Chapter 103

Engineering blueprint, rare level!

As soon as he saw these words, Xia Mo suddenly felt that all the fatigue along the way was worth it.

Silver-level treasure chests rarely produce blueprints. Even if they do, they are usually ordinary blueprints. Rare items like the one in front of you are extremely difficult to find at this stage!

As the saying goes, rare things are valuable. Since the production of rare blueprints is low, Xia Mo often saw such blueprints being sold at high prices when he was wandering around the business in his previous life.

Of course, Xia Mo was not planning to sell it. She had always wanted to be an engineer, and engineers needed to rely on various drawings to build projects. The drawings came just in time.

Not knowing what exactly this blueprint could produce, Xia Mo opened the blueprint with excitement.

A string of instructions popped up.

Project Type: Hang Glider

Manufacturing conditions: Engineer (Intermediate 20)

Materials: Metal parts * 20 [Note: Metal parts need to be synthesized with real iron ore + tin ore], Sawtooth crocodile bones * 10, animal skin * 10, steel cable * 4

Effect: Can support gliding at an altitude of 500 meters and can withstand a wind force of 6.5

After reading the introduction, Xia Mo couldn't help but be amazed. No wonder it was of rare level.

The fact that it can support flight at an altitude of 500 meters alone beats most flying props on the market, not to mention that it can withstand winds of level 6.5. It is simply a treasure!

Current players may not know this, but Xia Mo knows it very well. After the game advances to the middle stage, some special tasks must be completed by climbing to a high place and gliding down. There are also some special maps that can only be left by gliding.

At the beginning, many players had no way to complete these tasks and maps because they did not learn the [Gliding Skill] and did not have any gliding props.

Originally, Xia Mo planned to ask Barron where he could get the skill [Gliding] when he reached level 35, but he didn't expect to get a glider blueprint directly from the treasure chest today.

Don’t tell me, this feeling of having whatever you want come true is really cool! ~

Xia Mo happily accepted the drawings and planned to visit Edmund in the Black Bear Forest in the next two days to ask him to accept her as his devout disciple.

In addition to the blueprints, the treasure chest also contained a bottle of invisibility potion, a transformation card, a cluster of red coral specially used for refining medicine, and 2,000 gold coins.

Seeing the amount of gold coins, Xia Mo exclaimed that she was lucky. She had paid exactly 2,000 gold coins in Baita City, and now she had received new gold coins. One in and one out, it was exactly the same. Perfect~

Gladly accepting the gold coins, she then picked up the red coral at the bottom of the box.

She recognized this plant. She had obtained a cluster of it during last week's sea adventure. The quality was quite high. However, since she was not a pharmacist in this life, it was of no use to her, so she sold it at a discount to the donkey-riding turtle.

Unexpectedly, another cluster of flowers bloomed this time, and the quality is still not low.

Xia Mo raised his eyebrows and decided to sell it.

[Ink: A cluster of red coral, purple quality, I'll give it to you at a lower price than the market price. Okay?]

The quality of medicinal materials uses the same grading system as Dahra crystal, from low to high: white, green, blue, purple, orange, and gold.

The medicinal materials produced at this stage are basically blue products, with occasional blue-purple products. There are really not many pure purple products like the one in Xia Mo's hands.

At that time, I was riding a donkey and saw Wang Ba refining herbs in the guild's own alchemy room. When I heard that she had another bunch of herbs in her hand, I couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know if you are the pharmacist or I am, how come the herbs you have are better quality than the ones I dug...?"

Xia Mo raised his eyebrows and smiled: [Just asking if you want it? ]

Riding a donkey and watching a turtle quickly replied: [Yes! Of course! I'll transfer the money to you right away.]

After saying that, he looked at the current market price of red coral. Calculated at a 10% discount, it was 108 gold.

Just as I was about to click on the transfer button, I received a system prompt: [The current transfer amount is greater than 100 gold. To ensure fairness in the game, please go to the city hall or post office to complete the relevant procedures.]

Oh, I almost forgot, now we have to start collecting taxes...

Riding a donkey and watching a turtle stare at the prompt, pondering for a moment, and suddenly asked cunningly: "It's 108 gold in total. How about I transfer it to you in two installments?"

This way you don't have to pay 10% tax, which can save you a lot of money.

