Suddenly Able to Enter the Game!

(Parallel universe, not the real world, no real place names, real countries exist? Do not self-insert!)

Reality can be a beautiful, gentle girl, allowing you to experience all that is good, or it can be a fat, shrewish woman, crushing you until you can't breathe. It all depends on how much you have in your bank account.

The scorching sun of August made hearts restless.

Youcheng County.

A damn place where the average salary is 3,000-4,000 and the average housing price is 12,000.

In the not-so-large fruit and vegetable store, Qin Lin handed the vegetables in his hand to a middle-aged woman with a smile plastered on his face. "Auntie, here are your vegetables. Welcome back next time."

After seeing the customer off, he looked at a few annoying flies and had to pick up the fly swatter to drive them away.

After a chaotic battle, several bodies were felled.

Qin Lin sat back down at the checkout counter, picked up his phone, and opened a newly released retro game, Story of Seasons.

This was a farming and raising simulation game with a high degree of freedom and not requiring too much skill, perfect for passing the time while minding a shop.

It had been a year since graduation, and he was still a failure. Despite majoring in Tourism Management, he was selling fruits and vegetables. But reality always left people with no choice.

His family had been in the lower class for three generations. A few years ago, his grandfather fell ill, and before he passed away, his father relied on this fruit and vegetable store, working from dawn till dusk to cover his grandfather's medical expenses and family costs.

Heaven seemed to play a cruel joke on their family. After his grandfather passed away, his father, due to long-term exhaustion, was also diagnosed with cancer.

His Mom could barely keep the small fruit and vegetable store afloat. Even after selling their house and borrowing tens of thousands from everyone they knew, they still couldn't save his father.

His Mom's health also suffered from the strain, and her various medical test results weren't good, requiring care.

So, after graduation, even though he had the chance to stay at a large company, he had to return to take care of his Mom and inherit this small fruit and vegetable store, including the family's debts.

If most people started at 0, he was at negative tens of thousands.

There was no fairness in life.

He hadn't thought about looking for opportunities while minding the store, but for a fresh graduate, he lacked not only social experience but also capital.

The income from the store was barely enough to cover expenses and his mother's nutritional needs, plus making monthly debt payments. His account balance was less than 4,500.

He didn't even have the right to go to the hospital for a cold right now.

After all, he couldn't achieve the feat of earning 100,000 a month from a 30-square-meter fruit store on Mouyin, that magical place where the average person was worth 100 million.

Until his Mom's health improved and she no longer needed constant care, he was confined to this small shop, just trying to survive.

He sighed, controlling his game character to walk out of the house. In front of him was a 6-square plot of land planted with watermelons. He had only started the game recently and had only unlocked these 6 plots.

Weeding, watering!

After waiting for a moment, the watermelons on the 6 plots were all prompted as ripe. Time flowed differently in games; watermelons that took months to mature in reality could ripen in over ten hours in the game.

Each plot could produce approximately 15-20 watermelons.

Just as Qin Lin was about to control his game character to harvest the watermelons, his phone suddenly emitted a surge of electricity, instantly paralyzing his entire body.

A short circuit?

Qin Lin instinctively wanted to curse.

This wasn't a Samsung phone; could a short circuit have such power?

"Ding! Special game channel activated, locking onto the game Story of Seasons, please wait..."

"???" Qin Lin patted his head.

Could getting shocked cause hallucinations?

"Ding! Special game channel link successful, linked to the game Story of Seasons, does the host wish to enter for the first time?"

A very surreal image simultaneously appeared in Qin Lin's mind. It was a ranch, with ripe watermelons lying on 6 plots of land.

Was this the game screen for Story of Seasons?

The game character was still standing in front of the watermelon field; it was the character he had controlled just now to harvest the watermelons.

Even more incredible was that with a single thought, the game character stepped forward and picked a watermelon.

Could he play games with his mind?

Next, Qin Lin discovered a special prompt option above the image: "Enter?"

"Yes!"

Qin Lin thought of the previous prompt and found it unbelievable. He tried to make a choice.

A strange pulling sensation occurred, and almost instantly, the scene before his eyes changed.

