Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

Well - it's not so bad to go out to sea and have some fun after such a long time...

Well, let’s start by clearing the trade routes.

After all, he had to make the Chamber of Commerce under his name successful, and he also had to take care of the "Xiankan" he established with his own hands.

The safety of trade routes is naturally a big problem.

After placing an order to purchase the merchant ship and leaving his contact information, Yu Man boarded a rented taxi-like mount and headed towards the main city along the newly built road.

Avoiding the crowd, she walked into the trading house - she needed to pick a set of equipment for her new teammate 70.

"An eighth-level shipwright, with zero combat expertise, a complete blank slate... How wonderful."

It means that Yu Man can give full play to his abilities.

That being said, the eighth-level shipbuilder has actually decided what to play at level 70.

"Water magic."

This is the obvious answer.

Most adventurer professions are actually quite versatile and can be paired well with any specialization.

But people like shipbuilders have their tendencies determined from birth.

The shipbuilder hopes to build a ship with his own hands that is strong enough to conquer the sea.

Therefore, they naturally have a strong affinity for water and regard the sea as their home.

The various benefits provided by the shipbuilder are also related to this.

Not only that, it has the dual tendencies of a craftsman and a merchant. Especially the shipwright at level 70 is even at level eight, and the merchant attributes are more obvious - to the point that she has even reached the point where she can understand the sea and bargain with it.

Water magician—that was exactly her main job.

"Price sorting... low to high, tier sorting, high to low... Oh, the highest-tier water staff is tier seven... Is someone already able to make this and listing it on the trading platform? No, it must have been earned..."

Yu Man talked to himself for a while, which helped him sort out his thoughts.

But regardless, this is the best equipment available.

As for the price, Yu Man didn't really care.

"Considering she's not specialized yet, let's just increase her mana first... Attack, defense, and additional skills don't matter..."

Following this idea, Yu Man selected the equipment for sale in the trading house.

Class has the highest priority. If there is no seventh-level equipment, then choose one with similar skills from the sixth-level... Anyway, it is just transitional equipment. After you have specialized, you can carefully select and match the skills.

Yu Man quickly purchased a complete set and put it in his newly bought enchantment backpack.

Add to that various consumables and potions, and it's a beginner's gift pack.

Speaking of which—the price of enchanted backpacks had naturally fallen to near cost a long time ago. On second thought, back then, I used super-high profits to monopolize the enchanted backpack market, which was really a bit despicable...

After purchasing the equipment, Yu Man had not yet left the trading house.

Just out of curiosity, I want to see what is the most valuable thing in the Shimla Bakken Trading House today.

The old world's system has some correction functions to prevent the price difference from being too outrageous.

For example, a first-level potion is priced at one million gold coins and is used for real money transactions.

Therefore, if you sort by price, from high to low, you won't see inexplicable sell orders.

“…Huh.”

The selling price is 6.66 million gold coins.

An item, at such an incredible price, miles ahead of anything else.

Yu Man was extremely confused, because even in the later stages of the first act, including auction houses outside Shanghai or special black markets, nothing could be sold for such a price. Only transactions on large islands above level 8 could possibly fetch such a price...

But it is not.

It was just an item that confused Yu Man.

"The Illusory Nest"

That's the only name.

Item type, tier, rarity, function... nothing can be seen.

It just hangs there, strangely existing.

Yu Man tried again and again to close the system interface and stop looking at it - but he couldn't.

Hands driven by curiosity will always consult it, and heads filled with experience and knowledge will ponder it endlessly.

what is it?

Why is it listed on the trading platform at such a horrible price in the early to mid-game stage?

Who hung up?

At this time-

"Player: Jiandui Lulu invites you to join the guild 'Snake Restaurant'. Do you accept?"

"++++++" At the same time, Xiaolu sent a string of plus signs to harass Yu Man.

Yu Man sat silently on the chair, in the secure room provided to every client by the trading house, looking at the invitation silently.

Did she...really build such a stupid guild?

And I... the clearer, Eel, will... from now on... have to use this guild name?

Not only that, those who cleared the game, "The King Who Defies Everything", and "The Three Crowns and the Time that Defies Time", will also have to do so in the future?

"……Ugh."

But can I refuse?

No.

"Accept." Yu Man touched the button.

"You joined the guild Snake Tavern."

Suddenly, the news in the guild channel became lively.

"Haha, welcome to our new member." It was the deer. "Let me introduce you all. This eel is an ice mage with tons of little secrets he won't reveal. He's quite impressive, so I brought him in."

"...Hello everyone." Yu Man started typing, just to play with the boss, to play with him!

