Clearing Land and Planting Crops

After scrolling a few more pages in the forum section, he finally spotted some useful posts.

"The Black Bear Beast on the outskirts of northern Rong City, a Second-Order Early Stage beast, is extremely powerful. If you don't have a Second-Order Mid Stage Cultivator leading the team, it's best not to provoke it. Our team ran into it by accident this morning. After a brief skirmish, our captain, who's at Second-Order Early Stage, was severely injured covering our retreat."

"On the outskirts of western Rong City, about five kilometers from Two Immortals Bridge, our team encountered a pack of Forest Wolves of unknown number. There were fifteen Forest Wolves in total. The strongest alpha was at First-Order High Stage, while the rest were mostly at First-Order Mid Stage. We killed all the Forest Wolves except for the alpha, which escaped, at the cost of minor injuries to our team."

After half an hour of browsing the forum, Lin Li exited the app. The most immediate impression he got from this scroll was that hunting beasts in the wild was extremely dangerous, and injuries were all too common.

Moreover, reading through so many posts, he noticed that everyone who posted had joined a Beast Hunter team; not a single one was a solo operative.

Because of his golden finger, Lin Li needed beast flesh that was fresh within an hour, so he simply couldn't join any other Beast Hunter teams.

If it was just about making money, he could temporarily join one of those teams to hunt beasts together.

"Ah..." Lin Li scratched his head in frustration. "I'll try going solo tomorrow first. If that doesn't work, I'll think of another plan... I'm a bit hungry. Let me cook a bowl of Egg and Shredded Pork Noodles to fill my stomach."

He picked up his phone to check the time—it was already 11:30 AM. Lin Li got up and walked into the kitchen to start cooking noodles.

At 3:00 PM.

A figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the Mysterious Small Island.

This figure had a damp towel draped around his neck, held a hoe in his left hand, and a plastic bucket in his right. Inside the bucket were a small red plastic bag and a ceramic water cup.

With plenty of time left before tomorrow's beast-hunting trip, Lin Li, who had nothing to do at home after his afternoon nap, decided to come to this Mysterious Small Island to try planting some vegetables and see if they could grow here.

Although Lin Li had never farmed before, he'd at least seen it done—wasn't that enough?

Besides, with the internet being so advanced, he could just search for farming tutorials on video sites. Even if he couldn't become a seasoned farmer overnight, he could still copy what he saw and not mess it up too badly.

Setting the plastic bucket on the grass, Lin Li hoisted the hoe he'd bought for fifteen bucks and picked the northeastern corner of the Mysterious Small Island to start tilling the land.

"Heave-ho..."

"Heave-ho..."

"Heave-ho..."

Having carefully studied videos of experienced farmers, Lin Li's tilling posture looked pretty decent.

He bent over, swung the hoe, cleared the weeds, and loosened the soil.

Although the temperature in this space where the Mysterious Small Island was located was pleasant—neither hot nor cold—the physical labor of swinging the hoe made it impossible not to break a sweat.

After about ten minutes of tilling, Lin Li was drenched in sweat. He used the damp towel hanging around his neck to wipe the sweat off his forehead.

Even though he'd carefully watched experienced farmers' videos beforehand, actually doing it turned out to be much harder than he'd imagined when watching.

He'd originally planned to till fifty square meters of farmland in half an hour, but in reality, it took him over an hour to finish that much.

"Man, I didn't expect tilling such a small patch of land to be this exhausting." After finishing the farmland, Lin Li wiped his face with the damp towel and then knocked on his sore lower back with his hand.

Still, tired as he was, looking at the farmland he'd tilled with his own hands, a happy smile spread across Lin Li's face.

With the land ready, the next step was to plant the vegetable seeds.

Lin Li walked over to the plastic bucket at the edge of the island. He first took out his ceramic water cup, crouched down, filled it with water, and chugged it all down in one go.

"Ah, refreshing..." Drinking a big cup of water after hard work felt great.

He set the cup on the grass, took the red plastic bag from the bucket, and pulled out a pack of Radish Seeds.

Then, he filled the bucket with a little water, held the seeds in his left hand, and carried the bucket in his right, heading toward the farmland he'd tilled.

He poked a hole in the soil with his finger, dropped four or five Radish Seeds into it, and repeated the process.

After half an hour of this, he watered the planted seeds once. Lin Li looked at the farmland with a tender expression.

"Grow, grow—you'd better sprout! Don't make me waste nearly two hours of work."

Having achieved his goal of tilling the land and planting the Radish Seeds, Lin Li used the plastic bucket to fetch some water and watered the Miracle Small Tree at the center of the island.

Then, leaving the cup, bucket, and hoe right on the island, he returned to the real world.

On the quiet, empty Mysterious Small Island, in the farmland Lin Li had tilled.

The Radish Seeds buried in the soil began to sprout just one hour after Lin Li left the island.

The space where the Mysterious Small Island existed had no day or night.

When Lin Li came out after spending over two hours on the island, it was already past 5:00 PM on Blue Star, and the sky outside was dimming.

Because he'd bought that hoe, Lin Li, who originally had only seventy bucks left, now had just fifty-five.

"Sigh... I guess I'll have Egg and Shredded Pork Noodles for dinner again."

Just as Lin Li, who couldn't afford to order takeout anymore, was about to head to the kitchen to cook himself some noodles, his phone rang in his pocket.

"Ring, ring..."

He pulled out his phone and glanced at the caller ID—it was Su Yue.

The moment he saw Su Yue's name on the screen, the image that popped into Lin Li's mind wasn't her alluring face or her generously curved figure, but the mountain of delicious food she had cooked.

Having already eaten Egg and Shredded Pork Noodles for several meals straight since yesterday, Lin Li couldn't help but drool at the thought of Su Yue's cooking.

"Hello..."

"Lin Li, have you had dinner yet?"

"Nope! Have you?"

"I haven't either! I made some dumplings and I'm about to boil them. Do you want to come over and eat?"

Dumplings, I love them... Just as Lin Li was about to say yes, he swallowed the words that had reached his lips.

PS: Thanks to "08a" for the 100-point tip.