I Live on the Land in Global Games

Chapter 74 - 74 73 The Medical Hall and the Pawnshop74: Chapter 73: The Medical Hall and the Pawnshop 74: Chapter 73: The Medical Hall and the Pawnshop Thinking about the poison on the Ghoul, Mu Ying adjusted her Spell study sequence, moving the third-ring Spell Protective Poison to the front.

Protective Poison can effectively increase the casting target’s resistance to toxins.

Even if used after being poisoned, it can neutralize the poison and delay the onset of its effect.

However, whether this toxin resistance could grant immunity to the Ghoul’s poisonous gas was something she dared not be certain of.

“Sigh,” Mu Ying caressed the wand materials in her hands and sighed.

Time in the Emerald World flowed three times faster than reality.

Four to five days in the real world had provided her with a flying broom and a Magic Wand in the Emerald World.

Transforming materials was much cheaper than transforming actual items, and after transformation, the original items in the Emerald World would disappear.

To save some Source Power, she took Broom Grass Seeds and wand materials into the real world.

But once in the real world, she had to spend half a month on Magic Infection, otherwise, she could contemplate other ways to solve the detoxification problem with the witch’s ability.

“Right, now that I have Mushroom Men, should my territory’s population meet the requirements?”

Mu Ying suddenly remembered something and promptly opened the territory page.

Ever since the eating establishment settled in, she hadn’t recruited shops for a long time, all because the population of the territory tended to stabilize and did not reach the requirements for recruiting different types of shops—the remaining ones were types already present.

Even for those same types, she couldn’t recruit a second one until reaching a certain number of residents; after all, it was not fair to let newcomers operate at a loss.

“[Residents: 2521]”

Indeed, the number of residents had more than doubled, and the instance was also considered within her territory range.

However, since it was underground, it hadn’t fully integrated with the Main World yet, so the size of the territory had not changed much.

More than half of these 2500-plus residents were Mushroom Men.

She opened the shop recruitment page, and there were two more types of shops to choose from: clinic and pawnshop.

She selected two suitable ones and recruited them directly.

[Maria’s Clinic: The owner is a level 5 Priest, skilled in Healing injuries and detoxification, requiring a population ≥2000]

[copper coin pawnshop: Buys back all kinds of valuable goods at fair prices, a reputable multi-world chain, requiring a population ≥2000]

After browsing through so many shop profiles, Mu Ying guessed that most privately-owned shops were named after their owners, while shops starting with ‘copper coin’ she had seen many times, covering nearly every type, indicating they were chain stores belonging to large trading houses.

She placed these two shops on the Tree Houses she had reserved near Shop Street; they should be able to open tomorrow morning.

Although a Priest skilled in detoxification would settle in her territory by tomorrow, Mu Ying still chose to stay up late, studying Protective Poison through the night.

After all, relying on others for treatment was never as reliable as knowing how to cure oneself.

Anyway, she would have three days to rest and rejuvenate before entering the Trial World.

The next day, those pondering how to probe the Ghoul’s depths discovered the two newly settled shops, timely as a welcome rain.

Both shops chose to adjust the appearance of their Tree Houses.

Maria’s Clinic was particularly striking among them.

Other shops, even when adjusting their exterior and structure, largely followed the architectural style of the entire territory, primarily constructed of log-colored wood with a strong natural vibe.

Maria’s Clinic, on the other hand, was a white two-story wooden building, squared and exceptionally neat.

A glance towards Shop Street would inevitably be drawn to this white building, and then your eyes would be dazzled by the huge copper coin on the adjacent copper coin pawnshop.

Even other shop owners couldn’t help but gawk at these two shops which were somewhat distinctive in appearance.

A group of players, chuckling and laughing, flooded into the clinic, but grew unconsciously quiet under the stern gaze of the owner, Maria.

“Welcome to Maria’s Clinic, I am the owner, just call me Maria,” Maria stood up and performed a peculiar courtesy, “Please, come in and take a seat.”

She greeted everyone with a smooth voice, void of any fluctuation.

Many felt as if they had encountered a school disciplinarian, each wrinkle on her face seeming to carry a sense of oppression.

Upon being invited in, they didn’t have time to think twice—instinctively moving their sneaking feet back and obediently entered the clinic, sitting in a row on the bench and accepting the herbal teas Maria had brewed.

The clinic was furnished only with a few simple pieces of furniture, and the interior decor was as immaculately white as its exterior.

Seeing Maria use a spell to clean the dust they had brought in and frowning as she removed the dirt from their bodies too, the players felt even more uneasy.

Maria sat opposite the players, and there was a dead silence between them as she sipped the tea in her hand unhurriedly.

It was quite a while before she asked, “Is there anything else you need?”

“...”

“No, nothing, we’ll be—(leaving)!” blurted out a player who couldn’t stand the tension anymore.

Before he could finish, he was slapped on the back by a companion.

Some had not forgotten their purpose for coming.

“Ghouls have appeared around our territory, and both their smell and tongues are poisonous.

We want to know if you’ve got any methods to counteract them.

We’re willing to pay for the information!”

Maria’s brows furrowed even more at the mention of the repugnant creatures.

“Cover your mouth and nose with a wet cotton cloth, and it will resist the ghoul’s poisonous gas, as for the tongue’s poison, I don’t have a good preventative measure for the time being.

But the poison is not lethal.

The numbness will naturally fade after a few hours, of course, if you do get paralysed, there are ways I can help you recover faster here.

Given you are dealing with such evil and disgusting creatures, I won’t charge you.”

With the information they needed, everyone fled from the clinic as if they had been granted amnesty.

“Phew~ the disciplinarian may be strict, but she’s quite generous, a freebie tip!”

“Still, if I get paralysed, I’d rather endure it for a while; after all, I can pull through.”

The others nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

Meanwhile, the person who had gone to scout out the copper coin pawnshop had also returned.

The owner of the pawnshop was a short stout man, who went by his employee number, Tong 559.

He was a complete businessman, and from him, the players also received some good news.

The pawnshop took in a lot of different items, some stuff that other shops didn’t value could be sold here at a good price, though the items that were in demand elsewhere were bought here for slightly less—about 10% lower.

Even so, it was still quite good.

Mu Ying had traded a batch of goblin equipment for just a White Quality bow before, which was a very unprofitable deal quality-wise.

This was because humans couldn’t use goblin equipment, and Curry Weapon Store would only take them to melt down.

At the copper coin pawnshop, however, that equipment could be sold for a better price because they had chain stores and even did business with goblins.

Another piece of good news was that the pawnshop also bought ghoul tongues and nails, and the prices were quite fair—50 copper coins for a tongue and 5 copper coins for a nail.