BXBX NOVEL Chapter 96 Vending Machine
Once the range was defined, she injected 10% of her mana into the barrier. Almost immediately, she heard a light rain, but when she opened her eyes, she saw that although it seemed to be raining outside, the drops vanished upon hitting the ground without leaving it wet. The sound wasn\'t annoying either; it felt like white noise, calming her mind.
The Special Affairs Bureau worked quickly. Even though they hadn\'t started using the dungeon yet, they let Rita choose her first month\'s rent in the form of skill crystals.
Originally, Rita wanted to choose skills related to divination or disguise, but as soon as she saw a skill crystal named **"Hello, I\'m a Student"**, she didn\'t hesitate to pick five of those!
**[Hello, I\'m a Student]:** Wherever you are and whatever currency you use, you\'ll receive a 10% discount on all transactions.
Given how much money Rita handled—sometimes in amounts exceeding tens of thousands—this skill was exactly what she needed!
She also picked two **[Why Am I Overweight Again]** crystals, which expanded the inventory slots in her game backpack. Each backpack could only use the crystal once, and her current ones had 36 slots—the largest available in Lania Kaiya Star, made by master tailors. Only skill crystals could extend backpack space beyond that.
After finishing the dungeon rental agreement, Rita treated Shadow.Q and Asher to a meal before sending them off. Then, she got to work crafting a vending machine using intermediate engineering. Even though the materials cost her 21 gold coins, the dungeon would likely be popular for at least six months, ensuring she would recoup her investment.
She planned to sell not only her dishes but also some green-tier gear and niche alchemy potions and engineering creations.
Silent potions, berserk potions, invisibility potions, revealing potions, agility potions, mechanical eyeballs, pathfinding robots—anything she had on hand.
Like any craftsman, Rita couldn\'t resist the urge to showcase her work. She had studied two major disciplines in this life and was eager to display her creations.
These items weren\'t valuable enough to provoke theft, but they were useful enough to sell.
She also set up a rest area with tables, chairs, a coffee machine, a water dispenser, and disposable cups.
Once everything was in place, Rita headed to Lania Kaiya Star to buy a batch of beginner healing potions and then began making **Ginseng Essence**.
Unlike alchemy potions, which required precision, **Ginseng Essence** was easier to make. Once she had the correct ratio, she could cook up a large batch at once and bottle it.
As for containers, she used small alchemy vials, which cost just 1 copper coin for 100 bottles. While engineering could produce them, she didn\'t want to waste time and simply bought them.
In one hour, she could brew 2,000 vials of **Ginseng Essence**. Most of the time was spent bottling the liquid. Unfortunately, this wasn\'t something she could outsource, so she had to do it herself.
With 70,000 pounds of ginseng and a potential yield of 350,000 vials, even working six hours a day, it would take her a month to finish. To motivate herself, she wrote the potential earnings on a board and placed it in front of her workspace. It was the only way she could push through the monotony.
That same evening, after the agreement was signed, Shadow.Q brought a team to Wilson\'s villa to install the direct portal to the dungeon. When Shadow.Q saw the vending machine already in place, filled with food, potions, and other items, she couldn\'t help but twitch her lips in amusement.
At least the prices were fair, and there was no auction fee.
"She really is obsessed with money…" Shadow.Q thought.
As her colleagues worked on installing the portal, Shadow.Q pulled Rita aside. "If I wanted to set up my own vending machine here, how much would that cost?"
Rita glanced at her. "You just need to buy a vending machine from me. Then you can sell whatever you want."
Shadow.Q sighed. "How much?"
Rita smiled. "Friendship price—49 gold and 99 silver."
"…Fine." Shadow.Q felt like she had just thrown a boomerang that came back to smack her in the face.
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While Rita was busy building her business, the White family purchased the news that there was a dungeon under their building they hadn\'t known about. The broker who sold the information had come to them directly.
The White family saw that the broker\'s ability was called **All-Knowing**, which was indeed a scouting talent, so they paid 3 gold coins for the information.
The broker, Brooks, liked to sell the same information multiple times but was thorough in verifying it first. After spending 1 gold to buy the lead about the dungeon under the White family\'s office building, she confirmed its existence and even checked who was currently using it. She packaged all this into a report and sold it to the White family for 3 gold.
The White family, being wealthy, paid without hesitation and even added her as a contact, telling her to reach out again if she ever had more information about them.Nôv(el)B\\\\jnn
After Brooks left, Sanchez asked his uncle why they hadn\'t tried to recruit her.
"There\'s no need," Josephine White replied. "People like that tend to make enemies. If we hire her, she\'ll eventually get us into trouble. Better to just buy information from her when we need it."
Sanchez nodded. "What about Lopez?"
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"Send someone to verify the information. If we can block them off, even better," Josephine said.
Soon enough, the White family caught the Lopez family red-handed, blocking them at the dungeon entrance.
Negotiations followed. The White family couldn\'t let this slide without losing face.
Before the game\'s invasion, the Lopez family had been much stronger than the White family. But now, things were different. The Lopez family hadn\'t advanced much faster than the Whites.
Rita, who had been eagerly waiting for this moment, perked up the instant her undead spider relayed the news. She had been preparing for this for a long time.
This was still a minor dispute, so neither family\'s leaders would get involved. The Lopez family sent Zoey to handle the situation since her status was on par with Sanchez\'s in the White family. After all, it was just a Level 1 dungeon—no need to make a big fuss.
Zoey was still on her way when Sanchez sat down outside the dungeon entrance to wait.
This was Rita\'s chance.
Instead of using **Phantom Cloak**, which could be detected by certain skills, she **Phantom Shifted** near the office building. Fully geared up, she used her **Thief God**\'s **Disguise** skill and then teleported to a blind spot on the 26th floor. She transformed into a gecko and crawled up the exterior wall to the roof.
After finding a safe spot to hide, she didn\'t have to wait long—Zoey soon arrived.
To Rita\'s relief, Zoey didn\'t try to pin the blame on her. After all, Rick was her brother, and with Rita\'s connections to the Special Affairs Bureau, there was no need to create an enemy out of her.
The Lopez family was willing to acknowledge their mistake but wasn\'t about to pay the 200 gold compensation the Whites were demanding.