Chapter 2: The Biggest Pit in History

Talent Trial!

A huge suction force emerged from under Mo Xiaobai’s feet. When he opened his eyes again, he had arrived in a special scene space.

The area of the special scene was not large, and Mo Xiaobai could see it clearly with just one glance.

“Sure enough, it is still this crappy logging ground!”

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly. Mo Xiaobai already recalled some very bad things from the past.

Just like right now, this new player Talent Trial that was called the “Biggest Pit in History” by billions of residents.

“Talent Trial!”

“Trial Objective: Within two days, command five villagers to collect 100 units of wood.”

“Countdown: 01:23:59:58”

Standing on the outskirts of a small forest, a trial light board floated in front of Mo Xiaobai. The content on it was very simple, so simple that the vast majority of people treated the trial as a game.

Beside Mo Xiaobai were five strong men who looked like they had plenty of strength.

Each held a brush hook in their hand, and they looked like experienced woodcutters at a glance.

“Uncles, I will have to trouble you all a bit for this.” Facing the NPCs, Mo Xiaobai habitually used the semi-classical tone he had practiced for fifteen years in his past life.

“You are too polite, young master. Shall we start now?”

“We are going to start, but I want to assign tasks first.”

That is right, cooperation!

The first pit of the biggest pit in history, clear division of labor!

If Mo Xiaobai did not say anything, the five strong men in front of him would just chop their own wood. One person could only harvest one unit of wood in an hour.

But if they worked in pairs to chop down big trees, and then had another person remove the branches, the logging progress would clearly speed up.

In his past life, Mo Xiaobai did not know about this at all. When doing the trial, he just boringly watched the strong men chopping wood individually, until he almost fell asleep.

Of course, the trial reward Mo Xiaobai received in his past life was also terribly miserable.

Since he was reborn, Mo Xiaobai naturally would not repeat the same mistakes.

He signaled four of the strong men to cooperate in logging, then Mo Xiaobai led the fifth uncle to the other side. They piled up all the vines that could be collected in the small forest, which would be used later.

When the vines were almost collected, two big trees, four or five meters high, fell with a “boom”. Mo Xiaobai hurriedly signaled the strong man beside him to do the post-processing, while he sat on the grass and slowly cleaned the vines at hand.

Time passed quietly like this, minute by minute.

The first two hours passed. Outside the small forest, thirteen units of wood were already neatly piled up. It was thirty percent faster than if the five of them had worked alone.

When the time reached noon, the amount of wood had reached twenty-seven units.

It was also at this time that the vines in Mo Xiaobai’s hands were almost cleaned. He walked towards the five strong villagers with a smile. “Everyone has been working all morning, it is time to rest.”

Rest on time!

This was the “second pit” of the biggest pit in history!

If Mo Xiaobai did not speak, these honest villagers would keep working until they were exhausted, which would directly affect the final trial reward.

But now that Mo Xiaobai had spoken, the five villagers naturally would not foolishly continue logging. They walked out of the forest one after another, and like magic, they each took out white steamed buns and large pottery bowls filled with water.

While eating and drinking, the fifth strong man whom Mo Xiaobai had singled out to work suddenly clicked his tongue and asked, “May I ask, young master, what was the purpose of having me pick up those vines earlier?”

“Oh, that. I was thinking about how to spend the night. You are all farm men, building a wooden shack to stay for a day should be no problem, right?” Mo Xiaobai had expected this question and answered calmly.

The third pit of the biggest pit in history!

Spending the night!

Although sleeping out in the open for a day or half a day was not a big problem, the hidden content of the trial was too tricky. If one really prepared nothing, they would surely be dumbfounded when the trial ended.

“Young master, you have thought it through. We will build a shack later to spend the night.”

“Yes, yes, our strength cannot do much else, but chopping wood and building a house is no problem.”

Several strong men spoke one after another, all agreeing with Mo Xiaobai’s idea. Finally, one person even tore off half a steamed bun for Mo Xiaobai. Mo Xiaobai did not refuse and stuffed it into his mouth while chatting and laughing.

The strong men ate and drank their fill, and then rested for over half an hour.

As soon as Mo Xiaobai stood up, the five people around him very consciously got up to work.

This kind of enthusiasm was also one of the potential trial judgments.

There was nothing much to say about the afternoon. After nearly six hours of labor, the wood had accumulated to 67 units.

When evening came, Mo Xiaobai asked three strong men to build the shack, while he took the other two and replanted the treetops and branches he had collected in the afternoon back into the ground.

This was the fourth pit of the biggest pit in history!

Restoration!

Blindly destroying the forest would also make the trial result very hurtful. Only by restoring and planting while destroying, so that the forest maintained continuous growth, was the result the trial wanted.

Mo Xiaobai remembered very clearly that ninety-nine percent of people in his past life did not know about this huge pit. In the end, a Player named “Four-Three-Two-One” revealed the matter, and Mo Xiaobai was dumbfounded and cursed, “Holy crap.”

And to get the information that treetops could be transplanted, the Player needed to interact with the NPCs as much as possible. For example, helping or chatting could yield relevant information.

As for whether to do it after getting the information, that was up to you.

“It is impossible to replace all the cut-down trees, so let’s just plant as many as we can.” Mo Xiaobai thought about those depressing things from his past life while planting trees with the two strong men.

To be honest, in both his past and present lives, he had never done farm work. Helping out just meant shouting “Awesome” from the sidelines. Fortunately, Mo Xiaobai was not embarrassed. He kept comforting himself in his heart:

In this life, he was going to become a super Lord, and not sticking to trivial matters was the true character of a hero.

When the wooden shack was built, more than a dozen treetops and branches had been planted.

It was getting late, and the residents immediately put away their brush hooks and walked back to the wooden shack.

Mo Xiaobai naturally followed them inside. Although there was no bed or pillow in the shack, at least it could shelter from the wind and rain. In special times, he could not ask for too much.

“In my past life, many people forced the villagers to work the night shift, and the result was a complete tragedy. I wonder if it will still be the same in this life. Just thinking about it feels interesting.”

The sky had just turned dark, and Mo Xiaobai was not sleepy at all. His mind was still spinning with memories from his past life.

In the trial of his past life, many people forced the villagers to continue chopping trees at night in order to complete the trial earlier. The five villagers were obedient, but the process was far from as smooth as imagined.

In the dark logging theater, countless tragic scenes occurred. Some villagers were chopped by brush hooks, and some villagers were directly smashed to death by falling giant trees.

The death of villagers was not the most tragic part. The most tragic part was when the Player himself suffered. Many people just mysteriously died in the dark. In the end, the trial result directly gave a “bad review,” and they entered the Lord Plane stark naked. That miserable state was simply too painful for Mo Xiaobai to look at.

The night passed without a word. When the sky brightened on the second day, Mo Xiaobai woke up first.

He patted the wood chips off his body, and Mo Xiaobai stretched his waist and walked out of the wooden shack.

Then, Mo Xiaobai was completely stunned.

“Holy crap, what is this situation?”