Farming Together Chapter 242: Changes in the village

Chapter 242: Changes in the village

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

At 9:00 in the morning of April 14th, the Mushroom Village upgrade ceremony, which had been warming up all night, finally began. As the first and second players of the whole game, and also the big brothers in the players’ mind, Bai Li and Wen XingYao were surrounded by the village folk as they approached the Village Chief.

They talked to the Village Chief and confirmed the upgrade. The whole process lasted only 30 seconds, but all the changes that happened in the Village afterwards were enough for Mushroom Village residents to talk about for half a month.

In the live broadcast footage, there was a huge haze of light from the sky, which covered the entire village. The halo seemed to flow with fine starlight, like a gust of wind, and like a rain cloud that wandered through the eaves of each house, swelled and expanded at the top, and then enveloped each house from top to bottom.

Especially the Village Chief and the Village Chief’s Wife’s huge mansion, at this time it was like a faint light bulb, dreamy with a little funny feeling, so that the players’ originally serious faces couldn’t help but smile.

“Pfft! What is this light ball, ah? It looks soft and sticky, and gives off a very elastic look. Can I touch it, ah?”

“How dare you! This is the upgrade aperture, understand? The game’s character upgrades don’t move at all, so can’t we have some pomp and circumstance when our home is upgraded? Anyway, I’m already looking forward to it. I hope the small hut I opened from the first charge gift pack will improve!”

“Heh–! If all the houses are upgraded along with it, then…what about those people who redeemed the tree house? Do you think the tree house will become taller and bigger, and then the vines hanging down will become a kind of automatic lifting swing? If it really becomes like that, I feel like I could play up and down for a year!”

“Not to mention the tree house, the stone house will also become quite beautiful. Plus, the village chief’s mansion. Since we put in a lot of effort to build it, this time I’m afraid to follow along with the upgrade. So, it’s better to put in more effort at the beginning, ah. I now have some regrets because of my laziness, and hope it will let my house keep the style of a thatched hut, but even the appearance of the house upgrade won’t bother me.”

“Brother don’t lose heart, I still believe in the system and believe in LiLi. Who says a small thatched hut can’t be a beautiful small thatched hut?”

“That is to say, ah! Hey? Do you feel the ground seems to be vibrating? In a kind of vague shaking?”

The people there carefully felt around, really did feel the vibration. Before they could find the cause of the vibration, they saw that there were countless lights coming from all directions, and the ground beneath their feet also started to light up. The brownish soil seemed to be frozen under a fully transparent ice surface, and that “ice surface” shone with a transparent luster under the sunlight, so even the soil underneath became lovely.

Then, under the gaze of all eyes, from the ground up, the entire Mushroom Village began to undergo dramatic changes.

The dirt road, which used to be plain and muddy on rainy days, turned into a brick and stone paved road with exquisitely carved railings, flowers and green grasses planted along the road, and occasionally a sapling was even planted at a few large corners.

The center of the village was originally just an oversized open space, nothing but a large enough place. This time the open space was carefully decorated, with a variety of different sizes of stones placed in different patterns, and was also embellished with colorful stones. It was very much a kind of festival style.

The key was that all these things were fixed on the ground. That meant that, whenever the players passed by there, what they would step on wasn’t ordinary pavement, but uneven cobblestones and all kinds of gems.

You may not believe it, but the players in Mushroom Village used precious stones to sharpen the soles of their shoes! Trench, really too trench!

The players walked about in a trance as they followed the flow of light under their feet, and watched the road underneath and the other changes. From the village hub to the outermost circle where there was a high wall, where players could walk up a hidden ladder to gaze into the distance. There was also the village entrance gate made of metal. At this time, it was wide open, and didn’t prevent players from entering or leaving.

Their small Mushroom Village had the shape of a city.

“Look! Our houses! Have they become taller?” At this time, a player in the crowd shouted, which instantly drew the attention of all the villagers.

If the village was important, how could it be more important than their own houses? So everyone looked at the nearest residential area.

