Deng Yideng was stunned for three seconds, and almost fainted from the opponent's anger: "You, you, you... you little brat! I told you the rules of the competition a month ago, but you didn't even do such an important thing as preparing your own alchemy furnace.
Have you forgotten all?"
"Originally, I have a top-grade mortal-level medicine cauldron, but I borrowed it from Ma Weishan before we set off. Now, there is only one hour before the start of the competition. Where can I get a cauldron for you?"
Deng Yideng was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot!
"Hahahaha... Chen Shen, Chen Shen, you deserve to be unlucky!" Xue Yang laughed wildly.
"Shut up!" Deng Yideng and Ma Jingjing said in unison.
"You and Chen Shen are classmates, how can you be so gloating about others' misfortune?" Dean Deng scolded him with angry eyes.
"How about I go ask the eliminated students now to see if anyone is willing to sell the cauldron, and I'll buy one." Chen Shen said.
"Alas! At this point, I can only give it a try! I will also help you find out!"
Ma Jingjing also took the initiative to ask Ying to help, and the three of them split up -
"Friend, can you sell me your medicine cauldron? I'm willing to pay a high price!"
"I didn't see you in the audition just now. Are you a seed contestant from a certain college?"
Chen Shen nodded.
The man's face immediately turned ugly: "As a seeded player, why don't you bring your own cauldron? You guy, you're not just here to attack me, are you? Go, go, don't sell, don't sell!"
…
"Everyone, I want to buy a cauldron for refining medicine. I wonder if you can make it easier?"
The young men who were asked by Deng Yideng were about to answer, but were interrupted by their dean: "Hey, isn't this Dean Deng from Jiulong College? Do you want to buy a tripod?"
"Yes, my students were careless and forgot to prepare their own cauldron, so..."
"Hahaha, such a stupid student will definitely not be able to advance to the top 100 even if he sells his cauldron, so why waste money? Besides, our college also has seed players participating! If your students don't have a cauldron, doesn't it mean they are missing a student?
Competitor? If you want to buy a cauldron from my student, I will give you two words - dream!"
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"Students, please do me a favor. Who can sell me the cauldron? I am willing to buy it at twice the market price!"
"Hehe, the elementary school girl is so smart! So, in addition to twice the market price, if you sleep with me for a while, I will sell this cauldron to you! How about it?"
"You...shameless!"
…
Time passed by minute by second, and fifty minutes had passed in the blink of an eye, but Chen Shen, Dean Deng, and Ma Jingjing could not buy the medicine cauldron.
The other seeded players from each college, plus the 86 people selected from the previous sea, a total of 209 people have already taken their seats on the field, waiting for the referee to test their cauldrons and medicinal materials one by one!
"What should I do? What should I do? It will be a tragedy!" Ma Jingjing almost burst into tears!
Dean Deng also frowned, and there seemed to be several more wrinkles on his face in an instant.
"Forget it, the worst case scenario is to just use the Gang Core Glazed Cauldron!"
Chen Shen made up his mind and was about to enter the venue when he was blocked by a fat man: "Classmate, I heard you want to buy a tripod?"
Chen Shen looked up and saw this round boy standing three steps away, holding a cauldron in his hand and panting.
"Yes! Are you willing to sell me?" Chen Shen was overjoyed.
"I can't sell it to you. But I can rent it to you!"
"Rent?" Chen Shen was stunned, thinking that this little fat guy is quite good at doing business!
The other party nodded and said: "I used this cauldron to practice when I first learned alchemy. I also exploded the cauldron several times. The reason why I refuse to sell it to you is because it has commemorative significance to me."
After saying that, the little fat man put the cauldron on the ground, and there was a "clang" sound. The cauldron was actually tilted when placed on the flat ground!
Upon closer inspection, one of the original three tripod legs was mostly broken off!
Moreover, the inside of the medicine cauldron is also uneven, and a piece of the cauldron ring in the hand is missing. Presumably, it was caused by the repeated explosion of the cauldron when the little fat man first learned to make alchemy...
It seems that what this chubby classmate said is true. If it wasn’t for its commemorative significance, who would have kept this cauldron until now?
Ma Jingjing twitched her lips: "This cauldron... can it still be used?"
Dean Deng's face also looked very ugly: "The medicine cauldron should be integrated and orderly. If a cauldron with missing arms and legs like this is used to make elixirs, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the rate of elixirs."
If it weren't for the sincerity on the face of the little fat man in front of them, Dean Deng and Ma Jingjing would even doubt that this guy was sent by the dean of some college to disgust them, right?
The little fat man scratched his hair that was as messy as a bird's nest with some embarrassment, and said: "I also have another intact medicine cauldron, but I have to keep that one for myself."
Chen Shen chuckled: "Okay, I'll rent it! You give me a price!"
"I'm too embarrassed to ask for a high price."
The little fat man chuckled and said: "Well, if you can successfully advance to the top 100 and you are in a good mood, give me a reward of one thousand gold! If you fail and are eliminated, I won't charge you any money. How about that?
?”
Well, he is quite a real person!
"What's your name?" Chen Shen asked.
The young man grinned: "My name is Wang Dun, and my nickname is Wang Xiaopang. What about you?"
"Chen Shen."
Then, Chen Shen directly stuffed a thousand-gold silver note into the opponent's hand, carried the broken tripod and walked towards the field.
"Hello? Why did you give me the money now?" Wang Dun asked in surprise.
Chen Shen said without looking back: "Because, the top 100 brothers have entered samadhi!"
"I'm sure you're confident enough! You're a pure man!"
Wang Xiaopang couldn't help but give a thumbs up, and then slapped his forehead: "Oh! I have to compete too, I almost forgot... Brother Chen, wait for me!"
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At this time, night fell. The crescent moon poked its head out, and the stars smiled.
However, most of the students participating in this top 100 competition had serious faces and tense nerves.
At night, I was refining alchemy outdoors without even lighting a torch, and from time to time I could hear the roars of mysterious beasts. The atmosphere was really bad!
If you don't pay attention, the rhythm of the tripod will explode!
Not long after, a question suddenly came from the first row of people watching the game——
"Hey, look, what is the kid on the far left in the second column doing? Moving bricks?"
"Holy crap! I saw it. He was indeed moving bricks. He moved three bricks and placed them at one end of the cauldron!"
"Look at his cauldron, it turns out he has a broken leg, hahaha!"
"And even the tripod's ears are missing a big piece. Damn it, a rag like this with missing arms and legs dares to use it to participate in the battle of the top 100. Is he out of his mind?"
"Hahahaha...this guy is really weird!"
…
The sneers got louder and louder, and before long, almost all the spectators were laughing at the boy at the far left of the second row...