Chapter 341 Millionaire
Qu Shilin has two homes, one is a research institute, and the other is a small villa she bought herself.
The "home" she mentioned was her second home, but that location was far away and it was late now, so Wang Tao didn't go there.
"Okay...but we have agreed that you must go there later! I have collected a lot of strange stones, maybe there are really mutant eggs!"
< br>Qu Shilin thinks that with so many stones she has collected, there must be one or two lucky ones, right?
"Okay."
Wang Tao nodded.
Looking at the big snakes playing together in the distance, Qu Shilin's eyes were filled with envy.
"You really don't want to sell it? Or you can rent one from me..."
"No need to discuss." Wang Tao shook his head, and then explained, "These snakes are equivalent to being bound to us. Just listen to us. If you want to study them and I'm not around, I don't think you can defeat a level 4 monster."
"Uh..."
Hearing what Wang Tao said, Qu Shilin was a little scared. After all, she is only the third level, and she is still a weakling of the third level...
"Are they lords or elites?"
Qu Shilin asked again.
She hasn’t seen many living monsters, so it’s not easy to judge. In her eyes, the aura of the fourth-level elites and lords was terrifying, but it had little impact on her. After all, no matter how bad she is, she is still a genuine third-level superpower.
"Level 4 Elite."
Wang Tao felt a little regretful.
Those snake eggs said that they could hatch into fourth-level elite snakes and above. As a result, these five snake eggs hatched into elites... I don’t know if they have any chance of being promoted to fourth-level lords.
"That's pretty strong! We don't have many fourth-level ones in our base so far!"
Qu Shilin's eyes are still a bit inseparable from these black snakes, she really I really want a pet like this.
"Then can you tell me about the disaster-level snake you encountered before? By the way, these black snakes like you are the eggs of that disaster-level snake, right?"
Qu Shi Lin originally wanted to ask about the disaster-level snake, but when it came to this big snake, Qu Shilin suddenly associated the disaster-level snake with these black snakes. After all, they are all snakes, and they were all encountered by Wang Tao.
Wang Tao has no intention of hiding this matter.
"These are indeed the eggs of that disaster-level snake. These eggs are in its body. I accidentally discovered them during the dissection..."
It is naturally impossible for Wang Tao to say that these eggs I got it from the Snake Cave, otherwise it might make Cheng Yiyi and the others feel unbalanced, and they might even think that Wang Tao was deliberately plotting against them.
Although Wang Tao doesn't care much about other people's opinions, there is no need to take the blame. After all, he only learned about these good things in the cave from Jiang Shixue after Cheng Yiyi and others left.
Of course, Wang Tao does not need to deliberately distance himself from the snake egg and the disaster-level snake. It is not good to be secretive. So Wang Tao directly said that the snake eggs were from the belly of the disaster-level snake.
Anyway, they had already negotiated at that time. The body of the disaster-level snake belonged to Wang Tao, and everything in the body belonged to Wang Tao. No one had any objections.
“It’s true!”
Qu Shilin was a little surprised.
"As for the disaster-level snake..."
Wang Tao and Qu Shilin talked about the situation at that time. After all, it was the first disaster-level monster and it had great research value.
"As for its body... a giant eagle appeared at that time and ate its body."
Wang Tao made nonsense.
As for the awakening fruit, Wang Tao himself has not yet studied it clearly, and it will definitely not be exposed for the time being.
"That's such a pity..."
Qu Shilin was a little disappointed. She originally thought that if she had a chance in the future, she would study the disaster-level snake that was inaccessible even after it died, but the body was not found. .
But it was just now that Qu Shilin discovered that the giant eagle seen by the search team she hired before turned out to be a fifth-level lord with [Giant] Awakening!
This is important news related to the security of Changhe Base! She needs to report it.
When Wang Tao talked about the disaster-level snake, he suddenly said:
"By the way, I'll give you the mushrooms."
One of Wang Tao's missions this time was to agree to Qu Shilin's request to pick mushrooms. She only wants 100 power mushrooms, and the rest belongs to Wang Tao.
However, Wang Tao gained a lot this time. In addition to power mushrooms, he also got a lot of defensive mushrooms and spiritual mushrooms.
