The airship descended slowly, and below was the airship landing area. Through the window, countless airships of various colors could be seen silently rising and falling, a spectacular sight!
Soon, the airship landed on a verdant plain. As Xiao Hua stepped off the airship, he looked around curiously, taking in the surroundings for the first time in this long-renowned place. At the same time, he noticed that several airships had also landed nearby, with a few players emerging from them.
When Xiao Hua stepped off the airship, an owl also flew out from above. After learning that Xiao Hua was heading to Greenlight Forest, Abuli decided to come along to take a look. However, it sneaked aboard through the ventilation outlet at the top of the airship.
Xiao Hua left the airship landing area and walked around outside. After verifying what he saw with what he had heard, he quickly gained a clear understanding of this sole player supply point within the vast Greenlight Forest.
This was a different land within the boundless Greenlight Forest. Within a radius of several hundred meters, there was not a single tree to be seen. The brown-yellow, hard earth was sparsely dotted with small yellow grasses. From above, it looked like a shallow crater created by a meteorite in a sea of dark green.
Moreover, this player supply point was unique. The entire supply point was a safe zone. Apart from the largest airship landing area, there was only a larger open-air free trade area, a miniature resurrection point, an NPC who combined medicine supply, equipment repair, and storage functions, and finally a high-level mount tamer. There were no other NPCs, not even a mailbox.
Xiao Hua naturally knew the reasons behind this. The uniqueness of Greenlight Forest was not only because all the monsters here dropped mount eggs, but primarily because none of these monsters provided experience points. Apart from dropping mount eggs, they did not drop any items and thus could not be used for leveling up. Extra NPCs would either be useless or deliberately omitted for certain purposes.
Moreover, the monsters that appeared in Greenlight Forest had significantly increased defense compared to normal monsters outside the cities. Their HP was nearly doubled, and the only benefit was that they would not attack, but instead, they would run away. Players who made a living hunting mount eggs knew that the more likely a monster was to flee, the higher the chance it would drop a superior mount egg!
Due to these reasons, the number of players earning money by hunting mount eggs in Greenlight Forest was not large, and those who did so consistently were even fewer. Although the drop rate of mount eggs was high here, the monsters would run away, requiring considerable patience and opportunity to obtain a superior mount. Monsters capable of dropping flying mount eggs could be seen frequently in the depths of Greenlight Forest, but in reality, in the Huaxia region, the number of players with flying mounts could be counted on one hand, because flying monsters had extremely long HP and were very good at escaping. Once they took to the air, no matter how powerful you were, there was nothing you could do! The only way to hunt flying mounts was to ambush them when they landed to rest, with a few teams attacking together to kill the monster before it could react; otherwise, there was no chance of success!
However, few teams traveled together in Greenlight Forest because it was simply too vast. Although there were many monsters, they were spread out. To hunt good mount eggs, one needed to venture deep into the forest away from the supply point. Two teams acting together would essentially be competing for business, unless they were specifically targeting flying mounts. Otherwise, one could only hope that a familiar team would be nearby when a flying monster was spotted, and then ambush it together. This was not a joke; in fact, the majority of the few flying mounts in the game were obtained this way.
Xiao Hua really wanted a flying mount, but he knew that it was mostly wishful thinking. Flying mounts were priced higher than dark gold equipment and were as rare as semi-artifacts. No amount of money could buy them.
Abuli left to play in the forest, while Xiao Hua returned to the open-air free trade area after circling around. He began to browse through the mount eggs on sale.
The exchange here was similar to that in ordinary cities. Some stalls had vendors selling directly, while others set prices for consignment sales. Due to the lack of mailboxes, Xiao Hua discovered that the consignment stalls here could last for 20 hours! Despite this, he found very few consignment stalls in the vast free trade area. He realized that if consignment sales failed to sell, the mount eggs would be returned to the mailbox, requiring a trip back to a regular city to retrieve them, which would be counterproductive.
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People who came to Greenlight Forest were divided into two types: those who hunted mount eggs and those who acquired mount eggs to resell in the cities. Therefore, the free trade area was crowded with people, bustling with activity. Xiao Hua mingled with the crowd, inspecting the mount eggs offered at each stall.
