Chapter 69: Potential Crisis

May 31, 2023Ai Hrist

They came back to the city with a full harvest. When the manager of the blacksmith shop saw that the city lord had given him another batch of materials, all of which were of good grade, he looked at her with admiration.

As for Shen Jufeng, the deputy city lord, the city-state was not his personal after all, so the store manager always buys his supplies. Then simply deducted the cost for customized weapons from the purchase money.

“I want a part of the two mutated scorpion pincers to make a weapon and a shield. I hope to make this tail into a whip, and sell the rest.”

After listening to Shen Jufeng’s request, the store manager nodded: “No problem, it’s still the same as before. I will contact you after the production is completed, and the money will be deducted directly.”

After speaking, he looked at Lu Jiu again: “Does the city lord have any weapons that she wants to customize?”

Lu Jiu recalled today’s battle situation: “Yes, get me a light and close-fitting armor, which can protect the chest and back.”

Today, the tail of the mutated black scorpion hit her, and felt that her internal organs were shaking. If there were armor to protect the important parts, the situation might be better.

Shen Jufeng thought it makes sense: “Then the shell I reserved, turn it into an armor.”

The store manager seemed to be inspired, “Well… the armor is good, but I need to cooperate with the tailor to make this.”

Now for warriors and shield guards, shields can indeed withstand a lot of damage, but they also have limits in real combat power. If you can free your hand from holding the shield, two hands were better than one hand.

Lu Jiu came out of the shop. There were no green plants in the city-state, and the bleak autumn wind blew the banners hanging on the street stalls, all of which said the items for sale.

At this moment, she felt calm. Among the people coming and going in front of her, she saw a couple holding the child’s hand. The child raised his head and said something. The mother looked at the child with a gentle smile, and the father looked at the road ahead also smiling.

Shen Jufeng saw her looking at the crowd in a daze, and walked up to her: “I’ll treat you to what you want to eat.” He thought that Lu Jiu might be missing her family.

“I want to eat a lot of spicy rabbit legs, rice cakes, and milk tea.” That’s right, Xuantian City has such talents and made milk tea.

In the slightly cold autumn, a cup of warm milk tea can warm you up immediately.

“Okay.” He was not short of money, so he was willing to make Lu Jiu happy.

He and she were alone in this game world.

*

Lu Jiu wanted to eat rice cakes and stir-fried squid, but unfortunately, there was no seafood now, and no one has the skills of a fisherman. She was looking forward to having such talents come to Xuantian City.

But the rice cake with vegetables was still delicious. After a few mouthfuls, Lu Jiu and Shen Jufeng came to line up in front of the milk tea stall.

This milk tea has just been released for a few days, so the business was so hot that the boss even rented out the stall next door. They waited for more than ten minutes to buy it.

Shen Jufeng was not very interested in milk tea, so he only ordered the original flavor.

“Boss, I want chocolate milk tea.” She loved chocolate-flavored tea the most, and she feels very happy drinking sweetness.

The boss acted quickly, and a large cup of chocolate milk tea was quickly completed: “Thank you for your patronage.”

Lu Jiu gave 10 copper coins. Nowadays, people don’t seek to replenish their physical strength when they buy things at the stalls, but purely for their appetite, as if they have returned to the old days while holding milk tea.

Lu Jiu looked at the milk tea she was holding. The packaged cups were sold in the system mall, 1 copper coin for 1,000. After drinking, throw it into the trash can, and it will disappear by itself.

Now people still produce garbage, but they don’t need to worry about how to solve it.

Shen Jufeng took a sip of the milk tea, frowning slightly. This milk tea was not particularly sweet, but he still doesn’t like this kind of drink.

Lu Jiu saw his disgust: “Next time you can try the green tea flavor, I bought it before, and it tastes good.”

“En.” Shen Jufeng replied and then tried to take another sip of the cup he bought, not wanting to waste it.

The dialogue channel was as lively as ever, and there were even some loudspeakers. People often watch their city dialogue channels. Now the same city channels in every city were very lively.

Because of the opening of the city-state retail department, people have no shortage of small speakers. Most of the chats on the channel were trivial things, and some direct bicker in the channel.

Now it looks like when playing games in the past, people from all over the world would chat on the channel.

“How did I find that few people seem to trade items in the dialogue channel.”

She used to watch the channel where people often shouted to sell her special products, for example, she also bought seafood from coastal cities on the channel.

The situation there seems to be different from that in the inland area. There was very little food such as rice and wheat, but the seafood that comes ashore will become wild monsters.

Shen Jufeng was not surprised by this: “Every city-state has different prices. You may think that the price you give is fair here, but it is not there, so few people trade across regions.”

There were too many city-states now, and the price of a city-state mainly depends on the will of the city-lord. If the basic price was high, the prices of other items will naturally rise.

Lu Jiu felt that she had learned a lot, “So it’s like this, it’s a pity.”

She didn’t care too much about the price of the seafood that she traded on the channel before, she just wanted to eat shrimp.

Who knew that the wild monsters on the coast were so strange, they can go ashore to attack people, and they drop a lot of seafood, so they exchange them with the inland city-states for food?

“Don’t look at the temporary stability. It is still in chaos. It is far from reaching the stage of social stability. Next, the beast siege will eliminate some weak city-states. Only some city-states will be able to survive to achieve a certain degree of unity price.”

Shen Jufeng thought the same as Li Aoting. Now there were too many city-states in the country, which was unreasonable.

The entire society has been disrupted and rearranged, and there were still many things and contradictions that need to be experienced.

“Anyway, Xuantian City will survive in Yangshan City.” Lu Jiu loved her city-state and hoped that the residents living here can live and work in peace and contentment.

It may be that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. The identity of the city lord drove her out of thinking not only for herself.

Shen Jufeng looked into the distance, and said flatly: “I will help you.”

*

Li Aoting felt that these two days were a headache. Since the game was updated, some residents have panicked and gone out to collect food as a whole, for fear that they will starve to death in the next winter.

And such life-skill players have a lot of time to collect food, but they don’t sell it, which makes the professional players very unhappy.

They went out and worked hard to kill wild monsters to delay the attack time of the beast horde, but they can’t buy staple food. When they returned, the food near the city-state had been collected.

Although killing wild monsters drops a lot of meat, the drop starts at dozens of KG, but the staple food that people used to eat was rice, and the vegetables around were also collected cleanly, so changing the taste of the meal was impossible.

There were only a few small stalls in the commercial street that are still open, and others were not prepared to take out food. Although living in the city-state requires money, many residents have accumulated some wealth during this period and paid several monthly rental fees or even a year.

Li Aoting couldn’t figure it out, the shelf life of food was long, so why did those people collect so much, and why hide it?