Chapter 93

The feeling of active absorption and passive growth is completely different. It didn't take long before Ye Bai felt that all his previous consumption had been replenished.

After being promoted to C-level and lighting up the [Sensing] talent, Ye Bai felt that he had finally caught up with the trend of this interstellar era in terms of evolution.

Of course, Class C is only the level of the Milky Way. In other star clusters outside the Milky Way, there are many more races that are powerful since birth, such as the tribe of Xilena that Ye Bai once met on the star Makul. The members of the tribe are basically B-level psychics.

Not only did he gain opportunities from the Ten Thousand Worlds, but for the many civilizations in the universe and the individuals within them, the Ten Thousand Worlds were an opportunity to change their original destiny.

Ye Bai collected the damaged fluid sandbag and placed it in the storage cabinet in the room, without throwing it away with the household garbage.

It is better to be safe than sorry. In Ye Bai's era ten thousand years ago, personal information could be easily leaked as long as one was careful. Even if the giant starfish was open to the outside world, it was ultimately the territory of the Fantasy Sea Civilization.

In this era where entire planets can be transformed directly, even if sufficient privacy clauses are listed to the outside world, Ye Bai does not believe that when a civilization pays attention to abnormal information in its own territory, it will be unable to find the source.

Even with the premise of Ten Thousand Worlds, as an ancient human, Ye Bai's personal level displayed to the outside world at this stage can only be D-level at most, otherwise it will be bad to attract the attention of the Fantasy Sea Civilization.

After all, the power to damage the fluid sandbag has already exceeded D-level.

After handling everything, Ye Bai went online again and returned to the game.

Ye Bai in the game is still in the cell. The NPCs in the game naturally ignore the players' comings and goings. In their eyes, this is a natural phenomenon, whether it is the jailer of Larn City or the villagers of Baiye Village.

Ye Bai checked her return column, and sure enough, the previous ice magic slot was empty again, corresponding to the release of the Frost Nova she had used in reality. It turned out that they could achieve mutual communication in this way.

If that’s the case… Ye Bai’s thoughts turned. Can the attacks encountered in reality be released in the Ten Thousand Worlds?

Then Ye Bai subconsciously shook her head. There was no such verification opportunity in reality, and she also hoped that there would not be such an opportunity.

Ye Bai looked back at her favorability with the city of Larne. It was currently at 9, still maintaining a neutral state. As a lord of status, she had 10 more basic favorability points than ordinary adventure players.

This time of imprisonment only deducted a little city favor from Ye Bai, which was also the reason why she only ran away to reduce the damage and did not resist when facing the capture of the golem. If she fought back, the meaning would be different, and she would directly deduct 20 points of city favor.

The light from the prison corridor showed that it was already daybreak in the game. Ye Bai changed his clothes, raised his fashion value to over 100, and then walked to the cell door, his eyes locked on the prison guard not far away.

"Hello, can you help me? I have something I want to bring to the warden."

"Don't try any tricks, anything..." The guard looked over and paused.

Ye Bai stretched out a hand toward the outside of the cell, and a silver coin in his hand reflected an alluring light in the dim light of the prison.

"Please wait a moment. I'll go find the warden." The guard's eyes lit up. He walked forward, took the silver coin, and immediately changed his attitude.

[You gain 2 points of Bribery proficiency]

Ye Bai raised his eyebrows without surprise. When imprisoned in the NPC main city, as long as there is more than 1 gold coin in the bank, the "bribe" option can be triggered, and a certain amount of money can be paid to end the imprisonment early.

Of course, it can actually be triggered in the player's town, but just like poaching, the loyalty of the villager in charge of the prison must be below 60 for it to occur.

"A noble person like you shouldn't be here. There's obviously some misunderstanding."

Not long after, after paying a bribe of 2 silver coins, Ye Bai was personally escorted out of the cell by the warden.

[You gain 5 points of Bribery proficiency]

The amount of the bribe is proportional to the length of imprisonment. If Ye Bai is sentenced to a longer period of imprisonment, more money will be needed for bribery.

