Chapter 13: Jail
Chang'an City is the national capital of China. [Ran^Text^Library] It adopts the architectural style of an ancient Chinese city and is symmetrically laid out according to the central axis. It consists of an outer city, an inner city, and an imperial city. The Imperial City is located in the center of the city, with the inner city surrounding the Imperial City and the outer city surrounding the inner city. The outer city is surrounded by majestic walls, and the player can only enter the outer city of the national capital. Mumu enters the outer city from the east gate, and there are a total of 9 north-south streets and 9 east-west streets in the outer city, and the criss-crossing roads divide the outer city into 100 blocks. There are also several trails within each block. The two commercial districts of the capital are located on the east and west sides of the outer city, each covering four blocks. All the factories and commercial shops in the capital are located in these two business districts.
The previous success made Mu Mu feel extremely comfortable, and he spent half a day turning around the outer city. One is to understand the situation of the capital, and the other is to be attracted by the ancient architectural style of the capital. In the eastern business district of the capital, there is a large medical hall - Baicaotang. Baicaotang was opened by the master of apothecary, Ye Tianming. When Mu Mu traveled to the outer city, he heard a lot of news about Ye Tianming. Ye Tianming is the eldest apprentice of the medical god Li Shizhen, and he inherited the master's superb medical skills. He was a master alchemist and was well versed in herbalism.
Mu Mu was a little surprised by the size of the Baicaotang, and the rows of shops along the street were hung with signs of Baicaotang, which sold all kinds of medicines and could treat various diseases. Of course, these are mainly for NPCs, and in order to obtain these things, players must complete the quest of Baicaotang. Baicaotang has special NPCs to teach players alchemy skills and recipes. If a player wants to meet Ye Tianming, they must meet two conditions (except for special tasks), one is that the alchemy skill level reaches the expert level, and the other is that the reputation in Baicao Hall must reach the friendly level. Mumu's prestige does not meet the requirements. However, he can still see Ye Tianming. Because Mu Mu is the first player to obtain expert-level alchemy, the system rewards him with the ability to learn an expert-level alchemy recipe from any master alchemist for free.
Ye Tianming was still quite surprised that there were players who had reached the expert level of alchemy so quickly. He looked at Mu Mu in front of him, and there was an indescribable disgust in his heart, but he couldn't go against the will of the system, and said coldly: "I already know your intentions, I'm busy, you just say that you want to learn that formula, and if you learn it, leave quickly." ”
Mu Mu looked at Ye Tianming, he was a level 50 NPC and should be a hero-level character. But listening to his tone, it's not very kind to him. Mu Mu is a little strange, why every NPC looks at him unpleasantly, thinking about it, he should be dragged down by negative prestige. It seems that in the future, if his reputation does not turn positive, he will be treated as a bad guy by NPCs wherever he goes. Since Mu Mu is a bad guy in the eyes of the NPCs, he is not polite, and said confidently: "I want to learn the poison formula, you can watch and teach." "Mu Mu's curse attribute has a bonus to the poison system, and there are very few players who refine poison, so his poison can be easily sold at a high price.
When Ye Tianming heard Mu Mu's words, his face immediately changed, he looked at Mu Mu with some disgust, and said angrily: "No." After speaking, he will drive Mu Mu away. Mu Mu heard it, that anger, you are a master-level alchemist, it's not obvious that you don't want to teach. In that case, don't blame me for being rude. Mu Mu decisively used Eagle Eye on Ye Tianming. Mu Mu looked at the recipe sheet displayed on the screen. Ye Tianming's alchemy recipes are really many, but the previous recipes are the same as other alchemists' recipes, there is no difference, Mu Mu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and thought: "The master level is at this level, no wonder it won't." He flipped down the recipe table with some discouragement, and suddenly his eyes lit up and he saw an exclusive recipe. Mu Mu chose to steal this recipe. Mu Mu was lucky, and the recipe was successfully learned.
Mu Mu left the Baicao Hall, walked to a corner and opened the attribute table, and couldn't help but exclaim, the master really has good things. The formula that Mu Mu secretly learned this time, the Primary Healing Stone (Ye Tianming's exclusive formula), requires 6 kinds of materials to refine: "Bone-setting grass, live root grass, 、......". Mu Mu happened to have these 6 low-grade herbs on his body. However, refining primary healing stones requires special refining tools.
There are many handicraft farms in the commercial area of the capital, which provide a variety of refining tools, which players can use as long as they rent them. In order to see the attributes of the primary healing stone as soon as possible, Mu Mu went to Baicaotang to rent tools to refine it. There are two ways to rent refining tools, one is rented on a per-use basis for 10 copper coins each time, and the other is rented for 100 copper coins per hour. It takes 2 minutes to refine a primary healing stone, and Mu Mu quickly sees the properties of the primary healing stone.
- Primary healing stone, alchemy product, can be equipped in the position of character accessories, equipment effect: increase the character's upper life limit by 100 points, increase the character's health recovery ability by 50% (the effect can be stacked); One-time use, it can restore 500 health, can be used 3 times, and disappears after 3 items.
Mu Mu felt that this was a fortune, and this item could greatly improve the health recovery ability, which would be of great help to the player's leveling. He thinks that 1 healing stone can be sold for a silver coin. And the production cost of the healing stone does not exceed 100 copper coins, counting the auction house handling fee and courier fee, one can earn 700 copper coins, according to one player to buy two, there are so many players in the new world, this is not to make a fortune. The more Mu Mu thought about it, the happier he became, and he couldn't help laughing.
