After the business team has checked in, they can enter and leave the post station freely.
It was eight o'clock in the evening and the settlement was still bustling with people. The small market stalls were crowded with people. Those who had not eaten dinner yet were looking for dinner, and many of those who had already eaten dinner came out to choose snacks.
Hu Hao and Miao Lin were in a particularly good mood today because they happened to go to Da Zhuang's grocery store at noon and came across a cooking card.
【Preserved Egg and Lean Pork Porridge】
【Quality: Blue】
[Description: Cooking card. Consuming it increases physical attack critical hit rate by a certain percentage. The cooking success rate and consumption effect depend on the cooking skill.]
[Required ingredients: preserved egg*1, meat*1, rice*4]
[Price: 600 gold coins]
The couple decisively bought the cards. Hu Hao took them to study and then made a trial copy. The system prompted that the production was successful, and the finished product information was:
[Item: Century Egg and Lean Pork Porridge]
【Quality: Blue】
[Description: Food. After consumption, physical attack critical hit rate increases by 12%, effective for 3 hours.]
Physical attacks include everything from warriors' melee and sword damage to assassins and archers' ranged damage. Only professions like mages cannot use it, so it is conceivable that sales will not be bad.
So they made the porridge when everyone came back in the evening and tried to sell it, setting the price at 25 gold. The system showed that the shelf life was 2 days, which was very suitable to buy in advance as breakfast for the next one or two days.
After leaving the post station, the caravan looked around, sneering at this apparently unremarkable settlement and feeling increasingly that they were being wronged. Then they noticed the RV that was surrounded by a crowd of people in the corner.
"What are you doing?" a female team member named Zheng Sisi asked curiously. Team leader Wang Yong sneered, "They must be running low on supplies. They're even fighting over dinner."
As they talked, everyone walked over, somewhat intending to laugh at the joke.
However, when there were still seven or eight meters to go, the sound of hawking gradually came.
"Marshmallows! White quality marshmallows, regular price 5 gold. I only have 10 left now, selling them for 4 gold each! I'm closing the stall once they're sold out!"
"Raspberry jam, blue quality, one can be used three times, 40 gold per can!"
"Don't push, don't push... Hey, this porridge isn't just for one day, we'll make it tomorrow!"
"Small wontons! Hot little wontons! Restores mana and health!"
The merchant team was stunned.
This settlement is so... so homely?
Team leader Wang Yong was the first to react. While everyone else in the territory was rushing to buy preserved egg and lean meat porridge, he trotted over to the cotton candy stand and said, "Marshmallows for only 4 gold each? We'll take them all!"
"Okay!" the cotton candy vendor yawned as she responded. She wasn't worried about running out of cotton candy, she just wanted to go to bed early. Seeing someone come to buy it all, the vendor was delighted. She quickly collected the money, handed over the candy, and slipped a few hard candies into the stall. "Thank you for your patronage. These are for you to enjoy!"
The merchant team: “?”
Even though hard candy only restores 50 stamina and 50 health, making it one of the least valuable foods in the game world, it still sells for 10 gold per piece outside. And this stall owner is actually giving it away?!
Moreover, this is based on the premise that marshmallows are only sold for 4 gold per piece?
Zheng Sisi was stunned. She mumbled to the leader, "Something's wrong. Marshmallows can be sold for 20-30 gold outside. Why is she selling them so cheap?"
Although I couldn't imagine what fraud could be involved in such an ordinary transaction, the bizarre price made people feel that there was fraud!
The cotton candy vendor picked up his backpack and was about to go home when he vaguely heard this. He looked at them again and asked curiously, "Are you new members or are you here to do business?"
"I'm a businessman." Zheng Sisi said frankly.
"Oh." The stall owner nodded in understanding. "The prices in our settlement are like this. We believe in small profits but quick turnover. You should get used to it. Oh, by the way, what's the post station like? Are the conditions good? I haven't been there yet!"
"..." The business team described the environment of the post station to her with mixed emotions while pondering her words.
"You guys just need to adapt."
——Why does it sound so inexplicably Versailles?!
