They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 271 The Rise of Stealing Vegetables
Early in the morning, Zhou Chenchen arrived at the office. The first thing he did was to turn on the computer, log into the campus network, and enter Happy Farm.

"Oh no, my vegetables were stolen again!" Zhou Chenchen felt a little depressed. She checked the farm log and found that the last person who stole the vegetables was three minutes ago. The person who stole the vegetables was her colleague Liu Mei.

"If only I had come three minutes earlier!" Zhou Chenchen thought to himself, then glanced at Liu Mei's position and found that she was staring intently at the computer screen, and the picture of Happy Farm was reflected on her glasses.

"Sister Liu, why did you steal my vegetables again!" Zhou Chenchen said.

"The vegetables on your farm are ripe, but you don't harvest them yet. I'll pick some for you!" Liu Mei said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll help you pick some next time!" Zhou Chenchen snorted coldly.

"No, you go and steal Wang Lu's. Her farm is also mature now. I just came back from investing in her farm." Liu Mei decisively sold out another colleague.

Zhou Chenchen immediately entered Wang Lulu’s farm and stole a large amount of vegetables, and his mood immediately became much better.

At this time, Sister Zhang, the oldest person in the office, also walked into the room.

Seeing several young colleagues busy stealing vegetables, Sister Zhang couldn't help but ask: "What game are you playing? My daughter is on winter vacation recently. She is online at home every day and plays something like this game."

"Sister Zhang, this is called Happy Farm. There is a farm where you can grow vegetables or steal vegetables from other people's homes." Zhou Chenchen explained.

"It's fun, right? I see you guys play it every day."

"Sister Zhang, why don't you try it too!"

"I've never played computer games before, and I'm afraid I won't be able to learn them." Sister Zhang shook her head.

"It's very simple. Just click the mouse, like this, and you'll plant a cucumber. Then do you see the countdown? Once the countdown is over, the cucumber will be ripe and ready to be harvested." Zhou Chenchen demonstrated it on the spot.

"It looks quite simple. Would you like to teach me?" Sister Zhang was tempted.

"Sister Zhang, you have to register for a campus network first, which is this website. It's very simple, I'll help you register one." Zhou Chenchen was very enthusiastic and began to help Sister Zhang register for the campus network.

"Xiao Zhou, thank you!"

"Name, Zhang Hong. Date of birth? Sister Zhang, I remember you were born in 1963, right?"

"It was 1963, October 5th in the Gregorian calendar." Sister Zhang nodded.

After entering his date of birth, Zhou Chenchen asked, "What about the university you graduated from?"

"Hongcheng Business School." Sister Zhang replied.

"Business school? There is a business school in our Gangcheng?" Zhou Chenchen asked.

"It has now been merged into Gangcheng Vocational and Technical College. In the 1980s, the business school was the highest technical secondary school in our Gangcheng!" Sister Zhang replied.

Not far away, Liu Mei said, "Xiao Zhou, you are young and don't know that when Sister Zhang was studying, technical secondary schools were guaranteed to give her a job. At that time, it was harder to get into a technical secondary school than to get into a university! If you calculate it, the Hongcheng Business School at that time was equivalent to a first-class university today!"

"Technical secondary school is equivalent to a first-class university? Sister Liu, don't tease me!" Zhou Chenchen said.

"I'm not kidding you. In the past, it was much harder to get into a technical secondary school than into a university. Sister Zhang was born in 28. Nearly 1 million people were born in China that year. By the time Sister Zhang was 985 years old and took the university entrance exam, only 1 people were admitted to junior colleges and universities combined. That means less than % of students were admitted to junior colleges. Now the admission rate of universities is over %! At that time, all those who were able to get into technical secondary schools were top students." Liu Mei went on to explain.

"Sister Zhang, according to this, you were also a top student back then!"

Sister Zhang smiled and nodded: "When I was in middle school, I was always in the top five in the class."

As we were talking, the registration process had been completed.

"Sister Zhang, let me add a few friends for you first. Do you see this search bar? You can search for your friends' names directly."

Zhou Chenchen said as he searched his own name first, and an account with a profile picture appeared on the page.

"This is me. Click here to add me as a friend. I'll approve my request in a moment. I'll help you add Sister Liu as a friend. Enter Sister Liu's name here and click search. Look, this is Sister Liu. Sister Liu, please approve my request!"

"Okay." Liu Mei accepted the friend request in seconds.

"Then let's go to the farm. Click here to enter. At the beginning, you only have one piece of land. When you have money, you can slowly cultivate it. Let's plant some crops first. At the beginning, we can only plant white radishes..."

The gameplay of Happy Farm is very simple and does not require any operation. All you need to do is click the mouse. Sister Zhang quickly learned how to play.

In the afternoon, Sister Zhang began to wander around the offices.

