Strategy game? Then I'll have to control you properly.

[Roger: Are you busy lately? What time do you get off work?]

[Lin Miao: I've already finished get off work. It's earlier here.]

[Roger: How about we take some Delta Force action while we have some free time?]

[Lin Miao: Sorry, I have plans with someone else today.]

Amidst their busy lives, Lin Miao received a message from a friend, but she had to decline his invitation to play games together.

After refusing her friend's request, Lin Miao returned to her computer, where the screen still displayed the images of the self-sufficient villagers.

Nothing unusual seemed to have happened while I was away. However, just to be on the safe side, it would be best to arm them as soon as possible.

[Minecraft - Startup]

Lin Miao immediately started the game, bringing in the four people she had summoned last time as well.

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and the residents now take it all in stride.

"Are you expecting something?"

A closer look reveals that their expressions are subtly different from yesterday's.

Compared to their previous somewhat wary state, their eyes sparkled after Lin Miao gave Lillie the iron sword, as if they were yearning for more gifts.

"I really can't do anything with you guys."

Lin Miao smiled and noticed a nearby rocky hill, so she led them toward it.

Afterwards, Lin Miao distributed four pickaxes issued by the union to them. When Lin Miao pointed in the direction of the rocky mountain, they immediately understood and began mining.

Their mining methods differed from Lin Miao's; instead of turning the stones into neat squares, they chiseled them into fragments, just like in real life.

However, whenever Lin Miao touches a stone again, the game character can put the pebbles into their backpack just like absorbing real-world objects.

"really."

The inventory shows that the rubble has automatically combined into a complete stone brick.

This phenomenon was discovered by chance yesterday when Lin Miao accidentally touched the raw meat they had placed on the ground, and was able to pick it up again.

Today, he will use these materials to build a wall around the stone house.

Although Lin Miao's mining speed was several times faster than others, since there were achievement tasks with fixed collection quotas, it was beneficial for everyone to work together.

"—!"

Seeing that Lin Miao was about to leave, they suddenly shouted at her.

They must be saying goodbye, especially since the tribal chief Attila was shouting so enthusiastically.

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"Will He bring ironware again?" Lillie asked softly, gazing in the direction Lin Miao had gone.

"Who knows? But wasn't it confirmed yesterday? It's entirely possible, isn't it?" Attila replied calmly.

Lin Miao ran far away in the blink of an eye with her unique bouncy gait.

Attila watched his retreating figure, listened to Lillie's words, smiled gently, and gripped the pickaxe in his hand again.

"As long as you dig out these rubble stones, you can exchange them for iron tools and meat as payment." Attila looked at the crowd. "You all remember how much we suffered before coming here, for an iron weapon."

"Yeah, at its most expensive, one could even cost as much as a horse," Allen chimed in.

As Allen said, ironware was an incredibly precious treasure to them, who lacked smelting and forging techniques. The fact that they could obtain it with just a few swings of a pickaxe felt like a dream.

"But I'm so tired... Let's take a short rest." Someone said wearily.

"Alright," Attila replied helplessly.

They are not characters in a game, after all; striking hard rock with a pickaxe is by no means an easy task.

You have to rest after working for a while so your body can keep up, and your efficiency will naturally be pitifully low.

Even Lillie, whose physique is far superior to that of ordinary people due to her enhanced magical power, found it difficult. If it were someone with ordinary physical strength, they would probably be too tired to even lift their arms.

[Feature Acquisition]

【Characteristic: Miner】

"Um?"

Just then, a boy named Allen in the crowd suddenly felt something strange in his body.

The arm that wielded the pickaxe was unusually light, and the pick tip easily cleaved the rock as if cutting tofu.

"W-What's going on?"

"What happened?!"

The stunned companions surrounded the boy who had just split the giant boulder as tall as a person, while Allen stared blankly at the pickaxe in his hand, feeling an unprecedented sense of comfort from the wooden handle.

"My God, it feels like there's magic surging within Allen."

"Really? This kid became a soldier?"

"But it feels a little... no, quite different..."

Even Lillie, who examined his body, couldn't reach a conclusion.

Unable to view the status bar, the only thing everyone could confirm was that Allen had gained some kind of special power.

"Isn't this great? If we use this much strength to work, the supervisor will probably pay us more."

Compared to his excited companions, the person involved was remarkably calm.

Allen readily accepted his newfound expertise in mining and picked up his pickaxe again.

The rocks crumbled like biscuits before him, and the boy transformed into an excavator, frantically mining the entire mountain of rocks.

