Constructing-Style Wizard

Chapter 194

Li Nuo and Denise followed Nelly and wandered around the east side of the archipelago until noon.

Nelly arranged lunch for Li and Nuo in the exchange. After the meal, Li Nuo and Nelly learned about some things, and finally left the exchange on the grounds that they "still have to think about it".

Looking at it this morning, there are more than 300 islands with prices below 100,000 gold coins.

Except for the No. 1 snow mountain island whose mineral resources have been hollowed out, the rest of the islands are small islands with a width of no more than 10 kilometers.

Such small islands are difficult to develop and utilize due to their small size, remote location, or numerous underwater reefs. Things like building magic ecological farms, large-scale magic water purification facilities, and building ports cannot be realized on such small islands.

In addition, the security force on the east side of the archipelago is another important factor affecting the selling price of the island.

The Deep Sea Branch is responsible for providing security services.

Almost every thirty kilometers, there is a magic sentry. It is an unmanned magical facility floating on the sea, and it will patrol back and forth on the sea between the islands.

Magic servants are the staff of the sentry.

Where there is a battle, the magic sentry will rush there immediately, and use brilliant fireworks to notify the wizard stronghold established between the islands by the Deep Sea Branch.

After the deep sea wizards in the wizard stronghold received the news, they would immediately rush to the scene to resolve the dispute.

The closer to the patrol route of the magic sentry, the closer to the stronghold of the deep sea wizard, the higher the quality of the security service, and correspondingly, the price of the island will also rise.

After taking into account all factors such as the site selection of the islands, the quality of public security, the topography, the number and size of safe havens, and the price, there are 15 islands that fully meet the requirements of Li and Nuo.

Among them is the No. 1 Snow Mountain Island.

Snow mountain islands No. 1 to No. 3 are very close to each other.

Before mining, the resources on the three snow-capped islands were extremely rich.

In order to prevent theft, the Deep Sea Branch set up wizard strongholds and magic guard posts near the three snow mountain islands.

Once established, the wizard stronghold and magic sentry of the Deep Sea Branch will not be easily changed. Therefore, even if the mineral resources on No. 1 Snow Mountain Island are evacuated, it is still within the scope of high-quality security services.

After Li Nuo selected 15 islands that met the requirements, he was not in a hurry to pay the money.

As he told Nelly, "he needs to think again".

But he wasn't thinking about picking one of the 15 islands.

What he really thought about was "stealing the chicken."

He discovered a system knowledge that he had neglected but was extremely important.

As we all know, before deconstructing something, if you have mastered the deconstruction results and knowledge skills related to such a thing, then the consumption of deconstruction will be reduced.

The representation of the system usually looks like this:

Based on your deconstruction results of XXXX, the consumption of this deconstruction has been reduced.

Or something like this:

Since you have mastered "XXXX Science (XX level)", the consumption of this deconstruction has been reduced.

The appearance of such two kinds of system text means that what Li Nuo is trying to deconstruct is related to the deconstruction results and knowledge skills he has mastered.

So the question is, can this very common system knowledge be used to explore island resources?

For example:

Before Li Nuo mastered knowledge skills like "Mineral Exploration", he threw a deconstruction technique to island A, and got the unreduced deconstruction consumption A1.

Then, he mastered the knowledge skills through self-study, and threw the deconstruction technique towards island A again to obtain the deconstruction consumption data A2 after reduction.

The difference between A1 minus A2 is the deconstruction consumption reduction value enjoyed after mastering "Mineral Exploration".

On the premise that the known reduction value is only related to knowledge and skills, it is not difficult to deduce a conclusion:

The more resources on the island related to learning skills, the greater the deconstruction consumption reduction value.

As long as you compare the reduction values ​​of each island, you can infer the amount of resources on the island!

Then compare the deconstruction consumption reduction and exemption rate of different islands with the resource reserves on the island data, and then get a rough data on how many resources have not been discovered by human exploration.

This is often overlooked by Li Nuo, but extremely important system knowledge.

As long as you learn and use it flexibly, its effect is extremely amazing.

Thinking of this series of operations, Li Nuo had to thank himself for the mathematics he had learned in high school and college. Because many ideas in these calculation operations draw on mathematical knowledge points such as "algebra", "derivation", and "limit".

