Chapter 3 The Free Market and Yunfei's Imagination
Yunfei's mercenary mission is to collect 100 animal skins and reward 100 military merits. It doesn't matter what kind of animal fur you have, as long as you get 100 animal skins to deliver the task, you don't have to limit yourself to where you get the fur. In other words, it is feasible to buy 100 furs from the market and hand them in.
It just so happened that the street near the city gate was full of players setting up stalls and hawking. Most of them are players who are tired from the game and take a break for a while, so they can deal with clutter and the like. Of course, there are also players who have hit higher-quality equipment and are taking the opportunity to sell it in order to make a move as soon as possible.
Yun Fei checked it at random, the price of the ordinary animal skins sold by players ranged from 2 silver coins to 5 silver coins each, and if you collected 100 pieces, you would only need 5 gold coins at most, and definitely not 10 gold coins. In this way, it is much more cost-effective to do tasks than to buy skills with gold.
However, as soon as he saw the price of the equipment sold by the player, Yunfei was a little unsettled.
An ordinary yellow-level weapon long sword, players dare to put up the price of 5 gold coins, and as soon as it is put on the shelf, it will be dropped by other players in seconds, without bargaining. Yellow-tier equipment, on the other hand, will be called a bronze if it carries a trait. When players sell it, they even dare to put up a high price of 50 gold coins, and there is still no market.
This made Yun Fei stunned, and his mind also came alive.
For this ordinary yellow-level weapon, the material cost is only about 50 silver coins, as long as Yunfei takes 8 hours to build, it is 10 times the profit. It's just a lot of money. In the future, he will advance to a high-level blacksmith, learn the spirit magic circle, and make the yellow-level equipment into bronze through the spirit, and the price will rise even more wildly, so it is not too easy to make money.
In fact, this is because he does not understand the success rate and efficiency of players in crafting equipment.
Players learn to craft equipment, and there are two paths to choose from. The first way is to find a master blacksmith to learn the arts, spend a long time learning to build equipment, and slowly build equipment, just like Yunfei;
In the future, players can purchase equipment drawings, forging materials, etc., and they can complete the production of equipment in an instant through a very simple and convenient building system, known as "one-click iron". To build a piece of equipment, it is basically a 2-minute one, but the success rate is only about 10%. And the vast majority of blacksmiths basically take the route of "one-click ironing", and even if they are lucky to be able to sell without losing money, most of them are barely maintaining consumption.
Of course, in the eyes of the player, consumption is not a problem at all. As long as you are willing to spend money on burning skills in the early stage and improve the blacksmith sub-profession as soon as possible, the success rate of equipment production will naturally be high, and you can make higher-quality equipment in the future, the money will come faster, and the success rate of building equipment will also increase.
Besides, there are a lot of players, and there are also many blacksmith subclasses. If you can't maintain your advantage in the early stage, you won't have any advantage in the later stage. The player's heart is clear, how can he spend that idle time grinding embroidery needles.
What's more, asking players to work hard to build a piece of equipment for more than 8 hours like Yunfei is even more painful than killing them. And ordinary players don't have that idleness, and can find the way to change careers as a blacksmith. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.
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After just walking around the free market, Yunfei was a little impulsive and wanted to sell the dagger weapon in his hand.
The short knife was built for him by Master Tie Cheng, it is a yellow-level weapon, as long as he sells it, he will have enough gold coins to buy a batch of materials, and then rent a furnace in the blacksmith shop to build weapons with all his might, and he can probably create 8 weapons. After coming and going, his funds can be quickly recovered, and the cultivation resources of the first stage will be settled.
But in the end, he was reluctant to sell his weapons.
For one, the dagger is a weapon that he can now use at will in front of people, and he is not afraid of causing any trouble. As for the pistol, he didn't dare to take it out and use it, for fear that the player would be blushing and he didn't want to have another assassination. When the time comes, he will die, but there will be no World Bead to help him resurrect.
On the other hand, the short knife that the iron carried him was a symbol of family affection, allowing him to get a trace of spiritual comfort from it. So that he can persist longer and go further in this lonely world.
Yunfei decided to support himself and went hunting outside the city first. He could raise his first start-up capital by selling prey, and at the same time he could complete his first mercenary mission, and by the way, he also wanted to try out how difficult it was to hunt monsters outside the city.
The walls of Tianque City are 30 meters high and 12 meters thick, standing quietly, giving people an extremely strong sense of oppression, majestic and solemn. The gate is a fan-shaped heavy wooden gate that opens inward, 6 meters high and 8 meters wide, and is guarded by a team of soldiers on the left and right sides to guard the safety of the city.
Outside the east gate, there is a 50-meter-wide open area with only clumps of grass growing in between, and further afield, the wilderness is gradually occupied by tall trees, and players can be seen running through the woods to fight and hunt monsters.
The monsters in the forest are basically surrounded by the players. Sometimes a wild wolf refreshed in front of Yun Fei, and before he could react, three or four attacks had already hit the wild wolf, and by the time Yun Fei drew his short knife and slashed it, the two warriors had already jumped over and harvested the last trace of the wild wolf's blood.
