I am farming in the real world

Chapter 44: A Higher Pursuit

“What have you realized?”

“If you can't explain it clearly…”

Seeing this, Chen Jue's forehead creased into a tic-tac-toe pattern, and he silently pulled out his mosaic [Iron Sword].

For a student who had suffered through six years of elementary school, six years of junior and senior high school, and four years of university, tormented to death by countless textbook knowledge…

Seeing this cheap-looking villager so easily master the knowledge he had spent more than a decade learning, Chen Jue couldn't resist the urge to chop him a few times to vent his anger.

“Don't!”

“Boss! Loyalty!”

“I have realized some of the operating logic of the world you are in, Boss.”

Villager Chen Shang, probably frightened by the great sword, raised his hands in surrender and explained with a bit of a sob: “The world is bustling, all for profit. The world is hustling, all for gain.”

“In your world, Boss, emeralds… or rather, ‘money’ can solve 99% of the problems! The remaining problems are usually because there isn't enough money.”

Chen Jue rolled his eyes upon hearing this and smacked him on the head with the [Iron Sword]: “Money isn't everything, but without money, nothing can be done. Do I need you to teach me such a simple truth?”

This frivolous action almost made Chen Shang pee his pants, and he continued to explain, crying: “Boss, the difficulty you are currently facing is the inability to quickly, rationally, and on a large scale bring MC products before the world.”

“Because the existence of MC violates the basic values of this world.”

“As the saying goes, knowledge gained on paper is shallow. I plan to follow you, Boss, and carefully examine the environment of this world, so that I can better advise you on solving this problem.”

Chen Shang shrank his neck and whispered, afraid of being hit by the sword again.

“Practice yields true knowledge?”

“I guess you're a little useful. Follow me as a errand-running assistant for now.” Chen Jue's expression improved upon hearing this.

Seeing the great sword withdrawn from above his head, Chen Shang weakly made a small request: “Um, Boss… can you prepare some more [Bookshelves] from this world? Especially works related to business and economics, they would be of great help to my knowledge growth!”

Seeing his cheap and flattering appearance, Chen Jue suddenly smiled: “How did I end up with a character like you? Fine! I'll buy you some new books to craft [Bookshelves] when I have time.”

…

After spending some time understanding the behavior and logic of this [Villager Chen Shang], Chen Jue began to inspect his underground base.

The pits in the 105 vegetable plots had been leveled, but the bulk Shanghai Green seeds ordered online had not yet arrived, so they were temporarily vacant.

Chen Jue relied on leaps of faith, jumping down the well to the 10,000-block deep pool he had dug in advance.

Climbing up and down normally was too time-consuming. Even with ‘Steve’ status's movement speed of more than 5 blocks per second, it would take 33 minutes to climb this 10,000-meter underground.

So Chen Jue had several Iron Golems dig a pool underground. At first, he had them try jumping into a shorter pool, and then gradually expanded it to a 10,000-meter high pool.

Seeing that no matter how he jumped, he didn't trigger the server prompt of [Died from Falling from a High Place], Chen Jue was relieved and boldly followed, jumping a few times from shallow to deep.

After trying this leap of faith a few more times, even the symptoms of acrophobia and weak legs were cured!

When he went underground to check the construction progress of the subway tunnel, he found that it was only a dozen kilometers away from connecting to Wencheng Pingtou Village, Chen Jue's thoughts began to stir.

You must know that after achieving debt freedom.

His thoughts on starting a business to make money had once wavered a bit, and he wanted to learn from those lazy UP masters and lie down.

After all, after being strangled by debt for a long time, ordinary people would definitely want to go out and let themselves go for a while after suddenly becoming rich overnight.

Either eat and drink extravagantly, get massages, or buy a good car and take a few pretty girls or good buddies out for a ride or travel.

This is the release of desires under heavy pressure, which is human nature.

But after hearing Huang Ruomeng's sentence “Do what you like to do,” Chen Jue seemed to have achieved enlightenment in Longchang!

He realized that he could use the MC system to do things that he had never dared to think too deeply about in his childhood dreams.

For example: build a ladder to the sky and climb to outer space to see the scenery of the earth.

Land on the moon and grow fields and build bases on the moon! Let all Chinese people eat green, healthy, safe, and free food.

He can even use MC blocks to build a spaceship for himself, rush out of the solar system, move towards the sea of stars, and conquer the entire universe.

In short, the MC system has infinite possibilities and can help him realize these huge fantasies that he didn't dare to think about as a child.

Of course, as Chen Shang said, the existence of MC is destined to be incompatible with the values of the real world.

If he wants to eliminate this ‘gap’ and prevent the world from shouting and killing him, this cheater, and wanting to dissect and study him at every turn.

Chen Jue still has to accumulate a certain amount of power, or earn more reasonable money, to build layers of golden body personas for himself in the real world.

Just like Elon Musk in the United States, he was originally a young rich man who started his business by selling software. Even the Tesla car brand was not originally established by him.

However, after the media's hype and Musk's continuous investment and layout, building rockets and electric cars, people all over the world mistakenly thought that he was a technology open source大佬 similar to Iron Man in Marvel.

Thinking that it would be exceptionally reasonable for this person to achieve landing on the moon and landing on Mars one day.

Chen Jue also plans to create a similar technology open source大佬 persona for himself, using the layer of “technology” to put a reasonable coat on MC's creations.

Of course, if you want to achieve this in the real world, money is indispensable.

“As long as the conflict of worldviews is resolved and the step of creating a technology大佬 persona is achieved. Then, in the future, even if the entire underground base is moved to the ground, it will not be a problem to build MC wonders on the surface of the earth!” Chen Jue's mind opened up.