Immediately after leaving the island exchange, Li Nuo took Denise to the free market in the trading area by car.

Liberty Market is a commercial square covering an area of ​​more than 50,000 square meters.

Its core building is the Magic Item Trading Center. Countless shops are located around the trading center with white walls, and the entire commercial plaza is packed to the brim.

After entering the market, Li Nuo and Denise split up.

Living on the island, there are many necessary daily necessities that need to be purchased. Denise did the chores of buying groceries. She would stay in the department store in Liberty Market until Li Nuo came to find her.

Li Nuo walked through the crowded streets alone, looking for everything related to knowledge and skills.

His goals are clear.

First of all, he needs to find academic classics related to natural resources.

Regardless of whether it is about prospecting for resources or mining resources, Li Nuo never refuses anyone who comes. As long as it can unlock knowledge skills, it is a good book.

Second, he was looking for tomes related to the Demon Thief Society and the ancient Dragon Clan.

The purpose of collecting classics related to the Magic Thief Society is to find inspiration for using "magic stealing" flexibly.

In "The Way of the Wizard" and "The Foundation of Magic", they only briefly mentioned the extraordinary things learned by the magic thief, and did not elaborate on what they did.

Today, the Demon Thief Society has become history, at least a thousand years ago.

This wizard is not as famous as the Dragon Clan, nor is it as influential as the Dragon Clan, so finding its historical materials should be a bit of a hassle.

In contrast, ancient cultural relics related to the dragon clan are not uncommon in the free market.

As a race that exists in legends, people are very curious about dragons and have a strong desire to explore.

As a result, a large number of fakes have been created.

Li Nuo just walked through a street, and saw no less than a hundred fakes made with modern magic techniques, and these fakes were all related to the Dragon Clan.

The number of counterfeits far exceeds the genuine ones, and the real ones have become one-in-a-million.

Obviously there are so many races that have disappeared in the long river of history, why do counterfeiters focus on the dragon race?

The answer has something to do with the spinning continent 1,000 kilometers south of the Suman Islands.

The Flying Continent is the only place in this world where dragons haunt. The Suman Islands are also the only human territory adjacent to the Spinning Continent.

More than half of the Extraordinary people who come and go here in the Suman Islands are aiming at the strangeness of the Spinning Continent.

Feixuan, as the name suggests, is a continent that flies in the air and keeps spinning. Under the action of centrifugal force, the Flying Continent will throw the treasures of the Dragon Clan out of the Continent from time to time. These treasures will drag a long tail flame and fall into the vast sea beyond the Whirling Continent.

Most of the dragon treasures have sunk to the bottom of the sea, only a small part can be captured by the ships squatting on the sea, and then brought to the free market for trading.

The magic item exchange in the center of the free market is specially opened for trading dragon treasures.

Dragon Treasure does not refer to "treasure produced by Dragon". As the overlord of the last era, the Dragon Clan searched for the precious resources of other races, stuffed them into their own treasure house, and became part of the Dragon Clan's collection.

From the statistical data, less than one-tenth of the treasures of the dragon clan that were successfully captured were self-made by the dragon clan, and the remaining 90% were spoils that the dragon clan plundered from other races.

What Li Nuo is looking for is the research materials on the Dragon Clan, or the chronicles, geographical data, historical records, list of members of the Dragon Clan, etc. written by the Dragon Clan himself.

Only these things can help him reduce the energy cost of deconstructing the island.

It would be great if we could find information directly related to the "Longya Reservoir".

With this information, when Li Nuo tries to deconstruct the strange island related to Longya Reservoir, he will directly get the news of deconstruction consumption reduction, and then determine that this island is closely related to Longya Reservoir.

With a clear goal and clear thinking, coupled with the extremely convenient deconstruction technique, Li Nuo easily found what he wanted.

This is a small shop huddled in the most remote corner of the market. There is a wooden signboard with peeling paint hanging outside the door, on which is written a line of crooked handwriting concisely and clearly:

"Headway's store—my store only sells genuine products."

The owner, Hideaway, seems to have just returned from the sea.

There was a heavy magic canvas bag on his back, and the cloak on his body was wet, leaving a string of wet footprints as he walked.

