Chapter 20
The traveling merchant is worthy of being a traveling merchant. In the three rows of grids in front of Ye Bai, the lowest-level items are all green excellent-level items. Starting from the second row, blue rare items appear, including semi-processed foods, crop seeds, minerals, heavy gears, etc., as well as the three purple items at the end. In addition to two pieces of equipment, there is also a blueprint!
Ye Bai's attention was immediately attracted by the purple drawing.
It's a blueprint! You must buy it!
Ye Bai could make a decision without even reading the content. As a producer, she knew too well how low the drop rate of blueprints in Wanjie was. Even though she had two blueprints in her hand since she established the territory, they were the rewards for the level 0 single-player nightmare copy. The fact that the BOSS could drop the golden blueprint in the end was also the result of her good luck.
It is easy to imagine how small the chance is for other players to obtain blueprints by killing monsters normally.
Traveling merchants don't always carry blueprints with them. The chances are very small, and the price is very high.
After seeing the detailed introduction of the drawings, Ye Bai took a deep breath.
Energy Crossbow Production Drawings
Description: How to make the weapon 'Energy Crossbow'
Required Building: Blacksmith
Creator restrictions: [Blacksmith] professional, personal level ＞=5
Materials: Refined Iron x3, Refined Copper x1, Knotwood x1
Which lord doesn't love ranged soldiers?
The crossbow itself is an advanced long-range weapon that is more advanced than the bow and arrow. Not only is it more lethal, but its attack distance and accuracy are far superior to those of the bow and arrow.
Especially since this is a blueprint for an energy crossbow, it is already a type of magical technology. There is no need to make additional feathers and quivers. As long as energy is provided, energy arrows can be generated. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a laser weapon.
Not to mention that there is a source energy crystal mine in Ye Bai’s territory, so the thing he has the most is energy!
This thing is used to equip the guards of the territory. Not to mention it is an early artifact, it does not need to be iterated even in the later stages.
Unfortunately, its price also matches its effect. The price of this blueprint alone is 50 gold coins. According to the current monthly tax revenue of 54 copper coins in Ye Bai Territory, it will take more than 70 years to afford such a blueprint.
"Hehe... Lord, I have brought some good stuff with me this time. If you miss this opportunity, you don't know when you will get them again." The traveling merchant smiled proudly at Ye Bai, and his words were a disguised reminder that the goods this time were very rare.
When a traveling merchant first comes to a player's territory, he will carry the most complete goods, including some rare and uncommon items. Then, based on the lord's purchasing preferences, the probability of carrying the same type of goods next time will increase.
Merchants pursue profits, and if they know that something sells well in a certain place, they will of course continue to purchase it.
If other lords were to welcome a traveling merchant for the first time, they would have emptied the resources of their territory and could only buy one or two items, and could only sigh in despair for other things. However, since Ye Bai had used a valuable policy slot to use the [Traveling Merchant], he naturally had enough confidence.
"We can barter, right?"
"Of course." The traveling merchant stroked his beard. "Nothing is untradable. The key is whether the value is equal."
This sentence is one of the codes of conduct of the Merchant Guild, a loose alliance composed of merchants, and almost all professional merchants belong to this alliance.
At the same time, the 'shelf grid' in front of Ye Bai changed into a transaction page.
In the center of the page is a scale. On the left are the various goods carried by the merchants, and on the right are the supplies in the territory warehouse, the food in the cellar, and Ye Bai's personal backpack.
【Smoked meat】X400
【Herbs】X200
【Honey】X50
【Seedlings】X20
【Pottery】X50
【Gold Ore】X100
【Knotted wood】X20
【Light Feather Boots】X1
【Light Feather Hat】X1
【Energy Crossbow Production Drawing】X1
Seeing Ye Bai putting all the items on his shelf onto the trading scale one by one, the traveling merchant's originally relaxed expression gradually changed. Finally, he looked at Ye Bai in surprise with an expression of "are you kidding me?"
The scales representing value tilted high towards Ye Bai, while the traveling merchant's side sank to the bottom.
