I was extremely exhausted. I took out the steel bed and was about to lie down when suddenly I remembered that I still had an ability. That was the "tent-building method" I had acquired after becoming the chief of the Kazha tribe.
I gathered my strength and built a tent for myself, then went to sleep.
Ten minutes later, I was completely recovered. Just then, Zhao Xue'er called me, so I went out to listen to the music.
When I returned to reality, I realized that my hearing hadn't decreased significantly and I wasn't very tired. It seemed that using the "Green Sea" in the game didn't cost me any life essence. Was I wrong?
An hour later, I returned to the game and saw several wild beasts attacking my tent. I observed it for a long time and found that the tent was surprisingly sturdy. These 18-level monsters didn't cause serious damage to it for over ten minutes.
After killing the monsters, I began to think about the effect of the tent. It wasn't much worse than the residential buildings, but it had the advantage of being able to be built anywhere. So, I could build some tents in areas where the monster levels were low to sell blood medicine and food, provide accommodation, and repair equipment!
I immediately set to work, finding a safe location to build the tent beside several training grounds far from the village. Then I called the vendor to help me find some NPC vendors who were also frustrated in various villages, and asked them to help me take care of the business. I also hired some mid-level profession NPCs from the city at a low price. These people, although their crafting and sewing skills were poor, were still capable of doing simple tasks like repairing equipment without any problems.
These "tent stores" actually didn't have the function of a store. They were just like a simple residence + professional NPC. The tent's function for NPCs was to store a considerable amount of goods.
These tents were very popular among the players of Friendship Town. This greatly reduced the time they needed to return to the village for maintenance and significantly improved their training speed. At the same time, since there were strict subordinates like Jean in Friendship Town, no one would greedily attack NPCs and destroy the tents.
After the news spread, many players from other villages moved to Friendship Town. This was the attraction created by the improved hardware facilities.
In the future, many creative people also tried to make tents themselves. Of course, they did manage to make them, but unfortunately, they didn't have the corresponding manual, the quality of the tents was too poor to restore the fatigue of the players, and they would be destroyed by even a little wind. The most terrifying thing was that any player, NPC, or monster could open the door curtain and directly enter the tent, taking whatever they wanted...
The delivery strategy also achieved great success. Players and NPCs named after Julie came in more and more. Unfortunately, there couldn't be a high-level restaurant built in the town, and the seating couldn't be expanded. People waiting for meals lined up outside the door every day.
There was no choice but to raise the price. The specifications of the mid-level restaurants were limited, and the highest price for food could only be 1 gold coin per portion. These 1 gold coin portions of dishes could be sold thousands of times a day!
While I was excitedly counting the money, the day of the lottery draw also arrived.
Early in the morning, Friendship Town welcomed thousands of players from all over the place!
I and Baxter stood on the temporary elevated platform, looking at the sea of people, and couldn't help but feel extremely excited, making us all a little dizzy.
We brought out the large dice machine and first introduced several special guests.
The first one was the "Notary" sent by the mayor of Sunset City. The second was "Love Deep", the inventor of the dice machine. This American, although looking rather dull, was actually a very famous inventor in the Western Regions and even the entire continent. The third one was "Tianji Zi", a player who often posted excellent posts on various forums and was already well-known during the internal and external testing. This guy chose the most agile assassin profession. He rarely leveled up and didn't do much in life skills, but he loved to collect information and gossip in the game and would take screenshots wherever there was excitement. He was also quite well-known on the forum and was specially invited for this purpose.
With these three people present, the fairness of this lottery draw is beyond doubt, and the players present have become even more excited.
Next, the rules and prizes of this lottery draw will be announced.
The dice machine has twelve compartments, and each compartment contains twelve dice and several prizes. For every 10 silver coins a player invests, they can turn the handle on the dice machine once. When the dice rotate and stop, the point value determines the prize the player can receive, and the prizes will automatically drop out.
The top prize: If you roll a score above 55, you can obtain a silver-level equipment (market price 200 silver coins).
The fourth prize: If you roll a score above 60, you can obtain a gold-level equipment (market price 1 gold coin).
The third prize: If you roll a score above 65, you can obtain a platinum-level equipment (market price 6 gold coins).
The second prize: If you roll a score of 70, you can obtain a rare-level equipment (market price 50 gold coins).
The first prize: If you roll a score of 71 or if you roll twelve 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 points, you can obtain a jade-level equipment (market price 500 gold coins).
The special prize: If you roll a score of 72, you will receive a growth-type or star-level equipment (price impossible to estimate).
The value of the equipment has dropped significantly compared to the beginning of the game. In this price, silver and gold equipment are the purchase prices of the system store, while platinum and above are the most conservative market transaction prices among players.
Speaking of which, this game adopts floating prices, which has forced many players to specially study financial knowledge.
As soon as the rules were announced, more than 2,000 players, nearly half of them, gathered in front of the seventh compartment of the dice machine to form a terrifying long queue. Here is where I placed my Fire God's Eye.
Among the remaining eleven compartments, the highest prizes are all star-level. Although there are currently few people in the entire continent who have sold them, because they require level 80 to equip, players are not particularly enthusiastic about them.
After learning that the items in this lottery draw include star-level ones, some large groups and young lords sent people to negotiate, wanting to buy our equipment because the high-level NPCs they hired usually have poor equipment, so they need to purchase.
These people offered very high prices, and we were really tempted, but we explained to them that we need these prizes to attract players. After the lottery draw is over, we can discuss it then. At that time, there are still monthly-level equipment to negotiate.
At 10 o'clock, the lottery draw officially began.
Each player can roll up to 10 times and must give way to the next in line, requeueing at the end of the queue. Each person can finish in about one minute. However, for the long queue of hundreds of people, those at the tail of the queue have to wait for several hours.
