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newbies and oldsters come by to finish off this quest. Did
you see any other cows out there?”
    “ No.”
    “ Where do the baby cows
go?”
    “ I don’t know.”
    Axel sighs.
    “ Ask me what flavor my sandwich
was?”
    “ You’re kidding.”
    “ Nope. Every day at the end of the
day he chops up little Sally’s young and makes sandwiches from
them.”
    “ We have to stop him.”
    Axel smiles sadly.
    “ It’s a game, even if everything
feels just like the real world. I spent two days saving baby
Sallys. The young one’s fade away and the sandwiches appear without
the grisly work involved in producing the meat for them,” she says.
“There is nothing we can do.”
    “ But I helped.”
    “ You did,” she says seriously.
“How many people can say they saw a cow, let along helped birth
one?”
    She picks up her sandwich from where she
placed it earlier and takes a bite.
    “ It’s still not right.”
    “ No, it’s not, but that’s the game
world. Not everything is as rosy colored as it looks,” she says.
“Still, it’s a kick being here, right? The real world is boring.
This is much more fun.”
    She takes another bite.
    “ Plus, I get paid as well. What
more could I ask?”
    Harry sighs and watches her take another bite.
She is right about one thing and that is the real world is boring.
It’s half the reason why Harry is stuck testing this game. However,
she does seem very gung-ho. Dangerous and beautiful is a bad
combination in Harry’s not-so-experienced opinion.
    “ Come on. Time to finish your
quest and I want to have another sandwich while it’s still
fresh.”
    They walk outside to find the NPC stroking the
small cow in a very loving way. Axel walks over to him and slaps
him on the back.
    “ Looks like you got some more
lunch meat, Chucky-boy. Happy to be Hannibal the Cannibal, are
you?”
    The NPC ignores her and jumps to his feet to
dance around like a headless chicken as Harry
approaches.
    He looks to Axel who shrugs.
    "Don’t worry about it. You get used to this
type of silliness in the earlier levels. It only gets serious later
on.”
    Harry nods and walks around with the NPC to
the front of his house where he starts whistling and cutting up
pumpkins, probably for a soup.
    “ Excuse me?” Harry says, tapping
the man on the shoulder.
    "Can I have my reward now?"
    The NPC opens his mouth to reply with the
stock answer, but then he notes what Axel has somehow managed to
obtain while no one was looking.
    "Someone is stealing my food!" Chuck howls,
his eyes burning a flaming red.
    “ Oh dear, that’s not good,” Axel
says, hiding the food behind her back. “I think the birth of his
lunch and seeing his poor Sally stressed has got to him. I’m pretty
sure we should get running now!”
    “ You think?”
    Bug Detected! Danger!
    “ Well, that just confirms it,”
Axel say, beginning to run.
    Bug Detected! Danger! The
words are so big that they cover most of Harry's vision. He looks
to the woman, who is already jogging away and decides she has got
the right idea.
    They takes off around the house and jog around
the field. The NPC tears after them at full pace, only a few meters
behind and gaining. Harry is sprinting as fast as he can, but is so
weak at his low-level that he can’t get any ground on the
farmer.
    “ FOOD STEALERS! COW KILLERS! YOU
ARE THE ONES KILLING MY SWEET SALLY’S BABIES.”
    Harry looks back at the insane NPC and notes
that he now has a pitchfork that somehow has materialized in his
hands.
    They do one lap of the field and then
another.
    "What are you doing?" Harry yells at the woman
as she begins her third lap.
    "They sometimes run out of steam after a
little bit and give up. Plus, my weapons are in the house and I
still want to finish my sandwich.”
    Harry notes that she has the sandwich in her
hand and has been taking bites from it as she runs. She is clearly
a lot stronger than he is and it’s made even more obvious by how
she is barely breathing hard from the