Chapter 69 Potential Crisis
After returning to the city with a fruitful harvest today, the forging shop manager saw that the city lord had given him another batch of materials of good quality, and he looked at him with appreciation.
As for the deputy city lord Shen Jufeng, this city-state is not his personal property after all, so the store managers purchase his supplies. If there are customized weapons, the money will be deducted directly from the purchase money.
"I want to make a weapon out of part of the two mutant scorpion's claws, and one of the shells. I want to make a whip out of this tail, and sell the rest."
After listening to Shen Jufeng's request, the store manager nodded and said, "No problem, it's the same as before. I will contact you when the product is ready and the money will be deducted directly."
After saying that, he looked at Lu Jiu again and asked, "Does the City Lord want to customize any weapons?"
Lu Jiu recalled today's battle and said, "Yes, please make me a light and close-fitting armor that can protect my chest and back."
Today, the mutant black scorpion's tail hit her and she felt her internal organs vibrate. If she had armor protecting her important parts, the situation might be better.
Shen Jufeng changed his mind and thought it made sense, "Then I'll make the shell I reserved into armor."
The store manager seemed inspired. "Well... the armor is good. I'll collaborate with the tailor shop to make this for my next product."
Now for warriors and shield guards, shields can indeed block a lot of damage, but it also limits their actual combat effectiveness. If you can free up one hand and not hold the shield, it is always better to fight with two hands than with one.
Lu Jiu left the shop. There were no green plants in the city. The bleak autumn wind blew the banners hanging on the street stalls, all of which listed the items for sale.
At this moment, she felt calm. Among the people coming and going in front of her, she saw a couple holding their child's hand. The child was looking up and saying something. The mother was looking at the child with a gentle smile, and the father was looking at the road ahead and also smiling.
Seeing her staring at the crowd in a daze, Shen Jufeng walked over to her and said, "What do you want to eat? I'll treat you." He wondered if Lu Jiu was missing her relatives.
"There are so many things I want to eat, spicy rabbit legs, fried rice cakes, and milk tea." That's right, Xuantian City has such talents who can make milk tea.
In the slightly cold autumn, a cup of warm milk tea can warm people up immediately.
"Okay." He was not short of money, but he wanted to see Lu Jiu happy.
He and she are both alone in this game world.
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Lu Jiu wanted to eat rice cakes and get fired, but unfortunately there was no seafood and no one had the skills of a fisherman. She was looking forward to having such talents come to Xuantian City.
But the vegetable fried rice cakes were still delicious, and Lu Jiu took a few bites before queuing in front of the milk tea stall with Shen Jufeng.
This milk tea has only been out for a few days and the business is so hot that the owner even rented the stall next door. They had to queue for more than ten minutes before they could buy a piece.
Shen Jufeng was not very interested in milk tea and only ordered the original flavor.
"Boss, I want chocolate milk tea." She loves chocolate flavor the most, and she feels happy while drinking the sweetness.
The boss worked quickly, and a large cup of chocolate milk tea was quickly finished. "Thank you for your patronage."
Lu Jiu gave 10 copper coins. Nowadays, people buy things at the stalls not for the sake of replenishing their physical strength, but simply for the sake of satisfying their appetite. It was as if they had returned to the past with their milk tea in their hands.
Lu Jiu looked at the milk tea in his hand. The cup was sold in the system mall. It cost 1,000 copper coins. After drinking it, throw it into the trash can and it will disappear by itself.
People still produce garbage, but they don’t have to worry about how to deal with it.
Shen Jufeng took a sip of milk tea and frowned slightly. In fact, this milk tea was not particularly sweet, but he still didn't like this kind of drink.
Lu Jiu saw his disdain and said, "Next time you can try the green tea flavor. I bought it before and it tasted pretty good."
"Yeah." Shen Jufeng replied, then tried to take another sip of the cup he bought, not wanting to waste it.
The dialogue channel is as lively as ever, with few people using loud speakers. People often watch their own city's dialogue channel. Now every city's local channel is very lively.
Because of the opening of the city-state convenience store, people have no shortage of small loudspeakers to use. Most of the conversations in the channel are about trivial matters, and some people even quarrel directly in the channel.
It really seems like the old days when we played games, with people from all over the world chatting in the channel.
"I've noticed that there seem to be very few people trading items in the chat channel anymore."
She used to see people on the channel often shouting about selling local specialties, for example, she even bought seafood from coastal cities on the channel.
The situation over there seems to be different from that inland. There is very little food like rice and wheat, but the seafood that comes ashore will become wild monsters.
Shen Jufeng was not surprised by this. "Prices vary from city to city. You might think the price here is fair, but not over there. That's why few people trade across regions."
There are too many city-states now, and the price level of a city-state mainly depends on the wishes of the city lord. If the basic price is high, the prices of other items will naturally rise.
Lu Jiu felt like he had learned something new. "So that's how it is. What a pity."
She hadn’t paid much attention to the price of the seafood she had traded on the channel before, she just wanted to eat shrimp.
Who knew that the wild monsters on the coastal area were so strange, able to come ashore and attack people, and drop a lot of seafood, which they used to exchange for food with inland city-states.
"Don't underestimate the current peace. We are still in chaos and far from a stable society. The beast tide will siege the city and eliminate some weaker city-states. Only a small number of city-states can achieve a certain degree of price uniformity."
Shen Jufeng thought the same as Li Aoting. There are too many city-states in the country now, which is totally unreasonable.
The entire society has been disrupted and reordered, and there are still many things and contradictions that need to be experienced.
"Anyway, Xuantian City will definitely be able to stand firm in Yangshan City." Lu Jiu loves this city-state and hopes that the residents living here can live and work in peace and contentment.
Perhaps it is because the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, and the identity of the city lord drives her to think beyond just thinking for herself.
Shen Jufeng looked into the distance and said lightly, "I will help you."
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Li Aoting felt very headache these past two days. Since the game was updated, some residents were panicked and went out to collect food, fearing that they would starve to death in the coming winter.
These lifestyle players have plenty of time to collect food, but they don't sell it, which makes professional players very unhappy.
They went out and worked hard to kill wild monsters and delay the arrival of the beast tide, but it turned out to be difficult to buy staple food. When they came back, all the food near the city-state had been collected.
Although there is a lot of meat dropped by killing wild monsters, and the starting weight is dozens of kilograms, the staple food of Chinese people is still grains such as rice, and the vegetables have been collected cleanly, so there is no way to change the taste.
Only a few stalls in the commercial street were still open, and the others were not planning to take out their food. Although living in the city-state required money, many residents had accumulated some wealth during this period, and basically paid the rent for several months or even a year at a time.
Li Aoting couldn't understand why those people had to hide the food when the food had such a long shelf life and they collected so much of it.
There are a few more interesting stories in my notes recently. Unfortunately, I type too slowly. I will write them slowly in the future.
(End of this chapter)
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