Chapter 25: The Frost and Mist Have Arrived
The frost and fog season has not yet arrived, but the weather is getting colder and colder day by day.
Walking through the town, Angela looked at the clear sky and sighed subconsciously.
By the time the frost season arrives, the blue sky will not be seen for nearly three months.
The people in the town did not stop because winter was approaching, but became more and more busy.
The cultivation of wheat in the fields, the construction of wooden dwellings, the hunting for meat and furs, and the construction of simple fortifications from wood to defend against the undead that may appear outside the town, all of these tasks cannot be interrupted and can only be carried out in unison.
Fortunately, because of the existence of the lord game system in Angela, tasks such as crop planting and dwelling, which were originally time-consuming and laborious, can now be completed automatically by allowing the old people who are unable to help with other jobs to pray there, freeing up the few young and middle-aged laborers in the town and allowing them to carry out more important work.
"Your lord, you're here." The old village chief didn't know where it came out, and when he saw Angela inspecting the progress of the construction of the house, a hint of joy appeared in his cloudy eyes: "The last batch of wheat blessed by the divine magic has been harvested. ”
"Well done, let's plant some other vegetables before the frost season comes."
Angela pulled out a small cloth bag containing vegetable seeds that he had exchanged from the system yesterday.
The previous process on the farmland side was basically as follows:
After planting Lingmai→ half of it is put into the grain storage after it is mature and harvested, and half is sold to the system→ ninety percent of the game currency obtained is used to buy new seeds → plant Lingmai.
Such an immutable cycle.
The stored in-game currency is used to buy new farmland and build wooden houses.
However, the number of wheat seeds sold in the Penguin Farm store each day is limited, and when the snowball rolls to a certain extent, Angela realizes that even if he buys all the wheat seeds sold every day, it will no longer be enough to meet the existing number of fields.
If you want to increase the number of wheat seeds sold, it seems that you have to upgrade the penguin farm first, and to upgrade the penguin farm, you must first increase the lord level and the prosperity of the territory on the main page, in short, it is a rather distant goal at the moment.
Originally, Angela still complained a little about this, thinking that it was too difficult for the system store to only sell such a few things.
However, he was relieved that the name of the system was originally 'Lord's Game System' instead of 'Farmer's Game System'.
Although it was normal for a man to equate a field with a ration, even if he spent the whole day tending to the field, for a lord like him, agriculture was only a part of the territory.
Once the town's only granary was full of wheat, Angela began to think about growing some vegetables out of the field.
For the inhabitants of this poor town, it is already quite happy to be able to eat enough every day, but Angela is also from a noble background, and he can only eat dry food for the past few days, but if he wants to eat the wheat rice of the frost and mist season, he feels that he will definitely go crazy......
The old village chief solemnly took the small cloth bag in Angela's hand.
A few days ago, when he saw with his own eyes the wheat that had only been planted for a few hours, the old man burst into tears with excitement, and even the deep wrinkles seemed to have been reduced a lot.
For Angela, who created this miracle, the old man changed his previous more perfunctory attitude and became extremely respectful.
It's a pity that Angela tried several times, but he couldn't get the old man to change his concept into 'It's not me who is great, but the god of the game we believe in', otherwise relying on the old man's pious energy, it is estimated that he would be a devout believer at the beginning of the game and not run away.
"By the way, can you still see the undead outside the town these two days?"
Angela asked with concern.
Everything in the town is quite stable at the moment, but the undead who are hanging around outside make Angela a little worried.
"Not yet." The old man put the small cloth bag in his arms as if it were a treasure, and clutched his chest tightly, and then he shook his head: "Except for the skeleton at the beginning, a few young hunters have been patrolling around for several days, but they have not seen the undead. ”
"Really......"
Angela breathed a sigh of relief.
"Actually, my lord, you don't have to worry too much about this. Vera has little experience, so she may be exaggerating...... When the Kingdom Army was sweeping up the undead, it was normal for them to miss one or two skeletons. Those weak undead are no match for the small-town hunters. The old man saw that Angela seemed to be very concerned about this matter, so he comforted him: "Especially this year, in order to encircle and suppress the undead, the kingdom army has even burned the forest. They will withdraw their troops so confidently and leave, indicating that there should not be too many undead escapes. ”
"Will there be a new undead coming out of the Valley of the Dead?" Angela asked.
"No, it won't. The undead will not leave the Valley of the Dead during Frost Season. At least I haven't encountered anything like this in my more than sixty years of life, so don't worry, my lord, it'll be fine. ”
"If only that were the case."
Angela sighed.
He is different from the old man, although he does not have the old man's rich life experience, but he has the system as a cheat.
And on the mission panel with a very low sense of existence, a [Hold on to Help] mission suddenly appeared, out of trust in the system, or the mysterious god behind the system, Angela felt that there was definitely enough undead around to threaten the entire town!
If only we could know when the players will get here. Angela thought to herself.
The quest to stand by is to wait for the other players to arrive, so there must be people from the combat profession among the other players' followers...... Just like the guardian knights that many big lords will have around them.
Why doesn't this 'players are coming' prompt have a countdown like growing wheat......
At the same time that Angela was very depressed about this, he suddenly shuddered.
The north wind is howling, and the weather seems to be getting colder.
Angela looked up, only to find that the sky, which had been clear just a moment ago, had been covered with thick clouds.
A little white snowflake, falling from the gloomy sky.
The frost and fog season is coming.