Quick Wear Dream Qiqi

When the system prompt sound exploded in her mind, Meng Qiqi was staring at a field of charred seedlings in a daze.

The nutrient solution in the holographic game cabin was slightly cool, reflecting the gray sky of the novice village "Green Star" - the novice farmland No. 734 that she had just taken over had soil as hard as stone, and three poor "basic wheat" seedlings were crooked, with pixelated aphids crawling on the leaves.

"Ding—Player 'Meng Qiqi', your wheat planting rating: F-. The system will reclaim this plot of land for reallocation."

Meng Qiqi rubbed her swollen temples. The memory of stockpiling supplies for interstellar retirement for more than two hundred years was still spinning in her mind. The sudden switch to the pixel-style online game world made her feel a little indigestible.

She subconsciously touched her wrist - there was no jade bracelet, only the coarse cloth wristband at the beginning of the game. She opened her personal panel and found only half a piece of dry "newbie bread" in her empty backpack.

"Wait!" She sat up straight suddenly, her consciousness sinking into the familiar space - the metal shelves were still neatly arranged, and the "antimatter compressed biscuits" and "Jupiter rain cloud tea" stockpiled in the interstellar era were all there, and there were even a few stardust wood specimens cultivated with energy crystals.

"Xiaojiu?" She called out tentatively, but the only response she got was the cold notification tone of the game system.

"Looks like it was a pure consciousness travel. The space is still there." She breathed a sigh of relief, her fingertips tracing the virtual land. She remembered the days of tending to Codonopsis pilosula in "Farmer's Joy" and her experience cultivating Stardust Wood in the interstellar era. "F- rating? I've been farming for hundreds of years, and I still stumbled in an online game?"

She rejected the system's prompt to reclaim the land and opened the mall interface.

Sure enough, the seeds in the Novice Village were ridiculously expensive: "Basic Wheat Seeds" were five silver coins each, while her account balance was only a pitiful one silver coin.

"Swindler!" She curled her lips, her eyes scanning the task panel—"Help the village chief collect ten pieces of 'Wild Weeds'. Reward: One silver coin and a random vegetable seed pack."

"Something is better than nothing." She picked up the broken wooden hoe given by the system and walked towards the wilderness outside the novice village.

The pixelated grass was taller than a person, and as soon as she stepped in, a battle prompt was triggered: "Warning! Encountering a Level 1 pest, the 'Sawtooth Locust'!"

A palm-sized pixel locust flew towards her. She subconsciously wanted to summon the insect repellent spray in the space, but she only touched the broken wooden hoe at her waist.

"Damn it!" She cursed and swung her wooden hoe, killing the locust with a few hits, and a copper coin and a piece of "weeds" dropped from it.

She spent the entire afternoon cutting grass and killing locusts in the wilderness like a true novice player, and finally collected ten pieces of weeds in her backpack.

Back at the village chief's hut, the NPC old village chief squinted his eyes and handed her a brown paper bag: "Good girl, this is your reward."

Opening the seed package, there are five "mutated green vegetable" seeds inside - the icon has crooked green leaves drawn on it, and it is marked next to it "low probability of mutation, medium planting difficulty".

Meng Qiqi raised her eyebrows. This probability was tailor-made for her.

She returned to the F-rated field and didn't plant seeds immediately.

Instead, she dug out a small bag of "interstellar soil conditioner" from the depths of space—a scrap of agricultural waste she'd stockpiled on Jupiter, and she hadn't expected it to be useful in a pixelated online game. She carefully took out half a gram, diluted it with a novice watering can, and evenly poured it over the soil.

A miracle happened.

The charred soil became loose at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning a healthy dark brown and even emitting a few wisps of pixelated earth energy.

The system prompt sounded suddenly: "Ding! An unknown mutation has occurred in plot 734, and the soil fertility has increased to level B!"

Nanako, a player working the fields nearby, was stunned. "Holy crap! Isn't Site 734 a recognized wasteland? How did you do that?"

Meng Qiqi ignored it and buried the five mutant green vegetable seeds in the improved soil.

She opened the space, took out a small bottle of "Moonlight Nutrient Solution", diluted it and watered the plants - this stuff was sold for fifty star coins per milliliter in the interstellar world, but it produced a miraculous reaction in the online game. The seeds sprouted instantly, and even faint silver lines appeared on the tender green leaves.

"Ding! The 'mutated greens' you planted are growing rapidly... Abnormal growth rate detected, triggering a hidden event: 'The Mysterious Farmer of Green Planet'!"

System announcements instantly flooded the screen:

Server-wide Announcement: Novice Village player 'Meng Qiqi' has planted a rare mutant crop on plot 734, triggering a hidden Novice Village event!

[Player 'Nanako': I saw it with my own eyes! That piece of land just glowed with gold!]

[Player 'Farming Expert': Impossible! I spent a fortune on Grade A soil and can't even grow mutant crops!]

Meng Qiqi looked at the rapidly growing green vegetables in front of her. The silver lines on the leaves became clearer and clearer, just like the energy veins of stardust wood in the interstellar era.

She touched her chin. It seemed that this online gaming world was more interesting than she had imagined.

When the first mutated vegetable matured, she harvested ten portions of "Shining Vegetables", with the icon marked "Gain random stamina/luck bonus after consumption".

What surprised her even more was that the rating of plot 734 was upgraded to A, and pixelated energy spots could be faintly seen in the soil.

"It seems that the habit of stockpiling is useful everywhere." She smiled, opened the map, and found that the "Misty Forest" icon outside the Novice Village was lit up, prompting "Unlock collection permissions."

She glanced at the remaining half loaf of novice bread in her backpack, then touched the mountain of interstellar snacks in her space. She decisively picked up her wooden hoe and said, "Next goal: collect all the seeds in the server, and by the way, clear out all the supplies in the Misty Forest!"

As the sun sets, smoke rises from the pixel-style novice village.

Meng Qiqi looked at her A-grade farmland and the shining green vegetables, and suddenly felt that compared to the AI ​​turmoil in the interstellar era and the gossip-eating in the world of peasant girls, this pure life of farming and stockpiling seemed to be more to her liking.

As for those players drooling over her plots?

She patted the non-existent jade bracelet on her waist and sneered: I have been hoarding goods for hundreds of years, so why should I be afraid of you young people?

The entrance to the misty forest is calling, and Meng Qiqi's plan of farming and retirement through online games has just begun.

Unbeknownst to her, the interstellar soil conditioner she casually used had already caused a minor ripple in this data world. Meanwhile, in the distant Novice Village's management center, a set of abnormal energy data was quietly flagging: "Unknown high-dimensional energy fluctuations detected. Source: Player 'Meng Qiqi'."