【Fred】
Lu Xi saw the name above the head of the person opposite.
"What a wonderful sound of music." Fred spoke in a chant-like tone. His voice was very beautiful and magnetic, with a magic that made people unable to help but listen to his next words.
Lu Xi searched around the map but couldn't find Fred's "home". These resident NPCs who often live on the farm will have their own residences and assume part of their NPC responsibilities.
For example, Mrs. Milly, her home serves as a "seed store". Even if Lu Xi cannot find Mrs. Milly, he can go directly to her home to buy seeds.
Fred does not have a "home" mark on the map, but he is not a special NPC like Sirius who only appears once in a while.
Lu Xi was sure of this.
"What do you want to see me for?" Lu Xi turned off the BGM, looked at Fred, and decided to take the initiative. After all, it didn't sound like this guy could speak well.
"Such a beautiful sound of music came from the wind. I just followed the footsteps of the wind and listened." Fred bowed gracefully and saluted.
Lu Xi nodded. It was true that she was not very good at speaking human language. In fact, she had heard a lot of similar words.
White in the Dragon Hunting Mercenary Group sometimes shows this side. Dina said this is a common problem among wind elemental mages.
Because there are a very large number of bards in the wind element kingdom, the mages and warriors with the wind element attribute are somewhat led astray.
It is also related to the characteristics of the wind attribute element. For those wind attribute elemental mages and elemental warriors, they will always hear some information from distant places in the "wind".
Hence the classic saying "The wind carries a message from afar."
"This is a piece of music composed by Mr. Sirius, and he gave it to me as a gift." Lu Xi tried his best to bring up the conversation.
"I know, this is the eleventh movement of Mr. Sirius." Fred chuckled and shook his head, "Mr. Sirius's music is always like this, full of romance, like being in the hazy moonlight, surrounded by stars. surround."
Lu Xi showed a slightly confused expression. How come she could only hear that this piece of music was pretty good? How could she hear all the feelings?
But the topic still had to continue, so Lu Xi talked about the task assigned to her by Mr. Sirius... Apart from that, she didn't know what else to talk about.
Fred accepted all Lu Xi's words. Without touching on the game functions, these residents would always give Lu Xi an overly real feeling.
"You don't seem to have a fixed place to live on the farm. Why is that?" Lu Xi thought for a while and asked.
If there was a mission that required finding Fred, but he didn't know where he was at all, wouldn't it be a big problem?
"The wind will never stop, and neither will I who follow the wind." Fred said with a very solemn expression, but soon he showed a sly smile.
"But the bard will stop for the tavern, and drink wine for the stories that come from the wind."
Lu Xi has learned not to analyze the meaning of Fred's words, but directly asks Fred, "What does that mean?"
"Hahahaha" Fred smiled heartily, "We don't have a tavern on our farm, Miss Lucy."
Lu Xi blinked, so what he meant was that as a troubadour, he should tell the stories of the wind to the guests in the "tavern".
Since there was no tavern on the farm, Fred had no fixed place to stay.
Lu Xi thought about it and realized that it was really the case. Leisure Farm is a casual game that focuses on pastoral life. The so-called pastoral life is of course planting vegetables and harvesting. Taverns and the like are completely unnecessary functions. Restaurants can definitely include them. Go in.
But for this other world, taverns are different. Those humans who may never leave the city where they live can only listen to the stories in the tavern to learn about the other side of the world.
[Side mission: Tavern: Fred told you about his story. As a bard, there is no tavern as a place to stay. Please build a tavern on the farm. 】
[Task reward: 1000 experience points, unlocking more characters, and tavern operating income. 】
ha? Lu Xi looked at this side mission and then at Fred. What's going on? Can she still open a tavern on the farm?
But the task is to open a tavern. What materials are needed and how to open it are not mentioned at all? !
What about mission instructions? !
Fred, who didn't know what was going on, smiled back at Lu Xi.
Lu Xi was silent for a moment, expressing his sympathy for Fred's lack of a place in his heart, and then threw this side task directly to the end of the list that needed to be completed.
