Farming Games are All About Grinding-Chapter 113 - 112: The Powerful Spider Puppet! (2-in-1, please subscribe)_2

Chapter 113: Chapter 112: The Powerful Spider Puppet! (2-in-1, please subscribe)_2

Born to be a natural driver.

Getting closer, Han Qiwu also saw the system prompt.

[Pet Hunt: Little Prince has returned from foraging, fullness increased by 80]

[Foraging Results: Crab Flowers × 6, Scallop × 1]

[Little Prince, after finishing foraging, feels a great sense of accomplishment and desperately needs praise]

When Han Qiwu first read the system prompt, he didn’t understand—why does it desperately need praise?

After seeing the note, he went back to recheck the foraging results.

Scallop × 1???

Since when did this rascal learn to forage on the beach???

Han Qiwu pulled up Little Prince’s interface to check, and sure enough, there was a new skill in its skill bar called Beach Foraging.

Alright, you little guy, so I’ve been teaching you how to chop wood for so long and you haven’t made any progress, but the moment Little Shui needed scallops you instantly learned how to forage on the beach?

Are you a tube of toothpaste or something? Just squeezing out a little at a time?

Han Qiwu reflected on his teaching methods, concluding that he had been far too gentle with Little Prince.

Strict teachers produce outstanding students!

"Roar!"

Little Prince patted its belly and held up an empty scallop shell, gesturing to Han Qiwu that the scallop had already been eaten by Little Shui.

"Little Prince did a great job! You even learned a new skill today! Here’s some honey as a reward." Han Qiwu said encouragingly, then handed over a small remaining bottle of Gold Star Honey to Little Prince.

"Roar roar roar!"

Little Prince grasped the honey bottle and grinned at Han Qiwu like a fool.

"Whimper whimper whimper!"

Little Shui saw that Little Prince had patted its belly and gotten food, so it quickly lay on Little Prince’s shoulder, patted its own tender, white belly, and looked pitifully at Han Qiwu.

"Hahaha."

Han Qiwu was amused by Little Shui’s antics, so he fed it the small yellow fish in his hand and gently said, "Little Shui, do you see those six chickens over there? They’re also part of the family. You can’t eat or bully them, okay?"

"Whimper!"

Little Shui promptly agreed, holding the small yellow fish with its two paws and enjoying its meal cheerfully.

"You go eat too." Han Qiwu patted Little Prince’s head. "Tomorrow, you’ll have to learn how to chop wood with me."

"Roar!"

Little Prince agreed readily again.

Good attitude, yet consistently unteachable.

After arranging for the two pets, Han Qiwu squatted near the potato field and retrieved a spider puppet from his inventory, placing it carefully beside the potato field.

This thing wasn’t easy to craft—better not slip and break it.

Then he found the newly appeared puppet interface in the system and selected the planting route’s 24 planting plots and the foraging route’s 24 forest plots.

[Note: Enabling all four functions will increase extra energy consumption. Under current no-light conditions, estimated operating time: 6 hours]

Seeing the system prompt, Han Qiwu first disabled the [Fruit Harvesting] function, since he hadn’t instructed it to harvest anything yet.

[Work range selected. Range can be reselected the next day]

[Active functions: Treating diseased plants, collection of pests, collection of scattered tree seeds. Work range selected, no-light conditions, estimated operating time: 8 hours]

After completing the settings, the spider puppet’s eight legs moved rhythmically.

[Self-check completed, no obstacles detected, commencing work]

"Pretty hassle-free." Han Qiwu leaned in to observe the spider puppet’s work closely. He was curious about the three activated functions and wanted to see how the spider puppet completed its tasks.

After finishing its self-check, the spider puppet wandered systematically across the planting route, covering all 24 plots.

[Preliminary inspection complete. Healthy plants: 21, diseased plants: 3]

Following the system prompt, Han Qiwu could now see faint red light shimmering over the three diseased plants.

"There are really diseased ones?" Han Qiwu walked over to examine the conditions of the three affected plants.

They were all potato vines, about as tall as Han Qiwu’s calves, but their growth was clearly in poor shape. The lower leaves showed blackish-brown circular or nearly circular disease spots with concentric rings. On some spots, there was black mold, and a few leaves had dried out and fallen off.

"Early blight disease? Even system crops can get sick?" Han Qiwu said incredulously. He wasn’t unfamiliar with early blight, as it’s a common fungal disease affecting potato plants.

