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Chapter 378 - 347 Wool

Chapter 378: Chapter 347 Wool

The management committee of the slum is quite extortionate, but their efficiency is indeed high.

Li Cheng paid the money, selected the construction blueprints, and signed the contract at the self-service machine in the afternoon. By the evening, the committee sent a message stating that the building crew had already completed the 200-square-meter house.

When Li Cheng and Gray Rain arrived at the site, they found a two-story building standing on the vacant land, tiled on the outside and equipped with street lights,

the interior was also finely decorated, with water, electricity, gas, and internet all available.

"Wow, this efficiency is too high!"

Gray Rain walked into the house in shock, touching here and there, then she found that despite her strength, she couldn’t pierce the walls, "What kind of materials are used for this?"

Li Cheng glanced at the inspection certificate on the door and casually said, "C200 concrete mixed with steel fibers, and lead plates are added inside."

Ordinary single-story buildings commonly use C20, C25 reinforced concrete, while high-rise buildings use C30-C60. Even a cross-sea bridge uses C80.

Using C200 steel fiber cement is probably considering that the slum forbids players from harming each other, without prohibiting the use of skills.

Using higher-strength building materials prevents the house from being shattered by a player’s punch while passing by.

After all, compared to the land price of billions, the cost of concrete is indeed very cheap.

Li Cheng signed the receipt, which immediately turned into flying ashes, leaving behind a business card from the construction crew.

[Blue Sky Construction Crew, our members possess abilities such as telekinesis, Magnetic Man mutant blood serum, steel demon fruit, Wood Escape bloodline limit, undead summoning technique, etc., and can undertake projects such as high-rise buildings, subway tunnels, gravity dams, Yin houses, nuclear power stations, etc.]

[Professional Team · Precise Construction · Transparent Quotations]

[If interested, please call 135********, or add "Civil Engineering God of War" in the players’ search bar as a friend]

Uh...

Li Cheng looked at the business card with a strange expression.

In a way, Transcendents doing civil engineering work is quite lucrative, the efficiency of moving bricks with their body, hardened by long training, far exceeds engineering machinery, one person can rival an engineering crew, they can also use various skills to shorten the construction period.

He put down the business card casually, pulled down the roller shutter, and summoned the three-dimensional warehouse, starting to arrange the shop interior.

Actually, there wasn’t much to arrange; according to Li Cheng’s plan, the shop just needed a dozen rows of shelves to sell various items and skill scrolls,

and to put up a sign to purchase historically significant artifacts.

For example, the bullet that killed Lincoln, the crooked old tree that hanged Chongzhen, the computer hard disk Bin Laden collected filled with "Detective Conan"—yes, Bin Laden really had this stuff on his computer.

Just not sure whether he was a Conan fan or an Ai fan.

"The Toy Factory isn’t picky; whether it’s artifacts from real Earth or from script worlds, it can absorb them. Once the factory upgrades to Level One, and the reforging room to Second Level, the production line efficiency will be even higher..."

Li Cheng muttered, taking out shelves, counters, monitors, routers, and the most important [Hands-Free Shopkeeper Terminal] from the three-dimensional warehouse.

This thing is a product of Prometheus, about the equivalent of an upgraded version of unmanned supermarkets. Besides self-checkout, customers can also leave messages to the shopkeeper and pre-order through the terminal.

"Woohoo~"

Gray Rain changed into roller skates, gliding back and forth in the empty room, occasionally helping Li Cheng with the decor, suddenly thinking of something, and asked doubtfully, "By the way, what’s the name of our shop?"

Li Cheng replied without thinking, "Convenience Store."

"Huh? That’s too casual, right?"

"Just make do with it. Anyway, we have exclusive supply abilities for customizable items and skill scrolls, so we won’t worry about business."

Li Cheng replied casually, stepping on a ladder to install surveillance cameras on the ceiling.

He never had much talent for naming things, and the slum, though relatively small, is prominent enough that if the shop’s business is strong, related posts will quickly make it to the top of player forums.

"No way, even good wine fears a bad market location."

Gray Rain shook her head like a rattle, "Let’s choose a proper, awe-inspiring name. That way, when I go shopping for e-cigarettes without money and face dozens of contemptuous, snobbish clerks, I can loudly declare I’m the owner of some major chain store."