Yun Fei couldn't help but shake his head and continued to walk deeper into the woods. Along the way, the number of players gradually increased, and the spawn density of monsters gradually increased, and the strength of monsters also changed from gray wolves to black wolves, and their strength was stronger than that of gray wolves.
I managed to catch a black wolf on the edge, but I didn't see the player team nearby. Yun Fei drew his knife and stepped forward and launched an attack on the black wolf.
The short knife slashed across the black wolf's fur, shaving off a little hair. The black wolf's hair was smooth and its skin was tough, and the short knife could not hurt it, but only caused a little damage to it, which also aroused the ferocity of the black wolf.
The black wolf roared angrily and pounced, Yun Fei hurriedly dodged the black wolf's claws, and the black wolf took the opportunity to sweep with an iron tail, Yun Fei's eyes were sharp, and he quickly rolled a donkey to avoid the side.
When he got up again, the black wolf had already turned around and opened his mouth to bite it. Yun Fei's feet slid and avoided the past again, and at the same time, the dagger stabbed the black wolf hard, but it also tightly cut a shallow incision. The black wolf jumped unconcernedly, quickly turned around, and opened his mouth to bite again.
After being reincarnated, Yunfei's qualifications have improved, and it is okay to kill a clumsy wild boar, but he is still unable to deal with the swift black wolf. And this black wolf is obviously a cut above the black wolf elite in the novice village.
When slaughtering wolves in the novice village, he used the short knife "Yun Feiyang", which is a dagger with a zigzag edge, which is best for cutting this kind of tough fur, but the short knife in his hand is just an ordinary straight knife dagger style, and the damage is limited. And at that time, he was also killed by the black wolf with the player's healing assistance, and the battle was extremely difficult, and in the end, he used a pistol to kill half of the black wolf's life.
Now alone, he really didn't dare to face the black wolf.
The black wolf has rough skin and thick flesh and tenacious life, and he doesn't care about the slightest injuries on his body at all, but Yun Fei doesn't have the corresponding armor to protect him, so he is afraid that he can't withstand the claws of the black wolf.
One person and one wolf fought each other for more than a dozen rounds, but Yun Fei was difficult to ride a wolf.
At this moment, an arrow struck the black wolf in the abdomen, and at the same time, several figures emerged from the woods, slashing at the black wolf without saying a word. One of them withstood the bite of the black wolf head-on, while the other two took the time to mend their swords, and several more figures emerged from the woods, including priests who added blood to warriors, mages who chanted fireballs, and archers with longbows.
In less than half a minute, the black wolf fell to the ground with a whimper. At this point, the archer stepped forward to use the gathering technique, and a warrior player flew towards the clouds.
"Hello, what trouble are you in, we can help you out. The warrior smiled.
Yun Fei watched the black wolf disappear with a look of pity, and glanced back at the warrior who was talking. At this time, the warrior's name appeared above his head: the Boundless God of War.
In Yun Fei's mind, a shiny text suddenly flashed: Hello, I need to collect some animal skins, but you have also seen it, my combat power is limited, can you help me collect 100 animal skins, I can give you some items as a reward.
Below, there are options for bonus items, including three options, including a yellow-level short knife, a small storage bag, and a 30-minute experience point increase buff, and two options for a dull pistol and a mask.
Yun Fei thought about it and read it according to the shiny text, and the reward was chosen as an experience point increase buff.
The Boundless God smiled and gestured triumphantly to his teammates, then turned his head and said, "Okay, we'll collect the hides for you." “
Yun Fei nodded, and was about to follow the Boundless God of War forward, but he didn't expect that the Boundless God of War just gathered his team mates, and the six of them poured their pockets into each other, and actually gathered 100 animal skins.
The Boundless God of War turned around with a smile and said to Yun Fei with his storage bag, "Hello, I have collected enough animal skins for you, please accept them." “
Yun Fei couldn't help grinning, this is too easy, isn't it? In his mind, a shining text reminded him: The Boundless God of War has completed the collection task, please check and distribute the task reward in time, and the corresponding merit has been deducted.
"Me, I'll give you the reward. Yunfei said, about to take the next step.
At this time, a domineering voice interrupted: "I have given up all the tasks of several of you, hurry up and get out!"
PS1: In the game "Starlight", the currency is 100, and there are four levels of currency, namely Amethyst, Gold, Silver, and Copper.
PS2: Players will not drop gold coins by spawning monsters, but by selling items to the system store, to obtain the source of gold coins; at the same time, the official will not open the exchange of gold coins and cash, but turn to free exchange between players, the approximate ratio is 1 gold coin for 1 yuan in cash, and the official charges the seller 5% cash handling fee.
PS3: In the game "Starlight", the quality of the equipment is determined by both the embryo and the spirit circle, and the destructive power carried by itself is limited, so it can only be equipped to increase the player's blessing attributes and improve the player's combat effectiveness. For details, please refer to the Weapons Annex.