Stardew Valley of Gensokyo

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The newly emerged goddess Wan was somewhat stunned, but quickly recovered.

He patted his face with delight, tugged at his hands, lifted his legs, and checked if any parts of his body were missing.

"You can leave now," Akina Ze said, bowing towards the door.

"Hmph! I can walk by myself, I don't need you to remind me!" Yi Shennv Wan straightened up, tossed her hair, and walked out with her head held high.

After Yi Shennv Wan left the room, Qiu Mingze also took the time to open the system page again, as he wanted to verify something.

Opening the plugin/mod page, the first one, 【依神女菀】, is still there.

Watching the departing figure of the goddess Wan, Qiu Mingze also shook his head.

"Don't blame me for this."

......

Chapter 75 Unit-01, Activate!

Today is harvest day.

Akina Ze also marked the date in bold strokes on a newly bought calendar.

In the fields, the crops that have absorbed the essence of the entire summer will be uprooted on this day.

Both grapevines and corn will be uprooted, leaving space for replanting in the spring.

As for why it's not planted in autumn, it's because Akina Sawa also heard it from Motoori Kosuzu.

Autumn in Gensokyo is very short; it disappears in the blink of an eye, followed by the harsh winter.

However, there are recent rumors in the Human Village that two sisters seem to be planning to extend the autumn season.

Akina Sawa also holds a negative view on this, saying that autumn is a natural phenomenon and how can it be changed at will.

Everything was desolate, bleak and cold, with the north wind howling.

Although the summer-autumn festival, which marks the complete end of summer, has not yet begun, the weather is not going to follow the rules.

Autumn may not necessarily be prolonged, but winter will arrive earlier.

Perhaps one night, a sudden frost will arrive, like a silent death grim reaper erasing the life of crops in the fields.

Then the ground will be covered with withered plants.

Therefore, Akina Sawa also regarded today as a harvest day, planning to pull out the plants himself before they froze to death.

This way, risks can be mitigated to the greatest extent possible.

Caution is Akina Sawaya's first principle in acting.

Looking at the lush crops filling the yard, Akina Ze leaned on his hoe, pondering where to begin harvesting.

Because this land had been buffed, Akina Sawa made full use of the land area, planting crops densely all over it.

However, this leads to a problem: although the narrow gaps between crops do not affect their growth, they seriously affect the efficiency of harvesting.

Moreover, due to the excessive abundance of nutrients, weeds also filled the remaining gaps.

Even the wooden shed where the two "little" yellow chickens lived was completely hidden inside, but fortunately they were plump enough that they could open the wooden door of the shed.

Even Akina Ze would occasionally look at them with a strange gaze, muttering names of dishes like "saliva chicken," "beggar's chicken," "white-cut chicken," and "Daokou roast chicken."

After thinking for a while, Akina Ze finally made up his mind to start harvesting from the cabbage field.

Calling to Chitoge, Yuri came over, and Akina Sawa also bent down first, grabbed a very robust-looking cabbage, gripped it tightly with both hands, and thrust his waist upwards.

The cabbage, which was bigger than a little fairy, was uprooted, leaving a deep pit in its place.

"Did you see that clearly? There's a technique to pulling up cabbages. Just do this... this... and then this... and you can easily pull the cabbage out."

Akina Ze also carried that huge cabbage in his hand and used it as a teaching material to explain to the two of them.

"Alright, you guys go and give it a try too."

After talking until their throats were dry, Akina Ze pointed to the cabbage patch, indicating that the two of them could go and pick some.

Chihiro, who had been dozing off, perked up immediately when Yuri heard that they could start pulling them. She rolled up her sleeves and prepared to fight these cabbages, which looked nothing like taro cubes, until the world seemed to end.

"Xiaoqian, look how big this one I just pulled is!"

Before long, Yuri, with a burst of brute force, pulled up a cabbage that was only a size smaller than the one in Akina Sawaya's hand, and proudly showed it to Chito.

"Tch~" Qianhu curled his lip in disdain, but secretly increased the force in his hand.

Akina Zeya, who had been leaning on a hoe, held a large cabbage in his hand and nodded with satisfaction as he watched Chito and Yuri struggling in the field.

With employees like these on the farm, how could the chests not be full of copper coins?

Turning his gaze away from the ground, Akina Ze also looked towards the distant, faintly visible Monster Mountain, and on a whim recited...

"Picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence, I leisurely gaze at the Southern Mountains."

