Chapter 96
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Chapter 96: Auction House
One transaction, both leaving a rather good impression on each other.
After closing the trade window and ending the conversation with Zhong Mo, Luo Ji, having earned four million civilization points and becoming rich overnight, was in such a good mood that he hummed a little tune.
Since he would not be able to sleep for a while anyway, Luo Ji planned to browse the auction house.
However, before that, he needed to buy a truce token and put it up.
The truce token was a good item.
Once activated, it could prevent his world from being invaded or declared war upon by other players for a month.
And, probably considering that most novices were poor, the price was only set at 10,000 civilization points per token, which was the system’s only bit of benevolence amidst all its malice.
However, this 10,000 point truce token could not be bought casually.
Only after experiencing a pvp battle would one get a chance to purchase a truce token.
It would take effect immediately upon purchase, and purchase opportunities could not stack.
In other words, even if you chose to save that purchase opportunity after finishing one player battle and then fought another, the purchase opportunities would not increase to two.
In the end, you could still only buy one truce token.
After swiftly buying a truce token and putting it up, Luo Ji could finally browse the auction house with peace of mind.
Seriously considering what he currently lacked, Luo Ji immediately thought of his tribe’s medical development.
“Right, skill books!”
“Are there any medical skill books?”
His tribe lacked medical talent.
Since he could not find any, he could just spend civilization points to buy skill books, right?
With this thought, Luo Ji decisively entered ‘medical’ and ‘skill book’ as keywords in the auction house.
And indeed, he found some.
However, it was regrettable that medical skill books were clearly hot commodities.
Most of the skill books in the auction house were iron-tier and bronze-tier.
The only silver-tier medical skill book, ‘Disease Research,’ was in auction mode, with a bidding time of 24 hours.
The price had already been bid up to 1.37 million, and there were still sixteen hours until the auction ended.
Luo Ji did not believe no one was watching this.
As a rare skill book, even a silver-tier one, it could potentially sell for the price of a gold-tier item.
There were definitely many players waiting for the last minute, or even the last second, of this auction to suddenly place bids.
It was imaginable how high the price would skyrocket then.
Taking a deep breath, Luo Ji maintained his relatively calm mind and clicked on the silver-tier skill book to view its effects.
[Disease Research (Silver-tier): For known disease symptoms, research speed for that disease increases by 40%, and the chance of researching a cure increases by 30%]
Alright, he needed this, badly!
Luo Ji’s face was full of frustration after reading the skill effects.
“Ahhhh! Why is it an auction!!”
Auction mode was too unfriendly for newcomers.
Thinking of Zhong Mo earlier, who could effortlessly pull out four million civilization points without hesitation, if such powerful players joined in, how could he possibly compete with them in terms of wealth?
Exhaling a long breath, Luo Ji perked up a bit.
Although hope was slim, he could not just give up!
He still had over four million civilization points in hand, it was not entirely hopeless.
Luo Ji’s determination to win this skill book was strong, even to the point of being willing to pay any price!
After all, his civilization severely lacked this.
Medical development had been slow to find a breakthrough, and this ‘Disease Research’ silver-tier skill book could clearly create a breakthrough for him!
Because of this, Luo Ji was in no mood to buy anything else.
Winning this skill book became his top priority!
Before that, just in case, he would save all the four million plus civilization points he had.
Closing the auction house page, Luo Ji, having nothing to do, lay back in bed and napped for a while.
The next morning, he directly took the thick stack of Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow blueprints and headed to the Armament Department.
At this time, apart from Little Fox, who was literally cooped up in the Armament Department’s tent, there was temporarily no one else around.
After enduring the previous period of being swamped with work, the Armament Department personnel finally had a period of leisure.
Arrows and stone bullets were not in short supply for the time being.
Their daily work basically consisted of making a few sets of spare leather armor and bows, and helping to sharpen blunted weapons.
None of these were particularly urgent tasks, so naturally, they no longer needed to work from dawn till dusk.
Luo Ji also turned a blind eye to this.
Little Fox, who was bored at the moment and holding a longbow, pondering where else it could be improved, saw Luo Ji come in.
Her entire demeanor immediately changed from her previous aloofness.
Her constantly glowing eyes directly fell upon the thick stack of blueprints in Luo Ji’s hand.
“Leader, are those blueprints for new weapons?”
Luo Ji found Little Fox’s personality both amusing and exasperating, but he was too lazy to tease her.
He directly handed over the blueprints.
“That’s right, new weapons.”
“These are called Triple-Bow Bed Crossbows, a type of siege weapon…”
As Luo Ji spoke, Little Fox already snatched the stack of blueprints, flipping through them page after page.
Her innate sharp intuition for armaments allowed her to clearly sense the power and complexity of this item just by looking at the diagrams on the blueprints.
However, as she continued to look, Little Fox’s expression suddenly turned bitter.
“Leader, what do all those strange symbols next to the diagrams mean?”
Hearing this, Luo Ji subconsciously glanced at the so-called strange symbols, then could not help but make a gesture of rubbing his forehead.
“I almost forgot, no one in the Armament Department can read yet…”
The Triple-Bow Bed Crossbow blueprints, in addition to diagrams, contained a large amount of text.
If they could not understand those text messages, the crafting difficulty would at least double.
“Those are not strange symbols, they are words.”
“Words?”
Little Fox tilted her head, her face full of confusion.
“It just so happens that your Armament Department is relatively free lately.”
“Starting today, all members of the Armament Department, after noon every day, will attend classes with the tribal children and learn all these words!”
Although Luo Ji could choose a simpler method, such as directly telling Little Fox the meaning of these text messages, it would ultimately be troublesome.
In the future, he could not always be there to interpret every time there was a blueprint, right?
Learning to read was crucial and could not be delayed.
The sooner they learned, the sooner he could relax.
