Chapter 72
The father and son were stunned for half a second, then turned to look at Jiang Qing, their eyes clearly saying "So you're the disobedient one".
"Three thousand points..." Haohao lowered his head and counted on his fingers.
How many 90s is that? How many dolls can I buy?
This question was too beyond the scope of the curriculum for a six-year-old child. Haohao couldn't figure it out even if he used both hands. He kept calculating until his forehead was covered with sweat. Finally, he looked up at his mother with anguish.
"What's going on?" Even Fu Yiming couldn't help but hold his breath slightly when he saw the 3,000 points.
Jiang Qing shook his head and moved his lips, "Buy first."
There were many people at the cashier counter, so she didn't want to say more.
Fu Yiming didn't think Jiang Qing was the kind of person who would spend money impulsively, so out of trust in his wife, he paid the bill first. After he left the counter with the bag and walked to a quiet place with few people, he quickly took out the jade button from the bag and looked at it over and over again. "What the hell is this? It costs 3,000 points!"
He looked like a worldly-wise man, completely different from his calm demeanor when he was paying in front of the cashier just now.
Only when he was sure that the jade button really belonged to them did Jiang Qing breathe a sigh of relief and smile, "Put it in your backpack and read the description."
Fu Yiming did as he was told.
[Item name: Peace buckle]
[Attribute: Accessory (needs to occupy 1 accessory slot)]
[Level restriction: None]
[Description: Can resist two attacks exceeding the maximum health value, regardless of the damage, and leave 3% health value. After two times, the peace locket will automatically break. 】
Fu Yiming's hands trembled as he watched, and the jade button almost fell from his hand. He caught it in a panic, with shock in his eyes.
"This... is this a heart-protecting stone?"
He now understood why Jiang Qing was willing to spend 3,000 points to buy a jade button.
Heart-protecting stone.
There are life-saving items in the game that can only be made by a very small number of blacksmiths. Like this peace locket, they are all passive items. As long as they are worn on the body, they can play a role at the critical moment.
In a doomsday game, what could be more important than saving your life?
Such a heart-protecting stone will definitely attract countless players to fight for it.
When Haohao was just born, Jiang Qing and Fu Yiming wanted to collect one as a gift for him, but after asking around, they couldn't find any player willing to sell it.
Just think about it...it's almost impossible for anyone to be willing to sell a prop that can save lives.
The reason why many rare equipment can circulate on the market is that the original owner died in battle and the equipment was automatically unbound and dropped. But for an item like the Heart-Protecting Stone, once the original owner dies, it will break into pieces and disappear, and there is no possibility of it being picked up and sold again.
This results in very few heart-protecting stones on the market.
After finding that they could not buy finished products, Jiang Qing and his friend tried to find a blacksmith friend. They wanted to provide the raw materials and ask the friend to make them, but they were unexpectedly rejected by their friend.
That friend had a bitter face at the time and said, "You think too highly of me. If I could make the Heart-Protecting Stone, I would have made a fortune with it a long time ago. Why would you keep it secret?"
He then explained it to the two of them.
A blacksmith who can make a Heart Stone is already at the ceiling of the industry and is countless times rarer than the Heart Stone itself. Most of these elite talents work in the territory, making equipment for the official team, and they simply don't have time to take private orders like this.
The lord (town mayor, mayor) would not let them "waste time" doing such things.
"——After all, although the Heart Stone is important to players, in the eyes of people at the lord's level, it is the least cost-effective equipment." The friend shrugged.
How can the life and death of a single player be as important as the equipment of a pioneering team?
What's more, in the doomsday, players have to face countless life-and-death dangers every day. The heart-protecting stone can only protect one person once, and it has little significance in improving the overall survival rate. In the eyes of the lord, it is naturally not ranked in importance.
The high difficulty in making it and its inability to be resold have resulted in the Heart Stone being in short supply.
Since both methods failed, Jiang Qing and Fu Yiming had to give up with regret.
They had wanted to wait until Haohao was older and needed to go out for experience before trying to collect them, but who would have thought that after going around in circles, they would actually meet him in a newly opened handicraft shop in a hot spring hotel.
"I didn't expect there would be a blacksmith player in the hot spring who could make a heart-protecting stone, and he made it so beautifully."
Fu Yiming looked at the peace locket in his hand with amazement.
The weapons and equipment made by the blacksmith will have different appearance styles depending on the maker's aesthetic skills, and can be distinguished from the standard equipment sold in the mall at a glance.
Some blacksmiths will even specially create their own characteristics, such as designing exclusive special patterns, or branding their own signature logo and so on.
But the surface of the jade button in the hand is smooth, the pattern is complete and flowing, and it is integrated without any special marks. Obviously, the maker does not even bother to promote himself in this way.
Blacksmiths who can make heart-protecting stones are rare, and those who can make them with such artistic sense are even rarer every thousand years - Xie Qingyun's craftsmanship is the best mark of this.
"Where on earth did the boss gather so many talented people from?" Fu Yiming sighed.
This small hot spring has monsters that are almost S-level in strength, swordsman guards who are of overwhelming level, and now, a mysterious forging master has also appeared.
It's really a place of crouching tigers, hidden dragons.
What's even more amazing is that Shu Mo has a way to order the mimic to be a bus, arrange a Lv.83 swordsman to be the driver, and assign the forging master to such an unknown handicraft shop...
Fu Yiming really wanted to interview his boss to find out how he did it.
Jiang Qing took the jade buckle and said, "And have you noticed that this peace buckle is different from ordinary heart-protecting stones? It can resist two attacks."