"What are you picking?" Yuri, who was holding a large cabbage in one hand, heard Akina Zeya reciting poetry and turned around to ask curiously, "Are you going to buy a gun?"

As she spoke, Yuri even held up the cabbage, making a shooting motion.

"It's not about buying guns," Qianhu, who had been hesitant to pull out the first cabbage, interjected with a resentful tone.

"Then what are you talking about?" Ignoring Chito, Yuri continued to press.

"Haha~" Akina Ze also laughed and explained, "This is just a line of poetry, created by a great poet named Tao Yuanmin."

"Poetry?" Qianhu and Yuli looked at each other, their little heads filled with questions.

Because of the cultural gap, in their world, the existence of poetry has long since vanished into the long river of time.

"Poetry is a carrier of culture, and it usually contains many truths."

Seeing that the two looked completely confused, Akina Sawa, who had become interested, explained further.

"Is it the kind of drawing that Ishii showed me?" Chito gestured towards Akina Sawa, indicating what the drawings looked like. "She also said it contained knowledge about airplanes."

"Ishii?"

Akina Sawa was more interested in Ishii, whom Chito had mentioned, than in the airplane.

“She was the last person we met in the ruined city,” Yuri leaned closer.

"They even helped us fix our car," Qianhu added.

"And he's a pilot too," Yuri and Chito said simultaneously.

Pilots...

Akina Ze also pictured a dashing and heroic woman in his mind.

I really hope I can see her.

"However, during her first and last flight, the wing of the plane she was piloting broke off."

Chito calmly recounted the final fate of the pilot named Ishii.

"Uh...that's a real shame~" Akina Sawa shrugged, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

The image of a dashing woman in my mind has transformed into that of a dashing woman with bandages.

"Let's leave the conversation here and get back to work."

Sensing that the atmosphere had become dull, Akina Sawa also stopped the topic.

......

In a secret valley of Monster Mountain.

"Are you ready?"

Sanae Kochiya asked Kawashiro Nitori, who was making final preparations.

"Ready"

Kawashiro Nitori emerged from the core of Hisouten, excitedly giving a thumbs-up.

For this robot, she gave up the generous benefits of the Kappa Human Village Office (ten cucumbers a day) and returned to Youkai Mountain to help Sanae.

Despite the many twists and turns, it is finally done now, and Kawashiro Naritoki's calm mind is also stirred.

“Then, the rules of the Otherworldly Realm…” Sanae Kochiya lifted the transparent cover on the red button, looked at the bright red button, took a deep breath, and then pressed her hand down sharply.

“Officially launched!!!”

Crackling!

Suddenly, a series of crackling and colliding electrical currents filled the base.

thump~

The base lost power; all the light bulbs went out.

Only the central figure, Fei Xiang Tian Ze, was covered in electric currents that seemed to flow like dragons and snakes, resembling a giant, flashing light bulb.

Click~click~

Amidst the irregular sounds of mechanical collisions, Fei Xiangtian slowly opened her eyes.

Clang!

Two enormous beams of light suddenly shot out from the eyes, soaring into the sky and piercing through the thick dark clouds.

As the base's light bulbs lit up one by one, the beam of light emitted by Fei Xiang Tian gradually shrank until it finally disappeared completely into the air.

Only the two huge holes shot out from the clouds proved that the beam of light did indeed exist.

Sunlight streamed through the cave entrance and into the human world, forming a beam of light that illuminated a vast expanse of land.

Sanae Kochiya collapsed to the ground, clinging tightly to the railing with one hand, her face filled with unconcealed shock.

"Is this the Law of Non-Perception!?"

......

Chapter Seventy-Six: The Opening Shock

"Hey, have you heard the rumors about Moriya Shrine?"

"What did you hear?"

"No way? You don't even know this?"

The man with the long, thick hair looked at his companion with surprise, then cautiously surveyed their surroundings before whispering in his companion's ear:

"I've heard that the Moriya Shrine hides a great secret."

What secret is it?

Upon hearing that it was a secret, his companions also became curious.

Human nature is to be curious.

The man with the long hair glanced around again, and finding no one paying attention, he continued to reveal the secrets he knew.

"Moriya Shrine has created a giant weapon!"

"Huge weapon!?"

His companion gasped in surprise.

The man who kept slapping his mouth was so frightened that he quickly covered it.

"Why do you think they would create such enormous weapons?"

His companion suddenly broke free from the man with the long hair and asked, half-questioningly.

"I don't know, it's probably for that reason..."