The next moment, Ye Bai also took out his trading item and placed it on the right side of the scale.
[Source Energy Crystal (Poor)] X24
Immediately, the scale on the traveling merchant's side began to rise, slowly moving from the lowest point to the top.
Ye Bai prioritized putting all the inferior source energy crystals in the territory, and then began to put in the higher-quality [Source Energy Crystals (Ordinary)], adding them one by one.
Under the shocked gaze of the traveling merchant, when the number of ordinary-grade source energy crystals reached 31, the scales were completely balanced, which meant that the value of the transaction was sufficient.
Confirm the transaction
The traveling merchant's backpack was instantly emptied.
"It's been a long time since I met a big customer like you!" The traveling merchant came to his senses and looked at Ye Bai. His expression had changed and his attitude suddenly became much warmer.
Source energy crystal is the most advanced type of energy, and it is a hard currency that is more useful than gold coins in the universe. From Ye Bai's move, it is not difficult for him to see that this lord may own a source energy crystal mine.
[Traveling Merchant 'Kazmai''s Favorability towards you +20]
[You gain Merchant Guild reputation +5]
Ye Bai, who didn't expect to receive a favorable impression, took a deep look at the businessman named Kazmai in front of him. For the first time, he discovered a phenomenon in this world that was different from his own cognition.
The traveling merchant will have a favorable impression on the lord who makes a one-time purchase of a very high value. However, in the beta version, unlike the favorable impression of ordinary NPCs, the merchant's favorable impression is for the entire territory, which is reflected in the discount on the next sale of items, and is not specific to the favorable impression of the merchant NPC personally.
In other words, the merchant role is more like a carrier of trading functions rather than other NPCs that can have personal needs.
Now, the other party showed the same likes and dislikes as other NPCs.
However, after so many days of contact, Ye Bai has a certain understanding of the intelligence level of the NPC in this world. Not to mention the high-level professional Carrie, even the intelligence level of ordinary villagers makes Ye Bai feel that the other party is not much different from a real person.
If it weren't for the influence of various loyalty satisfaction levels, which existed like rules, Ye Bai would have doubted whether this was a real world.
Perhaps, she could try to explore the 'boundaries' of the NPCs?
So Ye Bai said to the traveling merchant Kazmai: "I hope you can continue to come to our territory to trade in the future."
"No problem!" Kazmai agreed readily. It was obvious that this proposal was exactly what he wanted.
Ye Bai nodded. He just needed to see if the next person to trade was still the businessman named Kazmai. He would be able to determine whether she could do something outside of the 'rules of the game' that she was familiar with.
A large amount of supplies were purchased, and the carts in the territory were used to transport them in the market, warehouses, and cellars.
Ye Bai had a great harvest from the traveling merchant's trip. He turned the source energy crystals that the territory could not use temporarily into a large amount of resources useful for the development of the territory, even enough to upgrade the territory to level 3.
The villagers in the territory looked at the newly added supplies with expressions of surprise and satisfaction on their faces.
The most obvious thing is that as the cellar is filled, the satisfaction of the territory directly increases by 10 points, from 84 to 94, and the loyalty increases by 5 points, from 62 to 67.
According to the current population, the food stored in the territory is enough for the entire village to eat for four months, and the hunter's lodge is still busy processing the carcasses of the beasts that were harvested previously. A new batch of crops has also been planted in the four new farmlands, and new food will soon be produced.
For the villagers of Baiye Village, still a Level 1 territory, a lord who can fill their stomachs is a good lord worth supporting. Not to mention that the lord only charges such low taxes and there are herbalists working in the territory...
Ye Bai smiled slightly after receiving the system prompt. Loyalty and satisfaction can directly affect the work efficiency of the territory and also accelerate the growth of productivity.
She watched as the second productivity point was filled up, and then added it to the newly emerged technology branch [Processing and Refining] in the Level 1 territory.
Lighting up this technology is different from other technologies and consumes 2 points of production.
[Processing and Refining] Unlocks secondary production buildings: [Mill], [Oven], [Smokehouse], [Pottery], [Brickyard], [Sawmill], and [Smelter].