Wang Tao was not stingy either, and gave 100 of each item to Qu Shilin.
“Huh? There are other mushrooms!”
Qu Shilin was a little surprised.
"They are all from the cave. I kept some of them and gave them to you."
Wang Tao explained.
“Thank you!”
Qu Shilin was not polite and happily accepted the mushrooms. She also explained:
"The energy in this mushroom is very magical, but it has side effects. I am currently studying how to extract its energy. When I succeed in my research, I will give you the first one to try!"
" ..."
Why does Wang Tao feel that Qu Shilin is treating him as a guinea pig?
Looking at Qu Shilin who was a little excited, Wang Tao thought for a while, took out a few bottles of medicine from his pocket and handed them to her.
"Huh? This is..."
"If you are referring to extracting the power from this 'power mushroom' and making it into a medicine without side effects, then you may need this..."
Wang Tao briefly explained the functions of these medicines .
“???”
After hearing this, Qu Shilin looked at Wang Tao with questions in her head.
"Don't ask me where these potions come from, I picked them up. After all, you don't think I am someone who has the ability to make such a thing..."
Wang Tao shrugged.
After hearing Wang Tao's words, Qu Shilin didn't ask any more questions.
She really felt that Wang Tao couldn't make such a thing. After all, human energy is limited. It was impossible for Wang Tao to do scientific research while fighting outside, right? Even if Wang Tao is a genius, he doesn't have any equipment, so he can't make it out of thin air, right?
Qu Shilin no longer bothered about the origin of this potion. She said to Wang Tao excitedly:
"If these potions are really as magical as you said, then maybe I can imitate them. Come out! Then you have definitely made a great contribution to our base!”
"Maybe. Anyway, as long as I can help people."
Wang Tao doesn't care much about these reputational matters.
"By the way, how is Xiang Hongbin?"
Wang Tao almost forgot about Xiang Hongbin.
"His prosthetic limb is still being made, and it may take half a month. But don't worry, we will definitely have him back with you in good health before the Chinese New Year!"
"...Okay!"
Wang Tao estimated that Xiang Hongbin must be feeling uncomfortable at this time. But as long as he can make a set of prosthetics that can fight, it will be all worth it.
Qu Shilin had no intention of staying at Wang Tao's place any longer. She planned to go back to the research institute to study the potion given by Wang Tao and tell her about the giant eagle.
Before leaving, Qu Shilin moved something from her car.
“This is for you, this is your reward for picking mushrooms!”
The thing Qu Shilin gave was an instrument about the same size as an ordinary washing machine.
“What is this?”
Wang Tao was a little curious.
"This is the latest crystal nucleation synthesizer. The previous synthesis and extraction instrument has been renamed the crystal nucleation extraction instrument..." Hope Research Institute has produced an instrument called crystal nucleation synthesis very early. Extraction instrument.
Its function is to extract the side effects from the crystal nucleus, and by consuming more crystal nuclei, a crystal nucleus without side effects is synthesized. Many forces in the base have this kind of instrument, which is considered popular. The instrument is not expensive, but it consumes a lot of crystal cores, so it is not suitable for ordinary people to use.
Now the synthesizer that Qu Shilin is talking about is amazing. It literally synthesizes multiple crystal nuclei into one, but what is synthesized is not the normal colored crystal nucleus, but the gray one. Inferior crystal core!
“You mean, this instrument can turn inferior crystal nuclei into white crystal nuclei?”
Wang Tao was a little shocked.
It had never known the use of the gray crystal cores exploded by ordinary zombies before. After all, the attributes were too spicy.
But Qu Shilin told him that gray crystal nuclei can be synthesized into white crystal nuclei?
"That's right! Do you have any crystal nuclei in your hand? Let me test it for you. You need 10 gray crystal nuclei. Currently, this instrument can only synthesize fourth-order and lower-order crystal nuclei. After all, we all have fifth-order crystal nuclei. I haven't seen it yet, and I can't make the corresponding settings..."
Qu Shilin looked a little proud, because she also participated in the development of this crystal nucleus synthesizer.
"Yes!"