All of this was naturally the escape plan that Ye Bai had thought of yesterday when he was actively attracting the golem. Before dawn yesterday, he had to pay the fine and find another hotel to stay in. It would be better to stay in jail until dawn before leaving.

After this experience, Ye Bai suddenly felt that this method could be replicated in the future.

The purchase price of a second-level magic spell scroll is at least around 70 to 80 silver coins, and Ye Bai got two second-level magics, [Frost Nova] and [Fire Dragon], with these 2 silver coins, saving hotel expenses, oh, and 10 points of "bribery" proficiency.

As soon as his mind opened up, Ye Bai immediately thought that in the future he could build a good relationship with high-level NPCs by giving gifts and other means, and then use the relationship to ask the other party to "show" him a certain high-level spell, which is also a way to store magic in advance.

By this calculation, the characteristic of the Lawbreaker should not be called Extraordinary Disintegration, but should be called Ordinary Disintegration.

Thinking of this, Ye Bai couldn't help but feel quite emotional. It turned out that many ways of playing could only be seen from the perspective of a player.

However, even so, Ye Bai knew clearly in his heart that the characteristics of the Lawbreaker could only be brought into play in high-level maps like the Divine Realm. No matter how strong a second-level profession was, it could only use second-level skills. The biggest advantage of the Lawbreaker was that as long as it could withstand damage, it could use higher-level skills across levels.

While thinking, Ye Bai had already arrived at the Merchant Guild in Larn City.

Because he felt that he didn't have much gold coins on him, Ye Bai didn't spend any extra money on the specialties of Larn City. After buying a batch of basic supplies from the Merchant Guild, he planned to repeat the operation he did last time in Melo City and trick a few mercenaries back to the territory.

However, this time when Ye Bai asked again that he wanted to choose his guards in person, the receptionist shook his head and said, "Sorry, we have a rule. You can only choose here. They are all fixed teams, work well together, and don't take jobs separately."

After some probing, Ye Bai discovered that the receptionist's attitude in this regard was obviously different from that of the Merchant Guild in Melo City. Her attitude was very persistent, and even when she used her bargaining skills, the other party remained unmoved.

"Rest assured, our escorts have accurate evaluation criteria and are absolutely worthy of your commission."

Looking at the normal favorability of Baiye Village's faction at 12 o'clock in the Merchant Guild, Ye Bai couldn't help but wonder if he was on the Merchant Guild's internal blacklist because of the last poaching... Or perhaps, there was also some hatred from the wildebeest herd?

The receptionist was unmoved, and Ye Bai had no other choice but to follow the normal procedures and hire a wildebeest transport team and a ten-man escort team at the lowest price, with a total cost of 30 silver coins per day.

It should be related to the style of the school. The price of caravan guards in Larn City is obviously much more expensive than that in Melo City. However, when Ye Bai saw the composition of this guard team, he could understand why the price was so high. There was even an alchemist in this team.

In Melo City, you won't see a magician working as a mercenary, but in Larn City, there are obviously alchemists who are short of money for experiments and physical professionals who need to maintain and upgrade equipment who are willing to do various mercenary jobs.

At the same time, Ye Bai spent a total of 10 gold coins to buy 30 boxes of grain and various raw materials for processing back to the territory.

In fact, Ye Bai didn't need to buy so many supplies at this stage. Compared with the closer Melo City, the profit from purchasing these supplies from here was not as high as purchasing them directly through the opened trade routes.

Ye Bai did this to trigger a mechanism - when the value of the supplies carried by the caravan is greater than or equal to 10 gold coins, there is a maximum 60% probability of triggering a robbery. In addition, Ye Bai rejected the receptionist's sales pitch and hired the cheapest team of guards, which increased the probability a lot.

This looting does not refer to the looting that was inadvertently triggered by players when Ye Bai left Melo City, but the actions taken by real NPC forces.

In the Ten Thousand Worlds, there are camps like the Merchant Guild that run normal businesses, and there are also non-lawful forces like the Thieves Guild, the Brotherhood of So-and-So, and the Bandit Group that specialize in plundering for a living, which are the opposing camps of the Merchant Guild.