Mu Mu's strange behavior attracts the attention of the attachment NPC. The NPCs all pointed at Mu Mu, who felt that these NPCs were too much of an eyesore and decided to leave Baicaotang immediately. That knows, before he stepped out of Baicaotang, he was caught by an NPC named Li Si, he grabbed Mu Mu, and said to the NPC next to him: "This guy was kicked out by the master just now, and he is sneaking around here now, he must have done something bad, everyone searched him to see if he stole something." ”
The contents of the player's backpack are protected by the system, and NPCs are generally unable to open the player's backpack. NPCs can only open the player's backpack if they are prompted by a quest or if the story requires it. Obviously, Mu Mu was prompted by the plot, and soon the NPC found the primary healing stone from the backpack. Li Si believed that this healing stone was stolen by Mu Mu, because this item was the exclusive formula of his master Ye Tianming, and only his master would make it.
The next plot is not under Mu Mu's control, he was escorted to the government by this group of NPCs, he should be affected by negative reputation, and he is a bad guy in the eyes of the approving officer. Moreover, the human and material evidence was complete, and the examination and approval officer directly convicted Mu Mu of theft and was imprisoned for one month. Mu Mu felt that what was wrong, why did he convict without asking, he felt that he was so wronged, he was very angry, and scolded the unconscious official when he was angry. This stabbed the hornet's nest, and the judge was very angry and directly put Mu Mu on death row.
The conditions on death row were poor, the light was dim, and the air was filled with a foul smell. The inmates in the cells have adapted to such an environment. But Mu Mu couldn't stand it, he shouted loudly: "I was wronged, let me go ......." The prisoners in the cell have become numb to such things, and they shouted the same thing at the beginning, but it is useless, and they are not on death row now.
"Don't make any noise, don't disturb my sleep." Mu Mu is too good at shouting, maybe this is the difference between the player and the NPC, he shouted for several hours, and he didn't feel tired at all, but the other prisoners in the cell were tired of listening, and a few of them couldn't help but reprimand Mu Mu loudly. Mu Mu felt that it was useless to shout like this, so he calmed down. Look around at the cell. Death row is full of felons, and most cells contain only one person. Mu Mu and an old man are locked together, to be precise, an older NPC. It's too boring to be in prison, so Mu Mu tries to chat with his fellow inmates, but unfortunately the NPC doesn't pay attention to him at all. Mu Mu was bored, so he used Eagle Eye on the NPC next to him, which scared him. His cellmate looks like a bad old man, but he is actually a master alchemist and proficient in drug making. Unfortunately, Mu Mu couldn't learn any of the recipes because he didn't know how to use poison.
Mu Mu remembered the conversation with Ye Tianming before. Ye Tianming should really not be able to make poison, so he failed to teach Mumu the poison formula. If this is the case, the reward of the system has not yet been claimed. Thinking of this, Mu Mu respectfully said to his fellow inmate: "Old man, I know that you are a master alchemist, and I solemnly ask you to teach me the art of poisoning. ”
The old man was a little surprised, he didn't know how this newcomer knew his identity, and felt that this newcomer's request was a bit unreasonable, he wanted to refuse, but he didn't know why, he couldn't refuse, so he could only teach him poison magic.
System prompt: "Mu Mu has learned poison (elementary)." "Sure enough, the system is invincible, and no one can refuse. Mu Mu took a look at the description of the poison technique: - Poison Casting (Elementary), alchemy professional auxiliary skill, can actively release poison, and the specific damage value is related to poison. Elementary-level poison spell increases poison damage by 5% and can release poisons below the advanced level. Skill proficiency 0/1000.
Maybe the old man's identity was discovered by Mu Mu, and Mu Mu was able to chat with the old man for ....... The old man had been locked up for too long, he was extremely curious about the outside world, the old man asked Mu Mu a lot of outside things, and finally asked how Mu Mu was arrested. Mu Mu told him about his tragic experience...... The old man was very excited when he heard this, and said, "You were also harmed by Ye Tianming." ”
After Mu Mu knew the old man's identity as a master-level alchemist, he suspected that he was related to Ye Tianming, and listened to the old man's words. Mu Mu felt that his opportunity had come, a master alchemist, who could always squeeze out some oil and water. The first thing Mu Mu had to do was to find out the old man's origins. The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and Mu Mu and the old man soon became friends, and friends should be frank with each other. Mu Mu quickly figured out the old man's origin.
The old man's name is Xie Tianlin, and he is the second apprentice of the medical god Li Shizhen. He learned medical skills later than Ye Tianming, and his level was worse than Ye Tianming. Xie Tianlin wanted to surpass Ye Tianming in medical skills so that he could inherit his master's medical skills in the future. For this reason, he took another shortcut and began to study poisons, and after years of research, he achieved great success, and also defeated Ye Tianming. Unexpectedly, Ye Tianming refused to admit defeat, and secretly complained to his master, slandering Xie Tianlin for hurting many innocent people in the process of researching poisons. When his master learned of this, he was furious and arrested him and put him on death row. Since then, Xie Tianlin has never been on death row.
Mu Mu looked at Xie Tianlin, living in prison for a long time made him look very old, and his ability had also decreased a lot, his level had dropped from level 50 to level 40 now, but he was still a hero. There was some sympathy for him in his heart, but Mu Mu knew that this old man was a ruthless character, and what Ye Tianming said at the beginning should be the truth. For Mu Mucai, none of this matters. He knew that the old man had real skills, and he only needed to learn the old man's skills. In the future, he will be able to make a lot of money in the game.