Farming Together Chapter 275: [Extra 4] The game bug of mushroom poisoning.

Chapter 275: [Extra 4] The game bug of mushroom poisoning.

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

Carefree Farmstead was online for its fifth year, and Genetic Collapse Disorder was completely under control. In the entire Empire there was no longer anyone who went back to the infancy Therian form. As the person behind that great news, Carefree Farmstead should have been retired to become the white light of the people of the Empire, but it was still getting hotter and hotter.

What was the extent of the fire? Many people in the Empire were addicted to farming, and didn’t care about work or studying. Real life casually dealt with the past, but in the holographic world a mansion would take their countless efforts.

Bai Li thought this wasn’t good. How could they not distinguish between priorities? Clearly, it should be to first to live a good life in reality, and then go to the game to enjoy in their leisure time!

So, soon the Empire emergency online “virtual reality game anti-addiction system” was targeting not only underage Imperial children, but even adults. However when the latter was compared to the former, the rules were still a little more lenient.

For the underage Imperial children, they could only have two hours of game time every day, and during the day they were to study and play other games. It was only at night that they could rush to the game to collect their harvest, plant their crops, and take advantage of the last ten minutes or half hours of time to eat and drink a meal.

Originally in the fifth year of the game, even lazy players at that time opened three to four hundred pieces of land, but the results of the children’s restrictions compared to the liberation of earlier, meant that now there was time to plant less than a hundred pieces. The adults were a little better off. They got twelve hours of game time per day, to ensure that they had the necessary working time while barely guaranteeing their rest time.

When the initiative came out, the Empire was in mourning. But the Empire’s attitude was strong. No matter how everyone pleaded or cried, the decision wouldn’t change. For the sake of their remaining game time, so that it would no longer be reduced, everyone could only hold their noses and admit it. After a period of time, they would slowly get used to it.

Early that morning, after celebrating his 18th birthday with his family, Liu Chenyu couldn’t wait to board Carefree Farmstead. The Empire had made the underage anti-addiction law insanely accurate to the hour and minute of birth time. Earlier, he had already used up those two hours, but once his time was up, he would have an extra ten hours of game time.

Aha! From now on, he was a noble adult cultivator!

At 15:00 in the afternoon, Liu Chenyu, who had the ID “Red Umbrella”, boarded Carefree Farmstead and found that it was raining lightly in the game. Since the implementation of anti-addiction, he had rarely encountered rainy days in the game. So this time, when he felt the cool, lingering raindrops on his body and head, he inevitably stopped to watch.

The rain was not wild, but fine and dense. Just standing in the rain for a little while could soak through the outermost layer of clothing. The surrounding foggy atmosphere meant the distant scenery seemed to be shrouded in a thin veil of smoke. The air at that time was exceptionally fresh, but also a little cool. When taking deep breaths, one only felt the lungs were emptied at once of the turbid air.

Red Umbrella looked up and inhaled deeply. He squinted slightly when he saw that the sky overhead seemed to have a faint orange fluorescence. It was unlike the rainy sky that he had seen before, which was white, blue and long.

“Well, it’s really good to be in the game. Unexpected scenery here!” Red Umbrella secretly muttered a sentence, then raised his head again to take a few pictures, but didn’t take the orange sky to heart.

The rain was still falling unhurriedly, but according to his past experience, it should stop after another half hour at most. Red Umbrella immediately took action. From the side of his house he built another small warehouse. Then he brought out a large strong bamboo basket, along with a long-handled small hoe. He thought about it, and recovered the hat that was hanging on the wall. Now dressed, he officially went out.

When he reached the woods outside the village, he soon ran into village people who were walking together from other directions. In a village of 5,000 people, having lived together for so many years, although once they hit the level 50 some moved to other villages, the rest of the people should all be acquainted.

So they greeted each other with familiarity.

“Hahaha! Everyone, good afternoon, ah. Today the rain is really good, ah. Really, the forest will definitely grow super mushrooms. Enough for us people to share, ha!”

“Why, only a few of you are mushroom pickers? You are really well equipped! This big bamboo basket was woven by myself. Good workmanship, good!”

