Chapter 43: Arena

"Parchment scrolls?"

Gu Mi took out the three parchment scrolls from the card book and took a look at the decomposing of the demon beasts.

Sure enough, it was exactly what she had guessed.

Parchment roll paper, as the name suggests, is paper made of sheepskin.

This kind of paper that feels very ancient at first listen also existed in Gu Mi's previous world, but those are just ordinary paper, and the parchment scroll in the survival game is a magical prop.

Its function is the same as that of Everbright Paper, which is to record knowledge.

The difference is that this recorded knowledge can be materialized.

That is to say, Gu Mi can use these parchment scrolls to seal some skills in advance, and then release the sealed skills when needed, without consuming intelligence.

Because the intelligence value required to release the skill has already been consumed when the skill is sealed in the parchment, so it will not be consumed twice.

Explain in another way.

That is, the parchment scroll can be regarded as a talisman in the novel of self-cultivation, and it does not need to be stimulated with spiritual power.

This is a good thing, Gu Mi put it away immediately after reading it.

She continued to decompose the corpse of the beast.

Basically, no matter what level of Warcraft, she can get at least one white-level skill or equipment from it, and copper coins are even more essential.

Soon, the harvest was the same as the previous monster corpse.

piled up like a mountain.

This is why Gu Mi specially told the old village chief not to let others decompose the corpses of the beasts, all of which were reserved for her to come.

Gu Mi is self-aware.

Now that she knows that she is very lucky and is the poorest in the territory, how could she not use this to make more profits for her territory?

Don't say that if you run out of good luck now, you will have bad luck in the future.

She only knows that when you are lucky, you should use it more, otherwise you will not be able to use it when you are unlucky in the future.

Again, good things are only true when they are in their own hands.

After a busy morning, he finally decomposed all the corpses of the beasts, and he didn't even bother to eat. Gu Mi kept counting the gains of the battle with the old village chief.

The harvest in the beast tide is more complicated.

The main thing is that you can't predict what you can get out of the corpse of the beast, and those ordinary beasts are more troublesome to deal with.

So the inventory work is not easy.

In addition, many of the residents had never read books, and could not even understand the most basic addition and subtraction methods. The only literate people who could help with work were Gu Mi and the old village chief.

With fewer people, the work will naturally be done slowly.

After a busy paragraph, Gu Mi straightened up and rubbed her neck, sighing tiredly: "It seems that education in the territory has to catch up."

She also didn't realize the importance of basic education until now.

But this is not in a hurry at the moment, and it will not be too late to make arrangements when Cheng Ke helps her dig a wave of people back.

The main reason is that she is now promoting education immediately, and she can't find a suitable teacher candidate.

The old village chief was too busy to help her manage the territory, and so was she.

There is no time to be a teacher at all.

So we still have to wait for Cheng Ke to come back. At least some of the survivors that Cheng Ke promised to bring back must have received nine years of compulsory education.

Maybe if you are lucky, you can dig someone who turned out to be a teacher?

Relying on his own luck, Gu Mi began to make outrageous wishes.

"That's right!" Suddenly remembering something, Gu Mi instructed the old village chief: "You help me to publish a recruitment notice to the locals tomorrow morning, so that the locals who are interested in learning the craftsmanship can sign up voluntarily, and then go to the blacksmith shop that afternoon. Wait for me in front of the door."

"Yes, Lord Lord." The

old village head nodded, and then handed a report to Gu Mi: "All the harvests of our territory in the beast tide have been counted, and a total of 35,694 copper coins have been obtained. In addition, There is also animal meat..."

He eloquently reported a lot, and at the end, the old village chief said a little sadly: "There is one more thing, the salt in our territory is running out." There

is too much fresh animal meat . The law is exhausted.

Regardless of whether it is a personal card book or a territory warehouse, it does not have a long-term preservation function, so it can only be pickled with a lot of salt to prolong the shelf life.

This is thanks to the fact that it is winter and the temperature is cold, so they can have time to marinate their meat. Otherwise, if it is a hot summer, I am afraid that the next day after the arrival of the beast tide, there will be a stench around the territory. rotten smell.

"Don't worry about the salt, I will solve it."

This problem may be a big problem for other territories, but it is not a big problem for Gu Mi territory.

Don't forget, they also have a salt lake.

Before, because of the dangerous guy in the salt lake, she was forced to give it up temporarily. Now that her strength has recovered a bit, it is time to meet that guy.

After making up his mind, Gu Mi didn't leave immediately.

If you want to go, you have to arrange things in the territory first.

As soon as they heard that the lord was recruiting blacksmiths, many lords who were conscious of their strength and who were interested in it hurriedly went to the old village chief to sign up.

When Gu Mi came over with a bag of biscuits stuffed by Grandma Rabbit halfway, he saw two rows of people standing neatly in front of the blacksmith shop.

Counting them, there were actually twelve people who came to sign up to be blacksmiths.

It also includes an adult tree person.

Seeing the tree man, Gu Mi was strangely silent for a while, wanting to open his mouth to persuade him to go home.

Otherwise, she was really afraid that if the stove was on, it would set him on fire.

As a tree person whose entire body is made of trees, you should cherish life and keep away from fire!

But in the end, Gu Mi still didn't say the words of persuasion.

Maybe this is someone's dream?

She thought so.

A lot of indifferent thoughts flashed in my heart, but on the surface Gu Mi was still serious, holding the style of the Lord.

