Farming Together Chapter 262: The last upgrade

Chapter 262: The last upgrade

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

The whole month of April was the fastest month for Bai Li.

The first two weeks were fine. He played the game as usual and participated in in-game activities. When they arrived at Hope Star, however, his days flew by, either by going to the rabbit tribe’s nearby planting fields to see how the seeds were growing and surviving, secretly giving the Therian tribes a little more grass and wood clear spirit energy in batches, or by going to the projection equipment near each tribe’s land to see. The game’s live broadcast was a great way to get a glimpse of the Therian grandfathers’, grandmothers’, uncles’, aunts’, brothers’ and sisters’ evaluations of the game.

“Is the food in the game really so delicious? I want to eat it too!”

“Farming seems to be fun. I’ve followed and learned. Now, I feel I have mastered it!”

“Fishing! I love fishing! Meow~ those fish look so delicious and soft. Nothing like the mean fish I used to catch from the sea!”

“LiLi, ah, can you contact my family to get me a gaming pod? I heard from the audience of the live broadcast room that you can get 30% of the taste and smell in the gaming pod!”

“LiLi! Get us some seeds. Just like in the game, we’ll grow them ourselves…anyway, the clan land is big enough, maybe we’ll really grow something!”

Bai Li, “…”

Bai Li went to Wen XingYao, Zhu MoLing and the two heads to discuss it, and soon two other things were arranged.

The first was that for Therian groups as a unit, near each Therian group there would be the establishment of a “cyber cafe,” which would contain 100-500 gaming pods (provided at the Imperial Research Institute’s friendly low price), and Therians could queue up to use them. In order to prevent the occurrence of things like staying in and not coming out, it was also stipulated that each person could use a pod for a maximum of 2 hours per day.

The purchase of so many gaming pods required a large sum of money, so they weren’t free to use. The Hope Star special bracelets the Therians wore had deposited money directly deducted, and if they didn’t have deposited money, then it would use credit, then when they returned to human form and got back their original optical computer accounts, they could pay the user fees.

Those bracelets weren’t the same as the normal Imperial people’s, they had a limited function, and the most frequently used was the positioning function. The money saved on the bracelet was also an emergency fund for the treatment of the Therian family members by their families who were worried about any sudden illness on Hope Star.

However, who would have thought that the final use of the money was actually for Starnet access.

As for the function of connecting and communicating with their families, that was done without question. After all, no one had thought that the Therians who had regressed to infancy would slowly regain a little human consciousness after a few months.

Soon, those Starnet cafes became the favorite place for Therians in addition to the open-air live broadcasts. Every day there were a lot of Therians waiting in line outside, while those who intended to cut the line would be resisted and beaten by all. Only when their two daily hours were used up, could they settle down to watch the ordinary game live broadcasts.

Hey, after experiencing the “big fish and meat” of using a gaming pod to watch the live broadcasts, how could they continue to enjoy the “gruel and small dishes” of the live broadcasts without much participation? They never could get enough existence, ah!

While there was such a benefit, there were still some Therian who couldn’t enjoy it. There was no special reason, it was just because their beasts were too huge: elephants, giraffes, dinosaurs…The gaming pods couldn’t be customized to fit their size…

Those Therians excluded because of their size were considered miserable. It was said that the day the notices went up, their cries could be heard in a 10-kilometer radius. However, although their sadness was high, in the near future, they were the first Therians to recover. Then, it was the time for them to laugh at the others.

As for the other issue, Bai Li purchased a large batch of vegetable seeds, including cabbage, potatoes and corn. He divided them into small packets, not too many, and distributed them to each Therian settlement, along with a simple planting guide.

The 1,500 people who came to help with the planting heard about it and were afraid that the Therians who knew nothing about farming would squander the seeds, so they decided to volunteer to be amateur “instructors” during their breaks, specifically to teach the Therians of each community how to plant.

After being on Hope Star for so long, they had learned that these Therians actually understood what they were saying, so they would just teach them in more detail.

This was an unplanned development, since Bai Li didn’t expect them to farm as well or as fast as the military soldiers and the Imperial Research Institute staff, but if it gave them something to think about, why not?

Bai Li went into his room, and let Wen XingYao and his brother keep an eye on the follow-up development. He opened the virtual reality game builder, and began designing the next upgrade and campaign.

Since this was also the last upgrade of the game, Bai Li’s heart gave an extra beat, and decided to have a special celebration in the game, while outside the game there must also be some activities as well.

At 21:00 on the evening of April 30th, Bai Li released an update notice with the same content on the Starblog and the official website, just like in the previous months.

