Mysterious journey

"That's the gold medal in the Silver Horn Mechanic Competition that our store once won!" Seemingly seeing Garen's interest in this, the little girl forced a smile and walked over to introduce it. It seemed that she was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she was already very tired, but she had to take the initiative to attract customers.

"Sorry, I'm not here to buy anything." Garron pointed to a job advertisement nearby and said, "I am a novice magician, only level two, and I want to find a job to drill crystal stones."

After hearing this, the little girl's energy, which she had worked hard to build up, suddenly dropped.

"Looking for OEM. We really need OEM. As you can see, everything on the counter is not uniform. We sell energy machine marks and auxiliary materials. Many things need to be processed by ourselves after purchasing. Especially the fine processing of materials. , the energy weapon mark also needs someone to perform fine-tuning and inspection, and the shop is also very short of people. But the wages are a bit low."

"How much?" Garen nodded.

"How about two hundred crystals a week?" the little girl asked carefully.

Garen didn't know the market at all, he just looked at the little girl and frowned.

"Are you in charge here?"

"Yes, this is my store." The little girl nodded. In fact, in the general market, there are quite a lot of things that a second-level energy mechanic can do. The price of two hundred crystals per week is already considered very low. The normal price is four hundred crystals per week. But this store is almost unsustainable. Even this ancestral spot can hardly be maintained, and the annual maintenance fees can hardly be paid. If we don't work hard, I'm afraid it won't be long before this point's position in the supernatural space will be completely cancelled.

"My name is Xiaolan. This store is under my grandfather's name. He is sick now. Only my senior brother and senior sister are taking care of the business together." The little girl said briefly.

Garen nodded, but what he needs most now is the energy weapon mark. Everything else is not the focus, and the cheapest energy weapon mark is very expensive. It was something he couldn't afford at all.

"I can agree, but I'm encountering something now. I urgently need an energy weapon mark. I wonder if you can advance an energy weapon mark to me in advance. The lowest level one will do." He had no choice now. Human hunters may attack the town where he is at any time. If he does not improve his defense capabilities quickly, no matter how strong he is, he will die if he encounters an endless sea of ​​human hunters.

"Advance payment?" the little girl was stunned for a moment, "I have to go back and ask about this. But if you agree, after signing the contract, you must come over one week to complete a fixed minimum share of the task OEM? Otherwise, you will be identified by the superpower space. If you break the law, you may lose the qualification to enter the supernatural space again, so you have to think clearly."

"That's right, no problem." Garen nodded. He has no choice now. He is penniless and cannot go to other shops. Maybe the conditions here are not good, but this is his only choice.

There are two other shops where the wages may be higher, but he can't get in at all.

Watching the little girl turn around and go back into the store.

Garen wandered around the store casually. There were really not many things on the counter. There were only five or six types of weapon marks, all of which were aquatic and ground types. There were no more popular aerial or underground marks.

Cannon fodder in the air and underground cannon fodder are relatively good energy marks, such as color-changing bats, which can invade over long distances and have strong concealment and durability. Because they can remain in a color-changing stealth state for a long time without consuming much energy, they are better than Generally, the mark should have good lasting power.

Another example is underground earthworms, which can go deep into the ground to find hidden underground bases. They are very popular in some special environments, are highly concealed, and contain certain toxins.

These are very good peripheral cannon fodder.

But there are none here, there are just ordinary wild wolves, saber-toothed tigers, cannon fodder creatures that are large in size, short in duration, and average in power.

Of course, a wild wolf and a saber-toothed tiger are definitely more capable in frontal combat than the average color-changing bat, but in this technological age, no matter how strong your body is, if you lack the ability to dodge, you will be defeated in one shot.

Therefore, ordinary medium-sized and large biological systems are the lowest-priced energy mark.

The energy mark emphasizes being faster, more accurate, and more powerful.

Garen scanned it, only to see wild wolves, saber-toothed tigers, and the others were cannon fodder for the Aquatic Tribe. This place was thousands of miles away from the sea, so it was natural that these marks could not be sold.

Shaking his head, he also heard footsteps coming from inside. Looking up, he saw the little girl Xiaolan walking out, followed by a tall and thin young man.

The man was wearing a white apron, and his hands were covered with wire gloves, which were stained with oil. His face was also a little tired, and he looked very tired. He was only in his twenties, about the same age as Garen.

"Hello, I am the disciple of the boss here, Mingjia. Do you want to join our store as an OEM?" The man came over, opened the small door of the counter, and came to Jialong.

"Yes, it's me." Garen nodded.

"So what can you do? Do you have any experience as a helper before?" the man asked with a hint of expectation. "Although the salary is so low, I'm sorry to ask this, but this is also to allow you to get into work quickly."

