Chapter 14: Playing Games and Touching Crows II

"Hey, how do you know I'm hungry? This one looks delicious! ”

Looking at the quartz that had just been sent out in the backpack, and then at the purple-haired girl Abigail in front of him, Zhou Mingrui couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Although he knew that this was a regular conversation when Abigail received his favorite gift, he still couldn't help but want to complain, girl, your teeth are so good......

Zhou Mingrui controls his character to leave the grocery store and ride his beloved foal to the next location to deliver gifts to the villagers.

Stardew Valley has a friendship system that allows players to befriend the villagers of Pelican Town, and as the friendship deepens, the villagers' conversations become friendlier, as well as the ability to trigger cutscenes for the Love Event, and leave gifts in the mailbox from time to time.

The friendship limit of ordinary villagers is ten hearts, and in addition, there are twelve NPCs in Stardew Valley that can be raided, a total of six men and six women.

The upper limit of friendship of the tackable NPC is locked to eight hearts, and after eight hearts, a bouquet will be given, and he/she can become boyfriend and girlfriend, and the upper limit of friendship will be unlocked to ten hearts, and a mermaid pendant will be given after ten hearts, and you can marry the NPC.

Stardew Valley is also known as Green Hat Valley, not only because the twelve playable NPCs have their own official matches to some extent, but also because Stardew Valley is a place where XP is free, if it is not free enough, it can only mean that the mod is not playing enough.

Stardew Valley can not only marry men and women, men and women, but after playing the corresponding mods, it can also break through the restrictions of only marrying one and only marrying strategic NPCs, and if the player is brave enough, he can even marry his grandfather's old friend, Mayor Lewis, back home......

Talking to the villagers for the first time every day, as well as giving gifts twice a week, can increase the favorability of the villagers, and through Zhou Mingrui's unremitting efforts, he has brushed the favorability of all the villagers in Pelican Town to more than six hearts.

Stardew Valley has twenty-eight days in a quarter, and it's the fall of its first year.

Due to Zhou Mingrui's strong request, Su Mo finally reluctantly gave up the wasteland reclamation plan of the extreme challenge, but the two still carried out a division of labor, Zhou Mingrui was responsible for farming and foraging, occasionally fishing to subsidize the family, Su Mo was responsible for going to the mine to rush the layer, and by the way, mining and fighting monsters and brushing fibers.

When passing by the community center, Zhou Mingrui picked some wild berries and blackberries by the way, and he turned his head to look at Su Mo's screen, who was working tirelessly and conscientiously in the mine, fighting monsters, and brushing fibers......

After Zhou Mingrui gave gifts to Robin's family, a carpenter who lived in the mountainous area of Pelican Town, and Linus, a wanderer in the tent, he rode home along the path above, and glanced at Su Mo who was still working tirelessly and conscientiously in the mine, fighting monsters, and brushing fibers......

Back at the farm, Zhou Mingrui, who dismounted, first touched all the free-range animals, and then went into the brewing cabin, collected the beer brewed in small barrels, and then added the liver for a summer, enough for him to brew until the beginning of spring next year.

Going out and stuffing the beer into the shipping box, Zhou Mingrui came to the field and walked around, looking at the neat farmland and the iridium sprinkler that was diligently watered in the center of each farmland, and his face unconsciously showed a happy smile like a harvest of old farmers.

His gaze was once again biased to Su Mo's computer, who was still working tirelessly and conscientiously in the mine, fighting monsters, and brushing fibers......

Zhou Mingrui also asked Su Mo why he was so obsessed with mining and fighting monsters, and he looked like he was fond of it and never tired of it, and Su Mo replied that he was not enjoying it, but he just liked this process of constantly trying to get closer to the goal through persistent accumulation after establishing a goal.

On the 5th of spring in the game, a large rock blocking the wooden bridge in the mountains is blown open, and the player can go to the underground mine in Pelican Town, which is 120 floors deep, and the elevator will activate every 5 floors.

While Zhou Mingrui was still watering the cabbage and planting spring seeds for the tea seedlings, Su Mo on the other side carried the forest sword burst out of the wooden box and leveled the 120-story mine in five days.

When rushing to the 100th floor of the mine, Su Mo specifically called him over to see the Easter eggs, and told Zhou Mingrui that his "favorite thing" when creating a character would affect the player's prompt when eating the Starfruit.

Zhou Mingrui took the elevator to the 100th floor, opened the treasure chest on the 100th floor, and ate a mysterious fruit that increased the upper limit of physical strength, and the following easter egg appeared on the screen: You found a star fruit! You feel an unshakable connection to Stardew Valley.

In the middle of spring, Zhou Mingrui brushed the favor of Caroline, the grocery store proprietor, to the second heart, triggered the corresponding love event, and obtained the recipe for tea seedlings.

In addition to spring seeds, the materials used to make tea seedlings also require a large amount of fibers, and the mine life of Su Mo mining and fighting monsters has also been upgraded to mining and fighting monsters.

