Global Famine: My items can be automatically upgraded.

The street still retains its original appearance.

The two research institutes should have been spacious, but after You Wuchang announced the addition of new ones, the surrounding areas were crowded with residences of other people with special abilities.

Coupled with the weapons sold by the institute, this place is extremely crowded.

Although other stores also sell weapons.

But most of them are middlemen.

In the past, research institutes seldom sold their products themselves, but rather wholesaled them in bulk to stores below, in order to quickly recover their funds.

And now, there is another clause in You Wuchang's new policy, which is that people with special abilities can get a 30% discount on the original price.

Those individual store owners naturally would not fulfill You Wuchang's orders.

Isn't this just taking advantage of your own interests and giving benefits to others?

Moreover, You Wuchang does not provide any subsidies, and is simply stealing money from individual business owners.

Individual business owners naturally won’t do that.

You Wuchang did not have the energy to intervene or the reason to force individual bosses to carry out his orders, but as a research institute directly under the shelter, the orders still had to be carried out.

Therefore, this has resulted in the research institute having a "one-stop production and sales system" and not requiring all those with special abilities to consume here.

And those individual bosses have completely lost the free market.

For You Wuchang, the economy has not lost its vitality.

But those in charge are confused while those on the sidelines can see things more clearly. From a God's perspective, this is undoubtedly a landmine.

At this time, Song You had already entered the gate of the research institute.

He found a group of people gathered outside the temporary shop opened by the research institute. From time to time, people exclaimed and heard the sizzling sound of weapons being quenched.

Song You couldn't help but look over curiously.

I found out after some investigation.

They were gambling with swords.

The shaper will sell the sword blanks he made without grinding or quenching at a relatively low price to those who are willing to take a chance.

After the buyer selects the sword blank, they will grind the sword blank into a sharp edge and quench it.

The properties of mutated metals will vary greatly due to different levels of radiation and proportions.

Buyers don't have advanced ion chromatographs to measure the composition of the steel. They can only rely on experience and rough estimates and guesses, and the error is completely up to chance.

A Shaper would not encounter any problems when forging a sword blank, but during grinding, there was a high probability of discovering inclusions within the blade. These were particles, usually mutated metal oxides and sulfides, resulting from improper handling.

They will seriously damage the performance of the sword and even cause the sword to break during collision.

Quenching is a step with a very high elimination rate, because the melting points of various variant metals are different, and it is very difficult to determine the appropriate temperature.

If the shaping ability user's skills are insufficient, the mutated metal in the sword body will be unevenly distributed. These situations will cause the sword body to twist and crack during quenching.

If the casting fails, the loss to the shaper is very great. The number of times the mutant metal can be recast is limited. If it is cast at high temperature too many times, a degradation effect will appear. It is very easy to lose the mutant properties caused by radiation and degenerate into ordinary metal again.

In order to avoid these risks, they would select some sword blanks that were not very reliable, mark them with the name of the shaper, and let the buyers choose, thus spreading the risk among the buyers.

The loser may get a piece of completely unusable scrap metal, or he may get a sword that can cut through iron like mud.

Moreover, the possibility of it being scrap metal is much higher than that of a precious sword, but human beings love gambling by nature, especially the leaders of these plunderers who make money quickly, and they continue to spend a lot of money on gambling swords.

A middle-aged burly man with a gold chain as thick as his fingers and gold teeth confidently pulled out a black sword blank and handed it to the shaper who forged it.

The shape-shifter's surname is Zhou Tian, ​​and he is one of the best shape-shifters in the entire institute. Among the twenty sword blanks he took out for gambling, there would be three or four usable long swords, and occasionally there would be a sharp sword with excellent performance.

He picked up the grinding wheel and ground out the rough edge of the sword blank. At this step, the sword blank performed very perfectly, the material was very uniform, there were no fatal inclusions, and even beautiful patterns could be seen.

A smug smile appeared on the strong man's face, which meant that he had already won half the battle.

Zhou Tian also breathed a sigh of relief. He clamped the sword with pliers, inserted it into the gas furnace, and then adjusted the knob of the gas tank next to it to the maximum. The blazing flame generated by the burning propane quickly heated the sword blank and emitted a red-hot light.

The reason why he took out this sword blank to gamble was because the raw material of this sword was a piece of steel cable sawed off from the ruins of a suspension bridge.

He was unable to determine the quality of the nickel, iron and hard chromium in these steel cables, so he took out the sword blank that he had worked so hard to forge to gamble.

After estimating the temperature of the sword, Zhou Tian clamped the hilt with pliers and plunged the entire sword directly into the quenching oil. This quenching oil was made from the corpses of ghouls and added with salts such as sodium chloride and barium chloride. It could improve the physical and chemical properties of the weapon during quenching.

Zhou Tian pulled out the sword. The high temperature of the steel ignited the quenching oil, and a raging flame burned on the sword. Everyone present focused their attention on the sword, waiting for the result.

Anything could happen during quenching, but at least there was no tragedy of the sword bending.

"collapse!"

A voice made Zhou Tian's face change. He blew out the flame on the sword and found a long crack on the gray-black sword body. The crack almost penetrated the sword body, which was quite fatal to a sword.

This sword is useless.

The middle-aged man's face turned pale for a moment, but he adjusted himself. A sword only cost three high-level crystal source cores. He only needed to take a walk in the wilderness and the money would be back.

Song You looked at the sword blanks with interest, and he was also ready to take a gamble.

Although the crystal cores obtained from Rock and Niu Liu have not been used yet, most of them must be kept for Shen Bei's high-intensity combat.

Another part is to replenish Shen Bei's special bullets. The cash flow he can control is not much. If he buys a sword directly, there will probably be little left, which is beyond the budget.

Moreover, it was a very eye-catching thing to take out a large number of crystal source cores in such a chaotic and unsecured Shelter No. 36. Even just now, someone was tempted by the money and was thrown away by himself.

But Song You felt reluctant to buy those mediocre swords.

Especially after seeing Shen Bei's "The Shining" with a completely different style

All men want it.

It’s not that the Sword of Mediocreness is not worthy of Song You, but Song You feels that as Shen Bei’s teammate, his status cannot be too low.

I have to get a decent sword at least.

You can't lose face.

In this situation, gambling with swords is his best choice, and Song You is also very confident in his eyesight.