Chapter 36
Xie Xingchen: Holy shit—was that my rabbit?!
Feifei, did you go travel to the moon? Does that make any sense? Since when can rabbits fly?!
[Ding-dong. System Notification: Your bunny has returned.]
Staring dumbfounded at the bunny that descended from the sky and then plopped itself straight into the lavender field—yanking up lavender and chewing on it—Xie Xingchen was so shocked he even forgot to stop it!
Right now, he was only grateful that interstellar space had an abundance of weird species. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even know how to explain to Get-Rich, Prosperity, and Long-Life that his rabbit could fly.
Luckily, those three country-bumpkin robots had never seriously studied Earth rabbits, so naturally they had no idea that rabbits on Earth can’t fly!
Seeing a rabbit fly down from the sky, the three of them reacted as normally as if they were watching a bird fly—except for the strange little pouch hanging around the rabbit’s neck.
Get-Rich stepped forward, grabbed the rabbit by its long ear, and cheerfully carried it over to Xie Xingchen.
“Boss,” Get-Rich said, beaming, “spicy rabbit head.”
Ever since Xie Xingchen had been yelling every day about wanting spicy rabbit head, Get-Rich’s eyes practically lit up whenever he saw a rabbit.
He—Get-Rich—wanted to make spicy rabbit head for his boss.
As a household robot, learning to cook for his owner was his favorite thing to do.
Looking at the rabbit in Get-Rich’s hand, Xie Xingchen forced down his shock.
But his face still twisted into something complicated—he couldn’t even describe it. He walked up, took the innocent rabbit from Get-Rich, and couldn’t help rubbing its back, searching for wings.
Only after seeing the three robots’ weird expressions did he snap back to reality. He hurriedly left behind a quick, “I’m taking the rabbit back to my room,” and walked off.
Watching his back, Get-Rich asked in confusion, “Why is the boss taking the rabbit to his room instead of the kitchen?”
Only Prosperity—who had been with Xie Xingchen all day—could answer.
Prosperity said stiffly, “Because that rabbit is not an ingredient. It’s the boss’s pet.”
Pet?
Long-Life, who hadn’t been confused at first, suddenly was.
If he remembered correctly… wasn’t this rabbit the spicy rabbit head the boss had caught this morning?
How did it suddenly go from food to pet?
Prosperity: Good question. He didn’t know either.
Get-Rich, Prosperity, and Long-Life looked at one another. In the end, they reached the same conclusion:
Their owner was weird every single day.
[Ding-dong. Congratulations! You’ve unlocked the hidden achievement “Bunny’s Return Gift.” Reward: EXP +500.]
[Ding-dong. Your bunny is back from traveling! Today, this travel-loving bunny doesn’t seem to have gone very far. Even so, it still brought you back two travel souvenirs.]
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Gifts!
Two gifts!
This is amazing!
He opened the mail and saw two icons below it.
Two familiar things.
One was a bright green four-leaf clover. The other looked like… a seed?
[Ding-dong. Congratulations! You received your bunny’s travel souvenirs—Four-leaf Clover ×1, Sunflower Seed ×1.]
[Four-leaf Clover: A legendary item said to bring luck. Supposedly, wearing it while traveling increases your luck during travel!
PS: The higher your bunny’s travel luck, the more likely it is to obtain rare items during its journey.]
[Sunflower Seed: A plain, ordinary sunflower seed. Your bunny picked it up casually by the roadside while resting. It looks normal, but its vitality is strong—it seems like you could plant it anywhere and it would survive.]
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This surprise came way too suddenly!
Travel Bunny is the GOAT! (yyds)
One trip, and this fat rabbit found him a flower seed?
And it was even a flower seed that belonged in the collection index!
Oh my god—this trip was so worth it!
Unable to resist, Xie Xingchen hugged the soft, glossy fat rabbit. At this moment, the way he looked at it was even more fiery than the way he’d look at a lover.
He couldn’t help declaring passionately to the rabbit, “Baby, you’re seriously incredible! I hereby announce: from today on, you are my most loyal companion—no exceptions!”
