Buying Paddy Seeds

Marissa still not finished looking at her profile interface. On the upper right corner was the sum of points that could be used by Marissa if she ever wanted to purchase something from the system's shop. That points were derived from the amount of points on the 'strength' section. Currently, on the 'strength' section were the numbers of 4276.

However, because at that time Marissa purchased a bottle of potion to cure Prince Anusapati's poison when he was imprisoned at the underground room, added with the special treatment she spent to purchase the coffeés for Arya Kamandhanu, Prince Anusapati, Uncle Huth, and the twenty members of the Tiger Tribe, she spent a total of 2310 points. 1 point was equal to 1 copper money. She purchased 23 cups of coffeés with the price 100 copper coins for each cup, with made the total amount of points she spent were 2300 points.

So, currently, she only possessed 1966 points written at the upper right corner of the screen. Whereas her real money that she obtained from selling the coffeés were 37,900 copper coins. Because at this moment Marissa encountered a 'Lucky Hour' from the system, this income was multiplied by ten times, which made it 379,000 copper coins or 379 silver coins if they were to be converted. What about the remaining points that she used for doing a breakthrough prior to this? Well, because that points were given freely from the system to enable her getting breakthrough to her current cultivation stage, it didn't count as her own points and she couldn't use it as she wish. If she wanted to purchase something by using points, she had to earn them herself.

At this moment, she sifted her gaze to her other reward. It was the <Super Rice Milling Machine>. She tapped at the reward and she instantly got a message : [Would the Host want to see this set of machines in the virtual world of the system or going back to the reality world?]

After giving some thought, Marissa chose to go back to reality. The system then teleported her from the system's world to the place where the system had located the <Super Rice Milling Machine>.

Marissa looked around and was so shocked. Where is this place? This was reality? Why don't I know that there was such a place here? She then asked Mr. Angel about it and she obtained the answer. Mr. Angel said that this was one of the room in the underground place that was installed by the system previously. Marissa was amazed. Of course she remembered that her little shop possessed so many doors, and Mr. Angel said she couldn't entered all the rooms yet as of her level was still so low. But, she already obtained access to some of the rooms, this room that contained the complete and complicated paddy machines was one of as such.

In the virtual world, other than the cultivation room, there were also many doors that lead to different rooms and space. So, basically, whatever existed in the virtual world was also existed in the reality.

Marissa looked around the room and felt dizzy. This were the modern machines to process the paddy into a high quality rice. Moreover, the machines had even been modified by the system, making the process easier and the result was better then what was on Earth.

Mr. Angel explained to her on how to use the machines and the name of each parts of the machine. Although Marissa wasn't a person from agricultural field when she was a university student, well, she never even see or touch that kind of machines, but because Mr. Angel explained in detail and even showed the videos on how to process the paddy into a high quality rice, Marissa suddenly understood them immediately.

The question now was, how was she supposed to use the machines if she didn't possess the paddies to process? She had to at least possess a farming land full of paddies, right? Where the heck she would get them? Should she search around the forest if she could obtain the paddy plants and nurtured them near her shop?

Just as she was thinking on how to get that paddy plants, she suddenly remembered that the system possessed a shop. Perhaps, it also sells paddies? Then, without thinking too much, she opened the system again and went to the system's shop.

Marissa looked around the shop and finally found what she was looking for. "Here it is..." Marissa was delighted and immediately looked for the price. "1 gram of common paddy seeds costs 4 copper, which makes it 4,000 copper or 4 silver coins for 1 kilogram. Whereas the high quality seeds cost 6 silver coins for 1 kilogram."

Marissa remembered that one months before she reincarnated into this world, she saw that the price for 1 kilogram of Grade A Paddy is about 3,802 Rupiah, which made it closed to 4,000 Rupiah per kilogram paddy seeds. So, it seemed like the system followed the price of the paddy in the modern time of Earth? Marissa wasn't sure, but it seemed that was indeed the case.

Marissa didn't know much about farming, but she still had some basic knowledge. For example, in her hometown on Earth, peoples usually planted 30-40 kilograms of paddy seed on one hectare land. When the time comes to harvest, the result usually 3-5 tons of paddies. If this sum of paddies were to processed and converted into rice, it would be about 1.5-2,5 tons of rices. If the land is fertile and there were no insects or other unfortunate factors, the result could be even better.

Marissa wanted to immediately purchase the paddy seeds when she suddenly remembered she didn't have the land to grew them. Where should she plant them?

[The Host has already given the land]

[It was in an independent space]

Hearing that, Marissa's eyes lit up. "Where is it?" She asked.

