The Game of Global Mining

Chapter 602 451: Bean of Hope

Ah, meeting the Dream Master right away is awkward, and I have to worry about keeping my identity a secret!

Chun feels he's seriously misunderstood something, but might not be able to explain clearly, and could provoke him to act. So, to keep his identity secret, he decides to pretend to be an old cadre - after all, he has that Folmos connection.

Chun solemnly said, "Don't panic, I'm an assistant to an Imperial Spy. My mission is to investigate those nobles' illegal actions. Sit down and tell me slowly, what's going on with these crows on the farm?"

Hunter finally snaps back and is dumbfounded, "What spy?"

Chun says sternly, "Classified!"

Hunter is startled, "Telling you will help me how?"

Chun sighs, "At least I've cleared those crows outside. I think this isn't a normal bird disaster."

Hunter is dumbfounded for a while and then collapses onto the wine barrel, "You sit down!"

Good, it looks like the defenses have been lowered.

Hunter angrily said, "I'm actually an immigrant from Oak City, because Oak City's magical land is planted with high-value oak and medicinal herbs, my farmland was bought by nobles, and I was told I could come to the Gem City inland frontier region to get ten times the area of farmland. So I brought the paperwork and immigrated over, indeed obtaining a large area of land 200 kilometers outside the city. However, the situation wasn't as good as they promoted. But with my ancestral farming techniques continuously improving the land, it finally got better after a few years."

"I even thought with this tenfold farmland, a single bumper harvest would recoup the losses of these years. But just when the season of harvest came, crows swarmed in overwhelming numbers! But I was fearless to come to the frontier region and wasn't weak. I used magic to blast away large numbers of crows."

"At that time, I felt my bounty attracted all nearby crows, and killing so many at once meant they'd be gone for years, so I took loans, bought seeds, and prepared for the next year. However, the middleman came back to buy land, offered a lower price than before, and I couldn't agree. But I felt something was wrong, prepared for the worst, even hired mercenaries, and when autumn harvest came..."

Here, Hunter's voice became fearful, "Crows came again, more numerous, stronger, even after being wiped out by mercenaries, their spirits could gather into entities—I hid in the wine cellar and survived. Only then did I know I should have sold the land early. Since then, I went bankrupt, became a hired farmer, and returned to Gem City suburbia to help a noble master with farming. This is my story."

Chun was enlightened then, no wonder the real farm and the dream one were different, though the architectural layout was the same.

Chun asked, "Then who bought your land before?"

Hunter bitterly replied, "Of course, it was that middleman, but not bought, it was a bankruptcy clearance! But the person behind the middleman, rumor says, is Marquis Guyado from Black Iron City."

Holy shit! Deserves to be a grain tycoon, always popping up from time to time. Speaking of which, Bilenna's magic soul controlled one of them, isn't it his nephew called Guapiro?

Chun wanted to gauge how much he knew, then asked, "Everyone knows that Black Iron City's status is far below Gem City, what right does a Black Iron City Marquis have to operate like this in Gem City?"

Hunter sneered, "You're quite unqualified as a spy assistant, aren't you aware Black Iron City was the earliest settled on Golden Continent? Precisely because Black Iron City developed too aggressively back then, the Empire split it, and this Marquis's family was specially used to control grain!"

This is history changed after I crossed worlds!

Chun was truly amazed, "You, a mere farmer, actually know this?"

Hunter irritably said, "Farmer? I know magic! I farm with magic! Anyone coming to the new continent, whose ancestor wasn't some fallen Empire noble? And, I know you too, the one sentenced to a year in Bronze City, right?"

Chun exclaimed, "Ah, you recognized me? But, this spy stuff, you must keep it a secret for me."

Hunter laughed and took a sip of wine, "I didn't expect a young lad like you to achieve much, but talking with me, letting me vent those years' grievances, is delightful, because I kept those matters in my heart, never daring to share them outside."

Chun lamented, "I'll try my best. After all, I was actually falsely accused and imprisoned."

Hunter sneered, "Of course, it was false accusations. Could a lad like you even touch the Gem City Beauty's butt? I, who know magic, realize how strong she is, who would believe that?"

Chun was embarrassed, "You knew even this?"

Hunter sneered.

Aye, they say men when chatting eventually talk about women's butts. Now that they've talked about butts, it's been deeply dreamed; this Hunter is far less skilled than Captain Pulan, this is not right!

Chun had to delve deeper into the butt topic: "Is there a possibility that I actually did touch the butt?"

Hunter stared wide-eyed, "Why? Because you're uglier than me?"

Chun solemnly said, "Because she dares to publicly declare this matter!"

Hunter stared in a daze for a while, then drank, "If you touched her butt, I'll follow you!"

Been waiting for this line! But—

Chun was quite helpless, "Do I have to demonstrate touching the butt again?"

Hunter laughed, "Forget it! I decided to go to Red Earth Town and find some old men at the farm to drink. They're victims who went bankrupt before me. Are you going?"

Holy shit! There's hope for the Composite Crows Divine Artifact!

Chun was energized, "I'll go! But, you're currently working, right? Just heading to the countryside like this, won't the master blame you?"

Hunter laughed, "What management level do you think the master's household has? The cook hooking up with maids is normal, can they even manage me..."

At this point, Hunter suddenly looked at a clay pot in the corner, green light flashed inside, and two green sprouts rapidly grew.

Chun was surprised, "What's this?"

Hunter laughed, "It's my family's ancestral bean seed, I thought it was dead, but suddenly it revived, I'll give it to you."

—System Prompt: You've obtained the Dream Realm Essence of Life "Bean of Hope" from Hunter.

Holy shit! I've only seen Essence of Dreams before, it's the first time seeing "Essence of Life"!

Chun was filled with joy, "Something so precious, isn't it inappropriate to give it to me?"

Hunter shook his head and sighed, "The real bean seeds were long ruined by the crows. This is my life's regret, if resurrected in dreams like this, it's fulfilling a wish. You should leave; I need to sober up and set off!"

So, seeing me has ignited hope, so the beans revived?

Chun remembered something, "Wait, your nightmare, you don't want it anymore, right? Give it to me?"

After all, Mina's already high tier and knows "Dream Stealing"!

Hunter laughed, "I've been wanting to forget it, take it!"