My Chaotic City

Chapter 46: The Gremlin’s Mountain Technology: Broken Void

Li Hanqiang made a decision in his heart as he waved his hand and generously handed over 100 gold coins to the Little Drill Gremlin. After that, he transferred ten little gremlins from the Gremlin Mountain Workshop to form a ten gremlin team for it to lead.

“Carry out the raids well. I am optimistic about you!” Li Hanqiang said, enthusiastic.

The Little Drill Gremlin tucked 100 gold coins into his trouser belt one by one. It took about five to six minutes of doing so before patting its chest and saying, “My King, you can rest assured!”

Soon, he took the ten gremlin team with him to begin carrying out raids.

Li Hanqiang was still a little uneasy and decided to wait at the raid entrance.

Less than a minute later, he saw the Little Drill Gremlin taking the lead as they ran out of the raid entrance. A system notification then sounded.

[Ding, your raiding little gremlins entered a simple clone. The raid failed, loss: none.]

“They just fled back without getting any of the gremlins killed. That’s not a bad thing!” Li Hanqiang nodded.

The Little Drill Gremlin had a furtive look on his face and seemed to be looking forward to resting. However, as soon as he saw Li Hanqiang, he immediately became energized. He gave him a greeting before bringing the ten gremlin team to carry out another raid again.

The results from entering another simple level clone made them return in less than a minute, directly fleeing back without much thought.

Li Hanqiang was reserved during both encounters that the gremlin team had met with clones of ordinary difficulty. Despite that, the Little Drill Gremlin proved that he could lead the team in escaping safely on both accounts.

“Not bad, not bad!” Li Hanqiang was finally relieved but his face turned dark.

This was because his luck was bad as he had just spent 40 gold coins two times in a row to get nothing from the raids. Was this not a deficit way of conducting business?

However, that was just his luck. What could anyone else do about it to help?

Li Hanqiang only wished that the little gremlins themselves would not have such bad luck. He thought about it as spending these gold coins would still be considered ‘arduous training’.

The next day soon arrived as Li Hanqiang went offline for a while and got breakfast on his way back.

He found out that Lin Banyue’s morning exercises were merely carried out on a whim as now, he had caught no sight of them that morning.

When he went online again, Li Hanqiang did not have time to check the raid results of the Little Drill Gremlin. A teleport request had been sent by Big Trader, followed by Little Liuzi.

Gold coins were now depreciating at every moment. Li Hanqiang did not care about that but professional merchants like Big Trader were very concerned. From that morning, the purchase price of gold coins had fallen below 120 yuan, making them all very anxious.

The profit from selling potions was actually very little. If gold coins continued to depreciate, there would be really far too little profit. If a single gold coin went down to 50 yuan, it would not be cost-efficient to sell potions this way anymore, not worth the labor needed.

More and more money-making studios were now stationed within Endless World, speeding up the depreciation of gold coins. It was estimated that within five to six days, the selling price of gold coins would fall to below 50 yuan.

In addition to that, Level 20 players were already appearing. Lots of guilds and money-making studios had begun training life players who specialized in potion-making and forging. Low-level potions below the system store’s pricing were expected to appear within one or two days.

This also meant that the days of making money by selling potions were almost over. Naturally, Big Trader and the others had to seize whatever time they had left.

Once Big Trader and Little Liuzi left after getting their items, Deity Robber who wore a Dog Head Hat came again.

“Good morning, Qiang Brother! The defensive towers here are really strong. You could successfully defend the city even when all the aunties were idle. I admire you! Are you still going to continue now? Don’t you want to go offline and rest?”

There was no anxiety on Deity Robber’s face, a happy and giggly expression resting upon it as if he had forgotten all the ‘free returns to the city’ yesterday. He looked at the Defensive Towers at a distance as if he was looking at the scenery.

“There have been changes made in Li Hanqiang’s place again. The Defensive Towers have been moved and it seems that he has unlocked the Stone Slab Technology…”

Deity Robber was not in a hurry to sell potions as Zhen Deqiang was waiting for him at the Chaos Temple.

