Chapter 156: Affordable Materials

It must be said that Luolita's suggestion was truly very creative; Chen Zhi crossed his hands in front of him, pondered for a moment, and then felt that this plan was quite feasible.

In this way, although the players would lose the abilities they had awakened, another player could purchase them, and he could even collect a service fee.

Isn't this just handing it over on a silver platter?

Because Andrew had invested all his money, he had been coming to the God of Calamity to repent from time to time recently, which made Chen Zhi feel a bit anxious.

After all, it wasn't that easy to get money out of the little players; if it were that easy, the competition among major game planners wouldn't be so intense.

Thinking of this, Chen Zhi quickly edited a post and published it.

【"New Calamity" version 1.1.1 update will launch on Thursday morning, optimizing the awakening system, testing new maps, and the secondary creation contest begins!】 ——by: Calamity Apostle

We see that the new test version has allowed everyone to adapt to the farming life in the game, and we have recently gained many new insights.

The reopening of Store Street has given the Believers of Calamity a resounding reputation in Tana City. Now everyone knows the delicacies of the Xiahui People and the business acumen of the Xiahui People. Even our literary works are being sought after by the merchants in the game. Yes, our translated works have already been published and have received very high royalties.

Our new steel mill can already stably provide materials for making ironware. Currently, the residents of Tana City love buying the woks and kitchen supplies we provide. The War Church has also placed new orders with us.

We are very happy that you are keen on exploring the acquisition of Spiritual Materials. Currently, the Wealth Church has purchased a large amount of Spiritual Materials from us, and we have already dispatched closed-beta players to head to the Royal Capital to open up new trade routes.

We have fixed a large number of bugs during the system deduction process; thank you all for your contributions to our game launch.

Therefore, in order to reward everyone, we have decided to launch a new creation contest.

Any work posted in the creation section during the New Year period (December 28th - January 5th) will enter the final selection process. We will conduct voting on the forum based on categories. All Believers who have been registered on the forum for more than 1 month can vote on the forum.

After the event ends, the top ten Believers in each category can receive Charm rewards provided by the Lord of Calamity. At the same time, we will provide extra rewards based on the players' performance in the game; players are welcome to participate actively.

In addition, we have made some small-scale adjustments based on players' suggestions.

Due to issues with the system deduction, Believers may currently choose a class advancement path they do not like. To enrich the choices for Believers, we are providing a class transfer function.

If you have already chosen a class you do not like and want to change it, after finding a player willing to acquire this class, you can go directly to the Lord of Calamity in the game to register.

The current class transfer function will charge the transferring player a 10% service fee.

After paying the fee, the awakened body will be replaced after the next login; you can inquire about the specific awakening method at the registration office.

This post made the players extremely excited; they hadn't seen news of an update for a long time.

Many contents of this game are updated through system deduction, or rather, many times it is the deductive behavior of NPCs. The game side rarely interferes with the deduction, giving players the most realistic feeling.

Luolita: Looks like my suggestion was seen! This game updates way too fast, it hasn't been long since I just made the suggestion (*^▽^*)

Ai Ai Who Can Draw: Isn't this activity tailor-made for me? Secondary creation? I'm familiar with this!

Zhuguli: We just set off for Port City, and you're already starting a new activity? By the way, does this count as me being in the closed beta? Maybe we can also start a new activity or something.

Yaohuanghuang to Zhuguli: What on earth are you thinking, and why would you tell others!

Yunxiao to Zhuguli: What, you've actually already set off?

Mengmeng: Yunxiao is shocked, you War Church are actually doing things behind the backs of us in the Wealth Church, do you not want to be hot!

Niulanshan: By the way, besides drawing, can secondary creation also be music creation? If I participate, can you give me a test qualification?

Ye Laoshi: I encourage everyone to engage in secondary creation. By the way, it was our translated books that received recognition from the NPCs. Everyone can also give it a try; the royalties for translating a book are not low. You can make money in the game this way, and these NPCs can also appreciate high-quality works.

