Chapter 773 - 412: Fox Mountain Herb Field Upgrade, Success Announced!

Chapter 773: Chapter 412: Fox Mountain Herb Field Upgrade, Success Announced!

Swish...

A car raced down a narrow field path, halting at the edge of the medicine field.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle!"

The car door swung open, and Coffee Ear dashed out first!

"Howl howl howl!"

Following closely, Coffee Claw appeared, carrying a satchel across his body.

A dozen or so fellow apprentices scrambled out of the car, eager and hasty, all trailing behind.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle!"

"Howl howl howl!"

All of them widened their eyes, seeking out the new facility the master mentioned... too easy to find!

The huge banana leaf planted in the field head, that’s the leaf!

The foxes saw the yellow-green pixels on the leaf, evidently flashing and changing, outlining constantly rotating circles.

Coffee Ear immediately waved his fox claw, speaking in fox language.

"Gurgle gurgle howl howl howl!"

He had seen something similar; the master’s computer boot screen featured these rotating circles.

The foxes widened their eyes and watched the circle quickly dissipate, the yellow-green pixels on the leaf converging into a fox face, triangular ears, big eyes, and whiskers smiling brightly.

The foxes were even more convinced; this was it, no mistake!

They stared intently, watching the leaf screen switch again, into a simple animation. Illustrated was... a Cross Silver Vine!

The drawing was simple yet expressive, portraying the Cross Silver Vine’s emergence from the earth, displaying its budding sprouts... alongside a pair of fox claws wielding small scissors, trimming the tender shoots.

"Howl?"

"Gurgle?"

The foxes glanced at the drawing on the leaf, then at their own fox claws, and explored their standard ground department tool bags—sure enough, there was a pair of the smallest scissors! Indeed, in the soil behind the banana leaf, sprouts were emerging!

The match was confirmed!

Excitedly, they continued watching the animations on the banana leaf.

The pixelated screen then zoomed in to highlight details, giving close-ups of the shoot trimming, making sure every fox could see clearly that trimming required three cuts: two on the left and one on the right, with the animation slowing for each cut to capture all details clearly...

Whoosh...

The chilly mountain wind blew by.

The posture of the foxes watching the animation had changed.

Heads held high with chests thrust forward and bellies proud, paws clasped behind, chins lifted, basking in newfound confidence and composure akin to miniature masters.

Foxes are cunning!

In an instant, they understood that with this pixelated banana leaf and these animations present, there was no need for them to learn cumbersome operations or take up the master’s time.

Whenever they came to the medicine field, a quick glance at the animations would reveal what operations were needed for the field during that period.

Now, at the head of the Cross Silver Vine field, as the sprouts just emerged, they saw the animation for shoot trimming.

When the Cross Silver Vine branches out, surely there’d be an animation for branch trimming.

When the Cross Silver Vine spreads leaves, surely there’d be an animation for leaf trimming.

Heading to the Lai Jie Fruit field, doubtlessly they’d see animations for cultivating Lai Jie Fruit.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle!"

"Howl howl howl!"

Henceforth, the ground department: every fox is a mini-master!

Of course, not masters of cultivating Immortal Grass, but... "learn by pictures" mini-masters!

...

Whoosh...

The mountain wind blew over the boundless medicine fields.

Pixelated banana leaves swayed gently in the wind, flashing boot-up screens, and demonstrated through animations, the operations needed for respective fields and respective times.

Each fox stood before a pixelated banana leaf, feeling smugly confident, having regained their assurance, carrying their satchel, or wielding small scissors, or comparing medicine bottle numbers from the screen and the satchel, or miming branch trimming with small knives...

Whoosh...

The mountain wind blew up Fox Mountain and swept to the entrance of Ghost Eye Machine Room.

Bai Mo stood in the wind, gazing down at the boundless medicine fields below, grinning broadly.

Behind him, the Ghost Eye Machine Room handled a new load, its power consumption increased yet again, and its rate of consuming Hundred Flowers Juice had expedited, producing intensified "gulp gulp gulp" syrup-absorbing sounds.

"Pretty good."

Fox Mountain’s medicine field upgrade completed once more!

...

The dream’s daytime corresponds to the real world’s night.

Entering winter already, at four o’clock in the early morning of the real world, the sky remains dim.

Whoosh...

The cold wind blew outside the window.

The brightly lit laboratory, where Li Kuiwu sat by the window, gulping down a freshly brewed hot coffee.

"Ah..."

The coffee was slightly hot, its sweetness accompanied by bitterness, the warmth flowing down his throat into his stomach, seemingly awakening every cell.

Li Kuiwu exhaled through his nose, grinned, opened the materials on the table, and continued reading!

Suddenly, his phone rang on the table. It was his sister, Li Qingting, sending him another video invite.

Upon answering, he saw Li Qingting snuggled in a hotel’s crisp white quilt, her small face peeking out, surveying his background.

"Oh? Li Kuiwu? Are you serious? Waking up to study at four in the morning?"

"Watching the four o’clock West State? Haha, do you need to work so hard?"

Li Kuiwu let out a sigh.

"No choice but to work hard.

The project is about to begin.

I still haven’t understood much of this book.

The project has high standards, a tight schedule, we can’t afford to screw it up.

How about over there? How’s your studying been going lately?"

Li Qingting furrowed her brows.

"Not well.

"That Jiao Su expert said we currently aren’t quite needed, but as compensation, he can add our names to some of his papers to give us a little boost.

"Haven’t learned much, haven’t done any work, just staying in the hotel, eating hotel meals, getting some freebies."

This should have been good news!

But both siblings wore peculiar expressions, feeling uneasy inside.

"Isn’t this... underhanded and dubious?"