The Track of Dawn In the World of Marvel

  Chapter 50 3. Operation Code: Selling Hope

   "My lord wizard, the pier of Turtle Island is full. We can only anchor at the external anchorage and take a small boat to the island."

  The sweaty bosun ran over from the pier to tell Mason the bad news. The rude one-eyed sailor cursed:

   "The 'Black Death' has really spread in Haiti. It is said that the main island has been completely taken over by the damned ghouls. Fortunately, you did not let us go there, otherwise this will be over."

   "Then let's go there by boat, do you still have to bother me with this matter?"

  Mason will occupy the most "luxurious" two-story crooked bamboo building on the pier as a temporary alchemy laboratory, and he is preparing to learn enchanting skills from Zha Kang.

  Where do you have time to take care of these little things?

   "No, my lord wizard."

  Seeing that the wizard took out some strangely colored "evil materials" like magic, the superstitious boatswain became more nervous, and he whispered:

   "The **** want us to pay! It's crazy to rent a small boat for 2 gold kroner! I can buy enough rum for 2 gold kroner to drown them all.

  You are the hero who saved the island!

   They can't humiliate and blackmail you with this price! "

   "Then give it to them."

  Mason glanced at it and said:

   "In this doomsday situation, is money still useful? Can it buy life?"

  The cold and direct answer of the young man left the greedy old sailor speechless, so he could only turn around and contact the group of vampires who should go to hell.

  Mason really doesn't care about the world's currency, it's just a "quest item" anyway.

   "Look, I really can only do it once.

  The torrential rain just now almost drained my magic power. I hate this kind of low magic power world. I really don’t know how this **** place is rated as a C-level world?

  In my opinion, this is no different from a D-class world without any supernatural power. "

  On the second floor of the bamboo building, while complaining, Zha Kang rubbed the peppermint repeatedly with his fingers, as if he was giving this herb a massage.

  But there is a faint magic infiltrated into it, which makes the peppermint, which is originally light, emit a more intense aroma.

   A few seconds later, Zha Kang handed the herb to Mason, and the young man saw the change after he took it:

  Enchanted peppermint (countdown to failure: 15 minutes)

  Quality: Temporary enchanting material, which can be used in the production of high-level alchemical creations.

  Item Description: The best materials only need the simplest processing? Do you use it directly without processing it? Are you an alchemist of barbarian origin?

  Reminder: After touching the enchanted item, the enchanting branch skill is activated, currently Lv0.

   "Very useful knowledge indeed, John."

  Mason looked at the temporarily enchanted herbs in front of him, and he was delighted that he had learned another trick that could quickly improve alchemy and enchantment.

   But then he shook his head again and said:

   "But before continuing to study, I have to make the alchemy stone first. Now I have to ask you to go out, John, and don't be disturbed while making the alchemy stone."

   "Because the mysterious inheritance cannot be seen by me?"

  Jack Kang had never heard of the "Alchemy Stone". He put his arm around Mason's shoulders and said:

   "We are already teammates, you can't hide like this. Let me see, maybe I can use this secret knowledge to bring Xiao Zha back into my arms."

   "Let you out because this thing explodes violently when it's made wrong. I don't want my tricked new teammate to be blown up by me on the first day."

  Mason rolled his eyes and kicked Kang Kang out.

  He returned to the table and took out several kinds of magic ores that he had just found in the dock warehouse. He hadn't tried to make alchemy stones before because of the lack of these magic-rich stones as basic materials.

  The recipe for making alchemy stones has been unlocked at Alchemy Lv2.

  Mason is not lying. Although the finished product has very stable characteristics, it is really easy to explode out of control during the production process.

  The reason is probably because this little thing has the magical effect of "changing the nature of objects".

   Simply put, when you hold a fine-quality alchemy stone, you can really turn a stone into gold, but the price of "turning a stone into gold" is that you will lose your own alchemy stone.

  No one would do this kind of thing like throwing away a watermelon to pick up sesame seeds.

  Mason put several small stones with different effects into the crucible, and then poured the prepared special solution to ignite the crucible with magic fire. He took a deep breath and stared at the changes in the stones in the crucible.

  At this moment, he felt that his time was "slowing down", his senses were being strengthened, and any changes in the small cauldron could be detected by him immediately.

   The [Swift Eyes and Quick Hands] talent effect unlocked by Alchemy Lv2 is activated, similar to bullet time, but unfortunately it can only take effect when making items and cannot be used for combat.

   But it's a magic trick.

  With the blessing of "Super Sensory", Mason's error tolerance rate has been greatly improved in each production.

  After nearly losing control three times and making seven quick adjustments, Mason wiped the sweat from his brow and looked at the small irregular gray stone in the cauldron.

  He used tweezers to place the stone that was still exuding high temperature in front of his eyes.

