Chapter 38: Shield Sells Like Hotcakes

  Since starting the "Doctor's Friend" mission, Zhang Yang has been stuck in the wilderness and hasn't returned to the city yet!

  He immediately ran to the store, sold off the useless items in his backpack, and then went to check his mailbox. His email assistant had notified him of new mail a few days ago, but he hadn't returned to the city yet, so he couldn't retrieve it.

  That was sent by the auction house, he hung up the thick earth round shield for auction and it was a success, finally closing at 870 gold coins. After deducting 87 gold coins, they sent over the balance.

  Take a look at the bag, currently there are more than 15,300 gold coins. If there is a personal wealth ranking list in the game, Zhang Yang will definitely be on the list!

  He first went to the Alchemy Store, where Zhang Yang chose to forget "Mining" and then learned "Alchemy".

  Mining to get rich requires spending a lot of time collecting, and Zhang Yang learned mining just because of the need for that profession task in Novice Village.

  Get out the formula for primary resistance medicine right away, and after a flash of golden light, the alchemy manufacturing list is no longer empty.

  Zhang Yang arrived at the auction house, opened the commodity list, and started searching with Ganlancao and Ginkgo biloba as keywords.

  Suddenly, rows of cabbage grass and ginkgo flowers appeared on the sales shelves, with prices ranging from 20 silver coins per bundle. However, some unscrupulous merchants would put up only one stalk of herbs and label it as 20 silver coins, cheating careless players.

  Zhang Yang raised his hand and, with a single gesture, anonymously bought all the Gancian grass and Silver Pampas Grass that were priced at no more than 30 silver coins per bundle. The auction house, which had originally been overflowing with goods, was suddenly left with only the few items hung up by the cunning merchants still standing alone on the shelves.

  Some alchemy players who were still sweeping goods didn't understand and immediately shouted out loud.

  "Huh, where's the ginkgo flower? There were hundreds of them just now, how come there are only seven left? Damn it, which son of a bitch put this up, one plant is tagged 20 silver, I accidentally clicked twice!"

  "Kale grass is gone too, what's going on? I still need to upgrade my Golden Refining skill!"

  "Who has such a big appetite? Swallowing so much food at once!"

  Cabbage grass is one of the essential materials for making primary treatment potions, and silver ginkgo flowers are also needed to make primary magic potions. The formulas for these two potions are the easiest to get, and alchemy players basically rely on these two formulas to improve their alchemy skills.

  This was suddenly swept away by Zhang Yang, and the vast majority of alchemy players naturally couldn't be calm.

  Zhang Yang ran to the mailbox and took out a bunch of kale grass and silver ginkgo flowers. Due to limited space in his backpack, he had to temporarily put most of the materials in the bank. When a character is born, the system will allocate a free item storage box with 100 slots to the player. If you want more item storage boxes, you have to pay for them! The second item storage box is very cheap, only 10 gold coins, but the third one costs much more, 100 gold coins, and the fourth one costs 1000 gold coins... increasing by tenfold each time.

  Zhang Yang bought three space bars in one breath, which can almost store all the things in his mailbox. The expenditure of 1110 gold coins also made him feel a great pain.

  Zhang Yang returned to the Alchemy Shop and bought a large number of empty bottles, then opened the Alchemy icon and started manufacturing primary Dark Resistance potions.

  "Ding! You have created a Primary Antidote *1. Your Alchemy proficiency has increased by 1 point!"

  "Ding! You have created a Primary Antidote *1. Your Alchemy skill has increased by 1 point!"

  ……

  "Ding! You have created 2 Minor Anti-Dark Potions. Your Alchemy skill has increased by 1 point!"

  Huh? Two bottles came out!

  With a smile, this is the benefit of luck value! Luck value can make players have a certain probability to get two finished products when manufacturing items! The higher the luck value, the greater the probability, of course, even if you pile up 100 points of luck value, the explosion rate is still pitifully small!

  When the materials on his body were used up, Zhang Yang immediately ran to the bank, put the manufactured medicine in, and took out the materials again to continue rubbing.

  This damn setting requires two seconds to produce a bottle of medicine, Zhang Yang bought 370 sets of materials and can manufacture 7,400 bottles of medicine...

  After kneading the medicine for four hours, Zhang Yang finally used up all the materials and his alchemy skill had long since risen to intermediate level. Unfortunately, after reaching intermediate level, the icon for manufacturing primary dark resistance potion turned gray, and manufacturing gray products couldn't increase skill proficiency.

  Looking at the neatly arranged medicine bottles in the bank's storage room, Zhang Yang couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment!

  Now a bottle of antidote costs only 5 silver coins, but when mainstream players enter the next copy Mazavi's Nest, this antidote can soar to 1 gold coin each, and absolutely hot sales! Of course, cabbage grass and ginkgo flowers will also rise sharply, and the profit at that time will not be so high.

  Open the friend list, Han Paozi is finally online! Zhang Yang sent a private message, saying: "Paozi, hurry up and collect Ganlancao and Ginkgo biloba, they will surge in price in a few days! Hmm, as long as each bundle's price doesn't exceed 2 gold, you can buy them all!"

  "Hey, Yangzi, is this news accurate?" Soon, Han Pizi replied with a message.

  "Fatty, the chance to get rich has been given to you, whether you can grasp it or not depends on yourself!"