"Xiao Liu, do you also play Farmville? Add me as your friend."

"Xiao Song, I've applied to be your friend on the campus network, please approve it!"

In one afternoon, Sister Zhang added almost all the young people in the unit.

Next, Sister Zhang could finally steal vegetables happily.

……

The alarm clock suddenly rang, and Brother-in-law Zhang subconsciously got up from the bed and planned to go to the bathroom to wash up. However, when he opened his eyes and looked out the window, he found that it was still pitch black outside.

"What's going on?" Brother-in-law Zhang looked at his watch. It was three o'clock in the morning.

"It's only three o'clock, why did the alarm clock ring? Did you set the wrong time?" Brother-in-law Zhang yawned and lay back in bed.

However, Sister Zhang quietly got up and walked out of the bedroom.

Brother-in-law Zhang thought that Sister Zhang had gone to pee, so he didn't pay any attention to her. But he lay in bed for most of the day, and Sister Zhang didn't come back.

"Could he have fallen asleep while sitting on the toilet?" Brother-in-law Zhang was a little worried, so he got up and went to check.

It turned out that Sister Zhang was not in the bathroom, but sitting in front of the computer in the study, apparently playing games.

"What are you doing?" Brother-in-law Zhang asked, yawning.

"Stealing vegetables!" replied Sister Zhang.

"Steal vegetables? What vegetables?"

"It's a game. When the vegetables grown by others are ripe, I steal them." As Sister Zhang was talking,
"It's the middle of the night, and you're not sleeping, but getting up just to play games?" Brother-in-law Zhang complained.

"I set the alarm specifically for stealing vegetables! If I can't steal them, then the alarm will be wasted!"

"What? Did you set the alarm just now? Just to steal vegetables?" Brother-in-law Zhang had an incredible expression on his face.

"Okay, don't worry about me. Go to bed quickly. I'll go back to sleep after I steal from these people!" Brother-in-law Zhang yawned and returned to the bedroom. He got into the warm bed and soon fell asleep.

When the alarm clock rang again, it was already morning. Brother-in-law Zhang opened his eyes and found that Sister Zhang was not around. She must have gone to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Brother Zhang stayed in bed for another ten minutes before getting up to wash up. However, when he walked out of the bedroom, he found that Sister Zhang was not busy in the kitchen, but sitting in front of the computer, waiting to steal vegetables.

"Why are you playing games again? You're not making breakfast? What should I eat in the morning?" Brother-in-law Zhang asked with a dissatisfied look on his face.

"The eggplants that Xiao Liu planted will be ripe in one and a half minutes. Wait for me to steal this eggplant and then I'll cook for you!"

"What time is it? I'll give you another minute and a half to wait for you to finish cooking. I'm already late!"

"Then buy some to eat! You can buy some of the pancakes, roujiamo, buns and soy milk downstairs." Sister Zhang was still staring at the countdown to the eggplant ripening on the computer screen.

Brother-in-law Zhang was a little angry at once, but then he thought again, the lady boss of the soy milk shop at the street corner is pretty, and can be considered a soy milk beauty. It is also quite pleasant to buy soy milk early in the morning and chat with the pretty lady boss.

Thinking of this, Brother-in-law Zhang's anger instantly dissipated, and then he quickly went to the bathroom to wash up, and combed his hair like an adult.

"I'm going to work!" Brother-in-law Zhang shouted at Sister Zhang. Seeing that Sister Zhang didn't reply and was still immersed in stealing vegetables, he sprinted out the door to tease the soy milk beauty!
……

It is almost lunchtime and everyone has finished their morning work. They are just waiting for the end of the get off work day to go home or have lunch.

Zhou Chenchen raised his head, stretched, and looked around, only to find that Sister Zhang was still sitting in her seat, staring at the computer screen, holding a pen in one hand and a calculator in the other, still working.

"The sun is rising from the west? It's already this late, and Sister Zhang hasn't left yet. Is she still working?"

Zhou Chenchen was full of surprise. After all, Sister Zhang was an old comrade. It was common for her to be late and leave early on weekdays. Under normal circumstances, she would have gone home more than ten minutes before the end of get off work.

Now it's almost time to get off work, but Sister Zhang is still working hard at her position. This is not normal!
"Is there any important business recently? Why is Sister Zhang working so hard?" Zhou Chenchen was full of curiosity. She stood up pretending to pour water and walked to Sister Zhang.

"Sister Zhang, it's almost time to get off work, but you're still busy!"

As they were talking, Zhou Chenchen glanced at Sister Zhang's computer screen, which showed Happy Farm.

"I thought she was working, but it turns out she was just pretending to be active. She pretended to work, but was actually stealing vegetables." Zhou Chenchen thought to herself.