What truly shocked Han Qiwu was that the system’s crops could get sick. When he watered them every day, he hadn’t carefully checked beneath the leaves. Plus, the three potato plants were located in the middle of the field, hidden under layers of green leaves, making them hard to spot.

"Good thing I caught it early; otherwise, the entire field might’ve been ruined." Han Qiwu shook his head in lingering fear. The disease spreads through spores and can wreak havoc in high-temperature conditions after rain, potentially wiping out the entire field.

If this potato field ends up barren, the cow shed is doomed.

Luckily, early blight is common enough that Han Qiwu knew exactly how to deal with it.

Still, he was more curious about what method the spider puppet would use to resolve the issue.

Watching the spider puppet closely, he saw it quickly climb up the potato vine’s diseased leaves and start cutting them off.

During the process, the eight legs carried out their tasks methodically: two legs fixed its body, two legs handled the cuts, while the remaining four legs collected and placed the cut leaves on the ground. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

Once all the infected leaves had been removed, the spider puppet carried them to a distant location for deep burial.

"So efficient! This is such a win." Han Qiwu nodded in satisfaction. For early blight in its initial stages, this method was already enough. The disease’s weak point lies in its inability to thrive with rich soil fertility, so improving the soil would significantly reduce infection rates.

Lesson learned. Next time, he’d pay closer attention when planting potatoes.

This game feels way too realistic.

After finishing its tasks in the planting route, the spider puppet quickly scuttled over to the foraging route’s work plots.

Upon reaching a plot, it climbed up and down a large tree.

Five minutes later, the spider puppet placed two compressed rectangular blocks beneath the tree, before climbing up another.

Curious, Han Qiwu inspected its work products.

[Compressed Wood Pest Block (Small)]

[Uses: Feed/Fertilizer]

[Note: These are spider puppet foraging products. Will disappear if not collected within 48 hours]

[Compressed Tree Seed/Fruit Block (Small)]

[Uses: Feed/Fertilizer]

[Note: These compressed blocks are particularly suited for fertilizer-making. Will disappear if not collected within 48 hours]

"It can even make feed and fertilizer?" Han Qiwu’s eyes welled up with emotion.

This thing is just too darn useful!

I need to gather resources! I must craft more of these!

Give me fifty thousand spider puppets, and I’ll sow the whole world!

As for the collection of these compressed products, Han Qiwu found it simple to manage: opening the puppet interface, he set the [Compressed Wood Pest Block (Small)] collection location to the feed-level outlet in [Plane Trees], directly converting it into feed for the chickens.

As for the [Compressed Tree Seed/Fruit Block (Small)], he set the collection location to the small house door nearby, and he planned to gather it daily for fertilizer-making.

Frankly speaking, the spider puppets’ practical applications far exceeded Han Qiwu’s expectations. Every function was more useful than the last.

The only downside was that their work range was a bit limited.

But that’s not a problem; you just make more!

Like the grape grenade notes say: if one isn’t enough, make two; if two isn’t enough, make five.

After thoroughly figuring out the spider puppet’s functionalities, Han Qiwu felt hunger gnawing at his stomach. Returning to his house, he cooked himself a bowl of plain small yellow fish noodles.

Sigh, can’t even afford pork—just eating some small yellow fish to satisfy my cravings.

Lonely.

Having eaten his fill, Han Qiwu opened "Morning Glory Fairy at My House," planning to read for a while and digest his food before practicing "Rainbow Sunshine."

Five minutes into reading, Han Qiwu frowned.

Ten minutes later, his brows furrowed tighter.

Twenty minutes in, his eyebrows were practically knotted.

Closing the book, Han Qiwu let out a long sigh.

This isn’t "Morning Glory Fairy at My House"—this is the flower fairy version of "The Empresses in the Palace!"

Various flower fairies plotted endlessly against their rivals, attempting elaborate schemes to eliminate opposing fairies.

One poisoned, another scattered thorns—there was even one who lured bees using nectar as hitmen.

"What on earth is Zack thinking?" Han Qiwu sighed, picking the book back up.

The Morning Glory Fairy was about to meet her end—he wanted to see what would happen next.

What if she suddenly "bloomed" and dragged a cow over to crush that chatterbox of a Bindweed Fairy to death?