Chapter 94
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Chapter 94: Is This Luck Good or Bad?
As the golden light intensified, Luo Ji’s emotions grew increasingly tense.
He strained his eyes, constantly trying to peer into the treasure chest, as if wanting to glimpse its contents.
However, all that met his eyes was a complete golden radiance.
Not only could he not see what was inside, but his eyes were also painfully stinging and tearing up.
This was really going to blind him!
Feeling helpless, Luo Ji simply closed his eyes and adopted a resigned posture.
The moment the gold treasure chest fully opened, a system notification sounded in his mind.
[System Notification: Congratulations, player ‘Luo Ji,’ you have obtained a gold-tier item…]
“Gold-tier! It’s actually a gold-tier!!”
The moment he heard the words ‘gold-tier item,’ Luo Ji’s breathing quickened, and he suddenly became excited.
“By the way, I think ‘World Shard’ is gold-tier or higher?”
“Never mind that!”
“Come on! Gold-tier item!!”
[System Notification: Congratulations, player ‘Luo Ji,’ you have obtained the gold-tier item ‘Elixir of Immortality.’]
“Pfft—”
Just as Luo Ji was getting excited about the upcoming gold-tier item, reality suddenly delivered a heavy punch, leaving him dizzy and almost unable to get up again.
“Wait! It’s a gold-tier item, after all.”
“Even if I don’t need it temporarily, I can still sell it at the auction for over 3 million civilization points.”
“Not too much of a loss, not too much of a loss!”
At this moment, Luo Ji wore a resilient expression.
“No silver-tier item appeared, which means I haven’t fallen into a period of bad luck yet.”
“Quickly, open the second one!”
[System Notification: Do you want to open the gold treasure chest?]
“Open it, open it!”
“Hurry and open it for me!”
The dazzling golden light, bright enough to blind his eyes, flared up again.
This time, having learned from the previous experience, Luo Ji did not try to peer into the box.
He squinted his eyes, patiently waiting for the system notification to sound.
[System Notification: Congratulations, player ‘Luo Ji,’ you have obtained the gold-tier item ‘Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint.’]
“Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint…”
Muttering the name of the newly acquired item, Luo Ji quietly pulled the animal hide blanket to his side and wrapped himself tightly.
Bed crossbow?
Isn’t this his ancient Chinese siege weapon?!
To put it more bluntly, it’s an ancient siege cannon.
But the problem is, he’s playing a defensive strategy!
Defensive strategy!
Why are you giving me a siege weapon?!
His entire heart instantly grew cold.
He no longer knew whether his luck with these two pulls was good or bad.
Bad?
At least they were gold-tier items.
Good?
These 2 gold-tier items seemingly could not be used in the short term.
Luo Ji decided to go offline to calm down and check some information.
As for the alternate world, he decisively paused it.
Although pausing for a day after the novice protection period cost 1,000 civilization points, he had inexplicably won a battle earlier by lying down and gained a windfall, so he could afford this amount of civilization points.
Back in the real world, Luo Ji stretched vigorously, sat up from his bed, and deftly turned on his computer and the antique-grade fan in the room.
While the computer was booting up, he did not forget to grab his phone to order takeout and set an alarm.
He planned to stay in the real world for only a day.
If he stayed too long, even an extra second, the system would deduct 1,000 civilization points without fail.
After his computer booted up, Luo Ji quickly opened a search page and typed in ‘Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow’ to look it up.
Upon seeing the results, a hint of surprise immediately appeared on his face.
It seemed even more formidable than he had anticipated!
Its close-range firing power was actually enough to penetrate city walls, and according to records, its maximum range once reached over 1,500 meters?!
It was one of the highest recorded ranges for ancient long-range weapons!
After quickly browsing all the information about the Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow, Luo Ji’s eyes glowed.
With this power, blasting ancient city walls would be like playing around, right?
It would just pierce through!
With this great weapon of destruction, let alone unranked novice players, he could probably do whatever he wanted even in the bronze tier.
However, just as this thought was halfway formed, Luo Ji quickly shook his head.
“No, no. If I start making siege weapons now, wouldn’t my defensive strategy development plan, set early on, go down the drain?”
“But a gold-tier item blueprint has already been opened.”
“Not using it or selling it feels like such a waste…”
Luo Ji once again fell into deep indecision.
He maintained this state of indecision, and a day quietly passed.
Back in the alternate world, Luo Ji sat in his tent, tapping the Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint that appeared in his inventory.
An introduction window immediately popped up.
[Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint (Gold-tier item): Upon use, obtain one ‘Gold-tier Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint.’ Increases success rate of crafting Triple-Bow Bed Crossbows by 40%, crafting efficiency by 60%, and reduces material consumption by 30%]
“Hiss—”
Luo Ji sharply drew a breath as he looked at the three bonuses.
He had gone offline too hastily before and had not had time to look closely.
Now, upon seeing them, a thought immediately arose in his mind.
He quickly opened the system’s auction house and searched for “Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow.”
Then, the search results that appeared completely confirmed Luo Ji’s thought.
The same ‘Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint’ also had tier classifications!
For example, the blueprints currently displayed before him were divided into three tiers, silver, iron, and bronze, but there was no gold tier.
It seemed no one had put a gold-tier Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint up for sale.
Even for the silver-tier Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint, there were only three in the entire auction house, and each one’s price had already reached over 1.2 million civilization points!
He casually clicked on a silver-tier Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow Blueprint to take a look.
Indeed!
The three bonuses at the bottom were lower.
The silver tier only added a 30% success rate, 40% crafting efficiency, and saved 20% materials.
As for the worst, bronze-tier blueprint, it only increased the success rate by 10%, and the other two effects were absent!
The price was also only a few tens of thousands of civilization points, and some were even listed without any bids.
The difference was clear at a glance.
As an avid fan of strategy and war games, how could Luo Ji not know the advantages of those last two effects?
In other words, in the time it took others to build one Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow, he could build two, and with the materials others used to build three Triple-Bow Bed Crossbows, he could build four!
This seemingly minor advantage, in a war, would snowball into something much larger!
