A land abandoned by God, beside a dilapidated thatched hut.
The village chief and members of the village committee each carried sticks, hoes, or similar items.
"Open the door!" At the village chief's command, several people rushed forward and smashed the door of the thatched hut to pieces.
"Hey, have you seen the second brother?" the village chief asked.
The corpse on the bed did not answer.
Someone poked the old woman on the bed with a stick and murmured, "She seems... to be dead."
The village chief looked around and saw a recessed ring on the ground near the wall, its shape and size exactly the same as the bottom of the water vat.
The village chief strode to the water vat, lifted the lid, and saw that inside lay the naked, long-dead villager, Lao Er!
Although the village chief did not know who killed the second brother, he could not escape the two unruly women and the brat.
The village chief stormed back to the village to arrest the man, only to be met by two men who had come to the village committee to file a complaint.
One man said he was threatened with his neck choked, and another man said he was verbally abused.
The two of them are a pair, well, they're suing the same person.
Upon hearing this, the village chief knew the murderer was about to be revealed!
The village chief immediately returned to the village committee and connected to the village loudspeaker: "Attention villagers, a traitor and murderer has appeared in the village, disrupting the harmony of the neighborhood. She is a female outsider who entered the village the day before yesterday, named Xia Chuhe. Villagers are free to lift restrictions and strangle her at will."
The loudspeaker broadcast this message three times.
Squeaking sounds gradually echoed through the village as waves of black, gray, and yellow rats squeaked and hurried toward the dwelling of the evolved beings.
The mice rustled past the convoy.
Hidden inside the truck canopy, Xia Chuhe didn't dare to breathe.
The rat swarm lasted for a full half hour, and Xia Chuhe's legs went numb from sitting in the car.
Not long after the rats left, the truck slowly started moving, carrying Xia Chuhe and his backpack full of small animals out of Taoyuan Village.
The truck had traveled an unknown distance when Xia Chuhe's wristwatch suddenly vibrated, signaling that the farm was now unsealed.
Having not seen the farm for two days, Xia Chuhe quickly checked the plants and animals on the farm.
The wheat planted before entering the instance has matured, while the corn and soybeans are still growing. The feed mill still has a considerable amount of feed stored, and it's already connected to the poultry sheds, so feeding can be done without Xia Chuhe's intervention.
Without Xia Chuhe watching him intently, the large parrot looked even more plump.
With the farm around, Xia Chuhe felt inexplicably confident. She put the hummingbird on the truck's canopy: "Work hard, and when we get back this time, I'll definitely get you some honey."
The little hummingbird stood on the truck, head held high and chest puffed out, looking very spirited. It was clear it had learned from the rooster that crowed every day on the farm.
Xia Chuhe put all the collected animals into the farm, and the farm sent envelopes one after another.
The bonus experience for unlocking some animals is mostly B or C grade, except for the already unlocked chicken. Only the snake is A grade and the dragon is S grade. The total bonus experience is 160, and the cumulative experience is 230/100 (can be upgraded).
There are also buildings that unlock animals, such as mouse cages, rabbit cages, cowsheds, horse sheds, and so on.
Xia Chuhe first upgraded the farm, and after upgrading it twice, the number of plots of land quadrupled, becoming sixty-four plots.
Building structures requires points, and Xia Chuhe currently has plenty of points, so he waved his hand and started building everything.
The little animals were still small and hadn't grown up yet. While waiting for the building to be completed, Xia Chuhe emptied two pigeon coops for them to live in, so they wouldn't run around and damage the crops in the field.
The dragon egg showed no signs of hatching. Xia Chuhe thought about it and figured it was probably because she hadn't incubated it.
Xia Chuhe then stuffed the dragon egg into the nest of the brooding hen...
The hen tilted its head, staring at the dragon egg, motionless, as if petrified. After staring for a long time, the hen stretched its neck and looked up at the sky, meeting Xia Chuhe's innocent eyes through the screen.
The chickens don't move, and neither does the summer hoeing of the rice.
The hen eventually gave up; it was too tiring to keep its head tilted back.
It clucked for a while, then settled into its nest. The dragon egg was much larger than a regular chicken egg, and the hen had to move around several times before finding a comfortable spot to brood.
Xia Chuhe nodded in satisfaction. This hen was really sensible. When they returned to the wasteland, he would reward her with a few devil worms.
Finally, worried that the chickens and ducks would peck at the snake, Xia Chuhe took it out and let it stay on his finger as a ring.
During the truck transport, Xia Chuhe was not idle either.
Considering that he would be staying in the instance for another five days and might not have time to look after the farm, Xia Chuhe planted corn, which takes five days to mature, on all the newly added land.
Xia Chuhe, who was working hard in the truck bed, was unaware that the other people in the other truck beds were popping their heads out from time to time to observe the situation, like moles in a whack-a-mole game.
They saw countless idyllic villages...
If the truck hadn't been traveling in a straight line, they would have thought they were going in circles.
After passing through countless idyllic villages, the scenery finally changed.
Small workshops and shops began to appear along the roadside. The buildings were lifeless, and the people inside were either working or waiting numbly and quietly.
The car at the front of the convoy slowly came to a stop, and a muscular man, about two meters tall with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, got out. He took something out of his pocket and scattered it onto the road, whereupon a thick white mist slowly began to rise.
The muscular man climbed back into the car and led the convoy into the white fog.
Xia Chuhe, who had just finished planting, suddenly felt that the world had come alive.
The shouts of vendors, the calls of shopkeepers, the laughter of children, the coughs of the elderly, the jingling of bicycle bells... all these lively sounds rushed towards Xia Chuhe, instantly pushing her back to the bustling market of her childhood memories.
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