I open a farm in the doomsday: I take in a female coach at the beginning

Obviously I should hate him, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to hate him to the core.

But why...why...

Jiang Chuan watched the anger in Shimizu Shiho's eyes gradually turn into confusion, and he didn't care about her inner changes.

So he stretched out a hand and grabbed her pectoral muscles in front of Shimizu Shiho's dazed gaze.

Ok.

It was really unexpected for Jiang Chuan. It was not the soft and smooth feeling like water bags like Hayakawa and Mrs. Sugimoto, nor was it the elastic and plump feeling like tofu like Ando Haruyuki.

But at the same time, it is soft.

If I have to describe it, it would probably be a piece of rice cake wrapped in cloth.

The curiosity in his heart was answered. Jiang Chuan withdrew his hand and slowly left under the astonished gaze of Shimizu Shiho.

He didn't even look back at her.

"..."

Looking at Jiang Chuan's departing back, Shimizu Shiho subconsciously put her hand on her chest.

She had thought that she would feel disgusted and uncomfortable to the extreme after Jiang Chuan did this to her, but just like how she felt just now, this time, she did not feel the emotions she had imagined.

"No, it's really because of me..."

Shimizu Shiho's expression became more and more doubtful. Even though her inner thoughts kept telling her that this was the case, she was still unwilling to accept it.

Jiang Chuan doesn't plan to invest too much energy in caring about Shimizu Shiho, and Shimizu Shiho herself will probably continue to struggle for a long time.

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The town survived another crisis, and Jiang Chuan's mood became much calmer.

It can be said that the biggest crisis for him has passed.

The farm space has already developed to the late stage at this time. The farmland part and the pasture part have been graduated. The daily income of more than one million gold coins will cause the scarecrow army under his control to expand rapidly, and it will soon reach an extremely terrifying scale.

Not to mention that after today's battle with Teacher Mikami, Jiang Chuan also discovered a very important piece of good news for him - the zombies will become less and less obedient as time goes by.

In this case, the size of the scarecrow army would not be as Jiang Chuan had previously imagined, requiring hundreds of millions. For example, the scarecrow army of 10,000 in Jiang Chuan's hands now could easily eliminate ten or even dozens of times more zombies.

It is unknown whether Jiang Chuan's military advantage will give him an advantage in the future.

But the other thing that was discovered was not good news.

The abilities of the matrices are surprisingly different. Up to now, there have been simple physical enhancements like Ryo Ryo, control ability of Teacher Mikami, and another with the ability to fly with wings on its back. Of course, there is also the huge matrice that we encountered in Aoi Apartment... although I don't know if that thing can be equated with the previous three.

It has been confirmed at present that the enemy's methods have a certain degree of uncertainty and diversity. Jiang Chuan is completely unable to predict what kind of invasions may occur again in the future and what methods the enemy will use.

For example, today, if Tsunade had not been by Jiang Chuan's side, he might have really let the flying mother body fly away with Teacher Mikami. The latter's ability to control the actions of zombies and stimulate human desires might cause even greater trouble in the future if he let the tiger go back to the mountains. Fortunately, there was no danger.

So next, Jiang Chuan's development focus will officially shift to the extraction and training of guardian servants.

Tsunade, who is not even a full star, is able to possess such overwhelming strength. When Jiang Chuan saw this today, he was really shocked. Even with his current strength, he might not be a match for his guardian servant in a fight.

There are three other powerful guardian servants like this in the card pool waiting for Jiang Chuan to draw. Jiang Chuan’s demand for servant points has really increased greatly.

It’s a pity that Jiang Chuan now has only two ways to obtain servant points: upgrading and completing the story mode at the bottom of the pool. Of course, the latter requires constantly collecting despair crystal cores to unlock subsequent chapters, so the main way to obtain them in the later stage is probably to upgrade.

However, as Jiang Chuan's level gets higher and higher, the experience points required for upgrading are also increasing. If he wants to draw out all the remaining three guardian servants, he doesn't know how many points he will need to consume and what level he needs to upgrade to achieve it.