"You should know what you are here for, but there is only one blacksmith shop, and the required blacksmiths are also limited. I only plan to recruit two blacksmith apprentices among you, so I hope everyone will work hard and strive for employment."

Gu Mi added No nonsense, after a simple explanation, I went straight into the blacksmith shop, raised two stoves, took out a pile of iron ore from the card book and threw it on the ground, and then took out a piece of iron ore and threw it into the stove. , start calcination.

Calcining iron ore is easy and simple, but it is indeed difficult.

First, the iron ore needs to be thrown into the furnace to be heated. After the iron ore is burned red, then it is clamped out with a special clip, placed on the forging table, and the hammer is pounded on the ground to remove the iron ore. impurities.

This process needs to be beaten very carefully, and you have to pay attention to the average.

If the hammering is uneven, the impurities in the iron ore will not be removed evenly, and the final forged item will become fragile and perishable.

Calcining iron ore requires repeated heating and beating until a whole block of iron ore has been forged into a denser, harder and more durable refined iron, which can then be used to forge what you want.

Gu Mi does not have high requirements for blacksmith apprentices, and it is unrealistic to not ask them to build something the first time they get started.

All she asks is that they can successfully forge a piece of fine iron from iron ore.

Before that, Gu Mi will act as a teacher and show everyone the process of ironing, including a detailed explanation of each step in the process. After the teaching, let 12 people work in pairs, take turns to strike, and personally beside them. timing.

In the end, the fastest top two admissions are taken.

Forging is time-consuming, so the recruitment continued until nightfall before the results were determined.

Surprisingly, in addition to a strong human being who was admitted, the other was actually the tree man.

The tree man's forging method shocked Gu Mi.

During the forging process, he actually threw a small section of his own branch into it, and then the scorching flames suddenly jumped high, and the temperature also rose a lot.

With the help of high temperature, the iron ore is calcined naturally faster, so in the end, the tree people won the top two wins.

Before enrolling Shuren, Gu Mi had a simple exchange with him regarding his 'self-harm' behavior.

The result is that the broken branch is just like human hair, it will grow back soon, and it does not affect anything. Even because he is a tree man, as long as there is sufficient sunlight and water, he can spawn more by himself. The branches grow out without any hassle at all.

In this case, Gu Mi has no reason to discourage others.

She didn't think that the tree man's method of burning his own branches to speed up the calcination was cheating, because this was originally a kind of his racial advantage, and it could also be regarded as the unique forging method of the tree man family.

If others have similar advantages, the same can be used.

What Gu Mi wants is someone who can help her do a good job. As for the way of working? As long as it doesn't violate the rules of the territory, she doesn't pay attention, and the results meet her expectations.

After arranging the blacksmith shop, Gu Mi took a look at the arena next door.

Since the establishment of the arena, she has not officially stepped into it!

The arena, as Gu Mi envisioned, is a ring-shaped stone building similar to the ancient Roman arena.

It covers a large area, and Gu Mi estimates that it occupies more than ten acres of land.

The entire arena sunk into the middle along the giant pit that Gu Mi had smashed before, forming a relatively wide circular arena, surrounded by a ring-shaped stepped audience platform, where people could sit on the top and watch the battle below from a commanding height. .

Gu Mi called out the data card of the arena.

"Primary arena

function: 1. Simulated battle. You

can choose to pay a certain amount of copper coins to open the simulated battle platform, and you can get a certain experience value reward for defeating your opponent.

2. Real-person battle.

You can choose to sign a battle agreement, make an appointment with others, and make an appointment. Open the viewing permission, and the winner can get a certain percentage of the viewing income as a bonus.

Note: Death is not allowed in the arena, and after the competition is over, no matter how much the previous injury was, it will immediately return to the pre-competition state." A

little curious, Gu Mi thought Now that there is nothing to do, just try the role of this arena for yourself.

She walked towards the ring in the middle, and just as she reached the edge of the ring, a selection panel automatically popped out in front of her.

"Please choose the competitive mode: Simulate a real person."

"Simulation." She can't find anyone to fight with her now.

"Please choose to simulate the opponent's strength." The

simulated opponent's strength is based on level 10. There are ten levels of prices. Below level 10, it only costs 10 copper coins to start a battle. Above level 10 is 20 copper coins. Level up is 40 copper coins, level 30 is 80, forty 160... Each stack is multiplied by a multiple of 2, and so on.

This price is quite low for those who can kill opponents of those levels.

Fortunately, the arena can open a hundred simulated battles at the same time without disturbing each other. In this way, it can not only meet the training needs of many people, but also generate more revenue for the arena.

All income from the arena is deducted by 20% as maintenance costs, and the rest goes to the territory.

It can be said that this is another profitable building belonging to the territory, in addition to the rental residences created by Gu Mi.

Gu Mi just wanted to test it out.

So she only spent 10 copper coins and chose an opponent below level ten.

In addition to the division of large levels, after entering the simulated battle, the specific level of opponents that will appear is random, but the arena will try to match you with similar strength in the level you choose according to your needs, or is a slightly higher opponent.

The opponent in front of Gu Mi's eyes was a ninth-level puffy grass.

"Plant-type Warcraft."

Somewhat unexpectedly, she didn't expect that the guy she hadn't met outside actually met her in the arena.

However, Gu Mi guessed that maybe she was matched with this opponent because she had never met.