Chapter 1: The Game's Effects Manifest in Reality!

Chapter 1: The Game's Effects Manifest in Reality!

Early June.

You City.

Lin Zhang arrived early at the barren land his father had leased out. After a look around at the desolate landscape, he entered the simple prefabricated steel house and turned on his father’s work computer, intending to review the plans his father had made for this land before he passed away.

To his surprise, he found a game called "Agricultural Mega Player" on the desktop.

He never imagined his father would have played games.

Curiosity piqued, he clicked on the game and discovered that this was a farming simulation game with high openness and playability.

Players could recruit farm workers at the start, then purchase agricultural goods from the market to begin their operations. These goods could be sold or used to produce related products in factories, and even used in labs to research better crops.

The game was quite intriguing.

However, he wasn’t in the mood to play. Just as he was about to close the game, his mouse started emitting electric currents, causing his whole body to tingle.

Electrical leakage?

But how could a mouse conduct electricity?

Was this a joke?

His hand was completely numb.

Was it true that misfortune always struck the already unfortunate?

Before this year, his life had been quite comfortable. He had graduated and worked for a few years, and his parents had taken care of everything. They had even prepared a dowry for him.

However, after his high school sweetheart was forcibly separated by their parents, he found that no girl he met in college or afterward could match the purity and feeling of that first love. Thus, he never used the dowry.

But this comfortable life came to an abrupt end this year.

Despite completing his tasks and receiving accolades at work, he was unjustly fired.

He thought that with his parents taking out a loan on their house and borrowing money from relatives to lease 2000 acres of land, he could return home to help, giving him a fallback plan.

His father had grand ambitions of becoming a large-scale farmer, but after only developing five acres and planting some vegetables, he suffered a sudden stroke, ending his dreams.

The funds borrowed for the farm and the dowry were all spent, yet his father couldn’t be saved.

His mother, too, had fallen ill from grief and overwork, requiring frequent hospital visits for medication and IV treatments.

Thus, at the age of 26, he was forced to shoulder over a million yuan in debt.

If an ordinary person’s starting point was zero, his was now negative one million!

While he wasn’t legally obligated to repay his father’s debts, he couldn’t bear to let his mother bear the burden. He also didn’t want his father’s spirit to rest uneasily, haunted by the grudges of the living.

Though his relatives hadn’t pressured him for repayment, they would undoubtedly bring it up eventually.

Moreover, it was truly generous of them to lend his father so much money. After all, money doesn’t grow on trees, and he couldn’t ignore their kindness.

Besides, he was still young, with possibilities, and he refused to believe his future was predetermined.

The key was to escape his current predicament. However, with his background in networking, agriculture was far from his expertise, and he lacked the initial capital to develop the land.

So, he considered whether he could transfer the lease for this quarter.

But who would take it, unless at an extremely low price?

Just then, a voice echoed in his mind:

Ding! Special game channel activated, locking onto "Agricultural Mega Player." Game loading and correction in progress...

"???" Lin Zhang patted his head.

Was he hallucinating?

Though ordinary life could spiral into a vicious cycle, he had already suffered enough. He didn’t need any additional stress.

Special debt?

Was he about to have a mental breakdown, turn to mental health?

His life was hard enough; he didn’t need to be driven to the point of mental illness.

Mental health?

Ding! Special game channel linked, "Agricultural Mega Player" activated, a clear barrier. The game’s loading and the moment he saw the game screen, the game’s interface appeared in his mind. The screen was identical to the game’s interface.

However, the other elements were not a game but the real prefabricated steel house he was in, identical to the game’s interface.

The nearby plot of land, the truck he had planned for storing agricultural products, the warehouse his father had built to store the crops, the warehouse, and even the compacted area nearby, planned to build a rural resort, where visitors could experience farm life and pick their own fruits and vegetables, all appeared in the game’s interface in his mind.

All these details appeared in the game’s interface in his mind.

Even the attribute bar in the top-left corner matched his information.

Player Name: Lin Zhang

Level: 1

Upgrade Requirements: 1. 3 workers (0/3) 2. Earn 100,000 profit (0/100,000) 3. Develop 50 acres of farmland (5/50).

Bank Account: 62122614

Balance: 10,052.5 yuan

Agricultural Area: 2000 acres!

Game Buildings: Prefabricated steel house, Warehouse!

Milestone Progress: 0%

The bank account displayed on the interface was his actual bank card, the same account he had used for the farm’s official transactions. The balance was identical, representing his entire savings.

What does this mean? Is this a pay-to-win game? And it's directly linked to his bank account?

The key question is, how does he play this game in his mind? Does he control it with his thoughts?

Faced with this situation, his natural response was to try it out.

