Chapter 11: Chapter 011 You do it, I'm leaving
"Little Skeleton, although I don't know if it will still be you next time I summon you, I still have to say thank you for today's work," Wang Hao said softly, gently stroking Little Skeleton's smooth skull.
The growth progress increased by 10%, plus the normal growth progress of wheat, in just one day, Shen Xingyan's wheat growth progress could reach 20%.
However, the accompanying workload was quite commensurate with such growth progress.
The reminders for various maintenance tasks in the field today had become so numerous that Shen Xingyan felt a bit numb.
After all, in reality, if wheat is not interfered with by human factors, it generally takes six or seven months to mature, so the tasks of catching insects, weeding, and irrigating would not be so frequent.
But where Shen Xingyan is now is the world of Star Origin, which is indeed quite different from Blue Star.
Its progress is completely incomparable to the outside world. Just talking about the maturity period of wheat, if no Skill is used, it only takes ten days to mature, and then it can be harvested and sold for money.
The six or seven months compressed into a mere ten days, the heavy maintenance work is completely imaginable, and Shen Xingyan's current situation is that within this already very short period, he has shortened it by a full half.
One can imagine how intense the heavy maintenance work was.
One moment Star Origin would prompt him to catch insects, another moment to pull weeds, and then to irrigate. One prompt after another came in quick succession, showing no sign of stopping.
Every time Shen Xingyan and Little Skeleton finished a maintenance task, Star Origin would prompt that a new daily maintenance task had appeared.
And this series of operations all required them, one person and one skeleton, to handle. Even a fully-valued newcomer like Shen Xingyan felt his stamina drop incredibly fast, which shows how much work there was.
This indeed fulfilled the saying: no pain, no gain.
Fortunately, with the 10 copper coins gifted by Star Origin, Shen Xingyan spent 2 copper coins at Xingyuan Mall to buy two steamed buns, which prevented his stamina from entering the red zone.
It is said that when planting advanced seeds later, fertilization maintenance will also be required, adding another daily maintenance task.
No wonder people say the Farmer is tough; they really weren't wrong.
Shen Xingyan was lucky to have Little Skeleton's help, which allowed him to barely hold on.
Although it was a bit of a struggle, Shen Xingyan did not choose to give up, but continued to diligently complete each of these prompted tasks.
After all, the lessons learned from previous failures constantly reminded Shen Xingyan that if he didn't work, he wouldn't have money, and he would have to continue living a hard life.
There were also two other reasons why Shen Xingyan kept working without ignoring Star Origin's prompts.
Firstly, if he didn't do the prompted tasks for a long time, Star Origin would increase the planting time of the agricultural product, making wheat that originally only needed 10 days to mature potentially take up to a month to ripen.
Secondly, there was the final yield issue. For someone like Shen Xingyan, who could quickly resolve work prompts as soon as they appeared, the final yield would be double the usual, and sometimes even more.
A normal acre of wheat yields approximately 300 to 1000 kilograms, and the final harvest in kilograms depends on the usual workload.
Nearly 12 hours had passed since planting began, during which Shen Xingyan and Little Skeleton only rested occasionally, spending most of the time completing various prompted tasks.
Although Shen Xingyan was a bit tired now, he could still persevere. After all, the more he worked, the greater the yield would be in five days, which is a direct correlation.
However, Shen Xingyan's daily online time had now reached its limit, and he had no choice but to return to the real world.
As a newcomer, Star Origin only allowed him to stay here for 12 hours a day; exceeding that time would result in him being automatically expelled by Star Origin.
There were ways to extend the stay, which included reaching level 20 later or spending money to stay longer.
At this moment, Star Origin had already given Shen Xingyan a warning that he was approaching his time limit, so he reluctantly had to return to reality.
Looking at the Little Skeleton that had accompanied him for over ten hours, Shen Xingyan felt truly reluctant to part, but there was nothing he could do.
He was already extremely fortunate that it hadn't disappeared until now.
This proved that every time he came for a Farmer activity in the future, he would have an obedient, hardworking Little Skeleton accompanying him, and he would always have a superior farming efficiency.
Although he was a bit reluctant, Shen Xingyan had no choice.
"After I leave, you can do as much as you can according to these prompts. A skeleton standing here waiting to disappear sounds quite desolate. It's better to keep working to distract yourself."
After saying these words, Shen Xingyan pondered them carefully and suddenly felt something was off.
He himself sensed the abnormality; his previous statement sounded like those wicked capitalists before the Origin Energy outbreak, saying high-sounding words on the surface, but with the underlying meaning of ruthlessly exploiting "this skeleton employee."
However, considering that skeletons do not have such thoughts and have no physical limitations whatsoever, just like a robot, the inexplicable sense of guilt that Shen Xingyan had just felt immediately vanished.
The reason Shen Xingyan instructed Little Skeleton to continue working according to the prompts after he left was that Star Origin would only notify him of prompts with a reward nature.
But for routine maintenance tasks, Star Origin would humanely display icons above the wheat field as prompts.
Life professionals could see them just by looking up. Only if the corresponding maintenance work was not done for a long time would Star Origin prompt them in their ears and in the information bar.
And Shen Xingyan found that although Little Skeleton's eye sockets were empty, it could still see external things, including these prompt icons.
After Shen Xingyan's guidance, Little Skeleton now understood what it needed to do when a certain icon appeared.
Looking at such an excellent Little Skeleton, Shen Xingyan couldn't help but sigh with emotion. After waving goodbye to Little Skeleton, he found the exit button and clicked it.
In an instant, Shen Xingyan's consciousness returned to the real world.
After Shen Xingyan suddenly disappeared, Little Skeleton also stood Dizzy in place for a long time. Seeing that its master had not returned for a long time,
it turned around and looked at the field where prompt icons had reappeared, then unhesitatingly carried out the last instruction its master had given it: to work according to the icons!