There is no use being impatient. Right now Jiang Chuan can only try his best to complete everything as perfectly as possible at every stage. As for what the future will be like, he can only take it one step at a time.

Chapter 241 The Second Phase Begins

Wearing a diving suit, Jiang Chuan came to the bottom of the pool and stood in front of the huge machine again.

The last story mode ended at the last chapter of the first stage, with the sudden death of the eight-foot female wizard and that strange message. Although Jiang Chuan didn’t care much about it, he was still a little curious about how things would develop next.

After all, up to now, after going through three story modes, Jiang Chuan still can't find any clue about the information he wants to find.

Who is the wife in the 24 messages, the woman named Seventy-Seven? Why did she bring despair into this world?

If Jiang Chuan wanted to know the answers, there was only one way, which was to return to the story mode and see what the young boy experienced in his subsequent life.

Jiang Chuan took out the two despair crystal cores he had just obtained from the battle from the space backpack, came to the big machine, opened the second and third energy tanks of the machine, and put the two crystals into them respectively.

Just like last time, as Jiang Chuan closed the lids of the two energy tanks, a large amount of black gas instantly escaped from the dark crystal core. The machine was also activated, emitting bursts of irregular noises.

The helmet lit up again.

Jiang Chuan looked at the helmet, then looked down at his lower body, feeling a little alert.

Could it be that this time we will experience such a ridiculous thing as black energy invading the golden egg?

But although he was vigilant, the final result was good after all. Jiang Chuan also relied on the point rewards in each stage of the story mode, so it was absolutely impossible for him to escape.

Jiang Chuan's heart trembled, and without any hesitation, he went straight to the helmet, picked it up and put it on his head.

Then, consciousness gradually became blurred.

After he put on the helmet, like every time in the past, Jiang Chuan's body gradually floated in the air, and the black gas transformed from the two despair crystal cores that had just been placed in the energy tank also dissipated again.

A large amount of black air wrapped around Jiang Chuan's entire body, and was finally slowly absorbed by a certain part of his body, like a black hole, swallowing all the black air in one gulp.

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【Welcome back to story mode】

[Current Despair Crystal Core filling progress: 3/3, the second stage has been activated! ]

[Phase 2: Chapter 1 - Inheritance has begun]

[The death of your teacher Santiago was a great blow to you. In your grief, you learned a high-level spell from the spell book in just one day - the Ice Spell. You condensed a piece of extremely cold ice, froze your teacher's body in it, and placed it in the basement of the Mage Tower.]

[So you are the only one left in this tower, and your life is still the same as usual, eating, drinking, and learning spells every day. In the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed.]

[That day, an unexpected guest suddenly came to the Mage Tower...]

【Let’s go downstairs and see what’s going on. 】

As the system prompts ended, Jiang Chuan sat up from the bed again.

The surroundings were still the same room he had been in the previous two times he woke up, but the furnishings had changed, and it seemed that quite a bit of time had indeed passed.

Jiang Chuan spread out his hands and found that his palms had grown bigger and his finger bones had also become thicker.

He turned over and got out of bed, his sight raised higher again than before. According to Jiang Chuan's estimation, the boy at this time was probably about 15 or 16 years old, which was the time for growth.

So, just like the previous times, Jiang Chuan unzipped his pants, lowered his head to examine it, and then frowned slightly.

“There hasn’t been much change in this place…”

Jiang Chuan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. It seemed that the protagonist of this story mode, although a very powerful magic genius, seemed to be a little inferior to ordinary people in some aspects.

"..."

Pulling up his pants, Jiang Chuan just shook his head slightly. Although he felt sorry for the protagonist, this was not his body after all.

The task prompt said that an unexpected guest was coming, so it should mean that I should go downstairs and open the door now.

Jiang Chuan pushed the door open and walked out. He was already somewhat familiar with the Mage Tower, so he easily found the previous staircase. He went down the stairs and came to the first floor hall of the Mage Tower again.

Just as Jiang Chuan stepped on the floor of the hall, a knock on the door came from outside the north door, as if someone was watching him.

Jiang Chuan frowned slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he still walked slowly towards the door. Finally, he grasped the bolt and slowly opened the door.