Xia Mo knew what the "riding a donkey to watch a turtle" plan was. Many players had done this in the past to avoid taxes.

But the authorities are not stupid. Since they dared to update this policy, it means they already have a response plan.

Transfers were made in batches, right? Okay, then we'll aggregate these transfers and compare them with the market price of the items players are trading. If the difference is small, then these multiple transfers are all for the same item.

Once such an operation is discovered, both parties to the transaction will have 25% of the transaction money deducted and will be banned from trading for 3 days. In serious cases, they will be forced to work on sewing machines. In short, players will suffer.

As someone who is dedicated to leveling up and values ​​money above all else, Xia Mo doesn't want to be deducted money for nothing, so he advises: "Don't exploit loopholes, the authorities have ways to find out."

Of course, he didn't know what the authorities could do, but since she had said so, he, who had benefited from it, couldn't say anything else, so he had to change his words: "Okay, let's go to the post office."

On the way to the post office, Qilu Kanwangba found that some of the medicinal herbs he had hung in the store had been taken a fancy to by someone, but the person did not buy them directly. Instead, he found his contact information under the products and chatted with him privately.

[Hey buddy, do you still have these herbs? ]

The man riding a donkey to watch the turtle was puzzled and thought that since it could be posted, it must exist. Just as he was about to reply, the other party suddenly sent another message.

[If you have any questions, how about we do a private transaction? I'm right outside the storefront.]

A "private transaction"—a sudden realization: [You want to avoid taxes?]

The other side said bluntly: [Yes]

The same applies to business transactions and transfers, and a 10% tax is also charged. Now the total price of the medicinal materials he listed is 200 gold, and the tax alone is 20. To be honest, it is really painful.

But even though it hurt, I thought that the company was an official trading platform and it was reliable, so I stopped complaining and just put my products on the shelves.

But now... suddenly there was a fellow traveler who had the same idea as him, and he couldn't help but feel tempted because he was tired of being poor.

After thinking about it, he decided to go to the business instead and then go to the post office after the transaction was completed.

[Okay, wait at the door, I'll be right there]

As he spoke, he took the herbs off the shelf and headed straight for the business.

From a distance, the man riding a donkey to watch a turtle saw the other party's ID. He simply greeted him and was about to hand over the money and the goods, but the other party called him.

"Dude, since neither you nor I pay taxes, why not just give it a cheaper price?"

Riding a donkey to see a turtle: "How much do you want?"

The other party: "190 gold, okay?"

Originally, according to the merchant's price, he could only earn 180 gold after deducting taxes. Now the other party offered 190, which was 10 gold more than normal.

10 gold coins are also money, why not save some if you can?

Riding a donkey and looking at a turtle agreed without hesitation: "Okay, then 190."

The other party continued, "But now transactions over 100 gold require verification in the trading hall. Can I transfer it in two installments? 95 gold each, so 190 gold in two installments."

Riding a donkey and watching the turtle nodded with a smile: "No problem, I was actually thinking of saying that."

He had just failed to convince Mo Se, and was planning to persuade him now, but he didn't expect that the other party was very sensible and brought it up directly.

So the other party first transferred 95 gold coins to him. After receiving it, Qilukanwangba transferred all the herbs to him. The other party gave him an OK gesture: "Got it, thank you buddy."

After saying that, he took out the teleportation scroll and disappeared from the door of the business in an instant.

The man riding the donkey and watching the turtle froze for a moment. He was stunned for more than ten seconds before he realized, amidst the pounding of his heart, that he had been deceived!!!

Fuck! He bought his 200 gold worth of herbs for 95 gold coins! His heart is bleeding!!!

The man riding the donkey looked at Wang Ba, holding his chest and almost unable to breathe. He held on to the pillar at the door of the store, trying to regain his composure.

Stay calm, stay calm!

The other party knows the process so well, it’s obvious that he is a repeat offender!

ID, yes, expose the other party's ID! Then see how he will be criticized by the victim.

He was so angry that his hands were shaking. He entered the other party's ID into the search bar, but after clicking confirm, the player panel that popped up was not the person he had just seen.

The profession displayed by the scammer is a priest, but the search now shows a warlock. The gender also doesn't match. The scammer is a man, and the warlock on this panel is a woman.