He was in front of a lush green field of watermelons.

The air also carried a unique, fresh scent of watermelon, and he was holding a watermelon in his hand, seemingly having replaced the game character.

"This isn't a hallucination?" Qin Lin was incredulous. The watermelon in his hand felt incredibly real, and a piece of information floated above it:

[Seedless Watermelon: Quality 1].

[Note: Although not a special variety of watermelon, it was produced by the game, and its deliciousness is the best among ordinary watermelons.

Deliciousness +1, Sweetness +1, Texture +1.]

The fruits grown in this Story of Seasons have quality distinctions. The higher the quality, the more delicious it naturally is, and the higher the selling price.

However, this note is different from the game; it even has attribute bonuses.

Qin Lin put down the watermelon in his hand and picked a few more. Information appeared for each, and every one had the same note: Deliciousness +1, Sweetness +1 attributes.

He looked around again, seeing buildings with windmills, storage rooms, fences...

Everything was the same as in the game's visuals.

The only difference was that the land before him was truly vast, filled with watermelons, not the small grid modules of the game. Even the harvested fruits were represented by numbers.

Moreover, looking at the time on his phone, the game's time flow had returned to normal after he entered.

Then, Qin Lin remembered something and hurriedly looked at the screen in his mind again.

He was afraid he wouldn't be able to return, and his Mom would worry herself to death, right?

But the scene in his mind had changed. It had become the scene in the fruit and vegetable store, and the prompt had changed: "Exit?"

This clearly meant he could enter and exit freely.

Qin Lin silently thought "Exit," and that special pulling sensation appeared again. He returned to the fruit and vegetable store, still holding a watermelon.

To further confirm its authenticity, he grabbed a knife, placed the watermelon on the cutting board, and cut it directly in half. The red flesh was revealed, but not a single seed was visible.

This is a real watermelon!

Qin Lin took another half and cut it into several slices. He picked up a slice and was about to taste it, but he was afraid of any problems, after all, this watermelon's appearance was too incredible.

He walked to the shop entrance and saw a dirty black dog sniffing around a trash can.

This is Market Street, where it's easy to find food, and stray dogs often appear. The authorities catch one, and a new one arrives after some time.

This can only be blamed on the many people who get dogs on impulse without having the conditions to care for them.

Qin Lin directly threw a slice of watermelon over. The black dog immediately pounced on it, pinning the watermelon with its paws. Then, it instinctively looked left and right. Seeing no issues, it quickly lowered its head and began to eat.

After waiting for some time and finding no abnormalities in the black dog, Qin Lin picked up a slice and tasted it himself.

With one bite, Qin Lin's eyes lit up.

He now understood the meaning of the watermelon's note more clearly.

It was incredibly sweet, delicious, and juicy, with extremely high sugar content, and it was very refreshing.

This watermelon was definitely much better than the ones he procured daily.

Was this the effect of the Deliciousness +1, Sweetness +1, Texture +1 attributes?

As someone in this line of work, he naturally understood that watermelons of this quality were rare, with maybe a few appearing out of a hundred. Yet, in the game, every single one was like this.

After finishing one slice of watermelon, Qin Lin still had a craving and picked up a second slice to eat.

Actually, the profit margin for selling watermelons isn't high. Although the price has risen to 2 yuan per jin now, after deducting the farmers' costs, labor, shipping fees, and wholesalers' markups... by the time it reaches a small fruit and vegetable store like his, it's already 1.5 yuan per jin, leaving very little profit.

But what if this watermelon had no cost? Then every sale would be pure profit?

Qin Lin thought of the entire field of watermelons on the ranch, and his eyes shone even brighter.

Assuming one watermelon weighs 10 jin, at 2 yuan per jin, that's 20 yuan. Ten watermelons would be 200 yuan in pure profit.

If he only sold 20 watermelons a day, that would be 12,000 yuan a month, which is more than he earns selling fruits and vegetables for a whole month of hard work.

And in the game, there should be hundreds of watermelons. The key is that the land in the game can be replanted repeatedly, and the watermelons mature in just over 10 hours.

"Woof woof!"

