I am farming in the real world

Chapter 77: Drainage Ditch Planting Method

Due to the early adoption of MC's iron materials for reinforcement, the hull of this 'Iron Man 001' has an unusually high endurance limit.

After speeding across the sea at 68 knots for dozens of seconds, apart from seeing the oncoming waves being split in half by the bow, there wasn't a single problem.

However, as time slowly passed, an ear-piercing screeching sound, similar to fingernails scratching a blackboard, began to emanate from the engine room.

The Iron Buffoon, who was responsible for guarding the engine room, loudly reminded via the intercom: "B-Boss! The drive shaft can't hold on anymore!"

This reminder startled Chen Jue, who was enjoying the thrill of speeding in the boat, causing his bladder to tighten. He immediately turned the mouse wheel downwards, instantly reducing the speed to the normal 12-knot level of a bulk carrier.

Seeing the hull slowly decelerate and stabilize from its previous state of flying and bouncing on the sea surface, Chen Jue then complained with some reluctance: "Damn it! The top speed only lasted for less than a minute, too short!"

...

After experiencing the brief joy of speeding on the sea, Chen Jue had the Iron Buffoons, who had changed into sailor skins, continue to test the hull to see if they could find any other problems during the period.

However, it was also because of this exciting speeding experience that Chen Jue realized that in order to truly achieve the complete form of a 'water dump truck,' he had to purchase high-precision machine tools as soon as possible and use MC materials to replace all the parts of the propulsion device.

"Money, money, money, it's hard to move an inch in this world without money!"

"Even with a system, it's useless without sufficient funds to recharge. The real world is the biggest Earth online pay-to-win game," Chen Jue sighed inwardly.

Leaving the bridge, he came to the deck where the sea breeze was whistling.

Looking at the pitch-black sea and then back at the brightly lit Rui County city, Chen Jue took a deep breath of the cool night air and then jumped down.

When he was about to fall into the dark sea, Chen Jue switched to Steve mode, and the MC [Boat] he was holding was placed in the sea in mid-air.

With a 'plop,' he landed safely in the water. He left the sea trial task to the Iron Buffoons, while he himself rowed back to the Cube Factory.

Using the pre-dug underground track, he took the MC [Minecart] back to the underground farming base in Chen Village.

On the previously dug 4.5 million mu square grid land, there were several busy figures sowing the newly arrived Northeast soybeans into the reclaimed land.

He grabbed a handful of soybeans and looked at the item bar, and a line of subtitles appeared.

[Soybean Seeds: Healthy, artificially cultivated 'Heihe 43' variety soybean seeds, which can produce excellent pods after planting.]

The yellow, round-grained 'soybeans' that ordinary people are familiar with are actually the seeds of soybeans in professional terms.

The real soybean fruit is the unique 'pod' that results after leguminous plants bear fruit.

The cold dishes of salted edamame served to customers in roadside barbecue restaurants and food stalls are made with pods.

A bottle of beer and a plate of edamame, the more you drink on weekends, the better it gets.

Each pod, once opened, usually grows several soybean seeds inside.

"The attributes are not bad!"

"It's good as long as they're not critically ill," Chen Jue glanced at the system's evaluation of these Northeast soybeans.

After quickly emptying his backpack, he began to load soybean seeds with a limit of X64 per group with one click.

After that, Chen Jue joined the Iron Buffoons' team and helped to speed up the soybean planting progress.

This newly opened 4.5 million mu of land is not a joke, converted to a square grid of one square meter in the MC game, it totals 3 billion grids.

Without one-click planting and one-click collection Mod plugins, the initial planting work must be done by hand, which is very slow.

Even if Chen Jue has a bunch of tireless iron golems to help, it will take a long time to carpet-bomb the 100 tons of soybean seeds.

After all, planting soybeans on such a large scale is not as simple as planting vegetables in small batches before.

In the real world, soybean planting basically chooses flat terrain, and then uses large-scale mechanized farming, and will never waste personal power to spend it like this.