The rabbit, which didn’t understand human speech at all, wriggled and struggled to escape this weird human’s arms.
It was the rabbit’s sleeping time. It wanted to go back to sleep.
Xie Xingchen, curious about it, let it go as it wished.
He wanted to see what it would do.
To his surprise, the moment he released it, the rabbit bolted out of his room.
It was so fast he couldn’t even catch up. In the blink of an eye, it vanished—now it was Xie Xingchen’s turn to be stunned.
He panicked. “Xiao Mo! Quick, help me find the rabbit—my rabbit is gone!”
He was genuinely anxious.
A rabbit this useful—what if it ran away for good?
Faced with this request, the system was probably speechless too. After a long pause, it finally replied:
[System Notification: Your companion has rested. Please do not frequently disturb your companion.]
Xie Xingchen: ?
What do you mean “rested”? Didn’t his rabbit just run off? How did it become “resting” all of a sudden?
Half-believing, half-doubting, he opened the companion panel—and sure enough, the rabbit’s status had changed.
[Companion Info Panel]
Name: Fat Bunny (Feifei)
Species: Travel-loving Rabbitfolk
Status: recuperating
Luggage: not prepared [?]
Note: Your companion is resting!
Seeing that, Xie Xingchen wasn’t anxious anymore, but he was still puzzled. “Did Feifei go back to the rapeseed flower field?”
[System: Yes.]
Still uneasy, Xie Xingchen asked, “Then… my Feifei won’t get eaten by predators while sleeping at home, right?”
[System: It won’t.]
Xie Xingchen: Fine then.
Knowing his rabbit was okay, he stopped asking.
He took the sunflower seed from the system mailbox. After thinking for a moment, he soaked it in plant growth solution.
As expected of a system-certified seed brimming with vitality!
Just soaking in the growth solution, it already showed signs of cracking open.
To observe it better, Xie Xingchen didn’t immediately take it out and inject mental power. Instead, he kept watching—wanting to see how far it could go in the solution on its own.
One hour later, the sunflower seed sprouted.
Xie Xingchen was thrilled.
And at the same time, he realized something:
The travel souvenirs the rabbit brought back seemed better than the plants he discovered by exploring outside himself!
Exactly how they were better—he’d need to grow the sunflower fully and run tests to know.
Sunflowers couldn’t be propagated by cuttings, so if he wanted to cultivate sunflowers, he needed seeds.
Sunflower was in the Asteraceae family. Its seeds were sunflower seeds. Generally, a healthy sunflower could produce 1,000–2,000 seeds. That meant once he finished this round, he’d never have to worry about seeds again!
Honestly, it was incredibly convenient.
Let alone growing one sunflower—given his current mental power, he could easily force-grow it five times in a row without stopping.
If he pushed harder—beasting it with mental recovery potions—ten times in one night wasn’t impossible!
After all, seeds that could sprout in growth solution on their own were rare. If a seed could sprout with only the limited energy from the solution, that meant it had strong vitality and low dark-matter content. In that case, force-growing it would be much easier than force-growing other plants. Otherwise, even with a pile of recovery potions, Xie Xingchen wouldn’t dare claim he could do ten rounds in a night.
But… the mental recovery potions he’d brought were already used up. Buying more cost 100,000 star-coins per bottle, and that was just the basic version.
Xie Xingchen: Emmm… still gotta spend money.
But thinking “one and done,” he went for it.
If he produced more seeds in one go, then tomorrow he could have the planting robots uniformly plant them across the fields.
Xie Xingchen decided to charge in.
He spent 1,000,000 star-coins to buy 10 bottles of beginner-level mental recovery potion, and then began his wonderfully bizarre cultivation journey.
When it came to work versus life, Xie Xingchen had two completely different attitudes.
In life, he was casual—basically a full-on “salted fish.” But once he decided to commit to work, he would go all out.
And the result of going all out was: ten rounds in one night was still too brutal. In the end, Xie Xingchen only managed nine rounds before he was so exhausted he couldn’t even speak.
But the seeds from nine forced-growth cycles were still impressive: over 17,000 seeds. If planted more sparsely, that was enough to plant one full mu (? 666.7 m²).
