parentshiftbook Chapter 21: Unlock New Skill: [3x Absorption]
Chapter 21: Unlock New Skill: [3x Absorption]
Time always slips away unnoticed, and a week has passed in the blink of an eye as the forum papers continue to ferment.
One week later, on this afternoon, Lin Yi was walking on the campus of Tiannan Beast Taming University with Mushroom. He had never been in such a good mood as today, as if even the little dogs on the roadside had turned into handsome guys.
The mushroom was in a great mood. Its owner said that it would evolve today because its owner had made a fortune.
Lin Yi did indeed make a fortune. The three meticulously crafted papers he had painstakingly typed finally started to gain traction. A week ago, for some unknown reason, they became an overnight sensation across the entire forum and online community. Orders for the revised version of the "Cao Zi Jian Jue" (a martial arts manual) went from one order to three, five, ten orders...
After a week of waiting, the order finally reached the sixty-ninth order, which meant that Lin Yi seemed to have suddenly gained a huge sum of 690,000 yuan. Adding it to the original 20,000 yuan, the total came to 710,000 yuan.
"Gu Zai, even though you're rich, you need to keep a low profile. You need to control your expression, stay calm, and not let others easily see that we're nouveau riche."
Although he said that, Lin Yi never considered himself a nouveau riche. In his view, all of this money was earned through his hard work of writing hundreds of thousands of words of papers; it was all hard-earned money.
With money in hand, Lin Yi became more arrogant, and his attitude towards the mushroom cub was summed up in two words: Start evolving fiercely!
So in the afternoon, the man and the beast arrived in the center of Tiannan City, intending to buy some food for their pet's evolution.
Lin Yi's first thought was to buy from Chen Shiqi's shop to support his senior's business. However, when Chen Shiqi heard that Lin Yi wanted to buy ingredients for pet evolution, she decisively refused.
According to Chen Shiqi, her shop is just a pet specialty store. Although it also has pet evolution ingredients, most of them are for the cultivation of first and second level evolution pets and are not suitable for beast tamers to use to cultivate their own contracted pets. However, with Lin Yi's persistent inquiries, he learned about a food specialty store that she frequents.
"Tiannan Minggui, this is the place."
When Lin Yi found the store based on the address given by Chen Shiqi, he was quite amazed. Stepping on the shiny floor and looking at the store's magnificent decoration, the man and the beast felt as if they had also become superior to humans and beasts.
In the past, Lin Yi would not have dared to step into a store of this caliber.
But today was different. He walked with confidence, holding a huge sum of 710,000 yuan in his hand, and spoke with self-assurance.
Inside the store, Lin Yi wandered around for a bit, then pointed to a special beast-themed fruit he'd never seen before on the top shelf and asked curiously, "What's this?"
The person in charge of receiving Lin Yi was an ordinary-looking girl.
The young woman smiled professionally and said, "Sir, this is a Tier 3 Level 10 Extraordinary Evolution Ingredient, an Extraordinary Evolution Fruit specially made for Tier 3 Beast Pets."
"How much does one of these Tier 3, Level 10 Transcendent Evolution Ingredients cost?"
"Three million per pill. If you're a member, you can enjoy a 9.9% discount."
Lin Yi glanced at the girl with surprise, then calmly said, "Three million isn't too expensive, but my pet's level is still too low, so I don't need it for now."
Thankfully, we don't need it yet.
However, before Lin Yi could finish speaking, the girl smiled and said, "Sir, this is a mild food, so even low-level pets can eat it."
Lin Yi gave the girl a deep look.
I don't know why.
Suddenly I didn't want to talk to the other person anymore.
He shifted his gaze to the middle of the shelf: "What about this one?"
The young woman maintained her service-like smile: "This is a Tier 2, Level 10 transcendent evolution ingredient called Qinghu Root. It's much cheaper; with the discount, it'll be around two million."
After the girl finished speaking, she added, "This is also a mild evolution food, so low-level pets can also consume it."
Lin Yi was completely unwilling to continue the conversation. His gaze swept around casually, seemingly looking for a product he liked. He didn't want to make eye contact with the other person, thinking they were too oblivious and he didn't know how they became a receptionist.
After a short while, Lin Yi tried to make it seem less deliberate: "Do you have any evolution ingredients for ordinary level 10 pets in your shop, um... like evolution pills, energy blocks or something?"
"This is also available, sir."
"Where is it? I can't see it."
Lin Yi looked around.
"Sir, I'm sorry, we don't have this on our shelves. If you'd like to see it, I'll get it for you."
As the girl spoke, she rummaged through the messy bottom shelf and finally brought up a large burlap sack as thick as a bucket. She then reached in and took out the packaged evolution pills and energy blocks.
"Give me twenty evolution pills and thirty energy blocks."
Lin Yi raised his voice slightly; the numerical advantage finally allowed him to find a sliver of dignity as a man in front of the girl.
