Farming Together Chapter 270: Show on the spot

Chapter 270: Show on the spot

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

Have you ever seen nearly a billion people discussing a game at the same time?

After the ‘virtual reality game builder’ of Carefree Farmstead was upgraded to S-class, the official forum of the Holographic Game Design Competition almost became a special forum just for Carefree Farmstead. The forum leader had a bright idea, and sent a message up to the top to open a special discussion board and give other games a chance to breathe. However, the developers of other games didn’t care about that. They didn’t grab a game slot but they got Bai Li’s friendly sponsorship, and became Bai Li’s brainless fans on the spot.

A three-day harvest festival, it brought the new and old players infinitely closer.

[Hehe! Spent 50 gold to enter the Data Man Alliance. Saw our village has so many people ready to participate in the data, my heart already had a gasp. This time I am in the village top 100. I am bound to win!]

[Can’t you be brave upstairs? Won’t you only be first in your village? Unlike me, I’m already dreaming about how to sell the game slots I’ll win after getting first place in the whole game at a high price!]

[Wake up. Did you not see LiLi’s event announcement? LiLi said this time there are not just the event points to exchange for rewards in the game, but there are treasure chests and small tasks that may be obtained in the event. You do not just look at the data of others. Do not forget to go around the neighborhood to find the event treasure box, ah!]

[Oh, oh, oh! Thanks for the reminder. Good people live in peace! I’m going to look around~]

[Just 50 gold coins to know the correct answer in advance? This is too unfair to those who have secretly copied the answers and are not prepared to pay! Forget it, it’s only 50 gold coins. If you can’t beat it then join, bla. 0.0]

[Anyone willing to exchange experience in raising pigs? My piglets are just caught and are not big enough yet. Starting five days ago I began to feed them five meals a day, but it seems that the piggies are not willing to eat the feed. QAQ!]

[Personal experience, ha! If you have money, go to the game store to buy the best pig feed, and then mix it with magical spring water and feed it to them. If you don’t have money, prepare a musical instrument, or if you have confidence in your voice, stand by the pig pen and sing to them. When they are in a good mood, the meat will naturally grow faster…]

[Not yet to level 20. Cannot raise pigs. Can only help you Aite professionals. @growingfieldisfun @Wen XingYao, look at these two IDs but where there is a reply. They can add an invisible BUFF to you!]

[The first few, even if pigging out, cannot compete with our Admiral, ah. This is related to whether he can marry our LiLi! [Slanted-eyed smile.jpg] [dog head.jpg]]

[Oh no. If you say so, I would like to go to the hustle and bustle ~]

[Get married +1]

In addition to all sorts of strange discussions, there were also players sharing the various rewards they got from the event’s treasure chests and mini-quests.

[Brothers rush! Go find the treasure chest! The item opened from the treasure chest is really fragrant! I was worried about not having enough giant seeds, and then ‘clang’ from the treasure chest, I opened 5 packets of giant strawberry seeds! Hehe! When it’s time to hand in a strawberry, I can keep the rest and eat until I am full!]

[I also opened the giant seeds. There also is a special fertilizer. It seems to be better than the one the game store sells. I scattered it on a few ordinary cauliflower seedlings nearby, but did not expect them to merge into a giant cauliflower! So regretful! I should have sprinkled it on the giant seeds!]

[ If anyone opens the King Fish Bait. This item sounds like it’s for fishing, however I went fishing without any preparation, and was directly dragged down by a giant moray eel. I am not only wet, but the giant eel also ran away. Woo, woo…]

“…”

Those fellow netizens unintentionally gave a lot of details related to the event, especially the use of those items, which was especially important at that critical moment of competing for the weight of a product.

What also they didn’t know was that a certain well-known person with the surname of Wen quietly bookmarked the post with the largest amount of discussion, recorded all those points, then went to practice them one by one.

After he found the giant seeds, he went to prepare the special fertilizer. After he spread the special fertilizer, he ran to get the King Fish Bait without stopping. He relied on his flexible body with super explosive power, and acted alone with great courage, which used his time management skills to the extreme.

Even Bai Li didn’t know Wen XingYao’s entire itinerary for the past two days, only that he was really busy with the event, and was very determined to do something. How could he be left behind when his boyfriend was working so hard? Plus, now there were nearly one billion players in the game, many of whom had just developed some excellent farming talent. Bai Li felt that he couldn’t disgrace his position as an Agricultural Deity, so he was working harder and harder on the art of crop harvesting.

The biggest difference between the May event, Harvest Festival, and the previous events was that on the third day of the event, starting at 9:00, there would be a harvest celebration that would span the entire game map.

