Let's suffer a little longer, fellow Blue Star folks.

Being able to go shopping with two new NPCs, isn’t this the perfect time to improve your favorability?

The three of them walked into the morning market from where Dian Chong and the King of Thousand Kings had just escaped.

Alps doesn’t actually come here very often. After all, he doesn’t have much demand for food, and he also has a relatively clear understanding of his own vision.

It is impossible to find a bargain, but you are bound to be cheated out of your money.

On the contrary, Fang Xin, perhaps triggered her talent for shopping, and led Wang Yi and Alps back and forth in front of various stalls.

There were people selling fish, mushrooms, pre-war items, and even people selling stalls in front of them...

A pile of bottles and cans?

"Hello."

Fang Xin stopped in front of the last stall. She first looked at the stall owner, a young girl about her age, and then bent down and asked curiously:

"What's in these bottles and jars?"

Alps naturally stopped as well. He recognized the player setting up the stall. He was the first employee of the special food processing factory [Phosphorus Pentoxide].

"These are the latest potions developed in our factory!"

Seeing Alps following beside her, [Ko Ai Lifetime Support] subconsciously thought that Fang Xin was also a player. After all, there were two hundred players now, and it was impossible for her to know all of them.

"The ones on the left are potions that can be sold normally, and the ones on the right cannot be sold to NPCs."

"Cough cough."

Alps coughed silently.

"This is a mana-restoring potion. Drinking it at once can restore about 500 points of strength. One bottle costs 30." [Ko Ai Lifetime Support] ignored Alps' cough and continued to introduce enthusiastically.

"This is a hemostatic potion. Apply it to the wound to stop bleeding quickly and speed up wound recovery. One bottle costs 15."

"This is a speed potion. If you drink one bottle at a time, it can increase your speed by about 20%, and it can last for two hours..."

[Kano and Ai's Lifelong Support] After quickly introducing the potions on the left, he looked up at the three people in front of him.

"Would you like to buy a bottle or two to try?"

"Forehead……"

Fang Xin blinked, then pointed to the pile of potions on the right and asked:

"What about these? Can't these be sold?"

"Sure." [Ke Ai Lifetime Support] nodded immediately, "But these are defective products. Drinking them will have some side effects, so Sister Ke Yu said they can't be sold to NPCs. You should remember this after you buy them..."

"Koai, these friends are businessmen from outside the gathering place. Please introduce them in words they can understand." Upon hearing this, Alps immediately interrupted.

Although this seems a little deliberate.

But it’s better to tell Ke Ai the identities of Fang Xin and others, so that she won’t tell everything later.

And [Ke Ai's Lifelong Support] and Fang Xin were also stunned at the same time.

The two then looked at each other again.

Conan and Ai: So they are not players.

Fang Xin: Defective medicine?! They're selling this stuff in their gathering place? But isn't this strictly prohibited by Yunhe Town?!

Chapter 159: Don’t want to die?

Fang Xin looked at [Ke Ai Lifetime Recommendation] and immediately pointed his finger at the bottles and jars on the right side of the stall.

"You said these are defective products?"

Doesn’t Yunhe Town have a clear ban on the sale of medicines with side effects?

There is the Yunhejun office right next to it. How dare they sell this so openly?

Don't want to die?

"No." [Ke Ai Lifetime Support] immediately shook his head, then looked at Fang Xin with a very innocent look, "I run a pharmacy, how can I sell you defective products?"

what?

Alps was stunned when he heard this.

Good man, you are telling lies with your eyes open.

He was a little curious about what kind of job [Conan and Ai's Lifetime Promotion] did in real life.

Isn't it sales?

"Can these be sold?"

Fang Xin was not stupid, she immediately understood what the stall owner meant, but she still wanted to try again.

This is really important for their business.

"No," Ke Ai replied immediately, "These are not for sale."

"How about I add some money?"

Ke Ai blinked, then finally shook his head vigorously.

"No."

No matter how much money is added, it won't work. In the players' view, things that are explicitly prohibited by Sister Keyu are things that the production team prohibits players from doing.

No one wants to have the spot they have worked so hard to get taken away.

"Ok."

Seeing the stall owner's firm attitude, Fang Xin did not continue to ask questions.

The 'NPC' that the girl just mentioned probably refers to outsiders like them.

The reason why these defective products are not allowed to be sold to them is probably because the people in this gathering place are afraid of being discovered by Yun Hejun.

"Are these potions for sale?"

She pointed to the potions on the left.

"These are for sale." Upon hearing this, a smile instantly appeared on Ke Ai's face. "Which one do you want? I can give you a discount if you buy more."

"One portion of each medicine, please." Fang Xin nodded and said.

"Okay! Do you want it in a wooden box?"

