Chapter 336: Magical Wine
The more expensive the better?
Afeng read these four words and felt the scent of money coming towards him.
He reminded: "Brother, you better think about it, some wines are so expensive that they make people vomit blood."
Su Xia said indifferently: "Are you looking down on my bank card?"
“…”
"Brother, you are so rich, why do you become a killer?"
Ah Feng asked in confusion: "If I were as rich as you, I would have found a place to live and have a different girlfriend every day."
Su Xia said calmly: "Life is meaningless, find some excitement."
“Amazing.”
A Feng was disappointed and stopped asking.
From the last time he bought information and this time he bought wine, any normal person can see that Su Xia is not short of money at all.
At least, there is no shortage of money in the short term.
If such a rich person is in his right mind, he will not come to a place like the Zero Point Tavern where blood and knife are licked.
After all, the biggest regret in life is dying without spending all the money.
Most wealthy people like their stability and security.
"Brother, how do you make money? Can you give me a way?" Afeng asked.
"You are a psychic creature after all, are you short of money?" Su Xia asked back.
"Alas, my ability is average, I can't do those missions with high bounties, and I only make tens of thousands of dollars a month to make ends meet."
"A few tens of thousands aren't enough?"
"Brother, if you join our circle, you will know that tens of thousands of dollars are really not enough!" Afeng made a bitter face and sighed when talking about money.
Su Xia was too lazy to pay attention to him.
If tens of thousands are not enough, how are those poor people supposed to survive?
"Stop crying poor and tell me about the wine here first."
Su Xia got down to business, observing along the rows of shelves, various notes popping up in front of her eyes.
This wine cellar is very large, and the wines inside come from all over the mainland, even foreign wines that have been shipped across the ocean from another continent .
[Golden Parrot: Ordinary alcoholic beverage, 28% alcohol, price 999/250g]
A light golden wine came into Su Xia's eyes. There was gold foil floating in the wine. The price was a bit shocking, half a pound costing more than nine hundred yuan.
On Earth, the most expensive wine Su Xia had ever drunk was the one he had with other players at a dinner party last time, and the price was less than half of this stuff.
He picked it up and shook it. Gold foil fluttered in the transparent bottle, which looked pretty good.
A Feng immediately said, "Brother, this wine is vulgar and worthless. It's meaningless to drink it yourself, and it's even more vulgar to give it to others."
Su Xia smiled and said, "According to what you said, what's the meaning of this wine?"
"To cheat those little upstarts out of their money."
“That makes sense.”
Su Xia put down the bottle and continued to check the rest of the wine under Afeng's guidance.
Afeng deliberately avoided the areas with cheap liquor, and also avoided those things that looked expensive but were actually just for money-sucking.
For example, some nightclub-exclusive liquor or liquor packages costing five or even six or seven figures are pure IQ taxes, specifically used by rich people to show off.
"Brother, you can try this wine. It's very good to drink by yourself..."
"And this wine, if you take a sip every day, you can live to be ninety-nine..."
Afeng introduced as he walked, with saliva flying from his mouth.
Su Xia was silent, and for a moment he didn't know whether this guy was praising the wine or cursing him.
Psychic creatures have very good physical constitutions, and if nothing unexpected happens, they will have no problem living to over a hundred years old.
"Brother, let's have a bottle first and talk while we drink!"
Afeng suddenly took two bottles of sparkling wine from the shelf. Maybe he was thirsty or greedy, but he opened one bottle each for him and Su Xia.
Su Xia glanced at the price and found that the wine was actually sold for 9999 per bottle, so she asked, "Didn't you say that it's only tens of thousands per month? Are you willing to drink this?"
"It's okay. The 9999 on the label is for those idiots and rich people to see. We insiders can drink as much as we want. "
“…”
Afeng was very calm. He believed that there was a reason why some wines were marked at high prices, such as medicinal wines.
Some wines are totally unworthy of their prices, and are only sold for their brands and hype.
Zero Point Tavern has stakes in all major wineries. Although Afeng is just a bartender at a branch, he knows all the inside information clearly.
"No, that's wrong." A Feng added, "Brother, you don't have enough authority to drink this. I've been in the tavern for several years and have enough authority to get this worthless wine at a low price. This bottle is my treat."
"All right."
So the two of them clinked bottles and drank as they walked.
Afeng continued to introduce, and notes on various types of wine kept popping up in front of Su Xia's eyes.
[White Wave: Ordinary alcoholic beverage, romantic from the East Continent coast, soft on the palate, sweet aftertaste... 35% alcohol, price 1999/250g]
[Silence: Low-level medicinal wine, made with the same method as refining medicine. After drinking, it can enhance hearing perception by 4%-7%, lasting for 5 minutes... 30 degrees, price 2499/250g]
【……】
[Qingtian: Low-level potion, made using the same method as potion-making. After drinking it, it can enhance the sexual function of male creatures. The duration of the effect is...]
