Chapter 118 Abducting Hanming, the Yellow-Haired Boy Makes His Debut
Shen Dixin got straight to the point and prepared to claim her reward. Of course, she didn't forget to activate the "Charm" she had just acquired; it only lasted two minutes, so she had to finish it quickly.
The captain's favorability towards her has long been stuck at 90 and hasn't changed since. I wonder if there will be any difference if the favorability reaches its maximum value.
For example, they can't help but stuff a bunch of good things into people's hands!
Unexpectedly, the one-eyed captain merely glanced at her, directly exposing Shen Dixin's trick, "Why are you still playing these tricks in front of me?"
Chen Dixin: ...Give me my money back! I want to change my skill!
She chuckled dryly and found a place to sit. Hanming landed on her shoulder and ate a snack. With a gentle flap of its wings, the wind would bring the food to it. It was very content!
During the subsequent ten-plus minutes of discussion, Shen Dixin looked left and right, but still couldn't figure out where the skill's effect was manifested.
The captain wouldn't even give her one more chance to upgrade the building!
I don't know what got into the captain, but his expression towards her became increasingly gentle, yet he didn't back down an inch.
He harbored deep resentment, truly stingy to the extreme.
However, she didn't waste any more time. She knew the captain wouldn't be swayed by this; if he wasn't going to give it, she wouldn't get it.
The final reward is only one opportunity to designate a building upgrade.
"Alright, let's upgrade the cellar then."
Hanming handed her a peanut, which she kept waving around her mouth as she spoke. The salty and slightly charred aroma of the peanut tempted Chen Dixin, and she ate it without thinking.
The parrot's endearing nature captivated her, and she asked with a thoughtful heart, "Captain, can I rent your parrot? What are the costs if I rent it for a year or two?"
The one-eyed captain's lips twitched. Wanting a parrot was one thing, but a year and a half? How could she be so delusional?
"No!"
Hanming, however, excitedly replied, "I want to go, I want to go!"
"It's tough being out there in the wind and rain," the captain advised. He didn't want the parrots to go out because he didn't want them to be busy with work, nor did he want to force them to do any work. He never expected that one of them would be so eager to do it, especially his favorite one!
Every glossy feather on Hanming's body bears the sweat that the captain silently shed!
The way he looked at Shen Dixin was just like the way he looked at the blond-haired guy who had run away with his daughter!
"It's better that Hanming is gone; it's safer that way," the captain said, exchanging glances with his old comrade of many years.
'If you want to go to her, I won't stop you. Just act normal and don't give yourself away.'
"You can rest assured, old man, that Hanming will handle things well!"
The longer Shen Dixin waited, the stranger her gaze became. In her eyes, Hanming and the captain's conversation was nothing short of a tender farewell, as if they had broken something apart.
She interrupted the captain, picked up Hanming, and left. She liked the parrot the moment she saw it, and now she could finally keep it as a pet.
Hanming isn't a pet; it's the captain's parrot! It's her personal mail carrier! Chen Di thought to herself with righteous indignation.
"I'm leaving. Don't drink too much of the wine I gave you at once."
Shen Dixin cautioned that the wine brewed by the player was of poor quality, and drinking too much at once could lead to poisoning. It wouldn't kill the player, but vomiting and diarrhea would definitely occur.
The one-eyed captain smiled and saw her to the door.
Shen Dixin couldn't help but ask him, "Is it only effective on you, or does it not work on all pale-faced people?"
“Of course it’s for me,” the one-eyed captain said matter-of-factly. “There shouldn’t be more than three people like me, so you can use me without worry.”
It's impossible for this guy to encounter everything.
What a pity, what a waste of a skill. I should have used the opportunity on the arms dealer, whose price was dizzying.
"A small shell costs thirty white coins, a large one costs one hundred?"
She repeated it, her face a mixture of shock and awe.
It seemed she had made a mistake. Shen Dixin was heartbroken. It turned out that the shells she had carelessly discarded were not cheap at all.
