novelraw Chapter 579 - 458: Double 11 is coming soon, has everyone shopped online? (5K)_3
Chapter 579 - 458: Double 11 is coming soon, has everyone shopped online? (5K)_3
In the trading hall, several players appeared with identical blueprints, frantically slashing prices and selling Hover Propulsion Devices en masse.
Li Zheng compared them with his own blueprints; now, selling one Hover Propulsion Device only earns about one-tenth of the profit at most.
However, thanks to the large number of players, these sellers are taking the low-margin, high-volume approach and making quite a bit by the end of the day.
Li Zheng had thought about spending all his free time crafting items for sale, but he soon realized he was already busy to the brink of exhaustion every day and thought it might be better to take some rest during his free time.
Besides, it’s just some highest Gold materials; at the time, he didn’t think it was worth the effort to obsess over them.
Who could have thought that after the terminal adjusted the difficulty, high-end players would seldom acquire low-end materials during exploration?
By the time he wanted to make a killing with these items, it was too late...
If he’d caught the last train and dumped the Hover Propulsion Devices, even not mentioning how many he could produce in a day, when the price war eventually forced everyone to drive the prices down, he probably couldn’t have handled it.
The buyers aren’t stupid, right?
Seeing the sellers undercutting each other, they would definitely choose to wait and watch, only purchasing after prices stabilize.
So, in reality, you don’t make much money.
All the Flame Branches were uprooted, leaving a vast empty area in the cultivation plot. Li Zheng had the Pug Farmer distribute the empty Cultivation Dishes to other crops proportionally.
The breeding method for the Arctic Cattail has been researched by the Pug Farmer, and now five Cultivation Dishes are growing this Platinum Level crop.
It’s not that more couldn’t be grown; mainly, Li Zheng had to manually inject low-temperature air into the Cultivation Dishes.
Busy to death every day, who has the time to keep injecting low-temperature air into those Arctic Cattails again and again?
To put it bluntly, he’s just lazy...
The other crops are mostly Luoshen Flowers and other vegetable ingredients, all of which Li Zheng scavenged on his explorations and during his visits to the trading hall, with as many as thirteen types, each with a different taste.
Plus, thanks to the special effects of the Cultivation Liquid, occasional mutated foodstuffs are even tastier than the original versions.
It’s just a pity that all crops mutated from the Cultivation Liquid cannot be replanted, even fruit ingredients with obvious seeds can’t survive.
Li Zheng speculates it might be due to genetic-level changes.
He doesn’t like Honey Fruit much, so he didn’t plant many, only a few from the start, and among all the current crops, only the Cultivation Dish for Honey Fruit hasn’t had Intermediate Cultivation Liquid added.
Whether they bear fruit and how much, is left to fate.
The fruit harvested from it, Li Zheng doesn’t eat either; he used to dump them in the trading hall, but now that he has a legion, he stuffs them all into the legion warehouse.
The price is very cheap; you can exchange almost two Iron Ingots for one Honey Fruit.
Because it’s a sweet treat, it’s very popular among the members, and every time it’s put in the legion warehouse, it causes a frenzy.
No matter how much Li Zheng puts, it’s gone in an instant.
For this reason, Li Zheng never thought of planting more.
It’s essentially a kind of welfare, and if there’s too much, others will stop appreciating it.
After inspecting the cultivation plot, Li Zheng went to take a look at the Potion Making Station.
As the players’ strength improved, the production levels of potions ranged from Black Iron to Gold, with occasional Platinum Level potion orders popping up.
As for Diamond Level, they are very rare, let alone Extraordinary Level.
The reason is simple—the materials are just too hard to gather!
Li Zheng himself hasn’t gathered many till now.
It’s awkward now.
Relying on his own exploration and collection, it’s possible to get through a whole day without finding a single material.
Searching the trading hall?
Now, who doesn’t know that blood materials can be used to make potions?
Everyone is hoarding it unless absolutely necessary, regardless of its immediate usability.
Moreover, the blood produced by solo players for Extraordinary Level is very scarce; only in those seasoned great legions are there sufficient amounts and varieties.
It’s not that Li Zheng hasn’t tried to source from Liu Qi and the others.
But those guys just seem to have synchronized their stories ahead of time.
You want to buy?
Sure!
Let’s discuss the terms.
We’re not being unreasonable; no matter how many potions you produce in a day, we’ll take a share based on proportion!
The ratio isn’t high, just thirty to forty percent.
Could Li Zheng agree to these terms?
Of course not!
Whether it’s the Starting Point Legion or those players from the original 879 channel, who isn’t waiting for these potions to boost themselves?
Giving you the production shares, wouldn’t that slow down the development of these close allies?
After thinking it over, Li Zheng felt that if he agreed, he’d only raise his physique to Extraordinary 5+ extreme before heading to the Outer City, which would make little difference in combat power.
It’s better to make a slight sacrifice to maintain the current production model.
He quickly finished touring here, checked the status of several Intelligent Humanoids to ensure there were no issues, and then turned to the Beast Cage.
In the small Beast Cage, the husky had already recovered and curled up in the corner, looking pitiful.
Seeing Li Zheng appear, it moved only to be snarled back by the female Forest Wolf, retreating into the corner with a human-like expression of fear on its face, as if to say: I’m wrong, boss, please calm down.
This cowardly display amused Li Zheng, as the husky’s tendency to bully the weak was vividly portrayed by the Mediterranean Wolf.
"Alright, come out now. I’ll move you two back into the larger space."
Li Zheng opened the Beast Cage, and the female wolf obediently stood up and stepped out of the small cage.
The husky buried its head under its front legs, pretending not to hear, stubbornly staying in the small cage.
Previously, out there, when the other forest wolves were unfriendly to it, it could still escape a bit with playful energy, entertaining itself.
Now that the wolf pack has been tamed by Li Zheng, with only so much space in the Beast Cage, there’s nowhere to hide.
If the Forest Wolves want to deal with it, it would indeed be effortless.
Keeps in mind that during these days, the Forest Wolf pack hasn’t been bothered less by this interloper of a husky, and nearly every wolf has grievances against this dog that has infiltrated the pack.