Huo Duoduo's gaze darted frantically across Fang Yuan's face, practically asking, “Just how many people did you rob?”
She clattered around, pulling out several 【Divine Relic】s, but their effects weren't very ideal, and each had a corresponding 【Divine Relic】 that could counter it.
Fang Yuan let out a helpless sigh at her. “Sigh, you can't even lock down a lamb that willingly delivered itself to be slaughtered. You run your business like a charity.”
Huo Duoduo was so angry her nose almost twisted sideways.
Her items were clearly top-quality! Besides, those prices weren't something Candidates who had just entered the Crucible could possibly afford!
What kind of nonsense was this damn Fang Yuan spouting?!
Fang Yuan had already pulled out her shovel and hammer. Handing over the gold coins, she took the twenty stones one by one and smashed them onto her tools.
Her current assets were: one shovel, one hammer, Divine Creation Introduction Scroll, Ryder Town Map, and 9,733 gold coins.
Finally, by the time she hit the sixteenth and seventeenth stones, a layer of fluorescent blue spots floated onto the surfaces of the shovel and hammer, seeping into them in a fine, dense shower.
【Divine Relic】:
【Pink and Pretty Girl】: A vain pink shovel. When clean, it inflicts 15% durability damage to defensive Divine Relics; otherwise, the pretty girl goes on strike and only inflicts 5% durability damage.
【Smash 'Em Up and Call It a Day】: A furious hammer that inflicts 20% durability damage. Each attack increases Rage Value by 1%; when Rage reaches max value, it inflicts 30% durability damage.
Fang Yuan stared at the descriptions of the shovel and hammer, then turned her gaze back to Huo Duoduo.
She now strongly suspected that the price Huo Duoduo had just quoted for the embroidery needle was completely pulled out of thin air, tailored based on who she was dealing with.
There were no clearly marked prices here—she just ripped off whoever had money.
Huo Duoduo didn't feel guilty at all being stared at like this, puffing out her nose haughtily. “All sales are final! No refunds or exchanges!”
Fang Yuan, who had been just about to ask for a refund and return them, pursed her lips and stuffed the remaining three stones back into her fluffball.
“Is there a general store on every level of the Crucible?” Fang Yuan propped up her cheek. Either way, the longer she stalled, the more anxious and uneasy Liang Du outside would become, and the harder it would be for him to think calmly.
Huo Duoduo was putting the pulled-out 【Divine Relic】s back on the shelf when she heard the question. She reached to the side of the shelf and pulled out a string of waist tokens.
“Not necessarily. That's why you guys need to buy a residence! A residence can actually move along with you.”
Fang Yuan looked at the string of waist tokens, realizing what had happened. “You scammed me.”
Huo Duoduo didn't look guilty in the slightest. “All sales are strictly final! No refunds or exchanges!”
She cleared her throat. “These waist tokens are numbered 1 to 300, divided into three tiers of environments: Dilapidated, Decent, and Deluxe. Once you buy one and drop your blood on it to claim ownership, that residence belongs to you.”
“Each waist token contains a space inside with a residence. Hold the waist token, focus your mind, and chant silently that you want to go home, and you can enter.”
So you couldn't actually see someone else's residence location through their assets at all!
Because that residence didn't exist at any physical address—like XX Street, XX Lane, No. XX—it existed purely within the waist token!
So a person's residence asset would only be listed as which number waist token it was, rather than any detailed address!
Fang Yuan, who had thought she could actually see other people's residence addresses and sneak into their houses in the middle of the night to cause trouble, let out a long sigh, instantly deflating.
Sure enough, having money really made one lose their head.
Just now, she had actually been duped into buying a useless three-gold-coin item.
Oh well. At least she could still see other people's assets, so she could check who was rich and mug them.
“Alright then, Pointy-Eared Black-Hearted Boss, recommend a Decent residence to me.”
Huo Duoduo giggled as she pulled a rectangular waist token marked 123 from the string and handed it to Fang Yuan.
A silver chain ran through the top of the waist token. The token itself was a muted brass color with smooth, polished edges, and "No. 123" was clearly carved right in the middle of its face.
“It's the best of the Decent ones! Perfectly suited for a loaded Candidate like you, Fang Yuan!”
Huo Duoduo practically had “I'm going to rip you off big time” written all over her face. Her nose curled around an abacus, flicking it back and forth with loud, crackling clacks.
“Waist Token No. 123 originally goes for 688 gold coins. Seeing as you're a regular customer, I'll give you a discount: 488 firm price. Buying or not?”
Fang Yuan blinked, looking at Huo Duoduo. “I have money, but I'm not brain-dead.”
Huo Duoduo: “...How about 388?”
Fang Yuan flashed a smile and, under Huo Duoduo's confident gaze, spoke up: “You said yourself that a residence is very important and a necessity for every Candidate. If you set such a high price for a necessity, what Candidate could afford it? Do you take me for an idiot?”
Huo Duoduo: “...188, absolute lowest price.”
Fang Yuan cupped her face with one hand while reaching out with the other to scratch Huo Duoduo's long nose.
Huo Duoduo: “...88! 88!! Really the lowest price!! That's literally the original cost price!!!”
Fang Yuan scratched her own cheek. “Dilapidated, Decent, Deluxe. It's a necessity, and I'm only buying Decent. You're asking 88?”
Huo Duoduo's long ears twitched. With a snap, she slapped the string of tokens back onto the shelf. “30 gold coins, take it or leave it.”
Fang Yuan promptly paid the money.
Huo Duoduo cradled the thirty gold coins, twitching her ears unhappily.
While Huo Duoduo was still counting the gold coins, Fang Yuan's left hand brushed over her fluffball, bringing the remaining 9,703 gold coins right back up to 10,000 gold coins.
Ah, it was so good to be rich. She could do whatever she pleased.
Fang Yuan bit her finger to drop a bead of blood onto the waist token, then tossed it into her fluffball.
【Candidate for the God of Deception】: Fang Yuan ♪ (Chant from Master Elf Singer, grants immunity to all negative status effects. This mark cannot be removed by any entity other than said Master Elf Singer. Said Master Elf Singer can synchronize your location and speech via this mark)
【Nickname】: Shovel-You-Onto-the-Stage Hammer Star
【Blessing】: 【Lies Made Real】
Current Lies: Resurrect in a new body after death (Reality probability: 56%), Finger snap breaks illusory dreams (Reality probability: 32%), Teleportation (Reality probability: 0.1%), Hand-craft gold coins (Reality probability: 1.8%)
【Divine Relic】: 【Envelope Storage】, 【I Just Wanna See Who Is Richer Than Me】, 【Pink and Pretty Girl】, 【Smash 'Em Up and Call It a Day】
【Luck Value】: 6/10
【Righteousness Value】: -5/100 (It is recommended to raise your Righteousness Value; you will be categorized as a guest of Poor Conduct in the eyes of divine creations)
【Assets】: Divine Creation Introduction Scroll, Ryder Town Map, 3 【Upgrade Stone】s, 10,000 gold coins, 【Waist Token No. 123】
【Divine Expectation Value】: 5%
“Alright, tell me—is that guy outside really a hired hand you found for me?”
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