I have an Apocalypse City - Chapter 292
Chapter 292: Chapter 292 Help
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Song Jian originally thought he would no longer have to craft engineering instruments and had even prepared to find other trade masters like Pharmacy Master, Forging Master, etc., to become his Followers.
However, judging from Dr. Ebsiting’s attitude, the “Blueprint for Self-Destructing Robots” in Song Jian’s hands had no allure for him. For a Master Level figure like Dr. Ebsiting, he was not interested in crafting such low-level siege weapons.
Here came the problem, Song Jian had no idea where to collect the materials for advanced items, and while the materials for these low-level items were easy to collect, Dr. Ebsiting didn’t want to make them. So, what now?
Well, there was nothing to it. He would just have to rely on himself and make do!
Song Jian, with no other choice, had to learn the blueprint for the self-destructing robot himself. Making these robots was much easier than crafting T-11 High Explosive Grenades, though they caused less damage. However, in terms of cost-effectiveness, the robots were better.
To construct a self-destruction robot, it required 5 pieces of standard iron ore, 3 batches of gunpowder, and 1 piece of magic stone. Making gunpowder required saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. Both the standard iron ore, saltpeter, and sulfur could be collected in ore mines, while charcoal came from refining standard lumber, and a magic stone had to be purchased at the system shop. Even if Song Jian didn’t gather it himself, he could buy standard lumber from other players. When common players first get into the game, the quickest way to make money is to gather lumber and stone to sell. Some even bear the pain of gathering with their bare hands, so there is a large quantity of wood and stone available at relatively low prices.
But there wasn’t so much of the iron ore, saltpeter, and sulfur needed from the mines available. While there were job-class players above level 10 willing to search for and collect ores in the dangerous subway stations, only the boldest dare to go, and there were still not enough ores to go around despite the high demand, keeping prices high.
“Could it be that I’ll have to spend some time as a miner, gathering ores?” Song Jian asked himself as he assessed the situation.
Just as Song Jian was wondering whether to go mining, he suddenly received a system alert:
System Notification: The “Gene Modification Liquid (Damaged)” you consigned to the auction house has been sold. After deducting the handling fee, you received 483 doomsday coins.
System Notification: The “Gene Modification Liquid (Damaged)” you consigned to the auction house has been sold. After deducting the handling fee, you received 398 doomsday coins.
Song Jian had thrown all the more than twenty bottles of Gene Modification Liquid he got from the Zeus Shield Company into the auction house, and to his surprise, they sold out in no time.
Although they all have the same name, these Gene Modification Liquids have different properties. Some increase strength, others agility, or endurance, and others offered additional properties like improving vitality recovery or night vision. Hence, they were in high demand.
Despite the side effects, not many players or monsters could carry out psychic attacks at this point, so many players are willing to overlook the lowered psychic resistance side-effect.
It’s worth noting that these could increase personal attributes by two or even three points, which was similar to the Attribute Fruits. At present, a single Attribute Fruit could sell for over a thousand doomsday coins but was hard to come by, so these Gene Modification Liquids quickly became hot commodities as soon as they appeared on the market.
The revenue of ten thousand Doomsday Coins in a flash made Song Jian somewhat wistful. He began to wonder where the monsters in the Zeus Shield Tower had gone. If he could wipe out all of them, maybe it would mean tens of thousands more Doomsday Coins in the bank.
With this revenue, Song Jian’s Doomsday Coin count had risen above fifteen thousand, enough to make him something of a minor tycoon with every step he took now filled with confidence.
Most common players, even if they constantly economized and hoarded Doomsday Coins, probably only had two or three thousand at most. Many more lived hand to mouth, with less than a hundred coins to their names. Even some of the smaller Guilds had less capital than Song Jian.
Just then, Song Jian received a message from Li Ke’er. He hadn’t heard from the girl in quite a while and was curious how she was doing, whether she had found a job, and what her current level was.
“Ke’er, do you need something?” Song Jian opened a private chat channel and asked.
“Brother Jian, come to Song Gong River quickly. There is a Rock BOSS here and it’s tough. I can’t beat it on my own, come help me!” came Li Ke’er’s alarmed exclamation and some intense fighting sounds over the private chat channel.
“Song Gong River? Send me your exact location, I’m on my way!” replied Song Jian, his eyebrows knitted in concentration.
Li Ke’er sent the coordinates to Song Jian who saw that it was located only about six kilometers away from his Manor Castle.
“Don’t panic, hold out a little longer, I’ll be there soon!” Song Jian hung up the call, summoned his motorcycle and set off towards the coordinates Li Ke’er had sent him.
As he left his territory, Song Jian noticed a new structure rising on his land: a tall chimney billowing out thick smoke. Half of the building was a huge furnace with NPC employees constantly feeding fuel into it. Before long the furnace was roaring to life.
“Is this… a Forging Room?” Song Jian, squinting, identified this distinctly odd structure.
If a player chooses to learn the Forging Trade, they would need a Forging Room to create items and improve their forging skills. However, building your own Forging Room was not an easy task. It was not just expensive, but the land it occupied rivaled that of a safe house, so few players could afford to build their own Forging Rooms.
As such, the solution for many was to rent. George, the butler, saw an opportunity here and decided to invest in building a Forging Room on Song Jian’s territory to rent out to other players for a profit.
Song Jian had pretty much handed over all the management of his territory to his Housekeeper, George. He didn’t feel he had the talent or the capability to manage it as well as the NPC, who had shown utter loyalty since he got him. They had even achieved a ‘Great Trust’ intimacy level, just one level short of ‘Adoration.’ Therefore, Song Jian was very comfortable entrusting George with the management.
Song Gong River was a level 15 monster zone. It was not far away and took Song Jian just a little over ten minutes to arrive by motorbike. At this point, by the riverbank, a creature covered in a thickly armored shell – resembling a giant turtle — was engaged in an intense fight with Li Ke’er.