Carefree FarmsteadV: [Good evening, everyone. Carefree Farmstead will be upgraded on May 1st, when it will be down for maintenance from 6:00 to 18:00.  After the maintenance is over, a total of nine hundred million game quotas will be issued on the game’s official website. Since the number of game quotas issued this time is so large, this time the mode will be in batch distributions. Every 10 minutes 50 million game quotas will be issued, and all are expected to be issued within three hours. If you have the need to group with fellow netizens, you can pay attention to the time to grab the quota for the similar numbers at the same time. There are also some game quotas that will be issued on the forum and in official Starblog activities. Those specific activities will to be announced later, so do not miss, yo. The following is the content of the update: 

1. The highest level of characters will now go to 100. There are hundreds of new crop seeds, and more than a dozen types of livestock, some of which need to be obtained through special ways. Please explore on your own.
2. Five new NPCs: Embroiderer, Jeweler, Calligraphy and Painting Master, Pearl Picker, and Merchant. The conditions for the appearance of these NPCs will be judged by the prosperity of each village.
3. All village residents can open the task of helping NPCs to build houses, which is divided into two types of play: manual and automatic. Provide each NPC one of the four types of housing, which will be chosen by the vote of all the village’s residents.
4. There are new items in the game mall, including 88 sets of apparel for men and women, 2,888 kinds of furniture, and more than 100 kinds of new items. There are more new daily and monthly lucky gift bags. Each player is limited to one per day/month respectively. The price is 1 star coin/10 star coins.
5. As in May the virtual reality game builder will officially upgraded to S-class, the annual May event is fixed for a “Harvest Festival” where you are welcome to come together to revel~
6. Following the selection method of the game anchors in April, players interested in becoming game anchors can enter the game and create a good character. After going to the official website for registration, the final candidates are chosen by the majority of their fellow netizens voting.
7. After this, the game shouldn’t have too many updates. If you have any suggestions, they can be mentioned in the real opinion book board, and if reasonable will be optimized in the follow-up, yo~

Finally, I wish you all a happy day, and happy game~]

The mood of the fellow netizens who saw that notice was like riding a roller coaster, all up and down, and there was never a smooth moment.

Fallen Angel, [Hahahaha! I’m laughing my ass off. ‘real opinion book’, thanks for LiLi’s idea! This is in order to give up on the original opinion book completely, ah! I want to table Bai Li Li’s game. Carefree Farmstead has been perfect, I’d better continue to boast about the mode on the old side ~ (づ￣3￣) づ]

Rin Ling, [Wow! I can’t believe they are giving out 900 million game quotas in one go! Even with that kind of quantity, it’s still probably up for grabs. This should be the first time in the realm of virtual reality games, right? I remember that XX companies also followed the trend of making virtual reality games who just launched their virtual reality game builder at the S level, and the result was that the number of players who went to play was not even 10 million, it was a blood loss! Unlike us! LiLi started with us from the E level virtual reality game builder and worked steadily step by step to get to where we are today! As a long-time fan I am talking about it and shed tears of emotion QAQ!]

Sprite Ji, [Am I the only one who noticed that the number grabbing was done separately this time? Originally, you would just come on once to know the final result, but now this is great. I was afraid it was going to be like a dull knife cutting the flesh, a knife that wouldn’t let us who couldn’t grab the game quota to keep that state of mind constantly until we successfully grabbed the game quota. What is even more frightening is this other possibility that you can participate eighteen times but not grab a spot…QAQ]

lwjsnow, [I, who have become a seeder, said that I would definitely send greetings on behalf of our village when the time comes! New seeds, new livestock, new NPCs, new gameplay, new kryptonite goods, and new events! I feel like I’ll be too excited to sleep tonight! Meizi. ah meizi…]

Qing Gyun, [I don’t know why, but my liver is aching right now! At the same time, stirring after stirring is gradually coming from my bones…Ahhhhhhh! My farming soul has been ignited! When the game is upgraded, I will enter the game and never stop playing!]

“…”

Fellow netizens generated one topic after another about the last upgrade of Carefree Farmstead, and the last day of April was an exciting sleepless night for many people.

Bai Li, however, slept well.

The notice that was sent out about the Starblog and forum activities would wait until May 5th, and hopefully by the time that day came, there would be Therians on the planet already back in human form.

The next day at 6:00, Carefree Farmstead entered a maintenance state, and the staff from Buddha Jumps Over the Wall who came to help Bai Li upgrade the ‘virtual reality game builder’ spent three hours upgrading it to the highest level. After they upgraded it to its highest level, it was with excited expressions that they swooped over to the refreshment table that had been specially prepared for them.

The people who came before were right. LiLi had super delicious food, and it wasn’t in vain that they did everything they could to fight for a spot on Hope Star’s business trip with each other!

The two old heads rolled their eyes at them, then they each picked up some three-layer jade belt cake ¹ and bit off a large portion of it.

Mmm ~ really fragrant!