As the first player who spoke up said, the houses had obviously gone up a notch, from small bungalows to two-story buildings. Although the basic materials used to build these houses could still be seen, the parts that could be upgraded, seemed to have been upgraded.

The thatch on the small thatched hut was thicker and fluffier, the wooden planks on the small wooden hut were cut more neatly, and also had the appearance of being newly lacquered. The bamboo used in the bamboo house was a brighter green and smelled fresh. Even from far away they could smell a faint fragrance of bamboo. The edges of the tile house seemed to have a touch of gold or silver, and the stone of the stone house had a more delicate appearance.

The most eye-catching thing was the tree houses. The trees, full of flowers in full bloom, were already taller than the ordinary houses, and now they had been raised a notch, with the branches and leaves directly shading the other houses around them. For example, Song Xinran’s peach blossom tree house near Bai Li’s house, suddenly bloomed with peach blossoms, and now when the wind blew, the peach blossom petals would float into Bai Li’s yard.

In addition, the way to ascend the trees, mentioned in the players’ discussion before, had changed. Although it was only a little different. The vines that hung down had autonomous consciousness and could lift the players who grabbed them to the platform outside the house, so that the users could enjoy the extraordinary feeling.

Players’ eyes straightened and they broke away from the group to go see how their homes had become, then after that they had to run back to the original group to share with everyone.

“It’s great! I’ve changed the look of my cottage several times before, and I’ve submitted a lot of bird and avian feathers! Now the roof and walls of my two-story hut are almost completely covered with these feathers, colorful, flowery and greener. My chickens, ducks and geese are all quacking excitedly, as if they think there is a big guy in the house!”

“My bamboo house was normal before the collection of a large number of materials. I wanted to change the appearance, but hadn’t decided in the end which material to use. Fortunately I didn’t. Now my entire house is green, super fresh green, moving green, I simply like this color too much!”

“Good man, I submitted so many crab shells and crab pincers before, originally they all appeared on the window frames in normal size, not obvious at all. Now well, after this upgrade they became countless times bigger, I ran to the door of my house and watched as the eight large crab pincers danced wildly and cut up all the wheat and corn that had just ripened in my field ‘click click click.’ Who can understand the pain in my heart? Fortunately, they switch on and off. I found the switch to turn them off. It really scared me…”

“Hahahahaha! Brother, your big crab pincers must be better than the ‘Close the Door and Let the Dog Loose’ item. If someone wants to come to your house to steal food, you can open those big crab pincers, and they will cut everything down that can be robbed…”

The number of players who had not tried this game was only a small percentage of the entire village, compared to those who had already upgraded the appearance of their house, so after a whole village upgrade, there was greater possibility and creativity, and knowing their specific changes was addicting to the players.

As for the Village Chief’s Mansion, which was originally built with the blood and sweat of the players, the luxury level had gone up several notches after the upgrade. Some players in the Village Chief’s organization entered a tour, and found that the garden also planted one, two, three, four, five, six…seven Immortal Flowers! The rich and charming fragrance almost drowned them in the garden.

Since then, the garden in the Village Chief’s Mansion became a regular spot for many players to visit once in a while.

The live broadcast lasted for about two hours, and two-thirds of the time the audience in the live broadcast room were discovering the changed points of the village with the Mushroom Village people, while the remaining one-third were spent constantly lamenting and envying.

Those who hadn’t yet entered the game frantically wanted to enter the game. They felt that they had fallen too far behind. Those who had already entered the game became ambitious again, and their goals for the next period of time were clearly listed. Not only to complete the task of Village Chief’s Residence as quickly as possible, but also to work harder to collect materials after the task was completed, in preparation for the village upgrade.

Players who originally chose the fourth palatial residence and thought it was somewhat decadent, watched the live broadcast and were re-energized. In their words, if the third house became so beautiful during the village upgrade, what about the fourth one? It was going to be beautiful to the sky and into the universe!

Bai Li did not participate in the revelry with the players. Today was already the 14th. He needed to quickly sort out the content and gameplay of tomorrow’s event.