But Zhou Chenchen thought again. At Zhang's age, she usually takes advantage of her seniority in the workplace. If she wanted to play games, she didn't need to pretend to work. She could play openly and her boss wouldn't say anything. Besides, it was time to get off work, so playing games was okay.

"There must be something wrong when things are abnormal!" Thinking of this, Zhou Chenchen looked at the small notebook in Sister Zhang's hand.

"Liu Mei, cabbage, 13:15, potatoes, 13:40, tomatoes, 14:02..."

"Wang Jin, potatoes, 13:26, eggplant, 13:55, pumpkin, 14:18..."

"Xia Xiaoli, Chinese cabbage, 14:31, peas, 14:47, apples, 14:58..."

"Sister Zhang, do you remember what this is?" Zhou Chenchen couldn't help but ask.

"It's nothing. It's the time when the vegetables in Happy Farm are ripe. I'll make a note of it. When the time comes and the vegetables are ripe, I can go and steal them!" Sister Zhang replied.

Hearing this answer, Zhou Chenchen couldn't help but open his mouth wide with an incredible expression on his face.

Is there anyone who steals vegetables like this?

When we steal vegetables, we just go to our friends' homes and wander around. If we see someone's vegetables are cooked, we steal some. It doesn't matter if we don't steal anything.

You, on the other hand, calculated the time well, and went to steal the vegetables as soon as they were ripe. Your main goal was not to return empty-handed, right?

You go door to door and calculate the time when the crops are ready. Does that count as checking out the location in advance?
As expected of an old comrade, he plays a game so seriously.

No wonder your farm upgraded so quickly. In just a few days, you reclaimed several new pieces of land. With your stealing method, how could it not be fast?
After sighing slightly, Zhou Chenchen said, "Sister Zhang, it's time to get off work. Take your time and play. I'm leaving first."

Sister Zhang said, "The strawberries from Xiao Li at the Information Center will be ripe in two minutes. I will steal them first before I leave."

Sister Zhang said as she skillfully entered Xiao Li's Happy Farm, placed the mouse on the strawberries, and waited for the countdown to end before pressing the mouse.

Zhou Chenchen was surprised again: "Can you do this? Scouting the place is fine, but you also stake out the place in advance? Real thieves are not as professional as you, right?"

……

After the launch of Happy Farm, the number of users of Xiaonei.com increased rapidly. This simple game created a need for social interaction for those who did not know how to socialize online or had no need for it.

After this game came out, the people who played it most crazily were not young people, but rather some middle-aged office workers and parents who were about to enter old age.

Most young people are exposed to the Internet at a relatively early age, and some are even introduced to it through games. This simple game of stealing vegetables may not arouse their interest.

But for the majority of middle-aged people, as well as older middle-aged people, they have basically never been exposed to games, or are not interested in online games. In addition to office needs, they use the Internet mainly to browse various web information.

As they get older, they will find it difficult to accept even complicated games. On the contrary, this kind of simple and easy-to-play game is more suitable for them.

As for the truly elderly, they probably cannot even accept the Internet, and prefer watching TV, which is easier. They can just turn on the TV and press one, two, three on the remote control to select a channel.

The elderly at that time probably didn't expect that in the future there would be so-called smart TVs everywhere, each one more complicated than the other, with VIP and VVIP, and they were constantly adding new features. Not to mention the elderly, many young people wouldn't even know how to watch TV.

People are like this. The older they get, the less they accept new things. We can't simply blame them for not keeping up with the times. Sometimes it's not that they don't want to accept it, but that they really have no interest in studying new things.

Take online games for example. When I was a teenager, I was curious about all the games I saw and wanted to try them all. When I was in my twenties, I started to be picky and probably only played the games I liked.

If you are over 30, you will slowly find that you can no longer play. Not only your mind and operation can’t keep up, but more importantly, you can’t feel the passion and lose the desire to explore.

You’ll get bored after playing two or three games of an old game, and you’ll still not understand a new game after playing two or three games. Watching other people play games on live broadcasts may be more interesting than playing them yourself.

For example, a certain writer watched Zaiwu make his debut and won the TOP1 three times, but in fact he has never played a game of CS. Can you believe it?
This is what it’s like when you reach middle age, you don’t have the energy or the energy to play anymore!

The same is true for other sports. There are many middle-aged NBA fans who used to be big basketball fans, but after getting older, they haven’t played basketball for several years. Even street ball may have been a long time ago!
Middle-aged fans who stay up late to watch the Champions League, have you ever played football since Mbappe won the World Cup? It is very likely that you will not play a single football again even if you see Yamal retire.

Middle-aged people will have some mid-life crisis!

Even the top second-generation rich would worry about an illegitimate child suddenly showing up and asking for money, let alone ordinary people like us who have to bear the burden of life on a daily basis?
……

On the campus network, Wang Xing looked at the latest user data with an incredible expression on his face.

“Is this data wrong?”

(End of this chapter)