After returning from the welfare home, Zhou Mingrui has been thinking about how to complete the care promised to the dean.

If you are too deliberate, you will add to the snake, Zhou Mingrui patted his head, and when he was undecided, he would-

"Playing games together?"

Su Mo sat in front of the coffee table, and as soon as he picked up a piece of soft and glutinous braised pork, he heard Zhou Mingrui's proposal and couldn't help but speak in surprise.

"Why did you suddenly get interested?"

He remembered that according to the squid's interview, Zhou Mingrui liked stand-alone games very much, and he had played triple-A masterpieces such as "Bloodborne" and "Assassin's Creed" just from the plot retrospective, but that was once, after becoming a social animal, he had no time, so he could only play mobile games.

Wait, Su Mo paused, after the group efficiency reform after he took office, Zhou Mingrui does have that free time to play games now?

"I just want to play all of a sudden."

Zhou Mingrui explained that it was not only the dean's entrustment, but also his true thoughts, similar to a kind of revenge bottoming out after quitting the game for too long.

Sumo asked, "What game do you want to play?" ”

Zhou Mingrui hesitated, if he had just graduated, he might not hesitate to blurt out his favorite 3A masterpiece, but now......

His heart flashed through the quiet and peaceful Licheng, with willows and sparkling waves, and then a trace of nostalgia for his hometown, which was also a small southern city.

"That's it...... Let's play a casual farming game. Zhou Mingrui described, "You can farm, you can raise animals, you can fish, you can cook, you can sell things to make money, you can make your life better through hard work, of course, you must be able to connect to the Internet...... Let's live a retirement life in the game in advance. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but laugh happily, and then asked Su Mo, "Do you have any recommendations?" ”

"It's just these requests," Su Mo was silent for a moment, remembering a game he had been obsessed with before the time travel, "I do have a game I can recommend." ”

"What game?" Zhou Mingrui asked further with interest.

"A very classic casual farming game," Su Mo said slowly, "Stardew Valley." ”

……

Looking at the character creation page in front of him, Zhou Mingrui fell into deep thought.

He used to start with 3A masterpieces with beautiful pictures and exquisite modeling, but all of a sudden they were converted into "rough" pixel styles, which is a bit big.

But Su Mo was still waiting for him to create an archive of the online host, and Zhou Mingrui could only cheer up and pinch a decent villain, gender male, name input Zhou Mingrui, the farm was named Mingrui Farm, and the preferred animal was chosen as a cat, and the favorite thing was ......

"What's the use of this?" He pointed to the bar and asked Sumer.

"It's useless, you can fill it in casually." Su Mo said, "Just fill in a few keywords, such as the name of the game author and Stardew Valley's English Stardew, and it will trigger a special easter egg at that time." ”

So Zhou Mingrui filled in Stardew.

Once you have filled in all the information, you will need to select the farm map for the opening.

Stardew Valley is an open-ended rural management simulation game in which the player takes on the role of a protagonist who is tired of the hectic life in the big city and chooses to travel to Stardew Valley to inherit the farm left to him/her by his grandfather.

"Every archived farm map," Sumer reminded him, "can't be changed once selected." ”

"So you have to be cautious," Zhou Mingrui nodded, "I know." ”

Because Su Mo said that he had played this game and could be responsible for the arrangement of land reclamation, although Zhou Mingrui had also read the strategy in advance, it was basically tips that were easy to ignore for budding newcomers, and Su Mo also threw him a map of the elements, saying that the pits that novices can step on are all summarized on this map.

There are seven types of farm maps to choose from at the beginning, namely Standard Farm, Forest Farm, Hilltop Farm, Riverside Farm, Wilderness Farm, Four Corners Farm, and Beach Farm, each of which has a short description after clicking.

Zhou Mingrui read all the instructions carefully, most of the farm maps have their own advantages, but when he saw the description of the wilderness farm, he couldn't help but blackline it.

"Monsters appear on the farm at night, which is also a plus?"

Zhou Mingrui couldn't help but imagine a scene in his mind: the sun was setting, and he returned to the farm after a day of running, but he was greeted by a roaring monster......

Or maybe the night is getting dark, and he wants to do some more farm work before going to bed, and when he is busy in the field, several dark shadows full of malice have quietly lurked around him......

Well, what he wants to play is a farming game, not a horror game.

"Ahem." Su Mo cleared his throat and explained, "Players have five skills in the game, namely farming, fishing, mining, foraging, and fighting, all of which are capped at level 10, and can be upgraded by training to gain experience, and Wilderness Farm is a farm map that prioritizes helping to improve combat levels." ”

"But I still think it's ......"

Zhou Mingrui muttered, first excluding the wilderness farm.