"etc!"
Afeng suddenly stopped, reached out to the shelf, and picked up two small bottles of wine labeled "Qingtian".
This time he didn't invite Su Xia, but put it in his pocket as if no one was around.
"Brother, let's continue and look over there. There are medicinal liquors over there. Maybe there is what you want."
"good."
Su Xia followed this guy and walked into the depths of the wine cellar.
Some of the medicinal liquors here are made by pharmacists, while others are made just like on Earth, by simply soaking various ingredients in liquor.
As soon as he got closer, Su Xia saw a kind of wine that was very popular.
[Insect Whip Wine: Made from the penis of powerful insect creatures, soaked for 49 days, it can strengthen the body, treat back and leg pain, accelerate blood circulation, and enhance...]
This wine is not cheap. Advertisements for this wine are everywhere nowadays, and some TV stations are playing them on a loop. The price was once sky-high.
Ordinary people don’t know much about the Zerg. In their eyes, those Zerg creatures are just like wild beasts such as wolves and tigers, and are carnivores in the wilderness.
Since the tiger 's penis can be used to make wine, then the Zerg's can naturally be used as well.
"This is pure IQ tax." Afeng patted the bottles and jars used to soak the insect whips and said so.
"No effect?" Su Xia asked him.
"Of course it didn't work."
"Have you ever drunk it?"
"Uh... I've had some before, but it tasted terrible and was damn expensive."
Due to the rarity of the ingredients, even insiders can only buy this wine at the original price.
Su Xia noticed that a can of wine that was only as big as a human head had a price tag of four figures - 6,688 per bottle.
The three or four materials in the bottle are just from the lowest level swift worms.
"It's so expensive. If you're short of money in the future, you can go to the wilderness to find insect nests and hunt insects." Su Xia said.
"Brother, you are so bold."
A Feng couldn't help but say, "That's a Zerg creature. Ordinary people may not understand it, but people like you and me do. Even a lone low-level bug is not that easy to deal with."
"Well, I was just saying."
"Brother, the tone of your 'just talking' is just like you are really going to do it. The last time you said you wanted to kill Wang Teng, you used the same tone."
"I've always spoken like this, you'll just get used to it."
“…”
The two continued forward and went deeper into the wine cellar.
More medicinal wines soaked in liquor or made by pharmacists appeared in front of Su Xia.
The medicinal liquors refined are relatively normal.
However, the things soaked in the medicinal wine were all kinds of strange things, which made Su Xia see the diversity of species.
It is quite common to use herbs, fruits, poisonous insects, etc. to make wine.
Some of the strange jars actually contain biological organs, embryos and even strange minerals.
Some things look very sanity-depleting, such as a wine jar full of creature eyeballs.
In addition to these, there are even stranger ones, such as directly mixing psychic solution with alcohol.
“Can I drink this?”
Su Xia patted a can of wine with the words [Great Tonic Spiritual Energy Wine] on it and said seriously, "Wine plus purified spiritual energy solution?"
"It has not been purified, not once." Afeng answered truthfully.
"Are you not afraid of drinking to death?"
"If you don't die from drinking it, it's just like replenishing potions, except that it has more psychic impurities. It's just a gimmick."
The solution in the jar was an abnormally blue color, which reminded Su Xia of the copper sulfate solution used in experiments in high school.
Next, he continued to move forward and listened to Afeng introduce him to the various types of wine in the wine cellar.
The cheapest potions made by chemical methods start at four digits, and the slightly more expensive ones start at five digits. Su Xia also saw some that started at six digits.
Most of these medicinal wines have a supporting role in a certain aspect and can temporarily enhance one's certain abilities.
But Su Xia was not satisfied and always felt that something was missing.
At this time, A Feng asked: "Brother, are you going to send someone away? What kind of person? Otherwise, I can give you some advice."
"Okay."
Su Xia thought for a moment and said, "One of my nephews is going to propose marriage to the girl's family today. The girl's father likes to drink."
A Feng said, "Just buy a few hundred or a few thousand dollars of wine. What you want when proposing marriage is just a token of your thoughts."
"The status gap between the two parties is huge, and the girl's family is not satisfied with my nephew."
“I see…”
Afeng touched his chin and thought seriously.
If the girl's family is not satisfied, you have to be more cautious. Proposing marriage is like going to the battlefield. There is no chance to do it again.
What's more, with Su Xia's wealth, the girl's family was not satisfied.
Could it be those big families in Seahorse City with combined wealth of hundreds of millions?
"Brother, with a big family like that, they can basically buy anything they want, so you have to get something rare," he said.
"Why is it rare?"
"Come with me..."
A Feng lowered his voice, looked mysterious, and took Su Xia all the way into the wine cellar, straight to the deepest part of the wine cellar.
At the deepest part of the wine cellar, there is another door, which is also a heavy bronze metal door.
