Chapter 119 Weapon Modification: Thermal Weapons Composed of Metals and Energy
Luck is on my side: This question is beyond the scope of the curriculum; I didn't even know I could unlock the favorability rating.
Coffee or Tea: I have about a dozen people with fair skin who have goodwill towards me, with the highest being two at 50. Now that the boss says it, it's true. I remember when I got to that number, one person's favorability fluctuated at least twenty times, while the other only changed twice.
Coffee pondered, thinking that the one who had only moved twice was naturally the farmer's examiner, Qingyou. She had thought that this guy was introverted by nature, so he hadn't shown much emotion.
Besides, what serious gamer would consider whether the fluctuations in NPCs' favorability in the game are reasonable, even if they've actually been there?
Upon closer reflection, Qingyou clearly felt more human than the other pale-faced people. Every action he took was free, even when he didn't want to meet the players.
His expressions were vivid and soulful; Coffee had seen Qingyou's face simultaneously display vicissitudes, helplessness, restlessness, and anger.
Before this, she never imagined that she could convey so many emotions with just her face! It truly brought her palette of emotions to life.
Long live fluffy stuff: You should be able to receive a notification of decreased favorability when crossing islands; I can receive it even when crossing channels.
Lu Mingang echoed, saying that the examiner was the most "dynamic" NPC they had ever encountered, and their favorability rating had risen in a very unscientific way.
It's like... I'm controlling the panel, and I raise the favorability level whenever I remember.
Coffee or tea: Boss, what you're saying is really creepy.
AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: What's so scary about it? All we know is that some NPCs are alive.
Shen Dixin had only guessed before, because the captain's feeling was too real for her to believe that he was a programmed character.
“Take them seriously,” she told her friends.
With the remaining coins, Chen Dixin bought a stabilizer and five sets of repair tools.
Each repair tool can only be used once, restoring 20% of its durability each time, making it a very useful item.
With the stabilizer, Lu Mingang no longer needed to move all the kitchen utensils to Chen Dixin's ship when using the accelerator card.
You can use two speed-up cards so that you won't be slowed down by another ship.
The cooldown period for recalling servants is three days. If he temporarily unbinds himself from Lu Mingang, the gap will be too long. The boxes he has accumulated could fill more than half of the ship's deck.
Anyway, speed-up cards aren't expensive. But ever since everyone knows that triple speed-up cards cause seasickness, their status has become quite delicate.
They were unwilling to sell it for less than the double speed-up card, so they reluctantly added a little more to maintain a respectable price, resulting in stubbornly slow sales.
Aside from a few daredevils who disregard difficulties, no player would buy it.
500 white coins is too much for players at this stage, and there aren't many situations where high ship speed is needed.
Most people would love to stay on the ship forever. Starting last week, the island levels began to be upgraded, and the high-level islands that were liberated were not just the docking port, but also many resource islands and activity islands full of dangers.
Shen Dixin didn't rush to leave. The shipwright probably hadn't finished repairing the ship yet. She put the wine on the shelf first, and then, unusually, posted several paid announcements, not forgetting to promote it in the chat channel.
A few hundred bottles of wine were still too few for the players in the entire channel. The wine that Chen Dixin put on the shelves was sold out in an instant. Although everyone couldn't afford big items, they had collected junk for so long and had some stock on hand.
After clearing out her inventory, she had 4,207 white coins. However, Shen Dixin did not plan to go back to the arms dealer because she did not need many more shells.
If left unused for too long, in the humid environment of the sea, they will quickly become the defective products found in shipwrights' warehouses.
No, the shipwright bought top-quality cannonballs; Shen Dixin's batch will probably be completely useless.
She went straight to the bald engineer, but this time not to buy sprites, but weapons—thermal weapons made of metal and energy!
This is the real reason why Shen Dixin knows the engineer: he's a well-known weapons dealer in the game! Of course, not many people know he can make weapons yet.
Unlike arms dealers who focus on ships, ammunition, and standard firearms, he can meet all your requirements within the scientific realm, as long as you can afford the price!
Making sprites is just a pastime, because these weapons are extremely expensive and most people wouldn't buy them. Engineers are always idle, so they simply make some gadgets to pass the time.
Otherwise, this guy wouldn't have been able to consume almost all the rare minerals brought back by the fleets by himself, since minerals make up a significant portion of the most valuable things on the seabed.
"It's you."
The bald engineer had a great memory; he remembered this player who frequently came to buy Pokémon after only a few visits.
"Come see my new little sprites today, they're on special offer! You won't get one if you miss them!"
The engineer said this with an air of seriousness, and Shen Di looked at him guiltily. The engineer always said the same thing.
In a way, the few sprites he created by freely using leftover scraps were indeed unique.
"I'm here to order weapons!"
"You?" The engineer looked her up and down, his eyes filled with questions, not disdain. "I don't know where you heard that, but the weapons I make aren't cheap. Have you thought it through?"
"Is four thousand white coins enough?" Shen Dixin asked, but she already knew the answer in her heart. In her previous life, she had saved up for a long time to raise the starting price of two thousand white coins and have the engineer make her a weapon.
Four thousand is definitely enough, and you can even make some demands on him.
The engineer immediately sat up straight. He hadn't expected that business would actually come in. He lifted the table, pulled out a flyer, handed it to Shen Dixin, and enthusiastically introduced the product.
"Starting price is two thousand, add one thousand to customize the appearance and materials, other functions are negotiable." The flyer is printed with all kinds of the engineer's previous works.
"I want weapons that are easy to modify later."
"This is not cheap."
The engineer raised an eyebrow. Don't underestimate this simple sentence; it requires the weapon to withstand multiple modifications and to have corresponding strength without being mixed with overly complex elements.
"Make it into the shape of a crossbow..."
"Not enough, you need to pay more."
Before Shen Dixin could finish speaking, the engineer interrupted her.
"If I said I'd come to you for all my custom modifications from now on, would you let me pay on credit?" Shen Dixin blinked, putting on the most genuine smile she'd ever had in her life.
The engineer gestured for her to leave.
"Hey, hey, don't rush. Have you heard that a wine merchant came to the island today?" Shen Dixin came over.
He actually knew that the pale-faced man next door who sold household goods had just been drinking!
"Me? My family has a long tradition of winemaking!" Shen Dixin volunteered, producing a bottle of wine from who-knows-where.
Since she always brought a lot of vegetables with her when she came, and even sold a lot to herself, the engineer believed her.
"You've found a way to get the liquor? Is it stable? It can certainly earn you a lot of white coins, but it's not enough for me to make an exception."
Shen Dixin was stumped. She racked her brains trying to think of what the engineer needed. Materials? But the minerals on the seabed were very well hidden, and only experienced masters could find them.
Even with a mineral detector, the vastness of the seabed is incomparable to that of an island. You won't find anything within a few dozen meters. It's better to go back to the ship, burn incense and pray to Buddha, hoping to find some rare minerals on the next trip to the island.
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