Chapter 99

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Chapter 99: Auction

After seeing the effect of the ‘Bloodlust’ skill, Luo Ji’s eyes lit up.

Then, as if remembering something, he frowned again.

“At that time, did you feel like your actions were out of your control, or that you were losing control?”

“I don’t know how to describe it.”

Liu Zheng said seriously after a moment of recollection.

“It was just an incredibly strong urge to kill the opponent.”

Luo Ji immediately understood.

It seemed the ‘Bloodlust’ skill definitely affected self control, but it wasn’t to the point of losing control and rampaging.

It was still manageable.

With that in mind, Luo Ji patted Liu Zheng’s shoulder.

“Don’t worry, it’s not a bad thing”

“In fact, you could even say it’s a good thing.”

Luo Ji’s words clearly put Liu Zheng at ease.

After reassuring Liu Zheng, Luo Ji checked the time and opened the auction house.

There were still twenty one minutes left until the bidding for the Silver-tier ‘Disease Research’ skill book ended.

At this moment, the price of the skill book had risen from 1.37 million to 1.59 million.

However, Luo Ji knew that those truly determined to acquire the book wouldn’t bid prematurely.

They were likely all watching, just like him, waiting for that final moment to make their move.

In that fleeting moment, it all came down to one’s resolve to obtain the skill book.

Bidding at the last second carried the biggest risk, if someone else did the same and bid higher, there would be no chance to recover.

In such a bidding war, those who worried about losing money rarely won.

Only those with strong determination and ruthless bids would have the last laugh.

Luo Ji was calculating his bid in his mind.

Two million?

Not enough, definitely not enough!

Two million might exceed the value of a silver-tier item, but in this auction, it would definitely be instantly outbid at the last second.

After all, an item’s value wasn’t simply determined by its tier, but by how many people wanted it and how many people needed it!

For a civilization, the importance of medical development was undeniable.

Many people needed this skill book, which was why its owner dared to put it up for auction here.

Otherwise, try putting another silver-tier item up for auction and see if anyone would even bother with it.

Time ticked by, and soon only one minute remained.

In the previous twenty minutes, the price had changed slightly a few more times, rising to 1.67 million.

However, this didn’t cause any fluctuation in Luo Ji’s emotions.

Everyone knew that players who had bid before this point were essentially out of the competition.

Those who weren’t out were just about to make their move.

In the final thirty second countdown, Luo Ji unhurriedly opened the bidding window and began to enter his bid.

Then, in the instant before the last second hit zero, he quickly and decisively placed his bid.

3.5 million!

As he made his move, his eyes were fixed on the changes in the auction page.

The moment the result appeared, his heart suddenly twitched twice!

The highest bid was 3.7 million!

“Damn it!”

Luo Ji, his emotions in turmoil, slammed his fist on the floor of his tent.

3.5 million, that was his limit, and it was already a ruthless number.

Any higher, and his tribe’s development would be in jeopardy.

However, the facts proved there was someone even more ruthless than him.

With a ‘thud,’ he collapsed onto the animal hide rug in his tent.

He couldn’t help but question his luck.

“Am I entering a period of bad luck?”

He quickly took two deep breaths to compose himself, then sat back up.

He searched to see if any other silver-tier medical skill books had been listed recently, but found nothing.

There was no other way, he had to compromise and look at the Bronze-tier medical skill books.

There was quite a variety of medical skill books.

Aside from ‘Disease Research,’ Luo Ji also saw ‘Illness Diagnosis,’ ‘Wound Treatment,’ ‘Pharmacy,’ ‘Emergency Aid,’ ‘Herbal Identification,’ and more.

The prices varied, naturally.

In any case, Luo Ji decisively bought a bronze-tier ‘Disease Research’ skill book first.

Who knew if those who failed to bid on the Silver-tier skill book would, like him, come sweeping up the Bronze-tier ones?

[Disease Research (Bronze-tier): When facing known disease symptoms, research speed for that disease increases by 20%, and the chance of researching a cure increases by 15%]

The effect was half as good, but there was nothing he could do.

He couldn’t buy silver-tier or gold-tier ones, and his civilization’s medical development still needed to progress, didn’t it?

Perhaps because bronze-tier skill books had a higher drop rate, their prices were much cheaper than Silver-tier ones.

Even the relatively expensive ‘Disease Research’ skill at the same tier was only 540,000 civilization points.

And so, Luo Ji started buying without hesitation.

If quality wasn’t an option, he would make up for it with quantity.

In the blink of an eye, over two million civilization points were spent.

When he came back to his senses, Luo Ji was on the verge of tears.

He had thought he was somewhat wealthy, but now he realized that four million civilization points didn’t last at all!

It wasn’t that the big shots were too rich, it was that these newcomers were too poor!

Thinking about it, how rich would the big shots who had been developing in the alternate world for at least several centuries be?

Did that even need to be guessed?

After buying the skill books, Luo Ji opened his backpack to confirm.

There was no need to delay.

He immediately went to the Medical Department.

The members working in the Medical Department had no loyalty issues, and their intelligence caps had all reached 3 stars.

He directly gave each of them a bronze-tier medical skill book.

Those responsible for medical research were covered, as were those for diagnosing illnesses, identifying herbs, treating wounds, and making medicine.

Although the entire Medical Department didn’t have one particularly outstanding talent, it was at least well-equipped, which gave Luo Ji a strange sense of relief.

After leaving the Medical Department, Luo Ji didn’t forget to go and teach the children in the tribe.

However, starting today, he had a large group of people from the Armament Department among his students.

And it proved that as long as learning to read and write was linked to weapons and equipment, Little Fox’s enthusiasm for learning would reach unprecedented heights.

If you couldn’t learn these characters, you couldn’t understand blueprints.

If you couldn’t understand blueprints, you couldn’t make the weapons and equipment on them.

Once this cause-and-effect relationship was established, that 5 star intelligence cap was truly no exaggeration, her learning ability was astonishingly strong.

The characters Luo Ji taught today, Little Fox memorized perfectly in one go.

Afterwards, to quickly understand the characters on the blueprints, she even pestered Luo Ji for extra lessons after class.

While teaching such a student was very easy, it gave him no sense of accomplishment at all!