As Qin Lin was thinking, a dog bark sounded in his ear. It was the black dog, squatting at the shop entrance, staring at the melon flesh in his hand.

This dog was clearly getting greedy?

Fortunately, he was in a good mood. He took another slice of watermelon and threw it to the black dog, then pulled down the shop's rolling shutter.

This way, people outside couldn't see what was happening inside.

He then took a basket used for stocking goods and, with a thought, entered the ranch again.

What greeted his eyes was still the ground full of watermelons. Qin Lin didn't hesitate and began putting the watermelons into the basket one by one.

After filling the basket with 15 consecutive watermelons, he grabbed the basket and returned to the shop.

Looking at the full basket of watermelons, Qin Lin's face was filled with excitement.

He was going to get rich.

He looked at the screen in his mind again. The number of watermelons on one grid of land in the game had become 0, and the watermelon vines had withered. The system prompt indicated it could be removed and replanted.

Crops in the game can only be harvested once; unlike in reality, they don't regrow after picking.

Qin Lin looked at the prompt and immediately thought of something. He controlled the game character through the game screen in his mind and proceeded to harvest the watermelons on the other grids.

In an instant, the harvesting on several grids was completed.

Qin Lin entered the game again. Those few plots of land also had no watermelons left, only solitary watermelon vines.

He walked towards the storage room next to the house. Upon opening the door, he saw that it was filled with hundreds of watermelons.

Couldn't I have just brought a basket in and filled it? I was running around for nothing earlier.

There was also an information sign standing in front of the pile of watermelons.

Seedless Watermelon: 90 (Quality 1).

This meant that this pile of watermelons had 90 of them. Judging by their size, they definitely weighed over 10 catties each. This pile alone was worth at least 1700 yuan.

As the thought occurred, Qin Lin returned to the shop, grabbed a basket again, and entered the game. He filled the basket with watermelons.

He also discovered that as long as he touched the basket with his hand and exited the game with a thought, that basket of watermelons would follow him out to the shop.

He spent some time moving all the watermelons out in this manner, filling one corner of the shop.

Including the first basket he brought out, there were a total of 105 watermelons.

After finishing, he looked at his mind again. It had returned to the game screen, and the few plots of land were now just watermelon vines, with a prompt indicating they could be removed and replanted.

He immediately removed the watermelon vines and planted new watermelon seeds.

This way, after more than 10 hours, another batch of watermelons would be ready.

Now, he needed to sell all these watermelons.

Qin Lin opened the shop's roll-up door again. The black dog was lying by the door. It looked up at him, then shifted into a more comfortable position and began licking its paw.

This dog still hasn't left?

He didn't have the time to pay attention to the dog right now. He placed the basket of watermelons he had brought out earlier onto the fruit stand and looked at the price tag displaying 2 yuan per catty.

This was his normal purchase price for selling. However, at this price, his shop only sold a few watermelons each day.

Looking at the watermelons he had brought out from the game, he changed the price to a wholesale price of 1.5 yuan per catty. Since these watermelons cost him nothing, lowering the price would make them sell better.

However, the situation wasn't as he had imagined. Almost the entire afternoon had passed, and he had only sold a few watermelons in total. It wasn't that the watermelons were bad, but rather that among the people who visited his shop, only these few had a need to buy watermelons.

Thinking about it, Qin Lin slapped his forehead. He felt he had been looking for the wrong customers. Since he was already offering a wholesale price of 1.5 yuan per catty, there was no need to sell them one by one in the shop.

He immediately took out his phone and logged into a WeChat group.

This was a group chat for Bosses of fruit and vegetable shops in You City. He didn't know who had initially added him, saying it was for simple solidarity, to understand market prices, and to avoid being ripped off by wholesalers.

Normally, apart from a few people who liked to chat idly, there wasn't much interaction among them.

Opening the group chat, Qin Lin sent a message: "My hometown's Second Granduncle's nephew's uncle's son has grown a batch of seedless watermelons. The melons are sweet and juicy. We are now wholesaling them at 1.5 yuan/jin, with direct delivery to your door. Interested parties are welcome to come and taste."