The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 299 - 288: Comfort

Chapter 299: Chapter 288: Comfort

Seeing Manbao’s shocked face, Keke comforted her, "Don’t worry, host, you’re still young."

Manbao calculated the difference between her and the second host and felt deeply disheartened. After hesitating, she asked, "Keke, do you have any younger brothers or sisters?"

Keke realized what she was asking and couldn’t help but laugh and cry as it said, "Yes, there are currently a total of eight hundred and eight subsystems under the main system."

"Do we have the least points?"

Keke paused before replying, "No."

Manbao felt relieved and grew excited, "Keke, rest assured, when I grow up and can go wherever I want, I will definitely dig up lots of plants you’ve never seen before, and catch many animals you’ve never seen."

Keke responded with a laugh.

What Keke didn’t say was that although their group wasn’t the least, they were still at the bottom of the rankings.

Their internal system ranking was determined by the subsystem’s remaining points, and Keke was inherently at a disadvantage.

It was due to an error that Keke had come to this space-time. In the beginning, in order to establish contact with the main system and open this passage, it paid a heavy price.

And at first, it was experiencing negative growth, only starting to have some points income in the past two years.

It seemed somewhat tragic, but from another perspective, its host was very diligent in earning points and didn’t play any games of resistance with it.

As Keke knew, the currently last-ranked system sibling was indeed miserable: its points were negative because its host had bought a large amount of stuff from the mall, causing a stir in the real world. Now, not only was its host in a dangerous situation, but the system itself had also been penalized by the main system for maliciously disrupting reality, resulting in negative points.

If it couldn’t accumulate the points back into the positive before the end of its term, the main system wouldn’t just fail to retrieve it, it would activate the self-destruct mechanism and destroy it.

This was also one of the reasons why Keke decisively chose a host and established ownership after finding itself stranded in this foreign space-time.

Only by accepting a host, as per the source program deep in their chips which harbored goodwill towards humans and the restrictions that came with it, could they protect the human to whom they owed allegiance. They could not destroy themselves until their human naturally died.

Keke looked at the pint-sized host and encouraged her, "Good, you are young now, so the most important thing is to learn enough knowledge. Later, when you can go wherever you want to, you’ll be able to earn a lot of points."

Keke continued, "We have plenty of time."

Manbao nodded vigorously and no longer talked about this matter. Instead, she pulled up the syllabus of the teaching room and clicked on "Orthopedics Basics".

The last teacher reappeared at the podium, looked at Manbao with a faint smile, and continued the lesson.

But Manbao knew he wasn’t looking at her because this was just a recording, not someone like her who was experiencing it in real-time by immersing their consciousness.

She couldn’t contact a second person through the system unless, as Keke mentioned, the forum was successfully established—in that case, she would be able to.

Nevertheless, even though it was a recording, she listened intently and wrote down the questions that arose during the lecture. Once the class was over, she could jot down her queries in the class notes that would pop up.

According to Keke, these questions would be uploaded to the encyclopedia, which would then send them to the teacher’s email. The teacher would eventually answer these questions.

Of course, this model wasn’t exclusive to hosts like Manbao who had purchased access to the teaching room but included all citizens of the alliance. As long as they attended lessons in the encyclopedia, they had the right to ask related questions from the books.

Manbao took out her notes and sat down earnestly on the chair, tilting her little head up to listen to the teacher.

After he finished, Manbao described Zhou SiLang’s injury from today again, along with the questions inspired by the lecture, and wrote them all in the class notes.

She also flipped through the questions she had asked yesterday, and sure enough, they had been answered already.

Unlike the text questions sent by Manbao, the responses were in the form of videos.

Compared to text, Manbao of course preferred watching videos, so she opened them and watched with keen interest, taking note of several very important points.

Manbao busied herself for quite a while and then remembered she hadn’t memorized her textbook. She brought the book into space, read through it twice, closed the book, exited the system with her consciousness, and started reciting with her eyes closed.

After reciting it twice, Manbao felt she had learned it and was increasingly sleepy. She simply gave in to her inner desire and fell asleep.

The sleep was a bit heavy that night, and the next day it was Junior Ms. Qian who roused her, saying, "Even if you have to go up the mountain, don’t come back so late. See, you can’t get up now, can you?"

Manbao nodded with her eyes still closed and decided she should come back earlier today.

However, that plan was abandoned by afternoon. Manbao, who had been running around in the mountains digging up several patches of China root, again returned home in the dark with Zhou SiLang and Zhou Wulang.

Indeed, this time there was an additional Zhou Wulang, assigned specifically as an assistant by Old Zhou.

From what it seemed that day, the assistant was quite helpful, as they found more China root than the day before.

Old Zhou quietly converted the China root laid out on the ground into money and became happy, "Four, how about letting Sixth go up the mountain with you tomorrow?"

"Sure!" Zhou SiLang agreed without hesitation; he would be happy to have another brother help with the work. "Then, Dad, can I skip cutting vegetables tomorrow?"

"No, you cut vegetables in the morning and go up the mountain in the afternoon. Does cutting vegetables affect your mountain work?"

"It does! How can it not? Cutting vegetables in the morning is so tiring that I don’t have much energy in the afternoon."

"You can take a nap at noon, I won’t stop you." Seeing him continue to try to shirk his duties, Old Zhou pointed at him and said, "Think about Manbao, she goes to school early every day and even after school, she still joins you on the mountain."

Zhou SiLang turned to look at Manbao and saw her looking at him with pride and bragging to Old Zhou, "Dad, I even took homework up the mountain today and didn’t waste any time at all."

Old Zhou praised her, "Our Manbao is truly amazing."

Zhou SiLang sighed and looked down—they were digging China root while she was doing her homework on a stool, not wasting a single moment. How could she not be amazing?

Because of her, he still had to carry a stool up the mountain for her. Well, he thought, let Sixth carry it tomorrow; let Five continue to carry the basket.

Thinking this, Zhou SiLang rubbed his waist and resigned himself to his fate, "Alright, I’ll go cut vegetables tomorrow."

Old Zhou was pleased and then turned to Zhou Xi, "Tomorrow you go with Four, keep an eye on him and don’t let him slack off."

Zhou Xi answered with a laugh.

Only then did Old Zhou say to the others, "Eldest, Third, go check the manure pile tomorrow, water it if it needs watering, and aerate it if it needs aerating."

Zhou Dalang and Zhou Sanlang answered together.

"The girls at home, find all our sickles tomorrow, sharpen them well, we will start harvesting in a few days." He added, "Make sure everything else at home is sorted and put away."

Everyone responded in unison.