The stakes are a face.
It's not something that comes with this face.
Therefore, this was a very fair competition.
Xia Chuhe had no reason to refuse, but she added an additional condition.
Regardless of the final outcome of the competition, the two maintained a state of non-interference with each other.
The decision to destroy the seedlings in winter was agreed upon.
To ensure fairness, Xia Chuhe and Dong Huimiao would each propose a method for the competition, and the winner would be determined after both matches were completed. There were no referees, or rather, Xia Chuhe and Dong Huimiao themselves were the referees.
The first competition will be decided by Xia Chuhe, who will have three days to come up with the competition items.
Before this, Xia Chuhe released the winter-damaged seedlings, letting them go to other places on their own.
Xia Chuhe didn't care much about this competition. Compared to the bet on her face, losing was more important to her as she worried about losing face.
Lord Xia still had some burdens on his shoulders.
However, she didn't want the competition to delay the farm's upgrade, so Xia Chuhe had already decided that the first competition would be a dungeon-entry competition to see who could get the dungeon core first. This way, she could also accumulate experience for the farm during the competition.
Therefore, selecting clues from the instance becomes even more important.
Xia Chuhe spread out the clues from the instance on the table and studied and compared them one by one. After studying them for more than an hour, her head was aching, but she still couldn't choose a suitable instance.
Just then, Xia Chuhe received even more troublesome news.
The smugglers used some method to bypass the city gate's checks and transported Bru into Taotie City. While patrolling the trading area, Li Qiusheng and Xin Diao unexpectedly discovered Bru's trail. Following this clue, they found that the smugglers had actually established a complete transportation chain within Taotie City.
Following the transportation chain, the patrol team arrested many people, but they couldn't get the most crucial information about the smuggling process.
The people they were willing to hire were all insignificant nobodys who didn't have access to key information.
Those who truly possessed the crucial information were all staunch believers of the Heavenly Holy Temple, who would rather die than confess. Before the patrol team could even take any action, these people willingly went to their deaths.
Worse still, some city dwellers have already secretly tried the drug Bru.
How to deal with these city residents is the biggest problem facing the patrol team.
Their actions did not harm others; at most, they violated the rules of Taotie City.
Xia Chuhe was at his wit's end: "Lock these people up first, and then make a decision after we figure out what happened with Bru."
Xia Chuhe stared blankly at her watch, two messages from Lu Dangui repeatedly refreshing her mind, each one clearer than the last.
The existence of the transportation chain is not something that happened overnight, so how come it was exposed just when she received the clues about the Temple of the God of Heaven?
It was as if someone had meticulously planned to lure her into a trap.
They even went so far as to expose a lucrative transportation chain.
Without resolving this issue, Xia Chuhe cannot focus on upgrading her farm and developing Taotie City. Who knows what kind of monsters and demons are lurking in her city?
Just as Lu Dangui had predicted, Xia Chuhe would eventually make a trip to Taotie City.
However, she did not go alone.
Thinking of something funny, Xia Chuhe curled up the corners of his lips.
...
A safe house not far from Taotie City.
Dong Huimiao browsed the content of the Tianya Forum with great interest.
To facilitate communication between the two, Dong Huimiao downloaded the Haijiao Forum on Xia Chuhe's recommendation.
Since Xiao Ai joined Taotie City, the city's information security work has reached a new level, and it has become increasingly easy to bypass the supervision of the upper levels. The Tianya Forum has long since become a semi-public software.
Compared to the public internet, which is under constant surveillance, the information on the Tianya forum is much more diverse and exciting, with all sorts of transaction information, gossip, and wasteland tales keeping Dong Huimiao browsing with great enthusiasm.
Until she stumbled upon a post from a few months prior exposing part of the truth about corpse recycling facilities and nutrient solutions. After the corpses were recycled, some trace elements were extracted and added to the nutrient solution. The rest were crushed and mixed with various other things to become fertilizer for growing mushrooms.
The body disposal site and the mushroom farm were both places where Dong Huimiao had worked, and she knew a little about the connection between the two.
However, the fact that the trace elements in the corpses could be processed into nutrients was far beyond what the winter-destroyed seedlings had expected.
Thinking about the nutrients I've been taking at the base for seven years, the winter-damaged seedlings felt a chill run down my spine and a bit nauseous.
What bothered her even more was that the heads of the upper families must know about this. In her mind, the image of the great and righteous family heads had gained another heavy, irreparable rift.
Thus, Dong Huimiao went from enjoying surfing to not enjoying it...
[I've decided on the content of the first competition—the Temple of the Heavenly Saints. Whoever first obtains the rules of this city will be the winner.]
Winter-Destroying Seedlings, who were unhappy surfing, became even more unhappy after receiving Summer-Hoeing Seedlings' message.
To seize control of a city's rules—has Xia Chuhe gone mad?
She had considered that the competition might involve looting various items in a dungeon, with the winner being whoever collected the most valuable items. But a whole city? Wasn't that a bit too much?
Winter-Destroying Seedlings couldn't help but confirm with Summer-Hoeing Plants: [Let me reiterate, this is a competition between the two of us, without any external assistance.]
Yes, that's why I only mentioned the city's rules, not taking over the city.
Xia Chuhe then sent another message: "If I win, once my people capture the city, it will be mine directly. If you win and my people capture the city, I will give you one-third."
Winter destroyed seedlings: "..."
Is it possible that the two of them might end up together...?
The winter seedling destruction gave me my first direct experience of the arrogance, or rather, the confidence, of the summer weeding.
"Alright, I accept this match."
Regardless of the outcome of the competition, we cannot lose our fighting spirit.
Dong Huimiao reluctantly accepted the challenge. When she came to her senses, she realized her heart was pounding wildly. She hadn't been this excited even when she narrowly escaped death at the corpse disposal site.
From the competitions selected by Xia Chuhe, one can vaguely glimpse the trajectory of Xia Chuhe's career path in the winter-damaged seedlings.
Cape Trading Market, Dream City, Gluttony City...
Perhaps Xia Chuhe only gained partial ownership of the city by taking extremely risky steps to obtain the city's rules.
These cities were built by Xia Chuhe through hard work and risking her life; they weren't given to her by others.
Winter destroyed the seedlings and turned off her watch, feeling a bit conflicted.
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