“I remember the last time it rained last month, right? It rained fast and ended quickly. Just as the land got wet, the wind stopped, the rain ended and the sun shone immediately. The mushrooms didn’t even grow that time which made me hungry…”

“Well? Wasn’t it last month that it rained last time? Oh…I reacted probably because I didn’t catch that rain last month.”

“Well, there is always a possibility. In the game, there is wind, rain, snow and hail. In each village, it can happen a few times a year. As to the number of times, the forums aren’t about to speak about it. Naturally, no one will purposely come to tell us that the other day it rained, to miss it is normal.”

“Haha! I really hope that something unusual happens so that we can make a good name for the village…” The last to speak was none other than Red Umbrella. Just as his words fell and he was intending to hear how the others were going to reply, he saw the people walking in front of him suddenly stop in their tracks.

“Hey, why are you guys not walking? Walk up a dozen meters further and you’ll reach the nearest mushroom concentration growth point…!” Red Umbrella umbrella said. He carefully moved away the people forming the block in front, worked hard to squeeze to the forefront, and then, like the other people, he froze.

In front of the crowd, several towering trees stood straight up, but near the roots were fallen leaves and wet soil with a heavy smell of decay, but not unpleasant.

In the past, after a rain, going from there as a starting point, small, fat, lovely mushrooms would emerge from the cracks of the dead tree branches and leaves. They were generally grayish white, brown, light yellow and so on; the more plain colors. Some even had more of a look of rotten wood, but it was the one people grabbed like crazy.

Village people had begun mushroom picking more, with the spread of the words “the uglier the mushroom, the more beautiful the taste.” However, today, the cluster of mushrooms that was growing in front of them was completely different from what they remembered.

Some of them were like carved white jade, even the soil could not stain their bodies; some had bright red umbrellas, and for fear that they would be monotonous, they were dotted with dense white spots; some looked like skin-pink jellyfish, even the mushroom stems were long and skin-pink. Those actually looked quite good. There was a large pile at the edge, and it really looked like an alien visitor.

The crowd coincidentally sucked in a breath of cold air.

“What is this stuff, ah? Are these mushrooms? How strange-looking. Just at a glance I saw orange-red mushrooms that look like antlers, and blue-purple mushrooms that look like pig brains. They don’t look very tasty. Do we still have to pick?”

“Come on, let’s settle the problem and knock on the position. Let’s fix the mess and stir up the most beautiful ones! It also helps the fascine industry to restore its beauty, bind cattle, eliminate waste materials, and protect the environment.”

“Oh my god. With these mushrooms growing in the woods, the painting style has completely changed. Those who like to play in thrillers should like this place!”

“Hey, hey, hey! Who said these mushrooms aren’t edible? Maybe this is a new variety of mushroom that LiLi has quietly put online and has a much better flavor when eaten!”

Over the years, Carefree Farmstead hadn’t had any major upgrades, but major and minor optimizations had been made at regular intervals. In addition, Bai Li was also a master of adding something when the mood struck him. New culinary delicacies, new drinks, new fashion looks, new furniture, even deep-sea fish. After five years of “pushing the envelope”, they had also increased to more than a thousand species.

The hottest topic of conversation in the forum some time ago was when a player went out on a boat and found a huge whale leaping up from under the water and “singing” to the moon when the moonlight covered the sea. At that time, players who were keen to go to sea were so excited that they didn’t know what to do.

Back to the mushrooms.

The players were reminded of all the little surprises Bai Li had brought to them over the years, and a giggle of happiness appeared on their faces. Yes, LiLi has been stuffing goodies into the game again, and this time the new colorful mushrooms should be one of the “goodies,” right?

In the spirit of trusting Bai Li and Carefree Farmstead, the players gleaned these mushrooms until they couldn’t find a single mushroom of weird color in the whole forest, and the mushroom picking operation was over.

The same thing happened in a number of villages that also happened to have a little rain.

When the mushrooms were in hand, they weren’t left in the backpack, and those who were in a position to do so, immediately started a pot in their own yard, boiled water, washed the mushrooms carefully and then cut them into thin slices or sliced them according to their preference, threw them in when the water boiled, and then added a little simple seasoning. The mushroom soup was delicious.