Appearing outside the gate was an old man with white hair and beard, wearing a gray robe.

Uh...who?

Jiang Chuan looked at the old man and was a little confused for a moment.

He originally thought that the first person to appear in this second stage of the mission was so serious, so he must be an important character, or even a character who had appeared before?

But Jiang Chuan had no impression of this old man at all.

However, after seeing him, the other party immediately smiled.

"Time flies... I'm already this old."

"How is Santiya? Come to think of it, I haven't seen her for a few years."

?

As if responding to Jiang Chuan's doubts, a line of system prompts appeared in front of him the next moment.

[This old man is the one who found you and gave you a Mage Tower coin after your parents died in the Tide of Despair.]

[You are somewhat shocked to find that compared to a few years ago, this old man has not changed at all, as if the passage of time has not had any effect on him...]

After seeing these words, Jiang Chuan suddenly understood.

It turned out to be this person. When he first entered the story mode, it was already the day when the protagonist was about to leave the town and go to the wizard tower. The previous plot was only described to Jiang Chuan in words, so this old man did not appear.

"The teacher is dead."

Jiang Chuan could only answer the old man's question truthfully. After all, the dead cannot be resurrected. Jiang Chuan also felt it was a pity for the sudden death of the eight-foot-tall woman.

"……is that so."

After hearing Jiang Chuan's answer, the old man's mood did not change. He just nodded and showed an expression of "I see" on his face. He looked as if he had heard something very normal.

"There were four of them in total. I watched them grow up, and now even the last one is dead. Life is so unpredictable."

The old man shook his head and sighed, but looking at his expression, Jiang Chuan didn't seem as touched as he said.

"Let's stop chatting here. I'm here today for business."

The old man's sigh about Santiya's death ended instantly, and then he looked at Jiang Chuan seriously: "Since Santiya is dead, this Mage Tower is now your sole responsibility. I can only entrust this matter to you. Just think of it as a small experience before you officially become a mage."

As he spoke, he took out a coin and handed it to Jiang Chuan.

Looking at this coin, Jiang Chuan suddenly discovered that this coin seemed different from the one he had on him.

"Some time ago, the aftermath of the northern tide of despair hit the nearby town. Speaking of which, that should be your hometown."

The old man then continued to speak, and the first thing he said was a shocking piece of news.

"My hometown?"

Jiang Chuan immediately remembered the small town where he first entered the story mode... and the little girl in the small town who was his childhood sweetheart.

"Yeah, so you didn't know about this yet?"

The old man looked at Jiang Chuan with some surprise, and there seemed to be a hint of gloating in his eyes. Jiang Chuan, who noticed this, instantly had a worse impression of him.

"Well, don't be too sad."

As the old man spoke, he waved his hand nonchalantly.

"There are countless people who die in despair every day in this world. Since you have left this world and become a mage, the lives of these ordinary mortals have no meaning to you. You should just concentrate on doing your own thing."

As the old man spoke, he put the coin into Jiang Chuan's hand.

"If you want to escape from this world, you must be free of all worries. The reason why I handed the coin to you was because you lost your parents and were alone from then on without any worries. The same is true this time."

"This coin corresponds to another child who had the same experience as you a few years ago. Since you are from the same village, you might know each other."

"What you have to do is to do for that child what Santia did for you. Do you understand me?"

After the old man finished speaking, he reached out and patted Jiang Chuan on the shoulder.

Jiang Chuan took his dry hand away expressionlessly, then put the coin away and nodded.

"I understand, is there anything else?"

"That's all. See you later. I hope I can see you next time I come here."

The old man didn't say any more words, just waved his hand casually and turned away.

"..."

Jiang Chuan looked at the old man's back as he left, then looked at the coin in his palm.

An outrageous guess gradually emerged in my mind.

No way?

It can't really be...

However, before Jiang Chuan could continue thinking, a series of system prompts suddenly appeared in front of him.

[The Mage Tower is about to welcome a new member, and you, who have been studying magic in the tower for several years, seem to have taken over the job of teacher Santiago and are about to become another person's teacher. You are a little uneasy about this.]