Fortunately, we were well-prepared and distributed number plates. Players know which compartment and position they belong to by being called, and those who are still in the queue can go around and explore.
However, there are still many players surrounding the dice machine, their eyes wide open, watching others draw the lottery, and some even riding on mounts or friends' backs and staring directly at the dice. Even bored players who came to our restaurant to eat Julie's food didn't have a trace of reluctance and ran to the dice machine to wait.
Less than half an hour of the lottery draw, everyone emerged. Some players began to sell the number plates in their hands for 1 gold coin each. Some shouted loudly: "Ten of us brothers are specifically helping people queue for the number plates. Interested parties please pay 5 gold coins!" It can be seen that these are newcomers, with few ways to make money, yet they came here to be "scalpers".
Even more astonishing is that many people began to set up stalls in our town, with various special equipment, rare items, mutated equipment, platinum to jade-level equipment, advanced materials, profession books, special medicines, items created by alchemy, and self-created items... There were also several people who seemed to be shopkeepers, but somehow they left their businesses and came to us to make money. Besides selling their own works, they even took advantage of the shopkeepers' ability to hire NPCs, and hired some acrobatic and dancing NPCs to perform in our place and charge for the shows. The business acumen of these people made Baxter Stomping one's feet repeatedly, wishing he had thought of it himself.
Our small theater was also eagerly rented by many players with performing skills. There were quite a few who were already experts. It seemed that there were all kinds of talents in the game.
Seeing the hustle and bustle below, I couldn't sit still anymore. I handed the task to Baxter and went down to see what good things others were selling.
Now I was a wealthy man with 5,000 gold coins. Whenever I saw something I liked and that I could use, I would buy it without bargaining. I really found several good books and some strange things. Like the "Aggregating Energy Potion" that warriors had been longing for, it had now risen to 10 gold coins, and it was very hard to come by. I managed to snatch two of them by sheer effort, planning to give them to the Tiger King in the future.
There was a player who, with a few friends, maintained order and set up a "ring toss" area. Only support profession players were allowed to participate (they couldn't aim accurately), and one ring cost 10 silver coins.
I played along by wearing a novice costume and then cast a healing spell at the person selling the rings to prove that I was an un-revoked priest. I bought several rings and took away several pieces of platinum equipment from the ring area. Only that one rare equipment seemed to have a protective shield, and the ring bounced back, being a despicable act.
That player quickly pulled me aside with a sad face and gave me 10 gold coins to let me off the hook. Haha, great. I wasn't going to trouble him. Everyone's life is tough, you know?
After walking around and returning to the stage, I saw that Baxter's face was all smiles. When I asked, the dice machine had received 70 gold coins in an hour, but only two gold items and a few silver items were shaken away. It was a huge profit.
I smiled and told him, "Due to the high transaction volume in the town, the tax revenue from players, their consumption in our shop, and the road fees brought by more players, we have earned over 300 gold coins!"
Tianjishizi seized the opportunity and took several screenshots of our faces. I and Baxter immediately sat up straight, making a composed and restrained smile expression. We couldn't let the players on the world forum see our smug faces tomorrow!
Just then, from the dice machine direction, a "ding" sound was heard, followed by Honey's distorted announcement: "The fifth prize item of the special event: 'Chasing Shadows Boots' has been won by player 'Gittel'!"
Both I and Baxter's bodies shook at the same time, looking at each other. After a while, we came to our senses, smiling bitterly and comforting each other: "Nothing, nothing. It's just a star-level item. We still have more." "Ah, this is really strange. Just in the first hour, someone won the special prize. But it's just right. It can stimulate the enthusiasm of other players." ...
However, less than ten minutes later, Benajah's voice broke into tears again: "The ninth grand prize item: 'Flight Cloak' has been won by player 'Gittel'!"
Both I and Baxter jumped up at the same time: "What? It's the same person again, and only ten minutes apart, it's the grand prize again!"
At this moment, the audience had erupted, and all the players were in an uproar. Some shouted "It's a fake!" while others shouted: "Now the dealer is having bad luck! Everyone, hurry up and shake!"
The eyes of almost everyone were focused on the super lucky player named "Gittel". Eventually, all the eyes were fixed on a tall, thin player wearing a black robe, wearing sunglasses, and having a small beard.
"Gittel, the Assassin has transformed into 'Shadow Assassin', unknown level, other information unknown."
Looking at his equipment, it seemed unremarkable, but as an Assassin, he has hidden skills, and he can hide his equipment and various information, so it's impossible to guess his level.
Everyone watched as this black-robed person walked up to the seventh level, facing the players in front of him and slowly saying: "10 gold coins, buy a license plate, who will sell!"
After a moment of confusion, a player shouted: "100 gold coins, buy it!"
"I only want 90!" "I'll take 80!" ... "10 gold coins, sell to you!"
I and Baxter clenched our fists tightly, just like all the other players in the room, staring fixedly at the slowly raised hand of the man in the black robe.
10 silver coins were inserted into the slot, the dice rolled, and finally stopped. Ten sixes, one three, one two, 65 points, a gold-level equipment. However, the entire room simultaneously let out an exclamation.
The second coin insertion, our gazes all fell on the hand he extended towards the handle.
We saw that this "Gittel" slowly closed his eyes, his slender and clean hand placed on the handle, suddenly creating a blur of illusions at an imperceptible speed!
Only I, with my mind merging with the technique, saw this illusion!
The dice rolled, one stopped, six! The second one stopped, six! ... The twelfth one, it's six again!
For a long time, the entire scene remained silent. Next to the seventh grid, Louison's calm voice rang out: "The grand prize for the seventh grid: the growth-type equipment 'Eye of the Fire God', was won by the player 'Gittel'!"