Chapter 5
Ye Xu felt that the cat meat was related to the task, but he should not have met the trigger conditions. But he was not in a hurry, he asked about the location of his little granddaughter and left. He planned to finish the task at hand and try again.
The proprietress really knew where the little granddaughter was, and pointed him to a few places where girls usually like to stay. Before leaving, she told Ye Xu with a smile: “The blacksmith in the east of the village is a very powerful person. If you have any difficulties, you can try to ask him for help. He is a warmhearted man.”
Ye Xu had reservations about this, and he could only believe half of the NPC’s words—especially after seeing the player who came to buy the red potion and listened to the proprietress’s words, he secretly rolled his eyes.
Obviously, Mr. Blacksmith is not an enthusiastic person, but he should be really powerful.
The player who bought the potion was afraid that Ye Xu would believe the nonsense of the boss, so he quickly finished shopping and dragged Ye Xu away, lowering his voice to remind him: “Don’t trust her! I was just tricked by a blacksmith! On his side It costs 1 gold coin to learn to forge, it’s like stealing money! And the equipment over there is also very expensive, so fools go there to buy things!”
Ye Xu grasped the point: “Can you learn forging over there? Thank you, I see.”
The player snorted and couldn’t believe it: “Aren’t you? 1 gold, are you going to learn? If I remember correctly, the game currency exchange hasn’t been opened yet?”
The krypton gold function is currently closed, so even local tyrants can’t spend money to buy gold, they can only trade offline. That player’s eyes on Ye Xu were wrong. He didn’t expect to catch a rich man just by helping him.
Ye Xu: “…No, I asked for it for a friend.”
Forging such life occupation skills, all major gangs must pay special attention. Whether you can afford it or not, at least you need to know where to learn. Ye Xu intends to mention this to the life player, although he is not sure whether the other party already knows about it.
After hearing this, the player sighed in disappointment, said goodbye to Ye Xu and left. Damn, Bai was happy, and thought he could get a gift from the local tyrant’s father.
Ye Xu blinked at his back.
Blacksmithing is one of the seven major life occupations, which can make equipment and accessories. However, the forgers in the early stage were basically only able to make junk equipment and could not sell it at all, so the investment cost was relatively large, and the return on capital was very slow.
He doesn’t plan to learn blacksmithing himself, but he really wants to learn gathering. Gathering is a life skill that integrates medicine, mining, cooking, etc. It is very practical, and it is different from other life skills and is compatible.
The life occupation of “Lingyuan” is a 6+1 mode, that is, collection plus six other occupations. Those six occupations do not need to collect and provide corresponding raw materials to make finished products, otherwise they have to find NPCs to buy them at a more expensive price, so the official recommends players to learn collecting and another life skill at the same time.
There is no threshold for collection, everyone can learn. As for the other six kinds of life, if you want to learn, you must pass the assessment issued by the professional tutor, and you can only choose one to learn.
Ye Xuxue’s collection is not to reduce the cost of his second life occupation, the main reason is that there are too many kinds of materials in the wild. If you see it when leveling or passing by, you can pick it up. If you haven’t learned to collect, and you can’t collect it when you encounter it, it will be very uncomfortable.
Since the uncle of the blacksmith can cast, there is a high probability that he will also collect it. You can try your luck and see if you can learn the Gathering Technique from the other party. It stands to reason that the price of learning the Gathering Technique from anyone should be much cheaper.
Let’s take a look after handing in the task, Ye Xu added this to his memo. He found that his plans were quite full. This game was a bit interesting. He found so many things to do when he started the server.
“Oh my dear little leaves, are you back?” Aunt Deli gave Ye Xu a very happy hug after seeing Ye Xu, and then said in an exaggerated tone, “I knew that the dead ghost in my family would like you too. Cute little one! Come on, let me give you a little reward.”
Ye Xu suspects that he is not lucky, but has a high charm. To be fair, charisma is what adds to NPC favorability, right? His charm is now 0, and he didn’t add any points to it at all. Why do NPCs still like him so much? Does every account have a hidden charm value?
He remembered that only the mermen had the talent for charm bonuses, but the humans did not. Therefore, there should be no such thing as hidden charm value. It may be that his personality and appearance just fit the preferences of Deli and his wife. The old village chief and the proprietress were not so friendly to him.
[Congratulations to the player for completing the white task “Help Sean return the lunch box”, get 50 copper coins, 50% experience of this level, 1 achievement point, item [Deli’s homemade top]. 】
Out of equipment.
It is level 2 white equipment with +3 defense, which is better than novice clothes. Although there was no additional effect, Ye Xu put it on immediately. With the addition of the 1 point defense of the novice pants and the 15 point defense of the blue shoes, he is now an iron plate with a defense close to 20 points.
After gaining another half-level experience, Ye Xu directly rose to level 2, and again added the newly acquired 10 attribute points to his strength, and now his attack has changed from 8 to 15. However, this time the achievement point is only given 1 point, it seems that 1 point is the normal reward range.
Saying goodbye to Aunt Deli, Ye Xu looked at the direction and walked to the locations mentioned by the lady boss. The nearest is the big locust tree, where it is said that the little granddaughter of the village chief often plays there.
