As Shiki accepted, new text appeared in the blank lower half of the paper.
“Since you’ve accepted, there’s no going back now.
Let me tell you the truth.” “The bus you were on had an accident on your way home.
Everyone on board survived except you.
You were supposed to die normally and start a new life, but I’m short on people right now, so I sent you here.
If you had been sleeping in bed at the time, you would have started a new life without knowing anything, but since you know the truth, I can’t let you go back.” “This small world is made according to the Stardew Valley you’re familiar with.
What I need you to do is develop this small world.
Crops you grow will be purchased by someone who will contact you through the customer service backend on your phone.” “As for the reward, how about a new life and this world?” “For specific information about this world, please scan the QR code below to download the stardew valley app.” The letter ended there.
As the letter said, he still needed to work like an ox for a while, growing crops and providing them to those inquiring through the customer service backend.
Although it was still like going to work, Shiki was quite satisfied.
This was the rural life of his dreams, an idyllic pastoral scene.
As for farming, Stardew Valley might be a bit tough in the early stages, but it would be much easier in the later stages.
He could do whatever he wanted, which was much better than going to that awful job every day.
He took out his phone and scanned the QR code on the letter.
A new app called Stardew Valley appeared on his phone.
The icon was a pixelated Farmhouse.
When he opened it, it showed the character panel from the game.
Upon seeing the health bar and stamina bar, a sense of security washed over him.
As everyone knows, no matter what damage a Stardew Valley farmer takes, they only faint and wake up in bed the next day.
The second page was skills: Farming, Foraging, Fishing, Mining, Combat.
All five were currently at zero.
The max level was also 10, and there were mastery experience bars below them.
Once these five skills reached max level, he could start gaining mastery experience.
Each of the five masteries had its own purpose.
The Villager Friendship page was full of question marks.
Each question mark had unlock conditions behind it.
Some unlock conditions were to plant specific crops, some were to make food, and others required going down a certain number of levels in the Mines.
Shiki roughly looked at it.
The general meaning of unlocking Villagers on this page was that once his farm developed to a certain extent, he would have the chance to attract these people to Stardew Valley.
At that time, the functions provided by the NPCs in the game would also be unlocked.
Otherwise, with just him in the entire world, there would be no seed store, no carpenter, no blacksmith, and he wouldn’t be able to play at all.
Ten minutes later.
“Hmm, I completely understand now.” Shiki made the sound of Wang Laoju, closed his phone, and turned to look at the backpack he had taken out of the box.
Inside the bag were a shrunken watering can, pickaxe, hoe, scythe, and axe.
The five beginner tools could meet all the needs of pioneering, but the tools were all the lowest-grade stone tools.
The backpack was the legendary spatial backpack; items placed inside would shrink and return to their original size when taken out.
The seeds, as expected, were 15 packs of windbreak grass seeds.
What grew from them were European radishes, the first crop a normal player would plant.
However, unlike in the game where one pack of seeds only yielded one crop, in the real world, one pack of seeds was enough for one mu of land.
Shiki turned to open the TV.
In the game, the TV would broadcast the next day’s weather and today’s fortune daily, and every Sunday, he could watch the Queen of Sauce to learn a new recipe.
Shiki had noticed while looking at his phone earlier that ever since he downloaded the stardew valley app, the date on his phone had changed to Spring 1st, and the calendar had become a standard 30 days per month, with 3 months for each of the four seasons.
This was somewhat different from the game, as 28 days per month was a bit hard to understand.
Static~ The TV first showed some static, then a picture appeared.
A green-haired girl stood on the screen.
The background seemed to be inside some temple, with an architectural style that was somewhat familiar yet not quite right.
“Has it started?
Oh, okay.” The girl seemed to be talking to someone off-screen.
After being reminded, she quickly tidied her clothes and showed a sweet smile to the screen.
“Welcome to the Gensokyo Weather Channel, your first choice for weather, news, and entertainment.
Now broadcasting tomorrow’s weather forecast.” “Tomorrow will be clear and beautiful!
It will be sunny and pleasant all day, with clear skies.” Then the TV lost its signal and turned into a static screen…
Shiki was silent.
He wasn’t concerned about tomorrow’s weather.
If his ears weren’t broken…
the girl on TV just now was Sanae Kochiya, right?
And the Gensokyo weather forecast she mentioned…
Shiki opened his phone and clicked on the Villagers tab.
Sure enough, among a bunch of question marks, Sanae Kochiya’s information appeared.
The unlock condition was indeed to watch a weather forecast once.
Sanae Kochiya.
Race: Human, Descendant of a God Ability: Power to Cause Miracles Residence: Moriya Shrine Occupation: Wind Priestess “Hiss…” It really was her.
Shiki tilted his head.
Speaking of which, besides being a corporate slave and a gamer, he was also an old otaku, so he naturally knew Gensokyo very well.
He had even written novels about Gensokyo before, but unfortunately, two out of three flopped, making him an old flop.
“Gensokyo…
then I probably know what these Villager unlock conditions are about.” He flipped through the Villager unlock conditions.
When he didn’t know it was Gensokyo, Shiki found the unlock conditions a bit strange, but now, relating them to Gensokyo, they became much clearer.
This one requiring a Mushroom Feast must be Marisa, this one requiring assets of 100,000 is Reimu, and this one requiring 100 dishes stored at home is Yuyuko.
It makes much more sense now.
“Never mind, it’s almost eight o’clock.
Time to get to work.
Since I promised, I have to work hard for my future leisure life!” Carrying his backpack, he walked out of the house and reappeared under the sun.
The originally eerily quiet Stardew Valley wasn’t so scary anymore.
Compared to his cautiousness when he first got off the bus, after knowing it was Stardew Valley, Shiki felt like he was returning home and wasn’t scared at all.
The composure of an old Villager.
“I won’t play so extremely this time.
I’ve played extreme saves so many times; this time, I’ll play a normal save.” If he were playing an extreme run in the game, on the first day, he would have to clear all the weeds on the farm with a scythe, plant the windbreak grass seeds, then plant the random seeds dropped from clearing weeds, use up almost all his stamina, then go to the southern back mountain to pick wild Spring Onions that only randomly spawn in spring, scour the entire map for spring foraging crops, and on the way, rummage through trash cans in town for food to serve as early-game stamina recovery tools.
But that was in the game, where he just had to press keys.
Now that he had to do it himself…
he was already a bit tired after walking for over half an hour.
Why play so extremely?