After a careful look, it can be said that except for the ID, the two people's information does not match at all!

This shows that the information displayed by the scammers is also fake!!!

The other party must have used some props to conceal his true identity.

In an instant, the man riding the donkey and watching the turtle felt as if he was struck by lightning. His body swayed and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood!

However, this did not make him vomit blood even more. About half a minute later, he suddenly received a system message.

[After system review, you have engaged in non-compliant activities such as private transactions, selling goods at low prices, and maliciously disrupting the market. You will be deducted 50 gold coins and 10 world reputation points, and banned from trading for 3 days. (If you have any questions about this punishment, please click here to file an appeal.)]

50 gold! ! !

He almost went crazy riding a donkey to see a turtle! He only received 95 gold in total, and 50 gold was deducted from it. It means that he paid out 200 gold worth of herbs, but only got 45 gold back in the end!

And he was also banned from trading for three days? Ahhh, so wouldn't all the items he listed on the trading company be frozen?!

At this time, Qi Donkey Watching Turtle seemed very foresighted. Not long after, he really received the [Freeze Transaction] notices from the trading company. Qi Donkey Watching Turtle once again covered his chest, feeling so upset that he was about to have a heart attack.

After joining Qingyaozhishang, his life finally got back on track. In addition to refining medicine for the guild every day, he would also squeeze out some time to dig other medicinal herbs.

When he had a lot of medicinal herbs in stock, he would sell them as a side job to save some money. But who knew that they would be frozen just a few days after he put them up for sale...

Good heavens, some of these herbs have time limits! Beyond a certain time, their effectiveness will decrease.

A decline will inevitably be followed by a price reduction... When I think about the fact that the money I will get will be reduced again, I feel depressed.

He took heavy steps and walked towards the post office with a broken heart.

At this time, Xia Mo had been waiting for him for a while. Seeing that he looked pale and not quite right, he asked, "What happened?"

Riding a Donkey to Watch the Turtle raised his head and glanced at her weakly. Thinking of how she had clearly reminded him before that the authorities would have their own way to find out, he felt extremely upset.

Shaking his head, admitting his bad luck, he sighed and said, "Don't talk about it. I was cheated in a private transaction."

After hearing about the experience of riding a donkey to see a turtle, Xia Mo didn't know what to say. She had said so much, but he still couldn't resist the temptation and stepped into the gray area. All he could say was... every experience makes you wiser.

"Your trading privileges have been frozen, so I won't leave this red coral to you."

Taking advantage of the fact that there are few purple-grade medicinal herbs and they can still be sold at a high price, Xia Mo decided to take them to a trading company to sell.

The man who was riding the donkey to watch the turtle knew he was in the wrong and didn't want to try to persuade him to stay: "Okay, then you'll have made a wasted trip."

Xia Mo: "It's okay."

Anyway, the store is near the post office, so there will be no delay.

After separating from Riding a Donkey to Watch Turtle, Xia Mo went straight to the trading company.

The trading company has a total of six floors and adopts an antique style. Because of this, players can easily notice this building from a group of Western-style buildings.

Stepping into the store, Xia Mo skillfully squeezed into the crowd and walked towards the southwest stall on the first floor.

This is the area specializing in medicinal herbs, and she is very familiar with it. After paying the deposit to the NPC at the counter, she put the red coral on the shelf and marked the price at 300 gold.

This price has exceeded the selling price of most medicinal materials at this stage, but it does have reasons for being high. One is because of its rare purple quality, and the other is that the potions made from red coral are very effective and sometimes provide some additional bonuses, making it a raw material favored by many pharmacists.

Anyway, as long as the players know the value of the goods, they will definitely think that the 300 gold is reasonable.

After putting the items up for sale, Xia Mo went offline.

Shortly after she went offline, the victim became more and more angry and simply posted a message to curse the scammer who took the things and ran away.

Originally, he just wanted to vent, and after posting, he logged off and went to sleep. But the next morning, the post was still on the first page.

Riding a donkey and watching a turtle was startled, thinking, "Isn't his post a complaint that bothers anyone?" How come it's still on the front page after all night?

Feeling a little strange and nervous at the same time, he clicked on the post and saw that other players had left messages below, saying that they had encountered the same scam as him!