As for the tavern, let's wait until she finishes all the other tasks she needs to do.
"Then where do you usually live?" Lu Xi asked curiously. She was not sure that Fred would answer her. This question was like asking the NPCs in the game, what are you doing when the player is away? .
"I am wherever the wind passes by." Fred did not answer directly.
Lu Xi was not disappointed, but she suddenly thought of Xiao Yuan. Xiao Yuan also had the element of wind, so would Xiao Yuan also become like a troubadour?
Lu Xi burst into laughter as he pictured a wolf telling stories to everyone in a gentle manner.
Facing Fred's sudden gaze, Lu Xi quickly changed the subject, "Ahem, uh, well, what exactly is wind?"
Lu Xi just said something casually, but Fred suddenly showed a pleased expression and asked back, "So what do you think the wind is? Miss Lucy."
Lu Xi was stunned, but Fred had no intention of asking Lu Xi to answer. He quickly picked up the conversation himself.
"The wind is a guide. Where there is wind, you will not be trapped in adversity; the wind is a partner. Every step on the road is accompanied by the wind..."
“When you feel the wind, it brings you gifts.”
Lu Xi seemed to have listened to a long opera performance. When he heard the last sentence, he came back to his senses, "A gift? What gift?"
"You can feel it yourself." Fred smiled and handed the crystal ball in his hand to Lu Xi.
Lu Xi suddenly became energetic. Following Fred's guidance, he placed his palms on the crystal ball and closed his eyes to feel the "wind" around him.
It was a wonderful feeling. Unlike praying, Lu Xi did not enter a state where her consciousness became pure. Instead, she felt "noisy".
There seemed to be countless cheerful laughter appearing around her, but it was not obvious. She could only feel it vaguely, just when Lu Xi wanted to hear those laughter more and more clearly.
She actually heard a "hee hee" laugh.
Opening his eyes, Lu Xi saw a bag of crop seeds suddenly appearing in his hand.
[System notification: Congratulations to the player for unlocking the "Gift of the Wind" function. Through the prop "Wind Prayer Ball", you can get a random item, with a limit of three opportunities per day. 】
[System notification: Congratulations to the player for obtaining the item "Bag of Wild Rice Seeds" through the "Wind Prayer Ball". 】
[System notification: Congratulations to the player for unlocking "Wild Rice Seeds" in the seed store. 】
Looking at several system notifications that popped up one after another, Lu Xi didn't know which one he should pay attention to first.
"Gift of the wind" and "prayer" are two different functions.
"Praying" will determine the final effect based on the most focused thoughts in his mind, and it is not limited to items. It's just that Lu Xi currently uses it to obtain materials and has not done any other "praying".
"Gift of the Wind" is random and has fixed items.
For example, this "wild rice seed" is the seed of rice that Lu Xi has longed for. However, in this other world, no one has planted it before, and it has not become a fixed food, so it is "wild rice".
Lu Xi had an unreal feeling. Did the rice she had missed for so long actually have the chance to come true now?
After looking at Fred, who had no other reaction and was still waiting for him to sense the wind, Lu Xi quickly used the remaining two "gifts of the wind" opportunities.
It was indeed random. Lu Xi looked at the two feathers of unknown monsters that appeared on the ground and pursed his lips.
[System notification: Congratulations to the player for passing the "Wind Prayer Ball" and obtaining the item "Red Feather White Feather King Tail Feather x 2". 】
The tail feathers of the Red Feather King? What was that? Lu Xi thought about it for a long time and then gave up. Forget it, it was enough to get "wild rice seeds".
Lu Xi was satisfied, but she still had some problems. The "Gift of the Wind" had three opportunities every day, so she had to find Fred every day.
But judging from Fred's elusive appearance, it seemed hard for her to find him.
After hearing Lu Xi's worries, Fred smiled and gave the crystal ball in his hand to Lu Xi, "Then, this wind prayer ball will be given to you, Miss Lucy."
Lu Xi was surprised, "What about you?"
Isn't it bad for her to steal NPC's props like this?