That matter finally ended as time flew by and night fell.

Was it impacted?

As everyone prepared to head to the stone house, Lin Miao, who had run over from a distance, froze in place after seeing the scene created by Allen, who possessed the characteristics of a miner.

The residents thought he was frightened.

In reality, Lin Miao simply paused the character's actions, and was stunned after moving the mouse over Allen to check the status bar.

"Are you satisfied?" Attila asked, taking the initiative to speak to him.

Although we don't speak the same language, we understand each other's hearts.

Lin Miao nodded repeatedly as she collected all the scattered stones into her backpack.

The nighttime hours after sunset.

As night fell, they had no reason to sleep, so they went out of the stone house to fight the monsters and zombies that appeared around them.

"They're very strong, so be careful! But they're not very bright; just parry their attacks!"

"Raise your gun!"

This time, not only Lillie is fighting alongside them, but also other companions, as evidenced by the fact that each of them is holding a spear or sword.

Under Lillie's command, who easily dispatched enemies with her iron sword, the three formed a formation and calmly eliminated the enemies one by one.

[Achievement Completed: Kill 50 Zombies]

They had no idea they were farming achievements this way.

These people simply thought that doing so would please the "Lord of the World," win Lin Miao's favor, and thus obtain more resources.

"Oh, so they're building a wall."

Lillie knocked down the zombie that lunged at her, glancing at Lin Miao out of the corner of her eye.

Lin Miao, who did not go to the mine this time, was building a huge wall around the stone house, taller than a person, with the stones that he and his companions had dug up.

For the residents, the area, which is the size of a sports field, will soon be completely isolated from the outside world.

After the wall was completed, Lin Miao also joined the battle with her sword.

Before the residents were exhausted, the zombies trapped inside the wall were finally cleared away.

"This is the first time I've ever fought so many monsters."

However, while everyone was slumped on the ground panting, Lin Miao showed no sign of stopping.

Even Lillie was amazed by Lin Miao's tireless work.

"Are we going to have to farm? There's not even any water."

After finishing the wall, he began to cultivate the land. Holding a tool similar to a hoe, he plowed furrows and scattered seeds into the soil.

"Look over there, it's water!"

Farming using the game system is incredibly easy.

Lin Miao dug up the ground next to the soil where the seeds were sown, and gently sprinkled water with a water cube in her hand, instantly forming a small stream.

"How is this possible?!"

Mustering his courage, Attila took the lead and dipped his hand into the shimmering water.

Since it can be touched, it's no longer a simple graphic pixel.

The real floodwaters reached waist height and rippled gently with Attila's movements.

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The game easily ignores certain laws of physics, after all, it's just a game.

But for the residents who are about to make a living from this, it seems impossible to accept this fact so easily.

But eating only meat doesn't seem very healthy.

It's hard to say whether they, who migrated almost empty-handed, have mastered farming techniques.

However, rather than actually wielding a hoe to sow seeds and cultivating the land year after year in the desktop world, it would be more efficient to solve the food problem with fast-growing crops in this game world. That's why Lin Miao opened up this field.

Whether it's turning the soil, harvesting, or replanting, it all happens in the blink of an eye in my world.

You can even harvest mature crops in no time by simply sprinkling fertilizer made from monster drops.

After they used the loot from the monsters they had hunted to make fertilizer, everyone was stunned when Lin Miao handed them the first harvest of rice.

"This size of farmland should be more than enough to support a mere thirty or so people."

More than that, Lin Miao was concerned about the awakening of the miner's traits. It seemed that what could be obtained through the game was not just simple resources.

"Why don't we go check out the mine today?"

Anyway, to continue playing this game, one has to achieve certain goals. Lin Miao originally planned to take the villagers to a more distant place after making preparations.

Now that some of them have awakened their miner traits, the conditions are even more favorable.

[External intruders have appeared]

"what?"

But at that moment, something unusual happened outside the game screen in windowed mode.

Just like when the wolf pack attacked before, a large group of unidentified objects was moving toward this side of the terrain—that is, the left side of the table. The scale of these objects was quite considerable.

"It's human."

The figures were neither wild beasts nor monsters; a group of people dressed in clothing similar to the villagers were running towards them in a panic.

Behind them, another group of people were chasing after them.

Lin Miao's dilated pupils suddenly contracted as she saw a pursuing cavalryman slash down one of the refugees with his sword—a situation that could not be easily ignored.

What's worse, they're heading straight for the village!