There can't be a Harvest Moon in the RimWorld.

If I had to say something, I only got the seeds yesterday, how could they possibly flower and bear fruit overnight?

"Marcus, stop trying to fool me with all this nonsense. I really have no money and nothing left..."

Until we entered the ranch, he still thought I was lying to him, that I was trying to trick him into coming here by trickery.

But when he saw the potatoes piled up like a small mountain on the open ground, he was completely dumbfounded!

"See? Isn't this a potato? Did I lie to you?"

I saw Zack standing there, looking smug, and then I introduced him.

But Zach still didn't react, his hands trembling as he stood there dumbfounded, too afraid to approach. It took him a long time to finally utter a single sentence.

"...Marcus, are you trying to fool me by painting stones?"

I roared, "(#`Д') Go to hell!"

Chapter 107 Are you also born with superhuman strength?

"You really think I'd spend that much time painting a stone and then lying to you? I could have robbed you and made a fortune in that time!"

Zack was a little stunned by my barrage of criticism, but he quickly recovered and muttered in dissatisfaction, "Why do you make it sound like robbing someone is perfectly justified..."

However, Zach's work ethic was still very good. He walked to the potato pile, picked up a potato, and examined it carefully.

Then, he carefully made a cut in the potato with his finger, observed the texture inside, and even smelled it carefully.

For a moment, I really thought he was a botany expert.

Until Zack broke the potato in half and took a bite...

"It tastes awful... Was it a lie after all?"

"Isn't it normal for raw potatoes to taste bad?!" I blurted out. "What are you doing, pretending to be an expert when you're just an amateur? You're talking about diagnosis and treatment, criticizing raw potatoes for being unpalatable? Why don't you just tell me about the poor user feedback when it comes to poisonous mushrooms?"

"Huh! Is that how it is?!" Zack looked surprised, scratching his head and grinning foolishly, which made me even angrier.

Fortunately, his lapse in judgment passed, and he fulfilled his duty by bagging and sealing all the potatoes, and even brought a scale to weigh them on the spot.

As the boxes were stacked higher and higher on the scale, the pointer on the dial gradually increased. The pointer for the units digit (kilograms) immediately rotated 360 degrees, and the pointer for the hundreds digit slowly moved on...

"225 kilograms!"

Zack patted my shoulder with a look of satisfaction. "Congratulations, Marcus! Such a good harvest on your first planting!"

Zach crossed his arms and looked at the ranch with shining eyes, his tone filled with emotion: "I never thought I'd live to see Mineral Town Ranch ship again! The town has been relying on imports for crops for years, and they always fill up the brothers' ships to the brim, and they're always complaining to me that this route isn't profitable."

“Once your business expands, the town will be self-sufficient, and I'll be able to bring in more industrial products! Lilia's mayonnaise machine has been used for ten years; it's time to replace it!”

As I watched the potatoes being neatly packed into boxes, I was filled with anticipation and couldn't help but ask Zack, "How much are potatoes per kilogram now? How much can I sell for after these are shipped?"

Zach scratched his head and recalled, "Last week, Boss Dart bought potatoes for 120 yuan per kilogram, but that price included shipping costs, so there was a significant markup. The potatoes you produce here should be able to sell for 100 yuan per kilogram. What do you think?"

That means my 225 kilograms of potatoes can be sold for 22,500 yuan!

This amount of money may not be much in big cities—for example, Gu Le Gu once put out 30,000 yuan as a deposit—but it's enough to squander for a long time in this small town.

With ten thousand dollars, I can buy dozens of packets of seeds at the general store, eat at Mr. Dart's place for half a month, and have a batch of new farm tools made at Sebala's place...

"By the way, Marcus, where do you grow your potatoes?" After packing up the potatoes, Zack wiped the sweat from his brow and continued chatting with me.

"I come to the ranch every day to check if the goods have been shipped, but I haven't seen you planting potatoes. Did you clear land in the woodland outside the ranch?"