Then, Ke Ai took out a large wooden box and several cloth bags from somewhere behind him, and then introduced them enthusiastically:

"This wooden box is available for an additional fee. The cloth bag is free, but since these potions are in glass bottles, they might break if placed in the bag."

Alps silently raised an eyebrow.

The morning market is evolving so fast now, has packaging fees already appeared?

"How much does the wooden box cost?" Fang Xin asked curiously.

"10 yuan each." Ke Ai replied immediately.

Then she suddenly remembered that Alps had just said that these NPCs came from outside the gathering place, and they probably didn't know the exchange rate between alliance coins and air stones, so she immediately added a sentence.

"One or two Qi stones are equivalent to 30 here."

piece?

Is this a quantifier unique to this gathering place?

Fang Xin quickly converted the price in her mind and found that these non-defective medicines were a little more expensive than she expected.

A mana recovery potion costs one liang of Qi Stone, and a health recovery potion costs half a liang...

"Is one wooden box enough to hold these potions?"

Fang Xin looked at the wooden box in the stall owner's hand, which was enough to buy three days' worth of food for an ordinary person.

But to be honest, the medicine looks much better in this wooden box. If they give it to Jiaoqiu's big customers, maybe they will be looked up to by the other party.

After all, it looks very professional.

"That's enough."

After hearing Fang Xin's words, Ke Ai immediately assumed that this NPC wanted a wooden box, so she opened the wooden box quickly, put all the potions in it, and finally put the wooden box into a cloth bag.

"Thank you for your patronage. The total is 120, which is exactly taels of Qi Stone."

"Here, here are exactly four ounces."

Fang Xin took out two air stones from the backpack he was carrying and handed them to the stall owner.

Conan and Ai weighed the air stone and felt it was about 4 taels, so they put it aside and said to Fang Xin with a smile.

"Thank you boss, boss is very generous!"

"Thank you."

Fang Xin also imitated Conan and Ai and said thank you, then picked up the cloth bag in his hand. He took one last look at the smiling stall owner and turned to leave the stall.

After that, Fang Xin's desire to go shopping decreased significantly. Instead, Wang Yi bought a red-headed silver carp and some dried meat specially made by a player at another stall. The taste was quite good.

As for the dry food and purified water they wanted to buy, according to Alps, they needed to go to the warehouse at the gathering place to buy them.

Coincidentally, the purified water in the gathering place was just produced in the past two days.

Because there is a water purification plant among the first batch of factories whose applications were approved, they have now built a filter that can perform preliminary filtration of the water from Yunshan River.

For the physical constitution of practitioners, this kind of water will not cause any disease.

As for the subsequent secondary filtration, it depends on when they can find a substitute for activated carbon and improve the entire water purification process.

Soon, the three of them walked around the morning market. After walking out of the last stall, Wang Yi and Fang Xin prepared to go back.

One of them was thinking about going back to study the potion, while the other was rushing back to eat fish.

Moreover, they had agreed with Gu Yu to arrive for an hour before they came. If they accidentally exceeded the time limit, Gu Yu would think they were attacked and run away with the goods, which would waste a lot of time afterwards.

"Then let's go first."

"Well, see you at the gathering place later."

After agreeing with the two to meet again at the east gate of the gathering place later, Alps returned to the front of Conan and Ai's stall.

"What do you mean by defective products?"

He was still a little concerned about these potions. After all, when Fang Xin heard these three words, her expression and tone changed significantly.

Maybe this is the key clue to their identity?

“That’s what it means literally.”

Conan looked around and saw that there were no customers at the moment, so he explained in detail to Alps.

"When making things, there will always be some defective products that are not up to standard."

As she spoke, she picked up a bottle of defective mana recovery potion.

"For example, this one actually has the same effect as a normal blue medicine, but due to a mistake in the manufacturing process, some impurities were not completely removed, so there is a slight burning sensation when you take it."

"If you only drink one or two bottles, it should be fine, but if you drink too much, it will definitely be harmful to the human body, so we will sell it cheaper than normal medicine."

"What specific damage will there be?" Alps asked curiously.

"Don't make it."

Conan shook his head in a very naive manner.

"We've only been working on this stuff for a short time, so it's good to know there's something wrong with it."

"But we asked Engineer Song a few days ago, and she said that defective chemicals generally cause two types of damage."

"One is like a chronic toxin, which will gradually accumulate in the human body and eventually cause death."

"The other type won't be fatal, but it will gradually hinder the flow of Qi in the human body. Eventually, both absorption and circulation will be affected. In simple terms, it will reduce one's talent for cultivation."

Hearing this, Alps also raised his eyebrows silently.

For some people, this second type of damage may be worse than death.

No wonder Sister Ke Yu doesn't let Conan and Ai sell these defective products to NPCs, otherwise it would be harming people.

As for the players...