Take the largest soybean planter, Lao Mei, for example. Those family farmers in the Midwest use a high-horsepower tractor with a 32-row, 47-row, or even larger 72-row automatic seeder hanging behind their butts, just like dragging an iron rake, planting all the way.

One machine can basically complete 100 mu of planting area in about 1 hour.

Because the planting of soybean seeds is relatively simple, as long as the seeds are buried in the cultivated soil, and then 'boom sprayers' are used for plant protection operations, there will basically be no major problems with dead seedlings.

However, the cultivated land opened up by the MC system is different from the plain cultivated land in reality!

It is a regular 1 meter × 1 meter square grid, and each planting operation only has 1 grid area.

So after sowing tens of thousands of grids in Steve's state, Chen Jue felt a little troublesome and squatted by a ditch irrigated by 'infinite water' to ponder.

"There is no real redstone, so I can't build [Powered Rails] and automatic seeders in the Technology Mod, and I can't even get a block swiping machine."

"Stacking up one grid at a time by quantity is too slow."

"Even if I buy a few large seeders in reality and let the Iron Golems stand on them to push them, the speed will not increase much, and it may even be faster than running and sowing."

Chen Jue slowly analyzed, and took out his notebook to write and draw.

Soon, he grasped the core of the problem and circled the eight characters 'limited manpower' and 'movement speed' heavily in the notebook.

Because according to the game settings in MC, as long as Steve moves fast enough and the player clicks the right mouse button frequently enough, he can plant crop seeds or saplings in the reachable square cultivated land in the shortest time every time he passes a grid.

Although the number of iron golems summoned by Chen Jue is limited, they inherited Steve's basic operations.

Moreover, the hand speed of the iron golems can be called ghost-level, much faster than Steve, and the only thing lacking at the moment is the matching movement speed.

"How to increase the movement speed?"

"Buy a car and throw it here to carry the Iron Buffoons?" Chen Jue's mind was racing.

He looked at the environment of this planting base, and looked at the Chuan-shaped irrigation ditches that run through the entire planting base, Chen Jue's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Drainage ditch?"

"That's right! Drainage ditch!"

"Akina mountain car god's drainage ditch cornering method!"

"How could I forget this!"

Chen Jue slapped his forehead, and suddenly remembered the bulk carrier that was speeding wildly on the sea before.

Since it is possible to create a high-speed bulk carrier in reality by relying on the combination of lithium electric pistons and ship propellers.

According to the same idea, it must not be a problem to build an MC super-speed planting [Boat] that can drive along this 1-grid wide drainage ditch.

So after figuring this out, Chen Jue stopped the 'snail'-like manual operation and took the [Minecart] back to the Cube Factory overnight.

Using the existing materials and machine tools, he carried out a DIY magic modification around the MC wooden [Boat].

First, he used the formula of [Boat] + [Box] to synthesize an MC [Transport Boat] that can balance both carrying people and carrying goods.

Then, he used [Iron Bars] to connect and weld these 2-grid-sized [Transport Boats], and several [Transport Boats] pieced together a joint like a centipede.

Since there is no supporting technology mod module, Chen Jue used industrial technology methods in reality to put it together.

After getting the connection of the hull, he installed a 'strong' and 'fast' power propulsion system at the tail.

Referring to the previous piston design of the 'crank connecting rod mechanism', as well as the power output control of the frequency converter and the power combination of the diesel generator.

The more Chen Jue stayed up late, the more he felt a little overwhelmed, and he spent several hours putting together a scaled-down version of the MC ship propulsion device.

However, this 'scaled-down version' is in quotation marks. The actual volume of this whole device reached an astonishing 20 cubic meters.

Compared with the large engine room of a bulk carrier, it is indeed small enough.

Especially at the bottom of the device, the propeller, which used MC [Iron Block] materials and was roughly and a little unreasonablely hand-made by Chen Jue and the Iron Golems, is less than 1 meter in diameter and can be used just right in a 1-grid drainage ditch.

But after placing this propulsion device on the last of the centipede [Transport Boats], a big-headed monster with a small body and a big head appeared in Chen Jue's sight.

