#45 - Chapter 45 Task Overlay

Seeing the maintenance prompts flooding in, Shen Xingyan also unhesitatingly started another wave of high-intensity labor with the little skeletons.

Seeing Xingyuan's momentum, Shen Xingyan didn't expect to be able to slack off and rest today, and sighed with a bit of 'selling well after getting a bargain': Bury yourself in hard work!

However, what happened next seemed to really verify his words, making him unable to help but curse himself for being a bit of a jinx.

Due to the overall increase of 20% in the growth progress of all crops in such a short period of time, the frequency of Xingyuan's maintenance prompts was extremely fast, far exceeding the past and also greatly exceeding Shen Xingyan's estimates.

"What the... This is so fierce? The speed at which they appear is also bullying me in my current state. When I have a legion of ten thousand skeletons in the future, let's see what you can do to me!"

Although he also knew that the dream of a ten thousand skeleton legion would only be realized in twenty-seven years if nothing unexpected happened, he was just thinking about it now, considering it as drawing a big pie for himself.

At this time, Shen Xingyan had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, and surprisingly still had the energy to imagine this matter.

However, his self-absorbed thoughts did not last long before being brought back to reality by the speed at which Xingyuan's prompts appeared.

Only because the speed at which this wave of prompts appeared was too frequent, severely exceeding Shen Xingyan's understanding, forcing him to put all his energy into labor, and the speed of his labor was also increased to the fastest frequency in history.

Fortunately, the previous harvest of wheat allowed his profession level to increase by three levels, which increased all his attribute values in the Xingyuan world by three points.

Judging from his current attributes, under the circumstances of going all out for labor, he is more than twice as strong as before, and his labor value is already equivalent to two and a half small skeletons.

No wonder other farmer professions, after reaching the advanced level, can take care of all the fields with the ability of one person.

However, under his all-out labor, the final result was somewhat unsatisfactory.

The frequency of Xingyuan's maintenance prompts not only did not weaken, but instead showed a tendency to increase.

Although Shen Xingyan and the little skeletons were already trying their best to complete all the labor, they still couldn't keep up with the rhythm of the maintenance prompts.

This time, Xingyuan's maintenance prompts seemed to be frantically retaliating against the humiliation Shen Xingyan and the others had given before, frantically issuing tasks, as if all the tasks were to be concentrated in this period of time.

Not only did it not give them any breathing time in the middle, but it even allowed Shen Xingyan to see what was called "double prompts" for the first time!

Shen Xingyan had also learned about this aspect before. The precursor to "task stagnation" is this double prompt, which is a warning signal given by the Xingyuan world. If these tasks are not completed in time, then a "triple prompt" will appear.

The appearance of a "triple prompt" also means that the remaining time for the professionals is running out!

If the time this prompt appears exceeds a certain limit, the Xingyuan world will make a "task stagnation" judgment, followed by a punishment, causing the final harvest to be reduced to a certainty!

And this is what most farmer professionals often experience, and it is not a rare thing for them.

However, Shen Xingyan, who has the little skeletons working twenty-four hours a day, has never experienced this kind of thing since he awakened his profession.

Only to see that above Shen Xingyan's current farmland, unexpectedly, two Xingyuan prompt icons were floating.

This made Shen Xingyan's eyes widen, and all the little skeletons were also stunned in place, not knowing which prompt should be processed first, as if they had fallen into a state of crash.

Looking at the little skeletons who had fallen into a daze, Shen Xingyan understood the loopholes in his previous instructions after thinking for a while.

"I only said to let Wangcai and the others work according to Xingyuan's prompts, but I didn't say what to do when two prompts appear at the same time. It's like giving a car that can only go straight two turns to choose from, and the result will only be that it can't run."

After figuring this out, he quickly modified the instructions: "Wangcai, modify the work instructions. From now on, whichever prompt appears first, prioritize processing that one, and pass it on."

As Shen Xingyan's instructions were successfully modified, Wangcai, who was still a little confused just now, also recovered.

Only to see that it didn't move much, and all the little skeletons returned to their normal working state.

Shen Xingyan was not surprised by Wangcai's operation, and only regarded it as having a special connection method between them.

Looking at the recovered little skeletons, Shen Xingyan couldn't help but secretly said: "Fortunately, I was there, and nothing went wrong. If this kind of situation occurs when I'm not around, maybe the first punishment from Xingyuan will come!"

After sighing, Shen Xingyan looked at the two prompts hanging above his head, feeling awkward no matter how he thought about it. Since he started farming, with the help of the little skeletons, he had never been threatened like this.

Feeling a little upset, he simply issued an instruction to Wangcai:

"Wangcai, pass it on, now except for this mu of wheat field, all other fields will temporarily abandon refined planting, and go all out for me!"

And Wangcai, wearing a straw hat, seemed to feel the anger from its master. Only to see it slightly shake its skull head, and all the other little skeletons seemed to be given a buff, and the labor action was obviously accelerated a lot.

This phenomenon made Shen Xingyan nod in satisfaction. Special methods must be used in special periods, and farming cannot be too rigid.

Just as he lowered his head to continue working, an amazing scene suddenly appeared in front of him. Only to see that all the little skeletons he saw had a -1 number prompt appearing on their heads.

This made him suddenly widen his eyes, his face full of doubt, incomprehension, and disbelief. He couldn't believe everything that was happening in front of him!

"Why were all the little skeletons, including Wangcai, suddenly deducted a drop of blood for no reason!" This question began to echo in Shen Xingyan's mind.

He hadn't eaten pork, but he had seen pigs walk. Shen Xingyan recognized the -1 prompt just now at a glance. That was the Xingyuan world's blood deduction prompt.

Subsequently, a pessimistic idea could not help but begin to emerge in his mind:

This is terrible! The little skeletons only have ten points of health. If they continue to deduct like this, the little skeletons I summoned for more than ten days will disappear like this!

Not to mention the future legion of ten thousand skeletons, it will be difficult to even maintain the current state!