The discussion heat among players on the forum is not low. Some players without test qualifications have started to focus on the secondary creation activity, trying to suggest that the game planners increase the number of test spots.

And some players have started to consider the possibility of their suggestions being recognized by the planners.

Privately, Yunxiao began to contact Luolita, asking if she was willing to sell her awakened body.

Quite a few players had already contacted Luolita, especially players in the life-management category.

Like the two sisters Mengmeng and Mengmeng, they like being able to awaken a Fortune-teller to increase the popularity of their shop.

"The materials for these things add up to 2000 Xide, plus the service fee. I know it's a bit troublesome, but think about it, I have to do things behind the back of the Wealth Church from now on, and I myself want to awaken into a Warrior; I don't even know how much money the materials alone will cost, and the formula is even further off." Although she held several formulas in her hand, Luolita didn't know at all whether these formulas were real.

If she wanted to experiment, it would also be a large sum of money, not to mention she hadn't thought about experimenting.

She would rather sell them to other players and get a small amount of money from it, at least enough to cover the travel expenses back and forth.

As for the experiment, that was the business of those players. Although she got a small amount of money, she really didn't have that much money to conduct experiments.

Yunxiao was different; he had enough money to exchange for Xide. Recently, the operation of the bar had been quite good, and he had already discussed with several old players in the bar to find a way for everyone to awaken.

Especially since this awakening conversion function came out, if they didn't want to be Fortune-tellers in the future, they could change to other ways to awaken.

It was mainly because after awakening as a Fortune-teller, it was beneficial for doing business, and it wouldn't be difficult to save up the fees for the next awakening.

So Yunxiao was very interested in Luolita's Fortune-teller status.

Upon hearing the price, Yunxiao gasped.

The entire bar's operating income didn't even reach 2000 Xide in a month. This was not a small amount. Although there was a large amount of turnover every day, there were also many expenses. All in all, he could only scrape together 1000 Xide.

"This price is a bit too high, after all, the Wealth Church gave it to you for free." Yunxiao still wanted to haggle over the price; having stayed in the game for a long time, he always felt that he had inherited some of the traits from inside the game.

Especially some traits of a Fortune-teller, for example, wanting to talk to everyone he sees, just in case it works out.

It was just that Luolita's price was really a bit too high.

Should he go into the game and use the skill?

"To tell you the truth, Mengmeng has already offered 1600 Xide. I think you can consider it. If there is no one with a higher price than her, then I will sell it to her. But it can't be now, I'm afraid the people from the Wealth Church will check on me." Luolita replied directly to Yunxiao, which made Yunxiao's brain unable to turn for a moment.

Could the shop opened by the two sisters Mengmeng and Mengmeng be that profitable?

Yunxiao would go to patronize it every day. Anyway, his stomach in the game wouldn't get overstuffed, and there was no need to worry about diabetes, so he would run to Mengmeng's shop to buy some desserts to eat whenever he had nothing to do.

But he never expected that a dessert shop could be so profitable!

However, thinking about it carefully, Mengmeng and Mengmeng didn't need any help at all; the two of them could complete the operation of the entire shop. Even many nobles went there specifically to customize things; he didn't know how much money they made from just one wedding cake.

Thinking of this, Yunxiao had no choice but to grit his teeth, "Then I'll see when the time comes, I can't take out that much money right now."

If it really didn't work, he could only ask Fred Nall to borrow some, but he didn't know if that guy could still take out that much money.

During this period, he had taught him many methods, and he didn't know if he had used them. Perhaps he would have to wait for Bar Street to return to its bustle before he could see everyone making money.

The new update certainly allowed players to create many more works, and Ye Laoshi, who had just come back online, felt that the burden on his shoulders was a bit heavier.

There was no counting on Luolita; she had to be a mascot in the Royal Capital during this period. The Wealth Church seemed to want to squeeze out all the value from her before letting her go. Now Luolita was busy going in and out of various occasions.

