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"The 3650th day—it's been ten years. As a time traveler, I understand becoming an NPC in a time travel game. Even being a player would make sense, but why does the game I traveled through seem like a half-finished product?"
Chen Xiyi glanced at the time on his player log, which accurately recorded various events from his time travel to the present.
Talking to himself helped prevent his language skills from deteriorating due to the lack of human interaction.
"Sometimes, I don't even know if I'm a human being or a gamer. Let's say I'm a human: I have all the abilities a gamer should have. I don't even need to eat."
As he said this, he used a piece of food from his inventory, and his satiety immediately increased.
[Let's say I'm a game player, but I'm just like a person—I have to do many things myself.]
[This is probably the so-called semi-digitalization.]
This time, Chen Xiyi didn't speak; instead, bubbles appeared above his head. He could not only speak but also type, with messages floating above his head.
Stepping outside, he saw the mailbox by the door. This thing could send emails, although he didn't know how to use it. After all, he was alone now.
The game world he traveled through wasn't very large—only about 10,000 square meters. It looked big but wasn't that spacious. Over the past ten years, he had meticulously planned every detail until it became what it was today.
His wooden house stood at the core of the game world. To the left was a farm covering nearly 2,000 square meters, used to grow various grains, vegetables, and fruits. To the right was a 2,000-square-meter ranch, providing him with meat, fur, and other necessities.
Behind the wooden house was a 2,000-square-meter pool, and the remaining 4,000 square meters were occupied by forests and mineral resources.
"But games have their perks. Who would've thought that all kinds of crops would be ripe when I wake up?" Chen Xiyi stood at the edge of the farm, and a progress bar labeled "collecting" appeared in front of him.
When the progress bar finished, all the mature crops disintegrated into miniature icons of crops, seeds, and by-products, which were then absorbed into his body.
As a sandbox game player, isn't it normal to automatically pick up items?
The radius was only about ten meters, so he had to walk around to pick everything up.
"The harvest is not bad." Chen Xiyi sighed. After tilling the farmland with a single button, he began to replant the harvested seeds.
This wasn't done seed by seed; instead, a progress bar labeled "sowing" appeared after he made his selection.
When the progress bar finished, seedlings appeared in the farmland. Chen Xiyi then took out a bucket of water and other materials, and the process unfolded as follows:
[You water the farmland, consumption: 200 units of water]
[You fertilize the farmland, consumption: 50 units of Jinkela; the crop yield this time increases by 1~100%]
[You weed the farmland and get 50 units of weeds]
After finishing with the farm, he turned to the adjacent pasture. The animals here were once wild but had been domesticated, naturally, through a progress bar.
Having figured out the game's rules himself, he began his daily routine.
"Let me see. Not bad. Let's take it all."
[You get: 2 cows]
[You get: 5 calves]
[You get: 10 chickens]
[You get: 7 eggs]
[You get: 15 chickens]
Despite its unscientific nature, Chen Xiyi had grown accustomed to the inventory system.
"I'll be busy later making tomato and beef rice bowls. The food made with the progress bar is delicious."
He cleaned up the pasture, which, like the farmland, needed maintenance.
[You clear the pasture and get: 100 units of feces]
Manure was useful for making fertilizer, increasing crop production.
After cleaning the feces, he put the animal cubs into the farm. By tomorrow, they would mature and reproduce. He didn't overcrowd the farm to avoid resource depletion.
Just like planting, breeding required various materials such as feed and water.
[You put into the feed-making machine: 20 units of weeds, 20 units of wheat, 20 units of soybeans, 20 units of meat, 20 units of fish.]
[You get: 200 units of concentrated feed, 100 units of roughage]
[You put it in the trough: 200 units of concentrated feed, 100 units of roughage, which can sustain the animals for 26 hours]
[You put it in the sink: 300 units of water, enough for the animals for 26 hours]
Today's harvest was enough to feed Chen Xiyi for several months, but he continued his routine diligently.
"Now I should go to the forest farm. The trees I cut down yesterday and other plants should have grown back."
"After clearing the forest, I'll go fishing. Maybe I'll catch a shark today."
"A bowl of shark's fin rice would be great, though I've heard shark meat isn't very tasty. If I catch one, I'll keep the fins and use the rest for feed."
"But isn't there a freshwater lake behind me?"
"No, I caught a hairtail before. That's a deep-sea fish. Maybe the developer of this semi-finished game lacked common sense."
Chen Xiyi couldn't help but complain again.
At the forest farm, he stood before a giant tree and watched the felling progress bar.
The tree disintegrated into materials and was absorbed into his body.
[You cut down a tree: you get 5 units of wood, 1 unit of resin, and 1 unit of leaves]
"Wait, what's this? Why is there a red dot in front of my house?"
Chen Xiyi, who was chopping down trees, noticed a red dot blinking on his player map. Something seemed different from what he had expected.