Dual Use, Villager Breeding

"I trapped that brother in the middle with a hopper. He can't get out, and he can't run away either."

"Even though doing this won't kill him. Even if he stays there for a lifetime, he'll still live just fine!"

"But that doesn't stop the concept of him getting hungry from existing!"

"Even though we can't see that concept, the other villagers can see and feel it!"

"And once they feel that concept, any villager with food will take the initiative to share it with him!"

"But since I deliberately controlled the distance, those eight villagers responsible for farming can't directly reach the one in the middle. So they'll just toss the food over to him!"

"And at that point, the hopper I placed under the middle villager's feet kicks in!"

"Those tossed-out pieces of food never even wait for the middle villager to pick them up before they're sucked away by the hopper below and stored in the chest underneath!"

"And we just need to go to that chest every day at a fixed time to collect the corresponding food!"

"That's the basic logic and principle behind what I call automated farming."

Gu Changge succinctly explained the underlying principle and logic of the Automated Farm to everyone.

After hearing this, they naturally understood the idea immediately.

Dugu Bo, Ye Guanlan, and Mu Qingyu were only filled with surprise and curiosity.

As for Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, since they were younger and at a carefree, innocent age, they first gave a thumbs-up in response to Gu Changge's operation, praising the logic as truly excellent.

Then they expressed sympathy for the trapped villager in the middle.

They felt that keeping it like this forever was a bit unfair to that villager who was always hungry.

So they suggested to Gu Changge: "Can our farm have some competition and rotation? Every month, whichever plot collects the least, we pull one person from it and swap them with the hungry villager?"

Faced with his little girlfriend's suggestion, Gu Changge naturally only indulged her: "Of course we can. If you two like it, I'll leave this task to you from now on. Any villager who dares to slack off, we'll make them go hungry!"

And so, the rotation mechanism based on labor was settled.

As for Gu Changge himself, he thus received kisses from both his little girlfriends.

Even though those two kisses, given right in front of Dugu Bo, Ye Guanlan, and Mu Qingyu, were a bit audacious.

Comrade Old Ye indeed felt his blood pressure spike from watching.

He shouted, daring Gu Changge to not use the authority of the World Master and settle it with real skill on the spot.

Faced with such a challenge, Gu Changge felt that beating up his father-in-law was a bit unsportsmanlike.

But considering Comrade Old Ye's sincere plea, he was willing to give the other party a chance.

Unfortunately, Comrade Old Ye himself wasn't up to the task.

This upside-down challenge had only just been proposed

before his mother-in-law, Mu Qingyu, grabbed him by the ear and dragged him aside to discipline him.

After the disciplining, Comrade Old Ye stopped grinning.

And Gu Changge and the other two stopped grinning too.

Because after returning, Mother-in-law gave the three of them, these unsportsmanlike youngsters, a scolding as well.

"You're all not children anymore, especially you, Changge. You're now the World Master, the true pillar of both our families!"

"At home, as elders, we naturally won't say much to you!"

"But you should show some restraint and mind the occasion!"

"Especially you two, Lingling and Yanyan. As girls, daring to love and hate is a good quality, but cuddling and kissing without regard for the occasion—that's a bit unladylike!"

Faced with Mother-in-law's scolding, Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan both turned into quails, shrinking their necks and obediently taking the reprimand.

As for Gu Changge?

Sorry, in this situation, he was completely useless too.

After all, Mother-in-law's words were reasoned, grounded, and measured.

Even if Gu Changge was the World Master, he still had to obediently take the scolding under these circumstances.

And after Mu Qingyu had suppressed the crooked tendencies of the three juniors, she didn't keep hounding them relentlessly.

Instead, she asked with slight curiosity: "Earlier you said that for farming, one villager would be enough. So why did you put two villagers in each of the four plots?"

The now-docile Gu Changge opened his mouth to explain: "If it's just plain farming, one villager per plot is indeed enough. But the thing is, we don't have enough villagers, do we?"

"So, taking advantage of this Automated Farm's effect, we pair them up two by two. Without affecting the Automated Farm's own operation, we can also add a bit more population on the side!"

Ten villagers in total, plus one nitwit.

Only nine were actually usable.

These villagers definitely needed to keep breeding.

Otherwise, the Iron Farm couldn't even be started.

But since it was about to get dark now.

And they were still in the early stages here.

If they rested for the night, they'd definitely have to return to the Douluo Continent side.

So, following the principle of not wasting anything, they stuffed two villagers into each plot.

If these villagers pulled their weight, maybe by the time they came back tomorrow.

The villagers needed to start the Iron Farm would be enough.

But when his words reached everyone's ears.

They gave them quite a shock.

"These villagers can have babies?"

Dugu Yan said, full of surprise.

"Of course they can!"

Gu Changge laughed: "As long as there's enough food and two villagers exist, they pair up with each other, and naturally, they can give birth to a baby villager!"

Hearing Gu Changge's words, everyone stared at the villagers with intense curiosity.

"But they... you can't even tell their gender!"

Ye Lingling's face was full of question marks.

"Gender isn't needed, and these villagers themselves don't have a specific gender!"

In MC's animations, villagers did have gender distinctions.

And in the early days, besides the male Steve, the MC protagonist also had the female Alex.

But as some versions and time kept iterating, along with an endless stream of skins appearing.

The female character Alex quietly disappeared at some unknown point.

Of course, the main thing was that MC officials had made a clear response on whether villagers had gender.

And the answer to that response was: no.

So, MC villagers naturally didn't have gender distinctions.

"Their breeding mechanism is: as long as they have enough food, two will match with each other, then little red hearts will appear above their heads, and then a baby villager will pop into existence out of thin air!"

Gu Changge explained the villagers' breeding mechanism to everyone as a matter of course.

But Dugu Bo and the others listened with wide eyes and gaping mouths, finding it hard to believe.

No gender needed, just two villagers and they can give birth to a baby villager???

This world was way too absurd.

It was only because over the past two days, they had been shocked by all sorts of non-absurd things and gradually developed an immunity.

Otherwise, the moment this unscientific breeding mechanism came out, they would definitely be shocked into having their worldview collapse all over again.