"Uh" was the question that asked Garen. He had never even entered the supernatural space a few times, let alone any work he had done before. "To be honest, I am a new energy weapon master. I don't even have an energy weapon mark, let alone any helper work."

He answered frankly that it was difficult to cover up a situation like this, so he might as well be direct.

"Newcomer?" A trace of disappointment flashed across the man's face, but he nodded with understanding. "I understand that if there are skilled mechanics with work experience, they probably won't come to work with us so easily."

He paused, "Then do you think this arrangement is okay? Only me and my other junior sisters are working in our store now, and Xiaolan is in charge of sales. However, we are only good at processing biochemical imprints from the sea and the ground, and in other aspects Not at all. I am currently trying to process the marks of air units. The ground mark processing that I was originally responsible for will allocate part of the workload to you. You can complete one in a week. Is that okay?"

"One?" Garen nodded. The cheapest mark cost several thousand crystals, which was not something he could afford. Completing a ground mark in a week didn't sound like a difficult task. "I haven't tried it. Can you let me try it first?"

"That's fine."

The two of them took Garen into the shop inside and entered another room similar to a studio.

There are some floating objects like spheres placed inside. The silver spheres are suspended one by one in the air. There are more than a dozen of different sizes, and the contents inside can be seen through the appearance of each one.

Each ball inside is like a gestating embryo. Inside is a group of constantly rotating colorful whirlpools. There seems to be a colorful Milky Way in it, which is extremely gorgeous and beautiful.

Mingjia pointed at the largest sphere and introduced.

"This is the energy mark that is being processed and cultivated. It is the mark of a liger. The smaller the mark, the more functions, the stronger the power, and the more complex the calculations involved. The birth ball requires the energy engineer to pay attention to it at all times. The data changes, guiding and weaving the gene chains we need at key steps. And injecting our consciousness, the final imprint will record all the processes in the gestation ball."

He patted the big ball and smiled bitterly.

"Of course, in this gestation process, the fewer mistakes you can make, the more perfect it is, because every time you make a mistake, even if it is corrected later, the gestated energy mark will also make the same mistake when it creates cannon fodder in the biochemical pool. This It will waste time and materials. If you waste it like this every time, then the quality of the entire mark will be reduced."

"That's true." Garen nodded in understanding.

"The general standard is that no more than five mistakes can be made, or the waste rate cannot exceed 10%." Mingjia said simply.

"All our operations when operating the nurturing ball will be recorded by the mechanical imprint. The smoother it is, the more perfect the final imprint will be and the less loss it will have. We are like burning a sequence of programs on the imprint, and these procedures are irreversible. If you make a mistake, you can only make up for it, not change it. Therefore, every mistake directly determines the quality of the final mark. This is the creation of energy mark."

The little girl Xiaolan next to her also nodded.

"So making energy weapon marks usually requires one person to specialize in one category. Cross-domain operations are just seeking death. Except for old monsters who have too much time to spend, don't think about others."

"You guy." Mingjia shook his head with a wry smile, "You think I do?"

After hearing this, Garen understood very well.

They are like burning a disc, and those who buy the imprint are like playing the disc. Every time they create cannon fodder and breed biochemical pool cannon fodder, it is like playing a disc. The more errors and omissions on the disc, it will even affect Whether the playback is successful, whether there is a freeze in the middle, whether the picture is clear or not, whether it takes time, etc.

"As long as you understand." Mingjia nodded, "If you agree, you can sign an agreement here, and we can agree to advance you an energy weapon mark. After all, we will do this even if you don't say it, because there is no energy weapon The efficiency of the mark's energy weapon master is indeed very low, which is not what we want. As for the type of energy weapon mark, you can choose it yourself. Anyway, you can get any in the store, and there are no good ones. The price will be recorded directly in It will be deducted from your salary slowly."

"good."

Garen nodded with satisfaction.

"When will work begin?"

"Tomorrow. Today you choose the mark first and get familiar with using it. Tomorrow I will teach you how to operate and control the nurturing ball." Mingjia ordered. "How long do you plan to work."

"Let's take a month first."

"Then I'll make an agreement."

"Okay." Garen agreed and took the agreement sheet that quickly appeared in Mingjia's hand. After scanning it, he made sure there was no trap and quickly signed his name.

clang!

With a soft sound, the agreement burned naturally and turned into black ashes in Garen's hands.

"This means that the agreement has come into effect." Mingjia nodded, "Xiaolan, please go and help him choose a mark. The price will be calculated based on the cost price."

"Understood." The little girl Xiaolan also had a smile on her face. She tugged on her long red ponytail and turned around to give Garen a friendly smile. "How should I call you?"

"Garen." Garen smiled, "Just call me Garen."

"It's really amazing, brother Garen. You have become a second-level energy weapon master at such a young age. Your teacher must be a very knowledgeable energy weapon master, right?" Xiaolan led Garen out of the processing room and returned to the outside of the shop.