A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"...Wait, wait a minute. What date?"

"Arbor Day!" The mayor repeated it as a matter of course, "Xiao Fang, I didn't say, why are your ears not working well at such a young age?"

"..."

He should have understood correctly.Arbor Day-is that the festival where everyone promotes caring for trees and working hard to plant trees?

"When it comes to spring, it is the season for all things to grow, it is the season for planting strips, and it is the season for planting trees and flowers! Protecting nature and greening the environment is the responsibility of every townsman. It is even more important to deal with plants like you. Plant more trees and communicate with nature more! Therefore, this year’s Arbor Day, I plan to mobilize the residents of the town to plant trees together!”

The mayor looked passionate and waved his hands exaggeratedly.Zeng Xin quickly opened her arms to help him, fearing that he would accidentally fall due to excitement.

— This is not a joke.Fang Shiqing realized that the mayor really wanted to organize an Arbor Day event.

Planting trees is of course a good thing, but on the one hand, the greening of the town is pretty good, on the other hand... At least before this, he didn't seem to have seen any game that made "Arbor Day".

However, since it is a "festival", there is no harm in participating.

"Cough...you're right, you're right, I'll definitely go. May I ask when the event is and how can I participate?"

In reality, the Arbor Day in our country is of course March 3.But among other things, the game's calendar is fundamentally different from reality; there are only four months in the game, which correspond to the four seasons in reality, called spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

"I said that Xiao Fang must be an enlightened and good young man of the new era," the mayor said with a smile on his face, "Assemble in the square the morning after tomorrow, remember to bring your own shovel and bucket! You don't need to prepare saplings, the town Buy together."

"Okay, okay," Fang Shiqing agreed, "hey, don't stand outside, come in and have a glass of water?"

Zeng Xin's gaze suddenly changed, mixed with what seemed to be substantial resentment.

"No, no." Fortunately, the mayor quickly remembered his work this time, "There are more than 200 households that need to be notified one by one, and there is no time to drink water. Let's go first, keep busy. Come on, work hard, young man, and generate income for our town as soon as possible!"

"Well, I'll see you off."

Fang Shiqing sent the two of them out of the gate of the farm, and when he was about to go back, the old man who happened to run the ranch passed by not far away.The mayor greeted them, and then the two old men simply stood on the side of the road and chatted.

Zeng Xin covered her face and sighed, but there was nothing she could do - as a secretary, she couldn't just go forward and drag her boss away.

"Speaking of which, what exactly is this Arbor Day? Is it a traditional festival in Fengyue Town?" Taking this opportunity, Fang Shiqing asked Zeng Xin.

"It seems that I found the activity documents of previous years in the file pile, and it seems that there is such a thing every year."

Zeng Xin rolled the document in his hand into a roll, and tapped the palm of the other hand.

"But I've also heard that even if an event was held before, it was just a notice posted on the central square, and often only a few people participated. I don't know why the mayor insisted on holding a big one this year, alas."

"The mayor...he really has a passion for work." Fang Shi felt so early in the morning. This mayor Li is really enthusiastic about his work.

"Yes," Zeng Xin sighed again, and complained in a low voice, "how can I put it, the mayor and his wife are very nice people, and they treat me very well, but... from time to time, he thinks of his personality , as a leader, it is too bad. If this is the reality, I will definitely resign if I can't even survive the internship period."

"……Thanks for your hard work."

"Ah, but I think the salary is pretty good," said Zeng Xin, who became happy again, narrowed her eyes and smiled, "1000 yuan a week, 1 yuan a month, and there is a commission for running activities. As long as I Save money well, next month you will have [-] yuan on hand, although half of it is the money you distributed before—"

Fang Shiqing was a little hesitant when it came to the money split last time.In fact, he really wanted to ask Zeng Xin what he really thought about this matter, but he felt unable to speak up.

"Well," he asked tentatively, "about the last time the money was distributed, do you feel that... you were wronged? After all, that, you saved us more than once, and you also put in a lot of effort in the dungeon strategy. "

"Ah?" Zeng Xin looked blank, as if he didn't understand what he was talking about, "Didn't we get the money by taking advantage of you?"

Fang Shiqing has always emphasized before that "the money is earned by everyone working together", this is not a cliché, but his true thoughts.

If there was no one to rescue him in the dungeon, he would have been taken away by the ghost in the mirror long ago.

Without the clues obtained by the teammates, the background of the dungeon could not be resolved successfully.

If it wasn't for You Qingyu, the ghost in the mirror, others might have been attacked more violently.

At the end of the day, it's the result of everyone's hard work.So in his view, equal income is taken for granted.

But to be specific, he was rescued by Zeng Xin about twice, and he received a lot of care from her.In the end, she could only get the same amount of money as others, the so-called not worrying about the few but the unevenness-would she feel unjust because of this?

"What are you talking about?" Zeng Xin's expression became more and more inexplicable, "Didn't you earn all that money? What does it have to do with me? Isn't it to help the poor that you distribute the income to everyone?"

"...No, you don't have to say that about yourself..."

……Fine.

