Updated: 2014-02-28
Lin Zheng slowly finished his lunch. When he entered the room, he saw that Yang Qi was still watching a video, and even more incredibly, she was writing a dungeon guide while watching it!
"I say, why are you writing a guide? Afraid you'll forget?" Lin Zheng asked, puzzled, looking at Yang Qi, who was typing rapidly.
"What do you know? Your sister here is building up popularity for you! As the first high-level player to clear the Wizard Tower, selflessly sharing the clearance experience can earn a lot of goodwill from players! When we establish a guild, our popularity will be better!" Yang Qi typed without lifting her head, occasionally pausing the video to take screenshots, doing it very professionally!
Suddenly, Yang Qi's eyes widened as she watched the video, and she shouted, "I despise you! You even said you weren't trying to pick up girls, and you're already sleeping together!" It turned out the video had just reached the part where Lin Zheng and Xiao Mo were resting. Xiao Mo was really tired and just used Lin Zheng's arm as a pillow and fell asleep. The video even showed a scene Lin Zheng didn't know about—while he was asleep, there was a period when he was hugging Xiao Mo. Then, Xiao Mo, feeling a bit uncomfortable in her sleep, threw a punch in her dream, and Lin Zheng didn't even wake up, but instead slept spread-eagled.
"Oh my god! This young lady is too fierce, she can hit people even in her sleep!" Yang Qi looked at the video in surprise, then turned to Lin Zheng, whose expression wasn't very good. "I say, are you really going to pursue this young lady? Be careful, after you get married, she might just punch you off the bed at night!"
"Get out of here! What nonsense are you talking about!" Lin Zheng glared at Yang Qi irritably. "You can study this video, but if you dare to let it spread, I'll kill you!" Lin Zheng was afraid of it reaching Xiao Mo; he estimated that Xiao Mo would directly go online and kill him after watching it!
"Don't worry! I will definitely release your girl-picking video for the public to enjoy!" Yang Qi said with an oath. Lin Zheng had no doubt that this guy was really capable of doing so. After all, it's the daoist friend who dies, not the poor daoist, and she could even find some fun in it! For Yang Qi, why not!?
Lin Zheng, gritting his teeth in anger, suddenly had his eyes light up. He got it! Lin Zheng immediately snatched the mouse and fast-forwarded the video a bit.
"What are you doing!? I haven't watched the part where you fight the Black Warrior leader yet!" Yang Qi complained, but suddenly she stopped complaining because after several filters, Lin Zheng finally found that shot. In the video, a shiny black armor displayed a long list of attributes. Undoubtedly, this was Lin Zheng's leverage against Yang Qi—the Black Warrior Battle Armor!
"Ahem!" Lin Zheng cleared his throat, "Do you understand?!"
"Understand! I understand perfectly! I've never understood anything this well in my life!" Yang Qi nodded frantically without any sense of shame. Where was her integrity? How many gold coins per jin was that worth? Anyway, it couldn't compare to the armor in her eyes!
"Very good!" Lin Zheng smiled! "I'll hold onto the equipment for you. If there's any trouble before you reach level 60, I'll give the equipment to Xiao Meng!"
After solving the potential threat of Yang Qi, Lin Zheng confidently entered the game pod. As long as he had the equipment, he was sure that girl wouldn't act rashly! Appearing in the professional hall, after greeting Wang Yan, Lin Zheng went to the warehouse to store his items. Two Black Warrior sets, Youxi's staff and robe—these were too valuable. If they dropped from him, Lin Zheng would surely cry! After storing the items, Lin Zheng felt a weight lifted from his heart and began to clear out his inventory. Besides his 40-slot backpack, Lin Zheng also had a dimensional pocket. Basically, except for consumables, everything else was thrown into the dimensional pocket. This item calculated capacity based on actual physical volume, making it very convenient for storing unused equipment! Because of this, when Lin Zheng killed monsters, no matter what equipment, good or bad, he picked it all up. At worst, he could sell it to a shop and even earn some money for repairing equipment!
There was a general store next to the warehouse, so Lin Zheng cleared out his dimensional pocket next to the general store. For bronze-tier items and below, Lin Zheng didn't even bother to look, directly selling them to the general store. After clearing out the equipment in the dimensional pocket, he still had 8 bronze-tier items and two silver-tier items in his backpack, and also gained dozens of gold coins, which was a good income! Lin Zheng also directly threw these items into the warehouse, planning to take them out and set up a stall to sell them when he slept tonight. After all, equipment isn't something that can be sold in a short time, and Lin Zheng now had something more urgent to sell, which was cooking!
