Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 851: Chapter 810 ‘A Drug that Makes People Take Off Their Clothes Voluntarily’_1

Red Dust’s speculation was somewhat off the mark.

Indeed, the player who received the [Poison Doctor] secondary profession was the same brother who publicly brawled and thrashed Yelang on the [Extraordinary Battlefield].

Where he guessed wrong was that [Poison Doctor] is not a hidden secondary profession, but a legitimate combat profession.

However, this combat profession comes with a secondary profession of the same name.

Of course, you can also say that the [Poison Doctor] secondary profession comes with a combat profession of the same name.

Either way, it’s the same.

However, the combat profession hasn’t been unlocked yet, so his master didn’t teach him combat techniques.

Because of this, if he were someone else, he would be fatally wounded in the next second—

The Capital Commandant, although poisoned severely and coughing blood, didn’t die immediately. After gasping for breath, his sword came slashing out!

Despite being a bit distracted by the change of his secondary profession, Red Dust instinctively kicked over the table, leaned back sharply to dodge the sword that divided the table into two, and still held enormous power.

Then, with his hands on the ground, he performed a quick backflip to create some distance.

After all, he’s a genuine practitioner in real life!

Seeing the NPC start to take action, the players who had been lying in wait outside seized their weapons and advanced.

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Meanwhile, the more ruthless players were the ones begging on the street. They quickly got up, piled up the firewood they had been sitting on near the tavern, smashed the can of kerosene on it, and started to set it on fire with their lighters.

Arson in Chang’an City is an unquestionable serious crime!

Because most of Chang’an city consists of wooden buildings, once a fire breaks out, it can easily cause severe damage. Even in the virtual world, anyone caught would be locked up in prison for three full hours—this is the basic penalty. The more damage caused, the longer the imprisonment.

But since the game is going to wipe out all data today, so… it doesn’t really matter~

Some players, with nothing else to do, even started to try to break into Princess Taihua’s Mansion to see what the Princess looked like—even though it was already the 11th year of Tianbao, and the Princess Taihua had been married off seven years ago…

The tavern quickly caught fire, with the NPCs scattering and fleeing.

In the middle of the fire, player after player rushed towards the Capital Commandant, who was severely poisoned, suffered greatly in his vision, and seemed to be in a frenzy.

The Capital Commandant, who didn’t know how many players he had already killed and how many layers of buff he had stacked, had an astonishing amount of strength.

Even if he was thrown into chaos and his attacks were completely disordered, his indiscriminate slashing still had an amazing killing power, and no one could withstand his single blow.

Red Dust was very confident in his own skills. Using his agile reaction, he rushed forward and slashed the Capital Commandant’s leg. The painful Capital Commandant quickly counterattacked with a slash, and Red Dust blocked it with his vertical blade.

“Clang!”

With a crisp sound, he was hit and flew out, crashing heavily into the wall of the tavern. The creeping flames were only an inch away from his face.

Red Dust tried several times to stand up but failed. His weapon was also cut open with a huge gap, and its durability plummeted by more than half in an instant!

Unlike other games, in “Chang’an”, if a weapon’s durability drops to zero, it can’t just be repaired and restored.

Once the player’s self-made [Apprentice Level] weapon’s durability drops to zero, it shatters instantly.

Even if it doesn’t drop to zero, as the durability decreases, the weapon will also present real problems such as breaking, dulling, and bending. After being repaired three times, it must be completely reforged.

The [Fine Level] weapons crafted by mature blacksmiths are slightly better. They won’t show serious deformation before the durability drops below 20%.

However, during the repair process, the maximum durability will slowly decrease, and they will be completely discarded after long-term usage.

The final destination is also to reforge.

As for the [Master Level] and [Grandmaster Level] weapons that are higher, players can’t even get in touch with them now, let alone the [Legendary] weapons that Lincoln prepared for the [First Chang’an Martial Arts Competition].

That would be an [Indestructible] weapon, truly usable for life.

Red Dust looked at the sword in his hand and suddenly had an idea: if it’s too hard to kill the NPC, what about ruining his sword?

But after seeing the players being killed by the NPC, he found that very few people could withstand the NPC’s sharp blade. So, he decisively gave up this idea.

