LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 1: Sandbox Game · Home
“On the three thousand six hundred and fiftieth day, it has been ten years. As a transmigrator, I can understand becoming an NPC in the game, even if it’s not an NPC but a player, it’s normal. But why does the game I transmigrated into look like an unfinished product?”
Chen Xiyi first glanced at the time recorded in his player log, accurately documenting all the various matters from his transmigration until now.
As for why he self-summarized aloud this time, it was naturally to prevent his language abilities from deteriorating due to prolonged lack of communication with others.
“Sometimes I don’t even know if I am human or a game player. If I say I am human, I have all the abilities a game player should have. I don’t even need to eat.”
As he spoke, Chen Xiyi used a food item in his inventory, and his satiety immediately increased.
[If I were to say I am a game player, but I am also like a person, many things I have to do myself.]
[This is probably what is called semi-data.]
This time, Chen Xiyi didn’t speak, but bubbles appeared above his head. Yes, he could not only speak but also type, and after sending it out, the text could float above his head.
Turning out of the door, he saw the mailbox at the entrance. This thing could send mail, although he didn’t know how to use it, as he was currently alone.
The game world he transmigrated into was not large, probably only around ten thousand square meters. It looked vast, but in reality, it wasn’t that big. He had planned it countless times over the past ten years to become what it was now.
For example, the wooden house he currently lived in was located at the core of the game world. To the left was a nearly two thousand square meters farm for growing various crops, while to the right was a similar-sized pasture, providing Chen Xiyi with various meats, hides, and other items.
Behind the wooden house was a two thousand square meters pond, with the remaining four thousand square meters containing various woods, minerals, and other resources.
“But games have their benefits. Who would have thought that after taking a nap, all the crops would be ripe?” Chen Xiyi stood at the edge of the farm, and a progress bar named “Harvesting” appeared in front of him.
When the progress bar finished, all the mature crops in the entire farm instantly disintegrated, turning into cute icons suspended in mid-air – crop items, seeds, by-products, all of which were sucked into Chen Xiyi’s body.
As a sandbox game player, auto-looting items was quite normal, right? Even though the radius was only about ten meters, he had to walk around to collect everything.
“The harvest is not bad.” Chen Xiyi sighed, then used a single command to plow the field before reseeding the harvested crop seeds.
Of course, instead of planting one by one, there was a progress bar named “Planting” after selecting the seeds.
After the completion of the progress bar, rows of plant seedlings appeared in the previously empty field. Chen Xiyi then took out a bucket of water, golden compost, etc. for the next steps.
[You irrigate the farmland, consuming: 200 units of water]
[You fertilize the farmland, consuming: 50 units of golden compost, increasing this crop’s yield by 1-100%]
[You weed the farmland, obtaining 50 units of weeds]
After finishing these tasks, Chen Xiyi turned and headed to the neighboring pasture, which was quite different from the farm. Each animal here was originally a wild animal in this world, domesticated to become livestock and pets. Of course, the domestication process was also dependent on a progress bar.
However, this unfinished game doesn’t explain that all the rules are gradually figured out by him.
“Let me see, not bad, let’s collect them all.”
【You obtained: 2 cows】
【You obtained: 5 calves】
【You obtained: 10 chickens】
【You obtained: 7 eggs】
【You obtained: 15 chicklings】
Looking at the full stack of animal and plant icons in the inventory, although it feels unscientific, one gets used to it after seeing it for a long time.
“After finishing up, I’ll have a proper meal of tomato beef rice bowl. I have to say, the things made by progress bars are delicious.”
While Chen Xiyi was complaining, he was cleaning the pasture. The farmland needed to be plowed, so the pasture naturally needed to be cleaned.
【You cleaned the pasture, and obtained: 100 units of manure】
Manure is a good thing. Chen Xiyi uses it to make fertilizer, which can increase crop yields.
After cleaning the manure, he put all the animal cubs into the farm. By tomorrow, all the animals will mature and even reproduce offspring. He didn’t put them all in because he couldn’t afford to raise too many.
Just like planting, breeding also requires various supplies, such as feed, clean water, etc. With more animals, the consumption naturally increases.
【You put into the feed machine: 20 units of grass, 20 units of wheat, 20 units of soybeans, 20 units of meat, 20 units of fish】
【You obtained: 200 units of premium feed, 100 units of coarse feed】
【You put in the food trough: 200 units of premium feed, 100 units of coarse feed, enough for the animals in the pasture to consume for 26 hours】
【You put in the water trough: 300 units of water, enough for the animals in the pasture to consume for 26 hours】
Today’s harvest is enough for Chen Xiyi to eat well for several months, but he is still tirelessly doing all this.
“Now I should go to the forest area. The trees I cut down yesterday and some other plants I plucked should have grown back.”
“After clearing out the resources in the forest area, I’ll go fishing after dinner. I don’t know what I can catch today. I’ll see if I can catch a shark.”
“Then make a bowl of fish fin rice, but it is said that shark meat is a taste that is hard to describe. If I really catch it, I’ll keep the fins and use the rest as feed.”
“But I remember my place is near the freshwater lake, right?”
“No, wait, I’ve caught ribbon fish before, that’s a deep-sea fish. Maybe the developer of this unfinished game lacks common sense.”
Chen Xiyi couldn’t help but complain again.
Arriving at the forest area, he looked at the giant trees that had grown back and watched the progress bar of the tree felling.
Then the giant tree disintegrated instantly, turning into a large number of materials that were absorbed into Chen Xiyi’s body.
【You felled a tree: You obtained 5 wood, 1 resin, 1 leaf】
“Wait, what’s this, why is there a red dot at my door?”
In the middle of cutting trees, Chen Xiyi suddenly discovered a red dot appearing at his place on the player map, and it was constantly blinking. This made him quite curious because even after ten years, this was the first time he had encountered such a thing, but it seemed a bit different from what Chen Xiyi had expected.