Yakumo was bored and playing with the specimens that the doctor had placed outside. When he sensed the two men coming out, he quickly stopped and stood up.
Li Zheng looked sideways at her frequently. Although it was just a glimpse just now, he could see Yakumo's right hand stretched out from under the cloak.
It was the color of jade, white and delicate, and very similar to humans on earth.
In the past, she would wrap anything in her cloak, but this was the first time Li Zheng saw the other person's limbs.
"Why don't you let go of the decorations I have here?"
The doctor went over to restore the messed up specimen to its original position: "Have you forgotten that I broke the electrolytic pituitary gland of the Chunyu Clan that I saved last time? That is an out-of-print specimen, and one is worth 150,000 red crystal coins!
If you break another one, can you still afford to pay for it?"
"Hey, isn't this broken?" Yakumo took out the exclusive inscription and shook it. After the doctor paid the agency fee, she turned and walked out the door.
"Why?"
Li Zheng quickly called Miriel and the others to follow Yakumo's footsteps.
Walking to the alley, Yakumo once again kicked away the eyes thrown by the Dome tribe. Yakumo turned around and asked, "Why are you still following me?"
"Well, it's nothing. I just wanted to ask where I can buy translation tools."
Li Zheng scratched his head. There was nothing he could do. After all, no one in the outer city could understand what he said except public officials.
The doctor is an exception. He obtained the language memory from the matrix, and it has nothing to do with whether he is a public official.
"Translation props? Can you afford them?"
Yakumo pointed to a shop not far away: "One thousand white crystal coins each, go and buy it."
"One...a thousand?!" Li Zheng exclaimed, "Why don't they go and grab it?"
"Robbing? This is faster than stealing money!"
Yakumo said: "It's usually cheap, only selling for 500 white crystal coins, and the buyers are usually the descendants of old players.
Now……
Didn’t you start moving people into the outer city?
When those shops see new faces, they will immediately increase their prices and sell them to you at a high price.
One thousand white crystal coins is considered cheap."
"…Forget it."
Li Zheng was chewing on his teeth, and his balls hurt terribly.
I originally thought about buying a random translation tool for use first, and then waiting two days to see if Zishu could find me and deliver the better one I ordered.
I didn't expect that just buying one would cost a thousand white crystal coins...
This is a group of people being caught and slaughtered!!
"Then where can I stay? Also, if I want to inquire about information, where should I go?" Li Zheng simply gave up the idea of buying translation props and turned to other ideas.
"well……"
Yakumo sighed: "I don't think these are things you should consider. After all, without money, you can't do anything.
You should think of ways to make money now, that is the right way."
These are the words from the bottom of my heart from those who have experienced it, that is, I have had several contacts with Li Zheng, so Yakumo kindly reminded me.
If it had been anyone else, he wouldn't have even responded.
"It's time to make money, okay, I'll go to the mission hall and have a look."
Li Zheng nodded: "I have one last question before I leave. The doctor just told me that there was a gene factory that made and sold genetic medicines a few years ago. Do you have any information about them? Where is it?"
Li Zheng suspected that his genetic potion making table and material diagrams were leaked from there. Maybe he should go there and take a look, maybe he could figure out the origin of the things the treasure box system sent him.
"Gene factory?"
Yakumo thought carefully: "You are talking about the one that was destroyed by the previous player, right?"
"What? Destroyed by the previous player?" Li Zheng was confused. How could it be such a coincidence?
However, Yakumo was not surprised: "It's normal. There will be some ruthless people in every generation of players. In order to improve their strength, they will do anything except to avoid becoming bloody ones.
It is just a factory for junior players to patch genetic loopholes. Its value is not high and its defense power is very poor. In addition, they have a monopoly in this area, so it is expected that they will be targeted, robbed and destroyed.
Why are you asking? The doctor said there is a flaw in your genes?
