World version update

Chapter 87: Have you been stabbed?

Cave No. 71, inside the underground pharmaceutical factory.

Since returning from Cave No. 33 half a month ago, the production line in the underground pharmaceutical factory has never stopped.

With Shaq's financial support, the originally dilapidated production line underwent a top-to-bottom renovation.

On the unmanned assembly line, the roar of machinery is endless. After adding spirit stone powder, each medicine is packaged and sent to the warehouse in an orderly manner.

Quentin will be responsible for delivering the daily produced Nine Dragon Power potion out of the warehouse and handing it over to Shak in another cave.

Most of the tens of thousands of Nine Dragons Power potions produced every day will be consumed by the major forces in the Lower City, and the remaining portion will circulate into the market.

At Lu Yan's insistence, the price of each dose of Nine Dragons Power potion entering the market was set at one thousand credit points.

Ever since the Nine Dragons Power potion went on sale, Lu Yan was destined to not be short of credit points. Too many credit points were of no value to him. Instead, a low price was more suitable for giving birth to psychics in the Lower City.

This price was far lower than the actual value of the Nine Dragons Power Potion. Once it was on the market, it was snapped up by the entire Lower City District. The price of the Nine Dragons Power Potion on the black market had even reached five thousand credit points.

The Nine Dragon Power potion that has entered the market provides those whose physical fitness and psychic energy reserves are close to the critical point of becoming psychics with the opportunity to become psychics.

These people possess sufficient talent and are not lacking in industrial-grade psychic energy. What really troubles them is how to increase their physical strength to suppress the violent industrial-grade psychic energy.

Before this, they only had two choices.

Either continue to inject inferior psychic potions, and whether or not you can transform naturally depends entirely on luck. Or spend a lot of money on psychic transformation surgery and pay a huge psychic tax.

The former is a life-or-death situation, while the latter requires an astronomical amount of credit points. Either option seems to be a dead end.

The appearance of the Nine Dragons Power Potion gave everyone hope.

A precious potion that increases physical strength and combs violent industrial-grade psychic energy is sold for only one thousand credit points.

In just half a month, more than 100,000 doses of Nine Dragons Power potion flowed into the Lower Town, giving birth to thousands of psychics and injecting a breath of fresh air into the originally lifeless Lower Town.

Since these psychics use industrial-grade psychic energy from inferior psychic potions, they cannot be screened by the amount of psychic energy used.

Coupled with the chaotic order in the lower city and the complex environment of the cave, it is difficult for the city tax bureau to locate these psychics.

As long as the vast majority of new psychics do not actively declare their status, the city tax bureau will not even be able to detect their promotion, so a large number of tax evaders emerge.

In the past, if the city tax bureau knew that thousands of psychics were evading taxes, they would turn the lower city upside down to find them and send them to the Heaven Computing Center.

But as news of the cleanup in the upper city spread, riots broke out in many prosperous areas of the lower city, and the situation became increasingly tense.

Even the City Tax Bureau focused most of its energy on suppressing the unrest and plundering the population and sending them to the Heaven Computing Center.

Before the real big cleanup came, the city tax bureau had no time to take care of these tax evaders.

With the channels for upward mobility and having temporarily avoided the oppression of the psychic tax, the entire lower city area has temporarily fallen into a state of thriving vitality and development.

In the past, most people were trying to make a living by exchanging their lives for credit points and opportunities for promotion, and they wouldn't even say a word to each other when they met.

Nowadays, when people walk on the street, people in the downtown area will ask each other questions regardless of whether they know each other or not.

"Did you get it pierced?"

This can be considered the highest level of greeting in the Lower City. If both are pierced, both parties can take this opportunity to exchange experiences in using the Nine Dragons Power Potion and discuss how to quickly become a psychic.

If one party fails to get the injection, they will kneel down and beg the other party for a channel to buy the Nine Dragons Power potion, quickly bringing the two parties closer together.

In addition, because the medicinal properties of the Nine Dragons Power Potion are too mild, the residents of the Lower City who have been exposed to inferior psychic potions for a long time find it difficult to adapt.

Many people who have used the Nine Dragons Power Potion gathered together to try to find the hidden negative effects of the Nine Dragons Power Potion.

After several days of inspection, they finally found some problems.

After taking the Nine Dragons Power potion, some people's originally fit bodies will become distorted, and they can only eat raw rice and charcoal to compensate for the changes in their bodies.

Some people's intelligence declines to a certain extent, and their language functions are affected. What they say is incoherent, and in most cases they can only repeat "Then let me ask you!".

There is another more common one. Long-term use of the Nine Dragons Power Potion will cause the user's skull to bulge and the head to be pointed. Some psychics, on the contrary, believe that this is proof of the Nine Dragons Power Potion's development of the brain area, and call it the sign of a rising star.

The negative effects of the Nine Dragons Power Potion may seem serious, but in fact, for people who have been taking low-quality psychic potions for a long time, this is already a very safe potion.

As long as there is no danger to life, any insignificant negative effects can be completely ignored.

As the research deepened, the Nine Dragons Power Potion was not affected by these negative effects. Instead, it was sought after by more people, and the market demand for the Nine Dragons Power Potion increased day by day.

Especially the various forces in the caves in the lower city.

They were also keenly aware that it would be a pipe dream to challenge the Upper Town cleanup head-on.

Cultivating a large number of psychics and taking advantage of the complex environment of the cave to conduct small-scale guerrilla warfare is their only chance. This makes Shak, who has risen with the help of the Nine Dragons Power potion, have an increasingly higher status.

While the lower city was full of vitality and everything was flourishing, Lu Yan plunged into the training room opened up in the underground pharmaceutical factory.

Although his cultivation had reached the limit of the Qi training period, Lu Yan did not choose to continue practicing.

The experience half a month ago gave Lu Yan a preliminary understanding of cyber technology and the power that light firepower can exert.

This made Lu Yan realize that unless he could fight against the entire civilization system alone, simply breaking through the Foundation Establishment Stage would not be of much help to his current situation.

In addition, Lu Yan was not willing to choose the human way of foundation building. He hoped to pursue a higher level of earth way of foundation building or even heaven way of foundation building, so he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​breaking through the foundation building.

He turned his attention to another thing, which was the evolution of artificial spiritual veins!
In the fairy-tale version, in order to repay Lu Yan, Ji Xingyao specially prepared a Feng Shui method for Lu Yan to evolve an artificial spiritual vein, and Lu Yan also collected the relevant items later.

Originally, Lu Yan was going to use it after returning to the city, but right now, making the Nine Dragons Power potion requires spiritual energy, and it is difficult to expand production capacity relying solely on the spiritual stones in Lu Yan's hands, so Lu Yan plans to use the spiritual marrow mine to evolve an artificial spiritual vein.

It doesn't matter how high the quality of the spiritual vein is. As long as it can initially produce spiritual energy and integrate it into the Nine Dragons Power Potion, it will be enough to solve the problem of insufficient productivity.

Since this is just a preliminary attempt, Lu Yan will not completely solidify the spiritual marrow ore here. After all, this treasure will be of great use in the urban version later.

Just temporarily assist in the production of the Nine Dragons Power Potion and then take it away before the version update comes.

As early as half a month ago when he returned to the underground pharmaceutical factory, Lu Yan had already planted the spiritual marrow ore and arranged the corresponding formation using the Feng Shui method.

And today is the day when this artificial spiritual vein takes shape.

(End of this chapter)