WTYTIAAN Chapter 189

Is it because the information about the return journey cannot be blocked?

…It doesn’t seem that surprising.

Yan Yunqing thought, he had already prepared to fight against beings of a higher level. However, the existence behind this game could even affect Blue Star across a world…

This sounds really bad.

After taking the list, Yan Yunqing decided to find some time to explore using a player’s alt account.

Yan Yunqing pulled up his hood again, concealing Nolan’s appearance. He nodded to Merlin, “Then I’ll go first.”

“Don’t forget to take your troubles with you,” Merlin said unceremoniously.

Yan Yunqing shrugged. “Got it.”

He conveniently confirmed the completion of the quest [Help the Mysterious Traveling Merchant Fulfill His Order]. The system prompted him to select a completing player, and the quest contribution ranking popped up.

Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, quest contribution ranking?

He wasn’t in a hurry to leave. He stood there and opened the quest contribution ranking, studying the system instructions on it.

This must be one of the 2.0 content updates to the game system when he was trapped in the dream. For public quests, shared quests, and other multi-person quests, the game would automatically calculate the contribution level based on the player’s input, and the NPC could distribute rewards based on the contribution level.

Oh—that’s quite interesting. I wonder if other NPCs have this function.

Yan Yunqing glanced at Merlin and found that Merlin didn’t show any abnormality at his lingering, and even began to handle the documents himself.

Hmm… It seems like he’s unaware of the game panel?

Could this NPC function be a separate update just for him?

Yan Yunqing hesitated.

Forget it, thinking too much only makes things worse for himself. Sometimes it’s better to be a little slow.

Yan Yunqing scanned the quest contribution ranking, selected all of the top ten, and added [Mount Emei Monkey] for good measure, and confirmed.

There were many options for the quest rewards. There was the favorability system from version 1.0, as well as gold coins and experience. He set the gold coins, and the experience was automatically estimated by the system.

This quest wasn’t too difficult in itself. The system calculated that there wasn’t much experience. Yan Yunqing prepared eleven portions of the originally promised ten copper coins, and distributed them to the eleven players who completed the quest.

At the same time, he could also check the items in his backpack in the quest rewards, and—skill books?

Skill books can even be used as quest rewards?

Yan Yunqing thought for a moment, and very generously selected a skill book as an additional quest reward.

Why only one? Because eleven players would need eleven skill books, and he wasn’t sure if the skill books for this quest reward were given out from his own inventory, or given by the game.

If it was deducted from his skill points, then he could permanently turn off this option in the future.

Even a landlord’s family can run out of food!

He also manually increased the favorability of these eleven players a little bit, and he could also try the purpose of this favorability.

After selecting everything, Yan Yunqing clicked confirm. After waiting for a while, Yan Yunqing found that the skill points in the panel did not decrease. Instead, a number appeared in the reward column of the re-issued quest.

(89/100) [Estimated time to refill: One month]

Yan Yunqing’s eyes lit up. It seemed that the skill points he sent out as quest rewards would not deduct from his own, but would be distributed by the system. However, he could only distribute a maximum of 100 skill points per month.

This data was already very considerable. There weren’t many ways to obtain skill points. In addition to the five skill points he would get each time he leveled up, only certain hidden quests would have skill point rewards, and there was a certain probability of getting skill point rewards from weekly dungeons.

Now that even the ordinary quests he issued could use skill points as rewards, he didn’t have to worry about the players neglecting his quests at all.

Oh, so can he use the NPC panel to issue quests to player identities…

Yan Yunqing fell into deep thought.

…

[You have completed the quest “Help the Mysterious Traveling Merchant Fulfill His Order”, and received: Copper coins x10, Experience x100, Favorability with the Mysterious Traveling Merchant +1, Skill Book x1.]

[Congratulations to the players of Roque Town (Romunike Newbie Village) for completing the hidden quest of the Mysterious Traveling Merchant. All players in the Roque Town area will open [Traveling Merchant’s Collection] (special mobile trading window) and obtain the right to purchase.]

Two system prompts appeared in front of the eleven players and all the players in Roque Town, respectively.

The players waiting outside the door received at least one of these two reminders, and immediately became excited.

“Is it completed?”

“It seems so, but who did the quest settlement go to?”

Only [Mount Emei Monkey] stared at the two prompt boxes in front of her. Her whole body almost jumped up. It was actually settled to her!

With a click, the wooden door in front of her was opened, and the very mysterious traveling merchant came out from inside.

Before the players guarding outside could react, [Mount Emei Monkey] had already rushed up first, shouting very excitedly, “Mr. Traveling Merchant, I want to buy your items!”

The mysterious traveling merchant, or rather Yan Yunqing, paused. He had already anticipated this situation and very generously opened another function of the NPC system—[Trading].

“Of course, my dear friend, I am very happy to do business with friends.”

As Yan Yunqing spoke, he looked around in his backpack and shamelessly put some useless recipes, trashy small props, and some monster drops that he had obtained from opening boxes into the trading column, and conveniently set the appropriate prices.

Of course, as a qualified profiteer, no, a traveling merchant, Yan Yunqing set the prices relatively high, after all, there were still very rare materials among them.

He opened the trading column to [Mount Emei Monkey]. A semi-transparent panel appeared in front of [Mount Emei Monkey]. She looked over with anticipation, and the first item made her involuntarily gasp.