Seeing the cotton candy stall owner humming a little tune and walking briskly towards the residential area, the business team was stunned in the wind.
Zheng Sisi muttered to herself, "I bought 10 marshmallows at 40 yuan each. If I sell them for 25 yuan each, I can sell them for 250 yuan, which means I'll make a net profit of 210 yuan... I've made back some of my money for the accommodation."
While she was counting the bills, another team member next to her noticed the movement in the back stall.
The stall in the back row seemed to be selling lamb skewers and was about to close. But Zhang Xu happened to come over at this moment, delivering a "delivery".
"Here, this is the kitchen knife you ordered earlier. It's blue quality. Let me check it out."
"Oh, thank you!" The mutton kebab stall owner thanked politely and put away the kitchen knife.
"You're welcome." Zhang Xu waved his hand, looked around, walked towards the RV, and patted the shoulder of a mage who was waiting in line.
The mage turned around, and Zhang Xu smiled and said, "You're lucky! I got you a purple item."
"What the hell?!" The mage was so surprised that his expression lost control. Zhang Xu took out his wand from his backpack and showed it to him. "If it's all right, can you give me the manufacturing fee? Hmm... I think it should be 150. Since we're an old customer, I'll charge you 100."
"No, no, no, that's not appropriate. Here, 150!" The mage stuffed the money into Zhang Xu's pocket. Zhang Xu smiled and said, "Okay, thanks!"
After that, the two said goodbye and continued to go about their own business.
The other players who were queuing up to buy porridge around him gave the mage a burst of envious "congratulations". After all, at this stage, purple equipment is still hard to come by, and having one more piece of purple equipment means a significant improvement in strength.
The merchant team discovered a new blind spot from the brief conversation between the mage and Zhang Xu. Although they couldn't tell the exact cost of blue and purple equipment from those few words, the difference between the two was enormous. How could the difference be only 150?!
The six members looked at each other, and Wang Yong made a quick decision: "Let's go and take a look!"
The group then followed Zhang Xu to the wooden house, and when they saw the words "Zhang Xu's Weapon Shop" hanging on the side of the house, they knew they were in the right place.
Zhang Xu had gone to the small market to deliver something to a player and had picked up some food. He was now sitting on the steps at the door, eating. The six of them approached, and Wang Yong asked, "How much do you charge for the work?"
Zhang Xu glanced at them and wiped his mouth: "New members?"
"I'm here to do business." Wang Yong told the truth.
Zhang Xu said, "Oh!" "The OEM will provide their own blueprints and materials. White equipment is 20, blue equipment is 50, and this is guaranteed to be available. Whether or not purple equipment will drop depends entirely on luck. If it does, it will be 200 per piece."
Wang Yong was furious at the price: "Purple equipment is only worth 200 here?!"
"Of course not." Zhang Xu laughed twice. "Purple equipment is hard to come by, everyone knows that. But I can't actually get purple equipment right now, so I can only gamble on the drop rate when crafting blue equipment. In other words, even if purple equipment drops, I will consume the same amount of stamina as if I were crafting blue equipment. So I can't cheat people. I just need to make a little more money!"
The business team was completely bewildered. How could there be such a kind person?!
Zhang Xu's logic is indeed true. According to the game's mechanics, players with high Blacksmithing skills can directly craft purple items. While this is a guaranteed drop, it consumes a lot of materials and stamina. Those with lower Blacksmithing skills can only craft blue items, with a very low chance of purple items dropping, but the cost is still the same as crafting blue items.
But precisely because of this, purple equipment is even more coveted. When blacksmiths occasionally find a piece of purple equipment, they think it is a windfall, and they will not worry about not being able to sell it at a price of two or three thousand gold. Who would only charge 100 gold more?
Besides, purple gear is currently selling for 4,000 gold at the city vendor! Plus, they only sell five pieces a day, and once they sell out, they're gone. The types aren't guaranteed, and the vendors appear at random, so getting the perfect piece of purple gear from them is harder than winning the lottery.
Even without mentioning the purple equipment, the manufacturing fee of 20 or 50 for white and blue equipment is ridiculously low.
