Chapter 12: The First Pot of Gold
The system prompts: "Li Cardo taught Mu Mu the alchemy skill, Mu Mu learned alchemy (elementary), and Mu Mu learned the alchemy sub-skill - Gathering (elementary)." [Ran^Text^Library] []”
Mumu finally learned alchemy, but Ricardo didn't teach him any recipes. Mu Mu asked a little angrily: "What about my formula, after learning alchemy, don't you want to give away 2 formulas?" ”
Li Cardo said impatiently: "I just don't send it, what can you do with me." After saying that, he drove Mu Mu out.
Without a formula, alchemy is not just an empty shelf, and since this Licardo took his money, he doesn't follow the rules. It is clear that he is bullying Mu Mu. Mu Mu has never been the one who suffers. He decided to teach Ricardo a good lesson. However, Mu Mu will not take the initiative to attack him, the first reason is that he will be wanted by the system if he actively attacks NPCs in the city, and the other reason is that he can't beat Li Cardo either.
Mu Mu looked at all his skills and felt that only the Eagle Eye Technique could work, but according to the probability of the skill description, the probability that he could steal it was very small. Since there is a glimmer of hope, Mumu will never give up. He decisively unleashed the Eagle Eye spell on Ricardo.
The system prompts: "You cast the Eagle Eye on Liccardo, the current alchemy recipe of Liccardo is suitable for you to steal, please select the content you want to steal from the recipe below." ”
A selection box appeared on the screen, which listed Licardo's alchemy recipes, Mu Mu looked at it, and Licardo had a total of 36 recipes, including 6 recovery potion recipes, which were to make primary, intermediate, and advanced magic and life recovery potions, and all of them were auxiliary potion recipes. Mu Mu briefly analyzed that the player's demand for recovery potions is very high in the job transfer mission. Since there is a 30-second CD time for drinking the potion, the more restorative the potion, the easier it is to sell. Mu Mu decisively chose a formula suitable for primary alchemy - Life Recovery Potion (Intermediate Level)
The system prompts: "If you choose to steal the recipe from Ricardo - Life Regeneration Potion (Intermediate), you have a 1% chance to learn it, because your character has wisdom (false gods), and the chance of learning it is greatly increased." ”
The system prompts: "You have learned the alchemy recipe - Life Recovery Potion (Intermediate)." ”
Mu Mu didn't expect the wisdom technique to be so powerful, and he still hasn't fully mastered it. He's looking forward to the day when he's fully in control, but for now he's holding on to his chance.
Mu Mu looked at the recipe, refining the intermediate recovery potion requires 3 kinds of herbs, and there are no players in the city to sell herbs at present, so he can only go out of the city to pick them by himself.
At present, players are busy with job transfer missions, and the herbs outside the city are basically unpicked. Mu Mu mined his backpack in two hours, and these potions were enough for Mu Mu to refine 200 bottles of intermediate recovery potion. Back in the city, Mumu once again steals the recipe from Riccardo, but this time he fails. To refine 200 bottles of potion, it takes 20 minutes. Mu Mu put up 20 copper coins per bottle of potion at the auction house, and it was sold out in less than 10 minutes. After deducting the cost and the auction house's handling fee, he can earn 10 copper coins per bottle. This profit is good, but when it is scratched down, it is equivalent to selling herbs. Mu Mu didn't want to earn this low-end coolie money.
In order to make more money, Mu Mu felt that he had to control his costs. In the refining cost, the intermediate medicine bottle is 2 copper coins each, which cannot be saved. The auction fee and courier fee are 8 copper coins per bottle. Mu Mu felt that it was too luxurious to sell things at an auction house. If you want to save this cost, you can only set up your own stall, but setting up a stall will affect your own medicine. Mu Mu thought about it for a while, but he didn't think that plan was good. "If only someone helped me set up my stall." Mu Mu sighed a little. Suddenly, Mu Mu thought of a brilliant idea.
After Zhang San was brought to the city by Mumu, he has no support for life, and as a wandering NPC, life is extremely fortunate. Mu Mu found Zhang San and offered to hire him to help set up the stall, and Zhang San immediately agreed. Zhang San's asking price was very cheap, he only needed 100 copper coins a day.
Mu Mu felt that the money flowed into his pocket like running water. Now he is the only one selling intermediate recovery potions, and there are enough players in Maple Leaf City. His medicines have always been in short supply. This time, he revised the process several times, and finally he figured out the most efficient workflow: he could collect 100 bottles of herbs in an hour, and it would take him 20 minutes to return, and 10 minutes to make potions, and 100 bottles of potions could be sold in exactly that time. In the process, Mu Mu can steal skills from Liccardo. In 90 minutes, he was able to make 1.7 silver coins. On this day, Mu Mu earned a total of 20 silver coins. His alchemy skills have been upgraded to the intermediate level, and he has successfully stolen 2 recipes from Licardo.
The next day, Mu Mu got up very early, these days are very important to him, time is money, he must take advantage of the rush and work hard to make money. Starting today, he decided to sell advanced recovery potions. Due to the low demand for high-level recovery potions, Mumu adopted a high-price strategy of 100 copper coins per bottle. Not counting the cost of herbs, he can earn 95 copper coins per bottle. He was able to earn 3.3 credits in one cycle, and as the demand for advanced recovery potions increased, Mumu made more and more money.