With the weird president constantly calculating with his fingers, Deity Robber could not get even a single dime. Where would his enthusiasm come from being a mere worker?

Li Hanqiang looked up and down at Deity Robber before he said, “Dog Head Hat, can your Emperor’s Rich Guild not torment those aunties and actually do something useful instead. Why don’t you guys organize thousands or ten thousands of people to buy tickets and come over to fight?

Deity Robber smiled and said, “How could there be so much money out there to buy that many tickets? Brother Qiang, allow me to tell you the truth. I am actually just a wage earner as life is not easy for me. I am just trying to earn a living under Zhen Deqiang’s hands. I have nothing against you, but I am unfortunately in this situation and cannot help it.”

“You can’t help it? Fine, the aunties need to spend gold coins when they are sent over here anyway. You can just continue to do so since I won’t lose anything. People can have money but be stupid. This is just what I can say about you guys!”

After he finished speaking, Li Hanqiang simply sent Deity Robber back to the city for free without even allowing him to buy any low-level potions.

He quickly went to the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin’s Mountain after that and the first thing he did was pop up the attribute panel of Cave Dwelling in Gremlin’s Mountain.

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Cave Dwelling in Gremlin’s Mountain Level 1: Special building belonging to Chaotic City No. 68.

Size: Ten-mile perimeter

Category: Paradise, citizens’ accommodations

Little gremlin level: 1

Current population of gremlins: 115/125

Ore reserves: 13

Timber reserves: 10

Herbal reserves: 11

Technology unlocked: Nest Shelter

Gremlin’s Mountain Architecture: Nest Shelter ×1

Description: Cave Dwelling in Gnome’s Mountain can be upgraded. Please read about the conditions for upgrading.

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The maximum number of little gremlins had been raised to 125, a natural result from reclaiming lands into plantation fields. The three resources, which were ore, herbs, and wood, were not growing fast enough. Fortunately, there were no other areas that required the consumption of these resources except for the Nest Shelter.

“Why have no other Gremlin’s Mountain technologies been researched? I have sent so many little gremlins!”

Li Hanqiang felt a little disappointed. Almost as if Game Creator Endless had felt his grievances as he thought about what to do, two system notifications suddenly sounded.

[Ding: The little gremlins dug an acre of good land at the Gremlin’s Mountain and the maximum number of gremlins has increased by +5.]

[Ding: The little gremlins developed a mid-level technology called Broken Void in the Gremlin’s Mountain Workshop!]

“A mid-level technology called the Broken Void!”

Li Hanqiang felt that he had heard it wrongly. Listening to the name ‘Broken Void’ already made it sound like a powerful technology.

He quickly opened the list of Gremlin’s Mountain Technology to view it.

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Broken Void: Mid-level technology, currently unlocked. The little gremlins of the Gremlin’s Mountain master the Void Station construction technology.

Construction cost of void platform: 10 ore, 10 wood

Building demands: Little gremlins x100

Construction time: 1 hour

Function description: Consumes 100 points of Chaotic Energy to break the void through the Void Platform, allowing the Chaotic City Lord and the little gremlin team to raid across different Chaotic Cities. The Chaotic City Lord can specify the Chaotic City that they wish to rob and the duration for each broken void is 60 minutes.

Description: The Void Station is a one-time building and will be written off after the Broken Void is opened.

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“Oh my god, I have finally succeeded and can soar in the sky. I can now raid across Chaotic Cities and not just Clones. This will now be a real raid! Since this is only considered a mid-level technology, I can only imagine how powerful any high or advanced-level technology would be!”

After reading the description of the Broken Void technology, Li Hanqiang could not help but fantasize about bringing the little gremlins as he raided around. His heart became heated as he imagined himself already owning the world.

However, after giving it a bit more thought, Li Hanqiang felt that this mid-level technology was actually a bit useless.

With the current attack power of the little gremlins, they could only bully goblin peddlers. If they went to other Chaotic Cities to rob them, wouldn’t that just be asking for death?