When Li Nuo arrived here, Hedway was turning his back to him, took out the key chain from the pocket under the cloak, and fiddled with the keyhole on the door.

Hedwig is huge and looks like a humpbacked giant bear from the back.

After failing to insert the key into the keyhole twice in succession, Hedway let out a dull sigh, fumbled in the magic canvas bag behind his back with his wide palm, and took out a pair of glasses with a string tied to his face.

It seems that Hedwig has a little vision problem. After he tied up his glasses, he saw the direction of the keyhole and successfully opened the front door of the store.

A musty smell that hadn't been ventilated or exposed to light for a long time came out of the house, and Li Nuo could smell it from several meters away.

Hedwig bent over and squeezed through the door. Just as he turned to close the door, he noticed Li Nuo who was staying not far from the door.

Li Nuo also saw the appearance of the shopkeeper.

Big, shaggy face, brown beard and hair in patches, eyes covered by dime-sized lenses. The combination of his wide face and tiny lenses makes him look comical.

Hedway faced Li Nuo, scratched his beard, and said with a slight alcohol smell:

"Are you here to buy something? Hiccup~"

"That's right, I've taken a fancy to those dragon teeth hanging on the outside of the backpack." Li Nuo raised his hand and pointed to the outside of the backpack behind him.

Hedwig stretched out his hand and touched behind him. There are many things hanging on the outside of his backpack, among which Longya is not very conspicuous.

He used his sense of touch to distinguish what Li Nuo was pointing at, and said with a breath of alcohol:

"Oh, you said this, this is my lucky item, and I won't sell it for any amount. Hiccup~...I have some other things here, you may be interested. However, I just came back from the sea and haven't sorted it out yet The harvest from this trip, so I don’t have time to introduce you to the things in the store, so you can just come in and take a look. But remember, if you don’t want to buy it, don’t touch it.”

Hedwig waved to Li Nuo, inviting him to enter the store, and then began to organize the things in the backpack on his own.

The shop is small in size, the roof is five meters above the ground, the surrounding walls are occupied by messy shelves, and the dim chandelier on the ceiling is the only source of light.

After Li Nuo entered the store, he looked around the scene in the house and knew that he had come to the right place.

Just like what Hideaway wrote on the signboard, the products here are all genuine, and have indeed been collected by Dragon Clan, or come from Dragon Clan itself.

Most of the commodities are small objects of unknown use made of metal or stone, and a small part are dragon teeth, dragon scales, dragon skin scraps and other weird things.

Li Nuo used deconstruction techniques to confirm the authenticity of these things, but their quality is really unsatisfactory, they are all tattered.

Not to mention the serious incompleteness, there are obvious signs of weathering and seawater erosion, which greatly reduces the appearance of the product.

Li Nuo noticed that the deconstruction of things that originated from the Dragon Clan itself consumes a lot of energy, and it has nothing to do with the size.

The most typical one is the thumb-sized dragon tooth, which is yellow and full of dents and gaps. When the light shines on it, it feels like the surface is coated with oil and wax.

Just this little thing, Li Nuo needs more than 10,000 energy points to completely deconstruct it.

Li Nuo took a closer look, but didn't see any tricks from this dragon tooth.

He looked back at Hedway who was picking up the sundries in the backpack, and asked in a dubious tone:

"The dragon tooth you put on the shelf, is it really a dragon tooth? It looks like a sharpened finger bone..."

Headway reacted fiercely to Li Nuo's questioning. He slapped the sundries in his hand on the table, stood upright by the table, and glared at Li Nuo:

"Of course it's real! Everything I have here is real! Blame those bastards who sell fakes! Everyone who comes to my place to buy something will ask me if it's real!"

Hideaway seems to have been tormented by his colleagues selling fakes.

Think about it too, after selling fakes to form a complete system and judging criteria, public perception will be distorted by fakes.

After all, not everyone has sufficient knowledge reserves to be able to distinguish genuine products from fakes by themselves.

Most of the buyers are looking for fresh pictures, or have little knowledge of the Dragon Race. In this case, the words and routines carefully packaged by the counterfeit seller will make it easier for customers to believe that the counterfeit is genuine.

If things go on like this, genuine products will be expelled by fakes, resulting in a phenomenon similar to "bad money drives out good money".

Just like the dragon tooth that Li Nuo referred to.