Zack kindly reminded him, "Although this area is all unclaimed land, Gotz will find out if you encroach on the woodland outside the ranch! He's a part-time ranger, and encroaching on wasteland can easily land you in the police station!"

Is Gots really that scary? I thought he was just a kind old man living in the mountains.

Then again, my ranch is surrounded by bushes taller than a person, who in their right mind would go there to clear land!

I couldn't stand Zack's unbridled behavior any longer, so I took him to visit the former potato field next to the house. If I don't keep him in check, he'll start to overthink things.

The potato field, which had been thriving, was reduced to a pile of uprooted plants after my harvest. The spot where the potatoes had been buried is now a huge, deep pit.

"Why did you bring me here to see this pit?" Zack asked, puzzled.

"What pit? This is my potato field. Didn't you ask?"

"Huh?!?!" Zack's jaw nearly dropped to the floor. Pointing at the deep pit, he asked, "You grew your potatoes here? How big is it? Twenty square meters... twenty-five square meters, I guess!"

Zach clicked his tongue in amazement as he walked around the pit, then asked in surprise, "You only planted 25 square meters, and it grew over 200 kilograms of potatoes! I thought you were planting weeds here, I didn't even notice!"

The weeds he was referring to... were probably the pasture fields adjacent to the potato fields. Various types of grasses of different lengths grew together, making it look somewhat like a weedy area...

"Isn't this normal? The potatoes I pulled up each plant had about 4 to 10 potatoes, each weighing more than a pound. A single plant weighed at least four or five pounds, and at most 10 pounds and 3 ounces. On average, a single plant should weigh five or six pounds."

"Pull it up with your hands? You're that strong?"

"I was born with superhuman strength!"

"Wait a minute... Marcus..." Zack, who was shocked by the potatoes falling from the sky, slowly regained his senses and suddenly realized something was wrong. "You've only been in this town for a little over a week, right? How did you grow potatoes?"

I picked up a potato plant, showed it to him, and said, "I planted this potato six days ago, and it's already being harvested today. That's quite fast."

"Is this a problem of being too fast?! This is practically the speed of light!" Zack exclaimed, scratching his head in frustration. "Six days to grow potatoes?! What kind of logic is that?! I'd rather you paint with stones..."

"Because I used Jin Ke La! When fertilizer is mixed with Jin Ke La, the crop yield is 18,000 jin per mu; when fertilizer is mixed with Jin Ke La, it can absorb nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium from two meters below, you know that?"

"What Golden Fertilizer? Is this fertilizer really that amazing?" Zack was already completely bewildered by my hype and asked instinctively, "Okay... what I'm trying to say is that this potato variety is incredible. If you can keep planting it, it can not only solve the food problem in Mineral Town, but it can even be exported!"

The most amazing thing is that these potatoes, which yield 10,000 jin per mu and mature in six days, were not treated by me—I didn't remove pests, water them, or fertilize them; I didn't even tend to them for a single day…

However, I still don't plan to say it out loud. If I keep attacking him, Zack will really lose his rationality and become a member of UC's shocking department.

Another consideration is that the colonist system's potatoes have too many amazing features; what if they attract attention? Although this is a remote and impoverished area, it's better to avoid trouble and keep a low profile.

"Zack, leave me 25 kilograms of potatoes; I won't ship those. You can take the rest."

"Okay, I'll pay you back later when the goods are shipped!"

Zack, having satisfied his curiosity, said goodbye to me, looking refreshed. I watched as he gripped the potato crate firmly with one hand, and with the other hand providing slight support, effortlessly hoisted the 200-kilogram crate onto his shoulder with one hand, and walked away with light steps.

"........."

I never imagined you were born with superhuman strength?

Chapter 108 Super Carrot

After seeing off Zach, the shipper who had finished his work, I had to get back to my own tasks.

To my shame, when Zack saw the harvest at the ranch and looked so moved, I almost thought he was the owner of the ranch and I was just a passerby.