After getting ashore, he lost interest in simply making money to improve his material life.

Just like the ancient peasants would imagine whether the emperor also used a golden hoe to cultivate the land.

He plans to get rid of low-level tastes, realize higher life ideals and values, and do what he wants to do.

…

With higher pursuits, Chen Jue flipped through the old books given by his grandfather overnight, making his beliefs even firmer, and had a clear direction for what he was going to do next.

After surveying the progress of the underground tunnel with Chen Shang, the lackey, he climbed up to Pit No. 1, comfortably took a bath, and went [to bed] to sleep.

When he woke up early the next morning and slept until the sun was high, Chen Jue climbed out of the underground base with vigor.

He glanced at the messages he received on his phone. Wu Lao San sent a few voice messages in the early hours of the morning, along with real-time photos of the wholesale and retail prices of Shanghai Green in the vegetable basket.

After a day of price fluctuations, the wholesale price of Shanghai Green had fallen from 7.58 yuan/jin back to 3.2 yuan/jin.

Even the retail price has dropped all the way from the peak of 10 yuan/jin back to the normal 5 yuan/jin.

“Brother Chen, it's a good thing you sold all the vegetables yesterday.”

“The price really changes every half day. Farmers from other places, especially Shandong, have come to our Jiangsu and Zhejiang to dump their goods.” Wu Lao San laughed in WeChat.

Listening to his tone, it seemed that he had made a lot of money yesterday.

Of course, this short-term, small-scale price fluctuation, although it will not last long, has also affected netizens in big cities to a certain extent.

When Chen Jue went out to eat breakfast and brushed Douyin's hot searches, he saw netizens in Hangzhou and Shanghai complaining that the price of Shanghai Green in supermarkets had risen too sharply, and they were shouting: “If wages don't rise again! We can't even afford vegetables! (Crying and collapsing)”

They also attached yesterday's supermarket shopping receipts, which caused various explosions in the comment area.

“Damn! Is this the price level of first-tier big cities? Shanghai Green sells for 10 yuan a pound? (Staring)”

“May I ask if it's too late for me to go back to farm now (covering face)”

“It's too late, the price has already been cut in half this morning (laughing and crying)”

Seeing this, Chen Jue also smiled slightly with a deep sense of accomplishment: “These days, there are really a lot of people who want to go back to the countryside to farm!”

…

After eating breakfast, Chen Jue took Chen Shang, the lackey, to Huancheng East Road in Wenshi.

This is a well-known jewelry street in Wenshi. You can buy everything from expensive jade jewelry to affordable gold and silver jewelry.

The purpose of coming here is also to see if there are any real-world substitutes that satisfy MC [Emeralds].

After all, although Chen Shang, the lackey, looks cheap, the MC rare items he sells in his own trading system are really very attractive.

Not to mention anything else, Chen Jue wanted to exchange a few sets of [Bedrock] displayed on the transaction bar to use for self-defense.

If he could get a modified version of [Bedrock Armor] from the adventure MOD Titan creatures to wear on his body, even if he put his face on a nuclear bomb and jumped into the earth's core magma to take a bath, he wouldn't be afraid.

“Handsome guy, is there anything you want to see?” The female counter clerk at Xinlong Jewelry greeted Chen Jue enthusiastically when she saw him bringing someone in.

Chen Jue said: “I plan to customize a necklace and I'm missing a main stone. I came in to see your colored gemstones, preferably green ones.”

Because just now while shopping, he found that Xinlong Jewelry's store was the largest and looked the most powerful, and it advertised ‘colored gemstones’.

"It just so happens that our store has a new batch of emeralds! We have lab-grown ones, as well as natural gemstones from Colombia and Zambia," the saleswoman said, immediately leading Chen Jue and his companion to a counter inside.

She put on gloves and skillfully took out two boxes of emeralds from the display case.

The box on the left contained natural emeralds, priced at 5,000 yuan per carat. Although the emeralds inside looked exquisitely cut, a closer look under a magnifying glass revealed many bubbles and flaws.

The lab-grown emeralds in the box on the right looked much more refined, like they were cut from beer bottles, transparent and sparkling, and the price wasn't expensive, only 300 yuan per carat.

"What do you think?" Chen Jue turned to ask the lackey behind him.

Chen Shang's face showed a hint of disgust, and he whispered in his ear, "Boss! Doesn't look good!"

"Handsome, these are the best emeralds we have here."

"If you can't find anything you like here, you can take a look at the Sri Lankan sapphires over here! Sapphires are also very beautiful for making necklaces," the saleswoman said, assuming that Chen Jue had brought someone knowledgeable with him, and continued to promote her wares.

After all, it was summer, and all industries were experiencing a slow season.

It was rare to encounter a customer who came to the door, so she had to work hard to close a deal.

After listening to the lackey's hint, Chen Jue sighed inwardly, knowing that the emeralds in the real world probably couldn't replace the [Emerald] in MC.

He had no choice but to pretend to look at other gemstones, and finally used the excuse that his elders wouldn't be satisfied to get up and leave.

However, just as he turned to leave, Chen Shang, who had been looking around Xinlong Jewelry, studying the real-world jewelry market, suddenly stiffened. His whole body was like a magnet, and his hands and feet involuntarily walked slowly to a delicate display case in the middle of the jewelry store, surrounded by layers of glass, and pointed to a pendant inside, saying, "Boss! This one! This one is good!"

As soon as Chen Jue heard that there was hope, he immediately leaned over to take a look. An imperial green jade "no-thing"牌 (無事牌) pendant, priced at 18.88 million, came into his view.

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