During the festival, the NPCs in each village would leave their usual places and wander around the villages’ regions. Not only that, the grand celebration would also attract foreign NPCs to visit the villages. As long as the players were strong enough, it was an excellent opportunity to absorb new blood into the villages.

In addition, the villages would also be decorated for the Festival as they should be. Players, who during that period of time, found treasure chests and did the tasks, would have a good chance to get double the rewards and special items. In the words of some players, these were rare items, free of charge.

Players submitted their crops for entry near the end of the event before the final ranking was announced. Starting at 18:00 in the evening, and for every hour after that, a village’s ranking for a large category and the ranking of the whole game were updated.

The 18:00 field was crops, the 19:00 field was fruits, the 20:00 field was fish, and the 21:00 field was livestock.

Bai Li also decided to put up a vote on the official website. Each village’s players could choose three individual items from each major category, and the Village Chief would give a live award, and would also take out the participating crops to view right there, so as to give the unsuccessful candidates a chance to be convinced.

It might have been intentional, but with the votes of all the Mushroom Village’s residents, potatoes and pigs were finally included. In other words, everyone would be able to see who grew the biggest potatoes and the fattest pigs on the spot.

Wen XingYao, “…” I suspect you guys are doing it on purpose, but I have no proof.

All the players who were watching the fun, “Hehe, hehehehe~”

Bai Li raised his hand and quickly rubbed Wen XingYao’s hair. He held back a smile, and said encouragingly, “Come on, I believe you can do it! Brave lion, don’t be afraid of difficulties!”

What strange encouragement speech was that? Wen XingYao couldn’t help laughing. “I’m not brave. I’m still worried about being beaten by others.”

Although he had prepared for everything, so that the weight of every pig in the pen had exceeded their peak, and he had also planted super giant potatoes that grew like small mountains, the fear was still there as this was related to his lifelong happiness!

Bai Li pinched his boyfriend’s palms and flesh, then just pulled him out of the door to look for the Village Chief’s figure. “The results aren’t out yet. Isn’t it still a little early to start worrying? Besides, even if it doesn’t happen this time, we still have next year, the year after, and the year after that!”

He felt a momentary stiffness in the pulled hand, as if there was an inexplicable danger gradually approaching. His animal instincts gave him a warning and Bai Li quickly reacted, as he hurried to add a sentence, “Hahaha! I’m just kidding, ha! You mustn’t take it seriously!”

Wen XingYao looked at Bai Li with a desire to speak. However, he couldn’t forcefully ask him for a promise, so he followed Bai Li’s footsteps and set out to find the Village Chief. He needed to submit all the produce he had prepared, so that everything after that was possible.

Well, who knows if he was thinking too much, but even so, why did every player whom they passed by have a smile, with a hint of a look of fun and vague expectation?

At 18:00 in the evening, the village’s busiest NPC, the old Village Chief, came to the village’s central square which was surrounded by all the village residents. Because the village had been upgraded, now it was paved with stone tiles, cobblestones and various colored stones, and there was now a huge fountain built in the central square.

At that time, the sides of the fountain were decorated with colorful ribbons, flags and symbols of the wheat harvest, made of special materials, and a variety of replicas of the other crop items.

With the night and under the illumination of the lights, the two long and thin streams of water appeared more and more like bright crystals, while under the frame of that crystal water was the awards podium.

The podium was a step style with a total of three heights. High, medium and low, to distinguish first, second and third.  During the introduction, the Village Chief also said that if their village people also entered the top 100 in the whole game, that would be broadcast at the same time, so that they could celebrate this excellent village together.

The players, who had been excited for a whole day, had given up holding back a long time ago.

As the big brother of the Carefree Farmstead game live broadcast world, Mo Song had already set up his live broadcast camera. He boasted in front of the camera, “Watch the event live broadcast and choose our Mushroom Village, ah. We aren’t only the first village in the game, but also the village with the most big brothers in the game! Here, we witnessed the love of LiLi and Admiral. We witnessed the development of a village from scratch. We also witnessed the joy and grief of all people, big spenders and little spenders alike…Well without further ado, let the Village Chief announce the rankings of the crops!”

The number of viewers in the live broadcast room was large, and they made a rather arbitrary request to Mo Song, [Blunt Opinion, can you give the Village Chief only a small amount of footage this time? I want to see the look on the Admiral’s face after the announcement of the potato rankings!]

Mo Song agreed and panned the camera.

The Village Chief had already walked to the podium and announced in a leisurely tone, “As voted by all the village residents, I’m going to announce the top three crops in terms of weight: cauliflower, white radish and potatoes. For the principle of fairness, the top three crops will also be displayed together, then, you are welcome to take a photo with the winners and bring them this honor!”