Upon arrival, he pulled out his ID card and swiped it at the door.
This ID card was different from the one he had used before and seemed to have higher authority.
"bite--"
With a slight sound, the door slowly opened, and a fresh fragrance wafted to the face. The smell of wine was not strong, but rather a mixture of grass and fruit.
"This is……"
Su Xia's expression changed slightly, he smelled the scent of a fruit - the aroma of the fruit of an alien plant, the sweet palm tree.
Ah Feng said solemnly: "I couldn't enter this place originally, but I got close to Liu Tongjia these past two days and got a permission card from him."
In front of the two of them was a room of neither too big nor too small. The room was brightly lit and had more than ten rows of shelves.
Compared with the huge wine cellar outside, there are too few bottles of wine in this room, but each bottle is quite eye-catching.
"Brother, take a look, how about these wines?" A Feng's tone was a little mysterious. He took a bottle and handed it to Su Xia.
"Where did you get all this wine?" Su Xia asked him.
"The northern part of the continent."
"wine?"
"This is not an ordinary fruit wine." A Feng said seriously, "It is made by pharmacists, using many kinds of precious materials, the main ingredients are some very special fruits."
"How special is it?" Su Xia asked in a surprised tone.
"Brother, you may have never seen those fruits in your life."
Ah Feng stared at the bottle of wine, licked his lips, and continued, "Those fruits are said to be found in a forest in the extremely cold north, and they have extremely high medicinal value."
Su Xia's heart moved, and she asked, "Is there a forest in an extremely cold place?"
"I'm also surprised. That damn place is covered in ice and snow." A Feng shrugged. "It's probably not an ordinary plant. It may be a mutant plant caused by psychic energy."
Over the years, there have been many news reports about psychic power causing animal mutations, which are even more terrifying than radiation, but news about psychic power causing plant mutations is rare.
Afeng didn't know the truth and could only guess based on his own ideas.
Even the local store manager's apprentice, Liu Tongjia, couldn't explain the origins of the raw materials of these wines.
But he knew that the recipe for refining these medicinal liquors was created by a master pharmacist in the Zero Point Tavern.
On this planet, no other organization or force, not even the mechanical race, has this formula.
Even if they had the recipe, they couldn't find the ingredients.
Su Xia held a bottle of wine and looked at it carefully.
The wine in the bottle is dark blue. With a gentle shake, the wine rises and falls with tiny dots of silver light, like a starry sky on the seashore in summer.
[Starry Sky Flowing Sound: High-level medicinal wine, comparable in value to a sixth-level medicine, mellow and rich, sweet and pleasant, can soothe the mind, warm the body, a dreamlike product...]
【price:???】
When Su Xia saw those question marks, she knew that this kind of wine could not be bought with money.
The sixth-level potion is already at the top of the pharmacist's career on this planet.
To be able to create this kind of special medicinal wine, the pharmacist must be a sixth-level pharmacist with a respected status, possibly not inferior to my father.
"How much is this?" Su Xia asked seriously.
This is not just to buy for Chu Feng, Su Xia also wants to get a few bottles to study.
A Feng said: "Brother, you have to be prepared."
"you say."
"The headquarters said this thing can only be exchanged for goods." A Feng stroked the wine bottle and said, "Do you have any precious treasures? Or a special potion formula?"
"baby……"
Su Xia stared at the bottle of wine in her hand and thought about it carefully.
The things he has are either too ordinary or too precious to be given away.
Those precious things are basically related to starry sky civilization.
The fact that the Zero Point Tavern can produce these wines means that they have also discovered an alien forest, and may even have obtained some wreckage of an alien spaceship.
Su Xia couldn't take any risks.
Secrets related to alien civilizations can easily lead to fatal disasters.
Seeing Su Xia deep in thought, A Feng added: "Precious treasures are exchanged with the headquarters, and...special medicine formulas are exchanged directly with the master who refines this kind of medicinal wine, in a one-on-one form."
"Oh? Can I meet that master of pharmacy?" Su Xia was a little tempted.
“Yes, we’ll meet online.”
"Okay, prepare it for me."
"ah?"
A Feng was startled, thinking Su Xia was joking, he touched his ear and asked, "Brother, what did you say?"
Su Xia put down the bottle, looked at him and said, "I want to talk to that master."
"Brother, are you okay?"
Afeng reached out and touched Su Xia's forehead with a look of surprise.
Su Xia opened his hand and said seriously: "I'm not sick, please help me prepare."
"This... Brother, do you really have a special formula?"
"have."
"Don't make fun of the master. His time is very precious."
“My time is just as valuable.”
“…”
Afeng was speechless. He always felt that Su Xia was not very reliable. If he had known earlier, he would not have brought him to this small room and would have just recommended him a few extremely expensive wines.
What if that person makes the master angry...
Afeng shook his head. The scene was so beautiful that he couldn't imagine it.