The high luck value is not just for fun. As soon as Ye Xu walked to the edge of the locust tree, he saw a little girl jumping over and playing with something in her hand. Seeing Ye Xu looking at herself, she smiled shyly, and her face with small freckles was very cute.
As a Western fantasy game, the characters here are naturally mostly Western-looking. Ye Xu is a little bit blind to Westerners, but the NPCs in the game seem to have been specially adjusted, and they are more inclined to have a mixed-race appearance, so most of them are very good-looking and are much more recognizable than ordinary Westerners.
The name on the little girl’s head happened to be the name of the village chief’s granddaughter that Ye Xu had inquired about from the proprietress. If there was no such thing as the same name, then this was his mission goal.
Ye Xu walked over, knelt down and asked, “Are you the little granddaughter of the village chief?”
The girl nodded and looked at him curiously: “Big brother, did Grandpa ask you to come to me?”
“Yeah.” Ye Xu took out the two packets of candy, “This is what the village chief grandpa bought for you.”
“There are actually two packs!” The girl cheered in surprise, took the candy and smiled sweetly at Ye Xu, “Thank you big brother! This is my favorite candy!”
The system prompt sounded at the same time: [Congratulations to the player for completing the white task “Buy Candy”, obtaining 50 copper coins, 25% of this level experience, and 1 achievement point. 】
Ye Xu glanced at the task list, the task of buying candy was no different from the previous two, both were level 1 white tasks. Logically speaking, the experience value rewards given by tasks of the same level should be the same, so that means that 50% of the experience of level 1 is equivalent to 25% of the experience of level 2, and the experience value of level 2 to level 3 is the same as that of level 1 to level 2. Double.
If the latter is doubled in this way, the upgrade speed is estimated to be very slow. You must continue to take tasks of the same level, or brush monsters of the same level, otherwise the experience points you get will not be enough.
In addition, there is no reward item this time, it seems that the probability of triggering the item reward is not high.
He just finished thinking about it, but saw the little girl carefully put away the rest after eating a candy, and then took something out of her pocket and handed it to him: “Generous big brother, this is what I was just at the entrance of the village. The little beads I picked up are very beautiful, and I’ll give them to you!”
[You have obtained an additional reward: [Carved wooden beads]. 】
Ye Xu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that this should be the reward for giving him an extra packet of candy. He had just seen this bead, and it was something the other party was playing with when he ran over.
He curiously took the wooden beads to check the attributes, and found that it was a special accessory. Not to mention 5 copper coins to buy candy, this thing is a good thing that 5 silver coins can’t buy at this stage.
carved wooden beads
Grade: white
Effect: After wearing, the hatred value is reduced by 5%
Each player has 5 special accessory slots where they can wear some wacky accessories, including badges. This is different from jewelry such as necklaces and rings. Jewelry is a type of equipment. Some sets include jewelry, and accessories are additional items that are icing on the cake.
The reduction of hatred is a very important effect for occupations with high damage output, and the probability of OT can be greatly reduced when fighting bosses. Ye Xu wore it without saying a word. Although he was fighting alone at this stage, the effect was actually useless.
After completing the three tasks, Ye Xu felt that he had made a lot of money, but it was a pity that the little girl did not release the tasks again, so he had to work hard to discover new tasks. He planned to go to the blacksmith shop first to see if he could learn the gathering technique. He hoped that the price would not be too expensive. He now has only 5 silver coins in his hand, plus the money he bought at the internal price.
The blacksmith shop is at the east end of the village, and people come and go very lively. You don’t need to ask anyone to know which one is. When Ye Xu approached, he found that there were many level 1 trumpets around, and it seemed that he didn’t plan to go out to upgrade. He should be a professional life player in major guilds.
The cost of learning 1 gold coin is really too expensive. This group of people can’t afford it at all.
Ye Xu squeezed into the blacksmith’s shop and found that there was a player here who looked a little familiar, he should have seen it recently. He thought about it carefully, and then he remembered that the other party was the life player “Gusuli” that Brother Dali recommended to him before.
The player avatars are all half-length photos of himself in the game. Ye Xu glanced at it a few times when he added friends, so he felt familiar. The other party obviously recognized Ye Xu, and shouted with a smile, “Young Master Ye!”
There weren’t many people in the guild who knew Ye Xu, most of them were key members. Gusuli happened to be a highly regarded person in the life players’ team. He had only vaguely heard that the three presidents had a baby brother, but he had never seen them before. However, he was still very happy to have a good relationship with Ye Xu, and he strongly told him that this young master was easy to get along with, maybe he could hug his thighs after getting acquainted.
He squeezed away the people around him and came over: “Is Young Master Ye here to buy something? I’ve looked through the products in the blacksmith shop over and over again. Just tell me what you want, and I’ll recommend it to you. “
“I don’t buy equipment.” Ye Xu smiled friendly, “I’m here to ask about life and career.”
Gusuli immediately told all the information he had inquired: “Here we can only learn to forge and ask for 1 gold coin, but the blacksmith refuses to bargain. Many guild life players are crowded here, but there is no result.”
“Can’t you learn to collect?” Ye Xu asked.