So, he tried to think about recruiting an employee, and to his amazement, the game interface indeed opened to the employee recruitment page. He clicked on the option to recruit a regular farmhand.

Currently, he was only at level 1, and the interface only offered the option to recruit a regular farmhand.

But this regular farmhand was no ordinary worker; the note said he was proficient in using all kinds of agricultural machinery!

【Congratulations, you have spent 7,500 yuan to recruit a regular farmhand for a one-month contract. The farmhand is being materialized…】

As the message appeared, the balance in the top-left corner of the screen dropped from 10,052.5 yuan to 2,552.5 yuan!

At the same time, his phone rang with a notification:

"Bank of China card ending in paid 7,500 yuan at 10:30 AM on June 2. Balance: 2,552.50 yuan."

"???" Zhang Lin was momentarily stunned.

Even for a pay-to-win game, this was extreme—directly deducting 7,500 yuan from his real-world bank account?

But the next moment, something even more shocking happened. A human-shaped glow appeared in front of him, and within the glow, a figure began to solidify, clearly dressed as a farmhand.

Even on the table in front of him, a contract slowly materialized.

A moment later, a middle-aged farmhand with sun-tanned skin appeared before him. "Boss, my name is Liu De. It's my first day on the job. What do you need me to do?"

"…" Zhang Lin felt like he was seeing a ghost.

The system's "materialization" meant this? Bringing people to life?

He tried giving Liu De an order: "Go water the vegetables in the field outside!"

"Yes, boss!" Liu De bowed respectfully and stepped out of the prefabricated house.

Zhang Lin was astounded by how incredible this was. He looked at the contract on the table, which was indeed Liu De's employment contract. It even included a copy of his ID card, and the address was from the real world.

He checked and found that it was indeed a real village, though it had been buried by a mudslide a few years ago.

Could the system even fake this level of detail?

He took a photo of the ID card and sent it to his cousin, Zhang Zhao, who was a minor official at the police station, to check it out.

"Xiao Lin, what's up with this person?" Zhang Zhao asked in a message.

Zhang Lin made up a reason: "I'm planning to start farming the land my dad rented and need to hire a worker. This is the ID card copy he sent me. I want to check if he has any criminal record!"

"Got it, I'll look into it!" Zhang Zhao replied. Soon, he sent over a screenshot of the records, which were indeed about Liu De, with a photo that matched the one outside.

The records showed that Liu De had no criminal record, though he was the only one listed in his household.

"Thanks, Brother Zhao!" Zhang Lin replied, marveling at the system's capabilities.

The people he recruited in the game were given real-world identities that could be verified. This was truly impressive!

Next, he thought of something else. The game seemed to allow him to purchase products in bulk. If the people he recruited could materialize in the real world, then the products he purchased should be able to as well, right?

He eagerly started to explore the "Agricultural Mega Player" game.

Opening the market interface, a message popped up.

Current level 1 bulk purchase options:

1. Sweet Peaches (Quality 1), wholesale price: 4 yuan per pound, daily limit: 500 pounds.

Just like in the game, at level 1, he could only purchase one type of product—sweet peaches.

But Zhang Lin immediately noticed something off. In Youcheng, the market price for sweet peaches was 10 yuan per pound, and the wholesale price would never be as low as 4 yuan. Small-town wholesalers wouldn't leave so much profit for retailers.

Sweet peaches usually had a profit margin of about 30%. If they sold for 10 yuan in the market, the wholesale price would be around 7 yuan.

Of course, this was the current situation and could change. Different fruits had different prices and profit margins.

Clearly, the wholesale price of sweet peaches in the game was currently lower than the real-world wholesale price.

If he could get these sweet peaches into the real world and sell them, he could make 6 yuan per pound, and with 500 pounds a day, that would be a profit of 3,000 yuan.

The key was that he had no transportation or other costs.

If this was possible, it was definitely worth pursuing.

He immediately chose to purchase 500 pounds of sweet peaches and waited with bated breath.

【Congratulations, you have spent 2,000 yuan to purchase 500 pounds of Sweet Peaches (Quality 1). The Sweet Peaches (Quality 1) have been materialized and stored in your warehouse. You can check the warehouse for details!】

"Bank of China card ending in paid 2,000 yuan at 10:30 AM on June 2. Balance: 552.50 yuan."

Instantly, the system's voice rang out, and his phone received another bank transaction notification.

Zhang Lin looked at the light screen in his mind, clicked on the warehouse, and sure enough, the information appeared:

Current Stored Items:

1. Sweet Peaches (Quality 1): 500 pounds

Seeing this, he quickly left the prefabricated house and headed to the adjacent warehouse. Opening the door, he saw crates of sweet peaches inside.

(End of Chapter)

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