Chapter 761
Chapter 761 - 747: Unexpected Gains
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As the war came to an end, and the time for farewell approached, most members of Lu Ping’an’s team entered a period of resource digestion and rapid growth.
As a core member of the team, Xia Qin received a Divine bone, and Fang Wen and others were helping her forge a good knife... actually, a Wolf Fang Club.
It couldn’t be helped, the characteristics of the Vortex Stone determined that this was a weapon that uses "kinetic energy" to strike. Forcing a blade to be made would result in a soft and fragile material, making it not very effective.
Simple heavy weapons and projectile weapons were more suitable.
Xia Qin also had a single-shot short gun, which she had successfully turned into a polluted weapon, serving as a backup secondary weapon.
On the other hand, Xia Qin was also preparing to advance her abilities. Although she had many prerequisites for her advancement, the most troublesome one was...
"Similar to the Weapon Master’s advancement, do you need at least six weapons? And for better strength, should they be of different types?"
𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
Sword Saint and Weapon Master were professions that were very likely to intersect, with high compatibility and even some overlaps.
As a pure Sword Saint, Xia Qin’s defense had already exceeded standards, and her basic attributes had been accumulated. Now it was time to increase her offensive power... Generally speaking, mid-level Sword Saints/Weapon Masters could demonstrate the strength of this path only after ensuring their survivability.
For some reason, Lu Ping’an thought of that disgusting Fishman Sword Saint, and his report on Xia Qin was...
"Approve, all approved, prioritize resource allocation and let her complete her advancement as soon as possible."
Xia Qin had already decided on her advancement direction, and what was left was to gather materials. The "weapons" she collected would be directly related to her future combat power.
Naturally, making a "club" for her became one of the team’s important tasks in the short term, with a priority level on par with Lu Ping’an’s gloves and boots.
Others were also doing similar things, such as Hua Xueyi ordering a pair of "rocket boots" like Lu Ping’an’s to serve as her airborne tactical reserve.
However, she lacked the ability to control fire, so what she got was a simplified version of the rocket boots, which basically stored gunpowder and provided a simple ground-based "Super Jump" takeoff setting.
At the same time, Hua Xueyi and Meow were both busy. As representatives of the Beast Tamer work team, they were speeding up iterations, hoping to quickly cultivate potential king beasts worthy of being "Magic Pets."
Actually, ordinary Beast Tamers would be satisfied with king beasts, but they were now starting with the Beast King and carefully selecting from among them.
In the end, they were likely to start with three or four king beasts each, which was too extravagant for a low-level Beast Tamer.
By the way, Hua Xueyi was destined to go bankrupt for those king beasts... she already owed the Rebirth Commerce a lot of money just for the training resources, and as a non-core member, she was under a regular business cooperation agreement and a security employment agreement.
In a sense, she got up early and rushed to a late gathering.
No matter how much Lu Ping’an favored her, he couldn’t give her the treatment of a "dividend partner" as a core member. Even the best cooperation and employment terms still required accountability.
As Hua Xueyi was rapidly progressing, she was also accumulating massive debts in various aspects.
As a result, Miss Lululu was working overtime furiously and trying hard to sell magic potions in the store. However, her magic potions were subpar in the mid-to-high-end market and could only be mass-produced for low-level magic potion dumping. Low-level products were the most competitive... it seemed that clearing her debts in the short term was not going to happen.
Meow? Well, it was hard to say how much she owed, so...
"Don’t look, just tally it up, meow!"
Meow knew better than to bother; as she had lost track of how much she owed, there was no need to look... In fact, since Lu Ping’an had already covered everything, there was really no need to check.
Meow had always been prioritized in terms of resources and growth opportunities. However, as a result, her work was sometimes the hardest and most dangerous.
As one of the earliest core members, she actually had a share of original shares. As the Chamber of Commerce continued to grow, if one were to calculate her assets, she might still have a positive balance.
But since she didn’t bother to check, it was left as it was, and no one informed her that the Chamber of Commerce had her money.
"If I truly gave her the money and resources, she’d either waste them or buy flashy and useless junk, and she might even be cheated out of her original shares. It’s better to leave things as they are, fostering her all-inclusive growth as the chosen working partner, and just assign her whatever tasks I have planned." That was Lu Ping’an’s exact words, and they were unanimously approved by other core members.
As the battlefield entered a "peaceful period," every member of the team seized this time to improve themselves. Due to the unique nature of this world, the "take home" mode of the Silent Mountain Range was not very realistic, and resources would have to be consumed on the spot.
