Chapter 81 New Store

Lu Jiu was holding a new product from the forging shop, a small heater. It was just enough for two hands to hold, and there was a handle. The heater itself was made of porcelain with beautiful patterns printed on it, and it looked like an antique from the Qing Dynasty.

What is placed inside is not hot water, but a small piece of sustainably burning charcoal. There is no open flame but it can provide continuous heat for more than ten hours.

You have to cover it with a piece of cloth when holding it, otherwise it will get hot. Besides, it’s not cold enough now that you need to hug such a hot heater.

She has been following the new products of several stores these two days, and only today she remembered that she had to consider upgrading to the third-level city-state.

Upgrading from a second-level city-state to a third-level city-state requires 18,200 Glory Crystals, 9,900 Glory Dust, 8,500 Glory Fragments, and 550 Glory Hearts.

So far, apart from the 50 Hearts of Glory she handed in when she upgraded her city-state to level 2, she hasn't seen any more. She doesn't know if other people have gotten them either. Anyway, she has only gotten a few after clearing the jungle for so long.

Looking at his own city lord's mansion, it is just a big villa with nothing else.

It was night time now and most people should have gone to sleep. Having made up his mind, Lu Jiu directly took out the city-state resources and handed them over to upgrade the city-state.

[System prompt: Congratulations to Xuantian City for officially upgrading to a third-level city-state. Keep up the good work!]

Seeing this prompt, the city-state residents who were still awake were stunned. This is already a level three city-state? Unfortunately, they didn't have the authority to see how many resources were needed to upgrade to a level three city-state.

After being upgraded to a third-level city-state, the number of weapon slots on the city walls increases from eighty to one hundred and sixty.

Visible changes began to appear within the city-state. First, the overall area expanded, and even the fields outside increased. Accommodation halls and residential areas were also added.

The city-state stores directly expanded their store area and added more floors.

When a city-state is upgraded to level three, it has the right to add two shops for free. The types of shops are varied, ranging from food, clothing, housing and transportation to various equipment shops needed for clearing the wilderness.

Lujiu first added a branch to all existing stores.

Then we started looking for new stores, and decided to open a bar first, so that there would be entertainment venues for adults in the city, and we wouldn’t have to compete with the children for the amusement park.

There is also an accessories store, which sells equipment that serves as auxiliary weapons.

Later, she added more money to open a hot spring club, which was fully equipped with entertainment facilities and was only open in autumn and winter.

The last one requires extra money to open, which is the training room. Here you can choose to simulate battles against wild monsters. The upper limit of the level of wild monsters that can be selected will vary depending on the level of the city-state.

This was the most valuable store she had ever seen. Lu Jiu did not hesitate to spend gold coins to upgrade the training room to the largest expandable area, striving to ensure that most residents in the city could go there for training.

If this were available, even ordinary residents could go in and experience killing wild monsters, so that they wouldn't be completely at a loss as to what to do when encountering wild monsters in special circumstances in the future.

There are many types of wild monsters that can be simulated. Professional players can choose wild monsters they have fought against for training.

In addition to different levels, there are also single-player mode and team mode, and the number of wild monsters can be selected by yourself or randomly, and the types are also optional. After all, you cannot choose what kind of wild monsters you will encounter in the wild.

There is also an update to the city-state weapons. In addition to the original cannons and the like, there is an option to upgrade the protective shield. The upgrade requires 10 gold coins. Lu Jiu chose to upgrade.

[City Defense Shield (Upgraded Version)]: Protects the city-state against beast tides, can defend against one million attacks from wild monsters, regardless of level, newly added adjustable temperature function, disposable item, priced at 20 gold coins.

That is to say, if you buy it directly, it costs 20 gold coins, and if you upgrade it, you just need to add 10 gold coins to the original amount.

There are other weapons.

Crystal Cannon: [Protects city-states from attacking beasts and wild monsters. Unlimited ammo, auto-attacks, no wear. Single shot has a fixed attack value of 650. Freezes for 2 seconds. Price: 2 gold coins per cannon.]

Double Arrow Crossbow: [Protects the city-state and attacks Beast Tide monsters. Unlimited crossbow bolts automatically attack without wear. Fires two giant arrows at once. 800 fixed attack value per shot. Price: 2 gold coins per bolt.]

Rifle: [Protecting the city-state is everyone's responsibility. This weapon is available to all official residents, regardless of whether or not a class is enabled. It has a fixed attack value of 280 per shot. This system-generated weapon fires lasers directly without the need for bullets. Price: 10 silver coins.]

Friendly reminder: Guns can only be used against wild monsters. It is prohibited for players to use them to attack each other.

The arsenal has been updated, the products are better, the rifles have higher damage, and residents can use them to hunt monsters themselves, which really puts an end to the hope of life-based players killing monsters.

Looking at the newly produced cannons and crossbows, Lu Jiu had no choice but to spend money to replace them. She did not dismantle the previous ones and continued to keep them.

In the weapon arrangement, the city defense crossbow and the double-arrow crossbow do not look much different in appearance, except that the double-arrow has an extra giant arrow, while the crystal cannon is very conspicuous.

The whole thing seems to be made of crystal. It is still night time, so it is only very conspicuous. Compared with the black city defense cannon next to it, its appearance is not even a little bit worse.

Correspondingly, the number of NPCs patrolling the city has also increased, from the original 32 bits to 64 bits, directly doubling.

The hot spring club is near the city lord's mansion. It looks like a hotel from the outside, with a bar, restaurant, entertainment room, etc. inside. The entertainment room occupies two floors of the hot spring club, and the facilities inside made her happy.

That was basically a computer. Lu Jiu turned it on himself and found that it was connected to the Internet. He tried to download the software he was familiar with. According to the system prompts, he found out that it could be used, but there were restrictions.

These computers can only be used by internal players to play online. All games are available on them, and the software that can connect can only add players from the game world. Currently, there are only three levels of city-states, and the authority is to connect online only with people in the same city.

But this is also good, much better than the days when there were no games at all. Lu Jiu predicted that a large number of people would come to the Internet, so fortunately it was upgraded to the highest level, but there were only more than 2,000 computers.

There are also billiards, bowling and other entertainment facilities.

The hot springs are divided into men's and women's, and they are all small hot springs suitable for two or three people to sit together. Lujiu also set up a special area that other residents cannot enter. This is the exclusive area for NPCs.

Ever since she discovered that NPCs were very intelligent, she had noticed that when there were entertainment facilities, special areas must be set up for NPCs so that they could relax.

After all, building good relationships might even allow you to get inside information. In short, there are only benefits and no harm.

After visiting the hot spring club, we went to the bar. The bar was decorated in a modern style. Because it was not open for business, it was very quiet, with only NPCs tidying up things.

Since the major update of the game world, alcohol has appeared. Now various alcoholic drinks are placed behind the bartender NPC at the bar. This bar is divided into three floors. The first and second floors are for entertainment, and the third floor is a private room. The private rooms have large floor-to-ceiling windows, and you can clearly see the second floor.

Finally, there is the training room, which is Lu Jiu’s favorite place.

The NPC manager of the training room was a burly man nearly two meters tall. He was standing behind the platform in front of the door with his arms folded, his expression serious and intimidating.

I seem to have written the wrong month duration for each season. It should be three months for each season, but I wrote it as four months on a whim. If you see it in any chapter, please remind me.

ヾ(≧≦Thank you≧≦)ノ

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