  "Yang Zi, Brother Pang's body is worth 16 gold coins, no matter how much more he earns, it won't add up to that!"

  "Alright, I'll mail you 1,000 gold later, consider it a loan from me!"

  "Haha, good brother!"

  Han didn't say any words of gratitude, and with their friendship, there was no need for courtesy, it's all in the heart!

  After sending 1000 gold to Han Guang, Zhang Yang took out 6 pieces of thin copper and 30 sets of iron ingots, rushing to the blacksmith's shop, and had another 6 thick earthen round shields made. The result of the first auction was a bit surprising, after all, there were many rich people!

  A thick earthen circular shield was hung in the auction house, with a starting price of 500 gold and a fixed price of 1,000 gold. The deadline is 24 hours, still anonymous sales.

  This rare thing, of course, has to be sold one by one to get a good price. If there are too many goods, they won't be worth much.

  He searched again through the foundry's blueprints, looking for anything unusual.

  It's only been a few days, but the originally deserted auction house has suddenly become bustling with activity, with the number of items up for auction increasing by tens of times! In the branch of casting diagrams, there are hundreds of diagrams waiting to be sold, mostly "Primary Whetstone", occasionally with a few equipment forging diagrams.

  According to the "Five-Year Review of Games", ten days after the game was launched, the number of online players soared from 40 million to 100 million, reaching 1 billion in three months, and then stabilized and continued to grow, reaching a terrifying 10 billion online in two years.

  The more players there are and the higher their levels, the more items will naturally be put up for auction.

  The primary whetstone is the most economical product to increase proficiency in casting. The manufacturing material only requires one iron ingot, and the finished product "Primary Whetstone" is a consumable item that grinds on a weapon, increasing its damage by 10 points for one hour.

  Zhang Yang couldn't rely on making thick earth shields to upgrade his casting skills to intermediate, so he snapped up a "Primary Whetstone" and headed to the mailbox to retrieve it while opening his friend list to send a private message to a professional miner.

  "Old brother, how many iron bars do you have now?"

  After a while, the other party replied: "Hey, I haven't received your message for several days, and I thought you didn't want it anymore! There are many iron bars, how many do you want?"

  "Alright, let's do 100 sets!" To upgrade the casting skill to intermediate level, only about 50 sets of iron ingots are needed, but Zhang Yang still has 7 pieces of rare copper ingots left, which would require another 35 sets of iron ingots to be consumed.

  "Ah!" The professional miner was clearly startled. "I'm telling you, don't scare me every time, okay? 100 sets are too many, I've added all the goods from the bank, and it's only around 50 sets."

  "Okay, 50 sets for now, when you have more goods, send me another 50 sets! Same as before, payment upon receipt!"

  "Alright! Thanks for your patronage, boss!"

  Zhang Yang stretched out his hand and patted it, having learned the "Primary Whetstone". He thought that the email would take half an hour to send, and waiting here was meaningless. However, he had been killing monsters until he vomited blood these past few days, and for a short period of time, he really couldn't muster up the enthusiasm to kill monsters again.

  "Beep!" The email assistant suddenly sent a prompt, there is new mail.

  Zhang Yang was stunned and thought that after his rebirth, the delivery time of this "Divine Sign" had also changed? The message arrived so quickly?

  He opened the mailbox to take a look, but it wasn't a professional miner's iron ingot that was sent over. Instead, it was a notice from the auction house - the Thick Earth Round Shield had been successfully sold off to a player named "Facing The Wind And Pissing Three Feet".

  Awesome!

  Zhang Yang immediately ran to the bank, took out the second shield, and hung it up in the auction house according to the old rules.

  "Ding!" In less than two minutes, Zhang Yang saw the email assistant's prompt and opened it to find that the shield had been sold again, with "Urinating Three Feet Against the Wind" as the buyer!

  Zhang Yang is on again.

  The other party bought again.

  Hang up, buy. Hang up, buy...

  In ten minutes, the five shields in Zhang Yang's bank had been sold out, all of which were bought by "Facing the Wind and Urinating Three Feet". For the remaining few shields, he originally wanted to mark a higher price, but thinking that one thousand gold coins was already quite a lot, he let it go.

  The earlier in the game, the faster the devaluation of gold coins. However, even at today's 1:9 exchange rate, 1000 gold coins would be worth nearly 10,000 yuan!

  It's great to have money!

  But thinking about it, this thick earth round shield is currently the best shield in the game stage. Except for Lost Paradise, no other guild has passed Dardar yet, and just the rare material of Trichrome has determined the rarity of this shield!

  This guy who urinated against the wind for three feet must be someone from a certain conference, so he would buy all six shields hung by Zhang Yang.

  20-level copy, only death mode will drop silver equipment quality shield, according to the game's development calculation, at least four or five days later, various guilds can assemble a team that meets the level requirements.

  Maz'Jir's lair is far more difficult than Bangar's, and at the beginning of the game when you don't know the boss's skills, even in normal mode it can trap you for a day. In hard mode it takes two or three days, and in death mode it takes even longer. To get that white silver shield, it will be at least ten days later!

  In addition, teams that can pass the death mode at the corresponding level are always just a few guilds, and ordinary players can only rely on high levels to come back and crush them later! Calculating this way, this thick earth shield can still be sold for a long time, it's just that the price won't be so high in the future.

  It seems that the Death Mode of Bengodi Cave is still worth brushing!