But thinking about it carefully, in the short time I've been running this ranch, I haven't really done anything related to proper business operations...

Every day, besides going to Boss Dart's place for meals and chats, she would get involved in the gossip of the town's residents. Just when she finally wanted to get some serious work done, she was interrupted by the visitor system, dragging Jay up and down the stairs, busier than Jay herself…

Not only that, but my first pot of gold had nothing to do with the ranch; it came entirely from the short bow crafted by the colonists. If things continue like this, I'll truly become a unique individual in this small town—written as a "wanderer," but read as a "street hustler"!

To prevent further visits and unexpected events, I've decided to stay on the ranch today, do some farm work, and rediscover my dreams.

Just then, a pony strolled out of the stable. It cautiously looked around, making sure the strange man who had bitten its ear yesterday hadn't appeared, before it waddled off with a happy expression, its head bobbing.

(●>?<●)!

"..."

The most infuriating one is this little horse emoji.

Who owns a ranch that doesn't raise cows or sheep, but instead raises an emoji?

But when the pony saw me, who rarely appears in the pasture, it immediately ran over, rolled around on the spot, and acted cute and cuddly.

Hmph, you think this will work...?

"Sweetie, let me pat your head~"

I was careless! I was tricked by this poor, weak, helpless but gluttonous little pony. I put my hand on its exposed belly and rubbed it, playing with it.

...Forget it, I'm not going to bother with emojis.

After playing with it for a while, I sent it to the grazing area to graze, and went back to the house to get farm tools and seeds to start planting.

…………

Today's goal is to sow all the seeds we have in our hands.

Most of the seeds I originally purchased were left for the jays to take back to their tribe, since they needed these new crops more than I did.

So all I have left are a bag of potatoes, a bag of radishes, a bag of hay, a bag of cabbage, a bag of pineapple, and a whole bunch of strawberries and green peppers.

I kept only one bag of each crop suitable for the Brown Pool tribe as experimental seeds. The large pile of strawberry seeds came from hush money given to me by Miss Karen, and the green pepper seeds were scavenged from Zack's side.

These two aren't really suitable for them to grow, so I gave them one bag of each, and the rest will be my main crops from now on!

Next up is the moment I've been most looking forward to: the lottery results! I wonder which seeds are crops recognized by the colony system and can be successfully modified!

I don't expect them to yield tens of thousands of kilograms per mu like potatoes. I just want them to grow quickly like potatoes and not get sick. That would save me so much trouble...

No, I'm a rancher, how can I be so lazy!

It must be the world's fault!

Getting back to the main topic, I still need to first introduce the current plans for the ranch.

For safety reasons, I fenced off an area with wooden fencing for farming and grazing, as well as to defend against enemy invasions. The other large areas are simply cleared open spaces that I do not plan to use for the time being.

At the time, I was suffering from paranoia, so I deliberately set up the land in a trapezoid shape from near to far, which can be seen as a shape like the character "吕". The small "口" area at the top is the grazing area, which is far away from me and has more wild grass, making it suitable for animals to roam and rest.

The large "mouth" below the character "吕" is the planting area I've designated.

Currently, only a small plot of land on the far right of the bottom of the character "吕" has been used to plant pasture and potatoes have just been harvested. The rest of the land is still empty, so my plan is to plant the entire plot and help the ranch come back to life!

I focused my attention on the colony system interface, and a semi-transparent function menu slowly appeared before my eyes.

"Task Selection: Architectural Planning - Area Setting"

“Set up planting area: Create an area where colonists can grow a certain type of plant.”

Right where my eyes fell, a virtual module glowing red appeared, which looked to be 5 meters square.

"Plant seeds can be sown in land with a range of 3*3".

"Please confirm the location shown in green for the plot,"

I took a look, and slowly moved the red module to the cleared land, avoiding a place that seemed to have poor soil, and set it up squarely in the center.