Chapter 505: With Math Like That, You Might as Well Say Goodbye to the Studio
When the alarm went off, the boosters from the studio logged in right on time, entering their game pods to harvest their crops.
These guys worked in shifts. The current crops took about five to eight hours to mature, meaning there was a real chance they'd ripen in the middle of the night.
To keep their vegetables from being stolen, these studio boosters had to set alarms and log in on time to harvest.
Originally, this was supposed to be "Leisure Farm," but they'd turned it into a cultivation farm instead...
These guys usually managed multiple accounts, planting and harvesting everything at the same time.
After logging into the second account, one booster suddenly felt like something was off.
"What's going on? It looks like some of the radishes on this account got stolen? Is there someone out there who cultivates even harder than me?"
The booster didn't think much of it. Maybe someone just happened to be cultivating that late.
When he logged into the third account, it seemed like the radishes had been stolen again?
At first, he thought it was just a coincidence. But when he asked the others, it turned out all their radishes had been stolen too!
And when they checked the records, the thief was the same person every time: Chen Duxiu!
"Damn, what's this guy's deal? How did he pull that off?"
"Did he track us down through the footprints in the fields?"
Chen Mo had made some innovations to the stealing mechanic.
In most farm games, you could only steal from friends. But that wasn't the case with "Leisure Farm."
In a friend's farm, you could visit the farms of "friends of friends." In theory, if you didn't mind the hassle, you could follow this chain to find any player's farm.
Also, if you stole someone's fruit, it left footprints in their farm. That player could then follow those footprints to find your farm's location.
Obviously, these studio farm accounts had done plenty of stealing themselves, leaving footprints all over the place. Chen Duxiu must have tracked them down using those footprints.
And since all the studio's farm accounts were friends with each other, once he tracked one down, he could hit the entire studio's accounts in one go.
These boosters were furious. It was always the studio stealing from others, and now this Chen Duxiu had the nerve to steal from them?
Truly, this was unbearable!
"Come on, let's steal it back!"
They followed Chen Duxiu's footprints back to his farm. But when they got there, they were completely dumbfounded.
The farm was planted entirely with the cheapest white radishes. And on top of that, there were three dogs, all glaring at them menacingly!
"What the hell, it's all the cheapest white radishes, and he's got three dogs?!"
"These radishes... aren't worth much..."
"Even if they're not worth much, we have to steal them. We can't just swallow this."
"Boss, calm down. There are three dogs there. Think it through."
"I've thought it through. I have to steal!"
One booster stepped forward to steal a radish. But the moment he pulled one out, the three dogs charged at him and started biting like crazy.
"Ahhh! Run, run!"
Under the assault of the three dogs, the radishes the booster was holding quickly fell to the ground, and he didn't manage to keep a single one. Not only that, but he was bitten all over and ended up spending over 3,000 gold on medical fees.
The boosters looked grim. Damn, they'd run into a tough nut!
It felt like this Chen Duxiu was a professional at getting rich through stealing. He only planted the cheapest white radishes and kept three dogs. Clearly, he was afraid of retaliation!
While the boosters were still fretting, another booster shouted, "Hey, my freshly matured crops got stolen by that Chen Duxiu again!"
"What's going on? Isn't it supposed to be impossible to steal when the farm owner is online?"
"Yeah, but I can't be online every second. I've got multiple accounts. While I was checking one, the others got robbed!"
"Damn it! Is this kid using cheats? How can he be faster at stealing than all of us boosters combined?"
"Are we dealing with a legendary professional crop thief?"
At that moment, Chen Mo, who was busy stealing, sneezed in his game pod.
"Heh, trying to out-react me? I'm the guy who took down the AI Origin. You guys are still way too green..."
The studio boosters were speechless.
"What do we do? We can't defend against him! This guy is a real menace!"
"Maybe... we should buy dogs too?"
"Damn, dog food is expensive! And it's charged by the day!"
"We have to buy them anyway! If we don't, we can't stop this guy. Think about it—every radish he steals is money. Those gold coins can be exchanged for real stuff!"
"That's true. Let's buy them!"
After some thought, the boosters decided they had to buy dogs!
As the saying goes, no pain, no gain. To save up more gold coins to exchange for expensive prizes like phones, computers, and VR game pods, the studio decided to equip every farm account with a dog.
This would greatly reduce the losses on each farm!
"Heh, let's see if that Chen Duxiu dares to come back now!"
"Yeah, let him come, and the dogs will bite him to death!"
"With a dog on every farm, let's see how he steals!"
A few boosters deliberately waited two minutes after their crops matured before entering their farms, hoping to catch Chen Duxiu in the act.
Maybe they'd even get to see him get bitten by a dog!
And sure enough, one booster actually caught Chen Duxiu.
The guy was wearing a police uniform and a red hat, with a big "Xiu" character on his back.
But to the booster's surprise, Chen Duxiu didn't steal any crops. Instead, he crouched by the field, looking very satisfied at the farm's dog.
His expression was as if the dog actually belonged to him...
What was going on?
"This kid knows his limits. He's too scared to steal now that he might get bitten."
The booster walked over and said cheerfully, "So, too scared to steal now, huh?"
Chen Duxiu replied cheerfully, "Your dog looks pretty good. How much did it cost?"
The booster said calmly, "Not much, just 50,000 gold coins. I saved up for a few days."
Chen Duxiu asked, "And the dog food?"
The booster paused. "The dog food is a bit more expensive."
Chen Duxiu pressed, "How much more?"
The booster said, "30 bucks for three days... What's it to you?!"
Chen Duxiu laughed and asked, "Have you ever calculated how much money you make in three days from the crops you plant and steal combined?"
The booster was stunned. He'd never really done the math.
Not just him—no one in the entire studio had ever bothered to calculate it.
Chen Duxiu smiled. "You don't know, do you? Let me tell you. At your current level, even if you don't lose a single crop and max out your stealing every day, your daily income is at most five bucks. After two months of playing, you'll probably just break even on the dog food cost. If you want to exchange your in-game gold for a VR game pod, you're looking at at least a year or more."
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