Later Jiang Ran found out that Bian Zhao’s hover car was not only expensive, but the bigger problem was that it was crowded.

After waiting for a long time, when the tenant who had been circling in the sky for a long time finally returned to the ground reluctantly, Jiang Ran was just about to walk over to hand over to him when a figure quickly rushed past him.

Jiang Ran watched him rush into the suspended car, and without stopping for a moment, he drove the car into the air, followed by a series of familiar screams.

“Wow—”

“It’s so beautiful!”

“Ah, hoo—”

“…”

Jiang Ran's entire body was frozen. She slowly turned her head and looked at Bian Zhao, who was leaning comfortably in his wheelchair. "Shouldn't you explain something to me?"

"Oh, I think I forgot to tell you," Bian Zhao took off his sunglasses and glanced at the small blackboard next to him. "There are so many people who have reserved the hovercraft, so there's still a queue."

"May I ask which number I am?" Jiang Ran smiled stiffly.

"Let me see... eleventh one. Not bad, not bad. Just a little while until it's there."

Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to ask for more details, he heard Bian Zhao continue, "It will be your turn tomorrow morning. It will be quick."

Jiang Ran: “…”

"I should be able to report you for fraud."

"It's okay if you don't want to rent it," Bian Zhao said. "I'll refund the points to you now."

Jiang Ran was silent for a long time. He became angry and was about to say "I won't rent it anymore" when he heard several excited shouts from the sky not far away.

Is it really that interesting?

Is it so exciting to fly in a hover car?

Jiang Ran couldn't help but hesitate.

As I hesitated, a familiar voice came from behind me: "Is there any availability for a hovercraft? I'd like to rent it for two hours."

Jiang Ran turned around in surprise: "Ren Xiayang?"

"What a coincidence." Ren Xiayang finally saw who she was and greeted her awkwardly.

Jiang Ran: "Why are you renting a hover car?"

Ren Xiayang hesitated, and Bian Zhao answered directly: "He is already an old customer of mine. This is his third time renting a car."

"Ah, ah..." Ren Xiayang scratched his head, "That's it..."

The scene fell into complete silence for a moment, with only the rustling sound of the sea breeze.

"If I remember correctly..."

Jiang Ran looked at him inexplicably, "Bian Zhao only started renting out hovercrafts this morning, right?"

"That's right," Ren Xiayang picked at his fingers while looking left and right, not daring to glance at Jiang Ran, "I, I was the first customer at that time..."

Obvious.

Ren Xiayang also made a great contribution in pushing Bian Zhao to the top of the points ranking.

As expected, they were all Jiang Ran’s former teammates, and they really had a strong “teammate friendship”.

"Are you still renting?" Bian Zhao interrupted their thoughts.

Ren Xiayang: "No more renting!"

Jiang Ran: "Rent!"

"Okay," Bian Zhao pulled over the narrator's small blackboard and wrote Jiang Ran's queue information on it. "Then wait. The next one is tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. If you miss the time, you'll jump to the next one. Don't be late."

After Bian Zhao finished speaking, he casually put on his sunglasses and lay back comfortably in his wheelchair to bask in the sun, leaving Jiang Ran and Ren Xiayang looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Oh, so you're here to rent a car too."

Ren Xiayang's mood quickly relaxed: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? You scared me to death."

"What's so scary about this?" Jiang Ran said with a smile, "I didn't expect you were just saying it casually and didn't really want to rent a hover car."

"Actually, I'm not..."

"Um?"

Ren Xiayang looked at Jiang Ran's smiling face and his heart suddenly trembled.

He paused with his mouth half open, then said subconsciously: "Actually, I'm not here to rent a car."

"Really?" Jiang Ran patted his shoulder in a friendly manner. "Good brothers, we're of one mind!"

As Jiang Ran spoke, he put his arm around Ren Xiayang's shoulders and led him back.

Ren Xiayang's steps were very heavy when he left. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at the small blackboard representing the queue, but Jiang Ran immediately turned his head back.

snort!

Jiang Ran obviously rented a car too! How can we be on the same page?

The officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps!

Ren Xiayang secretly glanced at Jiang Ran and thought gloomily.

When Jiang Ran ran into the deep sea again, he would secretly rent a hovercraft while no one was around.

See who can catch who!

Since the booking for the hover car has to wait until nine o'clock tomorrow morning, Jiang Ran is no longer in a hurry.

Before it got completely dark, she took out her diving gear from the camp and put it on, then went to the bottom of the sea.

There is also a collection of antiques dating back thousands of years, waiting for her to explore and discover.

Jiang Ran originally wanted to take back those antiques, more for the sense of familiarity in the same time and space, but at this time, it was not just that.

After getting 5,000 points in one go by taking photos of the ten-thousand-meter deep sea, she actually... was still short of points.

