Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Li Siwen sat alone on the hill, rubbing his chin and pondering about his plan to create a suitable environment for himself.
It looked like his first step was a success, making use of Old Zhao’s guilty conscience to let him think that Li Siwen had saved his life. But Li Siwen was clear of what the actual situation was. Would Li Siwen have dared to let the Feudal Lord take heavy notice of him?
Basically, he should have gotten rid of Old Zhao’s suspicions by now. If Li Siwen made any more suggestions, Old Zhao wouldn’t think of resisting anymore or suspecting him.
As for letting Old Zhao befriend Song Hu, this was the second step of his plan. Of course, he was unsure whether Song Hu would accept Old Zhao’s apology. But at least this would lessen Song Hu’s dislike of Old Zhao. When Old Zhao made some more contributions and the Lord praised him, Song Hu naturally wouldn’t seek Old Zhao’s problem anymore. After all, his loyalty towards the Feudal Lord was enough to change many things.
As for Sun Tieshi, why would a person like him purposely want to kill a small fellow like Li Siwen? Sun Tieshi was telling Li Siwen off because he saw Li Siwen being lazy, that’s all.
Li Siwen also wouldn’t really target Sun Tieshi. He said this to Old Zhao only because he wanted to get rid of Old Zhao’s suspicion.
For now, as long as there wasn’t any accident, Li Siwen should be safe in the territory. Only by doing this would he be able to hide and develop himself in a very technical manner.
Opening his attribute bar, Li Siwen looked at stamina first. After eating half a fish, his stamina was recovering very steadily, already reaching eight points. Once he ate another fish later, his stamina should reach the maximum of 17 points by evening.
Next, he looked at the yellow orb. The 14 Spirit Points were dazzling inside. Now, he had three options.
First, continue adding them to his Spirit and increase his Spirit Development.
Second, add them to the farming skill.
Third, add them to the woodcutting skill.
That’s right, this woodcutting skill appeared today. The cause might be the number of trees he cut, or maybe it was more of a qualitative improvement. Either way, this skill was automatically generated in his attribute bar.
However, from the description of this level one woodcutting skill, it was as useless as the farming skill.
In theory, Li Siwen should prioritize adding his points to his Spirit to increase his Spirit Development and enhance his Spirit Vision.
But after some thinking, especially now that he was sure that the Feudal Lord’s martial power had increased again, the odds of the territory being in danger and falling apart have dropped even more. Since he wouldn’t be going solo anytime soon and was also unlikely to meet any danger that might threaten his life in the near future, it would be a bit of a waste for now to increase his Spirit Development.
Because Li Siwen was constantly worried about what would happen once winter came.
Without food, what if the low-level farmers would be abandoned? What if he still did not go solo by then? What if the wild beasts in winter became even more ferocious? What if the winter here would be extremely cold? What if some kind of unimaginable danger befalls him?
Impolitely speaking, he planned even further ahead than that boorish Feudal Lord.
Therefore, in such a situation, it was necessary to do some things beneficial to the entire team. For example, suggesting to Old Zhao to build a farm, and to build a dam. From the appearance, these didn’t seem to be related to him, since he would be going solo eventually, so why waste energy on these? Wasn’t cutting trees and collecting Vitality Point every day good enough?
But this wasn’t how one should look at things.
The farmers were dying because of many reasons, but he was still alive time after time, wouldn’t that be very strange?
If Old Zhao didn’t make any contribution and wasn’t valued by the Feudal Lord, and had no authority if he was caught by Sun Tieshi not clearing weeds but instead cutting trees, just a few words from him were enough to send Li Siwen to hell.
Only normal people walk one step and plan one step.
Walking one step but planning three steps was the way Li Siwen lived his life.
And if he wished to survive in this mysterious world and to live very well, he needed to plan at least 10 steps with every step he took.
In actual fact, even so, sometimes he would encounter unimaginable problems that would disrupt his plans. Therefore, he needed to make as many preparations as possible. Leaving behind more escape routes was definitely not a bad thing.
“Then, let’s increase the farming skill first since I am going to kill more fish later.”
Thinking of this, Li Siwen extracted one Spirit Point. But what dazed him next was that when he added it to the farming skill, there wasn’t any change.
Luckily, he reacted very quickly, instantly adding a second point to it. Only then did the farming skill level up by one level.
“Farming Level Two. Description: Ordinary people need three years of diligent farming to obtain this ability. Able to plant common crops proficiently. This skill needs to be accurately released in farmland with a unit area of no more than five acres and no less than one acre, and ensure that the participation from the planting to harvesting of crops reaches 50%. Farmland will increase production by 5%. On this basis, for every 10% increase in participation, farmland production will increase by 5%.”
“Note one: Participation includes deep plowing, sowing, watering, fertilizing, weeding, disinfesting, hilling, and harvesting.”
“Note two: Once this skill is released, it cannot be changed. If the participation rate is less than 50% or the farmland is destroyed by uncontrollable forces, the release of this skill will fail, and it needs a cooldown of one month before it can be used again.”
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“What the heck, that’s awesome?”
After reading the description, Li Siwen was surprised. But considering it carefully, he felt that something was wrong. Because even using no special skill, for a normal wheat field, if he had cleared the weeds, did hilling, watered the wheat field, and completed all the other aspects, it might be possible to increase the production by not just 5%, but even 10%.
Therefore, this skill wasn’t able to digitalize the operation of the farmland, but to monitor the operation digitally. To be specific, it meant that he still had to do the work. There didn’t exist such a thing as casting a spell on the farmland and let it grow by itself.
Li Siwen continued to level it up. This time, he was experienced. He directly added four points to the farming skill. As expected, he guessed wrongly again. In the end, he had no choice but to add another four points to make it level up. It wasn’t played by the books at all.
But upon reaching level three, the farming skill became rather luxurious.
“Farming Level Three. Description: Ordinary people need ten years of diligent farming to obtain this ability. Able to plant common crops excellently and also plant some common herbs.”
“This skill needs to be accurately released in farmland with a unit area of up to ten acres and at least one acre, and ensure that the participation from crop planting to harvesting reaches 50%, then the farmland per unit area will increase by 15%. On this basis, for every 5% increase in participation, farmland production will increase by 5%.”
“Note: If the participation rate reaches 80%, when harvesting the farmland, in addition to obtaining sufficient food crops with increased production, also obtain Vitality Points per acre, which are 10 points per acre of farmland. On this basis, for every 1% increase in participation, obtain one extra Vitality Point.”