Chapter 251: Starlight
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: GaeaTiamat
In addition to the two limited edition redemption items of the island land deed and the Pet’s Little Love House, the most discussed item was the vegetable redemption voucher worth 50 points.
Some players posted in the game forum their journey of exchanging various items with event points. The first was for Land Deed – Island as the goal to work for, then after their village’s land deed was exchanged, they would move on to the Pet’s Little Love House. The item hadnāt been exchanged much, after all, most people were working towards the former, and only after that was gone, was the latter grabbed.
However, there were only 25,000 Love Houses. With 5,000 villages, that meant on average only 5 per village. The number wasnāt much, so it was also quickly snatched up. For example, for those villages who had the island land deed exchanged very late in the game, no one even grabbed the love nest.
After that it was the turn of the remaining high points limited items. Tree house, pet eggs, mount eggs, pet/mount evolution fluid, bicycle, Immortal Flower seedlingsā¦These were all old faces, so both old players and new players already understood their respective roles, and they chose carefully according to their needs and try to maximize the use of points.
After redeeming those, players with sufficient “wallets” would still have a few hundred points left, so they took a breather and selected Vegetable Raffle Tickets for 50 points each, directly redeeming the maximum amount they could.
There would also be some players who would save one or two credits from the above quantity to exchange for the same price, the Prank Item’s Gift Bag. Those people belonged to the more fun-loving players, who were keen on creating all kinds of fun and laughs in their village, and in life, the game of chicken was the goal they pursued.
From there on, the rest of the items were below 50 points. For new players who had just entered the game for half a month, they could still pull the redemption list to the bottom to see what they could get, like a duck feather hat worth 5 points a piece, they could probably redeem. After all, it was a limited time product.
After they confirmed that there was nothing else to exchange, they could use all their remaining points to exchange for Seed Gift Bags, since each was only 1 point, and they could get as many of them as they wanted! If they had good luck, they could also open ultra-rare seeds!
The player who posted was one of the luckier people. He only exchanged seven Seed Gift Bags in total and opened an Ancient Seed from it. At the end of the post, he also reminded all the players not to forget to open the souvenir gift bags obtained through sign-ups. He had opened three different souvenirs from them, each of which was super cute!
He did not mention this was fine, mentioned … The rest of the players found, eh, from the souvenir gift bag opened out of the variety of souvenirs was not too much? All Village five thousand people, three were repeated, that was simply not the case.
Players who were bored deliberately opened a post to make a statistic, all the souvenir pictures that had appeared were posted, and the players who had them punched in under the corresponding pictures. This was not all players would come to participate in the activity, but finally came up with a rough result.
It was said that three days of sign-up would send three souvenir gift bags, but LiLi never told them the details, and with the variety of souvenirs inside, there were actually 100 pieces! Among them, 70 kinds were the largest number, counted as ordinary models, 20 kinds were much less than the former number, and counted as senior models. The last 10 kinds were the most rare, or a player who wouldnāt post from the beginning to the end and found themselves opening one of those, would deliberately post a screenshot. Each village had one of these 10 kinds of souvenirs. The number was very small, and they were well-deserved hidden models.
The playersā statistics and Bai Li’s settings matched exactly.
Fellow netizens and the players were shocked together.
[Aiiii! Is this a souvenir of the event, or another form of icon collection play? It’s okay to not read this post, but after reading it I somehow have the urge to collect them allā¦]
[Ahhhhh! If I had known that this was the form of drawing blind boxes, I would have been more formal when I opened the gift bag, and at least wash my hands!]
[If I had known that opening the gift bag was such a big unknown, I wouldn’t have opened it myself and gone to sell it at the bazaar. Someone would have wanted to buy it.]
[What kind of devil is LiLi in the end? 100 kinds? No one can get all 100! And I only got 3 kinds. When I learned the truth, it brought tears to my eyes. I am afraid I will not be able to sleep. I hope that one day when I dream, I can dream that I have collected all 100 souvenirsā¦]
[Those who don’t have money are still dreaming here, while those who have money have already gone to privately contact players who own premium and hidden souvenirs in the same village. As far as I know, during this posting, we have a star warrior in our village whose collection progress has reached 80%]
[Ah, thisā¦It has to cost a lot of money, right? Brother in the front, I have a friend who wants to see this big guy’s souvenir display stand, I wonder if it’s possible…?]
[Ah, well, I’ll go ask for you. Let’s just say that the big guy may not agree, ha!]
After that, the conversation skewed to speculation about how much money the unknown big man actually spent on the souvenir collection.
Bai Li and his team finally left the Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs Star for Hope Star a few days later than expected. The in-game event was April 15th-April 17th, and the points redemption was delayed by three days to April 20th because the redemption item had Vegetable Raffle Tickets, which needed to be drawn after the points redemption was closed. Bai Li would be responsible for the delivery of 10 sets of 50 kg vegetables after the result came out, so he decided to wait for the vegetables to be delivered before they set off.
The vegetables in his yard had grown large in number under his careful cultivation and were just ready to be harvested for the players who have been supporting him and Carefree Farmstead.