As Jiang Ran dived down, she recalled the numbers she had seen on the ranking list. Although Bian Zhao was higher than her, his score wasn't much higher, only a little over 5,000 points.

However, the terrifying thing was that with Bian Zhao's operating model, nearly a hundred players in the entire competition had become nutrients in her points pool. Everyone's hard-earned points were ultimately spent on her...

In other words, Jiang Ran was competing with Bian Zhao for points on the surface, but in fact he was competing against all the players.

Jiang Ran sighed slowly in his heart.

It is really difficult to compete with that cheating guy Bian Zhao in points.

You have to work harder!

Jiang Ran increased his stealth speed while thinking about it.

Jiang Ran had previously used the tracking ball and the submarine to do double marking, so he didn't take any detours and soon found the location of the shipwrecks.

Previously, I observed this place through the submarine's display screen, but now looking at it from afar with my naked eyes, it's a completely different feeling.

Corals of all colors covered the decks and masts.

The towering mast stands quietly in the deep sea, like a silent lighthouse. The dense coral trees are the lights dotted on it, guiding the direction of the fish in the deep sea.

Thousands of years of history have been reduced to ashes, and the human civilization of the past is hard to find anymore. Only this tiny trace is hidden in the deepest seabed.

The people of the Federation in the interstellar age have almost forgotten this once brilliant civilization, but the reefs and corals remember it, the colorful tropical fish swimming around remember it, and the surging sea water also remembers it.

History has carved mottled lines on the shipwrecks, and they now lie on the seabed, quiet and peaceful, waiting for brave people to explore.

Jiang Ran didn't have many tools, nor did she have a suitable large boat or salvage net. In addition, the shipwreck was too deep, so she could only bring the scattered old items and antiques back to the shore one by one by herself.

After several trips back and forth, she tiredly brought the last small box of radios back to the program crew's big ship.

Zhou Kangbo came over impatiently: "What good stuff have you found? Show me now!"

"There are a few radios, they're almost unrecognizable," Jiang Ran shook off the water on his body, "I guess they were used by the previous crew to kill time."

"What's a radio?"

"...It's a radio receiver, used to listen to broadcasts on various channels."

"Broadcast? What does that mean?"

“…You can think of the radio as a device for viewing VR4D images.”

"Oh, that's it."

Zhou Kangbo put on isolation gloves and picked up a radio to observe it carefully.

Jiang Ran pointed towards the sea and said, "There is the most precious treasure in the world."

"Okay, this box of radios... count as 700 points."

"Thank you."

Jiang Ran and Zhou Kangbo said goodbye and walked down from the big ship.

As I was going down the escalator, there was a sudden "beep" sound from the ball.

[Congratulations on reaching the top of the points ranking for this game]

Jiang Ran's eyes immediately lit up.

After finding these boxes of antiques, her points directly surpassed that cheating Bian Zhao?

This is too fast!

Jiang Ran happily clicked on the leaderboard, wanting to see how many points higher he scored than Bian Zhao.

However, as soon as the interface opened, she watched Bian Zhao jump up one place from second place and instantly surpass her again.

Let’s look at the score difference.

It's only twenty points.

Jiang Ran sighed slowly.

Alas, the road ahead is long and difficult.

We still have to keep working hard.

But looking at the sky, it was already very dark.

The sun is not far from the horizon, and it will probably be completely dark in less than half an hour.

It would be very dangerous to dive into the deep sea under such circumstances, and there is no rush to find antiques at this time.

Jiang Ran thought about it carefully.

Since she would have to wait until nine o'clock tomorrow morning to queue up for the hovercraft, maybe she could get up early tomorrow, collect the antiques first, and then go to Bian Zhao to rent the hovercraft?

That's perfect.

However, ideals are perfect, but reality is cruel.

The next morning, something amazing happened.

Jiang Ran once again put on his diving gear and went into the sea. When he found the location of the shipwrecks, here...

It has been emptied.

Jiang Ran: “?”

Jiang Ran circled the group of shipwrecks, looked left and right, and even went inside a shipwreck to search.

Apart from the shipwreck itself... there is really nothing left.

But such a big ship...

She can't just move back, right?

After thinking it over, Jiang Ran swam back to the shore empty-handed.

Once we got to the shore, we discovered that the program crew's boat was already packed with people.

Zhou Kangbo was surrounded by three layers of people, and his identity could only be barely judged by the exposed corner of his clothes.

Jiang Ran took a closer look and found that the things the contestants were holding looked very familiar.

These were all the things she had searched for yesterday.

Just then, someone was walking hurriedly towards the boat with a small antique in his hand, and Jiang Ran grabbed the person.

"These things of yours look very old. Where did you find them from?" Jiang Ran asked.

