What appeared in front of Lin Fan's eyes was the same interface used for Starcraft 2.
The only thing that was different was that there was only a single race to choose from, the Terrans.
Lin Fan looked at the other two races and fell into thought. Terrans in the game were humans with technology, which is what the human government was. The Zergs were bug creatures that focused on quick production and quickly spreading, which is similar to the Bug Race that he had heard about. As for the Protoss, they were beings that had names that mean divine race, which meant that the closest thing to them were probably gods.
Lin Fan had heard the term God Realm many times from Angela and Momonga, so he was quite sure that gods were the ultimate beings in this world.
Since he was playing as the Terrans, wouldn't that mean that he would be meeting Zergs and Protosses in the future?
The Zergs were like the Bug Race that were infamous in the universe for swarming planets and completely devouring them, creating new hives that created new swarms, but they were a normal race and Lin Fan could deal with them.
However, facing the Protoss meant facing the strongest race in the universe!
Lin Fan began sincerely praying that he wouldn't have to face the Protoss in the future.
After this little aside, Lin Fan finally came back to the main topic which was trying out the cultivation realm farm.
When he tried to activate it, the system spoke up to give him advice.
"Host, please note that it is advised to be sitting when activating the cultivation realm farm system."
"Sitting?" Lin Fan was confused, "Why do I need to be sitting?"
"It is advised that the host is sitting when activating the cultivation realm farming system." The system repeated.
Lin Fan was confused, but he still followed the system's instructions.
After sitting down, he pressed the start button on the system interface and it felt like he was pulled out of his chair, flying straight forward. It was a whole minute before he finally could see what was around him.
Lin Fan had been pulled into another world where he found himself in a forest, but this time it was different from when he went into the cultivation realms before. This time he had appeared in the ghost form that he normally took when he died.
When he tried to open the system, all that he saw was a large start button on the system interface and nothing else.
"System, what is going on?" Lin Fan asked.
However, the only answer he received was silence from the system and a large start button on the system interface.
Since he had no other choice, Lin Fan pressed the button.
"Welcome, welcome to the cultivation realm farming tutorial! Welcome to our player!"
Lin Fan was completely shocked by this! Who was this system! This definitely wasn't his system!
"Are you a new player or a returning player?"
Two options appeared on the system interface.
Lin Fan wanted to say that he was an experienced player since he had played his fair share of Starcraft 2 back on earth, but he still pressed the new player option since this was something that was completely different.
"Welcome new player! Please follow the instructions for this tutorial campaign."
The system interface expanded and soon wrapped him up like an egg, becoming something that was similar to a virtual reality game pod that he had read about in novels.
The game interface lit up in front of him and he was given the option to bring out 2 SCVs first, while also giving him a stash of resources needed to build a command center.
While this game interface seemed like the normal Starcraft 2 interface, there were also many things that were different. Instead of normal minerals and Vespene Gas, there were many different resources bars like food, building materials, energy, and other bars.
For now, Lin Fan chose to summon the two SCVs to build the command center so he could start colonizing the world.
When the two SCVs came out, Lin Fan went up to them and found that there was actually someone piloting them. When he came up to the pilot, the pilot had a blank expression on his face and didn't react to anything at all. It was like he had been turned into a puppet.
"System, are you taking people and turning them into puppets?" Lin Fan said in a shocked voice.
The system couldn't ignore it this time and specially said, "Host, please stop thinking nonsense. The pilots are human shaped puppets made by the system using natural ingredients and not corpses. First warning."
"But they really do seem like real humans…" Lin Fan said in a doubtful voice.
"Host, that is because of the system's skilled craftsmanship."
"Alright…" Lin Fan said, but he was still feeling doubtful.
The system had given him just enough resources to build a single command center, so he found an area that had an open field in the middle of the forest and had the SCVs put down the command center.
"Congratulations to the new player on building your first command center. Now you have to gather resources to continue building more SCVs and more buildings."
Once the tutorial system's voice fell, there was a window that appeared on the top left of Lin Fan's field of view that had a quest in it.
"Build 16 SCVs. 2/16."
"Build supply depots."
While it was a bit different, this seemed like the normal Starcraft 2 Terran tutorial that he had played before, but Lin Fan knew that it wouldn't be that simple.
Since he was done with the command center, he knew now that his next job was to collect resources to build more SCVs and then he would use those resources to build a barrack to build marines.
Lin Fan clicked on the SCVs in his game interface and had them go around collecting the stones and metals needed to build the next SCV.
When it was time to build that next SCV, the moment he pushed the button, parts of the command center began churning and turning. After a while, it pushed out another SCV that was like the others.
Once the next SCV was done, Lin Fan had it start collecting ingredients instead of rocks and metal because he knew that he would need it later.
Lin Fan continued this cycle of having SCVs gather rocks, metals, and ingredients until he was up to his sixth SCV.
Based on the tutorial that he had played back on earth, once he had built enough SCVs, it would be time to build a barrack to defend against invaders. So before the tutorial even prompted him to build the barracks, Lin Fan saved up enough to build it before building his next SCV.
Once the SCV assigned finished the barracks, Lin Fan clicked on it and saw that he was right to gather ingredients since it required ingredients to build marines and reapers.
Lin Fan immediately put two marines in the queue before moving onto his next SCV.
When the marines were done, what came out were two standard issue marines that had the same armour as the marines in the game. The only difference was that these marines didn't have gauss rifles that normal marines had, instead they came out with a Chinese sword.
When Lin Fan released his spiritual sense over these marines, he could tell that they were in the low Bronze Realm.
Marines were considered the most basic out of all the Terran troops, but even this marine was in the Bronze Realm.
But then again that raised another question. If these marines didn't use guns, what about the later Terran troops like the siege tanks that relied completely on heavy artillery?
Still, that was a question for later.
Once Lin Fan finished the mission, the next mission was to build a barrack and create three marines.
As soon as Lin Fan finished the last marine, there was a wolf that suddenly appeared to attack his command center, but this wolf was only in the peak Iron Realm and was quickly disposed of by the marines.
Once the marines finished off the wolf, they dragged it back to the command center where it was processed by an SCV.
Only then did Lin Fan remember that this was a farm.
"System, what happens to the ingredients gathered by the SCVs?" Lin Fan asked.
"Host, they will be stored in the pet shop's storage to be used at the various pet shop facilities or to be used to build more units in the cultivation realm farm."
This was what Lin Fan had expected.
Basically this was a game/farm where he used units to gather the resources of this world, but still that was exciting since that was an entire world's resource!
While this was a low cultivation realm, based on the information provided by the system, Lin Fan knew that the resources in this world were already comparable to the Blue Star Planet.
He had an entire planet as his farm, that really was taking things too far.
After playing around with the interface for a bit, Lin Fan set the SCVs on auto collect while creating a few more marines to patrol the area that he set for the SCVs to mine in.
Once it was done, he would receive a notification and he would be able to come back to give new orders.
After taking care of everything, Lin Fan headed back home.