◎Then pay it back with all your stuff.◎
"Why didn't you reply to my message?" Xia Li stood in front of him with a sullen face, looking down at him.
Cheng Tianxia was startled, slowly raised his dark eyes and stared at her.
"I'm asking you a question, why are you looking at me?"
Seeing that he was much more listless than before, Xia Li simply squatted down and brought her eyes level with his.
His stall was filled with equipment of all sizes, including boots, robes, necklaces, belts... there were items for all professions, but...
Xia Li frowned slightly, picked up a small item at hand at random, and threw it over with an identification spell.
"Houndtooth Bracelet, ordinary green item, no special effects, price... 100 copper coins."
Cheng Tianxia's face twitched.
Xia Li put the bracelet down and picked up something larger, holding it in her hand. "Lizard Armor, ordinary green, no special effects, price: 200 copper coins."
Cheng Tianxia's face turned even darker.
"If you need money, you can tell me." Xia Li looked at him expressionlessly, her voice somewhat cold. "What I paid you before was just a deposit. I can also accept advance payment. If you think the price isn't right and want to raise it, that's fine with me."
Chengtianxia opened his lips but said nothing.
Xia Li took a deep breath. "Don't you want to be the best equipment maker? Why are you ruining your reputation by fighting these things?"
At a glance, the stall was full of ordinary green clothes, not a single blue one, let alone those with special effects.
Compared with the glittering golden weapons and equipment in the stalls next to him, the things he had here were simply shabby and unsightly.
Now most players have reached level 15 or above, and ordinary green equipment can no longer meet everyone's requirements. The pursuit of higher quality blue equipment or even purple equipment has become the latest goal of players.
In other words, these things from Chengtianxia are difficult to sell.
Even if some new players reluctantly buy it, it won’t take long before they will quickly replace it with new and better equipment.
The three words "Cheng Tianxia" will not leave any trace in the minds of these buyers.
For players who choose to be equipment makers, if their stuff cannot be remembered by others, it means that there will be no repeat customers. Without repeat customers, new players will not buy it. This vicious cycle will repeat itself over and over again, and it won’t be long before they are completely eliminated by the game.
The atmosphere between the two became increasingly tense.
Xia Li just looked at him, waiting for his answer.
Perhaps thinking that since it was already like this, no matter how much you scolded him, Cheng Tianxia simply curled his lips and became somewhat indifferent: "What does it have to do with you whether I'm short of money or not? Who do you think I am? My mother?"
Xia Li's pupils shrank slightly, and she reached out and grabbed his collar: "Say it again?"
Cheng Tianxia didn't expect her to do this suddenly. He was pulled forward by her arm and had to support himself on the stall with both hands, barely maintaining his balance.
"Great...Great God...please spare my life!" Cheng Tianxia was instantly beaten back to a cowardly state, shrinking his neck and sobbing.
Xia Li narrowed her eyes, raised her chin slightly and looked at him disdainfully: "Are you willing to speak human language now?"
Say it, say it, if you don’t tell him now, he will probably die here.
Chengtianxia raised the corners of his mouth stiffly and forced a smile at her.
Xia Li finally let go of her hand, her tone returning to normal a little: "Then tell me what happened."
Twenty minutes later, after hearing the whole story of Cheng Tianxia's disappearance, Xia Li had a clue in her mind.
"Master, I have no face to face you." Cheng Tianxia said dejectedly with a pursed mouth.
Xia Li: "This is not your fault, hold your head up."
The ones who are wrong are those bastards who take advantage of others' support and look down on others, and start PK and force others to death if they are not satisfied with something.
Yes, she was talking about the group of people under the raging flames.
According to Cheng Tianxia, no one knew how the group found out about his identity as an equipment engineer, so they went to him to customize their equipment.
At that time, he was busy giving her materials for refining equipment, so he rejected the other party without thinking.
"I didn't expect them to hold grudges like this!" Cheng Tianxia bit his lower lip hard.
