Chapter 244: Opportunity
As the sun sets and the moon rises, darkness once again envelopes Tivian. Under the crescent moon, strips of lights stretch to the end of the horizon.
Somewhere in this huge city, on the balcony of a high-rise building, a young man was standing here. He was wearing black trousers and a brown shirt, his short brown hair was neatly combed back, and his face was clean and handsome.
The young man stood on the balcony, admiring the night view of the city, with a small amount of bright red liquid still left in the goblet in his hand. There was a hint of seriousness on his face as he stared at the city.
Behind the young man was a luxuriously decorated, brightly lit living room. On the carpet in the living room, a figure in casual clothes and wearing a mask was kneeling on one knee.
"You're back so soon? Have you already discussed it with the Artisans Guild? Why are they so forthcoming now?"
Turning slightly sideways, the young man silently asked the masked man who was kneeling on the ground in the room behind him, and the other party answered in a panic.
"No... There is a big problem at the Artisan Guild! It is a problem that is totally unreasonable! Sir Bertholdt, those merchants have gone crazy!"
The masked man said with a somewhat excited tone. Hearing the man's voice, the man named Bert frowned slightly, and then he asked the masked man seriously.
"Tell me clearly, what exactly went wrong? Could it be that those unscrupulous merchants saw that we bought a lot and raised the price?"
"No, we didn't raise the price, but the price was ridiculously high from the beginning. Sir Burton, you don't know this. We just asked the other party for the price, and the other party opened the price to 3,800 pounds for one 'Qi', and he refused to bargain!"
As soon as the masked man finished speaking, a crisp "click" sound was heard in the space. Looking closely, it was the goblet in Burton's hand that was cracking under the heavy pressure, and Burton's face was covered with a layer of gloom.
"3,800 pounds... How could the price be so high? According to the current intelligence, the price of the storage items opened by the Stonemasons Guild should be very low recently. It is said that it is less than 2,000."
Turning around, Bertrand spoke in a deep voice to the masked man who was kneeling on one knee. His expression and tone became serious.
"Did you make a mistake? Or is there something you want to hide from me." There was a hint of danger in Bertnet's tone and a hint of cruelty in his eyes. Obviously, when faced with such a strange situation, he couldn't help but begin to suspect whether his men were doing something secretly to try to earn money for the society.
"There is absolutely no such thing, sir! I promise that I only conveyed the news from the Artisans' Guild truthfully! If you don't believe it, you can go to the Artisans' Guild to inquire at any time!"
Hearing what Burton said, the masked man was so frightened that he fell to his knees, trembling as he spoke to Burton, with obvious fear on his face.
Facing the frightened masked man in front of him, Bertholdt glared at him and looked into the man's eyes behind the mask for a moment. With a gleam in Bertholdt's eyes, the masked man's trembling disappeared instantly, and the eyes behind the mask were blank.
"Tell me in detail, why did the Craftsmen's Guild come up with such an exaggerated price for 'initiation'?"
Facing the masked man who was instantly hypnotized, Bertholdt spoke frankly, saying that the masked man in a hypnotic state could not speak with any lies or concealment.
"We don't know exactly. When we went to talk to them, they already offered this high price. We asked them why, but they refused to respond to any business information.
"From some other extraordinary people at the scene, we got the information that the price of the Artisan Guild's 'Qi' storage suddenly soared in the evening. In addition, it is said that they also sent people to other extraordinary gatherings in other parts of the city to purchase sporadic 'Qi' storage. As a result, the 'Qi' storage circulating in the Tivian market is now gathering in the Artisan Guild, and the price is constantly rising.
"When I left the Golden Contract Bank, the price of the storage was 3,800 pounds. By now, the price may have risen to more than 4,000."?
The masked man spoke to Burton in a dazed voice. Burton's brows furrowed deeper as he listened to the masked man's words.
"In the evening, the price suddenly skyrocketed. The price had already started to rise before we even came to buy... This is not a normal phenomenon. The Stonemason Union usually does not have such drastic price fluctuations. There must be some reason for this phenomenon..."
Bert was thinking in his mind, and soon he recalled the divination battle between himself and an unknown mysterious society this afternoon.
"In order to find out the details of the mysterious society that killed Claudius and destroyed the Guanda Ritual Site, we conducted a divination battle against them, but surprisingly, the mysterious society was no small player and had unexpectedly sufficient anti-divination resources... Both of us consumed a lot of "Inspiration" in the divination battle... The price increase of the Stonemasons Guild happened not long after this, could it be..."
While thinking, Bert immediately found the key point and then continued to think about it.
"Could it be that the association bought a large amount of 'Qi'''s storage from the Stonemasons' Guild in order to replenish the depleted anti-divination resources, so it raised the price all at once? It's only been less than half an hour since the divination battle ended, and their people have already gone to the Craftsmen's Guild to buy things? So quickly?"
When he thought of this most likely possibility, Bertrand was suddenly shocked. He was surprised at the speed of the mysterious society.
Only half an hour after the divination battle, Bert and his men decided to go to the Stonemasons Guild to replenish their supplies. This decision and action speed was considered fast, but they did not expect that the other party was even faster and arrived at the Stonemasons Guild before them to place a large order.
The Eight-pointed Nest has a base in East Divian, and it's not far from there to the Golden Deed Bank. They were already seized first. Could it be that those guys have a base next to the Golden Deed Bank? !
Bert thought so. You should know that since the frequency of extraordinary transactions is much lower than that of ordinary transactions, the stonemasons will not set up a quick telegraph order business like some ordinary transactions. Everyone who needs to trade must go to the Gold Deed Bank, the base of the Artisans' Union.
If the association encounters a rare situation where a rush to buy something is needed, and there is no extraordinary ability that can be used in broad daylight to accelerate the process, then it is naturally better to have a base that is very close to the Jinqi Bank.
The current situation was not something that Burton had not considered, but they did not worry too much because they made decisions quickly and had a base close to the Jinqi Bank. However, Burton did not expect that the other party would get there first. Now that the other party had placed a large order to buy Qi from the Artisans Guild, the price had been driven up first, and their current situation was not optimistic.
"It's bad. We are a step too slow. A lot of the 'Qi' on the market has been bought by those guys. The price has been pushed up to nearly 4,000. Now I don't know how many 'Qi' have fallen into their hands. If they use the newly bought 'Qi' to counterattack, we still have some counter-divination left..."
As Burton was thinking worriedly, he suddenly felt a slight pain in his arm. Burton paused slightly, then scratched open his sleeve, revealing an arm on which was crawling a spider with complex patterns all over its body. It was this spider that had bitten him just now.
Looking at the spider on his arm, Burton was not moved at all. He reached out and stroked the spider's back. Then, the complex ridges on the spider's back began to twist and gradually turned into a distorted human face. The eyes on the human face looked at Burton, and then it opened its mouth and uttered a shrill voice.
"Bertiante, how is the procurement of 'Qi' going? The spiritual power of the total anti-divination array has just been depleted. We have been divined! The King Insect Priest has ordered that the anti-divination resources must be increased to a safe level immediately!"
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