If he worked fast enough, he might still make the schedule for the Earth Shop expansion in half a month.
But to meet that schedule, he’d have to use the green-substance potion he’d been saving up, and every day he’d have to grind—going to the sunflower field again and again to inject mental power into the sunflowers.
Even as he lay in the medical pod, his mind was still full of sunflower-field planning.
He planned and planned until his eyes went hazy, and he finally drifted off.
However, one hour later, Xie Xingchen suddenly opened his eyes.
Travel Bunny!
He’d forgotten to pack the rabbit’s travel bag!
His heart pounded. He was terrified that the bunny had already left.
Fortunately, Feifei wasn’t that diligent. At this hour, it was still sleeping like a log. Xie Xingchen exhaled in relief and quickly packed the bunny’s luggage.
[Food]: Scallion Pancake ×1
[Tools]: A plain ordinary umbrella ×1
[Lucky Item]: Four-leaf Clover ×1
[Other]: A small tent that can block wind and rain ×1
Confirm this travel bag? [Yes] [No]
He pressed [Yes], and the companion page refreshed.
[Companion Info Panel]
Name: Fat Bunny (Feifei)
Species: Travel-loving Rabbitfolk
Status: sleeping soundly
Luggage: prepared [?]
Note: Companion is packed and ready to go~
Now Xie Xingchen could sleep peacefully.
The next second after closing his eyes, he fell into deep sleep.
The next day
Warm sunlight gently bathed the land. In the breeze, busy delivery robots and planting robots were already moving.
The planet owner, who had been a bit lazy before, was suddenly full of vigor again thanks to the new seeds.
Squatting in the middle of an endless field, Xie Xingchen focused completely on channeling mental power into the newly reclaimed sunflower plot that received even more sunlight.
Because the sunflower seeds had only just been planted, the field was still bare.
But once Xie Xingchen poured down a tube of green-substance potion and sent another wave of mental power through the field, the sunflower seeds broke through the soil one after another.
In a blink, barren land sprouted countless tender leaves.
Sunflowers bloomed during the hottest part of summer—and right now was exactly their season.
Even if you could force out-of-season flowers, sunflowers by nature, bloom only once a year. If sunlight were plentiful, their bloom could last one to two months.
Normally, sunflowers need 70–90 days from sowing to flowering. With good care, it could be 50–60 days.
But plant-type mental power could be ridiculously unreasonable. If your mental power was strong enough (SSS-rank), turning a seed into a flowering plant in one minute wasn’t hard.
One seed—maybe Xie Xingchen could show off.
But a whole mu?
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Blooming in one day was impossible. He could only survive by channeling mental power into the sunflower field every day.
Since the schedule was still workable, Xie Xingchen not only delivered mental power daily but also used one tube of green-substance potion each day.
After doing that for a week, this mu of sunflowers finally welcomed a harvest.
He bought a special seed-extraction machine and led the robots to harvest the flowers. They put the cut sunflower heads into the machine to extract the seeds.
Looking at the huge seedless sunflower heads, Xie Xingchen waved his hand and told the robots to dry them somewhere, then sell them later as flower tea.
After all, whether dried sunflower tasted good was questionable—but its headache-relief effect was excellent!
And Xie Xingchen had tested it: the green-substance content of this batch of sunflowers reached an astonishing 5%!
That much green substance—forget its original effect; even if it had no effect at all, just brewing water with its extracted components would still be better than most “health supplements” on the market.
As for the remaining sunflower stalks, Xie Xingchen didn’t want to waste them either. If the stalks couldn’t be turned into tea, then they’d become fertilizer!
With that much green substance, turning them into fertilizer would enrich the soil. Once the soil’s green-substance content increased, growing flowers would become easier!
He picked up the packed seeds and found there were only 100 kilograms, but it was enough!
Even though the seed yield didn’t look huge, the time spent was short. And normally, planting one mu of sunflowers only needs about 2 kilograms of seed.
This harvest was enough to plant 50 mu of sunflowers!
