Wan Huanyu had been full of confidence, certain he could take down Chu Fu, but little did he expect that someone would actually accept his task, even communicating with him that it would definitely be completed.
The result? Within four hours of the server launch, Plantman led his team and swept up every single first-kill.
This infuriated Wan Huanyu, who went straight to confront them.
But then, the intel on the dark web showed that Laurent was already dead.
Ross had also fallen into the net.
Thank god the dark web was anonymous with masked addresses, or his murder-for-hire scheme would have been exposed.
But after this, Wan Huanyu finally kept his head down for good.
After all, anyone who could take out Laurent evidently had aces up their sleeve too.
If pushed to the brink, they might even retaliate with an assassination attempt on him.
So recently, Wan Huanyu has been holed up at Wantu Real Estate Tower, where the security system is top-notch, and he rarely logs off.
Just lay low for a month.
He was about to hit level 20 now, and finally could head to the city to develop.
Hopefully this time things would go smoother.
At least, he wasn’t the rookie from the 001 District anymore.
He had revival scrolls in hand, and he’d raised a priest capable of resurrection—this time he wouldn’t die so easily.
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Fengdu Town, the granary.
Chu Fu handed her rice over to the granary manager, a man named Shi Dacang.
When she submitted the task, there weren’t many people around—after all, it was the first day of server merge, the territory had just been purchased, and only two guilds had taken on the task.
On day one, nothing had grown yet.
Chu Fu was the only one playing the role of the Divine Farmer.
Shi Dacang inspected the goods.
“The rice is free of pests and disease, plump in grain, top-quality. Purchase price: 2 copper coins per catty.”
“The wheat is also top-quality. Purchase price: 2 copper coins per catty.”
In one go, she earned 1 silver and 800 copper coins.
Not only that, she also got a wave of experience.
It was even more than an hour of killing monsters outside.
Chu Fu quickly pulled out the ultra-high-yield rice (silver tier) and spirit rice (gold tier) she’d been growing before.
“Master Shi, would you buy these as well?” Chu Fu handed them over.
Shi Dacang took one look, his eyes immediately lighting up, then said: “This rice is excellent—each grain is enormous, with extremely high yield. I can purchase it as seed stock at 10 copper coins per catty.”
As for the spirit rice, Shi Dacang took one look and drew a sharp breath.
“This rice contains a trace of unique energy fluctuation. Extremely satiating, packed with vitality. Eating it strengthens the body. What a treasure, what a treasure. Purchase price: 20 copper coins.”
Don’t let the copper pricing fool you—the volume Chu Fu could sell was simply insane.
One acre could yield roughly 5,000 catties of spirit rice at 20 copper per catty, meaning that single acre’s selling price came to 100 silver.
300 acres would be 30 gold coins.
Converted to real-world currency, that was 30 million!
The ability to earn 30 million in 24 hours—how terrifying was that?
And the craziest part? Chu Fu had only tilled 300 acres so far.
What if she expanded?
Forget killing monsters and bosses.
Chu Fu was going straight into farming.
“Master Shi, I can mass-produce these rice and spirit rice seeds. I just need to know—how much can you take off my hands?”
Though Shi Dacang was an NPC, his expression was vivid and full of excitement: “Esteemed awakened one, you must be an incredibly skilled wood-element awakener.”
“To be frank, our granary is running empty. If you could provide 5 million catties of grain, you’d relieve a full month of food crisis for Fengdu Town.”
“And if Fengdu can’t absorb it all, we can pass it to other towns. If other towns can’t take it, we’ll risk our lives to transport it on to Linjiang City!”
“Linjiang City is under siege by the undead legions. The surrounding land is already polluted—nothing can grow there. If you can really produce enough grain, you might even ease the entire city’s famine.”
[System Prompt: Will you accept the epic quest: Famine Year.
Quest giver: Shi Dacang.
Quest description: All towns around Linjiang City are besieged by goblin and undead legions, with no harvest to be had, and the townspeople are starving.
Phase One: Provide 5 million catties of grain.
Upon accepting the quest, you will receive:
Quest item: Rice Pouch (Gold tier): Automatically collects grain and stacks infinitely.
Quest item: Golden Hoe (Gold tier): Increases crop yield by 10% while equipped.
Quest Completion Reward: Large amounts of experience, large amounts of gold, and the badge: Harvest Badge (Gold tier).
Quest Failure Penalty: Lose 1,000 reputation points, and pay 20 gold in compensation.]
[Accept quest? Yes / No]
Wow!
Chu Fu’s eyes lit up.
She hadn’t expected to stumble upon a hidden quest.
In fact, every player could receive class-specific quests from NPCs depending on their profession.
She just hadn’t thought it would trigger this easily.
Chu Fu immediately accepted.
With a delighted grin, Shi Dacang handed her the rice pouch and the golden hoe.
“I hope the awakened one completes this quest soon. The quest can be done in stages—the townsfolk are waiting for food.”
“No problem!”
Chu Fu decided to skip monster hunting entirely and go farm instead.
Soon, she took the golden hoe out to the wilds and kept clearing and tilling the land.
She expanded outside the town, opening up all available plots.
She worked fast, multiplying her 300 acres by tenfold.
She would have gone even bigger, if not for having too few Charm Mushroom sprites to protect the land from the mutant rats.
3,000 acres would yield 15 million catties of grain, and with the golden hoe boosting yields, that rose to 16.5 million catties.
At 20 copper coins per catty, that whole crop was worth 330 gold.
If only her mana pool allowed it, she’d have accelerated the growth too.
But she could only speed-grow 55 mutant plants at a time at most.
There were just far too many food crops for her to handle, so Chu Fu had no choice but to wait until tomorrow to harvest.
Just as she finished, a massive horde of goblins—easily ten thousand strong—suddenly appeared.
[Map Alert: Goblins have appeared on the south side of Fengdu Town. Scale: Medium. Go and reinforce!]
A public quest had triggered.
Similar to village defense battles or retaliation battles, as long as you were nearby, you could kill monsters to earn contribution points, which could be exchanged at Fengdu Town’s contribution warehouse.
The rewards were just consumables, town-return scrolls, equipment, and the like—nothing rare like aptitude stones or skill stones.
Chu Fu swapped her hoe for her “Slightly Toxic” staff and gave the goblin horde a plague-infested Blight.
Public quest completed.
Because her farm was so massive and she worried the sprites might miss something, Chu Fu stuck around killing goblins nearby. The experience was paltry, but it counted toward kills—maybe she could complete a new achievement.
Time slipped by unnoticed.
Twenty-four hours after planting, the first batch of rice was ripe.
The paddy stretched out enormously now—the rice stalks were as tall as cornstalks, hiding any shadows lurking within.
“Quick, don’t stick to one patch. These ears weigh two or three catties each. Let’s spread out and get enough for Xingxing’s mission.”
“Haha, this is so satisfying. That Plantman killed us before—this is just the interest.”
“Yeah, that’s right!”
These people had no idea that Chu Fu had summoned fifty-five Chainsaw Dandelions at the edge of the rice field.
"Time to harvest the rice!"
Chu Fu led the Chainsaw Dandelions as they buzzed and swept across a vast swath of the field.