The irritation from the hefty accommodation fee had long since faded. Wang Yong crouched down and began to talk business seriously: "Make me 20 white items and 50 blue items, and I'll pay you according to the quote. If any purple items drop, I'll pay an extra 1,000 gold per item, okay?"
"..." Zhang Xu looked at him speechlessly and shook his head, "I can't answer it."
"?" Wang Yong thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll pay 30 for a white item and 60 for a blue item. If a purple item drops, I'll pay 1,500 more. Is that okay?"
"It's not about the money!" Zhang Xu gave him a funny look, then simply set his personal dashboard to be visible to everyone and tapped it. "I only have so much stamina, and you're asking for sixty or seventy items right away. How long will it take me to finish them?"
Wang Yong immediately showed his sincerity: "I can wait!"
"But I still have to get equipment for our own members!" Zhang Xu said with a thick face, "I only get three or four pieces of equipment a day, I really can't take on so much."
Wang Yong was surprised: "Why only three or four? I can drink stamina potions to restore my stamina!"
Zhang Xu frowned as he listened. "Is it necessary? As long as I have enough money, it's fine. Look, I have a house now and I don't have to worry about food. What's the point of rolling it?"
The merchant team: "..."
You really do make sense.
Wang Yong wanted to say for a moment, "Brother, I doubt your income is enough to pay taxes," but seeing Zhang Xu's calm and composed look, he knew that he definitely didn't have this concern.
Zheng Sisi thought for a moment and tried to negotiate: "Can we discuss this? We'll pay you 30 for a white item and 60 for a blue item. If you get a purple item, we'll pay you an extra 1,500. We'll also provide the stamina potions, okay?"
In the game, as long as players take enough stamina potions, they don't have to sleep at all.
Zhang Xu said with an irritated face: "Oh, I really don't want to work overtime!" After saying that, he stood up and went into the house. He opened his backpack and rummaged through it, pulling out a dozen white and blue items. "These are some finished products. How about you sell them? The white ones are 70, and the blue ones are 150. If you come to trade often in the future, I can try to make more for you, but 70 items is really too much."
Wang Yong: Grass.
The finished products here are also very cheap, ridiculously cheap.
In the end, although the business team was disappointed that they failed to make the big deal, it was still great to get such a high-quality and low-priced finished product!
After leaving Zhang Xu's weapon shop, Zheng Sisi quietly calculated the cost. "There are five pieces of white armor, purchased for 70, so I can sell them for at least 120, for a net profit of 250. There are also twelve pieces of blue armor, purchased for 150, so I can easily sell them for 300 or 400... Let's start with 300! That's a net profit of 1800."
Adding the 210 yuan she earned from the cotton candy she bought earlier, Zheng Sisi couldn't help but take a deep breath: "If it doesn't come to 1,000 yuan, the accommodation fee will be recovered."
Wang Yong, who had been cursing when he left the post station, was now a completely different person. He waved to his teammates triumphantly and said, "Let's go to the market and take a look!"
In the small market, Hu Haomiaolin's century egg and lean meat porridge had been sold out, and there were only five servings of bone soup ramen left. Wang Yong said generously: "Pack them all!" and then tried to persuade the other party to make a few more servings for them.
The couple's reaction was exactly the same as Zhang Xu's: "We're exhausted! We're exhausted! Let's pack up and go home!"
The merchant team: "..."
Looking at the Kung Pao Chicken next to it that cost 90 gold, there were only two servings left, but it could be sold for two or three hundred gold outside, so Wang Yong certainly wouldn't miss it.
This time, before they could even speak, He Kailai, having paid for the goods, happily picked up his backpack and left.
Before they knew it, the business team had bought up almost all the unsold items in the market, even the various items sold in Dazhuang Grocery Store were gone.
In fact, except for the basic food as the minimum guarantee, the rest of the items in the grocery store are more expensive than those sold by players, especially the equipment. Both the OEM and finished products are much more expensive than Zhang Xu's prices, but still cheaper than outside.
Back at the post station, everyone in the team was beaming with joy, recalling their shopping trip and exclaiming, "The prices here are so good! How did they do it?"
