Everyone in the Thorn Guild, including the players in Thorn Town, had been eagerly waiting to see whether they would be able to go and reinforce the defensive battle at 024 today.
Now, they were destined to be disappointed.
Chu Fu posted an announcement.
[Town Chief’s Notice] [Who Wants to Become a Plantman?]: Wind Harmony Town’s defensive battle already has more than 10,000 participants, so reinforcement missions cannot be obtained. Players who want to take part in the defensive battle should try their luck by finding an NPC and attempting to trigger a mission. You might get lucky.
Chu Fu wasn’t lying.
The NPCs in Linjiang City and those in the various villages and towns were connected by countless ties. As long as players knew one of them and subtly hinted that something was about to happen to the town, they could receive a protection mission, an investigation mission, or even a message-delivery mission.
However, there were not many such missions. According to the information available, only twenty or thirty spots became available each time.
The players of Thorn Town were deeply disappointed.
There was indeed a chance to participate, but without the experts from the Thorn Guild, they could not possibly conquer an Origin-level dungeon on their own.
And it wasn’t only the players from Thorn Town who would compete for these missions. Linjiang City had countless players hoping to farm contribution points and participate in a major event.
After posting the announcement, Chu Fu also headed to Linjiang City to see whether she could trigger any missions.
“Plant Boss, I know an NPC who might be connected to the NPCs from Wind Harmony Town!”
“I know one too.”
“Plant Boss, go give it a try! As long as you do, you’ll gain 10 points in every attribute!”
The story-focused players in Thorn Town began leaving messages on the map one after another.
Chu Fu hurriedly added them as friends before setting off to try to trigger a mission.
Her first attempt ended in failure.
The NPC she encountered was an old man carrying a load of goods.
“Grandpa, I heard that you’re from Wind Harmony Town. The town is about to be attacked by goblins. Do you have any relatives or friends you’re worried about? I can deliver a message to them, or even escort them out of the town.”
The old man quickly waved his hands.
“I wouldn’t dare trouble you, Esteemed Awakener. Besides, I don’t have any relatives or friends. I’m all alone. I came here after begging for food in Wind Harmony Town.”
“Most people find it hard to leave their homeland behind. Don’t you want to go back and take a look? I can escort you there!”
“No, no, no. I still have work to do, my lady!”
The old man hurried away.
This was a typical case of an NPC having no mission available.
There was nothing Chu Fu could do. In The Gate of Origins, it was impossible to simply pay the old man to issue a mission.
All she could do was move on to the next target.
However, before she even reached her destination, she encountered someone familiar.
More precisely, she encountered a familiar NPC.
He was a man dressed in an extravagant robe, with dazzling, multicolored rings on his fingers and enough jewelry to make him look like a walking treasure chest.
It seemed he had upgraded his mode of transportation. This time, instead of carrying a shoulder pole, he was pushing a cart.
The cart was loaded with all kinds of goods.
“Esteemed Awakener, would you like to buy something? I have anything you could possibly want,” Tianheng, the Mysterious Merchant, said.
You don’t expect me to start opening boxes, do you?
Chu Fu never gambled.
Jiao Jiao had already gone bankrupt once because of that.
Even so, she instinctively glanced at the goods on Tianheng’s cart. The next moment, her pupils trembled in shock.
[City Upgrade Blueprint: Can be used once the town’s area reaches 100,000 × 100,000 meters. Upgrades a town to a city. If the settlement has already been upgraded, increases the city’s side length by 10,000 × 10,000 meters.
Price: 1,000,000 gold coins.]
[Village and Town Upgrade Blueprint: Price: 10,000 gold coins.]
[Resurrection Grass Seeds (Diamond): Price: 100,000 gold coins.]
[Resurrection Potion Formula (Diamond): Price: 100,000 gold coins.]
[Holy Light Flower Seeds (Diamond): Price: 100,000 gold coins.]
What?!
Never mind the importance of the first two items.
Even just the two types of seeds had astonishing effects.
Resurrection Grass could be used to make resurrection potions. Players whose corpses had been preserved could be resurrected.
