Chapter 79 Aren't you afraid of getting beaten up for asking that price?
Su Yitong had no choice. After hanging up the phone, she immediately dialed the number Yu Xunge had given her... and then got a price from Zhao Shuying for 300g of gold to buy a bottle of basic healing potion.
Yu Xunge is heartless; she quotes 100g of gold for something that costs 1 silver coin, a 50-fold increase.
Zhao Shuying was even more ruthless. Whether she was certain that these powerful families were willing to spend money and were eager to expand their influence, or whether she simply didn't want to sell, she directly increased the price by 150 times.
Not to mention the equipment; equipment that sells for 1 gold in the auction house, they sell for 2 jin of gold.
500,000 for a piece of equipment? At first glance, it doesn't seem expensive. Su Yitong's own jewelry alone costs more than that. But she has more than 1,000 people under her command. Even if each person only has one piece, it would still cost 2,000 jin of gold. Besides, she's not unfamiliar with games. This kind of basic equipment will be outdated very quickly. The replacement speed is much faster than Apple's. In the future, no one will even pick it up if it's thrown on the ground. 500,000 will only add a few attribute points. It's not even as good as eating a cooked dish.
The person Yu Xunhuan hired at the time only had a belt worth one jin of gold. He could grit his teeth and buy it, considering it a benefit for his subordinates to win their hearts.
Su Yitong couldn't help but ask after hearing the price: "Are you really from the China Special Affairs Bureau? Not the Myanmar Special Affairs Bureau?"
Zhao Shuying had probably heard this question many times before, and she replied confidently, "Of course, you can still find me on the Special Affairs Bureau's official website."
After hanging up with Zhao Shuying, Su Yitong realized just how honest Yu Xunge was.
Even after Su Yitong called her "sister," Yu Xunge didn't seem particularly pleased. She immediately asked, "Did the negotiations fall apart?"
Su Yitong avoided answering: "What's the price over there?"
“I just messaged them, and they only gave me a quota of 500 bottles of basic healing potions and 500 bottles of basic mana potions, each bottle containing 150g of gold. There’s no bargaining, but they can give you 50 basic hemostatic bandages. While healing isn’t as instant as potions, if you have a wound, applying a bandage will restore 1 point of health per second for 1 minute, which is about the same effect.” She paused, her voice slightly embarrassed, “But if I help you close this deal, you’ll have to take care of my brother and the Lin family’s affairs. After all, this order used a lot of favors I had; it was originally intended for the Lin family.”
Su Yitong glanced at Yu Xunhuan, who was staring blankly at the phone, and immediately agreed: "No problem."
The fact that they only managed to get a few dozen silver coins in three hours completely broke the Su family's morale.
Moreover, compared to the price Zhao Shuying offered, 150g of gold for a bottle of basic healing potion was a truly reasonable price. Zhao Shuying's price was clearly an attempt to force the Su family to cooperate with the official authorities.
With prices so chaotic these days, if you're willing to spend the time and effort, you can buy currency or medicine in small amounts from short-sighted people at low prices. Or you can wait a while, or even less than a week, a few days, until prices stabilize and you might be able to buy these things with cash.
They could grit their teeth and wait a bit before dealing with the equipment issue, but they absolutely needed medicine, something that could restore health and save lives in emergencies.
Things that can be solved with money aren't really problems. Since they couldn't directly buy resources from the game store, they were grateful to Yu Xunge for finding a way to exchange gold for game resources.
"Are you sure you can't get the equipment? The price is negotiable." Su Yitong was trying to buy more important equipment from Yu Xunge.
Su Baige had already called to have more gold purchased. Back when they bought the belt equipment, the other party only accepted gold transactions, and the Su family had started discussing whether to hoard more gold. Now it seemed that this gold must have something special about it, and hoarding more would not be a mistake. It was safer than currency that was bound to collapse.
Yu Xunge didn't want to sell the Su family's equipment. She offered a price that the Su family couldn't afford: "I've already asked around. I want to buy it myself. I only accept game currency. I don't accept cash or gold... Hmm, there's another trading method, but I think it's too uneconomical."
Su Yitong: "You go ahead."
Yu Xunge: "If you don't have game currency, you can exchange it with items. A-grade items can get you 1,000 pieces of green clothing that you can wear right now. Tell me, how is that any different from robbery?"
"..." There is a difference. The robbery wasn't this ruthless. Su Yitong asked with genuine concern, "Did you offend him?"
Yu Xunge: "..."
Finally, Su Yitong talked for a long time before convincing Yu Xunge to find a way to get her 2000 bottles of potions, 1500 bottles of basic healing potions, 500 bottles of basic mana potions, and 150g of gold per bottle, which they would buy.
Yu Xunge said, as if she genuinely cared about her, "This price is outrageous. You might find it cheaper in a few days. It's only 1 silver coin a bottle in the game..."
Su Yitong said calmly, "It's just 600 catties of gold."
Yu Xunge shut up. Damn it, she hadn't ripped off enough. Where else could she find such a sucker?
2,000 bottles of medicine were exchanged for 600 kilograms of gold.
The cost is only 20 gold coins, plus some hemostatic bandages I made while practicing first aid skills. This kind of low-level product will not be marked with the maker's ID, so it is very safe to sell it to anyone.
This way of making money is much faster than exchanging gold for gold coins from goblins.
She wasn't surprised that Su Yitong had been buying potions and equipment everywhere in her life. Some things could be deduced with simple reasoning. In her previous life, Yu Xunhuan's talent was the most attractive benefit, and it required almost no cost. Just the talent that had a chance to increase attribute points when eating was enough to attract high-level players to pledge allegiance to the Su family.
Moreover, they might start recruiting and improving the core team's attributes after the first closed beta test, so even if they don't have equipment and potions for a while after the game officially launches, it won't affect their ability to quickly clear dungeons and rise to prominence.
If the Su family wants to retain these players, they have to offer them corresponding benefits. Otherwise, the Special Affairs Bureau offers very good benefits, so why don't they join the Special Affairs Bureau and work for the Su family?
Yu Xunge happily accepted the friend requests from Yu Xunhuan, Su Yitong, and the others. After seeing the friend request from Zhao Shuying, she also accepted it.
[Zhao Shuying]: Hi
[Yu Xun Ge]: ?
[Zhao Shuying]: So cold-hearted.
[Yu Xun Ge]: How much do you sell basic healing potions here?
[Zhao Shuying]: One bottle of 300g gold
[Yu Xun Ge]: Aren't you afraid of getting beaten up if you say this price out loud?
[Zhao Shuying]: Yes, I'm scared. A face-to-face meeting means a different price. This is just over the internet or phone.
[Yu Xun Ge]: ...
However, Yu Xunge did not regret it. The price of 150g was just right. She did not expect to make a lot of money from this. She just wanted the Su family to know that she had connections while maintaining a superficial harmony.
Now everyone has become a player, with billions of players scrambling to buy the few basic healing potions available on the market.
150g of gold? She didn't make much money at all!
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