nucmednet Chapter 26 The Money House
Chapter 26 The Money House
"Don't be afraid of a low success rate in begging; as long as you keep begging, you'll eventually get someone to give you alms!"
Wang Jue had a lot of ideas. He felt that begging was not very useful in fighting, and might even have a negative effect. However, if the target was restrained or in a similar state, then begging would have a lot of room to play a role. If used well, it could definitely bring huge benefits.
After killing the small merman with the machete beneath him, Wang Jue went to look at the alms the old beggars had received, which were the two machetes. He thought the machetes were crudely made and small in size, and that they might be used as throwing knives, so he could collect them.
"You continue begging, the rest of you provide protection!"
Wang Jue shouted, then took out a long white waxwood spear and joined the battle.
Outside the brick wall, 50 murloc artillerymen had already formed a battle formation. They knelt in a straight line, each carrying a deep-sea murloc cannon on their shoulder. Meanwhile, the small murlocs with cleavers automatically loaded their cannons and methodically crawled into the cannon barrels, only to be blasted out after entering.
bang bang bang bang...
Fifty murloc artillerymen can blast out 50 small murlocs with cleavers in one round. A small number of them will miss and land outside the courtyard or hit the wall, but more than 40 will land in the courtyard!
In Wang Jue's perception, it was as if more and more small, knife-wielding fishmen were falling from the sky, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
Fortunately, with Mad Dog King and Three-Star Sabertooth Tiger in the courtyard, no matter how many small fish with cleavers there were, they couldn't cause any trouble.
As time passed, about half an hour later, no more sharded murlocs flew into the courtyard. At this point, there were no more sharded murlocs outside the courtyard wall, and the murloc artillerymen had run out of ammunition. They stood up, walked to the courtyard wall, and began to smash the wall hard, using the deep-sea murloc cannon as a club.
They're short and chubby, so they can't climb walls or even stack themselves up.
Another three-star hero-level murloc leader took the lead, using his deep-sea trident to smash through the wall.
The brick wall built by the plasterer was a 48mm thick wall, nearly half a meter thick, and was very sturdy. It took a full five minutes for the fishman leader, wielding a trident, to smash a hole in the brick wall.
He grinned widely and roared angrily, as if venting his frustration.
With this opening, the nearby murloc cannons stopped attacking the wall; instead, they gathered together and took turns climbing inside.
Behind the gap, they were met with a large, golden-ringed sword burning with flames.
Wang Jue was quite at ease inside the small courtyard.
He pulled the eight old beggars behind Mad Dog King, and their skills were automatically triggered. They all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the emerging murloc cannon soldier, begging for alms.
"Give me some food!"
"Give me some food!"
They even shouted their lines in unison, with a powerful and resounding voice.
"This is a tactic, it's not shameful!" Wang Jue said from the side.
"What a ridiculous lord, what ridiculous troops!" Bandhu muttered. "If it weren't for the walls, we would have been wiped out long ago!"
Wang ignored Bandehu and waited quietly for the old beggars to succeed in their begging.
Two minutes later, with a ding, an old beggar successfully made a beggar's money. The word "Give" appeared above the head of a fishman cannon that had just climbed into the gap in the courtyard wall. He directly threw the deep-sea fishman cannon he was carrying to the old beggar in the courtyard.
Then Mad Dog King brought down his twin swords, sending it to its death.
Wang Jue stepped forward and examined the cannon barrel, which actually contained attribute information.
[Deep-Sea Murloc Cannon: An incredible cannon built with deep-sea black technology. It can use various types of Murlocs, such as the Slicer Machete Murloc, Flame Murloc, Arrowhead Murloc, Baldy Murloc, and Exploding Murloc, as projectiles. It has a range of 50 meters.]
"Wow, deep-sea black technology! Using little fishmen as cannonballs, it really is a fishman cannon!"
Wang Jue picked up the [Deep Sea Fishman Cannon] and felt that it was not bad. Although he couldn't use it now, he could put it on the city wall as a decoration in the future.
Moments later, the 50 murloc artillerymen were wiped out by the Mad Dog King, the old beggars obtained two deep-sea murloc cannons through their begging, and the Mad Dog King also scattered coins all over the ground.
At this point, only the murloc leader remained in the murloc army.
Wang Jue sent Mad Dog King out to fight him one-on-one, while eight old beggars begged from the side.
The murloc leader hadn't changed much, but Mad Dog King was now a three-and-a-half-star near-top-tier martial arts master. His skills had improved even more. Before the two had even fought for ten rounds, Mad Dog King used a sliding tackle and slash to kill the murloc leader.
With a clang, the old beggars successfully begged for their money. Before dying, the fish-man leader had the words "Giving" appear above his head, and he tossed the Deep Sea Trident to one of the old beggars.
However, with another clang, a deep-sea trident fell to the ground where the fishman leader had vanished in a flash of light.
"Is this Mad Dog King's special ability kicking in? How amazing, two Deep Sea Tridents dropped at once!"
Wang Jue's face was beaming with smiles. He thought to himself how awesome his troops were, and he marveled at how useful the brick walls were. With the brick walls in place, it was much easier to withstand the fourth attack from the merman army than he had imagined.
At this moment, a system notification sounded: "Ding, the mission is complete after repelling the fourth attack of the merman army. Rewards: 100 Star Coins, 200 Soul Power, and one Low-Level Hero Recruitment Token."
"Ding! You can choose one of the following random warehouse building blueprints as a reward."
"Optional Building 1: Blueprint for the Large Warehouse. After use, a large warehouse will be built in the territory. The large warehouse has 10,000 storage slots, which can quickly store the territory's resources. Please explore on your own for details."
"Optional Building Two: The construction blueprint for the Fortune House. After use, a Fortune House will be built in the territory, increasing the territory's economic attribute by +5. The Fortune House has 3000 storage slots, which can quickly store the territory's resources. It also provides a scrap recycling function. If you designate an item as scrap and sell it to the system, you can get 20% of the item's average market price. The Fortune House requires one female receptionist. Please explore on your own for details."
"Ding! New mission started. The total value of the territory's overall attributes has reached 50. After completing the mission, the player's general skill [Reconnaissance] and the lord player's exclusive skill [Territory Patchwork] will be unlocked, and subsequent missions will be available."
"Good, good, good!"
Wang Jue nodded repeatedly and received another two hundred points of soul power!
I recently acquired a [Low-Tier Hero Recruitment Token]. Using this item will allow you to randomly recruit a hero of three stars or below.
For the construction blueprints of the warehouse building, Wang Jue naturally chose the [Fortune House Construction Blueprint].
"Although the Fortune House has limited storage space, it's a multi-functional building that can also increase territory attributes. Should we assign a female receptionist? Tsk tsk, does my entire Xuanzhou region not have a single female member these days...?"
Wang Jue arrived at the east side of Courtyard No. 3, intending to build Courtyard No. 4 there, and in this Courtyard No. 4, of course, he would build the House of Fortune.
Soon, a traditional-style cottage appeared in front of Wang Jue.
This little house is, of course, the "money-making house." It's about the size of a bread cart, no more than three meters high, and doesn't take up much space; it's like an architectural model.
Its main entrance faces south, with a pair of golden toad statues in front of it. Above the door is a plaque that reads "Prosperity House". Once inside, the space opens up into a bright and spacious area, resembling the lobby of a modern Chinese-style shopping mall. It has an area of two to three hundred square meters and includes counters, tables and chairs, holographic-projection-like storage compartments, and a waste recycling window. It can be described as a hidden world within a hidden space.