Ye Bai did this deliberately in order to complete the task of repairing the compass in his hand. To find the 'legacy of the Golden Clan', he needed to find the bloodline of the Golden Clan that had appeared in history. At this stage, the easiest way for Ye Bai to obtain it was through an elite humanoid monster [Sand Control Warlock] that would appear in the looting camp.

Under normal circumstances, discovering the "Green Forest" camp requires a negative reputation in the Merchant Guild. Ye Bai certainly cannot launch a robbery against the Merchant Guild to close the trade routes in his territory, nor can he reveal his identity as an assassin, because assassins are not only opposed to the lawful camp, but also to the unlawful robber camp, and their main goal is to be enemies of the world.

In this way, if Ye Bai wants to find the 'Sand Control Master', she can only let the other party come to her, and then disguise herself as a 'fat sheep' when returning to the territory.

The caravan set off without delay and left the city of Larne after getting ready.

Ye Bai, who transformed into a windproof cloak, looked like an ordinary NPC merchant and did not attract the attention of any players.

“Law, law, law…”

The wildebeests were neighing, and Ye Bai, who was riding on the wildebeest, saw a familiar map page. The caravan was heading towards Baiye Town in a straight line, and they had been walking for six days without realizing it.

Sensing the location of Baiye Town, Ye Bai estimated that based on the current progress, it would take eight or nine game days to open the trade route. They had already traveled more than half of the distance and would reach Baiye Town in two or three days.

The guard team works in perfect harmony and is quite strong. They can quickly eliminate any group of wild beasts they encounter on the road.

At the same time, Ye Bai also met the leader of the guard team, an alchemist named Roland. Basically, other fixed mercenary teams in Larn City are like this team, with alchemists as the core, because the physical professions such as gunners and mechanical warriors in other teams all rely on alchemists to make and maintain equipment.

This also led to the fact that even though Ye Bai played to Roland's needs, used various therapies and gave him an ordinary source energy crystal, and raised Roland's favorability to 60 along the way, he was unable to poach him again like last time.

The reason is very helpless - there is no alchemy laboratory in Ye Bai's territory. This kind of school technology needs to be upgraded to level 7 and become a city before it can be exchanged through school tendencies.

The other mercenaries in the team are centered around Roland and cannot be poached either.

However, more friends mean more paths. The seeds have been planted first. It won’t be too late to dig them up when the territory can build an alchemy laboratory in the future.

The regret of Ye Bai along the way was that his "luck" was not good enough. During these five days, he only encountered elite monsters at most, but did not encounter a single BOSS. Ye Bai, who thought he could earn some gold coins, was quite disappointed.

When mainstream players reach level 20, their range of action begins to expand to their cities. It is estimated that all the BOSSes around level 20 near the city of Larn have been killed, and it will take some time for them to be refreshed.

Ye Bai felt regretful and selectively forgot that the current team was approaching Baiye Village. It was largely due to her that no BOSS appeared nearby.

One evening, the team stopped and prepared to find a suitable place to set up camp and spend the night.

However, just as the team was passing through the forest, suddenly, a strong wind blew.

“Law, law, law…”

The wildebeests that the group was riding stopped and made nervous noises.

This unusual strong wind continued and soon became even more abnormal. Yellow sand began to be mixed in the strong wind. Everyone felt that the objects they saw began to become visibly dim, and visibility gradually decreased.

Faced with this unusual situation, the guards' expressions changed drastically. Roland said to the others with a serious look, "Everyone, be alert! Protect our employer! We've been robbed!"

"Yes!" Everyone in the escort team agreed in unison. The wildebeest team had already controlled the wildebeests to shrink the team and pay attention to the drawstring of the truck, ready to cut it if the situation was not right.

The purpose of looting is basically to obtain wealth. The Merchant Guild is not without experience in dealing with such situations. At the critical moment, they would naturally choose to abandon the goods and escape. Apparently, Roland's guards also thought so, which is why they only reminded others to protect their employer and did not mention the goods.

However, Ye Bai, the employer whom everyone subconsciously wanted to protect, suddenly felt his whole body lift and sat up straight, looking at the yellow sand all over the sky with excitement.

Luck is here!