"You don't even know this?" The other party was surprised.

Jiang Ran: "...What should I know?"

The other person's eyes contained a hint of disappointment. "Bian Zhao sold some information this morning about where to find antiques. You can buy them for just ten points! Everyone who can afford the points bought them!"

"Then may I ask where the exploration location is?"

"You have to spend points to ask this. How can I just tell you casually? Go find Bian Zhao and buy the information yourself."

As soon as the other party finished speaking, he hurriedly boarded the ship to find Zhou Kangbo to exchange points.

Jiang Ran remained silent in the back.

Even if she didn't ask Bian Zhao, she knew where the so-called "treasure hunting ground" was.

But the question is, how could Bian Zhao, who spends all day lying in a wheelchair basking in the sun, know her secret treasure hunting place?

Ten minutes later.

Jiang Ran thought hard but couldn't get the answer, so he finally found Bian Zhao and asked him in person.

Bian Zhao had already put on his sunglasses and was lying leisurely in the wheelchair.

Hearing Jiang Ran's question, she casually pointed to the sea surface and said, "I placed a detector in the sea. It will transmit the scene tracked under the seabed to me in real time."

Jiang Ran: "The Pacific Ocean is so vast, how could you find that shipwreck so accurately?"

Bian Zhao: "Of course not, but as my biggest competitor, you went back and forth to that place so many times yesterday. How could I not pay more attention?"

"Since you also discovered the shipwreck, why did you tell others about it instead of bringing the treasure back yourself? Each piece of information is ten points. Even if you sell it to a hundred people, it will only be a thousand points."

Jiang Ran asked the question subconsciously, and when he came to his senses he realized something was wrong.

As expected, Bian Zhao didn't even raise his eyelids and said casually: "Because I'm too lazy to go into the water."

Jiang Ran: “…” It turns out that I shouldn’t have asked this question.

Jiang Ran could guess the rest.

The reason why Bian Zhao sold the information was not because he really hoped to earn points from it, but because he would rather let those treasures be obtained by other players than himself.

In this case, on the one hand, Jiang Ran, as the biggest competitor, will not be able to get that many points, and on the other hand, other players will get more points, which is also beneficial to Bian Zhao.

For example, now...

As soon as the players exchanged their points, they rushed here frantically.

"I want to rent a hover car for an hour!"

"I want to rent it for two hours!"

“Three hours!!!”

“…”

Bian Zhao didn't say a word, but just brought the small blackboard next to him in front of him.

She pointed to the words already written on it: Rent a hover car, 200 points per hour.

"Sorry, the price has increased."

The contestants in front of him looked at each other, and hesitated for a moment at the price that had more than doubled.

However, it didn't take long before everyone rushed forward even more fiercely than before.

"I need four hours!"

"Five hours!"

"Ten hours!!!"

“…”

Jiang Ran looked to the left at the contestants vying for the first place: There really are points!

Jiang Ran looked to the right at Bian Zhao who looked calm and composed: Big profiteer!

The contestants who earned enough points were so enthusiastic that they almost wanted to reserve the hovercars until after the competition was over.

Of course, Jiang Ran stopped this ridiculous thing in time - when we get back to the capital planet, everyone will have all kinds of hovercrafts they want. Why would they need to rent one from Bian Zhao?

When Bian Zhao saw this scene, his face rarely showed any emotion.

Jiang Ran saw it clearly, and it was obvious that he looked very regretful.

how?

Does this guy really plan to rent out hovercrafts when he returns to the capital planet?

That’s enough!

but……

Jiang Ran's timely intervention also led to another incident.

When the rental time of the hover car cannot be extended until the end of the game, the rental time in these few days becomes more valuable.

Previously, everyone made reservations during the day, but this time everyone's attention was focused on the middle of the night.

"I want to rent the one for midnight!"

"Then I'll take two!"

"I can do it at four o'clock!"

“…”

Bian Zhao likes to be lazy, but he is very efficient when he works.

While she was trading with the players, she was quickly recording the order schedule on the small blackboard.

When the blackboard was completely filled, Bian Zhao announced, "There's only one hour left for rental, and the time is 3 a.m. the night before the game."

"I can!"

"I can do that too!"

"I, I, I choose me!"

“…”

Bian Zhao put the small blackboard aside and said leisurely, "So many people want it, how should I divide it? It seems that it is not suitable for anyone to give it to."

Someone immediately said, "Of course it's given to whoever offers the highest price!"

As soon as these words were spoken, without Bian Zhao saying anything, the contestants who were crowded together immediately started bidding.

"I'll give you 300 points!"

"I'll give you 500 points!"

"Everyone go away! I'll give you a thousand points!"

“…”

Jiang Ran was amazed and finally watched Bian Zhao rent out the hover car for 2,000 points an hour.

