Sun Zaoli didn't ask Ye Fan why he bought so many spider gland sacs and chapter beast ink sacs, just like he didn't ask Ye Fan how he hunted so many sea beasts.
As a businessman, you must remain highly curious about any changes in the market, but you must also turn a blind eye to certain private matters. This is a good businessman.
Ye Fan and Sun Zaoli are classmates in Luyang Mansion. They have known each other for so many years and have often collaborated before, so they naturally trust him.
After talking in the Donglai Inn, Sun Zaoli didn't waste a moment, and hurriedly brought some animal materials to sell at a street stall, and purchased the two materials Ye Fan needed.
August is the month of Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the busiest month in Donglai City.
As one of the important festivals for the human race in Shenwu Continent, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the day of reunion.
Of course, for the other three of the four major races in the Shenwu Continent, the Orcs, Ghosts, and Spirits, this is probably the most important day of the year.
There is only one super full moon in a year, and the huge amount of moonlight released is far more than any small moon night. It can be said that the moonlight absorbed in one month is worth nearly half a year's growth.
These three major races can all enhance their cultivation strength by absorbing moonlight. Therefore, this is also the most active month for the three major clans, and they will not hesitate to fight for the precious moonlight.
The Shenwu Human Race does not absorb the moonlight. The original meaning of the Mid-Autumn Moon is to gather together to resist the Orcs and other races. Later, it gradually evolved into an important festival. On this day, most of the human race would gather together to avoid being left alone outside.
In Donglai County, warriors and warriors from various small towns like to come to the county town to watch the excitement.
Most of the warriors who do business at sea will return to Donglai City this month to avoid the big moon tide that breaks out at sea.
People from villages and towns around Donglai City will also enter the city one after another to avoid being hit by a wave of sea beasts.
This month is the time when there are the most people in Donglai City.
In Sun Zaoli's words, this is the best time to do business in Donglai City, and of course there is no delay.
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Ye Fan left these trivial matters to Sun Zaoli, while he went to find a small weapon refining workshop.
In the following days, Sun Zaoli brought back Ye Fan. Among the beast-type materials, more than 30 pieces of the most popular beast-type materials were sold, and about a thousand yuan stones were returned.
Most of the remaining beast-type materials are not best-selling beast materials, and they need to find suitable buyers, so they are sold more slowly. It is estimated that it will take nearly a month to sell them one after another.
Sun Zaoli deducted his commission and handed the first batch of one thousand yuan stones to Ye Fan.
Ye Fan had a thousand yuan stones in his hand, and he suddenly became much richer, and was no longer as strapped as before.
However, Ye Fan did not feel that these Yuan stones were many.
Because he needs to purchase a batch of items in the near future, he is afraid that even this little Yuan Stone will not be spent.
He lacks a storage ring to carry things with him. In the future, the materials obtained from hunting the Sea Beast Lord will always be packed in wooden boxes, which is inconvenient.
Just one storage ring requires a lot of primeval stones.
In addition, Ye Fan wants to refine a jet-type mysterious weapon by himself, and it will cost a lot of money to purchase the materials.
During this time in Donglai City, if he wanted to continue practicing, he would need to buy some blood pills and vitality pills for practice, which would also cost a lot of money.
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The news that Ye Fan returned to Donglai City was quickly spread by Sun Zaoli.
Soon, almost all the thirty or so top warriors who came out of Luyang City got the news.
In the big city of Donglai City, this small group of warriors and martial lords who were both from Luyang Mansion can be regarded as a closely connected small circle and maintain close contact.
If there is any benefit, they will take care of each other.
Jiang Youxi, Mu Bing, Qin Yuer and others were naturally very happy when they heard the news about Ye Fan. They came to Donglai Inn to find Ye Fan and wanted to invite Ye Fan to go boating on the Donglai River and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival night together.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, a group of them planned to go boating on the Donglai River to celebrate this grand festival.
But they failed. Ye Fan did not stay in the Donglai Inn, but went out to find a place to refine his mysterious weapon.
Fortunately, Ye Fan did not check out, he was just not in the inn for the time being.
Jiang Youxi and others couldn't help but feel annoyed and left a letter in Ye Fan's guest room. After Ye Fan reads the letter, he must remember to go to Donglai River to find them on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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Ye Fan didn't know that Jiang Youxi and the others had come to find him. He found a small weapon-refining workshop in Donglai City. Because the owner of the workshop planned to give everyone a few days off, the small workshop was idle.
Ye Fan immediately spent a few yuan stones to rent this small weapon refining workshop.