There were many mounts in Second World, but the common ones fell into several major categories: tigers, horses, lions, mules, and camels. Each category had many subcategories. For instance, among tigers, there were black tigers, white snow tigers, and the extremely rare saber-toothed tigers.
Xiao Hua didn't search for long before he found a rather exceptional snow tiger mount egg, with an initial movement speed increase of 90%, priced at 40,000 gold coins.
For common mount eggs, the prices were relatively consistent. A normal mount egg with a 70% speed increase could sell for 2,000 to 10,000 gold coins if it looked cool. Mounts with an 80% speed increase could fetch 10,000 to 20,000 gold coins if they weren't too ugly. Those with a 90% speed increase would sell for 30,000 to 50,000 gold coins regardless of appearance. Once the speed increase reached 100%, the price skyrocketed to hundreds of thousands of gold coins. As for those with a 110% or 120% speed increase, they were practically priceless.
Seeing that the snow tiger mount egg was priced at only 40,000 gold coins, Xiao Hua didn't think it was expensive. Finding a snow tiger with a 100% initial speed increase seemed highly unlikely, so he bought it without hesitation.
Next, he spent a lot of time searching for a red flame horse for Piaoling. Flame horses had a speed increase ranging from 70% to 90%. Those with a 70% or 80% speed increase didn't interest Xiao Hua. Eventually, he spent 60,000 gold coins on a red flame horse mount egg with a 90% speed increase.
After almost an hour, he managed to secure mounts for two people. The real trouble lay ahead. He had seen half of the stalls in the trading area but hadn't found any trace of the rare white jade lion for Fang Ying. As for himself, he desired a flying mount, but it was unrealistic to expect to find one here. Thus, he planned to look around and buy whatever he liked.
With this plan in mind, after an hour of browsing, Xiao Hua found it difficult to make a decision. Among the stalls, there were some exceptional rare mounts, such as ironclad rhinos, crimson crocodiles, and even a flame baby tyrannosaur mount egg with an initial speed increase of 110% at one stall! Xiao Hua was intrigued by this super rare mount egg. The flame baby tyrannosaur was bright red, extremely eye-catching, and emitted bursts of crimson flames from its mouth as it walked, guaranteeing a 100%回头率 and impressive speed.
Unfortunately, the price was astronomical, even for someone as wealthy as Xiao Hua. While he had the money, he believed that spending such a large sum on a mount that didn't enhance combat capabilities or provide beneficial effects and couldn't bypass obstacles like a flying mount was wasteful.
Xiao Hua continued to search among the numerous mount eggs. Suddenly, a commotion erupted from a distance ahead.
Hmm, it seems another exceptional mount has appeared!
Squinting his eyes, Xiao Hua knew that there was no other possibility. Previously, the flame baby tyrannosaur had also drawn a crowd, despite being unaffordable to most. Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to witness such rare sights.
Moving quickly toward the crowd, he squeezed through to see a stall filled with various colored mount eggs. The vendor looked like they had just returned from Greenlight Forest and was squatting on the ground, setting up consignment sales for each egg. Xiao Hua opened the item list and was surprised to find a unicorn mount egg!
Initial speed increase of 100%! Price: 800,000 gold coins!
This was just an ordinary unicorn mount egg, priced at 800,000 gold coins. While not exorbitant, it certainly wasn't cheap. After all, some mounts with a 100% speed increase could be purchased for tens of thousands of gold coins.
"Brother, can you lower the price of the unicorn?"
Everyone knew how rare unicorns were, especially in Greenlight Forest. However, not everyone was willing to pay 800,000 gold coins. The player asking the question was itching to buy it, remembering how a level 3 unicorn would leave a faint trail of light while running, an incredibly stylish feature. Unable to resist, he asked,
"This price is already cheap. Do you think unicorns are easy to hunt and that mount eggs drop everywhere? I've only managed to get one in the past six months! If you want it, buy it; if not, forget it! Don't talk about not having enough money. If you can't afford it, don't look. This is not for the poor!"
The player setting the prices replied curtly. Having been in this line for a long time, he had encountered many such situations and knew further discussion was pointless.
The surrounding players who harbored similar thoughts kept quiet upon hearing this.
The player who inquired about the price seemed not to lack funds but found it too expensive. As he hesitated about buying it, he suddenly noticed the unicorn egg disappearing from the item list – it had been bought by someone else!
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