——He doesn’t know yet that, under normal circumstances, weapon durability wouldn’t decrease so dramatically.

The decrease of weapon durability involves the levels of both weapons and whether there is a huge gap between the holders’ strength.

With the players’ current strength and weapons, the difficulty of breaking the Capital Commandant’s sword was incredibly high.

The fire became more and more fierce, waves of heat roiled in the air, players were still rushing to their deaths one after another, the poisoned NPCs were getting worse and worse, looking as if they could explode and die at any moment, but——

They just didn’t die!

Red Dust thought for a bit, and took out a bundle of paper packets from his bosom, without checking them carefully, lit it on the burning wooden wall, and tossed it towards the mixed central area.

Capital Commandant split those medicine packets in one swoop!

The poisonous powder inside burst open in an instant, shrouding everyone in a flurry.

At first, it seemed to have no effect, but a few seconds later, all the players who were injured felt a sudden itch all over their bodies!

“F*ck!” Yi immediately dropped the knife in his hand, took a backward leap away from the melee, and began scratching furiously.

The players around him were no exception, they all felt an unbearable itch, scratching their ears and cheeks madly.

The Capital Commandant at the center, who was already poisoned and had been slashed repeatedly by players regardless of life and death, was no exception. He began frantically tearing at his armor, struggling to take off his clothes, and in no time turned into a bare-chested man.

The ranged roles, seeing the blood-soaked NPC who cared only about scratching his itch, so much so that his whole body was marked with red welts, decisively opened their bows to shoot!

The Capital Commandant didn’t dodge or defend, obsessed with scratching, until he was shot into a porcupine before he finally fell, freeing him from the pain.

But Yi didn’t have the leisure to be happy, he was still scratching like crazy!

“Where’s the antidote! Bring out the antidote!”

“Antidote! Antidote! Quick! I can’t take it anymore!”

Red Dust watched as his comrades started to take off their clothes, completely bewildered. “No, that’s all poison. It can definitely kill people, but it shouldn’t cause itching, right?”

He’d never learned a recipe that could cause itching!

“Could it be because those poisons mixed together created a special effect?” The teammate with the bow next to him had an idea.

His chosen secondary profession was [Cook], which was actually a chef, and he had been researching sauces recently, so he naturally started to make connections.

“Is that even possible??” Exclaimed Red Dust, deeply surprised.

“F*ck, no more talking! We need the antidote!”

“Itchy, itchy, itchy, it’s so itchy, give me a quick death if it continues!”

“This was unexpected, I really didn’t…” Red Dust was about to explain when he suddenly felt an itch at the back of his neck.

Just as he extended his hand to scratch, this “itchy sensation” rapidly spread in all directions, from his scalp all the way down to the soles of his feet. Even the friction of clothes on his body was unbearable, and he wished he could strip off his clothes immediately.

“F*ck!” He exclaimed in shock, “I really don’t have an antidote!”

“We’re screwed…” The Cook teammate also began to feel itchy. “The poison has spread in the high temperature?”

Red Dust, with his decisive nature, immediately took out a spare weapon from the Weapon Storage Box and stabbed his own heart, directly dissipating on the spot.

The Cook had a bit more conscience, and while the symptoms were still bearable, he bravely drew his sword and rushed up, planning to free his teammates who were bleeding from all orifices, only wearing underwear and lying on the ground scratching, before committing suicide himself.

On the other side, the first thing Red Dust did after resurrection was to meticulously recall what those packets of poison he threw out were, and what their specific composition was, and patiently recorded them one by one, planning to go and ask his Master.

Even if his Master can’t solve it, he himself will research this drug.

This is way more powerful than poison!

But what he had in mind was not to use it in combat, but to spread it in those brothels in Health Square while wearing a mask, and just sprinkle it in the air!

Next, he can watch the princes, nobles, and courtesans strip and scratch in public!

Just thinking about this scene, Red Dust felt extremely excited!

Even more so, he had a more terrifying idea: What if he made several tons of this drug, then waited for a windy day, climbed to the top of the highest building in Chang’an, and just sprinkle them off!

Then wouldn’t it be a super unrestricted strip conference?

As for reporting this potentially huge BUG to Cloud Dream?

How could that be possible!

Red Dust never thought about it for one second…