Farming Together Chapter 269: The “Data Man Alliance”

Chapter 269: The “Data Man Alliance”

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

Although he said that the people who followed him to the Hope Star were free labor, Bai Li wasn’t reluctant to pay them what they deserved. He intended to pay them the same as the 1,500 people from the military and the Imperial Research Institute (which was definitely more than less), but when he mentioned it, almost everyone refused.

Heavenly Fox Clan, “No! We don’t want it. LiLi, we’re from the same family. We don’t need any money for a small favor to our family, and we’re not short of money.”

That was true. The Heavenly Fox Clan’s industries were spread throughout the Empire. The money earned every year was an astronomical figure, and moreover the clan had always been united. These industries were all distributed among the hands of the clan members who were good at it, so the clan was really not short of money.

This reasoning was acceptable to Bai Li, who then thought that he could compensate them in other ways in the future. He looked at the other groups, “What about you? You can’t be short of money too, right?”

The other five tribesmen, “…” They also want to say so, but in front of the wealthy Heavenly Fox Clan, it really couldn’t be said.

Wen XingYao looked at the squirming appearance of the Firewing Lion Clan and felt as if he had guessed the answer. He opened his mouth to help them explain, thought about it, then closed his mouth. He was now a family member, not a parent. Those little ones knew what they wanted, so they should go ahead and say it themselves.

The large group of people who were sent there as a package didn’t expect Wen XingYao to play any role, so after a short time, someone in the crowd raised his hand weakly and asked in a small voice, “LiLi, can we ask for the right to buy a game spot? You can quote a price and allow us to pay for it!”

Woohoo. One of them counted, and none of them had actually grabbed a game slot. The group of people from Heavenly Fox Clan inquired, since even if they didn’t grab it, they took advantage of the fact that they were of the same tribe as LiLi and actually received the game quota he sent over the day he arrived at Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Star…

The gap between Therian and Therian was so uneven! As they thought about that, the five tribesmen showed a sad expression together.

So it was about the game quotas…Bai Li nodded in understanding and said, “Then I’ll just change your payment for helping me farm to game quotas. You don’t need to mention whether to buy them or not, I’ll just give them to you.”

For one thing, he still had plenty of game slots on hand, and the other was…Bai Li had a feeling that the lack of game slots wouldn’t be a big problem for Interstellar people in the future.

This was a real surprise, and although there was some regret in their hearts, no one would refuse the big piece of pie that fell from the sky. After they happily thanked Bai Li and got their quota, they made up their minds that they would try to help LiLi cultivate more land and plant more vegetables at their destination!

With the game quota, they could enter the game experience and combine theory and practice, without having to worry about completing the task that time.

When they arrived, Bai Li didn’t immediately arrange tasks. He only said that they should first familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment. If they were free, they should go to their seniors to discuss relevant farming experience, and then start their official farming life in a couple of days.

The same steward of the Heavenly Fox Clan who was entrusted with their affairs by Bai Li during their absence had searched the entirety of Hope Star for suitable places for farming. Now that the task was completed, he presented the dozens of good places he’d found in front of Bai Li to choose from. 

Bai Li was very happy. After he examined those places one by one, he chose one of them as the second opening site. As for the rest, he kept them aside for now and arranged to use them slowly when there were more people. After the selection, Bai Li ran to the top of Hope Star and looked down at the green planet from above. It was his ambition that one day he would plant vegetables all over the planet!

They arrived at Hope Star on May 14th. The next day was the opening day of the “Harvest Festival.” Bai Li told everyone who had a game account to take a break for a few days, then arranged for reliable people to be on duty by the vegetable fields, and set up shift rules so that everyone could play the game and not miss that month’s event. Then he was dragged into the game by Wen XingYao who couldn’t wait.

This time, the activity could be said to be simple, very simple, but it also could be said to be difficult, very difficult, or even rather tedious. Crop, fruit, fish, and livestock. Bai Li didn’t care if the players’ levels were sufficient or not, he simply and brutally stipulated that all players could submit one of each type for the “Harvest Festival” competition.

The livestock had the least number of categories. There were only chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows and horses. Plus the further back the player was, the harder it was to level up.

In addition to the former, in the three other groups, the number of categories were too many to count. Just between the crops and fish there were hundreds of species. Players could choose their own to submit, but they could also cast a wide net, and by submitting one of each kind maybe one of them would suddenly get the best?

The event lasted for three full days, so the timing of submissions was also very important. In any case, there wouldn’t be any players submitting anything immediately.

Jokes. If for each category there was only one chance, hey, of course they have to choose the biggest and heaviest one!

So what they did first was to ask around their villages, and others’ already produced wheat, corn, peanuts, rice, apples, pears, oranges, watermelon, grass carp, koi, bass, pomfret, chicken, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, horses and other agricultural products were all weighed. There were people who had started businesses selling scales. After all, there was a difference between naked eye observation and having the real data, which was accurate and reassuring.