[It's behind the door]

Mr. Angel pointed out to Marissa. Sure enough, at the south part of the room, there was a yellow door. Marissa then briskly walked to the door and opened it.

Huala!

The moment the door was opened, she was assaulted with a breeze wind. Where the heck the wind came from? But, it was quite good and refreshing. Marissa felt so comfortable. Looking at the huge fertile land, she was so amazed. 'This sure is like another world.' She thought.

Marissa looked around curiously. There were hectares after hectares of lands in there. There was also a big and long river to the east side of the land. On the north, variety of flowers could be seen swayed by the wind. The sky is blue, the weather is good. Such a good world! And the most amazing thing was, it was actually located in the underground place of her little shop.

They system was really such a godly thing! It was even very generous to give a free lands for her. Wait! Was the system really that generous? Marissa observed the surrounding and found something different. There were five hectares of lands with the word 'Free' embed on a white flag, planted on each hectare of the land. As for the other land, Marissa needed to fork out money in order to possess them. In the other words, if she wanted to expand the land for her to farm, she had to purchase the sixth hectare land and so on.

It was quite normal actually. She was someone who used to play games when she was on Earth. So, she knew that the free things wouldn't last forever, it would only for earlier or it could be said to be a starter rewards, as for the next time, well... everything must be purchased, whether it was bought by using money game or even real money.

Remembering about her experiences when she was playing game, she suddenly wanted to curse when she reminded of the gamers who were always 'pay to win'. She wasn't an expert at gaming, nevertheless, her result wasn't that bad either. If only she had that much money, she would buy all the best equipments on the games, uh no, that's not right, if she really possessed that much money, she would buy a big house, the new model of Lamborghini, spoiling her parent and family, do donations, building schools, helping the poor, travel the world, learning music, and... purchase the best attire and weapon for her game character. Eh? Something's wrong! Well, forget it.

...

[Does Host want to see the price of the land?]

Mr. Angel asked.

"Yes, let me take a look." Marissa nodded.

Sila!

After checking for a while the price, Marissa's face turned green as if she was having constipated. What the heck! The price was getting higher for every purchase. For the first purchase, which meant the sixth land, she only needed 5,000 copper coins. The second purchase was 10,000 copper coins, the third purchase was 20,000 copper coins... The fifty something purchase was 108,000,000... Hm? Gold coins? 108,000,000 fr*aking gold coins? F**k! Marissa cursed. Your grandmother! What generous? This was a daylight robbery! Such a black-hearted system!

After cursing and grumbling for another minute, Marissa finally calmed down. She looked at her five hectares lands and made a counting. She would buy 75 kilograms of common grade paddy seeds. This seeds later on would produce about 7,5-9 tons of paddies, and when processed to become rice, the amounts would be reduced to 4-6 tons of rice. That wasn't so bad. If she was to sell them later on, she could lowered the price compared to the common rice in the markets of this world. She would earn about twenty to thirty million copper coins or 20-30 gold coins.

Actually, Marissa wanted to buy more seeds, especially the high grade seeds. That 75 kilograms common grade seeds that she was about to purchase wouldn't even be able to fill one hectare of the land fully. The remaining four hectares would be empty by then. But, the problem was... She didn't have that much money!

Currently, she only possessed 379 silver coins and 1966 system points. That amount of money and points combined together could only sum up to 398,66 silver coins. So, she decided to only bought 75 kilograms of paddy seeds which costed her 300 silver coins. Now, she was left with only 79 silver coins and 1966 system points. Forget it! She would buy more in the future after she obtain more money and points.

...

And so, tonight, at ten and half o'clock, Marissa planted the paddies on the 'free land' that she got from the system. But, of course, she didn't plant them all manually, but she only needed to tap on a certain button on the system, then the next process would all be entirely handled by the system.

Marissa looked at that land and instantly felt awed. They system was truly so fast. In just about five minutes, there were already many tiny sprouts came out of the fertile soils. She noticed that there was a countdown times on the system, it was '9 days 23 hours, 55 minutes'. Apparently, it was the countdown for the harvest time.

"So fast." Marissa was glad she didn't need to wait for more than a month to be able to harvest the paddies just like the usual times needed when she was on Earth. That was so good!

After made sure that there was nothing wrong, Marissa nodded in satisfaction. She then sifted her mind to the next agenda. She now possessed a set of cooking tools. In order to make money, she had to be fast to use all the equipments. She wasn't that skilled in cooking, even when she was on earth, she only knew how to make some simple dishes, such as cooking instant noodles, fried rice, omelet, fried tempe, sweet spinatch, simple noodle and potatoes soup, or spicy salted fishes. Other than that, she really didn't know how to cook them.