Then you can look for an opportunity to go to the auction house or consignment hall and have a look. Maybe there are some medicines left, or you can buy some special blood, which can also have the effect of repairing genetic loopholes."
Yakumo seemed to be really in a hurry to get back to work, talking a lot, and Li Zheng didn't even have the time to interrupt.
After finally waiting for her to take a breath, she said: "I... let's go shopping by myself first. I'm sorry to bother you for so long."
"..." Yakumo turned around and seemed to be looking at Li Zheng. After a while, he said: "You are really unscrupulous. If you pay me some money and hire me as a guide, I won't be able to take you to find out what you want to know."
Is something going on?"
"Uh...how much?"
It's not that Li Zheng didn't think about it, he was just worried that the other lion would open his mouth.
"Thirty white crystal coins."
"Thanks, bye!"
Li Zheng turned around and left. This woman definitely had some innate ability similar to 'telepathy'. She even knew how much money she had in her account, and she wanted to take away all her belongings when she opened her mouth.
I don’t want to be fooled by you. I don’t believe that I can’t survive in a foreign city without translation tools or guides?
After separating from Yakumo, Li Zheng led Miriel and the others towards the most conspicuous building on the street. According to Yakumo, that was the mission hall where they received missions to earn white crystal coins.
The distance is not very far, it only takes half an hour to walk.
The building that originally looked extremely exaggerated from a distance becomes even more astonishingly tall when you get closer.
Just at the entrance, the door is at least nearly a hundred meters high!
It is more than fifty meters wide, enough for more than twenty dump trucks to run rampant here.
"Oh, so impressive!"
Li Zheng stood at the door and raised his head, his neck was sore before he let out a sigh of praise.
It is indeed the building with the most visitors in the outer city, and it is a real investment.
Miriel looked at it for a while and said: "Is this considered grand? I remember that the giant demon aunt's palace was bigger than this!"
"no the same."
Li Zheng shook his head: "That aunt of yours had to build the palace bigger for practicality. Here... I guess it's just to show off the momentum."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Judging from the width of the street, it should not be able to accommodate a giant race of this size, so the gate is definitely not built to facilitate a certain race.
"Let's go in and have a look."
Li Zheng turned around and grabbed Hong Boli to prevent the two idiots from running around with Sakura. There were people coming and going in the mission hall, and if they were lost, he might not be able to find them again.
Miriel saw him holding Hong Polly, and she also stretched out her little hand, letting Li Zheng hold it.
Afterwards, Li Zheng held Hong Polly and Sakura in his left hand, and Miriel in his right hand, and walked into the giant building, the mission hall.
Entering it, it was not as noisy as Li Zheng imagined.
Although there were many people walking shoulder to shoulder, very few people made a sound.
There were several guys in uniforms standing in some corners, staring coldly at the people in the mission hall.
Seeing these security-like characters, Li Zheng was slightly shocked. Being able to arrange security here meant that the mission hall was not as peaceful as he thought.
Walking through the crowd, Li Zheng saw more races with various strange looks.
There are black and white tapirs that have had conflicts outside, there are also tapirs that have no limbs and their whole body is like a bamboo pole but with eyes all over them, and there are tapirs that are lying on the ground and walking with thin legs under their belly, like a centipede...
Grandma Liu really entered the Grand View Garden and dazzled Li Zheng.
Finally, after squeezing through several crowds, a huge projection screen appeared in front of Li Zheng.
The most people in the mission hall were in front of the screen. What was strange was that the screen was densely filled with words. Each word was smaller than an ant and it was impossible to distinguish them clearly.
Even with Li Zheng's eyesight, he could not see even a single word even if he stood a little further away.
But when he concentrated on it, he saw that the screen suddenly changed and magnified infinitely within his field of vision. On the way, the unintelligible words were broken up and reorganized into square words that he could understand.
"Well, this is quite convenient." Li Zheng couldn't help but exclaimed. He looked around and was even more surprised.