And these were green plants with 5% green substance. Xie Xingchen wasn’t going to deliberately restrict production—he’d plant as much as he could.
The only problem was time: there was only one week left until the opening date for his food shop and flower-tea shop.
Getting 50 mu of sunflowers to bloom within one week was pure fantasy.
So he could plant all 50 mu, but in the end he could only pick one mu as the key plot to cultivate, so it would bloom in time and supply steady listings after the Earth Shop expansion.
With that in mind, Xie Xingchen led the robots to focus on the chosen mu of sunflowers, while the rest of the sunflower land was left entirely to the planting robots to reclaim and manage.
The “three-points-one-line” routine (fields–ship–shop) passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, tomorrow was opening day.
The packaging supplier for the food shop had delivered.
According to Xie Xingchen’s requirements, the materials, patterns, and shapes were based on his descriptions, then designed by the designer. The factory shipped him samples and test certificates first; only after he approved did they begin mass production.
Because these had to be shipped, open-top boxes weren’t possible. Every package was a sealed little box—but even sealed little boxes could be creative. Aside from the Earth logo on all of them, everything else—size, shape, color—was wildly varied and bizarre.
Basically, Xie Xingchen let loose, and once the client let loose, the designer also let loose.
It was rare to meet a customer who didn’t reject their designs—so the designer flew a little too hard, resulting in a batch of boxes that were bizarre and colorful.
But honestly… they were kind of pretty. Piled together, they even had a rainbow, childlike charm!
It worked—just slightly expensive.
Because the order quantity wasn’t huge, the price couldn’t be pushed down. Across all styles, there were only 100,000 boxes total, and because the material had to be truly eco-friendly and easily biodegradable, even though Xie Xingchen’s shop was clearly booming and promised long-term cooperation, the factory owner still only agreed to 1 star-coin per box as the ex-factory price. Any lower and they refused.
Even so, it cost Xie Xingchen 100,000 star-coins.
But compared to that day’s barbecue—where he spent 35,000 star-coins just on ingredients—this felt worth it.
Back then, he didn’t think so, but now that he recalled it, Xie Xingchen felt like a sucker. Eating barbecue, buying a few ingredients, and it costs 35,000?
Honestly, these planet owners, estate owners, and cultivators were way too greedy!
He made 100,000 pretty eco-friendly boxes for 100,000 star-coins—yet a small jar of honey cost him 35,000?!
Not worth it. Completely not worth it!
From this alone, you could see just how profitable green plants were!
No wonder everyone in the Star Alliance dreamed of becoming a planet owner or cultivator—who wouldn’t, with money coming in that fast?
Not to mention himself.
He sold his plants cheap enough, right?
And yet—even at that price, he was making a killing.
Roses, jasmine, osmanthus, carnations, and lavender—1,000 stems listed daily—brought him 1,395,000 star-coins per day. Over 14 days, that was 19,530,000.
His scallion pancake machine was upgraded to Level 2. Selling 1,000 and storing 1,000 per day brought 100,000 per day, and 1,400,000 over 14 days.
Plus, every week he provided 20 professors with a bouquet of flowers and a small jar of flower tea—over two weeks, that was 1,600,000.
So his half-month earnings were:
19.53 million + 1.4 million + 1.6 million = 22.53 million star-coins.
Add his previous 15.54 million star-coins (after deducting food-machine storage fees, packaging costs, barbecue seasoning purchases, and mental recovery potion purchases), ignoring minor amounts, his current account total was 38.07 million star-coins.
On StarNet Mall, buying an initial shop: a 100 m² starter shop costs 1 million. With 38.07 million, he could buy 38 shops.
But he’d asked customer service: if 123 Street expanded from the street-end, the maximum expansion space on one side was 30 shops. Including the row across the street, that was 60 shops.
Now the problem was—
Xie Xingchen only had enough money for 38 shops, but there were 60 shops total… Actually, counting the shop directly opposite his that was still vacant, it should be 61 shops.
That would require 61 million star-coins.
So… before the food shop and flower-tea shop officially opened, where was he going to find the remaining 22.93 million star-coins?
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