It seems that I think too much.Fang Shiqing was a little embarrassed, but at the same time very happy; at least in the player group, he was not the only one who was stupid and sweet, and there was a sweeter girl here.

*

The mood became much better, and when he said goodbye to the mayor and Zeng Xin and returned to the farm, Fang Shiqing even hummed a rare song.

Ever since the first day he entered the game, he was humming a song while planting radishes, but he was so stupid that he forgot the time and almost caused a tragedy, he never did it again.

Probably a psychological shadow.

He took out the pickaxe again and continued to deal with those large stones.The knocked-out gravel is cleaned up directly, and the usable part is collected in the props column, and finally transported to a corner of the farm for stacking.

When he was in a good mood, the efficiency of doing things was much higher. Before the sun set, he knocked off three more stones.

——Just as the last piece was being removed, something strange happened.

Fang Shiqing swung down the pickaxe, making a crisp sound, and knocked out a hole in the stone.Debris fell down one after another, making a hollow sound——

Under this stone, it turned out to be empty.

There's a hole under the rock!Moreover, it seems to be very deep!

He knocked the whole stone open, and saw a fairly regular circular hole underneath, which was pitch black at first glance.I took a flashlight and took a photo inside, but I could see the bottom. A rough estimate is about four or five meters deep.

The bottom of the cave was actually paved with bricks, and a step extended diagonally downward.Due to the limited angle, it is impossible to see the specific situation of that passage from above.

Is this... a cellar or something?

Will the cellars of ordinary farms be like this?

Fang Shiqing raised his eyes to look at the sky.The sun was already westward, but it was still early, not yet five o'clock in the afternoon.It should be in time.

He quickly took the rope, put one end on the nearby stone, and the other end hung down from the hole, then tucked the flashlight in his belt, and climbed down along the rope.

Four or five meters is not high, less than two floors.This action doesn't look difficult, but in reality, not everyone can do it. With his physical fitness in the game, he can easily complete it.

After landing, he swept around with a flashlight.

The downward steps in front of me are made of stone, not long, but very steep, and the steps are rough.On the whole, it feels like it was temporarily cut out in a tunnel with a steep slope for the convenience of walking.

I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling...

He took a deep breath and stepped up cautiously.

When he reached the bottom of the steps, he almost got out of the passage, his whole body was disheveled.He lighted the flashlight ahead, feeling a little startled.

In front of him was another long and winding tunnel, with several forks in the road ahead.The walls are all made of stone. At first glance, this place looks like an underground labyrinth!

Why is there such a thing under the farm?

At this moment, Fang Shiqing felt as if he had crossed from a simulation business set to an RPG set.

Will there be any special treasure hidden in this hidden maze?

Special—treasure?

He immediately thought of what Xiao Fengdi said not long ago.

"Why was your grandfather able to run the business for thirteen years? ... He must have had a special method that didn't pass on to the next operator. If we can figure it out—"

Could it be a secret related to that hidden here?

Fang Shiqing was a little excited, but he also hesitated whether to move forward.After all, this "dark underground" scene is really scary.

At this moment, something else helped him make a choice——

"Goo, woah... Hehe, hehe."

In the darkness ahead, something shuffled closer while making a sound like a bellows leaking air.

Fang Shiqing was no stranger to this voice.The monster that makes this sound keeps going around his hut every night, and not long ago, he had a close contact with him——

...No.

A half-decomposed face appeared directly opposite the flashlight beam, followed by a second, then a third.

Several zombies came out from a deeper fork in the road.

As if smelling the breath of a living person, they invariably squeezed out low growls from their throats, and stumbled along the passage to his side——

What is there to hesitate about!

Fang Shiqing turned around and ran, climbing up the steep steps with hands and feet.With the slope of the steps, the zombies had no way of climbing up, and could only stumble awkwardly in front of the first step, screaming angrily while stretching out their arms and scratching desperately.

However, he didn't dare to stay longer, and quickly climbed up along the rope outside.After pulling up the rope, a smaller stone was moved to block the hole.

Panting, he sat down on the stone and wiped the sweat from his brow.

The sun was still slanting in the western sky, and it was still daytime.

The situation just now was not very dangerous, but...

Why - here - there are zombies!

Although, how should I put it.Zombie infestation is nothing new in Cool Farm.But now it's broad daylight!Even if the zombies only stay underground, day is day!

Thinking that there might be zombies walking around under his feet, Fang Shiqing felt that his whole body would not get better.

What's going on with these zombies, and what's going on with this suspected underground labyrinth scene?

However, Fang Shiqing is also very clear that this is just a game after all.Games are different from reality; in reality, there must be a cause and an effect, and everything that exists must have a reason, but many things in the game are unreasonable.The reason why this is the case, in the final analysis, is just because the game maker has set it up in this way, and its existence does not need to be logical.

For example, this underground maze might just be an easter egg created by the game system, and the zombies stuffed inside are tools used to make the player's exploration difficult.As for why the maze has brick walls, where did the zombies get in - does it matter?

Therefore, rather than "why does this thing exist", the more worthy of attention should be:

"Since there are a bunch of mobs guarding it, there might be something good in it!"