Kai didn't sleep the night after Merge Market Day. He sat in the barn, eyes locked on his merge tablet, blueprint overlays dancing in the glow.
Farming was about to change again.
Manual labor had taken him this far. Now it was a bottleneck.
He didn't need more workers.
He needed systems.
He opened the merge interface and selected the old rigged feeders in Coop Zone B. Chickens squawked as the rusty arms clicked and dumped inconsistent seed piles.
[MERGE: Manual Feeders + Motion Sensor Cranks + Aura Pulse Timing Chip]
The light flared.
The units fused into a new rig: sleek, low-profile, and humming with passive intelligence.
AutoFeeder V1 Created
– Dispenses based on hunger aura
– Zero waste
– Never clogs
– Syncs with egg output rate
He installed them in every coop by noon.
Within hours, egg production smoothed out. The birds clucked in rhythm. Kai didn't lift a finger. The system read the need before it happened.
Next came the harvest beds.
Kai walked along the merged lettuce lines and stared at the old crew's harvest buckets. He tapped the soil, triggered the interface, and initiated:
[MERGE: Soil Bed + Conveyor Rails + Aura Weight Sensors]
The result?
The earth moved the crop itself.
Lettuce rolled gently into collection bins that rode underground rails to the crate room. Each head was checked, scanned, sorted, and stored—no touch required.
He didn't stop.
He merged:
The compost system with an automated sifter and bagger
The water pumps with moisture-sensitive cloud arrays
The chicken coops with temperature-adaptive nesting zones
The seeders with aura-synced sprayers that only planted fertile soil zones
By nightfall, 80% of Crown District 1 ran on Merge Autonomous Chain Protocols.
Kai watched from his cabin window. Machines moved like clockwork. Crates filled. Eggs stacked. Greens sorted by density and flavor tag.
All he did was observe.
And it hit him.
"The hands built it.
Now the land runs it."
He pulled out a fresh merge log and wrote two words:
"No more labor."
The future wasn't faster hands. It was no hands.
Merge tech wasn't just scaling his farm. It was replacing human friction with intelligent loop farming.
By morning, he'd decommissioned the old crew. Paid them all in full. Gave them sealed crates for the road.
"Y'all helped me build this.
But from here on out—this place runs itself."
No one fought it. They knew.
They'd seen the feed lines move without touching.
Watched the coops self-clean.
Heard the soil hum.
They left without a word, looking back only once.
Kai turned to the ridge.
"Next… horses."