Sun Yimin dragged the golden armor in the package into the box on the left side of the forging interface. Then, according to Liu Ronghua's prompt, he put 8 pieces of "body protection spars" into the surrounding frames.

Then put a piece of "titanium crystal" into the first small box on the right.

All consumables have been placed, and the forging screen shows that the forging cost is 800 gold. The current success rate is 35% (30+5). It looks like success is hanging a bit.

"Shall I order it?" Sun Yimin looked at Liu Ronghua with a slightly nervous expression.

Liu Ronghua nodded.

Sun Yimin pressed the confirmation button, and with a "poof" sound from the computer speaker, two lines of prompt text flashed in the system information bar in the lower right corner of the screen:

"It's a pity that the forging failed."

"Your package is reduced by 800 gold".

At this time, except for this armor, all the other stones on the forging interface had disappeared out of thin air.

Hover over it, and the armor forging level is still +7.

Liu Ronghua pouted.

It seems that good luck did not patronize Sun Yimin today. There was a look of disappointment on his face. But after thinking about it, he was quickly relieved: after all, with a 35% success rate, failure is a normal behavior.

There are still 8 body spars in the package, and the titanium crystals are gone. Sun Yimin placed the spar on the forging interface again, and glanced at Liu Ronghua with a soliciting gaze.

The latter spread his hands, meaning "whatever you want." ”

This time there is no titanium crystal, and the success rate is only 30%.

Sun Yimin pressed the left mouse button again.

"Poof......

In an instant, Sun Yimin's mood fell into a trough, and gloom flooded his face.

On the side, Liu Ronghua exclaimed "tsk", and said: "Your hands are really stinky......"

The body spar in the package has run out. Sun Yimin had no choice but to give up. But in his heart, he was extremely unwilling.

"Where did you get this body protection spar?" Sun Yimin looked at Liu Ronghua on the side curiously.

"Mall!" Liu Ronghua said without thinking. As he spoke, he pointed to a small icon in the upper right corner of Sun Yimin's computer screen, and motioned for Sun Yimin to click to open it.

Sun Yimin has never used this mall function. As the name suggests, it should belong to a kind of trading place.

On the open mall shelf interface, there are various game items and props listed in categories, which are dazzling.

In it, Sun Yimin saw the familiar body protection spar, clicked, and entered the purchase quantity in the pop-up dialog box: 8. Click OK to purchase. Then an important prompt dialog box pops up on the screen: "Your ingots are insufficient." ”

"What ingots? Isn't it bought with gold? Sun Yimin asked puzzled.

"Everything in the mall has to be purchased with ingots. You don't know? Liu Ronghua looked at Sun Yimin with disdain.

"Damn! I don't know. Sun Yimin glanced at the other party and asked, "Where did the ingots come from?" ”

"Recharge with RMB," Liu Ronghua blurted out, "It's generally a dollar for an ingot." There will be some discounts for topping. ”

Sun Yimin was stunned.

Then he asked with a puzzled face: "Why am I a little confused, there seem to be several places to buy things in this game: the shop NPC in the town, the stall in Chang'an Square, the auction house, and the mall you just said." What's the difference? ”

Liu Ronghua frowned and slowly explained to him: "The shop NPCs in the town are places where the computer system sells items to players. Generally, the sale is some daily small goods, such as elixir, low-quality equipment, etc., these things need to be purchased with gold, and some of the player's waste items such as low-quality equipment are also purchased.

The function of the stall market and the auction house is to trade items and equipment between players, as well as to trade gold coins. The mall is different, it is a place where game operators sell game items to players, and the contents are bought with ingots. ”

"If there are so many places to buy things, why do you have to go to the mall to buy stones?" Sun asked.

"Because there are some things that can't be bought in shops or stalls!" Liu Ronghua explained: "As I said just now, the NPCs in the store only sell pills. The items and equipment sold by players in the stalls and auction houses are generally more valuable from the dungeon monsters, and the mall sells a special kind of items, which are difficult for players to obtain from the game world to fight monsters, and can basically only be purchased from the mall. ”

"Oh, like these stones for forging?" Sun Yimin asked.

"That's right, there are many kinds of items besides these, all of which can only be purchased from the mall."

"And it can only be purchased with ingots, and ingots can only be recharged with yuan in exchange, right?" Sun asked.

Liu Ronghua nodded.

"Sure enough, there is a way to make money, and it seems that this so-called free game is actually very profitable." Sun Yimin's face suddenly realized.

"That's true, so there are basically no paid games on the market now." Liu Ronghua said with a smile.

"That means that if I don't spend some RMB, I just can't forge the equipment?" Sun Yimin asked.

"Actually, you don't have to use RMB to buy items in the mall." Liu Ronghua patted Sun Yimin's shoulder and comforted.