Player’s bazaar.

“Take a look at the inspiration I found from the ancient books! Several specifications of the pole scales and bench scales, to help you weigh the lightest wheat to the heaviest big fat pig…A limited number, the quickest hand will get it, but also friends and relatives grouped together to buy a whole set!”

“The scale rental, only 50 coppers for the use! Was one of those things bought from next door, and I accidentally bought the largest size. If you want to weigh pigs, cattle, or horses, then partners quickly come, ah. As long as you have 50 coppers, you will be able to know your own pigs, cattle and horses weight and where they differ from others!”

“A scale specific weight game is here. There are two similar things and you can’t choose which one, you can come to me to compare, ow. Accuracy is guaranteed. The same price as long as it’s 50 copper once…”

In addition to the hot weighing activities, the bazaar also had…

Bai Li and Wen XingYao had just walked to the entrance of the bazaar, when they were suddenly pulled to the corner by someone who jumped out.

The person who pulled them was called “Autumn Wind Sweeps Away Leaves.” Bai Li remembered that he was the first player who bought the Food Basket. Even now, the game forum still retained a photo of him eating chicken with a fierce face. Autumn Wind Sweeps Away Leaves also hadn’t expected to pull the biggest customer of the game on his first “hustle,” and was really shocked to see that it was Bai Li and Wen XingYao. The ghost of a long-prepared “solicitation” speech tumbled out.

“LiLi, on…Well, Big Brother Demon Xing, do you want to be the ultimate winner of this event? Do you want to know the exact numbers your competitors are going to submit? Just pay me 50 gold coins to join our ‘Data Alliance.’ We will collect all kinds of data for you, or if you want to specify the data of a player’s agricultural products, we can also help you to investigate. 50 gold coins. You can’t afford to lose or be fooled, and can protect your status. How about a couple of orders?”

Bai Li’s eyes widened in shock, “Wait, what are you doing? What’s the Data Alliance…? Does such an organization need to exist in this game?”

He had already synchronized the values of all the items in the game to the game’s official website. Even for new players who had never played Carefree Farmstead, if they looked through the official website in between entering the game, they would be able to have a certain understanding of the various items in the game.

“Of course you need it!” Autumn Wind Sweeps Away Leaves was no longer nervous as he was at the beginning. He smiled and pointed to a few locations in the bazaar. He said, “Our alliance was established for this event. There will be a market if there is demand. LiLi, look. Those few people squatting in that corner with a small book to copy things, are from our alliance. They are responsible for collecting data at the players’ bazaar. There are other members spread in every corner of the village and they are also collecting weight data by various methods. With that data, paying members can easily know whether the crops they’ve prepared are qualified or not. Three days is enough time for everyone to make changes and decisions.”

Following the direction indicated by Autumn Wind Sweeps Away Leaves, Bai Li saw the players, two of whom he could name, and a bit of amusement flashed in his heart. He thought that the village people were really good at such inventiveness. Plus, this really deserved the word “alliance.” Not only did their Mushroom Village have such a phenomenon, the children of other villages also didn’t escape it.

Although he thought that operation was quite funny, Bai Li was confident in his own ability, so he waved his hand and said he didn’t need to join. After that, he and Autumn Wind Sweeps Away Leaves together looked at Wen XingYao who was standing at the side to see what he was planning to do.

Feeling two different gazes on him at the same time, Wen XingYao, who had a thoughtful expression on his face, stiffened up. He carefully withdrew that hint of stupidity and calmly refused, “I don’t need it either.”

It was a shame, but he could make up for the shortcoming by going crazy with kryptonite.

“Ah…Is that so? You all don’t want it…” Autumn Wind Sweeps Away Leaves sighed, but also didn’t continue to dwell on it. He said goodbye to the two, then ran to the corner to squat and wait for a new target.

Bai Li and Wen XingYao began to stroll through the players’ market. Not only did they buy the last full set of the pole with platform weighing scale ¹, but also buying produce types they didn’t have from the other players’ stalls.

“So, why don’t these crops have a direct weight display?” Wen XingYao glanced at the scales in his backpack and sounded rather puzzled.

“Is that bad?” Bai Li smiled. “There is no weight display, but the players have found a way to make weighing scales from the ancient books. So, after they are weighed, the weight of those agricultural products will be marked. How relevant to reality!”

Even without the players’ invention, he had actually placed different shapes of weighing scales in treasure chests hidden in various places on the map for the event, so he wasn’t afraid that the players wouldn’t be able to participate in the Harvest Festival event.

Wen XingYao nodded his head in a seemingly understanding way, and after they finished the purpose of their trip, he took Bai Li’s hand and started walking in the direction of home.

He was going to feed the pigs another wave of special pig feed.