Liu Tong Qi Hua, who served as "everyone", was silent for a long time before finally typing a response.

"Well... welcome to join. I'm Liutong Qihua, a healer... My occupation is alchemist, currently at level six. My equipment—"

But Liu Tong Qi Hua's efforts quickly came to nothing, easily dispelled by Xiao Lu: "Alright, alright, we're done playing. What's the eel busy with?"

"The trading house sent out a weird thing. Want to take a look?"

"Well, here we come."

"……All right."

There is not much distance from the lord's mansion where the guild is registered to the trading house.

Xiaolu, Qihua, and 70, who was in the team even though they were not members of the guild, quickly opened the door and walked into the trading room where Yu Man was, discussing something in a lively manner.

But soon, they all froze.

The foreign objects in their field of vision were an eyesore and stung them.

"...Sigh, this guild name has something weird under the eel name."

"...Aren't you the same? This guild name is really bad, isn't it?"

There's no way, it's really weird.

Xiaolu waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. What little secrets does the trading house have?"

"Sort by price, high to low, and look at the one at the top. This kind of thing should have caused a lot of discussion in the community, right? And then there's 70. You're well-informed, do you know who posted this?"

They all did as they were told.

Since even Yu Man finds it strange, there must be something wrong.

The fawn flipped over first, but immediately looked confused.

"Is this tier-7 piece of equipment's bonus skill unique? It seems like a straightforward burst damage... tier-7 is a bit high for a commoner, and quite rare... The price tag of nearly 4,000 gold coins is a bit baffling to me..."

"What? No, it's the one worth more than 6 million gold coins." Yu Man reminded.

The little deer checked again, but was even more confused.

Liu Tong Qi Hua, who was standing nearby, also muttered, "It's the market in Shimla Bakken, the highest price there is. I haven't seen what the Eel God said."

70 skilfully read through it several times, confirming it—

"I haven't seen it either. Is there a bug? If something with a price tag of millions of gold coins were to appear in our territory like Shimlabakken, we would undoubtedly have information about it."

It was Yu Man's turn to be confused.

Because the item called "The Illusory Nest" that cost 6.66 million gold coins was still before him.

"...It seems like something special has been triggered." Yu Man folded his hands, pondering it carefully. "Only the person who triggered it can see it, and the team members can't see it either... Very interesting."

I hadn't experienced this last week, and I hadn't even heard of such a thing.

The trading line can actually trigger exclusive hidden items? The activation conditions are already written above.

Six million six hundred and sixty thousand gold coins.

Damn the "three secrets", damn the "lies".

They actually set such a horrible trap.

Yu Man suddenly realized that he was too rich and had seized a huge amount of gold coins, and the system had to find a way to recover them and prevent Yu Man from reaping the world. Therefore, the very knowledgeable game administrators even resorted to such a ruthless move.

Damn it! Yu Man really started to be fooled.

This amount... honestly, it's not impossible to come up with. Anyway, the gold coins are useless, so why not use them to buy this hidden item?

But if you buy it, you will definitely be laughed at by the "Three Secrets", but if you don't buy it... wouldn't that be missing out on something hidden?

No, no, no, this is a trap. We can't let them have their way.

but--

This is a unique hidden event triggered exclusively by someone else! And it's triggered by a trading line that I've never experienced before.

"Eel?" the fawn tried to call out.

"It's okay. My heart is firm. I'm going to kill the pirates' family now. I won't waver. Let's go."

By the way, go to the black market and see if you can get some gold coins.

220 Very suitable

The sea.

Faint white waves float in it, and the wind tears out invisible ripples.

The flock of birds resting on the reef was startled by the thunder in the distance. The leader called out to the entire flock of white feathers, and they flew to a deeper place.

They sway with the sea surface, becoming ripples on the sea.

"Yu Man, what is this word?"

"The lowest form of the word 'time'. It means 'everything' moves forward, 'everything' flows, 'the world' develops.' These concepts are collectively referred to as 'time' in the Old World language."

The two small cargo boats bought by Yu Man were carrying the four of them, chasing the waves.

Xiaolu was on another boat, asking Yu Man a question from a few meters away, his voice not much louder than the sound of the waves.

As always, she held the old Esperanto textbook in her left hand, gently supported the fishing rod with her right hand, and sat on a small stool on the deck, having a great time.

There were six other people on her ship, and the therapist was busy with the problems in the warehouse, being both serious and patient.

Their small boat was loaded with valuable goods, which Yu Man was going to take to the black market to sell and cash in.

At the same time - it is also bait.

It's not just the ship that Xiaolu is on, it's also the same on the ship that Yu Man and 70 are on.