At first, they flooded the world channel with curses and hurled all kinds of foul language at him. Some even added him as a friend and insulted him in private messages. Cheng Tianxia said that he couldn't stand this kind of verbal violence, so he simply turned off the friend chat function in the hope of giving himself some peace and quiet.
Unexpectedly, Lieyan's group felt that it was not enough, so they ambushed and attacked him again and again in the wild. When he was unable to defend himself, several thieves rushed up and stole the things in his backpack.
He was an equipment maker! His backpack contained nothing but various equipment and rare materials for refining equipment. And it just so happened that the group of people took away the materials he needed to make equipment for Xia Li!
Seeing that the things he had saved with his hard work were taken away, Cheng Tianxia only hated himself for not living up to his expectations.
"I'm too weak. I can't beat them at all." Cheng Tianxia still buried his head, feeling very sorry for her trust. "I will find a way to return the deposit you paid me."
Xia Li knew Cheng Tianxia's stubborn character. If she directly told him that he didn't have to pay it back, he would definitely shake his head and say no, no, how could I owe you money.
So, she smiled slightly and changed her words: "Then pay it back with all your stuff."
"Ah...?" Cheng Tianxia was slightly stunned. He knew very well what this pile of junk was like. How could he have the nerve to use it to exchange for something?
Since the valuable materials in his backpack were stolen and he didn't have much money on him, he could only rely on collecting cheap materials in the wild to refine cheap equipment, hoping to exchange them for some money for food.
But it was clear that the players weren't buying it. Most of the time, while other stalls were packed with people, his stall would only have a few people glancing at it. If he was lucky, he'd occasionally sell two or three items a day. But if he was unlucky, like today, besides Xia Li, no one else would come.
"These things are worthless..." Adhering to the attitude of being serious and responsible, Cheng Tianxia reminded her carefully.
"I know." Xia Li already had an idea in mind. She picked up three pieces of equipment and put them together. Then she looked up and said to him, "Like this, let's pack the equipment together and sell it at a discount."
There are still a small number of low-level players in Miracle who are below level 15. They have no money to buy good equipment and can only complete tasks every day with various equipment dropped from ordinary monsters.
Because they didn't understand classes or attribute points, their equipment was completely cobbled together. Some of them were clearly spell-based, but they wore physical armor. Some were warriors, but they carried archer bows everywhere...
It was a truly horrific scene.
Xia Li felt that judging from the equipment Cheng Tianxia had produced so far, it was incomparable to the finished products of those high-level equipment masters. However, if the market was lowered and the target was set on the low-level players in Miracle, these things on the stall would not be unsalable.
"Ah, so that's how it is!"
Cheng Tianxia suddenly realized, so he immediately put the equipment together into sets according to different professions. Those that could not be put together into a complete set were packaged according to attributes. For example, those that added more defense points were put together to form a high-defense set; those that added more blood points were also packaged to form a thick-blood set.
While he was sorting and packing the things, Xia Li paid 5 silver coins to the NPC in the trading center and posted a message for him.
[Stall 122, full green suits on sale, high defense, high magic attack, high physical attack, high agility... everything you want is here]
"You sell first, I'll go to other stalls to take a look." After doing all this, she waved at him, turned around and went to another stall.
Not long after the sales announcement was released, the first batch of players came to Chengtianxia's stall. Due to the low price and the fact that the items were sold as a set, these players bought them without a second thought.
Following that, the second and third batches, under the dual influence of advertising and the herd effect, more and more low-level players crowded in front of the Chengtianxia stall, clamoring to buy their favorite sets.
More and more people shouted, and the competition became more and more intense. Later on, some players almost fought each other for the same suit.
In the end, it had to turn into a heated auction scene, and the set that you liked would go to the highest bidder.
The crowd was crowded and pushing each other. After more than an hour, his stall seemed to have been looted. The equipment that no one was interested in before was put together and sold at a price that he could not even imagine.
Looking at the figures in his account, Cheng Tianxia's lips trembled with excitement. The master was indeed a master. The balance in his account was not only enough to repay her advance payment, but also left him with a considerable amount of money!