Wang Tao immediately took out 10 fourth-order gray crystal cores from his pocket, which were obtained by killing ordinary zombies when the giant zombies attacked before. There are a lot of these crystal nuclei in his hand, piled in his space backpack like garbage.
[Fourth-order crystal core]
[Quality: inferior (2%)]
[Purity: 3.5% (side effects: none)]
Qu Shilin holds these The crystal nuclei were put into the instrument one by one, and then he explained to Wang Tao:
"After our research, the gray crystal nuclei are different from other crystal nuclei. It is like a puzzle piece, and these puzzle pieces can interact with each other." Fusion! The white and above crystal nuclei are a whole, and there is no way to perform this kind of fusion... Therefore, 10 gray crystal nuclei can be synthesized into one white crystal core! However, this consumes electricity. Researching more energy-saving instruments..."
If the gray crystal core can turn into a white crystal core, it will definitely be no problem if it consumes some electricity.
At present, it seems that the gray crystal core has no effect. As for the white crystal core, even if it has no superpowers, it can still be used. For example, providing power for power armor, providing bullets for crystal energy guns...
Buzzing——
While the two were talking, Qu Shilin plugged in the machine, and after a vibration , a white crystal core appeared.
【Fourth-order crystal nucleus】
[Quality: Ordinary (20%)]
[Purity: 35% (Side Effects: None)]
“Hiss——”
Seeing that this is indeed one Wang Tao was a little shocked by the genuine fourth-order white crystal core.
“Doesn’t that mean that the gray crystal core is valuable?”
Before Wang Tao left the base, many people in the base had gray crystal cores, but they were not valuable. Many people even made them into some jewelry for fun...
"Yes, the gray crystal cores are valuable. ! Since our research institute announced this, the value of gray crystal cores has skyrocketed. Oh, by the way, the committee took advantage of this opportunity to reprice the crystal coins. Now 1 crystal coin is equal to 10 first-level gray coins. The crystal core..."
After Qu Shilin’s explanation, Wang Tao understood the current crystal core price.
Before he left, due to the emergence of non-supernatural crystal cores, the exchange ratio between crystal cores and crystal coins had been changing, making it difficult to stabilize.
Now due to the large number of gray crystal cores, the committee has intervened, and the exchange ratio of crystal cores and crystal coins has finally been fixed——
1 first-order gray crystal core is equal to 0.1 crystal coins; 1 first-order white crystal core is equal to 1 crystal coin; 1 first-order blue crystal core is equal to 2 crystal coins; 1 first-order purple crystal core is equal to 3 crystal coins; 1 One first-order red crystal core is equal to 4 crystal coins; one first-order orange crystal core is equal to 5 crystal coins.
This is the exchange situation for the first-order crystal core. The situation for the second-order and above is——
1 second-order gray crystal core is equal to 1 crystal coin; 1 second-order white crystal core is equal to 10 crystal coins; 1 second-order blue crystal core is equal to 20 crystal coins... One third-order gray crystal core is equal to 10 crystal coins; one third-order white crystal core is equal to 100 crystal coins... one fourth-order gray crystal core is equal to 100 crystal coins; one fourth-order white crystal core is equal to 1,000 crystal coins... 1 level 4 orange crystal core is equal to 5000 crystal coins!
Of course, the above crystal cores are all without special powers. The value of the crystal cores with special powers is calculated separately. The lowest price will not be lower than this price, and the highest price is hard to say. For example, if you are promoted to a crystal core, Those are all marketable and priceless.
“The bank has purchased a batch of this kind of crystal nucleus synthesizer. However, because there are too many gray crystal nuclei, you have to make an appointment and queue up if you want to synthesize them. Even on the black market, you can get 11 or 12 A gray crystal core can be exchanged for a white crystal core of the same level... With this instrument, you can synthesize crystal nuclei at home! ”
Qu Shilin explained with a smile.
“Black market?”
This is the first time Wang Tao has heard this word.
“Have you never been there? The black market is known as a place where everything can be bought and traded... Of course, just listen to this. Many people on the black market are anonymous and scammers A lot... but it’s okay to buy some gadgets, I Many of my collections were bought from the black market, including the Night Devil Heart. Hey, I announced the function of the Night Devil Heart on the black market last time, which made many people regret it..."