Fred didn't mind. He took out another crystal ball smoothly, as if he had already given away many crystal balls. "The wind will bring more to me."
Since Fred said so, Lu Xi accepted it with peace of mind, and mentally raised the priority of the side mission in the tavern.
Well, her farm does lack something, such as a tavern.
[System notification: Congratulations to the player for obtaining the prop "Wind Prayer Ball". 】
Finally, after triggering this key plot point about Fred, Fred bid farewell to Lu Xi. Lu Xi didn't hold back at all. She was also tortured by an NPC who didn't speak well to people.
I only got to know three NPCs, and the afternoon was almost over. Although there was still some time before dark, Lu Xi couldn't wait to go back to planting wild rice.
She wants to eat rice! ! !
Passing by Dolig, who had been fishing in the Air Force, Lu Xi said hello, then walked to the seed store and bought all the newly unlocked wild rice seeds. Lu Xi then returned home.
Unexpectedly, when they returned home, Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zhuo were not farming. Instead, they were surrounding a corner of the yard, wondering what they were doing.
Lu Xi recalled it and remembered that he seemed to have placed the "catnip" there. Could it be that the two of them were eating catnip? But they obviously had no reaction to catnip before.
Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zhuo had already noticed Lu Xi's return, and they raised their heads to look at Lu Xi. Their eyes were excited, but their bodies had no intention of moving.
Lu Xi was puzzled. Normally, these two would have surrounded him long ago.
Only when Lu Xi got closer did he know why.
She actually saw a cat!
A chubby orange cat, exactly the same size and shape as on the earth, was surrounded by Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zhuo one after another.
"Ah, meow!" Lu Xi exclaimed and jumped forward very quickly.
The orange cat was not frightened at all. He sat on the ground as steady as a mountain and flicked his tail lazily. He could not see the embarrassment of being surrounded by Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zuo. Even if Lu Xi rushed over like a hungry tiger pouncing on food, it did not. Lift your eyelids.
Rather than being surrounded by Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zhuo, the orange cat looked more like a king waiting for the audience of his inferior subjects, very proud.
But as a kitten, it is this arrogance that attracts people.
Lu Xi didn't rush up to hug the orange cat. She was also afraid of being hit by a paw suddenly. Although she didn't have to worry about rabies or anything like that, it would still be very painful if she was injured.
So Lu Xi quickly rushed over, stopped at a safe distance, and very carefully reached out to touch the orange cat.
The orange cat didn't have any stress reaction and allowed Lu Xi's hands to touch it from the top of its head to the tip of its tail. After Lu Xi touched it for a while, it slowly stretched out and scratched twice casually with its paws on the ground. , slowly raised his feet and walked towards the nearest wall.
Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zuo moved their bodies, trying to stop the orange cat, but the orange cat ignored them at all.
With a kind of flexibility that was completely inconsistent with his weight, he jumped left and right twice, passed through the interception of Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zhuo, jumped over the low wall, and disappeared.
Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zhuo looked at each other with blank eyes. They didn't know what happened. The two of them had just been surrounding the orange cat here for a long time, so why did they suddenly run away.
Lu Xi looked at the expressions of the two cubs and couldn't help laughing. He shared with them about the wild rice seeds and used food to attract their attention.
After hearing Lu Xi's introduction, sure enough, Xiao Yuan and Zhuo Zhuo no longer cared about the orange cat, and immediately ran to the farmland to work again, planting all the wild rice seeds in Lu Xi's system backpack.
Lu Xi looked at the direction where the orange cat left thoughtfully. The special guest mentioned in "Side Mission·Special Guest" should refer to the orange cat.
No wonder you use catnip to attract it.
However, are the "cats" in other worlds the same as those on earth? Lu Xi was full of doubts about this.
I took a look at the expenditure line task, but there was no completion prompt. It seems that placing catnip once is not enough, and it needs to be placed several times more.
As for catnip, you can buy it in magic pet supply stores. Although you can only buy one per day, the price is still very expensive.
I didn't sleep in the afternoon. I was so sleepy and couldn't write in a good state.
(End of chapter)
