strictlysupreme Chapter 24 The Value of Gold Coins
Chapter 24 The Value of Gold Coins
[The Amazing Skill of Stomach Expansion and Swallowing: Beginner's Guide (64/100)]
"That's progressing fast!"
A hint of surprise flashed in Zhou Qing's eyes.
Having learned this martial art for less than two days, he's almost reached a minor level of proficiency by frantically eating rice.
At this rate, I won't even need to wait for Friday's club activities to reach a certain level of proficiency.
Withdrawing his gaze, Zhou Qing didn't linger any longer and began practicing the basic high school body-strengthening method, while simultaneously activating his dissolving and absorption skills to accelerate digestion.
After practicing for an unknown amount of time, a piercing alarm clock suddenly rang, and Zhou Qing stopped, his whole body soaked in sweat, panting heavily.
He casually took out his phone and saw that it was already 7:40.
Class starts in twenty minutes, I need to hurry back to my dorm to get ready.
Zhou Qing looked at the panel again.
Name: Zhou Qing
Physical Strength: 11.91
Energy Intensity: 3.96
【Features: One certificate grants eternal proof, infinite transformations, and the ability to unite all heavens】
[Skills: Dissolve and Absorb (Mastery), Slime Transformation (Beginner), Stomach-Expanding Swallowing Technique (Beginner), High School Basic Body Tempering Method (Mastery), High School Basic Fist Technique (Mastery), High School Basic Staff Technique (Mastery)...]
"Physical strength increased by 0.08, not bad, not bad."
Zhou Qing nodded in satisfaction, then turned his gaze to the energy intensity, his pupils contracting slightly.
"The energy intensity actually increased by 1.24?"
He thought about it carefully.
This astonishing increase is not only due to the small initial base, but more importantly, the high content of magical essence consumed from the monsters.
The baboon that could cast wind blade magic had abundant magical energy within its body.
And those horned rabbits also have a lot of magic energy, much better than the giant frogs and walking mushrooms on the first floor.
Zhou Qing became happier the more she thought about it.
"At this rate, if I go to the fantasy world and have a few more monster feasts, my energy level will soon rise to over 10."
In high spirits, Zhou Qing didn't linger. With a thought, he connected with the white star representing the martial arts world and instantly disappeared into the dark space, returning to his dormitory.
I just got back and my phone rang once, and I got a signal again.
A notification popped up.
Zhou Qing picked it up casually and took a look, and was delighted.
The results for the dungeon gold coins he took for appraisal have come back.
After receiving the box of gold coins yesterday, Zhou Qing was afraid of wasting time going to an appraisal agency, so he directly ordered same-city express delivery and sent a gold coin for appraisal.
If I were to find an agency to do the testing myself, it would waste a lot of time.
Instead of wasting time, why not explore a fantasy world?
The message said the gold coins had been returned and asked Zhou Qing to pick them up at the courier point at the school gate. The appraisal results were also sent directly to his phone.
Zhou Qing opened the appraisal report and began to read it carefully.
The forensic report provides concrete evidence.
Dungeon coins are indeed genuine gold, not some otherworldly specialty like a gold mine.
More importantly, all the data about the gold coins has been thoroughly analyzed.
It contains nearly 80% gold and weighs just over five grams.
After confirming the status of the gold coins, Zhou Qing quickly pulled out his phone and checked today's gold price.
The current price of gold is 1,000 yuan per gram.
"It costs 1,000 yuan per gram, and each coin weighs more than five grams, with a gold content of nearly 80%. Even if the buyback price is a little low, a single gold coin can still be worth 4,000 yuan."
Zhou Qing started counting on his fingers.
"Three gold coins are more than my monthly living expenses, and I still have less than two hundred. So, that adds up to more than seven hundred thousand yuan!"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but grin.
But Zhou Qing's happiness lasted only two seconds before she wilted.
"What a pity, martial arts is a money-devouring beast, spending money like water."
"Seven hundred thousand seems like a lot, but if we use it to buy exotic beast meat, it will be gone in no time."
Zhou Qing recalled the black-bristled pig she had eaten at the cooking club before.
The Xuanzong pig, a rare breed known for its high meat yield, commands a market price as high as 200 yuan per kilogram.
In terms of conversion, one dungeon gold coin is only enough to buy twenty catties of meat. For Zhou Qing, who is obsessed with dry food cultivation, this amount of meat is only enough for one meal at most.
They weren't even full.
Moreover, the black-bristled pig that was slaughtered at the restaurant earlier yielded 967 catties of meat, which, when converted to market price, was close to 200,000 silver dollars.
This 200,000 yuan is worth a full 50 dungeon gold coins.
"How much monster meat can fifty gold coins buy in a fantasy world? Enough to pile up into a small mountain. And you can kill and eat monsters on the spot, so you don't need to spend money to buy them."
Zhou Qing felt increasingly cheated the more he thought about it.
"Selling gold coins for money to buy beast meat? Only someone with a screw loose would do that!"
"I must be crazy to turn down free and plentiful monster meat and become this sucker."
However, upon further reflection, Zhou Qing had another idea.
Instead of selling gold coins to buy exotic beast meat, you could use them to buy martial arts techniques.
Of course, this idea should only be considered when there is a need.
As things stand, Zhou Qing doesn't really have any martial arts skills that he urgently needs.
After all, he possesses the overpowered ability of [Infinite Transformation]. Even the most ordinary, common martial arts techniques can be upgraded and broken through their limits in his hands, so there's no need for him to spend a lot of money to buy better martial arts techniques.
More than martial arts, Zhou Qing now covets the magic of the fantasy world.
It's important to know that very few low-level martial arts techniques can be used for ranged attacks; most are close-quarters combat.
Magic is different. With a wave of your hand, you can unleash a wind blade or a fireball, and you can scratch monsters from a distance... or even kill them instantly. It's a godsend for lazy people.
Moreover, the magic system in this fantasy world doesn't seem weak. If I study it properly, it will definitely add a powerful tool to my path of making a living.
But ideals are often far from reality.
Unlike martial arts worlds, fantasy worlds are not technologically advanced or information-rich; instead, they are ridiculously prejudiced.
Learning magic is harder than getting into a top university. Zhou Qing had paid special attention to this when buying maps after registering as an adventurer in Kara City.
Forget about magic shops, I couldn't even find a street stall selling magic scrolls.
Zhou Qingpang inquired around and learned that to learn magic in this world, one either had to rely on luck, either by looting other mages' corpses or by finding magic scrolls in the ruins of dungeons.
You either have to rely on connections and find someone who knows magic to ask for advice.
Moreover, even if you're lucky enough to find a magic scroll, without someone to guide you, you'll likely be completely confused and unable to learn it on your own.
However, this difficulty was nothing to Zhou Qing.
Who told him to have the cheat code "One Certificate, Permanent Certificate"?
As long as he can get the scroll, he can master it by constantly grinding for experience, so he doesn't need to worry about the difficulty of getting started.
The only minor problem now is that I need to decipher the text of the fantasy world first, otherwise I won't be able to understand what's written on the scroll, and all my hard work will be for nothing.