At 9:30 in the evening, Ye Miao, who had been playing slacking off all day, woke up. He lazily opened the card pack that the system dropped every seven days, and then planned to go to the small market to buy some midnight snacks.
When I went out, I found that the whole settlement was quiet, with only the bonfire still lit.
Um? !
Ye Miao was bewildered. Normally at this time, there would still be vendors at the market who hadn't closed their stalls. At least Hu Hao, Miao Lin, and the cotton candy vendor would be there. What was going on today?
For a moment she thought her home had been raided while she was sleeping, but when she looked up, the barrier was still intact.
What the hell?
Ye Miao was confused. After thinking for a while, he went to knock on Sister Jin's door.
Sister Jin opened the door and saw that it was her. She said politely, "Ms. Ye."
Ye Miao: "Is there anything to eat?"
"...Yes." Sister Jin stepped aside and invited her into the house. Ye Miao walked in and sat at the table. Sister Jin quickly brought her a glass of orange juice and a sandwich.
Ye Miao took a sip of orange juice and asked her, "Why did the market close so early today? Where did everyone go?"
Sister Jin laughed and told the truth, "A small group of merchants came today and bought everything they could find. Not only did they buy up all the remaining food at the market, they also bought up most of the things at Zhang Xu's and the grocery store. So the stall owners packed up their stalls early and went home to sleep."
Ye Miao: ...speechless!
But it seems that the time has come to reap the benefits.
Ye Miao glanced at Sister Jin's attribute panel, took out three bottles of stamina potions from his backpack and placed them on the table. "Go get some ingredients and make juice, jam, fried two-color tofu, and sandwiches until all the stamina potions are used up, then bring the finished products to me."
"Okay." Sister Jin agreed gently, went to the warehouse to get the ingredients as she was told, and started to get busy.
Ye Miao went to find Xiao Shuai again and gave him three bottles of stamina potions, asking him to use the materials on hand to make some blue-quality equipment until his stamina ran out.
At 7:00 the next morning, Sister Jin brought 50 pieces of juice, 30 pieces of jam, 20 pieces of fried two-color tofu, and 20 pieces of sandwiches; Xiao Shuai brought a variety of blue equipment, a total of 22 pieces.
Ye Miao packed all his things into his backpack with satisfaction, walked into the inn, and sat in the small check-in hall on the first floor waiting.
The merchant team had just woken up. Their trading habit was to arrive at a settlement on the first night, select suitable goods to purchase, and then try to sell some of the supplies brought from the previous settlement the next morning before setting off for the next settlement.
But last night's purchase had already made them realize the low prices here, and it was obvious that the high-priced goods outside would be difficult to sell here. Wang Yong wanted to take a quick walk around after dinner. If there was anything else to buy, he would buy some. If not, he would set off directly and try to reach the next settlement as soon as possible to sell the goods on hand.
This batch of goods will definitely make a lot of money!
The team members' mouths curled up wildly when they thought about the profit margin of this business. When they walked to the door and saw Ye Miao, they were slightly stunned.
Ye Miao tilted his head to look at them and smiled: "You are here to do business, right? Welcome."
"Yes, hello." Wang Yong looked her up and down politely. "Excuse me, who are you?"
Ye Miao didn't introduce himself too much, and got straight to the point: "I have some food and equipment in stock here, are you interested?"
She opened her backpack and laid out a few items. "Blue gear is 200 each, and all food is blue quality, regardless of type, 50 each."
The business team that had been desperately trying to negotiate a big order yesterday but was rejected everywhere they went was instantly overwhelmed with joy. Even though Ye Miao's price was obviously much higher than what they had seen yesterday, they still thought: Oh my God! What a good man!
The prices in this settlement are attractive, but the members are too indifferent. They are too lazy to make money even if they have it. If you ask, they just don't want to lose money.
Why don't you want to roll!!!
Do you really have the money to pay taxes to the settlement?!
——The team members were all complaining crazily in their hearts.
So of course they accepted all the goods that Ye Miao brought to their door and paid for them promptly, spending a total of 11,400.
Ye Miao: With just three sentences, I made the other party spend 11,400, hehe.
The transaction was quickly concluded, Ye Miao went out happily, and the business team also went out happily.
