216: Chapter 212 The Master's Chicken

He didn't write the third option.

But everyone was waiting.

Three seconds later—

【Fish at 3 AM (Yanhuang Civilization): The third possibility. The owner of this farm is the person who built the Farm Realm.】

The Symphony Realm went quiet.

Truly quiet.

Not the "wow, that's amazing, let me process this" kind of quiet from before. It was the quiet of everyone thinking of the same answer at the same time but not daring to say it out loud.

Then—

【Wind-Chasing Youth (Yanhuang Civilization): You mean... Fate...】

【Iron-Faced Ruthless (Yanhuang Civilization): Holy crap.】

【Little Noodle Shop Owner (Yanhuang Civilization): Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.】

【Storm Eye (Yanhuang Civilization): I re-organized the logic. First, the Farm Realm is a function of the Fate Platform, and the Fate Platform was built by Fate Master. Second, less than an hour after the Farm Realm went online, a farm approaching Level 3 already existed. Third, the Fate Platform announcement specifically used "first brave farmer" to refer to Zhou Liang—mind the wording, "first". If the owner of that Level 2 farm were also an ordinary Survivor, why wouldn't the Fate Platform announce that he was the "first farmer"? He was the first one to enter, after all. Why skip him and directly call the chicken-stealing Zhou Liang the "first"?】

【Salted Fish Turnaround (Yanhuang Civilization): But it's also possible that it means Zhou Liang is the first brave farmer to steal a chicken, right? Not necessarily the first farmer. After all, the first farmer didn't have a farm to steal from when they entered the Farm Realm?】

【Storm Eye (Yanhuang Civilization): Then tell me, since the first farmer to steal vegetables is worthy of being reported by the Fate Platform, isn't the first Farm Realm player, or even the first Survivor to build a Level 2 farm, worthy of being reported? Is it reasonable to only report a latecomer?】

【Storm Eye (Yanhuang Civilization): So I believe there is only one reasonable explanation. The owner of that farm is not an ordinary Survivor. He is the creator of the Farm Realm itself. Before the Farm Realm went online, he was already inside.】

【Storm Eye (Yanhuang Civilization): That Level 2 farm belongs to Fate Master.】

Within ten seconds of this analysis being posted, the comment refresh speed in the Symphony Realm broke through 50,000 per second.

【Salted Fish Turnaround (Yanhuang Civilization): Ho... ly... crap...】

【Old Smoker (Yanhuang Civilization): My scalp is tingling.】

【Iron Straight Man (Yanhuang Civilization): So the chicken Zhou Liang stole... could it be Fate Master's chicken???】

【Sea Chicken Farmer (Yanhuang Civilization): Zhou Liang, have you lost your mind!!! You actually dared to steal Fate Master's chicken!!!】

【Dream Maker (Yanhuang Civilization): There is another piece of evidence! The last sentence of the announcement: "That chicken has already been stolen back by its original owner." Stolen! Back! Fate Master didn't use a System recall, didn't use any administrator privileges, but chose to—steal it back. Using the same method as Zhou Liang. Steal.】

One hundred thousand replies flooded in instantly under this post, all three words—

"So cute."

"So cute."

"So cute."

【Fishing Light Song (Yanhuang Civilization): Fate Master... you are the supreme existence who controls Karma, you are the God who built the Fate Platform to save 1.4 billion people. Your chicken was stolen by an ordinary Survivor, and your choice wasn't to ban the account, wasn't to punish, wasn't to ignore—but to sneak over and steal it back??? What kind of contrast moe is this!!!】

【Justice Executor (Yanhuang Civilization): I'm dying of laughter hahahahaha! Imagine the scene—Fate Master crouching in front of Zhou Liang's chicken coop, sneakily taking his chicken away. I can laugh at this scene for a year.】

Zhou Liang's own ID finally popped up.

【Grassland Zhou Liang (Yanhuang Civilization): No... no way???】

But this comment was instantly drowned out by countless analytical replies.

【Dont Panic Let Me Analyze (Yanhuang Civilization): There is another angle. Think about it, why would Fate Master want to raise chickens and grow vegetables in the Farm Realm? He has a sustenance table, he has a food god shrine, is he lacking food? No. Does he lack a farm? Even less so. Then why would he grow them himself?】

【Late Night Awakened One (Yanhuang Civilization): Because he also wants to step on the soil.】

The comment section went quiet again.

This silence was longer.

【Late Night Awakened One (Yanhuang Civilization): Fate Master is also human. He has also been drifting on this Magic Sea for twenty-eight days. He also wants to see the blue sky, step on the soil, grow some vegetables, raise some chickens. So he built a farm for himself. Then he felt this thing was good, so he turned it into a function and shared it with everyone.】

【Late Night Awakened One (Yanhuang Civilization): This is Fate Master. He has never been a god high above. He is just a person who is countless times stronger than us, also surviving on this sea.】

The number of likes for this post exceeded 100 million within one minute.

Immediately after—

【God-Seeing Society · President Lu Xingye (Yanhuang Civilization): Zhou Liang!!! Do you still remember the location of that farm on the map!!! I beg you!!! I want to go see it!!! Even if it's just standing outside and taking a look!!! (Kneeling and begging.jpg) (Acting cute.jpg) (Crying.jpg)】

【God-Seeing Society · Zhao Kang (Yanhuang Civilization): President, calm down... forget it, you can't calm down.】

【God-Seeing Society · Zhang Chengming (Yanhuang Civilization): ...I want to know too.】

【Revival Red Federation · Director Lin Su (Yanhuang Civilization): If convenient, could you provide the approximate coordinates? The Revival Society is willing to express its sincerity in a reasonable way.】

【Little Life Society · President Shen Qing (Yanhuang Civilization): Interesting.】

Two words. Concise to the extreme. But five million likes underneath.

【Victoria (Fog City): I cannot enter the Farm Realm. But if any Yanhuang Civilization Survivor is willing to live-stream that farm, I am willing to pay karma points to watch.】

【Igor (Polar Bear): What vegetables did Fate Master plant? Are there sunflowers?】

【Solomon (Hebrew): A person who built the infrastructure of an entire civilization is raising chickens in a virtual world he created. This is the most romantic thing I have ever heard.】

【David Reeves (Stars and Stripes): I have that scene in my head now—the great Fate Master crouching in front of a chicken coop stealing a chicken. God, this is more exciting than any Hollywood movie.】

Comments were still pouring in at a rate of tens of thousands per second.

And at the same time—

Zhou Liang's life ring was about to shatter from the vibration.

The private message channel was completely jammed.

The official account of the Revival Red Federation Comprehensive Coordination Department sent a cooperation proposal. The Deep Sea Hunter Alliance sent an official invitation to join. The Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce offered a buyout price of 3,000 karma points for the information. The Iron Anchor Workshop even stated directly that they could forge him a Silver Grade weapon for free, as long as he revealed the coordinates of that farm.

President Lu Xingye of the God-Seeing Society sent seventeen private messages in one minute.

Zhou Liang sat on the deck of his Houseboat, holding his life ring, his eyes staring blankly.

He still hadn't recovered from the cognitive shock of "I might have stolen Fate Master's chicken."