Chapter 502
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Chapter 502: A Turn of Luck?
For a long time, Luo Ji hadn’t experienced the blinding golden light that erupted when opening a gold treasure chest.
Caught off guard for a moment, he instinctively covered his eyes.
“Damn it, I really shouldn’t have been careless.”
He vigorously rubbed his eyes, which were a little sore from the dazzling golden light.
While rubbing, he didn’t forget to continuously mumble.
“Medical item, medical item, medical item! Give me a medical item!!”
Under Luo Ji’s almost hypnotic chant, the system’s prompt rang out.
[System Notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for obtaining a Gold-tier item: ‘Ancient Nursing Home Blueprint (Gold-tier) x1.’]
“Oh my god!!!”
The moment he heard this notification, a responsive Luo Ji leaped from his chair.
“It worked! Holy crap, it worked!!!”
“Hahahahaha!!!”
Luo Ji, having hit the jackpot on his first try, was almost laughing like a madman.
What did he say earlier?
After so much bad luck, it was about time his fortunes turned, right? And now, his luck truly had changed!
Fortunately, he had sent everyone else away before opening the chest.
Otherwise, if He Liang, Jie Zichuan, and the others had seen him, wouldn’t the guards have thought their Emperor had gone mad?
After a burst of euphoria, Luo Ji quickly retrieved the Gold-tier nursing home blueprint.
[System Notification: Confirm acquisition of ‘Ancient Nursing Home Blueprint (Gold-tier)’? Once acquired, it cannot be traded.]
“Acquire!”
Are you kidding? Medical items were already rare and highly sought after.
It was hard enough to even get a Silver-tier one in the auction house, let alone a Gold-tier!
He definitely had to keep it for himself.
At the same time, he quickly checked its effects.
The significant bonuses of a Gold-tier blueprint, such as increased construction speed, higher success rate, and material savings, went without saying.
The key lay in the special bonus effects of the ‘Gold-tier Ancient Nursing Home’ building!
After a series of taps on the interface, the introduction panel that appeared once again made his breath quicken.
“Chance of patient recovery increased by 15%, recovery speed increased by 20%!”
Recovery speed and chance of recovery. These were undoubtedly what Luo Ji needed most right now!
Of course, amidst his euphoria, the word ‘Ancient’ before ‘Nursing Home’ also successfully caught Luo Ji’s attention.
However, after a moment’s thought, he quickly understood.
That made sense. Take a completely modernized nursing home, for example.
It would definitely have a large amount of high-tech medical instruments and equipment.
But how could such instruments and equipment be produced in a cold weapon era?
Therefore, it was only natural for the blueprints of nursing home buildings to be categorized by different eras.
Just as he held the blueprint, ready to begin construction, his expression suddenly froze.
“Wait, blueprint…”
When he had hit the jackpot and gotten such a good item, he was too excited and accidentally overlooked a problem.
Blueprints had to be built.
And outside, a blizzard was raging…
This is ridiculous!!
Suppressing the urge to throw the Gold-tier blueprint on the ground, Luo Ji made a gesture to cover his face, looking utterly vexed.
Let alone how long it would take to build this nursing home, the blizzard outside was already deadly enough, wasn’t it?
It’s no exaggeration to say that simply walking outside now was taking a risk.
Asking the Architectural Engineering Department to build a nursing home out in a blizzard?
Old Director He would probably try to kill him!
Undertaking such a large project in a blizzard was practically suicidal!
At this moment, Luo Ji clearly realized he had been duped.
Damn it, what kind of ‘turn of luck’ was this?
The system was clearly trying to spite him, giving him a useful item but then making it impossible for him to build it.
It was simply too malicious!
This couldn’t help but make Luo Ji wonder if he had harmed too many players previously and accumulated bad karma.
After several minutes of serious self-reflection, Luo Ji silently added fifty more units of wagon teams to his expedition roster.
Bah! Even if he couldn’t build the nursing home, he could still get by just by plundering resources!
Luo Ji, hardening his resolve, directly led his invading army to embark again.
Then, to his slight surprise, he found that his soldiers, far from accumulating war-weariness, were all enthusiastically engaged in the invasions.
After some thought, Luo Ji concluded there were two reasons.
The first reason came from the beastmen’s warlike nature.
In other words, beastmen armies were far more warlike than human armies.
They did not easily accumulate war-weariness.
This could be considered a major advantage.
The other reason was the current situation of Myriad World Civilization.
It was too cold!
Rather than staying in Myriad World Civilization and freezing, it was better to go invade others.
Spending 7 days on another player’s territory, like a vacation, was also excellent.
Luo Ji deeply felt this point himself.
The severe cold was indeed very difficult to endure.
Even sitting in a room with several braziers burning, he sometimes shivered from the cold.
In comparison, if he could invade a player whose civilization was currently in the spring or autumn season, that would be much more comfortable.
Luo Ji couldn’t deny it.
The reason he waged invasion wars so frequently was, on one hand, to quickly accumulate more resources while the natural barrier formed by the blizzard still existed.
But on the other hand, it also had a bit of a “vacationing on other players’ territory” feel to it.
Regardless, the invasion wars certainly had to continue.
Supported by ample medicinal herb resources, coupled with Luo Ji temporarily repurposing empty apartment buildings as patient accommodation, the situation was brought under control for the time being.
A few days later, a batch of patients discharged after recovery slightly reduced the pressure on the Medical Department.
However, the number of patients remained high.
Faced with this somewhat helpless situation, Luo Ji could only quickly acquire a large number of Black-tier medical skill books through instant purchases to immediately apply to the Medical Department staff.
These skill books were not cheap.
Although they were only Black-tier skill books, their prices were generally 30% to 40% higher than regular Black-tier skill books.
This wave cost Luo Ji a considerable amount, making him feel a small pang of pain.
After all, unless it was an emergency, ordinary players would not spend so many Civilization Points on Black-tier skill books, especially not for ordinary staff members within their civilization.
Their value was too limited, and they wouldn’t waste points to extend the lives of ordinary people.
Of course, this was also the main reason why Black-tier and Bronze-tier skill books were so much cheaper.
Talented individuals who typically had their lives extended would at least have Silver-tier skill books applied to them.
And after a Black-tier skill book was applied, assuming no further life-extension, a normal person could at most work for another 30 or 40 years before having to retire from the front lines.
If something went wrong in between, they might not even have that much time.
It just didn’t seem very cost-effective no matter how he looked at it.