If it were an ordinary small boat in reality, this collapsed volume ratio would definitely capsize the boat.

But the MC [Boat] is different!

This thing has a 100% non-capsizing and forced non-flooding rule setting.

Even if you use it to pad under a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Chen Jue estimates that it is very likely that it can smoothly lift an aircraft carrier weighing 100,000 tons.

It's easy to lift a 30-cubic-meter magic-modified propulsion device!

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Several hours later, a burst of triumphant laughter came from the empty workshop of the Cube Factory.

"Finally got it done."

"Test the effect!"

Chen Jue put this magic-modified 'centipede transport boat' into his backpack, returned to the underground planting base, and threw it into the 1-grid-wide drainage ditch.

What came into view was a centipede that had become a精, just filling the drainage ditch.

Including the abrupt power device hanging behind, it was also steadily lifted out of the water by the [Transport Boat].

Chen Jue was overjoyed when he saw this: "Sixteen to Twenty, those who report the number, come aboard yourselves!"

He called 4 Iron Buffoons to take turns boarding the front grid positions in a staggered manner. Then he instructed them to divide the work left and right, each responsible for one grid, and follow the movement of the 'centipede transport boat' to mechanically sow the square cultivated land on both sides of the drainage ditch.

As for the 【boxes】 on the transport ship, Chen Jue filled them with soybean seeds with a single click.

After checking the hull and finding no problems, Chen Jue pressed the start program and pushed the mouse wheel to the peak speed of 300 knots set by the simple program.

The next second, a creaking sound mixed with a buzzing sound could be heard.

The propeller blades at the rear of the centipede ship began to spin like crazy, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

The high-speed rotating blades stirred up towering sprays of 'infinite water', splashing Chen Jue all over.

The violent propulsion generated by the huge horsepower squeezed the centipede ships linked in front, visibly tightening them.

"Awesome!"

"This centipede ship is even more insane than Iron Man 001!"

Chen Jue wiped the water from his face and excitedly raised the 【iron pickaxe】 to smash the few blocks of stone in front of the ship.

Then, he watched as the centipede transport ship shot out along the canal like a cruise missile launched from a warship.

The astonishing speed made Chen Jue's eyelids twitch wildly, and he rejoiced in his heart: "Good thing I didn't stubbornly get on it! This is not meant for people to ride on!"

As for the iron golems standing in the front ship compartments, each of them trembled, shouting 'Loyalty! Sincerity!' while planting soybean seeds in the grid-like farmland on both sides of the canal at a heaven-defying speed of 103 meters per second.

What's even more detailed is that with the Chuan-shaped irrigation canals as fixed routes, the centipede transport ship, speeding at 300 knots, didn't even need a rudder.

It directly weaved around the S-shaped canal in a serpentine drift, better than the car god of Mount Akina.

It would take less than 25 minutes to sow the entire 1,500 mu planting base on this level.

Calculated in this way, the sowing efficiency of this centipede transport ship is more than 60 times faster than the traditional mechanized operation of a single tractor.

"Woohoo~ Except for the generator consuming a bit of diesel, there are no other problems!" Chen Jue grinned, feeling his heart filled with the sense of accomplishment brought by the modified MC product.

He glanced at the time and found that it was already 6:00 in the morning.

Staying up all night had completely worn him out; it could only be said that this single-player MC game was too fun.

So Chen Jue called dozens of iron golems and asked them to repeat his previous operations, making a few more 'centipede transport ships' to speed up the soybean planting progress.

He himself took out a 【bed】 and fell asleep, snoring loudly.

… …

Meanwhile, far away in Rizhao, Dongshan Province.

At the front desk of a company called 'Golden Grain Oil' located in the Emperor Capital Road Aviation and Trade Building, a middle-aged man with a large nose, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, arrived this morning after it opened for business.

"Little girl, I have an appointment with your company's General Jin to discuss business."

"Has he arrived yet?"

Guaranteed first update~ This chapter is a bit longer.