The next day, not long after Gu Shi woke up, Wang Feng came to him.
"Gu Shi, is he there?" Wang Feng asked while standing outside the tent.
"Captain Wang, good morning." Gu Shi yawned, opened the door and invited him in.
Wang Feng joked, "It's already late. How come you young people get up later than a middle-aged man like me?"
"Here, this is the funding you applied for yesterday." Wang Feng handed over a bag filled with gold coins.
"Thank you, Captain Wang." Gu Shi took the bag and put it into the space ring.
"I came to see you today for another matter. When are you free to go to the city and buy some magic wands?"
"Buy a staff?" Gu Shi looked confused.
Wang Feng sighed and said, "Look, didn't you guys record all the cultivation methods yesterday? The students in the school are going to start practicing soon, but there's a big gap in equipment."
"There are over 40,000 people in our school, about a third of whom have magical powers, and about 20% of them are mages. This would require thousands of staffs."
"Warriors are easy to deal with. I can use cold weapons from Blue Star, but I really can't use a mage's staff."
"We originally planned to disguise ourselves as merchants looking to open a staff shop and try to communicate with them, but unfortunately, the alchemists we've been able to contact so far are rather solitary and have no interest in cooperating with outsiders like us."
"Although we have purchased a few hundred staffs sporadically during this period, it still cannot keep up with the demand. Moreover, these few hundred staffs alone have attracted the attention of some interested parties."
"I'm really at my wit's end, so I thought I'd ask you to help me buy some. You don't need to buy too many, just ones with the same properties as your own, but with different magic crystals. If someone asks, just say you want to test which one is better."
Hearing this, Gu Shi remembered senior Ian who sold him the magic wand that day.
He asked, "Captain Wang, would you consider a staff that has poor craftsmanship but good quality? If possible, I'll try to connect you."
Wang Feng's eyes lit up. "Of course, as long as it can be used normally. Do you know any alchemists?"
"I just happened to know someone like him, and he was trying to sell me his staff." Gu Shi replied, and he briefly told me about his meeting Ian that day.
Wang Feng smiled slightly after hearing this. "Then I'd like to trouble you to introduce him to us. Don't worry about the rest. Others will discuss the subsequent cooperation."
"Our people have already opened a store in the city. If you have any news, you can just send it there. It will save you the trouble of running back and forth. Here, this is the address."
"Okay." Gu Shi nodded in agreement.
After taking on this task, Gu Shi took out the glass ball that Ian gave him that day from his space ring, thinking of trying to contact him when he returned to the academy.
At this time, Ye Yuan came to him and said, "Gu Shi, a few of us have formed a group to play board games together. Do you want to come? This is very interesting."
Ye Yuan was selling the product with all his might.
Gu Shi thought about it and decided that since he had nothing to do in the next two days, cultivation required a combination of work and rest, so he might as well take this opportunity to relax. So he agreed.
As a result, he became addicted to the board game, and even on the way back to the college, he still felt a little unsatisfied.
However, Gu Shi did not forget what he had promised Wang Feng. He found a suitable time, took out the glass ball and tentatively handed it to the mechanical bird jumping on the table.
Gu Shi asked: "Can you take me to find this person?"
The mechanical bird snatched the glass ball from his hand, then flew up, chirping crisply from its mouth, as if signaling him to follow.
"It can actually sing, how amazing." It was the first time that Gu Shi heard a mechanical bird make a sound. He wondered which instructor in the academy created this mechanical bird that could make it so lifelike.
He followed the mechanical bird out the door, and after several turns, he arrived in front of another dormitory, where it stopped.
Gu Shi walked up and knocked on the door, calling out, "Is Senior Ian here?"
I only heard a series of jingling and clanging sounds coming from the door, and after a while someone came to open the door.
"Who is it?" Ian pushed the door open and saw Gu Shi standing at the door. He recalled for a moment, then smiled and ushered Gu Shi in. "Junior Gu Shi, what can I do for you? I still have some of those magic wands in stock."
After Gu Shi entered the room, he found all kinds of objects scattered in the living room. He felt a little lost for space and took a lot of effort to get through all the things and sit on the sofa.
Looking at Gu Shi's expression, Ian scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Sorry, junior, I have a lot of things here."
"Are these all the work of our seniors? Is it okay to leave them like this?" Gu Shi's eyes swept back and forth over the alchemical products around him. They were all things whose use could not be guessed from their appearance.
Ian replied, "Well, these are all my usual practice pieces. A large portion are failures that I'm saving to dismantle for use as materials."
A large part of them are actually excuses, and 99% of these things are failures.
Even though they were unusable, they were made with a lot of money, so Ian couldn't bear to throw them away, so he just piled them up here. He figured he could dismantle them someday and get some materials back, but he never had the time, so the piles kept piling up.
"My roommate is a noble and has his own house in the city, so I'm usually the only one living here, so it doesn't matter how I put it."
"I see."
After chatting for a few minutes, Gu Shi was ready to get to the point.
"The reason I came to see you today is actually to introduce you to a business deal."
"What business?"
Gu Shi said after careful consideration: "It's like this, a friend of mine is planning to purchase a batch of magic wands, but he doesn't have a good channel."
"I guess Senior has quite a few staves in stock, so I'd like to introduce you to one. What do you think?"
Ian raised his eyebrows and asked, "I have quite a few wands. How many would your friend like to take? And you know these wands are definitely not as good as the ones in the store."
"A conservative estimate would be a few hundred. I don't know much about his business, so you'll have to ask him for the real data. I've already talked to him about the workmanship, and he means it doesn't have to affect the use." Gu Shi replied.
Hearing this, Ian suddenly became serious. He sat up straight and looked into Gu Shi's eyes. "Junior brother, are you serious? A few hundred staffs is not a small number."
"Of course it's true. How about it, are you interested, Senior?"
"It's a good idea to take advantage of a business that comes to your door. When your friend is free, we can set up a time to talk."
Gu Shi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Ian agree. "I'll contact him as soon as possible. When the time is set, I'll let you know via messenger."
"Then I'll wait for your good news." Ian didn't expect that such a good thing would happen to him. These are hundreds of magic wands. If this deal can be done, he won't have to worry about the material cost for a long time.
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