Chapter 54: The Great Benefit of Being Calculated

As Link himself said, he traveled from San Francisco to Berry Field for the sole purpose of having a chat with friends.

So he and Bill just had some beer and bragging. He did not return to San Francisco in the evening, but stayed and found a hotel to spend the night.

He woke up early the next morning, he went to the roof of the hotel and punched a set, feeling that the wound on his body was not as tight as before, and he thought that it would not be stretched even if he tried hard, so he thought that he would remove the stitches after going back. It seems that he has practiced boxing for so many years, and he still has some benefits, at least he recovers faster than others after being injured.

He returned to his room to take a shower, and then routinely looked at his character and how he had changed in the streets.

He took a look at the other changes, which were normal, that is, the "skill" of "draw a circle and curse you" flashed for the second time. The last time was the day after he was shot. It meant that someone had hurt him, and the Vice-Decay God asked him if he was going to use a high-level curse. It's just that last time he didn't know who the opponent was, so he had to give up.

But, did anyone hurt him yesterday? He couldn't remember anyone doing anything bad to him.

He clicked on it and found that there was indeed a settlement message inside: "On the last settlement day, you were calculated to buy inferior vines at a high price. You can perform a directional curse on the person who calculates you. This curse is an advanced curse, you can set the curse method, and the cost will be settled according to the content of your curse. ”

The information from the previous shooting was similar, but the content of the injuries was different. And this time he actually said that he bought inferior vines. If it was just that the price was high, he didn't care at all. In his heart, the money is easy to come by, and it is spent when it is spent, as long as it is worth spent, it is not a thing!

But now he is paying a lot of money for useless vines. That's not just about money. If it weren't for this vice-decrepit god, he would have bought the vines back and planted them, and the waste of time and energy would not have been something that money could calculate. This is a conspiracy against him.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became. He thought back to that day now, and he understood it. That Tim is in league with Luke Truss at all. Not long after he and Chloe sat down, Tim seemed to know in advance that they were going to buy vines.

And their play is also very realistic, and if that Tim raises the price after he has made a bid, he may still suspect that he is a to. But he insisted on a price, and after Link made a price, he didn't raise the price. This gave Link the impression that he had a floor price in mind. It looked like I was really trying to buy vines.

Now it seems that the dispute between them was nothing more than a show for him to buy the vines at a high price. No wonder Luke Truss insisted that all the payments be paid as soon as possible.

Of course, the vines can't be wanted, but the money will certainly not be returned. The agreement was signed, and the quality of the vines could not be stated in the agreement at all. This matter went to court, and he had no chance of winning.

But let him just forget it, and he was extremely unwilling in his heart. I managed to find the vine, but it turned out to be worthless. And he was deceived.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He clicked on "Draw a circle to curse you" and then selected the Advanced Curse, which is a button that doesn't normally light up.

Then a dialog box appeared: "I curse Luke Truss......" and he stopped halfway through, feeling that his next curse was too vicious. What he was thinking about just now was cursing Truss for being killed by lightning when he went out.

On second thought, it seemed a bit too much to kill a man for $110,000. As for the possible consequences of the grapes once they are planted, they have not yet happened. So he can't use that as a reason to curse him.

He thought about it for a while, and finally decided to find another way to clean up that Truss. But he found that the dialog box for the Advanced Curse couldn't be closed at all. Click "OK" and another dialog box pops up: Please say what you want to curse.

He said casually: "I curse him to regret lying to me forever!" Then click OK and finally close the dialog box for Advanced Curses.

However, he soon noticed that the "skill" of "draw a circle and curse you" began to shine again. Could it be that someone has hurt me again?

When he clicked on it, he realized that it was a feedback message after he issued a high-level curse: "You successfully pointed to the sexual curse 'Luke Truss'." Given that you only know one Luke Truss, the point is clearly to one person. Depending on the content of your curse, the system makes the following decisions about the curse:

"1. Change the characteristics of the vines purchased by the host to make them the most environmentally demanding, the most survivable, the most disease-resistant, the most productive grape varieties in the world, and the most suitable for making and eating grapes on the land of the host.

"Second, Luke Truss heard the news about this variety of grapes, and his mood was extremely volatile.

"3. Deduct the host's 30 usable character values and 51,600 usable street values."

After reading it, he really wanted to ask this self-proclaimed "system" vice god of decay, is he a good person? He just didn't want to kill people, so he made a wish. As a result, the vines changed their character, from inferior to the best in the world.