As for the rest of the farm, the description of the standard farm is a large piece of arable land, and based on Zhou Mingrui's previous experience in playing games, this kind of decent map may not be the best solution, but it is definitely not the wrong option.

Soumer also recommended Standard Farm, as well as Forest Farm and Four Corners Farm.

"As the name suggests, the Four Corners Farm is divided into four areas, each of which has the characteristics of other farms, which will be a shame when playing alone, but it is more suitable for online planning areas." He introduced.

In the end, Zhou Mingrui chose the Four Corners Farm, clicked to start the game, and the opening animation of "Stardew Valley" began to play on the screen.

The orange closet is dancing with a warm fire, and the dying grandfather lies quietly on the bed, holding a sealed letter in his hand, and the player accompanies him on his last journey in front of the screen.

The background music then sounds, and the vibrant notes resemble the timbre of a music box, clear, bright, but unprovoked to make people feel a touch of sadness.

At the bottom emerges the subtitles:

【…… To my special grandson, I hope you can keep this envelope. 】

The envelope flew over on its own, and the (invisible) player took the envelope and was about to open it, but was dissuaded by Grandpa:

[No, no, you can't open it yet...... Be patient. 】

[Now, listen up......]

The tempo of the background music is just right, and it enters the climax of the mood and the calamity.

Grandpa continued:

[When you feel like you're going to be crushed by the weight of modern life...... Your bright heart will fade away until it is completely occupied by emptiness. 】

If that happens, my child, you can open this gift. 】

[Now, let grandpa rest for a while......]

The picture then turns dark, followed by a line of words: XX years later.

After graduation, the player lives in a busy big city, and is a low-level coder who works in JOHJA, and spends his days at JOHJA's workstation, repeating mechanical and boring work.

No, it's not so much a workstation as a coffin-like cramped, suffocating cubicle, densely packed together, like a nest of worker bees.

JOHJA only has two instructions for work and rest throughout the day, and the leaders monitor the employees' every move through the glass windows at both ends of the room, and the wall is posted with the words "Life will be better because of JOH!" ] can be pulled to the far right, and there is a skeleton lying on the job in the remote station.

The player finally can't stand the oppression of the job and opens the letter that his grandfather left for him in the drawer, which reads:

[Dear Zhou Mingrui,]

If you are reading this letter, you must be in a difficult situation and looking forward to a turnaround. 】

[I had the same situation a long time ago.] 】

[At that time, I was blind to the most important thing in life, which was the real and natural connection between people, so I gave up everything and moved to where it really belongs to me. 】

[I put the deed of the land in an envelope...... And all my pride and joy: Mingrui Farm, which sits in Stardew Valley, on the South Coast. 】

It will be the perfect place for you to start a new life. 】

[This is my most precious gift, and now it's yours!] ……】

After putting away the letter left by his grandfather, the player got on the bus with great anticipation and set foot on the land of Stardew Valley, arriving at Pelican Town, which is located in Stardew Valley.

Arriving to greet the player is Robin, a carpenter from Daigo Town, who enthusiastically takes the player to a long-abandoned, overgrown farm.

Grandpa's old friend, Mayor Lewis, walks out of the farm's cabin, greets the player, briefly introduces him to the farm, and then leaves with Robin.

The cutscene ends, the screen is black again, and after a rooster crows, the player in the cabin looks like he has just gotten up, and the interface in the upper right corner shows these lines of data:

1 (Mon)

6:00 am

500G

Zhou Mingrui can control his own character.

On the other side, Su Mo clicked on cooperation on the main interface, entered the online invitation code sent to him by Zhou Mingrui, and entered the online mode with the character that had already been created.

At the beginning of the game, they all received a gift from Mayor Lewis, fifteen parsnips (turnips) seeds per person, in addition to a hoe, a sickle, a pickaxe, and a watering can in the backpack at the bottom.

Su Mo controls the character to leave the independent online cabin, and Zhou Mingrui has also gone out, using a sickle, pickaxe, and axe in turn, clearing the weeds, stones, and trees on the farm.

After these three resources are cleared, they will drop three basic materials of fiber, stone and wood respectively, the initial five tools, the sickle does not consume stamina, and the other four will consume a small amount of stamina when used, and stamina can be restored by sleeping or food.

On the land cleared by Zhou Mingrui, Su Mo manipulated the character to hoe a 3×5 piece of cultivated land with a hoe, and then watered it one by one with a watering can filled with water.

In Stardew Valley, crops must be watered that day before they grow, and crops that are not watered will not die, but they will not settle their growth progress unless it happens to rain that day.

