Chapter 264: Star blog raffle and forum activities
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: GaeaTiamat
Bai Li and Wen XingYao sent the president and vice-president back to Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Star.
After they left, Wen XingYao wondered, “They look like they are in a hurry. Was it something important?”
Bai Li shook his head. “They specifically did not elaborate. They only said that I don’t have to worry, and to give them some time. They will come back, and will give me a big surprise when they do. Hey, mysterious. Would you say the two old heads are suddenly having a childish outburst?”
Wen XingYao laughed lightly and did not answer Bai Li’s question. He had a feeling that the two old heads’ departure should be something related to Bai Li or a good thing. As to what exactly it was, he couldn’t guess for the time being.
“By the way, also before they left, they specifically asked me what I would do with the remaining game slots in my hand. Originally, I planned to use one third of the 75 million places for the lottery on the Starblog, one third for activities in the forum, and then keep the last third, so that when the Therians on Hope Star slowly recover in the future, they will can out the unused ones and distribute them among themselves. Although the amount left for them isn’t much, something is better than nothing. However, after they listened to my plan, the president and vice president told me that for the time being, there was no need to consider the Therians on Hope Star, and it didn’t matter if all 75 million places were distributed…Do you think that the two of them are ready to reform the ‘virtual reality game builder’?”
Bai Li had taken time to think a lot during the noon break, and felt that the possibility of this answer was still very high.
If that was really the case and the news was sent to the Starnet. He was afraid that those fellow netizens who missed out on the game quota would directly usher in a frenzy. After that feeling of being full of disappointment and on the verge of despair, they wouldn’t want to experience it a second time in their lives.
That speculation successfully broke the calm on Wen XingYao’s face. He looked down and thought, his expression vivid, “If your guess is right, that really is very good news. However, since the two old heads did not take the initiative to tell you, we should pretend that we don’t know anything. For one thing, this is only your guess without tangible evidence, and for the other, it also means the two want to prepare a ‘surprise’ for you with good intentions.”
Listening to Wen XingYao’s suggestion, Bai Li nodded his head and agreed with his mouth. This was a matter of great importance, so it was better to keep their actions conservative.
On the ship that had already left for Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Star, Du Jiayin and Fan Yunping were having the following conversation.
Du Jiayin, “Haha! Little Bai Li certainly doesn’t know. We will go back to him after time to prepare such a surprise. Since the ‘virtual reality game builder’ was invented and entered the game designer market, this is the first time it was improved, so, ah, it is also considered to be opening a precedent!”
Fan Yunping, “Hehe! I think that Little Bai Li should also get such preferential treatment. Others…Hey, I’m not talking about them. For them, even the S ‘virtual reality game builder’ requirements of one billion players are enough. Little Bai Li’s game has no comparison, even with the S-class it’s completely full!”
Du Jiayin, “You’re right. Little Bai Li and Carefree Farmstead are the most unique existences in this world. To say that Carefree Farmstead is the Therians’ second world is not too much. If one day the real and virtual can be switched, I suspect everyone will raise both hands and feet to agree.”
Fan Yunping, “If that could really be the case, I would definitely be the first to agree! However, fantasy can only be fantasy. We can still guess what expression Little Bai Li will have when we reveal the surprise. I think, ah, he will definitely smile very sweetly, if then he sends a few big gift bags in the game as thanks it will be even better.”
Du Jiayin, “I think it’s okay, I think it’s okay!”
The two who were thinking about the future had no idea that their purpose had been 90% guessed by Bai Li and Wen XingYao. The remaining 9%, was not being sure in what form it would be realized, and the other 1%, was to leave a fallback for other guesses.
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The departure of the president and vice-president didn’t cause much commotion on Hope Star. Or rather, not too many people noticed their departure, and even if they were slightly upset, they were quickly re-attracted by Carefree Farmstead.
Take for example the group of Therian elders.
Anyway, they could still exchange their farming experiences on the Starnet.
The 1,500 farmsteads, after an initial phase of panic and confusion, had settled into a steady state of farming. They had internally arranged shifts, and divided the day into three shifts of eight hours each; morning, noon and night. The rest of the day was spent either as a “technician” at other Therian settlements, or in their own quarters playing Carefree Farmstead.
The upgraded game had more new ways to play, and the Imperial Research Institute’s newcomers who had just got game slots, were looking at everything with wonder. If they didn’t remember their duties, they would be in the game all day.
Bai Li lay down in the gaming pod and played for a while, then adjusted his restlessness, resisted the idea of continuing to play, and went offline to edit the distribution methods for the remaining places.
Since the two old heads instructed him to give out all the places, he did as he was told. Originally, the Starblog and the game forum would only give out 25 million places each, but now they were revised to 35 million, and he kept 5 million on his hands, so he could give out some more during the “Harvest Festival” event.
He was active in making his deletions and changes, and soon, two messages were ready and steaming out from the oven.