I saw that the crowded crowd around me disappeared, leaving only a few little ones holding hands.
Miriel was even more fascinated by it.
"Can you understand?" Li Zheng asked her.
Miriel nodded: "Yes, what is displayed above are all abyssal characters."
It seems that the text on the screen will be automatically translated into different texts according to the race of the observer, which is strange.
Li Zheng touched his chin and thought deeply. There are many races in the outer city, but no one race came forward to unify their writing and language?
No wonder those who sell translation tools are so confident. In this environment, without a translation tool, even if you have money, it will be difficult to do anything.
I hope Zishu, as a special matrix merchant, will know that he has arrived in the outer city, otherwise he will have to spend a lot of money to get a translation tool.
Li Zheng suddenly thought that the translation props he wanted at that time might be the most cost-effective among all rewards.
A star-level prop is worthless when converted into white crystal coins.
But buying a translation tool actually costs one thousand white crystal coins...
Tsk.
The economic system in the outer city is in such chaos and it has not collapsed, which means that the terminal must be controlling it behind the scenes.
【1:59】
A countdown suddenly popped up in front of him. Li Zheng was stunned for a moment and realized that he must have taken too long here. In order to facilitate others to take over the task, everyone has a time limit for using the big screen.
Immediately, he suppressed all the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind and concentrated on the tasks displayed.
There are also differences between tasks.
There are only two main differences: terminal tasks and private tasks.
Terminal tasks, as the name suggests, are tasks issued by the terminal. Most of them are to go to a certain area to carry out tasks such as exploration, combat, investigation, etc.
Private missions are diverse, including found object missions, missing person notices, intelligence bounties, recruitment of craftsmen, recruitment of thugs, order bidding...
The terminal tasks are relatively difficult and are updated every day. The rewards are determined based on the difficulty of the tasks.
Private tasks are a bit of a matter of luck, because they are all posted privately, so the rewards are set in advance by the task publisher.
Li Zheng saw someone recruiting junior and above thugs, and the reward was only five white crystal coins a day.
It shows that profiteers are really everywhere.
After a quick glance, Li Zheng also found that except for the ones released by the terminal, almost all of these tasks were released in Block 902, and could also be completed in Block 902.
"This means that tasks are not shared between different blocks?"
Li Zheng flipped through the pages and rushed to take on a private task called [Botanical Garden Pest Control] before the countdown ended.
Immediately afterwards, the countdown ended and the big screen disappeared from his eyes. Li Zheng turned around and saw that he had unknowingly arrived at the back of another neat team.
If he wanted to go back in and watch the big screen, he would have to wait in line.
Or he can make a big circle, go back to where he entered before, and squeeze in again.
However, after looking at the interception line across the center of the hall, Li Zheng gave up the idea and left from the other side of the hall.
"Which mission did you take just now?" Miriel asked after leaving the door.
Li Zheng took out the exclusive inscription, which showed the details of the mission he accepted: "A private mission, asking us to go to a certain botanical garden to eliminate insects. It should be quite simple based on the mission description."
[Quest accepted: Botanical Garden Pest Control
Task Type:Private Posting
Mission requirements: Go to Kangel Botanical Garden in Block 902 and assist the owner Kangel to eliminate the insects born in the botanical garden.
Task reward: two hundred white crystal coins]
"Look, the reward is two hundred white crystal coins."
Li Zheng bared his teeth and smiled. It was a coincidence that this task was released just when his time limit was about to expire, but he quickly picked it up with his quick eyesight and quick hands.
After hearing this, Miriel couldn't help but rolled her eyes: "Why did Mother ask me to follow you to the outer city? Where did your cleverness in the activities go? Don't you see that there is a problem with this mission?
"
"You're trying to say, how can you get such a high reward for a simple insect repellent task, right?"
