My Chaotic City

Chapter 011 The Iron-Skinned Pig King

"You mean the stuff in this mystery shop?" The pot-bellied player shook his head repeatedly. "No way, the prices are too high. Anyone who buys it is a fool!"

"What if I give you a subsidy? For example, if you buy a bottle of basic healing potion, I'll give you a subsidy of 3 silver coins." Li Hanqiang's smile became even more friendly.

"A subsidy of 3 silver coins is equivalent to buying a basic healing potion for 9 silver coins. That's a great deal!" The pot-bellied player was a little confused. "But will you actually give a subsidy? You're not stupid, are you?"

"Hehe!" Li Hanqiang cajoled, "Let's boost our trade volume now. For every potion purchased from the Mysterious Shop, we'll subsidize 25% of the selling price. Friend, do you see the business opportunity? Let me do the math for you. With the subsidy, you're essentially buying potions at a 10% discount from me. For example, for every basic healing potion you buy, you'll net 1 silver coin. If you buy a lot, like 100,000 or 1 million potions, you'll make a fortune."

"What am I supposed to earn? What would I need so many basic potions for?" The pot-bellied player looked at Li Hanqiang as if he were an idiot.

"Reselling!"

Li Hanqiang reminded him, "Buy at a 10% discount and sell at a 9.5% discount, okay? As long as it's cheaper than the system store, players will buy. Let me do the math for you: if you buy 10,000 bottles of basic potions and resell them at a 9.5% discount, you can make a net profit of 50 gold coins!"

The pot-bellied player was taken aback, then pondered seriously for a moment before saying, "That seems to be the case, but players can learn potion-making and then make all sorts of potions themselves..."

"That's for later. Time is money. While players don't yet know how to make their own potions, why not make a killing? How much you earn depends entirely on your skill!" Li Hanqiang said. "As long as you trade me the blueprints for the Azure Wave Pool, I'll give you a special subsidy. There's a limited supply of one million bottles. If you play it right, you can earn over ten thousand gold coins. Getting rich is just around the corner!"

The pot-bellied player was taken aback. He rubbed his head and said, "Wait a minute, let me think!"

Seeing his expression, Li Hanqiang knew that the matter was almost settled. He secretly praised himself for being a genius, using the Mysterious Shop in such a way.

Players who make purchases in the Mysterious Shop receive 30% of the selling price as profit. Even if they lose another 25%, they still make a small profit of 5%, which is even more ingenious than getting something for nothing.

Sure enough, a moment later, the pot-bellied player clenched his fist: "This deal is done! City Lord Li Hanqiang, you'd better keep your word!"

"That's a must!" Li Hanqiang said. "Have you traded the blueprints over? Don't worry about us keeping anything for ourselves. We can't hide the truth."

The pot-bellied player hesitated, then said, "I'll give you the blueprints now...okay, but give me five gold coins as a deposit first!"

"Okay, consider it an advance payment of your subsidy." Li Hanqiang readily transferred the five gold coins.

The pot-bellied player was overjoyed after receiving the gold coins. He left behind the blueprint for the Azure Wave Pool, and instead of defending the city, he added Li Hanyang as a friend. Then, he bought 50 bottles of basic health potions and went to the market.

Li Hanyang thus gained his first game friend. In his friend list, he saw the nickname of the pot-bellied player: "Big Deal".

Looking at the blueprints he had received, Li Hanqiang burst into laughter.

He didn't care about the fishing function; what he cared about were the "increased chance of special monsters appearing during monster sieges" and the "mysterious function."

Unfortunately, the blueprints are not usable yet; we have to wait until we defend against the third wave of monsters attacking the city.

Moments later, light descended upon Chaos City once more, and Dark Night Redemption, Fan Knight, and Ignition Sword Saint arrived to report.

Unfortunately, Li Hanqiang's mission announcement failed to achieve the desired effect, and apart from these three players, no other players came.

The main reason is that gold coins are hard to earn now, and very few adventurer players can save up even one gold coin.

The three members of Dark Night Redemption were full of fighting spirit, rubbing their hands together and clamoring to fight monsters.

Li Hanqiang walked up to the Ignition Sword Saint, took out his blue longsword, and said, "Ignition Sword Saint, I'll rent you this blue weapon for 10 silver coins."

"Huh?" The Blademaster exclaimed, "This was originally mine!"

"Since you haven't redeemed it, it's not yours," Li Hanqiang said. "Whether you rent it or not is up to you."

"Rent it, I'll rent it!" The Ignition Sword Saint cupped his hands towards Li Hanqiang. "Using my equipment to make money off me, you've really got a knack for this. Put the rent on the tab."

"Alright, just kidding. We're not stingy, take it!" Li Hanqiang left the blue longsword behind and turned to rally the troops, "Brothers, let's do our best! This wave of monster sieges is guaranteed to have special monsters. If we manage to find a rare treasure, I'll share the spoils with everyone!"

"Really?" the Fan Knight asked.

"Absolutely true!" Li Hanqiang had already taken out the [Special Monster Summoning Token], intending to use it immediately to summon a special monster and get off to a good start.

Of course, the positions of the three also needed to be adjusted. Li Hanqiang placed the two who fanned and lit the fire on the stone slab at the very front, and let Dark Night Redemption guard the center.

A moment later, a regional announcement sounded, signaling the start of the third wave of monster siege.

As soon as the spacetime wormhole opened, Li Hanqiang immediately crushed the [Special Monster Summoning Token].

"Ding, item successfully used. You have summoned a level 5 [Iron-skinned Pig King]."

Before the siege army appeared, a huge wild boar roared and charged out from the spacetime wormhole.

This wild boar is no less large than a rhinoceros. Despite being only level 5, it has a health of 1000, two huge tusks like ivory, blood-red eyes, and thick hooves. It is ferocious and terrifying.

The two who were fanning the wind and lighting the fire were startled. They had never seen such an imposing monster since they entered the game.

"With tusks that long, it's an elephant-boar!"

"How cool would it be to catch one and use it as a mount!"

The two of them sighed, staring wide-eyed at the scene, but stood rooted to the spot.

In just a few breaths, the Iron-Skinned Pig King roared out and ran a long distance.

Judging by his speed, he could run 100 meters in no more than ten seconds.

The two men, who were fanning and lighting the fire, didn't even retaliate, and simply watched him leave.

Li Hanqiang was so angry he almost vomited blood. He yelled, "You two idiots, what are you doing? The monster has run away!"

"Ouch, time to fight a monster!"

After fanning himself and lighting the fire, he snapped out of his daze and hurriedly brandished his longsword.

At this moment, the monster army appeared, all of them level 3 black boars. Fan Feng and the two immediately entered a frenzy mode, waving their longswords like windmills.

Ignoring them, Li Hanqiang levitated and chased after the Ironhide Pig King, locking onto it with his basic arrow towers while shouting, "Dark Night Redemption, hurry, hurry, kill the BOSS! I'll give you a red envelope if you kill it!"

"Don't worry!" Dark Night Redemption was already on high alert, and at this moment he took out a bottle of basic stimulant and drank it all in one gulp.