After entering the summer, Zhou Mingrui began to harvest hops a day, and Su Mo sold a large number of tea seedlings, saving enough cash for the treasury collection bag in the main line of community sacrifice, so as to open a bus to the desert area.

When Zhou Mingrui was busy with the daily petting of animals, as well as all kinds of milking, shearing, and picking up chicken/duck eggs, Su Mo used the ore he dug before to make more than 100 bombs and super bombs, and then brought the rejuvenated Venus cheese to the desert mine to blast the mine.

Su Mo exploded the precious multicolored fragments for the first time in the mine, and he came to the middle of the three totems in the desert to sacrifice the multicolored fragments, and obtained the strongest weapon in the weapon shop, the Galaxy Sword, with a price tag of 50,000 gold.

It was getting late, and the animals on the farm went home to sleep, Zhou Mingrui closed the door of the chicken coop and barn, and watched Su Mo's pleasing and skilled operation on the sidelines after he was free.

I saw Su Mo take the elevator to the 80th floor of the mine, and then went down the stairs to enter the 81st floor, as soon as he landed, a nearby magma slime jumped straight over, he silently raised the galactic sword in his hand, and with two clicks, the slime who didn't know how to do it was cut into a slightly glowing gel......

"Su Mo, you wait for me, and I'll come to the mine to play."

Looking at it, Zhou Mingrui also had some itchy hands, took out the obsidian blade (the 90th floor treasure chest reward of the mine) eliminated by Su Mo from the storage box, rode the pony straight to the bus stop, and then dismounted and prepared to be teleported to the mine through the minecart.

chose to go to the mine, but in the next second, Zhou Mingrui did not appear in the mine, but entered a cutscene.

Zhou Mingrui was stunned for a moment, and opened the Stardew Valley Wikipedia interface with his backhand to query, and found that he had teleported the mine this time, meeting the conditions for entering the mountains between 9 pm and 11:40 pm on a sunny day, thus triggering Malu's Six Hearts Event.

Maru is one of the twelve playable NPCs in Stardew Valley, the first NPC the player meets when they arrive in Stardew Valley, Robin the Carpenter, who comes to greet the player, and Pelican Town's scientist and priest, the daughter of Demetrius after remarrying.

Maru has a half-brother Sebastian, who is also one of the playable NPCs, and has the first popularity gap among players, while compared to his brother, Maru's popularity is more average.

Born to a carpenter and a scientist at a young age, Maru was interested in invention and was somewhat of a mechanical......

Zhou Mingrui recalled the Malu information he had read, and at the same time began this love incident that was accidentally triggered.

In the middle of the night, Maru is in the courtyard observing the starry sky through an astronomical telescope, when the player appears, and Maru turns around, surprised by the player's arrival.

"I didn't expect to meet you here so late." She said, "The night sky is so beautiful right now." ”

As the player walks up to her, Maru smiles and moves out of the way, "Here, take a look", inviting the player to use the telescope to look at the stars.

The player stands in front of an astronomical telescope and looks up at the starry sky overhead.

Maru stood quietly to the side and asked softly, "What do you see?" ”

Two options appear on the screen:

A beautiful planet.

A pitch-black abyss.

"A dark abyss."

"A beautiful planet."

Zhou Mingrui was slightly shocked by the synchronous answer, he turned his head to see that Su Mo's character had returned to the ground and was stopping in front of the elevator on the first floor, and Su Mo himself came over at some point and was watching Malu's plot with him.

Seeing him turn around, Su Mo said calmly: "Don't worry about me, you can choose any one." The goodwill of these two options plus is the same. ”

"Oh......"

Zhou Mingrui hesitated to respond, looked at the deep night on the screen again, the faint twinkling starlight in the pitch black, and moved the mouse to click on the first option: a beautiful planet.

Maru smiled, "Amazing, isn't it?" ”

"By the time people were able to climb these stars, you and I would have been dead for a long time......," she smiled, "I thought, isn't that okay as human beings?" ”

Maru then fell silent for a moment, as if she wanted to say something, but finally shook her head, said forget it, and then said to the player, "Come, I'll show you the twin galaxies......"

The camera gradually moves upward, and the endless night sky is dotted with vast and distant stars, and some stars that are about to fall have left their interstellar orbits and burned in the fall, leaving only a fleeting flash of fire.

At the end of the cutscene, Su Mo touched his chin and asked, "Have you figured out who to marry?" ”

Zhou Mingrui thought for a while and replied embarrassedly: "In terms of personality alone, I admire Abigail the most, but her age is a little younger, I like it more, well, I prefer mature women......"

Su Mo thought thoughtfully.

Abigail, the daughter of Pierre, a grocery store owner, is a maverick girl who is good at playing games, playing the flute, and swordsmanship, and saves the player's life by killing the monster that attacked the player with a sword in a love incident.

