After coming downstairs, the girls at Silver Maple Leaf Studio were waiting for the old demon as expected.
The old demon apologized shamefully: "I'm sorry, I forgot the time. I kept you waiting for so long. Why don't you eat first?"
Girl Ning Jing was fuming, her face was red, and she ignored the old demon. But Girl Su Hui smiled slightly and said, "We all eat together every time, why don't we wait for you?"
Seeing the old demon sit down at the dining table, Didi added a bowl of rice to the old demon and handed it to him with a pair of chopsticks. He smiled slightly and said: "Fortunately you came down, otherwise, I would have to wait for the food again."
Warm it up again!”
The old demon smiled gratefully at Didi, and taking the opportunity to take the dishes, he secretly scratched the palm of her hand, making Didi sit back with a blushing face.
Yang Yongle and the others naturally saw his action, and couldn't help but give the old demon a funny look. Now that everyone was here, everyone naturally started to eat.
During the dinner, Charming Dance asked the old demon: "What is going on in the place where you do the main mission? Why can't I contact you all the time? As soon as I sent a message, I was prompted by the system that it was in a special area!"
"That place is really weird!" The old demon explained while eating: "I don't understand what's going on. Anyway, the system is set up like this. Fortunately, I can go offline at any time. Otherwise, I would really be trapped.
It’s there!”
"Then how did you do your mission?" Yang Yongle asked, "Tell us, did you get any rewards?"
The old demon originally wanted to talk to them, so he told them about the situation in the Shadow Temple. After listening, the girls all couldn't help but clicked their tongues. Wen Ting stuck out her tongue and said: "Fortunately, I'm not
ShadowClan, otherwise, even if you kill me, you won’t do this main quest!”
"Yes, Tingting, you are most afraid of the dark!" After the girls reacted, they laughed at her together and started laughing.
After hearing that the reward the old demon received after passing the first level was actually a rune of the Twelve Saints and a weapon fragment, the girls were a little stunned.
The old demon didn't expect that they would have such a big reaction. He didn't know what was going on for a while and looked at Yang Yongle in surprise.
"That's it!" Yang Yongle explained for the old demon: "Not long before you came down, we just saw a post from the official forum. As you know, our online time is usually during the day, and just now
At midnight yesterday, someone in the global server played the third artifact!"
"The third artifact?" The old demon asked in surprise: "Does this have anything to do with what I got from doing the mission?"
"Of course it does matter!" Girl Ning Jing took over the topic and said: "Because the player posted a post afterwards, saying that he got it by doing the main mission plot! That was an Orc warrior player, and what he got was actually the Ax of the God of War.
!”
The old demon still didn't understand the connection. Before he could ask, Wang Ke explained lightly: "Did you know? In the Warring States Period of Xiaoyao Villa, the Dragon Knight Gun was also obtained through the main storyline...
…”
The old demon suddenly realized: "You mean, if you complete the main plot mission, you may get an artifact?"
"Well!" Charming Dance Step nodded and said: "At least for now, it seems that is indeed the case. Of course, this is just a guess. I think this may also be a matter of probability. After all, there are so many players of the same race.
It’s impossible for everyone to get the artifact after completing the main mission. The quantity of this thing is limited, and whether you can get it really depends on your luck!”
"Maybe the weapon fragment you got may be the artifact of your Shadow Clan!" Didi also excitedly said at this time: "Otherwise, you wouldn't get such a puzzling reward, right?
"
"That's right!" Yang Yongle nodded and said, "If you guessed correctly, after you complete all the Shadow Temple tasks, you can put the weapon fragments together into an artifact!"
"Impossible!" The old demon shook his head and said, "What if it's not? It's better not to think too wonderfully, otherwise the greater your hopes, the greater your disappointment. Anyway, the two daggers I use now are quite handy.
No matter if he can get it or not."
When he said this, the old demon suddenly thought of the bloody hand again. He wondered if he got the weapon fragments like himself when he cleared the level. If so, it means that he was not the only one who got it, but
It's just a regular mission reward weapon.
Turning around, the old demon said to Didi: "Oh, by the way, Didi, I met Bloody Hand this time. He asked me to hand over an ice mage suit to you. He said he wanted me to give you the ice magic suit for him.
I'm sorry, I'll give it to you after I finish my mission!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the entire living room fell silent, and the girls all looked at the old demon in astonishment.
Didi was even more at a loss and didn't know how to react.
To be honest, when we were on Coleman Island, we knew that Xue Hand was Lao Yao’s former comrade-in-arms, but Xue Hand’s behavior caused some psychological damage to Didi, so although the girls didn’t say it, they still felt that
Bloody Hand is still a little scared.
