Chapter 225 The Sky Has Collapsed

Everyone was puzzled, wondering what was the matter that needed to be communicated to all the bases.

Wu Ming, however, had a bad feeling for no reason.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Shiwan said, "Our base's ability enhancement fluid is now officially on sale, priced at 999 crystal cores per vial."

She needs crystal cores, and she never wants too many.

Farms need to expand continuously; only with a larger area can more crops be grown.

However, expanding the farm consumes too many crystal cores, and the fastest way for her to obtain crystal cores now is to sell ability enhancement fluid.

However, the price of these 999 crystal cores is quite complicated.

Wu Ming was speechless. This price was too intriguing. The base resold a tube containing a thousand crystal cores, while Meng Shiwan was selling it for nine hundred and ninety-nine crystal cores. It was simply too intriguing.

However, when faced with Meng Shiwan's suggestion, everyone's first reaction was neither happiness nor excitement.

The price difference wasn't significant for them; it was just a matter of having one more crystal core.

Their real concern is, "Is the product genuine?"

As soon as he said that, Wu Mingxiu looked at the speaker and asked, "Were you doing anything legitimate before the apocalypse?"

The man said, "Huh? I sold sugar before the apocalypse."

Wu Ming: ...

Someone else spoke up, "As for making ability-enhancing fluid, our base can make it too, but you can't drink it. If you do, you'll explode. What's the point?"

"Yes, I wonder what kind of equipment the seed base uses to refine the crystal cores, how come the purity is so high?"

Compared to their skepticism, Ye Sangyu was only shocked, "Sister, you also sell ability-enhancing liquid?"

Her first reaction was, "Wow, that's amazing! They can even make something like a power-enhancing fluid."

In the two days she spent with Meng Shiwan, she inexplicably felt that Meng Shiwan could accomplish anything.

Meng Shiwan didn't explain; she threw the question to Wu Ming, "Whether it's pure or not, just ask him."

She lowered her head and tried to tease Taxue, attempting to take the black cube from Taxue's arms, but Taxue refused to give it to her.

Everyone turned to look at Wu Ming.

"What's going on? She collaborated with the seed base; you guys jointly produced the ability-enhancing fluid?"

"Seriously? Your abilities are miles ahead of ours, and now you're going to surpass us in this area too? We can't even drink the ability-enhancing fluid we refine, and yours is already that pure? And you even have a private base involved?"

If the ability-enhancing fluid was produced by the seed base, they would have nothing to say.

After all, the country's talent and various important resources are in the hands of the seed base.

But how come private bases are involved?

Now that the major private bases have just been built, they don't have to worry about food and drink, but in other aspects, they are far behind.

Faced with everyone's confusion, Wu Ming touched his nose and said, "Actually, the ability-enhancing fluid at the seed base was sourced from Meng Shiwan."

Everyone: !!!

"Holy crap, I came out to participate in a mission, and the sky is falling."

"So, the ability enhancement fluid wasn't made at the seed base, it was made at a private base?"

"What explosive news! Is the manpower and skill level of the seed base inferior to that of a private base?"

The news was so shocking that the way they looked at Meng Shiwan completely changed.

How come this girl, who looks so young, is so amazing?

Not only are they incredibly strong, but they can even make power-enhancing fluids. That's a bit too much, isn't it?

Having long accepted Meng Shiwan's various abilities, Ye Sangyu's mind worked quickly, and she had already turned to another matter.

“I understand now. What Wu Ming was talking about when he said he was making extra money was actually making extra money off us. The seed base gets its ability enhancement fluid from my sister and then sells it to us at a high price. And the purchase price must have been very cheap. The way you're making money from this resale is shocking even to my sister.”

Wu Ming: ...

This girl is talkative and quite clever; she figured this out so quickly.

But we can't admit to this now, no matter what we say.

He argued, "Meng Shiwan sells it for 999 crystal cores per tube, while the seed base sells it for 1,000 crystal cores per tube. You haven't lost out. As for the seed base's purchase price, that's none of your business."

Ye Sangyu put her hands on her hips, "How can that be?"

She turned to look at Meng Shiwan, her eyes sparkling, "Sister, how can we get the purchase price?"

Meng Shiwan played with the tail hair of Ta Xue, "There is no purchase price, only retail price."

The seed base is offered a low price because it has been working hard on disaster relief. The more powerful the superhumans are, the more missions they can complete, the more people they can save, and the more supplies they can stockpile.

The ability enhancement fluid she sold to the seed base afterward was still sold in vials containing 300 crystal cores, which could be considered her indirect support for the country.

Meng Shiwan guessed that the more than two million crystal cores that the seed base had spent on her were probably not only the ones she killed or the ones she earned from the private base.

Based on the domestic population and the rate at which zombies produce crystal cores, it is impossible to support such a massive number of over two million crystal cores.

It's likely that after learning she sells ability-enhancing fluids, the seed base has tried many ways to acquire crystal cores.

China is a major manufacturing country, so it should use a lot of resources to exchange for crystal cores from abroad, and then use those crystal cores to buy ability enhancement fluid from her to train local ability users.

Crystal core, crystal core, it seems everyone is revolving around the crystal core.

To better prepare for disasters, the seed base needs a large number of crystal cores and wants to purchase the ability-enhancing liquid from her.

To maintain their own strength, the private base still needs a large number of crystal cores to purchase ability enhancement fluid from her.

And these large quantities of crystal cores, once in her hands, she will use them to expand the space and the farm, which is a bottomless pit.

In the end, the crystal core didn't end up in anyone's hands, or even in this world.

Following this logic, people acquire crystal cores for various reasons, exchanging them for her power-enhancing fluid, and perhaps later for her crops. In turn, she uses the crystal cores she obtains to exchange for low-priced power-enhancing fluid from the system, and then for farmland to produce crops.

"I see."

With this analysis, things become clear.

To put it bluntly, Earth is a cattle and horse farm, and they are the cattle and horses, working hard for the system, only to get a little stable life and a bite to eat.

This is what the system previously stated: its greatest value lies in earning crystal cores.

Can they not be treated like cattle and horses?

Meng Shiwan felt that it really wouldn't work, at least not now.

But she needs bigger farms, and humanity needs bigger farms to sustainably produce food.

Whether she sells it or exchanges it for supplies, once this food is distributed, more people will be able to eat it and it will feed more people.