Chapter 20: Setting Up a Stall
Back in the novice village, Lin Chen did not rush to find Abu, and submitted the completed task immediately.
He first found the blacksmith in the novice village, a shirtless muscular uncle, sitting at the door of the blacksmith shop and blowing the evening breeze comfortably. After an afternoon of playing, Uncle Blacksmith's reputation as a good man has already spread among the player community, and from time to time players come over to try their luck.
At this moment, around Uncle Blacksmith, there are several players around. However, this blacksmith uncle seems to only have a friendly attitude towards some rookie players, and will happily throw out some novice tasks, and basically doesn't like to deal with those players who have been promoted one or two levels.
In just a while, another rookie player successfully received the task issued by Uncle Blacksmith and ran away happily. As for the remaining players, they are a little depressed.
Lin Chen squeezed into the crowd, ignoring everyone's angry gazes, and was thinking about how to talk to Uncle Blacksmith, but Uncle Blacksmith himself spoke first.
"Young man, it seems like this is the first time I've seen you, and you're here to ask for help?"
Lin Chen shook his head and replied, "No, I just want to come to maintain the equipment." β
"Oh, I'll take a look!"
When the blacksmith heard this, he immediately got up, and seemed to be full of energy.
"It's the first time I've seen someone looking for me to maintain their equipment after this whole day, well, your equipment looks pretty good. The other people who came to me before looked as young as you, but they didn't have a single tatte on their bodies, and they wanted to go out and have an adventure. I looked at them pitiful and couldn't help but want to help them. β
Uncle Blacksmith looked at the other players around him and continued with some dissatisfaction, "Hmph! But I'm starting to regret helping them a little, I don't see any growth, I don't want to experience and grow, and I think about how to continue to get benefits from me! β
After hearing Uncle Blacksmith's straightforward words, these players lowered their heads a little embarrassed, and then saw that Uncle Blacksmith seemed to be about to drive people away, so they had to run away in disgrace, and after a while, only Lin Chen and Uncle Blacksmith were left.
"Well, several pieces of equipment on your body are still new, and you basically don't need to maintain them, just two pieces of old equipment that are more seriously damaged, and a total of 12 silver coins will be charged to you."
"Okay."
Lin Chen happily handed over the 12 eternal silver coins to the blacksmith uncle, and with more than 500 silver coins in his backpack, Lin Chen didn't feel distressed at all. He knew that Uncle Blacksmith was talking about the two worn-out pieces of equipment that he had used the longest, and the durability was almost gone, and he didn't know when the new equipment would explode, which made him have the idea of looking for Uncle Blacksmith to maintain the equipment.
As for why the maintenance equipment, whether it is iron equipment or leather equipment, or even jewelry equipment made of bone jade, it is all NPC maintenance with the function of a blacksmith, Lin Chen doesn't know, the countermeasure is set by the designer from the era of "Miracles", it is estimated that it is convenient, right?
Uncle Blacksmith was full of energy and efficiency, and it only took about 3 seconds to return the equipment to Lin Chen. Lin Chen put away the equipment and saw that the durability of all the equipment had been restored to the upper limit, and the blacksmith uncle was indeed a conscientious blacksmith, and he didn't cut corners for half a point. You know, there are some unscrupulous blacksmiths who only do half the work after receiving the money.
After the work was completed, the blacksmith uncle still chatted with Lin Chen enthusiastically: "How was the harvest of today's adventure?" β
"It's okay."
"Haha, you're humble! You are completely different from those rookie adventurers, whether it is in dress or temperament, the others are all disgraced, only you look calm. β
"Oh?"
Lin Chen smiled and asked, "Uncle, is there anything I can help you with?" β
"Ahem!" Uncle Blacksmith touched his head and said embarrassedly: "The village chief asked me to build a batch of weapons in the past few days, but I don't have many materials left. I need to add a batch of iron ore, but there is some danger in the mine, and Abu used to be entrusted to clear the monsters roaming around the mine, but recently Abu was injured. Alas, he still can't get out of bed......"