"Really? How to do it? Sun Yimin turned his head, curiosity and expectation appeared on his face again.

"You can exchange gold coins for ingots, and then take them to the mall to buy items." Liu Ronghua said.

"How?" Sun asked.

Liu Ronghua motioned to Sun Yimin to close the mall interface, then pointed to another icon in the upper right corner of the screen, and said, "You can click on this, and you can enter the Yuanbao Exchange." The function of this exchange is dedicated to the trading of gold coins and ingots between players. Those players who are not willing to spend RMB can exchange gold coins for ingots through this system, and then use the ingots to buy what they need in the mall. ”

"I see, that's good." Sun Yimin nodded, and then asked, "How many gold coins do you need to exchange for an ingot?" ”

"This exchange rate is determined by the market. At the moment, the market is about 1 in 100. That is to say, 100 gold coins for one ingot. ”

"So a gold coin is worth about a penny?" Sun asked.

"So to speak." Liu Ronghua smiled and said, "So, in fact, we get gold coins for doing tasks, which is equivalent to earning RMB." ”

Sun Yimin realized. It's just that there is still one thing that I don't understand: "So why do those RMB players sell ingots in exchange for gold coins?" He can do tasks in the game to get gold. ”

"Didn't you see that you spent 800 gold coins forging the armor just now? In fact, there are many places where gold coins are used in the game, especially for forging and synthesizing gems, which need to consume a large amount of gold coins as a 'service fee' to pay to NPCs such as blacksmiths. The little gold you get by farming dungeons to do tasks is far from enough for those who are keen on pursuing the ultimate equipment attributes. Therefore, they will exchange ingots for gold coins. ”

Sun Yimin roughly understood what Liu Ronghua said. looked at his package, and there were more than 2,000 gold coins left. I took a look at the unit price of the body protection spar in the mall is 5 ingots (worth 5 yuan), if you exchange gold coins for ingots to buy spars, then one will need about 500 gold coins, and it seems that it is far from enough to buy 8 pieces. This money can only be left for forging expenses, and then borrowed 8 body protection spars from Liu Ronghua.

Then I couldn't wait to put the hedron into the forging interface. Nervously, he pressed the forging button.

His hands trembled a little and he stared at the screen.

There was a crisp tapping sound from the computer speaker, "Ding ......", and the system information in the lower right corner of the screen flashed two lines of prompt text: "Congratulations, the forging is successful." "Your package has been reduced by 800 gold".

Sun Yimin breathed a sigh of relief. Today is finally done. The previous gloomy mood was swept away. Although the price is high, after all, it still lives up to this effort.

"That's good!" Liu Ronghua patted him on the shoulder and said, "With a success rate of more than 30%, you will be allowed to get on it in three times, this system is quite kind." ”

Sun Yimin nodded. Then he sighed: "A picture painted like a stone can be sold for 5 yuan." Gee...... I kind of understand that although this game is called a free online game, it is actually taking advantage of the player's pretense to make money and make a lot of money. ”

"Yes, of course, the operator will not lose money. And they may make more money than online games with a fee-based model. Liu Ronghua said.

Sun Yimin curiously opened Liu Ronghua's equipment interface, carefully observed each piece of equipment, and couldn't help but gasp. Except for the ornaments on the upper and lower parts of this "Yushu Spring Garden Flower", every piece of equipment has been forged to +10 level.

"Your more than 200,000 yuan is probably spent on forging." Sun Yimin asked.

"Forging is only part of it," Liu Ronghua frowned, and continued, "The other thing is actually spent on gemstones. In short, it cost more than 100,000 yuan to build equipment, and tens of thousands of dollars to establish gangs and recruit troops. ”

"Why does the gang spend a lot of money?" Sun Yimin asked curiously.

"The main thing is to give out benefits and call players with high combat power to join." Liu Ronghua said.

Sun Yimin couldn't help but sigh: "Spending a lot of real money for a few virtual numbers that exist in server memory, the world of rich people is really incomprehensible. ”

As he spoke, he opened the armor that had just been forged to level +8 and checked the attributes, and both physical defense and spell defense reached 13900+.

I couldn't wait to put this new armor on my body, and opened my character attribute interface to see that the combat power of "King Xiang" had increased to 85330, and I was secretly happy.

He's looking forward to leveling up his character to level 70 sooner, and working hard to make money to change all the equipment throughout his body - especially weapons. In order to further enhance the combat power.

With a good mood, Sun Yimin washed and prepared to sleep.

But before going to bed, lying on the bed and remembering the rude scene of Murong during the day, Sun Yimin's heart flashed with a trace of unhappiness.

He thought, "Since Murong is so perverse, I just want to be with the goddess every day. Online games are just a virtual world, no matter how high his combat power is, no matter how good his operation skills are, how can he not succeed me? ”