Chapter 300
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Chapter 300: Design Blueprints
That girl, Ye Xuan, once she started a research project, she ignored everything else.
His own title had changed some time ago, yet she acted completely unaware.
After all, what did she mean he changed his name?
His name wasn’t “Leader” to begin with, “Leader” was just a title, alright?
However, thinking about it, within his civilization, the probability of the name ‘Luo Ji’ being spoken by others was indeed very, very small, almost nonexistent, because no one dared to address him directly by his name.
For a moment, Luo Ji looked melancholic.
Finally, he simply stopped dwelling on the issue.
“You need to know, I’m usually very busy, the kind of really busy…”
“But I really need your help to look at this right now, and give me some advice.”
Ye Xuan said, blinking her innocent, watery eyes.
“Sigh.”
Luo Ji sighed, looking completely defeated.
“Alright, alright, what problem have you run into this time?”
“Well, it’s like this…”
Ye Xuan said, quickly spreading a design blueprint on Luo Ji’s desk, while not forgetting to gesture with the half-finished crossbow in her hand.
Unlike the two guards standing nearby who seemed to be listening to gibberish, Luo Ji was clearly accustomed to Ye Xuan’s rambling way of speaking.
Coupled with his naturally agile mind, he had no trouble processing what she said.
Ye Xuan had been researching crossbows for quite some time now.
To be honest, it was just a few crucial small mechanisms away from completion, but these very mechanisms were the essence of the crossbow’s entire manufacturing process.
When Luo Ji returned to the real world previously, although he had thoroughly researched crossbow structures, many things were different in practical application.
If he could, Luo Ji truly wanted to just instantly buy a Silver-tier crossbow design blueprint from the auction house for Ye Xuan, so she could just finish making the crossbow.
But the problem was, he really couldn’t do that.
The reason was simple, as one of the few long-range military units in the entire cold weapon era, the price of a crossbowman’s crossbow design blueprint was unimaginably high.
Luo Ji’s smile revealed a hint of poverty, for him, with only a little over a 100,000 Civilization Points left, he truly couldn’t afford it.
Exercising his modern thinking, after seriously discussing the problem with Ye Xuan, Luo Ji appropriately shifted the topic to another matter.
“Oh right, that siege tower I had someone send you earlier, can it be repaired?”
“Oh, that? It’s already repaired.”
Ye Xuan answered carelessly, clearly not very interested in the siege tower.
On one hand, the siege tower itself had an original piece as a reference.
In other words, with her talent as an armory master, given an original, she could basically figure out almost the entire structure just by disassembling it once.
Plus, its structure and craftsmanship weren’t particularly complex, so replicating it later wouldn’t be too difficult.
For something she had already thoroughly researched, Ye Xuan’s interest level would continuously drop, eventually leading to a complete lack of interest in the item.
“Anyway, later, draw a design blueprint for that siege tower and hand it over to the Armament Manufacturing Department.”
Luo Ji reminded her, feeling weary.
Incidentally, due to ‘Cartography Skill,’ some highly complete design blueprints had a chance to trigger an effect bonus.
Of course, drawing high-level design blueprints was difficult.
When Luo Ji had previously drawn blueprints for armor and some bronze weapons, he believed he had drawn them very detailed, but the system only gave them a ‘Bronze-tier’ rating.
Some even had no level, meaning no effect bonus.
This made Luo Ji wonder if having professional talents draw them would result in a higher success rate.
With this thought, he asked Ye Xuan to try drawing blueprints.
Facts proved that every blueprint Ye Xuan drew casually was Bronze-tier.
Later, Luo Ji raised the requirements, asking Ye Xuan to draw them more meticulously.
Then, under Ye Xuan’s resentful gaze, he received a Black Iron-tier design blueprint.
However, it was limited to that.
After that, no matter how much Ye Xuan racked her brains, the blueprints she drew could no longer be raised to ‘Silver’ tier.
Indeed, obtaining Silver-tier design blueprints was not that easy.
But even so, this could be considered a huge discovery.
At the same time, Luo Ji also had a bold idea, could these blueprints be sold at the auction house?
Facts proved that the system didn’t give him an opportunity to exploit loopholes.
Under the system rules, only items opened from treasure chests could be traded.
The blueprints he drew himself, while also blueprints, did not have a ‘tradable’ designation.
This made Luo Ji a little depressed at the time, but then he reconsidered, if the system’s path wasn’t feasible, couldn’t Ye Qingxuan help sell them?
At that moment, Luo Ji once again felt the terror of a ‘commercial empire.’
However, this self-produced and self-marketed money-making plan ultimately could not be successfully implemented.
The reason was simple, to draw high-level design blueprints, it was necessary to have highly skilled professional talents draw them.
Only then was there a chance to draw high-level design blueprints with effect bonuses.
To put it bluntly, Ye Xuan drew Black Iron-tier blueprints, but if Luo Ji took that Black Iron-tier blueprint and had an ordinary person copy it, the resulting blueprint might not even be Bronze-tier.
In other words, mass production was impossible.
After all, he couldn’t possibly have his professional talents stop their work and all go draw blueprints, right?
He himself would sooner or later be ruined!
“Got it.”
Ye Xuan clearly understood the importance of design blueprints.
Although she had no interest in something she had already thoroughly researched, for the contribution to the civilization’s development, she would still draw them in the end.
Facts proved that if there were a contribution point mechanism, Ye Xuan’s contributions would probably consistently rank among the top three.
This was also a major reason why the guards standing at the door dared not stop her.
“Don’t forget this. I’ll have the head of the Armament Manufacturing Department come to you tomorrow to collect the blueprints.”
Afterward, he discussed a few more mechanism structure issues with Ye Xuan, then Luo Ji found an excuse to send her back to do her experiments.
Looking up at the Mirror Lake outside the window, illuminated fiery red by the setting sun, Luo Ji exhaled a long breath.
After briefly reviewing a few more reports and having dinner, he went to bed early.
He was quite tired after this day.