Lin Chen suppressed the joy in his heart and said, "Please rest assured that it will be handed over to me, I left the village today to help Uncle Abu, and even Uncle Abu believes in my strength!" β
What he said was half-true, but he believed that Uncle Blacksmith would never go to Abu to verify the truth because of this.
Uncle Blacksmith said excitedly, "Okay, I'm sure you can finish this thing beautifully." β
"Ding!"
"System prompt: Do you want to accept the quest [Blacksmith's Mine]?"
Of course, he chose to accept it, and soon he got the complete mission information-
γBlacksmith's Mineγ
Difficulty level: B
Mission Description: Flower is worried about the ogre, and he wants the blacksmith Gamble to build a batch of weapons that can deal with the ogre. But Gamble is struggling with the lack of some iron ore, and hopes that you can go to the mines to collect enough iron ore to return, and if enough, by the way, give the monsters who occupy the mines a hard lesson to remember.
Main Objective: Collect 50 Iron Ore
Secondary Objective: Eliminate all the monsters that roam the mines
Rewards: ???
Seeing the completion conditions of this task, Lin Chen was slightly surprised, he felt that his luck was really good, and he actually received a task with a secondary goal. As long as he completes the main objective, he can come back to claim the reward of the mission, but if he can complete the secondary objective by the way after completing the main objective of the mission, he can get a more generous reward for completing the task.
Although I can't see the reward content of this mission, I still feel the anticipation for the final reward of this mission.
Just as Lin Chen was about to leave, Uncle Blacksmith stopped Lin Chen and gave Lin Chen a special tool, the Pickaxe, which allows players to collect ore more effectively. If it wasn't for the blacksmith uncle in advance, Lin Chen forgot that there was still such a tool, and when the time came, it would be a little embarrassing to think about mining stones with his bare hands.
Lin Chen then came to the open space in the center of the novice village, which originally had no name, but players are used to calling it "Village Center Square".
He found a random open space, only to pay attention to whether there was any standing water, regardless of whether the ground was dirty or not, and sat down directly.
That's right, Lin Chen saw that there were many players here, and it was a good place to set up a stall. He has four worn-out outfits in his backpack, which are probably comparable to level 3 inferior equipment, and some other explosive low-quality equipment with low grades, which is a good choice for some players who have not yet equipped it.
He shouted, "Come out with some novice rags, start with 5 silver coins, and come to the cheerful boss." β
The two functional NPCs, the blacksmith and the tailor, both sell equipment, but they only sell low-quality equipment at level 0, which has low attributes and is expensive. Some players may save some silver coins and grit their teeth to buy the equipment after they can't explode the equipment, but the vast majority of players would rather wait to buy the equipment sold by other players.
But for now, there are not many players who have exploded equipment, and many players themselves have not worn all the equipment, and there are few excess equipment to sell. Therefore, Lin Chen's shout quickly attracted a group of players and surrounded him densely.
Someone asked, "Dude, do you want to sell equipment?" β
"That's right, see for yourself! Everything to be sold. β
Soon, someone exclaimed: ", there are really equipment for sale, and even black iron tools are several." Alas, it's a pity that it's only level 0 black iron equipment. β
"Even the level 0 black iron equipment is very good, I didn't see that I have nothing on my body except for a brick as a weapon, and an inferior straw sandal that accidentally exploded. Moreover, the stall owner's price is very cheap, starting at only 5 silver coins. β
"Don't say it, just now there was a fool with an ID named Wan Cheap Piercing Heart, and it was just a level 3 inferior bracer, priced at 50 eternal silver coins, why didn't he grab it!"
Hearing Wan Zhixin's name, the corners of Lin Chen's mouth twitched, after he thought about it, he had already blocked it anyway, so it was better not to inquire about that guy.
The equipment that Lin Chen put out was very popular, and it only took a few minutes to sell it all, bringing him a total of more than 50 Eternal Silver Coins.
At this moment, a crisp voice came into Lin Chen's ears.
"Eh, boss, I heard that you sell equipment here?"