"Yes." Fu Yiming came back to his senses and said seriously, "I heard before that the heart-protecting stone can only resist one attack. I thought it was a limitation of the game, but I didn't expect it to be the case."
Jiang Qing pondered and made a guess, "Maybe it's a problem with the maker's technology?"
"No matter what, we've made a profit." Fu Yiming was very happy as he played with the jade in his hand.
Seeing this, Jiang Qing deliberately asked: "Do you still think it's expensive now?"
"Why is it expensive? Who said it's expensive? It's a great bargain!" Fu Yiming quickly changed his words.
If Haohao hadn't been watching curiously beside him, he really wanted to hug his wife and kiss her.
"I didn't expect that we could find such a big bargain this time!"
Jiang Qing: "It's not necessarily a bargain. There are many things in that store. Judging from the craftsmanship, they should all be made by the same person. Maybe there are some surprising effects."
But she was indeed lucky, as the first thing she got was the heart-protecting stone she needed most.
Fu Yiming nodded, "Then let's go back and see if there are any other treasures. If there are any we need, we can take them."
As he spoke, he began to dream, "It would be great if I could find another peace locket. One for you and Haohao."
As a mage, Jiang Qing's defense is far lower than that of Fu Yiming, a knight. With a heart-protecting stone on him, he can feel more at ease during the battle.
"Don't hold your hopes too high. Didn't the clerk say before that everything in the store is handmade and one-of-a-kind?" Jiang Qing shook his head. "We are lucky to be the first to find this heart-protecting stone."
"That's fine, let's look at something else. Oh, and tell Ruixi and the others, too."
"good."
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"It's outrageous. Take a look at the description of this item."
“And this!”
"Pfft, this Bailing Banner is so interesting, it can actually gather monsters actively."
"This is very useful. Just like the Rose Pond, it can attract nearby monsters. It's very convenient to farm materials."
"Now that you mention it, it is true..."
"The creator has such a wild imagination that he named it 'Bai Ling Banner'. Isn't this a spirit-calling banner?"
"But it's much better looking than the spirit-summoning banner, and it doesn't look out of place when placed together with these decorations. Look, it looks like the feathers of some bird monster are used underneath..."
Jiang Qing and his wife, Xu Ruixi, Xiao Yi's parents, several elite players were simply delighted. They ran around the place, picking up every product they saw and reading its description. If they found something interesting, they would run to share it with their friends. They would gather together and study it with such great enthusiasm that they even forgot to take care of their children.
Haohao, Momo and Xiaoyi, three little friends, held hands and stood in the corner of the store. They turned their heads from left to right and from right to left, looking at their excited parents. They felt that this scene was inexplicably familiar.
“It turns out that adults like to buy toys, too.”
Xiao Yi hugged his woolen doll and murmured.
Momo wrinkled her nose, "I'm telling you, my mother is very childish."
At this time, Xu Ruixi, holding the Bailing Banner in his left hand and another ornament in his right hand, wailed, "Why am I so poor!"
The sound was a bit loud, and several players who were passing by and checking out their woolen dolls turned their heads subconsciously. After seeing her equipment, they turned back angrily.
An elite player is still crying poor here. Does he want ordinary people like them to live?
Too much!
Xu Ruixi had no idea how much hatred she was attracting by doing this. She really felt that she was very poor.
I want everything I see, and I feel like I can't let go of anything I pick up, so I fall into endless entanglement.
Unable to make a decision, she ran to Jiang Qing and cried.
"It would be great if 100,000 points could fall from the sky and I could buy everything in the store!"
Xu Ruixi asked a soul-searching question.
Jiang Qing: “…”
To be honest, she had the same dream, but she was just too embarrassed to say it out loud.
I don’t know where the blacksmith invited by the boss to run the handicraft store comes from, but he has good skills and aesthetic taste, and his imagination is also very interesting. Many of these small ornaments and accessories have magical functions.
The idea may seem strange at first glance, but if you think about it carefully considering the appearance and name of the object, it seems very reasonable.
For example, one of the dolls was made of straw and painted in bright colors like a dwarf. It looked like an ordinary ornament, but the product description said:
[Item name: Scarecrow]
[Attributes: Place it in the camp and it will help you drive away approaching flying monsters. (Range limit: 30 units)]
Using a scarecrow to scare away approaching birds couldn't be more reasonable.
The little ingenuity that the designer hides in the items can easily make people smile.
Jiang Qing took a quick look around and fell in love with everything he saw. He wanted to take them all home.
I feel anxious when I think that these goods might be bought by other people after I leave.
But unfortunately, money is tight, so no matter how much I like something, I can only buy the most important ones first.
After comforting Xu Ruixi, Jiang Qing asked, "So have you decided what to buy?"
"Let's go with the Bailing Banner." Xu Ruixi said with pain, "This one suits me better."
Her biggest hobby is studying monsters, and she would even go to some remote places just to look for a specific monster. Sometimes you are unlucky and miss the monster you are looking for, which will waste a lot of time.
With the Bailing Banner, the chances of encountering each other can be greatly increased.
"But looking at the description, it seems that this will indiscriminately attract monsters around it. You must be careful when using it." Jiang Qing reminded worriedly.
"Don't worry, I know what's going on."
Xu Ruixi held the Bailing Banner, but his eyes were still on the other goods on the shelf, reluctant to leave.
After a while, she sighed sadly, "Alas, I haven't felt the taste of poverty for a long time."
Jiang Qing: “…”
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