Because the original body's foundation was damaged, and the farm, even at its max level, only produced ordinary medicinal herbs.
It couldn't even produce herbs like century-old ginseng.
So Ding Yun started to decline at seventy.
She managed to hold on until she was seventy-three, until the farm was maxed out, all crops had been planted, and she had made all her arrangements before she felt at peace to leave.
Her soul detached from the original body and returned to her own.
Upon her return, she first submitted the dimensional mission.
Then she began to organize the data recorded and stored in her consciousness chip over the past few decades, and based on that data, she wrote the corresponding trial report.
At the same time, she submitted the detailed data information of the golden finger.
This included the unlock level of each crop, its growth time, the number of fruits it produced, and the storage space it occupied in the warehouse, etc. All this data needed to be imported into the golden finger to refine its details.
This was to prevent the person who officially used it from being completely in the dark.
Or having to figure things out themselves.
This was also the job of the trial members.
Because there was a lot of data, Ding Yun spent nearly two days and two nights organizing it all.
Then she spent another two days.
Writing her trial report.
Finally, she took an extra day to compare it with her past records, ensuring there were no issues with the data or the trial report, before submitting it.
For the same golden finger, the golden finger trial department would assign it to at least three personnel for trial. Only when the data obtained was basically consistent would the trial department confirm the trial result of the golden finger as correct and issue payment.
Therefore, she still had to wait for her part-time salary to be credited.
"There shouldn't be any problems, right?
No matter, it's useless to think too much. Now I need to find Ah Jin and tell him to stop assigning me missions with extremely low rewards. With a golden finger by my side, shouldn't I be doing some difficult missions?"
This was her first time doing this kind of trial part-time job, and Ding Yun was clearly a little anxious. However, she also knew that the trial report had already been submitted, and dwelling on it was useless and would only make her unhappy. So, she quickly calmed her emotions and immediately got down to business.
She turned to find Ah Jin to discuss her next missions.
A few minutes later, Ding Yun arrived at Jin Xinxin's office via the employee transfer array and immediately started complaining.
"Hey, you can't blame me. It's all for your own good. You've never done a golden finger part-time job before, so who knew if you could handle it and balance it with your main job? That's why I specifically chose a simple one for you.
Since you think it's okay, I'll find you more difficult missions next. That's a compromise, right?
But if you mess it up, don't blame me!"
Jin Xinxin shrugged and replied helplessly.
"Don't make them too difficult either. Something similar is fine."
Hearing him say that, Ding Yun actually became a little timid and quickly corrected herself. She had heard that some particularly difficult missions might require saving planets, civilizations, or even the universe. How could she handle such things? So, she couldn't boast.
"I know. Can I really harm you?
If I harmed you, you wouldn't be the only one to cause trouble for me; my mother would also find me. We're relatives, and yet I haven't heard you call me 'Ge' once. You're really not polite at all.
The new trial golden finger should have arrived by now, right?
Send it to me, and I'll see if there's anything suitable or compatible that would make it convenient for you to take on missions!"
As Ding Yun's maternal cousin, Jin Xinxin rolled his eyes and grumbled a couple of times before reaching out to ask Ding Yun for the information of the trial golden finger she had been assigned this time.
He planned to pick out a suitable mission for her on the spot.
And see if she had anything else to say.
Meanwhile, Ding Yun pouted and retrieved the new golden finger information from her consciousness chip:
"You're only two days older than me, and you have the nerve to ask me to call you 'Ge.' Also, didn't you say that at work you're my supervisor and I shouldn't bring up family ties!
Alright, here's the golden finger information!
But, what's the use of a second-hand trading device?"
Before she finished speaking, Ding Yun had already retrieved the newly assigned golden finger information and sent it to Jin Xinxin.
"Let me see."
At the same time, Jin Xinxin started looking it over:
"Can you pay a little more attention? There are three words before 'second-hand trading device' – 'Transdimensional.'
It should be able to shop across dimensions. Even if it can only buy second-hand items, if it can cross dimensions by hundreds of years, you can either buy some antiques or some new technological products from hundreds of years in the future. For research and stuff.
It's definitely a good thing.
Wait, can you retrieve this Transdimensional Trading Device first and let me see its general function? If it's similar to what I imagine, I have one mission for you, no, two missions."
After looking at the brief description for a while, Jin Xinxin thought of a rather troublesome mission he had on his hands that seemed somewhat compatible with this golden finger. So he immediately said to Ding Yun:
"Two missions? Can dimensional missions be stacked?"
Although Ding Yun was a little confused, she obediently retrieved the Transdimensional Second-hand Trading Device.
Then she handed it over to Jin Xinxin.
Letting him take a brief look and trial it.
About ten minutes later, Jin Xinxin had a general understanding of the golden finger's function and also explained it to Ding Yun.
Then, after pondering for a moment, he said:
"I have a mission here, posted by a scientist from a technological dimension. She has conquered cancer treatment and saved many people, so she has a lot of merit and fortune. She is willing to exchange most of her merit and fortune for a wish. However, her wish is not related to herself or her children, but to her mother, who died of hunger and illness when she was young.
She wants to save her mother.
So that her mother can live to see her achieve success.
But this involves the cost of reversing time.
And the timeline in that world is quite stable.
The cost of reversal is extremely high.
Sending her soul directly back to her own body decades ago would affect the temporal balance and also cause future temporal chaos. Having someone else directly replace her childhood soul would make it difficult to guarantee that the replacement would follow the original trajectory. If significant changes occurred, it could also lead to future temporal chaos.
Or the emergence of new parallel dimensions, etc.
Minor, unimportant changes in the past would at most cause minor synchronous changes in the future. But if the changes were too large and difficult to correct in the future, the world line would be forced to split, creating a new parallel dimension.
This is to avoid temporal line disorder.
And if a new parallel dimension appears, the person being saved would not be the scientist's mother from this dimension.
She could still be fooled if she didn't understand something.
But this scientist is quite knowledgeable about theories like parallel dimensions. She specifically stated that the person to be saved must be the mother in her own dimension, not one from a parallel dimension.
So this matter is quite troublesome and difficult to handle.
But with your golden finger, it's different.
I can arrange a simple mission for you in the current era of that scientist. Then, while you are completing the simple mission, you can use the Transdimensional Second-hand Trading Device, by leveraging the scientist's own soul aura, to contact her from decades ago.
Provide her with appropriate assistance.
This way, you will not only successfully complete the trial part-time job for the Transdimensional Second-hand Trading Device, but you will also complete two dimensional missions at once, which is definitely a very worthwhile endeavor.
The only difficulty is that you need to control the degree of help you provide to the scientist when she was still a child decades ago.
Achieve both helping her fulfill her wish.
And not affecting her future trajectory.
Do you think you can handle it? If you can, I'll assign both these missions to you.
If you can't, it's fine. I'll find something else for you."
"It sounds challenging.
Never mind, take it for me. It should be fine!"
Ding Yun decided to accept Jin Xinxin's challenge with barely any hesitation. What did he mean by 'can't handle it'? It wasn't like she needed to save the world. How could she not handle it?
"Alright then, both missions are assigned to you.
You can start completing them now."
Jin Xinxin didn't delay and quickly sent both the missions he had chosen to Ding Yun, then ushered her out.