   Elementary Alchemy Stone

  Quality: Excellent Alchemy Item·Excellent Craft

  Efficacy: Add it when making potions to improve the quality of the finished product, or put them into the [extraction] state of already made alchemical compounds to improve the effect, and can also be used for magic mediation when making other branched creations.

  The above actions will lead to the loss of alchemy stone, the number of times it can be used currently [10/10]

  Item Description: Hang it proudly on your chest as an alchemist's medal. Of course, it can be ignited and thrown out as a bomb when you are in danger. Believe me, this thing is much easier to use than ordinary alchemy bombs.

   "Plop"

  Mason threw the gray alchemy stone into the healing potion he made earlier.

   As it sinks to the bottom of the potion, small amounts of air bubbles start to appear like sparkling water.

   This extraction process requires several minutes of standing still. Mason took advantage of this time to take out the rare metal obtained by smelting the magic mine with magic fire just now, and took out a delicate bullet mold.

  Fingers jumped out of the magic fire and burned a small ball of rare metal to melt and fill it into the mold. After it cooled, Mason got twelve bullets.

  When this thing was taken out by tweezers, there were still faint khaki spots shining on the surface. Although it was only the simplest solid pointed bullet, it undoubtedly belonged to the type of "coquettish bitch" with all the bells and whistles in the bullet.

  The young man admired his own creation, and put this delicate bullet in front of his eyes to check:

  Engineering bullet petrochemical

  Quality: Excellent Items Standard Craftsmanship

  Effect: The bullet shaped by the earth elemental metal still possesses the magic power of the earth. When it hits the target, it will cause a petrified state for 1-600 seconds, and the duration depends on the target's magic resistance.

  The bullet can be further modified to enhance the destructive power and effect.

  Item Description: Gaia! Grant me the power of this righteous sneak attack!

  Reminder: Engineering bullets can be produced on a large scale when you have an engineering-modified bullet production line, and the blueprint for mechanical transformation has been unlocked.

   "If it's handmade, it would take me a day to make bullets. I guess it's only enough for me to pull the trigger for 30 seconds, or I need professional equipment. Maybe this is the true meaning of engineering."

   Mason looked at the exquisite warhead in front of him, and suddenly felt that this thing was not good.

  He pondered for a while, and felt that he should be able to find professional bullet assembly line production equipment in the arsenal of Hogwarts World.

  The extracted potion has also been completed, Mason took out the alchemy stone, and the number of uses became [9/10], and the extracted healing potion was reduced from two mouthfuls to less than one mouthful.

   But the effect has been increased from only treating minor injuries to being able to treat moderate injuries, and the effective time has also been reduced from five minutes to two minutes.

  The effect is gratifying.

  However, it is obviously not cost-effective to use the alchemy stone, which is obviously more expensive to make, to extract this low-level potion. The real use of this cute little gray stone is to transform the high-level potion.

  Mason smiled, rubbed his eyes, stood up and pushed open the door, just in time to see his three team members drinking and chatting while welcoming the dawn outside the door.

   "How many people are there on this island?"

  Master Catwoman wore goggles with telescopic and night vision functions and looked at the gradually bustling island behind her. She took a sip of the strange-tasting rum, frowned and said:

  “The population density here is even crazier than the most chaotic slums in Gotham, and they are all wooden buildings. No wonder a fire can turn this place into hell.”

   "This is already hell!"

  Jack Kang next to Catwoman pinched his nose and complained:

  "Can't you smell it? The rancid smell of death is overwhelming. I can feel that at least ten people have died on the island as we speak.

   Well, in the last 10 seconds. "

  Mason didn't speak.

  He walked up to the kite man and handed him the freshly extracted healing potion, asking him to heal the injury he suffered from the fall just now.

   "Let's dismiss the people on board."

  Mason refused the rum offered by Zack Kang. He looked at the bewildered crew members on the pier not far away, and gave an order to the one-eyed, superstitious and greedy boatswain standing in front of him:

   "But we don't want money! We want all kinds of rare things, whether it's ore leather herbs with magical powers, or strange items with unique effects."

   "Jewelry!"

  The slightly drunk Catwoman suddenly said:

   "Beautiful, expensive, rare jewelry too!"

   "What do you want those things for?"

  Mason took a look at his elder sister.

  Ms. Selena obviously has no intention of giving up her hobby of collecting jewelry. In order to take care of the emotions of her new team members, the young man also squeezed her nose and added jewelry to the exchange list.

   "Actually, a beautiful and helpless girl"

  Jack Kang leaned over and just opened his head, when he saw a flash of cold light, and the sharp blade of the sword pressed against his waist, causing the black magician to raise his hands and stop uttering his dark thoughts.

  The bosun found a group of men and quickly took food and set off.

   But their work efficiency is remarkable, and at the same time, Team K has seen how cheap human life can be in a world that is about to end.