The lame shipwright spared no expense in equipping himself. Chen Dixin found the cannonball on the wall: a special fragmentation cannonball, priced at 88 white coins per shot.
Wine is easy to store, so before leaving, she left two hundred bottles of wine for the shipwright to sell on her behalf, specifically to the fleets going out to sea, for a fixed price of 1,000 white coins.
Before buying the cannonballs, Chen Dixin sold all the wine he could sell, a total of 685 bottles, but only a small portion of them were sold, earning a total of 1658 white coins.
Recently, some players have already logged into the harbor, and messages about buying up white coins are frequently appearing in the chat.
Purchase interest at the port plummeted. Luckily, it was high-priced wine; if it were food, it probably wouldn't even fetch a fraction of the price!
One second they felt like they'd never fought such a rich battle before, and the next they were brought back to reality.
Shen Dixin had no choice but to subtly probe the arms dealers to see if they had any defective products.
The arms dealers looked at her like she was a poor woman, saying arrogantly, "My goods will sell out as soon as they're made."
She handed over a few bottles of wine.
"It's much cheaper than my shells," the arms dealer commented, accepting the shell with obvious disdain, his expression softening considerably.
[Congratulations to the player for successfully unlocking the favorability bar for the character "Arms Dealer".]
[The arms dealer likes alcohol, but not this cheap kind. He reluctantly develops a slight liking for you. (Affection +5, current affection level 5)]
He thought for a moment, "I can make some weaker shells, which only cost twelve white coins each."
These shells were usually ordered for gunners to practice aiming or for use in whaling to block roads, because the explosive power was so great that they might accidentally injure the whale's skin en route.
Shen Dixin agreed and took fifty shells from him. Upon hearing this number, the arms dealer hesitated to speak.
The port of call is the largest transit point. Almost all ships going out to sea come here to resupply. Take cannonballs and gun emplacements, for example. These are not sold elsewhere!
Without exception, his customers all ordered thousands or tens of thousands of shells. A few hundred shells were considered a small order. Arms dealers usually couldn't be bothered with customers who bought in small quantities, or even less than a box.
[Arms dealers dislike stingy customers. (Affection -3, current affinity 2)]
"Next time, next time when I have more white coins, I'll patronize your business more often."
She put down the white coins, picked up the cannonball, and ran away in a flash. If she didn't leave soon, the arms dealer's remaining goodwill would probably be completely wiped out.
Shen Dixin didn't try to please him. She had already figured out how to deal with so much rice wine. Upgrading the cellar would only produce more wine, and she and her friends alone couldn't exchange it all for white coins.
With so many players across the channel, and nearly a thousand islands to choose from when they can go to an island, and half of them having white-faced people living there, wouldn't it be easy to sell some alcohol?
They can lower the price to 8 white coins per bottle, buy it and let them resell it. Don't be fooled by the fact that she has four figures in white coins, the profit of 2 white coins is actually quite considerable. A proper dish can only be exchanged for half a white coin!
As he ran, Chen Dixin suddenly discovered a blind spot.
Why do favorability ratings for arms dealers fluctuate so frequently?
If impulsive likes and dislikes can be detected, for example, she would definitely be angry if I left her feeling unloved. Why didn't I receive a notification that my affection level had decreased?
Could it be that this thing can only be triggered when the distance is close?
[Arms dealers dislike rude customers. (Affection -2, current affection level 0)]
Cleanse your heart: ...
Now we can rule out distance as an issue. Because she lost focus halfway through the run, she darted at least halfway across the island before stopping!
In my past life, the only white-faced person I was close to was the one-eyed captain. His favorability stopped at 90, and it increased very randomly, by 30 or 40 points per mission.
Shen Dixin vaguely felt that this might be due to the "classification" among white-faced people.
However, she hadn't encountered many people with a "good face" personality, so she shared her guesses in the group and also investigated the changes in their favorability ratings.
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