"What kind of e-cigarette store can hire dozens of clerks, Dingzhen Flagship Store, right?"

Li Cheng muttered as he tightened the screws on the surveillance camera, "So, what’s your suggestion for the name."

"Hmm..."

Gray Rain squinted, pondering, "The Toy Factory can extract concepts from artifacts of different eras, combine and create equipment and scrolls. Why not call it [Assemble Device]?"

Li Cheng rolled his eyes, "Why don’t you just call it [Hungry]?"

Gray Rain rubbed her chin and seriously suggested, "Forging Secret Treasure, Emperor’s Army, let’s just call it [Secret Blood Soldier City]."

Li Cheng sighed, "If you want milk tea, just say so. You can still use today’s coupon for your order."

Gray Rain slapped her palm, suddenly enlightened, "Our shop number on this street is ⑧, how about calling it [No.8 Pawnshop]?"

Li Cheng exclaimed in surprise,"work out, you even watched such old Taiwanese dramas, how many hours a day do you spend watching drama and TikTok?"

"Not really," Gray Rain stuck out her tongue, "Just ninety-six hours a day on my phone."

Ever since Li Cheng used Assembled Puppet·Modified to install a CPU and solid-state drive for Gray Rain, her brain capacity expanded considerably,

whether there’s something to do or not, she’d split into several avatars, simultaneously playing games, watching dramas, listening to novels, reading comics, doing homework, trying to squeeze 168 hours from a day for fun.

The only downside is that too much information influx would cause slight memory confusion and errors.

Like writing in her language essay, "I really like a phrase by Emperor Liu Bei of the Han, ’In this line of work, loyalty is paramount.’"

The two chatted idly,

after eliminating names like [Huaxiang North], [Pangdonglai], [Bitter Here Bitter There], [Jesus doesn’t want to see it, cover your eyes with your hands, but there’s a hole in your hands], [Mamba BBQ] (Shenyang really has this store), [Emperor’s Illusion], [Mickey’s House of Woes],

they finally chose a relatively proper name, [Star-casting Anvil].

"It’s done now."

Li Cheng clapped his hands, hanging the sign under the eaves, and setting up a board at the entrance, listing the item prices.

Customized Rare Level equipment/skill scroll, 800-1200 Game Coins. Production time of three days.

Fine Level, 2300-3500 Game Coins. Production time of five to seven days.

Perfect Level, price negotiable, production time uncertain. Preferably bring artifacts with the same concept as the desired item.

As for medical services and body modifications, starting at 800 Game Coins.

After setting all this up, he went to the homepage interface of the player forum, spent twenty Game Coins to buy an advertisement slot, and marked the shop information.

"Hmm..."

Gray Rain’s eyes rolled, activating her clever little brain, she questioned, "If we also post the artifact acquisition requirements, will it reveal the Toy Factory’s operational mechanism?

Make those big guilds realize that we use artifacts to forge items?"

"It will, but it’s okay."

Li Cheng said casually, "Once business expands, it will inevitably attract competitors, corporate spies, information brokers, and headhunters’ attention. Large-scale acquisition of artifacts can’t be hidden for long.

And the factory itself is located far away, with the physical distance from the slum measuring in astronomical units. Even if they figure out the operational mechanism, they can’t rob it smoothly."

The logistics departments of those big guilds still need to use Extraordinary Materials like Dragon Blood Phoenix Feather to forge items, while the Toy Factory directly uses Mortal World artifacts, only considering historical impacts, not value preference.

Compared to the former, it’s a virtually cost-free business—ordinary players often find it hard to sell artifacts brought from script worlds, like Terracotta Army, Yue King Goujian Sword, Si Muwu’s Large Square Ding, there’s a seller but no wealthy buyer, obviously it won’t be possible to have "the Forbidden City with one piece missing, I have the piece."

For those players, it’s better to hand the artifacts to Li Cheng’s [Star-casting Anvil], sell for some money or custom items.

And from an artifact, multiple concepts can sometimes be extracted, Li Cheng can totally leave concept parts not needed for the current manufacturing and store them in the Collection Room, heavily extracting value from customers.

Turning around, customers will still thank him.

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