Then they discovered that they seemed to have missed the rush to buy potions.
Two young pharmacists who were packing up their stalls had not yet had time to put away the sign. It was vaguely visible that the price of the medicine written on it was less than one-third of the price outside, but the medicine had already been sold out. If you missed it, you missed it.
Zheng Sisi was heartbroken: "It only costs 10 gold for a basic potion!!! I've never seen it before!!!"
"That's enough, this harvest is good enough." The teammate patted her shoulder soothingly, "You can't always think of taking every advantage. Besides, we can come back again in the future! Next time I come back, I'll grab 10 bottles of primary potion for you, so you can drink to your heart's content!"
Twenty minutes later, the business team left feeling satisfied and unsatisfied.
After finishing breakfast, Ye Miao returned to the stone house, unkindly woke up the still sleeping Pixiu, and started to deal with work.
Yesterday she was completely out of her mind and didn't even check the messages. Today she had planned to go straight to T City to farm blood corpses, but when she woke up and looked, the number of messages showed 99+.
Opening the details and taking a closer look, it is unsurprising that most of the messages are new applications to join the settlement.
The number of members increased from 50 to 100. Ye Miao no longer had to be as picky as before. He just scanned the information at a glance and checked some players with various development directions and put them in batches.
But this time, she found two players with "tailoring skills." Perhaps because fewer people knew how to make clothes in modern society, and the fashion design industry wasn't popular enough, there wasn't even a single member of the settlement who knew tailoring, and all she had to do to find clothing was kill monsters and find it.
After dealing with these, Ye Miao picked up his backpack and walked out, heading towards T City.
"Ye Miao!" Someone called her from behind as she passed the orchard. She turned around and saw Chu Cheng's archer team coming towards her. She stopped and asked with a friendly smile, "What's going on?"
Yi Hang casually said, "Going to kill monsters? Where?"
"Go to T City to kill blood corpses." Ye Miao told the truth.
Chu Cheng smiled slightly: "That's right, let's go together."
"Huh?" Yi Hang opened his mouth to dissuade them. The archers were short on stamina. Although they were all level 90 and above, and could easily reach T City, it was still more cost-effective to spawn monsters nearby.
But Chu Cheng didn't give him a chance to speak: "It doesn't matter what kind of monster we kill. We are all high level, and if we team up for long-range and melee combat, we will definitely gain a lot."
"Okay." Ye Miao nodded without hesitation.
She previously disliked teaming up with others to kill monsters. Partly because there were too few players of her skill level, and partly because she found it difficult to manage interpersonal relationships. The game's loot was so varied, and with such a huge disparity in skill, it was even harder to distribute the rewards to everyone's satisfaction, which ultimately led to unnecessary conflicts.
But Chu Cheng's team of five was equally strong as hers, so they didn't need to argue over contribution when working together to kill monsters; simply splitting the spoils equally would be relatively fair. Furthermore, she had already teamed up with Chu Cheng to defeat high-level bosses twice, and knew that he, like her, preferred to yield. Collaborating with people who shared the same approach to life should reduce conflicts.
At 11:00, the six people entered T City together. At that time, the temperature had just risen to its highest point, and the scorching sun hung in the sky, making people's skin hurt.
"It seems like it's been hot ever since the novice period ended, and the temperature difference between day and night is huge." Yi Hang frowned and complained, "I don't know when it will end."
The day after tomorrow.
Ye Miao thought to himself.
Although the game world before her was very different from the mobile games she had played before, the important rules remained almost unchanged.
Then, the rule that a major event occurs every 15 days on each map should not have changed.
If she guessed correctly, the major event in T City in the past 15 days was the frost giants attacking the camp, and the huge temperature difference between day and night was just an additional setting to activate the appearance of the frost giants.
But it's still hard to say what the next major event will be. A well-managed game company would typically announce two major events at the beginning of the month, allowing players to prepare in advance. But now that we're actually in this world, there's clearly no place to see those announcements.
So how you spend the next fifteen days depends entirely on your fate.
If Ye Miao were to choose, she would only want to say: I hope the temperature doesn't drop further.
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