Ye Miao did not interfere with their business. He walked straight into the store, found a seat at the bar, and ordered a glass of mixed juice with ice.
The Sunset Bar was the best place in T City to get information, and Ye Miao frequented it. So, while the players in the bar didn't know she was the legendary Pure Land Lord, the proprietress knew for a long time. While mixing juice at the bar, she spoke to her, "Looking for someone?"
"Please sit down and take your time." Ye Miao smiled.
The proprietress heard her say this and guessed she wanted to hear something. Meanwhile, at a table not far from the bar, the buyer and seller had already basically agreed on the price.
"Two purple cards, three blue cards, and three white cards, for a total of 25,000 gold. What do you think?"
"Okay, I'll sell it to you."
Ye Miao listened attentively, quietly calculating the bills. The proprietress observed her expression and, in a playful tone, said, "Last night, the system didn't drop any card packs, so I didn't take it seriously. But everyone's really quick to react. I saw a lot of people coming in this morning to buy and sell cards, and the prices have gone up quite a bit. Someone even asked me to help keep an eye out for alchemists, saying that if they can recruit someone, the agency fee is negotiable."
The proprietress lowered her voice and asked curiously, "You guys at Pure Land definitely don't lack these, right?"
"I think we're not short of it for now." Ye Miao was a little perfunctory, but the proprietress didn't mind.
She opened a business, and it was her duty to meet the needs of her customers. As for the customers hiding things from her, not only was it natural in the apocalypse, it was understandable even before the apocalypse.
Ye Miao paused and asked her, "It's only been less than a day, and the card prices have gone up so much?"
The lady boss understood what she was asking and explained it clearly: "I've heard that both white and blue cards have increased by about 10%-15%, and purple cards by 20%-30%. Gold cards, probably because they were already expensive to begin with, have seen a similar increase. However, I think they'll definitely increase significantly in price in the future, as gold cards are the scarcest."
"Indeed." Ye Miao nodded in agreement, took a sip of juice, and asked, "What about elements? Since all the territories are recruiting alchemists, have the prices of elements also increased?"
"It's gone up!" the proprietress said heavily. "Those five elements that were abundant in the swamp mode a while ago, weren't they only worth eight or ten gold? Today, they've already gone up to fifty gold. The light and dark elements that aren't produced in the swamp mode have gone up even more. I heard someone wants to buy them for 150 gold each."
As she spoke, she glanced to the side. Ye Miao subconsciously glanced over and noticed the information panel hanging on the side of the bar.
That was actually the boss lady's own information panel, but for convenience, she set it to public mode. Customers could freely post all kinds of information on it, and she charged an agency fee.
Ye Miao opened the panel and took a look. Indeed, someone was buying light and dark elements at high prices, ranging from 100 to 150. If she guessed correctly, once these elements were almost monopolized, the buyers would sell them at several times the price.
It was a good deal, but Ye Miao had no intention of participating. For one thing, compared to basic attributes like water and fire, light and dark elements had always been more difficult to acquire, so few people considered them as professional attributes, and the market was limited. On the other hand, even if this item could be worth several times the price later, the initial investment was still too high. Although she had made a lot of money from auctioning high-level resurrection coins, she had already spent a lot to acquire the five basic elements. Territory planning also required significant expenses, so she couldn't make random investments.
Ye Miao then flipped through other options, learned the market prices of various cards in detail, then drank the juice and went out.
The main reason I came to Sunset Bar today was to find out about the price of cards, but when I came to T City, in addition to inquiring about these, I also had to find traveling merchants and buy some farmland.
Her territory had no shortage of supplies, primarily due to the balanced number of players, but at the same time, self-sufficiency was also crucial. Now that the maximum number of players in the territory had been raised to 10,000, and the actual population was constantly increasing, the existing farmland was threatening to be unable to meet the needs of "self-sufficiency."
Ye Miao planned to buy more in bulk, giving some to Sun Chen to manage and the rest to NPC Da Zhuang to sell at the territory's grocery store at a markup. This way, players with their own yards could buy some and grow their own vegetables, and she could make a profit from the difference, which wouldn't be a loss.
It was already five o'clock in the evening when she returned to the territory that day. As soon as she walked into the gate of the territory, she saw Chu Cheng standing in front of the gate doing nothing.
"Chu Cheng?" Ye Miao called him. He turned around and she looked at him. "What are you doing?"
"I have something to tell you." he said.
Ye Miao uttered an "oh" and walked towards the residential area. Chu Cheng walked with her and breathed silently: "I have some bad news."
"What?"
He said, "The Tianju stronghold has been completely flooded. Although everyone has moved to the main territory, many houses may have been destroyed. Rebuilding them later will be very troublesome."
"It's okay, no rush." Ye Miao shrugged indifferently.
Anyway, everyone is in the main territory now, and the stronghold is dispensable. There may not be a time when it is absolutely necessary to use it in the future, so there is no rush to rebuild it.
"That's good." Chu Cheng seemed relieved. He walked a few steps in silence and said, "I went outside today to take a look. The river not far to the south is rising."