"Excuse me, sir, we sell these kinds of ingredients by the package."
In the end, Lin Yi bought a pack of Evolution Pills and a pack of Energy Blocks.
Evolution pills cost 10,000 yuan each, or 310,000 yuan for a pack of 310,000 pills.
Energy blocks cost 5,000 each, a pack costs 80, totaling 400,000.
Total: 710,000.
If you can spend 20,000 yuan to get a membership card, you can get a 9.9% discount on all evolution ingredients in the future.
However, Lin Yi didn't go through with it. 9.9% off? We're not short of that little bit of money, are we?
"Please take care, sir. Welcome to visit us again."
The girl stood in front of the store and personally watched Lin Yi leave. Although she maintained a professional smile, Lin Yi always felt that it was an act.
Being stared at from behind made him feel even more uncomfortable.
"Little Mushroom, don't be ashamed. Work hard in the future. When you become strong, you can easily earn hundreds of thousands from a single mission. At that time, we'll take over her shop and have her work for us."
Gu Zai: ฅ՞•ﻌ•՞ฅ? ? ?
Okay, okay.
Lin Yi, with the mushroom cub in tow, moved with incredible speed, and soon the two arrived at the main road.
Hmm... taking a taxi back is obviously out of the question, I'll just walk back.
Two hours later, when the man and the beast returned to Tiannan University, it was already night.
Back in the dormitory, Lin Yi and Gu Zai were both silent, each lost in their own thoughts.
Mushroom's mind was filled with "warm-natured extraordinary evolution ingredients." Those advanced evolution ingredients smelled so good!
Lin Yi, on the other hand, was obsessed with making money. He had never seen how rich the rich were and had no idea how poor he was.
"Looks like I need to find a chance to make more money."
With that in mind, he turned his attention to the combat-oriented and healing-oriented academies, which were the beast tamers of other departments.
Compared to the spirit plant type, these people are their own sugar daddies. They make money much faster than spirit plant type beast tamers. Moreover, these kinds of beast pet skills can be sold for more money after being refined. It's not a problem to price them at twenty or thirty thousand.
Combat and healing pet skills have always been the most expensive skills on the market, bar none, and the value of the refined versions has naturally skyrocketed.
"However, relying solely on refining academic papers to make money isn't sustainable. The right approach is to quickly raise Mushroom Cub. It's said that high-level pets can sometimes earn tens of millions on a single mission."
"A combat-type pet, Mushroom Cub can do it too. I need to get this little guy up and running quickly."
Once the little mushroom grows up, I won't have to type on that broken keyboard every day anymore. I can just sit at home and let the little mushroom go out to work and make money while lying down. Isn't that better?
"Little mushroom, come here."
Lin Yi chuckled as he thought about it, and after a moment of reflection, he couldn't wait to start his retirement.
The little guy turned around at the sound and looked at Lin Yi expectantly.
Mushroom Boy: (｡•-•｡) gestures to Lin Yi
This looks good too, I really want to try it.
"You can't eat it now. We'll talk about it when it evolves tomorrow," Lin Yi said. He knew he had to use his strength wisely, but looking at those pitiful little eyes, he couldn't resist in the end: "Okay, learn the skill first, and I'll give you an energy block after you've learned it."
Mushroom Boy: (๑•ㅂ•)و✧Gulu
The little guy immediately took his short little legs and came to Lin Yi's side.
Hurry up and educate them, hurry up and educate them, the little mushroom can't wait any longer.
Lin Yi didn't hesitate either, [Triple Evolution], fill me up.
A flash of light filled the room and entered the mushroom's body... A quarter of an hour later, the mushroom finally unlocked its third new skill, [Triple Absorption].
This is an instinctive attribute skill unique to the [Bamboo Beast]. It does not require any training, but it will gradually become stronger as the mushroom cub's level increases. It also absorbs all the food that can be absorbed for evolution at all times, and the absorption speed is more than three times faster than when it grows up.
This is also why the "Bamboo Beast" can grow two meters tall overnight.
However, the Bamboo Beast is ultimately just an ornamental pet and does not possess combat attributes, so very few people contract it. Otherwise, it would be the fastest-growing and evolving pet among all pets, without exception.
After the mushroom cub acquires this skill, its absorption speed will be more than three times that of a normal pet, making its growth unimaginable.
Sure enough, the effect was immediate the moment the skills training was completed.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
A faint gurgling sound suddenly came from inside the room.
Lin Yi: ? ? ?
Mushroom looked up at Lin Yi: (˶'ᵕ'˶) Hungry.
Seeing this, Lin Yi immediately opened the packaging and handed over an energy block, which the little guy eagerly popped into his mouth.
next moment.
Mushroom: (ﾟ▽ﾟ) Oh~?
The little mushroom made a meme out of eating it.
It smells so good!