Some fake dragon teeth will be made crystal clear and flawless. This part of the counterfeit was sold to unscrupulous buyers who knew nothing about the dragon family.

If the buyer has some knowledge about the dragon family but not much, then the fake dragon teeth that are deliberately old will be put on the table by the seller.

With the blessing of magic, the counterfeit has been able to confuse the real one, but the cost of the counterfeit and the real one is the same, one day.

Fakes can be made in magic workshops and are cheap to make.

For genuine products, the shopkeeper needs to find the real source of the goods, or go to sea to capture the treasures flying out of the whirling continent like Headway, or go deep into the seabed to search for the leftovers sleeping on the seabed.

Li Nuo understood Heidewei's mood and aggrieved heart very well, he deliberately used these words to stimulate the other party.

The reason... is very simple, it is similar to "buying headphones". If you don’t know which is the best earphone under 300 yuan, don’t ask “what earphones are recommended for less than 300 yuan”, but say “there are no good earphones under 300 yuan”.

Although this fishing-like method attracts hatred, it is simple and efficient, and it is the easiest way to stimulate honest and upright people who have mastered the truth to speak out.

Hideaway is such a person.

Facing Li Nuo's doubts, he unceremoniously complained about the fake, then took off his glasses, looked at the dragon tooth that Li Nuo was pointing at from a distance of several meters, and said impatiently:

"That's the baby dragon's tooth, that's why it's so small. To be precise, it's the tooth that was discarded when the baby dragon changed its teeth for the first time. This tooth is at least five thousand years old. It's normal for it to look broken Yes. The dragon teeth you see in other stores are basically fake..."

Hedwig suddenly said dejectedly like a deflated balloon:

"Forget it, forget it, believe it or not...I can only say that everything here is real. I hate fakes more than you..."

Hedwig put on his glasses and continued to organize the sundries on the table.

Li Nuo nodded slowly behind him, and basically got a clear idea of ​​Hedway's character, personality and characteristics.

This is a relatively straightforward and frightened deep sea wizard. When other shopkeepers were lazy in the market by selling fakes, Headway chose to go to the sea to capture the treasures of the Dragon Clan and sell them in his shop.

Under normal logic, such a hands-on shopkeeper would have many genuine products, and he should have a better business, but why is he so down and out.

Li Nuo has many opinions on this.

One of the reasons must be that the fakes are made too real.

The second reason is that when dragons are almost extinct, modern magic craftsmen have found materials to replace dragon materials. As a result, the demand for dragon materials in the magic manufacturing industry is almost zero.

The third reason is that Li Nuo thinks it has something to do with the appraisal fee.

Before Li Nuo found Headway's store, he went to the appraisal store in the market to check it out.

For appraisers certified by the "Erudite Association", the initial fee for a single appraisal is 100,000 gold coins.

Appraisers who are not certified by the Polymath Association will start with a single charge of 10,000 gold coins.

No matter what kind of appraisal service provided by the appraiser, its charging price exceeds most of the fakes. In addition, when the counterfeit product is sold with an appraisal report, it is natural that few buyers will pay for it to be appraised by others.

Under the influence of various factors, the things that Li Nuo saw in the Headway store, whether new or old, complete or not, were all exactly the same in other stores. The same as copied here.

In the face of fakes of such authenticity, if Headway's genuine product sells well, it will have no competitive advantage at all.

"How much is this dragon tooth?" Li Nuo asked.

Headway turned his head and glanced at Li Nuo:

"330 gold coins, no bargaining. Do you want it? If you want it, I'll wrap it up for you."

"Well, it's quite expensive, let me have a look again. When was the last time you sold something?" Li Nuo asked again.

Hedwig scratched the beard on his chin:

"Uh... about a month ago, I can't remember exactly."

When fakes can be confused with real ones, and the real ones are still so expensive, there are ghosts if things can be sold...

Li Nuo squinted his eyes and looked around, thoughtful.

He seems to have found a good way to harvest a lot of energy and master knowledge skills.

Sure enough, as soon as he left the corner of Golden Island, there were more magical things around him, and even small objects that could be used for passive deconstruction became more and more abundant. The arrangement of leaving Golden Island by himself was indeed right.

The only downside is that you have to spend gold coins wherever you go.