Also, being without conditions had its own consequences. The most simple and brutal was to bring a handful of fresh mushrooms to the next door neighbors who could cook. That way, if you were out of materials or you were out of technology, everyone could drink mushroom soup together.

Cooked mushroom soup, ah. Fragrant is really fragrant. But poison was also really poisonous.

A bowl of mushroom soup was drunk, soon there was a player that seized up.

It was still the player, Red Umbrella, who had just come of age that day. The game ID was taken haphazardly at the time. After all, so many people flocked to the game, and a name couldn’t be repeated, so the good sounding ones had long been picked clean. He couldn’t easily take that good name that could still be heard.

Today, when he saw the big pile of mushrooms in the forest, he focused on picking the ones with the same red umbrella as his name, while the white pole underneath was split with the people next to him, as he said that he preferred the mushrooms that were bright red all over.

After he drank up the mushroom soup cooked with the red umbrella and white pole, Red Umbrella seemed to experience a freshness of the spirit. Then the whole person wavered a little. He looked up at his brother sitting next to him, and his eyes snapped open, full of incredulity.

“Brother, brother…Why have you suddenly grown three heads and eight hands…? Oh, feet also long, a foot across the courtyard entrance…”

“Oh no, I’m not. I’ve grown up just fine! But you, when did you shave your hair, ah? The brain is as bright as a big white bulb. But this haircut is quite good for you. You look big-eyed, with a red mouth, and a nose as high as a mountain peak…”

The two weren’t angry at all with each other’s description of themselves. They giggled, their brains obviously dizzy, and after they heard the clucking of two chickens, they turned their heads together to look at the chicken coop next to them.

In their eyes, the chicken nest was standing on its top. However there wasn’t the image of the old hen, but a creature they’d never seen before. It was solidly built, two meters tall, covered in colorful hair which revealed a pair of huge eyes. It had only one foot, which firmly grasped the roof of the chicken cottage, a pair of huge wings stretched out from the sides of its head, and each wing was more than five meters long, as they flapped enough to cause a whirlwind…

Two people saw the strange creature, and not only didn’t feel scared or frightened, but were excited, as they stumbled over to try to catch it, they kept yelling, “I found a new pet! I want to use my name to give it a name!”

So, in a large courtyard, with two people and a chicken, they started to make the chicken jump.

Innocent old hen: I have never been so speechless in my life!

Similar things were happening in the homes of many players who had eaten and drunk mushrooms and mushroom soup…

By the time Bai Li came online, those poor players had already recovered from the hour-long “mushroom poisoning,” and while they were still in shock, they also proudly shared their photos that were taken during the poisoning process with players who didn’t go on the trip.

The player’s eye was the eye of the camera, so those who came later were fortunate to see the world in the eyes of people who had mistakenly eaten poisonous mushrooms.

The onlookers were amazed and their faces were full of envy.

Bai Li, “?” I seem to be late, and I don’t seem to need to come at all?

Afterwards, Bai Li asked the players who were present in the game at the time and learned the details of the “orange sky” from them. Somehow he was reminded of the “as much as you can eat you will weigh” game bug from a few years ago. He had a strong feeling that this should also be considered a bug.

The consequence of the bug was that players who ate mushrooms would suffer from an hour-long experience of mushroom poisoning in which the world in their eyes was chaotic and bizarre, and something the average person’s imagination could come up with. After the experience was over there was also poor appetite, depressed mood and other short-term after-effects.

After that he observed the game several times after the rain. The grove did not grow those weirdly colored and oddly shaped mushrooms again. Only then was he able to put his mind at ease.

The next step was to move the complete mushroom encyclopedia knowledge into the game, and let the players see more and learn more. So they don’t put everything into their mouths…It was good for him to trust, but sometimes, even he couldn’t anticipate what outrageous bugs might appear in the game.

That wasn’t all. The NPC Naughty Boy became the second publicity ambassador after his grandfather, the “fire prevention ambassador.” He sang a new song in the village every day.

“Red umbrella, white pole, after eating together, lie down on the board. Lie down on the board, sleep in the coffin, then bury the mountain together…” 

That horrible nursery rhyme in Carefree Farmstead existed for as long as it circulated, and the brainwashing melody became a lingering shadow in the hearts of those in the Empire, from three-year-old children to those hundreds of years old.