He felt that it had designated that the grapes could only have that effect on his land, in case that Truss learned that the grapes he had planted had stolen the branches and went back to cultivate. Otherwise, Truss's regret after successfully getting that kind of grape will be much lessened.

However, it was in his best interest for the vice-god to rule in this way. First of all, he didn't have to look for vines elsewhere, and the grapes that came out of it were the best in the world. What else is he not satisfied with.

Now he really wants to say thank you to Truss personally, if not for him. He didn't know that this vice-decaying god could be used like this. If it weren't for Truss's desire to yin him, he wouldn't have gotten such a good grape variety.

However, the cost of this advanced curse is a bit too much. If it is an ordinary curse, it can reduce the luck of the cursed person by more than 5,000 points. But fortunately, his street fighting value is not enough, and it is easy to make up for it, as long as he goes to someone to scold. He glanced at it again, and now he still had more than 500,000 points to use on the street. It's enough for the time being.

He turned off all the translucent dialogs, and remembered Luke Truss, still indignant. But he couldn't think of a good way to deal with him for the time being. Beat him or use other violent methods, he himself feels that he is not good and incompetent, and he is not a big brother of the underworld, it is wrong to always want to solve the problem by force.

He also had a question to consider.

The new problem is that if he grows grapes that are the best in the world, he can make good wines with a qualified winemaker. Wouldn't he plant more to get rich?

But he planned to grow just over 1,000 acres on the Hans farm, which would not produce much wine. This area cannot be expanded indefinitely, because Hans Farm does not have enough water rights. He doesn't have that much water. However, the arable land can be changed to be used entirely for grape growing. To grow grapes on Hanse's farm, you have to bury a dropper. This is completely different from the irrigation system that is required to grow grain or cotton. I'll have to go back and take a closer look.

That kind of grape has that characteristic only on the land that belongs to him, and he now has two plots. Hanova Farm has plenty of groundwater, and perhaps he can expand his vineyard there in the future.

If Hudson Farm is taken, it will be possible to convert some of the farmland there to grow grapes. Alternatively, if a reservoir is built, a portion of the land can be developed for grape growing.

But he also wanted more land to grow grapes. He wants to be the largest wine supplier in the world.

He bounced to his feet and looked up the wine industry in the United States on the computer provided by the hotel. He learned that the wine regions of the United States are only located in California. But in California, he couldn't get access to large tracts of land. On the West Coast, the other two states also have viticulture, albeit to a lesser extent. There are also on the East Coast, but the East Coast is more densely populated, and it is difficult to get a large piece of land.

Grape plantations in the United States produce an average of 2.5 tons of wine per acre. Even if the grapes he planted later were lower, with a yield of 1.5 tons per acre, it would be a standard 2,000 bottles. Even if the average bottle makes a profit of only one dollar, one acre has a net income of $2,000. This income is no less than growing food crops.

The more he thought about it, the more he thought it could be done. With that kind of vine, the only thing he had to think about in the future was how to sell so much wine.

Of course, the only problem he has now is that there is no suitable land for growing grapes on a large scale.

He was a little impatient to call John: "John, I need a large contiguous tract of land, at least 10,000 acres or more. It is required to be located in a warm climate zone, which needs to be more humid than humid, but not rainy, nor at risk of flooding, and relatively flat. Do you have any information about the land listed like that? ”

John seemed intimidated by his request. He said in a half-loud voice, "Link, the land you ask for in the climate of the warm climate zone is arable land, and there are very few such lands with an area of more than ten thousand acres. Unless you are willing to accept sub-humid lands, if you are considering irrigation, I can help you find farms with sufficient water rights. ”

He thought Link was disgusted that the surface water rights to Merce Vecchilo's farm, which he was now negotiating, were not enough, and he didn't want to invest in digging wells.

But I heard Link say on the phone: "No, I'm not for the right to water. I also want farms where the climate can't be too cold in winter. ”

Although he didn't know how to grow grapes, he knew why there were so few vineyards in the middle of the United States, and it wasn't because they were either hot and rainy or the winters were too cold.

The whole of central North America is a north-south Great Plains, and the cold waves of the Arctic Ocean can run unobstructed southward to the warm Gulf of Mexico. In addition to the fact that the western coast, which is shaded by the Rocky Mountains, is not affected by the cold wave of the Arctic Ocean, the eastern coast is also less cold because of the warm Gulf Current.

He thinks that's why the U.S. grape growing regions are concentrated on the western and northeastern coasts.