Qu Shilin saw that Wang Tao had never been to the black market, so she explained to him.
To put it simply, the black market is a mixed market where transactions can be made anonymously, but any transaction in the black market is not protected by the city's laws.
As for whether you can buy good things and make some suitable deals, of course you can, but this is not something ordinary people can do. Most of it on the black market...is leeks.
“How could the city hall allow such a place to exist?”
Wang Tao didn’t quite understand.
In a way, isn’t this challenging the authority of the city hall?
Qu Shilin immediately came over and whispered in Wang Tao's ear:
"It is said that the black market is related to several committee members, so I turned a blind eye..."
"..."
Okay, then this makes sense.
Wang Tao is going to go back to the black market to have a look. If there are some good materials or something, he might be able to find them.
Seeing that Wang Tao seemed interested, Qu Shilin immediately said:
"The black market is not a fixed place. You need to wait for notification when it will open. Only members can wait for notification. And this membership is by invitation only. , if you are invited by a member with a higher level, your initial level will be higher. The black market will be opened every week. When it opens next time, I will take you there. My level is okay..."
"Okay. ."
Wang Tao nodded.
It just so happened that he didn't plan to go out anymore during this period, so he had time to visit this so-called black market.
"Then I'll leave first, so I won't disturb your rest!"
Qu Shilin couldn't wait to go back to the research institute to study the potions Wang Tao gave him.
After Qu Shilin left, Wang Tao looked at the crystal core in his hand again.
Excluding only non-supernatural crystal nuclei, Wang Tao has more than a hundred fourth-order crystal nuclei of various colors, more than three hundred third-order crystal nuclei of various colors, more than a thousand third-order gray crystal nuclei, and more than six hundred fourth-order crystal nuclei. Gray crystal nuclei, several first- and second-level crystal nuclei...
Based on the base's latest exchange rate, there should be about 600,000 crystal coins. This was a little more money than he had previously estimated, mainly because these gray crystal cores were worth a lot of money.
But when it comes to the gray crystal core, Wang Tao suddenly thought of something.
Since the institute can develop instruments that can synthesize gray crystal nuclei, can he synthesize gray crystal nuclei?
Wang Tao immediately looked at his space backpack and found the gray crystal core, and then he discovered... it can really be synthesized!
“…”
Wang Tao had always regarded gray crystal nuclei as rubbish, so he subconsciously ignored his own ability to synthesize crystal nuclei. He threw the crystal nuclei into his space backpack and ignored it. Got it...
Now he tried it. Just like instrument synthesis, 10 gray crystal nuclei can be synthesized into one white crystal nucleus of the same level. He happened to be able to synthesize up to 10 crystal nuclei.
It’s just that he does not consume electricity when synthesizing it himself, and can synthesize it in batches, which is much faster than using instruments.
So Wang Tao found the gray crystal nuclei in his space backpack, and with a thought, all the gray crystal nuclei of the same type began to be synthesized.
In the blink of an eye, these crystal nuclei all turned into white crystal nuclei of the same level with no superpowers.
The gray crystal core looks very unpleasant, but the white crystal core is much more pleasing to the eye.
Then Wang Tao looked at his capital account again. His previous total assets were 300,000, of which he gave everyone 100,000 in pocket money, and he kept 200,000 for himself.
After coming back this time, Cheng Yiyi transferred him 250,000, which was the money he spent to buy the [Strange Poison Sac]. As for the money from the [Strange Snake Beads], Wang Tao asked her to exchange it for meteorites, and she would send them over later.
The values of crystal cores and crystal coins are directly bound, and crystal cores are equivalent to cash. The total of his crystal coins and crystal cores is probably over 1 million.
"So, I am now a millionaire?"
Wang Tao smiled and shook his head. He did not value crystal coins that much. Moreover, the valuable things in his hand are far beyond what these crystal coins can compare with.
It was already dark by now, so no one would come over at this time. So Wang Tao found Jiang Shixue, Lightning and Black Snake. He is ready to test the awakening fruit!
(End of this chapter)