Chapter 81: New Store

June 21, 2023Ai Hrist

Lu Jiu was holding a new product from the blacksmith shop, a small heater, which fits well with both hands and a handle. The heater itself was made of porcelain with beautiful patterns, which looks like an antique from the Qing Dynasty.

What was put in it was not hot water, but a small section of sustainable burning charcoal. There was no open flame, but it can continue to heat for more than ten hours.

When people hold it, they have to cover it with a cloth, otherwise, it will be hot, and the cold in the surroundings was not enough to hold such a hot stove.

In the past two days, she has been following up on the new products of several stores, and today she remembered that she had to consider upgrading the city-state to the third level.

Upgrading from a second-tier city-state to a third-tier city-state requires 18,200 Glory Crystals, 9,900 Glory Dust, 8,500 Glory Fragments, and 550 Glory Hearts.

Except for her 50 Hearts of Glory when she was promoted to the second-level city-state diplomacy, she didn’t see one more, and she didn’t know if the others didn’t get it. Anyway, she only got a few for so long.

Looking at her City Lord’s Mansion, it was just a big villa, nothing else.

Right now, it was night, most people should have already fallen asleep. After making a decision, Lu Jiu directly took out the city-state resources and handed them over to upgrade the city-state.

[System prompt: Congratulations to Xuantian City for being officially upgraded to a third-level city-state, make persistent efforts!]

Seeing this reminder, the residents of the city-state who hadn’t slept were stunned. A third-level city-state? It was just a pity that they don’t have the authority to see how many resources were needed to upgrade to a third-tier city-state.

After upgrading to a third-level city-state, the number of weapon slots on the city wall has increased from 80 to 160.

The interior of the city-state began to change visible to the naked eye. First, the overall area expanded, and even the fields outside increased, and the Loan Halls and residential areas were added along with the trend.

The city-state store directly expanded the store area and added floors.

Upgraded to a third-level city-state, Lu Jiu has the right to add two shops for free.

She first added a branch to all existing stores.

Then she started to pick new stores. She chose to open a bar first, so that there will be entertainment venues for adults in the city, and don’t have to compete with children for amusement parks.

There was also an accessory shop, which sells equipment used as auxiliary weapons.

Then she added more money to open a hot spring club, which has all kinds of entertainment facilities, and it was a shop that only opens in autumn and winter.

The last one can only be opened by adding money, and that was the training room, where people can choose to simulate battles with wild monsters. The upper limit of wild monster levels that can be selected according to the city-state level was also different.

This was the most valuable store she has seen so far. Lu Jiu did not hesitate to spend gold coins to upgrade the training room to the largest expandable area and strive to allow most residents in the city to go there for training.

If this exists, even ordinary residents can go in and experience killing wild monsters, so that they will know what to do when encountering wild monsters in special circumstances in the future.

Many types of wild monsters can be simulated. Professional players were lucky, they can choose wild monsters they have fought against for training.

In addition to different levels, there were also single-player modes and team modes. The number of wild monsters can be selected or random, and the types can also be used. After all, people can’t choose what kind of wild monsters they can encounter in the wild.

There was also an update on city-state weapons. In addition to the original cannon and the like, there was an option in the protective cover, which can be upgraded. The upgrade requires 10 gold coins. Lu Jiu chooses to upgrade.

[Protective shield (upgraded version): Protect the city-state against beast swarms, can defend against one million wild monster attacks, regardless of level, newly added adjustable temperature function, disposable item, priced at 20 gold coins.]

So to say, it costs 20 gold coins to buy directly, and to upgrade was to add 10 gold coins to the original basis.

There were also other weapons.

[Crystal Cannon: Protect the city-state from attacking wild monsters, unlimited ammunition, and automatic attack without wear and tear, a single 650 fixed attack value, with a freezing effect for 2 seconds, and a price of 2 gold coins.]

[Double Arrow Carriage Crossbow: Protect the city-state from attacking wild monsters, infinite crossbow arrows automatically attack without wear and tear, shoot two giant arrows at a time, a single attack value is 800, and the price is 2 gold coins each.]

[Rifle: Everyone is responsible for protecting the city-state. This is available to all official residents of the city-state. It doesn’t matter whether you have a job or not. The attack value is fixed at 280 per shot. The system produces lasers without bullets, and the price is 10 silver coins.

Friendly reminder: Guns can only be used against wild monsters, and if players attack each other with this gun, it is disabled.]

The arsenal was updated, the products were better, the rifles do more damage, and residents can use them to hunt wild monsters by themselves. There was real hope for life-skill players to kill wild monsters.

Just looking at the newly released cannons and crossbows, Lu Jiu had no choice but to spend money to replenish them. She didn’t dismantle the previous ones and kept them.

In the arrangement of weapons, there was not much difference between the moat crossbow and the double-arrow crossbow in appearance, but there was an extra giant arrow in the double arrows, and the crystal cannon was very conspicuous.

The whole body seems to be made of crystal. It was shining at night, which was very conspicuous. Compared with the dark cannon next to the moat, the appearance was not a little bit worse.

Correspondingly, the number of NPCs patrolling the city has also increased, from the original 32 to 64, directly doubling.

The hot spring club was near the city lord’s mansion. It looks like a hotel on the outside. There were wine counters, restaurants, entertainment rooms, etc. inside. The entertainment room occupies two floors of the hot spring club. The equipment inside made her happy.

That was a computer. Lu Jiu turned on one by herself and found that it was connected to the Internet. She tried to download the software she was familiar with before, and only after the system prompts did she know that it can be used, but there were restrictions.

These computers can only be played online by internal players. There were games in it, and the software that can be contacted can only add players from the game world. Now the city-state has only three levels, and the authority was to connect with people in the same city.

But this was also very good, much better than the days when there were no games. Lu Jiu predicted that many people would come to the Internet. Fortunately, it was upgraded to the highest level, but there were only more than 2,000 computers.

In addition, there were billiards, bowling, and other entertainment facilities.

The hot springs were divided into men and women, and they were all small hot springs, suitable for two or three people to sit together. Lu Jiu also set up a special area that other residents cannot enter. This was an exclusive area for NPCs.

Since she discovered that NPCs were very intelligent, she has noticed that there must be special areas for NPCs if there were entertainment facilities, so that they can also relax.

After all, if she builds a good relationship with them, she may be able to get inside information. In short, there was no harm.

After looking at the hot spring club, she went to the bar. The decoration of the bar was in a modern style, because it was closed now, and it was very quiet, only NPCs were sorting things out.

Since the game world was updated, wine has appeared. Now there were various wine products behind the bartender NPC. This bar was divided into three floors, the first and second floors were for entertainment, and the third floor was private rooms, all of which have floor-to-ceiling windows. People can see the second floor.

The last was the training room, which was Lu Jiu’s favorite place.

The NPC store manager in the training room was a strong man who was nearly two meters tall. He was standing behind the counter in front of the door with his arms crossed. His expression was serious but not angry.