Now they heard the old demon say that Bloody Hand actually apologized to Didi and gave him a piece of equipment as an apology. They found it incredible no matter what.
"This..." Yang Yongle asked hesitantly: "Did Xue Hand really say that?"
They couldn't believe it, thinking that the old demon had obtained a set of equipment himself and wanted to do a favor for Bloody Hand.
The old demon shook his head and said: "It's true, I don't need to lie to you! That guy, after the end of the cross-server competition, he has quit the North American Terminator Guild, and now he is a lone ranger, and it seems
His mood has stabilized. To be honest, I was just as surprised as you when I heard what he said."
Thinking of what the old demon had told them about the hidden grudges between Xue Hand and the old demon, the girls all felt a little embarrassed. Charming Dance Step sighed and said: "That is also a pitiful person..."
Didi nodded obediently and said, "Tell him that I am no longer angry with him. As for the equipment, you should return it to him. I don't need it."
This considerate little girl doesn't know whether she is really not angry with Xue Hand anymore, or she doesn't want to make the old demon worry, so she said this, but no matter what, the old demon knows that the guy from Xue Hand is apologetic.
It has been forwarded to me.
So he smiled and said to Didi: "You can just take care of the equipment when the time comes. I know that guy's temper very well. I will never take back what he gave away. Anyway, that guy has money.
Let’s treat ourselves as tycoons!”
After hearing what the old demon said, Didi nodded obediently and agreed, causing Jingjing to rush over and hug her face, kiss her and kiss her, saying: "Sister Didi, you are so cute, I love you to death.
is you!"
After everyone laughed for a while, Yang Yongle got down to business with the old demon and said, "Did you know that the territory's tax revenue for the past two days has been calculated, and there are more than 90,000 gold coins!"
"So much!?" The old demon was also shocked. It had only been two days, and the tax revenue from this territory was almost enough to buy a catapult!?
"Yes!" Yang Yongle nodded and said: "To be honest, when I saw this number, I was also shocked. You know, in the past two days, the three players of our mercenary group were still in Hongye.
The town's consumption accounts for the majority. As the owners of the territory, the players of our three mercenary groups can enjoy a 40% discount in the territory. But even so, the various taxes add up to so much. I can't imagine it.
, when Hongye Town develops, how high will the tax be? Those foreign players will not be able to enjoy the 40% discount!"
As a player's territory, everything sold by NPC shops in the town will have a tax component in it. Of course, this tax rate is set by the territory owner, some are high and some are low. In Hongye Town, the tax is divided into three
The mercenary group discussed it together and decided it at 20%.
Although this 20% is very small, it is actually not calculated in detail. For example, if a bottle of medicine sold in an NPC pharmacy is sold for one gold coin, then 20 silver coins will be paid to the territory owner as tax. Generally speaking,
, if a player replenishes medicine, he can't just buy one, right? Calculated in this way, the tax revenue earned from a player alone is a huge amount.
And excluding medicines, when players borrow NPC's sewing tables and blacksmith tables in small towns to practice life skills, there are also taxes. If players sell the things they get in stores, there are also taxes. In addition,
In addition, there are city entry taxes, teleportation array usage taxes, etc. There are various ways to collect them.
Of course, how to customize this tax rate is also a matter of knowledge. The system will adjust the selling price of items in the store according to the tax set by the territory owner. A 20% tax will cause a bottle of potion to sell for one gold coin, but a 30% tax may result in a
A bottle of potion sells for two gold coins, so the territory owner cannot set the tax too high. Otherwise, the prices in your territory will be too expensive and players will stop coming.
Knowing that such tax collection is really profitable, but making money to this extent really surprised everyone. It seems that choosing Hongye Town at the beginning was indeed a very wise choice. In the future, Hongye Town became famous and the flow of people increased.
As the number increases, the studio's monthly income can be doubled several times just by taxation alone.
"Although we have obtained the tax, we still have to invest what should be invested!" The old demon thought for a while and said: "The city walls must be reinforced and the defense towers must be upgraded. In short, priority must be given to ensuring the defense strength of Hongye Town."
"Well, that's what I think too!" Yang Yongle nodded and said, "I have already made an agreement with Mingren Tianxia and the others. This part of the tax revenue will give priority to building engineering workshops in small towns. In this way, we can produce war by ourselves.
If we have these war machines, we won’t have to worry if someone else attacks the town."
"Haha, you just have to figure it out!" The old demon said with a smile: "Let's eat now. After eating, I will continue to play the game and do tasks. I will try to complete the tasks as early as possible, so that I can return to Hongye Town.