Ye Miao: "I've also been there, but it's not very close to the territory, and the terrain is much lower, so the rising water won't affect the territory."
"Oh." Chu Cheng nodded, and then fell silent for a while.
Finally, he said, "It seems that there are a lot of small territories merged in the past few days. If you need help, you can always call me."
"Okay, thank you." Ye Miao nodded in agreement and couldn't help but look at him. Noticing something strange, he hesitated and said, "Do you have anything else to say? Just say it directly. No need to hesitate."
"...No." Chu Cheng laughed dryly and looked puzzled, as if he didn't understand why she said that.
Ye Miao looked at his expression and thought that she was being too suspicious, so she stopped asking and instead asked him if he had eaten dinner.
Chu Cheng said he had eaten and handed her the VIP dinner. The two of them returned to the residential area together and said goodbye. Ye Miao entered the house first.
Chu Cheng stood at the door, looking at her back, hesitated for a while, and sighed helplessly.
What he said just now was not true. In fact, even the few things he mentioned before were just for fun.
He just wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Ye Miao more. Before, when the territory was smaller, they always fought monsters together, but later, as the territory grew and more and more things happened, he wanted to improve his favorability and took on many tasks. Later, he went to the base every few days and realized that it seemed difficult for him to even see Ye Miao!
Recently, the members of the Tianju stronghold moved back to the main territory. Chu Cheng had originally thought that he could ask Ye Miao to go out and kill monsters with him again. However, Ye Miao was busy with territory planning every day, building houses today, repairing roads tomorrow, and creating a scenic spot the day after tomorrow. He knew without asking that she had no time.
Until today, he walked around the territory in the morning but didn't see her. After asking around, he found out that she had gone out, apparently to T City, but didn't call him.
In the past, she would have called him, right?
From this perspective, they are indeed not as familiar as before!
Chu Cheng regretted his decision.
【Name：Primary Farmland】
[Price: 300 gold coins]
[Description: After use, you will gain 1㎡ of farmland, where you can plant barley and rice, and harvest a certain amount of crops after they mature.]
[Others: ① Primary farmland has a minimum yield protection, which is very suitable for novice players to practice; ② Each person is limited to 5 pieces. ]
【Name: Intermediate Farmland】
[Price: 1100 gold coins]
[Description: After eating, you will gain 1㎡ of farmland, where you can plant barley, rice, potatoes, beans and melons. When mature, you can harvest more crops.]
[Other: ① Intermediate farmland has no minimum yield protection. The level of planting skills directly affects the yield. It is recommended to purchase after reaching a certain level of planting skills. ② Each person is limited to 5 pieces.]
At noon the next day, Ye Miao hung the farmland in the grocery store.
The vendors sold primary farmland for 200 gold coins and intermediate farmland for 800 gold coins. Ye Miao added a small markup to the price difference. He also gave 20 pieces of primary farmland and 10 pieces of intermediate farmland to Principal Liu, who planted them in the school's backyard for the students to practice on.
After a few days, the school ran smoothly. As noon approached, everyone finished their morning classes. Some went to the cafeteria for lunch, while others took out their own lunch and ate it in the classroom.
Ye Miao walked around the school and visited the cafeteria. He was thinking about the next step of building a middle school and a kindergarten. Then the message alert sounded and he received a private message.
She clicked on it and saw that the message was from Hua Yao. Hua Yao politely asked her, "Ye Miao, do you want to open a river channel? If you do, I can do it with you. I'll cover 60% of the cost. Just as a thank you for your advice last time!"
Ye Miao held her breath.
If Hua Yao's previous "leading the rhythm" to thank her in the group only made other lords change their views on her a little and did not cause any actual impact, then opening up the territory would actually help the development of the territory.
She immediately replied, "Open! We'll just split the price 50-50 as set by the system. I just said it casually last time, it didn't take much effort."
But Hua Yao said, "You just said it casually, but it helped me a lot! I don't like to owe favors to others, so just listen to me."
Ye Miao thought about it and said, "Okay."
The next second, an invitation for river planning arrived. The two discussed the matter while drawing lines on the map. To save money, they used public waters as part of the route and laid the rest themselves, striving to keep the cost within the system-set 1 million yuan.
An hour later, the system displayed "River channel planning is completed and is being generated."
At the same time, screams rang out from across the territory: "What the hell?! Is there a flood?! This is so sudden?!"
Ye Miao walked out of the school gate quickly and looked up. A river was slowly forming on the open space a few hundred meters away. According to their plan, the river was extending little by little and flowing to the south.
Then another system message popped up: "The river channel is being formed. You can choose a suitable location to build a dock."
Hmm? The dock?
Ye Miao had never seen this when playing games before. He rubbed his hands curiously, strode towards the river, and chose a place to build the pier.
The author has something to say:
People really can't be so carefree. I was just happy yesterday, but then I had sex again. I immediately had insomnia at night, which made me crazy today. Sigh.
I will never be arrogant again. I humbly beg for a good night's sleep tonight and a clear mind tomorrow. I kowtow.
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