At this time, Zhou Mingrui also asked him: "Su Mo, are you not going to get married?" I don't think you have brushed the favor of the villagers......"

"If I don't get married, I'll find Xiao Hei (Krobus) as a roommate." Su Mo said, "Since you haven't decided on a marriage partner yet, when your friendship reaches 8 hearts, are you going to send flowers to the strategy NPC?" ”

"Well, don't send it. Although it is a little uncomfortable to have a good impression stuck in 8 hearts, the great man said," Zhou Mingrui said seriously, "Falling in love without the purpose of marriage is a hooligan." ”

Su Mo's expression was slightly regretful: "It's a pity ......"

"What?"

"Some NPCs' Ten Hearts event is quite interesting, but unfortunately you can't see it." "Like Maru, she would build a robot with self-awareness, and after thanking Maru for creating it, she would ask for freedom and go to heaven...... Travel to the universe in search of other artificial life. ”

Zhou Mingrui: ??

He asked the question in his heart: "How is it going to go to heaven?" ”

Su Mo asked him rhetorically, "How did the rocket get into the sky?" ”

“…… Boy. ”

Zhou Mingrui held back for a long time, and finally held back a comment.

"The world owes Malu two Nobel Prizes in physics."

A tribute to her creation of true artificial intelligence.

A tribute to her hardcore skills in hand-rubbing rockets......

Su Mo and Zhou Mingrui chatted off-screen for a while, and the time in the game quietly passed midnight.

Two o'clock in the morning will force them to fall asleep, but at this time, they are too lazy to be greedy for this little liver time.

The two were transported to the bus station via a minecart and returned to their thriving farm, where they entered their respective cabins and prepared to start their day while sleeping.

Zhou Mingrui walked into the very warmly decorated home, the flames of the fireplace were beating, the orange light illuminated the space, and on the carpet in front of the bed lay his adopted black cat, curled up in a ball and sleeping.

Zhou Mingrui's gaze softened, and he manipulated the character to come to the bed, clicking on the bed with the mouse, and the system popped up a prompt:

Going to sleep?

Zhou Mingrui clicked on the "yes" option and said "good night" to Stardew Valley late at night.

……

"Morning."

On the weekend, Su Mo sat on the sofa, holding Shandong multigrain pancakes in one hand and watching the news on his mobile phone in the other.

He put down his mobile phone, took a bite of pancakes, looked at the open door, and said to Zhou Mingrui, who came back from a morning run: "There are multigrain pancakes in the pot, you can use the air fryer to heat it up and ...... it."

Su Mo's voice paused, he looked at the crow cub in Zhou Mingrui's palm, and raised his eyebrows: "This is?" ”

Zhou Mingrui, who was panting, pulled the corners of his mouth, showed him a helpless wry smile, first found a clean towel and spread it on the coffee table, and then carefully put the little crow he was holding.

This little crow looked very weak, covered with a layer of shallow fluff, and couldn't stand on his feet after getting off Zhou Mingrui's hand, so he could only lie on the towel with a sly stomach, and even the wailing in his mouth was weak.

Zhou Mingrui let out a long sigh, sat down next to Su Mo, and explained to him the origin of this crow cub.

He passed by a big tree when he was running this morning, and heard the sound of breaking the air overhead, as if something had fallen, so he subconsciously stretched out his hand and liked to mention a small crow falling from the sky.

Of course, it didn't really fall from the sky, and then Zhou Mingrui locked on a bird's nest in the tree, and when he climbed up, he found that it seemed to be a long-abandoned crow's nest.

There were five eggs lying in the nest, four of which had begun to stink in the summer heat, and most of the chicks in it were very unlucky, and only one egg shell had been pecked out of the hole, and the egg was empty, which was exactly ......

Zhou Mingrui looked down at the crow cub held in the palm of his hand, the chick that had just broken its shell had not yet opened its eyes, and could only instinctively open its mouth and cry mournfully.

Zhou Mingrui, who was touched porcelain: "......"

He was also desperate, what could he do, he could only rush home to bring this little crow home as if it was about to burp in the next second.

“…… I understand. ”

Su Mo listened calmly, and spoke calmly, his voice indistinguishable from joy and anger.

"It's actually fine, but if it doesn't eat the bird's first meal, it's probably going to starve to death.

"If you want to save it, you can go to the pet store next door and buy a syringe to feed it, and buy some bread worms and probiotics, and when I come back, I will beat an egg and mix it with the yolk to feed it."

"Okay!" Zhou Mingrui's eyes lit up, and he nodded busily, "I'll buy it now!" ”

He got up and hurried out the door.

Silence returned to the living room.

Su Mo lowered his eyelashes, and his dark eyes stared coldly at the little crow on the coffee table who had successfully touched the porcelain.

He stretched out his hand, and in the faint wail, gently stroked the crow's young neck, and asked calmly and kindly:

"Where did you come from?"