicks and ducklings gnawed the cages. Now they have begun to gnaw on the player's clothes and even actively attack humans.
But not all players failed to find the tarpaulin. However, if they were not careful, the insects would have eaten too many of their vegetables due to the heat-insulating effect of the tarpaulin. By the time they discovered it, the acid rain had stopped. If the chickens, ducks and geese had not hatched, it would have been a plague of insects.
If the plants don't grow well and the insects are not fat enough, the chickens and ducks will quickly form a one-sided momentum. After clearing the land and plants, they will turn their eyes back to the player with hungry green eyes.
If any link goes wrong, let alone harvesting a basket of vegetables, the entire game venue will be filled with all kinds of roaring players, some are chased by insects, and some are chased and bitten by the chickens, ducks and geese they raised.
It's real chewing of meat, not just chewing of pants.
Wen Haoqian had already gotten his hands full of mud from digging up the Polygonum multiflorum, and now he was filled with fear: "Fortunately we acted quickly."
The white gloves around also helped a lot. They walked through the ridges of the fields where chickens were flying, geese were jumping, and ducks were cursing, and helped Qiao Song and the others to obtain ripe vegetables without even any insect holes.
The moment the three baskets were full, the three people heard a system prompt "ding" in their ears.
[Congratulations on completing the main task issued by the NPC! You have reached the clearance standard, please wait for the game to be settled! ]
call--
"I really have to thank you two for this game. If I were to do it myself, I would probably have to rely on the gloves for support."
In the past, the young master in the suit had relied on his money to pass the dungeon, but he had always had good luck, otherwise he would not have come to the blind box paradise.
Although there was no blind box segment this time, the teammates I met were really reliable.
Lou Keqing waved her hand: "If it weren't for the fact that the game forces three people to settle accounts together, I wouldn't bother with you. You've been growing vegetables for so long, and you're still wearing a suit. You might as well just weld this suit to your body."
"Aren't you still wearing a skirt?"
"This is my acrobatic costume. Wearing it will improve your physical fitness, okay?"
"This is also my skill outfit. Wearing it, at least it provides a layer of defense!"
While the two were bickering, the fighting around them was almost over. Except for a few players who managed to keep their vegetables or avoid being poisoned by chickens, ducks and geese, almost no one was like them, with vegetable fields growing into forests, chickens, ducks and geese becoming fat and not attacking people.
The land of most players is now visibly bare, almost entirely occupied by fat game creatures.
For example, it can eat up all the vegetable fields, or even chase the players to the point where they jump up and down like a powerful goose.
In some fields, there were only three or two green caterpillars left, which were larger than dogs.
"Oh, this harvest is better than I thought."
After the mess on the ground, a childish yet malicious voice rang out cheerfully.
The cowherd boy sat on the back of the big blue ox and gently hooked his fingers. The strange creatures in the vegetable field immediately twisted and changed their appearance.
The large chickens, ducks and geese that chased and bit the players turned into children wearing bellybands of three different colors.
The huge and fat green caterpillar that ate in the vegetable garden had its horns on its forehead growing bigger and bigger, and it gradually grew limbs and turned into a small green ox.
A few even smaller children rode on the backs of the little green cows that were transformed from insects.
"Not bad, not bad, there are a few more brothers and sisters."
He raised his other chubby hand again, and soon, the few bamboo baskets full of vegetables in the field also flew out.
The cowherd boy took a deep breath in the backpack, his expression quite comfortable: "Wow, it smells so good! Let's go back and have hotpot right away, add some greens and some cold-mixed Houttuynia cordata!"
There were still some small chicks and ducklings left in the field that hadn't become children. He picked them up casually and soon put them in cages and took them away.
Imagining the fate of those chicks and ducklings, Lou Keqing suddenly felt a chill.
"Cannibalism... He really has the stomach for it."
No wonder those little guys were eager to eat as soon as they hatched from the eggs. I'm afraid they knew long ago that they would have a chance to become children if they grow up. If they don't get enough nutrition and can't grow up, they will have to be eaten in the hot pot after the game is over.
"I am very satisfied with this game. Here, this is your reward!" The cowherd boy clapped his little hands, and suddenly light burst out and flew everywhere.
Under the envious gaze of the crowd, Qiao Song and others each received two gold blind boxes and one white blind box.
Others who completed half of the task also received some ordinary white blind boxes.
Lou Keqing licked her lips and couldn't wait to open the box.
While waiting for the system transmission to finish, they had already appeared in a strange farmers' market. Lou Keqing was already arm in arm with Qiao Song in a familiar manner.
"Come on, it's time for my favorite part. Don't show off your wealth. Sisters, let's go to the store and open a private room to open the blind boxes of props!"
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