This is the most critical technology in the level 1 territory stage. Starting from processing and refining, the industrial zone can truly be called an industrial zone.
The two materials needed to make the energy crossbow, refined iron and refined copper, are not available in the blacksmith shop. They must be produced in the [Smelting Workshop] using iron ore and copper ore.
The food processing buildings contained in it are also very important. Compared with rough food, higher-level processed food can improve the health of the residents of the territory and will begin to slowly increase their personal experience points. The higher the level of food, the faster the increase.
There are still five game days left, which will be the twentieth day after the territory is built. At that time, a new batch of refugees will join. This batch of refugees will be the territory armed forces that Ye Bai plans to train.
Ye Bai's original development plan was accelerated because of the appearance of the energy crossbow blueprint. She thought that when the time came, she would equip all the militia villagers with energy crossbows and then lead the team to open up external trade routes.
The necessity of trade routes is extremely important. If we want to develop rapidly, we have to collect all the missing materials in the surrounding areas. Not only will the efficiency be extremely slow, but we may not even have those resources. Baiye Village is now like a pond. We need to dig a river to connect it to the living water from the outside world in order to continue to grow.
The experience gained from encountering monsters along the way was enough to achieve the purpose of training troops, and it was also enough for Ye Bai to raise his personal level to level 20, just in time for a job change in the town.
Players who already have lord status are different from non-lord players. It is relatively easier to open up external roads. If you train guards, you can walk in the wilderness at level 20.
Because when the lord player leaves the territory with the armed formation, he will gain a buff aura called [Explorer's Blessing]. When encountering powerful creatures in the wild (above level 20), a combat power judgment will be performed and a danger warning range will appear. As long as you do not actively step into that range and choose to take a detour, you will not be actively pursued.
After all, players who start in the wild have no place to change jobs. If the difficulty is the same as that of players who start in the town, it would be too difficult.
As compensation for the town players having to change their jobs to establish a territory, the distance between the lord player leaving the town and finding a suitable place to build a city in the wilderness will be automatically opened up as a road. This is equivalent to a lord player who does not start in the wilderness. After enclosing the land and building a city, he will have his own external trade route.
As for the problem of Baiye Village being discovered if a trade route was opened... after Ye Bai thought deeply, he found that it was not a big problem.
First of all, the towns near Ye Bai all belong to the "Galaxy Zone Blue Star Server". Players who appear in these towns are all registered players in the Ten Thousand Worlds near the solar system. The people coming and going here are all interstellar travelers, which can immediately cut off the numerical advantage of powerful civilizations.
The essence of a civilization must be concentrated in their own native star region. On the Blue Star, they can only be aggregated into small forces at most. Due to the mixed forces and conflicts of interest, they cannot play the advantage of numbers. Even if Baiye Village is discovered, it will not pose a threat.
Moreover, Ye Bai's main purpose of going to the town was not only to open up trade routes but also to change her job. At that time, after the job change, she could kill the player whose highest level was about level 10 with just one skill.
StarCraft players cannot unleash the true 'immortality' power of the Fourth Calamity in the Myriad Worlds. Ye Bai has not forgotten that when players die in the Myriad Worlds, their experience points drop, leading to a drop in level, which will also cause trauma to their real mental strength.
This kind of trauma is not as simple as just returning it.
The improvement in spiritual power that StarCraft players gain in the Ten Thousand Worlds can be likened to their own spiritual bodies gaining nutrients and growing slowly. The trauma caused by death in the game affects the entire spiritual body. The former is like eating, but death does not mean vomiting out what you have eaten before, but is like cutting off the same weight of meat. The damage suffered is completely different.
With this plan, Ye Bai logged off and prepared to go get a full bottle of nutrient solution before coming back.
However, when Ye Bai exited the Star Network this time, he did not see the familiar public seat gg...
Darkness, silent darkness completely enveloped Ye Bai.
What's going on? Where is this?!
After a while, through the feedback from her body without any sensation, Ye Bai realized that it was not that the environment around her had changed, but that she could not even open her eyes.