Brother Guan and the others were doing the same, although most of the time they were not in front of Lu Ping’an, so he didn’t pay much attention to them.
However, he heard that they were also about to reach the fourth-tier... It wasn’t just Lu Ping’an who had eaten well in this wave.
The only puzzling thing was that although Guan Xinxian’s development could be attributed to his accumulation and subsequent rapid progress, that super jinx actually also claimed he was about to advance...
"This time, it seems that I’ve screwed over too many and too powerful ones, my talents can’t be suppressed anymore...."
Well, at this moment, that unfortunate panda-man revealed that his inherited profession would also strengthen as his "misfortune" intensified.
That is, the more people he screwed over, the stronger his talent became, and the stronger the profession controlling his talent... but at the cost of even stronger misfortune next time.
In a sense, in order to keep everyone alive, he too paid a heavy price... This did not stop others from staying even further away from him.
Everyone in the team, whether advancing in their profession or forging equipment, was working hard to turn everything in front of them into tangible resources.
Ping’an still had "Ah Jiu," the BUG product, which could refine a certain amount of "Bone Powder Dissolving Solution." So far, its effect was indeed not as good as that of the real divine bones, but it was much better and more convenient to process than Vortex Stones.
Basically, each core member and backbone got a "bone" weapon or equipment, but whether to weaponize it through contamination or to pay more to make it into taboo items depended on personal choices... The currently known methods of turning them into taboo items not only required a huge price to be paid, but also a permanent "loss" to the holder.
Due to the scarcity of bone powder, it was already at its limit to supply it to every backbone member.
So far, only Xia Qin and Hua Xueyi had made up their minds, one for weapons and one for boots.
However, Fang Wen’s workshop and factory production lines never stopped... Ping’an was seriously considering recruiting two more craftsmen. This one had reached her limit.
But the resulting benefits were also delightful.
Ping’an took out several "bone powder defective products" and instantly made Rebirth Commerce famous in the high-end market.
At this time, the importance of carrying logistics and R&D teams with you was reflected. Other teams also exchanged information and technology with Ping’an’s side, but the results mostly showed Rebirth Commerce to be more advantageous.
The reason? They had technology, but Ping’an’s side not only had technology, but also the industries to turn the technology into products.
Although their handmade products were high-end, they could only meet the needs of a small number of high-level professionals. On Ping’an’s side, the tools... Master Fang, with just one attempt, could easily produce low-end degraded products and then market them.
The other teams had no objection. Their logistics output couldn’t even take care of their own people, let alone have the time to make money.
Even the phenomenon of other technical teams seeking Ping’an’s side for processing services often occurred... As a Secret Keeper and professional, it doesn’t matter how it is achieved, as long as it can be done.
In the process of exchanging technology, many craftsmen also gained a lot.
After all, with such limited time, it was too difficult for them to solve the problem on their own. Most of the existing mature technologies were still the legacy of the Aus people, and their research bases scattered throughout countless regions made collecting technology difficult.
For these technologies, most of the craftsmen from other teams did not hoard them. On one hand, it was because they were all in the same boat, and on the other hand, localizing these technologies would be a major issue after taking them back home.
Instead of each holding onto fragments, it was better to first gather a complete technical outline, which would also facilitate subsequent localization research.
If anyone really managed to research something, it would benefit everyone.
Fang Wen’s technology was also updated every day, and Ping’an’s custom "gloves" and "boots" had several prototypes...
"No, to be honest, it’s not as good as the one I used before."
Ping’an was somewhat helpless. The production of "bone powder" was too small, and each fight for food (milk) from Ah Jiu was a difficult battle... Ping’an was also worried that taking too much would affect Ah Jiu’s growth, and now the products were even worse than the ones made with solid materials.
"...It’s not just the limits of the material, but also the limits of technology."
And Fang Wen gave him a straightforward blow, pointing out that the current technology had reached its threshold.
Ping’an’s demands as a client were too ridiculous. Fang Wen was sure she couldn’t make it happen.
More accurately, the current technology reserve could not meet the standards, and it was unlikely that there would be a technical breakthrough in the short term, relying solely on their own resources.
This result was, of course, unacceptable, as it would be one of Ping’an’s future tactical cores.
So Ping’an took the initiative to look for other teams to exchange technology. Yet, the result was somewhat delicate. Most teams’ technologies were not as comprehensive as their own. While they occasionally had good luck and gained some unorganized technical fragments, their usefulness was quite limited.
However, in the exchange of intelligence, he accidentally received a piece of information that might be very useful.
"The director of Hod Company’s Research Department, that Koya, has been found?"
— End of Chapter 761 —