Huo Duoduo tossed the broom aside. A floating towel automatically wrapped around her nose to give it a detailed wipe. Once clean, it picked up the broom and took over the task of sweeping the shelves.
"He can't hear our conversation. Speak plainly—did you bring me a hired hand?"
Was it a soundproofing 【Divine Relic】? Sunset Post Office had one as well; it seemed they all originated from Huo Duoduo's general store.
Fang Yuan didn't follow up on her question, asking instead, "Pointy-Eared Boss, do you sell any 【Divine Relic】s that can break defense?"
Huo Duoduo tilted her head back to glance at her, turned around, and pulled an old monocle out of a pile of clutter, placing it over her face.
She was just about to look at Fang Yuan when Fang Yuan beat her to it, covering the monocle with her palm.
"Pointy-Eared Boss, while I don't know what this 【Divine Relic】 does, I suspect it might let you view my panel stats. I strongly advise against looking at my panel."
Her voice remained flat, but Huo Duoduo caught a hint of cold distance in her tone.
It seemed she possessed some kind of 【Blessing】 that would become useless if seen.
Huo Duoduo took off the monocle—not because she had taken Fang Yuan's advice to heart, but because she smelled a business opportunity.
She immediately turned around and pulled a bottle of ink from the pile of clutter. "【Invincible Hide-Hide-Hide Ink】! Its function is to conceal your panel stats! Not 199, not even 99—yours for just 9 gold coins! How about it? Quite a bargain, isn't it?!"
Fang Yuan stared at the bottle of ink and scratched her nose. "Then is there also an 【Invincible Look-Look-Look Ink】 whose function is to see hidden panel stats?"
Huo Duoduo slapped Fang Yuan's knee, turned around, and pulled out a bottle of red ink from the pile of clutter. "【I Just Wanna Look-Look-Look Ink】! Able to see panel stats hidden by 【Invincible Hide-Hide-Hide Ink】!"
Fang Yuan: "...Then what's the point of buying 【Invincible Hide-Hide-Hide Ink】?"
Huo Duoduo let out an "Aiya!": "Hey! How can you say that? If you buy both types of ink from my shop, then won't nobody be able to see your panel stats?"
Fang Yuan: "Wow, you really know how to do business."
Her tone quickly shifted.
Fang Yuan: "But I'm not buying."
These two items were clearly junk that nobody wanted. If you bought 【Invincible Hide-Hide-Hide Ink】, wouldn't someone else just come and buy 【I Just Wanna Look-Look-Look Ink】?
Who would waste their money here on that?
No wonder they were tossed in that pile of clutter.
Fang Yuan's gaze fell upon the monocle discarded to the side.
That monocle had also been pulled from that pile of clutter. Fang Yuan asked, "What about that monocle? Doesn't it have a function similar to 【I Just Wanna Look-Look-Look Ink】?"
Huo Duoduo drew out her words: "Ayyy—! That's where you're wrong! This monocle is called 【I Just Wanna See Who Is Richer Than Me】. It can only view the assets on a panel!"
Fang Yuan: "..."
Huo Duoduo continued pitching her monocle: "Look, if you can see other people's assets, when someone buys a residence, wouldn't you know where they live? Then you could..."
Fang Yuan's interest was piqued.
"How much?"
Huo Duoduo, thrilled at finally being able to sell off some trash, didn't dare set the price too high: "5 gold coins!"
Seeing that this pile was just scrap metal and that Huo Duoduo was desperate to sell, Fang Yuan bargained: "Two gold coins!"
Huo Duoduo parted with it reluctantly: "3 gold coins!"
Fang Yuan: "Deal!"
She pulled three gold coins out from her fluffball, stuffed them into Huo Duoduo's nose, and took the monocle.
Crouched outside the window, Liang Du could only guess that the person inside was interacting with the divine creation, and that Fang Yuan had touched the fluffball at her waist to pull out three gold coins for some secret transaction. He only wished his ears were long enough to stretch inside and eavesdrop.
Huo Duoduo sniffed the gold coins to confirm their authenticity, then wrapped them up and stuffed them into her tattered pocket.
That appeared to be a storage 【Divine Relic】 as well.
"Do you have any 【Divine Relic】s that can break defense?" Fang Yuan hadn't forgotten what she had wanted in the first place.
Huo Duoduo glanced at her, thrusting her nose against Fang Yuan to sniff her. "The scent of money! You actually still have money? Where did it come from?"
Fang Yuan grinned. "By mugging people, of course. With so many divine creations and Candidates along the way, robbing a bunch of them gets you plenty of cash."
Huo Duoduo pinched her nose. Seeing that Fang Yuan didn't look like she was lying, she turned around and pulled an embroidery needle as thick as Fang Yuan's arm from the shelf.
"【Nanny's Invincible Weapon】! A single hit drains 30% of the opponent's durability! 499 gold coins!"
Was she starting to rob her now just because she heard she had money?
Fang Yuan waved her hand. "Do you have anything that can enchant my hammer and shovel?"
Huo Duoduo stuffed the embroidery needle back and pulled out a crystal glowing with blue light instead. "【Upgrade Stone】! Able to convert ordinary weapons into 【Divine Relic】s. Success rate is 45%. 20 gold coins apiece."
Fang Yuan decided it was time to hand-craft some gold coins.
This little bit of money wasn't anywhere near enough to spend.
There were currently three individuals present. Given Liang Du's overly calculating and suspicious nature, her previous performance had been more than enough for him to deduce and ultimately believe that she truly possessed three 【Blessing】s.
Now she just needed to hypnotize herself.
Fang Yuan pressed her left hand over the fluffball while resting her right cheek on her right hand. Her falling strands of hair concealed her hand as her middle finger swiped against the ring on her thumb, producing a steady, dense rustling sound right by her ear.
Hypnosis was nothing more than psychological suggestion.
The gold coins produced by her left hand instantly slipped inside the fluffball. From Liang Du's angle, Fang Yuan was merely shielding her fluffball with one hand while propping her head up with the other, continuing to talk to Huo Duoduo.
The interior volume of the fluffball was 70×50×50 cm, while each gold coin was roughly 2.2×2.2×0.8 cm.
Plus, inside were Fang Yuan's hammer, shovel, Divine Creation Introduction Scroll, Ryder Town Map, and those 133 gold coins.
She could manufacture over thirty thousand gold coins to fill the fluffball completely, but since the fluffball needed space for other things, Fang Yuan intended to stop once she reached ten thousand coins.
Sigh. She originally hadn't wanted to become rich so quickly, wanting to experience the impoverished life a bit longer.
But what could she do? Destiny had dictated that she, Fang Yuan, would become the richest person around.
"Give me 20 of these stones. Do you have anything higher grade that can hide panel stats so no 【Divine Relic】 can see them?"
Fang Yuan had completely cast Liang Du, who was clinging to the outside of the window, to the back of her mind, beginning to indulge in the shopping spree of a wealthy woman.
Liang Du: "Why is she pulling out another item? She really did buy a 【Divine Relic】 here that can cleanse the bad luck status!"
He couldn't let her keep buying things. Liang Du suddenly straightened up, walked over to the shop entrance, and pulled the bronze bell hanging beneath the hat's brim.
The hat bounced up with a squawk: "Wise guest, please wait! The previous guest has not finished their transaction!"
Liang Du: "..." If he had known, he would have followed right behind Fang Yuan when she went inside.
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