Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 494 Acquiring the Power of Faith (Daily 10,000 words)

Upon hearing the number, Chen Ping's expression remained calm, and he nodded slightly.

Fifty thousand low-grade fixed-equipment shells may sound like a lot, but it represents a full two years' worth of production capacity.

Even if all the low-complexity tasks were assigned to the other undead, the current production capacity would only be this much, barely enough to match the shell production capacity of a county brigade in Chen Ping's previous life.

Chen Ping knew how to optimize the process and further improve the production efficiency of shells, but he could only start working on it after several technologies were mature.

Therefore, Chen Ping can only maintain his small workshop's shell production capacity by exploiting the undead in the undead demiplane.

Well, this time it really was exploitation, and Chen Ping couldn't very well deny it.

After all, in the reward mechanism set up by Chen Ping, the liches only get one point for inscribing a complete set of core arrays of a level four soul tool, and fifty points are needed to exchange for a mahjong table that can automatically arrange the tiles.

By the way, these rewards were actually made by the liches working overtime after they finished making the cannonballs. Those covered in silk robes are no longer silkworm farmers.

Fortunately, for these liches who don't have much to do on a daily basis, having something to do and a points system is interesting in itself.

Playing mahjong and carving soul-guided core arrays were equally interesting to them, so they were the type who were exploited but enjoyed it, which made Chen Ping's already limited conscience feel less guilty.

"Fifty thousand? That's a bit too few."

Chen Ping sighed. Whether it was to guard against the beast tide that appeared in the original work but is unlikely to reappear now, or to support the Star Luo and Heavenly Soul Empires and to block the invasion of the Sun Moon Army, these 50,000 shells would basically only be enough for a few rounds.

This thing isn't some high-powered artillery shell that can easily flatten an entire area with a single shot. It's basically just a high-powered grenade. To make it effective, the most important thing is to use a large quantity of it to overwhelm the opponent.

Fortunately, he is still far removed from these matters and has enough time to continue using the rare metals mined by the academy to produce these low- to mid-level fixed-mount shells.

If we stockpile 100,000 or 200,000 rounds and unleash them all in a single battle, that would be a formidable fighting force.

After finding out the latest news from the academy and the area, Chen Ping nodded. He had just left the office and was about to wander around the bathhouse when he got up to soak in the men's bath for a while. He saw that Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei had already finished their baths in the other pools and were planning to steam themselves.

"Brother Beibei, Brother Xu?"

Chen Ping was amused. What could he say about these two brothers?

Logically, he should be happy to support his bathhouse.

But one of these two guys already has a girlfriend, and the other has someone he's pursuing. Is it really appropriate for them to come to the bath and get a massage with their arms around each other's shoulders?

"Oh my, the international students are back!"

When Xu Sanshi saw Chen Ping, he chuckled excitedly and gave Chen Ping a big bear hug.

But at this moment, Chen Ping's physical strength was not afraid of Xu Sanshi, a six-ring Soul Emperor, at all. With a burst of strength in his arms, he was actually hugged by Xu Sanshi and was a little out of breath.

"No, no, be gentle!"

When Chen Ping hugged Xu Sanshi, he immediately begged for mercy. After Chen Ping released him, he looked at Chen Ping as if he were a monster.

"I heard Ning Tian and Wu Feng talking about how you're still not level 50, yet your strength is even more terrifying than before?" Bei Bei couldn't help but laugh when she saw Chen Ping. The two bumped fists slightly and completely ignored Xu Sanshi.

"Brother Beibei, why are you taking a bath with Brother Xu? Sister Xiaoya won't mind, will she?"

Chen Ping opened the sauna door and sat down, speaking to Bei Bei as he did so.

"Hehe, you've only heard of the Sea God's Fate, but you don't know that the night before our academy's Sea God's Fate is Singles' Night, do you?"

"It used to be quite difficult to decide where the boys and girls in our college would go for their bachelor/bachelorette night, as everyone basically had their own ideas."

"But ever since your building was built, everyone's ideas have been the same: boys go to the men's bathhouse, girls go to the women's bathhouse, and when they go upstairs to relax, eat, or play, they do their own thing separately."

Beibei chuckled and said, "Just based on this alone, Chen Ping, you've done a truly meritorious deed by building this bathhouse building."

Xu Sanshi nodded in agreement, saying, "Indeed, indeed. Although your place is quite expensive for things like medicinal baths and massages, a bath only costs five silver soul coins. Our students, including Nan Nan, come here often."

"Every time I go up to the lounge area, I run into Nan Nan two or three times out of ten, hehehehehehe."

As Xu Sanshi spoke, he chuckled, which made Chen Ping roll his eyes.

Damn it, your own massage parlor has actually become a tool for you, Xu Sanshi, to pick up girls. What's wrong with this world? It's a disaster.

Despite saying that, Chen Ping was still quite pleased to hear Xu Sanshi say that.

Judging from what the two brothers said, Tang Ya, who had been kind to him, must be alright now. She even successfully entered the inner academy, and her fate has undergone a complete transformation.

As for Jiang Nannan, although the trajectory of her fate did not change so obviously, just considering that Jiang Nannan could at least afford to come to the massage parlor and was even willing to spend five silver soul coins to take a bath, it is highly likely that after she entered the inner academy, she also got a scholarship and her life was not as difficult as before.

This is actually much more enjoyable than Chen Ping earning more money himself. Sharing happiness is worse than enjoying it alone, that's pretty much the idea.

Oh, right.

As Chen Ping was steaming, he suddenly realized another key reason why his massage parlor had such high revenue.

Damn it, Shrek's dormitories haven't even been demolished and rebuilt yet, and Shrek students are still living without private bathrooms!

In this situation, instead of just taking a quick shower in the dorm, it's much better to head straight to a bathhouse. After the shower, you can get a massage and some medicine applied – both internal and external – which is like boosting your stamina while you're lying down.

Despite saying that, Chen Ping still took out his notebook and made a note in it.

In an instant, Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi both gathered around: "Chen Ping, what are you writing down?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping smiled and said, "You don't know, I recently obtained the qualification of a prospective elder of the Sea God Pavilion in our academy, and I plan to report the reconstruction of the dormitory building when I make suggestions next time."

"If the school doesn't build dormitories for the junior students in the School of Foreign Languages, the school can forget about getting back the outstanding payments for those rare metal orders I owe them, hehe."

As Chen Ping finished speaking, he grinned, but in the next moment he noticed several extremely dense streams of faith power inexplicably appearing and merging into his body.

　My niece came over to play, which took up an hour, so I didn't have time to check for typos. I'll correct them later.
　　Today's daily quota of 10,000 units completed!
　　Current number of chapters owed: 11
　　
　
(End of this chapter)