Alright! Let's start with the most simple one! Which one is it? Of course, it's the omelet and instant noodles. So, she bought once again the ingredients on the shop. 1 silver coin for 100 portions of noodles and 20 copper coins for it's simple spices. 500 copper coins for 100 duck eggs. Why duck eggs? Not chicken eggs? Of course, it must be so! And it should be like that! Do you mean she had to buy chicken eggs and eat them later? Do you mean, she, as a chicken species, could possibly capable to just casually eat chicken egg now? It can't be right? It's impossible! Even if her soul was a human, but her form now was of a chicken. She can't possibly be a cannibal and leisurely eat her kind, right?

"Arghhhh! Even if I come back as a human once again in my next life. I don't think I would be able to eat chicken egg anymore." Marissa lamented her fate. When she was still a human on Earth, Marissa actually quite fond of eating chicken egg. But, now? Forger it! She shook her head sadly.

After spending 1 silver and 520 copper coins for the noodles and duck eggs, Marissa was now left with 77,48 silver coins. Sigh, money was sure so fast to be gone!

...

The ingredients now were complete. Let's start to cook! Marissa moved to a certain room inside the underground places. Yes, the kitchen was also located in the underground area.

Marissa prepared all the ingredients and her hand started to move. To be precise, it was her clone who was doing the cook. Although a little stiff, but the moves still flow smoothly. After all, the clone and the real Marissa could share their memories, so whatever Marissa knew, the clone would also know. And whatever in the future the clone would learn or encounter, Marissa's original body would also aware of it, no matter how far apart they were.

Chop! Chop! Chop!

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

Half an hour later, Marissa complete all the cookings. There were five portions of noodles and five portions of omelet now put on the table, shining and shimmering brilliantly as if they could emit some holy light and sparkling stars just like what usually occurred in the anime or dramas. Well, not really! That was too exaggerated. Anyway, even if they weren't as good as what usually showed on the novels or television, what Marissa had cooked now still looked so delicious and alluring with their intoxicated fragrant.

"Ah, so good." Marissa inhaled the air which was full of the noodle's and omelet's fragrant. She then tried first for herself, before bringing the remaining ones upstairs.

...

Marissa brought up the delicacies into the front of the human and spiritual beast at the little shop. The moment she appeared and put the noodles and omelet at the shop. It instantly attracted the attention of the crowd.

"Wow, what's that?"

"So fragrant."

"I'm so hungry now because of those food."

"Such a good delicacy. I really want to try it."

Various comments and gasp could be heard inside the shop. Now that the matter of the curse could be solved temporarily, everyone started to get relax. They also began to swarm the shop to buy coffeés or only to sit and get rest.

"Boss, what are they?" The crowd were curious, so they asked Marissa.

"This one is called noodle, and the other one is omelet." Marissa explained. "Because the portions are limited. I will just auction them. Do you mind?"

"Nooo!"

And so, the noodle and omelet were auctioned inside the little shop. Uh, it seemed that calling it as 'little shop' sounded too humble, recalling that the shop was actually quite huge and spacious with so many doors and rooms? Well, just ignore it. Let's continue to call it little shop. Marissa was too lazy to think of a name for her shop.

The peoples and spiritual beast weren't that enthusiasm to get that food although they felt it interested. But after eight human and beast got that food with one portion for each, it suddenly created quite a big ruckus. The human and beast who didn't get that food and got the chance to try then from the ones who bought them, instantly became addicted and begged for Marissa to make more of them. Even Jaka Tingkir who still stayed at the shop became so shameless to demand for three bowls of noodles.

And so, Marissa taught the members of the Tiger race to make more noodles and omelets. Even so, there were some that couldn't get his or her share, because the amount of noodles and omelets were very limited. This situation instantly create a ruckus and the atmosphere became so lively in an instant. Marissa then tought to buy more ingredients at the system's shop to make more noodles and omelets, but something unexpected happened when she was about to open the system for shopping.

...

Amid the happy and lively moment of eating and demanding for noodles and omelets, there was suddenly a bustling activity outside of the shop. About a hundred or so group of masked-men in complete black attires appeared in front of the shop. After that, they started to walk toward the inside of the shop.

"Brothers, let's finish them all." The leader shouted in a muffled voice as he moved forward toward the shop.

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Who might be the group of masked-men?

A. The warrior from the undying race

B. Private soldiers of the Emperor of Singhasari

C. The hired assassins sent by the Second Elder of the Tiger Tribe

D. Some random bandits

E. A group of hunters who disguised themselves