It wasn't until dark that all the scattered rice grains on the ground were picked up and sold.
My back was almost broken!
There were exactly 10,000 grains of rice. Sold at fifty cents a grain, my personal assets rose to 9,950 yuan!
One step away from accumulating ten thousand yuan to upgrade the base to level three!
There were still potatoes in the field that needed harvesting, but Jiang Ye didn't plan to do it at night.
Potatoes were buried underground, making them troublesome to retrieve. In the dark, given the current situation, he dared not stay outside for too long.
His life was more important!
He retreated into the base, locked the hatch, and ate while watching the chat channel.
The channel was buzzing, with colony commanders discussing their day's experiences. Many had encountered alien creatures:
Tian Wu: Holy crap, I saw a giant squid this afternoon! I'm still numb all over!
Qing Dou: @Tian Wu, are you by the sea? Did the squid not attack you?
Niu He: @Tian Wu, tell us in detail, what happened?
Tian Wu: No, no, I was at the edge of the desert. I hadn't seen any living creatures for the past few days. But it rained heavily today, and water accumulated everywhere. Around 2 PM, I saw a huge black thing emerge from a puddle in the distance. It was a giant squid! That squid was at least two stories high, with tentacles as long as fire hoses! The thing flailed its tentacles for over ten seconds, seemed to grab something with its tentacles, and then submerged back into the puddle. I was trembling in the base, too scared to go out now. I don't know what's lurking underground!
Mechanical Ji: It's true, I saw them too, two of them, unbelievably large. I really wet myself. They weren't real squids, but some kind of devilish alien creatures with red eyes and emitting black smoke.
Left Hand Mouse: Scary. I only saw some small insects. I was starving and ate them after killing them. It seems like no living things appear when it's not raining, but as soon as it rains, many creatures crawl out from underground!
Can't Open Bottle Cap: I was bitten by a monster, it hurt so much, sob sob sob. That monster looked ugly, like a pangolin.
Upon reading this, Jiang Ye's heart stirred, and he quickly sent a private message to Can't Open Bottle Cap.
Jiang Ye: Was the thing that bit you black, with scales, and did it burrow holes?
Can't Open Bottle Cap: Yes! It burrowed out of a hole, lunged at my leg and bit me, tearing off my flesh, sob sob sob sob.
Jiang Ye: Did you kill it? What did you use to kill it?
Can't Open Bottle Cap: No, while it was eating my flesh, I quickly ran back to the base. How do you know about that thing? Were you bitten too?
Jiang Ye: I wasn't bitten. I slashed it once, and it burrowed away. I saw you mention it and wanted to ask how you dealt with it, sorry to bother you.
Can't Open Bottle Cap: Don't go, don't go! Big brother, do you have a knife? Can you sell it to me? I'm afraid of being bitten to death.
Jiang Ye: Not selling. This is my only self-defense item. I don't lack anything now except a gun.
Just as he was about to close the private message window, the other party sent another message.
Can't Open Bottle Cap: I can send you pictures of my long legs. Only the legs.
Jiang Ye: ??????
Jiang Ye: You can send pictures on this chat channel?!
Can't Open Bottle Cap: Not on the public channel, but in private messages. Do you want to see? I'll trade it for a knife.
Jiang Ye hesitated with great temptation for a moment, but still refused.
Sorry, not trading.
Of course, the reason for refusal wasn't that the samurai sword was too precious, but simply because he was a righteous person! How could a gentleman engage in such illicit transactions! In this materialistic and decadent world, one must have basic principles!
Can't Open Bottle Cap: If you're not trading the knife, some food would be fine too. The photo was taken last night before I got injured. My legs are really nice! And I was wearing black stockings!
Jiang Ye: Stop that! I'm not someone who can't resist temptation! What's so great about it, it's just black stockings, black stockings...
A brief silence.
Jiang Ye: Deal!
The other party was very straightforward and sent a photo.
The photo seemed to be taken from the cockpit. Well-proportioned legs were crossed, clad in black stockings, exuding extreme sexiness. The only drawback was the low resolution, taken with the base panel's front-facing camera.
Jiang Ye's old face turned red. He looked around, feeling like he was doing something wrong and might get caught. He also kept his promise, threw a packet of biscuits into the trading bay, and sent it to the other party.
Can't Open Bottle Cap: Thanks, big brother! Biscuits! I can soak biscuits tomorrow!
Immediately after, a friend request was sent: Can't Open Bottle Cap requests to add you as a friend.
Jiang Ye decisively agreed, of course, with purely innocent intentions, for better mutual assistance in the future.
It wasn't easy for everyone to come to such a desolate planet for pioneering. As humans, mutual help was a basic virtue! As for asking for photos, that was for... for... forget it, that's not important, the important thing is mutual assistance!
The transaction ended. The base was quiet. Jiang Ye stared at the photo, lost in thought like an artist admiring an oil painting.
After looking for a while, he suddenly felt bored.
Then, he felt a little regret.
What use was such a photo?
It would have been better to keep the biscuits for himself!
Biscuits could fill his stomach, but this photo only brought emptiness!
Jiang Ye realized he had acted impulsively. Once he accumulated more things, he wouldn't be able to manage his finances, he would become extravagant, indulge in bad habits, which was truly not supposed to happen!
Shameful!
Humiliating!
Never again!
Having been rained on for most of the day, he felt very tired. Jiang Ye guiltily closed the chat channel and fell asleep.
After sleeping for a few hours, sunlight streamed through the window glass and onto his face, waking Jiang Ye up.
He ate a simple breakfast, picked up his samurai sword and shovel, and went out.
The samurai sword was his constant companion. If he encountered that beast from yesterday again, he would draw his sword and strike directly.
Although that little beast was tough and couldn't be killed, it seemed very timid and could be used to fend it off.
The shovel was for harvesting potatoes and mining!
The condition of the potatoes was not optimistic. After a few shovels, Jiang Ye found that this batch of potatoes was very poor.
Poor in two aspects: first, they were small, and second, they had sprouted!
Other crops grew to an absurd size. Potatoes were the opposite, all about the size of ping pong balls. If you didn't look closely, you'd think they were crushed stones. Moreover, almost all the potatoes had turned green and sprouted.
As everyone knows, such potatoes are poisonous.
Jiang Ye picked a potato and went to the base to check its price.
Item: Potato
Item Description: Small and ugly, and has sprouted. Eating too much will cause various adverse effects on the body. Furthermore, this type of potato can only sprout, not grow larger, nor can it be used for planting. It is utterly useless.
Appraisal: 1 yuan
Jiang Ye almost vomited blood.
Too cheap!
One yuan each, and he was still fifty yuan short of upgrading to a level three base.
Were there fifty potatoes in the field?