   A group of young women in ragged clothes quickly came to the door and said that as long as they had food, they could do anything, even children under ten years old.

  The kite man who watched this scene sighed again and again, men with children can't see this, and the always lazy Lady Catwoman also fell silent in a little drunkenness.

  She turned to look at Mason.

  The young man was exchanging enchanting knowledge with Zha Kang, and noticed Catwoman's silent gaze. After a second of silence, he waved his hand and let the two of them decide for themselves.

  Watching Catwoman and Kiteman take food out of their luggage and distribute it, Zha Kang, who was beside Mason with a pipe and a wine bottle, spit out smoke rings and said drunkenly to the young man:

"You know, Selena is actually not a good team member. I know what happened to her in the past. Now it seems that the annoying Bat Boy has really 'trained' her very successfully. Her kindness will give her back in this doomsday. and cause us trouble.

  Your little brother Charles is actually not a qualified explorer.

   Indecisive and lacks courage and strength.

  Although saying this will make me seem a bit cold-blooded, but Mason, if the world we go to in the future will mostly look like this, the two of them obviously need to change their minds.

   But you are pretty good. "

  The black magician took a sip of wine, stared at Mason, and said:

   "I see you looking at these people like you're looking at a bunch of 'consumables', and I know you won't hesitate when you need to shoot them.

   But I also believe that Batman is willing to give up the principle of being alone to save a **** who doesn't take human life seriously. So, Mason, did joining Stellaris bring the curse back to make you cold-blooded? "

  Mason took out old K's alchemy notebook and looked at it like that. It seemed that he had no interest in Zha Kang's question, but the black wizard's persistent question made Mason tireless.

  He frowned and said to Zha Kang:

   "I don't know how the other captains of the Stellaris select their members, John, but I think my players have done a good job so far.

   Even including you. "

   "I think you're humiliating me, Mason."

  Zha Kang snorted unhappily, and asked after a few seconds:

   "Then can you tell me what your code of conduct is? Considering that we will cooperate for a long time in the future, I don't want to offend you because of some trivial things and let you just throw me in some **** world.

   I mean, bottom line.

   It's the same as the "no-kill principle" of the annoying Batboy, you should have this thing too, right? "

   "Yes! And it's easy."

  Mason looked at Zha Kang, he thought for a moment, and said:

   "If I'm pushed to the point where I have to sell my morals, it means I'm cornered or I've got a lot to gain. But look at those people, John."

  The young man pointed to the poor women and children surrounded by catwoman and kite man praying for food. He shook his head and said:

   "Please tell me, what can I gain by throwing away morality for these people? Why don't we be good people when it's not profitable?

   Does doing something nice make you feel bad? "

   "Ha, it seems we have a very different perspective."

  Konstantin exhaled the smoke ring, covered his expression with magic smoke, and said:

   "I didn't expect my captain to be a kind saint. God, I'm getting more and more pessimistic about the future of Team K."

  Mason looked down at the alchemy notes again.

  He didn't care about Zha Kang's yin and yang, because he knew that this guy who didn't slip and showed no bottom line was definitely not a good person deep down.

   But he is not a bad guy in the traditional sense.

   "That's a good thing, John."

  The captain of the K team decided to end this unpleasant conversation of mutual exploration, he said:

   "I'm a good person means that when I have to pay a price to get something, you at least don't have to worry about being that 'price'."

   These words made Zha Kang silent for a full ten seconds. He took a deep breath and said:

"MD, what you said is so reasonable that I can't refute it. But I still think that if our team wants to go further, there must be at least one person who is as pessimistic and vigilant as Batboy about everything and takes action. To be as ruthless as Green Arrow.

   Only in this way can we turn the tide at critical moments. "

  Mason raised his head with weird eyes, glanced at Constantine, and said:

   "Don't worry, John. We already have one of these bastards, and he's sitting right in front of me talking. I think you won't let us down when we need to get down to something.

  Don't give that dirty smile, asshole.

  I'm not complimenting you!

  In other words, regarding the issue we just discussed, how to tap the wealth of this world more effectively, I suddenly had an idea. "

  Mason closed the book and said to Zha Kang:

   "I suddenly feel that we may need to revise the operation goal this time. In addition to the original plan to find the resources we need, the K team may be able to do more.

   I have a plan!

  John, do you know what is the most expensive thing in the world going towards the end? "

"future?"

  Drunk Slag Kang pouted and said:

   "Is it still a vain thing like hope?"

   "Yes, it is hope!"

  Mason looked at the women and children in rags downstairs, his eyes sparkled, and he whispered:

   "I have a new idea, rather than working hard to find every copper coin, why don't we play with the big ones, and use some method to make them willingly dedicate the most precious things in their hands to us.

  I mean, let's sell hope. "

  (end of this chapter)