Although resurrection potions required a teammate to use them and were less convenient than resurrection scrolls, they were cheap.
If Chu Fu possessed Resurrection Grass, then with her farming abilities, she could drive down the production cost. The cost of a resurrection potion could probably be reduced to around one gold coin.
Even if she sold them for ten gold coins each, they would still sell like hotcakes.
As for the Holy Light Flower Seeds, they were a necessary ingredient for holy potions. These potions could dispel evil-god contracts and curses.
They could completely replace Chu Fu’s method of eliminating disasters and be made widely available.
As for the holy potion formula, Chu Feng had given it to her long ago.
However, the main ingredient, the Holy Light Flower, had to be gathered from level-40-to-50 maps, and Chu Feng had never encountered any.
As a result, the matter had been put on hold.
Now, Tianheng had brought everything out, using it to tempt Chu Fu.
Chu Fu did not hesitate.
Buy!
She first bought the two plant seeds and the potion formula, spending 300,000 gold coins.
Then she bought the City Upgrade Blueprint. There was only one, and it cost 1,000,000 gold coins.
The money Chu Fu had saved over the past few days was completely wiped out.
But she wasn’t worried. Thorn Town still had money in its accounts, and Feng Huimin could reimburse her later.
There were one hundred Village and Town Upgrade Blueprints, but Chu Fu did not buy them for the time being.
If she bought that item, the Mysterious Merchant would leave.
So she said, “Since you claim that anything can be bought from you, what if I want a pass to Wind Harmony Town? Do you have one?”
Tianheng, the Mysterious Merchant, revealed an extremely handsome smile. It was the kind of smile one might show upon seeing a walking god of wealth.
“Of course I do. A special price for a sincere customer: 1,000,000 gold coins per pass!”
Chu Fu nearly coughed up blood.
She had originally thought that since she only had a little over 30,000 gold coins left, the Mysterious Merchant would sell her an entry pass based on the amount of money she possessed.
That way, Chu Fu could arrange for more people to enter Wind Harmony Town.
She had not expected Tianheng to immediately quote a price of 1,000,000 gold coins.
Chu Fu rapidly calculated the numbers in her head.
Actually, it was still profitable.
With the nation now involved, the price of Dark Gold equipment had plummeted. A single piece was already selling for only 50 gold coins. It was absurd.
The price had dropped to one-tenth of what it had been.
Even so, a full set still cost around 500 gold coins. Once inside the Goblin City, a player could kill roughly 30,000 goblins, earning a total of around 15,000,000 gold coins.
Adding in the Diamond equipment and materials, that would be another 500 gold coins or so.
There was also the corresponding increase in abilities brought about by Divine Power Plunder.
That 1,000,000 gold coins was indeed worth it.
However, Chu Fu had no intention of keeping the opportunity to herself.
She decided to bring twenty people in.
The fourteen members of her fixed party, Sneaky Dog, and the five members of Eighteen Stabs. After all, they were relatives of Wheelchair Brother, so taking care of them was only right.
That made exactly twenty people.
Chu Fu then sent the news to the management group and informed everyone. She also asked Feng Huimin to raise the money first.
“Plant Girl, thank you!” Shen Chi was the first to express his gratitude. The guild now had experts everywhere and S-rank players in abundance, but aside from his aunt, his parents, maternal uncle, and uncle-in-law were not particularly strong.
“It’s only right, Wheelchair Brother. You’re a major shareholder, after all!”
In Chu Fu’s eyes, Shen Chi had actually suffered the most. His entire family had been dragged into the mess by Wan Huanyu, making them victims who stood on the same side as Chu Fu.
Now that they had entered the game, she naturally wanted to look after them as much as possible.
But from Shen Chi’s perspective, he was so moved that he could hardly put it into words. His heart grew softer toward her, and his resolve to follow Chu Fu became even firmer.
Feng Huimin always said that she was a dead soldier.
Do you really think he’d be this loyal if there weren’t money involved?
He had been one of Chu Fu’s most loyal followers since the very first day the game launched!
