Lily plugged the hard drive she got from Director Madeleine into Shino's terminal.
Last time, when she checked the data on the hard drive in Four Directions's meeting room, due to limited time, she only unlocked one psionic knowledge chain and one new skill. Now was a good time to absorb the remaining incomplete psionic knowledge chain (7) inside.
To her surprise, after raising the mastery of Psionic Knowledge Chain (7) to 46%, she also found an incomplete Psionic Profession, Apprentice Psionic Painter, on the hard drive. This profession happened to use Prayer Cards for combat.
"So the upper and lower sections are connected!"
Lily thought of the Prayer Card crafting blueprint she obtained from Inoue.
If she hadn't decided on a playstyle before, now she had a clear idea.
Yes, she would learn this!
Lily had always been thinking about how to continuously monetize the huge popularity she had accumulated among players.
This world, like the one she transmigrated from, proved that money isn't everything, but without money, you can't do anything.
Obviously, manipulating players to willingly hand over all their money was not only unfeasible but would also ruin her reputation. She also couldn't earn money by taking advertisements like Excavation Princess and other UP's, so she could only sell goods.
What kind of goods could she sell sustainably? Lily thought for a long time.
First, she could rule out the path of becoming a popular idol and then selling photo albums, merchandise, and handshake tickets.
Secondly, selling professional knowledge books was also not a good path. Professional knowledge books were not consumables. If she sold one Copy, players could easily Copy countless copies, and in the end, she wouldn't earn much money. It would be better to use professional knowledge books as mission rewards or small surprises to increase player favorability.
The emergence of the Psionic Painter profession perfectly solved Lily's troubles.
The Psionic Painter profession was not weak in strength, at least far stronger than the Spiritual Energy Prayer Master she had currently transferred to. Moreover, the Prayer Cards created by the Psionic Painter profession were excellent items that players could always use. They were perfect for continuously extracting players' gold.
But these were all matters for the future. She hadn't unlocked the Psionic Painter profession yet. Although she could already craft Prayer Cards after learning the Prayer Card crafting blueprint, the success rate was truly too low.
Custom Card: Frenzy Lv3: 25% crafting success rate
Custom Card: Combat Etiquette: 20% crafting success rate
Even with the success rate bonus from the Lucky talent, this data was very unsatisfactory.
Lily temporarily did not plan to invest too much effort into this. Making a few Prayer Cards to test the effect would be enough.
There shouldn't be any major movements from Four Directions in the next few days, and the Truth Society wouldn't send people to kill her immediately. This was a rare period of leisure, and she decided to use it to connect with the players.
Thinking of this, she opened the community to see what the players who had just arrived in Lynn were doing.
At this time, the community was incredibly lively, with all the posts on the homepage discussing her battle with Inoue and others.
"360-Degree View of Lily's Battle Beauty Pictures"
"God Descends and Fights Seven, This is the Power of the Tech Stream!"
"Tech? Metaphysics! The key to victory is manipulating opponents to throw their weapons over."
Some players were going crazy, occasionally spouting phrases like "Lily's legs are for playing with for years," and other players were arguing about which genre of profession was more powerful.
Among the vast number of posts and replies, Lily occasionally saw comments from players who had personally experienced the battle.
Most of them felt very regretful. They had finally managed to participate in the plot, but because their strength was too low, they ended up gaining almost nothing.
"Sigh, I wonder if I left a good impression on Lily today."
"Damn it, I feel like I lost a hundred million. It's all because there are too few shuttle buses between the Abandoned Cooling Plant and Lynn. Otherwise, I could have raised Lily's favorability with Pai Da and the others in advance."
"It's better to improve strength first. Judging from the previous situation, if you don't unlock an advanced profession, even if your favorability is high enough, you won't get any missions."
"Just now, I saw a guy who wanted to borrow money like Convert to My Lily and his gang, but he was hacked to death by smart gangsters. It made me laugh."
"I plan to buy a gun. It's easier to do missions with a gun."
"Where can I buy one? Take me with you."
The most frequent words in these replies were "buy a gun" and "do missions to level up."
Lily's eyebrows raised slightly. She seemed to have found a way to both increase player favorability and make a quick buck.
It was foreseeable that more and more players would come from the Abandoned Cooling Plant, and these players, like those speaking in the forum, were eager to buy guns.
Buying guns costs money. Since someone always has to earn players' money, why couldn't that person be her?
The only problem was that she didn't produce guns, but it didn't matter, she could be the gun transporter.
Lily set her sights on two sources of goods.
One was Four Directions.
Every now and then, Four Directions would phase out a batch of firearms with reduced durability. Lily's plan was to buy these guns and resell them to players.
She wasn't worried that this would tarnish her reputation. There are no bad products, only bad prices!
These guns might be bad, but that was only for professional agents. For players, they were still rare good items, especially when priced relatively low.
It's like selling mining cards on a second-hand market. If you disguise a mining card as 99% new, used by a girl, and charge a high price, then you're a scumbag. But if you clearly state that you're selling a mining card and price it very low, then you're a timely benefactor!
The second was the gangs that had been selling firearms and ammunition to the outside world.
Lily planned to use the pretext of testing players to have them wipe out all these gangs, and then sell the weapons she secretly confiscated from these gangs to the players.
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