Bai Li also regretted that the yard where he lived now was on the small side. He hoped that when he went to Hope Star, he could quickly find a suitable place for planting. Then he could sow a large number of seeds to give to more vegetable players when the harvest was ready, and share the joy of the harvest with them.
In the afternoon of the 20th, he harvested all the ripe vegetables in the yard with the help of the rest of his family and packed them in 10 random portions, each weighing more than 50 kilograms. There was a wide variety of cabbage, potatoes, carrots, greens, pumpkins, cauliflowerā¦There were more than a dozen kinds.
Such a large package of vegetables as a gift to players was full of sincerity.
Bai Li found that Tang Ying had sneaked off to the bathroom after packing the vegetables, and had scrubbed soap over his hands several times, as he muttered that he hoped he would have better luck at night.
Bai Li covered his mouth and snickered, especially wanting to remind Tang Ying that the seeds he brought back to the military would only grow more vegetables than today. He would not be able to get a bite to eat anyway.
The president and vice-president, Du Jiayin and Fan Yunping, quickly accepted Bai Li’s arrangement of those vegetables after a brief daze, and came up with their own theories about his reasons.
“Before Little Bai had said, right, that vegetables grown by our own hands will only possess a little taste. Although the taste is definitely different from the Ancient Blue Star period, it is still much better than those grown by planting robots. Sending these vegetables out for others to taste now should also deepen everyone’s impression of hand-grown vegetables, which is conducive to the promotion that may come in the future.”
“Genetic Collapse Disorder and the problem of the reduced taste of vegetables have been solved on Little Bai’s side, so Old Fan, we must help Little Bai try to solve these two problems!ā
Bai Li, “…” Do you believe me when I say that I am simply sharing and not thinking about these things?
The time soon reached 00:00 on April 21st, and the lottery program was set to run automatically. Soon the ten winning numbers were announced, the winning players received a message within a minute, and then people were congratulating them on their winnings.
Out of twenty-five million players, there were hundreds of millions of Vegetable Raffle Tickets, but only ten spots, which showed the low probability of winning. The ten players who were lucky enough to be drawn were all so excited that they couldn’t wait to go out for a few laps and celebrate. They didnāt hesitate to spend a huge sum of 500 star coins to buy the new item [Golden Horn] from the game store. Not many people had bought it. Then they made their first speech on the game’s world channel.
People are not grass, [Hahahahaha! Please allow me to look up to the sky and whistle for 30 seconds! I won the lottery! 50 kilograms, the whole 50 kilograms! I have already begun to imagine how to use them when I receive this big gift bag! Say it to everyone rubbing the joy, hehehehehe~~]
Hialeah, [I’m actually on the list! I’m usually a sure loser to win the lottery, but I’ve actually won the lottery today, so it’s probably because all my luck from the previous 20 years has been concentrated on this day! Tomorrow you pay attention to the forum, ha! When I receive the prize I will live broadcast in the forum about the unboxingā¦The same to everyone to rub the good fortune!]
Marshmallow Tiger, [The vegetable seeds in the game can be bought for 10 copper coins and can mature in a dozen hours. In reality, vegetables often take months to mature, each plant can be sold for hundreds of thousands, such high prices. These 100 pounds of vegetables, I’m afraid it will be worth tens of thousands of star coins, ba. Blood money ah! Beautiful ~]
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The other Players who didn’t win the prize were so sour that they envied these 10 people even as they tried to look arrogant and show that they weren’t impressed at all. Hmph, wasnāt it just vegetables in reality? Just wait. When the day dawned they would buy seeds to grow their own, and they would still be able to eat fresh vegetables and fruits!
The ten lucky winners spent the night in excitement and anticipation. The next morning, they received a big gift bag of vegetables from Bai Li, and couldn’t wait to open the package and wake up from their sleepiness with the vegetables inside.
Wtf! These vegetables had to have come out of the game!! How did they grow so big, so full? This was the first time they had ever seen them so big.
The fragrance of fresh vegetables wafted out of the delivery boxes. Who could be unfamiliar with that fragrance if they were all players who had worked hard on farming in the game? A player stood by the delivery box and looked at it for a while, then reached over and carefully pinched off a crisp vegetable leaf. Without even bothering to wash it, he put it directly into his mouth.
Crunchy vegetable flavor. That’s right, it was real vegetables, not the kind of vegetable models that could be faked. They had to be real.
This discovery was even more terrifying. Did it mean thatā¦While they were indulging in the game, the level of farming in reality had also developed significantly? How was that possible? They were just swimming around in the ocean of the Starnet, so how could there be no hint of such big news?
There were rumors of people who had the whimsy to grow plants at home and that the plants they grew tasted better than the ones they bought from outside. However, in the photos those people posted on Starnet, the vegetables werenāt as fresh and beautiful as the batch in front of him!
The difference between a buyer’s show and a seller’s show was too obvious. So, there was only one possibility. These vegetables were also grown by someone’s hands, but this person had special vegetable growing skills. This was reality. With such vegetable growing skills, it shouldnāt be too much to say that he was the starlight of the Interstellar, right?
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