All the available rental times were rented out. The tenants checked their turn to use the car and then gradually dispersed.

After most people had left, Jiang Ran slowly turned around and looked at Bian Zhao.

"Thank you for only charging me 200 points yesterday."

"You're welcome." said Bian Zhao.

Jiang Ran felt like he was dreaming.

Yesterday, when Bian Zhao said that she had a monopoly on the product and had the right to set prices, and that she could set the rental price to one thousand points, she didn't take it too seriously.

Now it seems...she was too naive.

Jiang Ran was still immersed in a trance, but Bian Zhao had already adjusted his mood. He took out a small piece of cake from the space button and enjoyed the food leisurely.

Jiang Ran watched silently for a while, and couldn't help asking: "Is the food still for sale?"

Bian Zhao nodded: "Sell."

"How much?"

"A sandwich is fifty, a piece of cake is one hundred, and the rest is extra."

"What other food do you have?"

"I can't even count them all."

Jiang Ran laughed when he heard it: "Are you kidding? You don't even know how much food you have in your warehouse?"

"Of course," Bian Zhao nodded, "After all, I brought enough food to last me a whole year."

Jiang Ran: "...What?"

She felt that she had heard wrongly.

"You heard right."

Bian Zhao said, "Who knows if I'll get lost in this wilderness? If something happens, I have to make sure I can survive wherever I go."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ran gave a thumbs up in admiration.

Everyone has a sense of crisis to some extent, but there are very few people who can do the preparation work to this extent.

If she had...

Alas, it’s too late to think about it now.

"Let me see the breakfast you prepared?" Jiang Ran said, "I'll pick out what I like."

Bian Zhao thought about it and didn't refuse. She spread a large mat on the ground and then took out a pile of food from the space button in an instant.

This was just breakfast she prepared, not dinner.

Jiang Ran exclaimed as he picked and chose.

After a while, she took out a glutinous rice dumpling and asked, "How many points does this cost?"

Bian Zhao raised his head and glanced: "Three hundred."

“…Why is this so expensive?”

"Because this was made by the master chef of Zuichunlou himself."

"Is that master chef still alive?"

"He resigned after he finished my job."

"That's totally conceivable." Jiang Ran nodded in agreement. "I really need to take better care of my health."

"It's not what you think," Bian Zhao shook his head, "After this game is over, he will come to my house and be my personal chef."

"Is that so..." Jiang Ran's face was troubled. After a long while, he said, "That master chef... really loves challenges."

Jiang Ran opened the packaging bag of the glutinous rice balls and took a big bite.

Not only did she find it difficult to understand Bian Zhao, but now she also found it very difficult to understand the master chef.

After Jiang Ran finished choosing his breakfast, Bian Zhao did not immediately take away the pile of food.

Jiang Ran was confused at first. Wouldn't food spoil if it was left outside the space button? But before long, her confusion vanished without a trace.

The aroma of the food attracted a large group of contestants.

Those who had not managed to get the hovercraft rental time earlier seemed to be angry, and each of them bought twenty or thirty items of food in retaliation.

Jiang Ran grabbed someone's sleeve and asked, "Buying so much... won't you be able to finish it? Will it go bad in two days?"

The other person angrily said, "Even if it breaks down, I shouldn't have bought it from those bad guys! Look at those people. They rented a hovercraft for several hours each. Can they finish riding it?"

Someone nearby happened to hear these words.

He turned around with a smile and said, "Who says we can't finish the ride? Wouldn't it be comfortable for me to sleep in the sky, in the clouds, at night?"

"Bah! You bastard! You only want to eat all the food for yourself!"

Jiang Ran watched the two people quarreling, but fortunately they didn't start fighting directly.

She had no choice but to stand vigilantly by the side, waiting for the two men to attack so that she could pull them back in time.

In the gap, he turned around to look at Bian Zhao.

Two distinguished guests who had spent a lot of money were arguing in front of him, but Bian Zhao had no intention of intervening. He just lay in his wheelchair and watched the show leisurely.

Jiang Ran couldn't help but remind him: "Those were your guests who started the quarrel because of your things."

Bian Zhao glanced at her lightly: "That was a previous guest."

Jiang Ran: “…”

So since the points have already been spent, she doesn't have to worry about after-sales service?

What an unparalleled profiteer!

Fortunately, the two players argued for most of the day but did not really fight. Not long after, they just left in disgust with each other.

"bite--"

Jiang Ran looked in the direction of the voice.

Right on that small blackboard, the clock showed that it was already nine o'clock.

At the same time, the orange-yellow hovercraft slowly descended from the sky and landed directly in front of Jiang Ran.

"No, it's your turn."

The author has something to say:

Jiang Ran: I want to see how powerful the hover car that pays 2,000 points per hour is!