Carefree FarmsteadV, [In order to celebrate Carefree Farmstead’s virtual reality game builder being upgraded to S-level, the forwarding lottery mode is now open. We set up 500,000 first prizes with 3 game slots each (1.5 million in total), 5 million second prizes with 2 game slots (10 million in total), and 23.5 million third prizes with 1 game slot (23.5 million in total). In addition, we will also select 50 people from our fellow netizens who didn’t win but retweeted the starblog to receive a big gift bag of vegetables (about 100 pounds, vegetable types are random). This event has a lot of prizes and a great chance of winning, so please forward it for us ~ [applause.jpg] [applause.jpg] [applause.jpg]]
In the forum–
Carefree Farmstead-Bai Li, [In order to celebrate the upgrade of Carefree Farmstead’s virtual reality game builder to S level, I’m now opening a Carefree Farmstead slot opportunity. The first is, ‘Carefree Farmstead, I would like to ask you.’ The second is, ‘what would you choose as a month’s activities, and how would you like to design those activities?’ These two questions will be two themes opened in separate posts. Then as long as you put a message under the two posts, you are likely to get a Carefree Farmstead game quota. Oh, the rules are as follows:
- The content of the message must be consistent with the theme of the post. Those who do not meet this requirement will be screened out automatically.
- A forumID can leave a message once. Any further number of messages won’t count.
- Those who are in the top 500,000 with the number of likes for their message on either post will be directly rewarded with 1 Carefree Farmstead game slot. Another 17 million game slots will be drawn from the remaining participants between the two posts. (35 million game slots will be awarded for both posts combined)
- The winning IDs of both posts are allowed to be duplicated.
- Regarding the second activity topic, if fellow netizen’s suggestions are adopted by the game developer, they will be rewarded with star coins. Of course, if people do not want them, you can also refuse them.
Both questions will open at 9:00 on May 5th and end at 9:00 on May 8th, when the prizes will be automatically rewarded.]
Once those two messages were released, the whole Starnet experienced another big earthquake, and there was a slight difference in the mentality of the fellow netizens towards the activities of both the starblog and the forum.
Fellow netizens on Starnet.
[0.0 I’ve never seen a Star lottery or ‘a million’ as a unit of calculation. Bodacious. It’s too bodacious! To this, it is really or tens of millions of tens of millions of pumping more to come. Cool ~ I turn first out of respect!]
[I didn’t expect LiLi to keep up with the times and launch a family and couple’s game quota package! @Bai Li. LiLi, my family has a total of five people who did not grab the game quota, and I desperately need the special prize luxury family package. Ah, ah, ah!]
[Upstairs, this is thinking of peaches before you eat them. The first prize cannot satisfy you? I’m different. Just give me a third prize on the line. I’m one person full. The whole family is not hungry!]
[Hahahahaha! I’m laughing miserably. The weight of 35 million game quotas seems to be no match for the 5,000 pounds of vegetables! Those who say that the winning game quota is the Chosen One can look at this: Obviously one who gets 50 copies of the vegetable gift bag is the ‘Lai’ Chosen One as well! PS: The sky is so blue in the game, the water is so clear, the air smells good, and today is another day of hard work planting!]
[Poof! Hahahahaha! ‘rich prizes, great chances of winning.’ LiLi, ah, sometimes too much confidence is really bad, very bad. Look at the amount of retweets now. This is only five minutes past, and they have broken a billion. So as soon as you open for the prize will it not directly break tens of billions, or hundreds of billions?]
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Fellow netizens on forum.
[This…Is it not the game official website opinion book upgrade? LiLi, you’ll be waiting for my confession of love and all kinds of whimsical suggestions ~]
[What? As long as the number of likes gets you into the top 500,000, you can immediately get 1 game place? Hehe, I’m glad I’m from the rabbit tribe. Although our tribe is a little weaker in battle, we can give birth. My seven aunts and eight uncles are all fans of Carefree Farmstead! I’ve already expressed my pride here~ (Note)]
“Well, it’s a good thing Wen XingYao, the Admiral, killed the Zerg queen, otherwise if they secretly connected to Starnet, got hooked on LiLi’s Carefree Farmstead, then mobilized the Zerg army to praise it, they would have won two precious game spots without a problem! Yeah! Maybe even more than two…]
[Wow! I’m really scared of what you’re saying upstairs…But fortunately that will not happen! I’m going to go write my essay.]
[I found that LiLi is sometimes confident, but sometimes does not have much confidence, wow. He actually said the bullshit that people who do not want the star coins can still refuse! I promise you, LiLi, if my suggestion is adopted by you, I don’t want any money, you just take it and use it, as long as…As long as…Hehe! There are more game slots…Just send me one! QAQ!]
While the fellow netizens were discussing like crazy, the number of retweets and the number of messages on the two posts on the starblog were also soaring.
I wonder if the interstellar people have grown more fruits! All I hear is vegetables 😭