Time passed like this, and Mu Mu was very busy every day. As many players succeed in changing classes, the demand for potions decreases, and the number of people selling them increases. Although there is still a certain amount of profit, Mu Mu decided to give up selling medicine, because Mu Mu will not give up greater benefits for this benefit. Alchemy should be a very lucrative sub-job. Often players have the characteristics of profit-seeking, so there should be many players who invest in this profession, and if you want to make money and make a lot of money, you must master the exclusive formula. Mu Mu is already one step ahead, he must seize this opportunity to take the lead, he has to find a new formula.
Mumu decided to go to the capital. There are all kinds of elites in the capital, and there should be the alchemy formula that Mu Mu is looking for. There are two ways to get to the capital, one is to cross the high-level monster area, and it takes about three days to reach the capital. Another way is to take the post station of the system, which can get to the capital in about 1 hour, but it is not cheap to take the post station, and the ticket to the capital costs 30 silver coins. Mu Mu doesn't want to waste time, and he has a lot of money right now. He sold the medicine for a total of seven days, except for the first day and the next two days, which made a little less, and the other days were windfall profits, and he made a total of 540 silver coins. In the past few days, he has refined potions and raised his alchemy to an advanced level, and Mu Mu has used the upgrade scroll to raise his alchemy to the expert level. And Licardo's recipes were all stolen by him.
Another factor in Mumu's decision to leave Maple City was Strawberry Beanie. Since Mumu sold Talon to her, Strawberry Beanie seems to have changed as a person, she greets Mumu every day as soon as she goes online, and then always finds all kinds of excuses to chat with Mumu. Mu Mu was a little scared, he could feel Strawberry Doudou's admiration for him, but the biggest reason why he played the game was for Shen Bing. So he didn't want to have any entanglements with other female players. Strawberry Beanie is not online, and Mumu sends her a message, saying that he is going to the capital.
Zhang San brought a lot of wealth to Mu Mu, and Mu Mu still had to help Zhang San solve his livelihood problems before leaving Maple Leaf City. Mu Mu has been thinking about this question these days. Each NPC is given a special positioning. When Zhang San left the novice village, he was already out of the control of the system. Every NPC will occupy some system resources, the system is cruel, and he will not waste resources on a useless NPC. Zhang San has become a wandering NPC, and he is an NPC with intermediate intelligence, and now he can't control his own destiny, if there are no other special opportunities, in the near future, he will be wiped out by the system. Mu Mu thought about it for a long time and felt that Zhang San had to be given a mission, so that he could have the value of existence.
Mu Mu thought of a way, a very ingenious idea, if his idea could be realized. Zhang San will become a special NPC. Mu Mu found Zhang San and said directly to Zhang San: "Zhang San, I am about to leave Maple Leaf City, and after I leave, no one will hire you to set up a stall." You're going to be a wandering NPC again, and maybe in the near future, you'll be wiped out by the system, or death, as you say. ”
After Zhang San heard this, he didn't understand the meaning of Mumu's words very much, but the word death moved him a lot, and he was a little frightened and a little overwhelmed.
Mu Mu was very satisfied with Zhang San's expression, because Zhang San was able to understand the meaning of the player's words, rather than mechanically following the system program. In that case, Zhang San should be able to act according to Mu Mu's request. Mu Mu continued: "If you don't want to die, you must choose to do what I say, then you will find the value of existence, and you will not die. ”
The business district of Maple Leaf City is not very prosperous, and there are many empty shops. Although the store is empty, players cannot purchase it. The system has a strict procedure for selling shops, and players must complete multiple tasks, and they must obtain items such as title deeds and apply for a business license...... In short, the difficulty is no less than the epic mission. However, there is no restriction on NPCs for the sale of shops as long as there is money. Mu Mu gave Zhang San 100 silver coins. Zhang San quickly bought a shop, which was very cheap, only 80 silver coins, and the location was also good. Mu Mu asked Zhang San to spend money to decorate the store .......
And just like that, a brand new store opened, but this one was special. The owner of the shop is Zhang San, and there is nothing in the store. NPCs must have the corresponding skills to open a shop, and sell them by crafting items through skills. Zhang San has no skills, can't make items, and the store has nothing to sell. However, Mu Mu didn't plan to let Zhang San produce items and sell things, if that was done, Zhang San would be no different from other NPCs, and he would soon perish. Therefore, Mumu positioned Zhang San's store as a platform, where players put what they wanted to sell in the store, and Zhang San sold them for players, so that players saved time setting up stalls and Zhang San solved the livelihood problem.
Zhang San's shop is on fire, and Li Cardo's shop is even more depressed. Mu Mu looked at Li Cardo's bitter gourd face, and suddenly felt refreshed. Let you bully me at the beginning, and now you will be punished. What made Mu Mu even happier was that the system prompted again: "Due to Zhang San's role change, Zhang San has gained advanced intelligence." "Mu Mu successfully promoted NPC intelligence upgrade, your performance showed your wisdom, Mu Mu's wisdom (pseudo-god) released some attributes, and you gained a 25% increase in intelligence."