Before the Disasters, My Farming Game Became Reality

[The author is preparing for graduate school exams and has temporarily stopped updating. The paywall will be removed when the time comes.]

[Natural disasters, stockpiling, farming and management, food]

[Updates around 11 p.m., aiming for daily updates; the story moves at a slow pace]

Just as the farming game Zhao Xintao was playing became real, she was told that Blue Star was about to be destroyed.

Heat waves, torrential rain, floods, earthquakes, extreme cold, droughts, pandemics... Disasters came one after another, and the world teetered on the brink of collapse.

Her task was to use the game to survive the disasters.

Unfortunately, Zhao Xintao was just an unremarkable college student, with no special skills apart from being strong.

Luckily, she had chosen multiplayer mode when creating the game. With a family of five, there was bound to be a teammate who could carry her.

Her mother held the purse strings and checked the stock in the warehouse every day: grain, seeds, fresh meat, fruit...

Her father was a great cook, so the family never had to worry about food.

Even her grandparents had unlocked the farming and animal-raising skill trees.

Turns out she's the only one in the family dragging everyone down (T▽T)

While disasters take turns ravaging the real world, Zhao Xintao lounges in a seaside swing, petting cats and teasing dogs, with freshly squeezed juice chilled at her side. For some reason, even though the apocalypse ended long ago, their supplies keep piling up. If they don't use up the fruit soon, there won't be room left in the warehouse!

Reader's guide:

1. A slow-paced farming story about a family gathering supplies and getting through disasters together, both in real life and in the game.

2. They won't turn anything over to the authorities! Her golden finger stays secret! The heroine will save people, but she isn't a saint and cares more about her family!

3. I love writing food scenes. A slice-of-life story needs plenty of eating and drinking.

4. The plot is split roughly evenly between the game world and the real world.

5. A fictional world. Don't compare it to reality!

Feel free to bookmark my upcoming work, Becoming an Intern Planner for Earth Online

[Spiritual qi revival, mastermind behind the scenes, a protagonist who loves mischief]

Blurb:

On his twentieth birthday, Xu Zhou's adolescent delusions flared up again. He made a wish over the candles:

"If there really is a god, please grant me the power to change the world!"

God heard him.

It said, "Granted."

That very night, Xu Zhou received an offer and became an intern planner and beta tester for the game Earth Online.

After that, people began to notice changes in the world.

At first, the dark alleys from urban legends became real, a woman who had jumped to her death came back weeping blood, bats flocked toward an ancient castle in the forest, and on nights with a full moon, wolves began to howl...

Later, ancient legends began to return:

--A barefoot ascetic in black robes, carrying thorny branches on his back, atoned for an unknown sin on a silent earth. In an ancient, weather-beaten temple, a shaman danced a bizarre and lavish dance atop an altar. Golden-red bubbles burst inside test tubes, and a fanatical alchemist unlocked the secrets of the bloodline.

--An old Taoist priest in plain clothes and a bamboo hat awoke from meditation, his cloudy eyes fixed on a murky earth. A ghost bride in a blood-red wedding dress combed her hair before a mirror, her icy jewels gleaming with a gloomy light beneath the red candles. A swordsman in a loose green robe sheathed his sword, with a strange monster cut apart by sword energy behind him.

At last, the unknowable sang the songs of the stars to celebrate the birth of a new god.

Xu Zhou, newly promoted to lead planner for Earth Online: "What does the new god Xu Zhou have to do with me, the game planner Xu Zhou?"

Theme: Having your loved ones by your side is worth more than anything in the world.