Celestial Star Shattering Moon had an attribute of "All skill levels +2," and this attribute also applied to cooking skills! Thus, Lin Zheng was delighted to discover that he, who originally only had level 6 cooking, could now make level 8 items. Coupled with the significantly increased mana consumption after the second class change, Lin Zheng wanted to make level 8 cooking to meet his own skill needs, making both HP and MP restorative items. So, the items he had left now needed to be dealt with!
Lin Zheng arrived at the plaza with a backpack full of cooked food. After not coming for a few days, he found that yogurt and bread were basically extinct. The current market was dominated by poached chicken and strawberry milkshakes! Roasted snake meat? Sorry! No one was skilled enough to have leveled cooking to level 6 yet; there wasn't even any level 5 cooking seen in the plaza! Seeing this situation, Lin Zheng was happy; he could make another fortune this time!
"Level 6 cooking, roasted snake meat, clearance sale! Limited to 38 stacks, only 1 gold coin each! Passersby, don't miss out! Once it's sold out, it's gone!" Lin Zheng's shout immediately attracted countless players. Level 6 cooking! These people hadn't even seen level 5, and each of them couldn't help but doubt the truthfulness of Lin Zheng's words! Speaking of which, gold coins had also become more abundant these past few days and had started to depreciate. If it really was level 6 cooking, 1 gold coin each was definitely not expensive at this stage! Lin Zheng knew what the players were thinking, so he directly took out a piece of roasted snake meat and displayed its attributes.
Roasted Snake Meat: Level 6 Cooking. Restores 600 HP per second for 20 seconds after consumption.
"It's really level 6 cooking!"
"Damn it! I've been practicing non-stop, and I just reached level 4 cooking today, and I'm already struggling. This guy is already at level 6!"
...After seeing the attributes, the players began to sigh, but some clever players had already started shouting, "Give me one stack! No! Give me two stacks!"
"Damn! I almost forgot the main point! Give me two stacks too!"
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The rush to buy began. In a moment, Lin Zheng had already sold 20 stacks! His backpack now contained 2000 more gold coins! Even though gold coins had depreciated somewhat these past few days, these 2000 gold coins were still a huge fortune! The feeling of earning a large sum of money with his own hands made Lin Zheng secretly delighted!
"I'll pay two gold coins each, I'll take all the rest!" A somewhat arrogant voice suddenly rang out. Lin Zheng looked into the crowd and saw Brilliant Heavy Cavalry approaching with several Brilliant Godslayer players. Brilliant Heavy Cavalry looked at Lin Zheng provocatively and sneered, "What, you won't sell just because we fought twice, will you?!"
"Sell! Of course, I'll sell! There's no reason not to do business when it comes knocking!" Lin Zheng said with a smile to Brilliant Heavy Cavalry, "However, one gold coin each was the previous price. After just selling some, the market is booming! So I've temporarily decided to raise the price! Now it's 3 gold coins each. If you want to buy at two gold coins each, that's a bit unfair!"
"Damn! Who's being unfair here!" Brilliant Mad Blade next to him was furious and was about to rush forward to fight Lin Zheng, but Brilliant Heavy Cavalry stopped him! Brilliant Heavy Cavalry's face sank, "3 gold coins each, is it! Fine! I'll take all of them!"
"Brother Hui! This guy is clearly trying to rip us off!" Brilliant Mad Blade was very indignant! But Brilliant Heavy Cavalry glared at him, and he immediately shut up! Lin Zheng was a bit surprised to see this; Brilliant Heavy Cavalry actually endured this outrageous price. Does that mean he has good self-control? Or does he have other motives? To be honest, Lin Zheng really didn't want to sell to them! However, since he had said he would sell in front of so many players, Lin Zheng couldn't go back on his word. So, Lin Zheng sold 18 stacks of roasted snake meat to Brilliant Heavy Cavalry at a price of 3 gold coins each, severely ripping him off! Watching Brilliant Heavy Cavalry's pained expression during the transaction, Lin Zheng felt extremely satisfied, even more satisfying than drinking a whole row of refreshing drinks!