As for himself, after meeting Luolita once, he recognized the reality.

Evans cannot be found, and Luolita is unable to come out to help, so he must rely on himself to find the gathering of hidden Awakened.

At this moment, he had already arrived inside the Honest Man Bar; the Awakened gathering here had been postponed for two days due to the Luolita incident, and fortunately, he had not missed it.

For this reason, he had specifically changed into a simpler set of clothes.

"Fight, let me see how impressive you are!"

"Hahaha, that old guy Desili is a loser, not even as good as that little girl from the Wealth Church. I heard he went to the seaside himself to look for mutated creatures, only to get stung by a jellyfish, and he's still complaining about it now."

"Give me a glass of malt black beer." Ye Laoshi sat down and then paid, "I would like to ask about the Fire Stone Lizard."

"Oh, that matter, wait a moment." The bartender held a glass of black beer, handed it over, and then reached out a hand, "The fee for a newcomer is one Xide."

Ye Laoshi said with some hesitation: "Can't it be a little cheaper?"

"You should know the rules." The bartender looked at him with a dissatisfied expression.

Ye Laoshi did not dare to continue haggling with the other party; after all, he did not want this lead to be cut off, so he fumbled around in his pocket and found one Xide.

He was not short on money; besides the money Evans had left behind, he also had the compensation from the Luolita incident—that Mutated Octopus had compensated him for two people's tickets, and after deducting costs, he had even earned 160 Xide.

But he did not want to spend the money just like that; the older generation had their own ideas.

He kept most of the money in the soles of his shoes, transferred a portion into his pants pockets, and kept another portion inside his inner lining, where even a thief would be out of reach.

As for the bag he carried with him, it could be said to be completely empty.

After paying, the bartender found a big-nosed old man, took him to the third room in the corridor, gave him a mask, and told him, "Next time you come, knock on the door with two long knocks and one short, three times."

Saying this, he demonstrated it once for Ye Laoshi.

Putting on the mask, Ye Laoshi walked into the room; there were over thirty people inside, and everyone turned their gaze toward Ye Laoshi.

Not many people could discover the secret code, and most only realized the code in the newspaper because someone had led them there, which fully indicated that Ye Laoshi was someone who had been led by another.

However, he did not have a teacher with him, which made everyone a bit more vigilant.

But Ye Laoshi did not know about this issue; he sat down in an empty seat to the side very calmly, then looked at the crowd with a blank expression.

"I think no one else is coming, so we can begin our trades." The person sitting at the head of the table said, "From left to right, you can state the items you wish to sell and the price."

"I want to sell two Thousand-Hand Fruits, the price is 100 Xide each." The person sitting on the far left said softly, "This thing might bring Calamity to people, I really don't want to carry this thing anymore, this is already the lowest price."

"You've been carrying this thing for two months and haven't died yet, your luck is really good." Someone to the side muttered, "But who would buy this kind of thing? Even those who can make Charms wouldn't use this stuff to make them."

"Shut up!" The person on the far left said in a muffled voice, "I believe someone will know the use of this thing."

Thousand-Hand, Calamity.

If it were an ordinary person, fearing Calamity would be fine, but Ye Laoshi was not afraid.

This thing clearly had some connection to the Lord of Calamity, so Ye Laoshi lowered his voice and said: "If you make it 100 Xide for the pair, I might consider it."

"You..." After thinking for a moment, the person on the far left said, "Let me consider it a bit more."

"100 Xide for a pair, that's a price only a madman would offer; think about it, this thing of yours isn't even worth 10 Xide." The person to the side mocked again, but no one paid him any mind.

Having been rebuffed, another woman spoke up: "I want to sell two of Andeli's rings; this thing came from the Sun Church, and I believe there are people among you who know their value. 40 Xide each."

To tell the truth, this thing was not expensive, at least much cheaper than at an auction.

It seems the materials here mostly belong to the commoner class, at least enough for Ye Laoshi to afford.

(End of this chapter)