After watering, Su Mo planted fifteen parsnip seeds, and Zhou Mingrui, who was weeding and knocking stones and cutting trees, glanced in his direction and asked, "Do I need to plant parsnip seeds?" ”

"No, if the farm grows more than fifteen crops (excluding foraging crops), there is a chance that crows will trample on the crops." Su Mo replied calmly, "To make a scarecrow to drive away crows, you need to cultivate a level, and after fifteen parsnips are harvested, the experience is just enough for one person to reach the first level of cultivation. ”

Zhou Mingrui smiled again and asked, "Then let's go to the novice task next?" I see, the task requirement is to greet all the residents of the town......"

At this time, Su Mo turned his face, reached out to Zhou Mingrui's laptop on the coffee table, and entered the /pause command on the interface of Zhou Mingrui's online host, pausing the game time of the two.

"Nope." He denied it again, and his voice was very calm: "We're going to start working together." ”

“？”

Zhou Mingrui suddenly had a bad premonition.

Su Mo spoke calmly and briskly:

"My arrangement for clearing the wasteland is like this-

"On the first day, you need to step on the map around Pelican Town completely, collect the foraging crops refreshed on the map, and then knock out the ore in the lower right corner of the Four Corners Farm, the small hilltop farm, and then cut down the trees all the way to get 200 logs, and go back to the house to sleep and replenish when you lack physical strength.

"I'm in charge of digging clay in the town and the beach, and a clay can be sold for 20 gold, and I dig clay for a day, and I should be able to earn about 3 or 4,000 gold after deducting the cost of buying salads in the tavern......"

"Wait," Zhou Mingrui interrupted him in time, "I remember that the guide said that the clay was randomly made when you were hoeing, how are you going to dig more than two hundred clay?" ”

Su Mo shook his head and said calmly:

"It's said random, but Stardew Valley's randomness is actually a pseudo-random algorithm, and there are special clay digging instructional videos for this.

"Once you've dug the first clay, it's just a matter of following the regular, repetitive work.

"Because the online mode can't pause time by opening the menu, the efficiency of digging clay is actually seriously reduced, if it's a single-player mode, I can dig 10,000 gold clay on the first day in extreme circumstances......"

In the end, Su Mo's calm expression showed a touch of fanaticism and regret.

"Wait, wait a minute," Zhou Mingrui interrupted him again in a cold sweat, "You better continue to talk about your reclamation arrangements." ”

"Okay."

Su Mo nodded, and spoke in an orderly manner:

"The next day was easy, after receiving a letter from Willy, the owner of the fishing tackle shop, we went to the beach south of Pelican Town to trigger Willy's plot, and he would give us two bamboo fishing rods that we could use to fish in the sea.

"Before that, we used the 100 pieces of wood we had cut on the first day to make two boxes, and each person brought them one by one, so that we didn't have to worry about the capacity limit of the backpack.

"The shallows below the beach campfire, and the deck to the right of the tackle shop, are two first-level Venus fishing spots, as long as the fishing level reaches the first level, and then achieves the perfect end in the fishing mini-game, there is a chance to catch a Venus fish, which will not only give more experience, but also sell for a higher price.

"After the fishing level reaches the second level, sell the ordinary quality fish, plus the money from digging clay on the first day and the initial 1,000 gold for the two of us, buy two 1,800 gold fiberglass rods and six to eight bowls of 250 gold trout soup before the four o'clock closing on the Diaoyu Island, and use all the rest of the money to buy bait for 5 gold each, and then fish until two o'clock in the morning......

"On the third day, it rained constantly, and we still used the fifty pieces of wood cut on the first day to make a shared box, and after we bought the props in advance, we went out at six o'clock, and we could go directly to the river in front of Sam's house to fish for catfish, which is a fourth-level Venus fishing spot.

"We upgraded the fishing to level 3 on the second day, plus the effect of trout soup fishing skills +1, the fishing skills of level 4 to 6 faced the catfish that repeatedly jumped sideways, although it was basically impossible to do the perfect reel, and could only catch the silver star catfish of the last level, but in a comprehensive comparison, the income of fishing river fish on rainy days in spring is still the highest, so we continued to fish until two o'clock in the morning......"

Zhou Mingrui couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and said with a little stammering: "But I remember that if I didn't go home to sleep at two o'clock in the morning, I would faint outside, and then I would be sent home, and I would be charged one-tenth of my body as a medical fee the next day......"

His voice grew smaller and quieter, and at the end he looked at Su Mo almost dumbfounded.

"But all the money we have on us will be used to buy fishing props the next day." Su Mo looked at him innocently, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, "I can't even afford to pay the minimum medical fee, so I can only reluctantly go back to the city for free twice for nothing?" ”

Zhou Mingrui only felt that it was dark in front of him.

Escaped from the company's 996 and hugged the 627 of the farm with his backhand!

What kind of casual game is this?,This is clearly a game of cultivating immortals!!