This feeling is like sleep paralysis when you are half asleep and half awake. You are clearly conscious, but you have exhausted all your strength and cannot move at all, even just raising your eyelids is impossible!
Personal terminal...
【Planet signal has been interrupted】
[Currently no signal]
What force had discovered her identity? What kind of advanced technology or mental power was this that she didn't understand? Was there a powerful individual or force monitoring her thoughts, trying to uncover the secrets behind the myriad worlds?
Countless questions came like waves, accompanied by horror, panic, uneasiness, fear and other negative emotions, and surged into Ye Bai's heart in an instant.
She felt that under normal circumstances, her blood would probably flow backwards, but in fact, her body seemed to be in a state of "forced numbness" at this moment, and even this physiological reaction that should occur under the influence of hormones was suppressed to the lowest point.
In this state, Ye Bai slowly calmed down.
Just like the last time he faced the Star Alliance, Ye Bai regained his sanity and began to analyze the current situation bit by bit.
First of all, there is no doubt that she is under control.
In this state, we can also rule out the possibility that her thoughts were being monitored: if Bai Ye's identity was discovered by the Star Alliance or some other major force, there would be no need to do this kind of thing of "letting her speak out the secret in her mind herself", which would be too inefficient.
Then her 'thinking behavior' is at least safe.
Secondly, there was no signal on her personal terminal and she lost contact with the outside world, but due to the special nature of the star network, the other party could not block her from logging into the star network.
This situation can be divided into two possibilities. One is that the other party did not know that Ye Bai could access the Star Network, and the other is that the other party could not stop her from accessing the Star Network. Considering that she actively withdrew from the Star Network rather than passively losing consciousness and logging off, the former is more likely.
So Ye Bai immediately tried to log into the Star Network again——
The familiar 'study room' appeared, and the login was successful! The other party really didn't know that she could access the Star Network!
But Ye Bai's happiness didn't last long. The identity she publicly revealed on Starnet, which had other people's contact information, was Bai Ye.
Bai Ye is an A-level psychic, how could he be trapped for no apparent reason?
And even if Ye Bai did not reveal her identity and went to seek help, she could not even confirm whether she was on Blue Star or not. The chances of being rescued were slim, because she did not belong to any force in this era, and there was no value in making others waste manpower and resources to investigate and save her!
Not to mention the many secrets hidden in her. Would an ancient human selling Antarctic property rights and opening a Star Network account be thought-provoking and perhaps even suggestive of Bai Ye? Ye Bai wasn't sure.
The most important thing right now is to figure out what situation she is in now.
Ye Bai exited the star network, and his perception was once again enveloped in darkness.
...failed.
As expected, his mental power had not reached D-level, so he was unable to transform his mental power into tentacles and leave his body.
The only thing Ye Bai could rely on was the changes brought about by his ascension in the Ten Thousand Worlds. He didn't have enough mental strength, and his body couldn't move. [Rolling] was useless, [Sleight of Hands] was useless, and [Identification] was useless...
Identification?!
A flash of lightning flashed through Ye Bai's mind.
Identification can obtain information in the game. For creatures, it is through the player's eyes and thoughts, and for objects and props, it is through touch.
It was normal to be able to obtain information in the game, but what about reality? Ye Bai had never considered the possibility of this talent being useful in the real world.
Never mind, let’s give it a try!
【Identification】, 【Identification】…
Ye Bai is using her abilities outside of her body. She can't move her body now, but at least she is touching something that sustains her life, otherwise she wouldn't be alive.
The time in the darkness was so long. Just when Ye Bai felt that she was doing useless work, two pieces of information suddenly flooded into her mind.
"Nutrient-based solution type IV, suitable for maintaining the vital signs of carbon-based life IV"
"Anesthetic GP-63, patented by the Fifth Research Institute of the Makur Group, does not harm fragile organisms."
In an instant, Ye Bai's mind flashed through the email he had received from the Makul Group.
Bad news, she was indeed abducted by an alien force.
The good news is not as a 'White Night', but as a rare species in the universe.
It's thicker today! I'm so proud.jpg