And so, the next day.
The little town was especially lively today.
Because it was market day.
To those who lived in big cities, the term was rather unfamiliar.
But for the vast rural areas that drifted outside the reach of modern cities, it was one of the few lively days in a month.
After Yi Qingfeng got up, he went out and slurped down a bowl of rice noodles.
Shicheng’s rice noodles were not bad.
The cooking at the town’s breakfast shops was passable too.
After all, they catered to local business.
Even if the skill was somewhat lacking, the ingredients were still fresh.
By comparison, among the many food stalls on market day—
Based on Yi Qingfeng’s own firsthand experience:
Aside from pastries and freshly made snacks, braised goods were not especially recommended...
If one had a stomach forged of iron, then perhaps one could give them a challenge.
“Click-clack...”
The old wooden door shut the little town outside.
Before Yi Qingfeng even reached his rented room, he had already sucked the tofu pudding down until only the sugared bottom remained, and tossed it into the trash can.
This was a “rare encounter item” not often found in the little town.
Only during market days was there a relatively higher chance of coming across it.
Of course, that was also because his workplace was separated from the main road by a square.
Even if he heard the vendor’s loudspeaker shouting from afar, by the time he went out, it was already too late...
Afterward, Yi Qingfeng took the frozen meat from the refrigerator and put it in the defrosting compartment.
Although there was still plenty of uneaten wild boar meat in his item backpack.
That stuff took time to process.
If he did not have enough time today, then he would have no choice but to eat noodles.
Thinking of this, Yi Qingfeng suddenly had a new idea:
He could absolutely buy more fresh meat.
He would not even need to put it in the refrigerator.
At the very least, the item backpack did not seem to require worrying about preservation...
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Afterward, once he had set a pot of black tea to boil, Yi Qingfeng opened the Comprehensive Network player exchange forum.
Now that the cooldowns for the two daily instances had passed.
The topics of discussion on the forum had also begun to change somewhat.
There were more transaction posts now, most of them seeking to exchange core weapons.
Yi Qingfeng even saw a creation that was rather familiar:
“A gun?”
For the region Yi Qingfeng lived in, this thing was truly a strictly controlled item.
Yi Qingfeng had not thought in this direction for a moment.
It made sense too:
If one really had this thing.
Even if it were only a handgun, one could probably massacre everything in an apprentice instance, right?
And this post was extremely popular. Evidently, everyone was full of interest toward it.
From browsing posts before, Yi Qingfeng also knew:
Any creation could possess a Comprehensive Network panel.
However, for creations not directly produced by Comprehensive Network instance dimensions—
Such as Xiongya’s meat and the fur on its body, or Yi Qingfeng’s own phone—
A certain amount of Comprehensive Network calamity coins had to be spent for appraisal.
In theory, if he went abroad and got himself an AK.
Then spent some Comprehensive Network calamity coins, he could also obtain a firearm with a Comprehensive Network panel.
Only—the attribute of infinite ammunition was probably not included...
And from the many discussions under this post, Yi Qingfeng also figured out the applicability of this thing:
Just like firearms, bullets likewise required Comprehensive Network calamity coins for appraisal.
This was not merely adding a Comprehensive Network panel display.
Its greatest value lay in this:
It allowed them to function under the physical laws of different Comprehensive Network instances, laws utterly different from the spacetime in which they were manufactured.
Therefore, if one could not personally manufacture such consumables, or did not have the corresponding class ability to adjust firearms and ammunition under vastly different physical laws.
No matter how good a gun was, it could only serve as an emergency measure.
From this perspective, it could perhaps be compared to magic scrolls from magical dimensions?
In short:
For Comprehensive Network player apprentices without firearm-related crafting, the cost-performance ratio was not as transcendent as imagined.
As for individual weapons likewise corresponding to technological dimensions:
Things like grenades might offer even better cost-performance?
Yi Qingfeng thought so.
Of course, he had no intention of going to the trouble of messing with these things either.
After all, aside from the Abyss instance ticket he had just obtained.
Ordinary instances of the same level and difficulty were not very taxing for him.
If he really had to pile in resources while taking a certain risk to clear an Abyss instance, the cost-performance ratio would not be high.
Judging from the current situation:
Speedrunning numerous ordinary instances to farm treasure-hunting talent points and slaughter experience was, in Yi Qingfeng’s view, the correct path.
Afterward, Yi Qingfeng opened the trading section and began searching for instance invitations.
Compared with the previous situation where it had always shown blank results.
Today, there were already quite a few instance invitations being sold in the trading section.
Their prices were basically around forty to fifty Comprehensive Network calamity coins.
Of course, these were all invitations for ordinary instances.
Yi Qingfeng opened his item backpack and took a look.
He currently had 880 Comprehensive Network calamity coins.
Yi Qingfeng clicked into the trading section and looked at the many instance invitations listed for sale before him.
He suddenly noticed that in the description information of many instance invitations, there was a Comprehensive Network notification:
“Comprehensive Network Notification: Please note: this instance’s level is too low and cannot provide treasure-hunting talent points or unlock the treasure-hunting star chart.”
Hm?
Yi Qingfeng looked and discovered that the invitations displaying this notification were all level 1 and level 2 instances.
Did one have to clear an instance of the same level to obtain them?
This point had not been explained in detail in the version description.
But thinking about it, that made sense:
Among the instance invitations currently for sale, he had hardly seen any repeated instances...
If talent points could be obtained through low-level instances.
Then he could simply buy up large numbers of level 1 instances and speedrun them.
Only, if that were the case...
Perhaps he needed to plan the pace of his class level advancement?
Yi Qingfeng thought so.
Of course, for now, there was no need to consider it yet.
At the very least, it would have to wait until he had enough combat strength and sustain to tear through maps continuously...
Otherwise, with his current efficiency.
Even if he held his level back, it would still be inefficient overall.
This point was not difficult for Yi Qingfeng, who had ample experience in opening seasons in grind-heavy games, to think of.
Thus, Yi Qingfeng set new search conditions in the trading section:
He filtered out instance invitations below level 3.
As a result, the trading section that had originally seemed rather abundant instantly became much more deserted...
As for level 3 instance invitations, even those of ordinary difficulty.
Their selling prices basically started at one hundred Comprehensive Network calamity coins and above.
Yi Qingfeng even saw an invitation of Abyss difficulty.
The other party had listed it at five hundred Comprehensive Network calamity coins.
Referring to the previous output from the level 2 daily instance that contained a leader.
Yi Qingfeng felt that it was not too expensive.
It was just that, in this section, were there currently Comprehensive Network players capable of clearing Abyss difficulty?
Yi Qingfeng did not know.
He actually also wanted to buy an apprentice epic weapon.
But at present, these kinds of weapons were basically focused on exchanges.
Even the scant few that were prepared to sell for Comprehensive Network calamity coins were listed at sky-high prices.
Thus, Yi Qingfeng directly bought four level 3 instance invitations in one go...