Chapter 503: That Ridiculous Fertilizer Name!
After selling the radishes, Zou Zhuo got some in-game currency. It wasn't much, but after buying the necessary crop seeds, there was still some left over.
Zou Zhuo started thinking about what would be the best thing to buy.
All the decorations were generally expensive, like new house designs, new store designs, new fence designs, and so on. He also noticed he could buy a dog and a dedicated doghouse, but he wasn't sure what use they were, and he couldn't afford them anyway.
After looking around for a while, Zou Zhuo decided to buy a bag of fertilizer. Since fertilizer could reduce crop growth time, it was essentially using money to buy time, which was obviously a great choice in this kind of game.
Zou Zhuo opened the fertilizer section in the shop and was instantly stunned.
There were so many types?
The lowest level were the gray fertilizer and black fertilizer he had used before. Zou Zhuo currently only had enough money to buy one bag of the most basic gray fertilizer.
In the shop, there were all kinds of other fertilizers, but after seeing their names, Zou Zhuo was completely dumbfounded and cried out, "This is ridiculous!"
Blackened gray fertilizer and graying black fertilizer.
Volatile gray fertilizer, volatile black fertilizer.
Easy-to-apply gray fertilizer, easy-to-apply black fertilizer.
Volatile blackened gray fertilizer, volatile graying black fertilizer.
Easy-to-apply blackened gray fertilizer, easy-to-apply graying black fertilizer.
"Are you kidding me with this tongue twister?"
Zou Zhuo was speechless, but then he thought again, maybe Chen Mo had just hidden a little Easter egg in the shop as a joke. He didn't take it too seriously.
He selected a bag of gray fertilizer and chose to buy it.
But his money wasn't deducted immediately. Instead, the system popped up a prompt.
[Please use the voice function of the VR game pod to say the name of the item you wish to purchase to complete the transaction.]
???
Zou Zhuo was dumbfounded. So this is how it works?
He tried saying, "Gray fertilizer."
System prompt: Purchase successful!
Zou Zhuo was at a loss for words. So this is what he was setting me up for?
"No wonder the shopkeeper made all these fertilizer names so long and like tongue twisters. It was all to mess with us!"
"So if I want to buy a higher-level fertilizer later, I'll have to shout at the system: 'Give me a bag of easy-to-apply volatile graying gray-turning-black black fertilizer!'"
Damn, that feeling... just thinking about it was intense...
He felt like this system might be specifically targeting people from Fujian?
"Resentment value +10!"
But next to the fertilizer shop, there was a small note: if a player failed to say it correctly ten times in a row, the purchase would also be completed automatically.
Zou Zhuo let out a long breath. It seemed Chen Mo still had a little bit of conscience.
...
With most of the necessary tasks done, Zou Zhuo wandered around the farm and noticed a path leading off into the distance.
"Hmm, what's this?"
Zou Zhuo walked to the roadside and saw a signpost there. When he got close, a system list appeared in front of him, showing all his Thunder Game pass friends.
He tried clicking on one of them.
[Your friend has not yet activated "Leisure Farm." Would you like to remind them to activate it and grow vegetables with you?]
"Oh, they haven't activated it?"
Zou Zhuo noticed that this friend's name had a special mark behind it, indicating they hadn't activated "Leisure Farm" yet.
He casually clicked the reminder. How could he enjoy such a fun game all by himself?
He clicked on another friend.
[This friend is at home. You can visit but cannot steal vegetables. Would you like to go to your friend's farm?]
"Hmm, what does this mean?"
Zou Zhuo thought carefully about the meaning of this prompt. It meant that this friend was currently on their own farm. He could visit, but he couldn't steal vegetables.
So if they weren't at home, could he go and steal?
Zou Zhuo continued scrolling up the friend list.
More than half of them hadn't activated "Leisure Farm." After all, it was a new game and hadn't fully taken off yet.
Zou Zhuo sent invitations to each of them one by one.
Some of them were already on their farms, obviously like Zou Zhuo, tired from playing heavy games and relaxing in the soothing mode.
Zou Zhuo didn't bother visiting those who were on their farms. Going there would just mean chatting.
Right now, Zou Zhuo was desperate to know: how exactly did this vegetable stealing work?
After all, stolen vegetables could be sold for money!
He found a few more friends who weren't at home, but their radishes hadn't ripened yet, so he couldn't steal them.
Zou Zhuo roughly estimated when those friends' radishes would be ready and decided to come back later. He'd mark them for now...
He scrolled up further and, at the top of the leaderboard, he actually found Chen Mo's account.
"The shopkeeper plays the farm too?!"
Zou Zhuo thought for a moment: "Right, of course he plays. This is his game! Maybe the shopkeeper has something good on his farm?"
Without hesitation, Zou Zhuo entered Chen Mo's farm.
Since the scene resources were mostly the same, the transition was very fast. Zou Zhuo didn't even notice the switch.
He was still standing by the side of the path. Looking back, he could see the farm.
What shocked him was that Chen Mo's farm was completely different from his own!
Chen Mo's farm decorations looked like a traditional Chinese garden courtyard. There were stone outer walls, a majestic ancient tree full of charm, a beautiful rockery in the middle of a pond, and the house was no longer that shabby thatched hut. It was a neatly built stone cottage with a strong Chinese aesthetic.
Next to the cottage was a nice doghouse, and a husky was dozing inside.
Looking at Chen Mo's fields, he was growing crops Zou Zhuo had never seen before.
Jadeite cabbage, jade grapes, golden fortune flowers, starry blossoms, fragrant sparrow...
"Whoa, what kind of plants are these? Fantasy crops?"
Obviously, these were high-level crops in the farm. Just the seeds would cost several thousand gold coins.
And Chen Mo's farmland was different from Zou Zhuo's too. It was all glowing with a golden light. Could this be the legendary golden soil?
All the crops were already ripe, hanging with mouthwatering fruits. Zou Zhuo couldn't stay calm. These fruits were all money!
"Shopkeeper, you've got so many high-level fruits in your fields. It's not too much to let a buddy pick a few to help a poor guy out, right?"
Muttering to himself, Zou Zhuo sneaked over to the fields and started stealing vegetables.
As he plucked one tempting high-level fruit after another, Zou Zhuo was overjoyed. If he sold all these fruits, he could buy so many bags of black fertilizer!
But just as he was really getting into it, a sudden barking sound came from nearby.
Woof woof woof woof woof woof!
Zou Zhuo was startled. He turned his head and saw that the husky, which had been dozing in the doghouse, had somehow rushed out, run up behind him, and bit him right on the heel!