"I want these five."
While Chengtianxia was incredibly busy, Xia Li browsed through nearly every stall here. Currently, there were too few top-quality items in the trading center, and most were ordinary blue gear. The occasional rare blue gear with special effects was ridiculously expensive, and with her current account balance, she couldn't afford to buy them easily.
Finally, Xia Li stopped at a stall and bought five pieces of equipment that she thought could be used as a transition.
[Sheepskin Hat: Precious Blue Equipment, Physical Strength +4, Magic +7, Spell Defense +5]
[Sheepskin Armor: Precious blue armor, Stamina +7, Physical Defense +10, Spell Defense +9]
[Black Iron Pendant: Precious Blue Equipment, Physical Strength +7, Intelligence +7, Spell Critical Hit +4]
[Black Iron Belt: Precious Blue Equipment, Physical Strength +8, Magic Defense +5, Magic Critical Hit +2]
[Black Iron Magic Ring: Precious blue equipment, physical strength +8, magic +5, intelligence +4]
These five pieces of equipment are all suitable for spell-based professions, especially the pendant and belt that increase spell critical strike. Although they only add 6 points in total, they are enough to give her a 3%-6% higher chance of critical strike in battle than others.
Because of this, equipment with critical hit attributes is usually more expensive, but she didn't mind and bought them quickly and put them all on.
As for the three ordinary pieces of equipment that originally had insufficient durability, he sold them to the NPC at a super low price in exchange for 100 copper coins.
The location that Mantian Feixue sent her was Doha Restaurant, the most famous and of course the most expensive restaurant in the royal city.
"Hello, do you have a reservation?"
At the entrance of the magnificent six-story restaurant, the waiter NPC asked her politely.
"Bookers are flying everywhere."
"Okay, your room is 606. Please go upstairs via the spiral staircase on the side." The NPC smiled and directed her.
"OK, thanks."
The private message that Mantian Feixue sent her only mentioned that the dinner would be held in Doha, but did not specify which floor or private room it would be in.
Just based on this detail, doesn't she understand the deeper meaning?
As a member of the largest guild, I'm giving you a lot of face by inviting you. As for which floor and room number, you can just ask the waiter yourself. There's no need for them to tell you in person.
Xia Li took one step at a time on the spiral staircase.
The 6th floor is the top floor of the Doha Restaurant, with a total of 16 private rooms. Each room has its own garden outside. To the east, you can catch a glimpse of a corner of the Queen's Holy Palace, and to the west, you can see the infinite scenery outside the royal city. It is a place that many princes, nobles and wealthy players like to visit.
Any meal here would cost a lot of gold coins, and Long Yan's move was somewhat intended to show off his financial resources and strength to her.
"Come in."
When she reached the 6th floor, she didn't even have to look for the direction of room 606. The two players who had been guarding the door of room 606 saw her and smiled as they opened the door for her.
There were two tables in the private room. Long Yan was sitting in the upper seat facing the door, and Mantian Feixue was sitting on Long Yan's left. When Feixue saw her, she immediately frowned and stood up to greet her.
"Li Zi, you're finally here! Come and sit down." He said as he pulled out a chair for her.
"I'll do it myself." Xia Li did not sit in the seat Feixue arranged for her, but instead chose a seat closest to the door.
"Um, okay, Li Zi, just sit wherever you want." Feixue smiled awkwardly, withdrew her hand, and sat back in her seat.
Xia Li smiled faintly, with a hint of coldness in her smile.
Feixue had just arranged for her to be in a blind spot in the room. What did a blind spot mean? It meant that if a fight broke out, it would be difficult for her to gain the upper hand.
not to mention.
She calmly glanced at the round table next to her. Sitting there were all Long Yan's men: Archer Hundred Steps Shooting Arrow, Rogue Chongshan, Mage White Bird, Paladin Berserker, and Swordsman...
There were ten people in total, all staring at her.
Even a fool would understand the deep meaning behind this dinner.
Xia Li raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a barely perceptible smile.
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