『Traveling Merchant’s Collection』

[Demon Lizard Feces (Selling Price: 15 Gold)]

[Mount Emei Monkey] leaned back tactically, “Is feces also a product that can be sold?”

Yan Yunqing’s voice didn’t change, “Of course, my dear friend, this is no ordinary feces—in alchemy, this is a very precious and useful material!”

[Mount Emei Monkey] looked at her backpack, then looked at the trading column opened by the traveling merchant. She had worked hard to do quests for a month, and only saved a few gold coins, but the feces that the traveling merchant was selling, which she didn’t even know what it was, would cost her all her possessions to buy?!

Is this reasonable?

This isn’t reasonable!

[Mount Emei Monkey] wanted to say something but stopped, stopped but wanted to say something. However, the traveling merchant was wearing a hood, and she couldn’t even see the traveling merchant’s appearance, let alone judge the traveling merchant’s expression at the moment… But she inexplicably felt that if she complained about the profiteer, there would be a bad outcome.

She could only swallow the words “Profiteer” hard, and continue to look down.

[Recipe·Roasted Cuckoo Chicken (Selling Price: 5 Silver)], [Recipe·Berry Jam (Selling Price: 5 Silver)], [Bottle of Emotions (Selling Price: 200 Gold)], [Merlin’s Leg Hair (Selling Price: 10k Gold)], […]

As [Mount Emei Monkey] watched, the expression on her face became stiff. What are these things?! The others were fine, but what exactly is Merlin’s leg hair?

Is it the Merlin she’s thinking of?

And why does a single leg hair cost so much! Ten thousand gold coins, you might as well go rob someone!

If Yan Yunqing knew what [Mount Emei Monkey] was thinking, he would definitely spread his hands very innocently and say that 10,000 gold coins was already a bargain price, after all, this was the great magician on the Ermann Continent!

If this leg hair could be proven to be real, there would always be a few people who wouldn’t mind it if it was put up for auction, and it could even fetch a high price.

Yan Yunqing watched the expression on [Mount Emei Monkey]’s face turning red and green, and resisted the urge to laugh. While she was repeatedly looking at the trading column and doubting her life, Yan Yunqing spoke in a timely manner.

“My dear friend, if you are not interested in these items, perhaps you would like to learn a skill?”

Yan Yunqing’s voice was gentle, and even carried a hint of temptation when listened to carefully, “You are my loyal friend, I don’t mind imparting a little technique that will make you stronger to you. Perhaps you can use these skills to earn more gold coins, and then trade with me.”

Yan Yunqing knew that if he wanted to hook players, he still had to draw a pie, so in addition to those weird things in his trading column, he also stuffed some equipment and weapons that could be considered treasures at this level, ensuring that these players wouldn’t be able to move their feet when they saw them.

[Mount Emei Monkey] didn’t react to what Yan Yunqing said at the moment, and asked along Yan Yunqing’s words, “What skill?”

The corner of Yan Yunqing’s mouth, hidden under the hood, slightly curved upward, and said in a very exaggerated tone: “Oh, my dear friend, that is a skill that you will definitely be satisfied with.”

In “Demon King”, NPCs can teach players skills. It can be triggered actively, or it can be triggered passively after the player has met certain conditions. The most typical is that the player pays the NPC gold coins, and the NPC teaches the skills to the player. “Homecoming” also inherited this function.

It’s just that the current level of the players is not high. Although they can already be transferred to mages and swordsmen, their skill sources are still very poor. Most of them are taught by some “guides” arranged by Yan Yunqing in the newbie village.

Now the players haven’t discovered that they can actively learn skills from NPCs, and Yan Yunqing can just take this opportunity to trick the players out of some gold coins.

He selected some skills that he would only come into contact with after level 20, but were very common, and displayed them all to [Mount Emei Monkey]. Of course, he also didn’t forget that he was a mage, so most of the skills displayed were mages, and only a small part were swordsmen, and they were still the most basic swordsman skills.

[Mount Emei Monkey]:?

[Mount Emei Monkey]:!!!

It’s actually a combat skill!!! And it’s a combat skill that looks very powerful!!!

Yan Yunqing asked with a smile: “My dear friend, do you want to learn? You can learn it with just a little gold coin~”

A little gold coin = each skill is sold for no less than 10 gold coins.

And these skills can basically be taught in any basic magic academy, and they don’t need to pay much price—at most pay a semester’s tuition.

However, Yan Yunqing didn’t feel guilty when selling these skills, after all, it also takes time to study in the academy, and time is money—

And can players realize that they can still go to magic academies to study?

[Mount Emei Monkey]: “Learn!! I want to learn!! I want to learn them all!!!”

Then she saw the extremely dazzling selling price behind each skill, and then glanced at her backpack. She gritted her teeth and could only buy the cheapest skill.

And the kind Mr. Traveling Merchant seemed to have foreseen her embarrassment, and before she could say that she didn’t have enough gold coins, the Traveling Merchant took out a parchment and kindly suggested: “If you don’t have enough gold coins, I can lend you enough gold coins—to buy these skills, but you need a little interest.”

[Mount Emei Monkey]:…

Damn it, it’s okay to have a mortgage in the real world, but why do you have to have a skill loan in the game world?!

But she looked at the Traveling Merchant’s skill list, and then looked at the Traveling Merchant’s product trading column, and drool was left from the corner of her eyes. She closed her eyes and asked weakly: “… How much interest?”

“Not much, it’s a price you can afford.”

The profiteer whispered like a devil.