This small-scale weapon-refining workshop is quite simple, with only one high-temperature furnace for weapon-refining. Fortunately, it has all kinds of weapon-refining tools, which are enough for him.
In order to facilitate the refining of weapons, Ye Fan simply stayed in this small workshop.
Now that there is a place for refining weapons, it is easy to purchase materials for refining in the city. All that remains is to consider what kind of mysterious weapon to refine.
This is much more difficult than finding a small weapon-refining workshop.
Ye Fan's original idea was just to make a jet-type mysterious weapon that could be hung on his arm to shoot spider gland fluid. Inject the spider gland fluid into the mysterious weapon and it can be sprayed out at any time.
He has the "Spider Web" rune in his hand, and while using the mysterious weapon to shoot out the spider gland fluid, he casts the "Spider Web" rune. It can instantly release a spider web to capture and imprison enemies.
But then Ye Fan thought about it, and the ink of the Eight-claw Chapter was also a kind of liquid, not much different from the spider gland liquid. It's just that the effect after being shot is different. One is a spider web, used to capture enemies. The other is a piece of ink mist, used to create a large black battlefield fog.
Since it's the same projectile, why not make one more?
Anyway, if you want to make a jet-type mysterious weapon, you can simply make two jet-type mysterious weapons. One is used to shoot spider gland liquid, and the other is used to shoot ink bombs.
In this case, he needs to create two identical mysterious weapons.
For the convenience of use, I placed such a jet-type mysterious weapon on each of my left and right arms. When fighting, you can easily launch different attacks with your left and right arms to capture and confuse enemies, enriching your own tactics.
"Wait a minute... spider gland liquid and ink liquid! These are just two types of liquids that can be ejected, but there must be more similar things, such as highly venomous snake liquid and so on."
Ye Fan thought about it for a while and suddenly thought of a new question.
If he gets other types of projectiles in the future, wouldn't two mysterious weapons be enough? You still need to make three, four, five... similar mysterious weapons to be enough.
But even if he makes so many, the problem is that he only has two arms, which are not enough to hang these mysterious weapons.
If there are several types of missiles, or even more than ten kinds, it will be very troublesome. He may not be able to quickly figure out what each mysterious missile can launch.
Ye Fan became distressed and thought about how to solve this problem.
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration.
He thought of one thing. At that time, the Eight-clawed Beast Master sprayed out ink pills. It opened its mouth and spit out an ink pellet. After the ink pellet hit the battlefield, it suddenly exploded, forming a large black ink mist covering the battlefield.
His initial idea was to pour a launch liquid into a mysterious weapon. This operation is troublesome, and there is no way to quickly change the type of liquid inside.
But in fact, the projectiles inside can be solid particles shot out one by one!
"If this is the case, I can actually just make a projectile-type mysterious weapon. I only need to make the projectiles inside into small balls like ink pills. Whether it is spider gland fluid or ink pills, I can use a certain Plant something and wrap it up to make small balls, then hit them and explode."
Ye Fan thought excitedly.
In this case, he only needs to refine a launching weapon.
Make all other spider gland fluids, ink fluids, poisonous fluids, etc. into projectile-like objects and stuff them into the launching weapon.
When fighting, just fight them out.
Ye Fan thought about it more than ten times and felt that this idea was feasible. This is the simplest and most efficient multi-purpose weapon.
"Shang, do you have a blueprint for a similar mysterious weapon here?! It can be hung on my arm and fire a variety of different projectiles to a distance. It would be best to have more projectiles."
Ye Fan gave a rough description of the launch-type mysterious weapon he needed.
He only had a preliminary general idea of the mysterious weapon he needed, lacking more details.
The specific design of any mysterious weapon is a very rigorous matter. Every detail must be precise, otherwise the performance of the mysterious weapon will be weakened.
The design drawings of a mysterious weapon are the result of countless efforts by the weapon refiners. Through a large amount of refining and modification of details, the best effect of a mysterious weapon can be achieved.
Ye Fan doesn't have much experience in refining weapons, so of course he has to refer to the ready-made mysterious weapon design drawings.
Shang thought for a while and said: "The mysterious weapon you are talking about belongs to the mechanical puppet type mysterious weapon in the weapon refining department. Let me look for it and see the drawings of this type!"
Shang quickly began to search for the required information among its billions of pages. Although I read quickly, there were too many pages, so it was still very slow.
Ye Fan was not in a hurry and waited slowly.
