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Chapter 316 - 288 Planting

Chapter 316: Chapter 288 Planting

"Special Effect One: Counterattack Moment can knock the enemy back, and crashing into a wall deals double damage. It’s quite handy for defensive counterattacks."

Li Cheng picked up a long spear from the conveyor belt and twirled it around in his hand. It was quite heavy, not any less hard than a rusty machete.

"As for Special Effect Two, it can clear negative effects over a large area for a long time. This alone makes it a perfect-grade item."

In the killing field, the definition of "negative effects" is quite broad. Gu techniques, curses, poisoning, silence, and hallucinations are considered negative effects.

Bleeding, blinding, and dizziness are also counted.

Even diarrhea, hunger, low sanity value, and mental stress can be included.

When the time comes and you enter a horror movie-type script task, just plant the flag gun in a cemetery/asylum, and no ghost will leave unscathed.

"Various guilds and some shops in the slum offer services to forge equipment and create skill scrolls.

But these services consume extraordinary materials and charge the client quite an expensive fee, only slightly cheaper than purchasing directly in the game mall.

Meanwhile, producing items in the Toy Factory only requires consuming symbolic artifacts or even modern items. The costs are drastically reduced.

Most importantly, it can be customized. By arranging and combining concepts, the special effects of the final product can be controlled.

There’s no worry about the sales."

Li Cheng pondered, "By that time, perfect-grade items costing five to six thousand at cost could be sold for twelve thousand, and the customers would still thank us."

A complete industrial development roadmap quickly formed in his mind.

Acquire artifacts, sell products, recoup funds, open a shop in the slum, expand procurement channels, reinvest in production, collect special points to upgrade the Toy Factory, and achieve a positive cycle.

Leaving the Toy Factory, Li Cheng returned to the three-dimensional warehouse in the real world and discussed with Gray Rain.

Gray Rain, still holding a watermelon, asked in confusion, "Why open a shop in the slum? Can’t we also exchange items in the forum’s black market?"

"Online, small-scale acquisition of artifacts is fine. But for large-scale offline procurement, we need a temporary warehouse and an office location."

Li Cheng said, "Moreover, there are only so many artifacts rich in entropy value in the real world. Many things can’t be bought with money or require a lot of money to obtain, which is not cost-effective.

Opening a shop in the slum allows us to purchase special items in large quantities from other players who got them from the script world."

The Toy Factory accepts all, not necessarily requiring artifacts from the real Earth; script world artifacts work too.

In the script world, players are like wild dogs off the leash. As long as you pay enough, they can get anything.

Zheng He’s treasure ship, a moon rocket, the Declaration of Independence, the Beijing Peking Man skull, a living Abe Shinzo...

Uh, a living Abe is a bit of a hell joke, though the Toy Factory’s refining room really doesn’t specify "must be a dead thing."

"Some script worlds are set in near-future backgrounds, which means that ordinary items from the current era can be considered important artifacts in the future.

Like water purifiers in the wasteland world or root servers in the cyberpunk world.

This greatly expands the options."

Lacking a specific plan, Li Cheng casually said, "We’ll just seize the precious opportunity the era of the killing field gives to light-asset individuals, deeply integrate internal resources, align customer granularity, focus on verticals, unblock underlying logic, achieve a closed-loop matrix, benchmark major guilds, and incubate business IP..."

This internet company lingo nearly burned out Gray Rain’s CPU again. She hurriedly opened her tablet and called up the AI robot program, understanding only after translation.

In short, make money, make money, and damn it, make more money.

"Won’t this attract too much attention?"

Gray Rain asked, "Won’t Gouchen and his brother retaliate? Or we might be making so much money that he gets jealous and exposes that we have a Hidden Room Key, drawing the covetousness of other forces?"

"So, we need to prepare both ways."

Li Cheng nodded. "First, accumulate initial capital, raise the refining room to Level One, and then restart the Toy Factory’s defense system.

Once the defense system is up, we’ll have self-protection capabilities, then anonymously open a shop to reduce exposure risks."

Once the defense system reaches Level Three or Four, we wouldn’t need to fear players above Level 30.

Li Cheng said and immediately took action. Over the next few days, he spent all five thousand game coins in stock, plus over two thousand from selling the Suicide Notebook pages,

totaling seven thousand game coins, on acquiring valuable artifacts in bulk on the forum’s black market and indeed obtained quite a few good things.

Among them, the most significant was a special item fetched by a player from a United States Civil War background script task.

Including the original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation, the handgun that killed the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and the bones of Southern Confederate General Robert Lee.

From these things, seventeen thousand special points were extracted. First, ten thousand were used to upgrade the refining room, increasing subsequent "mining" efficiency,

and the remaining seven thousand were combined with concepts like B-level Civil War, A-level Racism, B-level Plantation, A-level Slavery System, C-level Skin Color, B-level Assassination, C-level Cotton,

to forge a fairly...strange skill scroll.

[Skill Scroll Name: Summoning Skill: Manor Guard]

[Attribute: Consumable (limited to three uses)]

[Type: Spiritual Energy]

[Usage: Active]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: Summon a spirit guard. Summons a projection of a plantation guard, who is immune to all forms of external attacks, follows the summoner’s commands, and whips enemy targets. The whip causes no substantial damage but inflicts massive psychological and soul-level pain. The projection lasts for up to 15 seconds.]

[Consumption: 200 points of spiritual power value]

[Cooldown Time: 7 days]

[Use Conditions: In the ITA° skin color classification, the angle must not be lower than 27°]

[Remark: One hand holds a revolver, the other a whip. In the plantation, I am a god]

[Remark: Get 500 free draws just by hanging around! Even the unluckiest can draw to their heart’s content]

[Remark: Activate the garden rope now!]

Goodness gracious, I exclaimed.

Even though Li Cheng was no longer a newbie in the killing field and had quite some experience, he couldn’t help feeling a mixture of helplessness and amusement upon seeing this skill scroll, and he couldn’t resist commenting.

"An ITA° skin classification angle not lower than 27° just means it’s unusable for those with black skin.

And generally, skill scrolls have one or two remarks at most. Why does this one have three remarks? It seems the killing field just needed an opportunity to crack hellish jokes and had to enjoy it."

Making these remarks, Li Cheng still obediently took the skill scroll from the conveyor belt in the reforging room and tucked it into his backpack.

Anyway, this effect of causing massive soul-level pain to enemies can be decisive at critical moments.