Li Zheng had already guessed that Miriel would say this. He clicked on the mission details, displayed the navigation to the target location, and a button at the bottom. He pointed there and said, "I have already considered it. Everyone has it once a day."
There is no chance to give up the mission without any responsibility. We will check the situation when we get to the place later. If we are really cheated, just give up the mission and leave."
"...Even if you can give up the mission, the time wasted on the round trip is...how do you say that word?" Miriel thought about it distressedly, "Oh, right, the cost of film formation?"
"It's a sunk cost!" After Li Zheng corrected him, he asked curiously: "Who did you learn this term from?"
"Follow the player."
Miriel replied: "You heard it when I was cooking for those people while participating in fishing activities."
"???" Li Zheng was stunned for a moment: "No, can you understand what we are saying?"
"A little bit."
Miriel made a special gesture for men who steal the country with her fingers: "Actually, although I can't understand your conversations with others these days, I can still understand it by comparing the meaning I understand when you communicate with me with the pronunciation of your language.
Have some control.
Over time, I will be able to understand it a little bit, but I’m not very proficient yet.”
"Oh, then you are really awesome!" Li Zheng gave a thumbs up and was filled with admiration.
One talent that increases learning ability is Niubi, who can teach himself without a teacher!
Li Zheng suddenly remembered, isn't he the best Chinese teacher for Miriel?
As long as I communicate with her more when I have nothing to do, and based on her ability to learn by analogy, I guess it won’t be long before I can answer questions fluently in Chinese, right?
"By the way, there is a word I have always wanted to ask you." Miriel's eyes showed confusion: "What does legal loli mean? Why do so many players involuntarily say this after seeing me?"
"Ah this..."
Li Zheng lives in Bengbu. What on earth were those bastards talking about in front of Miriel?
Why let her hear this word?
Isn’t this too confusing?
When they enter the outer city in the future, or find a chance to go to the matrix on their own, one by one, they will all start with a hundred push-ups!
Let you speak freely!
"The weather is really nice today!" Li Zheng twitched the corners of his mouth and looked up at the sky, trying to muddle through.
Ask him to explain to a succubus who is over eighty years old what a 'legal loli' is?
I always feel that after explaining it, I will not be far from social death.
but……
The sky outside the city is empty, there is nothing?
After looking in several directions, Li Zheng came to the conclusion that the outer city might exist in a place where the sun is not visible, so no traces of white clouds or planets could be seen.
Maybe even the concept of day and night is not as obvious here as in the matrix, because it has been several hours since he came here, he is hungry, and he has not seen the light dim even a little bit.
Logically speaking, it was close to three o'clock in the afternoon when he was asked by the terminal to enter the outer city. After so long in the matrix, he should have switched between day and night.
I don’t know if it’s because of the time flow rate or what’s going on.
"Li Zheng, someone is following us."
Miriel suddenly shook Li Zheng's arm and reminded him quietly.
"I know." Li Zheng said calmly and calmly.
He had taken the opportunity to look up at the sky just now to observe. It was the three guys following Yakumo who reminded him before. They were all familiar faces he had seen outside the registration hall.
Of course he couldn't remember the other person's appearance, but he couldn't resist our awesomeness. All the features of all the unobstructed creatures Li Zheng had seen along the way were recorded by it.
The next time they see each other, it will even show where Li Zheng has seen him.
In Lao Pu's words, there is not much data collected now, so we can keep busy.
When the amount of information collected in the future exceeds the standard, it can at most remind Li Zheng that he has seen the other party, but it will be difficult to point out where he has seen him like now.
But it's enough.
"Just now, together with Yakumo, they were able to control their temper and didn't even make a move when they entered a remote alley."
Li Zheng analyzed: "Coupled with the fact that they have to find targets outside the registration hall and rob new players, it shows that their own strength is not very good, and they are probably not above the junior level.
Find an opportunity to use the high-energy core obtained from those two activities, and increase your strength to the king level, so you may not be able to fight."