As far as he knows, the weapon refining department of the nine major professions in the Shenwu Continent is divided into two major branches: the alchemy department and the mechanism puppet department.
Alchemy department: directly refine raw materials into a mysterious weapon, such as a mysterious fire knife, a mysterious gold sword, etc., which is a low-level alchemical mysterious weapon. The materials are not limited to ores, but all other materials are acceptable.
Mechanism Puppet System: The refining process is more complicated. First, several or even dozens or hundreds of components must be refined. These components themselves may not be lethal, or even have no effect individually. But when finally assembled into a mysterious machine, it was extremely powerful, even surpassing that of the alchemy system. As for the uses, they are of course all kinds of strange things.
The most common ones are machine ballistas, machine flying wings, machine puppets, machine puppet beasts, warships, etc., which all belong to the machine weapon refining system.
The wooden mechanism man in the Starfall Gravity Room of Luyang Mansion is a kind of mechanism puppet.
What Ye Fan wants to refine is a mysterious weapon that can launch objects, such as a mechanical ballista.
But there are a large number of varieties of this type of mysterious weapon.
Shang didn't know what kind of radiating mysterious weapon Ye Fan wanted, so he simply found out some of the drawings of radiating mysterious weapons recorded in it. There were hundreds of drawings of mysterious weapons, and asked Ye Fan to choose one from them.
Of course, what Shang selected were all blueprints of second-order martial master-level mysterious weapons. The designs of higher-level blueprints than this are too complex and the raw materials are difficult to refine. Ye Fan cannot currently refine them.
Ye Fan spent a long time, almost dazzled, and finally selected a machine gun design drawing that made him extremely satisfied.
The full name of this design drawing is called "Micro, Multifunctional, Switchable Projectile, Arm-Mounted, Yuaneng, Machine Cannon", or machine gun for short.
Specific performance, using Yuan Stone as energy, it can install ten projectiles at a time, and reload after shooting, with a range of one thousand feet. It can be installed on Wu Zun's left and right arms and is easy to operate.
Although this machine gun is small, it has more than dozens of components. Each component is closely connected, making it troublesome to refine. Without detailed design drawings, trying to refine it would be almost impossible.
"This design drawing is almost exactly the same as what I want? There is almost no need for any changes, just refine it directly!"
Ye Fan said in surprise.
The only difference is that the projectile designed in the original design of this machine gun is a kind of hidden thorn-type gold-type mysterious weapon. It has strong penetrating power and is used for assassination and powerfully piercing the enemy's defense.
Ye Fan only needs to replace the dark sting pellets directly with spider gland liquid pellets, ink pellets, and venom pellets.
Shang Hehe said: "There are countless weapon refiners in the entire Shenwu Continent. They are tinkering with all kinds of strange ideas every day, and they have designed almost all the mechanical and mysterious weapons that can be imagined! The design of mechanical cannons and other mysterious weapons that can be used by a single Martial Master. It is relatively simple, not as complicated as a mechanized warship. There is a blueprint designed by a weapon refiner, which is almost the same as what you think. It is not surprising. If you are thinking of another idea, it will definitely be different from the other one. A weapon refiner happened to have the same idea. However, this kind of machine gun is not a very cost-effective way to fight, and it consumes a lot of projectiles. On the contrary, there are very few warriors who use this kind of mysterious weapon to fight. As far as I have recorded, Very little."
Ye Fan nodded, able to understand this.
Battles between martial masters are fought using Xuan Dao, Xuan Sword, or vitality combat skills. Apart from consuming some vitality, there is almost no other loss.
But if you use a machine gun, it will fire "secret stab-type gold-based mysterious weapon" projectiles. One shot is enough, and one may require one or two Yuan stones to be refined, which is obviously very expensive. The key is that the combat effect may not be as good as a black gold sword in Wu Zun's hands. With such high cost and inefficient fighting, no martial lord would have a good impression of this kind of machine gun mysterious weapon.
Ye Fan changed the fired projectiles to "spider gland projectiles, ink projectiles, poisonous projectiles... etc.", and the cost dropped significantly.
One spider gland fluid can be injected into many projectiles separately, plus the cost of making projectile shells. It is estimated that one Yuan Stone can create three to five projectiles. This is still a modest cost.
For Ye Fan, this cost is completely affordable and he doesn't care too much about this consumption.
If it were replaced by another Martial Lord with weak combat power, this would still be a huge consumption. You know, a piece of Yuan Stone can almost hire a first-level Martial Lord to work for a month. Not many Martial Lords are willing to spend Yuan Stone like this.